GARDINER — Capital City Improv will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center on Water Street. Doors open at 7 p.m. Using audience suggestions and interviews, Capital City Improv creates unique, on-the-spot comedy shows that live for one night only. Dennis Price, the founder, studied and performed improvisation in […]
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Children's Task Force to hold '70s dance party
FARMINGTON — The Franklin County Children’s Task Force is holding its “That ’70s” Dance Party 40th Anniversary Celebration from 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday, April 28, in the University of Maine at Farmington’s North Dining Hall. Guests are invited to dress in their best ’70s attire and dance the night away to hits from the […]
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Looking Back for April 24
100 years ago, 1918 Lewiston and Auburn will be all aflame with patriotism this afternoon. The two honor flags given because we have gone over the top in the Liberty Loan campaign are to be raised. Hundreds of school children are to parade the streets. A majority of the factories will close. No other Maine […]
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Hammered dulcimer at Oasis Wednesday
LEWISTON — The many strings of the hammered dulcimer will ring though the Oasis of Music this Wednesday, April 25, at Trinity Church, 247 Bates St., Lewiston, from 12:30-1 p.m. This week’s musican Greg Anderson began playing the hammered dulcimer in 1977 as a diversion from the daily grind of graduate studies. Falling in with […]
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Three Point Jazz at Guthrie's
The Three Point Jazz trio will perform at Guthries in Lewiston on Friday. A trio of jazz musicians from Lewiston/Auburn performs original jazz compositions, as well as standards from the likes of Miles, Monk and John Coltrane. Members of the ensemble include John Smedley on guitar, Tim Clough on bass and Michael Hansen on drums. The […]
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The Veggies at Fusion Saturday night
The classic rock band, The Veggies, will be performing this Saturday, April 21, at Fusion nightclub, located inside the Ramada Inn, 490 Pleasant St., Lewiston. Music starts at 9 p.m. No cover charge.
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Hiking guide author to speak at Norway Public Library
NORWAY — Norway Memorial Library will host a talk by author Greg Westrich about hiking in Maine and New Hampshire from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 26. He will talk about his hiking expeditions, share photographs and talk about discoveries while researching his upcoming book about New Hampshire. Audience members may gain ideas for […]
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Looking Back on April 20
100 years ago, 1918 Lewiston and Auburn slept a little later than usual on Friday morning, took off the outside windows, put on our rubber boots and started off with fishing tackle, went to the Bates-Bowdoin baseball game, took in the movies, bowled a few strings, enlisted in the third Maine, won the war, smoked cigars, took […]
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This weekend at The Cage
OCD will be appearing from 8 p.m. to midnight Friday, April 20, at The Cage, 99 Ash St., Lewiston. No cover. Billy Mac brings a metal show to The Cage from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, April 21. There will be a cover charge.
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Girls find their voice by writing an original opera
PORTLAND — Telling an impactful story by writing an original opera probably doesn’t seem like the most natural medium for a group of teenage girls. But that’s what happened in a collaboration between Opera Maine, the Telling Room and the School of Music at the University of Southern Maine. The result is “Girl in Six […]