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Looking Back on February 1

100 years ago, 1917Better get to the Empire Theater early tonight, as Lewiston’s Bill Carrigan, the great World Series leader, is only one of the great crowd which will turn out to welcome the Baseball Four, the quartet of baseball players who are appearing in vaudeville this winter. These four huskies are as much at […]

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Looking Back on February 1

100 years ago, 1917Better get to the Empire Theater early tonight, as Lewiston’s Bill Carrigan, the great World Series leader, is only one of the great crowd which will turn out to welcome the Baseball Four, the quartet of baseball players who are appearing in vaudeville this winter. These four huskies are as much at […]

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Denny Breau in free Oasis concert Wednesday

LEWISTON — Local guitar and singing legend Denny Breau will appear at the Oasis of Music, Wednesday, Feb. 1, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 247 Bates St. The  free concert is from 12:30 to 1 p.m.  The son of Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cote, and brother to groundbreaking guitarist Lenny Breau, Denny Breau plays a […]

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TPT’S ‘Under the Skin’ scores with excellent acting, directing

LEWISTON — “Under the Skin” is the kind of play that The Public Theatre does very well, and this production is another of those audience-pleasers with lots of laughs to punctuate its powerful life-or-death plotline. The play’s four New York actors are outstanding in a production that revolves around the hospital bed of Lou Ziegler, […]

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Looking Back on January 31

100 years ago, 1917The annual meeting of Hill Crest Hospital Association was held at the building on Prospect Hill, Auburn, Wednesday, with a large attendance of the officers and members. While this is ostensibly a private hospital, it is in reality a public institution as patients are taken from all of the State. No one […]

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The importance of being Alan

Alan Cumming on ‘Sappy Songs,’playing Portland and baring more than his soul  Recently I went to lunch with a friend. In an effort to protect her from cyber bullying and the inevitable social media backlash, we’ll call her “Naomi.”  Over vegetarian chimichangas, I told her that I was looking forward to interviewing Alan Cumming — […]

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Auditions set for murder mystery

NORWAY — Community members are invited to audition for parts in Shelley Sellepack’s murder mystery, “Murder, Mayhem and Marshmallow Salad.” Auditions are at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Second Congregational Church, UCC, 205 Main St., Norway. Rehearsals will be from 3-5 p.m. beginning Sunday, Feb. 12. The cast will bring this uproariously funny […]

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Exhibit of Juliet Karelsen’s work opens at UMF

FARMINGTON —The University of Maine at Farmington presents the work of artist Juliet Karelsen in an upcoming UMF Art Gallery exhibit entitled “Juliet’s Room: Recent Work by Juliet Karelsen.” The show will be on view from Feb. 2 through March 12. An opening reception will be held from 5-7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 2. The exhibit is free […]

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Poet Erica Dawson reads at Bates

Author of the collections “The Small Blades Hurt” and “Big-Eyed Afraid,” Erica Dawson reads and discusses her poetry in a Literary Arts Live event at Bates College. Dawson “generates great energy by pulling at the impossible and sometimes pleasurable tangles of what is constant in us, and what is disposable in the world.” — Slate.  The free […]