The Denmark Arts Center presents a community open mic and gallery showing to ward off the winter blues. The center’s first Cabin Fever Reliever is set for Saturday, Feb. 4 from 5 to 8 p.m. Wake up and tease your sweet-tooth with delicious coffee concoctions from Maine Morning Micro Roasters and maple baked goods from […]

Temple Shalom presents international singing star Sasha Lurje, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25, at Temple Shalom, 74 Bradman St., Auburn. Lurje was born and raised in Riga, Latvia, and has been performing since she was a teenager, wowing audiences with her deeply moving interpretations of Yiddish song.  She currently lives in Berlin, Germany, and performs all over the […]

BRUNSWICK — Ambassador Laurence Pope, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 1967, returns to campus Monday, Feb. 6, to deliver the talk “American Security in the 21st Century” in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public.   The legacy of the Bowdoin Marines who fought in World […]

LEWISTON — “Flowers,” paintings by Melanie Therrien will be on display through the month of February at Wicked Illustrations Studio and Gallery, 140 Canal St., Lewiston. Therrien, gallery owner and operator, has more than 25 paintings in acrylic as well as oil in her latest series. The paintings will be part of a Valentine’s themed […]

  SOUTH PARIS – The Cottage Street Creative Exchange will present its second “Globalocal” Show, Friday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in South Paris.  Admission is free. Tickets are available at Books N Things in Norway and at several local schools.  Donations are accepted at Books N […]

Maine Event Comedy will give your funny bone a workout as host comic Mark Turcotte, above, Dennis Fogg, Justin Hoff and Kristin O’Brien play for laughs at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, 280 Water St., Gardiner, Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. There’ll be jokes about life in Maine, the meaning of life — and everything […]

100 years ago, 1917Maine’s grizzled veterans of the checker board are still gathered in silence in the rooms of the Lewiston and Auburn Checker Club where the 1917 State tournament is being played. As this endless fight for the championship is drawing to its close and a number of the old-time players have gone down […]

The Nikki Hunt Band is performing at Mixers in Sabattus, Friday, Jan. 20 beginning at 8:30 p.m. The group is a pop/rock band covering artists such as Sheryl Crow, Joan Jett, Bruce Springsteen, Sublime, No Doubt, The Doors and U2 among others. The night also includes a colorful hula hoop act.  The doors open at […]

100 years ago, 1917General Supt. G. W. Bowie of the Lewiston, Auburn & Waterville Street Railway went to Boston, Thursday, to close a deal with the Franklin Co. for 29,000 square feet of land between Park and Knox streets, Lewiston, which is directly in the rear of a plot between Lisbon and Park streets, now […]

A special selection of images by Sun Journal photographers is currently on display at L/A Arts, 221 Lisbon St. in Lewiston. Works by photographers Russ Dillingham, Andree Kehn and Daryn Slover will be on display through the middle of February. A public reception will be held at a time and date to be announced. In […]