Friday, March 18, Back Woods Road performs at Guthries, 115 Middle St., Lewiston. Back Woods Road is a highly energized acoustic band known for its tight harmonies, hard driving lead solos, and crowd-pleasing diversified choice of music and arrangements. There’s never an ordinary song for this band. They take it up a notch and one […]

LEWISTON — The Lewiston Public Library will host a spring series of five author talks featuring both fiction and nonfiction titles on subjects ranging from boxing to Somalia. All of the talks will be held in LPL’s Callahan Hall and are free and open to the public. Leading off the series on Thursday, March 24 […]

Strong performances, excellent staging work together for super show LEWISTON — The current production of “What Rhymes with America” by The Public Theatre offers four compelling performances that ricochet from side-splitting comedy to heartbreaking anguish in the blink of an eye. The play follows four characters who are struggling to get their lives on track despite the […]

100 years ago, 1916With the exception of a narrow passageway, the Middle street crossing of the Maine Central is blocked. A big crew of men is at work on the temporary station and it was necessary to erect a fence to guard the trench being dug across Middle street. The frequent snows have impeded the […]

The Andrina Goodwin Foundation will hold a comedy night from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at the American Legion in Gray. Comedian Paul Hunt will entertain from 7:30 to 8:15 p.m., and then Mixed Up DJs will play from 8:15 to 11 pm. Cost is $10 per person and attendees must be 21 […]

Get the 80s clothes out, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, a tribute band focused on songs by  female-fronted bands from the 80s, performs at Mixers, 136 Sabattus Road, Sabattus, at 8:30 p.m., Friday, March 18.  The band covers bands such as Vixen, Heart, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Quarterflash, Scandal, 4 non Blondes, Bangles, Tony […]

GARDINER — Maine Event Comedy presents an evening of stand-up comedy at Johnson Hall, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 26. The show features some of New England’s funniest comics and their own, unique brand of humor. There will be jokes about life in Maine, the meaning of life — and everything in between. Seats are […]

BATH — Lauren Crosby will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, in the Curtis Room of the Chocolate Church Arts Center Annex, 804 Washington St. The concert is the last in the winter concert series. Crosby will be joined by GoldenOak. Crosby, a Morse High School graduate, is a rising folk/blues songstress from Georgetown. Her […]

STANDISH — Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road, will hold auditions for Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, March 28 and 30. The play includes a large cast with parts for males and females of any age between 10 and 70 with a wide variety of vocal ranges. […]

100 years ago, 1916On Wednesday evening, March 22, the First Universalist church of Auburn will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the dedication of its present edifice. It is planned to get together as many of the former members as possible. Invitations are being sent out for this purpose. Mrs. D. W. Kinsley of West Auburn, […]