Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Call for Artwork, need variety of art and crafts for upcoming silent auction, “Beauty and the Books,” to benefit Falmouth Memorial Library, items must be dropped off by March 5, information and donor form, falmouth.lib.me.us. Cape Elizabeth Land Trust, accepting artist submissions for Paint for Preservation 2011, annual juried […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Mrs. Maine 2011 United States Pageant, seeking contestants for April 9-10 competition held at Freeport Performing Arts Center, must be 21+, married, and Maine resident, March 1 entry deadline, thepageantcompany.com, Rebecca Beck, 798-6966. Call for Artwork, need variety of art and crafts for upcoming silent auction, “Beauty and the […]

Manuel Peña and Karen Massmussen of Portland will open a new take-out business called Taco Trio at 119 Ocean St. in South Portland’s Knightville neighborhood. The business is in the former Zeta Cafe on Legion Square. According to Peña, they will serve traditional Mexican food from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and hope to open […]

FREEPORT — First there came E. B. Mallet Jr. in the 1880’s, then L.L. Bean in the early 1900s. They were the two great entrepreneurs of Freeport who changed the town forever. We decided recently to snowshoe up to the E.B. Mallet granite quarry adjacent to the Lower Mast Landing Road to check out one […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Mrs. Maine 2011 United States Pageant, seeking contestants for April 9-10 competition held at Freeport Performing Arts Center, must be 21+, married, and Maine resident, March 1 entry deadline, thepageantcompany.com, Rebecca Beck, 798-6966. Call for Artwork, need variety of art and crafts for upcoming silent auction, “Beauty and the […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Call for Artwork, need variety of art and crafts for upcoming silent auction, “Beauty and the Books,” to benefit Falmouth Memorial Library, items must be dropped off by March 5, information and donor form, falmouth.lib.me.us “Maine’s Got Talent,” send entry form and DVD/video of solo or group performance, for […]

Spring is just a few more 12-foot snowbanks away from us now. On March 20, the first day of spring, we might get a warm, sunny day – or another wintry blizzard. We’ll keep the wood stoves and snow-blowers ready for whatever nature gives us. Until then, we’re in the comfort-food season, the icicle part of […]

There’s plenty of music this weekend in Portland. On Saturday, Empire Dine and Dance presents a traditional Irish instrumental duo, flutist Shannon Heaton and harpist Maeve Gilchrist. The occasion is the release of Heaton’s latest CD, “The Blue Dress.” The Portland String Quartet plays its midwinter concert on Sunday. Works by Franz Schubert and Dmitri […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Call for Artwork, need variety of art and crafts for upcoming silent auction, “Beauty and the Books,” to benefit Falmouth Memorial Library, items must be dropped off by March 5, information and donor form, falmouth.lib.me.us “Maine’s Got Talent,” send entry form and DVD/video of solo or group performance, for […]

One of the great choral masterpieces will be the featured work Sunday when the Portland Symphony Orchestra teams up with the Choral Art Society in a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Passion According to St. John.” Although it’s an explicitly religious work, written for the German Lutheran Church, it has achieved a worldwide ecumenical following […]