BENEFITS FRIDAY Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine Annual Auction, Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland. $45. 828-1234, Ext. 242. 6 to 10 p.m. AS4MS, acoustic show with The Sophomore Beat, The Great Valley and Dean Ford; benefits multiple sclerosis prevention and treatment, Union Street Brick Church, Bangor. $10; tickets at Bull Moose Music locations. […]

• Hot Ticket The birds and the bees at Space GET ADVICE on sex and the environment (they’re combined here — we’re not kidding) by Annie Sprinkle. A self-professed “post-porn modernist, radical sex educator and ecosex activist,” Sprinkle is the first adult film star to get a Ph.D., and combines dispensing advice with performance art […]

• Hot Ticket ‘Extreme’ dinner with pinot pours PINOT WINES from all over the world will be featured at Bibo’s “Pinot Extreme Wine Dinner.” Savor a lobster and cheese risotto croquette with beer mustard sauce while sipping a pinot gris from Australia, or try some California pinot noir with the lamb ragout. WHEN: 6 p.m. […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC SATURDAY Choral Art Society’s Bluegrass Mass, with soprano Kelly Caufield and a bluegrass band of local musicians, Woodfords Congregational Church, Portland. $15 in advance; $20 at door. choralart.org. 7:30 p.m. St. Cecilia Chamber Choir Spring Concert, with guest soloist Johannes Moore, Second Congregational Church, Newcastle. $12 in advance; $15 at door; free for […]