HALLOWELL The Harlow Gallery has announced the award-winning artists for Art2016, the 21st annual juried art show on view at the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street in Hallowell now through June 18. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 1noon to 6 p.m. The gallery’s annual juried show is a tradition that draws artists to […]

BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin College Museum of Art recently added an Egyptian portrait created nearly 2,000 years ago to its esteemed collections. Painted on a thin wooden panel, the portrait of a young man adorned with a gilded laurel wreath originally covered the face of a mummy. The portrait was recently unveiled for Museum members and […]

BRUNSWICK Maine Gay Men’s Chorus will perform at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, located at 1 Middle St., on Sunday. After a 3-year hiatus, the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus has regrouped with a new name and is now performing again. The original Portland Gay Men’s Chorus was established in 1992 and performed until 2012. […]

BRUNSWICK For its final concert of the 2015-16 season, the DaPonte String Quartet has chosen an unusual theme. “Dino’s Hit List” consists of pieces that violinist and founding member Ferdinand “Dino” Liva has always wanted to play, finds most challenging or most loves playing. The series will be performed from May 13-22 in five venues […]

BRUNSWICK In 2014, in honor of its 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with […]

WEEK OF SUN, MAY 15 ARIES Mar. 21 – Apr. 20 Aries, your tendency this week is to escape into your mind and imagination. While that’s fine for a little while, pretty soon you have to come back down to earth. TAURUS Apr. 21 – May 21 Taurus, people are pulling you in all sorts […]

TOPSHAM On Saturday and Sunday, the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra will perform Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass (Messa da Requiem) under the direction of Rohan Smith in collaboration with the Oratorio Chorale and Vox Nova Chamber Choir. Concerts will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Franco Center in Lewiston and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at […]

Brunswick High School graduate and NBC television host Teagan Wright is banking on his fellow Mainers to help him get his new Maine-based series off the ground. The show, “From Away,” has already seen interest from Netflix and Hulu. Now in pre-production, Wright is hoping his Kickstarter campaign will pay off. With about eight years […]

BRUNSWICK This year marks 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare, and what better way to mark the anniversary than with an old school production of “King Lear?” Morse drama teacher Kevin O’Leary has assembled an all-male cast to present the the tragic tale of a king’s descent into madness — but it’s the […]

PHIPPSBURG Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas will perform in concert at the Phippsburg Congregational Church on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Fraser has been featured on more than 100 television and radio shows in the U.S. and the U.K. including “CBS Sunday Morning,” “A Prairie Home Companion,” “Mountain Stage” and the NPR programs […]