YARMOUTH — Seventyfour Maine artists from South Berwick to Dover-Foxcroft will exhibit 163 pieces of their work at the fifth annual Yarmouth Art Festival. The juried show, featuring painting, sculpture, photography, etching and digital media, will be held Oct. 16-19 at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church at 396 Gilman Road, about a mile from Cousins Island. […]
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Anna McDougal publishing party
BRUNSWICK — Blackberry Books, Spindleworks and Gulf of Maine Books invite the community to a publishing party for “A Look Back” by Anna McDougal at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 at Gulf of Maine Bookstore, 134 Maine St. McDougal is an artist at Spindleworks in Brunswick, an athlete, a food activist and an author, who […]
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Love/Sick opens at The Public Theatre
LEWISTON The Public Theatre, Lewiston/Auburn’s professional theatre, kicks off its 23rd season with the unromantic comedy “Love/Sick,” Oct. 18 – 27. This series of funny and bittersweet love stories written by Maine playwright John Cariani, author of the popular comedy “Almost, Maine,” revisits the topic of love but this time dares to ask, “Once you […]
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Workshop gives voice to history
YARMOUTH — The Yarmouth History Center and with the Oral History and Folklife Research Inc. will conduct a workshop 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. Topics will include definitions and goals of an oral history and setting up a project, including what equipment is needed, interviewing skills, practice interviews and more. Oral history […]
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‘Tongue cannot tell …’ tales of Civil War woe
BATH — As part of the Bath Historical Society’s continuing recognition of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Robin A. S. Haynes will give a lecture on Saturday, Oct. 26, on Bath native William Fogg and his experiences during the Civil War while a prisoner at Libby Prison in Richmond, Va. Fogg was taken […]
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Concert promotes local food in schools
DAMARISCOTTA — Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools will be rocking out to the award winning music of The Adam Ezra Group — New England’s 2013 Band of the Year — 7 p.m Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Lincoln Theater. FARMS has been successfully promoting local foods in Lincoln County schools for the last […]
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Meet the Goodyears
BRUNSWICK Bowdoin College Museum of Art hired its new director in May. Actually, it hired two. In a world where many academic couples often live several states away from one another — if not in separate countries — in order to pursue work in their own fields, Anne and Frank Goodyear acknowledge they’ve been very […]
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Actress jumps into ‘Wonderland’ rabbit hole
LOS ANGELES When Sophie Lowe’s latest visit to Hollywood failed to yield work, the young actress flew back home to Australia — and quickly fell down a rabbit hole. Within a day of returning to Sydney, Lowe had recorded an audition for “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.” Two days later she was asked to […]
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Aerosmith loves Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY American rockers Aerosmith are fans of Uruguayan leader Jose Mujica, a colorful former guerrilla known for his simple lifestyle. But the 78-year-old Mujica can’t say the same of Aerosmith, admitting after meeting with band members that he hadn’t heard any of their songs. The rockers met with Mujica in Uruguay’s government house Tuesday, […]
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McCartney spends wedding anniversary with bevy of high school students
NEW YORK Paul McCartney celebrated his second wedding anniversary with his wife and a few hundred high school students on Wednesday. The 71-year-old performed at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, which was opened by Tony Bennett. McCartney said, “Happy anniversary, Baby,” to Nancy Shevell before going into his latest song, called “New.” He […]