BRUNSWICK — In 2013 the Miss Maine Scholarship Program was proud to partner with The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, an internationally recognized, selfdevelopment program available to all young people worldwide equipping them with life skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and the world. This award bestowed by Great Britain’s Prince Philip, Queen […]

TOPSHAM — Havers! ‘Tis that time of the year again. Experience a wee bit of Scotland on Saturday, Aug. 17, as the skirl of the bagpipes and hundreds of men, women and children clad in colorful tartans signal the 35th annual Maine Highland Games held this year at the Topsham Fairgrounds. Gates open at 8 […]

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Jay Z and 50 Cent had better watch out. The rap world has a couple of wigged-out new stars — E-Z and $17.5- Mil. Haven’t heard of them? Well, they’re known better on the football field. Quarterbacks and Super Bowl MVPs Eli and Peyton Manning burst onto the music scene this week […]

NEW YORK In the desert of big-budget summer moviegoing comes, like fresh water, Neill Blomkamp’s “Elysium,” a dystopic science-fiction thriller bristling with more ideas than all this year’s superheros and action films combined. Like Blomkamp’s first and previous film, the South African alien apartheid allegory “District 9,” “Elysium” is a rogue burst of originality — […]

BOOTHBAY HARBOR — On Friday and Sunday, Aug. 16 and 18, the Lincoln Festival Chorus will perform a program of Russian and Eastern European sacred, secular and folk songs at Boothbay Harbor Congregational Church, Route 27, at 7:30 p.m. The concerts are conducted by Anthony Antolini and accompanied by Sean Fleming. Featured songs by the […]

LEWISTON — The celebrated Quebecois band “Raz de Marée” — whose name translates in English to “Tidal Wave” — has warned that they will be bringing a “deluge” of French-Canadian music to Maine with performances scheduled in both Lewiston and Winthrop. The quartet will play for an evening of contra dancing at Callahan Hall at […]

DAMARISCOTTA — The next offering from Lincoln County Community Theater will be “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” the revised classic musical based on the Peanuts comic strip. The musical, while delightful for children, is not just for kids. It is, however, hard to find the adults. While most know the characters — Charlie Brown, […]

Bath concert features Half Moon Jug Band BATH — The Half Moon Jug Band is the musical act for “Summer Saturdays at Six” on Saturday, Aug. 10, at 6 p.m. at Bath’s Waterfront Park. The Half Moon Jug Band plays festivals all over the northeast like New Year’s Portland; the Maine Festival; the Old Port […]

BRUNSWICK At the mouth of the Kennebec, a small group of young men from England made the first brave stand in New England in 1607, 13 years before the Mayflower bumbled into Cape Cod. There is more that is unknown about the shortlived Popham Colony than what is known, but local psychologist and first-time novelist […]

FREEPORT — For one show only, The Freeport Theater of Awesome will offer children free tickets to AudioBody, a family friendly, electronic-comedy show on Saturday, Aug. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Families are encouraged to still reserve tickets at www.AwesomeTheater.com because seating is limited. “We hope this encourages those people that still have not made it […]