BATH — Music Together classes will begin Wednesday, Jan. 9, at Bath Dance Works, 72 Front St., Bath; on Thursday, Jan. 10, at Wiscasset Community Center; and on Friday, Jan. 11, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brunswick. The cost is $140 for 10 weeks, which includes CDs and a songbook. Scholarships are available and […]

BATH — Peter Goodwin, manager of the Sagadahoc History and Genealogy Room of the Patten Free Library will present an illustrated lecture titled “Bath History: An Introduction,” in the Community Room at the library on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m. The event is sponsored by Bath Historical Society and is free and open to […]

POWNAL — Bradbury Mountain Arts is presenting the second concert in its Keep Me Warm Concert & Art Series, raising funds for heating fuel assistance, on Saturday, Jan. 12, at Mallet Hall, 429 Hallowell Road. The art gallery opening from 5 to 7 p.m. features the work of Lois Strickland, Lin White and Jeff Raymond. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiny hobbit Bilbo Baggins is running circles around some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” took in $36.7 million to remain No. 1 at the box office for the second-straight weekend, easily beating a rush of top-name holiday newcomers. Part one of Jackson’s prelude […]

HANOVER, N.H. Take heart, holiday procrastinators: Famed poet Robert Frost once waited until July to get his Christmas cards in the mail. Unlike the flimsy, forgettable cards of today, however, Frost’s cards arguably were worth the wait. For the past 28 years of his life, he teamed up with a boutique printer to send beautifully […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After 50 years of spinning webs and catching a who’s who of criminals, Peter Parker is out of the hero game. But Spider-Man is still slinging from building to building — reborn, refreshed and revived with a new sense of the old maxim that Ben Parker taught his then-fledgling nephew that “with […]

DAMARISCOTTA — River Arts invites the public to the opening reception for the exhibition “Black, White, Gray,” tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. at its newly-expanded and refurbished gallery and arts center at 241 Route 1, next to N.C. Hunt Lumber. The show runs from Dec. 28 to Jan. 25. More than 120 works in […]

PORTLAND — Dimensions In Jazz presents the finest next generation of jazz musicians, beginning tonight at 8 p.m. at the Memorial Hall of Woodfords Church. Two other performances are planned for Saturday, Dec. 29 and Sunday, Dec. 30. Musicians include: pianists Liz Kosack from Yarmouth and Neil Pearlman from South Portland; drummers Noel Brennan from […]

BATH — A ten-week dropoff Preschool Music Playgroup begins Friday, Jan. 11 from noon to 2 p.m., where children learn independence and social skills, while gaining basic music competence. In the Dance Works studio at 72 Front St., preschoolers have a chance to let out steam while improving physical coordination by dancing, rolling, jumping, sliding […]