BATH — This Friday there will be an old-time dance for all ages at Bath Dance Works, in the antique ballroom on the third floor of 72 Front St. Simple dances will be taught to live fiddle music from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Swing your partner, doci do, promenade and sachet will be the calls […]

BRUNSWICK — Poets Elizabeth Garber and Preston Hood wil read poetry at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, at Gulf of Maine Books, 134 Maine St. Garber will read from her new collection of poems, “True Affections: Poems from a Small Town” and Hood will read from “The Hallelujah of Listening,” which won the 2012 Maine […]

BRUNSWICK The Maine Film & Video Association will begin a new Maine Film Screening Series in Brunswick on Sunday, Nov. 18, with an event at Frontier Café, 14 Maine St. The event begins at 1 p.m. with Hattie Simon, a 16-year-old rising jazz artist, performing jazz vocals and piano with Nick Thompson- Brown on upright […]

BATH Twenty-two years ago, MOHIBA was all about getting a clue. It was 1988, my senior year at Morse High School and the annual variety show was based on “Clue” — the board game. Dressed in extravagent blue as Mrs. Peacock, I sauntered across the stage with my fellow Olio Players between class acts and […]

LOS ANGELES Ever since first seeing the bikini-clad Honey Ryder rise seductively from the sea and walk, as she sang, onto a Jamaican beach in the 1962 adventure “Dr. No,” we have been used to breathtaking scenery in James Bond films. That particular 007 (Sean Connery) was so taken with the beauty of the moment […]

To borrow a line from Depeche Mode, death is everywhere in “Skyfall.” James Bond’s mortality has never been in such prominent focus, but the demise of the entire British spy game as we know it seems imminent, as well. Still, this 23rd entry in the enduring James Bond franchise is no downer. Far from it: […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Oscar-winning director Ang Lee said Wednesday that he worked hard during the fouryear shooting of Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi” to give the $100 million art house film appeal for general audiences. The movie stars Indian Suraj Sharma, who plays a boy who drifts on the open sea with a Bengal […]

LOS ANGELES Denzel Washington’s character in “Flight” drinks a lot throughout the film, but his portrayal of a highly functioning alcoholic pilot isn’t going down well with brewing company Anheuser-Busch or the distributor of Stolichnaya vodka. Anheuser-Busch said Monday that it has asked Paramount Pictures Corp. to obscure or remove the Budweiser logo from the […]

TOPSHAM — The Oratorio Chorale opens its 39th season with the music of Schubert and Mozart, a program combining the physical color of sound with passionate expressionism, a news release said. Concerts will be held on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m., at Orion Performing Arts Center, 50 Republic Ave., Topsham, and Sunday, Nov. 18, […]