PORTLAND — Portland Ovations brings Grammy Award-winning and legendary musician/songwriter Glen Campbell to Merrill Auditorium for a special concert as part of his Goodbye Tour on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. A news release describes Campbell as “pure talent and southern charm,” adding Campbell’s biggest hits came in the 1960s and ’70s with “Wichita […]

BOWDOINHAM — “The Medicine Show,” an original play using masks, drumming, song and dance will be performed outdoors in a wooded field by Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble beginning Saturday at 7 p.m. Shows are also scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 14, and the following weekends on Oct. 20 and 21, and Oct. 27 and 28. Audiences will […]

TOPSHAM This is the ninth year Fiddle icious will entertain audiences with traditional music, with its first show set for Friday, Oct.19, at 7:30 p.m. at Orion Performing Arts Center, Mt. Ararat Middle School, 66 Republic Ave. Fiddle-icious, Maine’s largest fiddle orchestra of traditional Celtic music, has added a Freeport venue this year. They will […]

BATH — The celebration of Paramount Pictures’ 100th anniversary continues at Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., on Tuesday, Oct. 16, with 1962’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” at 6:30 p.m in the Community Room. Together for the first time, James Stewart and John Wayne star in the masterpiece of four-time Academy Award-winner John […]

BOWDOINHAM — Jack Montgomery’s Natural Light Portraiture Workshop for experienced photographers will take place on Sunday, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Merrymeeting Arts Center, 9 Main St. The workshop was originally reported as planned for Saturday. The workshop costs $40 and will cover basic theoretical and technical concepts of portraiture. Participants should have […]

PHIPPSBURG — The acclaimed folk-rock duo Mike + Ruthy will perform at the Phippsburg Congregational Church, 10 Church Lane (off Parker Head Road), on Friday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. Having logged a decade of international touring and more than a thousand concerts, Mike and Ruthy Merenda define their sound as having been refined down […]

BRUNSWICK B efore Spindleworks started artist:artist (read: artist to artist) with a grant from the Maine Community Foundation, Kelly Weingart would have spent most of her creative time just during regularly-scheduled program hours at the 7 Lincoln St. studio of the nonprofit arts center for adults with disabilities. “Her art, when she’s making it, she’s […]

LOS ANGELES From the way he introduces himself to his preferred drink order to the kind of car he drives, everything about James Bond is deeply entrenched in pop culture. We like to make lists of things around here, but usually they come in fives. In honor of Agent 007’s 50th anniversary, here’s a sevenbest […]

LOS ANGELES When Ursula Andress emerged from the sea, curves glistening, with a dagger strapped to her bikini in 1962’s “Dr. No,” she made the Bond girl an instant icon. Always glamorous and sophisticated, yet uniquely susceptible to James Bond’s flirtations, the Bond girl over the years has become as compelling as Agent 007 himself […]