BOWDOINHAM The Ice and Smelt Festival is scheduled to take place Feb. 3 and 4 at Mailly Waterfront Park. The snow date is Feb. 5. The Merrymeeting Arts Center will host a public reception from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 3. The reception will include a reading and storytelling of “Smelt Makes Ice” from […]

In terms of film, 2011 was undoubtedly the year of Jessica Chastain. 2012 will be the year of — who? Ms. Chastain is the stunning actress who was suddenly everywhere last year. She starred alongside Helen Mirren in “The Debt.” She was the female lead in two of the year’s top art films, “Take Shelter” […]

BRUNSWICK Singer- Songwriter Catie Curtis from Saco will perform a benefit concert for Safe Passage at Bowdoin College’s Pickard Theater at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3. Admission costs $ 20. Advance tickets are on sale at any Bull Moose Music store or online at safepassage.org/concert. Curtis has been called “a folk-rock goddess” by the New Yorker. […]

PORTLAND Good Theater will present the Maine premiere of the recent Broadway success “ Next Fall,” beginning Wednesday and running through Feb. 19, at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. “ Next Fall,” by Geoffrey Nauffts, opened off-Broadway in the spring of 2009. Subsequently, the show transferred to the Helen Hayes Theatre on […]

For week of Jan. 22: ARIESMar 21/Apr 20 Aries, put aside any selfish thoughts and give any and all tasks your utmost energy today. Energy is better spent on others, so keep this in mind when you get busy. TAURUSApr 21/May 21 Taurus, your coworkers are all excited and fussing over something that is evidently […]

LONDON (AP) — It’s spry versus spy as frothy silent movie “ The Artist” and moody thriller “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” lead the race for the British Academy Film Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars. “ The Artist” received 12 nominations and “Tinker Tailor” 11, with each film up for best picture and director, and […]

BOWDOINHAM — Long Branch School and General Store plans a series of screenings and discussions of classic and contemporary films. The films will be shown at 20 Main St. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. “Join us for Saturday night movies at Long Branch,” a Long Branch release states. “We’ll be featuring both […]

OWLS HEAD — Hodding Carter of Camden plans to chronicle his adventure retracing Viking explorer Leif Erickson’s voyage from Greenland to North America with a presentation titled “A Viking Voyage” at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Owls Head Transportation Museum. Admission is free. “ More than 1,000 years ago, Leif Eriksson and his Viking crew […]