“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” was one of the more successful reboots in recent memory. The 2017 film managed to make over $400 million at the domestic box office despite opening in the shadow of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” The appeal was apparently a combination of nostalgia for the 1995 Robin Williams original and […]

VIENNA — Sunlight fades from earth as the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, approaches. This is the time of year that the Vienna Union Hall prepares to celebrate the return of light, our community, friendship and family by offering the Seventh Annual Winter Revels on December 21, 2019 at 7 p.m. This […]

FARMINGTON — Devaney, Doak, and Garrett Booksellers, 193 Broadway in Farmington, will host a book signing of the book When You Find My Body by D. Dauphinee on Saturday, December 21 from 1 to 3 p.m. When You Find My Body tells the story of events preceding Geraldine Largay’s vanishing in July 2013, while hiking […]

“Queen & Slim” came in fourth place at the weekend box office. It’s not hard to see why the film finished so low; it’s playing on fewer than half the screens of higher-ranking holdovers “Frozen II,” “Knives Out,” and “Ford v Ferrari.” But I can also see why it finished so high despite playing on […]

There were things about 2013’s “Frozen” that instantly made it a Disney classic: the spectacular ice-and-snow animation, the engaging princesses Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel), and of course, the rightfully iconic Oscar-winning musical number “Let It Go.” And yet, the film only got Two and a Half Stars out of Five, the equivalent […]

JAY — Spruce Mountain High School will be performing the musical comedy Sister Act this weekend. Showtimes at the high school are 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6 and 7. A matinee performance is 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8. Tickets are $10 for adults or $7 for students and seniors. They must be purchased […]

You won’t find many adults on the planet who are less of a gearhead than yours truly. I live in New York specifically because I don’t drive. I gave up on learning after five lessons, one of which saw a cop car behind me (I can’t say I got “pulled over” because what I did […]

FARMINGTON — James Baldwin, American novelist, playwright and activist, is the next featured topic of the University of Maine at Farmington’s New Commons Project. Baldwin was renowned as one of the country’s most vocal advocates for equality and one of the most important authors in the modern American canon. His 1963 non-fiction book, “The Fire […]

FARMINGTON — Farmington Historical Society brings Christmas Through the Ages to Life. Time travel with the Farmington Historical Society as it shares the experience of Christmas through the Ages December 14. The FHS has arranged for participants to visit five homes where costumed guides share information about five unique eras of Christmas celebrations. Period decorations, […]

Featuring a reading by fiction author Elisha Albert