The weekend before Halloween is notoriously bad for new releases. Everyone is going to want to see a Halloween movie, so it doesn’t pay to release something outside of horror or at least a horror-themed comedy. But it also doesn’t really pay to release a Halloween movie, because those movies have a shelf life of […]

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington is pleased to welcome Bread & Puppet for a two-day workshop followed by an exciting performance of “The Essential Furthermore” at the UMF Emery Community Arts Center. The free Bread & Puppet workshop is open to UMF students and will focus on the performance techniques of the […]

FARMINGTON — The Farmington Historical Society’s North Church Concert Series will present New Hampshire native Kyle Carey on Thursday, November 14 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m., for a ‘Pie Social’. Kyle makes a unique fusion of Appalachian and Celtic music she likes to call ‘Gaelic Americana’. Having learned Scottish Gaelic to the […]

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The Addams Family have been a part of American culture since their one-panel cartoons appeared in The New Yorker in 1938. Their history includes a TV series in the 60’s (that of course gave us that snap-happy theme song), two live-action films in the 90’s, countless animated adaptations, and a dearly-departed Broadway musical, important to […]

“Joker” is a film whose reputation precedes it. It has a good reputation because it won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival and Joaquin Phoenix is generating Oscar buzz for his performance as the title character. But it also has a bad reputation because it’s a dark, violent, adult take on a […]

LIVERMORE — Celebrate the season and soak in the autumn beauty at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center. A Fall Festival will be held on Saturday, October 12, 2019, 11 a.m. to 4p.m. at the Nor lands in Livermore. Ongoing activities throughout the day include horse-drawn wagon rides, tours of the 1867 Washburn family mansion, blacksmith […]

FARMINGTON — On Sunday, November 10, Peggy Yocom, teacher, scholar, poet, and story-teller, will speak on “Incest, Fur, and Hidden Bodies: The ‘Cinderella’ No One Knows”. The talk, presented by the Shiretown Bookers, will be at 1:30 p.m. in the North Dining Hall at UMF in Farmington. It will be free and open to the […]

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington continues its celebrated Visiting Writers Series with a reading featuring poets Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs. Brown and Jacobs will read from their work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 10, in The Landing in the Olsen Student Center. Sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in […]

  FARMINGTON — The Old South Church Concert Series will host a community gathering to benefit families displaced by the Farmington explosion on Tuesday, October 22 at 6:30 p.m. The program will feature local brother-sister duo Zak and Lena Kendall of GoldenOak with their band. Also performing will be legendary Maine guitar master, Denny Breau […]