I'll be honest. I wasn't so sure I would like “St. Vincent,” the new Bill Murray film playing at The Harbor Theatre this week. But I did. You will too.

When you first meet Vincent MacKenna (…

Glenn Chadbourne is a spooky guy.

Born in Damariscotta on a late October day some 50 years ago, Chadbourne has been drawing…

Autumn is a time for photographers, professional and amateur, to break out their cameras and capture the glories of leaves changing, the fun fall festivals and activities, and of course, the…

“Madness is the cruelest prison,” says Dr. Henry Jekyll during a visit with his father in a London asylum.

Little did…

Savory Maine's November music series features musicians every Thursday (except Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27) and Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., from…

In 2012, the 92nd Street Y in New York City began the Giving Tuesday program. After the crazy spending of Black Friday, Shop Local Saturday and Cyber Monday, Giving…

After years of variances and appeals, the Harbor Theatre will soon have a permanent sign along Route 27. Boothbay Harbor selectmen voted to approve a year-round…

Lincoln Theater will present the third in its free series, “Talking Art in Maine: Intimate Conversations,” on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. with special guest Eric Hopkins.

Talking Art in…

There's no board, no plastic pieces and no figurines. Instead, there are worksheets, bulk bags of Reny's candy, and there is Das Horn, which is a plastic drinking horn that is filled with cream…

On October 23 at 6 p.m. in the Boothbay Region High School auditorium, over 60 people gathered to watch teacher Mary Miller's performing arts class perform “Dracula!” a one-act play adapted for…

Boothbay Region Art Foundation’s ever-so-popular 12 by 12-inch art exhibit, “Art in the Square,” will open on Friday, Nov. 28 at 10 a.m.

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“Gone Girl,” is based on the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn. On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck)…

Damariscotta's Maine Coast Book Shop is looking for ghosts.

Well, ghost stories at least.

The book…

North of Nashville, Jay Basiner and Andrew Martelle, will play their authentic heartland music at the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Friday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m.

North of Nashville’s blend…

Each year, Heartwood Theater and Lincoln Academy (LA) mesh resources, providing exceptional opportunities for students to learn the rigors and rewards of live performance, while being nurtured,…

Banjo and accordion artist Jeff Grosser will bring a band of some of the state’s best jazz musicians to St. Andrews Village on Nov. 2 for a concert…

Art work by Rosalind Welsh is on exhibit at Rising Tide Community Market through Nov. 1.

Welsh’s art is a combination of sculpture and paint. She sews the canvas then stretches it on the…

Chef Steve Richards of The World is Mine Oyster in Boothbay Harbor is the…

River Arts in Damariscotta will be hosting an opening reception for “Horse Power,” an exhibition featuring equine paintings by Beth Badger of Brunswick, on Oct. 25 from 1 to 6 p.m. The show,…

The experienced crafts collector, as well as the simply curious, can all find one-of-a-kind pieces at the Augusta Fine Crafts Show. Maine Crafts Guild will hosts this year's 18th annual exhibition…

The music of the Oratorio Chorale’s 2014-2015 season is a blend of traditional and contemporary, with beloved compositions by Mozart and Bach, a celebration of the winter holidays, a recital of…

The soulful sounds of songs like “Don’t Cry Out Loud” and “Midnight Blue” will fill the air at the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Saturday, Nov. 8 when Melissa Manchester takes its stage for an…

Lincoln County Community Theater (LCCT), the resident theater company of Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater’s new series will be "Sundays without Scenery: Actors, A Script, and Your Imagination.”

A fresh, new exhibit livens the walls of the Damariscotta River Grill as part of The Art at The Grill series. Opening on Monday, Oct. 27, this exhibition showcases five Maine based artists working…

Arlo Guthrie performed for an enthusiastic, sold-out crowd at the Boothbay Harbor Opera House on Oct. 18 — for some of us, and, yes, I mean me, it was a long-awaited event!

He played a bit…

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“Gone Girl” Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn (who also wrote the screenplay) and directed by David Fincher, “Gone Girl” unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern…

Barbara Vanderbilt's exhibit will include stunning interpretations of Maine’s rock, wood and ice formations. Her pastel paintings capture the subtle changes in texture…

The sixth annual ARTinME exhibition at the Boothbay Region Art Foundation represents a diverse collection of art by 87 Maine artists. The 130 works on view offer an outstanding variety of mediums…

The experience of seeing the film “Gone Girl” will stay with you long after you leave The Harbor Theatre. It's an example of the mystery-psychological thriller formula at its best.

Gillian…

“The World of Wooden Bobbins” is a book about, well, bobbins. Much of the material provided for the production of the book was supplied by experts on the subject: Ann…

The opening of the Boothbay Region Art Foundation's (BRAF) fifth annual ARTinME show is Saturday, Oct. 18 with a gala reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

This juried show was judged by Kerstin Engman…

If there was ever an appropriate time for the Red Cloak Haunted History Tours, it's the month of October!

Tour local haunts, historic buildings and locations, including cemeteries, led by…

“In the capital of a small republic,” poet Lee Sharkey wrote, “Tonight I am walking backwards. If I were blind I would know better than to do this.”

Take out your calendars: The dates for the 53rd annual Windjammer Days in Boothbay Harbor will be June 21-27, 2015.

At an Oct. 14 meeting…

Hundreds came out to the Boothbay Railway Village on Oct. 11 and 12 for the 47th annual Fall Foliage Festival.

Dozens of crafters and vendor tents were set up on the field, selling…

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In “My Old Lady,” Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment, but when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile…

The Lincoln Theater's encore broadcast of Verdi's “Macbeth,” scheduled for this afternoon, Wednesday, Oct. 15, has been canceled due to technical difficulties with our recording.

Previously…

The 11th annual Heartwood/Lincoln Academy collaboration is well underway, as 30 Midcoast students rehearse the Broadway musical, "Jekyll & Hyde."

Artist Dyan Berk's art exhibit entitled, “Morphology: Works on Paper,” opens at the Hall Gallery at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta on Saturday, Oct. 18. The show will run through Nov. 28…

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Wiscasset contemporary American artist R. Keith Rendall in “The Kaleidoscope of the Mind.” The exhibition opens Tuesday, Nov. 4 through…

There were 28 entries to the pumpkin dessert contest at Skidompha Library on Saturday, Oct. 11 as part of the Pumpkinfest weekend in Damariscotta.

“Man of La Mancha,” is a beloved and highly acclaimed musical that has been produced in many countries and languages. Its story uplifts and brings the best of the…

River Arts West will feature a solo exhibition of Christina Eckerson’s most recent works in oil, Thursday, Oct. 9 through Oct. 22 in the West Gallery.

Meet Eckerson, a realist landscape…

Grammy-winning Nashville artist, Suzy Bogguss, took to the stage at the Opera House on Oct. 4 to the delight of the audience of more than 300.

On stage with Bogguss on stand-up bass was…

Life is a journey, not a destination, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. All of us experience pain, disbelief, betrayal and sorrow. For most, these soul wrenching times are balanced by joy, love, peace…

This weekend the 47th Fall Foliage Festival is happening at Boothbay Railway Village (BRV), Saturday, Oct. 11 and Sunday, Oct. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Now that the festival is part of the…

The River Arts' exhibition “Faces and Figures” (animals included) exhibition, which opened Oct. 10, includes 100 works by 65 Maine artists. To add to the opening reception celebration Friday,…

Boothbay Region Art Foundation’s ARTinME 2014 exhibition, for Maine artists only, has a deadline fast approaching.

Artists may submit a maximum of two entries depicting their interpretation…

At The Harbor Theatre

“The Trip To Italy” In this witty and incisive sequel to 2010's “The Trip,” Michaels Winterbottom reunites comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon (portraying semi-…

In 2009, author Brian Daniels created Joe Wright — a clueless, middle-aged, thick-around-the-middle man hopelessly stuck in the 20th Century. Daniels’ book “Thoughts of an Average Joe” is…