BATH — Maine Maritime Museum invites families to take a break from the holiday rush to enjoy a free evening of family fun and learning. Sponsored by Davenport Trust, museum admission will be free to all on Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m., as Maine Maritime Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary year. Explore the museum’s […]

FREEPORT — Freeport Players present “The WFCP Home Time Radio Hour 2012” beginning tonight and continuing Saturday at 7:30 p.m. A matinee performance will be performed Sunday at 2 p.m. The show will take place at Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St. Tickets are $15 at the door and $10 in advance at www.fcponline.org […]

BRUNSWICK — Fort Andross / Cabot Mill Antiques will host the first Fort Andross Artisans Holiday Craft Show at Coleman Burke Art Gallery in the Fort Andross building, 14 Maine St., on Saturday, Dec. 8, and Sunday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This two day artisan-filled show promises to be packed with […]

TOPSHAM The Topsham Parks and Recreation Department has partnered with Santa and Mrs. Claus and their elves to provide Topsham kindergartners and first-graders the opportunity to talk on the phone with the North Pole’s most famous couple. Every year through the program, Santa, Mrs. Claus and their elves call kindergartners and firstgraders to “check in […]

MONMOUTH I thought I had never been to Theater at Monmouth — nevermind the little central Maine hamlet itself. But last Thursday night I plugged the address for Cumston Hall into the GPS of my smartphone and headed across the backroads for TAM’s Monmouth Night preview of “This Wonderful Life,” a one-man play adapted from […]

NEW YORK Teenage actor Angus T. Jones of the comedy “Two and a Half Men” apologized Tuesday for a series of interviews denouncing his own show, an episode that has rivaled former colleague Charlie Sheen’s meltdown as an off-screen oddity. Speaking to religious media outlets, the 19-year-old Jones has called the CBS comedy “filth” and […]

NEWCASTLE — A double dose of family entertainment awaits — at family prices — as Heartwood presents two unique performances of storytelling to the Mid-coast. On Friday, Dec. 7, at Parker Poe Theater at Lincoln Academy, the public can experience “American Tales,” an original production currently touring Mid-coast schools, as part of the Heartwood Goes […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand Wearing elf ears and wizard hats, sitting atop their dad’s shoulders or peering from balconies, tens of thousands of New Zealanders watched their favorite “Hobbit” actors walk the red carpet Wednesday at the film trilogy’s hometown premiere. An Air New Zealand plane freshly painted with “Hobbit” characters flew low over Wellington’s Embassy […]

PORTLAND — Childsplay will perform at Portland High School Auditorium, 284 Cumberland Ave., on Saturday at 8 p.m. Childsplay is the ultimate fiddle choir, a joyful familial fiddle celebration that features some of the best fiddlers in the nation, from Boston Symphony violinists to all-Ireland and national Scottish fiddle champions, a news release said. Supporting […]