BRUNSWICK — Mystery for Hire, a Maine-based mystery dinner theater troupe, will host the second in a series of murder mystery dinner theater performances on June 28 at the Captain Daniel Stone Inn on Water Street. After performing at the inn in February, the troupe will return to perform “Bingo Spells Murder,” a script written […]

BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Internationally acclaimed jazz guitarist Frank Vignola will perform at 8 p.m. June 23 The Opera House in Boothbay Harbor. A release about Vignola describes him as follows: Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for […]

BOOTHBAY — To salute Father’s Day, the Boothbay Railway Village offers free admission and train rides Sunday to all fathers — including grandfathers and great-grandfathers — when accompanied by their children or grandchildren. Steam train rides on the two-foot gauge railroad and Model T rides in an antique car are planned. Visitors can view the […]

DAMARISCOTTA — The Novel Jazz Septet will continue its eighth year of performances at Skidompha Library on Main Street with a show from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. June 28. “Skidompha’s Novel Jazz evenings were conceived around the observation that lovers of books often are lovers of jazz,” a release from the septet states. “Moreover, […]

TOPSHAM — The Oratorio Chorale will hold auditions on three dates for the group’s 2012-13 season. Auditions are scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 23, or from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, and Wednesday, Aug. 29. All auditions are held at the Mid Coast Presbyterian Church at 84 Main […]

BRUNSWICK— The negative way women of power are portrayed in media today, and the pressure that puts on young women, is the subject of the documentary film “MISS-Representation,” which will be screened at 6 p.m. Thursday at Frontier Café & Cinema at Fort Andross on Maine Street, according to a news release. The Mid Coast […]

BRUNSWICK — Isaac “Ike” Lagnado donated hundreds of photographs — works of fine art as well as images documenting significant news events — to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. The most recent gifts, received by the college in 2011 and 2012, are the latest in a series of donations […]

BRUNSWICK— The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will be closed to the public July 3 through July 12 for maintenance on the roof of the Walker Art Building. The museum will re-open July 13, with a new exhibition titled “William Wegman: Hello Nature.” This exhibition will include photographs of the artist’s famous Weimaraners, as well […]

ROUND POND — Castlebay, Fred Gosbee and Julia Lane, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on June 27 at the Little Brown Church on Route 32. The duo plays Celticinspired maritime folk songs. “Having loved, sung and researched folk music since childhood, they continue to explore the Scots and Irish origins of their native Maine music, […]