The obscure movie screenings happening at places like Space – showing ‘Robinson’s Garden’ next week – are harder to replicate from your couch.
Leslie Bridgers
Columnist
Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘The Passenger,’ ‘The Light We Carry’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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‘Seeing Like an Artist’ takes readers on an art tour, complete with droll commentary
Lincoln Perry lends his professional eye, insight and humor to explain well- and lesser-known works.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table: British expat connects to home through new mysteries
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Make-a-Wish Maine marks 30 years of lifting spirits
The nonprofit celebrated the milestone, and its wish recipients, at Ocean Gateway in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: History of persecution connects two artists featured at Farnsworth
See ‘Leonard Baskin: I Hold the Cracked Mirror Up to Man’ and ‘Louise Nevelson: Dawn to Dusk’ in Rockland.
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‘The Magic Kingdom’ reveals a paradise lost
The story is framed as the recorded confession of a man who spent his childhood living in a Shaker community in Florida.
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Deep Water: ‘Promethean’ by Ben Boegehold
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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‘Strange World’ is beautiful to look at, but not much below the surface
Animation is a genre that often carries with it an assumption of excellence. Part of it is audiences get fewer animated films per year compared with live-action counterparts, but part of it is because of artistic, emotional and commercial successes like “Up,” the Toy Story series, this year’s “Turning Red” and the rest of the […]
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Dance review: Maine State Ballet brings ‘Nutcracker’ back to full glory
Performances at Merrill Auditorium continue this weekend.