Along with a panoramic view of Portland, comfy seating is a highlight of the renovated bar atop the Westin hotel.
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, Do This, Review
Indie Film: Hear from the women who created safe abortion access in the ’60s, and whose work isn’t done
Documentary ‘The Janes’ is playing for free next week at Space.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘The Passenger,’ ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Calendar celebrates, supports immigrant scholars
Chance to Advance and Catholic Charities co-hosted a launch party for the Celebrating Diversity in Maine 2023 calendar.
Posted inRecipes
This speedy curried squash soup starts with canned pumpkin
Here’s a recipe that works equally well with butternut squash or canned pumpkin.
Posted inFood
10 gifts for the food lover on your holiday shopping list
Choose from this selection of treats, gadgets and other assorted items.
Posted inUncategorized
Skillet chicken casserole with broccoli is a weeknight dinner win
Wafting of rosemary and lemon zest, this gorgeous single-skillet dish nourishes as it satisfies.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Love Ravages the Tree of Life,’ by Douglas Woodsum
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: Colby shows a deeper side of Alex Katz
‘Alex Katz: Theater & Dance’ explores lesser known aspects of the artist’s work.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘She Said’ a new entry in the pantheon of great newspaper movies
The broad factual contours of the story related in “She Said” are well known: In 2017, New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor published an explosive series of articles about film producer Harvey Weinstein, raising credible allegations that he engaged in serial sexual abuse and assault of actresses and employees over decades. Coming […]