Works on view at the Alice Gauvin and Caldbeck galleries use varied approaches to creating dimension.
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.
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Concert review: Jack White enraptures Portland’s biggest arena
With cellphones banned, the rock star held the attention of the audience through a continuous string of songs from his recent albums and crowd-pleasers from his past.
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Theater review: ‘Honestly, Now!’ an entertaining, if convoluted, romp on the Riviera
The Freeport Players are putting on the show through Sunday.
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Theater review: ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ musical shows promise in its premiere
The new musical, based on the film, is making its debut at Ogunquit Playhouse.
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Aubrey Plaza is stellar in so-so crime thriller ‘Emily the Criminal’
A kind of gravitational pull emanates from Aubrey Plaza as the title character in “Emily the Criminal,” a passably diverting crime thriller where, in place of a moral center, Plaza delivers a performance that is entertainingly blackhearted. (Well, perhaps not entirely black, but certainly a lovely shade of charcoal gray.) As a 30-something art school […]
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‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’: A slasher with some surprisingly sharp satire
It’s telling that the official synopsis for “Bodies Bodies Bodies” – a darkly comic slasher film centering on a party game that turns deadly – does not, as you might expect, use the word “friends” to describe the participants: eight (mostly insufferably) young and (mostly insufferably) hot soon-to-be victims. Rather, they are a “group” of […]
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Indie Film: Before she leaves Maine, this filmmaker wants to make us ‘extremely uncomforable’
Emily Bodley has made an impression during her five years in Maine and hopes to leave a lasting one with her contribution to Damnationland.
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Eat & Run: Head to Harpswell for scenic seafood
Erica’s will be open until Oct. 10.
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Tap Lines: Craft brewers make a convincing argument for the American lager
These newish versions from Mast Landing and Banded might change your mind about the style.
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‘Mack & Rita,’ a comedy about aging women, grows old fast
Growing old is a privilege denied to many. It’s hard to remember that – particularly if you’re a woman surrounded by anti-aging serums and polishing scrubs and needles that can take away every one of those hard-earned facial lines. Even though the pandemic inspired many women to embrace their gray hair, aging is still thought […]