The 2022 Imagine Portland awards celebration draws 400 people to Ocean Gateway.
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, Review
‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’: Not quite Jane Austen, but close
If you’re going to set out to write a movie that critics will call Jane Austen-esque, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Not only does your script have to hold its own against one of the sharpest, funniest writers England has ever produced, but the raft of previous movies based on (or inspired […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Declaration,’ by Sandy Stott
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State, Review
Review: Opera Maine captures mystery and menace of Poe with music
The Studio Artists program will repeat its performance of ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ on Friday.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Theater review: Ladies of saucy satire ‘Lysistrata’ take unique approach to ending war
The play by Aristophanes opens the Theater at Monmouth’s season.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Early pandemic days become plot device for Portland filmmaker
Dan Chaimowitz already had the idea for ‘Dole Mates,’ a film about unemployed people struck living together. COVID helped complete the premise.
Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: Hi-Fidelity hopes to fill a low-ABV niche
You can also get a cheap bite and see some local music at the East Bayside nanobrewery.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Boys & Girls Clubs benefit from auctions at brewery
In its return to an in-person event, the Spring for the Kids fundraiser was more casual than in years past.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Prayer for the warblers, dead on my houselot,’ by Katherine Hagopian Berry
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.