A rundown of the season’s art exhibits from southern Maine up through the coast.
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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Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Downeast’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Theater review: In new musical, a middle-aged Dorothy returns to Oz
Footlights premieres ‘Surrender Dorothy,’ running through May 21.
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Theater review: ‘Sabina’ tells cerebral but entertaining story of psychoanalysts
The musical is in its premiere run at Portland Stage.
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Indie Film: Filmmaker’s struggle with depression informs his latest short
Robbie Moore hopes again to reach audiences on a personal level with ‘3:46 a.m.’
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In ‘Petite Maman,’ two girls meet and form an enchanted bond
“Petite Maman” opens in the wake of a death: that of 8-year-old Nelly’s grandmother, at whose house in the country this French film is set. In an early scene, Nelly (a marvelously confident and prepossessing Joséphine Sanz) tells her mother, Marion (Nina Meurisse), that she’s sad; the girl feels like she didn’t get a chance […]
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Art review: Pixilated paintings and figure drawings represent the range of artistic interpretation
See ‘Leslie Parke: Beyond the Senses’ at Moss Galleries in Falmouth and ‘Back to the Figure’ at Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland.
Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Loud, lively scene at Jefe Juan’s goes better with tequila than talking
Good service, specialty cocktails and a small, inexpensive food menu are among the reasons to try this newish addition to Portland’s Wharf Street.
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Deep Water: ‘Parallel to the Season,’ by Sharif S. Elmusa
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.