The arts organization’s first in-person fundraiser since the start of the pandemic featured dance, music and food from around the world.
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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Theater review: Mark Twain meets Monty Python in new musical ‘The Secret Princess’
Snowlion Repertory Company is presenting the premiere run of the comedy at Meetinghouse Arts in Freeport.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Back at the Nick, SMCC’s film students’ shorts aren’t short of weighty content
After two years of disruptions, the Maine Mayhem festival returns to its usual format. ‘It’s good to be back home.’
Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: How beers work their way from Allagash’s pilot program into your hands
The latest experiment to make it into cans is Seconds to Summer, a lager that uses yeast differently than most of the Portland brewery’s beers.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: Natasha Mayers’ series of military torsos is satire lite
Zero Station’s ‘Tell It Slant’ features the activist artist’s War Chest paintings.
Posted inFood, Recipes
Use ramps in a simpler, made-for-spring riff on scallion pancakes
Every once in a while, when I’m scrolling through pictures on my phone, I recall the early days of the pandemic. In the spring of 2020, my children were 1 and 3, just babies. To see those pictures is to ache for the years that I lost, and the years that they lost, the years […]
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HBO’s ‘We Own This City’ is not Season 6 of ‘The Wire’
A few detectives in the drug unit are sitting around chatting in the 2002 pilot of “The Wire,” when one offers his thoughts on the war on drugs: “You can’t even call this (expletive) a war. … Wars end.” That “war” still rages 20 years later, and its destruction is evident across the country – […]
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Society Notebook: Women in coffee from around the world converge in Portland
Coffee By Design hosted members of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance last month.
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A great Venice Biennale unfolds, against all the odds
VENICE — The Venice Biennale – art’s forever fraught answer to the Olympics – provides a precious opportunity to take the culture’s temperature and speculate on where things are headed. It’s where the art world announces new talent, revives becalmed careers and, just as often, submerges dreams of stardom in lagoons of indifference. This year’s […]
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Deep Water: ‘America,’ by Martin Steingesser
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.