The current bestselling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Leslie Bridgers
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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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‘Sing 2’ may be an utterly unnecessary sequel, but who can resist singing animals?
Anyone up for an animated movie about talking animals? Make that singing animals (if autotune can be called singing.) Make that another movie about singing animals. Yes, “Sing 2” is here. No? Is everything OK? Seriously though: Matthew McConaughey? Reese Witherspoon? Seth MacFarlane? Scarlett Johansson? Nick Kroll? John C. Reilly? Taron Egerton? Tori Kelly? Did […]
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‘Licorice Pizza’ is as aimless as a dream, but with its own offbeat logic
Paul Thomas Anderson has made it his business – and our pleasure – to return to the San Fernando Valley, where he came of age in the 1970s and which has served as his creative muse for most of his career. Like Fellini’s Italy or Scorsese’s New York, Anderson’s Los Angeles is rarefied yet strangely […]
Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: A look back at the best beer-drinking of 2021
The year’s most memorable sips, styles and spots for enjoying Maine beer.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Summers working at Funtown inspire web series
The concept for ‘Poseidon’s Gate’ came from Nick Salve’s experiences at the Saco amusement park.
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Maine Food A to Z: Our annual roundup in 2021
What a year! We adapted, we quit in droves, we begged for common courtesy, we mourned the loss of an iconic factory. And so much more.
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Art review: Classical music translated into colorful compositions
‘Lynne Mapp Drexler: Orchestrations in Color’ is up through Friday at Elizabeth Moss Galleries’ new Old Port outpost.
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‘The Tender Bar’ movie review: Liquor and life lessons, served neat
The title of George Clooney’s warm and fuzzy film adaptation of J.R. Moehringer’s best-selling 2005 memoir involves a bit of clever wordplay. First, “The Tender Bar” is an affectionate allusion to the place where much of the film’s action takes place, if action is the right word for a story that’s mostly about words and […]
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Best-Sellers: ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘Call Us What We Carry’
The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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‘A Journal for Jordan’ is a well-meaning but inert slice of true-life melodrama
Early in “A Journal for Jordan,” a mother reads her toddler a message, left by the boy’s late father: “Dear Jordan: I want you to know that it’s OK for boys to cry.” Opening with a life lesson like that virtually guarantees a three-hankie tear-jerker. But the film doesn’t quiet deliver on that promise. The […]