The concert Sunday at Woodfords Congregational Church also had lighter, lyrical moments.
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.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Giving thanks to the Maine film community for keeping the lights, and cameras, on
With their perseverance in the face of the pandemic, it would have been really hard to write this column.
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Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: Get lost in the flavors of Little Whaleboat IPA and help preserve its namesake island
Maine Beer Company is raising money to help Maine Coast Heritage Trust purchase the land in Casco Bay.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Teeth,’ by Jefferson Navicky
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘The Nameless Ones,’ ‘Downeast’
The current top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Long before ‘Squid Game,’ South Korea filmmakers elevated the underdog
TOKYO — To fully understand South Korea’s megahit “Squid Game,” a good place to start is summer 1987. In the aftermath of mass pro-democracy protests, a group of fledgling filmmakers in Seoul published a manifesto denouncing censorship under 26 years of military-directed rule that had muzzled their creativity. “Making movies in this country is like […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Breweries hop in to help build houses, beer by beer
Habitat for Humanity on Oct. 14 held the final event for a fundraiser that was spread out over two months.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: Colby packs ‘House’ in reconsideration of Bob Thompson
Taking in the survey of the prolific painter, who died before turning 30, requires time and concentration.
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Casting Black actors in period pieces isn’t diversity – it’s history
There is a moment in “The Harder They Fall” that director Jeymes Samuel can’t stop smiling about. It arrives with a locomotive around the end of Act 1 and subsequently barrels through every preconceived notion of what a Western is supposed to be. In the scene, a white male character gets just the tip of […]
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Theater review: Footlights takes a serious turn with ‘The Colors of My Life’
Written by director Michael Tobin, the play grapples with family dynamics surrounding a medical diagnosis.