Princess Diana may be gone, but she’s never really left the left the public eye. One of the more recent examples came by way of Season 4 of “The Crown,” the popular Netflix series that, since 2016, has succeeded in portraying the humanity of Britain’s royals – in all their shades of gray – while […]
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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Bryant Terry on ‘Black Food,’ plant-based eating and where he finds inspiration
An award-winning author who has been writing plant-based cookbooks for the better part of two decades, Bryant Terry calls his latest project, “Black Food,” “a communal shrine to the shared culinary histories of the African diaspora.” He writes in the introduction: “These pages offer up gratitude to the great chain of Black lives, and to […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Review
Horror film/love story ‘Last Night in Soho’ is equal parts delicious and disappointing
A medley of compelling psychological thriller, pitch-perfect homage to 1960s London, sweet if superficial love story, tingling murder mystery, intriguing time-travel crime drama and only serviceable slasher flick, “Last Night in Soho” bears the hallmarks of director Edgar Wright’s particular passions, including a fascination with genre cinema and impeccably curated, period-appropriate needle-drops. (Among the soundtrack […]
Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: Can’t get enough milk stouts? This year, there’s even s’more
New releases from Maine breweries join the perennial favorites.
Posted inDo This, Food
Eat & Run: Hurry up and get your hands on this roast beef sandwich
You’ll need plenty of napkins to make it through a meal from George’s North Shore.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Travel the world from your living room during the Maine Jewish Film Festival
The nine-day, 17-film event – exploring universal themes in an immersive experience – continues in its virtual format, starting Saturday.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘Antlers’ is a creature feature, grounded in real-world horrors
Scott Cooper, the actor-turned-filmmaker (“Crazy Heart”) from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, isn’t known for horror movies – at least not the conventional kind – but for having an eye and an ear for an America that’s often forgotten by those in its bigger cities. In such films as “Out of the Furnace,” he displayed an […]
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Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ ‘Downeast’
The current top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Maine family-owned businesses recognized for their impact, near and far
The Institute for Family-Owned Business held its annual awards ceremony for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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Theater review: Suspicions swirl among large, talented cast of ‘Lady Susan’
Good Theater gives an entertaining world premiere of the adaptation of Jane Austen’s novella.