Bad boy chef-turned-raconteur Anthony Bourdain sits at a two-top with one of his heroes, Iggy Pop, the proto-punk rocker who once overdosed onstage in Los Angeles and rolled in broken glass until his face bled during a New York show. Pop’s message all those years ago was not lost on a young Bourdain: Life is […]
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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Indie Film: Movie theaters take back rightful place in Maine International Film Festival
The weeklong Waterville-based event runs through Sunday.
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Tap Lines: The yeast among ingredients of favorite Maine beers may be the most important.
At Allagash and Maine Beer Co., those distinctive flavors are dependent on particular strains.
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Black Widow finally gets her own movie, one that poses the question: Who is she, really?
The filmmakers – including Scarlett Johansson, who serves as an executive producer – wanted to tell a story about female empowerment.
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A Smithsonian museum turns to art, not science, to hammer home a warning about Mother Nature
WASHINGTON — The animals depicted, directly or indirectly, in the National Museum of Natural History’s “Unsettled Nature” include birds, snakes and elephants. But the creature that dominates, while unseen in any of the artworks, is the one invoked in the show’s subtitle: “Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans.” The first art exhibition of its […]
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Art review: Bowdoin museum reopens with two exhibits that connect different times and places
The Brunswick college art museum reopened to the public on July 1.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Dead by Dawn,’ ‘Downeast’ top lists
FICTION Hardcover 1. “Dead by Dawn,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) 2. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf) 3. “Damage,” by Caitlin Wahrer (Pamela Dorman) 4. “Whereabouts,” by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) 5. “Great Circle,” by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) 6. “The Midnight Library,” by Matt Haig (Viking) 7. “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir (Ballantine) […]
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Society Notebook: Ogunquit museum’s garden party back in full bloom
Floral designers created arrangements based on works displayed in the museum.
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‘Summer of Soul’ is not just a great music documentary but an exhilarating time capsule
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson makes a spellbinding directing debut with “Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised),” a revelatory documentary that exhilarates and dismays in almost equal measure. In 1969, New York producer and impresario Tony Lawrence masterminded the Harlem Cultural Festival, a summer-long live music series that would be held […]
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Deep Water: ‘Vesper Sparrow,’ by Richard Foerster
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.