Evocative works by artist Meg Brown Payson headline ‘Awakening’ at June LaCombe’s home in Pownal.
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.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Bo Burnham’s new Netflix special captures the quiet chaos of quarantine
If art acts as a reflection of how someone experiences the world, what happens when an artist is no longer out there, taking it all in? As life in the pandemic increasingly moved to the internet, how did the art produced evolve to reflect the shift? Such questions have floated around creative spaces over the […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Can you critique classical music?
The Press Herald is hiring a reviewer.
Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Q&A with New York cocktail columnist Robert Simonson, en route to Maine
He’ll be at Hunt & Alpine on Thursday to promote his book, ‘Mezcal and Tequila Cocktails,’ before traveling through the state.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Musician-turned-filmmaker wants to make you think about watching documentaries on disasters
Chris Gervais’ ‘Fragments’ recounts a 1995 plane crash in Maine. Or does it?
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: Roy Germon and Amy Bernhardt bonded by light
Littlefield Gallery in Winter Harbor shows works by the two distinct Maine artists.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: ‘Forte’ night at the Saco Drive-In
The Portland Symphony Orchestra holds its annual fundraiser to in-person and streaming audiences.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘House Call,’ by Jan Bindas-Tenney
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Inspired by a true(-ish) story, the newest ‘Conjuring’ film takes viewers into the bowels of heck
The newest installment in the “Conjuring” horror franchise – an expanding cinematic universe centering on fictionalized versions of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), and embracing the “Annabelle” spinoff series about a demonic doll – seems bent on converting skeptics, to an almost missionary degree. “The Court accepts the […]
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How ‘Master of None’ portrays a single lesbian’s fertility struggles with an honesty rarely seen on TV
Struggling on her own, Alicia calls her mother. She has to muster up the courage to self-administer a shot of progesterone as part of her fertility treatment, and Sharon knows just what to say: Alicia is as strong as other women who have been through this before, isn’t she? Plus, Sharon has a down payment […]