For spooky season, we rounded up the best Maine horror films, with details on where you can watch them.
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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Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘Nexus’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Deep Water: ‘A Few Things I Want Today,’ by Peter Beckford
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Mechanical mom meets nature in ‘The Wild Robot’
There’s a subset of family movies that’s obsessed with humanoid technology – robots, personal helpers and the like – and that is determined to work out the conflicted feelings we human beings have toward them. “The Iron Giant” (1999), “Robots” (2005), “WALL-E” (2008), “Ron’s Gone Wrong” (2021) – the list goes on, and why not? […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Maine Initiatives launches platform to make giving easy
The launch of MaineShare Giving was the focus of the grant-making organization’s Changemakers event.
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Lights Out Gallery gives you 2 reasons to book it to Norway
These nearby shows — one of photography, the other straddling the line of art and craft — both close Oct. 13.
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Past and present Portland Symphony conductors carry orchestra into 100th season
Each music director conducted a movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which the orchestra will perform again Tuesday.
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These Maine-made microwaveable cups are feel-good convenient meals
Mushroom Risotto and Pad Thai are among the varieties made by the Kittery-based Good To-Go brand.
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Documentary insists the free press isn’t doomed. Phew.
A screening of ‘Trusted Sources’ at Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta will be followed by a Q&A with Maine journalists.
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Environmental visions will beckon you off the beaten path
In shows running into the fall, galleries in Searsport and Deer Isle offer a wealth of variety.