Let’s be honest. From time to time, many of us throw weeknight dinners together with what we have on hand. It happens to me and I write a weekly column about getting dinner on the table in minutes, so supper recipes are almost always on my mind. Toward the end of the week when the […]
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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Theater review: ‘Or,’ tells a condensed, comedic history of 17th century England
Three actors portray a wide range of characters in the Winnipesaukee Playhouse production, streaming through Portland Stage.
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Frances McDormand wows (again) in the earthbound yet expansive ‘Nomadland’
Based on a 2017 book, the movie explores the lives of seasonal migrant workers and features many real-life nomads.
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John Travolta’s Islesboro home on market for $5 million
The oceanfront home, which Travolta and his late wife bought in 1991, has 20 bedrooms.
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Indie Film: After pandemic-year hiatus, MidCoast Film Fest planning second season
The Lincoln Theater is taking submissions of documentaries and films based on a true story for its nascent festival.
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Tap Lines: What Maine beer pros are drinking now, from their breweries and others
The people running some of Maine’s biggest breweries offer their recommendations.
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ excavates recent history to find disturbing contemporary echoes
Arriving just weeks after “MLK/FBI,” Sam Pollard’s meticulous investigation of the FBI’s harassment campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., comes “Judas and the Black Messiah,” a similarly powerful and infuriating excavation of how the American criminal justice establishment sought to dismantle, silence and literally destroy the mid-century civil rights movement. The Black Messiah in question […]
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Two women in love struggle to give voice to their feelings in ‘The World to Come’
Abigail, the protagonist of “The World to Come,” keeps a diary, which, along with thoughts laid down in her letters, provides the narration for this film, set in 1856 in rural upstate New York, and centering on the unhappily married wife of a dour farmer named Dyer (Casey Affleck). When Abigail (Katherine Waterston) mentions that […]
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The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory
HBO documentary ‘Black Art’ features David Driskell, who lived part-time in Falmouth and died last year.
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Deep Water: “Upon Hearing that ‘Bread is the Way Sun Enters Our Body,’ ” by Dennis Camire
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.