Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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, Local & State
Society Notebook: Movie lovers turn out for Moonlight Cinema at Thompson’s Point
The outdoor movie series is one of several regular, pandemic-friendly events the Portland venue is hosting.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Q&A with Yo-Yo Ma: How music can be like touch during these socially distant times
The famed cellist mulls performing from a flatbed truck at a drive-in during an online chat with interviewer Geoff Rogers.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Advocate for female filmmakers shifting focus back to own work
After the fifth and final Fem.Cine.Anarchy festival on Sept. 17, Kate Kaminski will step away from her role as an event organizer to make her own movies.
Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Pair each of these summer activities with the perfect cocktail
Have a S’moretini ’round the campfire, or a Sea Breeze while you sail.
Posted inReview
Movie review: ‘I Used to Go Here’ is a comedy pregnant with possibilities
There must be a German word for it: That feeling of instant familiarity and creeping displacement that sets upon the young-middle-aged when they revisit a place of their not-so-distant youth. It could be their childhood bedroom. Or a once-favorite bar. Or the town where they went to college – like Carbondale, Ill., the setting for […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The pandemic will make movies and TV shows look like nothing we’ve seen before
Over five popular seasons, the story lines of “Better Call Saul” have unfolded across nail salons, fried-chicken joints and other strip-mall staples of American life. When new episodes begin premiering next year, though, the locations that give the “Breaking Bad” spinoff its texture could be reined in or done away with altogether. The culprit? The […]
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Movie review: ‘Boys State’ offers hope about our next generation of leaders
Three summers ago in Austin, a thousand or so rising high school seniors participating in a mock legislature for youth leaders made national headlines, voting to secede from the Union. It was, of course, a toothless vote, made during an annual gathering known as Boys State, one of many such programs for precocious male adolescents […]
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The best-kept secret in documentaries? It’s all in the casting
The documentary “Boys State” follows four Texas teenagers as they navigate the title summer leadership program in their home state, an intense week-long lesson in running for office and hard-nosed realpolitik. The four young men occupy a range of descriptions and political positions: Ben is a person with disabilities who worships at the altar of […]
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Deep Water: ‘the cosmonaut’s heart,’ by John Reinhart
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.