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.
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In Brunswick, ‘Beautiful’ tribute to Carole King’s talent
The jukebox musical is playing at Maine State Music Theatre through Aug. 24.
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‘It Ends With Us’ is glittery and traumatic. And, oh, those abs.
Millions of readers swooned over Colleen Hoover’s thorny romance “It Ends With Us,” the No. 1 bestselling novel of 2022 and 2023. They’ll come prepared for the clobbering heartbreak – and will hopefully pack an extra hankie for any nonfans entering the movie theater as blank as if they’re on a blind date. The film […]
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Vacationland Film Festival brings Maine-made movies to Biddeford
Screenings are timed to high tide, giving beachgoers something else to do.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bestsellers: ‘All Fours,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Deep Water: ‘Being “Neighbor-leave,” ‘ by Dennis Camire
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Ogunquit Playhouse launches fund for new works at lawn party
The upcoming production of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ will join the growing list of world premieres hosted by the theater.
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Deadpool and Wolverine assemble. The result is hilarious.
Marvel is sorry. Sorry about those confusing multiverse movies, sorry about the characters it’s hyped and abandoned, sorry that its parent company, Disney, gobbled up Twentieth Century Fox and the rights to the X-Men and, above all, sorry that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s centerpiece, the self-serious Avengers franchise, suddenly seems as stale as your uncle’s […]
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A long weekend with John Lennon’s ‘lost weekend’ girlfriend, May Pang
Do you ever talk to Yoko? someone in the crowd asked. Did Paul and George ever call Ringo “Richie”? How did you meet John? May Pang is used to the questions. She has devoted much of her life to recounting her affair a half-century ago with John Lennon, a period he memorably described as “the […]
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New England natives pair up for horror/thriller ‘Dead Whisper’
The film, screening at The Nick next week, stars Brunswick-born Samuel Dunning.