BRAY, Ireland – Sinéad O’Connor’s office is a glass, pentagon-shaped porch that’s also the entryway to her house. Most days, before the sun rises over the Irish Sea, she’ll be sitting there, smoking a cigarette, nursing a sugary cup of coffee or shuffling through her iPad. She may even pick up a guitar. 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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What to watch when you’ve seen everything else? Oh, NOW you want to hear from the TV critic
The coronavirus crisis has us stuck at home (working from home, if you’re lucky enough to have a job like that), socially distanced and stoically trapped. Everything’s canceled, closed, kaput. So NOW you’re interested in what the TV critic has to say. I see how this works. What else, after all, can physically distance us […]
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The show will go on. Just from their living rooms.
John Legend, Bono, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Pink, John Mayer, Keith Urban and more have held virtual concerts from their homes as the world continues to practice social distancing.
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How are you welcoming the signs of spring? Send us your photos!
We want to see how you and your housemates are keeping busy while keeping your distance. This week, we’re asking for photos that show you enjoying the signs of spring. Send pictures with captions that include the full names of everyone in the photo (animals included), along with your hometown and the name of the […]
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Movie review: Betty Gilpin main highlight of ‘The Hunt’
After being pulled from the release calendar in the fall of 2019 in the wake of a summer of mass shootings, Universal and Blumhouse’s “The Hunt,” a titillating, topical take on “The Most Dangerous Game,” took on the sheen of something forbidden, illicit, too shocking to be seen. It’s a bit of extratextual intrigue that […]
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Movie review: Vin Diesel in the bruising ‘Bloodshot’
It might be too harsh to recommend practicing social distancing with the new Vin Diesel movie “Bloodshot,” but I wouldn’t want to shake its hand, either. David S. F. Wilson’s film comes not from Marvel or DC but the pages of Valiant Comics. Its central character, a former soldier named Ray Garrison (Diesel), is brought […]
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Alan Alda would like your attention
NEW YORK — Of all the octogenarian actors who reached the height of their fame in the 1970s, let’s assume, generously, that a third are dead. Another third are almost certainly on base for an upcoming “In Remembrance” montage at the Oscars. The final third, the lucky ones, live on – in cameos and TV […]
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Society Notebook: Contemporaries show true colors at Winter Bash
Unique styles were on display at the annual Portland Museum of Art event.
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Deep Water: ‘Even Now,’ by Laura Bonazzoli
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Art review: Captain Bisbee and crew beam up from Jersey for diverse exhibit at Cove Street
‘Gardenship: First Voyage’ shows what the Brunswick sculptor and his team of artists have been up to during their nine-month residency.