The brainchild of three Chili’s employees, the Gorham-based brewery and brewpub chain has continued to evolve over its quarter-century in business.
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.
Art review: Two tucked-away Portland galleries have shows to lure you
Maine College of Art & Design’s new gallery, 49 Oak, is showing alumni work over the summer, and Zero Station has a group show up on Anderson Street.
Deep Water: ‘Achilles Among Azaleas,’ by Myronn Hardy
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Best-Sellers: ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ ‘The Wager’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfictions books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Society Notebook: Haute Lunch gives cafeteria food an upgrade
Full Plates Full Potential held the fundraiser at Yarmouth High School.
You’ll need a map to find your way out of ‘Asteroid City’
To explain Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” an ambitious yet mystifyingly dysfunctional meta-movie, in terms of both form and content, it may be helpful to walk a prospective viewer backward, outward from the center of this most puzzling – and, most puzzlingly, ponderous – of puzzle boxes. Set in 1955, against a robin’s-egg-blue sky that looks […]
In ‘No Hard Feelings,’ she’s hot to trot, he’s not
In the blandly inoffensive sex comedy “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, an emotionally stunted, sexually liberated 30-year-old living in her childhood home in Montauk, studiously avoiding the bonds of adulthood. As the movie opens, Maddie’s car is being towed for back taxes, a catastrophe of financially epic proportions, since she’s an Uber driver. […]
Indie Film: In Maine-made ‘Sentinels,’ kids battle adversity by turning into superheroes
The short by longtime film editor Matthew Luhrman will screen next month at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.
Bar Guide: Saddle up at Augusta’s own Western saloon
No matter what you’re drinking, The Whiskey Kitchen is a good time.
Deep Water: ‘Your Queer Body,’ by Sampson Spadafore
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.