“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is a provocation within a provocation, raising all manner of timely questions, from the moral valence of activist sabotage to the value of storytelling itself. Based on Swedish author Andreas Malm’s 2021 book of the same name, this dramatized version of Malm’s polemic – in which he advocated for […]
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: For lesson on tolerance, Portland Stage goes back to the baked goods
‘The Cake’ tells the story of a young Southern-born woman whose marriage to another woman gives her mother’s best friend pause about baking for the wedding.
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Indie Film: Young filmmaker’s promising debut resurfaces 25 years later
Space is showing long-lost ‘Drylongso’ by Cauleen Smith, who ended up changing creative pursuits.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ ‘Poverty’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Deep Water: ‘The Neighborhood,’ by Marjorie Arnett
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Portland Ovations gives a snapshot of all it presents
The fundraiser included an array of performances and food at O’Maine Studios in Portland.
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Art review: Season heats up with assemblages at Dunes, ‘Arrangements’ at Moss
The shows in Portland and Falmouth mark the start of a busier time for galleries.
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Tap Lines: With a push from its brewer, Goodfire steps up for Pink Boots
The brewery’s West Coast IPA Looky Here, being released Friday, will benefit the organization that supports women and nonbinary people in the industry.
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‘Air’ shoots and scores, with story, character, catharsis and depth
“Air,” Ben Affleck’s funny, moving and surprisingly meaningful tale of how Nike came to create Air Jordan basketball shoes, might have been a real snore. We all know how the story ends, and do we really need a movie that perpetuates yet another David-and-Goliath myth about a world-dominating corporation? Apparently, the answer is yes: Working […]
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The new ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ film mostly captures the game’s magic
With the popular resurgence of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, it was only a matter of time before a movie studio got hold of it. I mean, another movie studio. Yes, there was a trilogy in the 2000s, with Part 2 made for TV and Part 3 going straight to video. But no, they […]