The short film has been accepted into five festivals and has its sights set on more.
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.
Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: Local bocks will ease transition to warm-weather beers
These German-style offerings make for smooth sipping from spring into summer.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
What to look for this summer at Maine museums and galleries
A rundown of the season’s art exhibits from southern Maine up through the coast.
Posted inBooks
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Downeast’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Review
Theater review: In new musical, a middle-aged Dorothy returns to Oz
Footlights premieres ‘Surrender Dorothy,’ running through May 21.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Review
Theater review: ‘Sabina’ tells cerebral but entertaining story of psychoanalysts
The musical is in its premiere run at Portland Stage.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Filmmaker’s struggle with depression informs his latest short
Robbie Moore hopes again to reach audiences on a personal level with ‘3:46 a.m.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
In ‘Petite Maman,’ two girls meet and form an enchanted bond
“Petite Maman” opens in the wake of a death: that of 8-year-old Nelly’s grandmother, at whose house in the country this French film is set. In an early scene, Nelly (a marvelously confident and prepossessing Joséphine Sanz) tells her mother, Marion (Nina Meurisse), that she’s sad; the girl feels like she didn’t get a chance […]
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Art review: Pixilated paintings and figure drawings represent the range of artistic interpretation
See ‘Leslie Parke: Beyond the Senses’ at Moss Galleries in Falmouth and ‘Back to the Figure’ at Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland.