VENICE — The Venice Biennale – art’s forever fraught answer to the Olympics – provides a precious opportunity to take the culture’s temperature and speculate on where things are headed. It’s where the art world announces new talent, revives becalmed careers and, just as often, submerges dreams of stardom in lagoons of indifference. This year’s […]
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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Deep Water: ‘America,’ by Martin Steingesser
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Posted inRecipes
How to make red rice, a Lowcountry classic with deep roots
“Red rice goes back to the old, old days – the days before me, my momma, and her,” writes Emily Meggett in her new book, out next week, “Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island.” Photographs by Clay Williams illustrate the cooking life of Meggett, the 89-year-old matriarch of the Gullah […]
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Nicolas Cage has seen your memes. He wants you to see his work.
Burdened by mountains of debt, Nicolas Cage spent much of the last 15 years saying yes to just about any offer. He appeared in some 50 films, at least half of which were low-budget, direct-to-video schlock that typically vanished into the single digits of Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Yet Cage remained Cage, outrageous and outsize, strutting […]
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Best-Sellers: ‘Sea of Tranquility,’ ‘Time is a Mother’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Blind Pig Tavern offers an eye-opening catalog of cocktails
The Gardiner pub’s drink menu has a section dedicated to every kind of spirit.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Movies to watch, out and at home, on International Workers’ Day
See the 1979 documentary ‘The Wobblies’ at Space on Sunday or check out these other films that tell the stories of workers fighting for their rights.
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Deep Water: ‘Unplowed Land,’ by Matthew Bernier
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘The First Lady’ turns three compelling women into Emmy bait
The new East Wing drama, “The First Lady,” exists to illustrate a fact most of us intuitively know: The women asked to play hostess, decorator, fashion plate and champion for unobjectionable causes as part of each administration’s political theater tend to be much more interesting and complicated than the manicured images they project. That’s certainly […]
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Diamond Eye,’ ‘Crying in H Mart’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.