The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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 inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Amid pandemic challenges, Belfast’s Colonial Theatre shifts focus
Moving away from screening first-run films, the independent venue will bring old favorites back to the big screen, and concentrate on Maine-made cinema.
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Bar Guide: Cellardoor Winery’s new downtown tasting room hits almost all the right notes
The Lincolnville winery moved its Portland location from Thompson’s Point to the Old Port.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
This city just became one of the best places to get to know Rembrandt and Rubens, outside of the Netherlands
BOSTON — How do great art museums develop their collections? There’s an inclination to think it all took place in the distant past. In fact, of course, it’s an ongoing process. Occasionally museums decide to collect in an area they have completely ignored. But more often, they play to existing strengths. Great works act as […]
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Lincoln Highway,’ ‘Downeast’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
In the fantastic new dramedies ‘Single Drunk Female’ and ‘As We See It,’ it’s never too late to grow up
If 28-year-old Samantha Fink, a writer in New York forced to move back home, weren’t in so much denial, she’d pray for the serenity to become merely a train wreck. In the first episode of the new dramedy “Single Drunk Female,” Sam (Sofia Black-D’Elia) nearly blinds her boss, destroys two cars and ends up in […]
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Deep Water: ‘Because that’s what he did,’ by Daniel Lance Patrick
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Art review: ‘Hopeful’ artist spreads his wings
‘Charlie Hewitt: Bush of Ghosts’ is on display at Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Portland.
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Because of Black women, the period drama ‘The Gilded Age’ has a Black story line done right
Fans of high-society high jinks will instantly recognize the dazzling and dizzying characters of “The Gilded Age,” the long-gestating period drama from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes that premiered Monday on HBO. But there is one conspicuous exception. Among the blindingly white milieu of social-climbing “wives of,” acid-tongued grand dames, bored heiresses, buzzing staff and […]
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Faith-based romance ‘Redeeming Love’ hammers home an unsubtle message
Based on Francine Rivers’s best-selling 1991 novel, a Christian-themed historical romance loosely inspired by a minor character mentioned in the biblical Book of Hosea, the faith-based melodrama “Redeeming Love” tells the story of Gold Rush-era prostitute Angel (Abigail Cowen) and the power of love – both a good man’s and God’s – to transform and […]