The paintings, on display at Chase’s Daily in Belfast, can be transporting.
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.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Slasher film ‘Halloween Kills’ gives audience exactly what it wants – and that’s it
Overheard from the press seats as the lights went down before a recent screening of “Halloween Kills”: “I have no idea what to expect here. It’s just some guy with a mask and a – I don’t know. I really have no idea.” The anonymous wag’s delicious sarcasm – and yes, that was sarcasm, dripping […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘The Comfort in Named Things’ by Deborah Cummins
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’; ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’
The current top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: PROPEL honors young professionals for their pandemic pivots
In difficult times, these people and organizations have excelled.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Review
Theater review: Two couples chronicle their friendship through the decades
‘Middletown’ is an affecting evening of theater.
Posted inDo This, Food
Eat & Run: Indulge your inner vegan at Curbside Comforts
The food truck plans to keeping parking on the Eastern Prom into December.
Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: In these local lagers, you’ll find something borrowed, something Bull
A heart transplant put an end to Tom Bull’s career in beer, but other Maine breweries are riffing on his recipes.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: The histories of these Maine locales are fit for horror films
The scary movies that could be made, based on real-life stories.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Dried Beans,’ by Alice Haines
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.