While losing the moviegoing experience is a downside of the pandemic, it’s created more opportunity for indie films to attract an audience.
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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From the Black Death to today, why quarantine is so unsettling
In March, my daughter called me in a panic. One of her college friends had tested positive for the coronavirus and had been sent to isolate in a designated building. My daughter and four other friends had recently tested negative, she told me, but they had spent time with the infected friend, so they were […]
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Local review: ‘Billy Summers’ is Stephen King’s most bookish thriller to date
The master of horror’s latest literary protagonist is an assassin-turned-aspiring novelist.
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Society Notebook: Suicide prevention brings out supporters
The Signs of Hope fundraiser will benefit the Zero Suicide initiative.
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Deep Water: ‘The Salt That Carries Us,’ written collectively in Congress Square Park
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Art review: Between two exhibits, Cove Street Arts is here, there and everywhere
‘Here and There’ features artists with connections to both New York and Maine, while ‘Kindred’ explores universal interconnectedness.
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This biopic is conventional, except when Jennifer Hudson channels the Queen of Soul
Even if it does not quite crack Aretha Franklin’s enigmatic genius, ‘Respect’ captures the late singer’s transcendent sound.
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‘Reservation Dogs’ is an unforgettable (and caper-filled) portrait of a modern-day Native community
The place they call home is trying to kill them.
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Paper Palace, ‘I Alone Can Fix It’
The current top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books and More in South Portland.
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Bedside Table: ‘Hamnet’ worth reliving a plague
“A friend recommended this book to me, and it sat on my bedside table for months before I finally picked it up. ‘Hamnet,’ by Maggie O’Farrell. Just wow. I was not prepared for how good this book would be. Literary, gorgeous, atmospheric. Even as I started it, I was just thinking I would read it […]
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