The Monhegan Museum exhibits works by artists who painted both on the island and in Cape Ann, Mass.
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, Maine
Society Notebook: In lieu of exhibit, Harpswell citizen historians hold a book launch
Stories collected to celebrate the state’s bicentennial last year were put into a book about the town.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Dead by Dawn,’ ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’
Nonesuch Books’ 10 top-selling hardcover and paperbacks in fiction and nonfiction.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Theater review: High-energy performance fitting for Shakespeare farce in the park
The slapstick humor of Fenix Theatre Company’s small ‘Comedy of Errors’ cast overcomes Deering Oaks distractions.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Foxfire,’ by Meg Stout
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Food
Three years after the suicide of Anthony Bourdain, a documentary tries to make sense of it all
Bad boy chef-turned-raconteur Anthony Bourdain sits at a two-top with one of his heroes, Iggy Pop, the proto-punk rocker who once overdosed onstage in Los Angeles and rolled in broken glass until his face bled during a New York show. Pop’s message all those years ago was not lost on a young Bourdain: Life is […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Movie theaters take back rightful place in Maine International Film Festival
The weeklong Waterville-based event runs through Sunday.
Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: The yeast among ingredients of favorite Maine beers may be the most important.
At Allagash and Maine Beer Co., those distinctive flavors are dependent on particular strains.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Black Widow finally gets her own movie, one that poses the question: Who is she, really?
The filmmakers – including Scarlett Johansson, who serves as an executive producer – wanted to tell a story about female empowerment.
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A Smithsonian museum turns to art, not science, to hammer home a warning about Mother Nature
WASHINGTON — The animals depicted, directly or indirectly, in the National Museum of Natural History’s “Unsettled Nature” include birds, snakes and elephants. But the creature that dominates, while unseen in any of the artworks, is the one invoked in the show’s subtitle: “Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans.” The first art exhibition of its […]