The Brunswick college art museum reopened to the public on July 1.
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
Best-Sellers: ‘Dead by Dawn,’ ‘Downeast’ top lists
FICTION Hardcover 1. “Dead by Dawn,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) 2. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf) 3. “Damage,” by Caitlin Wahrer (Pamela Dorman) 4. “Whereabouts,” by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) 5. “Great Circle,” by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) 6. “The Midnight Library,” by Matt Haig (Viking) 7. “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir (Ballantine) […]
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Society Notebook: Ogunquit museum’s garden party back in full bloom
Floral designers created arrangements based on works displayed in the museum.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘Summer of Soul’ is not just a great music documentary but an exhilarating time capsule
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson makes a spellbinding directing debut with “Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised),” a revelatory documentary that exhilarates and dismays in almost equal measure. In 1969, New York producer and impresario Tony Lawrence masterminded the Harlem Cultural Festival, a summer-long live music series that would be held […]
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Deep Water: ‘Vesper Sparrow,’ by Richard Foerster
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Horror film ‘The Forever Purge’ mixes graphic violence with a touch of social criticism
“The Forever Purge” is bookended with scenes of families making their way across the U.S.-Mexico border. As it opens, Adela and her husband, Juan (Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta), are being escorted by a guide, known as a coyote, into Texas from Mexico, where they’re fleeing cartel violence by cover of night. By […]
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‘Zola,’ a movie based on a tweetstorm, is squirmy, sordid, stylized, sexy – and smart
In 2015, a 19-year-old Detroit dancer named A’Ziah Wells (now A’Ziah King) took to social media to process the trauma of a frightening trip she had recently taken to Florida. Her alternately horrifying and hilarious tweetstorm went viral, capturing the attention of such luminaries as Solange Knowles and Ava DuVernay. After Rolling Stone reported out […]
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‘Boss Baby’ sequel offers decent return on investment, with savvy casting and pointed social satire
For a family flick ostensibly in the business of cheap laughs, 2017’s “The Boss Baby” worked overtime to diversify its appeal. The hook – toss a superintelligent infant in a three-piece suit and give him Alec Baldwin’s raspy timbre – was ludicrous. The humor was hit-and-miss. And the world-building behind the movie’s infantile corporate culture […]
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Indie Film: Portland’s Longfellow Books a stop on filmed tour of indie bookstores
‘The Bookstour’ visits 50 brick-and-mortar retail havens for bibliophiles in a bid to raise awareness about the importance of supporting them.
Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Recycled ingredients make for creative cocktails at Broken Arrow
The Portland restaurant’s philosophy revolves around reducing food waste.