The Old Port restaurant has a weekday happy hour menu with drink specials and small plates.
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 inFood
Fancy Feast’s in-house chef wants you to eat like a cat
It’s not uncommon for food companies to publish individual recipes, or even booklets and full-blown cookbooks. But you might have a man-bites-dog reaction when you hear that one of the latest brands to do just that is … Fancy Feast. The purveyor of cat food with a gourmet sheen relied on its in-house chef, Amanda […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Advocacy group wants to see more Asian dancers on the stage, and more Asian choreographers on the program
Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin, the founders of Final Bow for Yellowface, an organization dedicated to eliminating offensive Asian stereotypes in dance, had been working on their virtual choreography festival for months when something suddenly shifted their focus: a shooting in Atlanta that left eight people dead, six of them Asian. The pair knew they […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Grief,’ by Lee Sharkey
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Q&A with Dionne Warwick: Why she went on Twitter, prepping for her Mother’s Day show and the Luther Vandross cover of her song
You can buy a ticket to her shows Sunday through the Boothbay Opera House.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘The Water Man’ is a rare treat: A sensitive family film grounded in real life
In “The Water Man,” an assured, richly appointed directorial debut by David Oyelowo, the filmmaker nods toward his aesthetic roots when his main character briefly opens his “E.T.” lunchbox. That flash of retro pop culture feels right at home in this sensitive family drama, in which Lonnie Chavis plays Gunner Boone, a serious-minded only child […]
Posted inRecipes
Learning to make pandesal, the everyday rolls of the Philippines, is a labor of love
The journey was long and uncomfortable. I was hot, tired and desperately craving a strawberry Pop-Tart. A few of my classmates were off to Disney World for the week, but after a 22-hour flight, a delayed layover and a very bumpy three-hour van ride, I finally arrived for my first visit at my mother’s rural […]
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Recipes
Spicy pork and soba noodles deliver sweet, salty and crunchy in one filling dish
Time is a precious commodity, so if someone offers me a shortcut, I’m all ears. That’s one reason I dove into “The Shortcut Cook” by Rosie Reynolds (Hardie Grant, 2021). The other was that I loved “The Kitchen Shelf,” a cookbook she wrote in 2016 with Eve O’Sullivan, which is all about building meals around […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Mary Lincoln wasn’t ‘crazy.’ She was a bereaved mother, new exhibit says.
WASHINGTON — Callie Hawkins had been working at President Lincoln’s Cottage museum for 10 years when she became pregnant. She and her husband were thrilled, and she joked with her co-workers about the baby’s “perfect” due date – Feb. 12 – Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. When the day arrived, Hawkins went into labor right on schedule. […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Flipping the script on ‘fat’ in comedy
The third and final season of ‘Shrill,’ starring Aidy Bryant, was released on Hulu on Friday.