Last week, you might say I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Generous terms, of course, for what was actually just me waving my phone around in my apartment. With “The Met Unframed,” online through Feb. 15, you can “visit” four exhibitions and the Great Hall, and interact with 46 works from the New York […]
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, Review
The movie ‘Bliss’ is like rip-off of ‘The Matrix,’ only smarter (and a little less awesome)
There’s powerful “The Matrix” energy (minus the Bullet Time) surrounding “Bliss,” a sci-fi flick in which a sad-sack divorced dad named Greg (Owen Wilson) suddenly learns that everything and almost everyone around him – his dead-end job in a dumpy town, his angry boss (Steve Zissis), his estranged teenage son (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), the daughter […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
A closer look at Robert Duncanson, the Black landscape artist behind the inaugural painting presented to the Bidens
Moments after laying out his vision for the country with his own broad, bold brushstrokes, newly inaugurated President Joe Biden set his sights on another hopeful vision of America. At the inaugural gift-giving ceremony in the Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., presented Biden and first lady Jill Biden with “Landscape with […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Movie about film fan who spends isolation glued to the screen feels all too familiar
‘Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream’ isn’t set during the pandemic but reflects what some people are experiencing.
Posted inDo This, Food
Tap Lines: Maine breweries aim to reduce their impact on the environment
Their efforts include recycling programs, solar installations and capturing carbon dioxide.
Posted inRecipes
Find out why Anthony Bourdain’s boeuf bourguignon is one of The Washington Post’s most popular recipes ever
There are more than 9,200 recipes in The Washington Post archives, and we’re adding more every day. The new dishes are what tend to capture the most attention, but there are certain entries that keep trucking along, gathering a reliable stream of readers years after they were first published. We don’t always know exactly why. […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
A beautiful couple argues in the angsty, self-consciously arty ‘Malcolm Marie’
The title characters of “Malcolm & Marie,” an up-and-coming film director and his gorgeous, whippet-thin girlfriend, are just getting home from his latest premiere as the movie opens. It’s around 1 a.m. in Malibu, California, and as they enter the chic, low-slung house where they’re staying, they don’t say a word. Hiking up her spangly […]
Posted inFood
Cooking for one: 6 tips to keep things practical, flexible and fun
Many of us have been spending more time at home over the past 10 months, and a lot more of that time has been spent alone. With the coronavirus pandemic cutting off access to friends and social circles, and all the places we used to gather, that’s no surprise. And if you’re by yourself, you’ve […]
Posted inCookbook Reviews
Travel-imbued cookbooks offer up culinary journeys
On a gray afternoon in November, I sat down to a meal that evoked Istanbul cafes where just the year before I had feasted at the edge of the sun-streaked Bosporus. Dried sumac speckled a plate of shaved radishes and fennel, and the main course was lamb ragout, ladled over satiny eggplant puree. It was […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Larry King’s long run made the case that there’s no such thing as a dumb question
Larry King’s vintage microphone, the RCA Type 77-D that referenced his rise as a radio man, was a prop that worked as a powerful symbol of both past and present in a relentlessly evolving media age. The microphone was a security blanket for everyone involved: for King, for his 60,000 interview subjects, and for the […]