Set in 1990, in a time before the ubiquity of cellphones and the kind of advanced, rapid DNA profiling that would come to revolutionize criminal forensics, “The Little Things” isn’t just a retro serial-killer thriller, but a deeply noirish one, harking back to not just “Seven,” but to the delicious moral ambiguity of black-and-white films […]
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 inRecipes
Trinidad-style aloo and channa infuses an Indian classic with Caribbean flavor
There’s no denying the simplicity of Trinidad-style aloo and channa. Creamy Yukon Gold potatoes are coated in curry powder, then simmered until soft. Canned chickpeas are added, and the whole pot is then zapped with a bright burst of aromatics and heat. This vegan mash-up is both fortifying and forgiving; it sticks to one’s bones […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Listening To John Coltrane With My Baby Daughter,’ by David Stankiewicz
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: Dowling Walsh show represents the range of abstract expressionism
‘Into the Abstract’ runs through Feb. 27 at the Rockland gallery.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth burn brilliantly, but with understatement, in ‘Supernova’
The film “Supernova” is a small and superficially tidy thing, notwithstanding the astronomical implications of its title, which augurs the sudden explosion of a star or – more metaphorically – some brilliant light, often heralding its extinguishment. It seems, at first, an odd allusion for a road-trip story that takes place largely inside a boxy […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
New one-man play aims to dispel myths about the sexuality of the disabled
Ryan J. Haddad dials up the candor early on in “Hi, Are You Single?” The autobiographical one-man play, which begins streaming Monday on demand via D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in association with Los Angeles’s Iama Theatre Company, opens with a phone-sex scene. A playwright and actor known in part for his recurring role on […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘Locked Down’ mirrors our quarantine experiences
Doug Liman’s ‘Locked Down,’ one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is like our own quarantine experiences.
Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Follow the birthday gal on her ideal Portland pub crawl, for non-pandemic times
The seven places Angie Bryan would celebrate the week leading up to her birthday.
Posted inDo This, Food
Run & Eat: Takeout from Kuno a taste of what’s to come in the dining room
The food truck-turned-restaurant on Cumberland Avenue in Portland is ready to open to indoor dining whenever the time is right.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Restored Czech sci-fi film from the ’60s surprisingly relevant
PMA Films is screening ‘Ikarie XB-1,’ which follows 22nd-century space voyagers who encounter a derelict spacecraft full of dead rich people from Earth and deal with the doldrums of life on another planet.