Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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.
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Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Society Notebook: Camp Sunshine sends supporters on a road trip
The Maine Suitcase Party included a drawing to win one of several Maine getaways and raised $200,000 to send children with life-threatening illnesses and their families to the Sebago Lake camp.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
She said she painted her ‘perceptions.’ This is what Martha Diamond meant.
The intriguing work of this underappreciated artist is on view at the Colby College Museum of Art.
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Margaret Chase Smith’s fortitude comes through in ‘Conscience’
The play at Portland Stage revolves around the Maine senator’s monumental speech.
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Maine’s a spooky place. Here are 11 films that prove it.
For spooky season, we rounded up the best Maine horror films, with details on where you can watch them.
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Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘Nexus’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Deep Water: ‘A Few Things I Want Today,’ by Peter Beckford
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Mechanical mom meets nature in ‘The Wild Robot’
There’s a subset of family movies that’s obsessed with humanoid technology – robots, personal helpers and the like – and that is determined to work out the conflicted feelings we human beings have toward them. “The Iron Giant” (1999), “Robots” (2005), “WALL-E” (2008), “Ron’s Gone Wrong” (2021) – the list goes on, and why not? […]
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Society Notebook: Maine Initiatives launches platform to make giving easy
The launch of MaineShare Giving was the focus of the grant-making organization’s Changemakers event.