The next phase of the Westbrook development is scheduled to open in early 2025.
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, Do This
Sick of superheroes? There’s a cure for your movie malaise
Before ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ these indie offerings offered a different – and sometimes dark – take on the genre.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Kennebunkport history buffs relive the ’70s
Finger sandwiches and photos of the town’s Dump Parades brought back memories from the bygone era at the historical society’s lawn party.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
See how painter Lee Krasner and her peers shaped an artistic era
Their geometric abstractions are the highlight of one show at Ogunquit Museum of American Art, where another exhibit features the paintings of artist Russell Cheney.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘Autocracy, Inc.’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Deep Water: ‘Upon Learning You Have Bird Bones,’ by Michelle Menting
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, Review
In Brunswick, ‘Beautiful’ tribute to Carole King’s talent
The jukebox musical is playing at Maine State Music Theatre through Aug. 24.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘It Ends With Us’ is glittery and traumatic. And, oh, those abs.
Millions of readers swooned over Colleen Hoover’s thorny romance “It Ends With Us,” the No. 1 bestselling novel of 2022 and 2023. They’ll come prepared for the clobbering heartbreak – and will hopefully pack an extra hankie for any nonfans entering the movie theater as blank as if they’re on a blind date. The film […]
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Vacationland Film Festival brings Maine-made movies to Biddeford
Screenings are timed to high tide, giving beachgoers something else to do.
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Bestsellers: ‘All Fours,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.