The artistic handiwork of Lauren Luloff is on display at Dunes, while four painters pack into Sidle House Gallery in Freeport.
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.
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Society Notebook: All’s fare at annual Flavors of Freeport competition
Restaurants put their best bites forward at the Fare and Ice event.
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‘Dune: Part Two’ is 166 minutes of brilliant casting and sand
Imagine a world devoid of color or warmth, foundering amid environmental catastrophe and tribal factions that threaten to bring humanity to the edge of fatal fanaticism. But enough about election-year politics. Let’s talk about “Dune: Part Two.” In this big, basso profundo follow-up to 2021’s first installment, we catch up with Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides […]
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Review: Jason Isbell brings his stories to State Theatre stage, with backing of distinct band
Isbell and the 400 Unit played the Portland venue Monday.
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Indie Film: This year’s hard-to-see Oscar-nominated shorts are playing all weekend in Portland
These five live-action films show why sometimes less is more.
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Deep Water: ‘The Dream Again, with Cats,’ by Lucia Owen
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Art review: From seascapes to surreal photography, seeing Maine through 3 artists’ eyes
Distinctly different perspectives emerge in paintings at Moss Galleries in Falmouth and two photo exhibits at Dowling Walsh in Rockland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bestsellers: ‘The Women,’ ‘How to Know a Person’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Society Notebook: Portland Museum of Art bash bursts into a dance party
The annual Winter Bash featured a dance performance that spilled out into the crowd.
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In ‘The Taste of Things,’ Juliette Binoche is Mona Lisa in the kitchen
In “The Taste of Things,” a radiant Juliette Binoche plays Eugénie, a gifted cook who for the past 20 years has been running the kitchen of a 19th-century epicurean named Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel). As the movie opens, Eugénie is harvesting vegetables from Dodin’s garden, smiling beatifically and delicately rearranging wisps of hair as she […]