The book by part-time Mainer Tracy Kidder weaves scenes from the streets of Boston with the problems that are keeping people there.
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.
The vegan and vegetarian restaurants that went and came from Maine
While the effects of the pandemic led to some closures in 2022, there was evidence of a growing appetite for plant-based dining out.
Art review: For inaugural exhibit, Waterville gallery puts focus on video art
Three videos and a related sculpture make up ‘Light on Main Street’ at the Joan Digman Schmaltz Gallery of Art in the new Paul J. Schupf Art Center.
Spielberg peels back the curtain on his youth with ‘The Fabelmans’
Let the record reflect that “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s self-portrait of the artist as a young man, ends with one of the best final scenes in recent memory. That scene – and the wink that follows it – is reason enough to see a movie that, true to its title, lends a gentle fairy-tale sheen […]
Growing indoor crops is more about the fun than the food they produce
Make a hobby out of watching these plants grow, and maybe even get some fresh ingredients out of it.
The best vegan cookbooks of 2022
Seven that stood out from an increasingly crowded field.
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘The Light We Carry’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Theater review: Two actors bring to life a Texas town at Christmastime
Tom Ford and Nathaniel P. Claridad play all 22 roles in ‘A Tuna Christmas’ at Portland Stage.
Art review: History of persecution connects two artists featured at Farnsworth
See ‘Leonard Baskin: I Hold the Cracked Mirror Up to Man’ and ‘Louise Nevelson: Dawn to Dusk’ in Rockland.
Art review: Colby shows a deeper side of Alex Katz
‘Alex Katz: Theater & Dance’ explores lesser known aspects of the artist’s work.