The restaurant has been closed throughout the pandemic.
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
What to look for this summer at Maine museums and galleries
A rundown of the season’s art exhibits from southern Maine up through the coast.
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Posted inThings to Do
Eat & Run: Get a farm-to-takeout meal at Turner cafe
Nezinscot Farm serves a menu of breakfast and lunch items made with uber-local ingredients.
Posted inNews
Maine Food A to Z: Our annual roundup in 2021
What a year! We adapted, we quit in droves, we begged for common courtesy, we mourned the loss of an iconic factory. And so much more.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
‘The Tender Bar’ movie review: Liquor and life lessons, served neat
The title of George Clooney’s warm and fuzzy film adaptation of J.R. Moehringer’s best-selling 2005 memoir involves a bit of clever wordplay. First, “The Tender Bar” is an affectionate allusion to the place where much of the film’s action takes place, if action is the right word for a story that’s mostly about words and […]
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Outdoors
Definitive Brewing to open tasting room and restaurant at Sunday River
The Portland-based brewery’s third location is set to open the day after Christmas.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
A Smithsonian museum turns to art, not science, to hammer home a warning about Mother Nature
WASHINGTON — The animals depicted, directly or indirectly, in the National Museum of Natural History’s “Unsettled Nature” include birds, snakes and elephants. But the creature that dominates, while unseen in any of the artworks, is the one invoked in the show’s subtitle: “Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans.” The first art exhibition of its […]
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As theaters reopen, a crucial cinematic ingredient is back: the audience
WASHINGTON — “We’re home.” So goes the refrain during the rapturous final scene of “In the Heights,” which played at the Avalon Theatre for the cinema’s grand reopening last weekend. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s lyrics couldn’t have been more apt on that Saturday night, as longtime patrons hugged, fist-bumped and waved in the lobby of the elegant […]
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Inspired by a true(-ish) story, the newest ‘Conjuring’ film takes viewers into the bowels of heck
The newest installment in the “Conjuring” horror franchise – an expanding cinematic universe centering on fictionalized versions of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), and embracing the “Annabelle” spinoff series about a demonic doll – seems bent on converting skeptics, to an almost missionary degree. “The Court accepts the […]