Leslie Bridgers is the features editor for the Portland Press Herald, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and culture. She spent 10 years as a reporter, half of that time for the Portland Press Herald, covering the western suburbs of Portland, writing feature stories and working on special projects. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2022
Best-Sellers: ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘Crying in H Mart’
The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2022
Art review: Art history, modernism converge in Portland gallery’s debut show
In ‘Stages,’ the new Alice Gauvin Gallery on York Street features five artists of vastly disparate styles.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2022
Sports, sex and cinema are the focus of a young man’s world in the film memoir ‘The Hand of God’
Paolo Sorrentino (“Il Divo,” “The Great Beauty”) mines a deep vein of personal memory in “The Hand of God,” a semi-autobiographical film about a young man coming of age in 1980s Naples. Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) is 17, almost friendless, obsessed with soccer and living mostly happily with his parents, brother and sister in a […]
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2022
Documentary ‘Cusp’ is a portrait of adolescent girlhood at its most precarious and indomitable
Brittney, Aalloni and Autumn are living a teenage dream in “Cusp,” an alternately intoxicating and deeply distressing documentary set in a small Texas town during one torrid summer. Newly liberated from school, the three 15- and 16-year-olds intend to spend their break running wild, getting high, hooking up and generally avoiding parental authority. All legs, […]
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Camber,’ by Linda Aldrich
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2022
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes an astonishing directorial debut in ‘The Lost Daughter’
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a quietly astonishing directorial debut with “The Lost Daughter,” a crafty treatise on maternal ambivalence that delivers an unsettling emotional wallop. Olivia Colman plays Leda, a professor on sabbatical who has decided to spend time in Greece while working on her next book. As a woman of a certain age, abroad and […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2022
Indie Film: Slate of films set for release in 2022 will fill fans with anticipation
Even as the pandemic slogs along, there’s no stopping the independent moviemaking spirit that puts hope in focus.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2022
Bar Guide: In Gorham, where a wine bar closes, a better one opens
Sidecar in station Square also features whiskey, tapas and a welcoming atmosphere.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Commandments,’ by Mark Melnicove
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2022
What makes a diner tip $10,000?
Servers spill their secrets about getting a big tip.
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