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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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Art review: Natasha Mayers’ series of military torsos is satire lite
Zero Station’s ‘Tell It Slant’ features the activist artist’s War Chest paintings.
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Use ramps in a simpler, made-for-spring riff on scallion pancakes
Every once in a while, when I’m scrolling through pictures on my phone, I recall the early days of the pandemic. In the spring of 2020, my children were 1 and 3, just babies. To see those pictures is to ache for the years that I lost, and the years that they lost, the years […]
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
HBO’s ‘We Own This City’ is not Season 6 of ‘The Wire’
A few detectives in the drug unit are sitting around chatting in the 2002 pilot of “The Wire,” when one offers his thoughts on the war on drugs: “You can’t even call this (expletive) a war. … Wars end.” That “war” still rages 20 years later, and its destruction is evident across the country – […]
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Society Notebook: Women in coffee from around the world converge in Portland
Coffee By Design hosted members of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance last month.
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
A great Venice Biennale unfolds, against all the odds
VENICE — The Venice Biennale – art’s forever fraught answer to the Olympics – provides a precious opportunity to take the culture’s temperature and speculate on where things are headed. It’s where the art world announces new talent, revives becalmed careers and, just as often, submerges dreams of stardom in lagoons of indifference. This year’s […]
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Deep Water: ‘America,’ by Martin Steingesser
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
How to make red rice, a Lowcountry classic with deep roots
“Red rice goes back to the old, old days – the days before me, my momma, and her,” writes Emily Meggett in her new book, out next week, “Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island.” Photographs by Clay Williams illustrate the cooking life of Meggett, the 89-year-old matriarch of the Gullah […]
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Nicolas Cage has seen your memes. He wants you to see his work.
Burdened by mountains of debt, Nicolas Cage spent much of the last 15 years saying yes to just about any offer. He appeared in some 50 films, at least half of which were low-budget, direct-to-video schlock that typically vanished into the single digits of Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Yet Cage remained Cage, outrageous and outsize, strutting […]
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Best-Sellers: ‘Sea of Tranquility,’ ‘Time is a Mother’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedApril 25, 2022
Bar Guide: Blind Pig Tavern offers an eye-opening catalog of cocktails
The Gardiner pub’s drink menu has a section dedicated to every kind of spirit.
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