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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PublishedOctober 26, 2020
Indie Film: Stuck at home on Halloween? That will make these movies even scarier
The fright in these films centers around being trapped in a house.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2020
Bar Guide: While votes are being counted, elect to imbibe one of these cocktails
Sit back, try to relax and have a Cosmopolitician – out both sides of your mouth.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2020
Eat & Run: Locally Sauced fits right into Yarmouth spot
There’s plenty of outdoor seating, and some inside, too.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
A moving portrait of John McCain, in all his contradictions
There was no one like John McCain. But readers may come away from Mark Salter’s outstanding and frequently moving biography of the late Republican senator wondering if the absence of anyone remotely like McCain from our current politics says more about him or us. Salter began working for the senator from Arizona as a speechwriter […]
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
Netflix’s ‘Rebecca’ is pale specter of Hitchcock’s original film
The remake of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock classic is nothing more than a “garden-variety melodrama.”
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
Local review: A teacher with a past has to navigate the present in Maine-set thriller
A coastal boarding school is a backdrop for the suspense in ‘The Sea of Lost Girls.’
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
Deep Water: ‘Be Afraid,’ by Kathleen Sullivan
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
Borat makes America look silly again
Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest movie follows the same formula as the original Borat, with groan-inducing comedy that somehow works.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
Bedside Table: Stephen King strikes again
“Stephen King, ‘The Institute.’ Completely unbelievable and, at the same time, totally plausible. Not a scary read unless you consider the realistic likelihood of political evil infiltrating our everyday lives without our knowledge. The story is a real ‘page-turner.’ This Maine author has range like no other author.” — TISH LEMIRE, Old Orchard Beach
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ is a raucous, rousing paean to cultural pluralism
Filmed before the pandemic, the recording of Byrne’s Broadway show delivers a message a hope through music and dance.
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