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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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Society Notebook: Boys & Girls Clubs benefit from auctions at brewery
In its return to an in-person event, the Spring for the Kids fundraiser was more casual than in years past.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Prayer for the warblers, dead on my houselot,’ by Katherine Hagopian Berry
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Read an excerpt from Morgan Talty’s ‘Night of the Living Rez’
The Levant author’s first book, a collection of short stories, comes out July 8.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Watching ‘Elvis’ feels like being in a washing machine for 2 ½ hours
The best way to appreciate “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann’s audacious, frenetic, occasionally astonishing and ultimately confounding movie about Elvis Presley, is simply to surrender to it. Luhrmann, best known for such kaleidoscopic fantasias as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge!,” possesses just enough hubris to believe himself capable of re-creating the lightning that Elvis Presley embodied, […]
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PublishedJune 20, 2022
‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’: Finding sex and self-acceptance at 55
In “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow and retired religion education teacher who has endured a lifetime of erotic unfulfillment. Until today. As the movie opens, Nancy is arriving at a featureless hotel room to meet the sex worker she has procured for the evening – a last-ditch […]
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PublishedJune 20, 2022
Theater review: ‘Be Here Now’ takes a heavy look at the subject of happiness
The thought-provoking play is having its Maine premiere at the Public Theatre in Lewiston.
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PublishedJune 20, 2022
Indie Film: There are a lot of harsh truths in Afrofuturistic fable ‘Neptune Frost’
The 2021 film is screening at Space this weekend.
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PublishedJune 20, 2022
Bar Guide: Tropical cocktails come in all sizes at Paper Tiger
The new Old Port spot specializes in island-inspired drinks.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
Society Notebook: Culinary students whip up support for LearningWorks with new cookbook
A launch party for ‘The LearningWorks YouthBuild Cookbook’ raised $50,000 for the Portland nonprofit.
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