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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PublishedDecember 9, 2019
Tap Lines: Give the gift of an experience to the beer lover on your list
These tours, events and dinners will create memories that go beyond just drinking the stuff.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2019
Indie Film: USM student’s new short-film fest is not for the trite. Or the kids.
The festival with a family-unfriendly name screens Friday at The Apohadion in Portland.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2019
Q&A: John Hodgman on fame and why he’s not faking it anymore
Whether you first saw him on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” or as the rumpled personification of a PC in a series of computer commercials, John Hodgman is not quite who you think. He still specializes in an oddball brand of comedy on display in his list-driven books of invented facts, starting with 2005’s […]
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PublishedDecember 8, 2019
Review: ‘The Two Popes,’ a buddy movie in vestments
‘The Two Popes,’ with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, is a charming if not quite divine buddy movie that imagines conversations between Pope Benedict XVI and the future Pope Francis in the Vatican power change.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2019
Society Notebook: MAMM students rock out to raise money
The Chords for Kids fundraiser benefits Maine Academy of Modern Music’s scholarship and community outreach programs.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2019
Deep Water: ‘Perhaps This Is the Way My Life Will End,’ by Stuart Kestenbaum
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2019
Art review: Behind Meatyard’s masked subjects in ‘Stages for Being’
Organized by the University of Kentucky Art Museum, the exhibit, now up at Bates College, includes photographs that previously hadn’t been shown.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2019
Concert review: Boston Camerata covers early American repertory, from marches to Shaker music
The early music group performed at Hannaford Hall on Sunday.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2019
Review: ‘Queen & Slim’ is romantic, urgent and beautiful
‘Queen & Slim’ is an urgent, beautiful and socially conscious trip through the American racial psyche in 2019.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2019
Bar Guide: Vena’s gets decked out for Miracle on Fore Street
The Portland cocktail bar is among more than 100 establishments participating in a global holiday pop-up movement.
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