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
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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PublishedApril 25, 2022
Indie Film: Movies to watch, out and at home, on International Workers’ Day
See the 1979 documentary ‘The Wobblies’ at Space on Sunday or check out these other films that tell the stories of workers fighting for their rights.
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PublishedApril 24, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Unplowed Land,’ by Matthew Bernier
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedApril 24, 2022
‘The First Lady’ turns three compelling women into Emmy bait
The new East Wing drama, “The First Lady,” exists to illustrate a fact most of us intuitively know: The women asked to play hostess, decorator, fashion plate and champion for unobjectionable causes as part of each administration’s political theater tend to be much more interesting and complicated than the manicured images they project. That’s certainly […]
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PublishedApril 24, 2022
Best-Sellers: ‘The Diamond Eye,’ ‘Crying in H Mart’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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PublishedApril 24, 2022
Violence and revenge define and ultimately undercut ‘The Northman’
“The Northman,” an ambitious deep dive into 10th-century Viking myth by Robert Eggers, is many movies at once: Bold and beautiful, bloody and completely bonkers, it marks a visionary and visceral high point in the post-“Game of Thrones” action-fantasy sweepstakes, whose main metric of success seems to be packing in as many beheadings, blood feuds […]
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PublishedApril 24, 2022
Art review: Check out these two smaller venues’ new digs and new shows
Ocean House Gallery & Frame has moved to South Portland, and Mayo Street Arts has reopened after renovations.
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PublishedApril 24, 2022
‘The Bad Guys’ is a good movie: A heist flick with humor and heart
Some animals are easier to love than others, whether they deserve it or not. Who wouldn’t want to cuddle an otter, though they are some of the most ruthless killers in the animal kingdom? And everyone loves the chittering of Flipper, until … well, Google “male dolphin gangs” – just not on your work computer. […]
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PublishedApril 24, 2022
Society Notebook: Indigo Arts Alliance celebrates creative and cultural connections
The party at One Longfellow Square served as a fundraiser for the nonprofit’s residency program for artists of color from around the world.
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