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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PublishedMarch 6, 2022
Art review: Distinctive styles display nature’s emotional range
‘Human/Nature’ at Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland features four artists with very different aesthetics.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2022
In joyless ‘The Batman,’ Robert Pattinson channels the vampire Edward Cullen
Robert Pattinson gets back to his vampire roots in “The Batman,” in which he plays the title character with the same moody, broody intensity he brought to his breakout role in “Twilight.” “I’m a nocturnal animal,” Pattinson’s joyless superhero announces in one of several voice-overs, delivered in a hoarse whisper worthy of Clint Eastwood’s Harry […]
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2022
Indie Film: Brunswick-born actor takes sci-fi star turn playing nine roles in one
Samuel Dunning is also working on a Maine-set mockumentary called ‘Canoe Dig It?’
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2022
Bar Guide: For cocktails in a tropical setting, you only need to go to Saco
Pacifico will have you coming back for more.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ ‘Atlas of the Heart’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
There are few bones to pick in this touching story about healing
Trailers for the movie “Dog” β co-directed by and starring Channing Tatum as a retired Army Ranger named Riggs who takes a former K-9 comrade to her handler’s funeral β make it look like a fun road trip. Lulu, a Belgian Malinois, is a difficult dog: She chews the car seats, grabs snacks at every […]
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Book review: ‘Mercy Street’ may be the last novel about abortion before Roe v. Wade is dismantled
Almost one in four American women will have an abortion during their lifetimes. Unless she’s a woman in a literary novel, in which case she’s highly unlikely to. Almost 50 years after Roe v. Wade affirmed a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, fiction writers seem reluctant to mention the procedure. Even now, as theocrats […]
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Art review: North Atlantic Triennial unites a vast region through common culture and climate
‘Down North’ is the Portland Museum of Art’s inaugural collaboration with Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland and the Bildmuseet in Sweden.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Society Notebook: Art lovers mingle with art makers at Portland museum’s Winter Bash
The Portland Museum of Art held the event for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Deep Water: βThe Father,β by Jonathan Aldrich
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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