Leslie Bridgers

Columnist

Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.

Do This, Food

Tap Lines: Does pumpkin beer go with pumpkin pie? Here’s what we found about pairing fall favorites

by Caitlin Enz November 7, 2022November 4, 2022

A look at which Maine beers go well with the comfort foods of the season and which don’t.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This

Indie Film: Love horror movies? This local podcast will sink its claws in

by Dennis Perkins November 7, 2022November 3, 2022

Four friends in Maine liken their lively and encyclopedic explorations in ‘Speak All Evil’ to conversations they’d have at a pub.

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘out of the cave,’ by John Reinhart

November 6, 2022November 2, 2022

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘The Passenger,’ ‘Go-To Dinners’

November 6, 2022November 5, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Maine

Society Notebook: Children’s Museum & Theatre hosts adult costume party

by Amy Paradysz November 6, 2022November 2, 2022

The institution may start holding more After Dark events, so grown-ups can explore on their own.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Art review: ‘Morphing Medium’ will widen your view of photography

by Jorge S. Arango November 6, 2022November 5, 2022

The show at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts crams in examples of many variations of the art form.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

‘The Banshees of Inisherin’: When old friendship goes violently awry

by Ann Hornaday The Washington Post November 3, 2022November 4, 2022

The Irish writer-director Martin McDonagh has earned an adoring audience for his ability to find grace amid the grotesque. With films like “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” he’s been rapturously received for his auteurist signatures, which include extravagant profanity, wickedly caustic humor, and a penchant for putting his characters into alternately amusing […]

2022 TIFF "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" Portrait Session

Arts & Entertainment

Movie review: ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ takes biopic myth and parodies it

by Adam Graham The Detroit News (TNS) November 1, 2022November 1, 2022

It only makes sense that Al Yankovic’s biopic would be a parody of biopics. So “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is anything but the A-Z story of the song parodist who is perhaps not technically the best but arguably went on to become the most famous accordion player in an extremely specific genre of music. […]