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 26, 2021
Art review: Classical music translated into colorful compositions
‘Lynne Mapp Drexler: Orchestrations in Color’ is up through Friday at Elizabeth Moss Galleries’ new Old Port outpost.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
‘The Tender Bar’ movie review: Liquor and life lessons, served neat
The title of George Clooney’s warm and fuzzy film adaptation of J.R. Moehringer’s best-selling 2005 memoir involves a bit of clever wordplay. First, “The Tender Bar” is an affectionate allusion to the place where much of the film’s action takes place, if action is the right word for a story that’s mostly about words and […]
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
Best-Sellers: ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘Call Us What We Carry’
The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
‘A Journal for Jordan’ is a well-meaning but inert slice of true-life melodrama
Early in “A Journal for Jordan,” a mother reads her toddler a message, left by the boy’s late father: “Dear Jordan: I want you to know that it’s OK for boys to cry.” Opening with a life lesson like that virtually guarantees a three-hankie tear-jerker. But the film doesn’t quiet deliver on that promise. The […]
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
Society Notebook: Fire & Ice brings locals out in force
The Christmas Prelude fundraiser was held almost entirely outside of Nonantum Resort.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
Deep Water: ‘Late December, Early Winter,’ by Cait Vaughan
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
‘The King’s Man’: Comic book meets history book
Matthew Vaughn’s ‘The King’s Man,” a prequel to the filmmaker’s two entertainingly comic-book-y action-adventure spy-larks “Kingsman: The Secret Service” and “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” is at once more bonkers and more staid than either of its predecessors (if a film that features a dancing, omnivorously bisexual, murderous Grigori Rasputin as one of its villains can […]
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PublishedDecember 20, 2021
‘Street Gang,’ a ‘Sesame Street’ documentary, is as sweet as the show – to its detriment
When a David morphs into a Goliath, it often becomes difficult to make out the former insurgent in the current icon. But HBO’s new documentary, “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,” strives to do just that with the half-century-old television institution, recalling the noble objectives that gave the program life, as well as […]
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PublishedDecember 20, 2021
Concert review: Renaissance Voices return for seasonal celebration
The Christmas-themed concert, canceled last year, felt like a reunion despite the pandemic’s impacts on the program.
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PublishedDecember 20, 2021
Definitive Brewing to open tasting room and restaurant at Sunday River
The Portland-based brewery’s third location is set to open the day after Christmas.
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