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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PublishedSeptember 20, 2021
Indie Film: TV news editor knows – and shows – the horror of information overload
Portland filmmaker Caulin Morrison draws on personal experience for forthcoming ‘Imbalance.’
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2021
Tap Lines: Oktoberfest beers make change of seasons easier to swallow
Bissell Brothers’ Festbier joins the offerings from Maine breweries.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
Q&A with Ken Burns on making ‘Muhammad Ali’
The documentary filmmaker talks about his latest subject, the editing process and his wordless conversation with ‘The Greatest.’
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
Art review: Bates displays nature art left by late professor
The art museum is closed to the public, but ‘Carl Benton Straub: His Enduring Legacy’ is available to view digitally.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
Best-Sellers: ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You,’ ‘The Isolation Artist’
The current top 10 bestselling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
Society Notebook: EqualityMaine turns annual gala into outdoor festival
Before the Aug. 28 awards ceremony, guests mingled and sampled food outside at Thompson’s Point.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now her moment has finally come.
When an outspoken Howard University law student named Pauli Murray helped lead a group of students into Little Palace Cafeteria, a restaurant on Washington D.C.’s U Street, one spring afternoon, they didn’t come expecting lunch. It was 1943, and even in a neighborhood known for its flourishing Black businesses, vibrant theater scene (a.k.a. Black Broadway) […]
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
There was no late-night talk show guest quite like Norm Macdonald
Wearing his signature mischievous grin, Norm Macdonald tells Conan O’Brien the joke. The setup is simple: A moth walks into a podiatrist’s office. The journey is anything but. As O’Brien looks increasingly ready to rip his red hair out by the handful, Macdonald’s moth tells of his boss, “Gregory Olinivich,” “who knows he has power […]
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
Movie review: Ken Burns boils down the authentic story of Muhammad Ali
The New Hampshire documentarian’s latest series begins airing Sunday on PBS.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
Deep Water: ‘Hedge,’ by Carl Little
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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