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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PublishedJuly 18, 2021
Best-Sellers: ‘Dead by Dawn,’ ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’
Nonesuch Books’ 10 top-selling hardcover and paperbacks in fiction and nonfiction.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2021
Theater review: High-energy performance fitting for Shakespeare farce in the park
The slapstick humor of Fenix Theatre Company’s small ‘Comedy of Errors’ cast overcomes Deering Oaks distractions.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2021
Deep Water: ‘Foxfire,’ by Meg Stout
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2021
Three years after the suicide of Anthony Bourdain, a documentary tries to make sense of it all
Bad boy chef-turned-raconteur Anthony Bourdain sits at a two-top with one of his heroes, Iggy Pop, the proto-punk rocker who once overdosed onstage in Los Angeles and rolled in broken glass until his face bled during a New York show. Pop’s message all those years ago was not lost on a young Bourdain: Life is […]
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PublishedJuly 12, 2021
Indie Film: Movie theaters take back rightful place in Maine International Film Festival
The weeklong Waterville-based event runs through Sunday.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2021
Tap Lines: The yeast among ingredients of favorite Maine beers may be the most important.
At Allagash and Maine Beer Co., those distinctive flavors are dependent on particular strains.
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PublishedJuly 11, 2021
Black Widow finally gets her own movie, one that poses the question: Who is she, really?
The filmmakers – including Scarlett Johansson, who serves as an executive producer – wanted to tell a story about female empowerment.
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PublishedJuly 11, 2021
A Smithsonian museum turns to art, not science, to hammer home a warning about Mother Nature
WASHINGTON — The animals depicted, directly or indirectly, in the National Museum of Natural History’s “Unsettled Nature” include birds, snakes and elephants. But the creature that dominates, while unseen in any of the artworks, is the one invoked in the show’s subtitle: “Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans.” The first art exhibition of its […]
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PublishedJuly 11, 2021
Art review: Bowdoin museum reopens with two exhibits that connect different times and places
The Brunswick college art museum reopened to the public on July 1.
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PublishedJuly 11, 2021
Best-Sellers: ‘Dead by Dawn,’ ‘Downeast’ top lists
FICTION Hardcover 1. “Dead by Dawn,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) 2. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf) 3. “Damage,” by Caitlin Wahrer (Pamela Dorman) 4. “Whereabouts,” by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) 5. “Great Circle,” by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) 6. “The Midnight Library,” by Matt Haig (Viking) 7. “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir (Ballantine) […]
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