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 22, 2021
Indie Film: ‘Stray’ follows dogs through the streets of Istanbul
The documentary filmed at dog-level is available to stream through PMA Films and Frontier.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2021
Run & Eat: There’s much to like about extended menu at Maiz
You can build your own rice bowl and contribute to groceries for local families.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2021
Bar Guide: Ironside is a whiskey lover’s paradise
The Portland Regency’s new lobby bar features flights and hard-to-find bottles.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
Art review: Eyeglasses provide the medium for Tad Beck’s visionary portraits
The Vinalhaven photographer, driven to abstraction, challenges the preconceptions of his art form in his series ‘Eyes of,’ showing in Portland.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
‘The Courier’ is a throwback to the kind of solid yet fun spy thriller they don’t make anymore
Benedict Cumberbatch delivers an appealing, technically tricky performance in “The Courier,” in which he plays Greville Wynne, a British salesman who in the 1960s became an improbable player in Cold War tradecraft at its most high-stakes. Wynne really did exist, a fact that bears noting because his story is often too wildly dramatic to believe. […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
Deep Water: ‘The Eyes of Love,’ by Michael Tarabilda
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
How to watch the 2021 Oscar nominees
While “Parasite” winning best picture marked one of the final widely celebrated moments before we all went into lockdown, award season chatter has been (rightfully) overshadowed this year. And with inconsistent theatrical releases, the Oscar nominees announced Monday largely consist of titles that managed to emerge as front-runners from the glut of films on streaming […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
‘The Father’ is a meticulously constructed story in which very little is what it seems
In the intricate, exquisitely crafted movie “The Father,” Anthony Hopkins plays Anthony, an elderly gentleman living in a well-appointed flat in London, which he’s been sharing with his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) until she informs him that she’s moving to Paris to be with a man she’s recently met. Such is the inciting incident in […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
Society Notebook: Portland Museum of Art holds first virtual fundraiser
The Contemporaries Winter Bash featured artist interviews, a film screening, a music performance and more.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2021
Nico Walker’s life story made for a gripping novel. The movie version is less effective.
Tom Holland goes to impressive lengths to become unrecognizable in “Cherry,” an ambitious adaptation of Nico Walker’s semi-autobiographical novel. In that highly regarded book, the author recounted his descent from middle-class security and a promising education to his service as an Army medic in the Iraq War; when he returned home he was wracked with […]
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