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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PublishedJanuary 31, 2021
Art review: Dowling Walsh show represents the range of abstract expressionism
‘Into the Abstract’ runs through Feb. 27 at the Rockland gallery.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2021
Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth burn brilliantly, but with understatement, in ‘Supernova’
The film “Supernova” is a small and superficially tidy thing, notwithstanding the astronomical implications of its title, which augurs the sudden explosion of a star or – more metaphorically – some brilliant light, often heralding its extinguishment. It seems, at first, an odd allusion for a road-trip story that takes place largely inside a boxy […]
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2021
New one-man play aims to dispel myths about the sexuality of the disabled
Ryan J. Haddad dials up the candor early on in “Hi, Are You Single?” The autobiographical one-man play, which begins streaming Monday on demand via D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in association with Los Angeles’s Iama Theatre Company, opens with a phone-sex scene. A playwright and actor known in part for his recurring role on […]
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
‘Locked Down’ mirrors our quarantine experiences
Doug Liman’s ‘Locked Down,’ one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is like our own quarantine experiences.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
Bar Guide: Follow the birthday gal on her ideal Portland pub crawl, for non-pandemic times
The seven places Angie Bryan would celebrate the week leading up to her birthday.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
Run & Eat: Takeout from Kuno a taste of what’s to come in the dining room
The food truck-turned-restaurant on Cumberland Avenue in Portland is ready to open to indoor dining whenever the time is right.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
Indie Film: Restored Czech sci-fi film from the ’60s surprisingly relevant
PMA Films is screening ‘Ikarie XB-1,’ which follows 22nd-century space voyagers who encounter a derelict spacecraft full of dead rich people from Earth and deal with the doldrums of life on another planet.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2021
Inauguration leave you wanting more? These D.C. museum websites provide a fix of pomp and pageantry
Tourists usually pack into Washington’s museums around inauguration time, cooing over the first ladies’ gowns at the National Museum of American History or lining up to see the new president’s portrait at the National Portrait Gallery. While most museums remain closed for the foreseeable future, virtual exhibitions allow viewers to enjoy the experience – and […]
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2021
Deep Water: ‘Welcome Home,’ by Gary Lawless
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2021
Art review: Experimental photography on display in joint exhibits at MECA
‘Tory Fair: Portable Window’ and ‘Parallax/Geography’ are running through Feb. 28.
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