Leslie Bridgers

Columnist

Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
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Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now her moment has finally come.

by Kelsey Ables The Washington Post

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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There was no late-night talk show guest quite like Norm Macdonald

by Travis M. Andrews The Washington Post

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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