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.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review

‘The Night House’ will wreck your sleep, in the best possible way

by Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post

I slept poorly after returning home from a screening of “The Night House.” Insomnia is a strange way to make a plug for a film – though a plug is what this ultimately is – and one that, while fitting, requires some qualification. Director David Bruckner’s carefully calibrated hybrid horror story (one that teeters, mostly […]

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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review

Great cast, neat concept, promising – but the movie ‘Reminiscence’ is a good-looking mess

by Pat Padua Special to The Washington Post

With a knockout cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Thandie Newton and Rebecca Ferguson, a promising writer-director-producer in “Westworld” showrunner Lisa Joy making her feature debut, and a neat sci-fi concept, “Reminiscence” has all the ingredients for electrifying summer entertainment. But despite its considerable star power and impressive set pieces, the sprawling meditation on memory is […]

Posted inFood, Maine Gardener

Grow: Late lettuce

by Tom Atwell

We have been eating leaf lettuce daily since early May, because we planted seeds of a leaf lettuce mix in March under a cold frame – basically a small greenhouse. That planting has grown tired, and we are now eating from a second planting I sowed in early June. That will get old, too, so […]

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