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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PublishedAugust 24, 2020
Bar Guide: Rock these cocktails with your lobster roll
Seafood restaurants recommend what to drink with the sandwich of summer in Maine.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Literary fantasy unevenly blends with civil rights era in ‘Lovecraft Country’
The HBO show is visually striking and inventively imagined, even when it gets corny.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Jonathan Majors is your new American hero
His role in ‘Lovecraft Country’ is ‘presented to the world with dignity and honor and sincerity, (and) will alter the hero’s narrative in general,’ he says.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Movie review: ‘Words on Bathroom Walls’ is a delicate balancing act
It can be funny and light, but doesn’t seem to treat mental illness with appropriate gravitas.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Deep Water: ‘Encounter with Roofer,’ by Dennis Camire
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Society Notebook: Movie lovers turn out for Moonlight Cinema at Thompson’s Point
The outdoor movie series is one of several regular, pandemic-friendly events the Portland venue is hosting.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Q&A with Yo-Yo Ma: How music can be like touch during these socially distant times
The famed cellist mulls performing from a flatbed truck at a drive-in during an online chat with interviewer Geoff Rogers.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2020
Indie Film: Advocate for female filmmakers shifting focus back to own work
After the fifth and final Fem.Cine.Anarchy festival on Sept. 17, Kate Kaminski will step away from her role as an event organizer to make her own movies.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2020
Bar Guide: Pair each of these summer activities with the perfect cocktail
Have a S’moretini ’round the campfire, or a Sea Breeze while you sail.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2020
Movie review: ‘I Used to Go Here’ is a comedy pregnant with possibilities
There must be a German word for it: That feeling of instant familiarity and creeping displacement that sets upon the young-middle-aged when they revisit a place of their not-so-distant youth. It could be their childhood bedroom. Or a once-favorite bar. Or the town where they went to college – like Carbondale, Ill., the setting for […]
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