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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PublishedJune 29, 2020
Bar Guide: When it comes to cocktails, garden variety is a good thing
There are several ways to incorporate fresh herbs into your drinks.
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PublishedJune 29, 2020
Indie Film: Maine International Film Festival goes on – at the drive-in
It will be a smaller roster but a bigger screen at the Skowhegan Drive-In.
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PublishedJune 29, 2020
O say can you see all these items in the photo?
Look at the list and circle you what can find in this Fourth of July scene from Portland last year.
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Coconut adds a tropical touch to this summer berry crisp
Regardless of what the calendar says, the official start of summer to me is when a bounty of berries appears at the farmers market. I always buy way more than my family could possibly eat fresh – because I, admittedly, tend to get carried away with my haul but also because I know I can […]
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Book review: ‘Home Now’ tells the story of African refugees living in Lewiston
The nonfiction book by Maine native Cynthia Anderson also incorporates the stories of the city and her own family.
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Book review: ‘A Silent Fury’ that needs to be heard
At what human cost, prosperity? One hundred years have elapsed since 87 Mexican miners were locked into a burning mineshaft by their bosses at an American-owned company, a corporate massacre detailed by author Yuri Herrera in “A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire.” In the midst of a pandemic claiming the lives of front-line […]
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Let these baked chicken nuggets and tahini potato salad power your next picnic
Fried chicken and potato salad are a favorite summertime combo. Still, to enjoy it the old-fashioned way – the way my mother made it – with bone-in, battered deep-fried chicken and potato salad mixed with lots of chopped celery, pickles and eggs takes so much time and makes a bit of a mess in the […]
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Q&A: ‘You can’t be a historian of Black America without being hopeful,’ says Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch
Lonnie Bunch III, 67, is secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Previously he was founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. This interview was conducted April 7. Q: You’ve said that culture can hold people together and that the Smithsonian is glue that holds the country together. Are you hopeful […]
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Netflix’s ‘The Politician’ is back for another cynical run, but the snark attacks get tiresome
Last year’s polling data on the first season of Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan’s Netflix series “The Politician” came back somewhat mixed, as it should have. This cynically satirical series, which charts the political rise-fall-rise cycle of a supremely confident and self-interested young man named Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), takes an all-too-easy theme […]
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Jon Stewart returns to filmmaking – and comedy – with a so-so political satire
It’s good, in principle, to have Jon Stewart back. But the former “Daily Show” host’s sophomore effort as a filmmaker, a return to comedy after adapting journalist Maziar Bahari’s memoir of detention and psychological torture in an Iranian prison in the 2014 drama “Rosewater,” is a political farce that ultimately feels like a letdown, coming […]
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