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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PublishedApril 26, 2020
Wish you could watch the new James Bond or ‘Black Widow’? Here are similar movies to stream instead
Like most industries, Hollywood has taken a turn for the worse in recent weeks. The novel coronavirus pandemic shut stateside productions as early as mid-March, costing thousands of jobs, and movie studios have since scrambled to rearrange shooting and distribution schedules. Numerous titles slated for spring releases have been pushed to late summer, fall or, […]
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PublishedApril 26, 2020
In ‘Homebound,’ 10 playwrights write a web series as unpredictable as the life we’re living
With minimal structure to start, Homebound” features multiple writers spinning an evolving tale on a weekly basis.
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PublishedApril 20, 2020
Indie Film: Get ‘extra credit’ (and a cash prize) for your outdoor film outtakes
Entries in Maine Outdoor Film Festival’s on-the-fly competition are due May 6.
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PublishedApril 20, 2020
Bar Guide: A drink for every room in your at-home pub crawl
Have a Highball in the attic and a Rusty Nail in the tool shed.
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
Deep Water: ‘Eel Fork,’ by David Sloan
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
Review: ‘Belgravia’ is the ‘Downton Abbey’ replacement you’ve been waiting for
Julian Fellowes, the man who built “Downton Abbey,” “Gosford Park” and other edifices of lesser cultural impact, is back with another place-named winner: “Belgravia,” a highly entertaining six-part period soap opera that premiered last Sunday on Epix. Set mainly in London at the dawn of the Victorian age, it is based on a 2016 novel […]
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
Art Q&A: Buzz Masters finds new motivation for creating her mixed-media works
The Deer Isle artist also works as an EMT.
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
All the world is no longer a stage – except online
I zoomed through a piece of theater the other day, by which I mean I sat through a live performance on Zoom – the app that curates two-way, three-way, 17-way and 66-way video conference calls. And it was one of the weirder experiences I’ve had as I’ve tried to keep track of an art form […]
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
We’re all alone, so let’s get lost in these paintings of parties
My wife saw a plate of cupcakes on Instagram and freaked out. It was our first week of social distancing, and to her, the little cakes, covered in promiscuous sprinkles, seemed far too close together for comfort. Cupcakes lose a lot of their appeal, though, if you isolate them on separate little saucers. Over the […]
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PublishedApril 17, 2020
Bath Heritage Days won’t happen this summer
The five-day festival around July 4 is nearly 50 years old.
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