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.

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘Being “Neighbor-leave,” ‘ by Dennis Camire

August 4, 2024August 2, 2024

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment, Maine

Society Notebook: Ogunquit Playhouse launches fund for new works at lawn party

by Amy Paradysz August 4, 2024August 2, 2024

The upcoming production of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ will join the growing list of world premieres hosted by the theater.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Deadpool and Wolverine assemble. The result is hilarious.

by Amy Nicholson Special to The Washington Post July 31, 2024July 31, 2024

Marvel is sorry. Sorry about those confusing multiverse movies, sorry about the characters it’s hyped and abandoned, sorry that its parent company, Disney, gobbled up Twentieth Century Fox and the rights to the X-Men and, above all, sorry that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s centerpiece, the self-serious Avengers franchise, suddenly seems as stale as your uncle’s […]

Arts & Entertainment

A long weekend with John Lennon’s ‘lost weekend’ girlfriend, May Pang

by Paul Schwartzman The Washington Post July 31, 2024July 31, 2024

Do you ever talk to Yoko? someone in the crowd asked. Did Paul and George ever call Ringo “Richie”? How did you meet John? May Pang is used to the questions. She has devoted much of her life to recounting her affair a half-century ago with John Lennon, a period he memorably described as “the […]