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 8, 2024
‘It Ends With Us’ is glittery and traumatic. And, oh, those abs.
Millions of readers swooned over Colleen Hoover’s thorny romance “It Ends With Us,” the No. 1 bestselling novel of 2022 and 2023. They’ll come prepared for the clobbering heartbreak – and will hopefully pack an extra hankie for any nonfans entering the movie theater as blank as if they’re on a blind date. The film […]
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PublishedAugust 5, 2024
Vacationland Film Festival brings Maine-made movies to Biddeford
Screenings are timed to high tide, giving beachgoers something else to do.
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PublishedAugust 4, 2024
Bestsellers: ‘All Fours,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedAugust 4, 2024
Deep Water: ‘Being “Neighbor-leave,” ‘ by Dennis Camire
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedAugust 4, 2024
Society Notebook: Ogunquit Playhouse launches fund for new works at lawn party
The upcoming production of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ will join the growing list of world premieres hosted by the theater.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2024
Deadpool and Wolverine assemble. The result is hilarious.
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 […]
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PublishedJuly 31, 2024
A long weekend with John Lennon’s ‘lost weekend’ girlfriend, May Pang
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 […]
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PublishedJuly 29, 2024
New England natives pair up for horror/thriller ‘Dead Whisper’
The film, screening at The Nick next week, stars Brunswick-born Samuel Dunning.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2024
Allagash has finally joined the hazy IPA party, and it was worth the wait
Plus, two other takes on the style to try, from Fogtown and Rising Tide.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2024
Footlights Theatre tells the ‘Mama’ Cass story anew
The Falmouth theater is reprising its one-woman show about the life of the music icon.
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