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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PublishedFebruary 16, 2024
Concert review: Wynton Marsalis and his band entertain and enlighten
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra played a sold-out concert Thursday at Merrill that had been rescheduled from 10 months earlier.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2024
Bob Marley biopic turns a complicated subject into the Messiah
“Bob Marley: One Love” is bookended by two concerts, in 1976 and 1978, both intended to foster peace in a Jamaica that had long been polarized by political violence. Such a narrow time frame for this story of the reggae pioneer, who died in 1981 at the age of 36 from skin cancer, is unusual. […]
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2024
Theater review: When college friends reunite, controversial topics take over in ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’
The thought-provoking play is having its Maine premiere at Mad Horse Theatre in South Portland.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2024
Indie Film: ‘Battle Legends: The Legend of the Battle Master’ puts manic Mainer in moviedom
The comedic web series character Slim Duffy, created by Matt Enos, breaks into commercial release with an intriguing marketing strategy.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
Deep Water: ‘Winter Song,’ by Evelyn Alsup
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
Bestsellers: ‘The Frozen River,’ ‘ How to Know a Person’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfictions books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
Society Notebook: Center for Grieving Children feels the love at annual gala
The event recognized Anne Heros, who is retiring after 23 years as executive director.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
Art review: Brunswick show explores how art connects creative couples
Discover the cross-currents and influences in pieces by life partners displayed together at Fort Hall Gallery.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2024
There’s nothing animated about corpse comedy ‘Lisa Frankenstein’
The equal parts forgettable and regrettable teen comedy “Lisa Frankenstein” stars Kathryn Newton (best known as Paul Rudd’s daughter in the latest “Ant-Man” movie) as the title character, a mopey high school misfit whose spiritual predecessors are “Beetlejuice”-era Winona and “Desperately Seeking Susan”-era Madonna. Those references are just two in a zillion that hang on […]
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2024
How ‘The Zone of Interest’ re-created a Nazi’s family home
In “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer’s new Oscar-nominated film examining compartmentalized evil during the Holocaust, the director makes the choice not to depict the horrific acts occurring inside the death camps. Instead, a majority of the scenes take place immediately outside the walls of Auschwitz in occupied Poland, in and around the family home […]
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