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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PublishedMarch 3, 2024
Society Notebook: All’s fare at annual Flavors of Freeport competition
Restaurants put their best bites forward at the Fare and Ice event.
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2024
‘Dune: Part Two’ is 166 minutes of brilliant casting and sand
Imagine a world devoid of color or warmth, foundering amid environmental catastrophe and tribal factions that threaten to bring humanity to the edge of fatal fanaticism. But enough about election-year politics. Let’s talk about “Dune: Part Two.” In this big, basso profundo follow-up to 2021’s first installment, we catch up with Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides […]
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2024
Review: Jason Isbell brings his stories to State Theatre stage, with backing of distinct band
Isbell and the 400 Unit played the Portland venue Monday.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2024
Indie Film: This year’s hard-to-see Oscar-nominated shorts are playing all weekend in Portland
These five live-action films show why sometimes less is more.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2024
Deep Water: ‘The Dream Again, with Cats,’ by Lucia Owen
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2024
Art review: From seascapes to surreal photography, seeing Maine through 3 artists’ eyes
Distinctly different perspectives emerge in paintings at Moss Galleries in Falmouth and two photo exhibits at Dowling Walsh in Rockland.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2024
Bestsellers: ‘The Women,’ ‘How to Know a Person’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2024
Society Notebook: Portland Museum of Art bash bursts into a dance party
The annual Winter Bash featured a dance performance that spilled out into the crowd.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2024
In ‘The Taste of Things,’ Juliette Binoche is Mona Lisa in the kitchen
In “The Taste of Things,” a radiant Juliette Binoche plays Eugénie, a gifted cook who for the past 20 years has been running the kitchen of a 19th-century epicurean named Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel). As the movie opens, Eugénie is harvesting vegetables from Dodin’s garden, smiling beatifically and delicately rearranging wisps of hair as she […]
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2024
Spider-Verse-adjacent action flick ‘Madame Web’ has low-key appeal
Dakota Johnson isn’t an obvious choice for a superhero. Best known for “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the actress mostly exudes a laid-back, half-lidded, even soporific energy that only rarely rears up with intensity, as it did in her acclaimed supporting performance in “The Lost Daughter.” But that may be precisely the best argument for casting […]
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