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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PublishedJuly 3, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Declaration,’ by Sandy Stott
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJune 30, 2022
Review: Opera Maine captures mystery and menace of Poe with music
The Studio Artists program will repeat its performance of ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ on Friday.
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PublishedJune 28, 2022
Theater review: Ladies of saucy satire ‘Lysistrata’ take unique approach to ending war
The play by Aristophanes opens the Theater at Monmouth’s season.
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PublishedJune 27, 2022
Indie Film: Early pandemic days become plot device for Portland filmmaker
Dan Chaimowitz already had the idea for ‘Dole Mates,’ a film about unemployed people struck living together. COVID helped complete the premise.
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PublishedJune 27, 2022
Tap Lines: Hi-Fidelity hopes to fill a low-ABV niche
You can also get a cheap bite and see some local music at the East Bayside nanobrewery.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Society Notebook: Boys & Girls Clubs benefit from auctions at brewery
In its return to an in-person event, the Spring for the Kids fundraiser was more casual than in years past.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Prayer for the warblers, dead on my houselot,’ by Katherine Hagopian Berry
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Read an excerpt from Morgan Talty’s ‘Night of the Living Rez’
The Levant author’s first book, a collection of short stories, comes out July 8.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Watching ‘Elvis’ feels like being in a washing machine for 2 ½ hours
The best way to appreciate “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann’s audacious, frenetic, occasionally astonishing and ultimately confounding movie about Elvis Presley, is simply to surrender to it. Luhrmann, best known for such kaleidoscopic fantasias as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge!,” possesses just enough hubris to believe himself capable of re-creating the lightning that Elvis Presley embodied, […]
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