Leslie Bridgers

Press Herald

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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January 31, 2021

Find out why Anthony Bourdain’s boeuf bourguignon is one of The Washington Post’s most popular recipes ever

There are more than 9,200 recipes in The Washington Post archives, and we’re adding more every day. The new dishes are what tend to capture the most attention, but there are certain entries that keep trucking along, gathering a reliable stream of readers years after they were first published. We don’t always know exactly why. […]
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January 31, 2021

A beautiful couple argues in the angsty, self-consciously arty ‘Malcolm Marie’

The title characters of “Malcolm & Marie,” an up-and-coming film director and his gorgeous, whippet-thin girlfriend, are just getting home from his latest premiere as the movie opens. It’s around 1 a.m. in Malibu, California, and as they enter the chic, low-slung house where they’re staying, they don’t say a word. Hiking up her spangly […]
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January 31, 2021

Cooking for one: 6 tips to keep things practical, flexible and fun

Many of us have been spending more time at home over the past 10 months, and a lot more of that time has been spent alone. With the coronavirus pandemic cutting off access to friends and social circles, and all the places we used to gather, that’s no surprise. And if you’re by yourself, you’ve […]
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January 31, 2021

Travel-imbued cookbooks offer up culinary journeys

On a gray afternoon in November, I sat down to a meal that evoked Istanbul cafes where just the year before I had feasted at the edge of the sun-streaked Bosporus. Dried sumac speckled a plate of shaved radishes and fennel, and the main course was lamb ragout, ladled over satiny eggplant puree. It was […]
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January 31, 2021

Larry King’s long run made the case that there’s no such thing as a dumb question

Larry King’s vintage microphone, the RCA Type 77-D that referenced his rise as a radio man, was a prop that worked as a powerful symbol of both past and present in a relentlessly evolving media age. The microphone was a security blanket for everyone involved: for King, for his 60,000 interview subjects, and for the […]
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January 31, 2021

Rich ambiguity elevates and frustrates in the noirish thriller ‘The Little Things’

Set in 1990, in a time before the ubiquity of cellphones and the kind of advanced, rapid DNA profiling that would come to revolutionize criminal forensics, “The Little Things” isn’t just a retro serial-killer thriller, but a deeply noirish one, harking back to not just “Seven,” but to the delicious moral ambiguity of black-and-white films […]
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January 31, 2021

Trinidad-style aloo and channa infuses an Indian classic with Caribbean flavor

There’s no denying the simplicity of Trinidad-style aloo and channa. Creamy Yukon Gold potatoes are coated in curry powder, then simmered until soft. Canned chickpeas are added, and the whole pot is then zapped with a bright burst of aromatics and heat. This vegan mash-up is both fortifying and forgiving; it sticks to one’s bones […]
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January 31, 2021

Deep Water: ‘Listening To John Coltrane With My Baby Daughter,’ by David Stankiewicz

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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January 31, 2021

Art review: Dowling Walsh show represents the range of abstract expressionism

‘Into the Abstract’ runs through Feb. 27 at the Rockland gallery.
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January 31, 2021

Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth burn brilliantly, but with understatement, in ‘Supernova’

The film “Supernova” is a small and superficially tidy thing, notwithstanding the astronomical implications of its title, which augurs the sudden explosion of a star or – more metaphorically – some brilliant light, often heralding its extinguishment. It seems, at first, an odd allusion for a road-trip story that takes place largely inside a boxy […]

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