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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PublishedSeptember 6, 2020
Is TV getting us emotionally prepared to leave the planet? ‘Away’ and ‘Raised by Wolves’ sure make it seem so
Raise your hand if you used to be one of those people who were not at all interested in going to Mars. (Boring, costly and creepy – right? To say nothing of viable.) But lately? After those endless refrains of “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” during the Republican National Convention? And now armed teenagers going militia […]
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PublishedAugust 31, 2020
Bar Guide: How to make a well-crafted mocktail
Tips and recipes for nonalcoholic beverages that are far from boring.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2020
Indie Film: Five years later, producer still pushing for ‘Neptune’
Allen Baldwin believes the 2015 film’s time is yet to come.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2020
Society Notebook: Saco fitness center hosts cornhole for a cause
The tournament at Evolution Athletix raised money for the Animal Refuge League, which had to cancel its two biggest fundraisers this year.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2020
Deep Water: ‘Spinnakers,’ by Marcia F. Brown
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2020
How ‘Love in the Time of Corona’ was filmed amid widespread production suspensions
Early in this strange new reality, back when an end date still seemed to be in sight, many of us reached the same realization: Oh, there’s going to be art about this moment. Poems, paintings, music, literature and, once people figured out how to work safely with others, a deluge of films and television series. […]
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PublishedAugust 30, 2020
Movie review: A dickens of a ‘David Copperfield,’ with Dev Patel heading up a great ensemble cast
If ever a match were made in cine-literary heaven it would be Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci, each a master of probing social criticism, slashing wit and floridly besotted love of language. So the fact that Iannucci’s “The Personal History of David Copperfield” is a surpassingly lively and acutely observant flight of fancy doesn’t come […]
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PublishedAugust 24, 2020
Indie Film: Documentary shows the essential role of ‘Soul!’
PMA Films streams ‘Mr. Soul!,’ about the host of the ’60s Black variety show, starting Friday.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2020
Bar Guide: Rock these cocktails with your lobster roll
Seafood restaurants recommend what to drink with the sandwich of summer in Maine.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2020
Literary fantasy unevenly blends with civil rights era in ‘Lovecraft Country’
The HBO show is visually striking and inventively imagined, even when it gets corny.
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