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.
-
PublishedJuly 12, 2020
Theater review: ‘Cupid’s Arrow’ tackles online dating during a pandemic
Footlights Theatre in Falmouth reopens with a comedy that both addresses our current health crisis, and provides relief from it.
-
PublishedJuly 12, 2020
Rufus Wainwright is sober, battle-hardened and wrestling with the demons of middle age
The singer-songwriter, who is just about to turn 47, is using his creeping middle age to reckon with his past and future on a new album, “Unfollow the Rules.”
-
PublishedJuly 12, 2020
A Serbian Croatian pancake meets Italian flavors in this family recipe mash-up
Sometimes a recipe is more than a set of instructions for a certain dish. It’s a gateway to something else – a person or place that existed once, but is now gone. It doesn’t matter if infinite iterations exist, or even if the method has changed over time. For Robbie Tutlewski, the chef and owner […]
-
PublishedJuly 6, 2020
See if you can solve these Maine-themed word games
Test your skills and love of your state.
-
PublishedJuly 6, 2020
Indie Film: Filmmakers find right place at the right time for ‘Wrong Lanes’
The Maine crew’s submission to the 48 Hour Film Project made it to the semifinals.
-
PublishedJuly 6, 2020
Bar Guide: When life doesn’t give you lemons, make these limeade summer sippers
Fresh or from concentrate, limeade can be mixed with most any kind of liquor.
-
PublishedJuly 5, 2020
Book review: Political lies aren’t new, but the methods of spreading them are
Before Breitbart and 4chan mastered the art of the strategically incisive political lie, the Greek deity Zeus was already at the bleeding edge of fake news. In Book II of the Iliad, the god sends Agamemnon, king of the Achaeans, a dream urging him to dispatch his men into battle, promising that this will end […]
-
PublishedJuly 5, 2020
‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’ isn’t just another true-crime docuseries – it’s a brilliant look at how the genre pulls us in
What you already know about California’s notorious Golden State Killer and his prolific string of rapes and murders in the 1970s and ’80s might depend entirely on how plugged in you are to the world of true crime. There is no succinct way to describe our culture’s surge in true-crime stories, not just for entertainment […]
-
PublishedJuly 5, 2020
Movie review: Will Ferrell dials down the crazy in run-of-the-mill rom-com ‘Eurovision Song Contest’
As Will Ferrell movies go, “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” ranks somewhere in that vast, gray, paunchy middle area, perhaps wedged just above the waistband of “Zoolander 2” but just below the belly button of “Kicking and Screaming.” If the movie, about an inept Icelandic music duo with dreams of winning the […]
-
PublishedJuly 5, 2020
Book review: ‘The Spiral Shell’ weaves the lives of Jewish families, in France during WWII and the writer’s, right after
York writer Sandell Morse was inspired by a family who shared her maiden name.
- ← Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 176
- 177
- 178
- 179
- 180
- …
- 376
- Next Page →