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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PublishedJanuary 23, 2020
Will Grammy voters take the ‘Old Town Road’ on Sunday?
The Associated Press’ music writers put some weight behind their picks with their years of expertise, which may end up meaning absolutely nothing.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2020
Concert review: PSO program favors variety over unity
But even if Eckart Preu’s choices aren’t connected by obvious themes, they are intentional.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2020
Movie review: In cursed ‘Dolittle,’ they could not have done less
In 1967, Twentieth Century Fox undertook an expensive and complicated production of “Doctor Dolittle,” based on a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting, about a doctor in Victorian England who talks to animals. Starring Rex Harrison, “Doctor Dolittle” was a notoriously doomed production, troubled by quarantined animals, Harrison’s behavior and a budget that ballooned […]
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2020
Movie review: ‘Bad Boys for Life’ refreshing tribute to ’90s action cinema
After turning in the first two greatly beloved, operatically souped-up action opuses in the “Bad Boys” franchise, everyone’s favorite gearhead maximalist auteur Michael Bay is no longer behind the camera for the third, “Bad Boys for Life” (though he is in front of it, briefly). Not to worry though, as Belgian filmmaking duo Adil El […]
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2020
Tap Lines: Blue Ox Malthouse making beer’s unsung hero
The company in Lisbon provides malted grains to breweries throughout Maine and beyond.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2020
Indie Film: Dance documentary ‘Cunningham’ is invitingly uncomfortable
The movie screens at PMA Films, starting Friday.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2020
Theater review: Laura Linney stars in ‘Lucy Barton,’ but shines as her mother, on Broadway
The play adapted from Maine author Elizabeth Strout’s novel opened Wednesday in New York City.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2020
Deep Water: ‘Sharpshooter,’ by Julie Poitras Santos
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2020
The plot to ‘1917’ is simple, but making it was not
Every piece of action and dialogue had to be choreographed down to the second to give the film its real-time sensibility.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2020
Society Notebook: History buffs ring in 2020 at Victoria Mansion
The Gaslight League held the New Year’s Eve dance party and fundraiser.
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