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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Published
December 15, 2019

Deep Water: ‘Entropy,’ by Jonathan Aldrich

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Published
December 15, 2019

Society Notebook: Festival of Trees kicks off holiday season in Saco

The Dyer Library/Saco Museum display stays up through Dec. 29.
Published
December 15, 2019

Best TV shows of 2019: ‘Watchmen,’ ‘When They See Us,’ ‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Succession’ and more

It’s too early to predict who will win the big streaming wars of the coming decade (which is supposed to bury us alive in subscriber-based content), but I like HBO’s chances lately. If the launch of HBO Max in 2020 expands on the sort of decisively outstanding quality the network demonstrated with its 2019 premium-cable […]
Published
December 15, 2019

Best music of 2019: Lana Del Rey sings lullabies about the end of America

List season? It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Just not if you’re the type of muso who finds best-of lists to be tacky, reflexive rituals that serve only to replicate and reinforce the marketplace’s ugliest, corniest competitive impulses. I hear that. But maybe instead of approaching a best-of list as a hierarchy, think […]
Published
December 15, 2019

Best movies of 2019: A compelling mix of new and established voices

Just when you think that Hollywood has become incapable of making anything but tired retreads and money-grabbing sequels, you look back on the year and think: Huh. So they can still surprise us after all. This was the year when “Avengers: Endgame” and “Spider-Man: Far From Home” demonstrated that, Martin Scorsese notwithstanding, the difference between […]
Published
December 15, 2019

In a year of upheaval, the best art was also the bravest

The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing. Protests against “toxic philanthropy” at the Whitney Biennial led to the resignation of Warren Kanders, the vice president of the museum’s board. And after years of prevaricating, museums on both sides of […]
Published
December 15, 2019

How streaming, diversity, #MeToo shaped TV decade of change

As the decade draws to a close, it’s clear that we’re looking at TV differently
Published
December 9, 2019

Tap Lines: Give the gift of an experience to the beer lover on your list

These tours, events and dinners will create memories that go beyond just drinking the stuff.
Published
December 9, 2019

Indie Film: USM student’s new short-film fest is not for the trite. Or the kids.

The festival with a family-unfriendly name screens Friday at The Apohadion in Portland.
Published
December 8, 2019

Q&A: John Hodgman on fame and why he’s not faking it anymore

Whether you first saw him on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” or as the rumpled personification of a PC in a series of computer commercials, John Hodgman is not quite who you think. He still specializes in an oddball brand of comedy on display in his list-driven books of invented facts, starting with 2005’s […]

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