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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PublishedNovember 11, 2019
Tap Lines: How Maine breweries are giving back, here and abroad
Making pledges and holding fundraisers are among the ways breweries help causes they believe in.
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PublishedNovember 11, 2019
Indie Film: Under new ownership, Eveningstar gets an upgrade
Shaun Boyle is trying to please longtime customers while attracting a new audience to the 40-year-old Brunswick theater.
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PublishedNovember 11, 2019
Movie review: ‘Black and Blue’ a lean, mean corrupt cop thriller
It seems like director Deon Taylor might be the only filmmaker actively keeping the mid-budget adult thriller alive in this age of extinction. Plus, he’s prolific: His topical corrupt cop drama “Black and Blue” is his second 2019 film, arriving just a few months after his surprisingly entertaining and campy home invasion horror thriller “The […]
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PublishedNovember 11, 2019
Review: ‘Harriet’ gives Cynthia Erivo the star turn she deserves in an overall acting triumph
Cynthia Erivo knows how to make an entrance. In “Harriet,” her first starring film role and one she signed for before she had any big screen experience at all, the British actress galvanizes the proceedings as Harriet Tubman, a figure of rescue and resistance so legendary she is scheduled to take her place on the […]
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PublishedNovember 10, 2019
Theater review: Good Theater’s ‘Boxes’ suspenseful, fun and thought-provoking
The show is likely to engender some interesting conversations on the trip home from the Munjoy Hill venue.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2019
‘Midway’ is a big, old-fashioned war movie, with one thing missing: human beings
Military authenticity isn’t a problem in this movie.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2019
Edward Norton loosely adapts part-time Mainer’s beloved novel ‘Motherless Brooklyn’
The movie is based on a book by Jonathan Lethem, who spends time in Maine.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2019
Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ dismantles the myths the filmmaker helped create in movies like ‘Goodfellas’
‘The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating gangland epic, starts off with a bittersweet inside joke: A long tracking shot – one of the director’s bravura signatures – that threads the audience, not through the labyrinthine hallways and kitchens of the Copacabana, but an old folks’ home, where the film’s protagonist, Frank Sheeran, can be found ruminating […]
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PublishedNovember 10, 2019
Art review: DesignInquiry’s overwhelming show has a welcoming core
Think of ‘Futurespective’ as a library of ideas about design.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2019
Sense of empathy, kindness floats over ‘Sesame Street’ set
The show is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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