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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PublishedJuly 10, 2023
Classical review: JACK Quartet nimbly takes on New York composers
The performance was part of Bowdoin International Music Festival’s Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2023
Bar Guide: High-turnover spot on Congress Street gets new start as The End
The latest occupant of the building hasn’t changed the decor much from the last bar that was there, but offers good cocktails, service and prices.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2023
Indie Film: ‘Casting Kill’ the latest in Kittery filmmaker’s string of shorts
Mark J. Parker has also put out a couple of fan films that play off horror flicks from the ’90s.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2023
Deep Water: ‘The Peach Trees of Pray Hill Road,’ by Jefferson Navicky
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2023
Best-Sellers: ‘Dead Man’s Wake,’ ‘Pageboy’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2023
Society Notebook: Honoring the people who provide access to legal aid
Steve Rowe, former state legislator and Maine attorney general, received this year’s Access to Justice Award from the Muskie Fund for Legal Services.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2023
Art review: The latest from one abstract painter and the last from another
Corey Daniels Gallery in Wells is showing ‘Deborah Zlotsky, New Works/Tom Gaines, the Last Paintings’ through July 22.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2023
‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’: High school angst for sea monsters
The animated coming-of-age story “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” is a solid diversion, a good-enough escape if the kids are still making you crazy during summer break and you’ve already seen “Elemental.” It’s just charming enough, just exciting enough and just funny enough to not be a flop, but DreamWorks – the studio that has shown […]
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PublishedJuly 7, 2023
‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ is a fitting if far-fetched finale
Father Time casts his long shadow over “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and not just because the 42-year-old action-adventure franchise, now in its fifth installment, was already old-fashioned – a throwback to “Buck Rogers” and other serials of the 1930s – when “Raiders of the Lost Ark” debuted in 1981. Nor is that […]
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PublishedJuly 7, 2023
Theater review: Now playing at Deering Oaks, Fenix’s wackiest take on Shakespeare yet
‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged] [revised] (again)’ reimagines the Bard’s plays as a cooking show and football game.
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