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 3, 2023
Theater review: Before tragedy strikes, ‘Buddy Holly Story’ is a whole lot of fun
The jukebox musical is playing at Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick.
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PublishedJuly 3, 2023
Indie Film: At Waterville film festival, sit back and enjoy new seats, centralized location, same high-quality shows
The new Schupf Arts Center downtown is also the new home base for the Maine International Film Festival, which starts Friday.
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PublishedJuly 3, 2023
Tap Lines: How Sebago Brewing Co. got its start and has stayed relevant for 25 years
The brainchild of three Chili’s employees, the Gorham-based brewery and brewpub chain has continued to evolve over its quarter-century in business.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2023
Art review: Two tucked-away Portland galleries have shows to lure you
Maine College of Art & Design’s new gallery, 49 Oak, is showing alumni work over the summer, and Zero Station has a group show up on Anderson Street.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2023
Deep Water: ‘Achilles Among Azaleas,’ by Myronn Hardy
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2023
Best-Sellers: ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ ‘The Wager’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfictions books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2023
Society Notebook: Haute Lunch gives cafeteria food an upgrade
Full Plates Full Potential held the fundraiser at Yarmouth High School.
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PublishedJune 26, 2023
You’ll need a map to find your way out of ‘Asteroid City’
To explain Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” an ambitious yet mystifyingly dysfunctional meta-movie, in terms of both form and content, it may be helpful to walk a prospective viewer backward, outward from the center of this most puzzling – and, most puzzlingly, ponderous – of puzzle boxes. Set in 1955, against a robin’s-egg-blue sky that looks […]
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PublishedJune 26, 2023
In ‘No Hard Feelings,’ she’s hot to trot, he’s not
In the blandly inoffensive sex comedy “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, an emotionally stunted, sexually liberated 30-year-old living in her childhood home in Montauk, studiously avoiding the bonds of adulthood. As the movie opens, Maddie’s car is being towed for back taxes, a catastrophe of financially epic proportions, since she’s an Uber driver. […]
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PublishedJune 26, 2023
Indie Film: In Maine-made ‘Sentinels,’ kids battle adversity by turning into superheroes
The short by longtime film editor Matthew Luhrman will screen next month at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.
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