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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PublishedApril 30, 2023
Best-Sellers: ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,’ ‘Rough Sleepers’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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PublishedApril 30, 2023
Art review: Portland galleries put the natural world in a new context
While an immersive experience at Speedwell explores mass extinction, Space looks at the subjectivity of what is considered natural.
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PublishedApril 30, 2023
Society Notebook: Indigo Arts raises the bar for fun fundraisers
The April 6 event featuring a deejay, dance party and buffet benefited the Portland nonprofit’s artist residency program.
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PublishedApril 26, 2023
John Mulaney still needs you to like him
John Mulaney is the kind of comedian I want to see crack open. I say that as a fan. I’m not alone here. I think often about his 2014 appearance on “WTF with Marc Maron” because you can hear Maron’s frustration at Mulaney’s composure build while he prattles charmingly on. “Just, you know, who’s in […]
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PublishedApril 26, 2023
‘Beau Is Afraid’: Mom’s inhumanity to man
“Beau Is Afraid,” a mommy-obsessed magnum opus from elevated-horror auteur Ari Aster (“Hereditary,” “Midsommar”), opens with a therapy session, conducted virtually in real time, in which the title character – played by a balding, bleary-eyed Joaquin Phoenix – shares his anxieties with a sympathetic clinician (Stephen McKinley Henderson). Beau is scheduled to leave the next […]
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PublishedApril 26, 2023
‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’ is a masterfully manipulative war thriller
Does anyone remember Afghanistan? Guy Ritchie is here to remind you. It was only in August 2021 – less than two years ago – that the United States pulled its last troops from the country in which we had been fighting for two decades, but it seems like a lifetime ago. So much so that […]
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PublishedApril 26, 2023
Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God?’ gets the film version it deserves
For readers of a certain demographic – say, 46-year-old white women – there were three sacred texts of pre-adolescence. First were the “Babysitters Club” books, through which we came to envy girls with private phone lines and learn about diabetes. Second was the “Sweet Valley High” series, through which we came to envy the Wakefield […]
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PublishedApril 24, 2023
Indie Film: Augusta actor-turned-filmmaker premieres passion project at Maine Mayhem
Southern Maine Community College student Hannah Perry Shepherd stars with her real-life twin sister in ‘The Antique,’ one of five films in the Maine Mayhem festival.
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PublishedApril 24, 2023
Tap Lines: There are many reasons to celebrate the saison
Started by Allagash Brewing Co. in 2014, Saison Day is back on Saturday.
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PublishedApril 23, 2023
Best-Sellers: ‘The Trackers,’ ‘Poverty’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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