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 7, 2022
Tap Lines: Does pumpkin beer go with pumpkin pie? Here’s what we found about pairing fall favorites
A look at which Maine beers go well with the comfort foods of the season and which don’t.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2022
Indie Film: Love horror movies? This local podcast will sink its claws in
Four friends in Maine liken their lively and encyclopedic explorations in ‘Speak All Evil’ to conversations they’d have at a pub.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2022
Deep Water: ‘out of the cave,’ by John Reinhart
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2022
Best-Sellers: ‘The Passenger,’ ‘Go-To Dinners’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books in South Portland.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2022
Society Notebook: Children’s Museum & Theatre hosts adult costume party
The institution may start holding more After Dark events, so grown-ups can explore on their own.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2022
Art review: ‘Morphing Medium’ will widen your view of photography
The show at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts crams in examples of many variations of the art form.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2022
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’: When old friendship goes violently awry
The Irish writer-director Martin McDonagh has earned an adoring audience for his ability to find grace amid the grotesque. With films like “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” he’s been rapturously received for his auteurist signatures, which include extravagant profanity, wickedly caustic humor, and a penchant for putting his characters into alternately amusing […]
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PublishedNovember 1, 2022
Movie review: ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ takes biopic myth and parodies it
It only makes sense that Al Yankovic’s biopic would be a parody of biopics. So “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is anything but the A-Z story of the song parodist who is perhaps not technically the best but arguably went on to become the most famous accordion player in an extremely specific genre of music. […]
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PublishedOctober 31, 2022
Theater review: Portland Stage packs ‘Sherlock Holmes’ with action and comedy
The live show runs through Nov. 20 and also will be available online.
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PublishedOctober 31, 2022
Indie Film: Crescent Beach stands in for Yosemite in Hulu series ‘Wild Crime’
The second season of the true crime series, produced by South Portland’s Lone Wolf Media, came out last week.
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