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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PublishedAugust 28, 2022
Society Notebook: Olympia Snowe’s leadership program keeps growing
A reception was held to raise money for the institute, which helps high school girls throughout Maine build confidence and connections.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Finding Praise,’ by Eileen Griffin
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2022
Art review: Painters go to different depths in Portland, Rockland shows
Works on view at the Alice Gauvin and Caldbeck galleries use varied approaches to creating dimension.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2022
Concert review: Jack White enraptures Portland’s biggest arena
With cellphones banned, the rock star held the attention of the audience through a continuous string of songs from his recent albums and crowd-pleasers from his past.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2022
Theater review: ‘Honestly, Now!’ an entertaining, if convoluted, romp on the Riviera
The Freeport Players are putting on the show through Sunday.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2022
Theater review: ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ musical shows promise in its premiere
The new musical, based on the film, is making its debut at Ogunquit Playhouse.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2022
Aubrey Plaza is stellar in so-so crime thriller ‘Emily the Criminal’
A kind of gravitational pull emanates from Aubrey Plaza as the title character in “Emily the Criminal,” a passably diverting crime thriller where, in place of a moral center, Plaza delivers a performance that is entertainingly blackhearted. (Well, perhaps not entirely black, but certainly a lovely shade of charcoal gray.) As a 30-something art school […]
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PublishedAugust 22, 2022
‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’: A slasher with some surprisingly sharp satire
It’s telling that the official synopsis for “Bodies Bodies Bodies” – a darkly comic slasher film centering on a party game that turns deadly – does not, as you might expect, use the word “friends” to describe the participants: eight (mostly insufferably) young and (mostly insufferably) hot soon-to-be victims. Rather, they are a “group” of […]
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PublishedAugust 22, 2022
Indie Film: Before she leaves Maine, this filmmaker wants to make us ‘extremely uncomforable’
Emily Bodley has made an impression during her five years in Maine and hopes to leave a lasting one with her contribution to Damnationland.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2022
Eat & Run: Head to Harpswell for scenic seafood
Erica’s will be open until Oct. 10.
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