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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PublishedMay 8, 2022
Bar Guide: Loud, lively scene at Jefe Juan’s goes better with tequila than talking
Good service, specialty cocktails and a small, inexpensive food menu are among the reasons to try this newish addition to Portland’s Wharf Street.
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PublishedMay 8, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Parallel to the Season,’ by Sharif S. Elmusa
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedMay 8, 2022
Society Notebook: Portland Ovations throws a multicultural party
The arts organization’s first in-person fundraiser since the start of the pandemic featured dance, music and food from around the world.
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PublishedMay 2, 2022
Theater review: Mark Twain meets Monty Python in new musical ‘The Secret Princess’
Snowlion Repertory Company is presenting the premiere run of the comedy at Meetinghouse Arts in Freeport.
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PublishedMay 2, 2022
Indie Film: Back at the Nick, SMCC’s film students’ shorts aren’t short of weighty content
After two years of disruptions, the Maine Mayhem festival returns to its usual format. ‘It’s good to be back home.’
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PublishedMay 2, 2022
Tap Lines: How beers work their way from Allagash’s pilot program into your hands
The latest experiment to make it into cans is Seconds to Summer, a lager that uses yeast differently than most of the Portland brewery’s beers.
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Art review: Natasha Mayers’ series of military torsos is satire lite
Zero Station’s ‘Tell It Slant’ features the activist artist’s War Chest paintings.
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Use ramps in a simpler, made-for-spring riff on scallion pancakes
Every once in a while, when I’m scrolling through pictures on my phone, I recall the early days of the pandemic. In the spring of 2020, my children were 1 and 3, just babies. To see those pictures is to ache for the years that I lost, and the years that they lost, the years […]
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
HBO’s ‘We Own This City’ is not Season 6 of ‘The Wire’
A few detectives in the drug unit are sitting around chatting in the 2002 pilot of “The Wire,” when one offers his thoughts on the war on drugs: “You can’t even call this (expletive) a war. … Wars end.” That “war” still rages 20 years later, and its destruction is evident across the country – […]
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Society Notebook: Women in coffee from around the world converge in Portland
Coffee By Design hosted members of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance last month.
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