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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PublishedJanuary 31, 2022
Bar Guide: Cellardoor Winery’s new downtown tasting room hits almost all the right notes
The Lincolnville winery moved its Portland location from Thompson’s Point to the Old Port.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
This city just became one of the best places to get to know Rembrandt and Rubens, outside of the Netherlands
BOSTON — How do great art museums develop their collections? There’s an inclination to think it all took place in the distant past. In fact, of course, it’s an ongoing process. Occasionally museums decide to collect in an area they have completely ignored. But more often, they play to existing strengths. Great works act as […]
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
Best-Sellers: ‘The Lincoln Highway,’ ‘Downeast’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
In the fantastic new dramedies ‘Single Drunk Female’ and ‘As We See It,’ it’s never too late to grow up
If 28-year-old Samantha Fink, a writer in New York forced to move back home, weren’t in so much denial, she’d pray for the serenity to become merely a train wreck. In the first episode of the new dramedy “Single Drunk Female,” Sam (Sofia Black-D’Elia) nearly blinds her boss, destroys two cars and ends up in […]
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
Deep Water: ‘Because that’s what he did,’ by Daniel Lance Patrick
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
Art review: ‘Hopeful’ artist spreads his wings
‘Charlie Hewitt: Bush of Ghosts’ is on display at Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Portland.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
Because of Black women, the period drama ‘The Gilded Age’ has a Black story line done right
Fans of high-society high jinks will instantly recognize the dazzling and dizzying characters of “The Gilded Age,” the long-gestating period drama from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes that premiered Monday on HBO. But there is one conspicuous exception. Among the blindingly white milieu of social-climbing “wives of,” acid-tongued grand dames, bored heiresses, buzzing staff and […]
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2022
Faith-based romance ‘Redeeming Love’ hammers home an unsubtle message
Based on Francine Rivers’s best-selling 1991 novel, a Christian-themed historical romance loosely inspired by a minor character mentioned in the biblical Book of Hosea, the faith-based melodrama “Redeeming Love” tells the story of Gold Rush-era prostitute Angel (Abigail Cowen) and the power of love – both a good man’s and God’s – to transform and […]
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2022
Eat & Run: Oishi hits the spot for hassle-free sushi
The Japanese restaurant in Scarborough also serves hibachi dinners, as well as some Chinese and Thai selections.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2022
Tap Lines: Maine brewers get crafty with nonalcoholic beers
These breweries are making breaking from booze a lot easier to swallow.
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