Leslie Bridgers

Columnist

Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
Posted inRecipes

How to make red rice, a Lowcountry classic with deep roots

by G. Daniela Galarza The Washington Post

“Red rice goes back to the old, old days – the days before me, my momma, and her,” writes Emily Meggett in her new book, out next week, “Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island.” Photographs by Clay Williams illustrate the cooking life of Meggett, the 89-year-old matriarch of the Gullah […]

Posted inArts & Entertainment

Nicolas Cage has seen your memes. He wants you to see his work.

by Stuart Miller Special To The Washington Post

Burdened by mountains of debt, Nicolas Cage spent much of the last 15 years saying yes to just about any offer. He appeared in some 50 films, at least half of which were low-budget, direct-to-video schlock that typically vanished into the single digits of Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Yet Cage remained Cage, outrageous and outsize, strutting […]

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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review

‘The First Lady’ turns three compelling women into Emmy bait

by Inkoo Kang The Washington Post

The new East Wing drama, “The First Lady,” exists to illustrate a fact most of us intuitively know: The women asked to play hostess, decorator, fashion plate and champion for unobjectionable causes as part of each administration’s political theater tend to be much more interesting and complicated than the manicured images they project. That’s certainly […]

Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review

Violence and revenge define and ultimately undercut ‘The Northman’

by Ann Hornaday

“The Northman,” an ambitious deep dive into 10th-century Viking myth by Robert Eggers, is many movies at once: Bold and beautiful, bloody and completely bonkers, it marks a visionary and visceral high point in the post-“Game of Thrones” action-fantasy sweepstakes, whose main metric of success seems to be packing in as many beheadings, blood feuds […]

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