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.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘The Lincoln Highway,’ ‘Downeast’

January 30, 2022January 25, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

In the fantastic new dramedies ‘Single Drunk Female’ and ‘As We See It,’ it’s never too late to grow up

by Inkoo Kang The Washington Post January 30, 2022January 27, 2022

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 […]

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘Because that’s what he did,’ by Daniel Lance Patrick

January 30, 2022January 24, 2022

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Art review: ‘Hopeful’ artist spreads his wings

by Jorge S. Arango January 30, 2022January 30, 2022

‘Charlie Hewitt: Bush of Ghosts’ is on display at Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Portland.

Arts & Entertainment

Because of Black women, the period drama ‘The Gilded Age’ has a Black story line done right

by Helena Andrews-Dyer The Washington Post January 30, 2022January 27, 2022

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 […]

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Faith-based romance ‘Redeeming Love’ hammers home an unsubtle message

by Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post January 30, 2022January 27, 2022

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 […]