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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 inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Documenting the dumpster fire that was 2020
Produced by NO Productions of South Portland, ‘2020: The Dumpster Fire’ is set for a December release.
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Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Jing Yan’s cocktails taste as good as they look
The Asian bistro on Munjoy Hill has an impressive drink menu, crafted by co-owner Leo Zhang.
Posted inBooks, Food
Anthony Bourdain’s messy, brilliant life comes into focus in a new oral biography
Anthony Bourdain attracted people to him, beyond the usual parasocial relationships that develop between the famous and those who love them from afar. Folks felt like they knew him. They felt connected to him. That was one of Bourdain’s gifts as a writer, raconteur and television travel guide: He was open to experiencing the world, […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: Natural and human worlds collide in ‘Witchgrass’
The show at Speedwell Projects in Portland features multimedia works by four artists.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The movie ‘Lamb’ is weird, even by A24 standards, but also haunting and beautiful
It’s devilishly difficult to write about “Lamb,” while at the same time skirting spoilers that would take away from the pleasure of coming into the film completely fresh. (Pleasure is not quite right: Maybe shock value mixed with a perverse sense of fear, wonder and a little eye-rolling.) That’s true because the trailer gives away […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
David Strathairn, now playing a Holocaust witness at the Shakespeare Theatre, reflects on the lessons of the past
WASHINGTON — “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” a one-man play co-written by Deering High School graduate Clark Young and now onstage at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre, greets its audience with a warning that seems to transcend time. “We see what goes on in the world, don’t we?” star David Strathairn asks as Karski, the real-life […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘No Time to Die’ is a satisfying send-off to Daniel Craig, in his final outing as James Bond
“No Time to Die” is a bit too long and a bit too complicated, with a villain in the form of Rami Malek’s Lyutsifer Safin, whose motivation in seeking a genetically programmable bioweapon that microtargets its victims by DNA is murky, to say the least. It does come in handy, however, as a plot device, […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Lawn party a fitting place to celebrate Space
Since the start of the pandemic, the Portland arts nonprofit has put on outdoor events and continued distributing grant money.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Dave Chappelle returns to D.C. to help the school that ‘saved’ his life – and is naming its theater after him
Hours before his new comedy special dropped Wednesday on Netflix, Dave Chappelle wasn’t preening on a red carpet or partying with his deep bench of A-list funny friends. No, the comedic GOAT was in his hometown urging deep-pocketed Washingtonians to donate to his beloved alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. “I’m happy […]