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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.
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O say can you see all these items in the photo?
Look at the list and circle you what can find in this Fourth of July scene from Portland last year.
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Posted inFood, Recipes
Coconut adds a tropical touch to this summer berry crisp
Regardless of what the calendar says, the official start of summer to me is when a bounty of berries appears at the farmers market. I always buy way more than my family could possibly eat fresh – because I, admittedly, tend to get carried away with my haul but also because I know I can […]
Posted inBooks
Book review: ‘Home Now’ tells the story of African refugees living in Lewiston
The nonfiction book by Maine native Cynthia Anderson also incorporates the stories of the city and her own family.
Posted inBooks
Book review: ‘A Silent Fury’ that needs to be heard
At what human cost, prosperity? One hundred years have elapsed since 87 Mexican miners were locked into a burning mineshaft by their bosses at an American-owned company, a corporate massacre detailed by author Yuri Herrera in “A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire.” In the midst of a pandemic claiming the lives of front-line […]
Posted inFood, Recipes
Let these baked chicken nuggets and tahini potato salad power your next picnic
Fried chicken and potato salad are a favorite summertime combo. Still, to enjoy it the old-fashioned way – the way my mother made it – with bone-in, battered deep-fried chicken and potato salad mixed with lots of chopped celery, pickles and eggs takes so much time and makes a bit of a mess in the […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Q&A: ‘You can’t be a historian of Black America without being hopeful,’ says Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch
Lonnie Bunch III, 67, is secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Previously he was founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. This interview was conducted April 7. Q: You’ve said that culture can hold people together and that the Smithsonian is glue that holds the country together. Are you hopeful […]
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Netflix’s ‘The Politician’ is back for another cynical run, but the snark attacks get tiresome
Last year’s polling data on the first season of Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan’s Netflix series “The Politician” came back somewhat mixed, as it should have. This cynically satirical series, which charts the political rise-fall-rise cycle of a supremely confident and self-interested young man named Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), takes an all-too-easy theme […]
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Jon Stewart returns to filmmaking – and comedy – with a so-so political satire
It’s good, in principle, to have Jon Stewart back. But the former “Daily Show” host’s sophomore effort as a filmmaker, a return to comedy after adapting journalist Maziar Bahari’s memoir of detention and psychological torture in an Iranian prison in the 2014 drama “Rosewater,” is a political farce that ultimately feels like a letdown, coming […]
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Spicy shrimp salad on a buttery toasted bun tastes like a day at the beach
Cold seafood salad at the seashore is one of my favorite summer traditions. While strolling the beach has been curtailed this season, I still satisfied my craving for one half of that hot-weather combo. Many styles of seafood salad exist, but I love to toss quick-cooking fish or shrimp in a bowl with something creamy, […]