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, Do This

Indie Film: Get ‘extra credit’ (and a cash prize) for your outdoor film outtakes

by Dennis Perkins April 20, 2020April 22, 2020

Entries in Maine Outdoor Film Festival’s on-the-fly competition are due May 6.

Do This, Food

Bar Guide: A drink for every room in your at-home pub crawl

by Angie Bryan April 20, 2020April 16, 2020

Have a Highball in the attic and a Rusty Nail in the tool shed.

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘Eel Fork,’ by David Sloan

April 19, 2020April 16, 2020

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This

Review: ‘Belgravia’ is the ‘Downton Abbey’ replacement you’ve been waiting for

by Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times (TNS) April 19, 2020April 16, 2020

Julian Fellowes, the man who built “Downton Abbey,” “Gosford Park” and other edifices of lesser cultural impact, is back with another place-named winner: “Belgravia,” a highly entertaining six-part period soap opera that premiered last Sunday on Epix. Set mainly in London at the dawn of the Victorian age, it is based on a 2016 novel […]

Arts & Entertainment

Art Q&A: Buzz Masters finds new motivation for creating her mixed-media works

by Stacey Kors April 19, 2020April 17, 2020

The Deer Isle artist also works as an EMT.

Arts & Entertainment

All the world is no longer a stage – except online

by Peter Marks The Washington Post April 19, 2020April 16, 2020

I zoomed through a piece of theater the other day, by which I mean I sat through a live performance on Zoom – the app that curates two-way, three-way, 17-way and 66-way video conference calls. And it was one of the weirder experiences I’ve had as I’ve tried to keep track of an art form […]

Arts & Entertainment

We’re all alone, so let’s get lost in these paintings of parties

by Sebastian Smee The Washington Post April 19, 2020April 16, 2020

My wife saw a plate of cupcakes on Instagram and freaked out. It was our first week of social distancing, and to her, the little cakes, covered in promiscuous sprinkles, seemed far too close together for comfort. Cupcakes lose a lot of their appeal, though, if you isolate them on separate little saucers. Over the […]