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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
Another movie about Fred Rogers?
Yes, and this one feels like an answered prayer.
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Posted inFood, Recipes
These warm, fluffy pull-apart dinner rolls are bliss to eat and a cinch to make
These soft, golden, buttery puffs just might be the rolls of your dreams.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Q&A: Mark Ruffalo, on playing the lawyer who took on DuPont
‘Dark Waters’ recounts a 20-year fight that exposed the harmful effects of a commonly used industrial chemical called PFOA.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Lewiston High student making films and a difference
After attending a young filmmakers’ workshop in the other L.A., Zamzam Elmoge started working on her second documentary.
Posted inDo This, Food
Bar Guide: Good drinks, good prices, good service at Pepper’s Landing
Don’t be put off by the strip-mall setting of this Brunswick bar and seafood restaurant.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Banks update tacky, sexualized ‘Charlie’s Angels’ for 2019
ABC-TV wasn’t alone. But in the network’s flesh-peddling harem era of the 1970s, an adolescent boy could tune into “Charlie’s Angels” (or “Fantasy Island,” or “Battle of the Network Stars”) and begin developing some pretty dubious notions of female empowerment as it relates to straight male gratification. Meaning: If the latter was covered, whatever with […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen have a blast in ‘The Good Liar,’ a silly cat-and-mouse game
Based on novelist Nicholas Searle’s best-selling 2016 debut, “The Good Liar” is a silly breeze of a movie starring two of Britain’s finest actors, each having a blast playing cat-and-mouse with the other. Ian McKellen charms as Roy, a London con man who woos elderly women into signing their savings over to him. His target […]
Posted inBooks
Allen Eskens’ ‘Nothing More Dangerous’: Resonant themes about race emerge in ‘Dangerous’
Evocative of Stephen King’s ‘Stand By Me,’ boys’ story in 1970s Missouri explores prejudice.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Spud,’ by Betsy Sholl
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.