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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

Art review: Stopping short of abstraction, James Fitzgerald aimed to convey the inner life of things

by Jorge S. Arango August 7, 2022August 6, 2022

The Monhegan Museum, which has preserved the island artist’s legacy and studio, is showcasing his work this summer.

Maine Gardener: Strategic weeding can help make it a manageable, even mediative, chore

by Tom Atwell August 7, 2022August 6, 2022

Keeping weeds from going to seed and always having a trowel on hand are starters.

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘Eastern Columbine,’ by Laura Bonazzoli

August 7, 2022August 5, 2022

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘The Midcoast,’ ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’

August 7, 2022August 5, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘Horse,’ ‘An Immense World’

July 31, 2022July 29, 2022

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

Arts & Entertainment

Art review: Emotional shows in Portland, Rockland explore African diasporic experience

by Jorge S. Arango July 31, 2022July 30, 2022

Billy Gerard Frank exposes what life was like for a gay teenager in Grenada, while Daniel Minter narrates the appalling story of Maine’s Malaga Island.