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Your Ultimate Maine Made Holiday Gift Guide 2017: 50 under $50

Behold! The 6th annual Maine Gift Guide! Below we have a selection of 50 gifts under $50. A much larger selection of gifts—hundreds, actually—can be found at Maine Gift Guide, a project of Knack Factory and Might & Main. And we’ll be adding nearly 100 more next week, so stay tuned! All of these photographs […]

Interview: Kathleen Madigan on the bankability of jokes

The wonderful comedian Karthleen Madigan will be performing at the State Theater on June 17th. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to chat with her about fame, getting coffee in a car with Jerry Seinfeld, and the bankability of jokes.  You can see Madigan’s recent appearance on Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee here.  Have […]

Getting out of Maine may be professionally wise (and here’s how to do it)

I interviewed my friend Robyn Kanner, an incredible designer and person, about how she went about getting out of Maine and [professionally] setting up outside of the state. We talk here about a number of things, including how she pitted a bunch of recruiters against each other to expedite the process, below. For a little more […]

Proposed Portland budget suggests eliminating care for most vulnerable

According to a source close to the situation, a friend affiliated with the city’s public health division, the proposed budget for the City of Portland eliminates all funding for India Street Public Health. Note: See many, many updates below, including the one all the way at the bottom about the Press Herald report about the closure […]

Ink and Business Acumen: Tattooer Hanna Sandström offers advice for entrepreneurs

Hanna Sandström is a tattooer, formerly based in Portland (Squid and Whale Tattoo), who presently resides and works in Seattle (Dark Age Tattoo). We were neighbors when she was in town, and she is responsible for half of my tattoos, so when I was in Seattle last week I reached out to see if she’d be […]