LiveWork Portland Blog
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Study says: 2nd happiest state according to tweets
by Peter Weed / An innovative study of geotagged tweets rates Maine as the second-happiest state.
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Portland's latest trend: food swaps
by Megan Bedford / The Portland Food Swap offers the opportunity to trade homemade, homegrown, or foraged foods with people who care about high quality, innovative local food. Part of a national trend, the food swap has grown out of Portland's thriving, food-forward culture.
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In search of a new indie film theater: How it might work here
by Peter Weed / There are some early rumblings about the viability of a dedicated indie cinema. We look at what might work.
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Unleashing youth voices on Blunt Radio
by Daniel Bryan knight / WMPG's Blunt is keeping radio relevant for youth, who do the interviewing, hosting, reporting, editing, and engineering for the award-winning show. The results are often compelling.
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Latest addition to thriving textile scene: A Gathering of Stitches
by Peter Weed / Portland's fiber/textile scene is flourishing. A new Bayside maker space, called A Gathering of Stitches, is the latest evidence of a thriving community.
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Little Free Library a model for neighborhood art boxes?
by Peter Weed / A dollhouse-sized container mounted on a pole in Deering contains 25 books for sharing. This street-corner resource is a concept ripe with possibilities for artists who like to share.
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Bigfoot and "truth" at the Cryptozoology Museum
by Daniel Bryan knight / With displays ranging from Bigfoot and FeeJee Mermaid to coelacanth (a living fossil), Portland's International Cryptozoology Museum offers the opportunity to investigate the fine line between undiscovered "truth" and hoax.