/ Anouar Majid has global ambitions for our city.
The University of New England professor is working hard to broaden Portland’s horizons, creating a “city of ideas” via a series of humanities discussions and the establishment of a UNE campus in Morocco. 
/ An innovative study of geotagged tweets rates Maine as the second-happiest state.
/ 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.
/ There are some early rumblings about the viability of a dedicated indie cinema. We look at what might work.
/ 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.
/ 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.
/ 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.
/ 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.
