Posts By Christian MilNeil
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Working in Portland
Good things brewing in an old scrap yard (part 2)
August 31, 2012 / / Last week I wrote about Tandem Coffee Roasters, the new coffee shop located in a beautifully refurbished art-deco scrap yard building in East Bayside. This week, I'd like to introduce you to their next-door neighbors at Bunker Brewing, which has been making craft beer in the former scrap yard's other building since late last year.
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Working in Portland
Upcoming Events for Entrepreneurs
August 28, 2012 / / If you've been dreaming about starting your own business here in Portland, here are two resources that might be helpful to you: The Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development is currently taking applications for its "Top Gun Prep", an online business development course tailored for first-time entrepreneurs. Check out the syllabus here.
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Living In Portland
Good things brewing in an old scrap yard (part 1)
August 23, 2012 / / Wedged between I-295 and the bottom of Munjoy Hill on the northern tip of the Portland peninsula is the East Bayside industrial area, a triangle-shaped district of warehouses and contractors' shops. There's lots of workspace available there, and it's still relatively cheap, which means it's attracting a growing number of small businesses run by young entrepreneurs.
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Living In Portland
What I love about Portland: Two Degrees of Separation, not Six
August 21, 2012 / / Editor's note: the following is a guest post from Jennifer Hutchins, the executive director of the Creative Portland Corporation. If the number of Facebook “likes” on my recent post are sufficient proof, I’d venture to guess that I’m not the only Portlander who has had a similar post-cappuccino experience—one that exemplifies why this city is just so damn great.
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Living In Portland
Making an Impact in International Human Rights, from an Apartment in the West End
August 19, 2012 / / As you probably know, late last week, a Russian kangaroo court handed a two-year Siberian labor camp sentence to three women from Pussy Riot, the punk performance art collective that attracted the ire of the increasingly autocratic Putin regime with videos like their Red Square performance of "Putin Pissed Himself in Fear" and their Punk Prayer in the state-controlled Orthodox Church. But one of the big reasons that Pussy Riot is in the news at all happens to live right here, in Portland, Maine.
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Living In Portland
Mumford & Sons & Fans Prove Gentlemanly; More Eastern Prom Music Festivals to Follow?
August 10, 2012 / / Disclosure: I'm not big on British folk rock, or massive crowds. So when 16,000 concertgoers were expected to descend on the Eastern Prom this past weekend for the Mumford & Sons' "Gentlemen of the Road" tour, my wife and I were sure to embark on our weekend trip up the coast as early as possible.
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Working in Portland
Building A Better City, Bit by Bit: 'Code for America' Brigade Established in Portland
August 8, 2012 / / With the backing of tech giants like Google and O'Reilly, plus major national foundations, the nonprofit Code for America is working with individual cities to develop software to improve public services, sponsoring fellowships to support developers working in the public realm, and advocating for governments to share their data more openly and in a way that supports third-party application development. The organization is also encouraging the establishment of local "brigades" who can work on local issues and spread the open-government gospel.
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Living In Portland
Portland's Largest Public Open Space
August 3, 2012 / / When I walk out my front door and head downtown, the odds are good that I’ll run into a friendly neighbor sitting on his stoop, or have a chance to chat with an acquaintance who’s lingering outside the storefront window of one of our local businesses. If I'm in the mood, I can claim a bench in Monument Square just to people-watch as a broad cross-section of humanity — tourists, families, the homeless, and suited businesspeople out on lunch break — walk by and mingle with each other in their own chance interactions.