Posts By Christian MilNeil
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Living In Portland
Day Trip: Tumbledown Mountain
August 1, 2012 / / Spending the summer in Portland is pretty great, with our parks, hiking trails, and beaches within city limits or a short bike ride away. But another wonderful thing about living here is our proximity to a lot of other great places in northern New England.
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Living In Portland
Planning Your Heat Wave Escape to Portland
July 29, 2012 / / Since it's summertime, we've been seeing lots of visitors (on the web and in real life) from the broiling cities of southern New England and the mid-Atlantic. If you're one of those people looking for a weekend getaway to the refreshingly mild, beachy shores of Casco Bay, here are a few travel tips from someone who makes the Portland-to-NYC trip pretty regularly.
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Working in Portland
New Energy from the Ocean
July 25, 2012 / / For centuries, Portland's working waterfront has delivered natural resources from the ocean to the city and the world beyond. Now, after several years of targeted research and development from the State of Maine and the private sector, Portland is emerging as a small hub for emerging renewable energy technologies that can harness some of the Gulf of Maine's fierce ocean energy to help power homes and businesses throughout New England.
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Living In Portland
The New Veterans Memorial Bridge: Infrastructure We Can Take Pride In
July 3, 2012 / / Last week, just in time for Independence Day, city and state dignitaries cut the ribbon on a new memorial to our veterans — one that does double-duty as a vital, more sustainable transportation connection across the harbor. Portland's new Veterans Memorial Bridge, which connects Portland's West End to the Ligonia and Cash Corner neighborhoods of South Portland across the Fore River and is now open to traffic of all kinds, is a handsome addition to the city's architecture.
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Living In Portland
After work, the beach
June 14, 2012 / / "Sous les pavés, la plage" — Situationist graffiti, 1968 One of the best things about living in Portland in the summer is getting home from work at 5 p. m.
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The Arts
"Michael" Sculpture Yarnbombed
June 8, 2012 / / Yarnbombing has been going on for a few years now in Portland, mostly in small, sniper installations on doorknobs and signposts. But a cadre of knitters just escalated the arms race — or should I say "yarnms race"? — with a huge installation covering the "Michael" sculpture downtown.
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The Arts
Portland XO
June 7, 2012 / / A local studio, Portland Post Production, which bills itself as the only Autodesk Smoke facility in northern New England, shows off their capabilities in this slick video of Portland's people and places. I suggest watching this in full-screen mode.
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Living In Portland
"Gentlemen of the Road" Tour Invites Audiences to Enjoy Some Portland with Their Music
June 1, 2012 / / It wouldn't be much of a stretch to nickname it "North by Northeast": In August, British folk rockers Mumford & Sons will embark on a rare tour to this side of the Atlantic, and their only stopover on the East Coast will be located on the very brim of it, right here in Portland, on the Eastern Promenade overlooking Casco Bay. With only six performances in all, in unique locations, the "Gentlemen of the Road" tour makes a point of being a unique music festival — one that encourages their audience to enjoy the hosting community as much as they enjoy the music.