Posts By John Spritz
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Working in Portland
A Covey of Calendars
April 1, 2013 / / In a city as charged as Portland, it can be challenging to keep track of what's happening when. If you're looking to indulge your artistic/creative side, there are many calendars out there, including this listing of more than a dozen right here on this web site.
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Living In Portland
"This incredible, magical community"
March 4, 2013 / / "This incredible, magical community of ours" is how Stuart Gerson, co-owner of Longfellow Books, described Portland last night. He was onstage at SPACE Gallery with his co-owner, Chris Bowe, describing the wave of affection and support the bookstore has received since it was flooded out by an errant sprinkler system during the early-February blizzard.
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Living In Portland
Tweeters Turn Greeters
March 1, 2013 / / "Some of the most creative people in town. " That's how co-host Rich Brooks, president of flyte new media, described the crowd last night at the February Tweetup, held at Spread on Commercial Street in the Old Port.
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Living In Portland
Richard Blanco at Merrill Auditorium
February 26, 2013 / / Sitting there, way up high in the balcony of Merrill Auditorium, you had to wonder: have this many people ever assembled, in this space, to hear a poet? Longfellow was gone long before Merrill was built -- and who else, in Maine, could have that kind of draw, could bring close to two thousand people out on a full-moon night to listen to poems? Richard Blanco, that's who. He who read his poem, "One Today," at President Obama's recent inauguration.
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Living In Portland
The Best Sounds in Life Are Free
February 12, 2013 / / So sometimes you're in downtown Portland mid-day on a Thursday and you're tired of the vibrating din of traffic and commerce and you wish there were some way to escape it all and find a little peace and relaxation but it can't be something that you have to pay for because you're flat broke and you wonder why there isn't some free concert series to take you away from it all. There is.
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Living In Portland
Casco Bay is your friend
February 8, 2013 / / Thank goodness for Casco Bay. And as long as you're thanking goodness, you should also thank Friends of Casco Bay.
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Living In Portland
Catch the Rising Tide
February 5, 2013 / / So why would thirty, forty people be lining up at noon on a Saturday, inside a cinderblock building in Portland's Bayside neighborhood? The answer, as you may suspect, had everything to do with the bottled objects in the lower-left of the photo. Beer.