Posts By Jay Sacher
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Living In Portland
The Abyssinian Meeting House
February 14, 2013 / / Portland wears its bruises. It’s limped through its share of lean times.
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Living In Portland
Ghosts Against Dad Rock: Ian Svenonius’ Supernatural Strategies
January 29, 2013 / / The cold snap appeared to be on its way out. The good old Call Joe sign on the Time & Temperature Building was flashing 22 degrees.
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The Arts
Summer fun with AIGA Maine
July 23, 2012 / / Creative communities grow in varied ways, sometimes with plenty of hard work, and sometimes with a few laughs over summertime drinks. Enter AIGA Maine’s monthly Cocktails and Creatives events, the latest of which was held on Thursday night at the Moulton Street offices of the ad agency McCabe, Duval and Associates.
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Living In Portland
Scientific "Stay Time" at the Maine Children's Museum
June 28, 2012 / / “In-state hires” is a phrase everybody can get behind, and it’s something that’s become a key philosophical practice for South Portland’s Fairchild Semiconductor. The trouble is, as everyone who’s seen Waiting for Superman knows, this country’s education system is facing a dire engineering crisis--Maine (and the country as a whole) simply isn’t producing the sort of science-savvy graduates that Fairchild is looking for.
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The Arts
Richard Ford Has Some Ideas For Your Summer Reading List
June 21, 2012 / / Editor's note: today's post is the first contribution to LiveWork Portland by Jay Sacher, a writer, illustrator, and cartoonist who moved to Portland from San Francisco in 2011. His writing and illustration work can be seen at jaysacher.