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15 Instagram photos that show how Mainers celebrated the arrival of 2015

On the eve of the year 2000—the New Year’s Eve everyone thought would usher in one catastrophe or another—I spent the night with a bunch of friends from Westbrook High School. We synched Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon and awaited the impending doom of Y2K, which never came. It feels like […]

Spencer Albee talks Zach Jones, making choices, and his career retrospective

Super-musician and all around good guy Zach Jones is in town for the week and he will be joining Spencer Albee for a show at Port City Music Hall tonight. The event, The Gang’s All Here, will feature a selection of Jones’ music, Albee’s music and a collection of the songs the two have preformed […]

Consider this approach to being a focused crowd-funder

So the good news is that we live in this kind-of-amazing time where, thanks to the Internet, pretty much anyone can ask for money to do pretty much anything, and this is considered a legitimate way to subsidize the realization of great ideas. By way of crowd-funding Spose, like Spencer Albee did immediately before him, […]

45 Characters, Famous and/or Infamous, That Make Portland an Exponentially More Intriguing Place

“I think part of the charm of Portland is that we’re all kind of famous. Like, maybe the only city outside of LA where everyone is a celeb.” — Rebecca Minnick Norm the Barber Norm the Barman Norman the Glassy-Eyed Pervert Heavy Metal Cyclist Herb Adams High-Stepping Bob Spencer Albee Samuel James’ sideburns The Whistler […]