If you have an interest in Japanese pop culture, anime and manga, comic books and cartoons, or even traditional Japanese clothing and housewares, you’ll quickly become a big fan of Neko-Jin Designs. Business partners Danelle and Kit started this innovative company five years ago and they’ve built quite a following. Their limited edition, designer clothing,…
Located at 538 Congress Street in Portland, this nonprofit “Alternative Arts Venue” has a mission to present contemporary, unconventional, and emerging arts, artists and ideas. In 2011 SPACE added a second gallery next door at 534 Congress Street in order to increase its capacity for full scale art installations, more intimate events, and new resident…
The MHG Ice Centre in Saco is the permanent home for the Portland Junior Pirates and its 14 youth teams and 2 junior teams (EJHL/Empire). This sports complex allows the Pirates to make their own hours, have a consistent schedule and grow even more. Students from Thornton Academy, Massabesic High School and Scarborough High School,…
The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (ChIME) educates and ordains interfaith leaders who serve with integrity, spiritual presence, and prophetic voice. Our school for adult learners operates September through June, concluding with the ordination of a number of new Interfaith Chaplains each year. This photo is from ordination at the First Parish United Church of Christ…
Imagine lying back in a heated back-massage chair and watching a Hollywood blockbuster while you receive an innovative, pain-free dental treatment. Or smelling freshly baked bread and cookies when you wait for your appointment…and getting a warm, moist facecloth to soothe you at the end of your visit. And the dental work? Outstanding. At Great…
Dr. Stanley Block may have found the key to lasting happiness. This retired psychoanalyst, native Mainer (born on Munjoy Hill) and former medical director of Maine’s Jackson Brook Institute has published Come to Your Senses—Demystifying the Mind Body Connection, in which he describes how people with serious problems can make them disappear by “coming to…
Oprah Winfrey’s talk show guests have sat on them. The Royal Caribbean Cruise Line uses them. And Cardwell’s Restaurant in Plaza Frontenac (a small exclusive mall in St. Louis with a Nieman’s and a Sack’s) ordered them for an expansive renovation. Gregg Lipton chairs, stools and other furnishings are in demand when only the best…
Puppets interacting with actors; actors interacting with puppets. The Maine-based Figures of Speech Theater takes traditional Japanese Bunraku puppetry and gives it a dramatic and magical spin—with the mission of producing “visual theater that emphasizes myth and transformation.” The theater was established nearly 3 decades ago when John Farrell dropped out of law school to…
It’s almost impossible to describe Avner Eisenberg in one word. In fact, he has the ability to captivate an audience without uttering one word. So we’ll have to use a wide range of words to describe him—comic, entertainer, actor, acrobat and magician—and that’s just touching the surface. Avner has enjoyed a flourishing entertainment career in…
Sally Morris provides legal advice regarding employment law and compliance matters to small businesses and non-profit organizations. She has advised small businesses for over twenty years and understands that small businesses face increasing state and federal regulatory demands relating to their employees. Sally helps her clients sort through the confusing web of employment regulations. She…
