Finding new space
I really enjoyed reading your informative article in the Phoenix. We have just relocated our business from Portland to Biddeford and are super excited about our new, bigger, and much-improved space. As we are a small textile mill that makes niche hand knitting yarns, it is especially fun for us to be relocating into a building purpose-built for our operations. I learned quite a bit from your article and appreciate the coverage of the renaissance of the old mill towns.
Daphne Marinopoulos
The Fibre Company
Biddeford
Skipping Paris
In regards to your August 18 cover story — “America’s Next Musical Genius,” featuring Paris Hilton — I have one question: how much did Shannon Steel (sic) get paid to write that miserable dreck called an article? I ask, because I will gladly — for half the cost! — write your next cover story, and it will completely and totally be devoted to Portland’s art and entertainment scene. So let me know!
Byron A. Nilsen
Portland
Related:
Scars & stripes, Life is but a dream, A casket gets some airtime, More 
- Scars & stripes
“Dude, that shit right there? That’s Iraq.”
- Life is but a dream
Children from theatrical families are often said to have been born in a trunk.
- A casket gets some airtime
Bert Harlow, woodworker and founder of the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, Massachusetts, made his own casket a few years ago. But he figured the pine box should get some use before he was nailed into it.
- She's crafty
What would Grandma say?
- Creative compost
It's a vision of feral characters wandering a world jerry-rigged from recycled scraps of a collapsed plastic mass-produced disposable civilization.
- All sewn up
Patchwork quilts, crazy quilts, quilts that tell stories, quilts that point the way to freedom, and quilts that just keep us warm are all part of the rich history of this art form.
- Time out of mind
Luisa Rabbia created a slow-moving video work that offers a kind of travelogue of her own journey through Isabella Stewart Gardner's historic scrapbooks.
- Just borrowing it
There was a time, in the middle of the last century, when the art industry and its critical minions held the padlock keys to artistic straitjackets, fitting artists’ oeuvres into one-size-too-small versions of pre-formulated art history . . . wasn’t there?
- State of the Union
Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater rolls into town next week with a carnival of political art whose main event is the not-very-family-friendly puppet pageant The Battle of the Terrorists and the Horrorists .
- Peter the gadfly
Bread and Puppet Theater is the landmark political troupe that has been pricking US presidents and policies with a unique brand of street theater since JFK was in office.
- The King is dead (and rich)
It was 30 years ago next Thursday.
- Less
Topics:
Letters
, Culture and Lifestyle, Hobbies and Pastimes, Arts and Crafts, More
, Culture and Lifestyle, Hobbies and Pastimes, Arts and Crafts, Paris Hilton, Knitting, Less
