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		<title>Friday Features &amp; Finds: Arts and Crafts Madness Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel, recently, as though the Facebook feed for this site has just turned into a place where we do nothing but plug craft fairs.  Which is fine, because I love craft fairs and love, in particular, how they give small local artisans the chance to have a storefront for the day, leading you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iconic Element: The Salt Cellar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newly opened in a subterranean space near Post Office Park, The Salt Cellar is a celebration of just one thing: the humble sodium chloride, the only rock that we eat on a regular basis. Modeled on their flagship store in Portsmouth, NH, and, in a larger sense, modeled after a specialty salt store that the co-owners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carried Away with justkim</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s the holiday display in the window (including the wonderful snowman apron and old sewing machine). Maybe it&#8217;s the riot of color from row after row of practical, fanciful bags. Maybe it&#8217;s the giant paintings. Or maybe it&#8217;s the fact that all this is a reflection of the bubbly personality of Kim herself. Whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quite a lot of Art on the Hill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had a wonderful time strolling around the Society for East End Arts&#8217; 2012 Holiday &#8216;Art on the Hill&#8217; show. Over 70 vendors &#8212; many of whom were not, I was totally pleased to note, the &#8216;usual suspects&#8217; that I&#8217;ve seen at every vaguely craft-fair like show I go to.  Admission is free, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Features &amp; Finds (25 days &amp; counting edition)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Count me in a someone who was happy to have an entire extra week between Thanksgiving and the first of December. I heard on the radio recently that this year has the largest possible number of days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Count me in as pleased. Here&#8217;s a few things coming up I wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As far as the eye can see &#8211; Yes Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Located on Congress Street, directly across from the Portland Museum of Art, Yes Books is something of a local institution. Like a cat with nine lives, it has survived a location change, a change in ownership, changes in the face of the city, and the move toward digital content, and yet it continues to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PICNIC in the Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, how was your summer? Here are a few images from Saturday&#8217;s annual Picnic Music + Arts Festival, probably the premiere showcase for independent artisans and craftspeople in the city.  Enjoy! &#160; Please visit the Picnic website (www.picnicportland.com) to learn more about the vendors whose work is featured here.  You can also follow them on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemont Market &amp; Bakery: A Corner Store for the 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there are a lot of things I love about Portland, but one of my least favorite things is this: it&#8217;s really hard to pick up a pie (not made at the supermarket) at 6 pm on your way home from work.  Foley&#8217;s closed at 5, and Two Fat Cats is always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday in the Park: Deering Oaks Farmer&#8217;s Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s possible that I might have gushed mentioned that the first Saturday Farmer&#8217;s Market in Deering Oaks took place last Saturday, which to me is as much a hallmark of the start of summer as baseball opening day or the first robin of spring. The thing I love most about the market is how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Artist&#8217;s Workshop: South Street Linen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the back of my business cards, there is a single line: &#8220;The secrets of Portland, secrets no longer.&#8221; It&#8217;s catchy, but it&#8217;s rarely true. Much of what I write about here is well known both within our community and in the world at large. So you can imagine my glee at discovering, tucked away [...]]]></description>
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