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Lina Mamut writes in to say, “My partner and I just opened The Chametz, a fine dining restaurant and living soil farm in the western Maine mountains. We’re a worker-owned cooperative changing how hospitality operates, with a focus on resource redistribution across the community. We’re a different kind of restaurant that’s experiential—we include road-trip transportation within an hour’s drive of our secret location, close to Sugarloaf Mountain and the Rangeley Lakes region.”

Becca Caspar-Vazzoler and her husband, Lennart, welcomed their first child, Eléonore (Nell) in April.

Katherine Lu is in her second year of her graduate degree program at the American University of Paris, where she studies communication theory, visual culture, and branding strategy. She still has her hands in product design, working on an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) private messaging app with an agentic bend. This year she has already welcomed Erik Islo, Julian Basurto, Kathryna Dominguez, Gerard Liu, and Maurice Lee in Paris. She looks forward to seeing future guests come her way.

Nick Martino’s debut poetry collection, Scrap Book, won the 2024 Alice James Editor’s Choice Award. For more information about Scrap Book, visit Alice James Books.

Jaime de Venecia is currently a senior software engineer at Later, a midsize influencer marketing company. Jaime says, “We’re growing rapidly, so I’d be happy to put in a referral for anyone who might be interested in any of our open positions! I pivoted to software engineering in 2023 after several years of doing music professionally and working in the hospitality industry. Getting married this month to my amazing fiancée Kendra.”

Ethan Tucker | etucker3@gmail.com