Window Dressing The proper window treatments are key to a successful interior design. Like makeup for the eyes of your home, the right touch is entirely personal but, when it is done well, flaws can be covered, good features enhanced and, most importantly, the result is entirely appropriate for its function and your décor. Deborah Campbell of Portsmouth Curtain Call…
Hall of Fame 2006 The complete list of Top Doctors can be found in the April issue, on newsstands everywhere in April. But our list of this year’s Hall of Fame doctors is available online now. Fame is fleeting but respect endures. Our Hall of Fame 2006 inductees have truly earned the respect of their peers. Each one has been…
The final act was playing out, the house lights were brought up. The star of the evening, Chef Lorenzo Polegri, stepped out from the kitchen and into the dining room, receiving a round of applause. Chefs are getting their due, finally. Diners here in New Hampshire are as appreciative of good food — well executed — as anywhere else, including…
Asian influence is everywhere you look. Feng Shui is hot, ikebana and orchids are all the rage, and the food — who doesn’t have a favorite Asian restaurant nearby? Party planner Josephine Reyes Atluri, herself from the Philippines, put together an afternoon cocktail party with a touch of the exotic. She explains that the cuisine is already popular and many…
Manchester attorney David Nixon recalls that when his long-time friend and law partner John W. King was governor (1963-69), a certain lawyer was pressing his case for appointment to the Superior Court. King, Nixon says, told the man he just didn’t think he was qualified to be a judge. “As he was leaving John’s office, he looked back and said,…
Here we are: March in New Hampshire. It’s a time when the late-in-the-season snowstorms arrive with sickeningly consistent regularity, interspersed with those occasional alluring and absolutely seductive fleeting hours of balmy spring warmth that make you want to run around outside among the melting puddles of soft snow nearly naked. Well, that might just be me. Anyway. March also means…
