Hall of Fame Color photos indicate doctors who were voted top in their category for five consecutive years by our annual survey. Here’s how it works We send a survey to each doctor on the New Hampshire Board of Medicine’s list of physicians licensed to practice in the state — 3,819 names. This year, we received responses from 558. The…
Judson Hale and Steve Taylor Two Needlers in a haystack On the trail of the funniest people in New Hampshire, I turned to a couple of droll yankees, Judson Hale, editor of “Yankee,” and Steve Taylor, commissioner of agriculture. Jud keeps 33 chickens in his office. For decoration. They amuse him. On “The Today Show,” he once tried to convince…
Consider the lowly foot, daily stuffed into a shoe and forgotten. Think about those two slender appendages, carrying your 150-or-so pounds uphill and down, over rough terrain and smooth, several thousand steps a day, with no complaint. No complaint? Not everyone is so fortunate. Foot problems make life difficult for many. Foot pain can be debilitating. The underlying condition that…
It may look like a typical New England downtown, but Nashua is a city of secrets — international secrets. Already home to the most diverse ethnic population in the state, New Hampshire’s second-largest city continues to welcome immigrants from South Asia, China, Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam and Russia, among other locations. The result can be seen, heard and smelled on a…
Humor is the seventh sense. And just like all the others — vision, touch and smell, etc. — it varies from person to person and from situation to situation. From John Kerry’s “botched joke” to George Bush’s unintentional ones, there’s plenty of evidence that the one bone in the body that has never been X-rayed, splinted or sketched in “Grey’s…
One of the things that I really love about New Hampshire is that profligate living doesn’t travel well up here. In L.A., if you build a big house on the top of a cliff overlooking the Pacific, everyone goes into a state of orgasmic ecstasy. No one seems to mind that the next big rainstorm may convert it into a…
New Hampshire is one of the few New England states with an expanding population — mostly “immigrants” from other states. It’s a good bet that a fair share are toting sauté pans and chef’s knives. It’s a blessed thing that new chefs keep “immigrating” to our rocky state. Whether it is the wholesome environment or room for growth, over the…
When renovating your house, building the addition you’ve toyed with for years or starting your dream home from scratch, there are hundreds of questions and decisions ranging from the nitpicky to the immense throughout the process. From paint colors to the final touches of rugs and artwork to room size and placement, there are any number of decisions to make…
A Weed by any other name might still wish to decriminalize the possession and use of marijuana in New Hampshire. It’s merely a coincidence that the primary sponsor of a bill for that purpose in the state House of Representatives early this year happens to be named Weed — Rep. Douglas Weed, a Democrat from Keene and a professor at…
The language of art is sometimes a simple translation. Artist Kyeong Kim found her inspiration in an elevator. The simple industrial beauty of the raised stainless-steel Braille words and the seemingly random pattern caught her eye. It was not the meaning of the pattern, but the three-dimensional pattern itself that was the start of Kim’s artistic exploration. Now, working with…
