Tie one on for the Celtic nations There’s more to Celtic history and tradition than St. Patrick’s Day and green beer. At least that’s the word from Debbi Codd, owner of Celtic Crossing in Portsmouth. While shoppers are invited to sample some Barry’s tea and soda bread on the days leading up to St. Patrick’s day, the shop doesn’t play…
Sea creatures get their moment in the sun in the hands of this Nottingham artisan. Matthew Smith was a very good commercial fisherman, but in the end, he decided that was very bad. After a world tour to study fishing techniques he made a sea change in his life. “Visiting a variety of countries and studying their approach to fishing…
A sleek Saab and a wide open road ahead. By the time we got to Woodstock we were … wondering where everybody had gone. Sorry, Joni Mitchell, but … I’d just rolled up Interstate 93 beneath crystalline sky, a dome so clear that the White Mountains, completely covered by the seemingly ceaseless snows of this winter, loomed like pure cumulous…
It’s not just for hippos to wallow in … It’s March, and the dreaded mud season is about to begin. Melting snow is the first sign of what’s to come – the boot-sucking, car-stucking muck that makes our lives miserable. But take heart, what some call the “fifth season” doesn’t have to be such a pain. As the hippopotamus knows,…
Here are Ten Top Ten Lists Equaling 100 N.H. Milestones on the Road from 1999 to NowIt was ten years ago this month when we decided the Granite State — with its balkanized economic districts and rooster-proud cities and towns — was ready to come together. We’d been covering the whole state for years with the regionally-focused New Hampshire Editions,…
Valentine’s Day Dance Manchester. Dance the night away to the tunes of the Compaq Big Band at its annual Valentine’s Day Dance. The band plays from 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Swing lessons will take place from 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Tickets are $17. The Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St. Visit www.compaqbigband.com for more information.
With her spellbinding voice, Mariza is one of today’s leading interpreters of fado, also called the “blues of Portugal.” Born in Mozambique and raised in Lisbon, Mariza began singing these melancholy story-songs before she could read. Among the locals, she learned old and new songs in the genre she describes as “emotional…full of passion, sorrow, jealousy, grief and often satire.”…
“How ‘bout a shave?” Fleet Street and the infamous demon-barber come to Concord for revenge and justice in “Sweeney Todd” at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Thursday, February 19 at 7:30. Come experience the musical that inspired the 2007 Tim Burton and Johnny Depp movie, filled with Tony-Award winning music and gory, spine-tingling plot twists. Watch…
How can there still be no leads or arrests in the theft of over a dozen priceless masterpieces nineteen years later? This mysterious case began the night of Saint Patrick’s Day in 1990, when two men dressed as policemen were mistakenly let into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. They then left with dozens of priceless works by Degas,…
Using a washboard, steel guitar and their voices, Avi & Celia have mastered a sound of their own in mixing the music of the “old” with the pop and rock sounds of today. This Boston-based duet combines the cultural music of the delta and country blues, the activist folk songs, jazz from New Orleans, soul music of the early Atlantic…
