Celebrate the holidays at the Currier Museum of Art with a festive evening featuring live music and a winter-themed scavenger hunt. This evening is part of the Currier’s First Thursday series. On the first Thursday evening of each month, the museum is open late and provides programming designed to inspire visitors to learn or enjoy something new. Admission to the…
Called the best Irish Folk band in the world, the Makem and Spain brothers return to the beautiful Rochester Opera House. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18 and $16 seniors and students. Visit www.rochesteroperahouse.com or call (603) 335-1992 for tickets and more information. Rochester Opera House/City Hall 31 Wakefield Street. For more information on the Makem and…
“I love the holiday season and, while New Hampshire offers the quintessential ‘White Christmas’ experience, it can still be hard to achieve all that the Christmas carols promise. I’ve lived in Concord all of my life and find that simplifying my approach to the season really allows me to enjoy my friends, family and all the traditions that I’ve come…
One thing’s for sure: teeth aren’t just for eating anymore. Through cosmetic dentistry, consumers today have a dizzying array of tooth-enhancing options that promise to create a smile filled to the brim with perfect-looking pearly whites. While traditional dental care aims to maintain healthy teeth and treat oral disease, cosmetic dentistry is more about helping patients achieve a more attractive…
Holiday house tours are a great way to get new ideas for your own seasonal decorating. Thankfully, each year there are a host of homes to tour, with the money raised going to worthy charities. Decking out your home for the holiday season is usually a boxful of tradition mixed with a bit of inspiration. Christmas would not be the…
As the temperature drops, the wind picks up, the windows frost and the woodstove nibbles the edges of the woodpile, I recall last winter. A doozy. Snowiest December ever. Which would have been fine – nobody likes a brown Christmas – except the snow kept coming. Before winter eased up, around Mother’s Day, snowfall in Concord measured 99.6 inches, the…
She’s on the contents page for the November 3rd issue of People, the one with Madonna on the cover. Her photo, larger than one of Jennifer Aniston on the same page, features her standing beside Fergie (the horse, not the princess). Fame and a People magazine photo crew descended upon Alison Eastman-Lawler when she was picked as one of the…
The characters described in Richard Holmes’s “Nutfield Rambles: Stories from the History of Derry, Londonderry, & Windham, New Hampshire” range from devils and murderers to maids, drunks and prohibitionists. But the central strand of this collection of stories is the untold history of three N.H. communities — Derry, Londonderry and Windham, formally known as Nutfield. In his fifth published volume…
It seems that the world is changing around us this autumn. I know that some of my feistier friends have been hoping for big social and political changes – for a revolution of some sort – to get us on a new path to a better future on a healthier Earth. I do not think they imagined that the revolution…
Cotton in the downtown Manchester mill district has become an institution. It’s the place to go for a good martini and the comfort of meat loaf and mashed potatoes in an trendy/retro setting. Even the New York Times and Bon Appetit have given the restaurant a nod, and it’s a regular stop for tourists exploring the region. For owner/chef Jeff…
