Thanks to shows like “DC Cupcakes” and “Sex & The City,” which created a frenzy around Magnolia Bakery in NYC, cupcakes have been in vogue for a number of years. You can even make your own giant cupcake at home using an “as seen on TV” cake mold. But the reign of the cupcake is finally coming to an end…
Craving a snack? Try one of these N.H.-made granolas for a healthy and tasty alternative.Me & Ollie’s Heavenly GranolaThe Heavenly Granola from Me & Ollie’s is well suited to snacking right out of the bag – it’s almost like half-smashed granola bars. Sunflower, sesame and poppy seeds give it a nice texture. Honey and brown sugar add sweetness while almonds…
Works of candle art celebrate the season.When Martin Marklin was a young altar boy, he got intrigued by the candles that were used in his church at Easter. The design on the Paschal candles, as the church calls them, had been hand-carved by a Polish woman in the parish. “I remember rubbing my finger across the candle, wondering how she…
One man’s quest for more letters on “licnses.”Have you ever noticed that New Hampshire seems to lead the free world in witty vanity license plates?Everywherae you drive these days there are plates proudly proclaiming the vehicle’s owner is a “SocrMom,” “Soxfan1” or “happy23.” (Which makes me wonder, what happens when “happy23” turns into “sad43”?)According to some in-depth Google research, done…
Interviews with six Top Doctors from the 2011 Top Doctors Poll.
A look inside ReRuns – The Best of the PastHow can you tell if someone is really your friend? They take you to ReRuns and let you browse for hours. This charming yellow house, set back from Rte. 102 in Londonderry, is a treasure trove of gently used furniture and home décor that doesn’t smell like a grandmother’s attic. Rooms…
Senior communities are safer, easier and fun.Admittedly, the first night at their new cottage was lonely for Sue and Dick Kaplan. As the first residents to move into The Boulders Community, the newest of the RiverWoods family of senior living communities in Exeter, “we were in the huge dining room by ourselves,” says Sue. It wasn’t long before the locale…
Ask Juston McKinney to name the most incredible experience so far in his rise to the heights of the comedy world and he says it was his appearance on the Jay Leno show (“it was a goal of mine from the beginning”). The beginning for him was the time in his difficult childhood when he realized that, if people were…
If you want to know the power of a well-timed compliment, listen up. Once when I was in seventh grade my social studies teacher put on a record of “West Side Story” and had the class divide up into Sharks and Jets. Then she had us take turns improvising some dance moves. I have no idea what the point was…
Changing Spaces: Keene Trattoria moves with the times.Love happens. Fireworks especially seem to happen for students who travel abroad. So began the story of Nicola’s Trattoria in Keene – how an Italian native came to settle in the Monadnock Region.In 1983 Cheryl met Nicola Bencivenga in his native southern Italy, when he joined her art history troupe as a translator….
