April 30 - Manchester Bring a can or two of tuna fish and come see the Studio of Photographic Arts' new gallery space. The gallery will be showcasing photography by it's 26 members, and a portion of all photo sales along…
April 5 - Concord Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago is the original jazz dance company, captivating audiences worldwide with dynamic performances and the diversity and wide appeal of its repertoire. Continually expanding the boundaries of jazz dance while diversifying the repertoire,…
April 23, Manchester This new style of competition puts stylists up against one another to create the most fantastic and stunning piece of hair art. Now in its fourth year, the International Fantasy Hair Competition has 50 contestants, all striving…
April 26-30, Manchester Nineteen participating restaurants have created specially priced meal deals sure to tempt your taste buds without breaking the bank! Whatever your inner foodie heart desires, downtown Manchester has you covered. Take advantage of fixed priced meals at…
April 11 - Cannon Mt. Franconia Notch State Park This year's BodeFest is an all-day event that allows children and adults the opportunity to ski, race and spend time with sports hero Bode Miller to raise money for charity. The…
From the Chez Boucher Cooking School in Hampton 1 blood orange, juiced and zest 1 cup champagne 1 cup fish stock 1/2 cup orange juice 1 each shallot, minced 8 each egg yolks Place the blood orange juice, champagne, fish…
From the Chez Boucher Cooking School in HamptonServes 81 tablespoon olive oil1 carrot, peeled and grated1 leek, washed and sliced2 shallots, minced1 cup clam juice1 cup white white1 lemon, juice1 teaspoon vinegar1/2 cup heavy cream1 bunch parsley, washed and stemmed24…
From Chez Boucher Cooking School in Hampton Serves 12 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 egg yolk, coddled 1 teaspoon salt 1 clove garlic, minced 1 shallot, minced 1 teaspoon herb d' Provence 3 tablespoons Champagne vinegar 6 tablespoons olive oil…
From the Chez Boucher Cooking School 1/4 cup light corn syrup 1/4 cup dark molasses 1/2 cup butter 1 cup flour 2/3 cup sugar 1 teaspoon ground ginger 2 teaspoons brandy Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees. Heat syrup and…
8 servings 1 cup dried black cherries, re-hydrated 1 cup mascarpone cheese 1 cup heavy cream, whipped 1 can dark cherries in syrup 1/2 cup Port wine 1/2 orange, juice and zest 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1 pinch nutmeg 1 pinch…
From the Chez Boucher Cooking School in HamptonTri-Colored Pepper Crusted Halibut Serves 61/2 cup mixture of black, red and white peppercorns2 lbs fresh halibut, sliced into 6 even piecesCrush peppercorns and press into one side of fish.Sear in cast iron…
What could be more appealing at this time of the year? A froth of yellow forsythia, a shower of pink apple blossoms - as the promise of another growing season looms, we start to think once again of using market-fresh…
Sununu has Republican hearts all aflutter In his farewell speech out-going New Hampshire Republican Chair Fergus Cullen was honest. His power-point presentation at the party's convention earlier this year mapped the party's failings along with his own. His main theme…
If it’s a quick read you want, this isn’t the book for you. If you want a book that you can ponder, absorb and marvel at, then this is the one. It’s no surprise that “The Renegade” by Charles Simic…
... there's a thing or two you need to know We should begin at the ending, when our waitress at one of New Hampshire's fine dining establishments recently brought us the check and informed us that "doggie bags" were illegal.…
A Concord garden is transformed into a perfect area for outdoor entertaining. Sometimes beauty can be found in unexpected places and magic can be made from the most mundane. Magic is certainly the word that comes to mind when discovering…
Healthy teeth and gums make you look good - and feel good Maybe you've been too busy to make it to your dental cleaning appointments. And sometimes, at the end of a tough day, you just can't muster the energy…
April 2 at the Currier Museum of Art In celebration of The Big Read: Southern New Hampshire Reads "The Great Gatsby," the Currier is throwing a Roaring 20s party! Step back in time to the age of speakeasies, the Charleston,…
Come join the festivities throughout the weekend as the Whit hosts the annual Home and Garden show! Over 100 vendors gather at the Whit to fulfill all your Home and Garden needs, featuring exhibitors of home and landscape related products…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Sweet treats to be found east of the Capital City Length of Trip: About 50 miles Spend a day meandering along back roads through the hills north of Concord, sampling the sweet flavors of New Hampshire's winter harvest. Since these…
Bring your ice axe...Mount Washington is New Hampshire's most famous peak. At 6,288 feet, it is the tallest in the Northeast. The mountain holds the title of receiving the strongest recorded wind gust on the planet, an astounding 231 miles…
Need a Good Reaso for Spotting the Newt? This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a basket filled with Harry David's praline-pecan pancake mix, a spatula, pure N.H. maple syrup in a glass maple leaf bottle, one Newfound…
When operating a small business, don’t skimp on technology... Several years back, a trusted veteran restaurateur shared with me the top five reasons small businesses fail; too little cash, thinking small, skimping on technology, underestimating the power of sales and…
Anthropologists chalk it up to the digits, i.e. fingers, of the anthropoid. When cave persons first started keeping track of their personal stock of, say, dried iguana jerky, it was convenient to tick them off on those pointy things on…
Walpole restaurant is more than icing on the cake. Burdick Chocolate in Walpole is one of those New Hampshire must-see places to visit before you die. Their café is a destination for chocoholics who don’t weary of the pilgrimage. Way…
Three things town meetings should tackle ‘Tis the season of town meetings. The relic of New England participatory democracy is charming for outsiders, tedious for most and very serious business for the selected few. Just a dwindling one-third of New…
More gems from the state’s master storyteller It’s a subtle thing, but spend some time with Fritz Wetherbee’s latest book, “Taken for Granite,” [$19.95, Plaidswede Publishing] and you’ll soon see it — a rich mosaic of New Hampshire slowly being…
The mudroom. It’s easy to think the name says it all, that it is simply the place where shoes and boots are quarantined to keep your floors safe from muddy tracks. For many, it’s where hats, coats, mittens, scarves and…
The critically acclaimed Irish music show Celtic Crossroads will perform a fusion of traditional Irish music, bluegrass, gypsy and jazz in a return engagement at the Capitol Center for the Arts Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. Celtic Crossroads is…
Exhibit opens March 7 The whimsical and enchanting original drawings, paintings, and sketches of best-selling author and illustrator David Macaulay are the subject of the Currier Museum's major spring exhibition, which opens March 7. Macaulay's gift for conveying complex concepts…
March 26, Portsmouth. The Music Hall has announced that the performance by Trinity Irish Dance will be replaced by the Festival of Irish Dance & Music featuring Leahy. Show date, time and ticket prices remain the same. Unfortunately, Trinity Irish…
Long before it was called "extreme," people were doing it in New Hampshire Ask Jeffrey Leich if he's scared when he skis the headwall of Mt. Washington's Tuckerman Ravine and he says, "Only every year I go, especially on the…
Tiny beads become bejeweled berries with sparkling tendrils in the hands of an artist. *** The path to beading was serpentine for Beader Gillian Smith of Andover. She was born and raised in England and traveled the world with her…
A guide to retail therapy from Main Street storefronts to backroad boutiques.So What's NewMake a Date AblazeWhy not go on a date and undress together? Ablaze, apparel for men and women, 115 Water St., is the hot new place for…
Thirty years ago Celeste Longacre was trying to figure out what her life work was to be. One day the thought came to her that perhaps her first name was no accident, that she was fated to deal in celestial…
If winter has you climbing the walls, try this ...It really is true. "If you can walk, you can snowshoe," says Jackson's Lorraine Tilney, a volunteer snowshoe tour leader at the pristine Jackson Ski Touring Foundation.First-timers might find snowshoes a…
Need a good reason to spot the newt? This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a nifty Snow Sleeve snow removal device from Hunter IdeaNet of Epping (http://hunterideanet.com). The Hunter Snow Sleeve can be used by one person…
All the aroma and flavors of home baked bread need not be a chore. Consider this easy recipe for soft breadsticks. Bread is the only food eaten by people of every race, culture and religion. Americans consume almost 60 pounds…
I love to watch people win awards — particularly when the people are slender, attractive human beings dressed like alien royalty hugging one another on the way to the dais to receive a pound of fake gold. Don’t ask me…
Enjoy a relaxed meal where the past lives on at classic New Hampshire inns. Sometimes our sprawling cities and citified towns seem like just another byway through modern America. But look closer. Across the state, historic properties on roads less…
Pure evil — that’s what they call the acts of Sheila LaBarre. And, indeed, what went on at LaBarre’s farm in Epping a few years back — a brutal murder of two men and possibly more — can surely be…
Not a fun thing, but it's a proven life-saver If you knew of a cancer-screening test that, for most patients, is fairly painless, low-risk and highly effective, would you take it? How about if you were told that the same…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
