Arts & Shopping

Mac & Cheese To Go, Please!

Macaroni and cheese is the quintessential winter comfort food. Here are four great places you can get it quickly and on the go. And the winner is...Mr. Mac's Macaroni and CheeseWe tried the Classic All American with cheddar cheese that…

Take it from P.J.

In time for the mid-term elections, O'Rourke ruminates anew on exactly why and just how badly politics stink.Politics is a familiar beat for Peterborough's P.J. O'Rourke, whose book titles alone ("Parliament of Whores," "Give War a Chance," "Age and Guile…

It's a Small World

New England in miniature.Milford artist MaryLyn Yonika gets all the details right in her stoneware candle houses - all just inches tall. Shutters, clapboards, chimney bricks and the weathered barn boards of classic Yankee barns are studied and reproduced in…

Fresh Impressionism

Wool and silk in a colorful marriage.Inspired by her Hopkinton garden, fiber artist Annette Frye translates fresh-picked blooms into wearable art. Frye, a master gardener, understands the botany of calla lilies, dahlias and other gorgeous flowers that she redefines with…

Feeling a Presence

An Atkinson photographer evokes our Colonial past.A metal hook on a meetinghouse door that shows more than two centuries of use - it's one of the photographs in Paul Wainwright's "A Space for Faith" [Jetty House/Peter E. Randall, $35] that…

Spotlight on Artisans

Featured Shop – Village Goldsmith Gallery, DoverNow over a year in a new location, this slender gallery is stuffed with the colorful talents of local artists including distinctive work by goldsmith (and owner) Jim Livermore. Known for custom work and…

Hot Glass and Cold Cuts

Partners in life and career create a singular vision.She cuts glass. He blows glass. But they work together to create each piece.The partnership of Michael Kraatz and Susan Russell is 30 years strong. The couple met teaching high school art…

Prized Pieces

A chest of drawers - once part of an elegantly handcrafted highboy.Thank you for sending me an image of your chest of drawers. It is a nice piece and tells an interesting story. Originally made as the upper section for…

The Sap is Flowing

Spring is just around the corner, and with it comes fresh New Hampshire maple syrup. Cormier's SugarhouseThis is a bold, sweet syrup with a strong maple aftertaste like a Grade B that lingers on the tongue. For those looking for…