A Portsmouth family — living with the challenges of mitochondrial disease — lets us venture into their world.“Deaf Perception” opens with the title, “This film has been captioned for the signing impaired,” ushering the hearing into the world of 16-year-old…
When a Hollywood casting call with hundreds of cute contenders is narrowed down to just one, you know that's got to be a cool kid. And Jackson Nicoll, 7, who makes his movie debut alongside Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg…
It's the next best thing to time travel - composer/performer Jeff Rapsis can take you back to the silent film era and make you feel like you're living it. Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, Charlie Chaplin - they're all there. Rapsis…
The scene: a peaceful house on a hill overlooking the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in the tumultuous years prior to the Civil War.The characters: a family torn apart by the times, bereft over a wayward son who fled the law…
When you watch "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette" or some other cheesy reality show (admit it, you do) and you squirm along with the viewing public at the intimate and often humiliating situations being filmed, you might think "Wow, and…
It's not everyone that gets their childhood dance lessons from a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, but Karen Shackleford did."I remember as a young child staring with awe at the photos she had hanging on the wall of her studio,"…
An ode to Granite State tinkerers, innovators and visionaries.Levi Hutchins had a problem.The 26-year-old Concord clockmaker wanted to begin his workday at 4 a.m., well before dawn broke, when even an insomniac rooster wasn't quite ready to crow.So Hutchins did…
Ashlee Perkins, the owner of AMP Cake Design in Merrimack, is a premier cake designer, having appeared on the "Food Network Challenge" four times so far. Her most recent foray into the show was an appearance in the "Paranormal Cake"…
For Greg Grady the beach isn't just a place to stick an umbrella in the sand and enjoy the ocean. For him the beach is a place to create and display his - and others - fabulous sand sculptures. A…
The world of jazz has its share of giants, and among those still alive and kicking no one looms larger than improvisational saxaphonist and composer Sonny Rollins. He and his horn will be in New Hampshire later this month when…
