When renovating your house, building the addition you’ve toyed with for years or starting your dream home from scratch, there are hundreds of questions and decisions ranging from the nitpicky to the immense throughout the process. From paint colors to…
Consider it the guest list for the best cocktail party ever. The 2007 It List is our selection of the 34 most interesting, happening, talked about people in the state. If you got these folks all in the same room,…
New Hampshire is one of the few New England states with an expanding population — mostly “immigrants” from other states. It’s a good bet that a fair share are toting sauté pans and chef’s knives. It’s a blessed thing that…
One of the things that I really love about New Hampshire is that profligate living doesn’t travel well up here. In L.A., if you build a big house on the top of a cliff overlooking the Pacific, everyone goes into…
How Safe Are You Here in the Granite State? The short answer: about as safe as you can be anywhere, but what fun is that? Here’s a look at the state’s dark statistical underbelly. We all take pride in the…
The philosopher Diogenes wandered the streets of Athens living on a diet of onions and carrying a torch in full daylight. When people stopped him to ask what he was doing, Diogenes would reply, “I’m searching for an honest man.”…
Corrective lenses — what we call “glasses” — have a long history. In ancient Egypt, people realized that looking through a glass bowl filled with water would magnify print. By the 13th century, there were magnifying glasses to help with…
Staying in the game is the formula for success for comedian Jimmy Dunn. After all, the New Hampshire Seacoast isn’t a hotbed of comedy clubs (though his new Comedy Oasis on Hanover Street might change that). But, just like his…
Officially Wrong With candidates announcing and the 2008 New Hampshire Primary beginning in earnest, I write to call attention to the fact that it is the N.H. Secretary of State, Bill Gardner, and not Governor Lynch, who will determine the…
Braided Geometry A new twist on an old craft Braided rugs that look at home in a contemporary setting get their precise patterns with special techniques. Sandy Luckury, of Bradford, butts the ends of each row instead of braiding in…
