You know them as local docs, nurses and techs. Impoverished families in Educator know them as saviors. Portsmouth area healthcare professionals are headed for their tenth trip to save hundreds of Third Wold citizens from horribly debilitating diseases. We’re going along – and you can help today.
It may not beat the shroud of Tourin or even a taco with the face of Jesus, but it’s good enough for New Hampshire. Now the citizens of Merrimack, NH are offering you the chance to own a roof tile in the shape of the defunct Old Man of the Mountains
History is what we make it. And when history promises to make money, it’s time for a memorial. People love standing where big events happened. So when Fox News calls Café Espresso an historic site, who can argue. Especially if that site is in our own back yard.
Let’s face it, news isn’t really news. Commentary isn’t commentary. Most of what we see on politcal shows is theatrical or dull. But not in New Hampshire. Talk show host Arnie Arnesen’s Political Chowder is the perfect food for thought – tasteful, diverse and packed with protein.
What makes New Hampshire citizens so different from everyone else on the planet? Is it because we refuse to be told what to do? Are we truly as independent minded as the media makes us out to be? What’s so special about NH, the editor suggests, is just how normal we actually are.
Nostalgia for the 1950s Mickey Mouse Club remains strong. An eBay buyer recently paid close to $1,000 for a scrap of a costume worn by Eileen Diamond, who later founded and co-managed Portsmouth’s Seacoast Repertory Theatre for two decades. (See more)
I am worried. I can no longer clearly see the boundary line between being a normal healthy dog owner or becoming one of those obsessed dogocentric weirdos. I fear we are skating along the border.
Hatchling Studios doesn’t have to prove it’s the best computer animation studio around. We know that already. But still they insist on rubbing it in. Now they’ve raised the bar on holiday office giveaways. This is one killer toy for the whole family. It’s lead-free and made in the USA too.
We have heard a lot of energetic opinions pro and con about the new electronic reader from Amazon.com. But nobody seems to be thinking of it as a godsend for the visually impaired. The editor, who cannot see a barn door from 50 paces, weighs in on what may be a revolution for a page-deprived few.
Shade of Fahrenheit 451. When local writer Rod Philbrick set out to write an anti-gang SF novel for middle-schoolers, he never imagined his own book would be banned as a pro-gang book. That’s what happened in Santa Rosa when educators outlaw books without reading them. (click to read)
Sea Dogs: Celebrating 15 Years May 13, 2008 PORTLAND -- Charlie Eshbach, President/General Manager, Portland Sea Dogs, will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Sea Dogs with the publication of a new history of the team, “The Portland Sea Dogs: Images of Baseball.” FREE
LIVESTRONG Day May 13, 2008 EXETER -- Wear yellow. Honor and support people affected by cancer in our community. Enjoy a new exhibition of art by cancer survivors. Learn about the Lance Armstrong Foundation's programs to unite people to fight cancer, and meet a member of the LAF s...
Be a Herbal Apprentice Course May 14, 2008 CANTERBURY -- Fee: $175, members $160
Drive away the winter blues by delving into herbology. This course provides hands on experiences, making tinctures, soaps and herbal salts, for example, to connect you with the early spring. We will also concentrat...
American Independence Museum's Opening Day May 14, 2008 The American Independence Museum opens for the season in Historic Exeter, New Hampshire. Museum hours are 10am to 4pm, with the last tours at 3:30pm.
Veggie Teens and Raw Food May 14, 2008 EXETER -- Raise Your Vibe Wednesdays at Blue Moon. Blue Moon Natural Foods, 8 Clifford Street, Exeter, sees this spring as an opportunity to explore what each of us can do to make healthful choices for people and the planet. Some of these solutions com...
Writer Louise Erdrich May 14, 2008 PORTSMOUTH -- One of the most gifted, prolific and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists, Award-winning novelist Louise Erdrich will be a part of our Writers on a New England Stage series on May 14. Her new original novel The Plague of D...
Lighthouse Buffet Dinner May 16, 2008 The main event this evening will be the American Lighthouse Foundation's first “Lighthouse Trivia Challenge.” This will be a Jeopardy-style competition, complete with buzzers and sound effects. The winners of the early games will compete in a final roun...
Meteors, Meteorites and Comets May 16, 2008 CONCORD -- Planetarium Educator Bob Veilleux will explain why you can collect meteorites - but not meteors or comets. Learn about these fascinating solar system interlopers, where they come from, how you can see them, and how they are related. See and...
Mother Courage May 16 - 17, 2008 Our mainstage season wraps up in May with the Senior Youth Repertory Company production of Bertolt Brecht’s epic masterpiece Mother Courage and Her Children. Through Brecht’s stark vision, the play relentlessly questions the distinctions between war, bu...
Books & Blooms Sale May 17, 2008 BRENTWOOD -- Our Annual Books & Blooms Sale is scheduled for Saturday, May 17th from 9 - 11:30 am! Come to the Mary Bartlett Library, 22 Dalton Road in Brentwood, to purchase lots of books for little money - and purchase great plants at great prices. Pl...
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