It’s a Friday morning at the Portsmouth Public Library and the building is busy with activity. Upstairs, a class on the basics of using Excel is in...
Articles
Growing trials
Becky Sideman, a researcher with the N.H. Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of New Hampshire, loves Brussels sprouts. But the real reason she...
Day and night
Maxwell DeMilner is aware of the stereotypes. “I was worried you were going to say the c-word,” he admits sheepishly. “Clown.” DeMilner is a unicyclist....
‘Collage’ of emotions
Local trumpet player Chris Klaxton finished recording his new album, “Collage,” more than a year ago. In the intervening months, the music has taken on...
Covering costs
Earlier this year, attorney Jerry Zelin, a Portsmouth resident and critic of the HarborCorp development project, filed a right-to-know request with the city and asked...
A very special Eight-bit junkyard Christmas
games The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo, 1987) The TV commercials had started in late August. Despite the start of a new school year, all my friends and...
BREAKING: structure fire at the Gas Light in Portsmouth
A four-alarm structure fire struck the Portsmouth Gas Light Co. at 64 Market St. around 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. Witnesses said flames were shooting from an...
Hidden in plain sight
When she was 19, Jasmine Marino was on a steady path. She was living in Massachusetts, working in a small salon, and going to community...
Turning point
Music has always been a presence in Elissa Margolin’s life, and many times, it’s influenced the direction she’s taken — or, sometimes, the direction she...
Common bond
After writer and journalist Wendy Williams finished college, she lived in a small horse barn in Vermont, where she cared for two horses. Williams was...
Video Vault: Three Days of the Condor
“Three Days of the Condor” Paramount Pictures, 1975 Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Max von Sydow Directed by: Sydney Pollack The plot: Joe Turner (Redford)...
Friendly competition
It’s late on a Tuesday night in Kittery Foreside. The stores, cafes, and galleries are closed, but a crowd is starting to form outside Anneke...
Turning up the volume
A note from The Sound’s publisher, Matt Kanner If you look at the upper right corner of the front cover of this week’s paper, you’ll...
Holiday events
Evergreen Fair: Fifty select artists and craftspeople come together at the University of New Hampshire to celebrate the fine art of craft. Thursday, Dec. 3,...
Getting crafty
by Beth LaMontagne Hall It was about seven years ago when Portsmouth jewelry maker Megan Stelzer and Dover artist Jocelyn Toffic came up with the...
The season for stage
There’s a good chance the weather outside will be frightful this holiday season, but even if it isn’t, why venture out into the cold when...
Area art exhibits
DOVER Gallery 6 “Out of This World” contains fanciful creatures in playful settings and promises to take viewers on journeys to strange worlds, on view...
Find your element
If it’s the thought that counts, then the handmade, local gift has got to count for more, since it considers the whole community. This small...
36 ways to treat a reader
This has been an amazing year for books, and whether you like cooking, history, science, movies, or something entirely different, there’s something in here for everyone!...
Sounds of the season
The Thanksgiving holiday that unites us for a feast of friendship and gratitude also ushers in the beginning of an increasingly drawn-out shopping season. Let...
Seacoast news in brief
News from around the Seacoast Portsmouth Uber debate rolls into December City councilors have been discussing for nearly a year how to regulate the ride-sharing service...
Hair to stay
For Justin Kelcourse, growing a beard was a career choice. Long before the Portsmouth resident became known as “the biggest beard in real estate,” he...
Short and sweet
In “Bighorn,” Dover filmmaker Alfred Thomas Catalfo’s 2010 short film, a haunted coronet transports a Harvard professor back to the Battle of Little Big Horn...
Eight-bit junkyard
“Fester’s Quest” (Sunsoft, 1989) Have you ever had a tortured relationship with a video game? If you’ve ever played a video game, then your answer...
A sound connection
Reggae singer-songwriter Rocky Dawuni divides his time between a successful music career and global humanitarian efforts. The second oldest of eight siblings, Dawuni grew up...