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...
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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...
Style queue
For info on Style Queue Magazine, click here. /stīl/ /kyo͞o/ noun 1. a sequence of people with a distinctive appearance 2. A style column for The Sound whereby...
Safe space
It’s only been about four months since Haven, the new nonprofit that formed when A Safe Place and Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) merged, moved...
Found in translation
As a child, Shiao-Ping Wang learned to write hundreds of complicated Chinese characters, each one representing a word, rather than a sound. A native of...
Flash forward
Comedian Cameron Esposito’s stand-up ascendancy began in earnest after a debut set on “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” in 2013, where guest Jay...
Bouncing back
If you’ve been seeing more New England cottontail rabbits than usual hopping around the Bellamy River Wildlife Sanctuary in Dover, you can thank the New...
Now hear this
“Horn Hill” by Tiger Saw Burst and Bloom Records File Under: indie, slow-core, basement soul Sounds like: Low, Songs: Ohia, The Microphones While Maine’s Monhegan Island...
Seacoast news in brief
The 2016 presidential race has been in full-swing for months, and now, a number of Seacoast candidates are looking ahead to high-profile state and federal...
3S Artspace artistic director announces leave of absence
[Updated 11/4/15 with a statement from 3S Artspace interim executive director Karil Reibold. — LC] 3S Artspace founder and artistic director Chris Greiner is...
