There’s no mistaking KYOTY’s kinetic riffs and sprawling post-metal sound. The sheer force of their booming industrial oscillations is enough to pulverize eardrums, while their...
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Question of the week
Q: Where did all these wasps come from and what can I do about them? Jeremy Delisle, Education Center Program Coordinator, UNH Cooperative Extension Illustration by Alyssa Grenning...
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Undermajor–domo Minor by Patrick deWitt DeWitt, author of the amazing revisionist Western “The Sisters Brothers,” returns with a strange and compelling comedic tale of a man...
News in brief
Rye Judge rules in favor of public access at Sanders Point Sanders Point in Rye is open to the public. That’s according to an Aug. 20 ruling...
Video vault
1974: On the Road With The Beach Boys MFM Productions, 2011 Starring: Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, Mike Love, Blondie Chaplin, and Ricky Fataar...
Changing lanes
If you want to get really excited about the Seacoast’s progress toward bike-friendly status, it’s best not to compare it to bicycle powerhouses around the world....
Write big
Josh Ritter rarely writes about himself. The singer-songwriter is more at home building narratives and dipping into the lives of fictional characters in his songs....
Dover sues state over education funding
Dover officials believe the state of New Hampshire shortchanged the city nearly $14 million in education funding during the last seven years, and the city...
Evolving experiments
The Seacoast’s dance scene has had its ups and downs in the last few decades. But a number of local artists are working to revive...
Medical pot meeting scheduled
The state Department of Health and Human Services is hosting a public meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 1 to discuss a proposed medical marijuana cultivation site...
Filing period open for municipal elections
The Seacoast’s municipal election season is about to begin. The filing period for city council, school board, and other races opened in Portsmouth on Aug....
Waste not
When Alex Freid was a student at the University of New Hampshire, he noticed dumpsters overflowing with perfectly good furniture and other staples of dorm...
True hand
For some people, it’s the mountains. For Seacoast native Lisa Noonis, it’s the ocean that moves her. “It’s just a vital force for me,” she...
Eight-Bit Junkyard
“Back to the Future” (Nintendo) Thirty years ago this summer, “Back to the Future” debuted in theaters. The massive hit led to two more films,...
Laughing in the dark
Old Man Gloom is an experimental sludge metal juggernaut with a reputation for monkeyshines that’s almost as well known as their innovative output. The unpredictable...
Drop in the bucket
Robert Marquis started working for the Swansea, Mass., water district in 1976. “We’ve been through a few things,” he says. Over the last four decades,...
Convening of Congress
It started as a small backyard gathering of musicians in 2010. That gathering became an annual tradition, taking place at The Stone Church in Newmarket...
Debate over Prescott Park stage
Portsmouth city councilors continued to discuss plans for expanding and moving the stage for the Prescott Park Arts Festival at a workshop meeting on Monday,...
In the moment
If you want to see Colony of Light, a collective of more than a dozen artists who gather once a year to create an ongoing...
Group seeks Portsmouth-Provincetown ferry
A group of local business people, elected officials, and others want to establish a ferry service between Portsmouth and Provincetown, Mass. The group, called Promote...
Day and Night
“The Sins of Dracula.” “Murder University.” “Frankenstein in a Women’s Prison.” These are just a few of the movies that soundtrack artist Timothy Fife has...
The kids are alright
And The Kids describe their creative interpretation of indie pop as “accessible unconscious existential indie glitter popsicle crisis music.” The trio, made up of Hannah...
Full of feeling
Christopher Volpe might change how you feel about local landscape paintings. The difference is in really feeling something. His paintings often start outside, en plein...
Video Vault
“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” 20th Century-Fox, 1964 Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Ellen Farner, Marc Michel Director: Jacques Demy The plot: It is the late...
Executive Council meets in Dover
A group of local business people, elected officials, and others want to establish a ferry service between Portsmouth and Provincetown, Mass. The group, called Promote...