Chad Clark’s heart nearly killed him. In 2007, the frontman for the Washington, D.C.-based band Beauty Pill thought he had a bad case of the...
Articles
Mind’s eye
The Garrison Players in Rollinsford want audiences to do a little work for their Halloween thrills this year. The theater is staging live performances of...
Uncharted lands
Bear Kirkpatrick defines his imagery as evidence. He looks for proof of the invisible, rejected memories and forgotten histories, nameless inherited traits, even signs of...
Music notes
Gypsy jazz in Kittery It was nearly 80 years ago that Django Reinhardt developed his unique jazz guitar technique, spawning the fiery style of music...
Now read this
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell Although she has been writing award-nominated fiction for some time now, Campbell is still a hidden...
The Martian
You might not think that spaceflight and movie-making have much in common. But, turns out, the success of either relies heavily on planning, preparation, ingenuity,...
Eight-Bit Junkyard
“Little Nemo: The Dream Master” (Capcom, 1990) Hey, Capcom! It’s 1990, and you’re coming off two of the most critically and commercially successful video games...
The puzzle in the play
The Seacoast Rep offers a new look at Tennessee Williams’ classic “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” When actor and playwright David Roby was named...
Green room
Surfing has been around for centuries, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that polyurethane foam boards became prevalent. The new boards were durable and inexpensive,...
Of the moment
Jeremy Miranda is known for paintings that merge views from indoor and out, landscape and architecture, memory and the moment. But recently, he has just...
Sheltering spaces
When artist Patrick Healey set out to paint the homes of 14 Seacoast poets for his collaborative project, “The Poet’s House,” he quickly learned that...
Now hear this
“No Worse For Wear” by Soggy Po’ Boys Self-released File Under: New Orleans jazz, blues, funk Sounds like: Sidney Bechet, Tom Waits, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins...
Family trees
The inspiration for “Life After Life” came to dancer Wendy Quinn in a dream. “There was a fragment of a set, with cloth billowing up...
News in brief
Police chief Stephen DuBois is stepping down from the Portsmouth Police Department. The city’s police commission accepted DuBois’ resignation at a meeting on Monday, Sept....
Summer Photo Winners Tied Together by Water
Summer in the Seacoast can mean the beaches, boating and the sea. And this season the winners of the Summer 2015 photo contest all had...
Dawn of the drones
When Andy Swanson purchased an unmanned aerial vehicle for the town of Exeter in June, he thought of it as just another tool. Swanson is...
All together
Music has always been a family affair for Ruthie Foster. She grew up in rural Texas in a family of gospel singers. In church, she...
Fairy tales
Local author Tracy Kane still holds on to the wonder of a child learning that an acorn grows into a giant oak tree, or that...
Day and Night
John Demos sits with the windows open at his home in South Berwick, Maine, while the day warms up. Outside, the buzzing of cicadas is...
Reading revolution
Bookstores and libraries in the Seacoast will celebrate Banned Books Week from Sept. 27 through Oct. 3 with readings, community conversations, and displays of some...
Summer Photo Contest Ends! Winners To Be Announced
The Summer 2015 photo contest has ended. Winners to be announced at the end of the week. Three winners will receive gift certificates ($25-$75) good...
From ship to shore
It’s easy to forget that Portsmouth has a working port. The marine terminal is located on Market Street, just outside of downtown, and unless you’re...
Original alternative
Al Barr’s 17-years-and-counting with the Dropkick Murphys are a little more than half of his lifelong performance career. It’s fair to say that what Barr...
Art and vision
Nothing Brooklyn-based indie-pop band Lucius does is accidental. The band’s aesthetic is inspired by 1960s girl groups, but the quintet’s sound is pure 21st-century sonic...
Fresh films
When Telluride Film Festival founders Bill and Stella Pence moved to Portsmouth in the late 1990s, they wanted to do something special for the new...
