Coloring books for adults aren’t a fad or a new phenomenon (and, despite the name, aren’t raunchy), but they have had a recent surge in...
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“All That Jazz” Columbia Pictures and 20th Century-Fox, 1979 Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, and Ann Reinking Directed by: Bob Fosse The plot:...
Out of the past
Robert McClung is righting historical wrongs one album at a time. He’s doing it under the guise of Telergy, a progressive rock band featuring musicians...
Eight-Bit Junkyard
Shadowgate (Kemco, 1989) There is nothing about “Shadowgate,” a decades-old first-person role playing game, that should work. Nothing. It was a port of a two-year...
Come together
Portsmouth residents like to be involved. Maybe it’s because of the city’s history — it was home to New Hampshire’s first state house, until Concord...
Just do it
Here’s the good news: there are more ways than ever before to learn how to do just about anything. There are hundreds of hours worth...
Now Hear This
Mother Superior and the Sliding Royales by Mother Superior and the Sliding Royales Label: self-released File under: soul, R&B, funk Sounds Like: Sharon Jones and...
Music Notes
Public NME number one What does a photo of Michael Jackson on the cover of a 1981 issue of a British magazine have to do...
Busting up the Bowery
Cory Levine spent eight years living in New York City and working as an editor for Marvel Comics. Six of those years were pretty good,...
Carving out time
She was searching for something else in the tangle of technology, when Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne came across an old email from her husband. Before they were married...
Level up
The first video game Jon Dearborn of Barrington officially sold through his design studio, DinoMage Games, was “Gladiator.” Originally an early 1990s PC game, “Gladiator”...
Alone, together
Angel Olsen’s brand of indie folk veers between the fiery and the ambrosial, weaving together dynamic combinations of vintage Americana and rock and roll. Her spellbinding...
The Landladys play musical chairs
All four members of The Landladys are singers, songwriters, and multi-instrumentalists, and each is lending his full array of talents to the band’s forthcoming album....
Magic in the making
The thrill of working with glowing molten iron lasts as long the sculptures made from it. It’s been more than 10 years since Lauren and...
Seven days of classical music
The second annual Halcyon Music Festival is upon us, bringing world-class musicians to Exeter, Portsmouth, and Durham. The chamber music festival kicked off with a...
Gun by Anne Oleson
Editor’s note: In April, Portsmouth’s RiverRun Bookstore started accepting submissions for its first short story contest. The response was big, according to RiverRun owner Tom...
Some enchanted island
There is no better American song than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Some Enchanted Evening.” It is a song that feels like exactly what it says. You...
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“3 Women” 20th Century-Fox, 1977 Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier Directed by: Robert Altman The plot: Pinky (Spacek), an awkward mouse...
Grazier gets full Berklee scholarship
Portsmouth-based multi-instrumentalist Max Grazier is on the path to a career in music. Grazier, 18, is the 2015 recipient of the Berklee Lollapalooza Endowed Scholarship,...
Sounding off
Editorial A little less noise there, a little less… noise,” Mr. Darling tells his kids toward the beginning of “Peter Pan,” the summer musical showing...
Candidate in the Wild
The Sound’s Field Guide to Presidential Candidates spotted Wisconsin governor and newly-announced presidential candidate Scott Walker at Seacoast Harley Davidson in North Hampton on July...
Dover board OKs new high school
The Dover School Board approved an $86 million plan for a new combined high school and career technical center at a meeting on Monday, July...
Little by little
When Abby Ross talks about the tiny home she’s building in Kittery, Maine, she quotes a Carole King song: “Way over yonder is a place...
Live music on hold at The Press Room
[Editor’s note: this story was updated on July 15 at 5:50 p.m. to include comments from Portsmouth deputy fire chief Carl Roediger.] Walk by The...
No words required
Ehud Ettun and Haruka Yabuno met each other for the first time five years ago outside the New England Conservatory in Boston. Yabuno, a pianist...