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Candidate Field Guide: Chris Christie
Editor’s note: Though it’s still 2015, the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The field is already crowded, and to help you keep track, we’re compiling...
All mad here
Rain Dogs” is as close as Tom Waits has ever come to releasing a commercially popular record. The 1985 album, with its gnarled cacophony of...
Room for growth
Miles Burns has been teaching youth and teen theater classes at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre for years, but it wasn’t until this year that he...
At the Statehouse
House budget writers sent their version of the biennium budget to the Senate at the beginning of this month. Revenue projections for the biennium are...
Marvel’s Daredevil
Netflix continues to keep its ever-growing number of subscribers excited and engaged with its eclectic, ready-to-binge offerings. High-caliber talent, short seasons, and genre unpredictability are...
Brewed awakening
On a Tuesday in late March, Nova Mullineaux, owner of Adelle’s Coffeehouse, posted a simple message on the Dover café’s Facebook page: “Cold brew, guys.”...
A closer look
Above, a still from The Ridge The Wild and Scenic Film Festival puts the natural world in a new perspective by Charlie Weinmann Tony Schmiesing...
One good thing
Twenty years ago, Mary Harding thought she’d take some time away from work. She resigned from the Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, Maine after four years...
Shaheen bill would put a woman on the $20
Inspired in part by the online campaign Women on 20s, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen introduced a bill on April 15 that would start the process...
Letting go
Happiness, emptiness, history — those are the first words of each stanza in Iska Dhaaf’s song, “Happiness.” The Seattle-grown, Brooklyn-based, indie psych-rock duo translates stories...
Eight-Bit Junkyard
“Kid Niki: Radical Ninja” (Data East, 1987) The summer between third and fourth grade, I made two presumably simple follicular requests of my mother. The...
Sea-3 hearing scheduled
The state’s Site Evaluation Committee will hold a public hearing on May 7 about Sea-3 Inc.’s plan to expand its liquid propane operation at its...
Crosswalk work begins
Traffic on Hanover Street in downtown Portsmouth will be redirected for three weeks as Portwalk Place construction crews work on a new crosswalk between the...
Work on aquatic center swims along
Dover is one step closer to a new indoor pool and aquatics center. Earlier this month, JSA Architects in Portsmouth completed renderings of the proposed...
Community meeting on heroin scheduled
As Seacoast communities continue to work on addressing the region’s heroin addiction epidemic, Crystal Paradis wants to keep the conversation going. She’s organizing a community...
The art of instinct
For Juliana Hatfield, it’s hard to identify when a song is ready. There’s no formula, no standard applicable to every song. “It’s more like an...
It Follows
The new horror film “It Follows” was inspired partly by one of writer/director David Robert Mitchell’s recurring dreams. In the dreams, Mitchell has said in...
Pushing limits
When Todd Hunter directed his first play 17 years ago — “Merry-Go-Round” at The Players’ Ring — he might have thrown a prop, or maybe...
West End charette comment period ends May 1
Time is running out for Portsmouth residents to comment on how the city’s West End neighborhood will look in the future. The public comment period...
Thresholds and borderlines
Above: a detail from “Through Dangers Untold” by Jocelyn Toffic Jocelyn Toffic’s art takes her from the Seacoast to Iceland and beyond by Dylan Metrano...
Small bites
May is shaping up to be a good month for food and drink in the Seacoast. First up, Gary Kim and Julian Armstrong are set...
Under the influence
Above, Jack Wimpy Rutherford Hayes (foreground) on stage with The Queers. Wimpy Rutherford carries on the original Queers’ legacy with a new generation of punk...
Video Vault
“Salome’s Last Dance” Vestron Pictures, 1988 Starring: Stratford Johns, Imogen Millais-Scott, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Glenda Jackson Director: Ken Russell The plot: Oscar Wilde (Grace),...
Northbound ramp closes
The Exit 5 northbound ramps on the Spaulding Turnpike in Dover will be closed “for several months” for construction, according to the state Department of...