When John Norwood Fisher picked up his bass and started Fishbone in Los Angeles in 1979, the music industry was in flux. Disco was in...
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Free Comic Book Day returns to Rochester
Downtown Rochester is set to be overrun with heroes, villains, and characters of all stripes when the Free Comic Book Day Festival takes over the...
Sharing stories
With each introduction, the extent of the heroin epidemic plaguing the region came into greater focus. In the first row was a woman whose daughter...
Blakeslee at Book & Bar
It’s not easy to make a career out of playing music. Just ask Dan Blakeslee. He’s been doing it for 20 years, gigging relentlessly around...
Nonsense and sensibility
In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Roald Dahl wrote, “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” By that standard, Lewis...
The Word Barn opens in Exeter
When she moved to Exeter two years ago, writer and teacher Sarah Anderson daydreamed about using the barn on her property as a place where...
True Story
In movies, the phrase “based on actual events” is always slippery. There’s a lot of distance between those actual events and the film that ultimately...
Orange is the new white
Orange wines are a new concept to the restaurants of the Seacoast, but not to the greater wine community. Orange, or oxidative wines have been...
Musical chairs
Six local bands, six downtown venues, one worthy cause — those are the basics behind Dover Revolver, a live music event taking place on Saturday,...
Share your short story with RiverRun
RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth wants your stories — specifically, your short stories. The bookstore is sponsoring a short story contest and is looking for previously...
Tristan Law aims to purchase The Press Room
Tristan Law, the bar manager at The Press Room in Portsmouth, wants to keep the Daniel Street restaurant, bar, and music venue “in the family.”...
Modern family
Above: wood sculpture by Edwin Scheier, collection of Brian and Stephanie Fischer; sugar bowl by Mary Scheier, on loan from the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen...
Video Vault
“Swept Away” Medusa Distribuzione, 1974 Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato Director: Lina Wertmuller The plot: Raffaella (Melato), an immensely wealthy woman, is yachting with friends...
Exeter comes alive
In an effort to breathe new life into the arts scene and nightlife of downtown Exeter, a group of arts advocates is launching a new...
Call to Artists
A new creative collaboration between The Sound newspaper and the Prescott Park Arts Festival aims to put the press in Prescott Park. The two Portsmouth-based...
A better balance
Every month, Portsmouth and the Seacoast seem to wind up on a list of top travel destinations. You’ve probably seen the lists and articles plastered...
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...
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...