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...
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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...
Spring series
by Larry Clow Like Hollywood, comic publishers tend to save their blockbuster books for the summer. Blockbusters aren’t always the best, though, and already, April...
Cabinet of curiosities
but its quirky charm remains When the Woodman Museum opened in 1916, its first curator lived on site, collecting winged things in a net at...
Exeter board approves homeless day center
The Exeter Zoning Board voted 3-2 on March 31 to approve an exception that will allow Seacoast Family Promise to open a day center for...
Portsmouth committee recommends bag ban
Portsmouth’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Sustainable Practices is recommending the city council move ahead with an ordinance that would ban single-use plastic bags in Portsmouth. Committee...
Alpacalypse now
Breakfast with alpacas can be unpredictable. I work as a part-time farmhand for Andes Acres, an alpaca farm in Madbury. Part of my job is...
Between the strings
Elliott Smith tribute, is on its way to Portsmouth Elliott Smith wrote many sad songs in his too-brief life, perhaps none more stirring and intimate...
Bike lane plans approved
Portsmouth city councilors voted 8-1 on April 6 to continue work on plans for protected bicycle lanes along Lafayette Road, stretching from Portsmouth High School...
Maps to the Stars
It may not be exactly breaking news that Hollywood is caught in its own circle, damned to perennial repetition and doomed forever to walk in...
Secrets and surprises
experience — and talk about — theater Electricity changed the way theater happens, according to Catherine Stewart. Before electric lights, theaters were evenly lit, and...
Now Hear This
Alcoa, “Parlour Tricks” Bridge Nine Records File under: alt-country, ‘90s alternative, Americana Sounds like: Drag The River, Whiskeytown, Rocky Votolato One of the myriad complaints...
Eight-Bit Junkyard
“Blaster Master” (Sunsoft, 1988) What do you think of when you hear “Blaster Master?” Many classic video game fans heap praise upon it. They say...
Restaurant Week returns
The Seacoast has such a bounty of restaurants that a standard seven-day week isn’t long enough to fit in a meal at each. That’s why...
Living wage forum scheduled
The South Church’s Social Justice Associates group will host a community forum on “the need for a livable wage” on Sunday, April 12 at 1:30...
New tools
her journey from journalist to carpenter It was unsexy men that drove Nina MacLaughlin away from newspapers — specifically, a list of Boston’s 100 unsexiest...
Dark side
pop-up show in Rochester Over the past four months, Beth Wittenberg has created roughly 250 drawings, halfway to her target of 500, for a series...
Forums scheduled for power line project
Seacoast residents can comment on a proposed 13-mile long power line project that will run through Madbury, Durham, Newington, and Portsmouth at two public meetings...
Maine launches senior farmshare program
Riverside Farm Stand and Greenhouse in North Berwick, Maine is taking applications for Maine’s senior farmshare program. The state offers low-income seniors $50 in credit...
People Like You to Unveil New CD
Above, People Like You In less than two years, People Like You has rapidly risen to prominence in the Seacoast music scene. The Portsmouth-based band...
Roots and views
Jerry Monkman has spent countless nights on the tops of New Hampshire’s tallest mountains, pointing his camera at the sky and capturing lingering sunsets, sparkling...
The revolution, staged
There is nothing more enervating, or even fatal, to theater than habit, which leeches plays of their vitality and muffles their existential inquiry. This applies...