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...
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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...
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...
