“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...
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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...
All welcome to “Draw On!” at UNH
Above: “To Build,” by Alexis Carter Kochka, 2014 oil on canvas On Saturday, April 4, the Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire...
Talking it out
At a community conversation between Dover police and city residents last week, there was an elephant in the room — or, more accurately, a BearCat....
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...
Video Vault
The best (and worst) classic flicks and cult favorites “Klute Warner Brothers, 1971 Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, and Roy Scheider Director: Alan...
Spring Fever at PMAC
An upcoming party in Portsmouth will allow guests to celebrate spring, the arts, and good music all in one night. The Portsmouth Music and Arts...
New rules let police administer anti-overdose drug
Local police can soon start administering Narcan, a drug that counteracts the effects of an opioid overdose, under new rules established by the N.H. Department...
Board holds hearing on short-term rentals
The Portsmouth Planning Board will hold a public hearing on how to regulate short-term rentals through services like Airbnb at its meeting on Thursday, April 16...
Master plan study circles begin
Portsmouth Listens is looking for a few good volunteers as the city begins to review and revise Portsmouth’s master plan. The city updates its master...
TEDx seeks local nonprofits
As TEDxPiscataquaRiver returns to Portsmouth on May 8, the event is looking for local nonprofits that it can help make an “impact.” TEDx organizers are...
Silver Street switches to one-way April 8
On Wednesday, April 8, Silver Street in Dover will become a one-way street as work continues on a reconstruction project. The new traffic pattern will...
Durham readies for power line project
Eversource, the energy company formerly known as Public Service of New Hampshire, is moving ahead with plans to construct a new transmission line that will...
Show time
If you’re looking for a restaurant in the Seacoast, the options can be overwhelming. Upscale or affordable, big chain restaurants or intimate local cafés, there...
Nothing like the real thing
Some of us make it big. The rest of us make it to karaoke. It’s an experience unencumbered by inhibition or fears of being off...
A Dog One Day, a Cat the Next
and the difference between writing prose and poetry Alternately surreal, metaphysical, grimly realistic and sharply clear, Charles Simic’s writing reflects a life spent surrounded by...
Love on the half-shell
Shimmy, slide, twist, and then pop open the shell. Add a drop of Tabasco, a squeeze of lemon, and a dollop of horseradish to finish...
Ballroom season begins
Veteran stars of the stage, tribute acts, and comedians highlight the 2015 lineup at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom. After a sold-out performance by Hall...
