Queens of style

Stage –

For Knate Higgins, drag is an art form, a “fun form of expression” that he’s been working in for close to a decade. Higgins is...

Anju plans new cocktail bar

Lifestyle –

Diners in downtown Kittery, Maine, in search of hand-crafted cocktails will soon have a new destination. Anju Noodle Bar is working on opening a cocktail...

The women behind Wonder Woman

Books –

Author Jill Lepore reveals the hidden history of the world’s most popular female superhero By Liberty Hardy In “The Secret History of Wonder Woman,” Harvard...

Inherent Vice

Film –

As “Inherent Vice,” the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson, opens, it’s 1970 in California. The Summer of Love is long over and everyone’s paranoid....

Local spirit

Music –

A sold-out show is packed with flannel shirts, beanies, and sweaty, joyous bodies while feedback and anthems ring out from the speakers. Tapes, LPs, and...

A perfect storm

Books –

The Salem Witch Trials engulfed Salem, Mass., and surrounding areas for a little more than a year. Twenty people, most of them women, were executed....

In with the new

Art –

This year, the New Hampshire Art Association turned 75, and remains one of the oldest statewide art associations in the nation. But there’s more to...

Bringing back Afrobeat

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Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Fela Kuti pioneered the Afrobeat movement, a fusion of jazz, funk, hi-life, rock, and traditional West African music. Thanks to...

RPM 2015 draws nigh

Music –

The 10th annual RPM Challenge is nearly upon us. The event, conceived in Portsmouth by The Wire newspaper, challenges musicians around the globe to write...

Eight-Bit Junkyard

Film –

“CRYSTAL CASTLES” (Atari, 1983) The neighborhood arcade, once as ubiquitous in Anytown, U.S.A. as Burger Chef and Montgomery Ward, has all but vanished from the...

Balancing act

News –

City councilors in Rochester are once again debating what the city should do about panhandling. In February 2014, city officials repealed an ordinance that banned...

State House Showdown

News –

When New Hampshire legislators return to Concord this month, they might experience a feeling of déjà vu. Many of the issues up for debate this...

Party like it’s 1979

Stage –

If you’re feeling nostalgic for the bell-bottom pants, platform shoes, and disco clubs of the 1970s (or if you missed the ’70s entirely because you...

Irons in the fire

Music –

For a certain demographic of local listeners, the heyday of the Seacoast music scene came in the late 1980s. The Queers were building an international...

Caffeine and choreography

Stage –

The Neoteric Dance Collaborative is offering a glimpse into its choreographic process with a new series held at Sole City Dance in Somersworth. And it...

Big Eyes

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2014, rated PG-13, 106 minutes The string of brilliantly imaginative and visually mesmerizing films Tim Burton put out in the late 1980s and early 1990s...

Video Vault

Film –

by Kenneth Butler The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Central Cinema Company Film, 1970 Starring: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, and Enrico Maria Salerno Director: Dario...