Posts by Ryan Lessard
It will be branded the Cafe at The Bookery, with the word ‘cafe’ in the signature font of Restoration Cafe.
On Oct. 1, Pipe Dream is kicking off a month of breast cancer awareness events for Breast Cancer Awareness month with I Heart Boobs! (5 percent), a sour ale made with a mix of watermelons and blackberries. The brewery is donating a portion of the proceeds from this beer to help find a cure.
To my surprise, I found a buyer willing to pay the $200 price! We had arranged a meeting place in downtown Derry to conduct the trade, but just a couple hours before the appointed time, the buyer backed out.Â
Oktoberfest is in the air – and in the kegs and in the bottles and cans and, well, everywhere.
After a year of no comic conventions, they’re back – with special safety COVID-19 safety precautions in place – and Granite State Comic Con (also known as GraniteCon) is among them.
In a fast-growing secondary market comic book market, it’s easy to get caught up in the rising waves; buying and selling bulk collections, for thousands of dollars sight unseen, as speculation and online auctions have inflated the prices. But as Jill Stewart and boyfriend Daniel King Jr. have learned, it’s also easy for fans and their love of comics to be sucked in by the undertow.
This year’s Manchester Historic Association’s Historic Preservation Awards recognized a family whose stewardship of their 114-year-old house has renovated and maintained it to pristine condition, a grassroots effort to restore the Casimir Pulaski statue in Pulaski Park, and similar initiatives to adapt or save old buildings from demolition.
With fall just around the corner, breweries are already bringing out the marzens and stouts.Â
The project would construct a 2.2-megawatt solar installation, which would provide the town with enough power to serve all 30 of its municipal buildings, including its wastewater infrastructure.
Colleen Dionne, a graphic designer and avid cosplayer who goes by the handle Mini Mal, has recently started a business offering to take professional or amateur photographs and add special effects and genre-appropriate backgrounds.Â