News on the arts, music, dining, restaurants and all things that make our city a cultural mecca on the rise.
Why have restaurants been somewhat singled out as ‘unsafe’? Is it the fact that we handle consumable products? Is it that we are places of gathering? Perhaps. But industries like grocers and home stores fall under similar categories respectively and seem to be doing quite well and have enjoyed much more relaxed mandates.
Sessions are informal, interactive, and focused on a different work each week.
On Monday 120 items from one of the largest, most significant collections of rare photography books in the country goes on the auction block at Skinner Auction House in Marlborough, Mass.
It’s harvest time, with beers made with local hops, local honey and local pumpkins and local apples. This week’s Brew News counts not one, but THREE bevies made with apples and pumpkins from Sunnycrest Farm in Londonderry. Other places such as Mack’s Apples, Elwood Orchards and Wild Way Farm contributed to even more locally-sourced goodness.
Starting this Saturday, restaurants will ask patrons for contact information as the state continues to see an uptick in cases of COVID-19.
The restaurant industry is proposing a registry of customers be kept for 21 days to help in future contact tracing for COVID-19 if needed.
In celebration of the opening, Playa Bowls Manchester will be giving out free bowls to the first 50 customers in a socially distanced line beginning Saturday at 10 a.m. with more giveaways throughout the day.
Culinary power couple Matt Berry and Lauren Foster Berry previously worked at Greenleaf, a farm to table restaurant in Milford, where Berry served as chef de cuisine and Foster Berry as pastry chef. Uncertain of the future of traditional restaurant dining as COVID-19 concerns mounted, the duo decided to carve a new path for themselves.
Tuesday October 20, 2020, Twitch.TV gave birth to a new star. Oh, it’s not some 16 year old maximizing their newly adjusted quarantine life, it’s the only person currently walking the planet with a three-letter household name. Congresswoman AOC. Social media superstar, U.S. Representative and much more.
Volume 5 of “Poets on the Loose” is upon us, and, what would a poetry series be without the likes of a true Beat poet, someone who has published and recorded poetry, someone who sets his poetic lyrics to music and someone who, for a whole lifetime, has embodied the poetic life?
We are happy to welcome Cindy Donnelly Kibbe back to New Hampshire, albeit virtually, on Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. for the launch of her YA Fantasy novel.
City Arts Nashua, in collaboration with Access Nashua, have recreated ArtWeek Nashua 2020 to be a weeklong televised event. Viewers can tune in via accessnashua.org, or Nashua Community Television Channel 96, as well as cityartsnashua.org, City Arts Nashua’s social media pages and City Arts Nashua’s YouTube channel throughout the week of October 17-25.
Check out some more autumnal ales, state-of-the-art sours and imperial stouts at southern New Hampshire breweries. A couple breweries are also raising funds for cancer research with some of their beers.
Get out and get connected at the Currier Museum.
Many businesses have been hit hard during the pandemic. The hospitality industry is no exception. Before COVID-19, some 70,000 people were employed in the industry. Because of the pandemic, nearly half of those people lost their jobs.
At least that’s the case with Jen Whit, a dearly missed singer/songwriter from Canterbury, who, for a number of years, could be seen in the bars and clubs on the regular, mesmerizing us with her voice and wonderful guitar playing. Whit was legit. A goddess when it comes to singing, someone who could vibe with all kinds of music – rock, ’90s pop, folk, country.
With more bears and rescues than ever before, it’s all hands-on-deck for a new season of North Woods Law New Hampshire premiering on Animal Planet this Sunday, October 11, at 9:00 p.m. From heart-stopping animal encounters to harrowing pursuits of dangerous offenders, the only thing the Conservation Officers of New Hampshire Fish and Game can expect is the unexpected.
COVID-19 silenced the stages inside restaurants, bars, and hotels across the state in March and it has been particularly hard on those who make their livings on playing these gigs.
I guess they are floral-themed though no actual flower species is directly reproduced. I see them as garden paintings or landscapes or space-scapes but ultimately escapes.
