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When people can try food with wines, learn how a dish is prepared from a Chef like Ed, who will teach you the fundamentals, and hear from a wine professional for the background on the wines – it creates an event like no other.
This Wednesday (February 18), the Christian calendar begins the season of Lent with “Ash Wednesday,” when some people go to church and get that ash cross marked on their foreheads. Apart from the religious ritual of the moment, the day itself offers a moment to pause and reflect: What exactly is my orientation toward the world, toward a higher power, towards myself?
The historic Palace Theatre was filled to capacity on Wednesday night as the Common Ground Concert brought a powerful blend of live music and raw, inspirational storytelling to the local community.
Love is in the air, along with cupid’s arrows this weekend.
Whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s, Galentine’s or event anti-Valentine’s Day, this weekend offers a whole host of events to get you in or out of the loving mood. Some highlights include Dark Romance: Forbidden Hearts Runway Experience at Rhythm & Roots Studio, Cupid Lied: A Queer Anti-Valentine Pop Up at CoLab, Friday the 13th Gals & Ghouls Galentine’s Day Pop-Ups at Harpoon Brewing, and Galentine’s Day Soirée at the Bookery.
I wasn’t around in the ’80s, but lucky for me it was such an iconic era that there were lasting echoes which managed to reach even us kids from the late nineties and early 2000s. One of those echoes was the satanic panic. It’s a fascinating yet devastating situation that started as a mistake and snowballed into a conspiracy that affected thousands, resulting in decades of trauma, jail time, and, more relevant than ever, the modern interpretation of the Epstein files.
Peaceful Rebellion – a group exhibition exploring art as both refuge and quiet resistance.
Writer and poet May Sarton prefaces her 1968 memoir Plant Dreaming Deep with an untitled poem whose last two lines are “…Homeward at last toward the native source /Seasoned and stretched to plant his dreaming deep.”
St. Patrick’s Day is a little over a month away, and some people are already getting ready for the festive occasion.
Caroline G. Martel (Manchester’s first resident female Eagle Scout) has been named one of the 2025 Eagle Scouts of the Year, marking a historic milestone as the first female Eagle Scout from Manchester to receive this distinguished honor.