News on the arts, music, dining, restaurants and all things that make our city a cultural mecca on the rise.
Make it a music-filled weekend. We’ve rounded up some people, places, things and ideas.
As part of a run of shows celebrating four decades, Cowboy Junkies are going to be performing at Tupelo Music Hall in Derry on September 26. The show starts at 8 p.m. and it promises to span their extensive discography.
The Currier Museum of Art announces that it received $77,300 in financial support from its day of charitable gaming at Revo casino this year.
On Saturday September 20, near the parking lot atop Mt. Monadnock in Miller State Park in Peterborough, biologists with The Harris Center for Conservation Education released three Broad-winged Hawks before a crowd of about a hundred members of the public. The hawks, found injured, had been treated at the Wings of the Dawn Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Henniker. Released separately, each flew off quickly with deep, powerful wingbeats, to the thrill of the children in attendance.
The woods behind my house smelled of pine sap, wet moss, and the metallic tang of mud. To me, they weren’t woods but a travel hub for everything extinct or imaginary. Dinosaurs stomped through sandy patches. Crocodiles blinked from rocks that weren’t rocks yesterday. The Cherokee whispered peace terms in the wind, smoke from their fires mixing—somehow—with the neighbor’s leaf pile.
With the war continuing to rage in Ukraine, five members of Ukraine’s Parliament will visit New Hampshire on September 22 – 28 as a part of the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire’s exchange programs.
I saw the words KITCHEN SPECIAL. Has the brain-stomach connection ever been more evident? I paused, and said to the waiter, “Whoah, gotta read this special,” taking it in even as I was speaking those words.
After voting, Mike Becker put his “I voted!” sticker proudly on the side of his helmet, which I thought was the perfect spot.
The Guinness Book is full of lunatics chasing immortality.
Men who dunk their heads for apples until their lungs give out. Women who crochet scarves so long they could strangle Rhode Island. One guy painted the same baseball eighteen thousand times until it ballooned into a yoga ball. Another piled up 8,226 Batman trinkets, because apparently Gotham didn’t need his help.
This is the weekend of farmers markets and food festivals! Make the most of this final weekend of the summer by getting as much outside time as possible.
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TEDxAmoskeagMillyard returns to The Rex Theatre in downtown Manchester on Wed., Oct. 22, 2025, with its highly anticipated afternoon event. A favorite among southern New Hampshire’s creative and curious minds, this independently organized TEDx event will feature an afternoon of thought-provoking talks, storytelling, and performances representing a wide range of disciplines and lived experiences.
In addition to your choice of over 100 narrative and documentary features and short films curated from 1,700 submissions, this year’s festival will feature a dynamic slate of panels and workshops, offering audiences and filmmakers the chance to connect, learn, and explore the craft.
In the fifty years since the Amoskeag exhibit opened at the Currier, Manchester has grown to have a deeper appreciation of the history of the Amoskeag mills. This exhibit at the Millyard Museum will examine the lasting impact that the mills have had on Manchester and feature elements of the original 1975 exhibit as well as never-before-seen photographs taken by Randolph Langenbach.
Works from a select group of 17 designers and makers from New England will be featured. The Furniture Masters is an organization of fine furniture makers and builders who are committed to preserving the centuries-long tradition of custom furniture making in New England.
Sept. 12 is National Video Game Day, the perfect time to press pause while honoring the man who reimagined how we think about screens, play, and possibility: Ralph H. Baer. Known as the “Father of the Video Game,” Baer’s story is one of loss, invention, generosity, and a relentless belief that something playful can change lives.
This weekend offers a ton of art, culture, music and community fun. Don’t let it slip away without making the most of it!
City officials, community leaders, residents and visitors gathered in City Hall Plaza in downtown Manchester, NH, on Friday afternoon to be among the first to cast their votes to help bring a free outdoor music series to the city. Manchester is one of 100 semi-finalists for a Levitt AMP Grant, a multi-year matching grant opportunity bringing the joy of free, live music to small and mid-sized towns and cities across the U.S.
The DOT and Executive Counsel hold these meetings to get feedback from the public to determine if changes are needed.
