News on the arts, music, dining, restaurants and all things that make our city a cultural mecca on the rise.
The NHBCA Board met on March 27th and highlighted Soule’s transformative impact on the organization while making the decision to conclude the organization’s work, having successfully fulfilled its mission.
Manchester School District recently announced that 47 students representing four schools will have entries in the 2025 New Hampshire Scholastic Art Awards. A special exhibition and reception was held March 20 at the District Welcome Center.
After two days of discussion, the committee voted along party lines to defund the State Arts Council but preserve the library funding.
In New England, few bands embrace this genre as much as Foreside Funk, who hail from Kittery, Maine. Folks around Newmarket and the surrounding areas will get the chance to see this act do their thing on stage at The Stone Church at 8 p.m. with local organ trio J3ST kicking the night off.
Cask Ale seems to be busting out all over. One festival in Derry, then another in south Boston. If you join in, I guarantee you’ll taste some flavors that you don’t often get at your neighborhood craft brewery.
My husband and I are regular users and supporters of our local library. Libraries provide reading material, movies, computer access and information to everyone in the community. Librarians assist our communities in locating accurate information that online searches do not, as well as the technology that many of our community cannot afford themselves and must have for education or employment.
March 25 marks National Women’s Equal Pay Day for 2025, the day that highlights the number of days full-time, year-round, median-income earning employed females would need to work into the new year in order to earn the same income as median-income earning males from the previous year. Below are several facts to know about women’s pay in the U.S. and the Granite State.
The Palace Theatre is trying something completely different – staging its first-ever New Hampshire Short Play Festival, taking place at the Rex Theater on Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, 2025. This groundbreaking event, presented by Kanteres Real Estate, marks the first short play festival of its kind in New Hampshire.
Join us for an afternoon of food, music, dancing, and great conversations as we come together to #AccelerateAction and Inspire Inclusion.
Love the vernal equinox! Warmth, sunshine, longer days mean good bike riding days are not far off.
One lucky winner will receive a $7,000 engagement ring from Day’s Jewelers and a once-in-a-lifetime proposal experience.
Central High School’s drama program, the Maskers, will be putting on their first musical of 2025: Guys and Dolls on March 21st and 22nd at 7pm and March 23rd at 2pm.
There are a lot of talented people in the bluegrass world, but Sierra Hull is an absolute phenom. She’s one of the best mandolinists on the planet, she signed her first record deal with Rounder Records at the age of 13 and she has studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston while winning numerous awards. She also exhibits a very forward-thinking approach, which has garnered her a wide array of collaborations while being part of the central focus for her latest album. It’s called “A Tip Toe High Wire” and it was officially self-released on March 7 by Hull. As part of her tour in support of the full-length, Hull is going to be performing at the Colonial Theatre in Keene on March 21 starting at 8 p.m.
The Brodsky Prize was established seven years ago by the late Jeffrey Brodsky and his father, Howard, to encourage innovation by student journalists. The $5,000 Prize is open to all high school students attending public, charter, or parochial schools in New Hampshire.
As always, this week’s round-up of live entertainment in and around Southern NH is brought to you by A. Robert Dionne of Ted Herbert Music School & Rentals.
The beer you love, brewed nearby, uses ingredients from far away, many not even available locally. Some of those are from Canada.
On the surface, Ann Agee and Nicolas Party might seem like they have little in common, besides both being contemporary artists. They work at different scales, with different materials, to tell different stories.
Hooksett’s Tap House Grille played host last Saturday to an amazingly fun fund-raising event which included a stein hoisting competition. Sometimes the face says it all!
In Manchester, The Shaskeen celebrates St. Patrick’s Day unlike any other establishment with a party that starts early in the morning and goes right up until last call. Local pub rockers The Rebel Collective will be one of the acts providing music with two sets, one starting at noon and another happening at 8 p.m.
