A New Hampshire organization is getting ready to let the presidential primary candidates know what really counts: the arts.

ArtsVoteNH, a project of New Hampshire Citizens for the Arts (NHCFA) and the Americans for the Arts Action Fund of Washington, D.C., will officially be launched at NHCFA?s annual meeting Wednesday, May 23, in Concord.?.

High quality, low prices and killer onion rings is what you will find at Cremeland Drive-In.

This family-owned Manchester institution turns 60 years old this year and on May 12 will be lauded by the city and the state.

Known online as Cosmo, Brian Lawson runs the New Hampshire Presidential Watch Web site at nh2008.blogspot.com. The site is a one-stop clearinghouse of information about all the candidates in the 2008 presidential race, from where they?ll be shaking hands to who?s working on whose staff. The political science major at Saint Anselm College is in his junior year and previously served as chair of the Saint Anselm College Republicans. He also volunteered for George Pataki?s 21st Century Freedom political action committee.

Here are a few (hundred) thoughts that have piled up on the inside of a cluttered brain while I?ve been patiently waiting for game three in the Monarchs and Bruins series to finally arrive. It?s the longest stretch between non-earthquake cancelled playoff games in my memory since I think 1962.

I?ll go ahead and say it: USB is the best thing to happen to PCs since Windows.

Settle down, settle down. No one who?s ever typed more than a sentence in Word can honestly say they?ve never belted out a stream of profanities at their computer, but it?s hard to deny that Microsoft?s relentless marketing and insistence on developing fatter and more bloated operating systems has helped drive great advancements in PC hardware. Genuinely fast computers are impossibly cheap now, and with 95 percent of them running the same pointy-clicky software, most folks can pick up the basics of using one pretty quickly.

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