Best of 2024 – 03/28/2024

Hippo’s Best of 2024 is here! Find out where to get the best doughnuts, the best burgers, the best tattoo and so much more. Readers told us their favorites in more than 100 categories and we present you with the top five winners (or, in a few cases, a supersized list of favorites). Want to know where to eat, listen to live music or get your nails done this weekend? Let Hippo’s readers give you some suggestions.

Also on the cover Find out about all the solar eclipse happenings before and on the day, April 8, in the story on page 33. Catch the Wild & Scenic Film Fest (page 28) in Concord on March 29 and the NH Jewish Film Festival at locations across the state starting April 4 (page 32). And NH Craft Beer Week also kicks off April 4 (page 38).

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Crime stats Calling 2023 “a year of great progress for this agency,” the Manchester Police Department reported that “we have ...
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Author Shannon Hale discusses her process On Friday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. author Shannon Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham ...
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The Big Story – Baseball’s Opening Day: After an awful off-season and what was the most subdued spring training in ...
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Not so fast, spring Winter wasn’t done with New Hampshire. According to WMUR, the Saturday, March 23, storm dropped snow ...
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Thursday, March 28 Fulchino Vineyard (187 Pine Hill Road in Hollis, fulchinovineyard.com, 438-5984) will host a Cigar Night from 6 ...
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We’re all winners! From the spots voted best pizza place to those of us who can go eat that pizza, ...
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Wild & Scenic Film Festival returns It’s hoped that when the final short of this year’s Wild & Scenic Film ...
The latest from NH’s theater, arts and literary communities • Exhibit opening, part 1: Sullivan Framing and Fine Art Gallery ...
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How the New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival picks its slate By Zachary Lewis [email protected] As co-chairs of the New Hampshire ...
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Every now and then it comes around By Zachary Lewis [email protected] Unless you have been living on the far side ...
Family fun for whenever Egg hunt updates & more • The Easter Bunny’s visit to the Aviation Museum by student-built ...
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Hello, Donna, I have had these two candlesticks for about 45 years and have always wondered what their value may ...
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Bartender at Stark Brewing Explain your job and what it entails. I’ve been bartending for 34 years. Bartending instructor for ...
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News from the local food scene • Get to know tea: The Cozy Tea Cart (104 Route 13 in Brookline, ...
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Shops and breweries amped for Craft Beer Week April 7 is National Beer Day and brewers of New Hampshire will ...
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Barley House offers a DIY approach to bloody marys Nikki Miller likes bloody marys. “They are full of nostalgia, and ...
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Spring is finally here. It’s not like it’s been a long, cold and lonely winter — more of a muddy, ...
Warlord, Free Spirit Soar (High Roller Records) Ha ha, I owned a Warlord album once when I was a young ...
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Never Been Better by Leanne Toshiko Simpson (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 288 pages) If you don’t know what it’s like to ...
Local music news & events • Island groove: AER singer-songwriter and producer Carter Reeves created Surfer Girl while hunkered down ...
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Jake McKelvie solo project plays Milford Few New England songwriters have Jake McKelvie’s command of clever wordplay. In just two ...

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