Summer Guide 2025 — 05/22/2025

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On the cover

10 Time to break out your sunglasses — it’s summer, baby! Or, you know, it’s “summertime” — that season between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend when we all try for more relaxed and sunny vibes. In this year’s guide, we offer a look at some of the fairs, fests and other events that make the season shine.

Also on the cover, John Fladd gets all the details of the newly released NH Beer Trail Guide (page 24). Michael Witthaus talks to the Manchester Crafts Market ahead of their mulit-author event (page 20). Michael also talks to comedian Joe Fenti, who can help you kick off a weekend of laughs with a Thursday, May 22, show at Kettlehead in Nashua (see page 32). Find more comedy this weekend and beyond in the Comedy This Week, which is also on page 32.

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Competitive Ford fixing As reported by Nashua InkLink on May 8, teams of high school students in auto tech programs ...
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Thursday, May 15 The BNH Stage (16 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com) hosts a performance of “This Is My ...
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There’s a trope called “The Ninety-Dollar Tomato.” It describes an all-too-familiar situation that many of us frustrated gardeners go through: ...
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Sparks, MAD (Transgressive Records) The press notes for this nearly 60-year-old band’s 26th album start with this: “If the world ...
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The Art of Winning, by Bill Belichick (Avid Reader Press, 289 pages) It is challenging to approach Bill Belichick’s new ...
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