Category: Past Issues

on the cover

Barbecue isn’t the only food (or drink!) that can be smoky and delicious. John Fladd takes a look at what happens when smoke is introduced to meat but also cheese, beer, cocktails and even crackers. Above is a smoked cocktail from CodeX in Nashua. Photo by John Fladd.

Also on the cover, Michael Witthaus looks at the NH Maker Fest on Saturday, June 6, in Dover (page 12). John stays on the smoky theme with a look at the NH Bacon & Beer Festival slated for Manchester on Saturday (page 16). And celebrate bees, butterflies and the other creatures that keep the ecosystem going at the Pollinator Fest and Native Plant Sale at the NH Audubon’s McLane Center in Concord (page 15).

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News & Notes 26/06/04

260604Featured ContentNews

Tick reminder The most common tick bite-spread infections in New Hampshire are “Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Powassan virus, and hard-tick ...

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Quality of Life 26/06/04

260604NewsQuality Of Life

It only seems soggy As reported by WMUR in a May 21 online article, “The latest update from the U.S ...

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The week that was

260604NewsSports

The Big Story – Wait Until Next Week: With the Red Sox scuffling along 10+ games out of first in ...

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This Week 26/06/04

260604NewsThis Week

Friday, June 5 Theatre Kapow will present Morning Sun, a play by Simon Stephens, at the BNH Stage in Concord ...

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Smoke Show

260604Cover StoriesFeatured Content

How adding smoke can transform your favorite flavors When most people think of smoky food, their minds go immediately to ...

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Hands on

260604Art & TheaterFeatured Content

NH Maker Fest celebrates creativity A 3D printer hums a colorful plate into existence; handmade hula hoops and a DJ ...

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Kiddie Pool 26/06/04

260604Family FunOutdoors

Family fun for whenever Music and learning The “Be Like Blippi” Tour comes to the Capitol Center for the Arts ...

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Pride Month

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Find Pride celebrations in several area towns and cities in June. Here are a few of the events on the ...

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The bees’ needs

260604Featured ContentOutdoors

NH Audubon expands plant sale with Pollinator Festival For most non-specialists, knowledge of pollinators begins and ends with honeybees. Honeybees ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/06/04

260604Family FunTreasure Hunt

Dear Donna, We have a partial set of encyclopedias, with just one missing. Is there any interest in these? Would ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/06/04

260604Food

• Manchester farmers market opens for the season: Manchester Farmers’ and Makers’ Market has opened for the season. Wednesdays, 4 ...

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Local bacon, beer and help

260604Featured ContentFood

High Hopes Foundation makes NH its focus at Bacon & Beer Festival The High Hopes Foundation is a nonprofit organization ...

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Herbs for food and health

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Greenery is on the menu for the 17th annual Herb and Garden Day As you might suspect, the New Hampshire ...

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Steamed pudding with rhubarb sauce

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This isn’t the type of pudding you’re thinking of. It’s an old-fashioned, British-style steamed pudding adapted from a 1930 recipe ...

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Album Reviews 26/06/04

260604AlbumsPop

Aaron Bilodeau, Lid Licker (self-released/Bandcamp) So here is a fellow from Milford, N.H., whose trip is experimental art-rock, unless he’s ...

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Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke

260604BooksPop

(Alfred A. Knopf, 391 pages) One of the stranger things to emerge from the internet is the tradwife influencer, a ...

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Like an 8-hour movie

260604Film ReviewsPop

A look at some TV with movie ties With The Mandalorian and Grogu putting TV in movie theaters, let’s look ...

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The Music Roundup 26/06/04

260604Music This Week

• Summer songs: A season of weekend music kicks off with Katie Dobbins, an inspirational singer-songwriter who also organizes the ...

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Stripped down

260604Featured ContentNightlife

Jon Pousette-Dart plays intimate Rex show As he walked into Quadrafonic Sound Studio to begin his band’s first album in ...

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on the cover

Spend a lovely day in the garden — made all the lovelier by being a garden you don’t have to water or weed. This week, John Fladd takes a look at some of the garden tours and public gardens that allow you to enjoy the flora of the season without having to put on any gardening gloves. Above and on the cover, a view of the gardens at Petals in the Pines. Courtesy photo.

Also on the cover John also gets the details on the Friends of the Library of Windham’s annual Strawberry Festival & Book Fair, slated for Saturday, May 30 (see page 16). Enjoy the big trucks and friendly competition of the Fire Truck Pull & Festival (page 14). Michael Witthaus talks to singer songerwriter Amanda McCarthy about her return to New England and her slate of upcoming shows.

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News & Notes 26/05/28

260528Featured ContentNews

Teacher award The New Hampshire Department of Education announced the three finalists for 2027 Teacher of the Year: Rebecca Fortgang, ...

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Summer begins

260528NewsSports

The Big Story – Memorial Day weekend It’s not officially summer, but it makes it feel like summer has arrived ...

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Quality of Life 26/05/28

260528NewsQuality Of Life

Hey! Their feelings are tender, too! The New Hampshire Fisher Cats occasionally play under two other names during home games: ...

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This Week 26/05/28

260528NewsThis Week

Thursday, May 28 Manchester’s Taco Tour takes place today from 4 to 8 p.m. in downtown Manchester. See tacotourmanchester.com and ...

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Day in the Garden

260528Cover StoriesFeatured Content

Get inspired at public gardens and garden tours For gardening nerds and the occasional gardener alike, a trip to a ...

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World tour

260528Art & TheaterFeatured Content

The Phil presents wide-ranging music Folk Voices and Fantasies, an upcoming afternoon of classical music from the New Hampshire Philharmonic ...

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Late May in the garden

260528OutdoorsThe Gardening Guy

Test your soil, make it better Asking me to name my favorite flower is, perhaps, like asking you to name ...

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The power pull

260528Featured ContentOutdoorsThe Gardening Guy

Less Leg More Heart raises funds with Fire Truck Pull Christina Hurley has given the question of what kind of ...

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Kiddie Pool 26/05/28

260528Family FunOutdoors

Family fun for whenever Fest fun • Truckfest, an event featuring big vehicles that kids can explore, will take place ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/05/28

260528Family FunTreasure Hunt

Dear Donna, Looking to find a value for our hanging ceiling lamp. Not sure of the age. I believe it’s ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/5/28

260528Food

• Looking for a purr-fect name: There are plans for a new cat cafe in downtown Concord. Entrepreneurs Star Chagnon ...

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Books and strawberries

260528Featured ContentFood

Time for the annual Strawberry Festival FLOW, the Friends of the Library Of Windham, who support the Nesmith Library, is ...

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Adventures in baking

260528Featured ContentFood

Sourdough has a life of its own April Repoza and her daughter Bailey own and operate Bigfoot Sourdough in Milford, ...

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Purple Fruit Bat

260528DrinkFood

I recently needed to develop a recipe for a cocktail based on the theme of a magical fruit bat, as ...

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Album Reviews 26/05/28

260528AlbumsPop

Satoko Fujii and Myra Melford, Katarahi (Rogueart Records) Recorded live in September 2024 at Jazz festival Leibnitz in Austria, this ...

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I Am Not a Robot, by Joanna Stern

260528BooksPop

(Harper, 282 pages) In 1965 an assistant professor of mathematics at Dartmouth University proposed to spend two summer months exploring ...

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Is God Is (R)

260528Film ReviewsPop

Twin sisters set off on a mission of vengeance in Is God Is, a film written and directed by first-time ...

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The Music Roundup 26/05/28

260528Music This Week

• Hard rockers: Multiple subgenres of heavy music converge at the Backwoods Metal Fest, with more than two dozen area ...

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Coming home

260528Featured ContentNightlife

Nashville story has a New Hampshire ending Amanda McCarthy is back in New Hampshire, after living and working in Nashville ...

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on the cover

It’s summer! Or at least, it’s the season of festivals and happenings that start Memorial Day weekend and offer up those summer vibes. In this week’s issue of the Hippo, we bring you oodles of summer events including fairs and festivals, art events, music festivals, outdoor and summer playhouse theater, nature events and more. Load up on sunscreen and get ready to head out for some summer fun.

Also on the cover Looking for some tasty fun? John Fladd serves up all the details on Manchester’s Taco Tour (next Thursday, May 28) and the Concord-based Sweet Springtime Stroll (this Saturday, May 23). See page 24 for those stories. John also talks to an organizer at the Rubber Duck Regatta in Nashua, part of four days of fun planned in the Gate City (page 23). Michael Witthaus also gets all the details about the ongoing Nashua International Sculpture Symposium. This year’s sculptors are working now on pieces that will become a part of the city’s landscape (page 20).

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News & Notes 26/05/21

260521Featured ContentNews

Memorial Day It’s a weekend of Memorial Day parades and celebrations. Here are a few: • The Amherst Memorial Day ...

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Sox still scuffling along

260521NewsSports

The Big Story – Baseball at the Quarter Turn: It has not been pretty for your Boston Red Sox. They’ve ...

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Quality of Life 26/05/21

260521NewsQuality Of Life

Fewer ODs As reported by WMUR in a May 14 online article, new data from the Centers for Disease Control ...

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This Week 26/05/21

260521NewsThis Week

Thursday, May 21 The Canterbury Shaker Village, 288 Shaker Road in Canterbury, will hold a Shaker Barn Dance tonight from ...

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Summer Guide 2026

260521Cover StoriesFeatured Content

It’s summer! Or, it’s “summer” — the state of mind we enter sometime around Memorial Day weekend, when we dig ...

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Meet the sculptors

260521Art & TheaterFeatured Content

Nashua International Sculpture Symposium offers access to artists In front of a revitalized Civil War-era cotton mill, four sculptors are ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/05/21

260521Family FunTreasure Hunt

Dear Donna, I have several of these metal figures. They belonged to my grandfather. Do you think they are safe ...

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Duckie race

260521Featured ContentOutdoorsThe Gardening Guy

Buy a six-quack and watch On Saturday, May 23, the Downtown Nashua Association will launch what it hopes will become ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/5/21

260521Food

• A new Aroma Joe’s: There is a new location of the coffee joint Aroma Joe’s at 700 Mast Road, ...

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Taco party downtown

260521Featured ContentFood

Manchester’s Taco Tour returns Manchester’s annual Taco Tour will take place Thursday, May 28, from 4 to 8 p.m. For ...

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Dessert walk

260521Food

Try a sample of treats at the Springtime Sweet Stroll “In a nutshell,” Emma Stetson, the owner of Wine on ...

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Double chocolate orange cranberry cookies

260521DrinkFood

1 cup (120 g) all-purpose flour ¾ cup (80 g) dark rye flour ½ cup (42 g) unsweetened cocoa powder ...

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Album Reviews 26/05/21

260521AlbumsPop

Simon Hanes, Gargantua (Pyroclastic Records) If you’ve already read the Playlist piece this week, you know I am presently besieged ...

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The Music Roundup 26/05/21

260521Music This Week

• Blues power: Until he stumbled into a Chicago nightclub in the early 1990s, Johnny Burgin planned to be a ...

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Blood harmony

260521Featured ContentNightlife

The Janzen Boys make first New England visit While anchored by steady acoustic bass, joyful strumming and finger-picked flourishes, the ...

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on the cover

Whether you’re trying to decide what to do during the upcoming Memorial Day weekend or planning some summer staycation fun, this week’s cover story is for you. Michael Witthaus compiled a list of some area museums — from familiar locales like the Currier Museum of the Art in Manchester to spots with a more specific interest, such as the New Hampshire Telephone Museum in Warner. The image on the cover and above is “Conscious” a piece by Batu Siharulidze at the Andres Institute of Art, the sculpture park in Brookline. Photo courtesy the Institute.

Also on the cover Michael also takes a look at the Amoskeag Quilters Guild Show slated for this weekend in Manchester (page 13). John Fladd talks to the organizers of the Concord Kiwanis Club’s Spring Fair, also running this weekend (page 15). And, it’s the tastiest season of the year — Greek food festival season! First up is St. Philip Greek Orthodox Church in Nashua and their annual Greek Food Festival, which will be serving up gyros, pastitsio, dolmades and more on Friday and Saturday (see page 16).

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News & Notes 26/05/14

260514Featured ContentNews

New mural in Manchester Manchester is slated to get a new mural on Saturday, May 16, at “the embankment along ...

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Quality of Life 26/05/14

260514NewsQuality Of Life

Let’s buy one and dress it in a hat and tie As reported by Manchester InkLink in a May 7 ...

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From bad to worse

260514NewsSports

Top Story – Celtics Playoff Loss Got Worse: Just when you thought the embarrassment of blowing a 3-1 series lead ...

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This Week 26/05/14

260514NewsThis Week

Friday, May 15 The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests will “celebrate the Merrimack Floodplain All Persons Trail ...

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Granite State Curiousities

260514Cover StoriesFeatured Content

From semiquincentennial to superheroes, a guide to regional museums One of the great advantages of living in New Hampshire is ...

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Stitched together

260514Art & TheaterFeatured Content

Amoskeag Quilters Guild gathers for biennial bash Every other year the Amoskeag Quilters Guild holds a two-day event to showcase ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/05/14

260514Family FunTreasure Hunt

Dear Donna, I bought these old bingo cards at the end of the flea market season. I’m hoping you can ...

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Kiwanis carnival for kids

260514Featured ContentOutdoorsThe Gardening Guy

Where to find your garden additions Get new flowers and greenery for the growing season at area garden clubs and ...

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Kiddie Pool 26/05/14

260514Family FunOutdoors

Family fun for whenever Fest fun • The 31st annual Children & Arts Festival in downtown Peterborough will take place ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/5/14

260514Food

• Doughnuts! The NH Doughnut Co. has opened a new store in Concord at 89 Fort Eddy Road (715-5097, nhdoughnutco.com) ...

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Greek food fest season starts now

260514Featured ContentFood

Nashua church gets the baklava rolling According to Jamie Pappas, a co-chair of this weekend’s Greek Food Festival put on ...

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Set your PoutineFest alarm

260514Food

Tickets sell out fast for this big food event “I call it the Poutine Super Bowl,” Tim Beaulieu said, “especially ...

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Enthusiast & professional

260514Food

Northeast Coffee Festival spans the coffee spectrum Karen Bassett is the owner of Wayfarer Coffee Roasters in Laconia. She is ...

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Superman Cocktail

260514DrinkFood

This drink is all about appearances. It is over-the-top to the point where it feels like it’s missing its sparklers, ...

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Album Reviews 26/05/14

260514AlbumsPop

Toadies, The Charmer (Spaceflight Records) I mentioned this album the other week in mindless passing, which is of course how ...

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The Music Roundup 26/05/14

260514Music This Week

• Dolly smart: Since emerging from a hiatus in 2017, indie-rock stalwarts The Mammals are still going strong. Last year’s ...

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Awesome Aughts

260514Featured ContentNightlife

Post-millennium All Your Friends party hits Nashua While Napster and LimeWire were treating the record business like termites attacking a ...

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on the cover

Vanilla is a flavor superstar. When it’s not the spotlight of ice cream or macarons (like the treats from Savvy Sweets and Treats above and on the cover, photo courtesy Ashley Savoy), it’s making other flavors even better, as in the way it adds layers to the Robust Vanilla Porter at Great North Aleworks. John Fladd takes a look at this flavor that is anything but ordinary.

Also on the cover Hark, a faire! This week and next enjoy the living history of New Hampshire’s Renaissance Faire. Michael Witthaus gets the details in the story on page 14. It’s plant sale season! Find some of the upcoming garden club plant sales this weekend and beyond on page 19. Find live music at area restaurants, breweries, pubs and other locales in our Music This Week, which starts on page 32. For an example of the shows you’ll find, check out Michael’s story about Traveller, a band offering a Chris Stapleton experience (page 30).

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News & Notes 26/05/07

260507Featured ContentNews

Energy week NH Energy Week continues through Friday, May 8, according to a press release from Clean Energy NH. Throughout ...

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Quality of Life 26/05/07

260507NewsQuality Of Life

Full tank, empty wallet According to a May 4 press release from online fuel price tracker GasBuddy.com, New Hampshire gasoline ...

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Lost weekend for Boston

260507NewsSports

The Big Story – Loserville Weekend: Well, the Bruins had their season ended with a 4-1 loss to Buffalo on ...

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This Week 26/05/07

260507NewsThis Week

Friday, May 8 Catch Bluz Chile performing their New England blues tonight at 8 p.m. at Riley’s Place, 29B Mont ...

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Your Favorite Flavor is Vanilla

260507Cover StoriesFeatured Content

A look at a complex, elegant, comforting and not at all ordinary culinary star We take vanilla for granted. According ...

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Olde World Fun

260507Art & TheaterFeatured Content

NH Renaissance Faire returns Long before Danny Scialdone became general manager of the New Hampshire Renaissance Faire, he was better ...

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Late spring chores

260507OutdoorsThe Gardening Guy

Clean your tools and seize the weeds Spring arrives in New England in fits and starts: hot and sunny one ...

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Shop for spring

260507Outdoors

Spring Craft Market offers pre-Mother’s Day shopping One of the less obvious signs of spring is when craft shows come ...

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Plant sale season

260507Featured ContentOutdoorsThe Gardening Guy

Where to find your garden additions Get new flowers and greenery for the growing season at area garden clubs and ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/05/07

260507Family FunTreasure Hunt

Dear Donna, I have a hanging lamp shown in my basement. It was with the house we bought in 1998 ...

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Kiddie Pool 26/05/07

260507Family FunOutdoors

Family fun for whenever Storytime • Wonderland Books and Toys, 245 Maple St., No. 12, in Manchester, will hold its ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/5/07

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• French wine, French dining: There will be a wine dinner, “La Belle Saison: A French Wine & Culinary Experience,” ...

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No gluten, no problem

260507Featured ContentFood

Bonne The Baker wants to give you better options Bonne Richards has had some memorably bad gluten-free baked goods. “I ...

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Strictly fudge, many flavors

260507Food

Fudge following grows from grandma’s recipe Dorothy O’Rourke runs a small candy company called Granite Bay Fudge. “I had a ...

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Orange Muffins with Grape-Nuts

260507DrinkFood

From the 1930 Calumet Baking Book 2 cups (240 g) all purpose flour 1½ teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt ...

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Album Reviews 26/05/07

260507AlbumsPop

Ted Lucas, Images of Life [Disc 1: Strange Mysterious Sounds (1965-1970)] (Third Man Records) Forgive me for being overly complicated ...

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Python’s Kiss, by Louise Erdrich

260507BooksPop

(Harper, 222 pages) The titular short story in Python’s Kiss is ostensibly about a dog named Nero whose job is ...

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Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival, by Trina Moyles

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(Pegasus Books, 297 pages) When she was 5, Trina Moyles’ father brought home a black bear. A wildlife biologist in ...

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (PG)

260507Film ReviewsPop

Get twice the princesses, twice the Bowsers, more sidekick-y characters, more video game beep-boops and big loud everything in The ...

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The Music Roundup 26/05/07

260507Music This Week

• Civil roar: With a 2025 concept album inspired by George Washington’s Rules of Civility, Paul Gilbert continues his WROC ...

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Whiskey man

260507Featured ContentNightlife

Chris Stapleton tribute act Traveller hits Riley’s Place Traveller is not Alec Antobenedetto’s first tribute act. There’s the Allman Brothers-based ...

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on the cover

With this year’s garden plans, go local! Gardening Guy Henry Homeyer offers his recommendations for native plants that will add beauty to your garden and also offer benefits to local and visiting birds, pollinators and other wildlife, such as the butterfly in Henry’s photo above and on the cover.

Also on the coveR Saturday is Free Comic Book Day! Michael Witthaus gets the details on how area comic book stores are celebrating (page 12). We have team coverage of Concord’s new season of First Friday events, which offer food, entertainment and shopping in the downtown on the first Fridays of most months through November. Michael looks at the music on page 22 and John Fladd takes a look at the food truck plan on page 16. And if this week’s cover story has you inspired to tackle your outdoors, John also gets the details on this weekend’s New Hampshire Farm, Forest & Garden Expo (page 15).

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News & Notes 26/04/30

260430Featured ContentNews

Text scam New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella sent out an April 22 press release “warning residents about an ...

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Quality of Life 26/04/30

260430NewsQuality Of Life

Spectacularly beautiful murals for kids From April 16 to April 26, the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua hosted ...

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Sox fire Alex Cora

260430NewsSports

The Big Story – Cora Gets the Axe: It takes something big to knock the NFL draft and crucial playoff ...

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This Week 26/04/30

260430NewsThis Week

Friday, May 1 The curtain rises tonight on To Kill a Mockingbird, an adaptation of the Harper Lee novel by ...

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Meet the Locals

260430Cover StoriesFeatured Content

Native plants support wildlife and offer beauty in your garden In recent years there has been a real upsurge in ...

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Twice as nice

260430Art & TheaterFeatured Content

For Free Comic Book Day, industry change means more for fans It’s counterintuitive that bankruptcy would make a company’s big ...

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Kiddie Pool 26/04/30

260430Family FunOutdoors

Family fun for whenever Fest fun • Register now for the Woolly Wonder Fest at the Joppa Hill Educational Farm, ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/04/30

260430Family FunTreasure Hunt

Dear Donna, I have an assortment of wooden balls — croquet balls and others that are larger with no painting ...

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Lambs, lathes and lumberjacks

260430Featured ContentOutdoors

Lots to see and do at the NH Farm, Forest & Garden Expo Kelly Bryer is the manager of the ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/04/30

260430Food

• Fashionably wine-y: Wine on Main (9 N. Main St., Concord, 897-5828, wineonmainnh.com) will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ...

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Tequila and community

260430Featured ContentFood

Arts Alley hosts a celebration of agave The tequila-themed event, called Agave in the Alley, will take place from 6 ...

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Plant-based May

260430Featured ContentFood

The Vegan Chef Challenge returns to Manchester During the month of May a number of Manchester restaurants will compete in ...

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Food trucks on Friday

260430Featured ContentFood

Concord’s First Fridays kick off another season Beginning Friday, May 1, Main Street in Concord will host a celebration on ...

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Tom Collins

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2 ounces botanical gin – This time, I went with Collective Arts Plum and Blackthorn Gin, and I do not ...

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Album Reviews 26/04/30

260430AlbumsPop

Khun Narin Electric Phin Band, “Sut Sanaen”/“Poet Wong Pt. 1” (Innovative Leisure Records) This multi-generational psychedelic ensemble from rural Thailand ...

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The Music Roundup 26/04/30

260430Music This Week

• Laugh learning: Many comics began in education. Share It with the Class – A Teachers Comedy Show showcases four ...

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Downtown sounds

260430Featured ContentNightlife

Concord First Friday 2026 unveils six months of music The rich music scene in Concord will be on display through ...

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