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On the cover

Candy corn is everywhere right now. Before it vanishes (only to reappear next October) John Fladd offers a look at this ubiquitous seasonal candy and its many uses.

Also on the cover Michael Witthaus offers adult Halloween celebrants a list of Halloween weekend concerts and parties (page 23). John gets the details on the United Way of Greater Nashua’s Care-E-Oke fundraising karaoke event (page 14). Michael talks with magician Michael OJ about his “Enchanted Victorian Evening” (on page 12).

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News & Notes 26/10/29

261029Featured ContentNews

Vote Tuesday, Nov. 3, is election day for New Hampshire governor, U.S. senator, U.S. representatives, several other state offices and ...

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Quality of Life 26/10/29

261029NewsQuality Of Life

A sudden enthusiasm for hockey? According to an Oct. 18 online article at CICNews.com, if your family has lived in ...

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C’s go 1-1 in Week 1

261029NewsSports

The Big Story – Celtics’ Familiar Opening Day Loss: Celtics coach Slow Joe Mazzulla didn’t make it through even Day ...

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This Week 26/10/29

261029NewsThis Week

Thursday, Oct. 29 It’s a Scare & Skate today from 5 to 8 p.m. at Remix Skate & Event Center, ...

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Candy Corn

261029Cover StoriesFeatured Content

A lively defense of this singular seasonal treat Candy corn is still with us. For 350 days a year, candy ...

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Magic man

261029Art & Theater

Victorian evening of tricks in Tilton Michael Oldziej is a professional magician, but he’s also quick to point out that ...

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What’s your go-to song?

261029Featured ContentOutdoors

United Way of Greater Nashua holds its annual Care-E-Oke event The United Way of Greater Nashua has developed a reputation ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/10/29

261029Family FunTreasure Hunt

Dear Donna, I have questions about a pin I have. Not sure of the age but it says Mexico on ...

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Kiddie Pool 26/10/29

261029Family FunOutdoors

Family fun for whenever Treats! • The Manchester Police Athletic League will hold a Trunk-or-Treat on Thursday, Oct. 29, from ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/10/29

261029Food

• When your zinfandel has a planetary aspect: Vine 32 Wine and Graze Bar (Bedford Square, 25 S. River Road, ...

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Crafting a third space

261029Featured ContentFood

Gnomies offers German food and relaxation Susan Riedl has been practicing describing her business in a sentence or two. “I ...

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All about the mix

261029Featured ContentFood

ChrisMix seeks the perfect balance of flavors in a great toffee For Chris Gately, the owner of ChrisMix Toffee in ...

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Irish Maid

261029DrinkFood

2 to 3 slices of cucumber 2 ounces Irish whiskey – I like Natterjack, and it’s very good, but truthfully, ...

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The Music Roundup 26/10/29

261029Music This Week

By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com • Towering: Canadian singer-songwriter Garnet Rogers brings his deep baritone, deft finger picking and rich storytelling to ...

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Album Reviews 26/10/29

261029AlbumsPop

Lightheaded Collective, Inner Frequencies (self-released) Well, isn’t this a trip, a nine-piece mixed-genre band from the New Hampshire seacoast that ...

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Too Sensitive, by Sasha Hamdani

261029BooksPop

(Flatiron, 283 pages) Two years ago Dr. Sasha Hamdani filmed a TED talk in Kansas City on the subject “How ...

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Oddball roundup

261029Film ReviewsPop

A look at a few recent weirdo movies It’s a week of oddities. Klara and the Sun (in theaters now) ...

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The Music Roundup 26/10/29

261029Music This Week

By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com • Towering: Canadian singer-songwriter Garnet Rogers brings his deep baritone, deft finger picking and rich storytelling to ...

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Witching hour

261029Featured ContentNightlifePop

Halloween’s on a Saturday and there are plenty of parties With Saturday to party and Sunday to recover, it doesn’t ...

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On the cover

Michael Witthaus talks to area ghost hunters about their experiences and how they got into investigating the paranormal. Above photo: PI-NE at America’s Stonehenge. Photo from Michael Witthaus.

Also on the cover Head to downtown Concord for the Halloween Howl on Friday, then swing down to Nashua for the Monster Mash on Saturday (see the story on page 14). In Manchester, visit the Witch of Weston Tower (page 15). Get your tickets for Distiller’s Showcase the first Thursday in November (page 16).

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News & Notes 26/10/22

261022Featured ContentNews

Learn CPR October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month and the American Red Cross is urging people to learn CPR ...

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Quality of Life 26/10/22

261022NewsQuality Of Life

It’s already flu season According to an Oct. 16 online article by New Hampshire Public Radio, “Flu season has started ...

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World Series starts Friday

261022NewsSports

Big Story – World Series: The $130 million payroll Brewers gave the Players Association fresh ammo in advance of the ...

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This Week 26/10/22

261022NewsThis Week

Thursday, Oct. 22 Greater Manchester Restaurant Week starts today, according to palacetheatre.org/restaurant-week and our story in the Oct. 15 issue ...

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Granite State Ghost Hunters

261022Cover StoriesFeatured Content

A look at NH’s paranormal investigators Up a slope called Mystery Hill, amidst stone tunnels and megaliths with eerie names ...

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Rooted in place

261022Art & Theater

Ethan Tapper brings The Forest Year to Gibson’s When Ethan Tapper began the follow-up to his New England Book Award ...

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Twice the tricks, twice the treats

261022Featured ContentOutdoors

Prizes for puppies and parties on Main Streets Both Concord and Nashua will celebrate Halloween with downtown celebrations this weekend ...

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View from the top

261022Featured ContentOutdoors

Witch of Weston Tower greets visitors with games and fun By Chelsea Spearlistings@hippopress.com The McIntyre Ski Area’s annual Witch of ...

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Kiddie Pool 26/10/22

261022Family FunOutdoors

Family fun for whenever Halloween fun • Charmingfare Farm in Candia continues its Children’s Trick or Treat Saturday, Oct. 24, ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/10/22

261022Food

• 27 Teas has reopened: In an Oct. 8 press release, Manchester tea seller 27 Teas announced it has reopened ...

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A spirited evening

261022Featured ContentFood

Distiller’s Showcase is the culmination of Spirits Week The Distiller’s Showcase, which will take place Thursday, Nov. 5, in Manchester, ...

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BBQ & booze

261022Featured ContentFood

Liquor commission pairs wines and bourbon with eats and fall fun The New Hampshire Liquor Commission will launch a new ...

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Marlborough Pie

261022Food

This is a very old-fashioned New England pie that manages to be both an apple pie and a cream pie ...

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Album Reviews 26/10/22

261022AlbumsPop

She Past Away, Mizantrop (Metropolis Records) The fun-but-depressing part of covering the goth rock sphere is that the artists can ...

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The Unhaunting, by Micaiah Johnson

261022BooksPop

(G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 270 pages) When I was a kid, each October I scoured the library shelves, looking for children’s ...

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Romance, spookiness

261022Film ReviewsPop

Films in the two fall flavors This latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (in theaters now) really highlights ...

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The Music Roundup 26/10/22

261022Music This Week

By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com • Jerry’s man: After joining the Jerry Garcia Band in 1980, Melvin Seals spent 15 years with ...

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Time traveling

261022Featured ContentNightlifePop

He Is Legend bring career-spanning show to Jewel For more than two decades, He Is Legend has been one of ...

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On the cover

We are in the thick of the season of Halloween events with options for everyone from the scary-movie fans to the little kids looking for less-spooky fare. In this week’s cover story, we offer a rundown of Halloween and fall-themed events for the next few weeks including haunted attractions, Halloween parties for kids, Halloween parties for adults, movie screenings, theatrical productions and, of course, your annual dose of Rocky Horror Picture Show events.

Also on the cover Goffstown holds its annual celebration of fall and giant gourds at the Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off and Regatta (page 20). Michael Witthaus talks with comedian Kathleen Madigan ahead of her show Friday at Hampton Beach’s Casino Ballroom (page 30). Find more music this weekend and beyond in the Music This Week listing, which starts on page 32.

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News & Notes 26/10/15

261015Featured ContentNews

Peregrine falcon news A New Hampshire Audubon newsletter for October had this update on the peregrine falcon breeding season: “Peregrine ...

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Quality of Life 26/10/15

261015NewsQuality Of Life

I know marrows, and that is a big marrow! According to an Oct. 6 press release issued by the Deerfield ...

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Brown out as C’s start

261015NewsSports

The Big Story – Celtics Are Back: The new-look Celtics open their season Tuesday vs. Detroit. It’ll give Celtic Nation ...

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This Week 26/10/15

261015NewsThis Week

Thursday, Oct. 15 New Hampshire Film Festival, nhfilmfestival.com, will take place at the Music Hall and other locations in Portsmouth ...

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Halloween 2026

261015Cover StoriesFeatured Content

Your guide to scary movie screenings, local festivals, downtown trick-or-treats, haunted houses and more spooky season fun for all ages ...

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Break the rope

261015Art & Theater

Cirque Kalabanté brings kinetic World of Words to Concord As Cirque Kalabanté’s new show begins, a thick rope splits the ...

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Pumpkin party in Goffstown

261015Featured ContentOutdoors

Pies, pets and pool plops on the Piscataquog Goffstown’s Pumpkin Regatta is not just another pumpkin festival, Tina Lawton explained ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/10/15

261015Family FunTreasure Hunt

Hello, Donna, I have a “what is it” question. Hoping you can help to let me know. These wooden rollers ...

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There is plenty to do in the garden now

261015OutdoorsThe Gardening Guy

It will soon be time to gather up your leaves and store them for use in the garden. If you ...

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Tradition!

261015Featured ContentFood

Manchester’s downtown celebrates another restaurant week At least once each year, the Palace Theatre in Manchester works with local restaurants ...

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Small bites, big cause

261015Featured ContentFood

Pink Tie Gala raises money for the American Cancer Society The American Cancer Society’s annual Pink Tie Gala at the ...

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The Broomstick

261015DrinkFood

Few foods are as divisive in these hard times as black licorice. Otherwise easygoing people will be taking part in ...

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Album Reviews 26/10/15

261015AlbumsPop

Jess Williamson, A Mile South Of Heaven (Mexican Summer Records) This country singer-songwriter has had plenty of success since leaving ...

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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses, by s.e. smith

261015BooksPop

(HarperOne, 320 pages) The business of burying a loved one is much different in Greece than in America. Because of ...

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Let’s have fun!

261015Film ReviewsPop

In praise of fun messes and silly horror This week, I appreciate the crazy swing and the “let’s just have ...

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The Music Roundup 26/10/15

261015Music This Week

By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com • Marking ten: Neptune, the debut disc from indie-folk duo Tall Heights, was released at the same ...

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Beach laughs

261015Featured ContentNightlifePop

Kathleen Madigan returns to Casino Ballroom Like a lot of people, Kathleen Madigan spends her autumn Sundays parked in front ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/10/22

261015Family FunTreasure Hunt

Hi, Donna, I am very curious about this item, which I believe is a snuff box. It belonged to my ...

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On the cover

WNBA playoffs, MLB post-season, NBA pre-season and season start, NFL and college football, NWSL and MSL and college soccer and the NHL — whatever your sport, there are games aplenty in October and games mean game days and game day means snacks. In this week’s cover, John Fladd presents some good game day eats — some hot savory dips plus some dippables to add to your spread of chips and veggies.

Also on the cover, Milford holds its annual Pumpkin Festival (page 13). Warner holds its annual Fall Foliage Festival (page 15). Sunstone Brewing mixes Renaissance Faire and Oktoberfest fun.

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News & Notes 26/10/08

261008Featured ContentNews

Ed Aloise Edward Aloise, the Manchester restaurateur who opened Republic Cafe & Bistro and Campo Enoteca and before that Café ...

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Quality of Life 26/10/08

261008NewsQuality Of Life

Canobie Lake is running low According to a September briefing from 20 Windham lake-front abutters, presented to the Windham Board ...

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Sox bow out badly

261008NewsSports

The Big Story – Sox Go Down Hard:Well, the Red Sox season ended pretty much the way it started — ...

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This Week 26/10/08

261008NewsThis Week

Friday, Oct. 9 Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Live will be presented at the Capitol Center for ...

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Game Day Goodness

261008Cover StoriesFeatured Content

Cheesy dips and tasty accompaniments to make any snack session a party In October, the MLB post-season, NBA pre-season and ...

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Mapping it out

261008Art & TheaterFeatured Content

Concord Arts Market wraps Arts in the Park season The other day someone asked Jessica Livingston if she planned weddings ...

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Found a home

261008Art & Theater

Arts Build Community moves to Queen City Center After 17 years as a perpetual pop-up, Arts Build Community now has ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/10/08

261008Family FunTreasure Hunt

Hi, Donna. I really like your Treasure Hunt column. I wanted to respond to your invitation to send pictures of ...

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Late fall color in the garden

261008OutdoorsThe Gardening Guy

In baseball terms, this is not the last inning for our gardens. It’s more like the seventh-inning stretch. Many flowers ...

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Fall fun on the Oval

261008Featured ContentOutdoors

Milford has pumpkins and plenty more It is pumpkin festival season. Wade Campbell is the president of the Granite Town ...

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Run, or walk, or ride the rides

261008Outdoors

Warner Fall Foliage Festival returns By Chelsea Spearlistings@hippopress.com Want to celebrate the height of fall foliage season and help raise ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/10/08

261008Food

• Where to park when dining out: Looking for a parking spot in downtown Manchester so you can visit a ...

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Grab your cloak and head to the brewery

261008Featured ContentFood

Oktoberfest Ren Faire returns to Sunstone Because it is a Viking-themed brewpub, Sunstone Brewing in Londonderry threw a combination renaissance ...

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When life gives you cucumbers

261008Food

Pickles are the point at Provocative Pickle Co. The story of how Whitney Leyland started The Provocative Pickle Co. is ...

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Fall Fruit Crumble

261008Food

You’ve got your crisps, your crumbles, your slumps (yes, I know, but they are delicious), your brown bettys, your cobblers ...

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Album Reviews 26/10/08

261008AlbumsPop

Remy Wolf, Mud (Island Records) There’s a possibility that Sia Furler’s voice is too obscure (or dated; after all, it’s ...

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Immortal Rose by Alexandra Bracken

261008BooksPop

(Avon, 496 pages) I may have picked up Alexandra Bracken’s Immortal Rose for its gorgeous cover and pretty stenciled edges, ...

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Secrets!

261008Film ReviewsPop

Half-baked but fully fun Verity Anne Hathaway understands how to do the most. In Verity (in theaters), Hathaway plays Verity ...

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The Music Roundup 26/10/08

261008Music This Week

By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com • Capitol girl: When she was a Washington, D.C., teenager, Midge — the stage name of Megan ...

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Finale, finally

261008Featured ContentNightlifePop

Pop-punk band Promise Game plays last show at Shaskeen A few weeks ago the members of Promise Game met in ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/10/08

261008Food

• Where to park when dining out: Looking for a parking spot in downtown Manchester so you can visit a ...

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On the cover

Celebrate fall with, well, all the fall things. In this week’s Hippo, John Fladd takes a look at apple picking, pumpkin picking, Oktoberfest celebrations and corn mazes.

Also on the cover The New Hampshire Book Festival returns to Concord (page 18). Get another dose of NH fall fun at the Deerfield Fair (page 19). Hippo’s advertising section presents a guide to fall happenings in the Hippo Harvest Map.

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News & Notes 26/10/01

261001Featured ContentNews

Follow-up Some follow-up to two news stories from last week that made the QOL: • The Manchester Police Department has ...

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Quality of Life 26/10/01

261001NewsQuality Of Life

Maybe just burn a pile of money, instead As reported in a Sept. 20 online article by WMUR, the current ...

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Yanks and Sox meet again

261001NewsSports

The Big Story – Sox and Yanks Face Off Again: It’s playoff Round 7 of baseball’s greatest rivalry. And since ...

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This Week 26/10/01

261001NewsThis Week

Thursday, Oct. 1 Bach’s Lunch, a series of lectures and performances, returns for a new season at Concord Community Music ...

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All the Fall Things

261001Cover StoriesFeatured Content

Pick your own pumpkins and apples, find adventure in a corn maze and raise a glass to Oktoberfest Bushel and ...

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Welcome to the Dream House

261001Art & TheaterFeatured Content

Pepe Mar makes his New England debut at the Currier When Pepe Mar toured the Currier Museum of Art’s galleries ...

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Once upon a time in Concord

261001Art & Theater

NH Book Festival with Jodi Picoult, Jeff Kinney and 60-plus authors The first New Hampshire Book Festival in 2024 began ...

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Fair play

261001Outdoors

Deerfield Fair celebrates its 150th By Chelsea Spearlistings@hippopress.com In 1876 the town of Deerfield held its first fair in honor ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/10/01

261001Family FunTreasure Hunt

Hi, Donna, I have an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and tapes that belonged to my husband. He passed away many ...

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What would Molly Stark wear?

261001Featured ContentOutdoors

See fashions from the past and more at MHA show Kristy Ellsworth is preparing to strip to her underwear for ...

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Kiddie Pool 26/10/01

261001Family FunOutdoors

Family fun for whenever Hands-on fun • The Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains will hold The Expo ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/10/01

261001Food

• Book club with wine: Wine on Main (9 N. Main St., Concord, 897-5828, wineonmainnh.com) will host its next book ...

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Showing off chocolate from near and far

261001Featured ContentFood

Annual expo returns to Manchester Tickets are on sale online for the annual Chocolate Expo in Manchester, happening Oct. 11 ...

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What was missing was a bakery

261001Food

Sugar Street Buns keeps it local in Milford “We are a bun bakery,” said Alyssa Guzman, the owner and head ...

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Clever pear mocktail

261001Food

1 ounce pear syrup (see below) Juice of 1 lime (about 1 ounce) + the carcass of half the lime ...

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Album Reviews 26/10/01

261001AlbumsPop

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin, Second Attempt (Libra Records) Jazz artist Fujii is known for her world-class improvisational piano work and ...

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Cloudthief, by Nathaniel Rich

261001BooksPop

(MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 281 pages) Some books take a while to grow on you; some endear themselves right from ...

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Twilight alums

261001Film ReviewsPop

A look at the latest from Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart plus more recent releases Primetime, a recently-released-in-theaters look at ...

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The Music Roundup 26/10/01

261001Music This Week

By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com • Red Band: Two very different interpretations of Americana are on display as Matt Litzinger performs three ...

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Victory lap

261001Featured ContentNightlifePop

Feat’s Last Farewell hits New Hampshire Though they’re still at the top of their game musically, Little Feat’s Oct. 2 ...

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Oon the cover

8 Shakespeare walked into a bar — OK, it’s more like, a theater company is bringing staged readings of Shakespeare to a local brewery. And other area theater companies are offering up murder mysteries. Musicals this fall go way beyond the classics — you can catch two productions of Carrie The Musical. Michael Witthaus looks at the screen-to-stage adaptations, new takes on classic tales and more headed to area stages this season. Photo above, on the cover and on page 8 is of Quinn Spiewak in a VanGuard Shakespeare performance in Salem, Mass. This courtesy photo is by Glenn Provost, founder of Stage of Fools, who has performed with VanGuard, which he calls comparable to his Shakesbeer series running this season at Stark Brewing Co.in Manchester.

Also on the cover: Michael Witthaus talks to John Ondrasik, aka Five For Fighting, ahead of his show with a string quartet in Concord on Friday (page 22). John Fladd talks to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Concord about their one-day A Taste of Greece (page 18). And the Canterbury Shaker Village shares its history in objects (page 14).

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News & Notes 26/09/24

260924Featured ContentNews

Color Main Street Coloring Main Street returns to downtown Nashua on Saturday, Sept. 26, on Main Street from the Main ...

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Quality of Life 26/09/24

260924NewsQuality Of Life

Bridge closed On Monday, Sept. 21, a routine inspection by the NH DOT found “potential structural deficiencies” in Manchester’s Queen ...

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Baseball playoffs dead ahead

260924NewsSports

The Big Story – Sox Headed for Postseason: The good news is, after a truly dreadful first three months of ...

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This Week 26/09/24

260924NewsThis Week

Friday, Sept. 25 Catch the second to last Final Friday this season in downtown Manchester today between 4 and 8 ...

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Drama!

260924Cover StoriesFeatured Content

Find Shakespeare at a brewery, spooky tales, murder mysteries, updated classics and more theater this season By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com From ...

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Made in New Hampshire

260924Art & TheaterFeatured Content

Sci-fi series Resonance develops in Derry By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com A few weeks ago, New London Barn Playhouse presented a four-day ...

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History in objects

260924Featured ContentOutdoors

Show and tell at the Canterbury Shaker Village By John Fladdjfladd@hippopress.com According to Garrett Bethmann of the Canterbury Shaker Village ...

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Treasure Hunt 26/09/24

260924Family FunTreasure Hunt

Hi, Donna, My wife and I own a frame shop and we acquired this piece many years ago. I sent ...

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One day of Greek goodies

260924Featured ContentFood

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church will hold its annual Greek Food Festival By John Fladdjfladd@hippopress.com On Saturday, Sept. 26, the ...

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The Weekly Dish 26/09/24

260924Food

By John Fladdjfladd@hippopress.com • NH Brewfest has been canceled: In a Sept. 10 press release, the Prescott Park Arts Festival, ...

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Album Reviews 26/09/24

260924AlbumsPop

The Church, Lacuna (Cooking Vinyl Records) U.S. rock fans will — or more likely won’t — know this Australian gloom-pop ...

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Strings and Superman

260924Featured ContentNightlifePop

Five for Fighting orchestral comes to town By Michael Witthaus mwitthaus@hippopress.com Fittingly given their moniker, when Five For Fighting’s 2000 ...

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The Music Roundup 26/09/24

260924Music This Week

By Michael Witthausmwitthaus@hippopress.com • Princely sound: Get funky with LoVeSeXy, New England’s top Prince tribute band that also covers Purple ...

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