Past Issues – Page 6

Halloween 2025 — 10/16/2025

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Local arts organizations of all stripes suffered funding cuts this year. You can keep the scene afloat — and bring more color, music and live performance into your life — by helping to support your favorite arts organizations. Michael Witthaus talks to folks in the arts scene to find out how to pitch in. Above and on the cover, “Sassy Sarah Vaughan” by Darren Taylor, on display now at the Glimpse Gallery in Concord.

Also on the cover Nashua turns its downtown sidewalks into a life-sized coloring book (page 14). Milford celebrates the pumpkin — and the spooky season (page 18). And if you’re lucky, this may be a long weekend. So check out some live music. For ticketed events, see the Concert listings on page 30. For shows with local faves at area breweries and restaurants, see the Music This Week listing starting on page 27.

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News & Notes 25/10/16

A graphic the shape of the state of New Hampshire, filled in with the New Hampshire flag made up of the crest of New Hampshire on a blue field.

251016 Featured Content News

Arts awards Gov. Kelly Ayotte handed out the 2025 New Hampshire Governor’s Arts Awards at the Executive Council chambers, according ...

Three straight wins for Pats

251016 News Sports

The Big Story – Pats Are Back: The clearest sign they’re headed in the right direction is that the sense ...

Quality of Life 25/10/16

251016 News Quality Of Life

More bad news about water As reported by WMUR in an Oct. 9 online article, New Hampshire’s drought has reached ...

This Week 25/10/16

people in the string section of orchestra sitting on stage, wearing black, playing cellos, in front of audience

251016 Featured Content News This Week

Thursday, Oct. 16 Catch a guided tour of the exhibit of serigraph prints “Passion for Progress: Corita Kent and The ...

Halloween 2025

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251016 Cover Stories Featured Content

Your guide to haunted attractions, downtown celebrations, scary movies, kid-friendly events and more spooky season fun Halloween is more than ...

Singing Bard

two young actors dressed in renaissance costumes posing back to back with arms crossed over their chests, girl looking annoyed and boy smiling

251016 Art & Theater Featured Content

Children’s Theatre Project’s Something Rotten spoofs Shakespeare When the cast of Something Rotten! Jr. steps on stage at Concord Auditorium ...

Treasure Hunt 25/10/16

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251016 Family Fun Treasure Hunt

Hi, Donna. I have a full-size antique brass bed that I would like to sell. I was hoping you would ...

The Weekly Dish 25/10/16

251016 Food

News from the local food scene • Cupcakes! Popular bakery food truck Clyde’s Cupcakes (583-4850, facebook.com/clydescupcakes) has opened a storefront ...

Pumpkins to eat, pumpkins to float in

people in small boats made of giant pumpkins, dressed in halloween costumes, as they paddle down a river

251016 Featured Content Food

Goffstown holds its annual Pumpkin Regatta Saturday, Oct. 18, and Sunday, Oct. 19 mark Goffstown’s 24th Annual Pumpkin Regatta, so ...

Hot from the pizza oven

251016 Food

Simply Fired NH turns a home project into a local fave Seth L’Heureux takes pizza-making personally. It’s almost impossible to ...

Tutti Frutti Ice Cream

light colored ice cream with chunks of dark red fruit marbled throughout, scooped into fancy cocktail glass, small container of ice cream on counter behind glass

251016 Drink Food

1 20-ounce can of crushed pineapple, drained. Juice of 1 small lemon ¾ cup (150 g) sugar 2¼ cups (510 ...

Album Reviews 25/10/16

Patricia Brennan, Of The Near And Far album cover and Holy Wars, “Metamorphosis” album cover

251016 Albums Pop

Patricia Brennan, Of The Near And Far (Pyroclastic Records) The only reason you don’t see a lot of vibraphone-jazz reviews ...

All the Way to the River, Elizabeth Gilbert

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251016 Books Pop

(Riverhead, 400 pages) Elizabeth Gilbert is not known as a humor writer, but a few pages into her latest book ...

The Music Roundup 25/10/16

251016 Music This Week

• Guitar man: Led by a Grammy-winning Country Music Hall of Famer, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives return for ...

Fresh laughs

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251016 Featured Content Nightlife

Juston McKinney films new special One thing fans of comedian Juston McKinney can count on is never seeing the same ...

Buy Art! — 10/09/2025

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News & Notes 25/10/09

251009 Featured Content News

Meatball recall Marketside Linguine with Beef Meatballs & Marinara Sauce produced by FreshRealm and sold at Walmart stores is recalled ...

Sox head to vacation

251009 News Sports

The Big Story – 2025 Ends for Sox: It ended in the worst place of all, at Yankee Stadium, where ...

Quality of Life 25/10/09

251009 News Quality Of Life

Yeah but what about ‘Baconchester’? ‘Baconcord’? In an Oct. 2 press release, New Hampshire Lottery described the return of its ...

This Week 25/10/09

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251009 Featured Content News This Week

Thursday, Oct. 9 New Hampshire Humanities will hold its annual celebration at the BNH Stage (16 S. Main St., Concord, ...

Buy Art!

mixed media artwork, painted stylized portrait of black woman singing into microphone, painted over collage of newspaper pieces

251009 Cover Stories Featured Content

And other ways to help keep the local arts scene afloat Arts and cultural leaders from throughout the state recently ...

Canvas City

woman crouching on sidewalk as she draws the outline of her sidewalk chalk artwork depicting a fox surrounded by flowers

251009 Art & Theater Featured Content

Sidewalk chalk colors Nashua’s Main Street As the colors of autumn foliage begin to fade, the streets of downtown Nashua ...

Treasure Hunt 25/10/09

251009 Family Fun Treasure Hunt

Hi, Donna. I have a full-size antique brass bed that I would like to sell. I was hoping you would ...

Kiddie Pool 25/10/09

251009 Family Fun Outdoors

Family fun for whenever Some spookiness • Haunted Overload at DeMeritt Hill Farm, 20 Orchard Way in Lee, hauntedoverload.com, offers ...

The Weekly Dish 25/10/09

251009 Food

News from the local food scene • New Friendly Toast location: The Friendly Toast has opened a new location in ...

Pizza, bubble tea, pumpkins

wide shot from above showing a closed street beside a grassy park, palettes with giant pumpkins on display, tents set up on grass, people milling

251009 Featured Content Food

Food and fall fun at the Milford Pumpkin Festival New Hampshire’s pumpkin season will officially kick off this weekend in ...

Samurai Cocktail

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251009 Drink Food

2½ ounces medium-shelf vodka. Once you get to a certain price point with vodkas, it takes a pretty refined palate ...

Album Reviews 25/10/09

Album covers for Air, The Virgin Suicides Redux and Magic Wands, Cascades

251009 Albums Pop

Air, The Virgin Suicides Redux (TH Productions) I was never a fan of this French space-rock duo or space-rock in ...

At Last, by Marisa Silver

251009 Books Pop

(Simon & Schuster, 288 pages) There are few relationships in life as complex as that of the mother of the ...

The Music Roundup 25/10/09

251009 Music This Week

• Song queen: A benefit for the NH Prostate Cancer Coalition, Celebrating Celine is singer Jenene Caramielo’s tribute to the ...

Conversation

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251009 Featured Content Nightlife

Both Sides Now explores Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen A tribute act that isn’t exactly, Both Sides Now looks at ...

29 Reasons to Love Your Library — 10/02/2025

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10 Time to dust off that library card. Yes, libraries offer books but they also offer other goodies and services from streaming services with hard-to-find-films to opportunities to meet neighbors with similar interests IRL. Here are 29 reasons to love your library.

Also on the cover And take a break from the library to meet authors at the NH Book Festival (page 18). Crumbs on Cambridge offers a cart of cookies (page 22). And, while you’re in Concord for the Book Festival, check out the Fall Fiddle Festival (page 30).

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News & Notes 25/10/02

251002 Featured Content News

PFAS funds NH Attorney General John M. Formella announced that the state has received an initial payment of nearly $8 ...

Quality of Life 25/10/02

251002 News Quality Of Life

From UNH to space! As reported by the University of New Hampshire in a Sept. 24 press release, New Hampshire-built ...

Sox vs. Yanks dead ahead

251002 News Sports

The Big Story – Baseball Playoffs Begin: There was a lot to choose from, between the Europeans holding off a ...

This Week 25/10/02

group of women dressed as witches standing outside large gateway in front of old building, at night

251002 Featured Content News This Week

Thursday, Oct. 2 The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance (7 Eagle Square, Concord, 224-2281, nhpreservation.org) holds its biennial Statewide Preservation Conference ...

29 Reasons to Love Your Library

Pop Art Young Woman Sitting on the Library Table and Reading Book with Hand Sign Thumb Up. Vector illustration

251002 Cover Stories Featured Content

Get more than books with your library card! If you imagine a library as a building full of books, you’re ...

Calling hours

Black and white artwork showing wraithlike figures crawling over skeletons at the weedy bottom of a lake, with fish swimming

251002 Art & Theater Featured Content

Mosaic Arts hosts ‘Exquisite Corpse’ group exhibition The Surrealist movement believed that art happens at the point of juxtaposition. “Exquisite ...

Celebrating a sequel

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251002 Art & Theater

The NH Book Festival returns for its second year This Saturday marks the second annual New Hampshire Book Festival in ...

Treasure Hunt 25/10/02

silver and gold plated teapot, double handled mug, and single handled creamer mug, tarnished metal plating, semi-ornate handles and spout, set on small metal feet

251002 Family Fun Treasure Hunt

Hello, Donna, I have some silver- and gold-plated items from 1920. They were given to my grandparents as a wedding ...

Kiddie Pool 25/10/02

251002 Family Fun Outdoors

Family fun for whenever Pumpkin time • Charmingfare Farm in Candia will hold its annual Pumpkin Festival Saturday, Oct. 4, ...

The Weekly Dish 25/10/03

251002 Food

News from the local food scene • Fall Fest: 603 Brewery in Londonderry will hold a Fall Fest on Saturday, ...

Driveway cookie cart a sweet idea

box of cookies seen from above, pink cookies shaped like hearts, oatmeal cookies shaped like teddy bear heads with round faces and round ears, decorated with chocolate eyes, noses, and smiles.

251002 Featured Content Food

A little treat to go Amy Casella might have the world’s shortest commute. She runs her bakery, Crumbs on Cambridge ...

Some bubbles

251002 Food

Beverage makers go for a not too carbonated drink that’s like a ‘non-alcoholic digestif’ Joe Hyatt and his partners have ...

Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies

251002 Drink Food

3¾ cups (488 g) whole wheat or white whole wheat flour 1 Tablespoon baking soda – We’re using baking soda ...

Album Reviews 25/10/02

album covers for Todd Herbert's Captain Hubs and The Belair Lip Bombs, Again

251002 Albums Pop

Todd Herbert, Captain Hubs (TH Productions) Herbert, an Evanston, Illinois-bred jazz saxophonist, has been a top-level performer out of New ...

All Consuming, by Ruby Tandoh

251002 Books Pop

(Knopf, 304 pages) Did we really need another book about food? Yes, foodies, we most certainly did. Ruby Tandoh’s All ...

Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (TV 14)

six women singing on stage, sharing microphones in pair, contrasting lighting

251002 Film Reviews by Amy

Get ready to feel super nostalgic, Gen X-ers and elder millennials, with this documentary about the 1997 through 1999 music ...

The Music Roundup 25/10/02

251002 Music This Week

By Michael Witthaus mwitthaus@hippopress.com • Let’s laugh: Enjoy a stacked bill of comedy topped by Boston funny man Chris Tabb, ...

Folk music, with cookies

collage of 4 images of three women and one male fiddlers

251002 Featured Content Nightlife

Fall Fiddle Festival returns to CCMS Led by faculty of Concord Community Music School, the Fall Fiddle Festival is back ...

Apples with an upgrade — 09/25/2025

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What’s better than apples? Apples coated in caramel or chocolate or cookie bits or candy — or all of those things! John Fladd finds out all about the autumn treat that is a crisp local apple loaded with tasty goodness, on a stick.

Also on the cover: Michael Witthaus gets the true Hollywood (er, Concord) story of the making of the home-grown indie film Granite Orpheus (page 16). John Fladd finds breweries where you can celebrate Oktoberfest (page 23).

Find Hippo’s Harvest Map on pages 22-23.

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News & Notes 25/09/25

250925 Featured Content News

Wildfire risk On Monday, Sept. 22, Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed a proclamation prohibiting “[k]indling of any open fire, including fires ...

Huge baseball weekend ahead

250925 News Sports

The Big Story – The Final Weekend: Since we’re filing this on Monday it’s hard to predict where the Red ...

Quality of Life 25/09/25

250925 News Quality Of Life

Things are getting thirsty According to a Sept.16 online article from WMUR, this summer’s drought has hit a new milestone: ...

This Week 25/09/25

A pile of red books for sale at a book fair

250925 Featured Content News This Week

Thursday, Sept. 25 The Deerfield Fair runs today through Sunday, Sept. 28, at the fairgrounds, 34 Stage Road in Deerfield ...

Apples with an upgrade

A fall-themed candied apple covered in sprinkles and candy corn.

250925 Cover Stories Featured Content

caramel-covered, candy-coated, chocolatey taste of fall on a stick By John Fladd jfladd@hippopress.com The end of September is the height ...

It’s not too late to plant more lettuce

250925 Outdoors The Gardening Guy

And other advice for September gardening By Henry Homeyer listings@hippopress.com I’ve seen the big yellow buses meandering down the road, ...

Concord underworld

A scene from Granite Orpheus where a man and woman embrace in shadow

250925 Art & Theater Featured Content

Homegrown indie film Granite Orpheus premieres By Michael Witthaus mwitthaus@hippopress.com Watching Granite Orpheus is akin to stepping on board a ...

Treasure Hunt 25/09/25

A large red tin filled with hundreds of colorful buttons

250925 Family Fun Treasure Hunt

Hello, Donna. This was my mother’s button tin. She always had a button to replace a lost one. I don’t ...

Kiddie Pool 25/09/25

250925 Family Fun Outdoors

Family fun for whenever Fall fun • A Fall Fair at Joppa Hill Educational Farm in Bedford will take place ...

The Weekly Dish 25/09/25

250925 Food

News from the local food scene By John Fladd jfladd@hippopress.com • Closing: Mike’s Italian Kitchen (212 Main St., Nashua, 595-9334, ...

Get your Märzen and festbier

Two people clank glasses of beer at an Oktoberfest celebration

250925 Featured Content Food

Local breweries hold Oktoberfest celebrations By John Fladd jfladd@hippopress.com According to Carla Reardon, the Event Manager for the Anheuser-Busch Brewery ...

Try the pasta flora

250925 Food

Holy Trinity Church holds its Greek fest By John Fladd jfladd@hippopress.com In the pastry tent at Holy Trinity Church’s Greek ...

Junk Mail

A homemade yellow cocktail displayed with a pile of Cheetos.

250925 Drink Food

A surprising number of cocktail recipes call for Champagne. Cocktails made in a bar often use it to give a ...

Album Reviews 25/09/25

Shiner, BELIEVEYOUME (Spartan Records) & Patrick Wolf, Better Or Worse [EP] (Appaport/Virgin Music)

250925 Albums Pop

Shiner, BELIEVEYOUME (Spartan Records) This one came to my attention by way of friend-of-the-Hippo and fellow underreported author Dan Szczesny, ...

The Naked Gun (PG-13)

250925 Film Reviews by Amy

Liam Neeson’s Frank Drebin Jr. takes over from Leslie Nielsen — spiritually portrayed here as an owl that blesses this ...

Swallows, by Natsuo Kirino, translation by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

250925 Books Pop

(Alfred A. Knopf, 352 pages) Riki is a temp worker at a hospital, barely making enough money to feed herself ...

The Music Roundup 25/09/25

250925 Music This Week

By Michael Witthaus mwitthaus@hippopress.com • Funny guys: In partnership with Reed’s North, Jody Sloane’s comedy showcase has Tony V and ...

Rock ’n’ roll revival

Four singers in bright blue suits pose in front of their fans on a stage

250925 Featured Content Nightlife

A classic celebration with The Dreamboats By Michael Witthaus mwitthaus@hippopress.com The musical world of The Dreamboats begins with Elvis and ...

Community Theater Preview — 09/18/2025

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Local community theater companies have big seasons planned with adventures, comedies, musicals and more. Michael Witthaus tells you what will be on stage in the next few months. On the cover and above, Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative presents Journey to Neverland (courtesy photo).

Also on the cover Michael also gets the details on the weekend-long Granite State Comicon in downtown Manchester (page 16). John Fladd explains the tasting menu at the NH Highland Games (page 23).

On pages 20 and 21, find Hippo’s Harvest Map.

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News & Notes 25/09/18

250918 Featured Content News

Funding cuts NH Navigator, a program from the nonprofit Foundation for Health Communities that “provides free, unbiased assistance to help ...

Pennant race gets tight

250918 News Sports

The Big Story – AL Playoff Chase: The Red Sox left Yankee Stadium on Aug. 24 1.5 games behind NY ...

Quality of Life 25/09/18

250918 News Quality Of Life

It’s really dry As noted by WMUR in a Sept. 11 online report, New Hampshire is very, very dry. According ...

This Week 25/09/18

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250918 Featured Content News This Week

Thursday, Sept. 18 The Amoskeag Quilters Guild meets tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. at Emmanuel Baptist Church (14 Mammoth ...

Community Theater Preview

four actors performing in outdoor space in grassy field. Two dressed as pirates and two dressed as Peter Pan and his Shadow

250918 Cover Stories Featured Content

Staging homegrown productions in a challenging time The history of community theater in New Hampshire is long and venerable. Community ...

Granite State Comicon conquers downtown

250918 Art & Theater Featured Content

22nd annual event continues its growth The first Granite State Comicon, in 2003, was a modest affair that helped celebrate ...

Treasure Hunt 25/09/18

an intense close up of two fingers holding a thick golden wring with a small white jewel in the middle

250918 Family Fun Treasure Hunt

Dear Donna, I found this man’s ring in a box that belonged to my sister. I don’t believe it was ...

Kiddie Pool 25/09/18

250918 Family Fun Outdoors

Family fun for whenever Space and beyond The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord will hold its annual AerospaceFest Saturday, Sept ...

The Weekly Dish 25/09/18

250918 Food

News from the local food scene • A different look at Irish spirits: NH Liquor & Wine Outlet, Store 50 ...

Stories and scotch

man wearing plaid cap and traditional Scottish vest, drinking shot of whiskey.

250918 Featured Content Food

Get the flavor of the Highland Games One of the highlights of this year’s Highland Games will be an attempt ...

French fry alley

painted brick wall, window with small counter, menu signs on both sides of window

250918 Food

New Manch spot brings diner food and walk-up fries Cat Alley, just off Elm Street in downtown Manchester, is one ...

In the kitchen with Danielle Calkins

250918 Food Q&A

Danielle Calkins, co-owner of Pat’s Apple Crisp and Cider Donuts (patsapplecrisp.com), grew up in her family’s business, selling apple crisp ...

Cherry-Sesame Crisp

plate on granite counter with scoop of cherry dessert

250918 Drink Food

2-pound bag frozen cherries Zest and juice of one large lemon 1½ Tablespoons brown sugar 1 teaspoon rosewater — if ...

Album Reviews 25/09/18

album covers of Beat, Beat Live and Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill, Dreaming In Gamelan

250918 Albums Pop

Beat, Beat Live (Inside Out Records) In my never-ending quest to be a people-pleaser, I cover basically every genre on ...

Gwyneth, by Amy Odell

250918 Books Pop

(Gallery, 364 pages) The origin story of Gwyneth Paltrow is well known: The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Bruce Paltrow and ...

The Music Roundup 25/09/18

250918 Music This Week

Local music news & events • Natural man: If he weren’t singing and playing guitar, fishing enthusiast Zak Trojano would ...

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (PG)

scene from Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale showing actors playing the Crawley family dressed up for a day at the races, leaning on a railing to cheer

250918 Film Reviews by Amy

The saga of the Crawley family comes to an end (probably, maybe) with this 1930-set story of generational baton passes ...

Flags from many countries

group of young women and child dancers dressed in black with colorful feather headpieces posing during dance sequences

250918 Featured Content Nightlife

Multicultural Festival returns to Concord There’s something for everyone at the 18th annual Concord Multicultural Festival happening on Sunday, Sept ...

Winging it — 09/18/2025

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Whatever sports you’re watching this season, they will probably go well with wings — that few-bite, sometimes spicy, sometimes saucy chicken dish that makes a great meal for a few or appetizer for a crowd. John Fladd finds out about what makes a good serving of wings.

Also on the cover: Speaking of food that’s great for a crowd, it’s Glendi weekend, when Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester offers a spread of gyros, lamb, pastries and more (see page 23). Or go for a selection of beers at the Manchester Brewfest (page 24).

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News & Notes 25/09/11

250911 Featured Content News

EEE A batch of mosquitoes collected in Manchester on Aug. 27 has tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis virus, according ...

Roman’s empire falls

250911 News Sports

The Big Story – Roman Anthony: We were going to ask this week if a guy who was brought up ...

Quality of Life 25/09/11

250911 News Quality Of Life

A little off the back, and not so fluffy WMUR reported in a Sept. 5 online article that a family ...

This Week 25/09/11

250911 Featured Content News This Week

Friday, Sept. 12 The “nostalgic pop, funk and dance band” Emily’s Garage Band performs at the Event Center at Hampshire ...

Winging it

crispy chicken wings beside wings covered in sauce, sitting on wooden board with celery and dish of dip

250911 Cover Stories Featured Content

The unexpectedly complex world of chicken wings Tom Trainor has some thoughts on chicken wings. “In the high-end food world, ...

Kids lit – not

Satirical book about the benefits of microplastics illustrated in the style of a children's book.

250911 Art & Theater Featured Content

Granite State native publishes tongue-in-cheek book By Michael Witthaus mwitthaus@hippopress.com Microplastics Are Your Friends! is a new book that at ...

Treasure Hunt 25/09/11

A purple bin containing colorful antique dolls.

250911 Family Fun Treasure Hunt

Hi, Donna. I have nine big bins of Annalee dolls. Many are holiday-themed (Halloween, Christmas, etc.) and they all still ...

Kiddie Pool 25/09/11

250911 Family Fun Outdoors

Family fun for whenever Season wrap • The New Hampshire Fisher Cats will play their final series of regular season ...

The Weekly Dish 25/09/11

250911 Food

News from the local food scene • New diner on North Elm: Brothers North End Diner is now open at ...

Glendi is back!

A collection of Greek pastries, in many different varieties

250911 Featured Content Food

A weekend of Greek food and treats in Manchester By John Fladd jfladd@hippopress.com One of the high points of Manchester’s ...

Sword-fighting and beer

Someone pours a woman a shot of beer at a brew festival.

250911 Food

Manchester Brewfest offers beer, cider and more By John Fladd jfladd@hippopress.com Manchester Brewfest organizer Peter Telge hopes it doesn’t rain ...

Kentucky Mai Tai