Holiday gifts for the gardener
I love the holiday season: the lights, the carols, the cookies and more. It’s a good antidote to the news, and to the gray and chilly weather. Last summer many gardening necessities sold out as so many people were quarantined at home and took to Continue reading “Pots, edgers and manure”
News from the local food scene
• LaBelle Winery expanding to Derry: LaBelle Winery will be expanding its business into Derry next year, according to a press release. Owners Amy LaBelle and her husband, Cesar Arboleda, recently announced the purchase of Brookstone Events & Golf on Route 111. The property, Continue reading “The Weekly Dish 20/12/10”
Where to order your holiday meals and desserts
From specialty entrees to fresh baked sweet treats, check out this list of local restaurants, bakeries and caterers to place your order with this holiday season.
• All Real Meal (87 Elm St., Manchester, 782-3014, allrealmeal.com) is taking orders now for full Continue reading “Have a festive feast”
Where to dine out this Christmas Eve or Christmas Day
If you want to take a break from cooking at home, check out this list of where to enjoy a holiday feast this Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24, or Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25. Some local eateries are also featuring Continue reading “Out on holiday”
Hillbilly Elegy (R)
J.D. Vance’s popular 2016 memoir gets the awards-season glossy movie treatment in the Ron Howard-directed Hillbilly Elegy.
Neither of the movie’s two lead actresses, Glenn Close and Amy Adams, has won an Oscar despite multiple nominations for each. Perhaps the desire to rectify this is why J.D. Continue reading “Hillbilly Elegy (R)”
Will Hatch celebrates new EP with release show
While the making of Will Hatch’s first full-length album For You might be likened to a marathon, his new EP Downtown was more of a sprint. With extensive studio time and a long back and forth between Hatch and producer Immanuel the Continue reading “Downtown sound”
Local music news & events
• Scene support: Among those hit hardest by this no good, awful, horrible, please-let-it-end year are working musicians and the venues they play in. For the latter, a great present for your favorite fan is a gift certificate, or even a ticket for a future Continue reading “The Music (Gift) Roundup 20/12/10”
Mank (R)
Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz writes Citizen Kane while recuperating from injury and Citizen Kane-ily reflecting on his career in Hollywood in Mank, the most made-for-Oscar-nominations movie I have ever seen.
It is a movie about the movies featuring a character whose name is on one of the Academy Awards’ Continue reading “Mank (R)”
No Time Like the Future, by Michael J. Fox (Flatiron, 238 pages)
If Michael J. Fox hasn’t been on your radar screen since the 1980s, you’ve missed a lot. You probably know that he has Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis he announced in 1998, and started a foundation to fund Continue reading “No Time Like the Future, by Michael J. Fox”
The Myrrhderers, The Myrrhderers Sleigh Christmas (self-released)
It was with great sadness that I read last week there’d be no live Trans Siberian Orchestra shows coming to the area, just a streaming thingamajig instead. I looked to the universe, hoping to be cheered up, and lo, hark, behold, a wonderful Continue reading “Album Reviews 20/12/10”
