Enjoy St. Patrick’s Day music virtually
A year ago Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki was heading into his busy season and primed to play traditional Irish music across the region. Following a St. Patrick’s Day weekend kickoff show, the Jordan TW Trio, including Matt Jensen on guitar and bass player Chris Noyes, would Continue reading “Green Again”
• Starman: Along with his occasional David Bowie tribute act, George Belli performs with The Retroactivists, a band that mines well-known British Invasion hits and nuggets. For a show at a Seacoast watering hole that recently resumed live music, he’ll be in a duo format but likely still leaning on Continue reading “The Music Roundup 21/03/04”
Tom & Jerry (PG)
Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña.
Cartoon cat Tom and mouse Jerry (along with other animated animals) inhabit live-action New York City in this movie that is pretty solid on the special effects but pretty shaky everywhere else.
The human story centers around Kayla (Moretz), a girl Continue reading “At the Sofaplex 21/03/04”
Minari (PG-13)
A Korean-American family seeks a path to financial security in rural Arkansas in Minari, an excellent family drama.
While the movie feels like it is telling this story from the point of view of David (Alan Kim), the elementary school-aged youngest child of the Yee family, we get Continue reading “Minari (PG-13)”
People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd (Harper, 275 pages)
I don’t resent Mark Twain for using a pen name, so I’m not sure why I’m so bothered by Ellery Lloyd.
Lloyd is the pseudonym for the two authors of People Like Her, Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos, who are Continue reading “People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd”
Scolex, “Black Pyramid Ritual,” and Mortuous, “Dessicated”(Split Single) (Carbonized Records)
As every underground metalhead in New Hampshire knows, I’m pretty worthless as far as covering the DIY end of the genre with any real dedication. If I can remember to, I’ll be talking a bit more about that next week Continue reading “Album Reviews 21/03/04”
I’m finally attacking the intimidatingly large stack of books I’ve bought over the past year and never actually read. One of the most fascinating is Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told By The Men who Made it, by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff (1955, Continue reading “Big Boo Boo”
Napa and Sonoma offer a perfect spot for pinots and chards
Napa and Sonoma counties, known for producing some of our nation’s greatest wines, have been described as having a Mediterranean climate. While the valley floor of Napa and Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa can reach summer temperatures well into Continue reading “Wine climes”
Hopkinton native Emily Knowlton is the owner of BB Take Home Kitchen (bbtakehomekitchen.com, and on Facebook and Instagram @bbtakehomekitchen), also known as the Balanced Brussel, a weekly take-home meal business that operates out of a stationary food truck. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a degree in Continue reading “Emily Knowlton”
Restaurants get ready for March 17 and beyond
North Side Grille in Hudson had ordered roughly 800 pounds of corned beef ahead of St. Patrick’s Day last year. Then came Gov. Chris Sununu’s emergency order on the afternoon Continue reading “Ready for St. Patrick’s Day?”
