Marshall Crenshaw rocks The Rex
By Michael Witthaus
Calling his latest tour “40 Years In Showbiz,” Marshall Crenshaw is celebrating the anniversary of his 1982 debut album. However, he started in the business a few years before that, performing on Broadway and releasing his first single on the venerable Continue reading “Career in review”
Local music news & events
• Laugh night: Enjoy Third Thursday comedy with Matt Barry, joined by James Hamilton, Gilman Seymour and Jonah Simmons. Barry is now in his second decade of doing standup after trying it out at the Shaskeen in 2011. He mixes jokes about underemployment, living Continue reading “The Music Roundup 22/09/15”
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (PG)
Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp bring the shoe-wearing shell of their early 2010s short films to a feature-length story with Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.
Seashells Marcel (voice of Slate) and Nana Connie (voice of Isabella Rossellini) live in a house that Continue reading “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (PG)”
Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom, 480 pages)
When I first opened Gideon the Ninth, the first of Tamsyn Muir’s “Locked Tomb” series, all I knew was that the book was queer and in a science-fiction fantasy universe, and that was all I needed to soothe my Continue reading “Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir”
Joseph Shipp, Free For A While (self-released)
This 40-year-old Tennessee-born singer-songwriter tried San Francisco life for a while, landed himself a wife, then came back to his home state, specifically to Nashville, where he put out a coffee-table book (A Community in Black & White) of old photographs Continue reading “Album Reviews 22/09/15”
I called an Über a couple of months ago. My driver got right back to me and said she would pick me up in just a few minutes.
I was enjoying watching the little cartoon of her car drive along the little map to where I was, when my new Continue reading “Felt hat? Yes, it was very soft”
When you’re setting out snacks for an afternoon of football-watching or an evening of movies, you want a nice mix of options. I really like having a dish of something that people can consume by the handful. No need for a plate or fork; just grab a couple or a Continue reading “Bourbon & brown sugar mixed nuts”
Greg Sturgis of Concord launched The Pizza Project (thepizzaprojectnh.com, and on Facebook and Instagram @thepizzaprojectnh), a series of pizza pop-ups at several breweries and other area businesses, earlier this year. Through the Air Force, Sturgis traveled overseas to Naples, Italy, where he fell in love with Neapolitan-style pizza. He’s been Continue reading “In the kitchen with Greg Sturgis”
Egyptian food festival returns to Nashua
By Matt Ingersoll
Following its cancellation in 2020 and a successful comeback year in 2021, this year’s Egyptian food festival will be bigger than ever. The event returns for a fifth year to St. Mary and Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church in Nashua Continue reading “Flavors of Egypt”
Glendi offers three days of Greek eats
By Jack Walsh
Glendi, the three-day food festival celebrating Greek culture with all kinds of authentic homemade items, is scheduled to return from Friday, Sept. 16, through Sunday, Sept. 18, at St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester. The festival has been Continue reading “Weekend of lamb and spanakopita”
