International guitar duo performs in Concord
The best guitar duos carry on a conversation with their instruments, but Nicola Cipriani and Brad Myrick engage in musical mind-melding, two sonic serpents swirling into a rope of notes. The Italian-born Cipriani and Concord native Myrick recall the similarly synchronistic Tom Verlaine and Continue reading “One voice”
Local music news & events
• Sound & vision: One of New England’s great musical resources, Mark Erelli performs an intimate set. Diagnosed with a degenerative retinal disease a few years back, Erelli reflects on a new album, Lay Your Darkness Down, arriving later this year. His 2018 song Continue reading “The Music Roundup 23/03/02”
Babylon (R)
Margot Robie, Brad Pitt.
Writer-director Damien Chazelle gives you three hours and nine minutes of 1920s and 1930s Hollywood, as the business adapted to sound and the movie industry machine chewed through the people involved. Here, we focus on Nellie LaRoy (Robie), a young woman who cons her Continue reading “At the Sofaplex 23/03/02”
A bear does cocaine in Cocaine Bear, a movie that is 100 percent exactly what you think it’s going to be.
This movie opens with title cards giving us facts about black bears citing Wikipedia as its source, which feels tonally perfect. Like, here’s some information but we didn’t work Continue reading “Cocaine Bear (R)”
Weightless, by Evette Dionne (Ecco, 245 pages)
Are doctors who lecture their patients about their weight “fat shaming” them or “following the science”?
That’s the question at the heart of Evette Dionne’s Weightless, an account of her life as a Black woman with obesity who has had multiple Continue reading “Weightless, by Evette Dionne”
Mona Mur, Teen Icon (Give/Take Records)
Having kicked off her rebelliously edgy career during the punk explosion of the ’80s, this German-born sort-of-icon has, through the years, collaborated with such artists as FM Einheit, Marc Chung and Alex Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, which places her in the position of fronting Continue reading “Album Reviews 23/03/02”
It was my bragging that brought on my most recent identity crisis.
It was Monday morning, and someone asked what I had done over the weekend. Instead of using one of the responses recommended in the official small talk manual — “You know, same ol’ same ol’” or “Not much; Continue reading “The thrill-seeker’s drink”
Rachel Mack and Sara Steffensmeier are the new owners of Laurel Hill Jams & Jellies (laurelhilljams.com), a Bedford-based producer of dozens of jams and jellies made from local fruits, wines and teas. The pair of sisters, who also happen to be next-door neighbors in Bedford, took over the business last Continue reading “In the kitchen with Rachel Mack and Sara Steffensmeier”
Lighthouse Local, Bedford Baking Co. now open
A new cafe and market now open in Bedford aims to be a one-stop shopping destination for a wide variety of New Hampshire-made goods, from jams, jellies and maple syrups to infused cooking oils, blended coffees and teas, chocolates and more.
Lighthouse Local, Continue reading “Get it made”
Annual tasting benefit moves back indoors for its 14th year
For one day only, Concord’s Bank of New Hampshire Stage will turn into a prime tasting destination for area soups, chowders and chilis. It’s time for SouperFest — the event, one of the chief fundraisers for the Concord Coalition to Continue reading “SouperFest returns”
