Family pub celebrates St. Patrick’s Day
After two years more or less on the sidelines, St. Patrick’s Day revelry returned to full flower in 2022, and the party only looks to get better with the big day landing on a Friday this year. Across New Hampshire, pub keepers are counting Continue reading “The green standard”
Local music news & events
• Going places: The arc of her first three singles has Rebecca Turmel on the path of many New England musicians who gravitate to Nashville. Her latest, “Girls On Fire,” is an empowering rocker featuring session players who worked with Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves and Continue reading “The Music Roundup 23/03/16”
Scream VI (R)
Another sequel, another spate of Ghostface killings in Scream VI — or, wait, is it a franchise now?
After all, as Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown), one of the Core Four (as they extremely reluctantly call themselves) next-generation survivors from the last movie (the 2022 installment, the fifth Continue reading “Scream VI (R)”
Maame, by Jessica George (St. Martin’s Press, 320 pages)
There’s a lot to like about 25-year-old Maddie Wright, the main character in Jessica George’s debut novel. Born in Ghana and living in London, Maddie is navigating her unique brand of young adulthood struggles, from low-key workplace racism to familial Continue reading “Maame, by Jessica George”
Creye, III: Weightless (Frontiers Music)
Some epic melodic metal from Sweden here, in the vein of bands like Heat and whatnot. Their sound is even cleaner than Trans Siberian Orchestra, if you can even conceive of such a thing, and that makes this stuff come off as a bit one-dimensional, Continue reading “Album Reviews 23/03/16”
Spring means a lot of different things to different people:
Flowers
Mud
Taxes
Bunnies
Spring Break
When I was a college student, back in the Late Cretaceous, I had strong feelings about Spring Break. I had heard the stories about 24-hour beach parties, bacchanalian excess and overcrowded hotel rooms. I Continue reading “Pea-ña Colada”
Nicole Chalfant of Derry is the owner and founder of Bungalow Bakes (bungalowbakes.com, and on Facebook and Instagram @bungalowbakes), offering a variety of scratch-baked cakes, cupcakes, scones, biscuits, sweet breads and other items available to order. Named after her bungalow home in Derry where she first launched her business, Chalfant Continue reading “In the kitchen with Nicole Chalfant”
New Hampshire Maple Weekend returns with sugarhouse tours, syrup samples and more
March is prime maple season in New Hampshire, and sugarhouses large and small are inviting you to partake in a celebration of the sweet stuff. During New Hampshire Maple Weekend — returning on Saturday, March 18, and Sunday, Continue reading “Liquid gold”
News from the local food scene
• Wine in the dark: Join LaBelle Winery for a blindfolded wine tasting at its Amherst facility (345 Route 101) on Wednesday, March 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. During this session led by LaBelle wine educator and sommelier Marie King, participants will be Continue reading “The Weekly Dish 23/03/16”
Digital/flexographic hybrid print specialist
Michael Brochu runs a specialized printing press at Amherst Label, a custom label manufacturer in Milford.
Explain your job and what it entails.
My job is to run a digital and flexographic hybrid printing press. I print labels for commercial and small businesses alike, from medicine Continue reading “On The Job – Michael Brochu”
