Aly Spaltro started recording and performing as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper in Brunswick, Maine in 2007. Her self-released albums quickly garnered a lot of attention...
Articles
On the trail
It’s early on a Saturday morning at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Exeter, and would-be presidential candidate Jefferson Lincoln is making a campaign stop....
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Consider the Hulkbuster. This latest version of Iron Man-Brand Power Armor is huge and heavy and metal, but not without some surprising degree of agility....
Intellect and intuition
Ever since she was a child, poet Kate Leigh has found inspiration at the Isles of Shoals. Her family traveled to Star Island every summer...
Parking pass
After more than a decade of debate, Portsmouth is getting a new parking garage. City councilors unanimously voted in favor of bonding $23.2 million for...
Now Read This
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson Atkinson’s astounding book, “Life After Life,” followed Ursula Todd as she lived and died over and over during...
In the present
Dragging a vintage ironing board to the ocean was Rose Marasco’s way of honoring someone she read about, a housewife without time for her art....
Eight-Bit Junkyard
“Gauntlet” (Atari, 1985) “Metroid”(Nintendo, 1986) Video games have never been known for their realistic portrayals of women. This isn’t up for debate. Their portrayals of...
Audio Artifacts: Soft Eyes
Soft Eyes talks about New England’s psychedelic scene, Halloween barn parties, and donating band members Sometimes, the best things in music are right under your...
Racing to the bar
A place called Fat Belly’s isn’t a likely starting point for cardiovascular adventures, but that’s exactly where Six03 Endurance starts their weekly pub runs in...
Style Queue
For info on Style Queue Magazine, click here. Style Queue /stīl/ /kyo͞o/ noun 1. a sequence of people with a distinctive appearance 2. A style column...
The Mothership rises
While the Seacoast hip-hop scene has ebbed and flowed over the years, Patrick “DJ Ayo Beat Perv” Bernard and Jamal Cooley are part of a...
Searching for spaces
Portsmouth has changed a lot since the 1990s, but one thing hasn’t changed: a city-wide debate over where to construct a second parking garage. Various...
In your face
When John Norwood Fisher picked up his bass and started Fishbone in Los Angeles in 1979, the music industry was in flux. Disco was in...
Free Comic Book Day returns to Rochester
Downtown Rochester is set to be overrun with heroes, villains, and characters of all stripes when the Free Comic Book Day Festival takes over the...
Sharing stories
With each introduction, the extent of the heroin epidemic plaguing the region came into greater focus. In the first row was a woman whose daughter...
Blakeslee at Book & Bar
It’s not easy to make a career out of playing music. Just ask Dan Blakeslee. He’s been doing it for 20 years, gigging relentlessly around...
Nonsense and sensibility
In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Roald Dahl wrote, “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” By that standard, Lewis...
The Word Barn opens in Exeter
When she moved to Exeter two years ago, writer and teacher Sarah Anderson daydreamed about using the barn on her property as a place where...
True Story
In movies, the phrase “based on actual events” is always slippery. There’s a lot of distance between those actual events and the film that ultimately...
Orange is the new white
Orange wines are a new concept to the restaurants of the Seacoast, but not to the greater wine community. Orange, or oxidative wines have been...
Musical chairs
Six local bands, six downtown venues, one worthy cause — those are the basics behind Dover Revolver, a live music event taking place on Saturday,...
Share your short story with RiverRun
RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth wants your stories — specifically, your short stories. The bookstore is sponsoring a short story contest and is looking for previously...
Tristan Law aims to purchase The Press Room
Tristan Law, the bar manager at The Press Room in Portsmouth, wants to keep the Daniel Street restaurant, bar, and music venue “in the family.”...
Modern family
Above: wood sculpture by Edwin Scheier, collection of Brian and Stephanie Fischer; sugar bowl by Mary Scheier, on loan from the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen...