Lucy's exhibit leaves a lasting impression

Maybe it’s too soon to think spring, but a gallery full of flowers is a timely reminder that all will be colorful again.

New Castle buys the Back Channel Islands 

New Castle’s Back Channel Islands harbor an array of majestic bird species. Terns, blue herons and kingfishers can be found among the small islands’ huckleberry bushes, white pines and black oaks. Even deer occasionally make their way to the islands, where residents also have enjoyed kayaking, swimming, picking berries and exploring for several generations. That arrangement is formalized with the town's new conservation purchase.

More of New Hampshire agriculture is at stake this year than whether cider or milk is named as the New Hampshire state beverage. The House Environment & Agriculture Committee also wants to know what rights farmers should have if genetically modified organisms from other fields accidentally drift into their crops.

Marky Ramone discusses the origins of punk, life after The Ramones and his upcoming gig in Salisbury

When The Ramones released their self-titled debut album in 1976, no other band was playing rock songs that fast. Most bands were wearing “platform shoes and velvet pants,” playing disco or glam rock. And while some other groups had demonstrated elements of punk, “They wouldn’t stick to the formula,” Marky Ramone says in his thick New York accent.

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In “Crazy Heart,” Bad Blake, a former country music legend turned broken-down workhorse, carries the wounds that come from life on the road in his guitar case and on stooped shoulders. Those bruises surface whenever he picks up his guitar, but they bloom most brightly when he’s offstage, drunkenly stumbling through his house or puking behind a bowling alley.

Warner Bros., 1973

It’s been a year since producer Clinton Green’s wife, Sheila, was killed in a hit-and-run accident after a lavish party. Sheila always loved to play games, and so Clinton has devised a game of his own: he’s invited six friends aboard his yacht (named after his dead wife) for a week-long mystery game.

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour takes viewers through remote landscapes and cultures, from Mongolia to Africa to Pakistan, and it's coming to Durham to benefit Avis Goodwin Health Center.

provocative pieces at the Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art

The current exhibition at the Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art doesn’t test the "nothing is sacred, because nothing is profane" theory with extremes, but disproves it with subtlety.