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A new year of art
Art - general
Written by Chloe Johnson   
Thursday, 14 January 2010

your friendly local gallery tour kicks off 2010 with dozens of new works

The first Art ’Round Town of 2010 was a snowy and relatively slow night for Portsmouth galleries, but those who ventured out were rewarded with warm receptions at Nahcotta, Kennedy Gallery and Three Graces Gallery.

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NYC art on the cheap
Art - general
Written by Ross Bachelder   
Thursday, 14 January 2010

taking an economical bite of the Big Apple’s art scene

With an abundance of warm winter fires, fine restaurants, art, music, theater and friends right here on the Seacoast, locals might choose not to subject themselves to the tedious travel hours and various expenses of a trip to a southward, but equally chilly, metropolis. But, if you know how to do it affordably and efficiently, a weekend tour of New York City’s astonishing cornucopia of art museums is worth the hassle, especially when several not-to-miss exhibits are on display. 

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Winter Wine Festival warms up
Food - general
Written by Chloe Johnson   
Thursday, 14 January 2010

Now in its sixth year, the annual Winter Wine Festival at the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel in New Castle has grown to provide more entertainment and education options in the historic grand hotel. It features both local wines and selections from around the nation and world. Events include grand vintner’s dinners, flight nights, rare vintage tastings, celebrity chefs and winemakers, classes, “Bubbles and Jazz” Sunday brunches, and educational seminars.

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Redhook hosts post-holiday food drive
Food - general
Written by Chloe Johnson   
Thursday, 14 January 2010
The Redhook Ale Brewery’s third annual food drive is underway at its Cataqua Pub at Pease Tradeport in Portsmouth. The brewery is collecting non-perishable items for local food pantries through Feb. 11.  
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Love and war with "Piano Teacher" author Janice Lee
Literary - general
Written by Chloe Johnson   
Thursday, 14 January 2010

The author of “The Piano Teacher,” a New York Times bestseller, was born in Hong Kong to Korean parents and attended an international school there. Janice Y.K. Lee said she was already comfortable with American culture by the time she got to St. Paul’s School in Concord.

What Lee remembers most about adjusting to New Hampshire after having lived in Hong Kong till the age of 15 is not a culture shock, but the cold.

“I never felt that cold before,” she said. “I remember trying to find a warm blanket and a coat.”
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Portsmouth Library hosts Page and Stage club
Literary - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Co-hosted by the library and the New Hampshire Theatre Project, the book club will compare and contrast stage productions with similarly themed books. The first meeting will include a discussion of Steven Galloway’s “The Cellist of Sarajevo,” a novel based on the brutal Siege of Sarajevo in 1992, and the play “Lysistrata,” a comedic account of a woman’s attempt to end The Peloponnesian War.
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NH poets read from "Poets Guide to New Hampshire" in Portsmouth
Literary - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Just about everything New Hampshire, from its dramatic seasonal shifts to its stone walls and maple sugaring, has been put to verse by the Granite State’s many poets, and much of it is chronicled in the 2010 Poets’ Guide to New Hampshire
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Of Mice and Men
Stage - general
Written by Scarlett Ridgway Savage   
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Steinbeck writes about real people in low situations—people scraping to get by financially, socially and emotionally— and from the music to the collapsible set to the costumes, director Meredith Freeman-Caple brings us back to a time when every day was a hand-to-mouth existence.
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Report your turkey sightings
Outside - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Thursday, 14 January 2010
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is asking citizens to report any sightings of wild turkey flocks in the state. The data Fish and Game collects will help officials understand the abundance and distribution of wild turkeys in New Hampshire during the winter months.
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White-tailed deer program in Greenland
Outside - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Although it can be tempting to feed deer in backyards for some up-close viewing opportunities, UNH Professor Peter Pekins warns that feeding the animals can alter their behavior, nutritional balance and energy reserves, decreasing their chances of winter survival. Pekins has researched the winter ecology habits of wild fawns, which are highly susceptible to the rigors of winter, by fitting them with radio collars and tracking them for several weeks.
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Grant supports Great Bay oyster restoration
Outside - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Friday, 08 January 2010
Due to overharvesting, pollution and disease, oyster populations in Great Bay have declined dramatically over the last few decades. The Nature Conservancy and the University of New Hampshire have been working to restore Great Bay’s oyster population, and they’ll get some funding help from the N.H. Conservation Committee in 2010.
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Important habitat conserved in Durham
Outside - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Friday, 08 January 2010

Durham resident Lorraine Morong recently donated a conservation easement on her 23-acre parcel of upland and wetland habitat, abutting fields and oak-pine forests. Located around Johnson and Bunker creeks in Durham, the land is considered a high conservation priority because its south-flowing tidal creeks empty into Oyster River just north of its mouth on Great Bay.

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Winter programs at the Discovery Center
Outside - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Friday, 08 January 2010
These days, we’ve got heated homes and snowplows to help us cope with winter snowstorms. But how did indigenous people survive a winter on the Seacoast centuries ago? A series of programs at the Great Bay Discovery Center will help kids and adults enjoy the outdoors in winter and learn about how animals and early people made it through the season.
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Blurring the lines
Art - general
Written by Chloe Johnson   
Friday, 08 January 2010

art by Emma Amos is not black or white

In a 1968 interview conducted for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Emma Amos was quoted as saying, “I don’t think it’s important the color of the artist. I think the color of his work is important.

“But this doesn’t seem to work. It really doesn’t. Everyone sees your color,” she continued.

Visitors can judge for themselves at the Lamont Gallery in Exeter, during "Emma Amos: Heroes and Folk," which includes her large and colorful paintings, installations, prints, woven works, and mostly combinations thereof.

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Koestler's quest for utopia
Literary - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Friday, 08 January 2010

Michael Scammell discusses his new biography of Arthur Koestler 

Michael Scammell's biography of Arthur Koestler, published by Random House in December, was two decades in the making. A professor at Columbia University, his work was mostly confined to summers, winter breaks and sabbaticals. By his count, his research took him to 14 different countries. But he did much of the writing here on the Seacoast, at his part-time home in Dover.

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Zombie Honeymoon
Tales from the Video Vault
Written by Larry Clow   
Friday, 08 January 2010
As Danny satisfies his appetite for human flesh, Denise struggles to keep her husband from tearing their marriage—and innocent bystanders—apart.
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Up in the Air
Film reviews
Written by Trevor F Bartlett   
Friday, 08 January 2010
Jason Reitman, the man who brought us the angrily mischievous “Thank You for Smoking,” takes what  should have been a snuggly cotton romcom, turns it inside out and pours cold water all over it. That said, his latest wet blanket may be exactly the wake-up call contemporary romance movies have been waiting for.
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The RPM Challenge turns five, and so can you
Music - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Friday, 08 January 2010

A variety of religious and philosophical doctrines tout the idea that the rewards we reap in life are proportional to the pain and hardship we endure.

Maybe that’s why so many thousands of musicians have subjected themselves to 28 days of painstaking artistic creation each year during the cold, dark month of February. The potential for hardship is considerable, but the reward of a brand spanking new CD is worth the pain.

Won't you join us? Now entering its fifth year, the RPM Challenge is open for registration

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Joshua Bell tickets on sale in Portsmouth
Music - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Friday, 08 January 2010

When classical violin prodigy Joshua Bell performed at The Music Hall in March 2008, tickets sold out almost immediately. Fans who missed that show will have a chance to catch the Grammy Award-winning artist when he returns to Portsmouth on Thursday, Feb. 4.

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Songwriter Showcase in Rollinsford
Music - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Friday, 08 January 2010
Five local musicians will share the stage at the Elysium Arts Folk Club in Rollinsford on Saturday, Jan. 9. Jesse Dold, Cole Gove, Courtney Brocks, Jeff Hawkinson and Joshua Jones promise an interactive blend of music and storytelling in the cozy, brick-walled venue.
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Rodriguez-Seeger brings folk legacy to Newmarket
Music - general
Written by Matt Kanner   
Friday, 08 January 2010
It was a year ago this month that banjo player and singer Tao Rodriguez-Seeger stepped onstage with his grandfather Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen during Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. Accompanied by a youth chorus, the trio performed Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” in front of an audience of about 400,000 people.
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