As if it isn’t hard enough to keep track of your favorite cable series, which might or might not be on a channel you subscribe to, and your favorite offerings from the BBC, which might or might not make it to BBC America in a timely manner, now there’s a top-tier television series that isn’t on television at all. “House of Cards” is only available streaming on Netflix, and it’s worth chasing down.

Academy Pictures Corporation, 1973:  After a massacre and disappearance, an old mansion becomes “the Mt. Everest of Haunted Houses.” A new team arrives at the notorious locale over Christmas week to either prove or disprove survival after death. They have been paid generously to try and survive a full week in isolation in the mansion and solve the mystery of its haunting.

At about the two-week mark of attempting to write and record an album in a month, some of the RPM Challenge participants are finding their muse easily, some are finding it late while others need to break for lunch to think it over. The following is a sample what they’re thinking from the RPM Challenge blogs. Follow along online at www.rpmchallenge.com.

New Hampshire Democrats released remarks following the death on Sunday, Feb. 10, of New Hampshire National Guard Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, who had been ill with breast cancer. Morgan was a nationally recognized advocate of efforts to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

People gather to enjoy art together, so why not science? That’s the thinking behind the recent appearance of the “Science Cafe” in communities across New Hampshire.

artisan cheese finds its way (slowly) to the Seacoast

The process of making cheese is becoming more and more familiar in New England. Heather Paxson writes in her new book, “The Life of Cheese, an ethnographic study of artisan cheese-making,” that the number of cheese-makers in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2000. New England is a hotbed of cheese-making activity, with cheese councils or guilds in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. The movement is growing on all fronts. In the past decade, Dr. Paul Kendstedt, professor at the University of Vermont and co-director of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese, has taught courses in intensive cheese-making to students from 49 states and 14 countries.

A new bill, modeled on the Vermont Farm to Plate program, could see more state-level endorsement of New Hampshire’s “new economy” agriculture. “Vermont and Maine are undergoing what I call a revolution in farming at the grassroots,” says John Carroll, professor of Natural Resources at UNH. “It’s revolutionary in terms of the number of people involved with gardens, farmers, markets, CSAs, local food to restaurant contracts, retail grocers, hospitals. It’s happening all over.”

“30 Rock” achieves the impossible: the perfect series finale

When it comes to last acts, no medium is judged by so high a bar as television. The last chapter of a novel isn’t perfect? You can still enjoy the majority of the book. The closing minutes of a film don’t perfectly tie up each plot strand of the previous two hours? You can still speak of the film glowingly. But if a television show’s series finale delivers anything less than perfection, there will be blood.

Walking into the closed-down Ioka Theater is eerie, but maybe not in the way you may think. First, and most importantly, it’s cold, damn cold, too cold to get spooked.

Winter will add some punch to your workout, but it shouldn’t slow you down.

For those days when you just can’t bring yourself to face the elements, there are alternatives to running. Gould suggests snowshoeing. “Generally, it’s a little less impact and a lot of fun.” Snowshoes are available to rent from the University of New Hampshire recreation department, located in the Whittemore Center. There are plenty of local trails that will give you a workout while allowing you to enjoy the local landscape. Near UNH, try Kingman Farm in Madbury or Wagon Hill Farm in Durham for starters.

at 70, the best-selling novelist and Exeter native returns to the Seacoast

“I try to create people I love, then hope you will too, then decide which of them will suffer,” said John Irving, speaking to a full house in the warm Music Hall on a cold night. He quoted often and easily from many of his works, as if he had just been having a conversation with these characters in another room.

When operators on the Sarah Mildred Long bridge tried to raise the lift span over the Piscataqua River on Wednesday, Jan. 23, the routine exercise did not go as planned. It took four days in bitterly cold weather to make repairs and get the bridge in service again.

The retail book giant Barnes and Noble recently announced that they plan to close roughly 30 percent of their stores over the next 10 years. It’s not that those bookstores are losing money, because they’re not; it’s just that management imagines that they probably will be some day. So basically, the biggest bookstore in the world is giving up on the book now, pre-emptively. Thanks, guys! Thanks for systematically driving local, independent bookstores and smaller bookstore chains out of business for the past 20 years, and now throwing in the towel.

The N.H. Production Coalition, an advocacy organization for the New Hampshire television and video industry, has worked with Rep. Jeff Goley (D-Hillsborough) to introduce legislation that would use the state’s Business Profits Tax to increase incentives for film, television and media production in the state.

The economic forecast for 2013 is—only just—more hopeful than last year

Ross Gittell, Chancellor of the New Hampshire Community Colleges, has good and bad news for the New Hampshire economy in 2013. “It’s going to be a better economy, but it’s not going to be a strong economy,” he said at the Chamber of Commerce annual economic forecast at the Exeter Inn on Jan. 23.