Collaboration breeds art. You’ll find it in music, literature and in many other artistic outlets. Sometimes it’s direct, like in a song featuring two musicians. And sometimes it’s indirect, through support or influence. On the Seacoast, collaboration in the arts scene has created a community. Capecelatro, Flynn, Gooby and cellist Juliet Nelson all contributed to Squires’s forthcoming album, “Where the Bunny Meets the Bear.” Squires, along with Flynn, also contributed to Capecelatro’s recent RPM Challenge album, “The Short Shift,” played trombone on a track Flynn is recording, and also plays in The Landladys with Capecelatro and Gooby.

Patricia Lynch heard a phrase she likes. “We are beyond age,” she says. It’s a 21st-century way of thinking the Music Hall executive director said she used when booking artists for the Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival. “Don’t discount someone who is 15 years old. Nor discount someone who is in their 60s.”

It’s time for Portsmouth to reinvest in the arts. The Americans for the Arts 2011 survey showed that the arts have a  $41.5 million annual impact in Portsmouth. Yet as a community, we reinvest virtually none of this into arts education.

A few weeks before his death, Walter was still talking up a new series of poems, of which he was several in. As well as a forward he was hoping to pen for a gathering of essays and reviews. In another visit, he shifted two napkins on a coffee table, as if they were an invaluable freight, telling me how he had had been thinking in less linear terms, more spatial.

Newfields author Robert J. Begiebing brings the past into the present  with “The Turner Erotica”

“The Turner Erotica” offers something for everyone: madness, suicide, obsession, gun and knife fights cheek-to-jowl with art history, aesthetics, and yes, a fair dollop of erotic raciness as well.
The plot concerns itself with the legend surrounding the fiery destruction of a series of sensual paintings and sketches done by Britain’s most famous landscape painter, J.M.W. Turner, by the hand of his most ardent champion, the writer and intellectual John Ruskin.

The “Mad Men” season premiere propels its characters into the dark end of the ’60s

“Mad Men,” for all the awards and critical praise it receives, also seems to have the same complaints lobbed at it season after season: it’s too slow, it’s too dark, it’s never met a metaphor it didn’t like. All true. Which makes me so incredibly happy to finally have it back.

Rated R: It seemed a strange gamble, for an established filmmaker like Raimi to entrust his cult hit legacy to an unproven first-time director like Fede Alvarez. With a whole new cast, and a marginally bigger budget, what could Alvarez possibly hope to accomplish with this that the franchise hadn’t already? Now that the results are in, the question maybe shouldn’t be “Why is someone remaking this movie?” but more along the lines of, “Why isn’t everyone remaking this movie?”

Peck, peck, peck. A hen pokes her beak into the ground and tugs out a tiny bug. The sun is rising slowly, warming the air from below freezing to 40 degrees in minutes. Chomp. The bug is breakfast. As daylight hours lengthen, chickens grow more active and increase production, laying one egg per day, compared to roughly one every other day during wintertime.

Koch-Lorber Films, 1975: Wertmuller, the short, fast-talking, chain-smoking Italian with the German name and clunky white glasses was an easy target for parody in the 1970s. (“Saturday Night Live” had a field-day with her.) She also was and is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.

If you’re under 30 and studying in a school program or under the guidance of a professional composer, Parma Recordings in North Hampton invites you to submit an entry to their second annual PARMA Student Composer Competition.

Popular Hampton-based band Old Abode is taking a break, according to an email from lead singer/guitarist Shea Ellis and friends, but some members of the group have joined forces with Eli and Ollie Elkus to form the band Bushrod Washington.

While producers are responding to growing demand for local and regional food by increasing production, creating new markets, and launching new businesses, national policy is holding them back, according to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine).

New Hampshire state officials held a news conference on Monday to discuss the recent and somewhat anticipated discovery of a beetle originally from Southeast Asia, known as the emerald ash borer. The beetle spreads quickly and has killed millions of ash trees in 19 other states and two Canadian provinces.

Building on more than a century of experience booking shows and making memories, the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom readies for the 2013 season.

Today, the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom consistently ranks among the top venues in the world in an annual survey of agents, promoters and musical acts conducted by Pollstar, the concert tour industry’s trade publication. To get here, after more than one hundred years of performances, the room has regularly reinvented itself as a place where each generation gathers to hear music and see shows that matter to them, uniquely.