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Arts Features
Summer Camp for Adults
By Joyce Wagner
Friday, June 1, 2012
The word "magic" is used a lot. "Empowering" pops up frequently. "Spiritual awakenings" abound.
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Artisan
Contemporary twist on an ancient craft
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Coating metal with color designs seems a natural extension of Allen and Brenda Caswell's talents. Allen has worked with sheet metal and Brenda has worked …
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Birds and Bangles: Karen Mitchell
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Working with nature. When Karen Mitchell holds a stone in the palm of her hand, she sees a bird. This Mont Vernon jeweler finds the …
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Nature and Nouveau: Porcelain As A Canvas
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Stephanie Young grew up in a household full of antiques. But it was the curves of the Art Nouveau period that captivated this Plaistow artist …
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Form and Flower: Metalworker Paulette Werger
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Design elements great and small in precious metal. Metalworker Paulette Werger creates works of subtle design and intriguing shapes inspired by botanical forms in her …
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Bookshelf
 Local Reads
Check out our recommendations for summertime reading including books by NH authors.
"Moved and Seconded" by Rebecca Rule
Friday, June 1, 2012
Having Your Say: NH town meeting - its storied past and uncertain future. "This will be the quintessential, comprehensive, authoritative, be-all and end-all work on …
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Riddle in Rindge: A quest for answers
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
It's an unusual book - not only is each page of text in "The Old Rindge House: An Examination of a New Hampshire Legend" set …
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Granny D: 100 years of living well
Sunday, April 1, 2012
From a very young age, she dreamed of being an actress, strutting on a Broadway stage. Could she have imagined - when that dream died …
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One Little Bird: "Eagles Fly Alone"
Thursday, March 1, 2012
It begins the unraveling. They found it, dead and decapitated, next to the landfill in the small NH town of Fenton. Langley Calhoun, the police …
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Features
Retro Glam: Local Pin-Up Photography
Friday, June 1, 2012
Want to re-visit the days of Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe? You can. A Bedford photographer is now doing the pin-up photography that …
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Music Review: Method Music
Friday, June 1, 2012
Significant and mysterious, this collaboration between the who's Pete Townshend, NH's Bob Lord and composer/programmer Lawrence Ball is like the matrix set to music. If …
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Art and Heart: Emile Birch
Sunday, January 1, 2012
"You don't have to cry," sculptor Emile Birch says gently to a tearful fourth-grader at a recent artist residency at a New Hampshire elementary school. …
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A Collage of Art and Law
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Found objects inspire the works of one of the state's assistant AGs. Lawyers and artists may seem to lie on opposite sides of the vocational …
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For a World At Peace Give Art a Chance
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Can music turn enemies into lovers? An Iranian chanteuse and an American soul singer cut an album that defies boundaries. Peace on Earth: three words …
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Travels With Steinbeck
Monday, November 1, 2010
Fifty years ago this fall, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck, nearing the end of his life, took a nostalgic road trip in search of America. …
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Better Than Broadway
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
New Hampshire’s summer theaters offer top-notch plays in towns where the stage is a part of the community. And the actors who just thrilled you …
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