There are plenty of places to get your skating gear in Concord
It’s officially ice skating season, which means it’s time to start thinking about equipment – after all, by definition, ice skating is an activity that requires some gear.While many skating rinks offer rental skates – Everett Arena included – it’s always nice to have your own equipment (with your own sweat and associated smells) to use. Luckily, there’s no shortage of skating equipment to be had in the capital city. Capital Sporting...
Video: Concord professionals to face off at Dancing With the Concord Stars
If you only attend one event in Concord this year that features great food and drinks, live music and a whole night of competitive and fun dancing, make sure that one event is NHTI’s Winter Fling this Saturday. The Winter Fling is a big fundraising event to benefit the college, and it’s always wildly popular. The event started in 2011, and since then has raised $300,000 for the school’s President’s Fund for Excellence, which NHTI...
Live music, theater and movie listings for Concord
It’s an interesting week on the entertainment front in Concord. There’s just one theater performance, but there are two comedy shows and a few concert series to take in this week. Check them out. Music Tuesday Scott Sosky will play at Hermanos Cocina Mexicana at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Kid Pinky will play at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Thursday Paul Heckel is on the bill at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Zooo Crew will take over Penuche’s about 9...
Look – we found floating ice on Instagram!
Since this is the Ice Skating Issue, we wanted to find a skating-related photo on Instagram to use for this feature. However, through our travels, we didn’t really find much in the way of skating pictures, but we did find this here shot, taken by user @popnsnap, of an unusual formation of ice around a cluster of trees at the Society for the Protection of NH Forests Conservation Center. There’s clearly a shelf of ice just hangin’ out a...
Beech Hill students have photography skills
Over the course of 10 weeks this fall, 13 students from Beech Hill School (Hopkinton) took an introductory digital photography class taught by Christa Zuber, owner of The Place Studio & Gallery. The class focused on composition, as each week the group focused on a different technique or topic. The students are currently showing their work from the class at Red River Theatres through January. Here’s a sample of what you’ll see at...
Check out four fun reading events
Gibson’s Bookstore On Thursday, at 5:30 p.m., Gibson’s Bookstore will host Gazmend Kapllani, as he presents his story, A Short Border Handbook: A Journey Through the Immigrant’s Labyrinth. After spending his childhood in Albania, and fantasizing about life across the border, Kapllani escapes to Greece – only to get banged up in a detention center. As he and his fellow immigrants try to find jobs, they begin to plan their future lives...
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Global Game Jam starts Friday This weekend, teams of dedicated programmers, artists and musicians will gather at NHTI to take part in a worldwide game development event. Held simultaneously at more than 700 hundred sites in more than 90 countries, the 10th annual Global Game Jam will bring together teams of creative individuals who collaborate to create games given the same basic theme and technical constraints. The jam begins Friday...
New farmers market opens in Penacook
When the days are short and cold this time of year, it’s nice to have a little reminder of the warmer times ahead. And going to a farmers market is the perfect way to help the thought of summer creep in. Sure, the winter versions are indoors and don’t have quite the same selection when it comes to fresh fruits and veggies (some things just aren’t available right now), but it’s definitely worth the trip. It gets you out of the house...
Get the lowdown on the Concord Theatre project
After sitting vacant and forgotten for many years, the Concord Theatre is set for a monumental comeback, which around these parts we’re getting quite used to – at least when it comes to the hometown football team. Last year, it was announced that the Capitol Center for the Arts was planning to renovate the longtime downtown movie house into a multi-purpose entertainment venue. A story in Monday’s Monitor detailed the purchase of the...
If you love the arts, Concord is the place to be
Concord is home to lots of great locations to see some incredible art. That means at any given time, there will be a wide range of work on display all over the city. It’s hard keeping track of all the shows, hours you can view them and how long they’ll be around, so we’ve compiled this trusty list for you, so you can concentrate on checking out the art. McGowan Intermission Show Through: Saturday Location: 2 Phenix Ave. Hours: Tuesday...
Book of the Week: ‘From Ant to Eagle’
From Ant to EagleAlex Lyttle2017, 243 pagesChildren’s Fiction Ever wonder what it would be like to have a sibling with cancer? This is a story that digs at your heartstrings as you follow Calvin’s journey through watching his brother fight cancer. He spends day after day with his brother after moving to a new town and not having much luck making friends. Although, as chance would have it, he makes a new friend named Aleta. They hit it...
This Week in Concord History
Jan. 23, 1924: Carl Sandburg appears at the Concord City Auditorium. He reads his poems, plays his guitar and sings ballads and songs. According to the Monitor, Sandburg calls modern poetry “free” since it is “not marked off into measures and cadences.” He also remarks on the ships and railroads of the modern world, saying that because “the earth today is belted with steel, there is much an interweaving of cultures as has never...
Take a world tour of cuisine without leaving Concord
Concord might not exactly be a world destination just yet. We’re not the biggest city in the Northeast – or even our own state – but when it comes to food options, we can’t be beat. Sure, everybody knows about all the pizza and burger joints here, which we all love, but we’re talking about the wealth of authentic international options the city has to offer. In virtually every part of the city, food from all over the world can be...
Go Try It: Make your own international dish at home
During this weeklong world tour of food, we tasted a lot of things we had never had or even heard of before. We got to sample some of the flavors from the other side of the world from the people who brought them here, and it was an overall enlightening and fulfilling experience.But by the end of the week, we were left yearning for something a little bit more involved. Since we spent the week eating things other people made and...
The Harlem Wizards are coming to Concord
Any time the Harlem Wizards come to town, they always put on a good show.So that’s reason No. 1 why you should buy a ticket to Wednesday’s game at Bishop Brady High School. The other? It’s a fundraiser for Jeremy Woodward and his effort to bring in lots of money for Tedy’s Team, which he will be running with for a fourth straight Boston Marathon in April.This will be the third year that Woodward and a group of locals will take the...
Check out the Winter Carnival on Saturday
One good thing about winter coming a lot earlier this year is that the annual Concord Parks and Rec winter carnival this Saturday at White Park will feature some of the most important aspects of the celebration – snow and ice. Since sledding down the park’s big hill and skating on the pond are two of the biggest draws of the winter carnival, it’s kind of important to have those options available. So even though we’re all about done...
Live music, theater and movie listings for Concord
It’s a pretty big week around here on the entertainment front. The Concord City Auditorium kicks off its 2018 season with its Rhythm of the Night showcase, the theater community gets recognition with an awards ceremony, and a few collaborative concerts will take place at various venues across the city. Enjoy! Music Tuesday Dan Weiner will play at Hermanos Cocina Mexicana at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Joel Cage will be the night’s...
Big night for the N.H. theater community
For the last 15 years, the New Hampshire theater community has come together to recognize its own. This Saturday night will make it an even 16. The Capitol Center for the Arts is once again home to the N.H. Theatre Awards – where they honor the best production, best director, best actor – and actress – among others, for youth, community and professional productions that wowed audiences during the last year. Not only is it a night...
If you love the arts, Concord is the place to be
Concord is home to lots of great locations to see some incredible art. That means at any given time, there will be a wide range of work on display all over the city. It’s hard keeping track of all the shows, hours you can view them and how long they’ll be around, so we’ve compiled this trusty list for you, so you can concentrate on checking out the art. McGowan Intermission Show: New and Old Work Through: Jan. 27 Location: 2...
Art & Bloom will help brighten up your week
Right about now, we could all use a splash of spring. And do we have just the thing: The Concord Garden Club’s 16th annual Art & Bloom.It’s an art show like no other, as members of the garden club and local designers use a piece of creative work as inspiration for a floral arrangement. The interpretation can be literal or completely abstract. That’s the beauty of the show – you never really know what the designer is going to come...
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First Church jazz sanctuary Sunday “The Thing with Feathers – The Jazz of Hope” will be the theme this Sunday for Jazz Sanctuary – First Church/Third Sunday at 1 p.m. at First Congregational Church (177 N. Main St. at the corner of North Main and Washington streets). Vocalist and Pastor Emilia Halstead, Tim Wildman, and the WildVine Jazz Sanctuary House Band will explore what hope really looks and sounds like in these...
Missed Connections: Look who’s searching for love on Craigslist
We took to Craigslist last week to close the books on 2017 by seeing who had been posting on the Missed Connections pages in our neck of the woods during the month of December. And we found a ton of great entries to share, but unfortunately none of the New Year’s Eve variety. If you happened to turn one of these Missed Connections into a made connection, we definitely want to know about it. Email us at news@theconcordinsider.com with...
Book of the Week: ‘Ghosts of a Tsunami’
Ghosts of the TsunamiRichard Lloyd Parry2017, 295 pagesSetting: Northeast Coast of Japan A huge earthquake hit just off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011. It was “the fourth most powerful earthquake known in the history of seismology. It knocked the Earth 10 inches off its axis.” The 120-foot-high tsunami it created slammed into northern Japan obliterating everything in its path. There were at least “18,500 people (who) died in the...
This Week in Concord History
Jan. 16, 1942: Five soldiers from Manchester crash the car they are driving in West Concord, where one of them has just picked up a date. None of the 1941 coupe’s six occupants are injured, but the soldiers worry about getting back to their base in Gainesville, Fla. They also wonder what they’re going to tell the people at U-Drive-It in Gainesville, where they paid $125 to rent the car to drive home on leave. Jan. 16, 1944: All flying...
Circle the calendar for these upcoming 2018 events
If there’s one thing that Concord knows how to do, it’ playing host to some really great events.It seems like every time you turn around, there’s another get together that’s being labeled as a must attend. And that’s a good thing. Who would want to be in a place that has seemingly nothing going on? Right about now, you’re just trying to make it through winter, but with all that time hunkering down, you can start to plan out your 2018...
There’s plenty to look forward to in 2018
Concord has seen quite a bit of change over the past few years.There was the whole Main Street project that spanned two summers and has turned the downtown area into a destination. Selfishly, there was the complete overhaul of the Sewalls Falls Bridge that now allows us Monitor/Insider folks to turn right out of the parking lot.The city is now home to a pair of breweries (Lithermans Limited and Concord Craft Brewing) that has greatly...
Hopes and dreams for 2018 in Concord
We’re fully into 2018 now, and while it’s still early, this is the perfect time to start thinking about some things we hope to see in Concord in the year ahead. As you may be well aware, we tend to have some pretty lofty, ambitious ideas around here, but that’s why they pay us the big bucks. As we prepare for the rest of the months of 2018, here are some things we’re looking forward to seeing, doing, hearing or in any way experiencing...
Go Try It: Play some retro arcade games at Area 23
Despite them steadily becoming more and more of a destination for all kinds of entertainment, we realized last week that we hadn’t been to Area 23 in quite some time. When we noticed on Facebook that they have some old-school arcade games in there now, we knew we had to go over and check things out.The games aren’t owned by Area 23 – they’re the property of 8-Bit Retro Bar and Arcade, a business Seana McDuffie is trying to get off the...
On Display: Women’s Caucus for Art exhibit at Dos Amigos
The Women’s Caucus for Art, N.H. Chapter, has put together quite the exhibition – featuring eight artists – for any and all to enjoy at Dos Amigos through the end of the month.
