Plenty of road races to keep you running after Rock ‘N Race
With Rock N Race just a few days away, you might be planning for your next big run with lots of other people. We’ve got you covered. We found a bunch of road races/fun runs coming up in the city over the summer months – and a few in the fall – to keep you pushing through the miles of training each week. May 26 Running for Riley White Park, 1 White St. Schedule: 10 a.m., registration; 10:30 a.m., boys and girls youth division (1 mile);...
Expand your mind at Concord’s first-ever TEDx seminar at Red River Theatres
What do you know about TED? Not Ted Williams, Ted Kennedy, Ted Bundy, Tedy Bruschi or Teddy Roosevelt, but TED, in all caps?If you’re new to this whole TED thing, here’s the basic rundown: TED stands for technology, entertainment, design, and it started as a conference first conceived in 1984 and held annually since 1990. You may have heard of TED Talks – that’s what these are, a series of talks covering a wide range of interests....
Before you hit the races, check those shoes
Maybe it was the mass of runners crossing the finish line during last month’s Boston Marathon. Or maybe it’s the warm weather that has you dusting off those old sneakers, considering a short jog for the first time in months. Whatever your motivation, you may want to give those shoes a quick inspection before lacing them up and heading outdoors for that long-awaited run. Are the soles under your heel crushed? Are the outer soles warn...
Get your tickets for limited screening of ‘El Camino’ at Red River Theatres
The rumors were true, and the wait is over – El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, is really happening, and it’s coming to Red River Theatres for three days only this weekend. The smash-hit TV show, regarded by many as the greatest show of all time, has spun off a feature-length film called El Camino. The movie follows Jesse Pinkman right where the story of Breaking Bad left him at the end of that series. After years of speculation, rumors...
Get off the couch and start getting ready for your first 5K
If you’re like Tim and myself, you’ve probably logged more hours on the couch than on the road race circuit in your life.While that is, of course, all fine and good, we understand that a lot of folks have aspirations of running in 5Ks and other big races, but since they’ve been primarily lounging around for the past however many years, they don’t know what to do or where to begin.Luckily, we’re here to help.Runner’s Alley on North...
Making Good Health Simple: Trouble staying in the here and now? You’re not alone
Does your mind wander? Do you find yourself daydreaming? Do you ever lose concentration? According to Dr. Robert Thum, being in the present moment, or the here and now, means that we are aware and mindful of what is happening at this very moment. We are not distracted by ruminations on the past or worries about the future, but centered in the here and now. All of our attention is focused on the present moment. I don’t know about you,...
The Kiwanis Spring Fair is 4 days of pure fun
If you love spinning round and round on amusement rides and eating all kinds of food that you probably shouldn’t, then the Kiwanis Spring Fair is the place for you.While you probably already knew that – since this is the Kiwanis Club of Concord’s 63rd year of putting it on – you may not have been aware that it will be taking over the Everett Arena parking lot for four days beginning this Thursday.Entry to the fair is free, as is...
Entertainment: Indigo Girls come to Concord in a busy fall week
Music Tuesday Eugene Durkee at Hermanos Cocina Mexicana at 6:30 p.m. Open mic with Mikey G at Tandy’s at 7:30 p.m. Noony Tunes Folk Jam with Liz Faiella and David Surette at Concord Community Music School at noon. Wednesday Tim Gurshin at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Karen Grenier at Courtyard by Marriott at 6 p.m. Dwayne Haggins at Concord Craft Brewing at 5:30 p.m. Open mic at Area 23 at 7 p.m. Thursday Paul Hubert at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m....
N.H. High School Short Film Festival coming to Red River on Saturday
The New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival will take place at Red River Theatres on Saturday beginning at noon. The 27 films selected include animation, comedy, drama, documentary and public service announcements. They were chosen from 56 entries submitted by students from New Hampshire high schools and career and technical centers. Presented by the New Hampshire Film Office, the festival is an opportunity both for students to...
Bulletin Board: Comedy, open sing, award winners and more
Grandparents workshop at BGS Broken Ground School will host a program called Grandparents Raising Grandchildren on Tuesday evenings through the month of October beginning Oct. 8. The group will discuss the joys and challenges of raising grandchildren and explore a variety of topics that help support this important parenting journey. The meetings will take place at Broken Ground School, 51 South Curtisville Road, Concord, from 5:30 to...
On Display: Capstones a long process for NHTI artists
Walk into the NHTI library and you’ll see quite the variety of artwork hanging around.There are paintings and drawings and photographs, as well as a collection of stoneware creations. Within those mediums, the true abilities and strengths of the eight artists is clearly on display.Underneath each collection of art is a statement – a requirement for each student completing the school’s visual arts capstone course. It’s the final piece...
The Yogi: Yoga and the Hero’s Journey: From ‘Star Wars’ to the Ramayana
Luke Skywalker never had a choice. His heroic tale was his destiny, his duty and “human, all-too-human.” A farm boy from the backwater planet of Tatooine, Luke is pulled from obscurity into a world of adventure. Two strange droids appear in his life with a hidden message from a mysterious princess. Tutored by a wise old sage, Luke realizes the mystical knowledge of the Force, enlists the help of heroic companions, and crosses the...
Trekkies, unite: KHAN!Cord Day is taking over the city on Friday
We at the Insider have never seen any Star Trek films or shows, so we’ll spare you the obligatory cheesy references in the lead at risk of sounding like fools to the legions of serious Trekkies out there.We’re just here to relay the ever-important fact that Friday is KHAN!Cord Day, and it’s a bigger deal than you think.In case you’ve been out of the loop for the past few months, here’s the lowdown – the world-famous and borderline...
Check out ‘Pillow Talk’ screening with local author and Doris Day friend Paul Brogan
Lady Gaga. Taylor Swift. Beyonce. Kim Kardashian.These women are uber famous these days and, try as you might, you just can’t escape their presence and influence in modern pop culture. While these young ladies are running the show these days, once upon a time the “it girl” all over the country was Doris Day. Day burst onto the entertainment scene as a singer in 1939 before becoming an A-list actress. Sadly, we lost Day in May of this...
HOPE Resource Center is there to lend a hand
The HOPE Resource Center at Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care not only helps treat cancer patients, it helps heal them. “It’s easy to feel lost after being diagnosed with cancer,” said social worker Adrianna Crooker Catlin. “We want this to be a space where patients can feel safe, laugh, cry, get angry, express any emotion and find guidance.” At Payson Center, patients find expert cancer care from specially trained...
Three author events in five days at Gibson’s Bookstore this week
As usual, Gibson’s Bookstore has a busy week of author events in store this week. On Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 6 p.m., John C Porter presents the new edition of his classic, Preserving Old Barns: Preventing the Loss of a Valuable Resource. Preserving Old Barns is a wonderful resource for barn owners to assess, care for and celebrate their special structures. This illustrated, full-color second edition features over 200 pictures, 100 pages of...
N.H. Gay Men’s Chorus to perform concert Saturday
The New Hampshire Gay Men’s Chorus returns to Concord on Saturday for a celebratory concert. “Celebrating 20 Years: A Generation of Music” is the name of this year’s concert series. NHGMC is performing at Wesley United Methodist Church in Concord, 79 Clinton St., at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. The final concert in the series is Sunday at South Church in Portsmouth at 4 p.m. This month, they are performing in celebration of 20 years as a...
City Manager’s Newsletter: Election news, leaf collection reminder and more
On Friday, Stefanie Breton, the city’s public information officer, sent out the weekly City Manager’s Newsletter. You can read the full newsletter by going to concordnh.gov and clicking the Newsletter button on the home page. Here are some highlights from last week’s letter: Municipal, primary election notices The City Clerk’s Office wants residents to know that Thursday, Oct. 24 is the last day residents may preregister to vote prior...
Janet Ulbrich made a bib for the new prince
When William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, had their first child, Prince George, Janet Ulbrich wanted to do something special.So she made a keepsake bib and sent it across the pond to Kensington Palace. But about two months later, she received a package in the mail containing a kind note – and the bib.The only thing Ulbrich, of Concord, could think of was that she included a business card, and the royal family cannot...
On Display: Two very different exhibits up at League of NH Craftsmen
The League of N.H. Craftsmen headquarters is displaying two very different exhibits right now. Both “Then and Now” and “Journey” opened Sept. 27 during Capital Arts Fest, and each will be on display until Dec. 20. “Then and Now” is designed to celebrate the development of a craftsman’s personal style and expertise in their craft media. This exhibit features works in a wide range of mediums. “Journey” features the work of three...
Celebrate the new emergency winter shelter
By TIM GOODWIN For the last three years, the stress for Ellen Groh has been noticeable – at least when the idea of cold weather got brought up.Since the cold-weather shelters, housed at South and First Congregational Churches, closed up shop, it was a constant worry for Groh, executive director of the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness, as to how the city’s homeless would make it through those brutally cold winter nights.Luckily,...
Book of the Week: ‘The Testaments’
The TestamentsMargaret Atwood2019, 415 pagesFiction Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale does not disappoint. After 15 years, readers are again plunged into the familiar brutality of Gilead, with its hangings at “the wall” and monthly “ceremonies” between commanders and handmaids. Atwood intelligently and seamlessly weaves in tidbits of current events — alarmingly making this dystopian nightmare seem all too...
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas to speak at Gibson’s Bookstore on Saturday
Gibson’s to host author Thomas this SaturdayFamed anthropologist and animal behaviorist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas will return to Gibson’s Bookstore on Saturday at 2 p.m. for a new look into hidden lives as she explores the connections between us all in The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk Through the Reaches of Time.An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking and...
This Week in Concord History
Oct. 8, 1856: A show called Price’s Ethiopian Minstrels opens at Concord’s Phenix Hall. The show, according to an ad in Concord’s Patriot, is “affectionately portraying the lights & shadows of a darky’s life.” Oct. 8, 1869: Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States, dies in Concord. Oct. 8, 2001: Concord area cancer patients and their families win a prolonged and sometimes agonizing battle, when a state board approves...
Entertainment: Plenty of music, plus a Shatner sighting
It’s another big week on the entertainment front in Concord, headlined by none other than cult hero William Shatner – the city has even declared an official day in honor of this event. Let’s get right to it. Music Tuesday Dan Weiner at Hermanos Cocina Mexicana at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Dan Walker at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Thursday Paul Donahue at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Music Out of the ‘Box presents Decatur Creek and Bradford Bog People...
Lithermans Limited brings back Quadracalabasia, introduces Black in Black
The music-loving guys over at Lithermans Limited are always up to something – one could say there’s always something brewing – and it’s no different right now as we enter fall. The Hall Street brewery just released Black in Black, a chocolate stout made with black currant and cacao beans from Ecuador. A drink like this would traditionally be served with a little cup of black currant syrup that the consumer would add to his or her...
Bulletin Board: Auditions, paper shredding and open houses
Kick off Making Strides on May 24 A free evening of inspiration, fabulous fare, libations and music is scheduled to kick off the Making Strides of Concord 2018 season! Happy hours for Hope will be May 24 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Phenix Hall, 38 N. Main St. (above The Works Café). Come be inspired, informed and motivated to be part of the powerful force that is Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Concord. Business sponsors, team...
Concord Craft Brewing launches Apple Crisp Porter, Oktoberfest for fall
With the advent of fall usually comes a mass invasion of pumpkin and pumpkin spice – coffee, muffins, donuts, pie, ice cream, air fresheners and, yes, beer.At Concord Craft Brewing Co. on Storrs Street, they didn’t get the whole you-must-make-everything-pumpkin memo. Instead, the brewery has a pair of fall seasonals that you won’t find elsewhere (unless, of course, you go to one of the many places Concord Craft distributes to) – Apple...
Book of the Week: ‘Ready Player One’
Ready Player OneErnest Cline2011, 374 pagesAdult fiction The year is 2044 in the United States; Oklahoma City, to be exact. Virtual reality is how people live their lives now within the world of the Oasis. They can do anything and be anyone they want to be there and it allows them to escape what is the real world. But when the death of the great creator of the Oasis, James Halliday, comes around, everything changes. It is a race...
Concord is home to all kinds of craft beer stores fully stocked with fall varieties
As fun as it can be to go to a brewery or a bar to enjoy some seasonal libations with friends, a lot of times it’s just easier to stop at a store, grab a pack of something nice and enjoy it at home on the couch or in the yard. When it comes to choices for where to shop and what to buy, it’s an embarrassment of riches around here, and that’s a good thing for the discerning craft beer or cider fan. While there are certainly dozens of...
