Arnie’s showed us how to make ice cream
What happens when the ‘Insider’ gets an invite to see how ice cream is made? We learn a lot and leave thankful we’re not lactose intolerant. Tom Arnold gave us a behind-the-scenes look at how Arnie’s Place makes our favorite frozen dessert and now you get to see what we found out
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The much anticipated Bark in the Park event at Rollins Park was a smashing success Sunday, drawing large crowds of two- and four-legged participants to help raise money for the potential restoration of a K-9 unit to the Concord Police Department somewhere down the line.
Millbrook Gallery starts season with North Country Studio exhibit
It’s been a long winter, but a true sign of spring is that Millbrook Gallery & Sculpture Garden has a new exhibit to show off. It features new works inspired by advanced level, hands-on North Country Studio Workshops. The exhibit is on display through May 27, with an artists reception May 3.
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The Concord library held a birthday party for itself last week and celebrated by putting up a bunch of old pictures to show just how far it’s come. And as you can see, it’s been quite the journey from when everything was in black and white to now, when we have the ability to see pictures in color.
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The Concord Library held a Take a “Peep” at Your Favorite Book contest, where patrons could recreate a scene from a movie or book – and of course it had to be made with Peeps.
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A top chef competition in which every dish had to be prepared with chocolate? Um, yup, that’s the greatest thing ever. Concord’s first Iron Chef Competition, sponsored by GoodLife Programs & Activities, was held April 1.
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Scenes from the New England School of Barbering in Concord.
Concord sure is doing the whole green thing
Efficiency abounds in our fair city, and we learned about some of the coolest components of local buildings
Kari Moe Zwick is pretty crafty – just look at her work for proof
If you’ve ever gone into Dos Amigos for a burrito, a taco or to get the autograph of Will Richmond, who was once dubbed our Amigo of the Week, then you’ve probably seen some funky collections of art hanging on the Main Street restaurant’s walls. Well, this Kari Moe Zwick exhibit definitely falls into that category. Zwick’s mission (found clearly printed on her business card) is to help convert folks to leading a crafty life and help...
The students of St. Paul’s have been busy creating all this art
The annual St. Paul’s School student art exhibition is currently on display at Hargate Gallery through April 17. This page, top left: Josephine Carter.
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Since this is the quilting issue and we spent most of last week talking to people about quilts, it was only right that we devote some space to some of the best ones we saw during our travels. Plus we’re big fans of things that keep us warm and wanted to share it with all of you. And trust us, this is only a fraction of what we saw. We could probably fill every page with pictures of quilts and still not get them all in.
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Since Ocean State Job Lots’s slogan is ‘Adventure Shopping,’ we headed down to find the most adventurous items in the store. It’s like a safari you take right here in Concord!
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Downtown was alive with colorful marshmallowy critters – and a tiger! – during Indie Easter on Friday afternoon. Digger the tiger, the Concord Main Street Project mascot, was walking up and down Main Street to greet the public and look in all the stores, many of which participated in Indie Easter by making Peeps displays in their windows and storefronts.
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Right about now is when you hear people talking about spring fever. But they might not all be referring to the warmer temperatures and longer days ’cause the League of N.H. Craftsmen just happened to open its new exhibit last week, appropriately titled Spring Fever. It’s a multi-media exhibition celebrating the upcoming season, something we all could use a little bit of after that winter we just had. The exhibit will be on display...
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Turns out about three months is long enough for a gingerbread house to sit in a place of business, so we asked for suggestions on how to destroy Tim’s creation. The winner? A tiny cannon! And boy did the cannon do its job. We found pieces of gingerbread shrapnel a good 50 feet from the blast site. Wish you could have seen it happen? You can – we took video, and posted it to our Facebook page. Go check it out!
Guess who won our snowbank scavenger hunt?
We had a scavenger hunt, and some of you scavenged. We can prove that at least one person did, anyway, because we’re naming Deborah Brink the winner! She successfully discovered six of the seven snowbanks, and would perhaps have had all seven with more lenient graders (we were looking for Franklin Pierce statue, not the State House). Anyway, Deborah has won a $20 gift card to the Concord business of her choice. Congrats Deborah, and...
The Insider gets an invite to the CASL, part II
Students from the Capital Area Student Leadership program held a communications day last week, and we stopped by to get in on a piece of the action. Here’s what they had to say
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Let us be your tour guide for all the soups you didn’t know existed.
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We checked in with some experts to find out how to make a tasty soup.
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The Kimball-Jenkins estate is currently home to “Lighting Out For Territory,” an exhibit featuring the works of Paul Pollaro, Martin Mugar, Susan Carr, Addison Parks and Jason Travers. The show, which runs through the end of April and is described as a break with the familiarity and security of traditional abstraction, is housed in both the Carolyn Jenkins and Jill C. Wilson galleries. So there’s lots to see and way more than we were...
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Here are the folks the people nominated to be featured during Concord On Air on March 29.
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It’s that time of year when everyone you know is filling out brackets. But with college basketball teams?? Booorrrriiiing. How about a super Concord-ified bracket? Done and done. We started filling out this tournament, broken into regions, but we need your help to pick the winner! Fill out the matchups yourself and tell us your Final Four and champion by emailing us at <a...
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The Merrimack River Painters are a group of 12 artists, spanning from New Hampshire to Maine and they also happen to be showing some of their work at the N.H. Audubon’s McLane Center through the end of April. You’ll see colorful landscapes, realistic wildlife and of course, rivers. But don’t take our word for it, head over there and check it out in the PSNH room. Although you should call 224-9909 to check the room’s availability or...
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Lucky’s Barbershop & Shave Parlor has changed a lot over the last year, including an expansion to add four new chairs and a bigger waiting area.
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Students from the Capital Area Student Leadership program held a communications day last week, and we stopped by to get in on a piece of the action. Here’s what they had to say
Kids made all this stuff, and it’s awesome
It’s Youth Art Month and like every other year, the Concord School District is celebrating by hosting a student art exhibit at Steeplegate Mall. Through April 15, over 1,100 pieces will be on display in what was a vacant retail space across from Tutti Frutti near the Bon-Ton entrance.
Tim gets hands on (and hands in) with art at No Brushes Allowed
He left with a sweet messy masterpiece
Buy artwork made by famous Concord peeps at the Intown auction
Guests at Intown Concord’s Annual Meeting and Locally Famous Art Auction will have the chance to check out these works, and maybe bring them home at the end of the night (the paintings we’re talking about, not the people).
We asked for the best icicles in Concord and did you ever deliver
With large chunks of frozen water hanging from just about every building in the city, we asked you to send us some cool pics to share. And now we have proof that at least some people read our stuff because we got quite a selection of Concord’s coolest icicles. As you can see, we kept our word and put some of them on these pages.
The snowbanks of Concord scavenger hunt
It snowed a little this winter. OK, it snowed a lot. But we figure you’ve got to have some fun if you’re going to survive the season with your sanity intact, so we put together this snowbank scavenger hunt. We found some of the most mountainous snowbanks in the city, and now you have to find them – for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to a Concord business of your choice. Email your answers to <a...
