It’s a tough Snob, but somebody had to do it
Who better to preview the top chef competition at the YMCA Spring Social than our resident food critic?
Preach on, scavenger hunters
A few weeks back, we sent you all over the city in search of churches, with a few clues in your back pocket (well, they were only in your pocket if you crumpled up the newspaper and stuffed it in there.). Anyway, we have a winner! Betsy Peabody was the first to correctly identify all eight churches, and she’s now the proud owner of a $20 gift certificate to the church, we mean, business of her choice in Concord. Congratulations Betsy,...
Concord’s most fascinating individuals
Here are the folks the people nominated to be featured during Concord On Air on April 6
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Every year, the students at St. Paul’s School put on an art exhibition. And that’s what you see here. But this is just a sneak peak of the more than 200 pieces on display in the Hargate Gallery through April 19. You really need to check it out.
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There’s a lot to like and even more to learn inside the Concord Community Music School.
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Betsy Janeway’s watercolor paintings will be on exhibit at the N.H. Audubon McLane Center through April.
The Insider storms the CASL, part 2
Students from the Capital Area Student Leadership program held a communications day a few weeks back, and we stopped by to get in on a piece of the action. Here’s what they had to say.
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The Concord School District art show will be on display through April 15 at Steeplegate Mall. What you see here is just a small sample, as over 1,000 pieces make up the exhibit.
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The Jill C. Wilson Gallery at Kimball-Jenkins Estate is home to S.J. Costello’s latest exhibit through April 1. Costello shares her fondness for history, animals, sea shanties and sideshows in this exhibit.
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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
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Photographs by Concord’s William Whitman are on display in the Carolyn Jenkins Gallery at the Kimball-Jenkins School of Art through March 17.
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Wildlife Encounters invaded the Concord Library on Friday and brought seven cuddly, slimy and prickly friends along.
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Celebrated musician, Vinx De'Jon Parrette, settles down in Concord and sets up shop.
Check out more than 1,000 Concord student art projects in one place
Annual gallery opens March 6 at the mall
While the staff slaved away back home, the ‘Insider’ went to Disney
With more snow in the forecast last week, the ‘Insider’ hopped a plane for Disney with plans to leave Keith and Tim behind, until Tim was ultimately taken along as a chauffeur.
Meow that’s what we’re talking about
The 7th annual Himalayan Cat Fanciers’ All Breed Cat Show took over the Grappone Conference Center Feb. 15 and 16. It was a cat lovers’ paradise with close to 60 cats on display. From Maine Coons to Scottish Folds, and Persians to Ragdolls, it was hard to pick a favorite. There was even a Norwegian Forest Cat, and of course, Himalayans. Kittens even had their own pision.
This 100th birthday celebration at the Audubon really takes the cake
The N.H. Audubon celebrated its 100th birthday on Feb. 15, marking the occasion with a bash at the McLane Center. There was a sing-a-long, live bird presentations, arts and crafts and a cake decorating contest.
The ‘Insider’ takes you to church
It’s time for the latest wildly-enthralling ‘Insider’ scavenger hunt! We snapped pictures of a handful of our city’s churches, and now it’s on you to find them all. Email your answers to <a href="mailto:news@theconcordinsider.com">news@theconcordinsider.com</a> and we’ll reward the person who gets the most correct with a $20 gift certificate to the Concord business of their choice. Time’s a-wastin,’ so get...
Meet the Concord High Granite State Challenge team
This brainy group made it all the way to the round of 16, but are they smarter than Keith and Tim? (hint: yup!)
Charity game helps bring new assistive technology to NHTI
The annual Wheelchair Basketball Benefit for the Zech DeVits Memorial Equipment Fund at NHTI raises money to help provide assistive technology to students with disabilities. DeVits, who was born with gigantism and skeletal dysplasia and required a wheelchair from an early age, died in 2005 at 22 years old, just weeks before graduating from NHTI. As for the 12th annual game on Thursday, the NHTI All-Stars narrowly defeated the Capital...
Concord 2014
Sochi's got nothing on Concord, except maybe weird toilets. In the spirit of the Winter games, we thought we'd hold the first Concord Insider Olympiad. Cue the trumpety music and somebody find me Bob Costas.
Rhythm is a dancer, but so are these familiar Concord personalities
NHTI hosted Dancing with the Concord Stars, the best reality dancing show the networks haven’t caught onto yet, as part of its annual Winter Fling last weekend. Thirteen dance teachers from four local dance academies – Concord Dance Academy, Let’s Dance Studio, Miss Gen’s Dance Studio, and Creative Dance Workshop of Bow – coached up the squads. The event, which was presented by Lincoln Financial Group, helped NHTI raise more than...
Nothing says Valentine’s Day like a little Love, Lust & Desire
The Love, Lust & Desire exhibit is on display at McGowan Fine Art through Valentine’s Day. More than 50 New England artists entered pieces priced at less than $300.
Photographer captured some of ‘Life’s’ most important moments
John Shearer spent years photographing some of the most famous moments in United States history. He covered the funerals of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Attica Prison riots and the “Fight of the Century” between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Shearer’s work is on display in the Hargate Gallery at the Hargate Art Center at St. Paul’s School through Feb. 15.
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The second annual Concord High School Film Festival will be held Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. in the Christa McAuliffe Auditorium.
Art & Bloom brings a slice of spring to the cold days of winter
The 12th annual Art & Bloom show, just a three-day display at McGowan Fine Art, was held during last week’s deep freeze. Members of the Concord Garden Club used floral arrangements to interpret pieces of art.
