Pretty empressive – Tue, 25 Jun 2013
Readers Linda Kenison and Brad Mark took the Insider with them while visiting the Summer Palace of the Last Empress of China near Beijing. Got a great Insider travel photo of your own? Send it to news@theconcordinsider.com.
Our guide to grilling
Tips, tricks and recipes for your summer cookouts. Have a recipe for us? Send it to <a href="mailto:news@theconcordinsider.com">news@theconcordinsider.com</a>.
Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 25 Jun 2013
We got this photo of cool clouds over Concord from Instagram user @mcafowler. Say what you will about Concord – we’ve got the greatest clouds in the world! If you want your Instagram photos to be featured on our pages, just tag us in them – we’re @concordinsider. Don’t forget to follow us, too!
The Grammarnatrix: How to have fun with antiautonyms
Even though the Grammarnatrix has been on sabbatical, she has received many grammar inquiries from Insider readers. Her next few articles will address these inquiries. One query read, “I have a Grammarnatrix question from a flummoxed fan: why is it that the words reiterate and iterate and ravel and unravel mean the same thing?” The Grammarnatrix, hating to admit she was flummoxed herself, delved into research and came up with the most...
We are the very best of New Hampshire!
We attended New Hampshire Magazine’s Best Of party last week (after all, we did win “Best Free Weekly”). It was a rocking good time – check out our pictures and see for yourself.
We are the very best of New Hampshire!
We attended New Hampshire Magazine’s Best Of party last week (after all, we did win “Best Free Weekly”). It was a rocking good time – check out our pictures and see for yourself.
Bulletin Board: Little Nature Museum to host child survival class
The Little Nature Museum is sponsoring a program, “Child Survival: Teaching Your Child to Survive Getting Lost in the Woods,” Aug. 3 from 10 a.m. to noon at Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highlawn Rd., Warner. Children must be accompanied by a parent; there is no charge for the parent. The cost ($20 for non-members, $15 for members, either of The Little Nature Museum or Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum) includes a take-home personal...
Bulletin Board: McGowan to feature work of Concord resident Miller
McGowan Fine Art announces the opening of “Recent Works,” featuring the paintings of Melissa Anne Miller. The show will run from July 16 to Aug. 31, with a reception July 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. This is free and open to the public. “Recent Works” will feature the quiet scenes by Miller that have become familiar to the people of New Hampshire and synonymous with the city of Concord. Her heightened colors and sense of light make her work...
City briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell builds a State House dome out of charcoal briquettes and douses it with two bottles of lighter fluid in hopes of cooking up some tasty kangaroo dogs. The Concord Fire Department responds promptly to the inevitable blaze and douses it with fire extinguishers, spelling out the city memo in life-saving foam. We stopped by for some leftovers and translated it for you.House partyCheck out these new...
Bulletin Board: Mill Brook Gallery makes ‘Fashion Statement’
Revel in the magic created by 15 women artists as they explore and celebrate fashion through the generations in “Fashion Statement,” a gallery debuting at Mill Brook Gallery on July 5. There will be an opening reception July 11 from 5 to 8 p.m. The perse and elaborate multi-media exhibit runs the gamut from painting, mono-print, and pencil drawing to book making, raku ceramics and wearable art clothing. Each artist brings a unique...
MIssed Connections: Hugs galore
We at the Insider like to scour Craigslist’s Missed Connections section to see if anyone in Concord wants to see our grill marks tattoo is finding true love online. Here, presented unedited as always, are some of the best entries. For more, visit nh.craigslist.org.I Enjoyed That Hug – m4w – 43I ran into you at the grocery store in Concord the other day. Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed the hug. I know that it should...
This week in Concord history
June 25, 1959: State Sen. James Cleveland uses political savvy to defeat Gov. Wesley Powell’s House Bill 348, a power grab intended to make several state departments answerable to the governor and cut the state workforce by hundreds. The Senate is deadlocked 12-12 on the bill, but with one opponent absent, Powell’s forces try to jam it through. Cleveland calls for a brief recess. He and the rest of the opponents disappear, and the...
Walk a mile (or 3) in someone else’s shoes
There’s more than one picture of homelessness. Most of the images in the public’s consciousness feature sedentary subjects, people holding cardboard signs at stoplights or paper cups to deposit change in. The assistance offered in those situations is often equally idle – casually handing a bill out a car window or plucking some change from a back pocket. The reality is that many homeless people spend the majority of their day on the...
Bulletin Board: Zonta Club seeking fashion accessory donations
Have you recently cleaned out your accessory drawers? Do you have plans to do so within the next month and don’t know what to do with these items that were special to you at one time, but you have other favorites now?The Zonta Club of Concord would like to receive your gently-used fashion accessory pieces for its annual Market Days tent sale. In years past Zonta has raised funds to help local women’s projects, and this year all of...
Student art exhibit at Kimball-Jenkins Estate
The Kimball-Jenkins Estate is located at 266 N. Main St. For more info, call 225-3932 or visit kimballjenkins.com.
Student art exhibit at Kimball-Jenkins Estate
The Kimball-Jenkins Estate is located at 266 N. Main St. For more info, call 225-3932 or visit kimballjenkins.com.
Blackwater Hot and Sweet Mustard is so hot right now – feel the burn!
Steve Cybulski had been eating his family’s mustard for years before he started making it himself, bottling it and selling it as Blackwater Mustard. But for the first decade or so, he couldn’t even handle the heat! “It was almost too much,” Cybulski said. The old family mustard recipe would pop up at every get-together, holiday and reunion, but it wasn’t until he hit his teens that Cybulski began to appreciate it. “When you’re a kid,...
Meat man of the week: Rob Darling answers a decades-old question for us
Name: Rob DarlingCo-owner, Concord Beef and SeafoodWhat got you into the meat business? I used to have a seafood business, and then I went and worked for a meat company, so I just kind of took the two and started this and asked my friends to be partners in the business with me.What kind of training is involved in becoming a butcher? The industry has definitely changed. We don’t break down sides anymore, we buy beef that’s already been...
Adventure shopping
Since Ocean State Job Lots’ 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! This week, there’s a bonus – all the items are a perfect fit for our grilling issue.
Bulletin Board: Concord resident among top fitness participants
Matt Mowery, editor of Business NH Magazine, was named one of the top 2 “losers” in the BetterU program sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim in partnership with the GENAVIX Wellness Network’s 90 Day Commit To Get Fit program at the Executive Health and Sports Center. “I don’t use this phrase lightly, but this program has changed my life,” Mowery said. “I am down 45 pounds, which I am pretty darn proud of and could not have done without this...
The Food Snob: We dash, then dine on some Nadeau’s grub
Everybody in the entire world loves some good old-fashioned grilled food from time to time. That is an irrefutable science-based fact that we just don’t have time to research and cite right now. Take our word for it, will you?! Sometimes, though, you don’t have the energy to grill up an awesome meal for yourself. In that case, leave the grilling to the professionals. We did just that last week when we picked up some lunch at Nadeau’s....
Reflective Tapestry of Life: Grilling as a family summertime tradition
As the New Hampshire winter weather dragged itself along, some people had to be wondering if the spring and summer season would even arrive. Despite the rollercoaster of cool rainy days followed by scorching summer temps, I’ve reached that comfort level of believing the outdoor entertainment season has arrived. With the change in season where we now deal with the roasting temperatures of 80 to 100 degrees, along with the mild days in...
Runners’ club hits the road
There are those who believe there are just two kinds of people in the world – runners, and people who think runners are crazy. Erin Girzone is the former, and having teamed with Peter Larson and the Concord Recreation Department, she’s working on the latter, hoping to make the sport of running accessible to everyone, one K at a time.Girzone and Larson just completed the second “5K, Yes I Can!” program, a nine-week endeavor in which...
