This Week in Concord History
Aug. 22, 2000: The nation’s reborn scooter fascination has definitely reached central New Hampshire, the Monitor reports. “We just can’t keep them in stock,” says Laurie Sanborn, owner of Banagan’s Cycling Company in Concord. Aug. 22, 2001: After a surprise rejection from the state’s Health Services Planning and Review Board on Concord Hospital’s proposed cancer treatment center, the hospital vows it will continue efforts to...
Look who’s trying to find love on Craigslist
We took to Craigslist last week to see who had been posting on the Missed Connections pages in our neck of the woods during the month of July. And we found a ton of great entries to share – and that we could print, unedited, of course. And if you happened to make a connection with your missed connection, we want to know about it. Send us an email to news@theconcordinsider.com and tell us all about it. Cute tall young guy...
From the Crowd: ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ a fun, silly time
I’m not a huge comic book/superhero movie kind of guy. I enjoyed the first three X-Men movies, the first Iron Man and the first Spider-Man with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, but other than that I’m not very well-versed in this world. But after seeing about 50 trailers for the latest Spidey installment – Spider-Man: Homecoming – and seeing its great reviews online (8.1 out of 10 on IMDB, 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), I decided I...
Bulletin Board
Science fiction at Discovery Center This summer, the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center has lined up special staff picks for its Super Stellar Sci-Fi Series On Friday night at 7 p.m., the center will feature Pacific Rim, a movie about an epic battle between sea monsters and humankind. The following two movies at Super Stellar Fridays will be Galaxy Quest on Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. and 2001: A Space Odyssey on Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. Doors open on...
Indulge all of your senses at Kimball Jenkins’s Summertime Art Sensorium
Art – no matter the form – is often experienced through the eyes and ears. The only problem with that is the other senses can feel a little left out. The Kimball Jenkins School of Art has a solution for that: the Summertime Art Sensorium. If you’ve never heard of the Sensorium before, that’s because it’s never existed before. The weeklong set of workshops, performances and activities – which will run June 19 to 25 – will replace the...
