A host of holiday shows
This week – and every week of the year – Concord City Auditorium is grateful for this wonderful community which supports and shares the opportunities our theatre offers us all. The pleasure of your company will brighten these upcoming holiday events. Please come enjoy the following:∎ 7th annual Holiday Spectacular presented by Cindy Flanagan’s Concord Dance Academy, Dec. 1 at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. and Dec. 2 at 1 p.m. The beautiful...
The (worst) movies of 2012
Every time the SNOB Film Festival comes to town, our own Food Snob gets very excited. How many people can say there is a festival named after them? When the news is broken that the name stands for Somewhat North Of Boston and has nothing to do with the Food Snob, the Snob flies into a rage and uses the Insider to vent toward all things movie-related. Here are the Snob’s reviews of the top films of 2012.Prometheus: Michael Fassbender...
This year's Nobel winner: ice cream?
I know it's not Nobel season, but may I humbly suggest that this year's Nobel prize in literature go to ice cream?It's an unorthodox choice, I know – desserts aren't known for winning such honors, and most of them don't even write books; the closest we've gotten is when cookie maker E.L. Fudge write the steamy bestseller Fifty Shades of Keebler. But what tells the story of our time better than ice cream?...
Can't have a brown-bag lunch without some trees
Trees were the topic of a recent brown-bag lunch sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The event was held at OLLI's new 25 Hall St. location.Dave Anderson talked about the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, which has been a driving force in protecting over a million acres of New Hampshire forests since 1901.”Our mission in the next quarter century is to protect an additional one million acres...
With 300 issues in the can, what does our future hold?
Here's to the first 300 issues of the Insider! And here's to 300 more! And more! And – ow! You didn't need to hit me to say you got my point. Sheesh. How is it that every single person reading this column wanted to hit me at the same time, anyway?There are two things I know about the Insider's run so far. The first is that the editor must have some kind of wild voodoo power if a reader can hit a columnist's...
