Annual art walk comes to downtown Concord on April 19 – get ready!
The Friends Program is excited to announce the Art Walk and auction preview on April 19, encompassing downtown Concord.The walk kicks off at 4 p.m. at the Concord Food Co-op (24 S. Main St.) with a wine tasting for all patrons. The walk ends with an artist reception (beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres) at 6 p.m. at Merrimack County Savings Bank (89 N. Main St.). This is a free event for the community in hopes to get many engaged about the...
Our favorite actress is Natalie Portmanteau
What else could a Grammarmatrix do but be lured in by the promising phrase, “A wacky way with words,” on the front page of the Feb. 3 Sunday Monitor. Music to the Grammarmatrix’s ears! And she wasn’t disappointed!“A wacky way with words” led the Grammarmatrix to the Books section on page D4. The Grammarmatrix found and loved Sarah Earle’s review of Calef Brown’s books. She inspired the Grammarmatrix to read Brown’s book, We Go...
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?...
