FEATURED FOOD Annual Vegan Festival Features Lectures, Vendors & More Written By Angie Sykeny (asykeny@hippopress.com) Images: Stock Photo For vegans looking to connect with likeminded people or anyone interested in learning more about the vegan lifestyle, NH Veg Fest will feature a variety of lectures, demonstrations, vegan food vendors and more. The annual … [Read more…]
FEATURED POP Ashley Davis Bush Tells How via a Pocket-Sized Book Written By Kelly Sennott (ksennott@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy/Stock Photo When it comes to self-help, Epping psychotherapist and writer Ashley Davis Bush is a realist. She knows most clients aren’t going to make extravagant overnight lifestyle changes — but they might try a new … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review Smurfs: The Lost Village (PG) Written By Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Movie Screenshot Smurfette and some buddies set out on an adventure to find a previously unknown community of Smurfs in the totally adequate Smurfs: The Lost Village, a fully animated new Smurf story. Smurfette (voice of Demi Lovato) is … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Eric Grant Band Pens Song for Fallen Comrade Written By Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo A touchstone of country music is loyalty — sturdy bonds like family, faith and tradition. When the Eric Grant Band lost Brian Howard to cancer last September after he battled the disease for 18 months, … [Read more…]
FEATURED ARTS ARTventures Launches “Comeback Kitchen Table” Written By Kelly Sennott (ksennott@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Last Tuesday morning, Pennichuck Middle School eighth-graders gathered in the cafeteria, not to eat, but to glaze tiny four-inch tiles, which will decorate a gazebo and artfully painted table in downtown Nashua as part of a school-wide project. … [Read more…]
FEATURED NEWS Two Companies Figuring Out Funding For Contamination Written By Ryan Lessard (news@hippopress.com) Images: Stock Photo Textiles Coated International, currently based in Manchester, might get a state loan to fund its work on designing and installing new public water lines to homes affected by groundwater contamination from its old plant in Amherst. … [Read more…]
FEATURED FOOD – * COVER STORY * And Nine Other Beloved Granite State Comfort Foods Written By The Hippo Writers (news@hippopress.com) Images: Stock Photo There are few restaurant menus in New Hampshire that don’t feature the chicken tender in some way, shape or form — in fact, the Puritan Backroom’s tenders topped the “Best … [Read more…]
FEATURED FOOD Where To Go For Easter Brunch & Dinner Written By Angie Sykeny (asykeny@hippopress.com) Images: Stock Photo Get a big brunch or a hearty dinner without doing the cooking this Easter. Here are some of the local restaurants offering a special meal on Sunday, April 16. Make reservations now for your Easter … [Read more…]
FEATURED NEWS – * COVER STORY! * Where To Hear True & Tall Tales & How To Tell Your Own Written By Kelly Sennott (ksennott@hippopress.com) Images: Stock Photos The Concord City Auditorium was packed on a recent Wednesday night, bustling with chatter as the crowd waited for Northwood storyteller Rebecca Rule to step … [Read more…]
FEATURED ARTS Concord Facility Presents Handel’s Opera, Abbreviated Written By Kelly Sennott (ksennott@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Andrea Veal is pulling out all the stops for her upcoming concert at the Concord Community Music School, “Love, War & (Black) Magic,” Friday, April 7. The program is like an abbreviated version of Handel’s opera Rinaldo, … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Def Leppard & Tesla Share More Than An Era Written By Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Throwback package shows are the music industry’s bread and butter. Gather a few acts, put a decade on the ticket and call it a tour. On the surface, an upcoming triple bill at SNHU Arena … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review The Boss Baby (PG) Written By Amy Diaz(adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Movie Screenshot Alec Baldwin is more Jack Donaghy than Donald Trump in the surprisingly fun animated movie The Boss Baby from DreamWorks Animation. Tim (Miles Bakshi in his kid voice, Tobey Maguire in his adult narrator voice) is horrified by the … [Read more…]