You know those little strips of paint colors you bring home when you decide it’s time to turn your home from drab to dazzling? It’s probably true we take far too many of the samples. After a while, they all start to look alike. Your eyes get blurry from the wide selection. Soon it’s impossible to tell the difference between Alluring White and White Hyacinth. Drab seems easier. Read More
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The Music Hall, from whom all cinematic blessings flow, must have been worried that April might produce too much giddy happiness in its PWSD-afflicted New England clientele. So they decided to give us a Spring Tonic in the form of two very substantial movies. Accordingly, our two films for discussion this month are Carol and Anomalisa.Read More
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Did you ever notice that right when you think you know a lot about Portsmouth, you discover another exceptional thing? That happened to me many times as we visited the homes that will be on this year’s 25th Anniversary Kitchen Tour to support The Music Hall. It certainly happened when I took a gander inside a home on State Street.Read More
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For the last quarter of a century, scores of people have made an annual pilgrimage through some of the Seacoast’s finest kitchens. With great determination and sometimes wondrous awe, these intrepid folks have gazed upon evolutions and revolutions in countertop materials, cabinet styles, and cutting-edge appliances.Read More
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On Tuesday night, we will be discussing Son of Saul, a film about a Jew who is being forced to assist the Nazis at Auschwitz. He’s one of a group of prisoners known as Sonderkommandos, and they know that they will eventually share the fate of those whose bodies they are disposing of.Read More
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Documentary movie maker Michael Moore is a mess. He looks like an unmade bed, except when he dresses up, and then he looks like the pillow-man that escaping convicts leave in their cells to fool the guards. His films are also frequently a mess. But when a director has Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine (which won the 2003 Oscar for Best Documentary) among his credits, it makes sense to pay attention when a new film of his appears.Read More
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