Did you know that our Deputy Director of Programming & Performing Arts Curator, Thérèse LaGamma, has her own radio show? Every Friday morning from 8-10am she rocks the freewaves over at 91.3 WUNH. Read More
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Can you believe that we are just days away from this year’s Telluride by the Sea Film Festival? I, for one, can’t. As I get myself ready for nine fabulous films over three days, I thought I’d share some helpful tips and tricks for navigating the festival, as I know there are some of you who are joining us for the first time and other have upgraded their passes. Read More
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There are advantages to living in a part of the country that tourists want to come to during the summer. Let’s see, there’s the satisfaction of watching Sunday traffic on I95 southbound back up all the way to the York tolls on Sunday afternoons. That’s fun. And seeing the occasional Maserati tip-toeing around the potholes and granite curbs in New Hampshire towns is sort of pleasing. And who doesn’t enjoy listening to a loudmouth Masshole or New Yorkah at a local restaurant generously sharing his opinions with the whole room?Read More
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We will be discussing A Ghost Story tonight, immediately after its showing in The Historic Theater. And the discussion should be a good one, because A Ghost Story, while it has received much critical praise, is definitely somewhere on a crossroad to the Commercial Movie Freeway.Read More
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“Here’s to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them”… may we work for them. One of my favorite things about working here at The Music Hall is that I’m surrounded by Wonder Women. This group of strong, driven, successful women have taught me that if you work hard and smart enough, not even the sky’s the limit to what you can achieve. Read More
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So, this is what August in New England is like? I’m sure it will eventually deliver the brain-stunning heat and suffocating humidity that makes people want to lie on the sand and put their feet in the Atlantic, but I’m not feeling it yet. There’s likely more than a little mourning among the Summer People and quiet rejoicing among the owners of interesting shops and restaurants.
But despite the vagaries of the weather, The Music Hall continues to do its job, finding the high quality movies that either never got wide distribution or that blew through the MallPlexx 21 like a bad oyster through a summer diner. (Wait! Was that less than tasteful? Sorry.)Read More
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Well, it’s almost August, the late innings of the New England summer baseball game, and I hope you’ve been enjoying the sun/surf/gin-and-tonic summer of your dreams and not the sunburn/mosquito/humidity stuff of nightmares.
We don’t get a lot of summer, so we have to make the most of it. And one thing that can make for an enjoyable and memorable season is making a new friend, preferably someone with a long history, a fabulous store of stories and a knack for telling them.Read More
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Luciano was born in 1913 in a New York tenement, the first American descendant of Sicilian immigrants who’d settled in New York’s Lower East Side, an area that would eventually, once the early-century wave of Italian newcomers had pretty much completely taken the place over, be known as Little Italy. As a freshly minted U.S. native, he went by his middle name, Charles, but everyone just called him Charlie. He grew up in a four room apartment that he shared with eight other people, his parents, his siblings, and two borders they rented the kitchen out to as a bedroom.Read More
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