We have a pretty great team here at The Music Hall, and I’m excited to introduce them to you through a new blog series “The Music Hall Staff Desk Tours”. Seeing as the inspiration for this came from our beloved Kitchen Tour, that happens to be celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year, I thought it was only fitting to start with the force behind the Kitchen Tour, Ashleigh Tucker Pollock. Check out my interview with Ashleigh and find out what her favorite things on her desk are, what she thinks her desk says about her, and what her favorite aspect of the Kitchen Tour is. Enjoy!Read More
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If you’re lucky enough to have a home with a direct view of the beautiful Piscataqua River, you’re lucky enough. If that home also happens to possess a fantastic kitchen, well, molto fortunato. Very lucky.
We have two homes on this year’s 25th Anniversary Kitchen Tour that are right on the river. I invoked a little Italian above because the lucky folks who own one of those homes have rightly named it “Bella Vita,” which means beautiful life. Indeed.Read More
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When I was a little girl I was obsessed with princesses, real life ones such as Princess Diana and Grace Kelly and fictional ones such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, but my favorite without question was Belle from Beauty and the Beast. I related to her on a level that I didn’t have with the others. She had brown hair, liked books, and was a daddy’s girl just like I was. I wore out my VHS of Beauty of the Beast at least half a dozen times. Sorry Mom….Read More
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So, here it comes. Tomorrow night (Tuesday, April 19) we will be doing a discussion of Anomalisa, the latest film from Charlie Kaufman. If his name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the intriguing mind behind the scripts for Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the writer/director of Synecdoche, New York. And yes, he’s more than a little odd in his way of looking at the world.Read More
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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 other day, a group of staff members here at The Music Hall took a field trip to the Discover Portsmouth Center for a guided tour of their Illuminating Tarbell exhibit. For those of you who are not familiar with the exhibit, it’s the largest local gathering of Edmund Tarbell’s work. The unique part of this show is that it doesn’t just feature his paintings, it also has engravings, drawings, and oil studies. Many of the 60 pieces have never been exhibited before. 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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William Lawrence Murphy received patents for his “disappearing bed” in the early 1900s. If only Mr. Murphy could see the bed style that now bears his name in The Cresta Home. Alas, he is long gone.
But you, my friends, can come take a look at a Murphy Bed like no other on this year’s 25th Anniversary Kitchen Tour to support The Music Hall. You’ll likely not actually see the bed per se. It’s hidden behind a fantastic piece of art by Jay Schadler and happily ensconced between two lovely bookshelves.
And just think …. I haven’t even told you about the great kitchen in this Bridge Street home yet. Trust me, the amazing kitchen lived up to the owner’s design goals: state-of-the-art, professional-chef-level space that was open yet efficient, created with sophisticated clean lines, and possessing a splash of the wow factor. Three goals. Three goals met. Wow indeed.Read More
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