Winni Playhouse’s 20th season bridges past, future

By ADAM DRAPCHO

MEREDITH — This year will be one of transitions for the Winnipesaukee Playhouse. Announced late last year, the artistic director will be someone other than Neil Pankhurst, for the first time in the nonprofit theater organization’s history. And the...

Arts & entertainment quick picks for the week of Jan. 11

Indian and Nepali music What: In this Bach’s Lunch Concert, the quintet of Hari Maya Adhikari (vocals/harmonium), Shyam Nepali (Nepali sarangi/string instruments), Prem Sagar Khatiwada (tabla/madal), Pramod Upadhyay (tabla/pakhawaj), and David Nugent...

From the farm: Don’t take the weather personally

By CAROLE SOULE

For New Year’s Eve, the weather was all warm and balmy with shirt-sleeve temperatures, no wind, and pretending it didn’t try to kill us the week before. I was on vacation in Georgia when the Arctic weather descended. Below-freezing temperatures,...

Homeyer: Lessons from the garden

By HENRY HOMEYER

At the end of the year I always like to take a little time to reflect on what worked well in the garden - and what didn’t. This year I also called some gardening friends – some experienced, some less so – to ask what they had learned so I could share...

Bladesmith Zack Jonas’s knives live big outside his Warner studio

By KELLY SENNOTT

When Warner bladesmith Zack Jonas joined the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen in 2012, he was the only person selling knives at the Sunapee fair.Bladesmithing hadn’t yet hit mainstream pop culture due to shows like Forged in Fire, and most people...

The Loft at Hermit Woods presents a Granite State funk, blues & R&B quartet

The Loft at Hermit Woods will be bringing to their stage the band “Mica’s Groove Train” on Jan. 5 at 6 p.m., a funk, blues, R&B quartet featuring the vocals of singer-songwriter Yamica Peterson and her rhythm section.Nominated New England Music Awards...

Gilford’s Oellers-Fulmer is Lakes Region Art Association’s newest featured artist

The Lakes Region Art Association & Gallery in the TiltonTanger Outlets features an exemplary member artist each month through a series of short social media videos posted to the Facebook and Instagram platforms. The newest Friday Featured Artist is...

New World Theatre presents ‘Scene Changes’ at HatBox Theatre in January

‘Scene Changes, by Donald Tongue, is a romantic dramedy revolving around a traveling production of A Christmas Carol in Concord. It’s a Broadway traveling show, a theatrical purgatory, and the only reason any of us are here is that we failed to land a...

Quick Picks: Dueling pianos, Disney and more

Pramod Upadhyay What: In his lecture, Pramod Upadhyay will discuss his musical journey as a tabla artist (Indian/Nepali drum) and how he got into the music profession. Come back next week to view a concert, “Indian and Nepali Music,” where the quintet...

The Outside Story: Carolina wrens move north

By SUSAN SHEA

I saw a new bird at my feeder last winter. In mid-December, a small, reddish-brown bird with an upturned tail, a white eyebrow-stripe, and a long, slender, downcurved bill was on the deck below our feeder. Looking at its cocked tail, I suspected it...

Walpole filmmaker Gabriel Andrus embarks on 300-mile self-supported ski trip

By KELLY SENNOTT

Winter in New Hampshire isn’t what it used to be.At least, that’s what Walpole filmmaker Gabriel Andrus’s grandfather has been telling him via the daily weather log the older man has been keeping for the last 20 years. As a boy, Andrus was told of the...

Role of radiation therapy and nurse navigators in cancer diagnoses

Dr. Kristofer Roberts, MD, and nurse navigators Caitlin Roberts, BSN, RN, OCN, and Kim Pauliks, BSN, RN, of Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care discuss radiation oncology and navigating a cancer diagnosis.What is radiation therapy...

From earwax to nasal sprays

Dr. Chandler Marietta of Concord Hospital Otolaryngology-Laconia discusses the specialty and offers pearls, i.e. key information, for the general population.What is otolaryngology? What do we do?Otolaryngology is a surgical specialty commonly referred...

Vintage Views: A return to life

There are times in life when we encounter situations that are deemed strange, unknown and somewhat of a mystery. These encounters happen every day. Sometimes we share our thoughts while at other times we simply accept the days as they are dealt....

Concord artist David Wiggins opens studio for four-day show

By KELLY SENNOTT

Concord artist David Wiggins is regionally known for his folk murals, but these days what he paints is so much more personal.“You’d get big money for the murals because you’re doing what somebody else wants, but when you do your own work and sell that...

Responsibility of pool maintenance cuts into pleasure

By ROB AZEVEDO

Before I owned a pool, I knew three things about them. You jump in, you jump out, then you towel off. That’s it.And I loved them.Always loved carving my way through the bubbles in the deep end, diving to touch the bottom, seeing how long I could stay...

Obesity and medical weight loss options

By DR. RAZA SHARIFF

What is obesity and how big of a problem is it?Obesity is when a person has a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30. Morbid obesity is when the BMI is above 40. In the United States, 43% of adults are suffering from obesity and it is...

Now is the time to buy tubers and rhizomes for summer-blooming flowers

By HENRY HOMEYER

I like dahlias. They are bright and come in many colors with blossoms from the size of daisies to the size of dinner plates. My wife, Cindy, loves dahlias. Every year we have discussions about how many we should plant and where they might go. I...

The man who played Captain James T. Kirk will land in Concord Thursday, with plenty of time to share stories

By RAY DUCKLER

His voice was unmistakable, even at 90 years old.We all know it, fans of Star Trek or not. The classic baritone, smooth like 50-year-old scotch, measured and controlled. The way Captain Kirk once sounded giving orders from the bridge of the Starship...

Highland cows on their way to a new life in California

By CAROLE SOULE

This month, Bruce and I joined hordes of people flocking to Logan Airport on our way to visit with family in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. We aren’t the only ones who left our farm this week. Two days after our departure, nine of our Scottish...