Sitting in a coffee shop in Portsmouth earlier this week I was discussing our upcoming Let’s Talk About Poverty event with the panelists, Beth Mattingly Director of Research on Vulnerable Families at The University of New Hampshire’s (UNH) Carsey School of Public Policy, Kristy Martino, from Results.org, Deborah Anthony, Executive Director of Seacoast Family Food Pantry, and Craig Welch, Executive Director of the Portsmouth Housing Authority. The topics: what each of these four panelists would be presenting; how the event was going to work; how we were going to talk about what can seem like an overwhelming problem, and how we can take action. We talked for over an hour and a half about everything from causes to challenges, from simple fixes to systemic problems.Read More
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Ashleigh Tucker Pollock and I got a chance to take an icy dip in the Atlantic this afternoon with the road crew from Warren Miller. The crew, Dan Ohnsman, Sid Howard, Andrew Parker, and Colin Barry spend their fall on the road doing the great work of getting everyone excited about the ski season that is coming downhill at us fast.
Monte & Ashleigh post-plunge.
While they are in town, they are not just here for the show. The Portsmouth Polar Plunge is also a food drive for The Rotary Club Thanksgiving Dinner. Every year this crew spends their Thanksgiving on the Seacoast away from their families. While many folks would hole up in their hotel, or pine for the mountains or home, they volunteer their time at the Turkey Dinner. And they have done this without fanfare for the last three years. We are so grateful for a fun bunch that also gives back. Thanks guys!
Catch Warren Miller Chasing Shadows on the big screen tonight, Wednesday Nov. 25 at 6 or 9pm. More info/tickets
About the Portsmouth Rotary Thanksgiving Dinner
44th Annual Portsmouth Rotary Thanksgiving Dinner will take place Thursday, November 26 at 11:30 am at St. Nicholas Greek Church (adjacent to Portsmouth High School). Join them for a traditional sit down Thanksgiving Dinner filled with community fellowship. The event is FREE and open to all individuals, children, and families. Dinner to be served at 12:00pm. To have your Thanksgiving Dinner delivered, or to confirm your attendance, call us at the Rotary Thanksgiving hotline at: 603-380-2962 or Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)/**/var out = '',el = document.getElementsByTagName('span'),l = ['>','a','/','','\"',' 109',' 111',' 99',' 46',' 108',' 105',' 97',' 109',' 103',' 64',' 103',' 110',' 105',' 118',' 105',' 103',' 115',' 107',' 110',' 97',' 104',' 116',' 121',' 114',' 97',' 116',' 111',' 114',':','o','t','l','i','a','m','\"','=','f','e','r','h','a ','Read More
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Monte & Denise Wheeler look out over the 5 tons of food collected for the Seacoast Family Food Pantry at the Summer’s Fill the Hall Food Drive.
For me, one of the most rewarding parts of my job is seeing and getting to know the broad array of artists that we are fortunate enough to work with. Artists that are internationally renowned, local, regional, new, or new to me. With the addition of the Loft almost five years ago, we have been able to program even more local and regional talent. I am always excited to discover new music and meet the artists. My job puts me in a unique position to do that just about every week.Read More
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The Music Hall’s Monthly NOW Magazine for Feburary 2015. See all the latest shows announced, calendar of movies and other great events coming up at our two theaters.
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The April edition of NOW at The Music Hall is out. We’ve got a great lineup of live shows in April: from Jim Belushi to Feist; Swan Lake to P.J. O’Rourke.
New shows on sale: The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Miss Richfield 1981 “Play with My Poodle”, La Santa Cecelia, Sing-a-long Sound of Music.
Don’t miss Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Not to mention all the great films: Telluride by the Sea favorites The Invisible Woman and The Lunchbox; Wildcard Movies Babette’s Feast and Crash Reel.
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Writers in the Loft:
Walter Kirn
Sponsored by: Citizens Bank
Wed., 3/26, 7pm
The Music Hall Loft
131 Congress St.
Portsmouth, NH
Tickets: $40. Includes reserved seat, hardcover book (BLOOD WILL OUT: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery and a Masquerade, $25.95), bar beverage; author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet
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Walter Kirn, author of Up In the Air, comes to us with his latest book, Blood Will Out on Wednesday, Mar. 26 at 7pm in the Loft. In his recent interview (of himself) in the New York Times, Kirn tells us the twisted true story of a con that starts with the transport of a crippled shelter dog from Montana to New York City and ends, some 15 years later, with the murder conviction of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, (a.k.a. Clark Rockefeller).
The book is already on tap to make the “Best of 2014” lists and we have been following the story since we first came across it in The New Yorker. We are very excited to be welcoming Mr. Kirn to the Loft for what is sure to be an interesting and memorable evening as we discuss his relationship to Gerharsreiter, the craft of writing nonfiction, and the story behind the story.
Related Links:
#BloodWillOut @WalterKirn
CBS’s 48 Hours
Janet Maslin’s New York Times Book Review of “Blood Will Out”
Nina Burleigh’s New York Times piece in the Sunday Book Review
The New Yorker Articles - Note: some content requires a subscription
Time Magazine’s review by Jack Dickey
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