This Saturday, we’ll be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of our annual Kitchen Tour! While I’m sure many of you are tour veterans, I thought I’d share some helpful tips for navigating this year’s tour.Read More
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One of the very cool things to like about this year’s Kitchen Tour is that it’s a walking tour in downtown Portsmouth, it showcases the city’s great history even as it shows off its sense of contemporary style, and it includes 10 homes that are each quite special. Okay, that’s three very cool things. But it’s hard to be shy about this year’s Kitchen Tour. It’s going to be a winner.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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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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