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2:25 pm
Fri March 15, 2013

Dartmouth Murals Become National Historic Landmark

A set of murals at Dartmouth College by the Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco has been named a national historic landmark.

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Arts & Culture
10:24 am
Fri March 15, 2013

NH this Weekend: Battles & Bubble Hockey

Hippo Editor Amy Diaz joins Morning Edition to talk about three 'battles' in Manchester this weekend.

Battle of the Bands at the Palace Theater

6th Annual CHaD Battle of the Badges All-Star Hockey Championship

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Arts & Culture
5:00 am
Fri March 15, 2013

How To Make Furniture Sexy (And Other Lessons From An Artist)

The New Hampshire Furniture Masters are featuring the work of three female furniture makers through April 9, in Concord.  This story features one of the artists, at her workshop in Manchester.  

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Arts & Culture
5:16 pm
Mon March 4, 2013

Traveling Auschwitz-Birkenau Exhibit Stops In N.H.

Credit Amanda Loder / NHPR
Kathy Preston regularly tells her story to 8th grade classes learning about the Holocaust

A new exhibit that takes a closer look at what happened at a notorious Nazi death camp opened at the New Hampshire State Library today.

The exhibit, which is traveling the country on loan from Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, includes a set of 31 posters featuring photos of the horrific conditions at the death camp. 

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Arts & Culture
4:03 pm
Fri March 1, 2013

The Audio Orchard Podcast for March

1. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)

March 24, The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA

2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, So Good At Being In Trouble

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Arts & Culture
2:20 pm
Thu February 28, 2013

This Weekend's Arts Scene

Violin virtuoso Joshua Bell performs at The Music Hall in Portsmouth Friday night, accompanied by pianist Sam Haywood

If you’re feeling Shakespearean, the Keene State College Theatre Department performs The Tempest this weekend at the Redfern Arts Center

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre perform at the Hopkins Center in Dartmouth through the weekend; the San Francisco Chronicle referred to a company production as “spectacular dancing that thrills you to your marrow”.  The program includes Ailey’s signature work, “Revelations.”

And right here in Concord…jazz pianist and composer Pamela Hines will be playing at the Purple Pit.

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