New Hampshire Film Festival crowd outside The Music Hall at night

October is when Portsmouth really starts showing off, and on the big screen too. There are movies, ghosts, pumpkins, costumes, good food and enough going on that you could fill several weekends without trying particularly hard. The weather may or may not cooperate — this is New England, after all — but that’s what sweaters … Read more

Friends enjoying seasonal cocktails at a Seacoast restaurant

Fall in Portsmouth has a way of showing off. Not just through crudely carved pumpkin smiles, but through chefs’ menus, too! Around the Seacoast, local restaurants are leaning into the season with squash, apples, mushrooms, maple, cider and other things that make you want to put on a sweater and sit somewhere cozy for a … Read more

Portsmouth working waterfront and road salt piles at sunset

They’re not mountains, of course (we know that!) They’re piles of road salt, stored along the working waterfront for the New Hampshire winter ahead. And if you’ve driven through Portsmouth on the Route 1 Bypass, or looked across from the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel, you’ve probably seen them: great white piles rising up next to … Read more