If you’re out for a walk on New Hampshire’s beaches on Saturday, April 27, you may see more activity than usual, as commercial fishermen and others will be out picking up traps and other fishing debris washed ashore during the winter.

Vestron Pictures, 1988: Based on "Dracula" author Bram Stoker’s final novel before his death in 1911, “The Lair of the White Worm” may not deliver the best high camp value, but it’s close.

This is old-school science fiction in a 21st-century wrapper. Stylistically, it’s a twin to last year’s “Prometheus,” with the digital animation sharing a certain shiny gravity, but it does not suffer from the complete nonsense that so cruelly downed that Ridley Scott vessel.

It’s mid-morning on a warmish Saturday in April and there aren’t a lot of people at Bull Moose Music in Portsmouth. The early morning rain has tapered off and the sun is starting to find its strength. It’s Record Store Day, a holiday to some degree, for music enthusiasts and collectors worldwide to support local independent record stores and find rare limited-release goods.

Vintage baseball comes to the Seacoast

If you’re a baseball fan in New England, chances are you live for April, and dream about playing for the Red Sox at Fenway Park. But some baseball fans live for April 1861. Their dream is to play for the Boston Red Stockings on an untended field on a local farm, playing the old-fashioned way without gloves or batting helmets, stepping to the plate swinging a bat that’s as heavy and thick as the tree it was made from. A game where home plate itself is an actual round plate made from a 12-inch wedge of solid iron. This is vintage baseball, and teams all over New England play it from April to October. This season, Portsmouth has a brand new home team taking the field in the uniform of the Portsmouth Rockinghams.

Flatbreads featuring potatoes and rosemary, or onion and thyme, make a light spring supper with winter’s last storage crops

We were reminded of how good potatoes on pizza can be during a recent dinner at Flatbread. Featuring fingerlings from Meadow’s Mirth farm in Stratham, the pizza we ordered was one of two specials showcasing local ingredients that night. Rather than being stodgy, the potatoes lent a nutty earthiness, and provided a lovely contrast to the other toppings.

Duncan Watt and the art of music in 'BioShock Infinite'

Duncan Watt is excited. He’s spent most of the previous night playing BioShock Infinite, the newest release in the BioShock series. As a gamer, he’s waited a long time for this. And as a composer who was asked to contribute unique compositions to the game’s orchestral soundtrack, seeing all of it come together is priceless.

Collaboration breeds art. You’ll find it in music, literature and in many other artistic outlets. Sometimes it’s direct, like in a song featuring two musicians. And sometimes it’s indirect, through support or influence. On the Seacoast, collaboration in the arts scene has created a community. Capecelatro, Flynn, Gooby and cellist Juliet Nelson all contributed to Squires’s forthcoming album, “Where the Bunny Meets the Bear.” Squires, along with Flynn, also contributed to Capecelatro’s recent RPM Challenge album, “The Short Shift,” played trombone on a track Flynn is recording, and also plays in The Landladys with Capecelatro and Gooby.

Patricia Lynch heard a phrase she likes. “We are beyond age,” she says. It’s a 21st-century way of thinking the Music Hall executive director said she used when booking artists for the Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival. “Don’t discount someone who is 15 years old. Nor discount someone who is in their 60s.”

It’s time for Portsmouth to reinvest in the arts. The Americans for the Arts 2011 survey showed that the arts have a  $41.5 million annual impact in Portsmouth. Yet as a community, we reinvest virtually none of this into arts education.

A few weeks before his death, Walter was still talking up a new series of poems, of which he was several in. As well as a forward he was hoping to pen for a gathering of essays and reviews. In another visit, he shifted two napkins on a coffee table, as if they were an invaluable freight, telling me how he had had been thinking in less linear terms, more spatial.

Newfields author Robert J. Begiebing brings the past into the present  with “The Turner Erotica”

“The Turner Erotica” offers something for everyone: madness, suicide, obsession, gun and knife fights cheek-to-jowl with art history, aesthetics, and yes, a fair dollop of erotic raciness as well.
The plot concerns itself with the legend surrounding the fiery destruction of a series of sensual paintings and sketches done by Britain’s most famous landscape painter, J.M.W. Turner, by the hand of his most ardent champion, the writer and intellectual John Ruskin.

The “Mad Men” season premiere propels its characters into the dark end of the ’60s

“Mad Men,” for all the awards and critical praise it receives, also seems to have the same complaints lobbed at it season after season: it’s too slow, it’s too dark, it’s never met a metaphor it didn’t like. All true. Which makes me so incredibly happy to finally have it back.

Rated R: It seemed a strange gamble, for an established filmmaker like Raimi to entrust his cult hit legacy to an unproven first-time director like Fede Alvarez. With a whole new cast, and a marginally bigger budget, what could Alvarez possibly hope to accomplish with this that the franchise hadn’t already? Now that the results are in, the question maybe shouldn’t be “Why is someone remaking this movie?” but more along the lines of, “Why isn’t everyone remaking this movie?”

Peck, peck, peck. A hen pokes her beak into the ground and tugs out a tiny bug. The sun is rising slowly, warming the air from below freezing to 40 degrees in minutes. Chomp. The bug is breakfast. As daylight hours lengthen, chickens grow more active and increase production, laying one egg per day, compared to roughly one every other day during wintertime.