Every weekday, a small demonstration takes place outside Congressman Charlie Bass’s Nashua office. Members of the organization NashuaPeace.org take turns throughout the week so that for one hour at lunchtime, there’s at least one person outside holding a sign..

• 350 ways to spend your money: Fast forward to a Saturday in late December. You haven’t begun Christmas shopping. In desperation, you find yourself cursing violently in stand-still traffic near a mall. Or, you could spend that day wrapping unique handmade things, drinking too much eggnog while congratulating yourself on buying local way back in August.

It was this time last year we were in the wake of the most pronounced Manny-being-Manny moment of them all after Sports Illustrated reported he had demanded to be traded out of Boston. The Nation being the Nation turned upside down for a week and phone lines to talk radio were on fire. Everyone seemed to have an opinion, but basically they fell into two camps. The “I’m sick of this” folks, who wanted him out of town at any price and the group I was in, that said “are you x!&%xx!!*&# out of your ever-loving mind to trade him in the middle of the pennant race!!!!!!!!”.

They used a five-gallon bucket to hoist water from the neighboring Souhegan River through a window in the lounge to flush the toilets in their swank restaurant. .

One of the joys of music that remains largely unknown to concert-goers today is the pleasure of hearing chamber works performed live in an intimate setting.

Gaming icon Sid Meier lovingly strokes the tummy of strategy gamers worldwide with the first expansion pack to the fourth iteration of his Abe Lincoln wages war on Ghandi simulator.

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