As Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Cultural Resources, Van McLeod oversees a number of diverse organizations, including the State Council on the Arts, the New Hampshire Library, the Division of Historical Resources, the Film and Television Office and the American Canadian French Cultural Exchange Commission. He?s made it his mission to hire New Hampshire artists for big events rather than relying on Boston or New York imports, but also wants to reach out to other countries, from Canada to Europe. He spent his schooling years in Ireland, where giant paintings depicting IRA fighters as heroes inspired him to make a documentary film, which he?s close to finishing now.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., provides professional development for local teachers to expand art literacy. They took that model national in 1991, and the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord and the Concord school district have just received notice that they have been accepted as a partnership team in the Kennedy Center?s Partnership for Education program, the only such team in New Hampshire.

The hot roast beef sandwich is a Massachusetts institution that folks miss when they move north to the Granite State. Sure, they get to keep an extra six percent of their salary in their pocket, but where?s the beef?

Well, it?s that time of year again. And while it?s amazingly warmer now in January than it used to be in these parts, it?s still the best time of the sports year for me.

The long national nightmare is over. After innumerable delays and changes in direction, Windows Vista is finally ready to ship to consumers at the end of this month.

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