| Coolidge Center serves 'provocative' dinner
The Coolidge Center for the Arts Gallery was magically transformed into an inviting five star restaurant and entertainment venue on Jan. 24. In the renovated 19th-century carriage house, 60 supporters enjoyed a lavish sit-down meal followed by J. Dennis Robinson's illustrated presentation, Bad Boys of Portsmouth. Attendees sat at large round tables formalized with blue and white linens and were served a three-course meal, compliments of Sodexho and Covey Run Wines. The gallery walls, usually bare during the winter season, assumed a warm domestic aura with a superior exhibition of fine art by the Coolidge Center studio faculty. Robinson, local historian and founding editor of SeacoastNH.com, regaled the sold-out room with stories of Portsmouth literati, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, James T.
COLLECTING: Fabulous finds for tomorrow
What do a tea kettle, a toilet brush and a trash can have in common? If they're award-winning designs by Michael Graves, Philippe Starck and Karim Rashid, they're antiques of the future, says a new book with that title by Philadelphia design maven Lisa Roberts. A former architect and product designer, Roberts began seeing high-design, mass-produced contemporary products as potential collectibles 25 years ago. Since then, she's amassed a collection of more than 300 objects, many of which are on display in her home. Seventy-two of those objects are featured in "Antiques of the Future" (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $29.95), whose lusciously photographed format is high on witty design itself. Among the selections are fly swatters, cheese graters, dust pans and tape dispensers, as well as Peter Max's limited-edition bottle designs for AriZona iced tea, Rashid's curvaceous detergent bottle for Method Products and Jonathan Ives' iMac G3 computer.
Burglary Arrest
Items sold to a local Antique Shop tipped investigators off to a suspect in a string of burglaries in the Lynn Haven and Bay County area. Investigators with the Bay County Sheriff's Office were working a burglary which occurred on January 18, 2007, in which a home was burglarized and a firearm, a Colt 45 Semi Automatic, was taken as well as coins and other items. On January 29, 2007, the suspect went to two local Antique shops to sell two antique dueling pistols and some old coins. The pistols were purchased by the shop owner. Shortly afterward, officers from the Lynn Haven Police Department went to the shop, asking about certain items that had been taken in a burglary that occurred within the Lynn Haven city limits. The shop owner did not have those items, but did mention the pistols and old coins to the officers.
Cops: Senior who stood up to stickup lucky to be alive
SALEM - Police say a Pickering Wharf antiques dealer who attacked a would-be robber Monday afternoon was fortunate he wasn't hurt or killed.
"Obviously, he took the law into his own hands," Lt. Conrad Prosniewski said of the clerk, Glenn Steen Johnsen, who refused to go along with the demands of a knife-wielding robber. "But this was a desperate individual, and the outcome could have been very different. We're not recommending others do something like this."
Johnsen, 62, apparently got the better of Steven Donarumo, a 27-year-old Danvers native who had recently been released from prison, where he served part of a 21/2- to three-year prison term for armed robbery.
On Monday afternoon, Salem police were called about two men fighting outside of the Antiques Gallery, an antique cooperative where Johnsen sold furniture.
Big 12, onion breath, public information, rent a vintage Rolls
Q: This year the Big 12 Conference was blessed with several teams in bowl games. I remember that there is some way the Big 12 divides up the payout. Can you tell us what the percentage the conference gets and the percentage the individual teams keep? — R. Watts .
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