Ask Professor Gunn: Firearms advice columnist

Due to some recent confusion about when it is OK to shoot someone, today we check in with noted firearms advice columnist Professor Gunn, who generously agreed to answer a few questions from readers. Dear Professor Gunn, For a good while now I’ve been itching to...

Port City Mongoplex: A modest proposal

Here in quaint little Portsmouth (motto: “Tourist Magnet by the Sea”), the pressures of development are causing seismic disruptions in both the city’s visual landscape and the public dialogue. Construction is booming and critics are barking. But,...

Going for the record

The record-setting “performance” by Joey “Jaws” Chestnut’s in the Nathan’s Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island — he downed 69 dogs in 10 minutes to defeat Hampton Beach summer resident Matt Stonie — got me thinking...