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Insiders guide to food, entertainment & living in Salem Massachusetts for tourists and residents.

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Salem MA on Facebook

By Glen Hughes on 1 Comment
Categories: community, technology

Everybody is on Facebook these days, heck my grandmother is trying to send me growing flowers, drinks and updates on her black sheep in Farmville.  So it makes perfect sense that Salem Mass would find its way on to Facebook. As is the case with most social media, the City of Salem is not in [...]

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Salem Literature Festival

Literally Salem: The Salem Literature Festival

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Categories: art, business, community, events, literature, photos

Salem has all sorts of thriving scenes that the average tourista would never find if s/he wasn’t looking for it.  Take for instance our local wordsmiths.  We have done articles in the past about Author lectures and events pertaining to improving your writing.  Recently Cornerstone Books hosted an Editor speed date.  Writers are alive and [...]

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From the Rumor Mill

By Glen Hughes on 5 Comments
Categories: community, nightlife

If you follow us on twitter @saleminsider, then you might have seen some interesting ongoings regarding Spirits.  For the rest of you I’ll fill you in with the official info. We received an email and a tweet from a performer who was scheduled to play at Spirits but when he showed up they were not [...]

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Salem Take Out Menus

Insiders recipe book

By Glen Hughes on 12 Comments
Categories: restaurant

I was helping a friend who had moved in to Salem recently when the rumble of hunger hit my stomach.  Now when I lived in Manhattan, our entire kitchen consisted of a three ring binder chock full of take out/delivery menus. Come to think of it my college kitchen was like that too.  Luckily for [...]

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Then & Now: Salem

Then & Now: Salem

By Glen Hughes on 4 Comments
Categories: art, history, literature

From time to time people send us stuff to talk about, some of it makes the cut while the rest gets “recycled”. Today we have a gem that anybody who lives in might be interested in. Then & Now: Salem Author:  Jerome M. Curley, Nelson L. Dionne Publisher:  Arcadia Publishing (February 16, 2009) Amazon link: [...]

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Local Bloggers Unite!

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Categories: blogging

You might have noticed that we got rid of the blogroll widget in our sidebar. Where did it go? We moved and improved it. As of today you will find our list of local blogs on its own around town page. This is a page of blogs written by people who live or work in [...]

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