Every Tuesday there's an open mic at The Safe. Listed as an 8p start.

These guys run shows mostly southern NH and the north shore:
https://www.scampscomedy.com/shows

This company runs shows at Chunky's in Nashua plus a few other places: https://www.headlinersnh.com/

There's a monthly show at the Luna. Next show is Thursday December 29th.

Open mics or real shows?

Yup. I was a member there a few years ago. Nice place.

If you're okay with cold and just trying to avoid ice, they plow the Minuteman bikepath. Still though, you might want spikes.

Looks like I'll have to reshoot this again.

https://youtu.be/56h0tMQebM8

Totally different style of dive. Can't have a Thirsty First without a patio. Credit given where due though, it does meet the pole-blocking-the-stage criteria.

To fill in the gap: one of the upstairs tenants set off the sprinklers causing big damage.

General background: Great punk venue. There's been a bar in that spot at least going back to my dad's generation, although it's changed hands a bunch.

YouTube Thirsty First Lowell, tons of good clips are up there from shows recorded here.

It was a drive-by. When they did it to me they came up from behind. Headphones wouldn't have mattered.

Same thing happened to me a few years back on Dutton Street. Luckily wasn't that good of a throw. I don't think it's a trend, pretty sure it's just douchebags.

Pick your apartment complex carefully. Some of them have pretty negligent management. I'm not sure if Dee Tension is on here under any name, but on FB he's always good for a few horror stories of that nature.

Two New Hampshire lists with a few good options:

52 With a View. A lot of these are way up, but there's a few within 90 minutes or so. https://newenglandwaterfalls.com/52withaview.php

Fire Towers. Wicked easy/older kid friendly (little ones might not be safe on the actual towers). I think it was the one in Derry you can skip, basically just someone's driveway and barely gets above current treeline. http://4000footers.com/list_towerquest.shtml

Mt Agamenticus in York Maine.

North Uncanoonuc just west of Manchester. South Unc is all radio towers. Only about a one mile hike though.

Pack Monadnock. Same range as Watatic. They form the WaPack trail. https://wapack.org/

Andre's Institute. Ski area turned into a sculpture park in Brookline NH (just west of Nashua). http://www.andresinstitute.org/

Tangent/ potential wormhole: https://www.nelsap.org/

Me too. I had a lot of fun swimming down there, but not the least bit surprised that people were getting hurt. Those were really tight dives.