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pUBLISHER’S
NOTE
Long hard choices
As the governor and folks
at the Statehouse struggle to
figure out how to pay for
our government services,
they are turning to onetime solutions, including
millions in federal stimulus
money. While it’s admiringly optimistic to think
business and housing will be flying high again
in just two short years, it’s not a reasonable
solution to our revenue-raising issues.
Like many businesses and homeowners, the
state has been living in the midst of a bubble.
Now that that bubble has burst we need to
take a conservative look at how much money
the state can reasonably raise year in and out.
Just as most families can no longer tap home
equity to send a child to college, pay for a new
kitchen or buy that extra toy, the state too can’t
expect to keep spending at bubble levels or to
continue to tap one-time revenue sources. We
can’t expect to keep finding revenue sources.
This does mean that the tough questions need
to be asked: what services can our government
afford to offer? Lynch has done some of this,
asking many of his department heads to come
back with additional cuts to their budgets, but
such reductions are beside the point. This can
leave very important public policy decisions up
to unelected department heads instead of the
governor and Statehouse officials who we elect
to make those decisions. And that’s too bad.
The debate over what services government
should be responsible for is a debate that
should be had in public — in the legislature
with the participation of department heads. As
it is now, this process is rather haphazard and
skirts these tough debates.
The other big question that seems to get
shunted aside is how much the state pays for
things. From bridge contracts to state employee
pensions, is the state getting the best deal it
can negotiate? Do connections from unions to
friendly contractors drive up the price the state
has to pay? If we pay too much for a set of
state services, other services can get crowded
out — it’s like a larger tree stunting the growth
of neighboring trees around it. The questions
isn’t just can we afford to pay X amount for
a service, it should also be what is the cost to
other services we want?
Does this mean state government can’t raise
taxes? That we have to freeze state spending
and increases in taxes? No, of course not.
Inflation, especially in health care, increases at
an increasingly faster rate and we as taxpayers
must foot that bill — especially since we have
never enacted meaningful health care reforms
to keep prices down — but that’s a whole
other issue.
We taxpayers should expect a modest yearly
increase in our taxes and more than modest if
we as a group decide we want government
to pick up more services. For example, each
time we decide state government should offer
health care to children, we are accepting
paying more of our income to the state to
cover those costs.
It’s important our elected officials don’t run
from this kind of discussion; it’s important
to the kind of government we have and how
we see our government — and the services it
offers.
4 News
Potential candidates
enter the 2nd District
fray; State parks need
attention; House calls
for your car; more news
in brief
12 The up of downtown
Walk down a main street in downtown Concord, Manchester or Nashua and look up. The
upper floors of many buildings, though not as
visible as the window-filled store fronts below,
could play an important role in the health of
these downtowns. Like a makeover focused
on hair rather than wardrobe, local cities are
considering a new do up top.
Cover art by Peter Noonan.
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9 Quality of Life Index
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Inside/Outside:
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26 Kiddie Pool
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27 Car Talk
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28 Treasure Hunt
There’s gold in them there closets.
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NITE:
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Manchester Jazz & Blues Fest spreads out; Foghat
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NEWS & NOTES
News in Brief
News and happenings
Name roundup
Republican State Senator and Manchester
Alderman Ted Gatsas formally announced
Monday, June 8, that he would run for mayor
in the Queen City. Republican Mayor Frank
Guinta announced earlier this year he would not
seek a third term and would instead run against
Democratic U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter in
the 1st Congressional District. Gatsas joins a
field of mayoral contenders that includes Alderman Mark Roy, state Rep. Richard Komi and
Glenn Ouelette. Gatsas said he would resign
his Senate seat if elected mayor. Democrats, not
surprisingly, would prefer Gatsas resign now. “If
elected mayor, Gatsas’ delayed resignation will
cause the families of state Senate District 16 to
go without representation for a critical amount
of time during the 2010 legislative session,”
said state Democratic Party Executive Director
Michael Brunelle. “Did Paul Hodes resign his
seat?” asked Samantha Piatt, Gatsas campaign
manager.
Sharon lawyer Mark Fernald announced
last week he would run for Congress in the 2nd
Congressional District. The race is open as Rep.
Paul Hodes is running for Senate. Current Sen.
Judd Gregg has said he will not seek reelection in 2010. Fernald is a former state senator
and a former candidate for governor. Hopkinton lawyer Ann McLane Kuster, a Democrat,
announced last week she would run for Hodes’
vacated seat in the 2nd District as well.
Former New Hampshire Republican Sen.
Bob Smith wants to try on his Senate shoes
again, but this time he’s running for Florida’s
open U.S. Senate seat, reports indicated. Smith
served two terms in the Senate and was first
elected in the Granite State in 1990, after two
unsuccessful bids for office. He’s lived in Flori-
da for seven years.
Low-income housing boost
The Way Home in Manchester, which provides transitional housing to low-income families
and individuals, recently received $300,000 from
the Neighborhood Stabilization Fund to buy and
renovate the property next to it, said Catherine
Correnti, property manager at The Way Home,
which is located at 214 Spruce St. (www.thewayhomenh.org). Manchester received $7.7
million in Neighborhood Stabilization Fund
money from the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development. The state received $19 million total, Correnti said. The property, which has
about 5,000 square feet, was foreclosed on about
one year ago and is currently an illegal five-family dwelling. The Way Home will convert it back
to a legal three-family home, using green building standards, Correnti said. “The neighbors are
really happy,” Correnti said. Call 627-3491.
Where to park?
Manchester city officials will host a meeting
on accessible parking Thursday, June 11, at 4
p.m. at Manchester City Library, 405 Pine St.
Officials will discuss who should have accessible parking privileges and how to get them, an
overview of how placards and plates can legally
be used, how to report abuse of accessible placards and plates, and state and local legislation in
process. Call city Parking Director Brandy Stanley at 624-6580.
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State Senators passed, 15-9, a two-year, $11.6
billion state budget for Fiscal Years 2010 and
2011. “This budget cuts many valuable programs
but funds the essentials in order for our state and
our families to survive this recession,” said Sen.
Lou D’Allesandro, D-Manchester, who is also
chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
According to a state press release, the budget
includes a 0.63-percent increase in general fund
spending, coupled with a 25-percent increase
in federal dollars. Since Gov. John Lynch presented his budget proposal in February, Welfare
caseloads have risen about 50 percent, while the
demand for Medicaid has risen dramatically as
well. Budget writers faced a $500 million shortfall in revenue for the coming two fiscal years.
The Senate’s budget closes five district courts,
closes the Tobey School, closes the Lakes Region
Correctional Facility and lays off at least 200
state employees. The budget also requires retirees under 65 years old to contribute to their health
care coverage. Under the Senate’s budget, the
state Department of Transportation must restructure the highway and turnpike systems, which are
grossly underfunded. The Department of Health
and Human Services must cut $20 million from
its more than $700 million budget.
“It includes my proposals to reform and contain the cost structure of state government,
including closing the Laconia prison, closing the
Tobey School, reducing health care costs for state
employees and retirees, reorganizing boards and
commissions and allowing the Liquor Commission to run like a business. These ideas will help
reduce costs now and into the future,” Lynch
said in a statement. Along with several small fee
increases, the Senate’s budget includes legislation allowing slot machines at the state’s horse
and dog tracks. Officials say slot machines could
generate $185 million for the depleted state budget. House and Senate budget writers will meet
to hammer out a plan to send to Lynch.
In case you missed it, Lynch signed legislation last week legalizing same-sex marriage
in New Hampshire. The law would take effect
Jan. 1. Lynch’s signing comes after he demanded additional language two weeks ago protecting
vendors and religious institutions not wishing to
take part in same-sex marriage ceremonies. Initially the Senate passed Lynch’s version of the
bill and the House of Representatives narrowly
rejected it. The two bodies worked out a compromise in committee that both passed and Lynch
signed. Senate Democrats rejected a measure two
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cast pleasing light, not all sickly blue colored. We
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So how’s business so far?
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we learned, pretty early on, just because you build
a Web site doesn’t mean people will come to it.
Now we’re engaged in another campaign ... so we
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yet saying they don’t like it. …
There’s always a lot of attention to hybrid
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little things to be more energy-efficient first?
I can’t claim ownership to the quote but I was
told it was some professor out of the University
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vegetables before your solar energy cookies.” ...
People are looking for the more sexy things, but
they tend to cost more, solar panels. There’s so
much to be saved with the little things, weath-
Generally, are you seeing progress in New
Hampshire in terms of the green movement?
I’ve just started to really pay attention. Until a
year ago ... I was working at Fidelity Investments
in Merrimack. Now I work here every day. The
city just recently passed a pay-as-you-throw recycling program; it’s not without controversy, some
view it as a tax. I’m a conservative, I don’t like
taxes. ... If you have to buy a trash bag, people
will throw away less. It’s the smart thing to do. We
recycle like crazy. We recycle much more today
than we did a year ago. There’s twice as much
recycling on the sidewalks in my neighborhood
every Tuesday. ... I bought myself a composter.
I don’t have a lot of use for composted soil, but
... if I can’t use the soil myself, I know someone
who can use it in a plot in a community garden. In
Concord, we’re doing the New Hampshire Carbon Challenge (www.nhcarbonchallenge.org).
We’re having a ward-by-ward competition, ending in October, to see which ward reduces its
carbon footprint the most. ... That’s tremendous
action. There’s a guide of specific things you
can do — buying a smart power strip, driving 10
miles less per week. That’s the type of stuff I see
happening. There’s always those who criticize.
I was a McCain supporter and he said something about global warming. [McCain said] if we
change the way we consume energy and years
from now we have a cleaner environment and it
turns out people were wrong about global warming, how are we worse off? We still have a cleaner
environment. We’ll leave a cleaner environment,
a better place for our kids. Why not do all those
little things to try to make the difference? I see it
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Hampshire’s state park officials expect a
busy season with many folks opting for
closer-to-home “stay-cations” or “daycations.” But how the state manages its 68
parks could be changing in coming years.
The state Division of Parks and Recreation released a draft of its 10-year
development plan Monday, June 8. The
plan is available for public review at
www.stateparks.org.
The division will host a series of public comment sessions to gather input on
the plan: Thursday, June 11, from 4 to
7 p.m. at the North Country Resource
Center, 629B Main St. in Lancaster; Tuesday, June 16, from noon to 7 p.m. at the
Department of Resources and Economic Development, 172 Pembroke Road in
Concord; Thursday, June 18, from 4 to
7 p.m. at Wentworth Coolidge Mansion
State Historic Site, 375 Little Harbor
Road in Portsmouth; and Tuesday, June
23, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Peterborough Town
Hall, 1 Grove St.
“The state parks add immeasurably to
the health, welfare and quality of life of
its citizens and guests,” the report said.
“They are also a cornerstone of the state’s
tourism economy, the second most important state industry.”
State parks fill a niche between national and municipal parks. Ted Austin,
director of the state division of parks and
recreation, said the expectations of Yellowstone National Park and a Concord
city park are far from the same. State
parks fit right in the middle. Currently,
the park system protects and preserves
land of unusual scenic, scientific, historical, recreational and natural areas. Parks
ensure land is accessible for recreational,
educational, scientific and other uses consistent with protection and preservation.
Finally, the park system encourages and
supports tourism and economic activity.
Those are the ground rules for the park
system, Austin said.
“[Parks] continue to provide great value,” Austin said. “They’re enjoyed by
literally two million people per year.
They continue to be spectacular physical and natural settings. We do have the
opportunity to make the save and get back
to where we’re standing tall.”
An advisory committee examined the
state’s parks to investigate strengths,
weaknesses and how to solve funding problems. New Hampshire is the only state in
the country to self-fund state parks — all
of the department’s revenue is generated
through park user fees — and the result is
that since the self-funding “experiment”
began in 1991, the system can’t sustain
itself and has needed to dip into the general fund each year to balance the budget,
Austin said. The Division’s budget in Fiscal Year 2009 is $19.7 million. Funding
issues have left the Division unable to
fund many of the lingering maintenance
issues at parks, the report said.
“Parks need to have a more comprehensive story to tell,” Austin said.
The state found all
the parks continue to
be terrific in terms of
geography, geology
and physical characteristics, but some are
lacking in the maintenance department.
Some issues can be
attributed to funding
and staffing issues.
Some parks are in dire
straits, and in those
cases the plan would
try to put a price tag
on proper maintenance and any capital
improvements needed. The state is also
looking at alternative
management
strategies, which could
include more volunteers, Austin said.
Given the deficit
with which the parks
system runs, Austin
said it either needs
to formalize its ties
to the general fund
or reduce the number
of properties it maintains. Raising fees
could generate more
revenue, but it would
likely reduce visitors
as well.
The state would look
at a variety of criteria, including money,
adjacent communities
and their relationship to the park, impact
on recreation and simply how many people use it, to determine how to reduce its
park load. With the plan establishing criteria to measure parks, officials would
then “run each park through the gauntlet,” Austin said.
The report indicated there are 27 parks
not meeting the Division’s core values, while there are 22 parks somewhat
meeting core values and 20 that do meet
core values. The report suggests focusing resources on parks meeting core
values and pursuing alternative management strategies for parks not meeting core
values. Area parks that do not meet core
values include Silver Lake State Park,
Clough State Park, Hannah Dustin Memorial and Annette Wayside State Park. Area
parks that are meeting core values include
Bear Brook State Park, Pawtuckaway
State Park and Robert Frost Farm.
Once a park is determined to be dropped
from the system, officials would look at
the feasibility of selling it or establishing
some type of exchange with a “Friends of
...” group. Perhaps there are some parks
that could be moved internally to the
Division of Forests and Lands. Perhaps a
park would simply be “decommissioned”
for a period of time until the state can get
its finances back together, Austin said.
Officials are trying to make the process
as emotionally balanced as possible. Even
if the number of parks were to be reduced,
Austin wants to make sure there’s a state
park within 45 minutes of every home in
the state, Austin said.
On the flip side, some parks may see
substantial added capacity under the
development plan. Some parks may get a
“sense of renewal,” Austin said.
Still, it is a 10-year development plan,
and it’s only in the draft stage, so nothing
is set in stone right now, Austin said.
Officials do expect a good summer. For
Memorial Day weekend, camping dollars
increased no less than 2 percent at every
state park and had increased as much as 9
percent in certain parks.
While the division is consistently under
budget, there also isn’t anything to cut
this year, unlike New England neighbors
who are all seeing budgets “slashed to the
knees,” Austin said. So in tough economic times, New Hampshire parks do see
less volatility in terms of dollars. In other states, such as Massachusetts, Austin
said parks are essentially being shut down
and picnic tables are being removed due
to fiscal constraints. There is an entry fee
at every state park in the Granite State.
“It’s a very exciting time. We’re on a
threshold,” Austin said. “The times are
changing. Those that survive are those
that adapt.”
There is a 30-day comment period on
the development plan that began June 8.
Comments may be submitted by mail, email or fax. Visit www.nhstateparks.org.
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Fuel boon
New Hampshire and the rest of New England would see a substantial economic benefit from President Barack Obama’s new
fuel economy standards, according to a report by the University of New Hampshire’s Carbon Solutions New England. By
2025, the region would see a net economic benefit of $10 billion, which would come from fuel savings and reinvestment into
local and regional economies. Last month, Obama announced
new national emissions and fuel economy standards that would
require the fleet average for light-duty motor vehicles to be 35.5
miles per gallon, which is a 40-percent increase from the current fleet average requirement of 25.4 miles per gallon, a UNH
press release said.
QOL score: +1
Comment: 2025 is still a ways away but the new measures
would save 10 billion gallons of fuel and reduce carbon dioxide
emissions by 88 million tons between 2011 and 2025.
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QUEEN CITY DENTAL
DR. MARINA E. BECKER
Tomatoes, how we’ve missed you
After months and months of settling for pretty but bland vegetables and fruits shipped hundreds or thousands of miles, it’s
finally growing season again in New Hampshire. If you aren’t
a gardener, head to local farm stands and farmers’ markets and
hopefully be reminded of what fresh produce is supposed to taste
like. Manchester’s farmers’ market at Concord and Pine streets
starts June 18 this season, and runs Thursdays from 3 to 6:30
p.m. in the summer (www.manchesterfarmersmarket.com). Two
are already running in Nashua: the Main Street Bridge Farmers’ Market, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays, and the School
Street Farmers’ Market, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Fridays. More markets are listed at www.nhfma.org.
QOL score: +2
Comments: QOL admits that sometimes non-vegetable items
like donuts and other baked goods can also be a farmers’ market
draw. Speaking of which, Concord’s downtown farmers’ market
opened last weekend for the season. The market runs from 8:30
a.m. to noon on Capitol Street off Main Street, right next to the
state house.
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Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted this week
to hold a special election to fill the seat of now officially former Ward 12 Alderman Kelleigh Murphy the same day, Nov.
3, as its general election — one day, two separate ballots. That
means someone could win the special election and take a seat on
the Board from November to January, and someone else could
win the general election and take over the seat in January. The
city clerk’s office said the City has to hold a special election to
fill the seat, even though it would be such a short period of time.
In theory, it could be different candidates running in the special
election and in the general election.
QOL score: -1 (-2 for the silliness of the thing but +1 because
QOL doesn’t want to discourage even nutty money-saving ideas
by the aldermen)
Comment: Having elections on the same day does save some
money in election costs, since the general election was going
to happen anyway. Officials said previously a city-wide special
election would cost $40,000.
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Well, it didn’t take
Michael Felger long
to get under my skin
again. This time it
came with news Rodney Harrison would be
leaving the Patriots for NBC’s Football Night in
America. News that was met with an awful lot
of homerism in these part as to how good Rodney will be in the job.
Felger for one lauded Harrison because,
unlike most other ex-jocks, he won’t be afraid
to “rip” people. Like that’s a key skill. That
followed him goofing on the struggling Julio
Lugo, who he said “sucked” with a certain
smug delight a few days earlier. I’ll admit I’m
on a crusade about this sort of thing after not
being able to last more than three full seconds
these days with the 8 and 9 p.m. guys on the
fair and balanced network without wanting to
fire off blankety, blank, blank. Those guys are
against the president not because they disagree
with him (as I do on some things, like the deficit) but just because he’s on the other side. I
mean if he actually could walk on water, they’d
criticize him for polluting it and getting the carpet wet when he came inside.
If you’ve read here enough you know I am
not shy about, to use Felger’s word, “ripping”
someone. Check anything I say about José
Canseco. But I confine it to how people act
off the field in being selfish, self-centered, violent, criminal or abhorrent in some way. Like
Plaxico Burress shooting himself with his own
unlicensed gun in a crowded bar. Not only for
the stupidity, but for how it may have derailed
his teammates’ changes for a second straight
Super Bowl title. I also do it for guys who don’t
give 100 percent, because with the emotion fans
invest and the money they pay to see a game,
they’re owed that. Although I’ll admit bias here,
because as a competitor, I’ve hated when heads
and hearts weren’t in the game since I was in
Little League.
But Lugo doesn’t fall into this category. Since
the day they signed him I’ve said he wasn’t as
good as the price tag indicated. That’s not his
fault, is it? It’s Theo’s for overpaying on his
fourth shortstop in four years, right? But of
course we all make mistakes and since he has
won twice already in his reign as GM, which,
given the history, is like walking on water, it’s a
small one. If Lugo was yakking about not playing, being disruptive or having a public feud
with the manager, then he’d be fair game. But
the way I see it, he’s trying, but hasn’t regained
his burst, which limits what he can do.
I’ve got no problem with saying he shouldn’t
be playing, but reveling in it seems low-rent.
In fact Felger can take a page from the column
written last week by (of all people) Dan Shaughnessy on struggling Dontrelle Willis. After
seeing him yanked (with a no-hitter in progress)
after hitting Jacoby Ellsbury and walking four
of the next five batters it would have been easy
to say he “sucked.” But he didn’t. Instead he
wrote of a guy who’s baffled by his problems,
is working on them and is still facing the music
after it. I like that approach much better.
I’ll acknowledge beauty is in the eye of the
beholder in announcers, but I’m going to wait
and see on Rodney before I have an opinion.
After all, the last “natural” to retire early to
join that show was Tiki Barber and he was
so bad he’s now on the road reporting from the
field. What I want from Rodney is four things.
First: tell me something I don’t know or make
me think about something I haven’t — which
isn’t easy. Although the guy who’s been writing
me about how wrong I am about Joe Namath
being overrated has done that. Second: flow
with the emotion of the game. Mostly that’s
the play-by-play guy’s job, but new guys have
a tough time with that. Third: make me laugh,
like Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, and Mark
Jackson have done in the NBA playoffs. Finally: if someone should have had it, say so. Don’t
pound it into submission, but say it. Because
when it comes from someone who’s been drilled
by a 300-pounder many times, like Phil Simms
saying Tony Eason has happy feet, it has more
credibility than it does from the easy-to-criticize
Mike Felger who’s never been with 500 yards
of a collapsing NFL pocket.
With that out of the way, here are some recent
related broadcaster notes.
Sports 101: Name the two guys who each finished first and last in an annual fan poll for the
best broadcaster in the same year. The answer
is below.
Here’s my Mt. Rushmore of Play-by-Play
Broadcasters: 1. Keith Jackson. 2. Marv
Albert. 3. Jim Nantz. 4. Mike Gorman. See
LONGSHOTS
the glossary for why.
When the aforementioned Jackson talks about
how guys like Dwight Howard should be better in the low post, don’t dismiss it because he
was a point guard. When he played for Larry Bird in Indiana they’d regularly bring 7’3”
Rick Smits out inside to clear space for Jackson
on the block when he was very good. Especially against the Celtics, where he owned Kenny
Anderson.
And while we’re on the Finals, guess who
gave ABC sideline reporter Doris Burke her
first on-camera job? You’re looking at him. Did
it as Executive Producer of the ECAC Game
of The Week. NYU-Brandeis was the game if
memory serves me. If you don’t believe me, ask
all-world Monarchs broadcaster Ken Cail — he
was on play-by-play.
And if you don’t believe him, ask hoop-playing Central alum and local beer baron Chris
Schneider. He was there hoisting a few up from
all over for Brandeis that day.
I’m giving retiring John Madden a thumbs
up. What people who don’t like him today don’t
get is along with Don Meredith on Monday
Night Football and the quirky, late Al McGuire
in college basketball he brought humor into the
booth that then was a pretty solemn place. It’s
much better now.
Sports 101 Answer: No real surprise for either
as Howard Cosell did, probably a few times, and
Dickie V did for his work with college basketball in another season.
Not that it has anything to do with broadcasting, but with Harrison defecting to NBC
it means just 12 of the 54 players on the field
when the Patriots last won the Super Bowl in
2004 are left.
And finally, how does Rodney going after the
Colts and lack of leadership by Peyton Manning, who’s his friend Tom Brady’s biggest
rival for top player in football, in his opening press conference count as anything BUT
homerish since he’s defending his friend and
criticizing his biggest rival? Just wondering.
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Sports Glossary
Playoffs underway as
Wolves search for answers
Got Them Just Where They Want Them
Award: Given their track record of slow starts
and rampaging closes to the season to grab a
last-second playoff spot, the Manchester Wolves
are now in prime position to do it again after
another heartbreaking loss, 48-46, to Albany
on Friday. It gave them two straight losses and
five in their last six games. And it came with
a new quarterback in rookie Mike Potts, who
was brought in to fill the void left by the trade
of James Pinkney last week. Potts turned in a
24-34, 300-yard, four-TD effort. It was helped
along by a huge night from Emery Sammons,
who had nine catches for 166 yards and three
touchdowns — including running a kickoff 55
yards back for a score to get it 48-46 with 34
seconds left. With their backs to the wall, the
Wolves are back at it on Thursday night (June
11) at the Verizon to face division-leading Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers.
Sports 101: Jon Lester’s .711 winning percentage is first among all pitchers in baseball,
but he’s not eligible, so who’s first and how
many of the top five active leaders can you
name?
Big Hit Award: It actually should be stated as hits, with an S, as Tom Caron got
things moving for 18-2 Londonderry with a
The Numbers:
1 – hits allowed by Paige
Hansen to go along with 11
strikeouts in Concord’s 50 win over Nashua North
in the semifinals of Class L
Softball.
2 – first-place finishes in
the NHIAA Track and Field
Championships for Melanie
Forte of Milford and Anthony Saint Jean of Nashua
North, who each won the
100 and 200 meters in the
boys and girls division, while
Londonderry’s Becca Parasandola won the 100-meter
dash and the high jump, to be
the meet’s only dual champs.
3 – hits allowed by Cole Warren as Central advanced to
the quarterfinals of the Class
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three-run homer in the first inning and then
knocked three more in later in the game in pacing the Lancers to a 12-0 win over Spaulding
in playoff action as Jake Finnegan and Chris
Crutcher combined to get the shutout.
Josh Beckett Award: It goes to Trinity senior
Dylan Clark as, like the Sox’ big righty last
week, he lost a no-hit bid in the seventh inning
of his opening-round game in the baseball playoffs. Instead he settled for a one-hitter in a 7-1
win over Pinkerton as he struck out 10.
Triple Your Fun Award: Along with solid
pitching from Clark and Garrett Cole, who
tossed a four-hitter in round two, triples are how
top-seeded Trinity got its key runs. The big one
vs. Pinkerton was a two-run triple from Rick
Fosher that doubled a 2-0 lead. In a near round
two upset, triples figured in their runs in a 31 win over Timberlane. The first came in the
first as Sean Lyons drilled one and came home
on Jake Castriocone’s single, and the second
was from Connor Lyons that scored Castriocone and put him in position to come home on
a ground out by Fosher.
Sports 101 Answer: The active winning percentage leaders are Pedro Martinez (.683),
Johan Santana (.682), Roy Halladay (.677),
Roy Oswalt (.661) and Tim Hudson (.654).
L Baseball Tournament with
a 6-2 over Nashua North
4:18:69 – time in minutes it took Cory Sinotte of
Central to cover 1600 meters
in winning the event at the
NHIAA Track and Field
Championships.
7 – combined goals by Rory
(water) Fawcett and Danica Whitehouse as Pinkerton
eliminated the Central girls
from the Division I Lacrosse
playoffs with an 18-5 win.
10 – players who scored for
undefeated Bishop Guertin
as it opened its run at a Division I Lacrosse title with
a convincing 16-5 win
over Souhegan when Alex
Eaton was high man with
three goals and two assists.
12 – goals scored by Pinker-
ton in an opening-round 12-3
win over Central in the Division I Lacrosse Playoffs when
Tom Auger and Teegan Norris each scored three goals
for the Astros.
16 – innings pitched by
Pinkerton ace Cara Choolijan when she struck out 15
and allowed five hits in a
heartbreaking 1-0 loss that
propelled Londonderry to
the Class L Softball finals vs.
Concord. The win went to
Theresa Zwart in relief of
starter Erica Boehm.
21 – point margin of victory in Londonderry’s 21-0 rout
of Salem as Kayla Green
and Dana Boyle each scored
four times to lead the way.
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Dickie V: Over-the-top ESPN announcer
who started as a high school coach in Jersey and then an assistant at Rutgers. Was
head man at the University of Detroit from
1973 to 1977 when he was 78-30 and made
one NCAA tournament appearance. Lasted one year and 12 games as coach of the
Pistons before being fired after going 34-60.
Accidentally stumbled into broadcasting at
fledgling ESPN a year later and the rest is
history. Best Saying: “Awesome Bay-Bee!”
Most notable enduring Boston legacy was
taking Bob McAdoo off Red’s hands for M.
L. Carr and the two first-round draft picks
that he parlayed into Robert Parish and
Kevin McHale a year later — which for
the Cs was, to borrow a phrase, awesome
Bay-BEE!
Keith Jackson: Has it all — the big voice,
folksy persona, down-home nicknames and
a knack for making the big play even bigger.
It’s fitting his final game came in the greatest college football ever when he was every
bit as good as Vince Young as Texas upset
USC. Plus he’s versatile as I bet even those
alive at the time don’t know or recall he was
behind the mike when the Yankees’ Chris
Chambliss won the bitter 1976 ALCS with
KC with a ninth-inning walk-off.
Marv Albert: I know a New Yorker, but,
sorry, I grew up with him calling the Knicks
when they were the KNICKS. But I forgot
about how really good he is until he was the
lead guy for the NBA on NBC during the
Jordan era. At least until the cross-dressing
thing. Maybe that’s why he best for radio.
Jim Nantz: Didn’t really like him in the
beginning. Mainly because he never uttered
a tough word when needed and for comparing Tiger’s path to winning his first Masters
to Jackie Robinson’s in getting to the majors.
But as that ridiculous portrayal faded I realized that, as long as you’re not schilling
for the boss, accentuating the positive isn’t
always the worst thing. And maybe it’s just
I’ve gotten used to him and Phil Simms at so
many big Patriots games that are all pleasant memories.
Mike Gorman: I’m going local and to my
favorite sport. Great with the big call. He has
a very strong depth of knowledge and asked
Tommy and Couz (when he was there) and
“GOT IT! is a great call. Plus I’m a homer as
I used to work with him and his brother lives
in New London.
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(this page) A tour of downtown
Concord’s upper floor properties
revealed an array of successful
redevelopment and a few spaces,
like the Phenix Theatre, pictured
here, that could use a little work.
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Doing
something
new
up top
Area downtowns look for
new ways to get more
from their upper floors
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
The storefronts on Main Street anywhere are easy
to see. Windows full of tantalizing products draw
in customers. Sidewalk dining and the tasty smells
from downtown eateries pull in hungry patrons as
well. But look up. What’s going on above the restaurants, clothing stores, salons and music stores?
Within the upper floors of downtown lies a whole
host of less-visible potential.
“It’s always the most difficult part to fill in a
downtown,” said Thomas Galligani, Nashua’s economic development director.
Downtown advocates say strong redevelopment
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and use of upper-story space is a major component
of a successful and enticing downtown. More people upstairs means more food traffic downstairs.
Most typically, upper stories are designed for office
and residential space or a mix of both. Combining office or residential space in a building with a
strong retailer or restaurant on the first floor is just
the type of usage downtown economic development
proponents are looking for in Concord, Nashua and
Manchester. While upper-floor office or apartment
space doesn’t exactly exude excitement, it means
people downtown, and that’s the idea.
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use, is smart growth in terms of high density
and the reuse of existing structures. In Concord, it can also preserve the historic buildings
and architecture of the capital city. Downtown
Concord is currently out of balance with more
office space than residential space. Creating
more residential space could help Concord create that 18-hour downtown, while also helping
to support creative enterprise, Eshleman said.
In some cities, second, third and fourth
floors are largely untapped or underutilized. In
Manchester — not that it doesn’t have upstairs
vacancies — the space is largely being utilized.
There are many buildings that could use a
makeover and perhaps a different mix of uses,
but as of now, the upstairs space is occupied. In
Nashua, those hoping to establish the 18-hour
downtown are looking upstairs too, but there
simply isn’t much upstairs space. Most buildings in Nashua are shorter than counterparts in
Manchester and Concord.
But there’s no magic wand to redevelop
upper floors. Making the upper floors work can
be tricky, given the, well, old nature of many
of Concord, Nashua and Manchester’s downtown buildings. Building code and zoning can
become obstacles for developers, in terms of
working with different city boards and entities,
but also simply in terms of dollars. Getting a
building up to code is costly; there’s not often
any way around that, developers say.
Intertwined with code, cost and parking
issues is determining the best use for a given
building. That can be a struggle, DiSano said.
Ben Gamache, owner of Gamache Enterprises in Manchester, says when he renovates a
building, he looks to keep its use or uses within whatever the building is already zoned for,
commercial, industrial or residential. Trying to
switch things up can turn into headaches, more
costs and a lengthier process, he said.
Because of the dollar signs associated with
redeveloping a whole building, owners often
put their money into the first floor and leave the
upper floors alone. That’s not tapping a building’s full potential, but the cost to do so can be
hard to justify, especially since the upper floors
simply aren’t going to command the same level of attention as ground-level space, DiSano
said.
“You’ve got to make the commitment to
spend the money,” Gamache said.
In Manchester, residents have seen several
productive and successful restorations, including the Dunlap Building, the Opera Block and
the Historic Chase Block, all completed using a
variety of public and private financing options.
Concord is waiting for that type of restoration.
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downtown buildings provides an opportunity,
albeit a costly one, to preserve the character
and charm of historic and older buildings
while reinvigorating them, Minkarah said. The
economic development office in Manchester
does offer low-interest loans to developers to
help bridge the gap between cost and return.
As the economy revives, the cost to redevelop
may be surpassed by the potential return on the
investment. Development is sort of in limbo
right now, though, Minkarah said.
Along with continuing to redevelop the
millyard in Nashua, Galligani and some others would like to see some taller buildings in
Nashua to help create a vibrant downtown feel.
The city has mostly two-story buildings now
and most of its space is full. More downtown
residential and office space would help highlight the city’s renowned dining and shopping.
“We’d love more density,” Galligani said.
Nashua, which is truly commutable from
Boston, could benefit most from a commuter
rail extending from Lowell into New Hampshire. Galligani said the area of Hollis and
Bridge streets would be desirable for a train
station, as it would be walkable to downtown.
“It would be a game-changer for us,” Galligani said. Officials in Nashua hope the Broad
Street Parkway, a project that would connect
the Everett Turnpike directly with downtown,
will be a game-changer as well.
Nashua has had some success redeveloping
mill buildings, but not to the extent of other
New England cities, such as Manchester, Providence, Lowell and Lawrence. But the potential
in Nashua is there. Galligani is hoping the city
comes out of the recession with a plan for the
area in place. While it was too early to make
public for this story, Galligani said at some
point this summer, the city would likely be able
to announce some major developments for the
downtown area.
Galligani said sometimes it just takes one
developer, with a different take, to help showcase the types of redevelopment projects that
can be done.
Bob MacKenzie, currently of MacKenzie
Planning and formerly of the Manchester city
planning office, said upper-floor development
has always carried market demand questions,
but once the rehab is complete, the space does
fill up. That can be the problem — space.
With a lot of first floors in cities occupied
with restaurants, many residents don’t want
to live in the second floor, directly above the
restaurant or bar. Developers in turn often try
for office space on the second floor. That can
work, but MacKenzie said developers do run
into a space issue. Whereas a typical downtown
building might have 4,000 to 5,000 square feet
on the second floor, a newer office building
likely has double that. So it can be a struggle to fill that second-floor space with offices,
since there’s no room to add on space typically, MacKenzie said, adding businesses needing
lots of space are likely to turn to the Millyard
in Manchester.
Strategy | Dick Anagnost, who has plenty of
experience redeveloping downtown properties
in all three cities, said when his company looks
to do a redevelopment, he tries to hit on as
many funding streams as possible. He’s used
six, seven, eight funding sources to make a
project viable and profitable, he said.
“We’ll try to tap every resource that’s out
there,” Anagnost said.
Gamache, who completed restorations on
Lowell and Concord streets in Manchester,
also has extensive experience with downtown
redevelopment. Gamache’s strategy is simple:
draw in an anchor retailer for the first floor of
any building, and try to work with prospective
businesses to fit the upper floors to their needs.
If the first-floor restaurant or retail store is big
enough and successful enough, upper-floor
retail is a real possibility in downtown Manchester, Gamache said.
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Concord has seen some successful redevelopments. The McGowan Art Studio, just off
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are a key component to future development in
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“A variety of different uses, that’s what’s
most successful,” said Sarah DiSano,
downtown resource manager for the New
Hampshire Community Development Finance
Authority, which supports community and
economic development for low- to moderateincome citizens.
Every city wants to be bustling 18 hours
per day, from at least 8 a.m. to midnight, seven days per week. Cities want a mix of dining,
shopping, business, entertainment and servicestyle retailers, such as salons and spas. The
combination creates a feel of vibrancy all cities
desire. Getting that feel requires a concoction of daytime action downtown — business,
retail, restaurants — plus evening activity —
dining, entertainment, nightclubs. During
the day, people working downtown, in many
cases on upper floors, keep Main Street entities busy. When those workers head home, the
folks living downtown, perhaps also living in
downtown’s upper floors, arrive again, enlivening the evening hours. Of course, living and
working downtown can, and for many cities
do, overlap.
“One of the ways to get there is to have people living in the downtown, participating in
positive activities,” DiSano said. “It attracts
more people to downtown. People attract other people.”
Jay Minkarah, Economic Development
Director for the City of Manchester, said Manchester is built on its business and financial
components. Concord is more tied to the Statehouse and the traffic it creates. Minkarah, who
spent many years working in economic development in Nashua, said Nashua’s downtown
is more focused on dining and shopping. He
emphasized that each city should play off its
strengths rather than try to be something it’s
not.
“We’re all trying to do the same thing,”
Minkarah said. “You have to understand what
you are and what you have and what you can
realistically be ....”
In Concord last year, the city removed the
overnight parking ban downtown, which
many believe was a stumbling block to potential developers. Now, developers can renovate
upper levels and offer residents a parking spot,
officials said. In the fall, former Main Street
Concord Executive Director Nan Hagen said
much of the housing already downtown —
and there isn’t much — is lower-income. The
city would like to see more market-rate dwellings, especially with all the vacancies in upper
floors, she said.
“[Upper floor redevelopment] will remain a
key goal until we see more of it,” said Jessica
Eshleman, current executive director of Main
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the building,” Gamache said. “Any traffic
elevates and enhances the visibility or whereabouts of the upper floors.”
Gamache sees things trending a bit differently than some. He thinks Manchester is
heading toward the downtown feel of some of
the country’s bigger cities, like New York City
or Boston. In downtown areas there, upperfloor retail is a reality and it’s successful. In
fact, he said the angle of second-floor retail
locations is ideal, in some cases even more
visible than first-floor counterparts. Minkarah
said, and Gamache agreed, that second-floor
retail could possibly work in Manchester, but
in a different economic time. Anagnost wondered if any retailer who depended on traffic
and visibility could work on an upper floor in
Manchester. Destination-style retailers, such
as art galleries, could work on the second
floor, he said.
Robin Comstock, president of the Greater
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, which is
located on the third floor at 889 Elm St., said
the Chamber is mulling a move to a storefront
office to increase its own street-side visibility.
Though they’re thinking of moving down, she
thinks it would be hard for a business to move
up, even with the possibility of lower rents.
“Generally, it’s two very different animals,”
Comstock said. “Generally, upper floors, they
don’t want walk-in traffic. But the first floor is
dependent on street visibility. It’s just a very,
very different culture.”
In Gamache’s work on Lowell Street and
Concord Street, upper-floor retail has worked,
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the owner decided to close up shop to raise
a family. At 22 Concord St., where the new
restaurant Firefly American Bistro and Bar is
already seeing success, Mariana’s A Spa and
Salon, a luxury spa, sits successfully on the
fourth floor. (The third floor is occupied by
a nursing college and the second floor is currently vacant.)
Minkarah said before Gamache got his
hands on 22 Concord St., it was a blighted
building.
“It has this New York feel,” Gamache said.
“You need the big-city feeling.”
At Mariana’s, owner Caryn Kiesling said
that the big-city feel was why she took the
fourth-floor space. Now open for a little more
than one year, Kiesling said her clients like
being “tucked away.” She’s also hoping to
eventually be able to expand onto the building’s roof, she said.
“We do a lot of networking, word of mouth,
attending events,” Kiesling said, adding
having Firefly on the first floor helps with visibility and name recognition.
Firefly draws in 200 to 300 people per day
who all get to see that Mariana’s is right in the
same building. Mariana’s or any other retailer
simply wouldn’t work upstairs if Firefly didn’t
work so well downstairs, Gamache said.
Gamache doesn’t go into a rehab job looking to push a particular entity into it. Instead,
he essentially guts the building and leaves the
space open. Then he works with businesses to
design a floor plan and style.
He also says it’s important and more efficient to keep rehabbed buildings with the
same use they’re zoned for. Switch uses and
things get complicated, Gamache said.
The potential to do wonders with older buildings is perhaps most relevant to the
Despite more vacancies than officials would like to see in Nashua, Concord and Manchester’s
downtowns, there’s still plenty of business action in the three cities.
“I think we’re holding on,” said Sue Butler, executive director of Great American Downtown
(www.greatamericandowntown.org) in Nashua. “You would notice a few more [vacancies] as
you go down the street. Definitely not a lot though.”
“It is what it is,” said Samantha Appleton, director of public relations for Intown Manchester (www.intownmanchester.com).
In Concord, Jessica Eshleman, executive director of Main Street Concord (www.mainstreetconcord.com), said there seems to be an increase in vacancies on Main Street but an increase
in occupancy on downtown’s side streets. She said the downtown is hurt when establishments
like the Concord Grille close, but within the past few months there has been significant activity
that helps make up for lost businesses. At least 10 businesses already have or are slated to open
up downtown, relocate to downtown or renovate their existing space downtown. White Mountain Coffee is working on a renovation to expand seating to 50, while Revolutionary Cyclery
and Sports Shop recently moved to downtown. Eshleman is also seeing new eateries pop up in
and around Main Street.
“There’s more empty storefronts than we’d like to see,” Eshleman said, “but we also like to
hear about the other side of the coin.”
Main Street Concord has helped organize a vacant window storefront initiative to spruce
up vacancies with local art and information from local businesses, artists and non-profit organizations. Eshleman said it has been a “win-win” for all involved as some spaces have been
highlighted and subsequently filled, while those with displays have drawn attention to their
work. It’s also drawing more traffic to stores using the displays, Eshleman said, adding it has
been a way to maximize the downtown’s potential given the circumstances.
Butler said the biggest challenge in downtown Nashua has been filling the largest spaces.
Smaller vacant spaces tend to move quicker. Nashua has also seen new businesses open up
downtown recently, including a coffee shop and a cell phone store, while also seeing space filled
by a local radio station and a new office for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
“There’s still good stuff happening,” Butler said. “There’s a lot of activity.”
While the economy certainly plays a role in vacancies and businesses going under, Butler
said there’s a whole slew of reasons often unrelated to the economy that can cause businesses
to fail. In some cases in Nashua, longtime businesses have closed down after 40-plus years in
operation simply because owners decided it was time to quit while they were ahead, Butler said,
adding that can open the door for new ideas. New entities filling downtown space can also lead
to improvements to interiors and facades, Butler said.
Appleton said Manchester has seen new businesses pop up downtown in recent months.
“Considering the economic times, it’s been pretty steady down here,” Appleton said, adding her office fields plenty of phone calls from people looking for commercial space. “There’s
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renovation. DiSano mentioned a renovated
building in Rollinsford, where a developer
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and set up a restaurant and a pottery store on
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Shifting upper floors to studio space has
been successful in Lowell, Mass., where
Galligani formerly worked as director of economic development. Six months ago he took
the same post in Nashua, where the city has
much of the same potential, particularly with
its mill buildings, he said.
DiSano says there is potential for Nashua
to create similar studio-type space in its upper
floors. She has personal experience with successful redevelopment in Nashua. She used
to live in the Flanders Building on West Pearl
Street, which was renovated in 2003. The
developer established commercial space on
the first floor, which was used up by a restaurant and a tattoo parlor. Above them, the
developer created 13 units of one- and twobedroom apartments, she said.
When buildings change hands, that’s when
officials look to intervene. A longtime owner
might not have much of an incentive to make
a big investment in refurbishing a building. If
his occupants are paying their rent, all is well.
When that owner sells the property, there’s an
opportunity.
“The buyer is in a completely different circumstance,” Minkarah said. “He’s going to
need a higher return. Those are the points
where you see change.”
Anagnost said sometimes redevelopment
can be problematic because a single building
owner sees a building next door to his being
rehabbed and then he thinks all of sudden his
building just sky-rocketed in value. In those
cases, inflexible sellers can be another deterrent, he said.
Concord and Manchester have passed legislation allowing developers to freeze property
tax rates on rehabilitated buildings at what
the assessed value of the building was prior to construction. That holds down tax costs
for five years. Different federal incentive programs could hold it down longer, officials
said. Communities must individually pass the
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“It’s almost case by case,” Disano said. “It
really varies by community. Communities
want to make sure where people live is safe.
Older historic buildings, the way they’re constructed, they don’t necessarily meet modern
safety codes. Sometimes it’s an uphill battle
just making sure buildings are accessible.”
Developers need to deal with safety and
building standards, which could include
installing sprinklers, a costly endeavor. Things
like making sure windows are functional and
installing fire alarms can represent lots of dollar signs. Sprinklers, though, can often be the
deal-breaker or deal-maker, said planning officials in Manchester.
Codes will always come up in rehabilitation efforts, since codes are designed for new
development rather than old buildings. New
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“Just by their nature, many of [the buildings]
can’t meet modern codes,” DiSano said.
Many communities have enacted existing
building code laws, which provide leeway to
developers working in older structures that fail
to meet current code, Galligani said.
If a building doesn’t meet code, a developer can have a Chapter 34 review, to evaluate a
building’s issues. The system does not require
developers to meet code in every area if they can
balance out deficiencies in other places. Perhaps
the stairways in the building don’t meet code,
but by installing a sprinkler system the developer
can outweigh stairway issues without having to
re-do them, said Matthew Sink, deputy director
of building regulations in Manchester. Chapter
34 allows developers to assess where money is
most efficiently spent, without having to rebuild
the building, officials said.
In Manchester, the planning office sees about
two or three Chapter 34 review projects each
year, said Karl Franck, the city’s plans examiner.
The office is currently working with developers
in 300 Bedford St. and the Pandora Mill building
with Chapter 34. Often, Sink said, mill buildings
exceed code size limitations, so developers must
make concessions, such as installing or upgrading sprinklers, to make plans work. City planners
usually don’t begin working with developers
until they have extensive plans in place. Typically, the planning office deals with developers’
design professionals. They will sometimes meet
with developers earlier in the game to explain
the process, go over code requirements and
simply explain what developers should expect,
officials said.
Franck said there is always a learning curve
when it comes to new developers working with
building codes. He said the process, especially
if a developer is looking to change a building’s
use, can be complicated. He’s seen a lot of
cooperation between his office and developers.
During his nearly 10 years in the city planning
office, Franck said, there has been quite a bit
of change and redevelopment in Manchester’s
downtown, including the Pembroke Building,
the Bond Building, the Dunlap Building and
perhaps coming soon, the former home to the
Merrimack Restaurant.
Manchester planning officials said the Pembroke Building, renovated by Bernie Gasser, is
a good example of mixed-use redevelopment,
since it includes commercial space on the first
two floors — J.W. Hill’s Bar and Grill on floor
one and office space on floor two — and residential space in upper floors.
Franck said he’d like to see 542 Elm St. renovated, as it has a slew of issues.
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Parking | Perhaps the biggest component
tying downtowns together is parking. In New
Hampshire, officials say people don’t want to
park at a garage or a lot a few blocks away from
their desired location; they want to park right in
front of a restaurant or a retailer. Officials say
they also don’t want to pay much, if anything,
for their parking spot. Until that mindset on
cost and distance changes, parking can be one
of the biggest obstacles to redevelopment.
Anagnost said if someone can solve the
issues of parking, cost and code, he’d redevelop every building in downtown Manchester.
Parking is his number-one sticking point time
after time. Anagnost renovated the Chase Block
building and the McQuaid building for similar
uses, with similar dollars. The Chase Block is
full but the McQuaid building is about 50 percent full, he said. That’s because McQuaid has
(above) A renovated
upper floor residence
in downtown Concord.
(left) The Phenix Theatre
in downtown Concord
currently serves as a
yoga studio.
no direct access to parking, Anagnost said.
Even buildings that have access to parking
have issues because parking isn’t free. It isn’t all
that cost-effective in many cases for a company to move into a downtown building and pay
$75 or more per month per employee just for
parking. The company could shift the cost to the
employee, whose salary would essentially have
just dipped. It’s often better for a company to
move into space outside downtown where parking is free on-site, Anagnost said.
The idea of a walkable city is great, to
Anagnost, but regardless of how much walking someone does — to work, to the grocery
store, to dinner — they still need somewhere
to put a car. In Manchester, both availability of
spots and the mindset of wanting to park right
in front of home, the office or an eatery stand
in the way of developers, he said.
Leasing of parking spaces can be problematic for businesses as well, as the city won’t
typically sign long-term leases with companies. Companies typically want to know they
have a certain number of spaces for an extended period of time, MacKenzie said.
Creative solutions could work in terms of
parking. Anagnost successfully renovated a
building on Elm Street nearby the Victory
parking garage. The building has residential
spaces on its upper floors. MacKenzie suggested the city offer discounted rates in the garage
at nighttime when the garage is largely empty. That way, the city still gets its revenue from
daytime parkers, but also from the evening
hours from residential parkers.
“It would both fill up the garage more at
night but also perhaps provide a convenient,
cost-effective alternative,” MacKenzie said.
MacKenzie said Concord has had success
with its parking system, by building garages directly behind new and high-density
buildings.
Getting the mix of residential and business
in a downtown right is integral for a successful parking plan. The idea is to have sufficient
spaces available for people who work and shop
downtown during the day and again to have
sufficient parking for people who live and dine
downtown in the evening. Blending it correctly isn’t easy, Galligani said.
Gamache says he won’t even consider rehabbing a building if it doesn’t have some type of
on-site or extremely close free parking.
“You’re losing an important aspect to create
a successful business,” Gamache said.
In Boston, people will spend $10 or much
more to park and then walk to the salon, to
shopping or to eat. Gamache does see mindsets shifting. He figures within 10 years or so,
parking in a garage or a few blocks away from
shopping or dining will be more acceptable to
New Hampshire residents.
That mindset incorporates a few factors,
including simply a willingness to change and
the environmental movement. Minkarah says
smaller cars, more car-pooling and increased
public transit should all reduce the need for
parking — over time. That’s not happening tomorrow in New Hampshire’s cities and
towns. In Manchester, the city is hoping to have
a parking circulator up and running by the fall.
The free shuttle would take folks from garages
and lots to a variety of destinations downtown,
eliminating the need to park on Elm Street or
to drive from place to place within downtown,
Minkarah said.
For now, officials must keep in mind the different parking demands from different clientèle.
Residents and workers of downtowns need
extended periods of time in one spot. Shoppers
need less time in a spot, but it wouldn’t be practical to park several minutes away and only spend
a few minutes in a destination. Residents need
more time to park, but for other practical measures, such as carrying groceries, they wouldn’t
want to be all that far from home either. So,
Minkarah says, it’s blending the uses that not
only helps with parking but also keeps with the
overall 18-hour downtown plan.
Access | For Manchester and Concord, access
isn’t an issue. Drivers on the highway simply
can’t miss the Queen City, and Interstate 293
provides more than one exit with direct access
to downtown. Concord’s downtown is easily
accessed off Interstate 93 by two exits.
Nashua is another story. There is no direct
highway access now, but within five years, that
could change dramatically. The Broad Street
Parkway, talked about for two decades, is apparently finally becoming a reality. Providing a
direct channel to Nashua’s downtown, the project is at the heart of any revitalization effort.
The parkway would connect Exit 6 off the
Everett Turnpike directly with downtown,
which would potentially provide access to
the millyard for future development. Along
with creating a cross-city roadway, the project would bypass the busy library hill area and
would establish a new bridge over the Nashua
River, said City Engineer and project manager
Steve Dookran in the fall. The project has been
controversial as some residents aren’t pleased
with the construction impact, while others are
concerned the cost is too great and the benefits
too little, Dookran said.
Nashua officials are thinking the five years
it takes to build the parkway could work out
well in terms of letting the economy recover, and perhaps to make real progress in terms
of a commuter rail. Proper access by train
and highway could help facilitate redevelopment of the Franklin Street mill area, which
consists of about 600,000 square feet of building space, though not without redevelopment
issues, such as contamination, multiple ownership and limited access. The parkway might
help a prospective developer see the potential
in the space, Galligani said.
Looking ahead | Despite the parking issues
developers face, Anagnost sees society coming
full circle, to a smart-growth, high-density
building plan. He said historically, the country’s
forefathers developed close-knit communities.
Eventually, as the automobile developed,
people spread out. Today, people are moving
back into the hubs into high-density living
space. They’re realizing two-acre lots aren’t
the best thing for society today, he said.
“High-density is smart growth,” Anagnost
said. “It’s coming full circle. It’s not reinventing the wheel.”
And that means those upper floors, vacant or
not, are going to fill up.
Until then, Anagnost said the upper floors
are a tough-to-tap resource, but a nevertheless
untapped resource for cities.
With the economy still tanking, Anagnost
said now is the time to hit the ground running
in terms of development. It’s best, he said, to
do the work when the economy is down, so
when it picks up, developers are ready to hit
the market when it’s high.
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EVEnTS TO CHECK OuT JunE 11 - 17, 2009, And BEYOnd
Hot List
What’s hot now in...
Young Readers, 2008)
9. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society (Random House
Reader’s Circle), by
Mary Ann Shaffer and
Annie Barrows (Dial
Press, 2009)
10. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2006)
BOOKS
According to Amazon’s
best sellers
1. Excuses Begone!:
How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating
Thinking Habits,
by Wayne W. Dyer
(Hay House, 2009)
2. The Shack, by William P. Young (Windblown Media, 2007)
3. New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2), by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
4. Breaking Dawn, by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
5. Liberty and Tyranny:
A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin
(Threshold Editions, 2009)
6. Eclipse, by Stephenie
Meyer (Little, Brown,
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7. Cook Yourself Thin:
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Lifetime Television
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8. The Twilight Saga
Collection, by Stephenie
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FILM
Top movies at the box
office June 5-7 (weekend/cumulative)
1. Up, Buena Vista ($44
million/$137 million)
2. The Hangover,
Warner Bros. ($43 million/$43 million)
3. Land of the Lost,
Universal ($19.5 million/$19.5 million)
4. Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian,
20th Century Fox ($14
million/$127 million)
5. Star Trek, Paramount
Pictures ($8.4 million/$222.8 million)
6. Terminator Salvation,
Warner Bros. ($8 million/$105 million)
7. Drag Me to Hell,
Universal ($7 million/$28 million)
8. Angels & Demons,
Sony ($6.5 million/$116
million)
9. My Life in Ruins, Fox
Searchlight ($3 million/$3 million)
10. Dance Flick, MTV
Films ($2 million/$22
million)
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According to Hollywood Video
1. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
(PG, 2009)
2. Taken (PG-13, 2008)
3. Valkyrie (PG-13, 2008)
4. The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button (PG13, 2008)
5. Underworld: Rise of
the Lycans (R, 2009)
Thursday, June 11
Bikers heading north to the Laconia Motorcycle Rally and Race Week might want to stop
in Manchester. Part of Elm Street will be closed today from 4 to 7 p.m. while the Manchester Wolves, Manchester Wolves dance team and the Whiskey Girls help kick off “bike week.”
Find hot rod and classic car and custom motorcycle contests, a bike wash, live music and
more. Proceeds go to Make a Wish Foundation. See www.whiskeygirls.net. For more about
local happenings, see page 25.
Thursday, June 11
Pianist Yvonne Aubert plays at
Cotton, 75 Arms Park Drive, at
6 p.m. tonight. The performance
is one of nine around town over
four nights as part of this year’s
Manchester Jazz & Blues Festival. A main concert will be inside
the Palace Theatre Saturday, June
12, this year (668-5588, www.
palacetheatre.org). For more
information, see Hippo’s Nite
section on page 46.
Friday, June 12
John Travolta plays a train
hijacker and Denzel Washington
plays a knowledgeable subway
dispatcher in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. The remake of a 1974
action flick opens today. For more
about film, see page 42.
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Gallery One holds an opening reception for “Dreamscapes”
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Hampshire poet laureate W.E. Butts
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Art out in the open
ARTS
Nashua’s second International Sculpture Symposium finishes at Rotary Common
By Heidi Masek
[email protected]
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For three weeks, the sounds of stone chisels and welding have come from a riverfront
workshop at the far end of Ultima NIMCO
in Nashua’s millyard.
Industrial machining and metal fabrication are main concerns of Ultima NIMCO,
but the four visiting sculptors they hosted
and helped during the second International Sculpture Symposium in Nashua were
mainly interested in granite and bronze
artwork.
Resulting public sculptures by Luben
Boykov of Bulgaria, Michele Golia of Italy and Sarah Mae Wasserstrum of Israel
were set to be installed in the new Rotary
Common park in Nashua June 7. Brookline sculptor John Weidman is collaborating
with the City of Nashua on a location for his
work. Nashua gained five sculptures from
the first such symposium last spring.
Seeking a way to get more public artwork into Nashua, arts patron Meri Goyette
worked with Weidman to launch this community effort, and dozens of volunteers
joined. Goyette heads fundraising and had
aimed to raise about $36,000. The theme
for this year’s event was “Future,” and the
series is called “Footprints.” It ran from
May 17 through June 7.
This is modeled on the symposia of Andres
Institute of Art in Brookline, co-founded by Weidman and its main benefactor,
Paul Andres, in 1998. Visitors can explore
more than 50 sculptures along hiking trails
there created during the annual symposia
(www.andresinstitute.org). Andres Institute is the umbrella nonprofit for Nashua’s
symposium.
Rotary Common, across from Shaw’s
plaza on Main Street was dedicated last
September, according to Katherine Hersh
of the City of Nashua. The Nashua Rotary
Club had provided $100,000 toward completion of that park in 2005, on land which
had been the site of the International Paper
Box Machine Company.
Luben Boykov
Luben Boykov of Bulgaria (sculpturebyluben.com) has been a sculptor almost
all his life. Boykov lives in Flatrock, Newfoundland, and also owns and runs a bronze
foundry. Seven years ago, he worked at an
Andres Institute Symposium; his piece,
“Gate of My Faith,” is at the Brookline
hill.
Coming to the Nashua symposium,
Boykov had no preconceived ideas other than that he wanted to work with a local
foundry and use sticks or twigs. In the evolution that took place, Boykov chose 12 twigs
to use for patterns. Bronzecraft of Nashua
cast scores of them, donating the labor and
materials. Two local teens were models for
body casts. Boykov used the casts to create molds, but mixed elements and sculpted
additional ones.
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He used the molds as a reference to create
two figures from the bronze twigs.
“The stick figures are relatively generic
... they represent male and female engaged
in this magical encounter. And this is the
title of the piece, Èncounter.’ It’s about
those very special moments in life when
two people barely touch their fingertips ...
that last an instant but also last an eternity,” Boykov said. The emphasis is on them
barely touching, “to saturate this negative
space between their fingertips with their
presence,” Boykov said.
The six-foot figures will stand on top
of eight-foot stone columns — the arch
between them can mimic the arching of
trees and branches in nature. Weidman
commented that the posts raise the sense of
humanity.
Sarah Mae Wasserstrum
Sarah Mae Wasserstrum of Israel has
been a sculptor for 22 years.
“My maiden name in ancient German
means stone carver. I didn’t have a chance.
It’s the bloodline,” she said.
Asked about her style, Wasserstrum
pointed to her artist’s statement: “I initially
feared changing the outward appearance of
the stone. Stone promptly taught me that its
radiant spirit is independent of shape. The
shape merely makes its spirit apparent.”
(See sculpture-sarahmae.com.)
About the piece she created for Nashua,
she said, “If you think of humanity as layers ... the sculpture grows from the ground
— because we have ancestors — to the
sky. With a common denominator running
through the layers, in the form of a root.”
The layers wrap around the front and are
pulled into a vortex.
Michele Golia
Michele Golia comes from Orvieto, Italy, where his grandfather traditionally
worked in clay inspired by ancient forms,
and reproducing Greek objects. Michele’s
brother Paulo follows that path, but Michele
Golia branched out into abstract sculpture.
He has worked in terra cotta, marble and
iron (www.tiberiarte.it), but used granite in
Nashua.
Golia’s “Steps of Respect” has steps with
differing textures. The steps are meant to be
used to reach an abstract female figure.
“Respect means many things for many,
many situations,” Golia said. For him, it can
mean that it’s important to think before you
speak — before you say something arrogant
or negative, he said.
John Weidman
John Weidman is the director of the
Andres Institute of Art in Brookline, as well
as this Nashua symposium. He’s participated in symposia in Vietnam, Ukraine, the
Czech Republic, Ireland, Hungary and elsewhere (www.johnweidmansculptor.com).
Weidman’s “Monument to Memory” from
the 2008 Nashua symposium is on South
Michele Golia of Italy works on “Steps of Respect.” Heidi Masek photo.
Main Street.
His stone piece for 2009 is topped with
a circle that can represent a wheel, the sun,
time.
“The whole thing relates to time and place.
... Things happen and there’s evidence of it.
Footprints ... We go back to these places in
our memories and our minds,” Weidman
said. We are from our past, Weidman said.
The texture of the piece transitions from
rough at the bottom to smooth at the top,
because we want to refine the future and
make it better, Weidman said.
The piece is also “very much in keeping
with my philosophy of design,” Weidman
said.
On stone
Milford Granite Company, LLC, helped
get Wasserstrum’s stone, which she
said “was so majestic that it dictated its
sculpture.”
“I love that stone,” she said. She’s worked
in granite but not this kind.
“Not too many people want to mess with
this stuff. But that’s what we got,” Weidman said.
“It’s durable. We’ll put it that way,” Wasserstrum said. “It has its challenges. But
whenever man tries to work against nature,
he finds that he gets re-educated, so it’s better to work with than against,” Wasserstrum
said.
Wasserstrum doesn’t go to many symposia. She needs a good reason to close down
her own studio, which Weidman provided,
she said. A chance to work with this kind
of granite was one, as was the philosophy
behind the Andres Institute of Art.
A main reason was “the warmth that
came through in the invitation, which was
followed through by the whole community afterwards. We’ve been spoiled rotten.
Heaven help us when we go home,” Wasserstrum said.
On volunteers
“This community is amazing. Before we
know what we need, they know what we
need and it’s here,” Wasserstrum said.
There were about 100 people involved to
keep the artists’ work site going, she said.
“There’s so much care,” she said.
It ranged from volunteers who spread the
word and bring visitors to the site to businesses that send skilled staff.
The sculptors praised the team at Ultima
NIMCO, who frequently assisted.
Concrete Coring Company is part of
P.M. McKay Group in Nashua. Peter Bonnette, president, volunteered the time of two
employees, including coring specialist Russ
Huggins, to drill holes in granite for assembly. Huggins worked at the symposium last
year, too.
“I think it’s kinda cool,” Huggins said
of the project. It’s also an easy afternoon,
working in the sunlight on a riverbank, he
said.
Don Fitzgerald is a foundry supervisor at Bronzcraft in Nashua who took up
Weidman’s cause. The bronze he used for
Boykov came from leftover chips from the
machine shop that they usually sell cheaply. Those chips can be dangerous to melt,
since they might have oils and other alloys,
so Fitzgerald melted them himself for the
artist, rather than delegate the job.
Volunteers help with meals and transportation, and even house the visiting sculptors,
as in the Andres model.
City Arts Nashua (www.cityartsnashua.
org), Nashua Area Artists Association, and
For the Artist are some of the other organizations involved. The symposium received
a $5,000 grant from the New Hampshire
Charitable Foundation this year. Darold Rorabacher, president of the Andres
Institute Board, is sponsoring a Nashua
sculpture. Meri and Dr. Charles Goyette are
doing so, for a second year.
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• New faces: Visit East Colony Fine Art, 55
S. Commercial St. in Manchester (621-7400,
www.eastcolony.com), during its Seventh
Anniversary Open House on Saturday, June
13, from 4 to 7 p.m. The artist-run gallery welcomes six new members that evening: Susan
Barney, Michelle Beliveau, Don Desmarais,
Bob Roy, Dawn Sanel and Joan Tierney. You
can register for anniversary door prizes there
between June 13 and June 25, which include a
Randy Knowles print called “City News.” The
drawing will be during Open Doors Manchester, Thursday, June 25, from 5 to 8 p.m.
Meet artist Lawrence Donovan at a reception Sunday, June 14, from 1 to 4 p.m.; his art
is featured at East Colony in June.
• Goodbye: “Building Books — The Art of
David Macaulay” closes Sunday, June 14. The
special exhibit of artwork and other materials
from the author and illustrator of The Way We
Work, The Way Things Work and other books
is at the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St. in
Manchester (669-6144, www.currier.org). The
last guided gallery tours of “Building Books”
are Thursday and Friday at 12:30 p.m. Visit
Saturday to take advantage of the weekly free
admission hours between 10 a.m. and noon.
The monthly “Family Saturday” program
includes themed guided gallery walks and art
activities: the June 13 theme is “Father’s Day
Paperweights.” Also happening June 13 is
“Child and Parent Workshop: Cartooning with
Jerry Holbert,” from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Currier
Art Center (180 Pearl St.). The Boston Herald
editorial cartoonist will teach the art of caricature to children age six and older attending with
parents. The fee for a parent and child is $45,
and $15 for each additional child. Call 669-6144
ext. 122 or visit www.currier.org to register.
Coming up, the monthly “New Parent Gallery
Talk” Thursday, June 18, at 11 a.m. focuses on “Art in Glass.” New parents can have
adult time with baby in tow. The Currier offers
Father’s Day events Sunday, June 21, including a Winter Garden Café lunch featuring a
Bloody Mary bar, specialty beers, hoagies and
grinders. There’s a “Welcome to the Currier:
Highlights of the Collection” tour at 1 p.m.;
art-making from 2 to 3 p.m.; and materials and
advice are available for sketching in the galleries between 1 and 3 p.m. Tours of the Frank
Lloyd Wright-designed Zimmerman House are
at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (Reservations are
required for those.)
Children under 18 get free admission to the
museum, adults pay $10, seniors $9 and students $8.
By the way, the Currier is offering a discount
for holding events there, such as a wedding
rehearsal dinner. In July and August, the site
fee is $1,900 — a $3,000 value, they say. Call
669-6144 ext. 110 for details.
• Learn: New Hampshire Institute of Art
starts continuing education summer classes for
adults and high school students June 15.
The Manchester school also holds its first
Mount Washington Summer Program from
Sunday, June 21, through Friday, June 26.
Famous New Hampshire artist James Aponovich teaches “Painting with Aponovich: The
Still Life in the Landscape.” Gary Samson
teaches “Digital Landscape Photography in the
White Mountains” as one of the other classes.
Art educators get a 20-percent discount on the
$1,200 fee, but NHIA’s “Art Educators Summer Institute,” at the campus, but also June
21 through June 26, might be more attractive
at $320. Call 866-241-4918 ext. 513 or e-mail
[email protected].
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Gordon Shea, Mary Walker, Judy McLean, Bob
Roy and Michelle Beliveau. Front row: Randy
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Morley, Larry Donovan, Susan Barney, Dee
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[email protected].
Includes listings, shows, auditions,
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Art Listings
Gallery Events
• BETSY GAMMONS photography, “Color Unites!” June 16-July 14
at the Conservation Center Gallery,
54 Portsmouth St., Concord, 2249945, www.forestsociety.org.
• BUILDING BOOKS – The Art
of David Macaulay through June 14
at the Currier Museum of Art, 150
Ash St. in Manchester, 669-6144,
features more than 100 works from
the author and illustrator of The Way
We Work, and other titles.
• CONTEMPORARY ON THE
COAST II features art of Natalie
Blake, Melissa A. Miller, Nancy
Simonds, Catherine Tuttle, Sandy
Wadlington and Barbara Wagner
June 12-July 5 at the Coolidge Center
for the Arts on Little Harbor Road in
Portsmouth, www.wentworthcoolidge.
org, presented by McGowan Fine Art.
Reception June 14, 5-7 p.m.
• DIVERSIONS through June 12 at
Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650.
• DREAMSCAPES exhibit opens
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Includes listings for symphony and
orchestral performances and choral events. To get your event some
press, write jrapsis@hippopress.
com. To get your event listed, send
information to listings@hippopress.
com.
June 13 and continues through the
summer at Gallery One, 5 Pine St.
Extension, Nashua, 883-0603, www.
naaasite.org, Reception Sat., June 13,
12:30-4:30 p.m.. with reading from
state poet laureate Walter Butts, and
celebration for Gallery One’s fifth
birthday.
• EAST COLONY FINE ART
seventh anniversary open house
Sat., June 13, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., at 55
S. Commercial St. in Manchester,
621-7400.
• JENNIFER PLATT HOPKINS
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photography, “Color, Power, and
Light” through June 11 at the Conservation Center Gallery, 54 Portsmouth
St., Concord, 224-9945, www.forestsociety.org.
• LAWRENCE DONOVAN exhibit,
“Simplicity,” through June 27 at East
Colony Fine Art, 55 South Commercial St., Manchester, 624-8833, www.
eastcolony.com. Reception Sun., June
14, 1-4 p.m.
• LOONS OF MASSABESIC
exhibit from nature photographers
Peter Broom, Jamie Pringle, John
Rockwood and Bob Ross through
June 14 at the Massabessic Audubon
Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
668-2045.
• MELISSA A. MILLER “Recent
Works” through June 12, at McGowan
Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord, 2252515.
• NASHUA SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM 2008 photographs by
Albert Wilkinson through June 12 at
Hampshire First Bank, 221 Main St.,
Nashua.
• ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL ART
FACULTY Exhibit: Colin Callahan,
Charles Lemay, Susan Reider, Brian
Schroyer, Ian Torney and Jere Williams through June 14 at Mill Brook
Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236
Hopkinton Rd., Concord, 226-2046.
• TRUNK SHOW & SALE of work
by jewelry artist and photojournalist Nance Trueworthy Sat., June 13,
11 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Sharon Arts
Downtown Gallery at Depot Square
in Peterborough, 924-2787. She’ll
be signing copies of her book, The
Inspired Garden.
Classes/workshops/open calls
• CURRIER TOURS of Currier Museum highlights, or themed
tours, free with admission Mondays,
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
at 12:30; Saturdays at 11:30 a.m.; and
Sundays at 1 p.m. “David Macaulay:
The Art of Building Books” tours are
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
and Fridays at 12:30 p.m., through
June 14.
• ARTSPIDER networking project
input-gathering meeting for artists,
venue owners, arts patrons, musicians, crafters, writers and poets Sat.,
June 13, at 2 p.m., at the Masonic Hall
at routes 4, 43 & 202 in Northwood.
Visit http://artspider.info/.
• CHILD AND PARENT WORKSHOP: Cartooning with Jerry Holbert, Boston Herald editorial cartoonist, Sat., June 13, 1-3 p.m., at the
Currier Art Center, for children age 6
and up with parents. The fee is $45 for
a parent and one child, $15 for each
additional child. Call 669-6144 ext.
122 or call www.currier.org
• DIGITAL PHOTO CLASS Sat.,
June 13, 9 a.m.-noon in Goffstown,
open to all ages, $25, www.silverhillsstudio.com, 497-4674.
• FAMILY SATURDAYS themed
guided gallery walks at the Currier
Museum second Saturdays, 11 a.m.2 p.m. Museum admission free 10
a.m.-noon Saturdays. Father’s Day
Paperweights June 13.
• GOURD DECORATION workshop with Micheline Sat., June 13,
10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at the League
of NH Craftsmen Gallery, 279 DW
Hwy., Meredith, www.nhcraft.org/
meredith.htm, $45 plus $15 materials
fee. Call 279-7920 to register. • ART SUPPLIES Sale/Exchange at
Black Brook Gallery, Sun., June 14,
10 a.m.-2 p.m. No charge to set up
a table and sell or trade your new or
used excess art supplies. Visit www.
blackbrookgallery.com/Events.html
or call 774-2360 to sing up. • THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC Sun Art Contest: send in photos
Arts
Doing good
“Goats I: Johnson’s Highland View Farm, Windham”
by Sara Prindiville is among
the photography, ceramics, stained glass, sculpture,
mixed media, painting and
illustration in the Charity Art
Sale benefiting the Greater
Nashua Habitat for Humanity. Organized by Ceaser Photography, Studio 99, Warmstone Studio and Prindiville, it
features work by many artists who attended New Hampshire
Institute of Art as did most of the organizers. An opening
reception with the Bryan Thomas Jazz Trio is Friday, June
19, from 7 to 9 p.m., at Studio 99, on the fourth floor of
99 Factory St. Extension in Nashua (www.myspace.com/
bryannthomas). The sale continues Saturday, June 20, and
Sunday, June 21, from noon to 5 p.m. Visit artsforcharity.wordpress.com or call 821-3812. Ceaser and Prindiville
hosted a similar art sale in 2006 generating more than $1,100
for the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter.
Zoom in
Social adjustment
Improv Boston veterans direct The Nerd
Tensions run high when “The Nerd” pays an
unexpected visit to his old war buddy’s house
in Larry Shue’s comedy The Nerd at the
Majestic Theatre June 12-21. Courtesy photo.
Art and produce
Mark Morrison “hit the nail right on the
head” when he auditioned for the title part in
The Nerd, said Majestic Theatre artistic director A. Robert Dionne.
The character in this Larry Shue comedy is
annoying and socially inept but has no clue
that he is, Dionne said. This is Morrison’s first
Majestic show.
The nerd works at a chalk factory, checking to make sure there is chalk in each box.
He thinks it’s “the most exciting thing in the
world,” Dionne said.
In The Nerd, Willum Cubbert owes his life
to Rick Steadman, who was wounded saving
of sun artwork by June 14. Details at dio and Studio 99, at 99 Factory St. Cubbert in Vietnam. Willum has never met
www.almanac.com.
Extension in Nashua. At portion of Rick, and is happy to see him when he shows
• SUMMER WORKSHOPS and sales will benefit Greater Nashua up at Willum’s 34th birthday.
The Concord Arts Market
features about 30 artisans and
artists Saturdays from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. through July 25 at
Green and School streets in
downtown Concord (www.
concordartsmarket.com,
229-2157). Kevin Engleman of Queen City Lampworks
seen here. It’s a production of Granite State Arts Market
LLC. Kelley Morris and the Fallen Free blues-rock, guitarist Mike O’Donnell and the Johnnies folk ensemble perform
at the market June 13. The Concord Farmers’ Market is held
nearby from 8:30 a.m. until noon. Courtesy photo.
classes for Continuing Education for
adults and high school students start
June 15 at New Hampshire Institute
of Art, see nhia.edu or call 836-2513.
• CHESTER SUMMER COURSES Chester College of New England
general education courses online and
studio arts courses on campus this
summer June 15-Aug. 7, see chester.
educampusonline.com/general-education/.
• ARTIST ENTREPRENEURIAL
WORKSHOPS for professional
New Hampshire artists, free, at the
New Hampshire State Council on
the Arts, 2 1/2 Beacon St., Concord,
periodic Tuesdays, 10 a.m.- noon.
Space is limited; call 271-2789 or
e-mail [email protected] to
register. Registrants are asked to contribute canned foods or pasta for the
food bank: “Art, Aging and Healing:
Working in Health Care and Nursing
Home Facilities,” June 16.
• FAMILY STUDIO arts-related
activity for children and adults at Currier Museum, Wednesdays 2:30-4:30
p.m. June’s theme is “Summer Fun.”
• NEW PARENT GALLERY
TALKS third Thursdays, 11
a.m.–noon, at the Currier Museum.
Designed to offer much-needed adult
conversation, with baby in tow. Art in
Glass June 18.
• SUMMER ART CLASSES and
workshops in drawing and painting
at E. W. Poore, 532 Front St., Manchester, 622-3802. See schedule at
www.ewpoore.com. Use the air-conditioned studio to draw or paint for
$10 per visit.
• CALL FOR ART for charity art
event June 19-June 21 with Plastic
Camera Studio, Warm Stone Stu-
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Habitat for Humanity. See artsforcharity.wordpress.com or call 8213812. Drop off dates are June 13-June
14, noon-5 p.m.
• ANDRES INSTITUTE OF ART,
98 Route 13 in Brookline, guided
sculpture trail hikes at 10 a.m. on
the third Saturdays (June 20, July 18,
Aug.15) and at 11 a.m. first Sundays
(July 5, Aug. 6), from the lower parking lot. Call 673-8441 in the days
before your visit to verify that a guide
will be present. See www.andresinstitute.org.
• ELLO WOOD DERBY pinewood
derby hosted by ellO Gallery & Shop,
Sat., June 20, 2-5 p.m.ish, $15 fee
with kit, $10 without kit, available at
the gallery, 110 State St., Portsmouth,
433-9110. Cash prize. Rules at www.
ellogallery.com.
• ART EDUCATORS SUMMER
INSTITUTE June 21-June 26, 30
hours of professional development,
at New Hampshire Institute of Art in
Manchester, $320 plus materials fees.
Dorm usage available. Call 866-2414918 ext. 513 or email dvesci@nhia.
edu.
• DRAWING IN THE GALLERIES third Sundays, 1-3 p.m., at the
Currier Museum of Art. Art educators available for advice. Pencils and
paper provided, or bring your own.
Next is June 21.
• STORYTIME IN THE GALLERY Mon., June 22, at 11:30
a.m., at the Currier. Manchester City
Library children’s librarian Karyn
Isleb reads Move! by Robin Page followed by viewing of “Construction
No. 195,” by José de Rivera. Recommended for ages 3 to 5.
• BIG APPLE EXPRESS Sat., June
27, 6:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m., New York
City bus trip organized by the Currier
Museum of Art, $75 for members,
$95 for nonmembers, leaves from
Catholic Diocese of Manchester (153
Ash St.). Call 669-6144 ext. 108 to
reserve.
• PRE-COLLEGE SUMMER
PROGRAM at New Hampshire
Institute of Art. Overnight studio art
program for high school students to
build portfolios and earn college credit
July 5-July 17 ($1,950). Scholarships
are available. Download information
and a registration form at nhia.edu or
call 623-0313.
• CURRIER ART CENTER summer art camps July 6-Aug. 14 at 180
Pearl St. in Manchester ($126-$250).
Six themed, one-week art camps for
kids. “ArtVentures! for Pre-Teens”
are one-week half-day programs.
Week-long workshops for teens and
adults are also available. Call 6696144 ext. 122 or visit currier.org/ac/
programs.aspx.
• SUMMER ARTS CAMPS at
Kimball-Jenkins School of Art in
Concord, one-week sessions July
6-Aug. 21, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $200 per
session, after-care available until 6
p.m., early drop-off starts at 8 a.m.
Themes are “Knights and Princesses,” “Ancient Civilizations,” “World
Cultures,” “Earth Week,” “Travel
Safari,” “Picasso and the Greats,” and
“Superstars and Superheroes.” Call
225-3932 for details, or visit www.
kimballjenkins.com.
• CALL FOR ARTISTS for “Petite
Art in the Park” at the Seacoast Science Center July 6-July 12, at Odiorne Point State Park, 570 Ocean
“I think everybody has a friend who is probably really close” to Steadman’s clueless lack
of tact, Dionne said. Willum and his friends
basically spend the show trying to deal with
Rick “without killing the guy,” he said. “It’s a
hilarious show,” he said.
The ensemble includes Christopher Robert
Woods as Willum and Sheryl Norton as Willum’s girlfriend. Both are fairly new to the
theater scene but Woods recently played the
lead in The Elephant Man for Nashua Theatre
Guild, another community company.
Much of the cast has worked together before and brings “automatic chemistry.”
Actors need to be able to anticipate each other’s comedic direction, Dionne said. They’ve
become a solid ensemble under direction from
Larry Pizza and Kim Cassetta. The two used
to work with Improv Boston, where Pizza was
the artistic director for about three years.
The Nerd premiered at Milwaukee Repertory Theater in 1981.
If you go
What: The Nerd, comedy by Larry Shue
When: Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.,
from June 12 through June 19; and Sunday,
June 21, at 2 p.m.
Where: The Majestic Theatre at 281 Cartier
St. in Manchester
Tickets: $10-$13
Contact: 669-7469, www.majestictheatre.net
Note: Appropriate for families.
Blvd., Rye, 436-8043, www.seacoastsciencecenter.org. Artists work “en
plein air” in Odiorne between July
6 and July 11, on paintings no larger
than 10”x10.” Contact the center for
details.
• SUMMER ART CLASSES and
workshops start July 7 for adults,
teens and kids at Kimball-Jenkins
School of Art. See www.kimballjenkins.com.
• CALL FOR ARTISTS for Goffstown Main Street art festival and sale
Aug. 8, 497-9933, [email protected], www.goffstownmainstreet.orgs.
• STAR ISLAND DIGITAL
WORKSHOP Aug.8-Aug. 15 in
the Isles of Shoals. New Hampshire
Society of Photographic Artists workshop with instructor Peter E. Randall.
Room and board $710-$1343 Call
207-451-9457 or visit www.nhspa.
org. Star Island Photography Retreat
Sept. 17-20, room and board $296$563. See www.nhspa.org or call
502-6968 for details.
• CALL FOR ARTISTS for music,
spoken word and visual arts for
“Inspired Recovery, Journey toward
Recovery” from alcohol and other
drug addiction Fri., Sept. 18, 4-9
p.m., at 1000 Elm St., Manchester,
624-6470.
• ART WALK NASHUA 2009 seeks
businesses, galleries, studios, and
visual and performing artists to participate. Art Walk will be Sat., Oct. 3,
noon-6 p.m., and Sun., Oct. 4, noon4 p.m. E-mail [email protected] to
participate, sponsor or volunteer. Visit
www.cityartsnashua.org.
• CALL FOR ART Exhibit for two
months at Art on the Wall at City Hall
Gallery, 1 City Hall Plaza, Manchester, for $300. Contact Georgie Reagan, Mayor’s Assistant for the Arts,
624-6500 to apply.
• CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
at Sharon Arts Center, 457 Route
123, Sharon, www.sharonarts.org,
924-2787.
• GALLERY TALKS second Saturdays at East Colony Fine Art, 10:30
a.m., free.
• GOFFSTOWN AREA ARTISTS
breakfast club, Mondays, 8 a.m. at
Travers Village Eatery, 13 Main St.,
Goffstown.
• POTTERY CLASSES at Out on a
Limb Pottery Studio, 99 Factory St.
Ext., Nashua. All skill levels. Wheel
throwing and handbuilding, days,
evenings and weekends available.
Call Paula at 978-597-5464 or email [email protected].
• OIL PAINTING CLASS Tuesdays
6:30-9:30 p.m., $140 for 8 weeks, at
East Colony Fine Art. Contact Lawrence Donovan at 669-6994.
• NASHUA CAMERA CLUB meets
first Tuesdays of each month, Sept.
through June, at Cameraland, 211
Main St., Nashua, www.nashuacameraclub.org, 305-7036.
THEATER Listings
• The Acting Loft
516 Pine St., Manchester
666-5999, actingloft.org
• Actorsingers
219 Lake St., Nashua, 889-9691,
actorsingers.org
• Adams Memorial
Opera House
29 W. Broadway, Derry,
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Casey Preston and Suzanne Delle will perform in a free staged reading of new play The
Devil Gets Her Say. They are seen here in
Yellow Taxi Productions’ May performance of
Burn This. Ceaser Photography Studio photo.
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• Football action: The Manchester Wolves
play on the Acting Loft Field at the Verizon
Wireless Arena this season.
How does an educational theater nonprofit
become a naming sponsor for a minor-league
arena football team? Good question.
Acting Loft board chair Charlie Basbas
said it started when the Acting Loft wanted
to find a way to thank a very generous donor.
The board enlisted help from a supporter with
access to Keyspan’s luxury suite at the arena,
and took the donor to a Wolves game. He was
so impressed he decided to help both organizations. Basbas said the anonymous donor
now sponsors the Wolves in the name of the
Acting Loft.
It’s not unusual for grants or donations to
be earmarked for a specific purpose, or for a
donor to help two organizations at the same
time this way, Basbas said. However, he
does end up explaining the situation while
fundraising.
Stephanie Bike, general manager for the
Wolves, and Basbas say the team and theater have a symbiotic relationship. Both
organizations are in the business of family
entertainment. Last season, the Acting Loft
was an endzone sponsor.
Basbas freely admits that a child who
is dragged to a show might be happier at a
Wolves game and vice versa. Both organizations benefit from exposure to the others’
patrons, yet they don’t compete the way a
match-up of the Acting Loft and another theater would. Wolves game events aren’t far
off from what the Acting Loft does. Bike
said half-time can include a kids’ touchdown
dance contest among other activities to get
kids onto the field.
Acting Loft volunteers staff an information table at games. Bike’s daughter will
attend Acting Loft camp this summer. The
ArenaFootball2 league season runs from
March through July with playoffs in August.
The Wolves have been in Manchester for six
years, and the 25-team AF2 league is 10 years
old.
How have league members reacted to a
field named for a theater? Some owners and
general managers of visiting teams have
asked “how the heck” it happened, Bike said.
But a field-naming sponsor is a big deal,
it’s a “hard thing to come by throughout the
league,” Bike said. The fact that it’s a nonprofit is huge, she said. The owners brought
the Wolves to the community for the community, Bike said.
A few Wolves players and the coach have
said they’ve acted, Bike said.
Acting Loft night at the Wolves is July 24.
Theater campers can invite their families,
and the Acting Loft is providing the national anthem performance and possibly other
performances.
• The end: Phoenix Academy is no longer. The performing arts school had existed
for about two years at 25 Front St. in Nashua,
part of that time as All Access Productions.
Student enrollment had dropped from 80 in
January to 24 in May, as the economy took a
toll on Phoenix families and students, director Brandon Mallard said. About 10 students
from northern Massachusetts had to leave
Phoenix after layoffs at a company that had
employed members of each of their families.
“It got to the point that most of the kids
there weren’t paying for classes,” Mallard
said. Some cleaned the space in exchange,
and adult students sponsored a few teens.
Phoenix ended up two months behind in
rent, and then Mallard got a call from StageCoach Productions, which had been using the
place to rehearse Alter Boyz, reporting a padlocked door. The landlord eventually allowed
Mallard to retrieve other people’s items
inside, but won’t let him take Phoenix property. “It’s nobody’s fault,” Mallard said.
“There was so much positive that came
from [the school],” Mallard said. He doesn’t
want the negative ending to overshadow that.
Friendships were formed, and students who
couldn’t get into ensembles before are now
leads in local shows, he said.
• Making a comeback: Yellow Taxi Productions isn’t staging a park performance this
summer, but its members are busy.
The Nashua professional company brings
back its courtroom-drama version of Jodi
Picoult’s The Pact, this time at the Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main St. in Concord
(225-1111, ccanh.com). It’s part of the Spotlight Café series Thursday, July 23, and Friday,
July 24, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $20. The Pact
is set in a New Hampshire town where a teenager stands trial for shooting his girlfriend.
YTP commissioned Jeannette Angell to adapt
the novel and the resulting April shows sold
out. It has a great ensemble cast.
Also, YTP produces a free staged reading
of The Devil Gets Her Say, a new piece by
Boston playwright Meron Langsner, Friday,
June 19, at 8 p.m., at their millyard venue in
5 Pine St., Extension in Nashua (791-4558,
www.yellowtaxiproductions.org). A modern scientist summons Dr. Faustus but gets
Mephistopheles too. A talk with the playwright follows. Actors include YTP artistic
director Suzanne Delle and Casey Preston,
who played Pale in Burn This for YTP in
May. Phil Allen directs.
• Cause: The Friends of the Concord City
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system of ropes, pulleys, etc. that are used on
stage. Summer Theatre in Meredith Village
presents Forever Plaid on the Concord stage,
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June 20, at 2 and 7:30 p.m., at 2 Prince St. in
Concord to benefit the Audi Fly Space Project. Tickets cost $15. Uno’s Chicago Grill on
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“Forever Plaid Day” Monday, June 15. Visit
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for a chance to win show tickets, and tell your
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Cast members will be there between 11:30
a.m. and 1:30 p.m., and 5 and 7 p.m.
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437-0505, derryarts.org
• Amato Family Center for the
Performing Arts at Souhegan
Valley Boys & Girls Club
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 2, svbgc.com
• Andy’s Summer Playhouse
Wilton, 654-2613,
andyssummerplayhouse.org
• Anselmian Abbey Players
Dana Center, 641-7700
• Bedford Off Broadway
Meetinghouse Road, Bedford,
557-1805, bedfordoffbroadway.com
• Bedford Town Hall
70 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford
• Belle Voci
bellevoci.org, 848-7986
• Capitol Center for the Arts
44 Main St., Concord, 225-1111,
ccanh.com
• Concord Chorale
224-0770,
concordchorale.org
• Concord City Auditorium
2 Prince St., Concord, 228-2793,
concordcityauditorium.org
• Concord Community Players
224-4905, communityplayersof
concord.org
• The Dana Center
100 Saint Anselm Drive,
Manchester, 641-7700,
anselm.edu
• The Majestic Theatre
281 Cartier St., Manchester,
669-7469, majestictheatre.net
• Manchester Community
Music School
2291 Elm St., 644-4548,
mcmusicschool.org
Theatre and Second Stage
Professional Co.
698 Beech St., Manchester,
627-8787
• Milford Area Players
673-2258, milfordareaplayers.org
• Music and Drama
Company (MADCo.)
Londonderry, madco.org
• My Act
myact.org, 429-3950
• Nashua Theatre Guild
PO Box 137, Nashua,
03061, 320-2530
nashuatheatreguild.org
• New Thalian Players
newthalianplayers.org, 666-6466
• Nashua Community
College Performing
Arts Club (PAC)
505 Amherst St., Nashua,
428-3544
• The Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588, palacetheatre.org
• Peacock Players
14 Court St., Nashua, 886-7000,
peacockplayers.org
• Profile Chorus
profilechorus.org
• School of Theater Arts
at The Amato Center for
Performing Arts
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 20
• Seacoast Repertory Theatre
125 Bow St., Portsmouth,
433-4472
• SNHU Drama Club
2500 North River Rd., Hooksett
• Yellow Taxi Productions
yellowtaxiproductions.org
• ALTAR BOYZ presented by StageCoach
Productions Fri., June 26, at 8 p.m.; Sat.,
June 27, at 2 & 8 p.m.; and Sun., June 28,
at 2 p.m., at 14 Court St. Theater, Nashua,
320-3780, www.stagecoachproductions.
org, $15-$18.
• CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: ALEGRÍA
July 8-July 12, at the Verizon Wireless
Arena, 555 Elm St., Manchester, $33-$96,
verizonwirelessarena.com, 644-5000.
• THE DEVIL’S OWN GAME, by Boston
playwright Meron Langsner, free staged
reading presented by Yellow Taxi Productions, Fri., June 19, at 8 p.m., at Yellow
Taxi, 5 Pine St. Extension in Nashua, 7914558, www.yellowtaxiproductions.org.
• FOREVER PLAID presented by the
Summer Theatre in Meredith Village,
Fri., June 19, at 7:30 p.m., and Sat., June
20, at 2 & 7:30 p.m., at the Concord City
Auditorium, $15. Benefits Audi Fly Space
project.
• “FOREVER PLAID DAY” Mon., June
15, 11 a.m.-midnight at UNO’S Chicago
Grill on Fort Eddy Road in Concord. The
“Dough Raiser” for the Concord City
Auditorium’s Flyspace Project, features a
meet and greet with the Forever Plaid cast,
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. Wear
something plaid for a chance to win show
tickets, and tell your server you’re there
for the Dough Raiser, 225-7474.
• GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL Thurs.,
June 25, and Fri., June 26, at 8 p.m.; and
Sat., June 27, at 3 p.m., at the Capitol Center for the Arts, $29.50-$49.50.
• GHOSTLIGHT THEATER CO. fifth
anniversary bash Sat., June 13, 7-10 p.m.,
at the Hunt Building, 6 Main St. in Nashua,
$15. See www.myspace.com/ghostlight
for details or www.ticketleap.com.
• HISTORICAL TOURS of the 1878
Music Hall, 90-minutes. Includes information about the architecture and people
– those who performed on its stage include
Mark Twain and David Crosby. Spring tour
Thurs., June 18, at 12:30 p.m.; summer
tours are Thursdays in July and August,
alternating between 5 p.m. and 12:30 p.m.,
$6, at 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, www.
themusichall.org, 436-2400. • HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS
WITHOUT REALLY TRYING June 12Aug. 9, in repertory with GYPSY June 26–
Aug. 23 at the professional Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow St. in Portsmouth, www.
seacoastrep.org, 433-4472, $24-$28.
• JULIUS CAESAR, by William Shakespeare through June 21, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 7 p.m. at the
Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth,
436-8123, www.playersring.org, $10-$12.
• LOOKING GLASS LAND - The Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice presented by Riverband Youth Company of
the Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley
Fri., June 12, at 7 p.m.; Sat., June 13, at 2
& 7 p.m.; and Sun., June 14, at 2 p.m., at
the Amato Center, $5-$10.
• MERRIMACK REPERTORY THEATRE 30th Anniversary Gala Fri., June
12, 6-11 p.m., at Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 East Merrimack St., Lowell,
Mass. Cocktails, dinner, dancing and live
performances, $130, www.MerrimackRep.org, 978-654-7552. • THE NERD, a comedy, presented by the
Majestic Theatre Fridays and Saturdays at
7:30 p.m., June 12-June 20, and Sun., June
21, at 2 p.m.
• NEW CASTLE VILLAGE WALK &
GARDEN TOUR Sun., June 14, 1-4:30
p.m., to benefit Pontine Theatre. Selfguided walking tour of private gardens
in historic New Castle, www.pontine.org,
436-6660, $20. Call to volunteer; volunteers tour for free.
• THE PACT, play by Jeannette Angell
based on the novel by Jodi Picoult, commissioned and presented by Yellow Taxi
Productions Thurs., July 23, and Fri., July
24, at 7:30 p.m., at the Capitol Center for
the Art’s Spotlight Cafe, $20.
• PALACE SILVER STARS seniors
present “Remember When” Sun., June 21,
at 7 p.m., and Mon., June 22, at 10 a.m. &
7 p.m., at the Palace Theatre.
• PHEDRE starring Helen Mirren, National Theatre of London HD Broadcast Series
Thurs., June 25, at 7 p.m., at The Music
Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 4333100, www.themusichall.org, $15-$27.50.
• THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW-LIVE
Fridays and Saturdays at midnight, July
4-Aug. 22, at the Seacoast Repertory, 125
Bow St. in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.
org, 433-4472, $20.
• SARAH SILVERMAN and Laura Sil-
Watergate set to music
The Palace Theatre is hosting a
reading of Room 16, a musical about
Watergate that is in development. It
tells the story of former government
agents Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt, who were hired to gather
information about Richard Nixon’s
political enemies, according to the
Palace. The reading is Friday, June
26, at 7:30 p.m., at the Palace, 80
Hanover St. in Manchester. Tickets
cost $10; call 668-5588 or visit www.palacetheatre.org.
verman perform with Lizz Winstead July
19, at 7 p.m., at the Palace Theatre, $55$150. Not recommended for those under
18. Benefits New Thalian Players’ Theatre
in the Park (TiP) program. • STRANGER THAN FICTION improv
troupe Tuesdays at 8 p.m., through Aug.
25, at the Players Ring, 436-8123, $12.
• TAPPED features tap dance soloist
Aaron Tolson Sat., June 27, at 7:30 p.m.,
at the Palace Theatre, $27.
Camps and summer programs
• PALACE THEATRE camps for second- through sixth-graders, and fourththrough eighth-graders, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
“Wild West Camp” June 29-July 10;
“Camp Rock!” July 13-July 24; “Witchcraft and Wizardry Camp” July 27-Aug. 7;
“Surf’s Up! Beach Camp” Aug. 10-Aug.
21 ($375-$425). Financial aid available.
Visit www.palacetheatre.org or call 6685588.
• CAMP SARGENT YMCA camp in
Merrimack offers two four-week “Performing Arts Camp” sessions for firstthrough third-graders June 29-July 24,
and fourththrough seventh-graders, July
27-Aug. 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. ($600 per session for members, $900 for nonmembers).
Early drop offs for extended care start at
7 a.m., late pick ups end at 6 p.m., www.
campsargent.org, 689-2433.
• THE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL, a
private day school in Manchester, holds
theater camps for ages 8 to 16, 9 a.m.-3
p.m., July 6-July 17, and July 27-Aug. 7
($450). Call 669-4524 or visit www.derryfield.org.
• COMPANY PROGRAM at Bedford
Youth Performing Company offers flexible college or professional preparation
June 29-Aug. 17 by audition or invitation.
It includes six two-hour acting/performance classes, an unlimited dance class
pass, five 30-minute private voice lessons
and more for $350. Visit www.bypc.org or
call 472-3894.
• S.P.A.T.S. ( Specializing in the Performing Arts, Theatre and Stagecraft)
camps, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Church of The
Transfiguration in Derry, performance
and tech rehearsal at Adams Memorial
Opera House: How to Eat Like a Child
June 22-July 3, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream July 6-July 17, and Prince Street
Players Classic: Pinocchio July 20-July
31 ($300). E-mail Jude Bascom at [email protected]. Scholarships are
available.
Classical Listings
• BACH’S LUNCH LECTURES Thursdays, 12:10–12:50 p.m., free, at the Concord
Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord, 228-1196, www.ccmusicschool.org:
“American Inspirations: Music of Fletcher,
Foss and Copland” with Jean Benson, flute,
and Gregg Pauley, piano, June 11.
• SONGS OF TRAVEL, music by
Ralph Vaughan Williams, poems by
Robert Louis Stevenson, for baritone
voice; the concert also features opera
arias and music theater songs, Fri., June
12, 8 p.m., at Church of the Good Shepherd, 214 Main St., Nashua, 432-7456,
www.musicartsalive.com, $15 -$17.
Jimi James, baritone, of Syracuse, N.Y.,
sings. Anna Maria Dwyer accompanies.
• CHAMBER MUSIC GALA fundraiser
concert presented by the Nashua Chamber
Orchestra Sat., June 13, at 8 p.m., at the
Milford Town Hall, $20 in advance, $25 at
the door, 554-6164, nco-music.org.
• AMHERST TOWN BAND performs at
Emerson Park in Milford Wed., June 17,
at 7 p.m.; and at Greeley Park in Nashua
Thurs., June 25, at 7 p.m., www.amhersttownband.org.
• SEACOAST WIND ENSEMBLE
Portsmouth Peace Treaty commemorative concert, “Peacemakers & Diplomats,”
with guest artists Portsmouth Pro Musica
at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, www.themusichall.org,
Sat., June 20, at 8 p.m., $5-$15.
• GRANITE STATE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA performs Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 3 and the Brahms violin
concerto Sat., June 27, at 7:30 p.m., for the
Summer Music Associates, at the Sawyer
Center at Colby-Sawyer College, 541
Main St., New London, 526-8234.
• CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC
SCHOOL summer programs include
“Creative Arts Camp” for campers entering first through sixth grade, July 13-July
24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. ($495). Early drop off
starts at 8 a.m., and aftercare ends at 5
p.m. Teens and adults can participate in
jazz camp July 6-July 10, 9:30 a.m.-1:30
p.m.; “Community Sings” are on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. from June 30 through July
28; and steel drum band classes for teens
and adults are available. Visit www.ccmusicschool.org or call 228-1196.
• CONCERT from New England Voices
in Harmony and Granite Statesmen barbershop chorus Tues., July 14, at 7 p.m.,
at MacGregor Park in Derry, visit www.
newenglandvoicesinharmony.org or www.
granitestatesmen.org.
• GREAT WATERS FESTIVAL lakeside
at Brewster Academy, Academy Drive in
Wolfeboro, 569-7710, www.greatwaters.
org, $23-$70: Great Waters Chorus &
Orchestra Classic “Romantic Music” Sat.,
July 18, at 8 p.m.; Youth Orchestra of the
Americas Sat., July 25, at 7:30 p.m., copresentation with The Heifetz Institute;
Great Waters Pops Orchestra Sat., Aug.
1, at 8 p.m.; Great Waters fundraiser event
Thurs., Aug. 13, 5:30-8 p.m. ($100).
• MANCHESTER COMMUNITY
MUSIC SCHOOL summer programs
include “Joy of Music” camp for children
entering grades two through five July 20July 24, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ($190); classes, workshops and music technology lab programs
available for all ages. The catalog is at www.
mcmusicschool.org; visit them at 2291 Elm
St. in Manchester or call 644-4548.
• NASHUA COMMUNITY MUSIC
SCHOOL one-week camps this summer
include “Band Camp & Chamber Music
Festival,” July 20-July 24 for ages 10 to
15; “Hansel & Gretel: From the Studio
to the Stage,” for ages 5 to 10, July 27July 31; “Piano Festival,” for ages 10 to
15, Aug. 3-Aug. 7; and “Flute Festival”
for sixth through 12th graders ($300).
Camps run 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., aftercare
is available until 6 p.m. See www.nashuacms.org or call 881-7030.
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• Amherst Town Library
14 Main St., Amherst, 673-2288,
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• Bedford Library
3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford,
472-3023, bedford.lib.nh..us
• Concord Public Library
45 Green St, Concord, 225-8670,
onconcord.com
• Hollis Social Library
2 Monument Sq., Hollis,
465-7721, hollis.nh.us
• Hooksett Public Library
1701 Hooksett Road, Hooksett,
485-6092, hooksett.lib.nh.us
• Manchester City Library
405 Pine St., 624-6550;
76 N. Main St., 624-6560;
manchester.lib.nh.us
• Nashua Public Library
nashualibrary.org
• Pollard Memorial Library
401 Merrimack St., in Lowell,
Mass, 978-970-4120,
pollardml.org
• Rodgers Memorial Library
194 Derry Road, Hudson,
rodgerslibrary.org
• Wadleigh Memorial Library
49 Nashua St., Milford, 673-2408,
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Green beans look and taste pretty much the
same whether they’re pole beans or bush beans.
The main difference is the way they grow. A
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about 6 to 8 feet long. The vines climb upward
by spiraling around whatever they can find. If
you provide a sturdy vertical support and you
keep the plants well-picked, pole beans will
usually produce for 6 to 8 weeks. As soon as
the little plants break through the soil surface,
they’ll be looking for something to climb on.
So for best results, put up your bean tower or
trellis at the same time you plant your beans.
A bush bean seed will grow into a sturdy
little two-foot-tall plant. Each plant will produce for three to four weeks if you pick the
mature beans every day or two. To extend your
harvest of bush beans, sow a second crop in a
different location, several weeks after planting
the first crop. Once the plants stop producing,
pull them out, put them in the compost pile
and replant the area with a late summer or fall
crop such as lettuce or beets.
Bean plants are susceptible to a number of
fungal diseases. For this reason, you may have
better luck with pole beans than bush beans if
we have a wet summer. As a general precaution, try to keep bean foliage as dry as possible
and avoid touching it when wet with rain or
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helps keep fungal problems in check, so avoid
overcrowding.
The classic pole bean is Kentucky Wonder.
It is a great producer and has been around for
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because the beans are good eating even when
they get big, and it freezes well. Most beans
get tough and uninteresting when allowed to
get big — which happens fast.
Jacob’s Cattle is a popular bush bean grown
for drying. The seeds are white with maroon
speckles. It takes 90 days to produce the crop,
and all the beans get ripe at once, which is handy for a storage bean — you can process them
all at once. Royal Burgundy is a snap bean that
only takes 55 days from germination to harvest. It is stringless, which is nice, and is a
good cultivar for northern regions. I haven’t
grown it, but plan to.
Beans are a healthy food. If you eat them
with rice or tortillas, you get a complete protein, which is important for vegetarians.
According to the Idaho Bean Commission, a
half cup of dry beans provides six to seven
grams of protein and 25 to 30 percent of your
daily fiber needs.
When I was a boy if I was too lively, my
mother would remark that I was, “full of beans,”
though I never really understood what that meant
— I just knew she wanted me to calm down. And
I loved the story of Jack and the Magic Beans.
A few years ago the Cornish General Store had
“Mexican Jumping Beans” for sale — beans with
bugs inside that would make them jiggle, and little boys giggle. And we all know what else beans
do that make little boys giggle. So put some in,
stand back, and watch them scamper a pole or
develop into lush green bushes.
Henry Homeyer is a gardening coach and
the author of three gardening books. You may
reach him at P.O. Box 364, Cornish Flat, NH,
03746, or [email protected]; his
Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
wadleigh.lib.nh.us
Museums
• The Children’s Museum of NH
6 Washington St., Dover,
742-2002, childrens-museum.org
• Mariposa Museum
26 Main St., Peterborough,
924-4555, mariposamuseum.org
Nature
• Amoskeag Fishways
6 Fletcher St., Manchester,
626-FISH, amoskeagfishways.org
• Beaver Brook Association
117 Ridge Road, Hollis, 465-7787,
beaverbrook.org
• Charmingfare Farm
Route 27, Candia, 483-5623,
visitthefarm.com
• Daniel Webster Council
of Boy Scouts
571 Holt Ave., Manchester,
625-6431, nhscouting.org
• Educational Farm
at Joppa Hill
174 Joppa Hill Road, Bedford,
472-4724, theeducationalfarm.org
• Girl Scouts of the Green
and White Mountains
One Commerce Drive, Bedford,
627-4158, girlscoutsgwm.org
• Massabesic Audubon Center
25 Children & Teens
Events, classes...
28 Crafts
Classes, dance parties...
28 Dance
Classes, dance parties...
30 Health & Wellness
Workshops, screenings, exercise
30 Marketing & Business
Networking events, workshops
30 Misc.
Fairs, motorcycle events
30 Museums & Tours
Exhibits, tours
31 Sports & Rec
Golf tournaments, races
Features
25 The Garden Guy
Advice on your outdoors.
26 Kiddie pool
Family activities this weekend.
27 Car Talk
Click and Clack give you car advice.
28 Treasure Hunt
Hit paydirt in your old stuff.
25
Food
Cash for college
Terry J. Toomey, originator of the Zero College
Debt™program, will present a free seminar on how
to pay for college on Thursday, June 11, at 6:30
p.m. at the Concord Holiday Inn, 172 N. Main St.
in Concord. Reservations are required. Call David
Hodgkins at 226-8665. See www.zerocollegedebt.
com for more information.
26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
668-2045, nhaudubon.org
• McLane Audubon Center
3 Silk Farm Road, Concord,
224-9909, nhaudubon.org
Science
• McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center
2 Institute Drive, Concord,
271-STAR, starhop.com
• SEE Science Center
200 Bedford St., Manchester,
669-0400, see-sciencecenter.org
Events
• BOOK BUZZ FOR KIDS at Toadstool
Bookshop in Milford (toadbooks.com).
The event is on Thurs., June 11, from 7
p.m. to 8 p.m. Meetings happen one Thursday a month at the same time. Registration
is required call Sue at 673-1734.
• WHITE PARK REDEDICATION
Concord will rededicate White Park and
celebrate its 125th birthday on Sat., June
13, from 1 to 4 p.m. (Sun., June 14, is the
rain date). The day will feature a baseball
game, food, games and some history of the
park. Call 225-8690 or go to onconcord.
com/recreation.
• HAYRIDE and story telling at The Well
School, 360 Middle Hancock Road in Peterborough, on Sun., June 14, at 1 p.m. The
free hayride includes a stop at the School’s
barn to view and feed the new goats, lambs
and chicks. See www.wellschool.org.
• MAKING YOUR MARK, a workshop
helping children with writing on Thurs.,
June 18, 5-6:30 p.m., at VNA office, 435 S.
Main St. in Manchester, 666-5982 ext. 10.
• END OF FISH SEASON Celebrate the
I love beans. I love planting them and watching them race up a pole and then eating them
fresh off the vine. I like freezing them for winter use or drying the seeds for making baked
beans on a snowy day. Now is a good time to
plant some.
Beans are legumes, a family of vegetables
that has the ability to cooperate with a soil
bacterium to extract inert nitrogen from the
atmosphere and transform it into a form useable
by plants. Their roots have little nodules where
the bacteria do their magic. Native Americans
used to grow beans with corn, knowing that
the beans offered the corn (which extracts a lot
of nitrogen from the soil) something essential.
If you are growing beans for the first time,
buy some soil inoculant to introduce the Rhizobium bacteria to your soil. It may be in the
soil, but it might not, and without it the beans
do not fix nitrogen. Each packet contains more
inoculant than you will need, but I have read
that it does not last from year to year, so use it
up or share it with a friend. If I forget to apply
it at planting time I have been known to water
it into the soil afterward.
Plant beans about an inch deep and 2 to 3
inches apart. Thin bush beans to six inches
In this section:
32 New eats in Manchester
There’s new food on the menu on Elm
Street. Up near Bridge Street, Mint Bistro
opens; down near Merrimack Street, grab
a drink at All Jucied Up PLUS PFarmers’
markets, dinners, festivals and more in
the food listings; Rich Tango-Lowy helps
you shop for ingredients; Weekly Dish; the
experts help you pick Wine with Dinner.
Get Listed!
[email protected]
From yoga to pilates, cooking to languages to activites for the kids, Hippo’s
weekly listing offers a rundown of all
area events and classes. Get your program listed by sending information to
[email protected] at least three
weeks before the event.
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• Let the kids — in kindergarten through eighth grade
— spend an evening in the
woods on Friday, June 12,
from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Peabody Mill Environmental
Center in Amherst. The evening will include star-gazing,
night hikes, observing animal habits, snacks, games
and crafts. Cost is $30 per
person ($20 for Amherst
residents). See www.amherstrec.org.
• Concord will rededicate
White Park and celebrate its
125th birthday on Saturday,
June 13, from 1 to 4 p.m.
(Sunday, June 14, is the rain
date). The day will feature a
baseball game, food, games
and some history of the
park. Call 225-8690 or go to
onconcord.com/recreation.
• See spring turn into
summer in a wild environment right inside the Queen
City at the Manchester
Cedar Swamp conservatory area on Hackett Hill
Road in Manchester. The
602-acre ecological preserve
has established trails (follow
Hackett Hill Road to Countryside Boulevard to find the
trailhead).
• The American Defenders of NH, Nashua’s
Can-Am League baseball
team playing at Holman
Stadium (883-2255, www.
americandefenders.us), will
play several home games
this week. On Thursday,
June 11, the Defenders play
the Brocton Rox at 6:35 p.m.
On Friday, June 12, and
Saturday, June 13, they
play the Worcester Tornados
end of the 2009 fish season with The
Amoskeag Fishways on Saturday,
June 20. The Fishways will be open
seven days a week from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. (though closed for Memorial Day) during fish season. Walk-in
visitors are welcome and guided fish
season tours are offered to groups
of 10 to 30 participants. For information about the fish season or to
schedule a tour, call 626-FISH.
• FREE ADMISSION FOR DADS
and grandfathers at the Children’s
Museum of NH in Dover on Father’s
Day, Sun., June 21, from noon to 5
p.m. Kids can make an art project
gift for dads in the project area.
Nature
• EVNING IN THE WOODS for
children ages kindergarten through
eighth grade at the Peabody Mill
Environmental Center. The evening
8 p.m. See www.ccanh.com.
Tickets run from $45 to $85.
at 6:35 p.m., and they play
the Tornados Sunday, June
14, at 5:05 p.m. On Saturday, there will be a salute
to dads and a baseball card
giveaway.
• Catch two football games
this weekend. On Thursday,
June 11, the Manchester
Wolves play the Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton Pioneers at 7:30 p.m.
at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester. See www.
manchesterwolves.com for
tickets.
• Then on Saturday, June
13, see the women of the
Manchester Freedom tackle football team take on the
Southern Maine Rebels at
4 p.m. at West High School
football field in Manchester.
See www.manchesterfreedom.com.
• Or for more women’s
sports, see the ladies of the
New Hampshire Roller
Derby team compete against
the Utica Clubbers at the
JFK Coliseum, 303 Beech
St. in Manchester, on Saturday, June 13, at 6 p.m.
Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets cost $8 in advance, $10
at the door, kids 10 and
under get in free. See www.
nhrollerderby.com.
• For the teens, the Capitol Center for the Arts in
Concord will feature “The
Global Fight League: Live
Free and Fight” featuring
Scotty Nichols and Ben Hudson in the main event cage
fight on Friday, June 12, at
will include star-gazing, night hikes,
observing animal habits, snacks,
games and crafts. Events are Fridays,
June 12, and July 10, 6-9 p.m. Cost
is $30 per person (($20 for Amherst
residents). See www.amherstrec.org.
• NATURE TRAILS from the
Beaver Brook Association (beaverbrook.org) at the Brown Lane Barn
on Brown Lane .7 miles from the
Association. The program which
is for kindergarten aged children is
from Mon., June 22, to Fri., June 26,
and Mon., Aug.17, to Fri., Aug. 21,
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $140
for members and $150 for nonmembers and registration is required.
• SUMMER SAFARI AND KNEEHI NATURALISTS at the Beaver
Brook Association (beaverbrook.org)
for preschoolers. There are two sessions for Summer Safari, one from
Mon., June 15, to Thurs., June 18, and
• Sunday, June 14, is
the final day of “Building
Books — The Art of David
Macaulay,” an exhibit on
display at the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St. in
Manchester,
669-6144,
www.currier.org. Macaulay
is the illustrator of the popular books The Way We Work
and The Way Things Work.
The Currier is open Saturday
(10 a.m. to 5 p.m.), Sunday (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and
Monday (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
Children under 18 get free
admission to the museum,
but take the kids on Saturday
between 10 a.m. and noon
when everybody gets in free.
Also on Saturday, June 13,
Boston Herald editorial cartoonist Jerry Holbert will
teach the art of portrait caricature from 1 to 3 p.m. (the
cost is $45 for one parent
and one child, $15 for each
additional child). Register
by calling 669-6144 x122 or
by going online to www.currier.org.
• The Riverband Youth
Company of the Boys & Girls
Club of Souhegan Valley
will present Looking Glass
Land — The Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice,
a play featuring characters
from Alice in Wonderland,
Friday, June 12, at 7 p.m.;
Saturday, June 13, at 2 and
7 p.m., and Sunday, June
14, at 2 p.m. at the Amato
Center in Milford. See www.
svbgc.org or call 672-1002
ext. 20. The show is suitable
for all ages.
Mon,. June 22, to Thurs., June 24, both
from 9 a.m. to noon. Naturalists runs
Mon., Aug. 17, to Fri., Aug. 21, from
9 a.m. to noon. Children must be four
years old at the start of class, able to
separate from his/her parent and completely toilet trained for both sessions.
Cost for the Safari is $100 for members and $110 for nonmembers, cost
for naturalists is $120 for members
and $130 for nonmembers and registration is required.
Ongoing activities
• AFTER SCHOOL LEGO at the
Concord Public Library (www.onconcord.com/library) on Thurs., June 11,
3:30-4:30 p.m. Club for Lego-lovers in
kindergarten through 8th grade.
• DROP-IN OPEN PLAY TIMES
at the Amherst Public Library
(amherst.lib.nh.us), Tue., June 16
,from 10 a.m. to noon.
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
An oil-pan whodunit
Rev up the bed
The Queen City Rotary will
hold its annual bed race on Saturday, June 27, from noon to 4
p.m., at Milly’s Tavern parking lot, 500 Commercial St. in
Manchester.
The fee to race a bed is $200
per team but it’s free to come
watch the teams navigate the beds on wheels through an
obstacle course. The event includes a DJ, a bouncy castle,
a climbing wall, face-painting and more. See www.queencityrotary.org.
Sports
• BEDFORD BASKETBALL
SUMMER LEAGUE (bedfordbl.
com) runs from Mon., June 22, to
Wed. July 29 for students in second
to 12th grade in Bedford. Registration
is needed.
• CHEERLEADING CAMP for
children in grades 1 through 6 at East
Concord Community Center (18 Eastman Street). The camp runs from Mon.,
June 22, to Fri., June 26, 1 to 4 p.m.
Registration is required and the cost is
$104 for Concord residents and $124
for nonresidents. Visit onconcord.com/
recreation for more information.
• CRIMSON TIDE TENNIS CAMP
for 3rd to 10th graders from the Concord Recreational Department at
Memorial Field Tennis Courts. There
are three camps, one for 3rd to 6th grad-
ers from Mon., June 22, to Fri., June 26,
from 9 a.m. to noon, another for 7th to
10th graders from Mon., June 22, to
Fri., June 26, 1-4 p.m., and the other
for 6th to 10th graders from Mon., July
6, to Fri., July 10, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Cost is $125 for Concord residents and
$145 for nonresidents. Registration is
required. Visit onconcord.com/recreation for more information.
• JUNIOR TRACK AND FIELD
CAMP for 5th and 6th graders from
the Concord Recreational Department
at Memorial Field. The camp runs
Mon., June 22, to Fri., June 26, 8-11
a.m. Cost is $60 for Concord residents
and $80 for nonresidents. Registration
is required. Visit onconcord.com/recreation for more information.
• KIDS KAMP for grades 1 & 2 in
Concord, runs June 22 through Aug.
14. Eight weeks of arts, crafts, sports,
swimming and more, 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. every day, each week. See
www.onconcord.com/recreation.
• MANCHESTER SOCCER CLUB
fall tryouts for boys and girls eight to
13 who want to play competitive soccer. Tryouts will be held Tues., June
16, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Piscataquog
Park Precourt Street in Manchester.
Tryouts are free. Call Matt at 6450098 or Tom at 682-6016 or go to
www.manchestersoccerclub.org.
• REC CAMP for grades 3 through
5 in Concord, nine weeklong camps
from June 22 through Aug. 21 featuring games, arts & crafts, dodge
ball, swimming and more. See www.
• RINK RAT EXTREME STREET
HOCKEY for grades 1 to adult through
the Concord Recreation Department.
Play street hockey at the Everett Arena
through June 18. League play is broken
down by grade/age. Meets Tuesdays
and Thursday. Registrations are available at Everett Arena, Everett Sports,
the Concord Recreation office or online
at
www.onconcord.com/recreation.
Cost is $49.
• SWIM LESSONS from the Parks
and Recreation Department in Nashua
for the summer. Each session runs two
weeks with half-hour lessons Monday through Friday at Centennial Pool
on Sargents Avenue, Rotary Pool in
Cleveland Street and Crown Hill Pool
on Burke Street. Registration deadline
for the first session is Thurs., June 25.
Download form at www.gonashua.
change.
TOM: These are difficult cases, because
oil plugs often strip gradually, over many oil
changes. And since you’re obviously promiscuous about your oil-change locations, Eric (I
know, you had time to kill, Wal-Mart looked
fetching, one thing led to another), it’s very
hard to prove that one particular shop was
entirely responsible.
RAY: But if your oil is brand-new, then you
have a pretty clear case that Wal-Mart is the
responsible party, since they specifically told
you they didn’t change your oil.
TOM: In that case, what you need to do is sit
down calmly with the shop manager there, lay
out your case and ask him to cover your new
oil pan. All shops have “bonehead” insurance
for just this type of accident. They may need to
invoke their policy.
cable, which is the ground. That wire runs to
the frame of the truck, and from the frame,
another wire connects it to the engine block
(the engine sits on rubber mounts, so it has to
be grounded to the frame by wire).
TOM: And after nearly two decades, those
connections could be in worse shape than my
brother’s 401(k).
RAY: Or you could have so much corrosion around ANY of these connections that the
resistance created by that corrosion is simply
stopping the current from getting through.
TOM: So start with the terminals right at
the battery. Give them a good cleaning with
some sandpaper. If that doesn’t fix it, follow
the ground wire. Check all the ground connections, and clean or replace as necessary.
RAY: Or, as we like to say, you can “break
new ground,” and simply run new ground
wires to the frame and the engine block. GetDear Tom and Ray:
ting yourself properly grounded ought to clear
I have a 1991 Ford F-150. You could use this up, Steve.
up this entire section of the newspaper on this
hunk of junk. But perhaps you can just help
To buy or not to buy — options, that is. Are
me get it started. It won’t turn over, despite options worth what you pay for them, or are
numerous attempts. I’ve taken the battery to you better off just going with the basics? Order
AutoZone, and they say it’s good and it’s fully Tom and Ray’s pamphlet “Should I Buy, Lease,
charged. I even put it on the charger overnight or Steal My Next Car?” to find out. Send $4.75
to be sure. When I turn the ignition, it just (check or money order) to Next Car, P.O. Box
grunts at me. After two or three grunts, all sys- 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
tems are unresponsive. Neither the headlights
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nor the radio will go on. Any ideas? — Steve
Get more Click and Clack in their new
TOM: We’ll assume that AutoZone is right, book, “Ask Click and Clack: Answers from
and the battery is fine. In which case, you have Car Talk.” Got a question about cars? Write
either a bad connection at the battery, or a bad to Click and Clack by visiting the Car Talk
ground.
Web site at www.cartalk.com.
RAY: There are two cables that run from
(c) 2009 by Tom and Ray Magliozzi and
your battery. One is the positive cable, which Doug Berman. Distributed by King Features
runs to the starter. The other is the negative Syndicate, Inc.
com. Sessions run June 29 through July
10; July 20 through July 31, and Aug.
10 through Aug. 21. The cost is $20 per
child, a maximum of $60 per family. • SWIM LESSONS — CONCORD
Lessons start Mon., June 22 and are
offered in group, semi-private and
evening lessons, divided into age levels starting at one-year-old. See www.
onconcord.com/recreation. Sign up
deadline is June 16.
Teen/tween events
• COLLEGE PLANNING program
at NHHEAF — a free program at the
organization’s Concord office offering a chance to learn about a variety
of colleges. On Mon., June 29, it’s
Colby-Sawyer College. See www.
nhheaf.org/event.asp for complete
schedule and to register.
• CONCORD TV SUMMER
VIDEO CAMPS from the Concord
Recreational Department at Concord
Community TV Studio (170 Warren
St.) There is an introductory camp
for 10- to 14-year-olds that runs from
12:30. to 5 p.m. The camp has two
sessions, one Mon., June 22, to Fri.,
June 26, the other Mon., July 20, to
Fri., July 24. Cost is $87 for Concord
residents and $107 for nonresidents.
There is also an advanced camp for
11- to 14-year-olds that runs from
12:30 to 5 p.m. The camp has two
sessions, one Mon., July 6, to Fri.,
July 10, the other Mon., Aug. 3, to
Fri., Aug. 7. Cost is $110 for Concord
residents and $130 for nonresidents.
Registration is required. Visit oncon-
cord.com/recreation.
• CRAFTS for teens at Wadleigh
Library in Milford on Wed., June 24,
at 3 p.m.
• ICE CREAM SOCIAL for teens
on Mon., June 22, at 12:30 p.m. at
Wadleigh Library in Milford. Make
your own sundae.
• MAKING A BAND Mike McAdam from North Main Music in Nashua will explain to tends how to put a
band together at the Nashua Public
Library on Tues., June 30, at 7 p.m.
Go to www.tinyurl.com/nplteen or
call 589-4612 to register.
• NH POLICE CADET Training
Academy is accepting applications
for the 2009 season. Open to men and
women ages 14 to 20. The weeklong
academy will take place at the Hesser College in Manchester, June 2026. Three sessions are held — Basic
Class, Advanced Academy and Leadership Academy. The staff is police
officers from NH and Vt. Registration
deadline is June 10, but applications
are considered first come, first serve.
See www.nhchiefsofpolice.com for
application or contact Chief Steven
Marshall at 495-3294 or nhpcta@
nhchiefsofpolice.com or contact your
local chief of police.
• TEEN ADVENTURE CAMPS,
for grades 6 to 8, eight week-long
camps from June 22 through Aug. 14.
See www.onconcord.com/recreation.
• TEEN BANDS WANTED to perform at the Teen Summer Reading
kickoff concert at the Nashua Public
Library on Thurs., June 25, at 6:30
p.m. at the Library Plaza. Contact
Jenn at jenn.jasinski@nashualibrary.
org or 589-4612. See www.myspace.
com/nashuapubliclibrary.
• TEEN CONCERT to kick off the
Nashua Public Library summer teen
reading program on Thurs., June 25,
at 6:30 p.m.
• TEEN NIGHT at the McAuliffeShepard Discovery Center (starhop.
com) Fri. June 12, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Archaeoastronomer and Mesoamerican scholar R.P. Hale, will expose
the truth and debunk the myths about
the Mayan calendar, and reveal what
the Maya really had to say. Pizza and
soda provided at no extra charge. Cost
is $7 per teen (ages 13-19).
• TWEEN BOOK CLUB at Wadleigh Library in Milford on Mon., June
22, at 6:30 p.m. Registration necessary; refreshments will be served.
• WRITING CLUB at Wadleigh
Library on Fri., June 19, 3:30 p.m.
Bring stories, poetry and more.
• VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES for high school aged students at
Peabody Mill Environmental Center to
help with the Hartshorn Summer Program. Morning and afternoon positions
are available. Sign up for one week or
all nine weeks, June 22 through Aug.
21. See www.amherstrec.org.
• YOUNG SCIENTIST SERIES a
10-week program meeting Mondays
and Wednesdays, June 29 through
Sept. 2, 6 to 9 p.m. about “Object Oriented Programming” at the Massabesic Audubon Center. A serious science
program targeted at a teen audience.
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Dear Tom and Ray:
I have a 2003 Infiniti FX45 that was due
for an oil change. I had some time to kill, so
I went to a Wal-Mart Tire and Lube Express.
I left the car, and when I came back they said
they couldn’t do any work because there were
guard plates in the way. I thought that was
odd, since nobody else has mentioned that
being a problem. But I figured no big deal,
I’d get it done at my usual spot. When I took
it in there, they said they couldn’t work on it
because the oil pan was covered with silicone.
Apparently, Wal-Mart must have lost the oil
plug, used one of their own to plug it and siliconed it all up so it wouldn’t leak. Estimates
to get this fixed range from $1,200 to $1,600
for parts and labor. My question to you is this:
How do I approach this? I know this is more of
a legal issue than a car issue, but it seems like
you would have seen these types of situations
before. — Eric
TOM: Seen them? We’ve caused them!
RAY: This is a mess, Eric. And unfortunately, at this point it’s going to be very hard for
you to prove who made the mess.
TOM: Typically, what happens is that
mechanics overtighten drain plugs. When they
get overtightened enough times, the “receiv-
ing” threads in the oil pan get stripped and the
plug leaks. If it’s not leaking too badly, a bead
of silicone can keep you going for a while
longer.
RAY: But eventually, you’ll either have
to use an “insert” to “replace” the oil pan’s
threads, or, if that doesn’t work, replace the
oil pan itself (it’s $1,200-$1,600 on your car
because the engine has to be removed).
TOM: A lot of oil-change places will even
refuse to work on a car that has silicone around
the oil plug because they know it’s going to
fail soon, and they don’t want to be blamed.
RAY: Wal-Mart’s explanation doesn’t make
sense to me. I’m not aware of any “guard
plates” that block the oil plug on the FX45. Is
it possible that they lied to you? It’s possible.
Perhaps some guy there has made a bunch of
mistakes and tried to cover up this one so he
doesn’t get fired.
TOM: Or perhaps you misunderstood them.
Maybe it wasn’t the guard plates that made
them refuse to work on your car. Perhaps it
was that there was ALREADY silicone around
your oil drain plug.
RAY: There’s one way to find out if they’re
lying. If you or your other mechanic checked
your oil immediately after leaving, and it was
brand-new oil, then they DID change the oil,
and they’re responsible for the condition of the
oil pan.
TOM: Right. Obviously, if they removed
the plug, the oil would have drained out, and
they would have had to replace it. Only then
would they have had trouble reinstalling the
plug and needed to apply silicone.
RAY: But if the oil is still black and dirty,
that means they didn’t touch your oil plug,
and the silicone came from some previous oil
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Dear Sandra,
A stove like yours was from around the turn
of the last century. The rust on the doors can be
cleaned and restored in the right hands. Restoration is costly and most of them at some point
end up being completely re-conditioned to
electric — then when you go to buy them they
are priced in the thousands of dollars.
In the condition yours is in now, the market
is tough. They are so heavy and cumbersome,
most people don’t want to deal with them. Buyers won’t pay much, because they can be so
costly to restore.
If you could be so lucky as to find a person
with a camp or who wants one for their home,
you might get $500. But it will be a tough sell,
not because it’s not old and wonderful but
because you are dealing with a slim market.
We had one in our home and used it all the
time to cook in and heat with. I loved it but
we renovated and change the room décor and
it no longer fit, so we sold ours and I thought
it would bring good money because it in great
condition and was so functional and had a great
plate on the front from Manchester. It took forever to sell and we finally got $500.
To sell it, I would suggest placing ads in the
local paper or on local Internet sites, or maybe
posting a picture and information in your local
church, stores or anywhere that it could get
exposed to a lot of traffic. You could also try an
antique shop, maybe for a display piece.
If I were to be doing a replacement appraisal value on it for you, the price would be around
the $2,000 range. But that value won’t carry into
the market, where it’s what people want that will
make the price. The bottom line is it’s only worth
what a person is willing to pay for it.
Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in
the antiques and collectibles field and owns From
Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown
(www.fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com). She is
an antiques appraiser, an instructor, a licensed
auctioneer and a member of the N.H. Antiques
Dealers Association. To find out about your
antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the
object and information about it to Donna Welch,
From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465
Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or e-mail
her at [email protected]. Or drop by the shop
(call first, 624-8668).
Call 668-2045 or see www.nhaudu- www.concord.k12.nh.us)
offers meets Mondays from 7 to 10 p.m. at
bon.org to register. Cost is $700 classes in knitting and crocheting. the café in Borders, 281 DW Highway in Nashua. Drop-ins welcome.
($550 for members).
See schedule online.
• THE ELEGANT EWE (71 S. See kat.prettyposies.com/nashuasnb.
Toddler/preschool/baby
Main St. in Concord, 226-0066,
dAnCE
• LITTLE EXPLORERS “The elegantewe.com) offers a variety of
• Arthur Murray Dance Studio
Moon” at the McAuliffe-Shepard knitting classes.
Discovery Center (starhop.com) • HOOKSETT PUBLIC LIBRARY 99 Elm St., Manchester, 624-6857,
Wed., June 17, at 10 a.m. Come (1701B Hooksett Road, Hooksett, learntodancetoday.com
make a moon plaque and learn 485-6092, hooksettlibrary.org) hosts • Bliss Healing Arts Center LLC
what people from different cul- a learning-to-knit circle every Friday 250 Commercial St. # 2007, 624tures think the Moon looks like. from 1 to 3 p.m. in the adult room of 0080, blisshealing.com
• Dance International Studio
For three- to four-year-olds with the library. Tea and coffee are served.
an adult. Cost is $5 per child and • THE KNITTING KLUB meets 83 Hanover St., Manchester,
$5 per adult.
Tuesdays from 1 to 2 p.m. at Hollis 858-0162, importers-exporters.
• PRESCHOOL MUSIC CAMP Social Library (2 Monument Square com/DIS.htm
at the Bedford Youth Performing in Hollis, 465-7721, www.hollis.nh.us/ • Kathy Blake Dance Studios
3 Northern Blvd. in Amherst,
Company (bypc.org), for 4- to 6- library). New members are welcome.
year-olds. This camp runs Mon., • LEARN TO KNIT program pre- 673-3978, kathyblakedancesJune 15 to Fri., June 19 from 9 a.m. sented on Wed., June 17, from 6:30 tudios.com
to 1 p.m. Children will explore to 8:15 p.m. at the Concord Public • Krystal Ballroom Dance Studio
music through song, movement and Library, 45 Green St. in Concord. 352 S. Broadway, Salem,
games designed with the inquisi- Amy Goldstein from The Elegant 870-9350, krystalballroom.com
tive child in mind. Introduction to Ewe will teach the basics of knitting. • Let’s Dance Studio
5 North Main St., Concord,
piano and violin with special guest Call 225-8590 to register. Free.
performers exploring genres of • MOMS KNITTING CIRCLE 228-2800, letsdancenh.com
music. Registration is required and meets on Thursdays in the AV Room • Mill-A-Round Dance Center
cost is $150 per child.
at the Merrimack Public Library 250 Commercial St., Manchester,
(470 DW Highway in Merrimack, 641-3880, millaround.com
CrAFTS
424-5021,
www.merrimack.lib. • Paper Moon Dance Center
Knitting
nh.us). The group is open to all ages 515 DW Hwy., Merrimack,
•
BROOKLINE
PUBLIC and skill levels. Contact Melissa at 429-1100, papermoondance.com.
• Queen City Ballroom
LIBRARY (16 Main St., Brookline, 673-7838 or Sarah at 672-3409.
673-3330, www.brookline.nh.us) is • NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY 21 Dow St., Manchester, 622holding sign-ups for its knitting, cro- (2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4600, 1500, queencityballroomnh.com
cheting and cross-stitch group. Call www.nashualibrary.org) hosts a knit- • Royal Palace Dance Studio
or e-mail [email protected] to ting group every Wednesday from 167 Elm St., Manchester, 621sign up and suggest a day and time 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. No registration is 9119, royalpalacedance.com
to meet.
necessary. Call Jenn at 589-4612 or • Senior Activity Center
• CONCORD COMMUNITY e-mail jenn.jasinski@nashualibrary. 70 Temple St., Nashua, 889-6155
• Steppin’ Out Dance Studio
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1201 Westford St., Lowell, 978-4521111, steppinoutdance-lowell.com
Belly dance classes
• BELLY DANCING at the Holistic
Self-Care Center on Saturdays from
noon to 1 p.m. Four classes cost $40,
drop-in fee of $12. Call 883-1490
and visit www.thehsccenter.com.
• BELLY DANCING Every Saturday from 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the
Paper Moon Dance Center. Drop-in
lessons cost $15.
• BELLY DANCING on Thursdays
from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. at the Bow
Community Building (2 Knox Road,
Bow). $54 ($49 for residents). Call
Tracey at 225-3774.
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Folk classes & dances
• ABSOLUTE BEGINNER LINE
DANCING instruction in Nashua
on Wednesdays from 4:45-5:45 p.m.
Call the St. Joseph Hospital Community Health at 800-210-9000.
• CONTRA DANCE is Sat., June 20,
from 8 to 11 p.m., at the East Concord
Community Center (18 Eastman St.,
Concord). Nat & Finn Hewitt will be
playing. Beginners, singles, families
welcome. Admission costs $6, $5 for
full-time students, and children under
age 13 are free. Call 225-4917.
• ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE
is Sun., June 14, 5:30 to 7:45
p.m., at Presidential Oaks (200
Pleasant St., Concord). Beginners and singles welcome. $7.
Call 934-2543 or visit nhecds.org.
• GREEK FOLK DANCING Sunday evenings at the St. George Greek
Orthodox Community Center in
Manchester. Open to everyone. Call
497-4581.
• LINE DANCING AT THE
SENIOR CENTER on Fridays from
10 to 11:30 a.m., at the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Hall, on Airport Road in Concord.
Lessons cost $4. The senior program
is open to ages 50+. Visit www.
• LINE DANCING on Mondays at
the Nashua Activity Center. Beginners at 4:45 to 5:45 p.m., Improvers
from 7 to 8 p.m. Cost is $50. Runs for
eight-weeks.
• LINE DANCING on Tuesdays at
Souhegan High School at the annex
cafeteria (412 Boston Post Road,
Amherst). From 7 to 8 p.m. for sixweeks. Cost $50 ($40 for residents).
Contact Diana Jones at 673-6248 or
[email protected]. Visit www.
Amherstrec.org.
• LINE DANCING on Wednesdays
at Campbell Hight School (Highlander Way, Litchfield). From 7 to 8 p.m.
Contact Campbell HS Community
Program at 546-0300.
• LINE DANCING on Thursdays at
the Windham Senior Center (2 North
Lowell Road, Windham). From 9:45
to 10:45 a.m. Runs four-weeks. Contact the Windham Recreation Department at 965-1208.
• LINE DANCING on Fridays at
the Nashua YMCA. From 7 to 8 p.m.
Contact the YMCA at 882-2011.
• LINE & PARTNER DANCE lessons Tuesdays and Wednesdays from
7 to 9 p.m. at Circle 9 Ranch (39
Windymere Drive, Epsom). Tuesdays
are Beginner nights and Wednesdays
are for Intermediates. Cost is $6 per
class. Call 736-9656 or visit www.
circle9ranch.com.
• LINE DANCING LESSONS
at the Mill-a-Round Dance Center.
Beginner, easy intermediate, and
intermediate classes are available on
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
and Sundays. Cost is $8 per person.
Visit the Web site for specific dates
and times.
• NEW ENGLAND CONTRA
DANCE is from 8 to 11 p.m., on Fri.,
June 12, at the Unitarian Universalist
Church 669 Union St., Manchester).
Cost is $7. Call 529-1586 or e-mail
[email protected].
• SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING classes directed by an instructor
certified by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. New members
welcome. Wear comfortable shoes.
Classes meet 7 p.m. fourth and fifth
Wednesdays of the month at Chandler Library (247 Main St., Nashua,
459-9958).
• SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING No partner required. Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Church of the Good
Shepherd (215 Main St., Nashua).
$3. Call 891-2331 or visit rscdsboston.org.
• VIETNAMESE DANCE class for
kids ages 5 and up. 11 a.m. to noon,
at Success Dance and Performing
Arts Center. Call Chi Potter at 4294021, 424-3800 or e-mail chipotter@
verizon.net.
Health
& Wellness
HOSPITALS & CLINICS
• Catholic Medical Center
100 McGregor St., Manchester, 6262626, catholicmedicalcenter.org
• Concord Hospital
250 Pleasant St., Concord, 2252711, concordhospital.org
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
100 Hitchcock Way, Manchester,
695-2500, dartmouth-hitchcock.org
• Elliot Hospital
One Elliot Way, Manchester,
669-5300, elliothospital.org
Health Center
145 Hollis Street., Manchester,
626-9500, mchc-nh.org
• The Mental Health Center
of Greater Manchester
401 Cypress St., Manchester,
668-4111, mhcgm.org
• NH Hospice and Palliative
Care Organization
125 Airport Road, Concord, 2250900, nhhpco.org
• Southern N.H. Medical Center
8 Prospect St., Nashua, 577-2255,
snhmc.org
• St. Joseph Hospital
172 Kinsley St., Nashua, 5953168, stjosephhospital.com.
• Visiting Nurse Association
33 S. Commercial St., Manchester,
622-3781, manchestervna.org
• The Holistic Self Care Center
12 Murphy Drive in Nashua,
883-1490, thehsccenter.com
• Manchester Health
Department Community
Health Division
1528 Elm St. in Manchester,
624-6466, manchesternh.gov
• Nashua Division of Public
Health & Community Services
18 Mulberry St. in Nashua,
589-4560, gonashua.com
• Nashua Senior Center
70 Temple St. In Nashua,
889-6155, nashuaseniorcenter.org
• National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill (NAMI)
1-800-242-6264, naminh.org
• Naturopathic Clinic
of Concord
46 S. Main St. in Concord, 2280407, concordnaturopathic.com
• Pastoral Counseling Services
2013 Elm St., Manchester, 6272702, pcs-nh.org
• William B. Cashin Senior
Activity Center
151 Douglas St. in Manchester,
624-6536, manchesternh.gov
• Women Supporting Women
111 Water St., Exeter, 772-0799,
wswcenter.com
• YWCA
72 Concord St., Manchester,
625-5785, ywca.org
Events
• BIONESS SCREENING DAY
on Thurs., June 18, from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. for the hand rehabilitation and
foot drop system — to help people
with paralyzed hand and wrist muscles and with foot drop — at Catholic
Medical Center in Manchester. Call
641-6700.
Blood donation
• ST. ANNE CHURCH (26 Emerson Ave., Hampstead) on Fri., June
12, from 2 to 7 p.m.
• THE ELKS LODGE (120 DW
Hwy, Nashua) on Thurs., June 18,
from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m.
• ST. MATTHEW CHURCH (2
Searles Road in Windham) on Mon.,
June 22, 2 to 7 p.m. All donors will
receive a Red Cross/Red Sox t-shirt.
• AUBUCHON HARDWARE (217
Main St. in Nashua) on Thurs., June
25, noon to 5 p.m. All donors will
receive a Red Cross/Red Sox t-shirt.
Exercise/Fitness
• BACK ON TRACK fitness and
nutrition program running eight
OTHER
• American Red Cross
weeks, Thursdays, June 11 through
1800 Elm St., Manchester,
July 31, 5:30-7 p.m. Call 286-5052
624-4307, redcrossmanchester.org or see www.greenlifewellness.com.
28 Concord St., Nashua, 889• CARDIO SELF DEFENSE at
6664, nashua.redcross.org.
the Nashua YMCA (nmymca.org).
2 Maitland St., Concord,
Classes are Mondays, Wednesdays
225-6697, concord-redcross.org
and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The Children’s Place and
Classes start Mon., June 29. RegistraParent Education Center
tion is required.
27 Burns Avenue in Concord,
• ELITE ATHLETIC DEVEL224-9920, thechildrensplacenh.org OPMENT PROGRAM is for ages
• The Compassionate Friends
9 and up at the NLP Performance
Greater Manchester Chapter
Training Center (31 South Comtcfmanchester.org
mercial St, Manchester). It runs from
• Daniel Webster College
June 24 to Aug. 15, and will focus
20 University Dr., Nashua,
on enhancing speed, strength, agility,
577-6625, dwc.edu.
teamwork, work ethic, and life skills
• Easter Seals NH
through strength and conditioning.
555 Auburn St., 623-8863,
Meets Monday-Thursday. Particinh.easterseals.com
pate for two days per week for four
• Full Spectrum Wellness LLC
weeks, or four days a week for eight
55 South Commercial St.,
weeks. Visit nlpstrength.com.
• GET FIT NH BOOT CAMP
fullspectrumwellness.com
(www.getfitnhbootcamp.com, 344• Greater Manchester YMCA
2651) meets at a home fitness studio
30 Mechanic St.,
in Epsom and offers classes 5 to 6
623-3558, gmfymca.org
a.m., 6:15 to 7:15 a.m., and 6 to 7
• Healing Hands Chiropractic
p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
25 Nashua Rd Suite F2 in
Friday, and ladies-only classes from 9
Londonderry, 434-3456
to 10 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thurs501 Riverway Place in Bedford,
day and Friday. Sessions run for four
647-0600; healinghandsnh.com
consecutive weeks.
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Screenings
Workshops & seminars
• JUMPSTARTING AFTER JOB
LOSS, three seminars from the Pastoral Counseling Services. All run
from noon to 1:30 p.m. and are held
at the Moore Center Services, 195
McGregor St. in Manchester. On
Mon., June 15, it’s “The Effects of
Job Loss on Children and Families.”
On Wed., June 24, it’s “Mobilizing
After Job Loss.” Free. To register,
call Dr. David Reynolds at 627-2702
ext. 13.
• MANAGING MENOPAUSE
NATURALLY at Amherst Family Chiropractic Wellness Center, 89
Route 101A in Amherst, on Thurs.,
June 18, 7-8 p.m. Class discusses
natural solutions to alleviating symptoms of menopause. Cost is $5. Call
770-7300 or go to www.realfood4reallife.com to register.
• PHYSIOLOGY OF STRESS,
a workshop of the fight or flight
response, immune system and blood
pressure, at the A Market Education Center, 379 S. Willow St. in
Manchester, 641-1829 ext. 112, on
Thurs., June 25, 7-9 p.m. Call or email Jackie@amarketnaturalfoods.
com to register. Free.
• SUGAR BLUES, a workshop on
sweets cravings, at the A Market
Education Center, 379 S. Willow
St. in Manchester, www.amarketnaturalfoods.com., on Wed., June
17, 6-8 p.m. Event is free; registration required. E-mail Jackie@
amarketnaturalfoods.com. or call
641-1829 ext. 112.
Marketing
& Business
Networking
• JOB SEARCH NETWORKING
GROUP Wed., June 17, at Wadleigh
Library in Milford. Meet other people looking for jobs. Register by calling 673-2408 or e-mailing cmazza@
wadleighlibrary.org.
•
MICROBUSINESS
NETWORKING at Martha’s Exchange,
185 Main St. in Nashua, with MicroCredit NH and UPWARD and Creative Art Resources, on Thurs., June
25, 6-9 p.m. Cost is $5. Make new
connections and pitch your business.
RSVP to Peggy O’Keefe at 620-1269
or [email protected].
• WOMEN’S NETWORKING
EVENT at a party to celebrate the
merger of the New England Women’s Network with Women Inspiring
Women. Kriss Soterion of Kriss Cosmetics will be the keynote speaker.
Event is Wed., June 24, at the Manchester Country Club, 180 S. River
Road in Bedford. Socializing and
exhibitors will fill the schedule from
5 to 6:30 p.m. Light dinner and the
program will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Cost is $35 per person. Register at
www.wiwnh.com or call 744-0400.
Workshops
• “CHINA’S RED CAPITALISTS,” a seminar on the past, present and future of China’s economic
reform and business environment,
on Thurs., June 25, at Chen Yang Li
Restaurant, 520 South St. in Bow,
from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The
cost is $80 and includes lunch. Registration requires. Call 224-0164 or
e-mail [email protected].
• LLC BREAKFAST DISCUSSION with Angela Martin from
Devine Millimet & Branch on
Thurs., June 18, 7-9 a.m., at the Puritan Backroom, 245 Hooksett Road in
Manchester, about the costs and benefits of becoming an LLC.
• SOCIAL MEDIA 101 breakfast
forum held by the Greater Manches-
Paddle the ’mack
The Merrimack River Watershed Council is offering more than
30 trips along the Merrimack River
and smaller streams that feed it this
year. The trips are free to the public and rated from easy to difficult.
Bring your paddles and kayak or
canoe to see southern New Hampshire from the waterway. On Sunday, June 14, the trip is on the
Souhegan River in Amherst. Meet at 10 a.m. near the country
club on Route 122 (call trip leader Rich Hart, 673-5128, for
information). On Saturday, June 20, the trip (which requires
registration) is in Franklin and starts at 9 a.m. (call trip leader
Nancy Gero, 895-0274). See www.merrimack.org for a complete listing of trips.
ter Chamber of Commerce on Thurs.,
June 18, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the
Derryfield Restaurant, 625 Mammoth
Road in Manchester. The cost is $25,
$20 for chamber members. E-mail customerservice@manchester-chamber.
org or call 666-6600 to register. See
www.manchester-chamber.org.
• WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
SUMMIT Gloria Steinem will be
the keynote speaker at Southern New
Hampshire University’s Women’s
Leadership Summit, Fri., June 12.
The event will also include business
coach Dr. Louis Frankel and humorist
Loretta LaRoche, panel discussions,
workships, a luncheon, an expo and
networking opportunities. See www.
snhu.edu/wls for tickets. SNHU is at
2500 N. River Road in Manchester.
Miscellaneous
Expos/festivals/fairs
• WHITE PARK REDEDICATION Concord will rededicate
White Park and celebrate its 125th
birthday on Sat., June 13, from 1 to 4
p.m. (Sun., June 14, is the rain date).
The day will feature a baseball game,
food, games and some history of the
park. Call 225-8690 or go to onconcord.com/recreation.
• KICK-A-THON held by MLK
Self Defense Academy on Sat., June
13. Students will kick for a hour
from 1 to 2 p.m. The school will
also host a bake sale and car wash to
raise money for Brantwood Camp in
Peterborough. See www.mlksda.com
or call 625-4655 for more on MLK
Academy; see www.brantwood.org
for more on the camp.
• GALAXY OF BRITISH CARS
SHOW at the McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center in Concord on
Sun., June 14, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Awards will be given in a variety
of classes of British cars. The event
will feature games, prizes, vendors of
British car parts and food available
for purchase at the Countdown Café.
See www.britbits.com.
• VINTAGE CAR SHOW, the
annual Thunderama, at Canterbury
Shaker Village, exit 18 off Interstate
93, then Route 106 to Shaker Road in
Canterbury, on Sun., June 14, 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Event is sponsored by New
England’s Vintage Thunderbird Club
and features judging of T-Birds 1955
to 2005 and trophies awarded in all
makes for cars 1898 to 1983. Admission to museum and show costs $17
for adults, $8 for children 6 to 17, $42
for families; children 5 and under get
in free. Call 783-9511 or go to www.
shakers.org.
• INTERNATIONAL WEDDING
FASHION SHOW on Sun., June 14,
at 3 p.m. at the Mariposa Museum,
26 Main St. in Peterborough. Tickets
cost $20 per person. Call 924-4555 or
e-mail [email protected]
for reservations.
Rides/races (car/motorcycle)
• LACONIA BIKE WEEK KICKOFF hosted by the Manchester
Wolves, their Dance Team and the
Whiskey Girls, will take place on Elm
Street in Manchester on Thurs., June
11, from 3:30 to 7 p.m. The event
will have tattoo contest, a classic car
and custom motorcycle contest, bike
wash, vendors, live music and more.
All proceeds will be donated to The
Make-A-Wish Foundation. The event
is free and open to the public.
• MANCHESTER MOTORCYCLE CLUB is hosting a number of
runs this summer, all of which leaved
from Shirley D’s Diner (113 Elm St.,
Manchester): Sat., June 13, at 8 a.m.
on a tour through the Lakes Region;
Thurs., June 18, at 8:30 a.m. Ride to
the Sky; and Sat., Aug. 1, at 8:30 a.m.
Manchester Lions Club Poker Run.
• STREETSENZE603 RIDE FOR
THE JIMMY FUND takes place on
Sat., June 13, in Hillsborough. Registration is 10 a.m., the ride begins at
11:30 a.m. Trophies will be awarded
to members of bike clubs that join
the ride. See www.myspace.com/
streetsenze.
MUSEUMS & TOURS
• Canterbury Shaker Village
288 Shaker Road, Canterbury,
783-9511, shakers.org
• McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center
2 Institute Dr., Concord, starhop.
com, 271-7831
• Currier Museum of Art
150 Ash St., Manchester,
669-6144, currier.org
• Laconia Historical
& Museum Society
in the Laconia Public Library at
695 Main St. in Laconia,
527-1278, laconiahistorical.org
• Langer Place
55 South Commercial St.,
langerplace.com
• Lee Scouting Museum
& Library
571 Holt Ave. in Manchester,
669-8919, scoutingmuseum.org
• Manchester City Hall
One City Hall Plaza, off Hanover
St. in Manchester, 624-6455
• Millyard Museum/Manchester
Historic Association
200 Bedford St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• New England Synthesizer
Museum
6 Vernon St., Nashua, 881-8587,
synthmuseum.com
• New Hampshire Aviation
Museum
South Perimeter Road,
Manchester, 669-4820, nhahs.org
• New Hampshire Snowmobile
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SPORTS
& RECREATION
Runs/running/walks
• RUN/WALK & YOGA Fri., June
12, at 8:30 a.m. at Sharing Yoga. A
30-minute walk/run will be followed by 30 minutes of yoga. See
www.sharingyoga.com. Free.
• THE CAPITAL AREA RACE
SERIES has two races left this
year. A four-mile race on Sun., June
14, starting at 9 a.m. at the Beaver
Meadow School, Concord; Contact
Barbara Higgins at 603-224-7450 or
[email protected] for more information. The second run is a five-mile
Cirque du Soleil presents
the Alegría Arena Tour at the
Verizon Wireless Arena in
downtown Manchester from
Wednesday, July 8, to Sunday,
July 12.
Alegría tells the story of a
world inhabited by minstrels,
rogues, beggers, nobles,
clowns and more, according
to a press release. A cast of 55
performers and musicians from 17 countries take part in
the show which includes aerialists performing their acrobatics more than 40 feet above stage.
Tickets for adults cost between $40 and $95. To order
tickets, go to www.cirquedusoleil.com/alegria or call
868-7300.
World of weddings
The Mariposa Museum, 26
Main St. in Peterborough, will
hold an International Wedding
Fashion Show Fundraiser on
Sunday, June 14, at 3 p.m. The
“brides” will be dressed in brocades, silks and native fibers from
around the world. Tickets cost $20
per person. Call 924-4555 or e-mail [email protected] for reservations.
race at Memorial Field in Concord;
contact Bob Teschek at racetime@
gsrs.com or call 863-2537.
• AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY’S RELAY FOR LIFE is
Fri., June 19, at 6 p.m., until Sat.,
June 20, at noon at the Pinkerton
Academy Football Field (19 North
Main St., Derry). Relay For Life
offers everyone in the community
an opportunity to participate in the
fight against cancer by creating a
team to walk or run around a track
or path overnight. Call Brigit at
471-4113 or visit www.relayforlife.
org/derryandlondonderrynh.
Spectator
• AMERICAN DEFENDERS OF
NH, Can-Am League Baseball, 8832255, www.americandefenders.us,
plays at Holman Stadium in Nashua.
Next home games are Thurs., June
11, vs. the Brocton Rox at 6:35 p.m.;
Fri., June 12, and Sat., June 13, vs.
the Worcester Tornados at 6:35 p.m.
and Sun., June 14, vs. the Tornados
at 5:05 p.m.; Mon., June 22, through
Wed., June 24, vs. the Sussex Skyhawks at 6:35 p.m.; and Mon., June
29, and Tues., June 30, vs. the Quebec Capitales at 6:35 p.m.
• BULL RIDERS The Professional
Bull Riders (pbrnow.com) will hold
a competition at the Verizon Wireless
Arena (555 Elm St. in Manchester,
644-5000, verizonwirelessarean.com)
on June 27. Their tour will showcase
some of the most promising rising
stars of the PBR, riding alongside fan
favorites and veterans, as competitors face off against the most famous
animal athletes in the business and try
to qualify for the PBR’s world finals.
Ticket costs range from $12.50 to
$35.50.
• CAGE FIGHT Fight night! “The
Global Fight League: Live Free and
Fight” will feature a Scotty Nichols
and Ben Hudson in the main event
cage fight on Friday, June 12, at 8
p.m. at the Capitol Center for the
Arts in Concord (www.ccanh.com).
Tickets run from $45 to $85.
• GRANITE STATE STRENGTH
CHALLENGE will be held at Boston Billiards, 55 Northeastern Blvd.
in Nashua, on Sat., June 13, starting
at 10:30 a.m. Admission costs $5;
free for kids under 10 years old. See
www.nastrongmaninc.com.
• MANCHESTER FREEDOM
Womens tackle football team and
is part of the Independent Women’s
Football League. Home games are
played at the West High School
football field. The next home game
is Sat., June 13, vs. Southern Maine
Rebels. Visit www.manchesterfreedom.com.
• MANCHESTER WOLVES (Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm St.,
Manchester, 644-5000). Professional
Arena football team. Visit www.
manchesterwolves.com. Upcoming
games include Fri., June 11, vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers at 7:30
p.m.; Fri., July 17, vs. Mahoning Valley Thunder at 7:30 p.m.
• NH FISHER CATS (Merchantsauto.com Stadium, 1 Line Drive,
Manchester, 641-2005) is the AA
minor-league affiliate of the Toronto
Blue Jays baseball team. The 2009
season runs through Sept. 7. Visit
www.nhfishercats.com. Upcoming games include Tues., June 16
through Thurs., June 18, at 7:05
p.m. vs. A’s; Fri., June 19, and Sat.,
June 20, at 7:05 p.m. vs. Erie Seawolves; Sun., June 21, at 1:05 p.m.
vs. Erie SeaWolves.
• NH ROLLER DERBY The New
Hampshire Roller Derby team will
compete Sat., June 13, against the
Utica Clubbers at the JFK Coliseum, 303 Beech St. in Manchester, at
6 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets
cost $8 in advance, $10 at the door,
kids 10 and under get in free. The
team will compete Sat., Aug. 1, (as
well as Saturday, Aug. 29) at the
JFK Coliseum, 303 Beech St. in
Manchester, at 6 p.m. Doors open
at 5 p.m. Tickets cost $8 in advance,
$10 at the door, kids 10 and under
get in free. See www.nhrollerderby.
com.
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Association Museum
Beaver Brook State Park Museum
Complex off Route 28,
Allenstown, 648-2304,
nhsnowmobilemuseum.com
• Museum of N.H. Natural
History
6 Eagle Square in Concord,
228-6688, nhhistory.org
• Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
18 Highlawn Road, Warner,
456-2600, www.indianmuseum.org
• Seacoast African American
Cultural Center
135 Daniel St. in Portsmouth,
430-6027, saacc-nh.org
• SEE Science Center
200 Bedford St., Manchester,
669-0400, see-sciencecenter.org
• Speare Museum
5 Abbott St., Nashua, 883-0015,
nashuahistoricalsociety.org
• U.S. Marconi Museum
14 N. Amherst St. in Bedford,
472-8312, marconiusa.org
Exhibits and Events
• “AMERICA’S KITCHENS,” a
traveling exhibit organized by Historic New England, will open at the
New Hampshire Historical Society’s Museum at 6 Eagle Square
in Concord, on Thursday, June 11.
The exhibit features vignettes of
kitchens from colonial New England, 19th century Illinois, an adobe
kitchen from the Southwest and a
1950s kitchen. The exhibit will run
through Jan. 17. See nhhistory.org
or call 228-6688 for more on the
museum and see americaskitchens.
org for more on the exhibit.
• ANTIQUE SPORTS EQUIPMENT EXHIBIT This exhibit
will be on view until Sept. 30, at
the New Hampshire Antique Co-op
(323 Elm St., Milford). Open daily
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Book signing & sports appraisals by author:
Sun., June 21, 10 a.m. to noon. Call
673-8499 or visit www.nhantiquecoop.com.
• “ARE WE THERE YET” a history of roadside motels and cabin
colonies at the Laconia Public
Library through Oct. 31, presented by the Laconia Historical and
Museum Society. See www.laconiahistorical.org.
• GRANVILLE BROTHERS a
presentation about the NH designers of the GeeBee racing planes of
the 1930s by aircraft design engineer Vincent Devino featuring a
talk and a slide show on Sat., Jun
20, at 2 p.m. Admission is free.
Call 669-4820 for reservations. See
www.nhashs.org.
• “HISTORY OF THE NH AIR
NATIONAL GUARD” at the NH
Aviation Museum. See www.nhahs.
org.
• STAR TREK EXHIBIT at McAuliffe-Shepard Discover Center, 2
Institute Dr. in Concord, www.starhop.com, 271-STAR. Items from
the 1979 Star Trek movie and chairs
from Star Trek: The Next Generation are accompanied by real history behind the series.
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Notes from the local food scene
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
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• Hizzoner, the chef: Z Food and Drink,
860 Elm St. in Manchester, will hold another Seriously Amateur Chef Night on Monday,
June 22, with guest chefs Mayor Frank Guinta and his wife, Morgan. They have created a
menu for the evening that features American
kobe beef tri tip with a peppered demi glace,
halibut with a saffron risotto cake, and chicken
and goat cheese ravioli. The fun begins at 6:30
p.m., and tickets cost $50, with $10 going to
the NH Food Bank. Reservations are required.
Call 629-9383.
• Farmers’ market, part 1: Manchester’s
Downtown Farmers’ Market returns on Thursday, June 18, and will continue every Thursday
until Oct. 22. The Market runs from 3 to 6:30
p.m. (until 6 p.m. in October) and parking in
the Harnett Parking Lot next door to the market is free during market hours. Look for local
produce, meat, cut flowers, baked goods, specialty foods, certified organic products and
more. Weekly family activities will include
cooking demonstrations, music, farm animals
and other entertainment. The market is located
on Concord Street next to Victory Park. Visit
www.manchesterfarmersmarket.com for a list
of vendors and activities.
• Farmers’ market, part 2: The Tanger
Outlet Center in Tilton, Exit 20 off Interstate
93, will host a farmers’ market on Wednesdays
from 3 to 6 p.m. in the parking lot between the
Old Navy and the Banana Republic. The market will run from June 23 through Sept. 23.
• Farmers’ market, part 3: The Concord
Farmers’ Market kicked off its season last
weekend. The market runs Saturdays from 8:30
a.m. to noon on Capitol Street next to the Statehouse. Look for live music, plants, flowers,
meat, maple syrup and baked goods along with
the traditional seasonal fruits and vegetables.
• Farmers’ market, part 4: The Pelham
Farmers’ Market has started for the season
and will run Mondays through Sept. 28 from
4 to 7 p.m. at St. Patrick Parish, 12 Main St.
in Pelham. Look for New Hampshire wines,
fruits and vegetables, homemade breads and
baked goods, plants, flowers and entertainment
for the kids. E-mail pelhamfarmersmarket@
yahoo.com.
• Burger week: It’s the annual Burgerfest at
the Barley House, 132 N. Main St. in Concord.
The event, which features a special lineup of
burgers and raffles, benefits CHaD, the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth. The Burgerfest
this year runs Friday, June 12, through Saturday,
June 20. This year’s burger menu includes the
O’Cubano (ground chorizo patty, Irish bacon,
pickles, Swiss, honey-Dijon and a pressed
burger roll), the El Gordo Turkey (free-range
turkey, roasted poblano-fresh corn avocado relish, Monterey jack cheese, watercress and fried
tortilla strips) and the CHaD Caprese Burger (fresh buffalo mozzarella, beefsteak, tomato
and fresh basil pesto). See the complete lineup of burgers at www.thebarleyhouse.com.
The Burgerfest menu is served in addition to
the restaurant’s regular menu.
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Bridge Café owner opens upscale eatery
[email protected]
The Bridge Café owner Roi Shpindler
began a trek down a new culinary path when
he opened the new Mint Bistro in Manchester. The classy, upscale eatery is a change
from the casual café, and a lifelong dream
come true made possible with help from
three first-class chefs.
Shpindler has spent his lifetime in the
restaurant business — his family owns Caesario’s Pizza. Three years ago he opened The
Bridge Café and brought in executive chef
George Bezanson, who will now follow him
to the bistro. They will be joined by assistant head chef Michael Dussault (formerly of
Manhattan on Pearl in Nashua) and executive pastry chef Jessica Haight (from the New
York Ritz-Carlton.) This group has created a
sophisticated menu that spans the globe.
“The food is international — Asian, Italian, French, Middle East,” Shpindler said.
“And we will have tapas at the bar. I worked
with the chefs to create the menu, but I have
to give a lot of the credit to George and
Mike.”
Shpindler describes Dussault’s food style
as traditional and Bezanson’s as “out there.”
Dussault inspired dishes such as the chorizo
frito tapas and the paella, which is full of seafood (shrimp, mussels, calamari and fish),
chorizo, chicken, peas, saffron risotto and
lobster fumet. Bezanson’s creations include
sweet and spicy beef tapas, handmade potato
gnocchi starters, and an entree of seared yellow fin tuna with tempura haricot verts, and
sake-infused sticky rice.
To top off a meal, chef Haight’s dessert menu is hard to pass up. It features an
Earl Grey panna cotta with bing cherries,
ruby port, chocolate espresso shortbread
and ganache-filled cherries; a warm flourless chocolate cake with bittersweet cayenne
anglaise, white chocolate ice cream and a
Assistant head chef Michael Dussault, general manager Charlie Logiotatos, owner Roi Shpindler, executive pastry chef Jessica Haight, and executive chef George Bezanson of the new
Mint Bistro in Manchester. Jessica Rolfe photo.
touch of fleur de sel; and the restaurant’s signature mint crème brulee.
The mint theme carries over to the bar with
a selection of signature mojitos. Besides the
classic, there are also the Del Parro made
with passion fruit, the Zensational with green
tea, the Fruit Basket of Mojitos made with a
choice of raspberry, blood orange, blueberry,
pomegranate, tangerine or coconut, and the
prosecco or sake mojito. If mint isn’t your
thing, choose the unminted version made
with fresh basil.
Not in the mood for a mojito? Then pick
from a list of specialty drinks or choose a bottle from the more than 100 available in the
Mint’s wine cellar. (Many are also offered by
the glass.)
Shpindler said the menu was created “so
it’s comfortable for this economy. The tapas
at the bar ranges from $5 to $12. Someone
can come in and have a tapas and a glass of
wine without breaking the bank.”
The Mint Bistro will be open for lunch
and dinner seven days a week, plus brunch
on Sunday. And on Friday and Saturday evening, a DJ will spin some light music after
9 p.m.
“I don’t want people to think we’re a
club,” Shpindler said. “After 9 the music
will pick up a couple of decibels. It will be
light music, jazz, Frank Sinatra, with a martini lounge feel.”
Shpindler plans to stay involved with both
The Bridge Café and the Mint Bistro.
“My family had three restaurants at one
time, so I know what it’s like to run three
restaurants at once. Besides, the bistro is
only two doors down from the café,” Shpindler said.
Then he added, “This is in my blood. I
own 30 apartments that I manage, but it’s not
my passion. I love to cook. I’m not going to
be in the kitchen as much here, but I’ll be
looking over each order before it goes out to
the table.”
Mint Bistro
Got juice?
All Juiced Up opens in downtown Manchester
[email protected]
This time last year, Melissa Minuti worked
as a mechanical engineer. When she was laid
off last November, she decided to join forces
with her father, Tom, to open All Juiced Up
in Manchester.
“If you told me a year ago that I would
be involved in a juice and smoothie bar, I
wouldn’t have believed you,” she said. “But
I’ve always been fascinated with small businesses, with both my mom and dad having
owned them.”
Melissa’s mother, Shannon, owns Heavenly Fodder, the gluten-free food shop just
down Elm Street from the juice bar. Tom has
owned a number of small businesses, mostly
in the building and property trades, but also
a coffee house and a tavern. “Now I’m the
juice man,” he said.
All Juiced Up is a bright, colorful shop
reminiscent of the juice bars Tom saw on
trips to Florida. They serve what both he and
Melissa describe as clean foods — without
anything artificial or full of additives.
“The shop is healthy, bright, and clean.
Plus there are none around like it,” he said.
Melissa added, “It’s nice to offer something
that is a little unique to the downtown. My
dad tells stories about how downtown Manchester once was the place to be. I would like
to see that happen again.”
The idea for All Juiced Up was around
even before Heavenly Fodder opened its
doors. Tom has been on a gluten-free diet for
a while after experiencing three heart attacks
and five bypass operations. He said, “I started juicing at home a lot, and to be honest, it’s
a pain. Take out all the equipment and then
clean it all up afterwards. This place is a convenience for people.”
“Because he’s my dad and I have his
genes, I eat as healthy as I can,” Melissa said.
“When we first opened, I was getting about
two hours of sleep a night. But because I was
drinking juice all of the time, I had plenty of
energy. I don’t need to drink coffee anymore.
The juice gives me all the energy I need.”
All the juices are made fresh with produce
from local vendors — local is important to
Melissa and Tom. The menu offers combinations such as gingered apple cider or
tomato heaven (carrot, tomato and celery
juice), but customers can create their own
combinations from the available produce.
Fresh-squeezed juice is also used in the
smoothies, which have a reduced-fat yogurt
base but can be made dairy-free. Some of the
popular selections are banana-berry, sweet
tart (strawberry, banana, orange), cookies
and cream (made with organic cookies), and
green smoothie (kale, pineapple, coconut.)
Both the juice and smoothie drinks can have
supplements added, such as proteins, bee
pollen and wheat grass.
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Melissa and Tom Minuti are the father-daughter team behind All Juiced Up in Manchester.
from Heavenly Fodder, which includes the
popular chicken salad and quinoa-chickpea
salad with a key-lime dressing.
The sandwiches can be made as panini
or on bagels. Melissa is a fan of the sausage, egg and cheese breakfast panini made
with a choice of three different chicken sausage flavors — apple chardonnay, spinach
and feta, or apricot rosemary. And in the
colder months, a selection of soups will be
available.
As with the beverages, customers can
select the ingredients used in the sandwiches and salads.
“If you look at the menu and are not sure
what you want, just pick out the ingredients
and we’ll make it for you, since everything is
made to order,” Melissa said. Then she added, “We want this to be a fun place. We’re
trying to bring back the old-fashioned way of
dealing with people — a smile and a friendly greeting. I love the opportunity to talk to
people about what we do here.”
Thank you for voting
900o Best of
New Hampshire
Gourmet Pizza
(two years in a row)
& Best Pizzeria!
Linda A. Thompson-Odum photo.
Both the juice and smoothie combos were
created through lots of trial and error and
tasting.
“Luckily we have a chef in the family
to consult with [Shannon.] She has a great
understanding of what pairs together well,”
Melissa said.
hot stew, coffee, hot cocoa and more. To
get in touch with McChesney for more
information on the market or to learn
how to become a vendor, call 731-6253
or [email protected].
• NASHUA — MAIN STREET
BRIDGE The Main Street Bridge Market
(which runs on the side of Main Street,
on the bridge near Peddlar’s Daughter
in downtown Nashua) will run Sundays,
10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and ends the season on
Oct. 25. See www.greatamericandowntown.org or call 883-5700 for more.
• NASHUA — SCHOOL STREET The
School Street Market will run Fridays
from 2 to 6 p.m. until Oct. 30. See www.
greatamericandowntown.org or call 8835700 for details.
• NH FARMERS’ MARKETS www.
nhfma.org has a list of farmers’ markets
and a schedule of when fruits and vegetables are in season in New Hampshire.
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties/book events
• CANTERBURY FAIR Canterbury
Fair (in Canterbury, exit 17 off Interstate 93) is always the last Sat., July 25,
and features crafts, kids’ activities, live
entertainment, canoe polo, square dancing, a bake sale and more. Food includes
chicken barbecue, shrimp rolls, hot dogs,
sausages, hamburgers, veggie burgers, a
frappe bar and more. Admission is free
(parking cost is $3 per car). Visit www.
canterburyfair.com.
• GREAT WAIT STAFF CHALLENGE
Monday is the weekend for many in the
restaurant business. Watch waiters compete in the Third Annual Great Wait Staff
Challenge on Monday, Aug. 24, from 6 to
9 p.m. Tickets cost $20 at the door. The
event will be held this year at Saint Anselm
College’s Sullivan Arena, 100 Sain Anselm
Drive in Manchester. Call 627-3491 or go
to [email protected].
• DAIRY DAY The New Hampshire Farm
Museum, Route 125 in Milton, will hold
its annual Dairy Day on Saturday, June 20,
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event includes
cows, goats, explanations of how to make
butter and ice cream, farm games and free
ice cream from noon to 3 p.m. Tickets cost
All Juiced Up
790 Elm St., Manchester, 518-5000
Hours: Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to
5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Trial-run
hours, Thursday through Saturday open until
10 p.m. (may be temporary.)
50 Dow Street, Manchester
603.641.0900
www.900degrees.com
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EatingWell in Season: The
Farmer’s Market Cookbook, by
Jessica Price and the Editors of
EatingWell (2009, The Countryman Press, 254 pages)
Farmers’ markets are opening on
a weekly basis now and fresh local
produce is starting to creep in to
the supermarkets. During the initial
thrill over those green asparagus,
those tart rhubarb and — in middle
June — those first strawberries, you
don’t need recipes or plans. Wash,
do minimal preparation and eat.
But after that burst of “it really is summer” wears off, you’ll want
more than just grilled asparagus or washed strawberries. You’ll
want to do something with them, preferably something new.
That’s where EatingWell in Season comes in. The folks from
the magazine walk you through the seasons — from garden-fresh
asparagus soup in spring to pomegranate poached pears for your
winter dessert — to help you figure out what to do with all that
fresh, local bounty.
The book’s recipes cover all the bases on the seasonal ingredients they feature. You’ll get a brief bit of information on the item
— chard in fall, for example. What it tastes like, what you can do
with it, how they’re using it here. Then, in addition to the recipe (and in some cases hunger-inducing full-page photos), you get
prep time estimates, equipment needs and per-serving nutritional
information. Thusly you learn that a decadent-sounding chard &
feta tart is only 191 calories per serving and offers 40 percent of
your daily value of vitamin A. Tips also offer information on how
to find some ingredients and what to substitute when you can’t
find (or don’t like) exactly what they call for.
With all the recent hype over CSAs, eating local, farmers’ market shopping and home gardens, it’s surprising how few books are
out there for those making an effort to eat seasonally. EatingWell in
Season is a great resource to help you make the most of your locavore eating habits. — Amy Diaz
$6 ($3 for kids). For more information, call
652-7840 or go to www.farmmuseum.org.
• KITCHEN EXHIBIT “America’s Kitchens,” a traveling exhibit organized by Historic New England, will open at the New
Hampshire Historical Society’s Museum at
6 Eagle Square in Concord, on Thursday,
June 11. The exhibit features vignettes of
kitchens from colonial New England, 19th
century Illinois, an adobe kitchen from the
(Located behind the former Dunn Furniture
store on Canal St.)
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Food Listings
Farmers’ markets
• AMHERST INDOOR Farmers’ Market at Salzburg Square, Route 101 in
Amherst. Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5:30
p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (wine
tasting from 4 to 7 p.m.); Friday, 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• BROOKLINE INDOOR FARMERS
MARKET Look for breads from Stormy
Moon Farm bakery, a freezer of meats
from Kelly Corner Farm in Chichester,
locally raised chickens, free-range turkeys
which can be pre-ordered, DJ’s Pure Natural Honey, Yankee Farmers pepperoni,
garlic from Country Dreams Farm, Nashua. Look for the indoor farmers’ market
to expand to offer coffee, bagels, and light
lunch specials, like soups in bread bowls.
The market is on Route 13, next to TD
Banknorth, the Brookline Florist and Farwell Realty. Hours are Mondays, 9 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., and Tuesdays through Fridays,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 554-6002
• FOOD MAPS The New Hampshire
Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association offers maps (available
in print from NOFA-NH at 224-5022
or [email protected] or in an interactive
version at www.nofanh.org) showing
locations of organically produced foods
across the state. Online, click “Organic
Farms and Land Care.” The site lists
farms by region and can narrow down the
search by type of food.
• KEARSARGE MARKET 51 E. Main
St. in Warner in the Brookside complex.
This year-round market is open every
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Owner
Mike McChesney says the market features locally-grown or made fruits, vegetables, cheese, ice cream, pies, cakes,
breads, free-ranged meats, eggs, herbs,
spices, herbal products, tomato sauces,
maple products, candy and more as well
as art, jewelry and other items from local
artisans. The market also offers smoked
goods — such as turkey, fish, sausages
and other meats — and serves up sandwiches with the sausages at the market,
McChesney said. The market also offers
Coffee lovers won’t feel left out thanks to
the shop’s selection of Java Tree coffee and
espresso options. And for those who want
something more substantial than a beverage,
there are salads and sandwiches available.
The sandwich meats are hormone-free from
Dietz & Watson. There is gluten-free fare
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Hillsborough, NH
603.464.6766
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(in the Holiday Inn)
Concord, NH
603.224.0400
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Note from Rich: Gentle Readers, I’m away
for a few weeks investigating foods, flavors
and ingredients. I’ll share my findings when
I return, or if wi-fi connections are plentiful,
from “on the ground.” You can also follow my
adventures as they happen (if wi-fi connections
are plentiful) on my Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/loveofchocolate. Meanwhile, I present
you with that late-night bit of guilty pleasure,
the rerun. Ciao!
Dates
Daniel Abdal Hayy-Moore wrote the
above in celebration of the ending of the
Ramadan fast, which Muslims traditionally break with dates and water. Dates are the
fruit of the date-palm tree, which originated in the Persian Gulf a very long time ago. Archaeologists have dated coins and bas relief
carvings with images of date-palms to 4,000 B.C., and dates are mentioned frequently in
writings of the period. Arabs introduced the date-palm to Spain, and it has been grown in
much of the northern Mediterranean. Dates are, and have long been, a staple of Northern
African and Middle Eastern cuisine.
While dried dates are 70 percent sugar by weight, they also contain a fair amount of protein and vitamins A and B. It is said that desert Arabs can subsist on nothing but dates and
milk for very long periods. Not bad for nature’s perfect candy.
We New Hampshire folk are about as far from the desert as one can easily get, but that
shouldn’t stop us from enjoying one of the world’s tastiest snacks. Chopped fresh or dried
dates are an excellent substitute for raisins in almost any dish. I’ve put them in sweetened
rice dishes, added them to wine for deglazing meats, and tossed them on salads with walnuts and cranberries. My favorite technique for fresh dates is to pit one or two, mash them
with a few tablespoons of fresh cream butter, and spread the result on a slice of hearty
wheat bread. Or of course, you can serve them with fresh crisp cantaloupe, tamari-soaked
almonds, hot ceylon tea and golden apples.
I’ve seen fresh dates at the Concord Coop on Main Street in Concord and at A Market
off South Willow Street in Manchester. The fruits are fresh when they’re plump and evenly caramel colored.
Pick the reruns! Do you have a favorite Ingredients column of Rich’s that you’d like to
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Ingredients
“Fresh crisp cantaloupe spooned from its
skin,
tamari-soaked almonds and mahjoul
dates,
hot Ceylon tea with honey mixed in,
golden delicious apples on plates”
Martini Envy?
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Southwest and a 1950s kitchen. The
exhibit will run through Jan. 17.
Admission to the museum (which is
open Tuesday through Saturday from
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday from
noon to 5 p.m., and Mondays, July
1 through Oct. 15, from 9:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Admission costs $5.50 for
adults, $4.50 for seniors, $3 for children aged 6 to 18, free for children
under 6 (with a maximum fee of
$17 per family). America’s Kitchen,
a book by Nancy Carlisle, Melinda
Nasardinov and Jennifer Pustz that
was published in conjunction with
the exhibit, sells for $34.95 in the
museum shop. See nhhistory.org or
call 228-6688 for more on the museum and see americaskitchens.org for
more on the exhibit.
• LAMB BARBECUE St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 1160 Bridge
St. in Manchester, www.stnicholasman-nh.org, 625-6115, will hold its
annual lamb barbecue on Saturday,
June 20. The event, which runs
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., features
marinated lamb, barbecued, as well
as Greek dishes such as pastitsio,
souvlaki, dolmathes, spanakopeta
and sweet Greek pastries. The event
also features raffles, silent auctions,
music and kids’ activities.
• MARKET DAYS Concord’s
Market Days and Summer Music
Festival will run Thursday, July 16,
through Saturday, July 18, from 9
a.m. to 10 p.m. in downtown Concord on all days. This free event
(though bring money for all the
food) features shopping, music, family performers and more. See www.
mainstreeconcord.com for details.
• ROCK ’N RIBFEST The Rotary
Club of Nashua West will hold
their 7th Annual Rock ‘N Ribfest
on Friday, June 19, through Sunday, June 21, at Anheuser-Busch
in Merrimack. The ’fest will feature national and local ribbers selling tastes of their wares as well as
music, hot air balloon rides, aerial
acrobatics, a car show on Sunday,
kids activities all weekend and the
NH State Barbecue Championship.
Admission will cost $5; children
8 and under get in free. See www.
rotaryribfest.org for more details or
call 889-2333.
• STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL The
annual Hollis Strawberry Festival and
Band Concert will be held Sunday,
June 28, from 2 to 4 p.m. featuring
strawberry shortcakes and sundaes
along with arts and crafts, activities
for the kids and of course music.
The Hollis Town Band will perform
music such as marches, Broadway
show tunes and symphonies. The
event will be held at Monument
Square (or in the Hollis Brookline
High School in case of rain). Contact
Diana Kroeger at 465-2392 or Lynne
Dougherty at 465-2723. • STRAWBERY JAMBOREE
The Strawberry Jamboree festival at Canterbury Shaker Village,
on Shaker Road off Route 106 in
Canterbury, www.shakers.org, will
be held Sat., June 20, from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. The event includes the
Strawberry Jam open-mike music
jam from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
led by TJ Wheeler and Patrick
“Hatrack” Gallagher, and a Strawberry Bake-Off from 1 to 4 p.m.
The Bake-Off includes professional
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and home-chef divisions, and will
be judged by visitors. To enter the
Bake-Off, visit www.shakers.org or
call 783-9077 ext. 284; registration is
free. The Strawberry Jamboree will
also feature strawberry shortcake and
sangria, as well as hands-on activities
and craft vendors.
Chef events/special meals
• BURGERFEST The Barley House,
132 N. Main St. in Concord, will hold
their annual Burgerfest from Fri., June
12 to Sat., June 20. The restaurant
will once again team up with the local
charity Fred’s Fund to raise money
for Children’s Hospital at DartmouthHitchcock (CHaD.) In the meantime,
Burger Mondays feature a different
burger special to try out.
• DOUGH RAISER The Friends
will also hold a “Dough Raiser” at
UNO’s Chicago Grill on Fort Eddy
Road in Concord on Mon., June 15,
from 11 a.m. to midnight. The cast
will be at the restaurant from 11:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 5 to 7
p.m. Wear something plaid for the
chance to win show tickets and tell
the server you’re there for the Dough
Raiser so the Audi gets 20 percent of
the check. See www.concordcityauditorium.org.
• FATHER’S DAY AT CURRIER
The Currier Museum of Art celebrates
Father’s Day Sunday, June 21, with a
tour at 1 p.m., art-making from 2 to
3 p.m. and a “Welcome to the Currier: Highlights of the Collection” tour.
There will be a special menu at the café
featuring a Bloody Mary bar, specialty
beers, hoagies and grinders. No reservations required. Tour and art making
are free with museum admission.
• MEDITERRANEAN MEAL
Before the performance of Girls Night:
The Musical at the Capitol Center for
the Arts in Concord on Thurs., June
25 and Fri., June 26, enjoy a special
pre-show dinner in the historic Kimball House Mansion Dining Room
(attached to the Chubb Theatre) catered
by Nonni’s Italian Eatery. (The House
serves as administrative office space
for the Center.) The menu includes
fresh mozzarella and tomato brochette,
vegetable roll ups with chive cream
cheese, Mediterranean chicken skewers with olive and basil, mini eggplant
parmesan with ricotta cheese, prosciutto and fresh melon with cracked
pepper, and Caesar salad with Nonni’s
homemade dressing. Tickets for the
dinner are $16.50 (performance tickets
are sold separately) and must be purchased in advance. Go to ccanh.com to
get ticket to both events. (The dinner
will not be served before the Saturday,
June 27 performance.)
• PANCAKE BREAKFAST — NH
FOOD BANK CADVantages Inc.
of Windham is holding a pancake
breakfast at Applebee’s, 1273 Hooksett Road in Hooksett, on Sat., June
20, from 8 to 10 a.m. The cost is $5
and proceeds will benefit the New
Hampshire Food Bank. Bring canned
vegetables to get raffle tickets for
items raffled off every hour on the
hour. See www.nhfoodbank.org.
Tastings
• COFFEE roastings and tasting
demonstration of Kona Coffee at
A&E Roastery, 131 Route 101A in
Amherst. Free. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Call 578-3338 for more info.
• EXOTIC MEATS The Healthy Buffalo, Route 4 in Chichester, 369-3611,
www.healthybuffalo.com, offers tastings of its exotic meats every Saturday
and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Try
the ostrich, alligator, elk, kangaroo and
buffalo.
Weekly Dish
Continued from page 32
• Breakfast at the Seedling: The
Seedling Café, 9 Water St. in Nashua, is
now serving breakfast. Chef-owner Josh
Enright said in an e-mail, “We just started
serving breakfast about two weeks ago. It
is really taking off. We offer organic freerange scrambled egg wraps, Belgian
waffles, homemade quiche, many gluten-free options, and scrambles cooked
to order.” The complete menu is available
on the café’s Web site, www.theseedlingcafe.com. The restaurant serves breakfast
Tuesday through Saturday, 7 to 10 a.m.
They also have daily specials and will
cater breakfast, too.
• No more Make and Take: A recent
e-mail announced the closing of Make
and Take Gourmet (545 Hooksett Road
in Manchester) for financial and personal reasons. Instead, owners Helen and
Seth Williams plan to start Your Gourmet Chef, which the e-mail said will
offer “a seasonal menu, selections, and
prices that are consistent with what has
been offered to you in the past. We will
however offer delivery only. Your selections will be packaged and delivered to
you in insulated coolers with cooking
instructions. We will continue to use local
products and produce.” A Web site is in
the works. Until then, e-mail [email protected] for more details. • Brunch for the summer: The Sunday brunch at The Holy Grail, 64 Main
St. in Epping, has been such a big success that it will continue throughout the
summer. The buffet features most traditional breakfast favorites, plus a selection
of carved meat, pasta dishes, stuffed
chicken, baked haddock and the chef’s
vegetarian special. The cost is $15.95
for adults and $5.95 for children. Reservations for parties of six or more are
highly recommended. Call 679-9559 and
visit theholygrailpub.com for a compete
menu.
• A summer steak: Buckley’s Great
Steaks, 438 DW Highway in Merrimack, has a new summer menu. One of
the featured dishes is barbecue pot roast,
slow cooked and then wood grilled with
a sweet and sour onion barbecue glaze,
and served with polenta fries and crispy
ginger slaw. (This is the same dish that
was served at sister restaurant Michael
Timothy’s in May.) Also, the new Tavern menu is available in both the Tavern
and on the Garden Patio starting at 4
p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. This
menu features some smaller portions, an
expanded burger menu, and Buckley’s
Great Wings. To view both new menus,
visit www.buckleysgreatsteaks.com.
• The Nashua beach: Saffron Bistro,
80 Main St. in Nashua, will offer Skip the
Beach specials on Fridays and Saturdays.
A recent e-mail said it would feature
fried clam appetizers, entrée specials and
additional specials on both nights at prices that beat the beach. For reservations,
call 883-2100.
• Green drinks: Discuss green issues
with like-minded folks at the second
meeting of the Green Drinks group in
Concord on Thursday, June 11, from
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The group will meet
at the Red Blazer, 72 Manchester St. in
Concord. The Red Blazer is the monthly
hospitality sponsor of the Concord Green
Drinks — see www.theredblazer.com for
more on the restaurant and greendrinks.
org for more on the group.
• A month of tastings: The Wine
Society (18 Pondview Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978-649-8993; 650
Amherst St. #9 in Nashua, 883-4114;
www.winesociety.us) has several
events coming up in June. On Friday,
June 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. it’s
“Charlie’s Best of the Best Wine Tasting” with Chef Amber’s food pairing at
the Tyngsboro store. The cost is $100
per person; RSVP at 883-4114. On
Saturday, June 13, there will be a free
tasting of the wines of the month from
noon to 4 p.m. at both stores. On Friday, June 19, try some rosés from 6 to
7:30 p.m. at the Tyngsboro store. The
cost is $15 and includes a beer tasting.
RSVP to 883-4114. On Tuesday, June
23, the Society will hold a blind tasting of whites from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at
the Tyngsboro store. The cost is $25;
RSVP to 883-4114. Chuck Saunders
will hold a one-night introduction to
wine on Thursday, June 25, from 6:30
to 8 p.m. at the Tyngsboro store. The
cost is $40 ($35 for society members);
RSVP at 883-4114. Try wines with
some Fourth of July-style barbecue on
Saturday, June 27, at the Tyngsboro
store from 1 to 4 p.m. The cost is $10;
RSVP to 883-4114.
• Hot dogs and antiques for dad:
The New Hampshire Antique Co-Op,
323 Elm St. Route 101A in Milford,
673-8499, www.nhantiquecoop.com,
will hold a Father’s Day Fest featuring free appraisals with Sam and Jason
Hackler, an antique sporting exhibit, a
book-signing with Ed Turner and hot
dogs. The barbecue will run from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. Appraisals and the booksigning will run from 10 a.m. to noon.
• World of food: Learn about and
taste food from around the world at
Amherst Town Library, 14 Main St.
in Amherst, 673-2288, on Tuesday,
June 23, at 7 p.m. The program will
be presented by Gale Carey, Ph.D.
and professor of nutritional science at
UNH, and will focus on the nutritious
foods of five different cultures.
• Taste of culture: Celebrate the
cultural heritages of the residents of
the greater Concord area at “Celebrating Our Multicultural Community”
on Saturday, June 20, at the Statehouse lawn and plaza and on Capitol
Street in downtown Concord from 5
to 8:30 p.m. Admission to the event is
free. The festival will include live and
recorded music from around the world,
arts and crafts, exhibits, books and oth-
er items for sale from around the world
and, tastiest of all, food from a variety
of countries and regions. Countries to
be represented include Bhutan, Rwanda, Sudan, Scotland, Greece, Egypt,
Korea, China, Dominican Republic
and India as well as countries from the
Mediterranean and Latin America. See
www.multiculturalfestivalnh.org.
• Mystery and dessert: The Wheeler Players will present The Magic of
Crime, an audience-participation mystery-comedy dessert theater play on
Friday, June 19, through Sunday, June
21, at St. Mary Magdalen Parish Center, 93 Lakeview Ave. in Tyngsboro,
Mass. Tickets cost $10 and include
dessert (opening night will feature a
chocolate fountain). The show will
begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday. For tickets,
call 978-314-9828.l The show is appropriate for all ages, according to a press
release.
• Celebrate the summer: Beaver
Brook Association will hold a Summer Solstice Celebration on Saturday,
June 27, from 5 p.m. to dusk at Maple
Hill Gardens, 117 Ridge Road in Hollis. The event is free and open to the
public and will feature a dessert buffet,
live music with the band Cahill (www.
cahillmusic.com/music.html), a walk
through the gardens and more. Bring a
picnic dinner and blankets and chairs.
See www.beaverbrook.org.
• Tea in the garden: The Cozy Tea
Cart Shoppe and Grounds, 40 Mountain Road in Brookline, will host tea in
its gardens on Saturday, June 13, from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Meet local artists,
authors, health professionals and more
while sample tea and eats. See www.
thecozyteacart.com or call 249-9111.
Event is free.
• Wine in the showroom: Enjoy
a free wine tasting while learning
about remodeling at GM Roth Design
Remodeling, 12 Murphy Drive in
Nashua, on Thursday, June 18, from 6
to 9 p.m. Black Forest will provide eats
and a cooking demonstration for the
event and Crush Distributors will provide the wines. The expo will feature
vendors with information on countertops, cabinets, tile, flooring and more.
Register at www.gmroth.com or call
880-3761.
• Dinner for teacher: On Mondays,
June 15 and June 22, Country Tavern,
425Amherst St. in Nashua, 889-5871,
www.countrytavern.org, will offer discounts for teachers. Show your school
badge and receive half-price entrees
and a free beverage. Call or go online
for more information.
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Vegan Brunch: Homestyle
Recipes Worth Waking Up for
— from Asparagus Omelets
to Pumpkin Pancakes, by Isa
Chandra Moskowitz (2009,
Da Capo, 240 pages)
If you keep a strict vegan diet, this is definitely
a book to put on your list.
Moskowitz is the author of
Veganomicon, a bible of
vegan cooking. Here, you
get more fun, diverse recipes that will keep friends from groaning at the thought
of eating at your house.
But what about the rest of us? As several books about
food in general and healthy diets in particular have discussed lately, there’s something to be said for occasional
vegan and vegetarian eating by meat-eaters. The tofu that
shows up here as a substitute for everything from cheese to
meat to eggs isn’t just a vegan culinary trick but a way for
everybody to cut back on a little fat and add protein.
And for those just looking for more to do with vegetables, there are plenty of recipes that work no matter who
you’re cooking for. Fried plantains, smoky shiitakes, a
bright and fresh guacamole, a spiced apple cider chutney — these are all simply great additions to whatever
you’re preparing.
Flavor, texture and gastronomic satisfaction don’t necessarily have to come from animal products just as they
don’t require the use of extreme amounts of salt, sugar or
fats. Learning new ways to work new dishes and ingredients into your repertory is a worthy endeavor whether
your fridge is full of eggs and cheese, tofu and almond
milk or all of the above. — Amy Diaz
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drink
Wine with dinner
What to drink when you’re eating
Italian Sweet Sausage
[email protected]
Walk through any carnival or fair in the
summertime and the aroma of grilled Italian
sausages, peppers and onions will tantalize the nostrils. Not surprisingly, the wine
experts chose Italian varieties.
• Felsina Chianti Classico
—
$19.99
(Recommended by Amber
Lorden of Wine Society,
650 Amherst St. in Nashua, 883-4114, and 18C
Pond View Place in Tyngsboro,
Mass.,
978-649-8993, www.winesociety.us) This
elegant wine is the perfect juxtaposition to
Italian sausage. “The tannin and structure
of this wine will balance out the decadence
of a loaded Italian sausage,” Lorden said.
Classes/workshops on wine/
beer-making
• BEER/WINE-MAKING classes
and demonstrations on making beer,
wine and soda at IncrediBREW,
112 DW Hwy, Nashua, 891-2477,
incredibrew.com. Shop features
fest-nights that focus on making a
particular kind of beer.
• PILSNER PARTY On Tues.,
June 16, at 6 p.m. IncrediBREW,
112 DW Highway, Nashua, 8912477, will hold a Pilsner Party.
Pay $30 for a variety case (bottles
included) and brew a variety of pilsners (Czech Pilsner, Budapest Pils,
Imperial Pilsner, Golden Eagle Pils
and German Oom-pah Pilsner) and
return in two weeks for bottling.
Space is limited for all events so
call or e-mail dave@incredibrew.
com to reserve a spot for an event.
See www.incredibrew.com.
• SUMMER WINEFEST On Fri.,
June 12, at 7 p.m., IncrediBREW,
112 DW Highway, Nashua, 8912477, will hold the Taste of Summer Winefest. The cost is $50 for
six different bottles of wine. Make
wine and take home wines that
you’ve helped bottle and label
(Beaujolais, green apple riesling,
rosso grande, white zinfandel, German riesling and pomegranate zinfandel). The evening will include
light snacks, a wine tasting and sangrias. Space is limited for all events
so call or e-mail dave@incredibrew.
com to reserve a spot for an event.
See www.incredibrew.com.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR CUSTOM WINERY — BEDFORD
Vintner’s Cellar at Sebbins Brook
Marketplace, 410 South River Road
Route 3 in Bedford, offers a chance
to taste and create custom wines.
Call 627-9463 or go to www.vintnerscellarnh.com.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY 133 Loudon Road in Concord, allows customers can make
custom wines in batches of 24 to
28 bottles.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY — PORTSMOUTH Design
and create your own high-quality
wine. At 801 Islington St. in Portsmouth. Open Mondays through
Wednesdays, and Saturdays, from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays and
Fridays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays
and evenings by appointment only.
Call Gail at 431-5984.
Classes/workshops on beer/
wine tasting
• WINE SOCIETY (18 Pondview
Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978649-8993; 650 Amherst St. #9 in
Nashua, 883-4114; www.winesociety.us) offers classes for wine lovers of all levels. New sessions start
every few months. Call for upcoming schedule.
Special tastings
• WHITES & ROSES WINE
TASTING The Concord Cooperative market, 24 S. Main St. in Concord, 410-6200, www.concordfoodcoop.coop, will hold a summer wine
tasting of whites, pinks and rosés on
Thursday, June 25, from 6 to 8 p.m.
This event is free and open to the
public. Sample 50 different wines
(available for sale for less than $15
per bottle) while snacking on treats
and listening to live music.
• WINE & CHEESE TASTING LaBelle Winery in Amherst
is holding a free open house wine
and cheese tasting event on Sat.,
June 27, from noon to 3 p.m. Go to
labellewinerynh.com to register for
the event.
• WINERY OPEN HOUSE The
Vintner’s Cellar of Bedford, Sebbins Brook Market Place on 410 S.
River Road, www.vintnerscellarnh.
com, will hold a two day open
house and birthday celebration
on Fri., June 12, from 4 to 7 p.m.,
and Sat., June 13, from 4 to 7 p.m.
Sample wines and receive discounts
on purchases and a chance to win
raffle prizes.
• WINE SOCIETY BOOK CLUB
The Wine Society will restart its Wine
Society Book Club in the fall at the
Tyngsborough store at 18 Pondview
Plaza on scheduled Thursdays from
6:30 to 8 p.m. The cost of each book
event will be $25 per participant and
the number and type of wines to go
with each book discussion will depend
on the number of attendees. Registration for each month’s discussion
will be closed one week in advance.
The schedule of bookx includes The
House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn
Siler on Sept. 17, Romancing the Vine
by Alan Tardi on Oct. 8; Wine & War
by Donald Kladstrup & Petie Kladstrup on Thursday, Nov. 12; To Cork
or Not to Cork by George Taber on
Jan. 14; The Widow Clicquot by Tilar
J. Mazzeo on Feb. 11; Wine Politics
by Tyler Colman on March 11, and
Judgment of Paris by George Taber
on April 8. For more information and
to RSVP, call 883-4114 or e-mail
[email protected].
Drink Listings
Brewerys/Distillerys/Cider
• ANHEUSER-BUSCH 221 DW
Hwy in Merrimack. Complimentary tours include a visit to the
Clydesdale Hamlet, home to the
world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales. Open daily 10 to 5 p.m. Call
595-1202.
• FARNUM HILL CIDERS 98
Poverty Lane, Lebanon, 448-1511,
www.farnumhillciders.com
• ELM CITY BREWING COMPANY Colony Mill Marketplace,
222 West St., Keene, 355-3335,
www.elmcitybrewing.com. Restaurant, brewery and pub, open
Mon.-Thurs., 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.,
Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Happy hour Monday through Friday, 4 to 6 p.m.
• REDHOOK BREWERY 35
Corporate Dr., Pease Tradeport,
Portsmouth, www.redhook.com,
produces Redhook ales and features
the Cataqua Public House offering
brew and a pub menu. Tours offered
Monday and Tuesday at 2 p.m.;
Wednesday and Thursday at noon,
1, 3 and 4 p.m.; Friday and Saturday every hour on the hour from
noon to 4 p.m.; Sunday every hour
on the hour from 1 to 4 p.m. For private tours, call 430-8600 ext. 327.
• TUCKERMAN BREWING
COMPANY 64 Hobbs St. in Conway, 447-5400, www.tuckermanbrewing.com, offers tours every
Saturday at 3 p.m.
• Primaterra Syrah —
$14.99 (Recommended by
Marilyn McGuire from the
Cracker Barrel, 377 Main
St. in Hopkinton, 746-7777)
An Italian red that has a
peppery flavor for the meat
and a raspberry-blackberry
earthiness for the vegetables.
• 2007 Carpineto Dogujolo
— $12.99 (Recommended
by Tom Brock from The
Meat House, five locations
in New Hampshire, www.
themeathouse.com) A Tuscan wine made from
sangiovese and cabernet
sauvignon grapes. It is a fruity, mediumbodied wine with flavors of cherries and
berries, with a little bit of coffee. Brock said
it has a good balance of acid and tannins.
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POP CuLTurE
Index
CdS
POP CuLTurE:
pg38
• The Eels, Hombre Lobo, A+
• Return to Forever, Returns, A+
BOOKS
pg39
• Lake Champlain: An Illustrated History, A
Includes listings for lectures, author events, book
clubs, writers’ workshops and other literary events.
To let us know about your book or event, e-mail Lisa
Parsons at [email protected]. To get your
author events, library events and more listed, send
information to [email protected].
FILM
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• The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, B
• Imagine That, B-
• The Hangover, C+
• The Brothers Bloom, C
On store shelves
Tuesday, June 16
• Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden, by Michael
Bublé (Reprise Records)
• Chess in Concert, by Josh
Groban, Idina Menzel, Adam
Pascal, David Bedella (Reprise
Records)
• Lines, Vines and Trying Times,
by Jonas Brothers (Hollywood
Records)
CdS
• Let It Roll: The Songs of
George Harrison, by George
Harrison (EMI)
• Back from the Dead, by Spinal
Tap (The Label Industry)
• Monuments & Melodies, by
Incubus (Sony)
• Let the Truth Be Told, by Laura
Izibor (Atlantic)
• Classique, by Will Downing
(Concord Records)
• Street Sweeper Social Club,
The Eels, Hombre Lobo
Vagrant Records, June 2
For lack of a better
term, the tuneage of
Mark Everett —
better known as “E”
for lack of a better
alphabet letter — is
classic indie, running the gamut of Pavement/Flaming
Lips to Brian Jonestown to twee to Sonic Youth, never really settling into a
subgenre but making music that’s been
good enough to find him hosting Eels
albums that’ve featured whoop-de-do
guests like Tom Waits and John Sebastian. And oddly, those two names say it
all, as far as this concept album is concerned. His inner compass is as though
commanded by Waits, always pointing
180 degrees from blatant commercialism, but this time quirk-folk isn’t lurking
around nearly every corner — there’s
some, sure, but this ain’t no Daisies of
the Galaxy, the Eels record that may
have caused the whole xylophone problem in recent underground dork-alt in
the first place. There are ’70s cues from
Sebastian and Nilsson, innocent (even
naïve, which is a pleasure) pop segues
that temper the Clinic-injected fuzz-rock
representing the main musical thematic
of the record, a point of correctness
being that the main character is a werewolf (a revisitation of the “Dog-Faced
Boy” of 2002’s Souljacker, now grown
up, with all sorts of grown-up problems
that he faces as whimsically as The
Point’s Oblio did while trying to grasp
The Point). This will not sell a lot of
by Street Sweeper Social Club
(Street Sweeper Social Club)
• Coming Up for Air, by Davy
Knowles (Blix Street)
• Caprica, by Bear McCreary
(La-La Land Records)
• Skyforger, by Amorphis
(Nuclear Blast Americ)
• Destination Life, by Rhonda
Vincent (Rounder / Umgd)
copies, but it’s a darlin’. A+ — Eric W.
Saeger
Return to Forever, Returns
Eagle Records/Fontana, March 17
A
revolving-door
crew of some of the
top jazz players of
their time, Return to
Forever was a major
inspiration of the
punk movement for
the wrong reasons. So technically adept
that they literally made Rush, Yes and ELP
look like freshly diapered rookies, they
became a running joke in the underground
press of the late ’70s and early ’80s for
going unreservedly Spinal Tap Meets
Weather Report, this by wet-working actual-realmedievalmusicintorock/modern-jazz-funk
in their (debatably) high-watermark album
The Romantic Warrior.
Featuring three long cuts from TRW, this
live two-disker — featuring the reunion of
jazz super-legends Al Di Meola, Chick
Corea and Stanley Clark – damns every
torpedo an erstwhile Johnny Rotten might
load up, but there’s a modicum of playfulness in the air when the band are in
burn-and-puree jam-mode, not that those
moments will be easily recognizable to the
uninitiated (or even old-timers who dared
try jamming along to the originals on their
second-hand Rickenbackers and Flying
V’s). And those points aren’t all that jokey; after all, this isn’t Reel Big Fish, it’s
Return to Forever, who wouldn’t know
Maximum Rock n Roll from Ladies Home
Journal. A+ — EWS
MuSIC, BOOKS,
GAMES, COMICS,
MOVIES, dVdS,
TV And MOrE
Playlist
A seriously abridged
compendium of recent
and future CD releases
• TheAbba tanks keep rolling next week with the
release of the Chess in Concert DVD, earth’s latest interpretation of the Bjorn-and-Benny-written
concept-album-turned-musical-turned-awfulmovie-and-back-again-a-hundred-times. The
plot hangs loosely off a love/espionage story
that co-writer Tim Rice swears has finally been
done right. Backed by the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, Josh Groban led the cast at this Royal Albert Hall performance.
• The pod-people disease that’s turning all
Canadians into gorgeous, healthy, unflappable
pains in the labonza has spread to their crummy
Vegas acts, like Michael Bublé, whose live CD/
DVD, Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square
Garden, will be sent to our Walmarts next week
to make us Americans feel fat and underinsured
all over again. Mister Smartass-accented-letter has a voice like Bobby Goldsboro imitating
Bobby Darin, and he uses it to American Idol-ize
dentist-office earaches like “Crazy Little Thing
Called Love” just so we’ll dwell on our fatness
and eat giant pails of corn instead of intelligently
debating why Canada hasn’t invented anything
original since the hockey puck.
• Upon realizing that the new Back From the
Dead CD/DVD is about to land, some people
will say “Ha ha, Spinal Tap has a new album
out, that’s so funny, go Lenny.” But some people will buy it because they have no girlfriend
to spend their money on, and others still will
be like, “Wow, these guys sound like Bauhaus,
awesome!” The title track was played on Letterman, and it was so funny that I can now go
on with my life happily never hearing it again.
• The Jonas Brothers plop Lines Vines and
Trying Times into our great collective slopchow tub on Tuesday. Press blurbs include the
revealing line “They’ve incorporated horns
into several songs, as well as harmonicas and
peddle steel guitars” which should clue you in
if you had actually thought about buying the
thing instead of peddling toward the exit like
all us humans who somehow sense that Donald
Duck is their billed-demon pimp. —EWS.
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In stores this week
Fiction
• If You Give a Bear a Brownie,
by Laura Numeroff (HarperCollins)
• In the Kitchen, by Monica Ali
(Scribner)
• A Short History of Women: A
Novel, by Kate Walbert (Scribner)
• Along for the Ride, by Sarah
BOOKS
Dessen (Penguin Group)
• Strangers: A Novel, by Anita
Brookner (Random House)
Nonfiction
• The Tall Book: A Celebration
of Life on High, by Arianne
Cohen (Bloomsbury)
• Dogged Pursuit: My Year of
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LISTInGS
Libraries
• Bedford Public Library
3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford
472-3023, bedford.lib.nh.us
• Concord Public Library
45 Green St., 225-8670,
onconcord.com/library
• Goffstown Public Library
2 High St., Goffstown,
497-2102, goffstown.lib.nh.us
• Hills Memorial Library
18 Library St., Hudson,
886-6030, hillsml.lib.nh.us
• Hollis Social Library
2 Monument Sq., Hollis,
465-7721,
hollis.nh.us
• Hooksett Public Library
1701B Hooksett Rd., Hooksett,
Native populations up to the 1999 opening
of the Abenaki Tribal Museum.
Chapter Four, “Highway of Empire,” is
when we really delve into Samuel de Champlain and European settlement, and then the
French and Indian War and the American
Revolution. Champlain, of course, is not the
only notable figure to have made his mark
on the lake; there’s Montcalm and Benedict
Arnold and Ethan Allen and many others.
This chapter is full of vivid, crisp drawings
and paintings of battle scenes, portraits, fort
diagrams, and modern-day photos of the
ruins left behind. These are the times Christopher Shaw is talking about in the prologue
when he writes, “For two centuries the lake
and valley were a blood-soaked no-man’sland — unless you view it as a great theater
of adventure, which it also was.”
Its political boundaries established, the
lake went from “Hinterland to International Waterway” (Chapter Five) as a bustling
trade route facilitated by construction of
canals (many photos and postcards to prove
it), then ferries — sail-powered, horsepowered, steam-powered. And today, the
focus is on “Sports & Play on Lake Champlain” (Chapter Six), as commercial travel
has gone elsewhere for economic reasons
— though recreation has always been there.
There’s a nice story about Thomas Jefferson and James Madison visiting the lake in
1791 and pondering its possibilities. The
book closes with some speculations about
its future.
Nicely organized, thoughtfully written,
and chock full of eye-catching photos and
artwork, this substantive but not overly
dense book is a treasure.
Lake Champlain: An Illustrated History doesn’t seem to be available at Amazon,
though it is at Barnesandnoble.com ($35.96)
and is available directly at www.adirondacklife.com ($44.95). A salesperson at Borders in
Burlington, Vt., told me her store had ordered
it directly from the publisher, that it wasn’t
being widely distributed. So seek it out. This
is the book for anyone with ties to Lake Champlain. A —Lisa Parsons
485-6092, hooksettlibrary.org
• Manchester City Library
405 Pine St. (main branch)
and 76 N. Main St.
(West branch), 624-6550,
manchester.lib.nh.us
• Nashua Public Library
nashualibrary.org
• Rodgers Memorial Library
194 Derry Road, Hudson,
886-6030, rodgerslibrary.org
Bookstores
• Barnes & Noble
1741 South Willow St.,
Manchester, 668-5557;
235 DW Hwy, Nashua,
888-5961; bn.com
• Borders
76 Fort Eddy Road, Concord,
224-1255;
281 DW Hwy, Nashua,
888-9300; borders.com
• Gibson’s Bookstore
27 South Main St., Concord,
224-0562,
gibsonsbookstore.com
• MainStreet Bookends
16 E. Main St., Warner,
456-2700,
mainstreetbookends.com
• River Run Books
20 Congress St., Portsmouth,
431-2100, riverrunbookstore.com
• Toadstool Bookshop
586 Nashua St., Milford,
673-1734, toadbooks.com.
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the continent during
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Lake Champlain.
In six broad chapters various writers
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have fit into the region through time — ecologically, socially, economically, culturally.
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Lake,” a sprightly tour of noteable villages and cities, like Plattsburgh, Whitehall
and Ticonderoga on the New York shore,
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which was follwed by the Green Mountains, which begat the modern Adirondacks,
which, after an Ice Age, were joined by
Lake Vermont and then the Champlain
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where you read about the area’s fish and
birds and bears.
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starting with the Paleo-Indians of 12,000
to 9,000 years ago. (By the way, among
the scanty artifacts from the period, “at the
Mazza site in Colchester, Vermont, a majority of the stone tools and stone-working
debris is New Hampshire rhyolite, likely
quarried from a location near Berlin, New
Hampshire….”). This chapter follows the
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What are you reading?
Dr. Tobi Sheiker
balance chiropractic, Concord
I am reading the green book by
Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas
Kostigen. I’m usually a cover-to-cover girl, but with this book I just pick
and choose depending on the day. It
is teaching me little tips about how
to save our environment. “Green” is
the word of the year, but this actually
gives some useful tips that anyone can do without cramping their style too much. This book shows just how little
effort it takes to save a tree or save some water or save
some electricity. Simple things for on-the-go people.
The Book
Report
• Writing at UNH: UNH has launched
a new minor program in writing, “in
response to growing student interest in
writing and increasing employer demand
for higher levels of writing skills,” according to a June 3 UNH press release. The
minor is to be offered through the university’s College of Liberal Arts, starting in
fall 2009, and will be available to students
of all majors. “In the next few years, the
college hopes to expand its writing courses
to include technical and business writing,”
the release said.
• Happy birthday, Hills: The 100th
birthday party for Hudson’s Hills Memorial Library is taking place on June 11 — at
Rodgers Memorial Library, the brand-new
library for Hudson, at 194 Derry Road next
to Alvirne High School. Refreshments and
door prizes will be offered, and the documentary The Last Chapter, featuring Hills
Memorial Library, will be shown every
hour on the hour from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The documentary’s authors will be there
for discussion at the 7 p.m. showing.
• Nashua Reads 2009: Now that the
Northeast Cultural Co-op’s Big Read of
The Great Gatsby has concluded, Nashua takes off on its own with Skeletons at
the Feast, by Chris Bohjalian, for 2009’s
“Nashua Reads” program. “The goal of
workshops Saturday, June 13,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at SNHU
in Manchester. Morning session
features Martha Carlson-Bradley
on writing grant and fellowship
applications; afternoon workshop
has Random House sales manager
Ann Kingman on social media for
writers. $80 per session or $150
for both sessions (NHWP members: $65 and $125). Register at
NHWP online or by phone.
Other
• FRIENDS OF THE WILTON
PUBLIC LIBRARY will hold a
restructuring meeting, including
election of officers, Sat., June 13,
at 10 a.m. at the library (7 Forest
Road, Wilton, 654-2581, wiltonlibrarynh.org). This is the first
meeting in two years. Dues will
be collected.
• BOOK SALE at Manchester City Library (main branch)
Thurs., June 25, 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.
$5 a bag—for $5 you receive a
paper grocery bag at the entrance
of the Winchell Room, to fill with
as many items as you can fit.
the One City, One Book program is to get
as many Nashuans as possible to read the
same book and talk about it with friends,
coworkers, and neighbors,” a press release
from Nashua Public Library said. The program will culminate with a visit from the
author at the Dion Center at Rivier College on Sunday, Oct. 25, for which tickets
will be available in the fall. For more info,
see www.nashualibrary.org.
• Flowers inspired by books: Entries
are welcome until June 17 for the Amherst
Town Library’s “Books in Bloom” contest.
According to a press release, the library
invites “all gardeners and artists” to create
a live floral arrangement “inspired by the
written word — from works of poetry to
classic fairytales.” The arrangements will
be judged and awards will be given for best
floral display, best literary interpretation,
and people’s choice. Submit an entry form
(downloadable at www.amherst.lib.nh.us,
or available at the library) to the library
by June 17 to enter. The awards will be
announced at a reception on Wednesday,
June 24, at 7 p.m., open to entrants, their
guests and the public. The arrangements
will be part of a “Books in Bloom” display
at the library from June 22 through June
26, kicking off the library’s summer reading program for adults. The library is at 14
Main St. in Amherst, 673-2288.
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by NH Humanities Council facilitators. Attend one or all of the sessions; you need not be a member
of an existing group to participate.
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Book discussions
• RODGERS LIBRARY in Hud- up. June 23: Milford/Wadleigh
son has an afternoon and an eve- Memorial Library, Gaudy Night,
ning book discussion group. On by Dorothy Sayers.
June 16 at 1 p.m. and on June 23
at 7 p.m. the groups will discuss Poetry
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris • WALTER BUTTS & PATRIBohjalian. Books are available at CIA FARGNOLI the new and
the library; for info or to add your previous state poets laureate will
name to the mailing list, call 886- read on June 20 at 3 p.m. under
6030 or e-mail askus@rodgersli- the NH State Library dome at 20
Park St. in Concord. The public is
brary.org.
• SENIOR BOOK CLUB at invited to bring a favorite poem
Wadleigh Memorial Library by any of the NH poets laurate to
meets occasionally; copies of share, time permitting. Free and
the current book are available at open to the public. For more info,
the front desk. New participants call 332-0732 or e-mail poetrysoalways welcome. Thurs., June 11: [email protected].
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• New Hampshire
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• New Hampshire State Library
20 Park St., Concord,
www.nh.gov/nhsl
• New Hampshire
Writers’ Project
SNHU, 2521 N. River Rd.,
nhwritersproject.org
• Rivier College
420 Main St., Nashua,
888-1311, rivier.edu.
• UNH Manchester
400 Commercial St., Manchester,
641-4101, unhm.unh.edu
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REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
• Sex Positive (R, limited)
• Street Dreams (R, limited)
release)
In theaters Friday, June 12
• Food, Inc. (PG, limited)
• Imagine That (PG, wide release)
• The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R, wide • Moon (R, limited)
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
The Taking of
Pelham 1 2 3 (R)
Denzel Washington
puts his cool up against
John Travolta’s crazy in
this tale of a subway train
dispatcher stuck talking
down a hijacker in The
Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a
giddy heist movie.
Walter Garber (Washington) is
in the middle of some kind of disciplinary situation that has, after a
long career with the transit authority, put him back on dispatcher duty
for New York City’s subway trains.
In the middle of such a day, he sees
on the massive screen in front of
him that one of his trains, Pelham 1
2 3, has stopped even though it has
a clear track in front of it. What’s
going on, Pelham 1 2 3, he asks.
What’s going on is that a man
calling himself only Ryder (Travolta) and an assorted band of
thugs have taken over the train.
What’s the going price for a New
York City hostage, Ryder asks
Walter when he finally answers the
dispatcher’s radio calls. Ryder figures that $10 million should cover
the 18-some people he’s holding
and tells Walter that he has one
hour to convince the mayor to fork
over the cash.
The mayor (James Gandolfini)
would gladly write the man a personal check if only to have one
less thing to worry about. He’s
a Bloomberg-ish independently
wealthy final-termer who is eager,
as he tells his staff, to not be mayor
anymore if for no other reason than
he doesn’t have to pretend to enjoy
riding the subway. He authorizes
at least making a show of getting
the cash to the hijackers to give the
police time to rescue the hostages
and capture the kidnappers.
Meanwhile, back at dispatch,
the NYPD shows up with its hostage negotiations team. Lieutenant
Camonetti (John Turturro) takes
over the microphone from Walter
— but not for long. Seems Ryder’s
become fond of Walter and is able
to convince the authorities, via gun,
to put Walter back on the line.
OK, so this isn’t breaking new
ground for Washington. He’s
played versions of this character
before — most similarly in Inside
Man where he’s trying to figure
out what’s going on inside a bank
where people are being held hostage. But he does this sort of thing
well. He mixes evenness, vulnerability, steeliness and a small bit
of that Training Day ability to go
all badass to create characters that
even if they’re not terribly original
are a lot of fun to watch.
Travolta’s villains aren’t quite
such skilled solo performances
— they’re more like B-movie hysteria-fueled orchestral movements.
His villains are flamboyant, operatic
nut-cases. But Travolta’s “go BIGGER” bad guy is a good match for
Washington’s “I’m chill” everyman.
The other main character here
is New York City, which has the
memories and attitude of the post9/11 New York but has some of the
grit of 1970s New York, perhaps
a function of this movie’s having
been updated from a 1974 version.
When New York needs to speak, it
does so out of the mouth of Gandolfini, who is a delightfully sarcastic
Reviewlets: Snack-sized movie reviews
* Indicates a movie worth
seeking out. Previously
reviewed movies have
grades. For full reviews of
most movies here or movies
previously released, go to
www.hippopress.com.
*Adventureland (R)
Kristen Stewart, Jesse
Eisenberg.
A lit major discovers that
fancy book learning is no
match for the soul-crushing
nature of actual life in this
darling, funny and wonderfully
soundtracked movie about
post-college life circa 1987. A*Angels & Demons (PG-13)
Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor.
Dan Brown’s first Robert
Langdon book is a zippier, more violent take on
the scavenger-hunting of the
National Treasure movies for
the grown-ups who want the
beach-read experience in the
movie theater. B
Dance Flick (PG-13)
Damon Wayans Jr., Craig
Wayans.
The Wayans skewer the dance
movie genre but miss some of
the best parody opportunities. C
Drag Me to Hell (PG-13)
Alison Lohman, Justin Long.
A girl is cursed by an old
woman, Sam Raimi style, in
this funny but still chill-inducing horror movie. A-
and-leave-’em type learns the
true meaning of blah-blahwhatever after being visited,
A Christmas Carol-style, by
girlfriends past. D+
*I Love You, Man (R)
Paul Rudd, Jason Segel.
Bromance, Paul Rudd — who
can say no? Like any good
rom-com (brom-com?), I Love
You, Man has Rudd searching
for the heterosexual man of his
equally heterosexual dreams
when he realizes that he’s been
so concentrated on girlfriends
that he’s never had any time to
make dude friends. B+
Duplicity (PG-13)
Julia Roberts, Clive Owen.
The sexily gruff Owen and the
comebacky Julia Roberts play
former spies working together to
make a big score. And to flirt. B Land of the Lost (PG-13)
Will Ferrell, Anna Friel.
Ghost of Girlfriends Past
Crazy grab bag of a comedy
(PG-13)
adventure story is what you
Jennifer Garner, Matthew
get from this update reimagMcConaughey.
ined version of the ye olde TV
Apparently, the powers that
show. C
be thought we needed another
Matthew McConaughey rom- My Life in Ruins (PG-13)
com. In this one, a love-’emNia Vardalos, Richard
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Dreyfuss.
An American tour guide in
Greece gets her kefi back.
This romantic comedy is three
parts horrible, two parts kinda
charming. C
Night at the Museum: Battle
of the Smithsonian (PG)
Ben Stiller, Robin Williams.
You can absolutely do worse
than this too snarky but otherwise decent enough family
adventure that puts the exhibits
from New York’s natural history museum inside the equally
alive Smithsonian. C+
Observe and Report (R)
Seth Rogen, Anna Faris.
Written and directed by Jody
Hill (of The Foot Fist Way, a
movie lots of people who are
not me fell all over themselves
to praise from last summer), this
comedy focuses on Seth Rogen,
security guard, and his attempt
to find love and a sense of pride
at the mall. Equal parts “ha ha
about everything.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 has
a fun little twist (as all good heist
movies need to), a corker of a car
crash and a trio of players in Gandolfini, Turturro and Washington
who ooze genuineness even when
they’re in absurdly contrived situations. It isn’t a dew-kissed daisy
of innovation but it’s fun to watch
and keeps you, if not guessing,
then at least not bored with having
figured out its every move. Looking for an alternative to summer
spectaculars that still offers escapist fun? This is your train. B
Rated R for violence and pervasive
language. Directed by Tony Scott and
written by Brian Helgland (from the
novel by John Godey), The Taking of
Pelham 1 2 3 is an hour and 35 minutes
long and opens in wide release on Friday, June 12. It is distributed by Sony
Pictures.
Imagine That (PG)
A dad learns to bond
with his 7-year-old
daughter in part because of
her magical stock-picking
blankey in Imagine That,
a surprisingly enjoyable
Eddie Murphy family film.
Evan Danielson (Murphy) is a
financial analyst who is adept at
helping his corporate and wealthyindividual clients make big money
in the market. He’s not so adept
when it comes to dealing with his
7-year-old daughter, Olivia (Yara
Shadhidi). Since he and her mom
(Nicole Ari Parker) have separat-
heh” and “yikes, what’s wrong
with him.” C
The Soloist (PG-13)
Robert Downey Jr., Jamie
Foxx
A newspaper reporter writes a
column about and then starts
up a friendship with a schizophrenic man who once had the
potential to be a great musician. B
*Star Trek (PG-13)
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto.
The gang — Kirk, Spock,
Sulu, Uhura, et al. — unite
for this reboot of the franchise
from one Mr. J.J. Abrams. It’s
fun to see the original Trek
characters again but it’s even
more fun to live through the
adventure. A
State of Play (PG-13)
Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck.
It’s another one of those movies where reporters look like
Russell Crowe (we don’t, not on
his most rumpled out-of-shape
day do we, as a profession, look
that together) and run around
uncovering government conspiracy. It’s also the kind of movie
where congressmen look like
Ben Affleck, which, if they did,
would make C-SPAN a lot more
popular. C+
Terminator Salvation (PG-13)
Christian Bale, Bryce Howard.
Finally, we’re post-Judgment
Day watching John Connor
(Bale) kicking terminator ass.
Sadly, this is not nearly as
much fun as it sounds. C
*Up (PG)
Ed Asner, Christopher
Plummer.
Pixar charms once again with
this tale of an old man and a
young wilderness scout who
ride a balloon-powered house
to South America in search of
adventure. A
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staying with Evan, Olivia talks to
these princesses about some of the
companies he’s considering for a
big client’s investment. She pesters him with the information that
the princesses don’t like some of
the companies because they’re
broken. Later, she be-glitters his
report notes with the information
that other companies are going to
get married and another company is going to be caught with its
pants down and an underwear full
of doody.
Throughout the course of the
day, Evan is astounded to learn
that the “broken” telecom companies have just lost some key
fiber optic cables, the “married”
companies are near merger and
the unfortunate pantsless company is about to be investigated
by the Feds and their books, as
Evan’s boss tells him, are full of,
well, poo.
Could it be that the secret to
financial success is spending more
time playing in his daughter’s
imaginary world? Evan is very
willing to consider that option,
particularly now that coworker Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas
And Imagine That has heart
— just enough to make you feel
like you’re dealing with real people but not so much that it drowns
out all that hard-won genuineness
with sticky saccharine moments.
Like the best of the 1980 sitcoms,
this movie really does feel like a
comedy that everybody can laugh
at together. BRated PG for some mild language and brief questionable
behavior. Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick and written by Ed Solomon
and Chris Matheson, Imagine
That is an hour and 47 minutes
long and opens in wide release on
Friday, June 12. It is distributed
by Paramount Pictures.
The Hangover (R)
Dudes at a bachelor
party awake after night of
debauchery with a baby
and a tiger and no memory
of what happened but
without the groom in The
Hangover, a high-five kind
of low comedy.
Bored married guy Phil (Bradley Cooper), cautious guy in a
horrible relationship Stu (Ed
Helms) and requisite weird guy
Alan (Zach Galifianakis) pile
in to the requisite fancy car and
take their friend and groom-to-
ed, Olivia has spent some time with
Evan but a lot of it has been of the
unfun variety — with him too busy
working to play. Add to that the
Goo-Gaa situation, Olivia’s name
for the security blanket that she
refuses to be without. When Evan
tries to get her to give it up on the
playground, she screams until she
gets the purple blanket back.
Though he doesn’t have much
time for her imaginings, Evan
does learn that Olivia’s Goo-Gaa
isn’t just a blanket, it’s the doorway to a whole magical world full
of princesses and dragons. While
Haden Church) is winning clients
away from Evan with his fauxNative American symbolism.
Not all of Murphy’s family-friendly goofing has been
successful, but his stretchable face
and changeable vocal inflections
work with the comedy here. There
are enough poop-moments, wacky
voices and pratfalls to get the kids
laughing and keep them laughing
most of the time. A few of Murphy’s scenes with Shadhidi are
even reminiscent of the chemistry
that Bill Cosby in The Cosby Show
had with his onscreen children or
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has
had with some of the kids in his
movies. These scenes are natural
and you get the sense that both the
young and adult actors (particularly the adult actors) are comfortable
enough to really be goofy. That
kind of silliness gets what appear
to be real smiles from the onscreen
children and real laughs from the
ones in the audience.
For grownups, the at-work
competition between Johnny
Whitefeather and Evan makes
for surprisingly funny sitcom
moments. Church’s character
is silly enough that the kids can
laugh at his goofiness even as
adults can laugh at the recognition
of his kind of corporate-speakusing suck-up.
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POP CULTURE:
be Doug (Justin Bartha) to the official
West Coast bachelor party destination,
Las Vegas. Here’s to a night we’ll never
forget, the guys say, toasting each other with Jagermeister (really?), and the
music time-lapses us from that sparkling
Vegas night to the harsh light of a Vegas
morning.
As dawn breaks, the men grumble into
consciousness in their wrecked hotel suite.
Stu wakes up to the sight of a chicken
walking around the room. He also discovers he’s missing a tooth. Alan goes to the
bathroom and finds a tiger. The guys hear
a crying noise from the closet and open
it to find a baby (which Alan promptly calls Carlos and carries around in a
Baby Bjorn). And when Phil calls roughly-24-hours-from-his-wedding Doug, he
discovers that the phone — but not Doug
— is left in the hotel room.
What follows is a hunt by the increasingly frantic men for Doug. They do
things you’ve seen in the trailer, like get a
police patrol car when they go to pick up
their car from the hotel’s valet service and
get tasered in the face when that patrol
car’s owners finally catch up with them.
And they do things you don’t see in the
trailer, like find their original car but with
someone in the trunk.
I wanted to like this comedy much more
than I liked this comedy, wanted to laugh
more than I actually laughed. I think my
problems can be summed up with the
phrase “we’re so bleeped” (insert one of a
few standard obscenities) and the fact that
it and phrases like it followed so many of
the “wacky incidents” that studded the
scavenger hunt. It’s like the movie felt the
need to underline the stunt it just pulled.
There was something a little amateurish, a little seams-showing about these
moments that gave the whole movie a bit
of a forced feeling. Some combination
of the Judd Apatow movies and Wedding Crashers seems to have convinced
studios that R-rated movies with sex and
naughty language are OK again. And I’m
fine with that — send in the nudity and
the swear words; not everything has to be
PG-13. But like all good things, f-words
and raunchiness applied haphazardly and
too liberally can be like too much mustard on a hot dog, too much icing on a
cake. The result is a faky-fake feeling that
takes you out of the movie at exactly the
moments when you need to be in the story, laughing at the outrageousness and
enjoying the ride.
The Hangover has its moments, mostly due to the actors. Ed Helms is always
entertaining and, as we have all been
informed by the media-tainment industrial complex, Zach Galifianakis is the
movie’s Official Break Out Actor (learn
to like him; in the next year, he’ll be in
everything). And with random chickens and a Mike Tyson cameo, the movie
almost can’t be all bad. It just isn’t all that
great either. C+
Rated R for pervasive language, sexual
content including nudity and some drug
material. Directed by Todd Phillips and
written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore,
The Hangover is an hour and 39 minutes
long and is distributed in wide release by
Warner Bros.
FILM Continued
The Brothers Bloom
(PG-13)
Two orphaned brothers work
together to pull off one last
con in The Brothers Bloom, a
whimsical caper movie.
Unfortunately, a lot of that whimsy is of
the “forced whimsy” variety. Bloom and
Stephen are more or less children of the
modern age and yet they dress like early20th-century vaudeville players, complete
with Charlie Chaplin hats. They get tossed
about from foster family to foster family
but learn to get what they want through
the art of the con. Their cons are so good
that older brother Stephen makes a point
of always including in the cons a character
for little brother Bloom that is close to the
normal happy boy he wants to be.
As an adult, Bloom (Adrien Brody) is no
longer happy with his unreal reality. While
Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) is happy living the
life of a grifter, Bloom wants out. Naturally, Stephen is eventually able to convince
Bloom to do One Last Con, and off they
head to New Jersey to throw Bloom into the
path of Penelope (Rachel Weisz), an eccentric young woman who is heir to a fortune
and a massive estate. With the help of explosives expert Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi),
they plan an elaborate charade to get Penelope the excitement she hungers for and the
con artists a piece of her fortune.
Undeniably, The Brothers Bloom has
charm. Weisz is particularly good at creating a character that is fairy tale-ish in her
wackiness but just human enough to be worthy of interest through a story. Stephen and
Bloom are not so rounded or so interesting.
Bang Bang (who speaks maybe once in the
whole movie) is basically a cartoon. These
less-than-fully-three-dimensional characters aren’t bad but they don’t quite add up to
a complete narrative experience. It’s sort of
like a coffee cup filled with foam and vanilla
syrup. Sure, you get some of the same flavors and textures as a vanilla latte, but you’re
missing some key components.
So what’s the coffee? Roughly, execution and resolution. As in many capers, the
setup — the vanilla syrup, maybe, to painfully extend this metaphor — is solid. Who
doesn’t like a con? Specifically, who doesn’t
like a con involving Mark Ruffalo, who has
a winning mischievous smile? Rinko Kikuchi’s character is a bit on the cartoony side
but it’s not an unfun cartoon. And Adrien
Brody, well, he’s a bit of a hangdog but it’s
a kind of hangdogness that doesn’t really
start to wear on you until the movie’s second half.
Unfortunately, in that second half — the
half where we should be getting rich, complex coffee — there are lots of wearing and
patience-trying moments, from Brody’s
angst, from the cutesiness of the caper-oncaper construction. It’s here you wish the
movie’s point or spine or sensibility was
strong enough to keep it from oozing all
over the place like, well, like milky foam
that was never given a cup to help it keep
its structure. C
Rated PG-13 for violence, some sensuality
and brief strong language. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom is an
hour and 53 minutes long and is distributed in
limited release by Summit Entertainment.
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POP CULTURE:
FILM Continued
Cinema locator
AMC Tyngsborough
440 Middlesex St., Tyngsborough,
Mass., 978-649-3980.
Chunky’s Cinema & Pub Nashua
151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua,
chunkys.com
Chunky’s Pelham Cinema & Pub
150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499
Cinemagic Hooksett
1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett,
644-4629, cinemagicmovies.com
Cinemagic Merrimack 12
11 Executive Place Dr., Merrimack,
423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com
Flagship Cinemas Derry
10 Ashleigh Dr., Derry, 437-8800
Entertainment Cinemas 6
192 Loudon Road, Concord,
224-3600
AMC at The Loop
90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen,
Mass., 978-738-8942
O’Neil Cinema 12
Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry,
434-8633
Regal Concord
282 Loudon Road, Concord, 2263800
Regal Hooksett 8
100 Technology Dr., Hooksett,
641-3456
Regal Manchester 9
1279 S. Willow St., Manchester,
641-3456
Showcase Cinemas Lowell
32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass.,
978-551-0055
Movies outside the cineplex
WILTON TOWN HALL
Main Street in Wilton. Tickets
cost $6 ($4 for seniors and children) unless otherwise stated.
wiltontownhalltheatre.com or call
654-FILM.
• The Soloist (PG-13, 2009)
Thurs., June 11, through Thurs.,
June 18, at 7:30 p.m. Plus Sun.,
June 14, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.
• Star Trek (PG-13, 2009) Thurs.,
June 11, through Thurs., June 18,
at 7:30 p.m. Plus Sun., June 14,
at 2 p.m.
• Airport (1970) Sat., June 13, at
4:30 p.m.
MILFORD DRIVE-IN
101A in Milford, 673-4090, www.
milforddrivein.com. Check Web
site for changes related to weather
or screenings. Open Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays; drive-in
opens at 6:15 p.m.; movies begin
at dusk. Admission is $20 per car
(up to 6 occupants).
• Screen 1: Up (PG, 2009); Night
at the Museum: Battle of the
Smithsonian (PG, 2009)
• Screen 2: Land of the Lost (PG13, 2009); Terminator Salvation
(PG-13, 2009).
FRANCO-AMERICAN
CENTRE
52 Concord St., Manchester,
669-4045, www.francoamerican
centrenh.com
• The Dinner Game (PG-13, www.thecolonial.org
1998) Tues., June 16, at 7 p.m.
• Shall We Kiss? (PG-13, 2009)
Fri., June 12, at 7 p.m.; Sat.,
June 13, and Sun., June 14, at 2
MANCHESTER CITY
LIBRARY
& 7 p.m.; Mon., June 15, through
405 Pine St., Manchester, 624- Wed., June 17, at 7 p.m.
6550, www.manchester.lib.nh.us • O Brother, Where Art OTHER Thou? (PG-13, 2000) Wed., June • CINEMA AT STUDIO A, a sum17, at 1p.m.
mer independent film series with the
• Medicine Man (PG-13, 1992) Lowell Film Collaborative. Films
Wed., June 24, at 1 p.m.
screened at LTC offices, 246 Market
St. in Lowell, Mass. Events are open
to the public; donations encouraged.
PEMBROKE LIBRARY
313 Pembroke St. in Route 3, Under 18 not admitted to R movies.
Pembroke (behind town hall), See www.lowellfilmcollaborative.
485-7851. French films hosted by org. Movies scheduled: Thurs., June
Gens Unis du Richelieu.
11, at 7 p.m. Right at Your Door (R,
• French film night, Wed., June 2006, feature film about a dirty bomb
24, at 6:30 p.m.
going off in L.A.); Thurs., June 25, at
7 p.m., Nerdcore Rising (NR, 2008,
HOLLIS SOCIAL LIBRARY documentary about nerd rap); Thurs.,
465-7721,
www.hollis.nh.us/ July 9, at 7 p.m. Twelve (R, 2008,
library loosely connected series of shorts,
• FRIDAY FLICKS FOR each by a Boston based director
TEENS for 12- to 15-year-olds, about a different month of the year);
every other Friday from 3 p.m. to Thurs., July 16, at 7 p.m., Momma’s
5 p.m. Registration is required.
Man (NR, 2008, feature about a
30something who visits his parents’
AMHERST TOWN
home in New York and decides not
LIBRARY
to leave, despite having a wife and
14 Main St., Amherst, 673-2288, child back in L.A.); Thurs., Aug. 6,
amherst.lib.nh.us at 7 p.m., Monster Road (NR, 2004,
• TEEN MOVIE NIGHT, Thurs. documentary about claymation filmJuly 9, 5-8 p.m. The movie is maker Bruce Bickford); Thurs., Aug.
Twilight and the event is for those 20, at 7 p.m. Medicine for Melanmiddle school aged and up.
choly (R, 2008, a feature love story);
Thurs., Sept. 3, at 7 p.m., Hinterland
THE MUSIC HALL
Film Festival (NR, 2009, short films);
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436- Thurs., Sept. 17, at 7 p.m., Before the
2400, www.themusichall.org
Music Dies (NR, 2009), documentary
• Sin Nombre (R, 2009) Fri., June about the American music industry)
12, and Sat., June 13, at 7:30 • 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT New
p.m.
Hampshire will host a 48-Hour Film
• Ocean Voyagers, documentary, Project competition this year. ComSun., June 14, at 3 p.m.
petitors will meet on Fri., June 12, and
• Tulpan (NR, 2008) Sun., June get a character, prop, line of dialogue
14, through Tues., June 16, 7:30 and genre to include in their movie.
p.m.
By Sun., June 14, they need to have a
• Napoleon (1927) Wed., June 17, completed movie. All 26 entries will
at 6:30 p.m.
be screened for the public on Mon.,
• Shall We Kiss (NR, 2007) June 22, at the Apple Tree Cinemas in
Thurs., June 18, and Fri., June 19, Londonderry. Two screenings, each
at 7:30 p.m.
showing a block of 13 films, will be
• Sugar (R, 2009) Sun., June 21, held at 6:30 and 9 p.m. A panel judges
at 4 & 7:30 p.m.; Mon., June 22, will choose just one team to go on to
and Tues., June 23, at 7:30 p.m.
the national 48 Hour Film Project
competition. See www.48hourfilm.
PETERBOROUGH
com/newhampshire.
COMMUNITY THEATRE
• SILENT FILMS — SUM6 School St., Peterborough, 924- MER COMEDY SERIES Free
2255, www.thepct.com. Schedule screenings of silent comedy films
subject to change, call ahead.
in Stark Park in Manchester with
• Angels and Demons (PG-13, live music by Jeff Rapsis. On
2009) Thurs., June 11, at 7:30 Thurs., July 2, at 8 p.m., Colp.m.
lege (1927) with Buster Keaton
• Star Trek (PG-13, 2009) Fri., plus comedy shorts. On Thurs.,
June 12, and Sat., June 13, at 7:30 July 16, at 8 p.m., A Sailor-Made
p.m.; Sun., June 14, at 3 & 7:30 Man (1921) with Harold Lloyd
p.m.; Tues., June 16, 7:30 p.m.; plus comedy shorts. On Thurs.,
Wed., June 17, at 3 & 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 27, at 8 p.m., Tramp, Tramp,
Thurs., June 18, 7:30 p.m.;
Tramp with Harry Langdon plus
comedy shorts.
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RED RIVER THEATRES
11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, www.redrivertheatres.org
• Is Anybody There? (PG-13, 2009)
Thurs., June 11, at 5:40 p.m.
• Sugar (R, 2009) Thurs., June 11,
at 5:30 & 8 p.m.
• Anvil (R, 2009) Thurs., June 11,
at 7:45 p.m.
• Each Dawn I Die (1939) Thurs.,
June 11, at 7 p.m.
• Every Little Step (PG-13, 2009)
Fri., June 12, at 7 p.m.; Sat., June
13, & Sun., June 14, at 3:20, 5:30
& 7 p.m.; Mon., June 15, through
Thurs., June 18, at 5:45 & 8 p.m.
• Valentino: The Last Empire (PG13, 2008) Fri., June 12, at 5:40 & 7:45
p.m.; Sat., June 13, and Sun., June 14,
at 2:15, 5:40 & 7:45 p.m.; Mon., June
15, at 5:40 & 7:45 p.m.; Tues., June
16, at 2:15, 5:45 & 7:45 p.m.; Wed.,
June 17, at 5:40 & 7:45 p.m.; Thurs.,
June 18, at 7:45 p.m.
• March of the Penguins (G,
2004) Fri., June 12, at 3:30 p.m.;
Sat., June 13, and Sun., June
14, at 1:30 p.m.; Mon., June 15,
through Wed., June 17, at 3:30
p.m.; Thurs., June 18, at 1p.m.
• Wuthering Heights (1939) Fri.,
June 12, and Sat., June 13, at 7
p.m.; Sun., June 14, at 2 & 7 p.m.
• Midnight (1939) Mon., June 15,
at 7 p.m.; Tues., June 16, at 2 & 7
p.m.; Wed., June 17, at 7 p.m.
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Nite Roundup
Local music
& nightlife news
By Katie Beth Ryan
[email protected]
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• Rock of ages: The Jessica Prouty band, a
teen rock group from Boston, will make three
Seacoast-area stops on their tour of New England to promote their CD Saving My Sanity.
The band will play at the Plaza Stage at the
Somersworth International Children’s Festival
at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 20; at the Hampton Beach Seashell on Monday, June 22; and
at the Sad Café, 148 Plaistow Road in Plaistow, at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 26. Learn more
about the band at www.jessicaprouty.com or
at www.myspace.com/jessicaproutymusic.
• Anything but quiet: Jazz songstress
Diana Krall has scheduled a Friday, July 3,
concert at the Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular
Pavilion, 72 Meadowbrook Lane in Gilford,
with Federico Aubele and Laura Vecchione.
Krall will perform selections from her new
CD, Quiet Nights, as well as a host of jazz
standards. Tickets range from $39 to $84 and
can be purchased at www.meadowbrook.net
or at 293-4700.
• Ladies of blues: Blues vocalists Susan
Tedeschi and Shemekia Copeland will perform at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom,
169 Casino Boulevard, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 25. Tedeschi, a native of Norwell,
Mass., was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy Award and is considered one of
the foremost touring blues musicians. Just 30
years old, Copeland has worked with the likes
of Dr. John and Ruth Brown, as well as her
father, the late Johnny Copeland. Tickets start
at $23.50 and are available at www.casinoballroom.com or at 929-4100.
• Common concerts: The Londonderry Arts Council has released the schedule for
the town’s Concerts on the Common series.
The concerts will take place on Wednesday
nights throughout the summer at 7 p.m. at
the Londonderry Town Common, located at
the corner of Mammoth and Pillsbury roads.
Patrons can look forward to the Nutfield Sessions on Wednesday, June 17; Blues on White
on June 24; Liz Longley on July 1; the Jason
Spooner Trio on July 15; the Russell Hill
Band on July 22; Seth Glier on July 29; and
Nyte Shift on Aug. 5.
• Concert for hope: The Hope Eternal
Loud Music Festival is seeking vendors for
its benefit, which will be held from 1 p.m.
to 1 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Rocko’s
Bar and Grille, 253 Wilson St. in Manchester. The event is a fundraiser and a celebration
of the recovery of Carla Rae, a violinist with
the band Eternal Embrace who suffered from
a form of uterine cancer. Vendor booths cost
$30 and can be obtained by contacting [email protected].
• They’re back: As part of their reunion
tour, the Stone Temple Pilots will perform
at the Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm St.
in Manchester, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday,
July 15. Tickets cost $25 and $40 and can be
purchased at 800-745-3000 or at www.ticketmaster.com.
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HIPPO NITE
Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
Jazz and Blues Fest moves indoors
Weekend of music throughout Manchester
By Katie Beth Ryan
[email protected]
This year, the blues won’t be under a blue
sky. Year nine of the Manchester Jazz and
Blues Festival will be held at venues across the
city from Thursday, June 11, through Sunday,
June 14 with a big show at the Palace Theatre
on Friday.
Peter Ramsey, the theater’s executive director, said that blues and jazz form an important
component in the city’s cultural scene. The festival began in 2001 with Ramsey and former
Manchester Mayor Bob Baines at the helm,
eager to bring more people downtown. Though
the event was held outdoors through last year,
organizers have moved the festival to the
Palace.
“The challenge has been the weather, because
it’s quite an investment for the bands and the
infrastructure and the stages, et cetera,” Ramsey
said. “We had rain a couple times. The rain
would really impact who would come down to
it. We decided because this year is a very uncertain year anyway because of the economy, we
felt that we’d be safe moving the event inside.”
But the shift in venues shouldn’t deter past
festival attendees. Returning to the festival this
year is the Rhode Island-based group Roomful
of Blues, now in its 40th year of touring and
currently promoting its latest album, Raisin’ a
Ruckus. The group has played at the festival
several times in the past and appeals to a wide
range of people, according to guitarist Chris
Vachon.
“A lot of people enjoy the blues stuff,” he
said. “We do a pretty wide variety of stuff, stuff
you can dance to, and just for that fact alone,
it doesn’t really go out of style totally. I think
even if [teens] came, they’d want to
groove. We just try to put on a good
show.”
While Roomful of Blues will hold
down the fort at the Palace on Friday night, the Hilton Garden Inn will
play host to the Lisa Haynes Duo, the
Eric Klaxton Quartet and the Grinning
Lizards. Commercial Street Fishery,
Unwined, 900 Degrees and Cotton
will also feature live music throughout the weekend. Ramsey said that he
wanted to highlight different venues Roomful of Blues. Courtesy Photo
across Manchester.
organizers hope, will bring out a greater cross“When we decided to bring the event inside, section of attendees, culminating in a blues jam
there was a lot of discussion about trying to Sunday night at 900 Degrees. Vachon said that
make it more of a city-wide event, like the way festivals like Manchester’s are important for the
they do in Montreal and Burlington, Vt.,” he future of blues and jazz, as they expose a younger
said. “We approached six restaurants, and six generation to the music adored by their parents.
restaurants around the city are going to have
“I think the festivals themselves are really
jazz and blues in their restaurants all week long. good, just for the fact that people can come out
This is the first year we’ve made it a true city- and see live music,” he said. “It’s not like it’s a
wide event.”
bar and you have to be a certain age. I think it
And more venues, knocks the age barrier down.”
Blues & Jazz
Schedule for the ninth annu- • The Craig Fahey Trio at
al Autofair.com Manchester Unwined (865 Second St.) at
Blues & Jazz Festival
7:30 p.m.
• Roomful of Blues, Henri
Thursday, June 11
Smith, New Orleans Friends
• Lisa Haynes Duo at the Hil- & Flavours, and the Davis and
ton Garden Inn (101 South Deleault Quartet at The Palace
Commercial St.) at 6 p.m.
Theatre (80 Hanover St.) at 7
• Yvonne Aubert at Cotton (75 p.m. Tickets cost $15 to $25.
Arms Park Drive) at 6 p.m.
See www.palacetheatre.org.
Friday, June 12
Saturday, June 13
• Eric Klaxton Quartet at the • Andy Green at Firefly AmerHilton Garden Inn at 6 p.m.
ican Bistro & Bar (22 Concord
St.), 5 p.m.
• The Grinning Lizards at the
Hilton Garden Inn, 6 p.m.
• The Nate Therrien Trio at Commercial Street Fishery (33 South
Commercial St.) at 7 p.m.
• The Craig Fahey Trio at
Unwined at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 14
• Blues jam at 900 Degrees (50
Dow St.) at 5 p.m.
Slow ride
Foghat is still going strong
By Katie Beth Ryan
[email protected]
Growing up on Michigan’s western shore,
Charlie Huhn listened to only one type of
music: English blues-rock, perfected by groups
like Led Zeppelin, The Who and Foghat, the
band that he now leads. After a career spent
playing with Ted Nugent, Victory and Humble
Pie, Huhn joined Foghat in 2000 after the death
of “Lonesome Dave” Peverett, and has recorded and toured with the group ever since. Foghat
just released a live CD, Live at the Blues Warehouse, and will record a new album this year
that will pay homage to the group’s blues roots.
In the midst of a busy summer touring season,
they’ll make a stop with special guest Tony V.
at the Palace Theatre on Sunday, June 14, for
Children and Family Services of New Hampshire’s Concerts for the Cause series. The Hippo
recently spoke with Huhn about his band’s rich
blues and classic-rock legacy, and the new projects Foghat has in store.
Back when you were starting out, were you
a Foghat fan?
Oh, sure. In fact, I was listening to Foghat before they were
Foghat. They came from a band
called Savoy Brown from England. They were a tremendous
blues and boogie band …. That
first Foghat LP was a main staple in my rock and roll diet.
They really rocked out these
blues songs so well, and Dave
Foghat. Photo by Jack Benas.
Shaiman was just awesome.
an unusual amount of dates booked and then
And Rod Price’s slide playing of
course was kind of groundbreaking, because he cancelled. Fortunately, we’ve been able to get
had this really wild blues style, wide vibratos other dates to replace the canceled ones. It’s just
and things, that really caught your ear. So yeah, kind of a trend that we’re seeing, and I think
they were a big part of my English blues listen- it’s across the whole business scope. We have
ing. From the late ’60s, Great Britain produced plenty of work, and we’ll be happy to get out
so many great blues rock bands that … I really and play the shows. We’re promoting the Live
enjoyed hearing. I enjoyed Hendrix and Johnny at the Blues Warehouse right now. That was a
Winter and maybe a couple of other American CD we released because last year we recorded
at this little studio at the Mark Klein radio show
bands, but mostly I was into English rock.
on Long Island — the performance, the music
What will be different about this summer’s just bounced off of the machine … it was just
amazing. We decided we should put this out.
tour than in years past?
This year, we’re getting off to a slower start. I We were just so happy. We didn’t know what
think it’s due to the economic situation. We had it was going to sound like. Listening back, it
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At the same time, you’ve continued to produce newer material. How are your longtime
fans responding to the new songs?
The sound and outlook of the band is pretty much the same, because of the solid rhythm
section, the drum and bass that really form the
backbone, and the guitars and vocals kind of
fit over that. When you have that solid foundation, it keeps a common thread throughout
the years of what the band sounds like. Just
listening to Roger’s drumming, it almost says
Foghat all over it, because of his style. What
we do is that we just keep writing in a bluesinfluenced rock way … it’s what we like to
do and people want to hear new material.
You don’t want to get boring. We like to stay
busy, and so it’s what we do…. And from the
reviews that we get on our product, everything’s been fine. It would be nice to be able
to get a charting single, but it’s very different for a classic rock group to get that kind
of attention when it’s such a young person’s
media these days. We just play shows mostly for our income. We don’t rely on record
sales or charting singles anymore to push our
careers. And that’s kind of the way that the
trend is for musicians. You enjoy your heyday, and then things mellow out. Only a very,
very small few survive to be able to sell contemporary product and chart. It’s just kind of
the nature of the beast. But yeah, we like to
stay busy and it’s enjoyable for us to get back
into the studio and dust everything else and go
ahead and start rocking again.
You came on board after the band lost
Lonesome Dave, one of its founding members. How did the band emerge from that
event?
It was a total re-establishing effort, because
What’s been the common thread in the
band in spite of the lineup changes?
First of all, if you’re a true musician, you
like to get out and play, because you enjoy
that type of work, making music. And if
you’re good enough to be able to make money at it and sell records, it’s even better. That’s
basically the foundation of Foghat. They’re
all players, and so am I, so is Bryan [Bassett,
who replaced Rod Price]. That’s fundamentally the requirement you need and that’s what
Foghat was. They were hard-working. They
were the hardest working band in the ’70s.
They played more shows than everybody. Bar
none, they were just always working, working, working, and that’s what they loved to do.
That’s a common thread as far as work goes.
We talked about the style of Foghat before,
and that has been perpetuated because that’s
the style. You don’t change your style or you
lose your following. It’s kind of a no-brainer. We all like to go play. this past winter,
when Roger had an accident … it took four
months to recover, but he was out exercising
with a broken shoulder and had to be told to
just kind of calm down, because he wanted
to be in good shape to get out and play again.
That’s just another example of the fundamental mindset of a musician that likes to play.
What’s up next for Foghat?
We had a live double CD that was put out
a couple of years ago, called “Live 2.” That
did pretty well. It sounds awesome. That
was to bring out new material that had Craig
McGregor on bass. He got back into the band
in 2005 and we’re just so happy to have him
back. This Live at the Blues Warehouse is
something that we recorded a year ago for
the Long Island, N.Y., radio show. We were
so happy with the outcome and the sound of
it that we decided to put it out this year. Later
this year, we’ll put out the studio blues CD.
For the record, what is the origin of the
name Foghat?
That was coined during a Scrabble game.
Lonesome Dave had some letters that he
wanted to play, and he played on the word
“foghat,” and I guess the name stuck.
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How well do you think that Foghat’s songs
from the era have stood the test of time?
Well, I attribute that to great writing and
great performance. Just like a lot of the other classic rock songs and groups …. I think
Foghat came out of an era where there were
so many musicians and so much competition that it … inspired so much great music
that it’s even enjoyed today by the young kids
because it’s standing the test of time. Not only
Foghat, but all of the other classic rock music,
the high-energy stuff, blues-influenced rock
music. It was such a great era, because there
were so many people and they were writing,
because of the baby boom generation. That’s
my opinion at least. I’ve thought about this for
years. They had me all mesmerized. I was at
Woodstock and I used to go to every concert
I could growing up in the Midwest, I’d have
to drive from Grand Rapids to Detroit or to
Chicago to see shows, because we didn’t get
hardly anything. All I went to see was English blues-rock bands, from Led Zeppelin to
Ten Years After to Foghat. Yeah, I was all
over Foghat when that first album came out
because of their ability to really rock the old
blues songs, their interpretation.
suffering a big loss like that is difficult, no
matter what business you’re in. I had a tough
job, but I’ve been used to that. It was mostly
just going out and reestablishing the group …
and winning over the fan base, which is really huge. It’s amazing. It really shocks me. At
one show in Chicago, there were 25,000 people there. I was playing in Humble Pie for 11
years before that. We did mostly clubs and a
few festivals, but the fan base just wasn’t there
like it was for Foghat. I was just shocked. And
it’s been like that ever since. Since I got in the
band, there have been no bad reviews. I’m
elated about that, but I like to push myself and
set goals all the time. I think Lonesome Dave
is smiling down on us.
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was really great. We’re putting that out this
year, and we’re also going to put out a studio
blues LP. Actually it’s going to have two new
blues songs that we’re writing at the moment,
and new covers of favorite old blues songs
of ours. Plus a bunch of the old Foghat blues
tunes we’ve been playing over the millennia.
This is the year of the blues for us.
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CONCERTS
Venues
Capitol Center for the
Performing Arts
44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111
The Colonial Theatre
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033
Dana Humanities Center at
Saint Anselm College
100 Saint Anselm Dr.,
Manchester, 641-7700
Hampton Beach
Casino Ballroom
169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach,
929-4100
Leddy Center
• Orleans, Thurs., June 11, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Rain: The Beatles Experience, Thurs.,
June 11, at 7:30 p.m., Music Hall
• Manchester Jazz & Blues Festival, Fri., June 12, at 8 p.m., Palace
• Beatlemania Now, Sat., June 13, at
2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Capitol Center
• Dark Star Orchestra performing
the Grateful Dead’s music, Fri.,
June 12 and Sat., June 13, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Foghat, Sun., June 14, at 7 p.m.,
Palace Theatre
• Indigo Girls, Sun., June 14, Casino
Ballroom
• Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley
and Jimmy Wayne, Sun., June 14,
at 7:30 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Poco, Sun., June 14, at 5:30 p.m.
and 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Fleetwood Mac, Tues., June 16, at
8 p.m., Verizon
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited
with The Outlaws, Wed., June 17, at
8 p.m., Meadowbrook
• The Black Crows, Thurs., June 18,
& Fri., June 19, at 8 p.m. at Casino
Ballroom
• John Brown’s Body, Thurs., June
38c Ladd’s Lane, Epping, 6792781,leddycenter.org
Lowell Auditorium
East Merrimack Street, Lowell,
Mass., 978-454-2299
Meadowbrook Musical
Arts Center
72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford,
293-4700
The Music Hall
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth,
436-2400
The Old Meeting House,
1 New Boston Rd., Francestown
Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588
Tsongas Arena
300 M.L.K Jr. Way, Lowell, Mass.,
(978) 848-6900
Tupelo Music Hall
2 Young Road, Londonderry,
603-437-5100
Verizon Wireless Arena
555 Elm St., Manchester,
644-5000
Whittemore Center Arena at
UNH
128 Main St., Durham, 862-4000
Dead, live
Dark Star Orchestra will perform the
music of the Grateful Dead at two shows
this weekend at the Hampton Beach
Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd. in
Hampton Beach, 929-4100, www.casinoballroom.com. The Orchestra will be
“raising the Dead,” as they say in their
press release, on Friday, June 12, and
Saturday, June 13, at 8 p.m. The show
is 18 plus; doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $26 in advance,
$28 at the door. Tickets to see both shows are also available for
$47. Go online for ticket information. To get a sampling of the
sounds of Dark Star, go to www.darkstarorchestra.net.
18, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Blake Shelton and Craig Morgan, Thurs., June 18, at 8 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Keith Emerson, Fri., June 19, at 7
p.m. & 9:30 p.m., Tupelo
• Live with Candlebox, Fri., June
19, at 7:30 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Don McLean, Fri., June 19, at 8
p.m., Capitol Center
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63. Noel and Mitch’s band leader
64. What bands get backstage
besides booze
66. Wager between battle of the
bands (2 wds)
68. Kid Rock anthem
69. Dead Head’s clothing style
70. Lola drank champagne and it
tasted just like cherry ___
71. U2 frontman
72. Pearl Jam’s first album
73. Louis XIV “The Best Little
Secrets Are __”
• 3rd Annual Concert — Peacemakers & Diplomats, Sat., June 20,
at 8 p.m., Music Hall
• Huey Lewis & The News, Sun.,
June 21, at 7 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Bombino, Wed., June 24, at 5 p.m.,
Music Hall
• Susan Tedeschi & Shemekia
Copeland, Thurs., June 25, at 8
p.m., Casino Ballroom
NIGHTLIFE
• BIKE WEEK KICKOFF hosted
by Manchester Wolves, Manchester
Wolves dance team and the Whiskey
Girls, on Thurs., June 11. The event
will be held on Elm Street in downtown Manchester, a portion of which
will be shut down from 3:30 to 7 p.m.
(A Manchester Wolves arena2football game will start at 7:30 p.m.) The
event will include tattoo contests, hot
rod and classic car contests, custom
motorcycle contest, a bike wash,
vendors, live music and more, with
contest winners announced during
halftime. Proceeds from the event
will go to Make a Wish Foundation.
See www.whiskeygirls.net, www.
myspace.com/whiskeygirls2005 and
www.mysweetside.net.
• SKIP GORMAN, old-time
American West all-acoustic music,
on Fri., June 12, at 7 p.m., at the
Methodist Church on Route 11 in
Sunapee. Admission is free; hat
passed for perofmer.
• MIKE & RUTHY UNGAR
MERANDA, banjo & fiddle, on
Sun., June 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the
Deb’s Chesham House Concerts thru
the Peterborough Folk Society. Tickets cost $15. RSVP at 827-2905 or
e-mail [email protected].
• NUTFIELD SESSIONS INVITATIONAL, acoustic, folk and
rock playing originals and covers,
on June 17, part of the Londonderry Arts Council’s 2009 Concerts on
the Commons series at the bandstand on the town common, the
corner of Mammoth and Pillsbury
roads, Wednesdays at 7 p.m. The
high school math club will have
concessions. Free. In the event of
rain, concerts moved to Matthew
Thornton Elementary School gym.
See nutfieldsessions.org.
• ROCK ‘N RIBEST, featuring
27. Led Zeppelin “The ____”
28. Make a rocker straight, perhaps
30. Spinal ___
32. Alaskan island rocker
33. Clash “___ And South”
34. Acid amounts in parking lot
36. What Mama Kin smoked in
Aerosmith tune
38. ‘Roundabout’ rockers
41. Taste of the tour planes bottle
42. Mr. Plant (!) “29 ___”
43. Listen to the tapes
48. California concert condition
(2 wds)
49. ___ “The Bod” Stewart
51. Home to 71 Across
54. U2 Elevation (___ Raider Mix)
56. Worn by R&B guys in ’70s
along w/gold and unbuttoned
shirts?
57. Rock star’s ride
58. Hungarian power metal band
59. Concert goers cocktail, w/out
ice
61. ELO instument
62. Sound from Paris Hilton’s
purse?
63. Swingin’ Utters “Jackie __”
65. Green Day “Words I Might
Have _”
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rockandrollcrosswords.com
Don McLean
Singer-songwriter
Don
McLean and special guest
Kimberley Dahme will be
joined by members of the band
Boston on Friday, June 19, at
the Capitol Center for the Arts,
44 S. Main St. in Concord, for
a show to benefit Child and
Family Services of NH.
McLean’s hits over the years have included “Castles in
the Air,” “Since I Don’t Have You” and “American Pie.”
For more on McLean, see www.don-mclean.com.
Formerly of the band Boston, Dahme recently released
her own CD, Let’s Sleep On It Tonight. For more on her, go
to www.kimberleydahme.com.
Tickets to the show range from $12.50 to $43 each and
are on sale at the Cap Center’s box office, at 225-1111 or at
www.ccanh.com. VIP packages — which include a reception, priority seats, meet and greet with the artist and more
— are available through Child and Family Services at 800640-6486 ext. 156 or at www.cfsnh.org.
a variety of musical performances
including a teen band competition,
will run Fri., June 19, through Sun.,
June 21, at the Anheuser-Busch
facility on DW Highway in Merrimack. The music will include The
Risen, One Fine Mess, Brickyard
Blues, The James Montgomery
Blues Band & Special Guest J.
Geils, Jimmy’s Down, Mama Kicks
and, on Friday, a teen band competition. Admission costs $5; children
eight and under are free. See www.
rotaryribfest.org.
• BARNSTEAD MUSIC HALL,
96 Maple St. in Barnstead, will
present a series of concerts this in
the coming months. The season
will kick off on Saturday, June 20,
with blues-rock guitarist Johnny A.
Upcoming shows include Bean Hill
Bluegrass Band on Saturday, June
27; Brooks Young Band on Saturday, July 18. See www.barnsteadmusichall.com for more information and for tickets. Tickets can also
be purchased at Strings & Things,
113 S. Main St. in Concord. E-mail
[email protected].
• HOT DAY AT THE ZOO at
Penuche’s, 96 Hanover St. in Manchester, on Sat., June 20, from 9
p.m. to 1 a.m. Free; 21+. See more
about the band at www.myspace.
com/hotdayatthezoo.
• BLUES ON WHITE, blues, on
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Arts Council’s 2009 Concerts on
the Commons series at the bandstand on the town common, the
corner of Mammoth and Pillsbury
roads, Wednesdays at 7 p.m. The
high school math club will have
concessions. Free. In the event of
rain, concerts moved to Matthew
Thornton Elementary School gym.
• NH BASS FEST Wed., June 24,
through Sat., June 27, at Southern
New Hampshire University in Manchester. The event features classes
and workshops all day long with
evening concerts featuring Michael
Manring, Celso Pixinga, Todd
Johnson, Dave Buda, Danny Morris, Marshal Wood and Rob Gourlay. Go to www.nhbassfest.com for
information on registration for the
workshops. The Saturday, June 27,
will feature an open house for the
public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
Granite
State
Strength Challenge and
Strongman/Strongwoman
State Championship will
take place Saturday, June
13, at Boston Billiard Club,
55 Northeastern Blvd. in
Nashua at 10:30 a.m.
Participants and spectators can meet 2008 World Strongman Runner-Up Derek
Poundstone, who is the 2008 and 2009 winner of the
Arnold Classic Strongman Competition, according to a
press release. Cheer on our strong neighbors at the Hercules Hold and the Keg Drop Squat for $5 (admission
for those 10 and older; kids under 10 get in free). Members of the Manchester Freedom pro women’s football
team and the Manchester Wolves football team will also
be at the event. Proceeds will benefit Harbor Homes Veterans First Program, the New Hampshire Food Bank and
the John The John & Frederick Pierce Memorial Fund
for Cancer Research, according to the release. E-mail
Jim Pierce at [email protected] for tickets or
more information.
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those goth fans out there.
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Saturday, June 13, 9 an, to 4
p.m., at 166 S. River Road in
Bedford. Metal and goth items
will be for sale along with
“bohemian, eclectic …old world” and everyday stuff, she
said in an e-mail. Look for books, DVDs, furniture, jewelry, baby items, clothing and more, she wrote. For more on
Eternal Embrace, which has area shows coming up including the Great View Roller Rink in Enfield on Aug. 14 and
Rocko’s in Manchester on Sept. 19, see www.eternalembracemetal.com.
• SHENANIGAN’S 586 Nashua
St. in Milford, 672-2060, Monday
and Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday w/ DJ Trinity.
• SLADE’S 4 W. Hollis St. in
Nashua, 886-1334, Wednesday
through Friday, Sunday.
• SLAMMERS 547 Donald St. in
Bedford, 668-2120, every Tuesday
at 8:30 p.m. w/ Shadow Rose.
• SLAPSHOTS, 515 DW Highway
in Merrimack, www.myspace.com/
slapshotssportsbar, Friday with Big
Daddy Scott.
• STEVE-N-JAMES TAVERN
187 Rockingham Road in Derry,
every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. w/ DJ
Sharon Mulrennan
• WHIPPERSNAPPERS 44
Nashua Road, Londonderry, 4342660, every Wednesday at 8:30
p.m. w/ DJ Sharon Mulrennan.
Open mike nights
•GREEN MARTINI Pleasant St.
Extension in Concord, 223-6672,
hosted by Steve Naylor on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8 to 11
p.m.
• HENNIKER COMMUNITY
CENTER, 57 Main St. in Henniker, holds a community open
mike night the third Saturday of
the month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
followed by open jam session or
musician spotlight until 9:30 p.m.
Family friendly acts. Contact Greg
or Nicole Gage, 428-3117 or [email protected].
• MILLY’S TAVERN 500 N.
Commercial St. in Manchester,
625-4444, www.millystavern.com,
on Tuesdays with Dually at 8 p.m.
• PENUCHES 6 Pleasant St., Concord, 228-9833, on Sundays, at 9
p.m. hosted by Steve Naylor.
• STUDIO 99 Picker Building,
downtown Nashua, www.studio99nashua.com, second Saturday of
the month at 8 p.m. for acoustic or
lightly amplified music plus spoken word, poetry, theatrical scenes
and more. Sign-up is at 7:45 p.m.
Upcoming nights include June 13
with Average Joe’s (classic barbershop with an edge).
• STRAWBERRY JAMBOREE,
festival at Canterbury Shaker Village, Shaker Road off Route 106 in
Canterbury, on Sat., June 20, from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. featuring The
Strawberry Jam open mike music
jam (11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) with
TJ Wheeler and Patrick “Hatrack”
Gallagher. Musicians interested in
playing should call Maisie Keith
Daly at 783-9077 ext. 284 mkdaly@
shakers.org. Registration is free.
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Thursday.
• ALAN’S North Main St. in
Boscawen, 753-6631, Wednesday.
• AUBURN PITTS 167 Rockingham Road in Nashua, 622-6564,
Saturday.
• BIDDY MULLIGAN’S 1 Washington St. in Dover, 749-1100, Sunday.
• BOOMERANGS 37 Henniker
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Wednesday.
• CANAL STREET PUB 25 Canal
St. in Nashua, 889-3374, Saturday.
• CONCORD GRILLE 1 Eagle
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through Thursday and Sunday.
• CATTLEMAN’S SPORTS
BAR 14 Railroad Sq. in Nashua,
880-6001, Wednesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
• CHEN YANG LI 520 South St.
in Bow, 228-8508, Thursday and
Saturday.
• CLUB 313 93 S. Maple St. in
Manchester, 628-6813, www.
club313.net, Friday and Saturday
with CJ.
• ELEMENT LOUNGE 1055
Elm St. in Manchester, 627-2922,
every Sunday at 5 p.m. w/ DJ Sharon Mulrennan.
• FLAMBEAUX 1181 Elm St., in
Manchester, 626-0304, Tuesday.
• FODY’S GREAT AMERICAN
TAVERN 9 Clinton St. in Nashua,
577-9015. Tuesday w/ Mark Allen
• GRANDSTANDS LOUNGE
216 Maple St. in Manchester, 6259656. Thursday through Saturday,
8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. w/ Brian Labrie.
• JADE DRAGON LOUNGE 515
DW Highway, Merrimack Commons, 424-2280, Thursday through
Saturday.
• JIMMY’s 15 Mechanic St. in
Dover, 742-9818, Thursday.
• JOHNNY BAD’S 542 Elm St.,
Manchester, 222-9191, Wednesday
w/ Captain Chris.
• JOHNNY’S PIZZERIA 35
Lowell Road in Hudson, 880-7087,
Thursday w/ Tony ZZZ.
• KELLY’S ROW 421 Central
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Allenstown
145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown Rd. Concord
Annicchiarico Theatre
Amherst
1 Thompson St.
Club ComThe Barley House
edy at Amherst 132 N. Main St., 228-6363
Country Club
Borders
72 Ponemah
76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255
Road,673-9908 Concord Grille
1 Eagle Square
Auburn
Green Martini
Auburn Pitts
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
167 Rockingham Hermanos
Rd, 622-6564
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Loudon Road Restaurant
Bedford
and Pit Road Lounge
C.R. Sparks
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533
18 Kilton Rd,
Makris
647-7275
354 Sheep Davis Road,
Mark’s Show- 225-7665
place Route 3,
Penuche’s Ale House
668-7444
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
Slammers
The Red Blazer
547 Donald St., 72 Manchester St., 224-4101
668-2120
Quackers
Deerfield
Lounge 121 S.
Lazy Lion Café
River Road; 622- 4 North Road, 463-7374
3766
Derry
Belmont
Adams Opera House
The Lodge at Belmont
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102
Route 106, 877-872-2501 Brookstone Grille
14 Route 11 E., 328-9250
Boscawen
Burgundy’s Billiards
Alan’s
35 Manchester St., 437-6600
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 Steve-N-James Tavern
187 Rockingham Road
Brookline
434-0600
Big Bear Lodge
106 Route 13, 672-7675
Dover
Village Gate Folk Stage
Barley Pub
12 Main St., 315-9423
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
Dover Elks Lodge
Bow
282 Durham Road
Chen Yang Li
Biddy Mulligan’s
520 South St., 228-8508
1 Washington St., 749-1100
Mama Clara’s
Dover Brick House
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
2 Orchard St., 749-3838
Dover Soul
Candia
364 Central Ave., 834-6965
Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor Kelley’s Row
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001 421 Central Ave., 750-7081
Pasquales Ristorante
RJ’s
Johnny Bad’s: blues jam
with The Wan-tu Blues Band
McGarvey’s: DJ Squid
Rocko’s: Bury Your Dead
Strange Brew: Howard
Randall
WB’s: DJ Bob, DJ Spivak
Concord
Green Martini: open mike Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Hermanos: Craig Fahey
Milford
Pasta Loft: Rich Kumpu
Dover
Barley Pub: bluegrass jam
Brick House: Will Harrison Nashua
Kelley’s Row: DJ Coach Fody’s: Chad Verbeck
and RockSpring
Peddler’s Daughter:
Epping
Holy Grail: Chris O’Neil Mindseye
Thursday, June 11
Bedford
C.R. Sparks: Siroteau
Slammers: jam night with
Barr None
Hampstead
One Eleven Village
Square: Doubleshot
Pasta Loft: Lisa & Lisa
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Elijah Clark
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder
Londonderry
Whippersnappers: Project 9
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Stu Sinclair Duo
City Sports Grille: open
mike with Josh Logan
Club 313: DJ Biggie, DJ
Susan Esthera
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Cotton: Yvonne Aubert
Derryfield: Mugsy Duo
Hilton Garden Inn: Lisa
Haynes Duo
83 Washington St.
Lowell Road, 880-7087
Chateau Restaurant
Top of the Chop
Linda’s Sport Bar
201 Hanover St., 627-2677
One Orchard St., 740-0006 2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792 Club 313
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
East Hampstead
Laconia
Club Liquid
The Pasta Loft
Black Cat Café
Amherst St., 645-7600
220 E. Main St., 378-0092 17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233 Commercial St. Fishery
Cactus Jacks
33 S. Commercial St.
Epsom
1182 Union Ave., 528-7800 296-0706
Circle 9 Ranch
Fratello’s
Derryfield Country Club
Windymere Dr., 736-9656 799 Union Ave., 528-2022 625 Mammoth Road,
Weirs Beach Lobster
623-2880
Epping
Pound
Don Quijote
American Legion
Route 3,
333 Valley St., 792-1110
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
Margate Resort
East Side Club
Holy Grail Food & Spirits 76 Lake St., 524-5210
786 Massebesic St., 669-1802
64 Main St., 679-9559
Naswa Resort
Element Lounge
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341 1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Exeter
Paradise Beach Club
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
Shooter’s Pub
322 Lakeside Ave., 366-2665 1111 Elm St., 222-2304
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856 Weirs Beach Smoke House Gaucho’s Churrascaria
Route 3, 366-2400
Brazilian Steak House
Gilford
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
Patrick’s
Londonderry
Grandstands
18 Weirs Rd., 293-0841
The Homestead Restaurant 216 Maple St., 625-9656
Rte 102 and Mammoth
The Hilton Garden Inn
Goffstown
Road, 437-2022
101 S. Commercial St.,
Village Trestle
Mayflower Grange
669-2222
25 Main St., 497-8230
535 Mammoth Rd, 867-3077 Jewell & The Beanstalk
Whippersnappers
793 Somerville St.,
Hampstead
Route 102, 434-2660
624-3709
Route 111 Village Square
Jillian’s Billiard Club
472 State St., 329-6879
Manchester
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
Alpine Club
626-7636
Henniker
175 Putnam St., 623-8202 Johnny Bad’s
Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
American Legion Wm H 542 Elm St., 222-9191
24 Flander’s Road,
Jutras & Post No 43
J.W. Hill’s
888-728-7732
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467 795 Elm St., 645-7422
The Henniker Junction
American Legion
Mad Bob’s Saloon
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
Post #79
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
35 W. Brook St.
McGarvey’s
Hillsborough
American Legion
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Boomerang’s
Sweeney Post
Milly’s Tavern
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 251 Maple St., 623-9145
500 Commercial St.,
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
Begy’s Lounge
625-4444
W. Main St. 464-6766
333 Valley St., 669-0062
Murphy’s Taproom
Black Brimmer
494 Elm St., 644-3535
Hollis
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
New England Revival
Alpine Grove
Bo’s Riverside
Coffee House (NERCH)
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051 500 Commercial St.,
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
The Dream Farm
625-4444
Olympic Lounge
64 Dow Road
Breezeway Pub
506 Valley St., 644-5559
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge
Hudson
City Sports Grille
815 Elm St.
Johnny’s Pizzeria
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Penuche's Grill
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Jimmy’s
Down
Breezeway: DJ McKay
City Sports Grille: Shovelhed
Club 313: DJ Susan Esthera
Dover
Club Liquid: Renegade
Biddy Mulligan’s: Joe
Soundstation
and Band Trio
Derryfield: Triple TanBrick House: Coma
trum, Last Call
Coma, Mustache Ride,
Element: DJ Daddy Dave
The Frosting
Hilton Garden Inn: Eric
Kelley’s Row: The High Klaxton Quartet
Beams
Jillian’s: Duty Free
Johnny Bad’s: Code 3
Epping
Milly’s: Mr. Serv-on,
Holy Grail: Ron Pepper Tone Corleone, Irish Mic,
Portsmouth
Narconix with 3SK and
Blue Mermaid: Jenny
Gilford
Matty Steps
Riddle and her band
Patrick’s: Resonant Soul Murphy’s: Crash Girl
Brewery Lane: Greg
Penuches: Favorite Sons
Luttrell
Hampstead
Rocko’s: Liferuiner
Dolphin Striker: Joel Cage One Eleven Village
Shaskeen: Backseat Lover
Gas Light: Alive Duo
Square: open bar
Strange Brew: 2021
Muddy River: WXGR
Pasta Loft: Morning Wood South Michigan Ave.
Portsmouth Underground
Unwined: Craig Fahey Trio
Dance Party
Hudson
WB’s: DJ Bob, DJ Bobby G
Press Room: Dan Walker King’s Court: DJ NuStyl, The Yard: Doug Mitchell
Red Door: Cliffe Arrand DJ T-Roy
Linda’s: Project Mess
Merrimack
Friday, June 12
Slapshots: DJ and karaAllenstown
Laconia
oke with Big Daddy Scott
Ground Zero: Our Last Cactus Jack’s: Paul
Go, Rocky Loves Emily, Warnick
Milford
Finding Fiction, Carson, Paradise Beach Club:
Pasta Loft: Groove
Halfhearted Comeback
The Bars
Thang, Shawn Allen
Shenanigans: Randozz
Boscawen
Londonderry
Alan’s: Elijah Clark
Whippersnappers: Josh Nashua
Logan
Black Orchid Grille:
Brookline
Timothy Gurshin
Country Corral: Apollo 13
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Barley House: Blue Light
Rain
Green Martini: George
Belli and Retro Activists
Pit Road Lounge: Dirt Road
96 Hanover St., 626-9830
Rocko’s Bar & Grill
253 Wilson St., 626-5866
The Shaskeen
909 Elm St., 625-0246
Strange Brew Tavern
88 Market St., 666-4292
Unwine’d
865 Second St., 625-9463
Wally and Bernie’s
20 Old Granite St., 641-2583
The Wild Rover
21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722
Workmen’s Club
183 Douglas St.
The Yard
1211 S. Mammoth Road,
623-3545
Merrimack
Buckley’s Great Steaks
438 DW Hwy, 424-0995
Slapshot’s
515 DW Hwy, 262-9335
Silo’s Steakhouse
641 DW Hwy, 429-2210
Milford
The Pasta Loft
241 Union Sq., 672-2270
Santos-Dumont
770 Elm St., 672-5464
Shenanigans
586 Nashua St., 672-2060
Nashua
The Amber Room
53 High St., 881-9060
Black Orchid Grille
8 Temple St., 577-8910
Borders
281 DW Hwy, 888-9300
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.
595-2121
Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square,
880-6001
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Country Tavern
452 Amherst St., 889-5871
Fody’s Tavern
9 Clinton St., 577-9015
Gate City Pub
Fody’s: Erin and The
Soul Drivers
Ripcord
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Round
the House
Dolphin Striker: Organism
Gas Light: Grinning Lizards, DJ Biggie
Hilton Garden Inn: La
Madeleine
Muddy River: Thumbprint Productions Presents
Press Room: Racky
Thomas Band, The Great
Bay Company
Red Door: Joe Bermudez
High streets, 427-2583
Brewery Lane Tavern
96 Brewery Lane,
433-7007
Chestnuts at the Nest
3548 Lafayette Road,
373-6515
Daniel Street Tavern
111 Daniel St.
Dolphin Striker
15 Bow St., 431-5222
Gas Light Co.
64 Market St., 431-9122
The Hilton Garden Inn
100 High St., 431-1499
Muddy River
Smokehouse
21 Congress St., 430-9582
Paddy’s American Grill
27 International Dr.,
430-9450
Player’s Ring Theater
105 Marcy St., 436-8123
Portsmouth Pearl
45 Pearl St., 431-0148,
portsmouthpearl.com
Press Room
77 Daniel St.,431-5186
The Red Door
107 State St., 373-6827
Red Hook Brewery
35 Corporate Dr., 430-8600
The Wet Bar
172 Hanover St.
New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Plaistow
Tilton
The Sad Café
Old Friends Tavern
148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893 & Restaurant
927 Laconia Rd, 524-1777
Portsmouth
AK’s Bar and Bistro
111 State St.
Blue Mermaid
Island Grill
The hill at Hanover and
Hot tunes, cool shows
Have upcoming shows you want listed
in the music this week? Send information about the coming week — Thursday
through Wednesday — [email protected] or by fax at 625-2422 no later
than noon on Monday. (E-mailed links to
regularly updated Web sites would also
be appreciated.)
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub: Hot Day
At The Zoo
Plaistow
Sad Café: Streamline, Break The Dark,
Twisted Animation, Blind
Assumption, Acacius
56 Canal St., 598-8256
Haluwa Lounge
Nashua Mall, Exit 6
883-6662
Killarney’s Irish Pub
Holiday Inn, Exit 4
888-1551
Laureano Nightclub
245 Main St.
Manhattan on Pearl
70 E. Pearl St., 578-5557
Martha’s Exchange
185 Main St., 883-8781
Michael Timothy’s
212 Main St., 595-9334
Nashua Garden
121 Main St., 886-7363
The Peddler’s Daughter
48 Main St., 880-8686
Penuche’s Ale House
16 Bicentennial Sq.,
595-9831
Pine Street Eatery
136 Pine St., 886-3501
Shorty’s
Nashua Mall, 882-4070
Simple Gifts Coffee
House
58 Lowell St.
The Sky Lounge
522 Amherst St., 882-6026
Slade’s Food & Spirits
4 W. Hollis St., 886-1334
Villa Banca
194 Main St., 598-0500
Country Corral: Shana
Stack
Concord
Green Martini: Mark
Brodeur
Hermanos: Mango Garden
Pit Road Lounge: Hot
Damn
Dover
Barley Pub: The Screen
with special guests
Biddy Mulligan’s: Hush
Puppy
Brick House: JamAntics,
Ron Noyes Band
Kelleys Row: DJ Coach
Laconia
Lobster Pound: Southern
Breeze
Paradise Beach Club:
TigerLily
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Mama Kicks
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Last
Laugh
Breezeway: DJ McKay
City Sports Grille: Josh
Logan Band
Club 313: DJ Bob, DJ
Salem
Dave G
Black Water Grill: Rob
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Breton
Gilford
& special guests
Patrick’s: Jim Devil Duo Commercial Street FishSaturday, June 13
ery: Nate Therrien Trio
Allenstown
Hampstead
Derryfield: Five Flavor
Ground Zero: Mondo
One Eleven Village
Discount, Soul City
Gecko; Findng Fiction
Square: Open Bar
Element: DJ Took
Pasta Loft: Elmer & Gang Hilton Garden Inn:
Boscawen
Grinning Lizards
Alan’s: Endangered Species
Hudson
Jillian’s: Undercover
Linda’s: 80 MPH
Operative
Brookline
Murphy’s: She’s On Top
Penuches: Lichen
Rocko’s: Battle of the Bands
Shaskeen: Sandey Money
Randall
Unwined: Craig Fahey Trio
WB’s: DJ Bobby G & guests
Merrimack
Slapshots: Second Face,
Mortuus Ortus
Milford
Pasta Loft: Gary Lopez
and the Baker Street Band
Shenanigan’s: Banshee
Nashua
Black Orchid Grille:
John Chouinard
Fody’s: KT and The Fuse
Peddler’s Daughter: Emergency Broadcast System
Studio 99: open mike
with The Average Joes
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub: Dis ‘n Dat
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Band
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Brothers Avalon
Dolphin Striker: Brandon Lepere
Gas Light: Jim Devlin
Duo, Tim Theriault, DJ
B Money
Hilton Garden Inn:
Cormac McCarthy
Muddy River: Thumbprint Productions Presents
Press Room: Larry
Garland, The Serfs, The
Great Bay Company
Red Door: Airdrop
Records Party with Sergio
Santos, Paulo and Booster
Salem
Black Water Grill:
Blues with Poor Howard
Sunday, June 14
Allenstown
Ground Zero: Letter to
the Exiles, Olga Wilk,
Ballast, The Breathing
Method and xQuicksilverx
Dover
Barley Pub: PJ Donahue Group
Brick House: As the
Grass Grow, God’s Failed
Creation, Hell Within, The
True Betrayal, Through
Fear, Twisted Legacy
Gilford
Patrick’s: Paul Warnick
and Friends
Goffstown
Village Trestle: blues
jam with the Wan-tu
Blues Band
Hampstead
One Eleven Village
Square: blues jam
Laconia
TigerLily
Londonderry
Tupelo Music Hall:
Poco
Whippersnappers:
Josh Logan, Nate Comp
and Paul Costley
Manchester
900 Degrees: blues jam
Club 313: DJ Jodi
Derryfield: Chad
Lamarsh
Element: karaoke with
DJ Sharon
The block of Elm Street just south of
Bridge Street in downtown Manchester will
be hopping this Friday. Mint Bistro will be
celebrating its grand opening Friday, June
12, while nearby Bridge Café will be hosting
its open mike poetry series Slam Free or Die,
produced by Russian Roulette Productions.
Sign-ups start between 6 and 6:30 p.m.; the
open mike begins after 7 p.m. Arrive early, organizers said in
a press release that some nights have had standing room only
crowds. This Friday, the featured poet will be Christopher Kain
(pictured) of Boston. See myspace.com/bridgepoetryopenmic.
Weekly improv
Improv comedy troupe Stranger Than Fiction
will host Tuesday Night Improv at the Players’
Ring Theater, 105 March St. in Portsmouth at 8
p.m. every Tuesday night through Aug. 25. Tickets cost $12, $10 for students and seniors. Call
436-8123 or see www.strangerthanfiction.us.
Penuches: Rasta Love
Shaskeen: The Spain
Brothers & Friends
sing-along, traditional
Irish music
Randall Blues Jam
Milford
Pasta Loft: High Hopes
Reggae Band
Nashua
Fody’s: Ed Antonelli
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Rick
Watson
Gas Light: Elijah Clark
Press Room: John Leicht
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike
Hermanos: Michael
Albericci
Tuesday, June 16
Concord
Barley House: Irish
acoustic session
Hermanos: Michael
Albericci
Dover
Barley Pub: Moon Minion with special guests
Dover
Brick House: acoustic
open mike with Anthony
Vio Fiandaca
Kelley’s Row: DJ Coach
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Aaron
Seibert
Lobster Pound: Southern Breeze
Fighting Friday
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Marjorie Thompson
Press Room: Clay Jenkins and Billy Pierce with Laconia
the Press Room Trio
Lobster Pound: Southern Breeze Paradise
Monday, June 15
Beach Club: Tripwire
Allenstown
Ground Zero: Settle
Londonderry
the Sky, Outrun the
Whippersnappers:
Gun, Versus the Ocean, Barr None
Silence in Shadows, As
They Look To The Sky
Manchester
Derryfield: Pat Foley
Concord
Milly’s: open mike with
Hermanos: State Street Dually
Combo
Shaskeen: Manchuka
Strange Brew: Strange
Dover
Brew All-Stars
Kelley’s Row: traditional Irish sessions
Nashua
Fody’s: karaoke
Laconia
Lobster Pound: South- Portsmouth
ern Breeze Paradise
Gas Light: Chris Gardner
Beach Club: Tripwire
Press Room: LG Jazz Jam, Hoot with
Londonderry
Dave Gerard
Whippersnappers: jam
Red Door: Scissor Test
night with Gardner Berry Tuesday
Manchester
Breezeway: piano night
with Rob D.
Derryfield: Brian
Bergeron
Shaskeen: Scalawag
Comedy
Wed., June 17
Allenstown
Ground Zero: Curse the
Mariner, The Behavior of
Moths, The Bright Light
Motion, Maythorns
Gilford
Patrick’s: Paul Warnick
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Mama
Kicks
Derryfield: Ron Adams
Milly’s: DJ
Randall
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Milford
Pasta Loft: open mike
with Ryan Bossie and
Morgan and Pete
Nashua
Fody’s: Tim Canon
DJ St. Julian
Studio 99: bluegrass jam
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Tom
Yoder
Gas Light: Pat Foley
Muddy River: Mercury
Hat
Press Room: Little
Malcolm
Red Door: Evaredy
THIS WEEK and beyond
Thursday, June 11
Friday, June 12
Concord
Londonderry
Capitol Center: Brian Tupelo: Mark RicRegan
cadonna
Tuesday, June 16
Friday, June 19
Manchester
Manchester
Mad Bob’s: Queen City Palace: Karen Morgan
Comedy Showcase
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Hermanos: State Street
Combo
Penuches: open mike
Slam Free or Die
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Plaistow
Sad Café: Stealing Jane,
Matt Lindstrom, Traces
David, Saturday at Nine,
The Sophomore Beat
Manchester’s
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“Clean Cinema” — running through a neutral list of movies. By Matt Jones
sales
34 The cube root of ocho
35 Cookie that once had
“Sandwich” in its name
36 Million-___ odds
37 Certain hangings
38 1976 movie that parts of the
other four movie titles describe
from start to finish
41 “Your $$$$$” network
42 “___: Dinosaur Hunter”
(Nintendo 64 game)
44 Gull’s tail?
45 “___ Haw”
46 1978 biopic about DJ Alan
Freed
50 Nighttime problem
51 “Remote Control” host Ken
52 Former “Entertainment
Tonight” host John
54 Rapper/singer Jackson, ex-
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56 Discover rival, for short
60 Spiny lizard
62 2003 straight-to-video Ione
Skye romcom that starts at a
laundromat
65 George Eliot title character
Silas
66 Initial recording
67 Gas station freebie
68 ___ Palace (Nicolas Sarkozy’s current home)
69 U2 bassist Clayton
70 Your, in France
all the kick
12 Squeaks by, with “out”
13 Navy pole
18 Orange coat
22 Out of reach
25 Start the workday
26 Actor Michael of “Year One”
28 Lover of 37-across
29 Speaker’s seminar
30 It make a lot of dollars
31 “I love you when you ___
your mosque...” (Kahlil Gibran)
32 The Learning ___
33 One of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta”
Down
34 Numbers-crunching need
1 “Over here!” noise
39 Hated with every inch of
2 “Hey, sailor!”
one’s being
3 Radiator problem
40 Piggish person
4 Big name in semiconductors 43 “Annie” extras
5 My ___ Massacre
47 Lucrezia Borgia’s brother
6 One who gets 48 Sound at the dentist
the door
49 “King Kong” actress Fay
7 Longtime
52 “Person of the Year”
grape soda
awarder
brand
53 Equal, at an ecole
8 Early produc- 55 ___ Comment (blog link)
tion company
57 Doctor-to-be’s test
for “I Love
58 Nobelist Wiesel
Lucy” and
59 Gen-___ (1970s kids, today)
“Star Trek”
61 Word before a maiden name
9 “Am ___ to
63 Peruvian singer Sumac
the task?”
64 Dot follower
10 Native Wyo- ©2009 Jonesin’ Crosswords
mingite
(editor@jonesincrosswords.
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4 “Sophie’s Choice” director
Pakula
8 Tiara
14 “___ Hate Me” (2004 Spike
Lee movie)
15 Horse hair
16 “I’ve got it!”
17 1991 comedy with a behindthe-scenes look at a daytime
drama
19 They keep words apart
20 Little guy
21 Internet cafe offering, maybe
23 Word before due or tense
24 ___ homo (behold the man,
in Latin)
27 Shake like ___
29 With “The,” 1948 Red Skelton movie about door-to-door
SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from Weezer and Rivers Cuomo, born
June 13, 1970.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “And I won’t be / be ashamed
/ of the games / we once played / and I won’t be comin’ / back
round here no more.” —“Take Control” You’ll feel better if
you adopt a mature perspective on past transgressions. Stand
tall if someone tries to throw your past back in your face.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “You’ll never do / the things
you want / if you don’t move / and get a job.” —“Keep Fishin’”
It’s a good time for a reassessment of your career priorities.
Try to maintain a hobby or regular activity you enjoy, whether it’s for pay or recreation.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “My girl’s a liar / But I’ll stand
beside her / She’s all I’ve got / And I don’t want to be alone.”
—“No Other One” Ask yourself whether you’ve been sticking with someone, or something, out of fear rather than real
attraction. Don’t let yourself be lied to.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “When I look in the mirror /
I can’t believe what I see / Tell me, who’s that funky dude /
Staring back at me.” —“The Good Life” You are possibly
more attractive than you realize. An opportunity to demonstrate that will arise.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “Gonna make my move / Gonna make it stay / Gonna make it last / Never mind the past /
Living for today.” —“Glorious Day” Make the most of a notbad day.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “If you want it, you can have
it / But you’ve got to learn to reach out there and grab it.” —
“Photograph” Or, as those other singers years earlier put it,
if you want it, here it is, come and get it, but you better hurry
’cause it’s going fast. You snooze you lose. Note: this is not
about QVC.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “Confrontations in my
mind / Got me running out of time.” —“Don’t Let Go” Fight
the urge to overthink things. Too much cogitation right now
will probably be a waste of your time at best. Of course the
trick is knowing how much is too much. Just try to be aware
of it, and spend plenty of time in non-intellectual activities
as well.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “When will stupid learn?
/ Fires gonna burn / Think of consequence / Then you move
when it your turn.” —“Haunt You Every Day” Impulsivity
threatens to wreck an important occasion. Play it cool and
keep everyone on the same page.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “Man you really freak me out
/ I’m so afraid of you / And when I lose my cool / I don’t know
what to do.” —“Freak Me Out” Ease your fear of strangers
and the unknown by learning more about them before plunging in to their world. Do your research. Immerse yourself in
another culture for a time and get comfortable with the lingo. Don’t overdo your attempts to fit in, however; that could
backfire. Be yourself and admit to your qualms if need be.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “Hold me. / Hold me. / Take
me with you ’cause I’m lonely.” —“Hold Me” Take a companion with you to a worrisome event, or be a companion to
someone else who needs one.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “Where I come from isn’t
all that great / My automobile is a piece of crap / My fashion
sense is a little whack / And my friends are just as screwy as
me.” —“Beverly Hills” Remember: it doesn’t matter where
you come from as much as it matters where you’re going.
Stay focused on the future.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “Holiday / Far away / To stay
/ On a holiday / Far away / Let’s go today / In a heartbeat!”
—“Holiday” Plan a vacation from a pressure-filled job.
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Easter Seals NH is seeking a supportive LIVE-IN Companion
for a woman with a developmental disability in the Nashua
area. Provide assistance with activities of daily living and
community activities. Behavioral experience preferred.
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Live-in Companion
Free rent and generous daily reimbursement provided.
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
Good news/bad news
As Denver’s newsweekly Westword asked
in a May 2009 story, “Where would you take a
$100,000 check that is also a suicide note, to the
cops or to the bank?” In July 2008, John Francis Beech, a retired executive in Denver, sent a
check for $100,000 to a local charity, postdated
to Aug. 1, accompanied by a sealed envelope
reading “wait until you hear from coroner”
and “everything is OK.” The charity’s director, Annie Green, opened the envelope anyway
on July 21, to find Beech’s Last Will and Testament, leaving his entire estate to Green’s
organization for children with developmental disabilities. Green’s choice: Put everything
into the school’s safe and await Aug. 1 (but she
claimed to have left two voice-mail messages
for Beech). On July 29, based on longstanding
plans, Beech committed suicide.
Cultural Diversity
Latest Religious Messages
Ms. Nour Hadad, 26, was arrested in Orland
Park, Ill., in April and charged with (and,
according to police, confessed to) beating her
2-year-old niece to death while baby-sitting,
and, as usual, police publicly released her booking photograph. However, Hadad’s husband,
Alaeddin, immediately complained that her
photo, without her head scarf, was an “insult”
to Islam. Said a Muslim activist, “They should
respect the modesty of the accused.”
Sci-Fi Movies Come to Life
(1) Entomologists in San Antonio said in
May that the “Raspberry ant” (whose colonies produce billions and cover everything in
sight) had migrated north to within 75 miles of
the city and would arrive by year’s end, posing, said one, a “potential ecological disaster.”
(2) A University of Florida researcher found,
People Different From Us
• Nelson Blewett, 22, was treated for serious burns in Port Angeles, Wash., on May 18
after playing a game of TAG-tag with pals.
They were spritzing each other with TAG body
spray and then striking matches, creating mostly lower-risk flames. Then, perhaps inspired by
too much beer, one friend added lighter fluid to
the game. Blewett was afire for 30 to 45 seconds until he leaped from a second-story porch
and rolled on the ground. (He survived but
with “excruciating” second- and third-degree
burns.)
• The Aristocrats! (1) Charles Williams, 37,
and his wife, Gretchen, 33, were arrested in
Greenville, S.C., in April after a domestic dispute, culminating in a gunfight in which they
shot each other. (2) Two fathers (Enrique Gonzalez, 26, in Fresno, Calif., in April and Eugene
Ashley, 24, in Floyd County, Ga., in May) were
charged with forcibly tattooing their young
sons. Gonzalez allegedly held down his 7year-old while a tattooist inked a gang symbol,
and Ashley allegedly inked “DB” (for Daddy’s
Boy) personally on his 3-year-old’s shoulder.
Least Competent Criminals
The Right to Remain Silent: Timothy Williams’ lawyer had a good defense worked out
in Williams’ May murder trial in Pittsburgh:
When Williams fatally shot the “other” man
in the love triangle with Williams’ girlfriend,
it was a “crime of passion,” said the lawyer,
befitting manslaughter rather than first-degree
murder. But Williams insisted on taking the
stand, and by the time he was done, he had
openly bragged that he was a “swinger” with
many girlfriends, that this particular woman
meant “nothing” to him, and that, though he
killed the man, police had somehow “sabotaged” the surveillance video of the shooting.
Verdict: first-degree murder.
Update
The long-running battle between Alan
Davis, 53, and officials in Altamonte Springs,
Fla., began anew in May, upon Davis’ release
from prison after serving a year for his latest
defiance of court orders to clear the “junk” out
of his yard (“felony littering”). It was his third
prison stretch in five years, and he said he is
not done yet. Just before his latest stretch, he
had placed a giant sculpted derriere in front
of the Seminole County Courthouse. In May,
he told reporters that he would rejoin the battle by ringing his yard with 42 smaller, similar
sculptures.
Readers’ Choice
When retired NYPD officer John Comparetto was approached at gunpoint in a men’s room
of a Holiday Inn near Harrisburg, Pa., in March,
he quietly handed over his wallet, but when the
robber left, Comparetto pulled his own gun and
gave chase. He also summoned some of the
other 300 narcotics officers attending a convention in the hotel and quickly captured the
man, who, said Comparetto, is “probably the
dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania.”
A News of the Weird Classic
(June 1997)
In 1993 India Scott dated both Darryl
Fletcher and Brandon Ventimeglia when she
lived in Detroit and moved in with Fletcher in
1994 when she was about to give birth. Neither knew about the other, and she had told
each man he was the father. For two difficult
years, Scott somehow managed to juggle the
men’s visitations, but in March 1997 when
she announced she was leaving the area, both
Fletcher and Ventimeglia separately filed for
custody of “his” son. Only then did Ventimeglia and Fletcher find out about each other. They
took blood tests to determine which was the
real father of the boy they had cared for for
more than two years, and in May 1997 the
blood test revealed that neither was.
Read News of the Weird daily at www.weirduniverse.net. Send items to weirdnews@
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• Over a 10-week period this summer, nearly 200 young Saudi women are auditioning for
a beauty pageant, but one called “Miss Beautiful Morals,” in which physical attractiveness
is irrelevant, replaced by judging of the ladies’
observance of traditional Saudi values, especially the honoring of their mothers. Saudi
Arabia does have pageants devoted to physical beauty, as reported in News of the Weird
in 2007 and 2008, but those are contests for
camels and goats, based on such criteria as
(according to one camel breeder) “big eyes,
long lashes and a long neck.”
• Kailash Singh, 63, who lives in a village near the holy city of Varanasi, India, told
reporters in May that he had not bathed in the
last 35 years, but for a good reason: remaining water-free would improve his chances of
fathering a male instead of a female. (It hasn’t
worked, and he has moved on to a new cause,
shunning baths until India’s social problems are
resolved.) Singh previously owned a shop, but
became a farmer because customers increasingly declined to approach him.
• Recurring Theme: According to a March
dispatch in London’s Observer, activists in
Mauritania have protested the new military
government’s support for an African tribal tradition of forcibly fattening up adolescent girls
to make them appear “healthier” for early marriage (traditional in, among other countries,
Nigeria, mentioned in News of the Weird in
1998). In the custom of “leblouh,” the size of
the female indicates “the size of her place in
her man’s heart.”
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among all animals, are skilled at identifying
particular humans who have displeased them
and whom they wish to attack.
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