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Hippo | April 2 - 8, 2009 | Page The numbers don’t
look good for Manchester
Mayor Frank Guinta. He’s
the first mayor in several
who has presided over a
decline in Manchester’s
population while the
state’s population grew.
Guinta beat incumbent Mayor Bob Baines
a few years back by pounding a few key
numbers: he said the number of crimes was
up, taxes were up and school test scores
were down. Few people turned out and
Guinta won.
But since then, Manchester residents have
been voting with their feet. And their feet
say Manchester is not the place they want
to live. Making matters worse is that the
population of the state has grown during this
period, making the decline of a few thousand
that much more severe. The result is that
more apartments are for rent and property
values are in peril.
It’s a downward spiral. People leave,
property values drop and taxes increase on
existing property owners. One option is to
cut services to keep taxes from rising, but
if you live here and services have been cut
— for example, if classroom sizes here are
larger than in Nashua or Derry — won’t
you move there? This kind of future drives
down property values and rents and leads
to higher taxes on those who remain. It’s a
nasty cycle.
Like in any business, people want value
for their money. Is $4,000 a year in taxes
a lot to pay if you have two kids in good
schools? Is $4,000 too much to pay if your
streets aren’t safe, are filled with potholes,
it takes days to plow your street and they
just announced the local firehouse is being
closed?
In the first instance, the $4,000 seems like
a great deal. Let’s say your kids are in school
for 180 days; that’s $22 a day to have your
kids safe and taught important lessons —
about the cost of taking the kids out for pizza.
But in the second, the $4,000 seems like an
awful deal. People leave a city like that.
But Manchester isn’t there yet — it’s not
even close. Manchester is a great city full
of people who pulled it out of its economic
decline in the 1990s and made it a place
people wanted to live in and do business in.
Leadership hasn’t come from the Mayor’s
Office or the Board of Mayor and Aldermen
to energize the community. For example, it’s
likely taxes will rise this year and residents
will get fewer services for more money.
Why? Because most city employees will
get a 3-percent raise, according to their labor
agreement. Since 90 percent of the city budget
is people, it’ll cost almost 3 percent more to
run the government and that doesn’t include
increasing retirement and health care costs.
If these raises aren’t addressed, more
employees will have to be laid off, removing
some of our best employees and creating a
shortage in some departments.
Will people continue to vote with their feet
and leave? I hope not.
Will Manchester find new leadership
that can both control spending and create
enthusiasm for the city? I hope so.
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Climate change action
plan revealed; Tracking
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OK, so there aren’t trolls manning the Everett
Turnpike toll plazas but the state is getting
more aggressive about asking for money in
exchange for a ride on toll roads. And with the
state facing budget woes, getting rid of the
EZ-Pass discount and increasing existing tolls
or adding new ones have all been part of the
discussion. We look at New Hampshire’s notso-freeways and where that toll money goes.
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NEWS & NOTES
News in Brief
Happenings
The state House of Representatives
approved a bill recognizing gay marriage
last week, 186-179. The bill will go the Senate, which would not take up the bill until
April 9 at the earliest, reports indicated. The
state approved civil unions for gay couples two
years ago. If the Senate and Gov. John Lynch
sign off on the bill, it would make New Hampshire the third state to recognize gay marriage.
Lynch has said he opposes gay marriage, but
he hasn’t said if he would veto the bill.
The House also voted 193-174 to repeal
the death penalty. The Senate will get the
bill next. Reports indicated the bill’s fate
was uncertain in the Senate. Lynch has said
he would veto any bill that eliminates the
death penalty. The House would need a twothirds majority to overrule Lynch’s expected
veto. This past fall a jury sentenced Michael
Addison to death for shooting and killing a
Manchester police officer. He is currently the
only inmate on death row in the Granite State.
The state hasn’t executed anyone in 70 years.
Proponents of medicinal marijuana use
in New Hampshire cleared a hurdle last week
when the House voted 234-138 to approve
a measure that would allow terminally ill
patients to possess and use marijuana with a
doctor’s approval. A similar bill failed in the
House in 2007. The bill must also clear the
Senate and the governor’s desk. Lynch has
said he has concerns with the proposed bill,
but has remained unclear on whether or not
he would veto it. Reports indicated a 2008
Mason-Dixon Poll found 71 percent of New
Hampshire residents supported medicinal
marijuana reform.
The Senate approved a measure 19-4
Wednesday, March 25, to set the term for governor at four years instead of two. The bill will
go to the House and if it passes there, residents
will vote on it in 2010. Residents must pass it
by a two-thirds majority for it to take effect. If
it’s approved, Lynch would not be eligible for
the longer term, even if he runs again.
Ned Helms, former state Democratic party
chairman and chairman of President Obama’s
campaign in New Hampshire, told the Union
Leader that New Hampshire would not lose
its first-in-the-nation status. Helms is a member of the national Democratic Party’s new
Change Commission, the report indicated.
Thanks to the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, people with food stamps
benefits were expected to see an increase
beginning Wednesday, April 1. Benefits usually increase in October, but the stimulus package
bumped it up, according to a state Department
of Health and Human Services press release.
New Hampshire legislators announced last
week that community health care centers in
the state would receive $1.6 million from the
stimulus package. Harbor Homes in Nash-
New Home or ReFi –
Now is the Time!!
ua will receive about $100,000, the City of
Manchester will receive more than $120,000
and Manchester Community Health Center
nearly $183,000. The money is part of $338
million released nationally for community
health centers.
The state Department of Health and
Human Services announced last week that it
will receive about $2.2 million from the United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development for supportive housing programs and homeless assistance programs. In
total the state will receive $5.7 million.
Pet food pantry
Animal shelters are feeling the pinch from
the economy, taking in abandoned pets when
owners can’t afford to take care of them anymore. To combat the problem, the Manchester
Animal Shelter has set up a pet food pantry,
where low-income pet owners whose pets are
spayed or neutered may pick up pet food. The
shelter will also set up low-cost spaying and
neutering for low-income pet owners, said
Journey Ewell, president of the Shelter.
The pantry opened in March and so far 30
families have picked up food. The shelter is
seeking food and financial donations for the
pantry and the shelter itself, which has about
90 cats living in about 45 cages. Pet food for
the pantry can be dropped off at several locations in Manchester, including the Shaw’s on
South Willow Street and Hannaford supermar-
kets on Hanover Street and John Devine Drive.
The Shelter is at 490 Dunbarton Road. Call
628-3544, www.manchesteranimalshelter.org.
More room to ski
Gov. John Lynch signed an agreement
Wednesday, March 25, approving a land
exchange between the state and the federal
government allowing the state to reopen the Mittersill Ski Area and expand Cannon Mountain
Ski Area. The state agreed to exchange a portion
of Sentinel Mountain State Forest in Piermont
for a 100-acre parcel of the White Mountain
National Forest adjacent to Cannon Mountain. The federal government will pay the state
$40,000 in the deal. According to a state press
release, the state has been working to reopen the
Mittersill Ski Area since 1989. The federal government has been looking to acquire the state’s
parcel, which includes one of the last portions
of the Appalachian Trail the federal government
doesn’t administer in New Hampshire.
Biking for a good cause
Cassandra Dabilis, a Hudson police officer, is
taking on HIV/AIDS with Brakingthecycle.org.
Dabilis will hop on a bike for the first time and ride
for three days straight, across three states, spanning
275 miles, from Boston to New York City, in September. She’s trying to raise a minimum of $3,500
for the cause. All donations would go directly to
those living with AIDS who can’t afford treatment.
Visit www.brakingthecycle.org to donate.
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Climate Action Plan unveiled
67 recommendations to achieve state’s energy goals
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
After more than a year of study, Gov. John
Lynch’s Climate Change Policy Task Force
presented its Climate Action Plan Wednesday,
March 25.
In line with the state’s long-term goal of
achieving an 80-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by
2050, the 29-member task force produced an
82-page document detailing 67 recommendations for how it can get there. While preserving
and protecting the environment is a big part of
this plan, officials say the economic end has a
very high upside as well.
“It’s not just an environmental plan,” said
Chris Skoglund, an energy and transportation
analyst with the state Department of Environmental Services. “It’s not just about protecting
climate.”
The recommendations are centered on several key points: reducing greenhouse gas
emissions from buildings, electric generation
and transportation; protecting natural resources; supporting regional and national initiatives
to reduce greenhouse gases; developing an
integrated education, outreach and workforce
training program; and adapting to existing and
potential climate change impacts, according to
the report. Recommendations were as simple as
maximizing efficiency in new construction and
as large as expanding passenger rail service.
The state also announced the formation of a
public-private partnership, the New Hampshire
Energy and Climate Collaborative, to oversee
implementation of the plan and to be a resource
as the state, individuals and utilities attempt to
become more energy- efficient. The Collaborative, which has no authority and was not
government-appointed, was essentially derived
from recommendations received and made by
the Task Force, Skoglund said. The 18-person collaborative is made up of six members
each from the business sector, the non-profit
sector and the public sector. The Collaborative
won’t be implementing plans, especially since
much of the work is already happening on
its own, but could help facilitate some of the
recommendations.
“They’re just helping to oversee what’s
already happening,” Skoglund said.
The Task Force, which was formed in
December 2007, divided into six sub-groups to
work in specific areas: adaptation; agriculture,
forestry and waste; electric generation and use;
government leadership and action; residential,
commercial and industrial; and transportation
and land use. The task force consisted of government officials, scientists and business and
economic officials. The action plan included
input from more than 175 people who attended five public listening sessions.
Skoglund said, in tandem with the efficiency and conservation components, the plan is an
economic development plan for the entire state.
For example, if the state can help facilitate efficiency in electricity, then consumers would be
paying less for electricity. In turn, consumers
should have more money to pump into the state
economy, he said.
One of the key recommendations is to diversify the state’s energy mix. That way, and
considering how dynamic and volatile energy has been, the state would be insulated from
price shocks. If one part of the market becomes
crunched, there would still be a steady flow in
other markets, Skoglund said.
Skoglund, aware of the economic plight playing out nationally and more locally, said there
are still opportunities for energy investment.
With recent legislation creating some pools of
money for energy investment, Skoglund said
the state is helping to lessen the blow from the
initial cost of energy efficiency, which undeniably carries some significant costs in some
They think they can…
cases. Despite what can be large upfront costs,
investing in energy efficiency can provide a
substantial return on the back end, he said.
To help out locally, the state is expecting
to receive up to $60 million from the federal
stimulus package to expand weatherization of
low-income homes. The program falls in line
with the state’s energy goals, Skoglund said.
“If you don’t have to heat your home as
much, you don’t burn as much oil, which brings
energy costs down,” Skoglund said.
The state has set a goal of having 25 percent of the state’s energy come from renewable
sources and it has already passed the Renewable Energy Act. Visit www.des.nh.gov.
Rail proponents brainstorm, seek support
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
There has been plenty of talk surrounding trains
in New Hampshire, and some officials are more
encouraged about the possibility of a rail extension in New Hampshire than they have ever been.
With Gov. John Lynch on board with expanding
rail from Lowell to Nashua and Manchester and
eventually Concord, officials said they thought
the governor’s support made the environment
for rail all the more welcoming.
Still, plans for rail in New Hampshire are in a
holding pattern right now.
The question of how to pay for the $300 million capital corridor project — some officials
say that amount is a little high — remains very
much unanswered. The federal government
would contribute about 80 percent of the costs,
which means the state would need to come up
with about 20 percent or $60 million, said Mark
Richardson, president of Orbial and of New
Hampshire Businesses for Transportation Infrastructure, a business group supporting rail.
Depending on which federal programs rail
would be eligible for, the federal government
could provide more or less funding than Richardson suggested, said Mike Izbicki, interim
executive director for the New Hampshire Rail
Transit Authority, which was established in July
2007 and currently has no funding and no paid
staff. Izbicki said the $300 million would cover the cost of infrastructure and equipment. The
project would involve upgrading existing freight
lines from the state line to Concord to accommodate passenger trains.
“It’s like a big puzzle and all the pieces are
on the table,” Izbicki said.
“We’ve just got to put the
pieces together now. There’s
a lot of activity. A lot of folks
want this.”
Richardson’s organization
was circulating a petition garnering support for the capital
corridor project, which would
include a stop in Nashua, the
airport, downtown Manchester and eventually Concord. The train would
take riders to and from Boston’s North Station.
Jay Minkarah, economic development director
for the City of Manchester, said there could be
an additional stop in Chelmsford, Mass. While
it could change considerably, Richardson said
people would be looking at about a $20-to-$24
round-trip ticket from Manchester to Boston.
Minkarah said ridership would cover about
50 percent of operating costs. The trip would
take about 70 minutes from the Queen City to
Boston.
Bonding the estimated $60 million the state
would need to contribute, Richardson said,
would cost about $4 million each year for the
life of the bond. Annual operating costs would
end up at about $6 million. So, Richardson said,
the state could make it happen for about $10 million annually, which he said was less than $10
per year per taxpayer.
“It’s not about exporting jobs to Boston, it’s
about bringing people here,” Richardson said.
He added that rail could keep young people in
New Hampshire and take cars off the road.
With New Hampshire already housing a bus
company that takes passengers in and out of
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Boston, Minkarah said he doesn’t think rail and
bus are mutually exclusive. In his view, the two
would complement each other. At rush hour, rail
wins; at off-peak times, the bus could provide a
nice alternative, he said.
Izbicki said rail would complete the state’s transportation system, which already includes highways,
the airport and local and inter-city buses.
Minkarah has the periodic transit user in mind
more than the commuter. He said about 20 percent of Nashua’s labor force commutes to a job
in Massachusetts, about 6 percent to Boston.
About 5 percent of Manchester’s labor force
commutes to the Bay State, he said. He’s thinking more of someone heading into Boston for an
event on the weekend or the businessperson who
heads into Boston once or twice a week to meet
a client or to go to a second office. More locally, officials say there could be a much higher rate
of inter-city use between Nashua, the airport and
Manchester.
With the state facing a large budget deficit, any
new spending will have a steep uphill climb.
Cue the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It’s unclear how much New
Hampshire would be able to procure from the
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takings. Currently the Massachusetts Executive
Office of Transportation can operate a railway
from Lowell to the New Hampshire state line.
Pan Am Railways owns the corridor from the
state line to Concord. The state would need to
find an operator and enter in an agreement with
that operator. Izbicki said that is still very much
in preliminary stages.
While legislation was introduced to consider buying the New Hampshire rail corridor,
Izbicki said the Rail Authority is not interested
in purchasing the corridor: “We want to work
out an agreement with an operator who can be
a major stakeholder in this,” he said.
Richardson
says
fiscal
conservatives opposing rail are looking at rail
singularly and not at its impact on development.
“They’re only looking at it like a private company is doing it,” he said.
“They’re not looking at that wider picture.”
That wider picture, he says, is intensive development close to rail. He also looked at the
impact it would have on existing development,
such as the Manchester airport and downtown
businesses and entities, like the New Hampshire Fisher Cats and the Verizon Wireless
Arena.
Even with all the economic questions,
Minkarah thought the project could be a reality
within three to five years.
For a downtown station, Manchester is looking at the Rockwell Center, which is about
11 acres near the Verizon Wireless Arena.
Minkarah said the city has $9.4 million that
could be available to pay for the station.
Stay where you are
Proposal would treat more at-risk youth at home
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
With New Hampshire reeling from a budget crisis and with the state Department of
Health and Human Services in particular
need of budget control and possible revamping of services, multi-systemic therapy may
provide an option for at-risk youth that saves
the state up to $17 million annually.
Multi-systemic therapy simply keeps atrisk youths — youths who have behavioral
issues, mental health issues, substance abuse
issues or a combination — in their homes,
schools and communities, rather than placing
them in residential treatment facilities, said
Craig Amoth, executive director of Family Strength, a family therapy organization
(www.familystrength.org). Residential facilities provide treatment in a controlled, often
locked setting. Amoth isn’t suggesting all
residential treatment facilities be removed,
because some youths, particularly ones who
are a danger to themselves or others, still
need that type of treatment and care.
For others, the controlled setting might not
be all that effective in the long run. Treatment in artificially controlled environments
can create short-term gains for youths while
in treatment, but once they are back in the
real world they tend to go back to the way
they were prior to going in, Amoth said.
“It’s failed to take into account all the risk
factors and the environment that the person
actually has to live in — family, school, peer
and social networks,” Amoth said.
Under the current system, which has about
465 youths in facilities and another 30 in
out-of-state facilities, the state pays about
$68,000 per youth per year, Amoth said.
“Residential care is very costly, and his-
torically it has little accountability for
outcomes,” Amoth said.
Multi-systemic therapy, he said, could
chop that per-youth cost to about $10,500 per
youth. It’s still not inexpensive, he said, but
the savings are evident.
Multi-systemic therapy takes into account
all those risk factors by leaving the individual in the environment he or she lives in.
A team of counselors works with families
and individuals, in small numbers, to manage the entire care process, including court
issues, school and appointments. The team
meets with individuals and families regularly each week. Amoth said it’s a constant
source of support for both the individual and
the family.
“They can teach parents to be better,”
Amoth said, adding residential facilities are
limited in the amount of support they can
provide parents.
Amoth said multi-systemic therapy has
been researched at the highest levels and is
happening in 11 different countries. Currently,
New Hampshire doesn’t offer multi-systemic therapy but Connecticut does. Connecticut
was in a similar situation to New Hampshire
about 10 years ago, where it was spending lots of money on residential treatment
and not getting quality results. Connecticut
recently completed a three-year study of its
multi-systemic therapy program and it figured it was saving about $57,000 per youth.
“It just seems like a win-win,” Amoth
said, though he added that it is not a “magic bullet.”
If the state were to go this route, Amoth
figured it would take about six months to
prepare for it, considering training, funding
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more quickly. He said it helps that Boston to
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a portion of taxes paid by development in the
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which has to do with
my, let’s call it competitive, personality. But, for a history guy,
it’s also fun. So here’s my first offering via a
random series of topics from near and far:
Mt. Rushmore of Boston Celtics: 1. Bill
Russell — greatest team sports player ever. 2.
Larry Joe Bird — went from 29 wins to 61
in the season he arrived and they didn’t look
back. 3. Bob Cousy — as important to the
early NBA as Jordan was in the ’90s. 4. Red
Auerbach — the smartest guy in sports for 40
years. Toughest Omissions: John Havlicek
— it’s totally forgotten how great he was.
Dave Cowens — amazing intensity. Paul
Pierce — the team’s best scorer ever? Kevin
Garnett — hasn’t been here long enough, but
his intensity changed the culture.
Mt. Rushmore of Celtics Villains: Since
they were so bad for so long, it’s hard to find
any above-the-Tarrier Line villains, so they’re
all oldies but goodies. 1. Bill Laimbeer —
if you throw out mass murderers, terrorists
and the guy who invented the Internet symbol “LOL,” I can’t think of anyone I hate
more. 2. Wilt — it had more to do with the
David and Goliath thing than him but he certainly was the focus of attention. You might
be interested to know the only time I ever
spoke to him (at Larry Bird’s Hall of Fame
induction) he said he loved playing in Boston and that fans always treated him well
when the game wasn’t going on. 3. Andrew
Toney — an assassin who murdered them at
the end of games. 4. Sidney Wicks — the
only guy to win while playing for the Celtics as the ex-UCLAer is the symbol of a bad
couple of years. Toughest Omissions: Darryl Dawkins, Rick Mahorn and Jeff Ruland,
a.k.a. Mcfilthy and McNasty.
Mt. Rushmore of the Boston Red Sox: 1.
Ted Williams — the second-greatest hitter who
ever lived. 2. Tris Speaker — I know, you don’t
buy it. Check his record. 3. Pedro — his first six
years were arguably the most dominant of any
in history 4. Yaz — Manny was better, but he
gets it on longevity, versatility, being a great left
fielder and for 1967 — when no one has ever
carried a team on his back quite the way he did.
Toughest Omissions: Manny, Roger Clemens, Cy Young, Nomar Garciaparra, Bobby
Doerr, Carlton Fisk, Wade Boggs, Jim Rice
and David Ortiz.
Mt. Rushmore of Overrated Players: This
doesn’t mean I don’t like these guys, it just
means the public’s opinion is higher than it
should be. 1. Nolan Ryan — when you nearly
lose 300 games and were only 32 games over
.500, I don’t see how you can be the righthanded pitcher of the century when Christy
Matthewson, Tom Seaver, Roger Clemens and Bob Feller also played then. 2. Alex
Rodriguez — great numbers but he’s done
squat when it counts most and he had help
too. 3. Joe Namath — 47 more interceptions
than TD passes, 63-64-4 as a starter. Never
has anyone gotten more mileage out of one
stinkin’ guarantee than Joe Willie. 4. Roberto Clemente — a great player who’s gained in
stature after his death. But the truth is he was
clearly behind Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson as the best right fielder in the ’60s and
there are plenty of folks in Detroit who think
Al Kaline was better too. Toughest Omission:
Kobe Bryant — it doesn’t mean I don’t think
he’s great. But in the 2008 playoffs, Lebron
was clearly better against the Cs and ABC
broadcaster Mark Jackson still talked as if
he wanted to have his children.
Mt. Rushmore of Boston Guys Behind the
Mike: 1. Johnny Most — one of a kind and
as loyal/biased as they come. 2. The Rem
Dawg — took me a while to get the Rem
Dawg thing, but now I’m on board ’cause
he’s really good. 3. Gil Santos — great voice,
great with drama and he owns his share of signature calls. 4. Mike Gorman — a personal
preference. While he had to hang in during
the down years, with the Cs good again, it’s
a reminder of just how good he is. Especially
my favorite — “Got it!”
Mt. Rushmore of the New England Patriots: 1. Tom Brady — do I need to say? 2. Bill
Belichick — more valuable than Brady. 3.
John Hannah — a terror. 4. Adam V — won
two Super Bowls on the final play and had the
greatest kick in history. Toughest Omissions:
Tedy Bruschi, Mike Vrabel, Steve Grogan,
Bob Kraft and Billy Sullivan — an adventure, but he started it all.
Mt. Rushmore of Underrated Players:
1. Robert Parish —the Celtics were under
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.400 without him and over .600 when Kevin
McHale was out. You tell me who was more
valuable. 2. Hank Aaron — while he’s got
the records, he played in the shadow of Willie
Mays in his prime and the two Rs (Ruth and
racism) as he neared the record. 3. Bart Starr
— you never hear his name when great QBs
are talked about. But if Brady gets extra credit
for being a winner, why doesn’t Starr, who led
the Pack to five NFL titles and to victories in
the first two Super Bowls when he was MVP?
4. Tim Duncan — three titles and two MVPs
later and people still don’t get how good he is.
Toughest Omission: John Smoltz — esteemed
teammates Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux
have 305 and 355 wins and he has just 210. But
he lost 65 more while a closer and is 15-4 in
the postseason while the other two were both
UNDER .500 in the playoffs.
Mt. Rushmore of the Boston Bruins: 1. Bobby Orr — the greatest. 2. Raymond Bourque
— the second-greatest. 3. Phil Esposito —
inspired greatest bumper sticker ever — “Jesus
Saves! Esposito scores on the rebound!” 4.
Cam Neely — beloved and tough, the classic
Bruin. Toughest Omissions: Greats I didn’t see
play like Milt Schmidt and Eddie Shore —
’cause I’m not sure how good they were.
Mt. Rushmore of Manchester Sports Bars:
1. Billy’s – even has TVs in the bathrooms.
2. The Hilton Winter Garden Inn — good
TVs and live F-Cat action behind the patio 3.
Derryfield CC — best golf course bar in history. 4. The Backroom — not really a sports
bar but go in there any Friday after Central
football and basketball and there’s more good
sports talk than in all the other places combined. Toughest Omission: Jillian’s — love
that NCAA total game package.
Mt. Rushmore of Boston Sports: Orr,
Williams, Russell and Auerbach. Toughest Omissions: Bird, Cousy, Brady, Yaz and Bourque.
I’ve got about a million others, so I’ll be
back with various editions from time to time
including a great one on the Yankees-Red Sox
rivalry later in the summer. And if you’ve got
any send them along and I’ll run them in “People, Places, and Other Stuff” as they come in.
Dave Long can be reached at dlong@
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PeoplE, places & other stuff
U-Turn at V for Cats after
Saturday’s fantastic finish
The Numbers:
0.43 – spring training ERA
of
on-the-verge-of-goingback-to-the-minors
hurler
Clay Buchholz, who a year
ago made the club out of
spring training when he had
an ERA north of nine. Go figure the logic on that one?
5 – goals scored by St.
Anselm’s Courtney Ford
when the Hawks were 209 losers to New Haven, who
coming into the game were
seventh in the national ranking for women’s lacrosse
programs in the country.
even happened if it weren’t for the truly unbelievable play by Thomas Fortney that tied the
game with one tenth of a second on the clock!
The Last One Dancing: Let the record
show the last local college hoopster standing
in 2009 was Londonderry’s Stephanie Murphy. It happened as Boston College has won
its first three games in the Women’s NIT. The
first was a 68-53 over crosstown rival BU
when she had 11 points and the same number of rebounds. In game two she went for
23 points (on 10 of 13 shooting) and 10 more
rebounds in a 68-64 win over St. John’s. And
finally Sunday it was 10 and six in a ninepoint win over Georgetown.
Out-of-Town Scores: In case you missed it,
it was close but no cigar for the Franklin Pierce
women’s basketball team, which fell to Manakato
State 103-94 in the NCAA final on Friday night.
Triple Double of the Week: Glenn Big Baby
Davis got the first triple double of his career
and the first TD of its kind in NBA annals this
week. It came in Sunday’s win over Oklahoma
City when he got 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10
stitches after taking an elbow to the head.
Sports 101 Answer: Bert (be home) Blyleven is the only member of the Top 10 strikeout
club who’s been voted on but hasn’t gotten in to
the Hall. His 3,701 are fifth. Those in are Ryan,
Roger Clemens, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver,
Don Sutton, Gaylord Perry and Walter Johnson.
The shoo-ins are second all-time Randy Johnson and just retired Greg Maddux.
19 – combined assist total
by Celtics points guards
Rajon Rondo (12) and Stephon Marbuy (7) during
their aforementioned win
over Oklahoma on Sunday.
26 – number of games
reached in the winning streak
in progress for the Rivier
College Men’s Volleyball
team after a 3-2 win over
Endicott on Thursday.
48 – combined saves by
Kieran Millan and Brian Foster for BU and the U
respectively in the 2-1 final at
the Verizon.
52 – points allowed by the
Manchester Wolves defense
in a rough opening-day loss
to Scranton Wilkes-Barre
on Saturday night when the
offense managed to score just
28 points. James Pinkney
threw for 233 yards, three
TDs and three interceptions
in the loss.
7,863 – fans on hand at
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Big Story: What a turbulent two days for
UNH hockey over the weekend — which
brought to mind the fact that he who lives by
the sword can die by it as well. That was the
case for them on Sunday, as after winning in
dramatic fashion on Saturday vs. North Dakota when the tying goal came with one-tenth
of a second left in regulation and the winner 45 seconds into overtime, the end came
in a 2-1 loss to Boston University on a goal
with just 14.4 seconds left. The goal went to
Jason Lawrence, who was named the tourney’s most outstanding player. BU’s Josh
Trivino got the game’s first goal, and Bobby Butler tied for UNH early in the second
period, setting up the gripping final 50 minutes. As disappointing as it was for the locals
it was a gift from the hockey gods in delivering two gripping games that most likely will
be remembered for the ages once the numbing disappointment subsides.
Sports 101: With 5,714 strikeouts Nolan
Ryan is the all-time leader. Of the next nine,
six are in the Hall and two others are soon to
be first ballot choices. Who’s the lone member
of the top 10 who is eligible to be elected to the
Hall of Fame but has not gotten in?
Play of the Week: Well actually it’s a tie
for the top spot. The second winner came on
the winning goal 45 seconds into overtime by
Peter LeBlanc that gave the U a dramatic 6-5
win over North Dakota to send them on to Sunday’s final vs. BU. However, it wouldn’t have
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Sports Glossary
Bob Feller: Grouchy fire-balling
Cleveland Indians righty who signed up
for the Navy the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. His 100-mile-an-hour fast ball
back in the day was determined by racing it against a motorcycle at that speed.
Winner of 266 games against 162 losses.
But since he averaged 26 wins in the three
years leading to the four he missed during
WWII and won 26 the year he returned,
it’s safe to say the war cost him about 100
wins. That would’ve vaulted him to fourth
all-time with 366. Also had three no-hitters — including one on opening day in
1940 — when for the only time in history
no one’s batting average went up or down
in the game, as all stayed at .000.
Nolan Ryan: Author of a phenomenal seven no-hitters and 1,000 strikeouts
more than his nearest competitor. Struck
out 302 when he was 42 and more hitters
than the numbers of innings he pitched in
each season from age 40 to 45. But when
you realize he also lost a whopping 292
against 324 wins, the word “amazing” is
a better fit than “great” is. But still, on
days when the moon and stars aligned to
make his stuff and control at peak, there
probably was no one better.
Tom Seaver: One of the young turks
in the Mets’ phenomenal stable of young
pitchers in the late ’60s that produced two
300-game winners in him and Ryan, a 222game winner in Jerry Koosman, eventual
Philly closer Tug McGraw and assorted
other promising hurlers like Jon Matlack
and Gary Gentry. Wins the who-was-better battle with Ryan, even with “just” 311
wins, as he had the better winning percentage (.603 to .526), 20-win seasons (5 to 2),
ERA (2.86 to 3.19) and three Cy Young
Awards to none by the big fella.
Christy Matthewson: Beloved New
York baseball Giants hurler who won 373
games between 1900 and 1917. Won 20 or
more 13 times and 30 or more four times.
Best year was 1908 when he was 37 and 11
with a 1.43 ERA in 390 innings. His most
astonishing? Probably back in ’03 when as
the number two starter his 30 wins and 363
innings were just second best on the team to
Iron Man Joe McGinnty’s 31 and incredible 434 innings! Died at 45 — a few years
after getting mustard-gassed in WWI, from
which he never fully recovered.
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Toll
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Border skirmish
A toll to-do flared up recently when New Hampshire and Massachusetts
state legislators pledged publicly to oppose tolls on I-93 on either side of
the states’ border.
Seeking ways to raise the $319 million needed to complete the I-93
widening project, New Hampshire Department of Transportation Commissioner George Campbell filed a letter of interest in a pilot Interstate
tolling program with the Federal Highway Administration in December.
DOT spokesperson Bill Boynton said the commissioner did get a kind of
notification that Massachusetts was looking into a border toll, which was
a factor.
You see, only three states can take advantage of the “Interstate System
Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program,” which has been on the
books since 1998. Virginia and Missouri already have. (The pilot is under
the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.) That means just one
more state can toll an Interstate facility to pay for needed reconstruction.
New Hampshire has now been invited to apply and is reviewing the option
but has not filed a formal application, Boynton said.
Why we pay to drive the highways,
where the money goes and why tolls might increase
By Heidi Masek [email protected]
You can “live free or die” in New Hampshire but it may eventually cost you $2
to get out: a southbound toll on Interstate 93 in Salem could be in your future.
Meanwhile, the governor’s budget proposal includes 50-cent toll increases at the
main Bedford, Hooksett and Hampton plazas and 25 cents at others. Then there’s
that awful rumor about possibly moving Bedford’s toll to Nashua.
Living in New Hampshire means no sales or state income tax (unless you work
out of state, of course) yet keeping the highways passable has to be paid for
somehow.
Freedom Trail
State Rep. Frank Sapareto (R-Derry) said that in a couple of hours he collected about 100 names of New Hampshire legislators who would pledge
not to support a border toll. It wasn’t a petition, he said. The list was to
create awareness and form an agreement with their Massachusetts counterparts rather than get into a toll war, Sapareto said. Sapareto and colleagues
joined Massachusetts legislators in Boston on Monday, March 23, to go on
the record with their pledge, Sapareto said.
Mass. state Senator Robert Hedlund, who participated, said the Massachusetts governor had floated the idea of an I-93 toll at the border, but
didn’t have a count of Massachusetts legislators who signed a pledge.
Rep. David Campbell of Nashua, vice chair on the Public Works and
highways committee, said an I-93 toll would need both federal and state
legislative approval.
“It’s our understanding that you can’t just throw a toll booth up on the
Interstate, because you would have to, in effect, pay back the federal government for ... building that highway,” Boynton said. “It’s unclear how
Massachusetts would [install a toll] without some special category like
we’re looking at,” Boynton said. (To make things more confusing, I-93
in Hooksett is laid out on an existing state turnpike, hence the toll, Boynton explained.)
Nancy Singer, spokesperson for Federal Highway Administration, said
she had not seen anything from Massachusetts regarding an I-93 toll as of
March 24. New Hampshire has not yet applied, she confirmed March 26.
“Basically, an Interstate can’t just be tolled. They have to apply to the
federal government and get permission,” Singer said. She believes the program Massachusetts is interested in is the Interstate Reconstruction and
Rehabilitation program. They would need to do some sort of improvement
to the road to install a toll, she said.
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Photo courtesy NH Dept. of Transportation
A toll in Salem?
Boynton said it would take four years to open a toll in Salem under optimum circumstances, so the earliest you would see one — if the state goes
that route — would be 2013.
Located somewhere between the Massachusetts border and Exit 1, it
would be an “open road toll.” The DOT plans to convert the Hampton toll
to open road in 2010. In this system, vehicles with toll transponders continue driving at highway speed, tolled by an overhead mechanism. Cash
vehicles are diverted to a plaza.
Wouldn’t a toll slow down traffic and cause bottlenecks and traffic jams
just where you want to relieve them? Boynton said no, because open tolling allows free flow of traffic and 60 percent of turnpike users have an
E-ZPass.
What about safety issues? “There again, all you would have visually
would be a structure over the road ... it looks like an overhead sign structure,” Boynton said. There wouldn’t be 14-foot lanes between booths to
worry about, he said.
Invisible toll plaza
Whether physical layout or other logic is behind the southbound choice
Boynton did not know. “Presumably for most people it’s round trip,” Boynton said.
At this point, the New Hampshire E-ZPass account discount would still
apply, Boynton said. However, the governor’s current budget proposal (the
House has other ideas) drops the discount in favor of capping your monthly E-ZPass bill at $30.
The Salem toll is estimated to bring in roughly $34 million per year.
Boynton said he thinks about $2 million is planned for operations and staff
annually, leaving a net of $32 million.
With that projected revenue, it seems like the toll would pay for the
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project in about 11 years. However,
a 30-year bond to cover remaining
I-93 costs and about $23 million
to build the toll is mentioned in
the commissioner’s letter of interest to the FHWA. Debt service on
the bond is why the toll is scheduled to pay for the project over 30
years, Boynton said. Asked if tolling would end then, Boynton said
he hasn’t heard long-term plans.
Boynton thinks toll collectors are
paid between $8 and $12 per hour,
depending on whether they are parttime or full-time.
A few reactions
Interstate 93
About 100,000 vehicles per day
use I-93, with two lanes each way,
Boynton said. There’s not much
area on the shoulder and embankments are steep, Boynton said.
When there’s any sort of incident,
traffic has nowhere to go. There are
more lanes in Massachusetts, and
the road starts narrowing at Exit 1
Tunnel trouble
Ever paid $8 to cross the Hudson River on the George Washington Bridge? You could have been paying almost as much to
use the Sumner, Callahan or Ted Williams tunnels to cross Boston
Harbor this summer.
Hedlund said the Mass. Turnpike Authority can install tolls
without legislative approval in areas it controls, which are the
three Boston tunnels and the turnpike itself. It recently agreed to
delay planned toll increases from $1.25 to $2 July 1 at Weston
and Allston-Brighton on I-90/MassTurnpike, and from $3.50 to
$7 at the harbor tunnels, according to NECN. Much of the commonwealth’s transportation debt problem is due to the Big Dig,
according to NECN.
“We have some legislators who think their communities feel
they are treated unfairly,” Hedlund said. Instead of standing united against tolls and toll hikes, they are looking to spread the tolls
around, he said. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick had also
floated the idea of tolls near the Rhode Island and Connecticut
borders.
Hedlund referenced the “huge” transportation bill they were
debating last week that would provide all-encompassing reform,
including their pension system, and get rid of the Massachusetts
Turnpike Authority. The Massachusetts senate passed the bill,
which also consolidates the MBTA into the proposed single transportation agency, on March 25, according to the Boston Globe.
Stimulus
New Hampshire received $129.4
million in federal stimulus money,
which is “almost a whole additional year of construction money,”
Boynton said. The NH DOT will
be able to pave about 750 miles this
year because of it, about three times
what had initially been planned,
Boynton said.
But it sounds like none of that
can pay for things like plowing. The
DOT is facing about a $150 million
operating budget shortfall (as in
things like plowing) on July 1 for
the state budget biennial cycle. It is
currently spending about $100,000
more per day than it brings in,
Boynton said.
Money from the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act
needs to go toward projects “that
are ready to go,” that create transportation construction work, Singer
said. Mostly, she’s seeing repaving
and resurfacing projects.
Tolls, state gas tax and motor
vehicle fees pretty much are how
the DOT covers operating costs in
New Hampshire. Almost all funding for so-called capital projects
— projects related to infrastructure
— is federal, Boynton said.
The state’s gas tax is 18.5 cents
per gallon, and the federal one is
18.4. The average U.S. state gas tax
is 26.6 cents according to the American Petroleum Institute’s January
information.
“We’re in this kind of odd situation where we benefit from burning
Invisible toll plaza
In an open road toll, vehicles continue driving at highway speed under a bar that reads
their transponders. Vehicles paying in cash are
diverted to collection booths.
You may have driven through one on the
Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, called
“Express E-ZPass.”
DOT plans to convert the Hampton toll to an
open toll by Memorial Day of 2010. It should
improve air quality there, Boynton said.
That conversion is contingent upon a plan
that would transfer a small section of I-95 to
the turnpike system (HB 391). Open road tolling in
Illinois shown here; Illinois Tollway photo.
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said Ed Callahan, president and
general manager of Rockingham
Park in Salem.
He’s not sure how much it would
affect the Park, though. From The
Rock, people can use Route 28,
which is parallel to I-93, to cross the
border. That would probably cause
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community, but customers would
be able to avoid the toll, Callahan
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and said “I think at this time it’s premature.” She also thinks we have to
be open to funding solutions.
Major Russell Conte, field operations bureau commander for the
State Police, said, “You know, I
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concerns, Boynton said.
Rebuilding I-93 between Manchester and Salem is now projected
to cost $780 million. Originally, it
was to cost $410 million, which
was federally funded. But costs in
land and construction went up dramatically — by 40 percent in the
past three years, Boynton said. Steel
and concrete costs rose due to global demand.
The project is scheduled to finish
in 2017. Stimulus funding is helping move some aspects along, yet
other parts are pending that $319
million, Boynton said.
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Interstates and turnpikes
Interstates and turnpikes in New Hampshire make up 7 percent of the NH Dept. of
total road mileage but 37 percent of total traffic. “That’s where some of Transportation
the burden is,” Boynton said.
Tolls pay for everything that has to do with the state’s 93 miles of
turnpike. However, there are about 190 miles of Interstate. They are
state-owned, yet only money from the “highway fund” can be used to
maintain them, which comes from revenue from the state gas tax and
motor vehicle registration fees. The $106,503,360 collected in Fiscal
Year 2008 on the turnpike could only be used to maintain those 93 miles
of turnpike. (More than $42 million of that came from the Bedford and
Hooksett tolls.)
The DOT is looking at a long-term “aggregation” idea that would
essentially allow for the use of toll revenues to maintain and improve
the Interstate system, Boynton said. The commissioner wants to make
sure the quality of the Interstates is on par with the quality of the turnpikes. “And he thinks it’s slipping. Right now, toll money cannot be
used for Interstates,” Boynton said. The commissioner has about 4,200
miles of state highway to worry about, and wants to figure out how turnpike income can be a wider resource.
Boynton said cities and towns have also noticed a drop in registration revenue because people are holding onto their cars longer (the fee is
higher for newer models).
Campbell said the DOT presented his committee with a plan to add
Interstates to the turnpike system, but did not put forth a plan to put any
tolls north of Hooksett. Bouchard said she’s not sure how long turnpike
revenue could be used to maintain the entire Interstate system. Bouchard
said that toll building has to come to the General Court for approval.
The federal government only owns Interstates on federal lands, Singer
said. Still there are federal restrictions on Interstates. One of the restrictions on toll collections is that it has to go back toward the facility, such
as debt service or maintaining and operating the road. You can’t put up
a toll to build a school, for instance, Singer said, particularly with the
Reconstruction and Rehabilitation program. And if a state wants federal
aid, it has to abide by federal regulations for roads, Springer said.
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gas,” Boynton said. But people are driving
less and using more fuel-efficient cars.
“New Hampshire DOT is not unique ...
just about every state is facing tremendous
challenges in how to fund transportation,”
Boynton said.
A gas tax plan
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If you drive through an E-ZPass lane without an E-ZPass transponder, “By the letter of the
law… you’ve evaded the toll, but we do understand that people make mistakes,” Conte said. “At
your earliest convenience,” notify DOT and usually they can provide a way to mail in your toll,
Conte said.
“I mean, we don’t want people to get into an accident to right a small mistake,” Conte
said.
Boynton said he often gets calls from drivers saying they were squeezed into the wrong
lane by a truck, for example.
“We would discourage any kind of dramatic movements” if you are in the wrong lane,
Boynton said. If you go through the wrong toll, you’ll probably get notice of a $25 administrative fee, which notifies you that you can appeal. “More often than not, initial violations
that are appealed are waived, so that you don’t have to pay ... obviously if you’re chronically doing it, there’s more of a problem there,” Boynton said. The last thing they want is people
backing up or taking sharp turns.
The lanes are well-marked, with purple signs for E-ZPass. Commuters and regular users
know, but infrequent travelers might get confused, Boynton said.
Conte said usually signs are a couple miles ahead of the tolls showing which lanes to use.
Generally, hand collection for cash is at the booth to the far right, he said.
The State Police and DOT announced a “campaign to improve safety” at toll plazas recently. A press release about it stated that “speeds within the plazas have become unreasonable
and unsafe to members of the motoring public and toll employees.”
Conte said that although the E-ZPass works at higher speeds than they consider safe, the
10-mile-per-hour advisory speed is for safety.
“The main reason is you have much more control over your vehicle,” Conte said. The stopping distance is minimized, for example. Slower speeds “lessen the consequences of any
accidents,” Conte said.
Conte said there’s currently work going on to set speed limits through tolls.
The 35-mph limit approaching the toll is “to get people to start slowing down from highway speed,” Conte said. “We understand it’s not an easy thing to do ... what we’re tying to get
people to do is approach those toll plazas at controllable, safe speeds,” Conte said.
When asked if people are fined for going faster than 10 miles per hour through the toll,
Conte said driving at an unsafe speed doesn’t need to have a number. Weather conditions and
location factor in. Conte advises drivers to think about the safety requirements for where they
are — drive at a speed at which you can be aware of all of your surroundings and be able to
react.
“We’re just trying to make [the tolls] safer for everyone,” Conte said. “Those toll booth
areas become very congested depending on the time of day,” Conte said.
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A bill has already passed the state House
to raise the state gas tax by 15 cents, Boynton said.
But that’s not what the governor’s budget includes. The DOT commissioner’s plan
is essentially the governor’s plan, and uses a
combination of other funding mechanisms,
Boynton said.
The governor’s and DOT budget proposal
shows increases for about every toll but those
in Merrimack.
The DOT has fewer employees than it did
20 years ago, and it has proposed closing nine
rest areas. The only thing Boynton thinks has
not been considered for potential cuts is winter maintenance. The department spent $6
million more this year than normal. Average storm clean-up costs $29 million or $30
million per year. Last year it was about $37
million, and this year it was about $35 million. Salt costs went up 30 percent. Fuel costs
were up last year.
The House’s plan is much different.
Bouchard said HB 644 from the public works
and highways committee is written to create
a new dedicated account for money taken in
from the increase of 5 cents each year for three
years.
It “prevents diversion,” Bouchard said.
All of that gas tax money in that plan goes to
building roads and bridges and maintenance.
However, cities and towns get the first 12 percent back in grants, which increases what they
have been getting by 50 percent, Bouchard
said. “That’s why the municipal association
backs it,” Bouchard said.
The DOT is expected to be going into deficit by $150,000 per day this summer. This plan
puts the DOT back into the black, addresses the I-93 funding needs and bridge issues,
and “gets us on a paving schedule,” Bouchard said.
The governor/DOT plan to cut the 30-percent E-ZPass discount would net $3.4 million
annually in revenue, after capping E-ZPass
users’ monthly bill at $30 (HB 670). “The bill
was actually designed to give frequent users a
break,” Boynton said.
The House voted against a monthly cap,
although there was discussion involving a 15percent discount and cap of 33 toll trips per
month.
Campbell points out that if people lose their
E-ZPass discounts (and don’t hit a monthly
limit), a toll hike of 70 cents (discounted) to
$1.50 amounts to a 114-percent increase, for
example.
Studies showed that neighboring states with
higher gas taxes don’t necessarily have higher
prices at the pump, Bouchard said. The pump
price is market-driven, she said.
Bouchard said they “didn’t want to do anything in these hard economic times that affect
citizens” too adversely. Depending on how
much you drive, the gas tax increase could
equal about $25 or $50 more per year, she
said.
Recognizing the gas tax can’t be relied on
in the future, Bouchard said HB 644 includes
a study for a long-term solution to augmenting
it. They had two economists look at the bill
and they expect the bill will create 11,000 to
14,000 jobs because of construction, she said.
The governor’s plan doesn’t create the revenue to finish I-93, while it looks like the
House version does.
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“It relies on a lot of fees,” like an extra
$10 to register your car, Bouchard said of
the governor’s plan. That increase only
brings in $12 million, Campbell said. “That
plan also only funds [DOT] for four years,
so it’s a short-term plan,” Bouchard said.
A 10- or 12-year funding solution is needed,
Campbell said.
“I guess some people would say, pick your
poison,” Boynton said. This isn’t a scheme
to endorse the gas tax, he said. The DOT still
wants the proposal it sent to the governor.
Historically, a gas tax has always been “very
difficult, politically, to increase,” with even
one- and two-cent hikes being shot down. The
New Hampshire gas tax has not been raised
since about 1991, Boynton said.
Campbell believes his committee’s bill will
go through the House again as part of the budget bill, then head to the state Senate.
Sapareto said as a member of the Ways
and Means committee, he’s concerned that
many bills that should have come through his
committee haven’t. “We have such an overwhelming amount of Democrats,” Sapareto
said. He believes bills with tax increases that
should have gone through Ways and Means
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James Pitts, the town manager of Bow, said
of Hooksett toll avoidance, “I’d classify that
as a serious problem in Bow.” A large number of 18-wheelers bypass tolls using Route
3A. “Business is booming” for the two truck
stops in that area, but residents have to listen to trucks late at night, Pitts said. (The top
charge, for a nine-axle vehicle, is $5.50 cash,
or $4.95 with an E-ZPass discount.)
Pitts thinks that if tolls go up there will be
more diverted traffic. “If you wish to see an
example of what I’m talking about, simply
drive down 3A through Bow at 10 o’clock at
night.... It’s just one solid stream of trucks,”
Pitts said.
“I’m sure a lot of people in automobiles are
dodging the Hooksett tolls,” Pitts said. There’s
a fair amount of speeding. State Police do
enforcement there. “There’s a relatively high
accident rate on 3A,” Pitts said. That can
involve the town’s fire, police and ambulance
service. Bow’s services also assist in responding to accidents at the toll.
Few residents probably use I-93 to get
around town.
“We don’t have the problem that Merrimack does,” Pitts said. Those commuting
south of Bow might be affected, but to the
north: “There are no tolls all the way to Canada,” Pitts said.
“People have a choice,” Conte said. Routes
that run adjacent to those highways were usually there before the Interstates were, he said.
However, he thinks many people probably
don’t avoid the toll if the highway is quicker. “I think commuters probably want to get
to work expeditiously. They want to get home
the same way.”
Nashua toll?
Boynton said there certainly isn’t any eminent legislation to move the Bedford tolls to
Nashua, but said just about everything is being
looked at in state government these days when
it comes to the budget.
“I think the commissioner is looking at any
and all types of things that can help sustain the
Merrimack’s plight
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A bill that would require each community to have “one or more” tollfree interchange, HB 604, was killed during the torrent of legislating
March 24 when the General Court was preparing for “crossover day”
(the deadline for House bills to go to the Senate and vice versa). Essentially, it could have helped Merrimack, which has tolled exits.
“I think the Daniel Webster Highway is used pretty extensively to
avoid some or all of the tolls,” Merrimack Town Manager Keith Hickey
said. Hickey thinks a lack of tolls could reduce some of the traffic there,
especially during commuter hours.
How does he feel about moving Bedford tolls to Nashua, or adding a
Salem toll? “Obviously any relief that we can get in Merrimack regarding tolls would be ... positive for the town itself,” Dickey said. But he
added, “I think there are pros and cons with tolls being located at the
New Hampshire-Massachusetts border.” A lot of the arguments against
them would be the same arguments Merrimack has. Are people any
more likely to pay a toll to save a little on sales tax than they would be
to stop at a Merrimack gas station?
The recommendation against HB 604 came from Rep. Dale R Sprague
for the public works and highways committee: “The majority of the
committee found this bill unfairly relieved one community on the turnpike system of paying its fair share. The turnpike system is set up as
a ‘pay-as-you-go system,’ and if the community finds the fee doesn’t
make travel easier in their day to day living, they can choose not to use
the system.” Why the harsh words?
Those exit ramps were constructed in Merrimack with the understanding that once those on and off ramps were paid for, the tolls would come
down, Hickey said. The town has probably paid for those ramps several times by now, he said.
Actually, they haven’t according to Campbell. Boynton confirmed
that the interchanges at Bedford Road at Exit 12, Continental Boulevard at Exit 11 and Industrial Drive at Exit 10 cost about $48.9 million,
financed by 30-year bonds, according to an eight-year-old report, Boynton said. The ramps were opened between 1990 and 1993. Merrimack
had asked for them to attract new industry and agreed to tolls to pay
for them. Digital Equipment had donated land for a ramp and a few
hundred thousand dollars to the cause. Campbell said the plan worked
and brought industrial development to the town. Fidelity is now located where Digital was. He also said state work on Continental Boulevard
and Industrial Drive were involved in the toll agreement.
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How about privatization? In 2005, the
first long-term lease of a toll road in the U.S.
occurred when Skyway Concession Company,
LLC, took over operation and maintenance of
the 7.8-mile Chicago Skyway from the City of
Chicago. In the 99-year lease, the private entity receives toll and concession income from
the elevated connector between I-94 and I-90,
according to an FHWA case study. There are
recent reports of toll hikes and toll collector
wage disputes.
New Hampshire has not seriously considered privatizing a highway, Boynton said.
Other dramatic proposals include discussion in Oregon and Massachusetts of
factoring in vehicle miles traveled. “We don’t
plan on going there anytime soon,” Boynton
said. Massachusetts plans to start charging
a monthly 50-cent fee per transponder starting June 1. Boynton said New Hampshire is
not looking at such a thing. An interior NH EZPass transponder currently costs $20.95 for
an individual. All kinds of ideas are floating
around, but everyone’s still relying on gas tax
and motor vehicle fees, he said.
A number of funding options have been discussed, but Boynton said he thinks they are
primarily heading toward a “so-called user
fee,” or toll. “And that’s the national trend,”
Boynton said.
Singer confirmed that she’s seeing that
trend, and not just to maintain roads. More
states are converting HOV (high-occupancy
vehicle) lanes to HOT (high-occupancy/toll)
lanes, which raises revenue, but primarily
dilutes congestion. Basically, it allows minimum-occupancy vehicles to use the carpool
lane by paying a toll. In Denver, for example,
not enough traffic used the HOV lane, so it
made sense to allow other vehicles, she said.
Variable tolling, another trend, is also used
for revenue and to alleviate congestion, Singer said.
Regarding DOT funding ideas, Callahan
said, “Well, you know, we have other potential
solutions.” Callahan thinks the gas tax needs
to go up anyway. “The state continues to take
money out of that fund, for the Department
of Safety, I believe,” Callahan said. Boynton
said payments from the highway fund to other agencies “have pretty much been justified”
at this point.
Regarding funding I-93, Sapareto recommends perhaps cutting some spending out of
the project, using some federal stimulus money, and voluntary sources, “for example slot
machines in Rockingham Park.” New Hampshire’s always found money “through booze,
butts and bets,” Sapareto said.
Alternate routes
Roads that run parallel to tolls or possible tolls:
• Daniel Webster Highway in Merrimack
• Route 3A in Bow and Hooksett
• Route 3 in Bedford
• Route 28 in Salem
Photo courtesy NH Dept. of Transportation
system for the future,” Boynton said.
Bouchard said she hasn’t heard any official discussion about moving Bedford tolls
to Nashua. The General Court tried to do that
several years ago and it was overturned on the
House floor, she said.
“The bottom line is we have to fund our
transportation plan. Right now we’re barely able to keep up with routine maintenance,”
Bouchard said.
When pressed, the DOT commissioner said
toll booths would not be in Salem or Nashua
for at least two years, but made no guarantees
past that, Rep. David Campbell said — “Which
of course gives great concern to those of us
that live in the southern tier.” His committee
favors the gas tax because it spreads the funding burden throughout the state, he said.
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THIS WEEK
EvEnTS TO CHECK OuT APrIL 2 - 8, 2009, And BEYOnd
Hot List
What’s hot now in...
CdS
Top 10 sellers at Newbury
Comics
1. The Decemberists, The
Hazards Of Love
2. Mastodon, Crack The
Skye
3. Pearl Jam, Ten (Legacy
Edition)
4. Doom, Born Like This
5. Keri Hilson, In A Perfect World...
6. U2, No Line on the
Horizon
7. Kings Of Leon, Only
By The Night
8. Blue October,
Approaching Normal
9. Jim Jones, Pray IV
Reign
10. Papa Roach, Metamorphosis
BOOKS
According to Amazon
1. Liberty and Tyranny:
A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin
(Threshold Editions, 2009)
2. New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2), by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
3. Breaking Dawn (The
Twilight Saga, Book 4), by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
4. Eclipse (The Twilight
Saga, Book 3), by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown,
2007)
5. The Twilight Saga
Collection, by Stephenie
Meyer (Little, Brown
Young Readers, 2008)
6. Twilight (The Twilight
Saga, Book 1), by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown,
2006)
7. Act Like a Lady, Think
Like a Man: What Men
Really Think About Love,
Relationships, Intimacy,
and Commitment, by
Steve Harvey (Amistad,
2009)
8. The 5000 Year Leap:
A Miracle That Changed
the World, by W. Cleon
Skousen (National Center
for Constitutional Studies,
2006)
9. The Shack, by William
P. Young (Windblown
Media, 2007)
10. The Love Dare, by
Stephen Kendrick, Alex
Kendrick (B&H Books,
2008)
dvd
Top rentals at Hollywood
Video
1. Role Models (R, 2008)
2. Punisher: War Zone
(R, 2008)
3. Transporter 3 (PG-13,
2008)
4. Twilight (PG-13, 2008)
5. Australia (PG-13, 2008)
6. Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 2008)
7. Body of Lies (R, 2008)
8. Rachel Getting Married
(R, 2008)
9. Milk (R, 2008)
10. Changeling (R, 2008)
FILM
Top movies at the box
office March 27-29
(weekend/cumulative)
1. Monsters vs. Aliens,
Paramount ($58 mil./$58
mil.)
2. The Haunting in Connecticut, Lionsgate ($23
mil./$23 mil.)
3. Knowing, Summit
Entertainment ($14
mil./$46 mil.)
4. I Love You, Man,
Paramount ($12.6 mil./$37
mil.)
5. Duplicity, Universal
($7.5 mil./$25.6 mil.)
6. Race to Witch Mountain, Buena Vista ($5.6
mil./$53 mil.)
7. 12 Rounds, 20th Century
Fox ($5.3 mil./$5.3 mil.)
8. Watchmen, Warner
Bros. ($2.7 mil./$103 mil.)
9. Taken, 20th Century
Fox ($2.7 mil./$137 mil.)
10. The Last House on the
Left, Rogue Pictures ($2.6
mil/$28 mil)
PUCCINI
Sunday, April 5
Nashua artist Marc Winnat travels a portion of the old Hillsboro Branch Rail Line from Milford to Bennington with a
series of 50 pencil drawings. See the work and meet the artist
today between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. at a reception at the Nashua
Library, 2 Court St. in Nashua (589-4600, www.nashualibrary.
org). “Hillsboro Branch, One Last Look” closes April 30. (J.
Campanella photo.) For more about art, see page 20.
Thursday, April 2
It’s “Spring Feast Week” in
downtown Nashua. Find threecourse prix fixe meals for $20.09
at Michael Timothy’s or Surf,
$16 at Martha’s Exchange, and
$25 at Black Orchid Grill, Saffron Bistro, Unums and Villa
Banca. Other eateries are offering discounts and other deals.
See greatamericandowntown.org
for details or call 883-5700. For
more about food, see page 32.
Friday, April 3
Adventureland, directed by
Greg Mottola (Superbad), stars
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen
Stewart with Ryan Reynolds
and SNL’s Kristen Wiig and Bill
Hader. Set in 1987, Eisenberg’s
character plays a recent college
grad who must take a minimum
wage gig at Adventureland. For
more about movies, see page 42.
Friday, April 3
Pass by Shaskeen, 909 Elm
St. in Manchester (625-0246), to
hear Rockspring, once known as
The Verbs. Hear samples from
the string band at www.myspace.
com/rockspringmusic. For more
about live music, see page 46.
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Saturday, April 4
Bring the family to watch Seussical the Musical, Dr. Seuss classics,
on stage tonight at 7:30 p.m. from the
Anselmian Abbey Players of Saint
Anselm College. (Derek McDonald, ’10, seen here as Horton the
Elephant.) It’s at the Dana Center on
the Saint Anselm campus, 100 Saint
Anselm Drive in Manchester. Ticket
costs range from $6 to $13; call 6417700 or visit www.anselm.edu/dana.
For more about theater, see page 23.
Bison, Venison, Elk, Ostrich
Quail, Duck, Wild Boar, Alligator
Thurs & Fri 12pm-6pm, & Sat & Sun 10am-4:30pm.
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Since 1944
Jewelers
PUBLIC NOTICE:
We have given notice to our staff to take whatever action is necessary to
clear our building on time. Public response to our sale has been gratifying,
and the amount of merchandise that has been sold has been astounding.
Even so, we have a great deal more to do before we can complete the
immense task of selling out this merchandise. Our vaults are now stripped,
and everything that must be sold is on display. New markdowns have been
taken on virtually every item. A special selection of hundreds of remaining
one-of-a-kind fine jewelry pieces has been reduced to 27 cents on the dollar.
If you have stopped by, please come in again and look during this final
opportunity to add DESJARDINS jewelry to your collection
MERCHANDISE
NOT INCLUDED
in this liquidation
lot will be sold at
61% to 66% OFF
EVERY ITEM IN EVERY DEPARTMENT
is tagged at historic reductions. It’s easy
to take advantage of the savings:
YOU CAN USE MOST ANY MAJOR CREDIT
CARD. You may be pleasantly surprised how
little it costs each month to own the diamond
of your dreams. Many people are unaware
that for only a few dollars a month they can
own the eternal beauty of an exceptional
diamond! Years from now, when the
afternoon sun slants in and kindles the
ever-fresh fire of your diamond,
you’ll be glad you acted NOW!
•OTHER MERCHANDISE is reduced 61% to
66% off regular retail prices.
SORRY;
NO HOLDS
or
LAYAWAYS
•ALL MERCHANDISE IS UNCONDITIONALLY
guaranteed to be authentic and as represented.
•ALL PREMIUM DIAMOND jewelry in this
liquidation selection is tagged with precise
certified carat weight. All merchandise is
mounted in solid gold. Solid gold purity is
stamped on each piece.
Sale Ends Sat,
April 4 at 4:00 pm
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A special selection of one-of-a-kind fine jewelry pieces will be
sold to the public immediately for a fraction of their value.
The Value of this Selection is near $400,000.00
HUNDREDS OF REMAINING PIECES WILL BE SOLD FOR
ALL MAJOR
CREDIT CARDS
HONORED
NEWSPAPER DEADLINES make
it impossible to provide a listing
of merchandise that will be on sale.
There can be no question, however, that
when you visit our store today, you will see
the most exciting values in our history of
serving this area.
FINAL
DAYS!
TERMS OF SALE
•ALL MERCHANDISE in the 27 cents-on-the
dollar liquidation selection is one or very few of
a kind, and will be sold on a strictly first-come
first-serve basis.
TIME IS
RUNNING
OUT!
27
¢
OR 73% OFF
RETAIL VALUES!
A tradition unsurpassed
Every jewelry purchase, to us, whether
large or small - is very important. It is
our pleasure to help you select the perfect
diamond!
ON THE
THE DOLLAR
DOLLAR
ON
PAY ONLY DIMES
ON THE DOLLAR!
EACH PIECE
PIECE
EACH
WITHOUT EXCEPTION!
EXCEPTION!
WITHOUT
INCLUDED IN THIS LIQUIDATION:
Diamond Rings for men & women, Diamond Pendants, Earrings, Bracelets and Necklaces,
Precious Gem Creations, Solid Gold Chains & Earrings, Fine Watches, Bridal Sets,
Semi-Mounts, Precious Pearls, various gift items, Sterling Silver items and much, much more.
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SALE HOURS:
MON THRU FRI
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
SATURDAY
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
CLOSED SUNDAY
6 Ways to Buy:
CASH • CHECK
Since 1944
Jewelers
1069 Elm St. • Manchester, NH • 603-625-8541
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Cause for soldiers
ARTS
Photographers join forces for SUDS
By Heidi Masek
[email protected]
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Nate Dean, 31, of Manchester, became
involved in Soldiers Undertaking Disabled
Scuba (SUDS) last year after helping a diving
industry colleague, John Chatterton of Maine, at
a trade show booth for the program.
Now Nate is the SUDS administrative director and he’s finishing a DiveMaster certification
with hopes to teach for SUDS in the future.
About 140 soldiers have gone through the
program, which is based at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center.
Discussions between Nate and his father, Dennis Dean, are behind the current photography
exhibit at Massabesic Audubon Center in Auburn.
Sales benefit both SUDS and Audubon.
It includes SUDS diving trip images by
professional photographer Kevin Morris of
Brunswick, Maine (www.kevinmorris.com),
along with photos of nature and surroundings
from Dennis, and “macro” or close-up floral
photos by Laurie Daily.
Neither Dean has military ties, but Dennis said
he thought it was a great idea to “help returning
soldiers with disabilities experience something
that they most likely would never have done on
their own.”
Dennis has been taking photos since he was a
kid — “It’s my passion,” he said. He called his
style “kind of eclectic.” He likes to tell a story with
his pictures. The 13 in this exhibit are connected
with a treasure map he created about 20 years ago.
Daily said she takes photos in her back yard
(which for her is about 12 acres with a pond)
as a way to relax after teaching third- graders.
She picked it up as a hobby a couple of years
ago, and said her “bug’s-eye view” of flowers,
insects, birds and other details has changed how
she sees her land — “how the light is playing off
a particular petal or leaf” might catch her eye,
Daily said.
“I just get as close as I can to something and
try to take a different look at it,” Daily said.
“Her stuff is actually phenomenal,” Dennis
said. “She has a very unique talent for capturing
light and colors,” Dennis said. They both live in
Derry, and Dennis works with her husband.
This is Daily’s first time exhibiting, although
she won a grand prize of her own Web site
(www.lauriedailyphotography.com)
through
www.betterphoto.com.
Daily learned about SUDS through this project, and hopes the Massabessic show helps build
awareness, she said. She called the program an
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opportunity for “soldiers that give up so much
for the country” and come back with challenges
they didn’t have when they left.
As a teacher, she’s had students with a variety of challenges and knows “it’s so nice when
you can take the challenge away,” through creating a more level playing field or a way to work
around it.
The exhibit continues through April 24 at
Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way,
Auburn, 668-2045, www.newhampshireaudubon.org.
Meet the photographers, Nate and other
SUDS staffers at an open house Saturday, April
4, between 2:30 and 5 p.m.
Dennis works under the name Atsah Images.
Atsah is Navajo for eagle, he wrote. Reach him
at [email protected].
Photo by Kevin Morris.
Soldiers Undertaking Disabled Scuba
SUDS is “designed to help improve the lives of injured soldiers returning from Iraq & Afghanistan.
By training the soldiers in a challenging and rewarding activity such as scuba diving, it can help facilitate the rehabilitation process and promote mobility. Offering this venue provides the soldier with a
sport they can enjoy throughout their life,” according to a release from Nate Dean. Visit www.sudsdiving.org.
The program is only about two years old and recently expanded from Walter Reed to Bethesda Naval
Hospital, with plans to expand to Brook Army Medical Center in Texas. Dennis Dean noted that ABC
recently featured SUDS on television.
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Art Listings
Gallery Events
• ANNICK BOUVRON-GROMEK
& DORIS RICE monotypes through
April 13 at the Derryfield School’s
Lyceum Gallery, 2108 River Rd.,
Manchester, 669-4524.
• ART BEYOND SIGHT© juried
art exhibit through May 1 presented
by the New Hampshire Art Association and New Hampshire Association
for the Blind at Robert Lincoln Levy
Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth,
431-4230, www.nhartassociation.org.
Reception, Fri., April 3, 5–8 p.m. Lecture: “To Touch and Be Touched,” by
Rosalyn Driscoll, Tues., April 21, at
5:30 p.m., at the Portsmouth Library,
175 Parrott Ave.
• ART FROM ART exhibit of student artwork from the Currier Museum “ART from ART” program at the
Nashua Senior Activity Center April
18, 10 a.m.-noon, at 70 Temple St.,
Nashua, 889-6155.
• ART IN THE MILL, work by Ken
Harvey through April 15 at UNH
Manchester, 400 Commercial St.,
• ART ’ROUND TOWN gallery
walk, Portsmouth, Fri., April 3, 5-8
p.m., artroundtown.org.
• ART STROLL in Rochester first Fridays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. artstream, Jenny
Wren Gallery, Robert Ortiz Studios,
and Barrington Editions on North Main
Street and Ben Franklin Gallery, Granite State Art and Timeless Framing on
Wakefield Street participate, artstreamstudios.com, 335-3577.
• THE ART OF ROCK AND ROLL
through April 4 at the McIninch Art
Gallery, Southern New Hampshire
University, 2500 North River Rd.,
• BACK TO BASICS: Two Friends’
Perspectives features paintings by
David Preece and jewelery by Diane
Terragni through April at “Art On The
Wall At City Hall Gallery,” 1 City
Hall Plaza, Manchester, 624-6500.
• THE BAILEYWORKS ART
PROJECT in April at ellO
gallery&shop, 110 State St., Portsmouth, 433-9110, www.ellogallery.
com. Reception, Fri., April 3, 6-9 p.m.
Also see www.baileyworks.com.
• 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.
• CAROL GOVE paintings and
mixed media April 8-April 30 at New
Hampshire Institute of Art’s Amherst
Street Gallery, 77 Amherst St. in
Manchester, 836-2573, nhia.edu.
Reception Wed., April 8, 5-7 p.m.
• CONSTANCE PRICE art and photography show Sat., April 4, at 1 p.m., at
Bella Vino Specialty Wines and Gourmet, 2 Young Rd., Londonderry, 4265212 (below Tupelo Music Hall). Wine
tasting by R.P. Imports of Manchester.
• CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
EXHIBIT through May 10 at Mill
Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236
Hopkinton Rd., Concord, 226-2046.
Features work by Megan Bogonovich,
Marsha Hewitt, William McLane and
James Rappa. Reception Thurs., April
16, 5-8 p.m., during Art Concord.
• DAN BROWN photography series,
“Frost,” through mid-May at DesignWares, 206 Main St., Nashua, 8825535.
• DAVE DODGE oil paintings
through July 31 in the Tower Gallery
at New Hampshire Antique Co-op,
323 Elm St./Route 101A, Milford,
673-8499.
• DAVE MARDEN photography in
April at Canal Street Collectibles, 1
Water St., Nashua, 886-1459, www.
davemardenphotography.com.
• DIVERSIONS April 6-June 12 at
Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650. Reception, Thurs.,
April 16, 5-8 p.m., during Manchester’s Open Doors trolley tour.
• DRAWING THE LINE and
“Renewal: Printmakers from the New
Northern Ireland” exhibits through
April 8 at UNH Museum of Art, Paul
Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way,
Durham, unh.edu/moa, 862-3712.
• ELAINE XENELIS FULLER pottery, “100 BOWLS, 100 MEALS” in
April at Exeter Fine Crafts, 61 Water
St., Exeter, 778-8282. Reception Sat.,
April 4, 2-4 p.m.
• ERNEST ELLIS Neolithic-style
stone tools in April at Sharon Arts Fine
Craft Gallery, Depot Square, Peterborough, www.sharonarts.org, 924-2787.
• EYES ON THE PRIZE: An Honors Exhibition for High School Sophomores and Juniors with cash awards
and Rivier scholarships through April
8 at Rivier College Art Gallery, 435
Main St., Nashua, 897-8276.
• E.W. POORE JURY SHOW
through April 18, 531 Front St., Manchester, www.ewpoore.com, 622-3802.
• FIRST THURSDAYS The Currier
Museum is open late from 5:30 to
7:30 p.m. first Thursdays each month
with special programs including live
music, lectures and film. “Roaring
20s,” on April 2 celebrates The Big
Read’s 2009 selection for southern
New Hampshire, The Great Gatsby,
by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Art of the
Great Gatsby Era” museum tour at
5:30 p.m. Silent film comedies with
live musical accompaniment by Jeff
Rapsis at 6 and 7 p.m. The café features “bathtub gin,” and a demonstration from Kathy Blake Dance Studios
at 6:30 p.m. Competition for best
1920s costume. Admission costs $10
members for members, $20 for nonmembers. Reservations are required.
• FREE CURRIER MUSEUM
admission for all during spring school
vacation, April 27-May 1 (museum is
closed Tuesdays). • GARDEN IMAGERY exhibit
through April 24 at Gallery 205, 205
North Main St., Concord, 224-3375.
• GERALD AUTEN: Works on
Paper & Paul Bowen: Sculpture
through April 10 at the New England
College Gallery, Main Street in Henniker, 428-2329 or www.nec.edu.
• GIFTS OF GRACE miniature oil
paintings by Roger Croteau at Hatfield Gallery, 55 S. Commercial St.,
Manchester, www.syncrecity.com.
• HIGH SCHOOL DRAWING
COMPETITION exhibit through
April 3 at New Hampshire Institute
of Art’s Amherst Street Gallery, 77
Amherst St., and French Building, 148
Concord St., Manchester, 836-2573,
nhia.edu.
• “JENN 11” the artwork of 11 Jennifers through April 30 at artstream
gallery, 56 North Main St., Rochester, 330-0333, artstreamstudios.com.
Reception Fri., April 3, 5-8 p.m.
• JENNIFER WOOD photography
in April at Wilton Public Library, 7
Forest Rd., Wilton, wiltonlibrarynh.
org, 654-2581.
• JERRY MACMICHAEL “LakesRegion ArtWork” through May 11 at
OSSIAN’s Loft, 118 Beck Rd., Loudon, 783-4383, [email protected]
• MARC WINNAT series of pencil
drawings of the old Hillsboro Branch
Rail Line through April 30 at the
Nashua Library, 2 Court St., 589-4600.
Reception Sun., April 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
• MARCIA BLAKEMAN and Debra
Grubbs oils and pastels, “Waterways…
Frozen to Flowering,” featured through
April 25 at East Colony Fine Art.
Reception Fri., April 17, 5-8 p.m.
• MARLENE SAWAF & MONICA
WING: “Between the Lines” April
3-April 27 at Three Graces, 105 Market St., Portsmouth, 436-1988, www.
threegracesgallery.com.
• MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY
COLLEGE “Lost in Learning,”
exhibition of B&W photographs by
Newburyport artist Eva Timothy
through April 23, 591 Springs Rd.,
Bedford, 781-280-3803.
• MOTHER EARTH group show
through April 25 at the MAA Gallery,
1528 Elm St., Manchester, 785-6437.
Open Doors reception Thurs., April
16, 5-8 p.m.
• NASHUA BREAKFAST CLUB
annual exhibit through April 25 at the
Jaffrey Civic Center, 40 Main St., Jaffrey, 465-2013.
• OPEN DOORS MANCHESTER
Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.: April 16, June
25, Sept. 17 and Nov. 12. Tour of arts
and cultural venues with free trolley,
669-7469, opendoorsmnchstr@aol.
com, majestictheatre.net. Venues have
included Manchester City Hall, MAA
Gallery, Millyard Museum, SEE Science Center at 200 Bedford St., Art 3
Gallery, NH Institute of Art, Langer
Place, East Colony Fine Arts Gallery,
Franco American Centre, Manchester
Community Access Media at 540 N.
Commercial St.
• OUT OF AFRICA exhibit through
early June at Mariposa Museum, at
26 Main St., Peterborough, 924-4555,
www.mariposamuseum.org, $3-$5.
• PETALS2PAINT April 16-18 exhibition in which garden club floral
designers interpret member artwork at
East Colony Fine Art, Langer Place, 55
S. Commercial St. in Manchester, 6217400. Reception Thurs., April 16, 5-8
p.m., during Open Doors Manchester.
• PHOTOGRAPHY by Laurie
Daily, Dennis Dean and Kevin Morris
through April 24 at the Massabessic
Audubon Center to benefit Soldiers
Undertaking Disabled Scuba, based
at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
(www.sudsdiving.org). Open house
Sat., April 4, 2:30-5 p.m.
• PRINTMAKING – IMPRESSIONS, national juried exhibition
April 8-April 30 at New Hampshire
Institute of Art’s French Building
Gallery, 148 Concord St., Manchester, 836-2573, nhia.edu. Juried by
collector Parker Potter. Reception
Wed., April 8, 5–7 p.m.
• PROCEDERE-An Emerging Artist
Series featuring Leah Kuehne through
April 4 at the the Chapel Art Center,
Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint
Anselm Dr., Manchester, 641-7470,
www.anselm.edu/chapelart.
• RUSSIAN EASTER BAZAAR features Russian art and fine crafts, and
educational activities Sat., April 4, 11
a.m.-3 p.m. at the New England Language Center’s International Art Gallery, 16 Hillside Dr., Rochester, 332-
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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,
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
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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
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2500 North River Rd., Manchester,
629-4622. Reception Thurs., April 9,
3:30-4:30 p.m. before a SNHU Chorus performance and reading from
former New Hampshire Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin starting at 5 p.m.
in the auditorium.
• UNEARTHED II Don Campbell,
Jane Kaufmann, Jon Keenan, Gerry
Williams and Mark Shapiro through
April 3, at McGowan Fine Art, 10
Hills Ave., Concord, 225-2515.
• PASTEL SOCIETY of New Hampshire Exhibition through April 19 at
Stockbridge Theatre Gallery at Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry,
437-5210, pastelsocietynh.com.
• ZIMMERMAN HOUSE tours
leaving from Currier Museum.
Call 669-6144, ext. 108 for schedule and tickets or visit currier.org
to see this Frank Lloyd Wrightdesigned home. The Zimmerman
House opens for the season April
3., reservations required, $8-$18.
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• SHER KAMMAN, photography,
“Whispers of Trees” April 3-May
8 at the Conservation Center Gallery, 54 Portsmouth St., Concord,
224-9945, www.forestsociety.org.
Reception Fri., April 3, 5–7 p.m.
• SENIOR STUDENT exhibits through May 4 with openings
Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. at Chester
College, 40 Chester St, Chester,
887-4401, www.chestercollege.edu:
Krystle Belanger, Jesse Cloutier, Jessica Eastman, and Sarah Izatt, and a
reading by Stephanie Libby April 1;
Emily Brochu, Joe Brown, Amanda
Prue, and Jeff Traynor and readings
by Maggie Hatfield, Jeff Metcho,
and Laura Spencer April 8.
• SPRING FLING photography
exhibit April 3-May at Gallery One, 5
Pine St. Extension, Nashua, 883-0603.
Reception Sat., April 11, 2-5 p.m.
• STARVING STUDENTS EXHIBITION Keene State College Digital Imaging Class Gallery, Sat., April
4, 5-7 p.m., at the Starving Artist, 10
West St., Keene, 352-6900, www.
thestarvingartistcollective.com,
• STEVE AND LEAH MURPHY
artwork in April at Jewell & The
Beanstalk, 793 Somerville St., Manchester, 624-3709.
• TOM DRISCOLL paintings,
“Speaking in Marks,” April 7-May 8
at McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave.,
Concord, 225-2515. Reception Fri.,
April 10, 5-7 p.m.
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Kamman’s “Whispers of Trees” exhibit “honors
the beauty and power of the forest,” according to
a release from the New Hampshire Forest Society. Kamman, of Henniker, shows work at the
Society’s Conservation Center, 54 Portsmouth
St. in Concord, from April 3 through May 8.
Meet Kamman Friday, April 3, at a reception
between 5 and 7 p.m. Call 224-9945 or e-mail
[email protected].
• Print media: Print collector Parker Potter has put together many print shows in New
Hampshire and serves as a League of New
Hampshire Craftsmen trustee. He and his wife,
Nancy Jo, have collected more than 600 prints.
He is jurying a national print exhibition, “Printmaking-Impressions,” which opens with a
reception Wednesday, April 8, from 5 to 7 p.m.
at New Hampshire Institute of Art’s French
Building Gallery, 148 Concord St., Manchester (836-2573, nhia.edu). The variety of styles of
hand-pulled prints includes etching, lithography,
screen-printing and monoprinting, according to
a release. The show closes April 30.
• More openings: Meet Londonderry artist
Constance Price and see her art and photogra-
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phy Saturday, April 4, at 1 p.m., at Bella Vino
Specialty Wines and Gourmet, 2 Young Road
in Londonderry (426-5212). There will also
be a wine tasting by R.P. Imports of Manchester. Bella Vino owner Paula Doucette hosts the
show as part of a series of community events.
This month’s round of Portsmouth gallery
openings, Art ’Round Town (artroundtown.org)
on Friday, April 3, from 5 to 8 p.m., includes
the Art Beyond Sight© exhibit at the Robert
Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St. (431-4230,
www.nhartassociation.org). The New Hampshire Art Association collaborates with the New
Hampshire Association for the Blind to present
this April juried show that allows those who are
blind, have low vision, plus the general public
“to use multi-sensory means to experience art,”
according to a release. Everything exhibited is
tactile three-dimensional work or two-dimensional in high contrast. Braille and large-print
descriptions accompany work. A lecture, “To
Touch and Be Touched,” by Rosalyn Driscoll,
is Tuesday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m. at the Portsmouth Library, 175 Parrott Ave.
The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Zimmerman House opens for the season Friday, April
3, with 90-minute tours from the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St. in Manchester. Ticket
costs range from $8 to $18 and include Currier
admission; call 669-6144 ext. 108 to book, or
visit www.currier.org. Tours are free for museum members.
• Easter baskets: Visit the Russian Easter Bazaar to find traditional art and fine crafts
from Russia such as Matryoshka (nested doll)
sets and wooden toys. Educational activities
like storytelling are also planned for Saturday, April 4, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the New
England Language Center’s International Art
Gallery, 16 Hillside Dr., Rochester (332-2255,
[email protected]).
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“Site Photo #11 – Intersection of Granite and
Old Granite Streets East towards The Center of
NH and the Verizon Wireless Arena. Site in front.”
Photo from the City of Manchester.
Are you a sculptor looking for highly visible
placement? How about an island at Granite and
Old Granite streets in Manchester?
It’s a prime location for your work to be seen
by people heading toward Elm Street downtown and the Verizon Wireless Arena from Exit
5 off Interstate 293.
The City of Manchester just issued a
request for qualifications from professional artists “wishing to be considered for the
design, development and installation of permanent public artwork” at the site. The budget is
$45,000 (that’s for materials, transport, insurance, installation, everything). Submissions,
including a preliminary sketch, are due April
27. Preference goes to artists who have a studio or home in New Hampshire.
The piece is meant to do two things, said Jay
Minkarah, director of economic development
for the city. “It’s a part of our ongoing effort
to integrate public art into the landscape and
streetscape of the city, in particular the downtown area,” Minkarah said. Also, improvements
to Granite Street finish in 2009 and the area
is “functioning as a new gateway to city,”
Music School
2291 Elm St., 644-4548,
mcmusicschool.org
• Manchester Community
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
• Phoenix Academy
25 Front St., Suite 501, Nashua,
886-2768, phoenixacademynh.com
• Profile Chorus
Minkarah said. The improvements are to be
both functional and attractive.
The sculpture will need to serve as a “focal
point,” tying “disparate” elements of that area
together, Minkarah said. Rather than an overly
specific theme, “we chose to purposely leave
that open. We really don’t want to stifle the
array of creative solutions people may come up
with,” Minkarah said.
The request states, “Proposed artwork should
maintain broad public appeal and be appropriate for this setting. There is no pre-conception
or limitation to the content of the artwork; however there is an underlying interest in having
the artwork be a focal point on the roadway
that makes a bold statement and draws visitors
towards the area.”
“What we really want to encourage artists to do is to come and look at the setting,”
Minkarah said.
No tax dollars support the city arts fund that
covers this, said Georgie Reagan, Mayor’s
assistant to the arts. Started about five years
ago, private donations and donations from artists who exhibit on city property support it.
The city has not named a selection panel yet,
but it will have at least four voting members
coming from the Manchester Arts Commission, City staff, a community representative
and others who will send recommendations
to City Council for endorsement. For the full
RFQ, visit www.manchesternh.gov or contact
Meena Gyawali at 264-6505.
Meanwhile, a public sculpture commissioned in 2006 for installation in front of the
Verizon Wireless Arena by Clowes Sculpture
of Walpole is now expected to be installed by
May 12. —Heidi Masek
Dance from
Chicago
Giordano
Jazz
Dance Chicago performs at the Capitol
Center for the Arts, 44
South Main St. in Concord, Sunday, April 5,
at 7:30 p.m. with a 6:30 p.m. pre-show. Founder Gus Giordano was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1923. The 40-year-old
company has performed around the world. Tickets cost
$29.50 and $34.50; call 225-1111 or see ccanh.com.
Triple Play
Nashua Symphony Orchestra’s “Triple Play” concert
Saturday, April 4, at 8 p.m.
features Beethoven’s “Coriolan overture, Op. 62,” “Piano
Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37” and “Symphony No. 6 in
F Major, Op. 68: ‘Pastorale’” at the Keefe Auditorium at Elm
Street Middle School, 117 Elm St. in Nashua. Visit www.
nashuasymphony.org or call 595-9156 for tickets. Jonathan
McPhee conducts. Pianist Virginia Eskin performs.
profilechorus.org
• School of Theater Arts
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sek
Corinne Proctor as Emily and John Decareau as
Chris in The Pact at yellow Taxi Productions.
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
• ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
through April 5, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.,
at Leddy Center for Performing Arts,
30C Ladd’s Lane, Epping, www.leddycenter.org, 679-2781, $16-$18.
• BAD DATES, by Theresa Rebeck
through April 12 at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack
St., Lowell, Mass., 978-654-4678,
www.merrimackrep.org, $26-$56.
• THE CASE OF HUMANITY VS.
PONTIUS PILOT Reader’s Theatre
Wesleyan Arts event Wed., April 8,
at 7 p.m., at Wesley United Methodist Church, 79 Clinton St., Concord,
224-7413, free. The jury will be
selected from the audience.
• GIORDANO JAZZ DANCE
CHICAGO Sun., April 5, at 7:30
p.m., at the Capitol Center for the
Arts, $29.50-$34.50.
• GODSPELL presented by Kids
Coop Theatre, Sat., April 4, at 1 & 7
p.m., and Sun., April 5, at 1 p.m., at
the Adams Memorial Opera House,
Derry, $9-$12, www.kids-coop-theatre.org.
• GODSPELL JR. presented by
Nashua Catholic Regional Jr. High
Fri., April 3, and Sat., April 4, at 7:30
p.m., and Sun., April 5, at 2 p.m., at
Nashua Catholic, 6 Bartlett Ave.,
Nashua, $5-$10, 882-7011.
• I C NO ARRLECHINO commedia
dell’arte with comedy improvisation
from UNH Professor David Kaye,
Thurs., April 2, at 7 p.m., featuring
UNH Department of Theatre and
Dance students at UNH Manchester,
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• Good cause: Eve Ensler fashioned
interviews with more than 200 women into
Vagina Monologues, the play that is central to
the V-Day campaign to end violence against
women, now in its 11th year (www.VDay.
org). It’s normally produced around Valentine’s Day, but another traditional college
performance is scheduled for Friday, April 3,
at noon and at 4 p.m. in Room 100 of Manchester Community College, 1066 Front St.
It’s also MCC’s first play. Donations benefit
Emily’s Place at the YWCA (tdunn@ccsnh.
edu, 428-3544).
For something different, area actors perform pieces from A Memory, A Monologue,
A Rant and A Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls, by renowned
authors and playwrights edited by Eve Ensler
and Mollie Doyle. This is the second year
it’s been performed as a V-Day event for
Bridges: Domestic & Sexual Violence Support
of Nashua and Milford. The Bridges tradition started in 2003 with Vagina Monologues,
said director Deborah Shaw. Using A Memory offers something new to attract audiences,
and those producing it can choose what to use
from the anthology. Shaw’s selections differ
from 2008’s, and she aimed to put together a night that is entertaining, educational and
“speaks to issues in a way that is not offensive
or intimidating to men,” she said. Nashua Theatre Guild sponsored this in the past.
A Memory is Saturday, April 4, at 9 p.m.
at the Janice B. Streeter Theater, 14 Court
St., Nashua, and tickets cost $15. Why so
late? Previous to the V-Day event, a non-VDay performance is scheduled there at 7:30
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p.m. to benefit Bridges. Actorsingers presents Vital Signs, monologues by Jane Martin.
It’s the first time the community group has
performed it in Nashua, although they have
taken it to theater festivals at state and regional levels. Tickets to Vital Signs also cost
$15, but check www.bridgesnh.org for discounts, call 889-0858, or buy tickets at the
door. Shaw and Mari Keegan are coordinating these fundraisers.
V-Day event actors include Tajoura Davis,
Maria Barry, Renee Macneil, Mariah Sefel,
Keegan and Shaw. Chosen A Memory authors
include Kathy Najimy, Susan Miller, Edward
Albee and Alice Walker.
Gina Carballo, Holly Countie, Melissa
Groff, Sasha Kuftinec, Pat Lawrence, Jackie
MacDonald, Erica Newhall, Cheryl Stocks,
Betty Thomson and Eric Skoglund perform
in Vital Signs, directed by Amy Friedman.
Pieces discuss facets of womanhood from 20
women with one actor portraying the men in
their lives.
• Jodi Picoult story on stage: A southern
New Hampshire professional theater company premieres a new play based on work by
popular Hanover-based novelist Jodi Picoult.
“When I read Jodi’s book, I was so moved
by the story that I couldn’t put it down,” Yellow Taxi Productions artistic director Suzanne
Delle stated about The Pact in a press release.
Delle pitched the idea to Picoult, who actually writes children’s plays for her community,
according to the release.
YTP commissioned Cape Cod novelist
and playwright Jeannette Angell to adapt The
Pact, in which a teen is found shot in a New
Hampshire town. This play follows her boyfriend’s murder trial. Delle directs. Actors
include Maria Barry, Susan Berkowitz, Gina
Carballo, Tajoura Davis, Andrea Defeo, Becki
Dennis, Larry Pizza and David White.
Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and
Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.,
opening Saturday, April 11, and running
through April 25, at 5 Pine St. Extension at Mill
Annex #6 in Nashua. Tickets cost $15 and $25.
Tickets for the preview performances, Thursday, April 9, and Friday, April 10, at 8 p.m., cost
$10. Call 791-4558 or visit www.theatermania.com or www.yellowtaxiproductions.org.
Angell talks about adaptation with help from
The Pact actors at YTP’s free monthly Lunch
Box lecture Thursday, April 16, at 12:10 p.m.,
at YTP.
• Let your light so shine: Kids Coop Theatre produces Godspell, score by Stephen
Schwartz, Saturday, April 4, at 1 and 7 p.m.,
and Sunday, April 5, at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $9
and $12 at Daren’s Music Center in Derry and
at www.kids-coop-theatre.org. Hooksett’s
Jason Berk plays Jesus, and Jacob Pantazis
of Manchester plays John/Judas in the youth
cast. Jude Bascom directs with Blake Leister
and Nikki Aubert.
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400 Commercial St., Manchester, $10, 862-2150.
• MURDER ON THE ORIENTAL RUG an Agatha Christie spoof, by Tony Schwartz and Marylou Ambrose, mystery
dinner show presented by Lakeside Players Fri., April 3, and
Sat., April 4, at 7 p.m., $25, at Chadbourn’s, Route 4, Northwood, 942-5992, www.thelakesideplayers.org.
• THE PACT, based on a Jodi Picoult novel, adapted by
Jeannette Angell for Yellow Taxi Productions, Thursdays
through Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m., April
9-April 25, at 5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua, 791-4558,
www.yellowtaxiproductions.org, $15-$25. Preview tickets cost $10, April 9 and April 10.
• PIPPIN presented by Best Foot Forward Productions
April 16-19 at Central High School, Beech Street, Manchester, www.bestfootforwardproductions.org, [email protected].
• THE PRODUCERS Mel Brooks musical through April
11 at the Palace Theatre, $15-$40.
• RISING STAR TALENT SHOW presented by the
Boys & Girls Club of Manchester, Thurs., April 2, at 6
p.m., at the 555 Union St. Clubhouse, 625-5031 ext. 231.
Top talents from two age groups advance to the Statewide
Talent Show April 18 in Milford. Tickets cost $1 and $2,
or $5 per family at the door.
• RUMORS through April 26 at the Seacoast Repertory,
125 Bow St. in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org, 4334472, $24-$28.
• THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES single-performer theatrical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel Tues., April
7, at 7 p.m., at Spotlight Café at the Capitol Center for the
Arts, $20. Also Wed., April 8, at 10 a.m., at Bow High
School, open to the public.
• SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL presented by Anselmian
Abbey Players Fridays and Saturdays, at 7:30 p.m., through
April 4 at the Dana Center at Saint Anselm College. • SLEEPING BEAUTY April 4–April 26, Saturdays and
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Auditions/workshops
• WORKSHOPS at the Community Players of Concord
Studio. Seating is limited, $3-$5: “No Fear Improv,” April 4.
Call 225-2887 or e-mail [email protected] to sign up.
• AIDA by Elton John & Tim Rice, auditions for youth
and adults Sun., April 5, at 7 p.m., at the Majestic Theatre. Shows July 10–19.
• THEATER WORKSHOPS for adults taught by
Boston professionals in Nashua at Yellow Taxi Productions, noon-3 p.m. $65 per workshop, discounts available. Jim Spencer teaches “Dialect” April 4, noon-3
p.m.; Ben Emerson teaches “Sound Design” April 18,
noon-3 p.m.; Lia Wright teaches “Method for Beginners” May 9, noon-3 p.m.
• THEATRE ARTS CLASSES at Peacock Players
start April 8 with eight-week sessions: “Creative Play
and Stories” for ages 3-5, Wednesdays, 3-3:45 p.m.,
$110. “The Art of Improvisation for ages 8-18 Wednesdays 4-6 p.m., $145.
• THE TEMPEST auditions for ages 14 and up, Thurs.,
April 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m., and Sat., April 11, noon-3 p.m.,
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433-4472, www.seacoastrep.org, $8-$10.
• SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES Sat., April 4, at 8 p.m.,
at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 4362400, $26-$32. A new musical fable featuring the Indie
pop/rock sensation GrooveLily.
• A SOLDIER’S MOTHER TELLS HER STORY Sharon Wood portrays Betsey Phelps, mother of a Union soldier, Mon., April 13, at 7 p.m., at the Merrimack Library,
470 Daniel Webster Hwy., Merrimack, 424-5021. Free but
reserve space.
• THE TRICOLORED ROOF by Southern New Hampshire University professor Charles Wilbert from April 3April 12 at the Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth,
436-8123, www.playersring.org, $10-$12.
• V-DAY NASHUA EVENT Vital Signs, by Jane Martin, presented by Actorsingers, Sat., April 4, at 7:30 p.m.,
and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer edited
by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle, at 9 p.m., at Janice B.
Streeter Theater, 14 Court St., Nashua. Pay $15 for both
shows. Call 889-0858 or see www.bridgesnh.org. The
event is part of V-Day efforts to stop violence against
women and girls (www.vday.org). Proceeds to help victims of domestic and sexual violence.
• VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler, Fri., April
3, at noon and 4 p.m., in Room 100 at Manchester
Community College, 1066 Front St., Manchester, 4283544, [email protected]. Benefits Emily’s Place at the
YWCA. Admission is by donation.
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: “Listening to Jazz: A Road Map,” with Mark
Shilansky April 2. “The Legacy of Bassist Charlie Haden,”
Matt Langley, saxophones; David Tonkin, guitar; Brendan
Dowd, bass; Tim Gilmore, drums April 9.
• MUSICIANS OF WALL STREET “Liederabend:
Music of Strauss, Schubert, Brahms and Mahler,” Fri.,
April 3, at 7:30 p.m., faculty concert at the Concord Community Music School, $10-$12. Hannah Schramm Murray, soprano; Peggy Senter, piano.
• TRIPLE PLAY presented by the Nashua Symphony
Orchestra Sat., April 4, at 8 p.m., at the Keefe Auditorium
at Elm Street Middle School, 117 Elm St. in Nashua. Visit
www.nashuasymphony.org or call 595-9156 for tickets.
• A CAPPELLA Harmony Festival presented by New
England Voices in Harmony and Granite Statesmen Sun.,
April 5, at 7:30 p.m., at Nashua High School South, 36
Riverside Dr., Nashua. Call 886-SING or visit www.newenglandvoicesinharmony.org or www.granitestatesmen.
org. Tickets $16-$25 with advance purchase discount.
• DR. TRICIA ONEY, Los Angeles-based lyric soprano
performs, “A Journey Through Holy Week with Johann
Sebastian Bach,” Sun., April 5, at 4 p.m., at First Church
of Nashua, 1 Concord St., Nashua, www.firstchurchnashua.org, 882-4861, $4-$8.
• SUNDAY CONCERTS at the Bedford Library, 3 Meetinghouse Road: John Chouinard and Peter Marino present
“Two for Dinner” April 5, bedford.lib.nh.us, 472-2300.
• CLASSICAL MUSIC of the Baroque period course
April 8-May 6, “How to Listen to and Understand Great
Music,” with Robert C. Babb, at the Learning Institute
at New England College (LINEC) in Henniker, nec.
edu/academics/learning-institute-at-nec, 746-6212.
• KSC GUITAR ORCHESTRA and the KSC Latin
Ensemble perform Wed., April 15, at 7:30 p.m. at
Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond, Wyvern Way in Keene, $5-$10, 358-2168.
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Children & Teens
Events
• ON THE EDGE part of Smuckers Stars
on Ice, at the Verizon Wireless Arena in
Manchester on Fri., April 10, at 7:30 p.m.
Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen
returns for her second season with other
Olympic, World, and National Champions.
Tickets cost $25; purchase them at Verizon
Wireless Arena box office, at www.starsonice.com, or by calling 868-7300.
• FREE COMMUNITY EASTER EGG
HUNT on Sat., April 11, from 1 to 3 p.m.
at Regal Cinemas (100 Technology Drive,
Hooksett). Hosted by Life! Church. This
free family event will feature 5,000 eggs
for kids of all ages to find. The eggs will be
hidden for four age-based groups. Contact
Abi Cyr at 622-9075, e-mail [email protected] or visit www findlifechurch.com.
• SPRING CELEBRATION at The Massabesic Audubon Center on Tues., April 14,
from 10 to 11:30 a.m., or Wed., April 15,
from noon to 1:30 p.m. Explore the natural
world and celebrate the comign of spring.
Cost is $11 per person ($8 for members).
• TAKE OUR DAUGHTERS AND SONS
TO WORK® DAY is Thurs., April 23. This
year’s theme is “Building Partnerships To
Educate and Empower”. Visit www.daughtersandsonstowork.org for more details.
• AUDUBON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION on Sun., April 26, from 1 to 4 p.m.
at the McLane Center on Silk Farm Road
in Concord. Go on a “Walk for Wildlife”
and attend a presentation on bird populations in New Hampshire. There will be an
Earth Day Art Show featuring the work of
St. Paul’s School art students, birthday cake
at 3 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Spring vacation camps
• THE ACTING LOFT (516 Pine St.,
Manchester, 666-5999, www.actingloft.
org) April Theatre Intensive Camp runs
April 27 to May 1, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The cost is $215 per camper, and financial
aid is available for Manchester residents.
• BASEBALL CAMP for ages 8 to 14
through Concord Recreation. Learn and
practice fundamentals of the game. Bunting, hitting, catching, throwing, fielding,
pitching and the mental side of baseball will
all be covered. April 20 – 24, from 1 to 4
p.m. at Keach Park in Concord. $138 ($118
for Concord residents). Call 225-8690, email [email protected] or visit
www.onconcord.com.
• BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION
Offering programs during school vacation
including a maple sugaring class and snowshoe hikes.
study them. Don’t worry about starting seedlings
indoors this year. When ordering seeds, I recommend that firsttime gardeners get pelleted seeds whenever they
can. Those are seeds that are coated with clay,
making them the size of BBs instead of the dot at
the end of this sentence. They’re much easier to
space an inch apart, minimizing the need to thin
later on. Johnny’s Selected Seeds (www.johnnyseeds.com or 1-877-564-6697) sells pelleted
carrot and lettuce seeds, among others. Thinning plants that you start by seed is
one of my least favorite activities because (a)
it is tedious and (b) it involves killing small
plants. But carrots or beets, if they are growing
too close together, will compete with their brothers and sisters much like weeds.
Weeds? Don’t worry. Mulching your little
garden will keep out most of them. Once the
plants are established and the soil is warm, cover any bare spaces with newspapers and mulch.
By blocking the sunlight, you keep weeds from
germinating.
Still not convinced? Think dollars and cents.
From one small garden in the lawn we harvested more than five pounds of ripe organic slicing
tomatoes, 10 pounds of green tomatoes, six or
more quarts of cherry tomatoes, six or more green
peppers, two heads of broccoli and some side
shoots, eight or 10 meals of Swiss chard, five
pounds of beans, just under six pounds of potatoes (from three plants), some carrots and onions,
nine big heads of lettuce and as many — and
more — cukes and zucchini as two senior citizens could eat from mid-July until frost.
So yes, having a garden is some work. You
have to water in dry times, pull the occasional
weed. Pick Japanese beetles off the beans. But
get yourself in the right frame of mind now, and
it will all be fun.
Henry Homeyer is the author of three gardening
books. His Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
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You, the builder
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in different areas of the construction
industry, including supervision, management and training. Construction
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Attention, all you members of the Brown
Thumb Singing and Marching Society: The
time has come to disband! Break the psychological chains of your brown thumbs! You, too, can
grow your own tomatoes, lettuce and beans! You
can save money on your grocery bill this summer
and eat healthy, tasty foods.
All you will need is a small patch of sunny
lawn, bagged compost and organic fertilizer, a
few hand tools, some seedlings or a few packets of seeds, and the determination to work in the
garden 15 minutes per day.
Last summer I worked with a few folks who
agreed to let me help them grow vegetables in
small plots in their lawns. My plan was this: dig
up the sod in a patch of lawn the size of an area
rug — say 10 by 12 feet — in full sun and plant
veggies. By keeping it small it’s easy to keep it
weeded, watered and harvested in just 15 minutes a day. This worked for us, and I suggest that
even non-gardeners and lapsed gardeners with
so-called brown thumbs can have success.
About those brown thumbs: there are none.
Really. There is just bad soil (or for houseplants,
bad watering practices). The soil can be fixed by
adding lots of compost and a little slow-release
organic fertilizer such as Pro-Gro. But first,
you must remove the sod. No, rototilling the
lawn until the grass disappears does not work.
Roots are not killed by rototilling, so the grasses
will return. And return next year, which is very
discouraging.
You will need to schedule a few hours to
remove the sod this spring, but this too can be
done in 15-minute slices if you plan ahead. I like
a neat garden, so I measured out each garden plot
and marked the edges with stakes and string. I
used a framing square to make the corners 90
degrees. Using an edging tool (you can use a
shovel) I sliced and diced the lawn into one-foot
squares, and pried them out with a garden fork.
Then I loosened the soil with the fork and raked
the loose soil into two wide raised beds with a
walkway up the middle. Simple.
The average lawn is low in organic matter,
especially if a bagger has been used on the lawn
mower. So I bought some Moo-Doo brand composted cow manure, added four or five bags to
each 12-foot-long garden bed, and worked it into
the soil. This is hard work, but anyone can do it.
I also added bagged fertilizer, the organic kind
made from natural ingredients like seaweed, oyster shells, cocoa mulch and cotton seed meal.
Those ingredients give the soil much more than
just the three minerals in a bag of chemical fertilizer. I used about six cups of Pro-Gro fertilizer on
each 12-foot-by-30-inch bed, and stirred it into
the top two inches of soil.
For new gardeners it is easier to buy plants
than to plant seeds. Tomatoes, peppers, broccoli are readily available at your local farm stand
or nursery when the time is right for planting.
Onions can be purchased as little bulblets or as
plants sold in packets of 50; I think the plants
do better. Carrots, radishes, beets, peas and
beans need to be planted directly in the ground
by seed. Go online or get a few catalogs now and
lawn
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• The Family Music
Extravaganza,
featuring renowned children’s
musicians Steve Blunt, Jay
Mankita, Judy Pancoast and
Ben Rudnick, will take place
Saturday, April 4, at the
Timberlane Performing Arts
Center (40 Greenough Road,
Plaistow) at 10 a.m. Doors
will open at 9:30 a.m. Proceeds will benefit the Avon
Walk for Breast Cancer
national walks and events.
Tickets cost $12 for children
and seniors, $18 for adults.
To purchase tickets call 3829055 or 434-9622, e-mail
teambelladonna@comcast.
net, or visit www.timberlanepac.org.
• The Brookline Theatre
Club presents the classic story of Beauty & The Beast on
Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April 4, at the Captain
Samuel Douglass Academy
(24 Townsend Hill Road,
Brookline). Show times are
7 p.m. on Friday and 2 and
7 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets
cost $5 per person and can
be purchased in advance at
the Brookline Village Store,
Brookline Public Library
and the Toadstool Bookshop
in Milford. They may also be
purchased at the door.
• On Saturday, April 4
and Sunday, April 5, Charmingfare Farm (774 High St.,
Candia) hosts its “Egg-Citing Egg Hunt” at 11 a.m.,
noon and 1 p.m. More than
$30,000 worth of prizes will
be given away. The petting
zoo will be open, and there
will be horse-drawn wagon
rides and pony rides. Tickets cost $17 per person, but
children 1 year and younger
get in free.
• Come to Bartlett Elevacation camp is run at the Allard Center and the SEE Science in Manchester from April 27-May 1, for grades
kindergarten through 5. Sport-A-Day
vacation camps also run out of the
Manchester branch on the same dates
for grades 2 through 8.
• HAMPSHIRE HILLS (50 Emerson Road, Milford, 673-7123, www.
hampshirehills.com)
• HORSEBACK CAMP for kids
ages 8 to 12, offered through Concord
Recreation, April 20-24, from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. each day. The camp is held
at the Gelinas Farm (471 4th Range
Road, Pembroke, 225-7024, www.
gelinasfarm.com) Campers will be
transported to the farm from White
Park in Concord. Waivers can be
mentary School (689 Mast
Road, Goffstown) on Saturday, April 4, for a special
Easter Bunny Breakfast
from 8 a.m. to noon. The
event is sponsored by the
Greater Goffstown Community Association, and
includes pancakes, scrambled eggs and sausage. There
will be free activities for all
ages including an Easter egg
hunt at 10:30 a.m., arts &
crafts, a cake walk and more.
Tickets cost $5 for adults, $3
for children 4 through 11,
and are free for ages under
three.
• Head to the Lyndeborough Center Hall (Center
Road, Lyndeborough) on
Saturday, April 4, for a
Pancake Breakfast and
Easter Egg Hunt from 9 to
11 a.m. The breakfast will
benefit local charities. Breakfast will include pancakes,
sausage and a beverage. A
donation of $5 for adults and
$3 for children is requested.
After breakfast, there will
be an Easter Egg Hunt that
kicks of at 11 a.m.
• The Merrimack Parks
and Recreation Department
is hosting its annual Easter
Egg Hunt for children ages
2 to 10 on Saturday, April
4, at 11 a.m. The event will
be held at Wasserman Park,
rain or shine. Different areas
of the park will be set up
for the different age groups.
Children taking place in the
hunt need to bring their own
baskets. Visit www.merrimacknh.gov for any updated
information.
• Energetic Explosions in
the Distant Universe is the
topic for the Super Stellar
Friday program on Friday,
April 3, at the McAuliffeShepard Discovery Center (2
Institute Drive in Concord,
271-7827,
www.starhop.
com). Dr. Mark McConnell will discuss gamma ray
bursts and what we know
about these objects that give
birth to black holes. Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Children under 13 must be
accompanied by an adult.
Cost is $8 for adults, $5 for
children 3 through 12, $7 for
students and seniors. Free for
Discovery Center members.
• The Amoskeag Fishways
(6 Fletcher St., Manchester,
www.amoskeagfishways.
org) is presenting a family program dedicated to
the peregrine falcons that
make Manchester their
home on Friday, April 3,
from 7 to 8 p.m. Discover why these interesting
and rare birds are here and
where you can get a chance
to see them up close. Cost
is $5 per family. Advance
registration with payment
is required. Call 626-3474.
• Fabulous Frogs is a family
program where you can learn
all about New Hampshire
frogs, their different calls and
their habits and behaviors at
The Massabesic Audubon
Center in Auburn (26 Audubon Way, 668-2045, www.
newhampshireaudubon.org)
on Saturday, April 4, from
1:30 to 3 p.m. Get an up-close
look at several examples
of native New Hampshire
frogs. Pre-registration for
this event is required. Cost is
$9 per person ($6 for members); $25 for families ($15
for members).
downloaded or picked up at the White
Park office. Limited to 8 campers.
&385 ($365 for residents). Call 2258690, e-mail recreation@onconcord.
com or visit www.onconcord.com.
• MERRIMACK YMCA CAMP
(6 Henry Clay Drive, Merrimack,
881-7778, www.nmymca.org) during New Hampshire school vacation
in April from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for kids
ages 5 to 12. Includes swimming,
use of the field house for sports, a
new playground, the media center
for computer use. Preschool camp
available for those under 5 from 6:30
to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6:30 p.m. Cost for
YMCA family members is $123 and
use members is $146.
• MLS APRIL VACATION SOC-
CER CAMP Through Pelham
Parks and Recreation (6 Village
Green, Pelham). Camp will run from
April 27 to May 1, and is offered for
both boys and girls ages 5 and up.
To register call 635-2721 or e-mail
[email protected].
• PRESCHOOL SOCCER CAMP
For ages 4-6 through Concord Recreation. This camp introduces skills
and games in a non-competitive
atmosphere to allow campers to
learn and have fun. At the end of the
week it’s the Parents vs. Campers
game. April 20-24, from 1 to 2 p.m.
at Keach Park in Concord. $83 ($63
for Concord residents). Call 2258690, e-mail recreation@onconcord.
com or visit www.onconcord.com.
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
Cars not a good hedge against inflation
• RACQUET CLUB OF CONCORD (10 Garvins Falls Road, Concord, 224-7787, www.rccofconcord.
com) has April vacation programs
that include a wide arange of activities
including swimming, team, games,
arts and crafts and a field trip to go
indoor rock climbing on Wednesday.
April 20-24, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• RAMP CAMP (170 Lafayette Road,
Rye Airfield, Rye, 964-2800 ext. 13,
www.ryeairfield.com) will offer camps
in February and April, Monday through
Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during school vacation week. There will
also be overnight lock-ins from 9 p.m.
to 9 a.m. for $40.
• ROBOTECH CENTER (3-i Taggart Drive, Green Ridge Park, Nashua, 888-6102, www.robotechcenter.
com) Junior Video Game Designer
camp for grades 4 through 7 runs
April 21 through April 24, from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. No programming experience required. Cost for
camp is $399 per camper.
• SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER offer its Seaside Safari Winter
Vacation Camp for kids in grades K
through 5. The spring session has
two sessions, April 20-24, and April
27-May1. Camp runs Monday throgh
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each day has
a different theme and activities that
highlight the theme. Cost is $45 ($40
for members) per day, or $225 ($200
for members) for a full week. Registration is accepted by mail, fax at 4332235, or in person. Registration closes
the Thursday before camp begins.
Visit www.seacoastsciencecenter.org
to download the registration form.
• SOCCER CAMP through Concord Recreation, for kids in grades 1
through 6. Camp will provide players
the opportunity to receive high-level
soccer coaching from international
coaches. Foot skills, technical drills
and games. April 20 – 24, from 9:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Keach Park in
Concord. $138 ($118 for residents).
Call 225-8690, e-mail recreation@
onconcord.com or visit www.onconcord.com.
• SOCCER SPHERE APRIL
VACATION DAY CAMP at Southern New Hampshire University (2500
North River Road, Manchester, 6459703, [email protected]) is for
kids ages 5 to 16 from April 27 to
May 1, from 9 a.m. to noon each day.
Cost is $100 per camper. $10 off for
an additional sibling, $10 off if you
are a SNHU employee. Coaching
staff includes the SNHU men’s soccer coaches and current and former
SNHU men’s and women’s studentathletes. Applications at www.snhupenmen.com.
CRAFTS
Fairs
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BEDFORD
FRIENDSHIP
QUILT GUILD is holding their quilt
show, Friendship Garden, on Sat.,
April 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the
Bedford Old Town Hall (3 Meeting
House Road, Bedford). View old and
new quilts, shop the vendors and visit
the boutique.
• CRAFTWORKERS GUILD FAIRS 2009 The Spring Fair runs
from Thurs., April 30, through Sat.,
May 9; Autumn Fair is Sat., Oct. 3,
through Oct.12; Holiday Fair is Fri.,
Nov. 27, through Dec. 19. The fairs
will be open each day from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. in the Kendall House at the
lower parking lot of Bedford Public
Library on Meetinghouse Road in
Bedford. Contact Elizabeth Eames, of
the publicity committee, at 624-6853.
Quilting
• AMETHYST ROSE QUILT
SHOP (37 Crystal Ave. Unit 5, Derry,
www.theamethystrosequiltshop.com,
489-8161) offers open quilt times,
project-specific classes and more.
•
AMOSKEAG
QUILTERS’
GUILD meets on Fri., April 17, at
7:15 p.m. in the cafeteria of the Brady
Sullivan Building (1750 Elm St.,
Manchester). Guests welcome. Visit
www.amoskeagqg.org.
• HANNAH DUSTIN QUILT
GUILD is holding their April meeting on Mon., April 6, at 9 a.m. at the
Hudson Community Center (Lions
Ave., Hudson). The Mini-Quilt Auction will be held at the meeting. All
funds raised will be donated to the
Lowell Quilt Museum. Call Cindy at
882-2851.
• BEDFORD FRIENDSHIP QUILT
GUILD meets the third Tuesday of
each month from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
in the Fellowship Room of the Bedford Presbyterian Church to make
quilts for children in Families in Transition. Call Pam Mikkola at 472-9225
or Lois Tourangeau at 424-0417.
• CAPITAL QUILTERS GUILD
(www.capitalquiltersguild.org) offers
events and classes for quilters in the
Concord area.
• THE CHESTNUT QUILTER
(167 Londonderry Turnpike, Hooksett, 647-8458, www.thechestnutquilter.com) offers quilting classes. Call
for availability.
• CONCORD COMMUNITY
EDUCATION (Concord High
School, 170 Warren St., Concord,
www.concord.k12.nh.us) offers classes in quilting. See schedule online.
• NH QUILTERS’ EMPORIUM
(Pennichuck Square on Route 101A,
707 Milford Road, Merrimack, 8800300, nhqe.com) offers classes in
quilting. Call for schedule.
• PEGGY ANNE’S QUILTING &
SEWING CO. (57 N. Main St., Concord, www.peggyannes.com, 2232344) offers classes in quilting. Call
for latest offerings.
• TOGETHER WE QUILT The
Capital Quilters Guild will hold its
2009 biennial quilt show at the Goldi
Crocker Wellness Center on the NH
Technical Institute Campus in Concord
on Fri., April 24, from 5 to 8 p.m.; Sat.,
April 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and
Sun., April 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is $5 for ages 12 and above,
$4 for seniors. Call 715-2102.
house as “Plan B” helps me maintain that carefree attitude!
RAY: And then there’s the opportunity cost
of the money. If you sink $16,000 into an
“extra” Honda Fit now, in 15 years, even if it’s
perfectly preserved, it’s going to be worth a lot
less than that. You’d be lucky to get $5,000 for
it in 2024 if you needed to sell it.
TOM: Whereas if you invested that 16K in
the stock market, by 2024 it could be worth
$5,500!
Dear Tom and Ray:
My son, 16, bought a ’77 Pontiac Grand
Prix. It’s loud, with a big motor (muscle-cartype motor, original everything). Anyway, he
sawed off the exhaust pipe to make it even
louder, even though I told him he could get
a ticket for this. He proceeded to tell me that
this car “deserved” to be loud. Well, he got
pulled over by a police officer, who told him he
needed to make his car quieter. He tried to put
the clamp back on it, but it doesn’t hold. This
brings me to my question: He asked me if duct
tape will be OK to hold the pipe to the rest of
the exhaust system, without starting some type
of fire. I’m not a car expert, so we agreed to
ask you guys. — Rob
RAY: Duct tape is pretty hearty stuff. But I
don’t think it’s any match for pressurized, 800dance
• Arthur Murray Dance Studio
99 Elm St., Manchester, 624-6857,
learntodancetoday.com
• Bliss Healing Arts Center LLC
250 Commercial St. # 2007, 6240080, blisshealing.com
• Dance International Studio
858-0162, importers-exporters.
com/DIS.htm
• Kathy Blake Dance Studios
3 Northern Blvd. in Amherst,
673-3978, kathyblakedancestudios.com
• Krystal Ballroom Dance Studio
352 S. Broadway, Salem,
870-9350, krystalballroom.com
• Let’s Dance Studio
5 North Main St., Concord,
228-2800, letsdancenh.com
• Mill-A-Round Dance Center
250 Commercial St., Manchester,
641-3880, millaround.com
• Paper Moon Dance Center
515 DW Hwy., Merrimack,
429-1100, papermoondance.com.
• Queen City Ballroom
21 Dow St., Manchester, 6221500, queencityballroomnh.com
• Royal Palace Dance Studio
167 Elm St., Manchester, 6219119, royalpalacedance.com
• Senior Activity Center
70 Temple St., Nashua, 889-6155
• Steppin’ Out Dance Studio
1201 Westford St., Lowell, 978-4521111, steppinoutdance-lowell.com
Ballroom dances
• BEGINNER BALLROOM AND
TOP 40 MUSIC every Thursday
night at Queen City Ballroom. Start
any week. No partner required and
no pre-registration required. 7:15 to 8
p.m. $9 per person per class. Free for
new students.
•
BEGINNER
COUPLES
MONTHLY DANCE at Queen City
Ballroom. First Saturday of the month
from 7 to 10 p.m. Cost is $16 per couple. Casual dress.
• BEGINNER DANCERS’ PARTY
degree exhaust, Rob.
TOM: Traditionally, we’ve always used frozen concentrated orange juice cans to patch up
exhaust pipes. But sadly, they’re now made
out of cardboard. So we now recommend empty tomato paste cans.
RAY: Better than that, your kid can go to
his local auto-parts store and buy an adapter.
Almost all auto-parts stores sell metal sleeves
that are either slightly larger or slightly smaller in diameter than your exhaust pipe. The
sleeve serves as a coupling, where you stick
the severed pieces of the exhaust pipe in either
end, and then clamp them down to hold them
in place.
TOM: It’s a cheap repair, and it won’t last
forever. But based on your son’s approach to
this car, I don’t think you’re going to need to
plan for forever.
RAY: If you want something a little more
permanent, or if he cut it too close to the muffler for the sleeve to work, take the car to a
garage or a muffler shop, and ask them to butt
the pipes together and weld them.
Get more Click and Clack in their new book,
“Ask Click and Clack: Answers from Car
Talk.” Got a question about cars? Write to
Click and Clack by visiting the Car Talk Web
site at www.cartalk.com.
Money for college
The Center for College Planning at the NH Higher Education
Assistance Foundation will offer
a 90-minute Webinar called
“Understanding the Award
Letter” on Thursday, April 23,
from 6 to 7:30 p.m. for families
looking to learn more about the
importance of award letters that
offer financial aid. Parents and
students can register at www.
nhheaf.org/events.asp. Contact
the Center for College Planning
at 888-7-GRADUATE ext. 119.
on the first Saturday of the month at
the Queen City Ballroom. 6 to 9 p.m.
Pre-dance beginner lesson at 5:15
p.m. Singles and couples welcome.
$9 per person. Casual dress.
• FREE WEEKLY DANCES hosted
by Let’s Dance Studio in Concord.
Every Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m.
Dances include ballroom, Latin, swing
and tango and are open to the public.
• FREE BALLROOM AND LATIN
DANCE every Monday, at 6 p.m., at
Arthur Murray Dance Studio. Learn
Salsa, Waltz, Tango, Swing and more.
Call 624-6857.
• OPEN BALLROOM DANCING
at Let’s Dance Studio every Thursday
night from 8 to 10 p.m. This open
practice dance session is free. Also
held on one Saturday per month from
8 to 10 p.m.
• LATIN FRIDAY DANCE PARTIES every Friday night at the Royal
Palace Dance Studio. Open to the
public from 7:45 to 9:30 p.m. Singles
& couples are welcome. Call to add
your name to the guest list.
• MONDAY NIGHT DANCE every
week at 6 p.m. at the Arthur Murray
Dance Studio. Learn salsa, waltz, tango,
swing and more. Call 624-6857.
• MONTHLY BALLROOM dance
last Saturday of each month at Steppin’ Out Dance Studio.
•
PORTSMOUTH
SOCIAL
DANCE every Friday from 8:30 to
11 p.m. at the Portsmouth Ballroom
Dance Studio (948 Route 1 Bypass
North, Portsmouth). Lesson begin at
8 p.m. Cost is $10. Call 433-2009.
• SOCIAL DANCING From 8 to
11 p.m. on Fridays and one Saturday
per month at the Paper Moon Dance
Center. Walk-ins encouraged, singles
and couples ages 12 and up. $10; $5 if
attending any classes or lessons during
the prior week. Light refreshments.
• SNEAK PREVIEW FOR BEGINNER DANCERS on the third Saturday
of every month at the Queen City Ballroom. From 4 to 5 p.m. $5 per person.
Singles and couples welcome.
• SUNDAY NIGHT BALLROOM
DANCE PARTIES every week at
Queen City Ballroom, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Cost is $8 per person. Come at 5:15 p.m.
for a pre-dance lesson for $8.50 per person, both dance and lesson cost $12 per
person. Singles and couples welcome.
Free admission for first-timers.
Dear Tom and Ray:
Would you discuss the ins and outs of
“stocking up” on cars as a hedge against
future inflation? For instance, I just bought a
2009 Honda Fit that I love and that is basically considered the best car in its class — with
high-quality workmanship, excellent safety
features, high miles per gallon and so on. So
my question is, Why not go out and buy another one for the relatively low price of $16,000,
and simply store it as a hedge against future
inflation? Then, after 15 years or so, I could
take it out of storage and use it when my current car has worn out. My point is, if one could
live with the stylistic and other changes that
will have occurred in cars by that time, one
would have a “brand-new,” high-quality car
that represents a huge bargain when compared
with the undoubtedly highly inflated prices of
those future cars. Do you agree? — Steve
TOM: Steve, I think you’ve solved the problems of the American car industry. All GM and
Chrysler have to do is stop selling their cars
right now, put them in storage for 15 years and
then sell them as gigantic bargains in 2024. Of
course, it would mean that in 2024, they’d be
selling cars with 15-year-old technology.
RAY: So? Have you driven a Jeep Wrangler
lately?
TOM: This sort of idea works well for
things like toilet paper, Steve, where technological innovations are few and far between.
But it’s less predictable with cars. Fifteen
years ago, no one would have predicted that
electronic stability control would be a standard
— and very effective — safety feature. Or that
an inexpensive car like your Fit would come
standard with side AND side-curtain air bags.
RAY: And while the Honda Fit gets excellent mileage now, compared with other cars on
the road, it might not look so good in 15 years,
when safer cars are getting even better mileage. So you’re taking a significant risk.
TOM: For some people — like you — that’s
fine. I drive a car that’s more than 30 years old,
and it’s good enough for me. I don’t need any
of that fancy stuff like ESC, anti-lock brakes
or electronic ignition. Of course, I don’t have
to drive much. And having a bus stop near my
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An antiques expert helps you
search for buried treasure
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Dear Donna,
A while ago there was a story in one of the
papers about 7-20-4 Cigar. There were some
pictures of items and one of them I have.
The story said this was a game piece. Is it
really? Did it belong to a local game? I have
seen a game for Manchester several years ago.
Do you know a value for it?
Alex in Derry
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• WEST COAST SWING will be
featured every Wednesday night at
the Queen City Ballroom. Dance lesson are from 7:15 to 8 p.m. Dances
are from 8 to 10 p.m. $9 per person.
Singles and couples welcome. Beginner friendly. No alcohol served or permitted.
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Dear Alex,
The 7-20-4 (from Manchester, N.H.) piece
you have is called a spinner. It was for a game
but not from a game board. It was actually a
form of advertisement, and when you were at
a bar, it could be used to determine who would
buy the next round of drinks.
It was from after the turn of the century and I
haven’t seen many around. Actually you don’t
see much in the way of 7-20-4 cigar items, and
when we get them in our shop they are bought
up quickly. There were and are a lot of items out
there, but there are a lot of collectors as well.
The piece you have is one of the unusual ones and I would be comfortable saying its
value would be in the range of $200. It is a collectible locally because of the factory’s local
history, and also because it is for cigars, which
are a sought-after item.
The factory started out on 724 Elm St. in
Manchester and later moved to Canal Street,
where the building still remains. It now houses offices and a title company, but if you go
into the first-floor lobby you can see lots of
the old 7-20-4 cigar memorabilia. It is really
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LAnGuAGE
• FRENCH Club Richelieu of
Nashua for French-speaking men
and women in Greater Nashua holds
dinner meetings at 6 p.m. on second and fourth Wednesdays at the
Crowne Plaza, 2 Somerset Parkway
in Nashua. Call 897-8490.
• FRENCH conversation group at
Borders, 76 Fort Eddy Road in Concord, meets first and third Thursdays
7 p.m. Call 224-1255.
• FRENCH conversation group
L’Eclectique Coterie meets second
and fourth Tuesdays at Borders, 310
DW Highway in Nashua.
• LE MARDI FRANCAIS free
French conversational group meets
first and third Tuesday of every
month in the café at Barnes & Noble
in Manchester (1741 South Willow
St.) The group is for those who speak
French or who want to learn to speak
French. Open to people of all ages.
Contact Karen Goyette at nataljit@
gmail.com or Natalie Turcotte at
[email protected].
• MULTIPLE LANGUAGES Conversational Spanish, German, Russian,
French, Italian, Portuguese, Swahili
and ESL classes at the New England
Language Center (16 Hillside Drive,
Rochester). Multiple skill levels. Contact Marina Forbes at 332-2255 or email [email protected].
interesting to see the collection of items Arthur
Sullivan (the owner of the historic building)
has displayed there.
There are many other local items to collect. We get customers in all the time looking
for items from the Puritan Restaurant, the Red
Arrow, Pine Island Park, local theaters, the
Amoskeag mills, old stores, etc. I learn a lot
about these items from collectors.
I hope this was of help to you, Alex. Thanks
for writing in.
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).
How to go green for
guests
The NH Lodging & Restaurant Association (NHLRA) will
host the Eco-Hospitality Expo at
the Radisson Hotel (11 Tara Blvd.,
Nashua) on Tuesday, April 14.
The event will focus on advancing
green initiatives and sustainability practices, raising environmental
consciousness and promoting ecotourism throughout the hospitality
industry in New England. Contact
the NHLRA at 228-9585 or visit NEecohospitalityexpo.com.
nATurE
& GArdEnInG
• Beaver Brook Association
117 Ridge Road, Hollis, 465-7787,
beaverbrook.org,
• Educational Farm
at Joppa Hill
174 Joppa Hill Road, Bedford,
472-4724, theeducationalfarm.org
• The Fells Gatehouse
456 Route 103A in Newbury,
763-4789, thefells.org
• Peabody Mill
Environmental Center 66 Brook
Rd, Amherst, 673-1141, pmec.org
Gardening/farming
• GRANITE STATE AFRICAN
VIOLET SOCIETY (GSAVS) meets
first Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. (except
January and July) at the Marion Gerrish Community Center, 39 Broadway
in Derry. New members and visitors
welcome; call 887-3154.
• GRAPE PRUNING CLINIC
through The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension and Jewell Towne Vineyards, at the Vineyards
(183 Whitehall Road, South Hampton) on Sat., April 4, from 9:30 a.m. to
noon. Peter Oldak will talk about training and pruning grapes. Rain or Shine.
Call UNH Cooperative Extension at
679-5616 to register. Free.
• NASHUA GARDEN CLUB meets
Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at First
Baptist Church, 121 Manchester St. in
Nashua. The public can attend for a $5
fee. Nashuagardenclub.org.
• UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION (877-398-4769, extension.unh.
edu) offers classes on landscaping,
gardening and amateur forestry. See
Web site for schedule. The Cooperative Extension’s Family, Home and
Garden Center also has an information
line to offer answers to your garden
questions Monday through Friday
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Wednesdays
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4X4, XLT PKG, V-6, AUTOMATIC, ALL THE TOYS, LOW
MILES, #P16437
14,988
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4X4, LEATHER SEATS, DVD ENTERTAINMENT, SPORT
PKG, LOADED, #P16524
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$
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AWD, LEATHER HEATED SEATS, DVD ENTERTAINMENT,
LOADED, LOW MILES, #P16470A
9,988
$
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4X4, LEATHER SEATS, MOONROOF, LOADED, LOW MILES,
#P16560
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11,988
$
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V-8, AUTOMATIC, A/C, POWER EQUIPMENT, LOW MILES,
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11,988
$
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SEL PKG, LEATHER SEATS, V-6, ALL THE TOYS, LOW
MILES, #P16511
17,988
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14 FOOT BOX, V-8, AUTOMATIC, A/C, HARDWOOD
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11,988
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TOP OF THE LINE, V-6, AUTOMATIC, ALL THE TOYS,
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$
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POWER MOONROOF, LEATHER HEATED SEATS, 17 INCH
CHROME WHEELS, THX SOUND SYSTEM, LOADED,
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14,988
$
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20,988
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CREW CAB, TURBO DIESEL, 4X4, LEATHER SEATS,
LOADED, LOW MILES, #P16557
23,988
SALE $
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95 Ford F150 Subercab
Eddie Bauer Pkg, 4x4, #P16116A .................................................... $988
03 Ford Windstar LX
4 door, v-6, Fully Equipped, #9067A ........................................... $1,988
03 Ford F150 Crew Cab
King Ranch, 4x4, Loaded, #9297A .............................................. $2,988
03 Dodge Grand Caravan
V-6, Like New, #9022C .............................................................. $2,988
04 Ford Taurus SES
V-6, Low Miles, #P16399 .......................................................... $2,988
03 Ford F150
V-6, Auto, a/c, Like New, #9162A .............................................. $3,988
04 Mercury Monterey
Leather Heated Seats, Loaded, #8830A ...................................... $4,988
04 Chrysler Town and Country
Low miles, Fully Equipped, #P16084A ........................................ $4,988
05 Ford 500
SEL Pkg, Moonroof, #8791A....................................................... $4,988
04 Hyundai Tiburon
GT Pkg, Moonroof, Low Miles, #8477 ......................................... $4,988
04 Mercury Mountaineer
AWD, Moonroof, Leather Seats, Loaded, #9177A ....................... $6,988
06 Chevy Impala SS
Leather, Moonroof, Loaded, #9033A ........................................... $7,988
07 Chevy Cobalt
LT, auto, Loaded, #P16378.......................................................... $7,988
05 Mazda 6
Leather, Moonroof, Loaded, #P16232A ....................................... $7,988
05 Ford F350 Lariat Diesel
Supercab, 4x4, Snow Plow, Loaded, #9169A........................... $16,988
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Times are tough. Eating
out is a luxury many have
cut down on, thermostats
nationwide are set a few
ticks lower than they’ve
been the last few winters, and snapping up
that latest gadget just because it’s cool isn’t
really possible — either because you can’t
afford it or all the places selling it have
gone bankrupt.
What’s an early adopter to do in a bearish
economy? It’s always smart to save money,
but now it’s downright essential. If you’re
reading this column, you probably have a
PC and Internet access, so right there is an
avenue toward cutting costs and tapping
into all the resources it can offer. Here are a
few ways to do just that.
• Cancel your cable: Now, I’m the last to
suggest that giant corporate conglomerates
negotiating exclusive contracts with municipalities yet still claiming that they have
multitudes of competition because there
are other cable companies in existence even
though no customer could switch without moving — I’m not saying they don’t
deserve your money. But there’s so much
television online that there’s very little reason to pay for it.
Hulu, Fancast and Veoh are just a few
of the .coms to check out, but they’re just
the beginning. Check the Web sites of your
favorite broadcast networks or cable channels. You’ll find, in many cases, that shows
are available for viewing at your pleasure
starting the day after they’re on television, occasionally even in high definition.
If sports or news are your thing, you might
even find live streaming. Check FreeTVOnline.com for a guide.
• Kick the paid newspaper habit: Also
would I never suggest, as a freelance writer for a free weekly, that daily newspapers
aren’t essential to not only your personal
store of knowledge, but to the health of an
informed populace in a democracy. I’m just
saying that subscriptions cost money, and
most dailies post all their news online free
for at least one day. Sunday circulars and
coupons are often online at their respective
companies’ Web sites. And how much fish
do you really wrap? Be honest.
• Hang up the phone. Land lines are
dead. Your cell phone costs enough already.
If you insist upon a phone tied to a physical
location, go VOIP — Voice Over Internet
Protocol. Skype, you might have heard of
it, does free voice calls to other Skype users
and cheap calls to real phones. It also does
instant messaging, which, if you’re like me,
is a whole lot more attractive than speaking
into a plastic handset.
Love the handsets? There exist handsets
for every need: ones that plug into your PC,
ones that connect to your broadband router,
ones that switch between cellular networks
and open Wi-Fi networks you encounter in
your travels.
•Trash the radio: OK, radios are cheap.
And listening is free. But my true goal here,
as you should have figured out by now,
is trashing all other forms of media. And
phone service.
Oh! Satellite radio costs money. Cancel
that.
Seriously, do you have any idea how
many Internet “radio” stations there are?
Just Google that phrase. You’ll be astounded. Stations that play one genre of music;
stations that suggest music based on what
you like or what your friends like; stations
that tell stories with song. Sure, you’ll be
tempted to spend more money on dedicated
Internet radio units, but any PC with decent
speakers does fine. And then you can buy
new music you like online. See how this
works?
WiFi hotspots
CONCORD
• The Barley House 132
North Main St. 228-6363. www.
thebarleyhouse.com. Free.
• Caffenio 84 N. Main St., 2290020, caffenio.com, free
• Centennial Inn 96 Pleasant
St., 225-7102. Free to guests.
• CHEERS DOWNTOWN
GRILLE & BAR 17 Depot St. 2280180. Free.
• Common Man, 25 Water St.,
228-DINE. Free.
• Concord Public Library
45 Green St. Free.
• CONCORD TIRE & AUTO
SERVICE 63 Hall St., 224-2393.
Free.
• Heritage Harley-Davidson, 142 Manchester St., 1-800HARLEY-1. Free
• PANERA BREAD 75 Fort Eddy
Rd., 226-8966, panerabread.com,
free.
• RED BLAZER 72 Manchester St.,
Concord, 224-4101. Free.
• SOUTH END VILLAGE LAUNDROMAT 71 Downing St., 228-
8768. Free.
MANCHESTER
• 900 Degrees 50 Dow St., 6410900
• Airport Diner, 2280 Brown
Ave., 623-5040. Free.
• Bea’s Wash N Dry 478 South
Main St. 668-7110. Free.
• Billy’s Sports Bar &
Grill 34 Tarrytown Road, 6223644, billyssportsbar.com. Free.
• CASTRO’S BACK ROOM 972
Elm St., 606-7854. Free.
• CLUB 313 93 South Maple St.,
628-6813. Free.
• DERRYFIELD COUNTRY
CLUB 625 Mammoth Road, 6690235. Free.
• GOFFSTOWN PUBLIC LIB
RARY 2 High St., Goffstown, 4972102. Free.
• Highlander Inn Fusion
Hotspot, 2 Highlander Way, 603-6256426. Free to guests.
• Hooksett Public Lib
rary, 1701B Hooksett Road, 4856092. Free.
• JEWELL & THE BEANSTALK
797 Somerville St., 624-3709. Free.
• Jillian’s 50 Phillippe Cote St.
Free.
•
Manchester
City
Library 405 Pine St.. Free. 6246550 x 340
• NUTFIELD ALE & STEAKHOUSE 55 John Devine Drive, 6686110. Free for customers.
• PANERA BREAD 933 South Willow St, Manchester, 627-2443, and 7
Colby Ct., Bedford, 641-0500, panerabread.com, free.
• Patio and Pavilion Restaurants Hilton Garden Inn,
101 S. Commercial St., 603-669-222.
Free.
• PENUCHE’S GRILL 96 Hanover
St., 626-9830.
• TWO FRIENDS BAGEL &
DELI 542 Mast Road, Goffstown,
627-6622, twofriendsbagel.com. Free
to customers.
• VAN OTIS CAFE 341 Elm St.,
627-1611. Free.
• WILD ROVER PUB 21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722. Free.
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Free Healthy Living
Classes at Hannaford
Focus On Food: High Fructose Corn Syrup
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Thursday April 2 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Go Organic On A Budget
Little Beans With Big Benefits
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Friday April 3 10:30am - 12:00pm
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Wednesday April 8 10:30am - 11:45am
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Wednesday April 8 10:30am - 12:00pm
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6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Go Vegetarian
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Healthy Meal Planning For One Or Two
Saturday April 18 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Salt Shakedown: Lower Your
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Tuesday April 21 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Focus On Food:
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Time For An Oil Change
Help! I’m An Emotional Eater
Tuesday April 28 5:30pm - 6:45pm
FREE samples given out at every class.
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Weekly Dish All made right here
Notes from the local food scene
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
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• One week of eats starting, one to come:
Nashua’s restaurant week — Spring Feast Week
— started Wednesday, April 1, and will run
through Tuesday, April 7 (see www.greatamericandowntown.org for information). Downtown
Manchester’s Eats Week will be held Sunday,
April 26, through Thursday, April 30. It will be
five days of reduced- or fixed-price dining at
19 downtown restaurants, such as Z Food and
Drink, Commercial Street Fishery, 900 Degrees
and Cotton. See www.intownmanchester.com.
• Speaking of Spring Feast: The Black
Orchid Grille, 8 Temple St. in Nashua, has
updated its schedule of Feast Week offerings.
From April 1 to 7, the restaurant will offer a
three-course meal for $25. On Thursday, April
2, all house wines will cost $5 per glass. The
restaurant, which is usually closed on Mondays, will open on Monday, April 6, for a free
beer tasting and the chef’s food pairings. On
Tuesday, April 7, the Grille will hold a free
wine sampling and offer half off any featured
bottle of wine with a purchase of two entrees.
The Black Orchid Grille also has its plans for
Easter — a special a la carte menu, which it
will be serving on Easter Sunday (April 12)
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 577-8910.
• And also at Feast Week — beer: Bellavance Beverage Co. is working with downtown
Nashua chefs to develop beer pairings for their
Spring Feast Week menus, according to a Great
American Downtown release. Representatives
from Bellavance will conduct free tastings
throughout the week. See www.downtownnashua.org/restaurantweek for the schedule.
• Ordways to Re-open: Ordways Market
in Concord, which closed in December, will
reopen sometime in April with a new owner,
John Cimikoski, who will change the name
to Cimo’s South End Deli. (Cimo is his nickname.) The market will still serve fresh-made
sandwiches, soups, ice cream and other food
stuffs in much the same way as the old market.
• Get the kids to cook for Easter: Make
and Take Gourmet (545 Hooksett Road, Manchester) will hold an Easter-themed Kids in the
Kitchen event Sunday, April 5, from 10:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. The session is for children ages 5
to 13, and the cost is $35 per child. To register,
call 232-9244.
• Wine dinner, part 1:The Bedford Village
Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford) will hold a
Michael & David Winery dinner on Friday, April
10. The evening will highlight selections from
this California winery, and Michael Phillips will
talk about his wines. Some of his best-known creations are 7 Deadly Zins, 7 Heavenly Chards, 6th
Sense Syrah, Incognito, and Earthquake Cabernet. The event will start with a reception at 6 p.m.,
with dinner at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $85 per person. Call 472-2001 to make a reservation, and see
the menu at to www.bedfordvillageinn.com.
• Wine dinner, part 2: The Saffron Bistro
(80 Main St., Nashua) will hold a wine dinner
on Monday, April 27, at 6 p.m. The evening will
feature five courses matched with five wines, and
each selection will be presented by the restau-
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FOOD
Warner shop sells only local food, crafts
[email protected]
Localvores have a new one-stop shop to
check out in Warner. The Kearsarge Market is
stocked with only New Hampshire-made products — many made by local cooks, farmers and
artisans — all displayed in a beautifully refurbished 1795 colonial home.
“This area has the most artists in the state,
but they are not being featured as much as they
are in other places,” owner Mike McChesney
said. “There is also more agriculture in this
area than a lot of the state, and we want to feature it, too. People have really responded. We
opened in November and had a very successful winter.”
Customers walk in through the front door and
are greeted with music from a local group’s current CD. The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly
as you move through the first-floor rooms filled
with foodstuffs and crafts. On one recent Saturday, Dianne Swett was busy with the creation
of a crocheted stuffed hedgehog (she also sells
knitted and sewn items, as well as all-natural dog biscuits). Nearby, Teresa Mueler from
Dancing Apple Farm sells fresh-baked pies,
cakes, breads and pizzas. Plus she puts together
sandwiches made with her husband Peter’s double-smoked sausages, which he grills out back.
He also sells other smoked meats, such as turkey
and fish. (The couple is a competitive ballroom
dance team in their spare time.)
In the next room, Jim Zane sells jars of his
Little Old Lady chili and pasta sauce, next to
the display of beautiful bead work done
by his wife, Maria. On
the other side of the
room, Brandon Sussman sells naturally
grown meat and poultry, along with his wife
Mary’s quilt work.
The market also sells
local eggs, produce,
ice cream, cheese, candy, take-home meals,
artwork and cups of
Owner Mike McChesney (the tall one in the back row) and some of the vendors
coffee.
at the local-focused Kearsarge Market in Warner. Linda A. Thompson-Odum photo.
“This is a comfortable place with a lot
so much of our culture. It’s Wal-Mart everyof character, which draws in a lot of characters.
thing,” McChesney said.
The average stay for a customer is 15, 20 or 30
As the weather gets warmer, McChesney
minutes. Some people stay an hour,” McChesney
plans to move more items outside and set up
said with a laugh.
a fresh produce stand. He also has big future
McChesney’s “real” job is as a design engiplans for the three-acre Main Street site: “I
neer, which is one of the reasons the market is
want to develop a colonial village. I’m going
only open on Saturdays. (The plan is to open the
to bring in an old schoolhouse from Pembroke
market for the entire weekend in the near future.)
and an 1800 barn from Vermont. I’m looking
He did most of the work on the building, such as
for a restaurant that would like to go into one
the finish carpentry, and he made the old-fashof the buildings. Not only will I have the two
ioned signs hung throughout the retail area. “I’m
additional buildings, but there are the beautiful
an artist turned engineer,” he said.
woods and trails around the back for people to
The idea for this venture came from
use for snowmobiles in the winter and summer
McChesney’s childhood family trips.
nature walks.”
“I grew up in upstate New York and we did
Kearsarge Market
road trips throughout the Adirondacks. That
51 E. Main St., Warner (in the Brookside
area has a lot of authentic spots and authentic
complex), 731-6253
people who love what they do. We are losing
Hours: Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
It’s kabob time
More than half a million sold since 1977!
[email protected]
As warm weather approaches, kabobs
become the main attraction at Quality Cash
Market in Concord. Owner Tony Heath said
May to September is his busiest time, and he
expects to sell 30,000 skewers this summer
alone, to add to the more than half a million
kabobs that were sold since 1977.
“The fastest-moving case in the market is
the ready-to-go case. Around mid-April, we
move in more kabobs. We have six kinds year
around, but in summer it goes up to 10,” Heath
said.
The year-around kabobs include chicken,
chicken with veggies, beef, lamb, meatball and
kielbasa. For summertime, the market adds
veggie, swordfish, shrimp and pork varieties.
Grill season also brings an increase in marinated meat sales. The market offers three
steak-tip varieties, with the steakhouse marinade leading in popularity for the past 20
years. There are four types of marinated boneless chicken breasts — teriyaki, Cajun, sweet
and spicy, and lemon pepper — plus marinated lamb tips. Heath also noted that steaks are a
big summer seller — T-bone, sirloin, Delmonico, filet mignon and strip.
“Hamburger is also popular because it’s so
fresh.” Heath said. “We grind it twice a day.
Meat is our biggest
attraction. It’s 40 percent of our business.
People come from miles
around to buy our meat.
One customer comes
from Nashua every other
week, and another comes
from New London every
week.
Heath and his staff
are expert meat-cutters. Heath’s own career
began at age 15 when
he worked for Packers
Outlet in his hometown
of Franklin. After a stint
in the Army in the late Owner Tony Heath and butcher Tim Walker at Quality Cash Market in
1960s, he worked as a Concord. Linda A. Thompson-Odum photo.
meat-cutter in a number
en fingers, mozzarella sticks and french fries. It
of Reno, Nev., supermarkets. He returned to should come as no surprise that the most popNew Hampshire and purchased Quality Cash ular sub is the steak and cheese, which is made
Market from his parents in 1982. (Ed and Thel- with steak fresh from the meat counter. Plus
ma Heath bought the store in 1977, when it was there are ready-made sandwiches in a coollocated at the corner of Rumford and Beacon er case and containers full of various salads
streets. Heath moved it to its current location (chicken, chicken Waldorf, potato, bean, ham
on Eastman Street in 1999. Thelma still helps and macaroni.)
out during the lunch rush.)
For any early birds, each morning bakAnother popular attraction at the market is er Nick Milaines comes in early to make his
the deli counter, where customers can order homemade old-fashioned donuts. He creates
items such as subs, sandwiches, salads, chick- both raised and cake varieties, and they go fast
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FOOD
offers customers a good product, and even after
all this time, he can’t imagine doing any other
kind of work: “I enjoy taking care of people.
We like to have a friendly store where people
come in and feel comfortable. We stress quality. We want people to be satisfied with what
they buy.”
Quality Cash Market
11 Eastman St., Concord (off Exit 16 of Interstate 93), 225-9661, qualitycashmarket.com
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each day. He also bakes cookies, breads and
whoopie pies.
The rest of the market offers typical convenience-store items, such as chips, crackers,
candy, etc. There is a nice wine selection, plus
plenty of cold beer and soda. But it’s the meat
that brings people back time after time. Heath
and butcher Tim Walker will offer suggestions and cooking tips for each cut of meat,
even if it will be prepared on a simple George
Forman grill. Walker owns one himself — “It
love it, but isn’t it a pain to clean,” he said.
Heath is proud of the fact that his market
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ta with herb-crusted chicken and Mad River
Mud Pudding Pie (chocolate pudding in a
Oreo cookie chocolate ganache crust layered
with mocha cream and surrounded by puddles
of chocolate and white chocolate ganache) and
drinks including a Muddy Chocolate Martini
(with a caramel and Oreo cookie crumb rim),
a Dirty Ketel Martini, a White Mountain Mudslide Martini.
• Literary eats: The Chesley Memorial
Library in Northwood (8 Mountain Ave., 9425472) will hold its annual International Edible
Book Festival on Saturday, April 4, from 2 to 4
p.m. at Northwood’s Town Hall. Viewing and
voting on books, book covers and book structures created from food items will take place
from 2 to 3 p.m. After the tallying of votes, the
eating of the books will begin about 3 p.m. See
www.chesleylib.com.
• Taste wine, learn the future: Vintner’s
Cellar Winery of Concord (133 Loudon
Road in Concord, 224-9463) will hold a
Psychic Fair on Saturday, April 18, from 11
a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets costs $45 and get you
a 20-minute reading as well as a chance to
taste the Cellar’s wines.
• Have a taco in Nashua, help out: On
Thursday, April 16, go to the Shorty’s Mexican Roadhouse off Exit 6 in Nashua (www.
shortysmex.com) and help Marguerite’s
Place (www.margueritesplace.org), a nonprofit transitional housing and supportive
services program for homeless women and
their children. Have lunch, dinner or takeout and ask how 15 percent of your food bill
can go to Marguerite’s Place.
• Have an enchilada in Manchester, help
out: On Wednesday, April 22, the Animal Rescue League of NH will take part in Shorty’s
Mexican Roadhouse’s Fair Share Program.
Go to the Shorty’s at 1050 Bicentennial Drive
in Manchester for lunch, dinner or takeout and
ask how you can have 15 percent of the food
sales donated to the Rescue League.
• Beer on the big screen: Beer connoisseurs can buy tickets now for Beer Wars LIVE,
a one-night documentary and discussion event
with Ben Stein taking you to the boardrooms
and back rooms of the American beer industry. After the Beer Wars documentary (which
will air in HD), the movie event will include
a broadcast of a live discussion with Ben
Stein and brewers and beer experts. The film
will play in movie theaters nationwide on
Thursday, April 16, at 8 p.m. See it locally at
Showcase Cinemas Lowell, 32 Reiss Ave. in
Lowell, Mass., 978-551-0055.
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The look good, feel good, taste good place to be is COTTON.
Open from 12 to 5 on EASTER SUNDAY and taking reservations now.
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Brunch
rant’s chef and sommelier, who will explain
the pairings. The cost is $80 per person. For
reservations, call 883-2100 or go to www.TheSaffronBistro.com.
• Gluten-free, not taste-free: Chef and
instructor Oonagh Williams will hold a gluten-free cooking talk and demonstration at
the Merrimack Public Library on Wednesday, April 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. Williams’s
son is gluten-intolerant, as are many of her
friends. She has adapted her favorite baked
goods to gluten-free, since doing without
muffins, brownies, pizza and other baked
goodies is the most difficult part of being
gluten-intolerant. The class will investigate
food labels and learn how to convert favorite baked goods to gluten-free, and how to
cook foods the whole family will enjoy. The
session is free and open to the public, but
pre-registration is required by calling Merrimack Public Library at 424-5021. For any
questions, e-mail [email protected] or phone 424-6412.
• Chocolate for your health: Amherst
Yoga, 17 Old Nashua Road in Amherst, 6737661, www.amherstyoga.com, will hold
a series of cooking classes called “Good
Enough to Eat.” The first one will focus on
the health-enhancing properties of chocolate — both as part of a body treatment and
in food. Robin Glowa, who writes a column called The Conscious Cook (which
can be viewed at www.hersamacorn.com),
will present the class on Saturday, April 18,
from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost is $35
and includes recipes, samples and a goodie
bag. Call Amherst Yoga by April 14 to register and mail checks to Amherst Yoga (zip
code 03031), made out to Robin Glowa.
• Hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and prizes:
The Rochester Opera House fundraiser The
Annual Lottery Cocktail Party will be held Friday, April 24. The event will feature cocktails,
hors d’oeuvres and complimentary champagne
along with entertainment and an auction. Ten
ticket-holders will share in more than $13,000
in cash prizes. A ticket (which admits two people) costs $100. Call 335-1992 or go to the
Opera House (City Hall, 31 Wakefield St. in
Rochester) to purchase tickets.
• Seasonal eats: T-Bones and Cactus Jack’s
restaurants (see www.t-bones.com for all locations) are offering special menu items for
“Mud Season,” according to a press release.
New items include maple citrus wings (made
with Flag Hill Winery’s Sugar Maple Liqueur),
maple glazed black pepper-crusted filet, maple
Dijon stuffed scallops, grilled portabella pas-
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A birthday present! I had just
stepped through the door of A Market on a late-March Sunday when I
saw the mounds and piles of golden ataulfo, or champagne, mangoes.
Glowing, glamorous, wondrous,
ataulfos. And on my birthday, too! I
hope you don’t mind, gentle readers,
but I re-present to you a previous column, an ode to the perfect mango.
Ataulfo mangoes are in season. Small “S”-shaped golden fruits with a flavor that’s
vibrantly sweet, tangy and fizzy all at once. And they’re in the stores. Run, don’t walk,
because we don’t get these delectable globes of gastronomic perfection very often. The
other day I found myself reading Wallace Stevens’ fine poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking
at a Blackbird” whilst simultaneously noshing a fine ataulfo mango. The result? “Thirteen
Ways of Looking at a Mango,” with both thanks and apologies to Mr. Stevens.
I. Among twenty sugary aisles
The most precious thing was the golden mango.
II. I was of three minds,
Like a tree in which there are three mangoes.
III. The mango rolled on the kitchen counter.
It was a small part of the pantomime.
IV. A man and a woman are one.
A man and a woman sharing a mango are one.
V. I do not know which to prefer, the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendos,
The taste of the mango or just after.
VI. Icicles filled the long window with barbaric glass.
The glow of the mango reflected in the afternoon light.
The mood traced in the pane an undeniable hunger.
VII. O gentle readers of Hippo, why do you imagine golden apples?
Do you not see the mangoes on the tables of the children about you?
VIII. I know recipes and noble ancient methods;
But I know, too that the mango is involved in what I know.
IX. When the mango was consumed,
It marked the boundary of one of many hungers.
X. At the sight of mangoes glowing with golden light
Even the most temperate would cry out sharply.
XI. She drove to the supermarket in her SUV.
Once, a fear pierced her, in that she mistook
the shadow of her vehicle for mangoes.
XII. People are gathering.
They must be peeling mangoes.
XIII. It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing and it was going to snow.
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At the height of ataulfo season even your local grocery store is likely to carry them.
They’re certainly available at Asian markets, natural food stores, and co-ops. Select mangoes that are golden yellow and give ever so slightly when squeezed in the hand. To prepare
the fruit, slice the bottom of the mango so it will stand flat, peel it with a sharp paring knife,
then stand it up and slice down each side of the pit about a third of the way in. Finally, use
the knife to extract as much of the luscious fruit from the pit as possible. Slice it into strips
and eat. Or dice it with red onion, avocado, cilantro and lime juice to make an excellent
mango salsa. Or puree it with a cup of yogurt, two tablespoons of confectioner’s sugar and
a handful of ice cubes to make a mango lassi — a refreshing Indian fruit drink. Or omit
the ice cubes and spoon the lassi over vanilla ice cream. It’s ataulfo season! “O brave new
world that has such mangoes in it!” (Almost, but not quite from The Tempest, by William
Shakespeare.)
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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, freeranged 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 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 7316253 or [email protected].
• 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.
• NH ONLINE FARMERS’ MARKET www.nhfarms.com offers links
to New Hampshire farms selling
fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy, maple
and honey products, flowers, baked
goods and more.
CSAs
• FIELD TO FORK FARM, 522
Haverhill Road, Chester, 548-4331,
www.fieldtoforkfarm.com:
This
farm offers a year-round meat,
eggs and dairy CSA for families
who want a regular supply of certified organic eggs, milk and meats
(chicken and pork) from pastureraised and organically fed animals.
Additional options include maple
syrup and goat meat. Participation
at the farm is encouraged but not
required. A subscription costs $125
a month, with a required up-front
contribution of 1/4 of the yearly subscription fee (three months/$375) to
be put toward organic feed and livestock maintenance. Weekly pick-up
at the farm.
• HOLLAND FARM CSA, 269
Osgood Road, Milford, 673-0667,
www.hollandfarmcsa.com:
This
year, membership costs $500 for a
full membership, which will feed
two adults and two or three children. A half membership, enough
for two adults, costs $325. Members choose the vegetables they
enjoy, but a weekly limit for each
vegetable will apply depending on
the membership level.
• LEWIS FARM, 192 Silk Farm
Road, Concord, 228-6230, www.
LewisFarmNH.com: Because of the
farm’s extensive greenhouse system, the season will begin in May
and run through October. Besides
vegetables and herbs, the farm will
include fruits and other items from
other farms. A full share costs $600.
If paid in full at sign-up, there is a
10-percent discount. A three-payment plan is also available: $200
at sign-up, $200 by March 20 and
$200 by May 20.
• LOCAL HARVEST c/o NOFANH, 4 Park St., Suite 208, Concord,
731-5955,
www.localharvestnh.
com: This is a cooperative of eight
New Hampshire organic farms that
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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 NOFANH 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
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ic products. Weekly pick-up is at
the Unitarian-Universalist Church
in Concord. A single share feeds
two people, and a family share is for
four people (or two hungry vegetarians). The cost is $495 single; $588
single with weekly loaf of bread;
$742 family, and $922 family with
two loaves of bread weekly.
• MIDDLE BRANCH FARM,
280 Colburn Road, New Boston,
487-2540. The season is from
June through October. A share is
designed for a couple or a family
with small children. The farm also
has pick-your-own herbs, peas,
beans and flowers and offers naturally raised pork and beef to share
members. Baskets may be picked
up at the farm or a satellite location
(see details at www.localharvest.
org/csa/M6928).
Approximately
300 shares are offered each season.
Call for prices.
• NH CSA, 24 Haverhill Road,
Chester, www.nhcsa.com: A full
share costs $535, and a half share
$285. Members will receive
instructions on how to preserve the
vegetables to enjoy all winter. Pickup locations are at the farm, and in
Derry and Londonderry. See the
Web site for dates and times.
• TRACIE COMMUNITY FARM
72 Jaffrey Road, Fitzwilliam, 2091851, www.traciesfarm.com: The
17-week season begins mid-June and
continues through the beginning of
October. Each week’s basket includes
washed vegetables and a newsletter
explaining how things are going on
the farm, how to prepare and store
the vegetables, and what to expect in
the next week’s basket. A large family share costs $600, a family share
$420, and a single share $300. Shares
for mesclun, herbs and greens are
sold separately. The price of the share
includes delivery, and there is a $50
discount if you pick up your basket
at the farm.
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties
• CHOCOLATEFEST The Lake
Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce and Colby-Sawyer College
are co-sponsoring the 14th annual
ChocolateFest on Sat., April 4,
from noon to 3 p.m. at Colby-Sawyer College, Wheeler Hall, Ware
Campus Center. Tickets cost $10
(children 5 and under get in free).
Sample the various chocolate offerings and vote for your favorite. Call
526-6575 or e-mail chamberinfo@
tds.net.
• CHOCOLATE LOVERS The
Caregivers, Inc. will present their
7th annual Chocolate Lovers Fantasy fundraising event on Sun.,
May 17, from noon to 4 p.m. at
the Radisson Hotel in Manchester.
Tickets cost $17 in advance, $19 at
the door. The event will feature a
variety of chocolate eats — sweet
and savory — which attendees can
sample and judge as well as auctions and other activities. Go to
www.caregiversnh.org for the link
to buy tickets. Contact The CareGivers at 19 Harvey Road in Bedford, 622-4948.
• EAT’S WEEK — MANCHESTER Save the date for downtown
Manchester’s Eats Week; it’s scheduled for Sun., April 26, through
Thurs., April 30. Restaurants will
offer reduced prices, fixed-price
meals and more. Call 645-6285 or
Pintxos: Small Plates in the
Basque Tradition, by Gerald
Hirigoyen with Lisa Weiss, photography by Maren Caruso (2009,
Ten Speed Press, 201 pages)
Smallplates—delightfulatarestaurant, dread-inducing in your kitchen.
I love eating tapas, but preparing it
for people from your non-restaurant kitchen without a staff of sous
chefs can be scary — how do you
serve everything hot and at once? How do you eat with
your guests if you’re always bringing plates out from the
kitchen?
Maren Caruso’s advice is, first of all, forget that “hot
from the oven” stuff. Most of his pintxos (the Basque word
for tapas, specifically those served on a skewer) can be
made ahead of time and, as he explains in the introduction,
served at room temperature. So save the last-minute prep
for dressing salads (though for salads like the tomato and
watermelon on page 131 or the marinated baby octopus
with tomato and fennel on page 133, letting at least some
of the ingredients sit in dressing can add to the flavor) and
frying up the Basque fries or crispy shrimp. Items like Caramelized Onions with Idiazabal Cheese (page 140) or cold
melon shooters with Serrano ham crisps (page 161) can be
made ahead and served on your time. So make your spread
ahead, and finish up the grilled ham and cheese bocadillos
(page 56 — a grown-up version of a grilled cheese) just as
your guests arrive.
Or pick one dish — like the hanger steak with Chimichurri — and enjoy that as a meal for one or two. The beauty of
these dishes in not just their bite-size but also their bite, flavor-wise. The Basque approach, as described here, blends
Spanish cooking and flavors with a bit of French cuisine
and the cuisine of the western Mediterranean. And, because
Hirigoyen is a San Francisco restaurateur, there is a California cuisine approach to freshness — and California wines
in the suggested pairings that accompany each dish (joining
wines from Spain and Basque Country in France).
Do not fear the pintxos — as presented here, it’s a handy
flavorful way to feed a crowd or just yourself. — Amy Diaz
go to www.intownmanchester.com,
• GOURMET GALA The Friends
of the Seacoast School of Technology’s Culinary Arts Program will
hold a Gourmet Gala benefit featuring a dinner, wine tasting and auction on Friday, April 3, at the Exeter
Inn in Exeter, from 7 to 10 p.m.
Tickets cost $100. For tickets, contact Bobbi Burns at 978-884-4175
• KITCHEN TOUR The Music
Hall (104 Congress St. in Portsmouth, 433-3100, themusichall.
org) will hold its 18th Annual
Kitchen Tour on Sat., May 2, from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets cost $20
in advance, $25 on the day. Take the
self-guided of the homes of Rye and
North Hampton — modern, historic
and waterfront.
• SPRING FEAST WEEK From
Wed., April 1, through Tues., April
7, it’s Spring Feast Week in downtown Nashua. For foodies, it means
that more than a dozen restaurants
and food shops will be offering discounts and promotions. Call 8835700 or go to greatamericandowntown.org/restaurantweek.html for
the list of events and discounts.
• TASTE FOR A CURE The
Third Annual Taste for a Cure, a
fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation, will be held Thurs.,
April 16, from 7 to 10 p.m. at
Southeastern Regional Education
Service Center, Conference Center
29 Commerce Drive in Bedford.
New Hampshire chefs will be on
hand preparing samples of their
signature items for guests to enjoy.
Tickets will be pre-sold at $50 each.
See www.cff.org/Chapters/newengland or call 598-8191.
• TASTE OF THE NATION Tickets are on sale now for the Taste of
the Nation, which will be held on
Wednesday, May 6, at the Radisson
Hotel, Center of New Hampshire,
from 6:30 to 10 p.m. The event
will benefit Share Our Strength (a
hunger fighting organization). More
than 50 restaurants are expected to
participate in the event and wines
will be provided by Martignetti
Companies of New Hampshire,
according to a press release. Tickets
cost $50 per person. A $75 VIP ticket includes a reception at 5:30 p.m.
Call 877-26-TASTE or go to www.
tasteofthenation.org for tickets.
Chef events/special meals
• CARIBBEAN NIGHT The Inn at
East Hill Farm, 460 Monadnock St. in
Troy, 242-6495, www.east-hill-farm.
com, will hold a Caribbean Night
featuring a Caribbean dinner and steel
drums on Sun., April 5. The evening
begins with hors d’ouevres at 5 p.m.
The cost is $16.95 for adults, $9.95
for children. The events is BYOB.
Reservations are required.
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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.
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.
• INTERNATIONAL WINE &
CHEESE FEST On Friday, April
17, at 7 p.m. it’s the International
Wine and Cheese Fest at IncrediBREW, 112 DW Highway in
Nashua, 891-2477. Make wine and
bottle wines made six weeks earlier
from South Africa (Pinotage), the
U.S. (Pinot Noir), Austria (Gruner
Veltiner), Germany (Piesporter),
Italy (Barbera) and Chile (Rosso
Grande) and taste cheeses that
complement their flavor. The cost is
$50 for six different bottles of wine.
Call or go to www.incredibrew.com
to reserve a spot.
• MEAD FREE OR DIE Brew
Free or Die will host the first Mead
Free or Die competition in New
England on Sat., April 25, at Cadec
Global, 645 Harvey Road in Manchester. Brew Free or Die, which
hosts an annual beer homebrew
competition, plans for Mead Free or
Die to be annual event with awards
including Best in Show and others.
For information on how to compete
in or judge Mead Free or Die, go to
www.meadfreeordie.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 wine
tasting
• WINE EDUCATION The Meat
House wine guy Tom Brock will
offer a series of wine education
classes in Portsmouth (April 2).
The classes are from 7 to 9 p.m. and
will go in-depth on how to properly
“taste” wine, discuss characteristics
of varietals, and offer fool-proof
pairing recommendations. The cost
is $20 and space is limited to 15
people. Call the store of your choice
to reserve a space (Pembroke at 2275261, Salem at 685-0302, Exeter at
418-6557, Dover at 834-6328 and
Bedford at 472-5444). See www.
themeathouse.com.
• 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
• GOURMET GALA The Friends
of the Seacoast School of Technology’s Culinary Arts Program will
hold a Gourmet Gala benefit featuring a dinner, wine tasting and auction on Friday, April 3, at the Exeter
Inn in Exeter, from 7 to 10 p.m.
Tickets cost $100. For tickets, contact Bobbi Burns at 978-884-4175
• WINE TASTING Bella Vino
Specialty Wines and Gourmet, 2
Young Road in Londonderry (below
the Tupelo Music Hall) will host a
showing by Londonderry artist and
photographer Constance Price on
Sat., April 4, from 1 p.m. and a
tasting of wines from R.P. Imports.
The event is free. Call 426-5212 or
e-mail [email protected].
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Doors open at 7pm Show starts at 8pm
Full Bar and Appetizer Menu
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8oz. mousse paté French cornichons,
dried fruit & Petite toasts
with your choice of:
Mousse Royale
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Reservations
Recommended!
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Mousse Truffee
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Warm Crab & Artichoke Dip w/Crackers
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It is fun to give the wine experts a
challenge, so we picked a dessert often associated with springtime: coconut cake. They
made selections that would balance the dessert’s sweetness and take into account its
tropical flair.
Rozes White Reserve Porto
— $19.99 (Recommended
by Marilyn McGuire from
the Cracker Barrel, 377 Main
St. in Hopkinton, 746-7777)
McGuire said this port has a
nutty, almondy finish that
will heighten the coconut flavor. “Think Almond Joy,” she said.
2005 Covey Run Semillon
Reserve Ice Wine — $19.99
(Recommended by Maureen
Adams from The Wine Studio,
53 Hooksett Road in Manchester, 622-WINE (9463), and 27
Buttrick Road #3 in Londonderry, 432-WINE (9463), www.
thewinestudionh.com) Adams noted that a
sweet wine such as this goes well with a sweet
dish. This wine has some pineapple and citrus
tones.
2007 Newport Vineyards
Vidal Blanc Ice Wine —
$29.99 (Recommended by
Paula Doucette of Bella Vino,
2 Young Road in Londonderry,
426-5212, www.bellavinonh.
com) This white dessert wine
from Rhode Island has flavors
of apricot and peaches that will complement the fluffy coconut topping as well as
the thick texture and flavors of the vanilla
cake.
2003 Sichel Sauternes —
$26.99 (Recommended by
Chuck Saunders 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 is France’s
classic dessert wine with plenty of sweet fruit
and complexity. It has full body with concentrated fruit flavors of apricot ripe peach and
caramel,” Saunders said.
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What to drink when you’re eating
at AMHERST
From the co-founder of Comedy Connection
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Index
CdS
POP CuLTurE:
pg38
• A-Trak, Infinity+1, B
• Sara Low, Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming, B
GAMES
pg39
• Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, A+
BOOKS
pg39
• The Beats: A Graphic History, d
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FILM
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• Adventureland, A-
• 12 Rounds, C
On store shelves
April 7
• Depths, by Océano (Earache Records)
• Unstoppable, by Rascal
Flatts (Lyric Street)
• Fork In The Road (CD/
DVD), by Neil Young
(Reprise Records)
• Other Covers, by James
CdS
Taylor (Hear Music)
• Wide Open, by Jason
Aldean (Broken Bow)
• The Last Kiss, by Jadakiss (Ruff Ryders/ Roc-AFella/Def Jam)
• To Terrapin: May 28,
1977 Hartford, CT, by
Grateful Dead (Rhino
Records)
A-Trak, Infinity+1
Thrive Records, March 31
Like most of
his
peers,
Montreal DJ
Alain Macklovitch got his
start as an
obsessed
underager, eventually moving on
to become a prodigy in the scratching game (he won the Disco Mix
Club’s world DJ Championship at
age 15), which brings us hurriedly
to the here and now and his fringefamous role as a Kanye West
sideshow, synching up beats and
futzing around with his beloved
Serato Scratch widget, a technology that allows DJs to scratch with
CDs in the same manner as they
did with vinyl.
A lot of people will like his
latest mix, somewhat inaccurately touted as a “mashup” (a bone
of basic parlance: beat-matching
segues between full-length songs
doesn’t automatically spell “mashup”) (or “genius,” for that matter)
of electro Cheez-Its from, among
others, MSTRKRFT, Gonzales and
always-boring house guy Laurent
Wolf. Now that you’re thoroughly confused, let’s just leave it at
this: out of its natural fabby-nightclub habitat it nevertheless could
constitute an upbeat, seismic party record that would work for the
barbecue planned mainly for your
hip-hop/dance-club buddies but
which is under serious threat of
being invaded by Granny and the
Oldsters, who’ll probably grok all
this nonsense as fancy-pants computer updates of Jazzy Jeff stuff (as
MuSIC, BOOKS,
GAMES, COMICS,
MOvIES, dvdS,
Tv And MOrE
• We Are the Same, by
The Tragically Hip (Zoe
Records)
• Ben Folds Presents:University a Cappella! by Ben
Folds (Sony)
• A Positive Rage, by The
Hold Steady (Vagrant
Records)
should you, but, you know, fine, be
that way). B — Eric W. Saeger
Sara Lov, Seasoned Eyes Were
Beaming
Nettwerk Records, March 17
Shimmying
forth bearing
lazy lullabies
for adults, Lov
is a survivor
of Devics, the
LA dream-pop
duo whose mission in life was to
make the world forget Mazzy Star’s
vodka-soaked “Fade Into You,” the
song that replaced Chris Isaak’s
“Wicked Game” as the de facto
background whenever some pain-inthe-neck TV-drama montage was
called upon to intensify any spoonfed scenario of regret-soaked
loneliness as evinced by hopelessly
gorgeous method-actors, realistic
stuff like that. As a solo act unshackled from Devics’ slo-mo sleepytime
dream-pop, she’s now free to explore
vastly different things, like... well,
slo-mo sleepytime dream-pop, as
found in “New York” and “Old
Friends.” But aside from those
death-defying stunts, she’s put
together a rather captivating, unconventional album, having a go at a
minimalist slant on Sarah McLachlan’s way with album-pop (“A
Thousand Bees”) and otherwise
serving up Fiona Apple with half the
caffeine, or vice-versa vis-à-vis PJ
Harvey (“Just Beneath the Chords”).
Best tune is the Rhodes-driven title
track, which channels KT Tunstall
and Christine McVie at once. B
— EWS
Playlist
A seriously abridged
compendium of recent
and future CD releases
• Muddy Waters called Fabulous Thunderbirds leader
Kim Wilson “the greatest harp player since Little Walter,”
but you can let your drunkenness judge for itself when Wilson hits Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry for a solo gig
on Saturday, April 4. If you haven’t been to the Hall yet, it’s
pretty cool for something carved completely out of one giant
piece of dinosaur-tree, and the apps are frickin’ groovy.
• Just before it ended, the South By Southwest Music
Conference, cleverly acronymed SXSW, was starting to get
overrun by big fat stupid major-label bands like Third Eye
Blind and Oak Ridge Boys, who had no business ruining
all the laughably bad indie music going on. These big-pants
bands — who also included professional bong-moron/onenote-actress Juliette Lewis and her pretend band New
Romantiques — figured it might help sales, not realizing that
nobody will ever be able to afford to buy an album again,
let alone food. I, for one, will not miss the mass slaughter
of bytes wasted on emails inviting me to see the Retro Posturing Oafs or whoever free of charge if I could get down
to Jethro’s Pig-Belly Deli in Austin, but my favorite bit of
PR baloney was the one about the band Living Things,
who bum-rushed the stage during Thunderheist’s set at the
Perez Hilton concert. Joined by six homeless dudes, they
started burning dollar bills in protest, because they think the
best way to stop the Wall Street pig-men from killing us all
would be to get rid of currency altogether. Or something
like that — I’m still trying to get past “burning dollar bills
in front of homeless dudes.”
• If Rascal Flatts can pull off anything, it’s the sound of
Marvin the Martian singing a cowboy-hat ballad. The tradition continues with “Here Comes Goodbye,” the leadoff
single from their new LP Unstoppable, due out Tuesday.
• Jadakiss, who nearly caused Bill O’Reilly to have a
heart attack by accusing Chimpy W. Bush of being behind
the 9/11 attacks, which automatically makes him sort of
awesome, releases The Last Kiss next week. It includes the
Faith Evans-decorated twinkie-glitterball ballad “Letter to
B.I.G.” from some totally obscure rapper movie that no
one’s heard about, and he swears it isn’t his last album, just
the close of a trilogy, a deep concept you can ponder while
you do the booty-bump dance in your underwear in the
parking lot after some “bee-eye-tch” texts you her wrong
number. — Eric W. Saeger
HIPPO FAvOrITES: CURRENT oBSESSIoNS oF THE HIPPo STAFF
• The Haunting in Connecticut, C-
• Monsters Vs. Aliens, C+
BOOKS: Historic
Photos of Boston, text
by Timothy Orwig.
From Revolutionary
landmarks to everyday
life, these books capture
the flavor of the history of their subjects
with an eye toward changes in industry
and landscape. In Boston, we get a mix
of famous and mundane, filling in the
life that happened around the dramatic
historical moments.
Cds: Yes, Symphonic Live
Though Yeshaters will never
understand, those
who love Yes
(whether you get
it or not) will
enjoy this album featuring a symphony orchestra (98 percent of the time in a
not-stupid manner) and a version of the
20-minute “Close to the Edge.”
GAMES:
Killzone 2
(PS3)
The tight
controls,
smoke-anddarkness
aesthetic and brutally realish bullet
fetishism reward tactical thinking and
combat momentum. Look past the silly
plot and this game exhibits overall polish and craftsmanship.
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On store shelves this
week
• Company of Heroes: Tales
of Valor (Windows Vista/XP,
rated M)
• The Godfather II (Xbox 360,
PS3, Windows Vista/XP, rated
M)
GAMES
• The Chronicles of Riddick:
Assault on Dark Athena (Xbox
360, PS3, Windows Vista/XP,
rated M)
• Class of Heroes (Sony PSP,
rated T)
• Ninja Blade (Xbox 360, rated
M)
ing car chases. Free-roaming sandbox play
comes in the form of a Drugwars (DOS,
John Dell)-style business, hidden security camera sniping, rampages a la GTA3 and
general city-wandering shenanigans. Mercifully subdued are the ham-fisted puns and
innuendo as only a bare minimum of voice
acting appears. What we lose in juniorhigh-school penis-humor we gain in the
way of the old DS staple non-sequitur minigames. Wanna jack that parked car? Well
get ready to twiddle out some screws and
twist the green and yellow wires together on the touch screen. Le sigh. It’s cute,
but frankly I’d rather drive off with the
alarm blaring and shake my wanted level
by bumping cop cars into oncoming traffic (which, while more arcadely satisfying,
seems like it wouldn’t make the fuzz less
likely to pursue you).
Chinatown’s gangland honor arc, while
not exactly stereotyope-breaking in its plot
and characterization, deserves a nod for not
cement-shoeing the fun as most game stories do. Thankfully, the DS GTA focuses
more on the blitz of urban chaos and high
speeds that meet hard walls. This is a game
of immense polish and vast scope that performs admirably at everything it attempts
and pushes the boundaries of what one can
expect out of a portable title. The energy
of GTA’s roots and the embroidery of its
recent forays come together in this suprisingly expansive cart. A+ — Glenn Given
POP CuLTurE:
In stores this week
Fiction
• Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen, by
P.G. Wodehouse (Penguin)
• A Fortunate Age, by Joanna
Smith Rakoff (Simon & Schuster)
• Once a Runner: A Novel, by
John L. Parker (Scribner)
BOOKS
• How It Ended: New and Collected Stories, by Jay Mcinerney
(Knopf)
• The Winner Stands Alone, by
Paulo Coehlo (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction
• Standing By: The Making of
an American Military Family in
a Time of War, by Alison Buckholtz (Tarcher)
• Soul of the Age: A Biography
of the Mind of William Shakespeare, by Jonathan Bate (Random House)
• In Praise of Stay-at-Home
Moms, by Dr. Laura Schlessinger (HarperCollins)
Poets corner
An occasional collection of poetry reviews
by Dan Szczesny
The Beats: A Graphic History, text by Harvey Pekar, edited by Paul Buhle, art by Ed
Piskor, 2009, Hill and Wang, 193 pages
Where to begin? Let’s
just come at this headon. The latest attempt to
breathe relevancy into
the thankfully shortlived “youth revolt” of
the ’50s has David Letterman punching bag
and underground comic
writer Harvey Pekar
teaming up with graphic artist Ed Piskor to
present a very unfunny, and not even droll,
take on the history of having bad poetry shouted at you while you try to enjoy your coffee.
Let me try to explain using the same sort
of wild generalizations that this book uses.
Way back in the square days of Eisenhower, a group of drink-addled slackers named
Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs (to name
a few) somehow found themselves living in
the same one-couch ghetto apartment with
too much time on their hands because they
didn’t have jobs. So, like any proper fringe
of society, they went on road trips in beaters, experimented with deviant sexuality,
did dope and got pissed off a lot. I mean a
lot. They were angry all the time. That anger
was eventually realized in a series of poetry and fiction which was bought by a whole
sub-set of society that wore berets, listened
to jazz and hated the Vietnam War. Most of
their fans graduated from college and realized how silly the whole movement was,
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GTA Chinatown Wars, DS
Rockstar
North/Rockstar
Leeds,
March 20, M
A little bit country, a little bit rock and
roll, but mostly drug-running, city-spanning mayhem that fits in your pocket.
Grand Theft Auto IV’s (360/PS3/PC,
Rockstar) Liberty City gets pared down a
skosh (from three islands to two) for the DS
action of Chinatown Wars. While gamers
will certainly feel pangs of recognition as
they guide Huang Lee through the parks and
slums of Broker, Dukes and Bohan, Chinatown owes more to its distant ancestors
than its next-gen sibling. Urban gang mayhem fans who were giddy with GTA before
it jumped to 3-D will be right at home. The
aerial view of the original games returns
and fits the DS well.
Like prior GTA games, Chinatown Wars
is an increasingly difficult series of step and
fetchit quests broken up by bullet-ridden
carnage and the too frequently frustrat-
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but some carried on the rebellion through
spoken-word happenings, which became
modernist poetry which became slam poetry which is the reason your java is getting
cold trying to beat feet out of your local coffee emporium. The end.
There is so much wrong with The Beats:
A Graphic History, that the vague, inaccurate
and barely realized “history” part of the book
is the least egregious of its offensives. In fact,
editor Paul Buhle, to his credit, says as much
in the introduction, that the book is merely a
comic interpretation with no “pretension” to
actual facts or literary interpretation.
But without pretension (at least give me
some irony), the histories presented here are
simply gruesome portraits of unlikeable, selfcentered nobodies. Regardless of how you feel
about such works as Kerouac’s On the Road,
or Burrough’s Naked Lunch, or even Ginsburg’s ridiculous “Howl,” these were seminal
works that influenced generations. But Pekar
does not care a whit about that.
Let me back up again and ask a question
that may get me in trouble — does anyone like Harvey Pekar’s work? The critical
acclaim enjoyed by American Splendor is
obscene. One critic actually compared Pekar’s everyman misery to Dostoevsky.
And in The Beats, pretty much all Pekar has is misery — drugs, insanity, laziness,
confusion, it’s all there and after a while of
listening to Kerouac exclaim how underBook & Lecture
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• Bedford Public Library
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appreciated he is, it gets very old and very
annoying. In one particularly grating panel,
Kerouac is unable to get a manuscript published and thinks: “This is my best stuff and
those idiots won’t touch it. What idiots! I’m
the James Joyce of my generation.”
Ultimately, the writers featured in these
panels are flawed but fully-realized human
beings. But Pekar and the artists are only
interested in the flaws. I lost count of the
number of panels that show one of these
men vomiting, shooting up, drunk or beating
someone up. Pekar’s script is so relentlessly unimaginative and mundane that even
the important moments — Ginsberg’s first
reading of “Howl” or Kerouac’s decision to
write On the Road as one long roll — are
played down and followed by some other
painful episode.
The book’s concept only really becomes
readable when Pekar is not involved. A
section on San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore is interesting and at least Ed Piskor’s
detailed art is a marked improvement over
Pekar’s usual collaborator, R. Crumb, whose
grotesque caricatures would have further
weighed down an already bloated project.
If you’re a fan of Pekar, I’m surprised
you’ve read this far and you likely already
own the book. If you just want a different
take on the Beat poets, this collection will
do nothing for you except make you never
want to buy a cup of coffee again. D
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420 Main St., Nashua,
888-1311, rivier.edu.
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400 Commercial St., Manchester,
641-4101, unhm.unh.edu
Author events
• ASKOLD MELNYCZUK poet
and novelist reads on Thurs., April
2, at 6 p.m. at Chester College of
New England. Admission is free
for students with ID, $5 donation
for others. Melnyczuk is a professor of creative writing at UMassBoston; his first novel was named
a New York Times Notable Book.
Lectures and discussions
• A SOUNDTRACK FOR THE
GREAT GATSBY A discussion of
music of the Jazz Age with Paul
Combs on Thurs., April 2, at 7
p.m. at Manchester City Library.
Free and open to all.
• FROM THE FLINTLOCK
TO THE M1 GARAND a history of American firearms presented by collector Randy Cook
on Sun., April 5, at 2 p.m. at the
Wright Museum. Admission cost
is $5; free for museum members.
RSVP to 569-1212.
• ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
presentation by Professor David
Schweickart, of Loyola University, author of Against Capitalism
What are you reading?
Marty Kelley
New Boston, www.
martykelley.com.
Author of Twelve
Terrible Things, Spring
Goes Squish, Winter
Woes and other picture
books.
I’m glad I’m not in the
middle of some socially
humiliating book right
now. In fact, I’m midway through Fool by Chris Moore, my favorite author
on the planet. It’s a hilarious retelling of King Lear from
the fool’s point of view. Though I suspect that the book
will cause any serious student of the bard to be sorely
vexed, those of us with a sense of humor will laugh hard
enough to cause internal hemorrhaging. Chris’s books
are always twisted and deranged and loads of fun.
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POP CULTURE:
and After Capitalism, on Mon.,
April 6, at 7 p.m. in Wheeler Hall
in Ware Campus Center at ColbySawyer College in New London,
526-3000,
www.colby-sawyer.
edu. Free and open to the public.
Book discussions
• GOFFSTOWN LIBRARY
evening book group meets Tuesdays at 7 p.m., open to any interested teen or adult. April 7: Elmer
Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis.
• THE GREAT GATSBY is featured for Southern New Hampshire Reads. See www.northeastculturalcoop.org and www.neabigread.org. Discussions and related
events are at area libraries and
other venues through April 25.
• HOOKSETT LIBRARY discussion of The Great Gatsby
Wed., April 8, at 1:30 p.m.
•
MANCHESTER
CITY
LIBRARY evening book discussion group meets on the second
Thursday of the month at 7 p.m.
April 9: The Great Gatsby, by F.
Scott Fitzgerald.
Poetry
• THE KALEVALA The Poetry Society of NH ([email protected]) hosts “The
Kalevala, from Myth to Marimekko©” Sat., April 4, from 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. at the Governor’s Inn,
BOOKS
76 Wakefield St., Rochester, to
mark the 160th anniversary of
the Finnish epic poem. Speakers include Dr. Clia Goodwin on
“J.R.R. Tolkien and the Uses of
Fantasy.” Maine Kanteles will
perform songs of the Kalevala
and a hands-on workshop. Free
and open to the public.
• HYLA BROOK READING
SERIES features poet Alfred
Nicol on Thurs., April 9, from
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Coffee
Factory in Derry. Also reading
is Marla Landers-Renouf, of the
Hyla Brook Poets, a group affiliated with Robert Frost Farm. Free
and open to the public. An open
mike follows the readings.
• POETRY SLAM Sat., April 11,
from 1:30 p.m. to approximately 4
p.m. at Derry Public Library, with
Victor Infante, reading from City
of Insomnia. Each poet gets three
minutes to perform an original
work. Sign up in advance (call the
library) or at the event.
• MAXINE KUMIN former U.S.
poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize
winner, gives a reading and discussion on Mon., April 13, from
4 to 5 p.m. at the Susan Colgate
Cleveland Library at Colby-Sawyer College. Free and open to the
public.
• POETRY WRITING WORK-
• Library moving: Hills Memorial
Library in Hudson will be open through
April 18, then closed for three to four
weeks to move into the new George F. and
Ella M. Rodgers Memorial at 194 Derry
Road (next to Alvirne High School). Hills
Memorial Library cardholders in good
standing will have guest borrowing privileges at Nesmith Library in Windham
and at Aaron Cutler Memorial Library in
Litchfield in the interim; interested parties
must visit Hills Library to get validation of
their good standing status by April 18. Due
dates for items will be extended; patrons
“are encouraged to take out as many items
as you can keep track of during the month
(except DVDs that retain the limit of 10
per card),” according to a Library press
release.
• National Poetry Month fun: The
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• WRITERS’ DAY hosted by NH
Writers’ Project brings together
300+ writers and publishing professionals for a day of networking and workshops April 18 at
Derryfield School in Manchester.
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www.poets.org) by featuring a different
New Hampshire poet each day in April on
its Book Notes blog at http://nhbookcenter.blogspot.com.
• National Library Month fun: Oh,
and it’s National Library Month in April,
too, with extra emphasis on National
Library Week from April 12 through April
18 (why it starts on a Thursday I have no
idea). Check your local library for details.
• New company: A new eBook publishing company was launched in Manchester
on Tuesday, March 24. Abbott ePublishing, founded by Stephen Abbott, aims to
offer “affordable, interesting eBooks” at
www.abbottepub.com. In a press release,
Abbott said the average price of an eBook
on the site — there are “over 30” — is
about $4. The company is seeking authors.
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SHOP “Sea Glass, Sand Piper,
Paper Bag” April 15 at Amherst
Town Library includes hands-on
exercises. Join at 1 p.m. or 7 p.m.
in Johnson Meeting Room. Register by calling the library.
• CLEOPATRA MATHIS reads
on Mon., April 20, at 7 p.m. in
Memorial Hall at Rivier College. Free and open to the public.
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In theaters Friday, April 3
• Fast & Furious (PG-13, wide release)
• Adventureland (R, wide release)
• Alien Trespass (PG, limited release)
• Bart Got a Room Bart Got a Room
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REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
(PG-13, limited release)
• The Escapist (limited release)
• Gigantic (limited release)
• Paris 36 (PG-13, limited release)
• The Song of Sparrows (PG, limited
release)
• Sugar (R, limited release)
In theaters Wednesday, April 8
• Dragonball Evolution (PG, wide release)
gem like “Rock Me Amadeus,” used
here to wonderfully torturing effect).
Like just about everything else about
Adentureland, the soundtrack charms
you even when it’s smirking. ARated R for language, drug use and
sexual references. Written and directed by Greg Mottola, Adventureland is
an hour and 46 minutes long and will
open in wide release on Friday, April 3.
The film is distributed by Miramax.
Monsters vs. Aliens
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Government-controlled
monsters fight a
megalomaniacal alien in
the relentlessly jokey
Monsters vs. Aliens, a
DreamWorks cartoon
(shown in several places
in 3-D) that suffers from
DreamWorks Animation
Snark Syndrome.
Adventureland
Adventureland (R)
Like a bug to a
windshield, a college grad
is introduced to real life in
Adventureland, a sweet,
funny, downbeat The
Graduate for our loweredexpectations age.
On the other hand, recession or
no, when you go from the “you can
do anything!” environment of college to the “your cubicle is by the
copier” environment of actual life,
there’s always a little right-sizing of
expectations.
James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg),
an English major leaving the academic sanctuary in 1987, has his life
immediately reality-checked when,
at the dinner celebrating his graduation, his parents (a booze-soaked
dad played by Jack Gilpin and a perpetually aggravated mom played by
Wendie Malick) tell him that Dad’s
been demoted, so no more summer
trip to Europe for James. (This is the
day after the virgin James is dumped
by his girlfriend, losing his most likely opportunity to score.) And, James,
who wants to be a travelogue journalist (his description of which is
delightfully naïve) might have to
rethink next year’s grad school plans
at Columbia University as well, that
is unless he can pay for it himself.
The wealthier friend with whom he’d
planned to go to Europe tells him not
to worry about New York City, that
James can room with him for a while,
and he gives him a bag of joints to
help James ease the pain of a summer at home.
James quickly finds that familiarity with the literary canon does not
help with, say, landing a construction job. He soon realizes that his
only real hope for employment is by
prevailing on his childhood friend
Tommy Frigo (Matt Bush) — who
punctuates their every encounter with
a merrily delivered punch to James’
nuts — to get him a job at Adventureland, a local down-on-its-heels
amusement park. Here James, who
is stuck running one of many fixed
midway games, meets park managers
Bobby (Bill Hader) and his dazedseeming significant other, Paulette
(Kristen Wiig); Joel (Martin Starr),
a fellow smarty-pants who says his
Russian Literature major makes him
eligible for careers in taxi driveing or
marijuana delivery; Lisa P. (Margarita Levieva), the park hottie; Mike
(Ryan Reynolds), the aging pick-up
artist, and Em (Kristen Stewart), a
thinky girl with whom James rather
quickly falls in crush.
But, like any workplace where
the employees have more hormones
than career motivation, it’s a Melrose
Place of friendships, betrayals, hookups and histories even before James
and his popularity-fostering bag of
pot show up.
Adventureland is another one of
these comedies that is not of Judd
Apatow but explores a part of the
Apatowian universe, namely the geek
adrift. James is a more straight-laced
version of Seth Rogen’s Knocked Up
character, a more upwardly mobile
version of Steve Carell’s character
in The 40 Year Old Virgin. He shares
some of the same mannerisms as
Michael Cera’s character from Arrested Development — not an Apatow
property but Arrested Development
shares this movie’s writer and director, Greg Mottola (who has directing
credits for Arrested Development),
with the TV show Undeclared, which
was an Apatow project. And Mottola
was also director on Superbad, another comedy in which guys at a life
crossroads find themselves concerned
with the future, with their friendships
and with, well, getting laid. Unlike the
Apatowier projects, this movie is a
little less concerned with male friendships than with James and eventually
Em’s inner life and their relationship.
The result is a quieter film, one without as many big laughs but with plenty
of humor — much of it, of course,
dependent on the “better them than
us” awkwardness of this kind of movie — that carries through. While I love
the big, dirty, goofy humor of an Apatow movie, I also love how this movie
creates dimension even in characters
with smaller parts and in characters
who happen to be female, a group
that tends to get short shrift in Apatow films.
I like this movie for its nerd-finding-his-way and life-after-college
themes — both classics when they’re
done right, as they are here. Like The
Graduate, Adventureland feels both
of its time and sort of timeless, which
means that a baby boomer turning 55 now (happy birthday, Dad)
will feel the same kind of nostagia that I, a 30something, do when I
watch this, even though it isn’t set in
either of our immediately-post-college years. (I guess my “here’s life”
movie is Reality Bites, which, unlike
Adventureland, feels self-conscious
and dated by comparison.) And by
turning back the clock to specifically to 1987, the movie gets to put its
characters in a climate of increasing economic funk not unfamiliar to
college graduates this spring. And it
gives the movie an excuse for lining up a completely wonderful late
1980s college-radio-type soundtrack
(studded with the occasional top 40
The Shrek sequels, Shark Tale, Bee
Movie — these are all DreamWorks
Animation movies and I would argue
that these movies, generally speaking, had more funny, zany, goofy and
silly, not to mention emotionally satisfying, moments to offer to me than
to most kids. More of the jokes are
aimed at my adult knowledge of pop
culture than at a kid’s idea of what is
funny (poop, falling down, monkeys
— all comedy gold to the elementaryschoolers of the world). More of the
pathos in these movies (the central
character learning to assert himself or
finding his place in the world or finding true love) was directed at my adult
understanding of how plot devices
work than at a kid’s need to have constant action or stunning visuals or a
comprehendible story. I’m not saying
DreamWorks never succeeds (last
year’s Kung Fu Panda was delightful for me, for my then eight-year-old
stepson and for the other kids and
parents in the audience) but there is a
tendency to cram in too much grownup stuff at the expense of stuff that
would be universal (see as an example of how it’s done right WALL-E or,
heck, most Pixar movies). When two
characters in this movie break up —
during a rather harsh scene in which
one character states directly that it’s
because the relationship will no longer revolve selfishly around him — I
heard moms gasp but kids make the
whine that means “I’m bored.”
The movie first gets going with
scenes of Susan (Reese Witherspoon) getting ready for her wedding
to weatherman Derek Dietel (Paul
Rudd). (Because there’s nothing
that delights a six-year-old like spa
humor!) In the moments before her
wedding when Susan is contemplating what a jerk she’s marrying,
she’s hit by a meteorite and when she
gets to the altar and lifts her veil, she
reveals that she’s glowing — not in
the usual bridely way but with a blue
radioactive-type glow and soon she’s
not just glowing but growing. To
terrified shouts of “here comes the
bride!” she busts out of the top of the
church but is quickly pinned down
by government agents, who tie her
up Gulliver-style and whisk her to a
secret facility.
There, she learns that because of
her nearly 50-foot size she is now
classified as a monster and is fated
to spend her life in a holding facility with other monsters: the brainless
but endearing blob B.O.B. (Seth
Rogen), the reptilian body-builder Missing Link (Will Arnett), the
giant non-verbal bug Insectosaurus
and the uber-genius Dr. Cockroach
(Hugh Laurie, using his real accent
and may I say, meee-ow; forget the
cartoon and the kids nonsense, make
a movie where Laurie just talks for
90 minutes and I promise to see it
over and over and over…). Their
warden is General W.R. Monger
(Kiefer Sutherland) and the pompous
moronic president he informs about
the existence of monsters after the
aliens show up is voiced by Stephen
Colbert. (I’m sure I was supposed
to laugh knowingly but “oh, really,
must we?” was my reaction to the
name of the general — all this poking fun at Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld is
so painfully 2006 that it starts to be as
off-putting for me as their talk-heavy
scenes seemed to be for the younger
audience members.)
The appearance of the alien in
question — Gallaxhar, voiced by
Rainn Wilson — helps move the story along and cut down on some of the
talking, but for a movie that needs to
keep younger kids entertained for a
full 90-plus minutes, there is still a
lot of conversation (on the screen and
in the audience — some of that conversation was of the “Mommy, I’m
scared” variety during a few of the
action scenes).
I brought my now-nine-year-old
stepson to this movie and tried to
keep an eye on how often he laughed
or otherwise seemed engaged by the
movie. Not much, from what I could
tell. Afterward, he said he liked the
movie but then talked about characters he had already gotten to know
from the trailers. And his reaction to
the much ballyhooed 3-D? “There
wasn’t very much 3-D,” he said
about the effects that can raise the
ticket price about $4. (And I agree —
after a few gimmicky “right AT you”
moments in the beginning, the 3D
isn’t a big part of the movie.)
Monsters vs. Aliens is, for the
most part, a movie that family members can watch together. But it is not,
in the best sense of the word, truly a family movie. It doesn’t delight
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POP CULTURE:
FILM Continued
TOWN HALL THEATRE
ARAB AMERICAN FORUM presents its
2nd Annual Film Festival
(603) 654-FILM (3456)
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LOVE & MARRIAGE
IN THE ARAB WORLD
A powerful true story of the Nazi Holocaust
Daniel Craig “”
Directed by Edward Zwick
Every Evening 7:30 Sun mat 2:00
Continuing... Oscar nominated Best Picture
“”
Every Evening 7:30 Sun mats 2:00-4:30
Learn about life in the Middle East
through feature and documentary films
Saturday Afternoon Library Classic Film
Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward the 1951 Western
“” directed by Henry Hathaway
Sat 4:30pm - free admission - donations to charity
Friday, April 3
The Syrian Bride
SUNDAY... NH Library “Big Read” film
Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
“  ” (1974)
Sun 4:30pm - free admission - donations accepted
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Admission Prices: All Shows
Adults $6.00
7 p.m. - Feature Film (97 min)
Children (under 12) and Seniors (65 and over) $4.00
12 Rounds
12 Rounds (PG-13)
Chasing, fighting and ’splosions
are on the menu for the WWE
movie 12 Rounds, an action
movie that’s not smart but plenty
energetic.
The first chunk of the movie sets up the
revenge scenario that drives most of the movie’s major action. In this opening act, New
Orleans police officer Danny Fisher (John
Cena) and his partner Hank Carver (Brian
White) are on patrol when an F.B.I. sting goes
wrong and international terrorist-type Miles
Jackson (Aidan Gillen) is on the run. Fisher
and Carver are heading to assist when they
happen to pull up to an intersection next to a
car driven by Erica (Taylor Cole), whom keen
observer Danny recognizes as a girl spotted
with Jackson earlier that night. He pulls her
over and when their questioning of her takes
a bit too long, Miles pops out of the trunk and
starts shooting. Eventually, Danny is able to
hold Miles and Erica at gun point, but before
he can start with the law half of the “law and
order” equation, Erica makes a run for it and
darts into the path of an oncoming truck.
Squish.
Miles tells Danny that he’s going to
remember him. So when, a year later, a newly
promoted Danny is fighting with his girlfriend
Molly (Ashley Scott) before she leaves for
work, it doesn’t take a fortune teller to guess
who’s going to be on the other end of the first
phone call he gets after she slams the door.
Miles is all “you took from me so I’m going
to take from you” and Danny is all “hey my
truck just exploded” and without much ado
we arrive at the motivation for the rest of the
action: Miles has Molly and will only get her
back if Danny wins the next 12 rounds of a
game that involves racing all over the city and
trying to find clues. It’s like a scavenger hunt
but with explosive devices and car crashes.
Fans of WWE will recognize Cena from
his wrestling but I mostly recognize him
from the movie The Marine, which is more
or less an identical movie (girlfriend abducted
by bad guys, big-pawed Cena fighting to get
her back) but featuring Robert Patrick as the
bad guy and therefore is, if you can believe it,
more absurd than this movie. I have to say that
in spite of the fact that “Cena want smash”
pretty much sums up 12 Rounds, I didn’t
hate it. I’d rather watch classic American cars
and, occasionally, a fire truck race down city
streets, making improbable turns and crashing
into dozens of vehicles without causing one
injury, than be subjected to (thinking back on
the past few weeks at the theater) another bad
horror movie, another movie about Playboy
bunnies or anything with Nicolas Cage. Hey,
times are tough, the real world isn’t full of
good news and sometimes you just need a little ka-boom crash zoom-zoom punch to take
the edge off. C
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action. Directed by Renny Harlin
and written by Daniel Kunka, 12 Rounds is an
hour and 48 minutes long and is distributed in
wide release by 20th Century Fox.
The Haunting in
Connecticut (PG-13)
A totally ho-hum horror movie
gets kicked up a few notches
thanks to some actual moments
of “boo!” and to the treating-itlike-a-real-job performance of
Virginia Madsen in The Haunting
in Connecticut.
Sara Campbell (Madsen) is a woman facing
plenty of truly terrifying horrors. Her oldest
son, Matt (Kyle Gallner, the troubled Beaver
Casablancas from Veronica Mars whose acting style still runs to the “permanent wince”),
is near death from cancer. His only hope is
an experimental treatment at a hospital hours
from his family’s home, where dad Peter
(Martin Donovan) is just barely keeping sober
and equally barely paying the many mounting bills. Sara decides that, even though it will
stretch this tense family even tighter, it will be
best for Matt if they can rent a house near his
hospital and she and the kids will move there.
She finds a comfortable-sized house for her
family, which includes another younger son
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Stadium Seating • Dolby Surround • Beer, Wine & Sandwiches
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SUNSHINE CLEANING (R) 91 min. Fri. 5:30, 8:00, Sat. 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00,
Sun. 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, Mon. 5:30, 8:00, Tue. 2:00, 5:30, 8:00, Wed. 5:30, 8:00,
Thu. 5:30, 8:00
FROST/NIXON (R) 122 min. Fri. 5:45, 8:15, Sat. 12:45, 3:15, Sun. 8:15,
Mon. 5:45, 8:15, Tue. 2:15, 5:45, 8:15, Wed. 5:45, 8:15, Thu. No Performance
Mona’s wedding day may be the saddest of her life. Once she
crosses the border into Syria, she will never be allowed back to
her beloved family in the Druze village of Majdal Shams. Shot on
location in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, The Syrian Bride is
a powerful film about physical, mental and emotional borders and
the courage it takes to cross them.
Saturday, April 4
Canticle of Stones
JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL:
NOODLE (NR) 95 min. Sat. 7:00, Sun. 5:30
ELI & BEN (NR) 89 min. Sun. 1:00
HOLY LAND HARDBALL (NR) 75 min. Sun. 3:30
5 p.m. - Feature Film (110 min)
WILD BILL: HOLLYWOOD MAVERICK (NR) 93 min. In the Screening Room
Tue. 6:30, Wed. 6:30
ONE STEP FURTHER WITH STEPHEN KOCH Multi-Media Presentation Thu. 6:30, 8:30
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Canticle of Stones tells the story of two Palestinian lovers, now
in their forties. They had barely fallen in love nearly twenty years
earlier when he was imprisoned for political activity. She ran off to
the United States to overcome her grief. Years later, she comes
back to Jerusalem only to find him released from prison. Against a
backdrop of resistance and repression; they fall in love again.
Saturday, April 4
Forbidden Marriages
in the Holy Land
7:30 p.m. - Documentary (68 min)
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Exploring the lives and loves of eight mixed marriages from
different generations and backgrounds, director Michael Khlefi
uncovers the mutual intolerance in the practice of the Middle East’s
three monotheistic religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
Saturday, April 4
Women Beyond
Borders
9 p.m. - Documentary (58 min)
Londonderry, NH - 603-434-8633
Showtimes for April 3 - April 9
PRESENTED IN DIGITAL 3D
MONSTERS VS. ALIENS 3D B
11:00, 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 8:30, 9:15
$2.00 surcharge for admission to all 3D films
PRESENTED IN DIGITAL PROJECTION H
KIDTOONS CELEBRATE EARTH DAY 2009 I
10:30 AM
ADVENTURELAND E
11:30, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00
FAST & FURIOUS C 11:15, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45
12 ROUNDS C
11:20, 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT C
11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 7:25, 9:40
Fri & Sat: 10:50, 1:35, 4:25;
DUPLICITY C
Sun to Thu: 10:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55
I LOVE YOU, MAN E
11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50
11:05, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35
KNOWING C
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN B
11:10, 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20
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www.oneilcinemas.com
Acclaimed director Jean Chamoun looks at the lives and
works of some of the women who have joined the fight for their
Palestinian homeland. We learn of young resistance fighter Kifah
Afifi’s experience as a survivor of the 1982 Shatila massacre in
Lebanon when she was just twelve years old. She tells us about
fighting the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 1990s and
of her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility, which was run
by Israel’s auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army.
FREE to the Public!
Mara Auditorium, Webster Hall,
Southern NH University
2500 N. River Rd, Manchester
For further information, contact:
Nabil Migalli - [email protected]
Steve Harvey - [email protected]
Sponsors:
The Spice Center - Mid East and South Asian Foods, 245 Maple St,
Manchester Beirut Shuwarma - Lebanese Take-Out, 245 Maple
St, Manchester David Lamarre - Vincent, Exec. Dir., NH Council of
Churches, Concord Hippo Press - 49 Hollis St, Manchester
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everyone, doesn’t offer anybody of any age
anything new to wonder over or giggle about.
It’s OK but I don’t know that it’s worth a trip
to the movie theater when plenty of DVDs
will entertain the whole crowd (not just the
adults and occasionally the kids) just as well
for cheaper. C+
Rated PG for sci-fi action, some crude
humor and mild language. Directed by Rob
Letterman and Conrad Vernon and written
by Maya Forbes, Wallace Wolodarsky, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Letterman and
Vernon, Monsters vs. Aliens is an hour and 34
minutes long and distributed in wide release
by DreamWorks Animation.
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Family, Planet & Wallet Friendly
and two girls (one a teenager, one younger),
at least one of whom is a niece. The catch to
a big roomy house in the Connecticut suburbs
priced remarkably cheap? Let’s just say maybe you don’t put the dying kid in the gloomy
basement with the creepy locked room and
the sporatically-appearing ghost. (They do, of
course, all the better that Gallner’s winces can
cast shadows on his face.)
As trailers tell you, there are spooky
goings-on at this house, the dull soul-sucking appearance of which would tell you in
one glance that it is full of spookiness. And,
because apparently there’s some kind of law
about the way these stories progress, first
nobody catches on to the spookiness, then
they wonder if it’s just in Matt’s head and then
it takes the appearance of some kind of reverend (Elias Koteas) to truly get everyone on the
“those creaking noises aren’t just the house
settling” bandwagon. Every haunted tale like
this has some kind of creepy back story and
Connecticut’s is decently creepy (some of
those “disturbing images” the MPAA warns
about feature eye-related terror, which always
gets me) even if it isn’t shocking or particularly inventive. You probably won’t find
yourself shocked or surprised by much here,
but the movie does throw a few actual jolts at
Tiebreakers
Family Grille
Live Music Friday Nights
Kids’ Menu
Daily Specials
Open at 4:30pm
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you and, after months of my not jumping at
a single black-eyed blue-skinned devil-child
who popped out of mirrors or trash bags in
seemingly dozens of interchangeable horror
movies, I’ll give it credit for actually making
me spill some soda once or twice.
But really what makes this movie capable of
being watched — not worthy, so much, but at
least watchable — is Madsen’s performance
(with a few scenes of “aw heck, might as well
perform” from Donovan). She’s compelling,
she’s natural. She seems like a real person who
is really afraid of losing her son, really afraid
of what’s going to happen to her husband
(who seems to be teetering on the edge of personal disaster). She looks beautiful, luminous
occasionally, but also like a person who might
have a teenage son and might stay up nights
crying about him. All this skill is completely
wasted on a movie this nothing but it’s the difference between the “direct-to-video”-worthy
grade I might have given it and the C- I’m
giving because of Madsen.
Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences
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distributed in wide release by Lionsgate.
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through Sunday, April 5, with a line-up of films at Red
River Theatres. See www.jewishnh.org/filmfest.html.
The Arab American Forum presents its second
annual film festival, themed “Love and Marriage in
the Arab World,” Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April
4, at the Mara Auditorium in Webster Hall at Southern
New Hampshire University, 2500 N. River Road in Manchester. The films are free and open to
the public. The line-up is:
• The Syrian Bride (2004, 97 minutes), a feature about a woman from the Golan Heights
who prepares to cross into Syria to marry, a trip from which she can not return to her Druze
village on the Israeli side. The film will screen on Friday, April 3, at 7 p.m.
• Canticle of Stones (1990, 110 minutes), a story of Palestinian lovers who met in their
20s, were separated when he was imprisoned and she left for the U.S. and meet again in their
40s when he is released and she returns. The film screens on Saturday, April 4, at 5 p.m.
• Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land (1995, 68 minutes) a documentary exploring
the lives of eight mixed marriages from different generations and backgrounds in the Middle
East. The film screens on Saturday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m.
• Women Beyond Borders (2004, 58 minutes) a documentary about women who have
fought for a Palestinian homeland and their experiences. The film screens on Saturday, April
4, at 9 p.m.
Contact Nabil Migalli ([email protected]) or Steve Harvey ([email protected]) for
more information on the event.
Down in Lowell, the Second Annual Lowell Film Festival will focus on “Food, Fair Trade and
the Global Economy,” Friday, April 3, through Sunday, April 5. The festival is free and open to the
public; see www.lowellfilms.org for a complete schedule. Here are a few of the highlights:
• The festival kicks off with an opening night reception at the Revolving Museum, 22 Shattuck St. in Lowell, Mass., at 6 p.m. on Friday. The reception will feature free food and beverages,
remarks by LZ Nunn (director of cultural affairs and special events for the Cultural Organization
of Lowell), Bernie Lynch (Lowell’s city manager), Robert Forrant (professor at UMass-Lowell)
and Lawrence-based filmmaker Lorre Fritchy (who will offer a sneak peek at her current project, Millies).
• The documentary film The Garden (www.thegardenmovie.com) will kick off the weekend
of screenings at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market St.
• A “Food & Fair Trade Marketplace” will be held on Saturday, April 4, from noon to 2:30
p.m. at the Revolving Museum. The event will feature a variety of merchants, food growers and
others who embrace sustainability and fair trade.
• Saturday’s films will begin with Asparagus: Stalking the American Life at noon at the Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St. in Lowell. Screenings will also be held at the Live
Alive Urban Oasis & Café at 194 Middle St., the Revolving Museum, Mickey’s Bar & Grill at
179 Central St., the UMass Lowell O’Leary Library and the New England Quilt Museum, 18
Shattuck St. in Lowell.
• The Film Fest Wrap-Up Brunch will be held Sunday, April 5, at 11 a.m. at Caffe Paradiso,
45 Palmer St. in Lowell.
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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 Wrestler (R, 2008) Thurs.,
April 2, at 7:30 p.m.
• Frost/Nixon (R, 2008) Thurs.,
April 2, through Thurs., April 9,
at 7:30 p.m. PLUS Sun., April 5,
at 2 & 4:30 p.m.
• Defiance (R, 2008) Fri., April 3,
through Thurs., April 9, at 7:30 p.m.
PLUS Sun., April 5, at 2 p.m.
THE MUSIC HALL
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 4362400, www.themusichall.org
• Wendy and Lucy (R, 2008)
Thurs., April 2, at 7 p.m.
• Two Lovers (R, 2008) Fri., April
3, at 7 p.m.; Sun., April 5, at 4 &
7 p.m.; Mon., April 6, through
Thurs., April 9, at 7 p.m.
• Frost/Nixon (R, 2008) Fri.,
April 10, and Sat., April 11, at
7 p.m.; Sun., April 12, at 4 & 7
p.m.; Mon., April 13, at 7 p.m.;
Wed., April 15, at 7 p.m.
PETERBOROUGH
COMMUNITY THEATRE
6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, www.thepct.com. Schedule
subject to change, call ahead.
• Theme night Tuesdays — StartWEST BRANCH
ing in March, it’s TNT at PCT. A
COMMUNITY LIBRARY
different theme each Tuesday —
76 N. Main St.., Manchester, 624- first Tuesday of the month, classic
6560, www.manchester.lib.nh.us movie; second Tuesday, comedy/
• Bedtime Stories (PG, 2008) Fri., class; third Tuesday, action/sci-fi;
April 10, at 3 p.m.
fourth Tuesday, chick flick. Movies start at 7:30 p.m. Admission is
HOOKSETT
free; donations accepted.
PUBLIC LIBRARY
• Gran Torino(R, 2008) Thurs.,
1701B Hooksett Rd., 485-6092 April 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Free films and popcorn.
• Clone Wars (PG, 2008) Thurs., THE COLONIAL THEATER
April 2, at 6:30 p.m.
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033,
www.thecolonial.org
NHTI • Frost/Nixon (PG-13, 2008)
Sweeney Auditorium, 31 College Thurs. April 2, at 7 p.m.
Drive, Concord, 271-7185, nhti.edu • Waltz with Bashir (R, 2008) Fri.,
• Timecrimes (R, 2007, Spanish April 3, at 7 p.m.; Sat., April 4, at
with English subtitles ) on Fri., 2 & 7 p.m.; Sun., April 5, through
April 10, 7 p.m. A thriller by Thurs., April 9, at 7 p.m.
director Nacho Vigalondo.
COLBY-SAWYER
NASHUA PUBLIC
COLLEGE
LIBRARY
541 Main St. in New London,
NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, 526-3000,
colby-sawyer.edu.
589-4600,
www.nashualibrary. Films at Clements Hall, Ivey Sciorg. Call 589-4646 for the library’s ence Center.
film line, a schedule of upcoming • To See If I’m Smiling Tues.,
movies. Films subject to change. April 7, at 7 p.m.
Seating is limited. Food and drink are not permitted in the theater.
NEWBURYPORT
• Quantum of Solace (PG-13, SCREENING ROOM
2008) Fri., April 3, at 7 p.m.
82 State St.., Newburyport, Mass.,
• Alice in Wonderland (G, 1951) 978-462-3456, www.newburypoSat., April 4, at 2 p.m.
rtmovies.com
• Doubt (PG-13, 2008) Fri., April • Wendy and Lucy (R, 2008)
10, at 7 p.m.
Thurs., April 2, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri.,
• Tale of Despereaux (G, 2008) April 3, at 6:45 & 8:45 p.m.; Sat.,
Sat., April 11, at 2 p.m.
April 4, at 4:45, 6:45 & 8:45 p.m.;
Sun., April 5, at 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.;
REVOLVING MUSEUM
Mon., April 6, through Thurs,
22 Shattuck St.., Lowell, Mass., April 9, at 7:30 p.m.
978-937-2787, www.revolvingmuseum.org
OTHER • Second Annual Lowell Film • A KALAHARI FAMILY on Fri.,
Festival 2009 focusing on “Food, April 3, at 7 p.m. at the Mariposa
Fair Trade & the Global Econo- Museum (26 Main St. in Petermy,” Fri., April 3, through Sun., borough, 924-4555, mariposaApril 5. The event is free and museum.org). A film about the
open to all ages. Will features film bushmen of Southern Africa. Part
screenings, guest speakers, panel of the First Friday programming,
discussions and a fair trade mar- which includes free admission on
ket. See www.lowellfilms.org.
the first Friday of the month from
5 to 9 p.m.
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• Rawhide (1951) Sat., April 4, at
4:30 p.m. Free; donations to charity.
• The Great Gatsby (PG, 1974) Sun.,
April 5, at 4:30 p.m. Free; donations
accepted.
MILFORD DRIVE-IN
101A in Milford, 673-4090, www.
milforddrivein.com.
Opening
for the season Friday, April 10,
weather permitting. See Web site.
MANCHESTER CITY
LIBRARY
405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
• Short Circuit (PG, 1986) Wed.,
April 8, at 1 p.m.
• Ocean’s Eleven (1960) Wed.,
April 15, at 1 p.m.
RED RIVER THEATRES
11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600,
www.redrivertheatres.org
• I’ve Loved You So Long (PG-13,
2008) Thurs., April 2, at 8 p.m.
• Slumdog Millionaire (R, 2008)
Thurs., April 2, at 5:30 p.m.
• Sunshine Cleaning (R, 2009)
Fri., April 3, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Sat.,
April 4, at 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Sun., April 5, at 12:30, 3, 5:30 &
8 p.m.; Mon., April 6, at 5:30 & 8
p.m.; Tues., April 7, at 2, 5:30 & 8
p.m.; Wed., April 8, & Thurs., April
9, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.
• Frost/Nixon (R, 2008) Fri., April
3, at 5:45 & 8:15 p.m.; Sat., April 4,
at 12:45 & 3:15 p.m.; Sun., April 5,
at 8:15 p.m.; Mon., April 6, at 5:45
& 8:15 p.m.; Tues., April 7, at 2:15,
5:45 & 8:15 p.m.; Wed., April 8, at
5:45 & 8:15 p.m.
• Documentary series by John
Gfroerer: Sherman Adams (1990,
55 minutes), about Adams, who was
governor of NH from 1949 to 1953
and a White House staffer for Dwight
Eisenhower, followed by a talk with
Gov. John Sununu, on Thurs., April
16, at 7 p.m.; and Powerful As Truth
(2001, 59 minutes), a documentary
about William Loeb, on Thurs., April
23, at 7:30 p.m.
• New Hampshire Jewish Film
Festival will run through Sun.,
April 5. See www.jewishnh.org/
filmfest.html. Films scheduled
so far include Seven Days (2008,
Hebrew/French/Arabic with subtitles; Thurs., April 2, at 7 p.m.), Noodle (2007, Hebrew/Mandarin with
subtitles; Sat., April 4, at 7 p.m. &
Sun., April 5, at 5:30 p.m.), Eli and
Ben (2008, Hebrew with subtitles;
Sun., April 5, at 1 p.m.), and Holy
Land Hardball (2008, English;
Sun., April 5, at 3:30 p.m.).
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (NR, 1996) Tues., April 7, and
Wed., April 8, at 6:30 p.m.
• One Step Further Multimedia
presentation and lecture by snowboarder Stephen Koch on Thurs.,
April 9, at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10 ($8 for members).
• Midnight Mary (NR,1933) part
of the pre-code film series. On Fri.,
April 10, and Sat., April 11.
• Wild Boys of the Road (NR, 1933)
part of the pre-code film series. On
Fri., April 10, and Sat., April 11.
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By Dana Unger
[email protected]
HIPPO NITE
Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
Step by step
Aztec Two-Step at Simple Gifts Coffee House
By Dana Unger
[email protected]
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• Strange celebration: Strange Brew
Tavern (88 Market St., Manchester) will
celebrate its 10th anniversary on Saturday,
April 4. There will be live performances by
the Strange Brew All-Stars, Bagpipes, and
Commander Cody. Call 666-4292.
• Black Label at Daddy’s: Black Label
Society bassist John “JD” DeServio will
hold an in-store music clinic on Wednesday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m., at Daddy’s Junky
Music, 1279 S. Willow St., Manchester.
He’ll discuss a wide range of topics from
writing and recording to his road stories as
the bass player for the heavy metal band
Black Label Society, which will perform at
the Verizon Arena in Manchester on Thursday, April 9, at 7 p.m. Call 623-7900.
• Tower of Power: The 10-piece soul
band Tower of Power will perform at the
Casino Ballroom (169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach) on Friday, April 3, at 8 p.m. The
band has released 19 albums since they
formed in 1968, including 2009’s The Great
American Soulbook, and has toured with
acts like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly
and The Family Stone, and Huey Lewis and
The News. Tickets cost $20.50 to $33.50
and can be purchased at 929-4100 or www.
casinoballroom.com.
• Gatsby-era sounds: The Bedford Public
Library (3 Meetinghouse Road in Bedford)
will present music from the 1920s to 1940s
on Sunday, April 5, at 2:30 p.m. Saxophonist and flautist Peter Marino will perform
with guitarist and singer John Chouinard.
The two will be joined during the program
by pianist Paul Bordeleau. This concert is
part of the Bedford Libary’s Sunday Concert
Series and is a free event. Call 472-2300.
• Keep the faith: The GraveRobbers
Coffeehouse will present the faith-rock
band True Witness on Saturday, April 4, at
7 p.m., at the Congregational Church, 7018
Church St., Loudon. The band is currently touring in support of its album Once in
Time, and has performed the Utica Music
Fest, BeachFest, and SoulFest 2008 in Gilford. This is a free event, but donations are
appreciated. Call 783-9478 or visit www.
loudoncongregational.org.
• Sing out: The All Saints Anglican
Church of Concord will sponsor an oratorio
singing competition open to all ages. The
first round is by CD, where entrants will
need to prepare three selections from the
oratorio repertoire, one in English. The second round will be a performance in front of
a panel of judges. Applications are available
by e-mail at [email protected], and
require a $25 entry fee payable to ASAC,
P.O. Box 2282, Concord, NH 03301. Participants should not be under professional
management at the time of the competition.
The first- place winner will receive a $250
cash prize and recital opportunities. For
more information, call 781-5695.
It was a partnership formed 38 years ago
when Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman met up
at Boston coffeehouse for an open-mike night.
After hearing each other play, they realized that
they had found their musical other halves and
together formed the pop-folk duo Aztec TwoStep (taking their name after a poem by Beat
poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti).
“The response was immediate when we started playing together,” Shulman said in a March
26 interview. “We set ourselves apart from the
pack, and I think it was because we had good
songs — I still listen to them today and think
‘these are first-rate songs.’ We just found each
other’s strengths.”
Aztec Two-Step will appear at the Simple
Gifts Coffee House in Nashua on Saturday,
April 4, at 7:30 p.m., performing songs from
their vast repertoire of original music as well as
selections from their new release, Time It Was
— The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook.
The two released their first self-titled debut
album in 1972, which featured the song “The
Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty
(On The Road)”, written about the iconic novel by Lowell author Jack Kerouac. The song
instantly became a folk hit for Elektra Records.
“Nobody to that point had done a song like
that,” Shulman said. “We were definitely hippies and connected to that generation before
us. The book itself was like rock n’ roll — people thought it was a fad. But generations after
are still reading it and connecting to it, and Rex
especially did, growing up in a sort of small,
conformist ’50s town in Maine.”
The pair continued their success well into
the ’80s, when their album Living In America
was named in Billboard’s year-end critic’s poll
and received the New York Music Award for
Best Folk Album. Soon, the harmonic duo was
appearing on TV and radio shows including the
David Letterman show and in publications like
Rolling Stone magazine.
Recently, Aztec departed from recording
their own original material to make the live
album Time It Was, a re-interpretation of the
music of another popular folk duo, Simon &
Garfunkel.
“With the rarest of exceptions, we’ve always
performed our own material,” Shulman said.
“But a few years ago, somebody came to us
with this idea. The upshot was that when we
started to do it, we really had a lot of fun with
it and it’s been successful for us. You define
yourself by what you do, and we’re singers, so
as singers we can bring something original to
these songs.”
Though they are prolific songwriters, Shulman said that it’s the live performances that
really make up what Aztec Two-Step is all
about.
“I think the engine that feeds us week in,
week out, is our performances,” he said. “Up
there owning the stage, playing for people —
the audience is like the third member for us.”
Over the years, the duo has been able to cultivate a steady career in the folk music world, but
Shulman admits the scene has changed since
the heyday of the 1970s.
“There was a time when we started making
records where we had that theoretical path to
Aztec Two-Step. Courtesy photo.
the mainstream,” he said. “I think that’s probably passed, but it’s a genre that continues to
have a solid following. The highs aren’t going
to be very high, but it’s always going to be
there. There’s something to be said for being
somebody’s favorite band, rather than everyone’s favorite band.”
While many groups dissolve after a short
time (Simon & Garfunkel only made it a little
more than 10 years), Aztec Two-Step recently
celebrated their 38th anniversary in March.
“In spite of some detours, we connected with
our audience, and at the end of the day, we’re
not moving an army here,” Shulman said. “We
have a deep friendship, and as much as Rex
might annoy me and as much as I might annoy
him, there’s only one other person that you have
to get along with.”
Aztec Two-Step
When: Saturday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Simple Gifts Coffee House, 58
Lowell St., Nashua
Tickets: $10 to $20, 883-3956 or www.cityartsnashua.org
Heavy metal school
Black Label bassist to hold in-store clinic
By Dana Unger
[email protected]
Aspiring rockers are in for a crash course in
hard-hitting metal when Black Label Society
bassist and Cycle of Pain founder John “JD”
DeServio appears on Wednesday, April 8, at
Daddy’s Junky Music in Manchester. Currently, DeServio is touring with the Black Label
Society, who will appear at Manchester’s Verizon Wireless Arena on Thursday, April 9
(tickets cost $29.50; see www.verizonwirelessarena.com).
“The tour has been going great,” DeServio
said in a March 27 interview from Milwaukee,
Wis. “All the shows are sold out. It’s a lot of
work too, because we’re doing a lot of meetand-greets before our shows. In fact, since we
have a show tonight, that’s what I’m going to
be doing today.”
Though he now lives in California, DeServio’s rocker roots run local. He briefly attended
Boston’s Berklee College of Music, before
leaving in 1989 to tour with Jodi Bongiovi (Jon
Bon Jovi’s cousin). He later toured with Lita
Ford, opening for Motley Crue on their ’89-’90
Doctor Feelgood tour.
Before DeServio joined Black Label Society,
he had already had a long musical relationship
with its founder, guitarist Zakk Wylde, who
has been Ozzy Osbourne’s lead guitarist for 20
years.
“I knew Zakk even before he was with
Ozzy,” DeServio said. “We’re both originally
from Jersey, and we met because I had heard
about this burning guitar player from a friend of
mine. We got together and just started playing
stuff together and got along really well.”
After playing with a New York band called
Defunkt, he went back to New Jersey teaching music until Wylde brought DeServio in to
play on his first solo project, Pride and Glory, touring Europe, Japan and the U.S., where
they opened for Aerosmith. Wylde formed
Black Label Society in 1998, and DeServio
was brought into the band in 2000 for their first
world tour, and then again in 2005.
But even during that time, DeServio continued to teach music.
“I love doing it,” he said. “I’m getting to educate and show kids there’s so much music out
there. The more you know about music, the
more likely you’re going to keep playing it.”
The clinics, which DeServio is conducting at
several stops along the tour, are a way for aspiring musicians to learn more about the music
Head-banging bassist JD DeServio. Joel Faurote
photo. process. “It’s pretty much me playing bass with
one of my zoom pedals and just jamming over
some chord jams, explaining what I’m doing
and the techniques,” DeServio said. “I also play
along to some Black Label tracks and Cycle of
Pain tracks.”
Though DeServio said that he didn’t have
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one particular mentor when he was an
aspiring musician, he did have influences who pushed him in his passion for music.
“I always loved music,” he said. “I had older
brothers, so they introduced me to bands like
The Doors, [Led] Zeppelin, [Black] Sabbath.
Once my buddy brought in a poster of KISS
and I pointed at Gene Simmons and asked
what he did. My buddy said he plays bass, and
I knew then that I wanted to be him.”
After the tour, DeServio said, Black Label will
be done for the year but will be back to record
another album, while his other project, Cycle of
Pain will release its debut album on April 21.
“We’re going to be doing double duty,
because the album drops the same day that
Cycle of Pain jumps on the Black Label tour,”
DeServio said. For musicians seeking the
same kind of career he’s been able to cultivate
over the years, DeServio said that the key to
success is just to play.
“Play with as many people as you can, listen to as much music as you can, and practice
and study as much as you can,” he said. “But
I’d have to say that jamming with other musicians is the most important thing.”
Learn it
Music clinic with John “JD” DeServio
When: Wednesday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Daddy’s Junky Music, 1279 S.
Willow St., Manchester.
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Lunch is Back
Showing love
The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom (169 Ocean Blvd.,
Hampton Beach) will kick off
its 2009 summer season with
the funky grooves of G. Love
& Special Sauce on Thursday,
April 2, at 8 p.m. With a sound
that encompasses classic R&B,
soul and hip-hop, G. Love &
Special Sauce released their
debut album in 1994, which instantly spawned the hit
“Cold Beverage.” They’ve toured with the H.O.R.D.E.
festival and released their latest album, Superhero
Brother, in 2008. T Tickets cost $20 to $25 and can be
purchased at 929-4100 or www.casinoballroom.com.
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• DJ Spooky, Wed., April 15, at 7
p.m., The Hop
• Rickie Lee Jones, Wed., April
15, at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• Disturbed, Wed., April 15, at 7
p.m., Tsongas Arena
• Ani DiFranco, Wed., April 15, at
7:30 p.m., Colonial Theatre
• Charlie Musselwhite, Thurs.,
April 16, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Strafford Wind Symphony,
Fri., April 17, at 7 p.m., Rochester
Opera House
• The Fools, Fri., April 17, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Jonathan Edwards, Sat., April
18 at 7 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Static-X & Saliva, Sat., April 18
at 7:15 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• The Mantini Sisters, Sat., April
18, at 7:30 p.m., Concord City
Auditorium
• Mary Gauthier & Anais Mitchell, Sat., April 18, at 7:30 p.m.,
Lebanon Opera House
• Philip Glass, Sat., April 18, at 8
p.m., The Hop
• Women Spirit Song, Sun., April
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Before enjoying success creating witty and
award-winning musicals, the New York City
rock trio GrooveLily tried several different
approaches to the music scene.
“Theater was nowhere on our radar,” said
drummer Gene Lewin in a March 25 interview. “In the late ’90s we went through the
college market and even had a college booking agent, but we didn’t really love it. The
audiences weren’t really there.”
The trio switched to the folk music market and though their popularity soared (they
played about 150 shows a year during that
time), the venues were often small, and the
genre wasn’t fully suited to the three members’ musical inclinations, which include
classical, jazz and rock.
Inspiration then struck pianist Brendan
Milburn when GrooveLily founder (and Milburn’s wife) Valerie Vigoda was touring with
the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s holiday show,
which combines live music with on-stage
storytelling.
“Brendon had the idea of having a band onstage and doing a theatrical thing,” Lewin said,
“which made sense because he has a degree in
musical theater. We thought of doing a holiday story, but didn’t want to do anything that
was for a specific tradition or religion, so we
thought a New Year’s thing would be cool.”
Out of that came the group’s first concertmusical, Striking 12, which they wrote with
Rachel Sheinkin, who won a Tony Award for
The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee. The trio
followed that up with other acclaimed musicals, including Toy Story: The Musical for
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Disney, Long Story Short,
Ernest Shackleton Loves Me,
Wheelhouse, and a musical
adaptation of Shakespeare’s A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
GrooveLily will bring
their musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes to the Portsmouth
Music Hall on Saturday,
April 4, a piece originally
commissioned for the Deaf
West Theatre of Los Angeles, and winner of two 2007
Ovation Awards. The piece
is a decidedly different
take on the Grimms’ classic Sleeping Beauty tale.
“It’s kind of a re-telling of
Sleeping Beauty,” Lewin said. “In this version,
when she’s cursed by the spinning wheel and
is supposed to wake to the kiss of the prince,
she instead wakes up in a sleep disorder clinic a thousand years later. The cool thing is that
it kind of goes back and forth between the
fairy tale and the present day, with all the clinic patients who have stuff like insomnia and
restless leg syndrome having these collective
dreams together with Sleeping Beauty.”
The group not only is on stage creating the
music for the show; they get into the action.
“We’re basically telling the story and playing the score, going in and out of character,”
Lewin said. “Our acting chops are a little better than they used to be when we first started
— it doesn’t come off as cheesy. It was bizarre
doing the acting at first, though, but along the
way we found out we were pretty good.”
The band still performs as a regular musical
group, but the members say that their theatrical shows don’t steer too far away from their
shows as a musical trio.
“No matter what the show, it’s us on stage
playing songs,” Lewin said. “The main difference is that with our musicals there is a
special score, a special story and characters.
People told us our music was theatrical in the
’90s, when we were trying to be rock stars.
We kind of cringed at that, but then we kind
of embraced it. When you stop looking for
something, you eventually find it.”
Sleeping Beauty Wakes
What: GrooveLily’s Sleeping Beauty Wakes
When: Saturday, April 4, at 8 p.m.
Where: The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St.,
Portsmouth
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Allenstown
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown
Road
Amherst
Club Comedy at
Amherst Country Club
72 Ponemah
Road,673-9908
Candia
Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001
Pasquales Ristorante
145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005
Thursday, April 2
Bedford
C.R. Sparks: live jazz
Slammers: open mike w/
Legion of Doom
Boscawen
Alan’s: J. Pratt
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike w/ Steve Naylor
Hermanos: Joe Gattuso
Dover
Barley Pub: bluegrass jam
East Hampstead
The Pasta Loft
220 E. Main St., 378-0092
Epsom
Circle 9 Ranch
Windymere Dr., 736-9656
Epping
American Legion
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
Holy Grail Food & Spirits
64 Main St., 679-9559
Exeter
Shooter’s Pub
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856
Goffstown
Village Trestle
25 Main St., 497-8230
Hampstead
Route 111 Village Square
472 State St., 329-6879
Henniker
Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
24 Flander’s Road,
888-728-7732
The Henniker Junction
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
Hillsborough
Boomerang’s
Restaurant & Bar
37 Henniker St., 464-3912
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
W. Main St. 464-6766
Hollis
Alpine Grove
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051
The Dream Farm
64 Dow Road
Hudson
Johnny’s Pizzeria
Lowell Road, 880-7087
Club Liquid
Linda’s Sport Bar
Amherst St., 645-7600
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792 Commercial St. Fishery
33 S. Commercial St.
Laconia
296-0706
Black Cat Café
Derryfield Country Club
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233 625 Mammoth Road, 623Fratello’s
2880
799 Union Ave., 528-2022 Don Quijote
Margate Resort
333 Valley St., 792-1110
76 Lake St., 524-5210
East Side Club
Naswa Resort
786 Massebesic St.,
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341 669-1802
Paradise Beach Club
Element Lounge
322 Lakeside Ave., 366-2665 1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Weirs Beach Smoke
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
House
1111 Elm St., 222-2304
Route 3, 366-2400
The Flambeaux Sports
Bar & Entertainment
Londonderry
Complex
The Homestead
1181 Elm St., 626-0304
Restaurant
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
Rte 102 and Mammoth
Brazilian Steak House
Road, 437-2022
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
Mayflower Grange
Grandstands
535 Mammoth Road,
216 Maple St., 625-9656
867-3077
The Hilton Garden Inn
Tupelo Hall
101 S. Commercial St.,
2 Young Road, 437-5100
669-2222
Whippersnappers
Jewell & The Beanstalk
Route 102, 434-2660
793 Somerville St.,
624-3709
Manchester
Jillian’s Billiard Club
Alpine Club
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
175 Putnam St., 623-8202 626-7636
American Legion Wm H Johnny Bad’s
Jutras & Post No 43
542 Elm St., 222-9191
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467 J.W. Hill’s
American Legion
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Post #79
Mad Bob’s Saloon
35 W. Brook St.
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
American Legion
McGarvey’s
Sweeney Post
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
251 Maple St., 623-9145
Milly’s Tavern
Begy’s Lounge
500 Commercial St.,
333 Valley St., 669-0062
625-4444
Black Brimmer
Murphy’s Taproom
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
494 Elm St., 644-3535
Bo’s Riverside
New England Revival
500 Commercial St.,
Coffee House (NERCH)
625-4444
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
Breezeway Pub
Olympic Lounge
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
506 Valley St., 644-5559
Chateau Restaurant
Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge
201 Hanover St., 627-2677 815 Elm St.
Club 313
Penuche's Grill
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813 96 Hanover St., 626-9830
Johnny Bad’s: blues jam
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Revelation w/ Wan-tu blues band
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder Milly’s: Green Team, Jemini,, Str8 Mass Excell, Krump
Fam, BCC, Gooniez
Londonderry
Durham
Whippersnappers: Duty Strange Brew: Soup du
Jour
Acorns: Fellowship Hall Free
WB’s: DJ Bob
Jazz Society
Manchester
Hampstead
Black Brimmer: Burgandy Merrimack
Riddle Tavern: Amy Petty
Pasta Loft: Doug Mitchell Breezeway: Goth night
Club 313: DJ Biggie, DJ
Milford
Hudson
Susan Esthera
Linda’s: open jam w/
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah Pasta Loft: Joe Birch,
Chris O’Neil
Those Three Guys
Flambeaux: open-mike
w/ Josh Logan
Brick House: Apesh!t,
Scott Barnett
Jimmy’s: DJ J-Jigga
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Rocko’s Bar & Grill
253 Wilson St., 626-5866
The Shaskeen
909 Elm St., 625-0246
Strange Brew Tavern
88 Market St., 666-4292
Underground M.A.P.
Project
76 Lowell St.
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 Highway,
888-9300
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.
595-2121
Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square,
880-6001
Nashua
603 Lounge: DJ Misty
Cattleman’s: DJ Bernie D
Fody’s: Charlie Chronopolis Experience
Peddler’s Daughter:
Mindseye
Red Door: Manny Random
The Muddy: Jeff Bujak
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Chad
Verbeck
Brewery Lane: Greg
Luttrell
Dolphin Striker: Tim
Theriault & Jamie DeCato
Press Room: Dave Gerard
Friday, April 3
Allenstown
Ground Zero: The Yellow Team, Glenridge,
Cole B, A Trophy Life,
The Pete Demaggio Band
Salem
Blackwater Grill: Rob
and Mike
Varsity Club: DJ Danny R
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Fody’s Tavern
9 Clinton St., 577-9015
Gate City Pub
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 Mexican Roadhouse
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
New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Plaistow
The Sad Café
148 Plaistow Road,
382-8893
Portsmouth
AK’s Bar and Bistro
111 State St.
Blue Mermaid
Island Grill
The hill at Hanover and
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
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.
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Tilton
Old Friends Tavern
& Restaurant
927 Laconia Road,
524-1777
Wolfeboro
Moody Mountain Farm
Barn
100 Pork Hill Road,
522-8800
Hot tunes, cool
shows
Have upcoming shows you
want listed in the music this
week? Send information about
the coming week — Thursday through Wednesday — to
[email protected] or by
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10 am - 4 pm
Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester
845-526-4845
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Annicchiarico Theatre
1 Thompson St.
The Barley House
132 N. Main St., 228-6363
Borders
Auburn
76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255
Auburn Pitts
Concord Grille
167 Rockingham 1 Eagle Square
Road, 622-6564 Green Martini
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
Bedford
Hermanos
C.R. Sparks
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 18 Kilton Road, Loudon Road
647-7275
Restaurant and
Mark’s
Pit Road Lounge
Showplace
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533
Route 3,
Makris
668-7444
354 Sheep Davis Road,
Shorty’s of
225-7665
Bedford
Penuche’s Ale House
230 Rte. 101,
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
637-1050
The Red Blazer
Slammers
72 Manchester St., 224-4101
547 Donald St.,
668-2120
Deerfield
Wayfarer Inn and Quack- Lazy Lion Café
ers Lounge
4 North Road, 463-7374
121 S. River Road; 6223766
Derry
Adams Opera House
Belmont
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102
The Lodge at Belmont
Brookstone Grille and
Route 106,
Event Center
877-872-2501
14 Route 11 E., 328-9250
Burgundy’s Billiards
Boscawen
35 Manchester St., 437-6600
Alan’s
Steve-N-James Tavern
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 187 Rockingham Rd, 4340600
Brookline
Big Bear Lodge
Dover
106 Route 13, 672-7675
Barley Pub
Village Gate Folk Stage
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
12 Main St., 315-9423
Dover Elks Lodge
282 Durham Road
Bow
Biddy Mulligan’s
Chen Yang Li
1 Washington St., 749-1100
520 South St., 228-8508
Dover Brick House
Mama Clara’s
2 Orchard St., 749-3838
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
Dover Soul
364 Central Ave., 834-6965
Kelley’s Row
421 Central Ave., 750-7081
RJ’s
83 Washington St.
Top of the Chop
One Orchard St., 740-0006
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A DOWNTOWN NASHUA makeover! For Mother’s Day on Sunday,
May 10, let local businesses pamper her like never before!
Tell us in 100 words or less WHY your mother deserves a Downtown
Makeover, and you could win one of these fabulous prize packages
from the merchants of downtown Nashua!
Entry must include:
• 100 words or less on WHY your mother deserves to win!
• Your full name, address, phone number, and e-mail.
• Incomplete entries will not qualify for contest.
Mail your entry to:
Great American Downtown
92 Main St., Ste. 101, Nashua, NH 03060
Attn: DOWNTOWN MAKEOVER
Or e-mail your entry to:
[email protected]
DEADLINE Monday, April 27, 2009!
Winners to be chosen by panel of downtown judges; winners will
be notified after deadline. Winning essay will be published; winner
should be available Saturday, May 9 for makeover and photoshoot by
photographer Kritine Plyavinya.
GRAND PRIZE!
$2,100 IN GOODIES TO PAMPER MOM!
1st PRIZE: $465 est. retail value
2nd PRIZE: $265 est. retail value
3rd PRIZE: $165 est. retail value
PRIZES DONATED BY MERCHANT SPONSORS:
Just Lights, Fresh Boutique, Myoptic Optical,
DesignWares, Dynamic Strength & Conditioning,
Fortin-Gage Florists, Scontsas Jewelers,
Beckonings, Wingate’s Pharmacy, Ancient Moon,
One World Trading, T-Shirt Bodega, Ewe’ll Love It,
Salon Apryl, Ikebana Flowers, Michael Timothy’s,
Patisserie Bleu, Aesthetics by Valerie,
Open Space Yoga, Stella Blu, Peddler’s Daughter,
Christina Breton Florist,
The Child-Bearing Journey
For a complete description of
each prize package, visit:
www.greatamericandowntown.org
and click on ‘Mother’s Day Promotion’
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Nashua • Prize values are
estimated; merchants
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reserve right to limit selection or value of contest prizes • Remember to be nice to your
mother all year round, not just on Mother’s Day • And you
really should call her more often. She misses you.
Hippo
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Vicious
Cycle
Laconia
Fratello’s: The Blanchette & Greene Guitar
Duo
Londonderry
Whippersnappers: Stu
Sinclair, Never In Vegas
BEST OF
2008
668-0131
2175 Candia Road, Manchester
www.eatatmoejoe.com
Dover
Brick House: Mess
With The Bull, Gozu,
Born of Thunder
Castaway’s: Bryan
Earnst
Jimmy’s: DJ Bounce
Kelley’s Row: Rog and
Ray
RJ’s: Monkey Bar
Hudson
Johnny’s: Dirty 3rd’s
Linda’s: Raven-X
Home of the
20” Pizza
CHOICE OF 6 SAVORY SANDWICHES
Concord
Concord Grille: DJ
Franky & Pro Sound
Entertainment
Green Martini: Doc
Rogers and Friends
Manchester
Black Brimmer:
Hypercane
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Club 313: DJ Susan
Esthera
Club Liquid: Renegade
Soundstation
Derryfield: Last Kid
Picked
Element: DJ Daddy Dave
Fratello’s: Don Severance
Milly’s: Aimee Proal,
Drew Young, Mike
Spauldin, Adam Fithian,
Chris White
Murphy’s: Mama Kicks
Rocko’s: Legions, By
Way of Blood, Easter
Goblins, Pangea, Enough
Said, Prize Fighter, Silence
In Shadows
Shaskeen: Rockspring
Strange Brew: 2021
South Michigan
UnWined: Craig Fahey
Jazz Ensemble
WB’s: DJ Vicious
The Yard: Doug Mitchell
Merrimack
Halletts Way: open mike
Jade Dragon: Project
Mess
Slapshots: DJ Ron DMC
Milford
Pasta Loft: Rampage Trio
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ
Jonny C, DJ Danny D
Black Orchid: Steve
Tolley
Country Tavern: Santarella-Kimball Duo
Fody’s: One Fine Mess
Slade’s: DJ Big Don
Plaistow
The Flatlanders at
Tupelo
Alt-country group The Flatlanders will perform at Tupelo
Music Hall (2 Young Road,
Londonderry) on Sunday,
April 5, at 7 p.m. The Texas
trio produced one cult-status
album in 1973 before disappearing, only to be reunited
by actor Robert Redford, who asked them to contribute to The
Horse Whisperer soundtrack. Since then, they have released
three more albums, Now Again, Wheels of Fortune and 2009’s
Hills and Valleys. Tickets cost $45 and can be purchased at 4375100 or www.tupelohall.com. Courtesy photo.
Stairway to heaven
The Led Zeppelin tribute
group Presence will perform
at the Meadowbrook U.S.
Cellular Pavilion (72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford) on
Saturday, April 4, at 7 p.m.
The Massachusetts group
features Tom Ingram, Chris
Ryan, John O’Boyle and Seth
Fleischmann, and recreates the sound of Led Zeppelin, complete
with period musical equipment and an ever-evolving set list from
all phases of the mega-band’s career. Tickets cost $46 and can be
purchased at 293-4700 or www.meadowbrook.net. Courtesy photo.
Sad Cafe: Brikked, The
Good Die Young, Pure
Decibels, Woodbury,
Convey
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Cantonese Traffic
Dolphin Striker: The
Bobby Keyes Trio
Gas Light: DJ Biggie
Press Room: Rhythm
Method
Red Door: Vox
The Muddy: Ron
Noyes Band
Salem
Blackwater Grill: Rob
Breton
Maggie May’s: La
Soule Fontaine
Varsity Club: DJ
Danny R, DJ 07
Burgundy’s Billiards:
The Pop Farmers
Dover
Barley Pub: Akashic
Record
Biddy Mulligan’s: The
Twitch
Brick House: Roots
Nation Reggae
Jimmy’s: DJ J-Jigga
Kelley’s Row: Tim
Mathews Band
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Epsom
Circle 9: Blue Train
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Copper Tree
Village Square: Probable Cauz
en Nickels Band
Strange Brew: SBT AllStars, Commander Cody
WB’s: DJ Bobby G
Workman’s Club:
Headshop
Unwined: Craig Fahey
Jazz Ensemble
The Yard: Chris
Michaud
Merrimack
Slapshots: Red Box Panic
Milford
Pasta Loft: Rich
Kumpu, Bob Allwarden
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ Rick
Naples, DJ Danny D
Black Orchid: Karen
Grenier
Hudson
Johnny’s: Chris Fitz Band Club Social: The RamSaturday, April 4
Linda’s: Project Mess
page Trio
Allenstown
Country Tavern: Brian
Ground Zero: When
Londonderry
Kellett
Girls Kiss Girls, The
First Players Club: The Fody’s: Brick Yard Blues
Wakeup Call, Half Past Workin’ Stiffs Band
Gate City Pub: Akustik
Human, Onslo, It Ends
Whippersnappers:
Kid
Here
Mama Kicks
Saffron Bistro: Brad
Smith, Mark Pucci
Auburn
Manchester
Auburn Pitts: DJ Misty Black Brimmer: 10Plaistow
Bedford
Year Vamp
Sad Cafe: Stealing
Slammer’s: No Remorse Breezeway: DJ McKay Jane, Of Hope and ResClub 313: DJ Bob and
cue, Brahman Noodles,
Brookline
Dave G
Police Take Notice
County Corral: Brand- Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
ed No Rules
Derryfield: Hot Damn
Portsmouth
Element: DJ Took
Blue Mermaid: Ben
Concord
Flambeaux: DJ Midas, Wilmott Band
Concord Grille: DJ
DJ Vicious
Brewery Lane: DJ Biggie
Franky & Pro Sound
Fratello’s: Don Severance Daniels Street Tavern:
Entertainment
Murphy’s: Remedy
Elijah Clark, Max Sullivan
Green Martini: DJ Bruce Penuche’s: Grinning
Dolphin Striker: State
Hermanos: The
Lizards
Street Rhythm & Blues
Machine Stops
Rocko’s: Trapjaw
Gas Light: DJ B
Shaskeen: TOOLfist
Money
Derry
Stadium Lanes: Wood- Press Room: Larry
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Dover
Barley Pub: acoustic
jam, Jim Dozet Trio
Brick House: The
Minus Scale
Castaway’s: live reggae
Goffstown
Village Trestle: openmike blues jam w/ WanTu Blues Band
Hudson
Linda’s: Tim LaRoche
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
benefit concert
On the road again
Tickets are now on sale for legendary country crooner Willie Nelson,
who will appear at the Meadowbrook
U.S. Cellular Pavilion (72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford) on Sunday, May
31, at 7 p.m. The Texas native had
a string of hits in the ’70s and ’80s,
including “On the Road Again” and
“Always on My Mind.” Nelson has
released 77 studio albums, including his latest, Moment of Forever,
in 2008. Tickets cost $22 to $61 and can be purchased at 293-4700
or www.meadowbrook.net. Courtesy photo.
Nashua
Michael Timothy’s:
jazz pianist
Slade: DJ Chris Lovett
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Peter
Black
Press Room: The
Fringe, George Garzon,
John Lockwood, Bob
Gulloti
Monday, April 6
Concord
Hermanos: Paul
Bourgelais
Dover
Castaway’s: Pete
Peterson
Kelley’s Row: Irish
Nashua
603 Lounge: DJ Bernie D
Merrimack
Slapshots: open mike
Portsmouth
Press Room: Tim Webb
Combo
Red Door: Hush Hush
Nashua
603 Lounge: open
mike, Akustik Kid
Haluwa: Jimmy Z
Piano Bar
Tuesday, April 7
Bedford
Slammers: live karaoke
w/ Shadow Rose
Concord
Barley House: Celtic
acoustic jam
Hermanos: Bryan
Thomas
Dover
Castaway’s: Alan
Rough
Jimmy’s: DJ Koko-P
RJ’s: Whiz Kid
Portsmouth
Brewery Lane: BLT Idol
Dolphin Striker: Dave
Gerard
Press Room: Larry
Garland, Hoot w/ Dan
Blakeslee
Red Door: Scissor Test
The Muddy: Michelle
Combes, Karen Grenier
Wednesday, April 8
Bow
Chen Yang Li: DJ
Brian B
Laconia
Concord
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder Green Martini: open
mike
Comedy
Friday, April 3
Weare
John Stark High
School: Pete Mamos
Manchester
Black Brimmer: ’80s
night w/ Ignite
East Side Club: jam
with Wan-tu Blues band
Flambeaux: live jazz
Penuche’s: open-mike
jam w/ Chad Verbeck
Shaskeen: Manchuka
Strange Brew: SBT
All-Stars
Hermanos: Steve
Hayes Duo
Dover
Barley Pub:
Gnarlemagne
Castaway’s: Dustin
Pearce
RJ’s: DJ B-Money
FREE & Open to the Public
Red Cross Blood Drive
10 – 3 pm, Student Center
14th Annual Wellness Fair
11 – 2 pm, Wellness Center
Wings of Knowledge Lecture Series
Culture in Many Societies
7 – 9 pm, Library Living Room
www.nhti.edu • (603) 271-6484
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Opening
Walk-Ins Welcome • Gift Certificates Available
17 Freetown Rd #1, Raymond, NH 03077
(Located at Raymond Shopping Center)
• Acrylics Nails • Pink & White • Pearls Gel
• Gel Liquid
• Spa Pedicure • Manicure
• Solar Nails
• Hands Design • Air Brush
Mon-Fri: 9am-7pm Sat: 10am-6pm Sun: 10am-4pm
session
RJ’s: DJ E-Ness
Londonderry
Manchester
900 Degrees: open-mike Whippersnappers:
open-mike jam w/ Gardblues jam
ner Berry
Bo’s Riverside: DJ
Vicious
Manchester
Element: DJ Sharon
Milly’s: 7G, New World Breezeway: piano night
w/ Robert D
Order, Compost Heap,
Jillian’s: open mike
Beautiful Noise, Last
Shaskeen: Scalawag
Armada
Shaskeen: The Spain
Brothers and Friends,
trad. Irish session
Strange Brew: Howard
Randall’s blues jam
Tuesday, April 7
The Side Street Strutters
will bring their New Orleansstyle jazz sounds to the Elm
Street Middle School, 117 Elm
St., Nashua, on Thursday, April
2, at 8 p.m. The group’s sound
focuses on New Orleans jazz
as well as swing and American classics. Tickets cost $14 to $24 and can
be purchased at 888-9158 or www.cityartsnashua.org. Courtesy photo.
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Aaron
Seibert
Fratello’s: Neil Martin
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Mama
Kicks
Flambeaux: DJ Midas
J. Dubb’s: Tim Cahill
Milly’s: live DJ
Strange Brew: I.C. Waters
UnWined: The Craig
Fahey Jazz Duo
WB’s: DJ Vicious
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
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Nashua
Fody’s: Paul Fudin
Peddler’s Daughter:
DJ St. Julian
Slade: DJ Paul Roy
Portsmouth
Press Room: Dustin
Pearce
Red Door: Evaredy
The Page: Green Lion
Crew
Swing?
THIS WEEK and beyond
Tuesday, April 7
Manchester
Mad Bob’s Saloon:
Queen City Comedy
Showcase
Gautreau, Greg Boggis,
Tim Hoffman
Londonderry
Tupelo: Kenny Rogerson, Jon Fisch
Saturday, April 4
Amherst
Wednesday, April 8
Wed., April 15
Country Club: Freddie Manchester
Manchester
Stone, Stacy Yannetty,
Shaskeen: open-mike
Shaskeen: open-mike
Don Soares
comedy
comedy
Manchester
Saturday, April 11
Headliner’s: Larry
Amherst
Norton
Country Club: Bob
Saturday, April 18
Amherst
Country Club: Bill
Campbell, Rich Gustus,
Krissy Kelleher
Londonderry
Tupelo: Gallagher
Manchester
Headliner’s: Bob Goutreau
Palace Theatre: Loretta
LaRoche
Element Lounge 1055 Elm St.
Manchester, NH
603-627-2922
www.elementlounge.net
Mon 6pm - 1:30am • Tues - Sun 3pm - 1:30am
Manchester’s
Only
Alternative
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Sunday, April 5
Concord
Hermanos: Paul
Bourgelais
Penuche’s: open mike
w/ Steve Naylor
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Blackwater Grill: Nate
Watkins
NITE
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Garland, Hatrack Gallagher Band
Red Door: Evaredy
The Muddy: Hot Day at
The Zoo, Kelly Ravin Trio
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Velma
Hippo Crossword
33 Author Zora ___ Hurston
34 MDMA and “The Clear,”
to some
40 Regina ___ (hymn to the
Virgin Mary)
41 Curling units
43 Disputed inventor of baseball
48 Boneheadedness
49 General ___ chicken
50 Dentist’s deg.
51 East ___ (island nation in
2000s news)
52 Actor Mark of “The Full
Monty”
54 Pets that are low to the
ground
59 Designer for Jackie
62 Samael ___ Weor, founder
of the International Gnostic
Movement
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63 Ventilate
64 “___ #1!”
65 Money source for the permanently disabled: abbr.
66 Early punk rock band with
the song “Never Been in a
Riot,” with “the”
67 Square hidden in each of the
five long across answers
Down
1 Cow’s mouthful
2 AP rival
3 Label on many asses in
1980s fashion
4 “I’m ___ your tricks!”
5 Show set in NYC during the
1960s
6 Windows Media Player file
format
7 He’s officially back with Barbie as of February 2009
8 Hallow end
9 Vivaldi’s
Concerto ___
Major
10 Torquemada,
notably
11 “The
Prophet” author
Gibran: var.
12 The “Rick”
involved in
Rickrolling
13 “___ a hug!”
19 Twilight
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21 Part of B.Y.O.B.
23 ___ in “queen”
24 “Previously loved”
26 Wrote
27 Outdoor site for some
Christmas purchases
28 Like old tires
30 ___ Gratia Artis
31 Rucker of Hootie & the
Blowfish
35 It can give some people a
headache
36 Actor Busey
37 Ultravox singer Midge
38 Rush’s lead singer
39 It may read “Add 2-3 inches
in 3 weeks!”
42 Barrett of Pink Floyd
43 Grenoble goodbyes
44 Bahamas district where
Hemingway lived for two years
45 High time?
46 Makes a big deal out of
47 Blotter material
48 “___ Written” (Nas album)
53 Like this clue
55 ___ fu (pop artist on the
Sony Japan label)
56 Dwight Gooden’s “medical”
nickname
57 Naughts and crosses win
58 Tool for nails or glue
60 Slip up
61 Dropout’s certification
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column, and every 3x3 box contains the
digits 1 through 9.
Last week's puzzle answers are below
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9 6 1
5 3 2
8 4 7
7 1 4
3 2 5
6 9 8
2 8 9
1 5 6
4 7 3
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1 King canine
5 Arrive
11 Cobra ___ (bad guys’ dojo
in “The Karate Kid”)
14 Second word of fairy tale
openings
15 Anti-itch skin care brand
16 QVC rival
17 Gossip
18 A night out at a restaurant,
perhaps
20 It may be impending
22 Veil fabric
23 Sine ___ non
25 Cried
28 Occupied (oneself)
29 2006 dystopian film with
Keanu Reeves
32 “___ gut” (“very well,” in
German)
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Aries (March 21 – April 19) “But what did he see in the
clear stream below? His own image; no longer a dark, gray
bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. … He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and
trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the
pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam
round the new-comer, and stroked his neck with their beaks, as
a welcome.” —“The Ugly Duckling” You will encounter a new
viewpoint on an old ugliness.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “Out in the woods stood a nice
little Fir Tree. The place he had was a very good one: the sun
shone on him: as to fresh air, there was enough of that, and round
him grew many large-sized comrades, pines as well as firs. But
the little Fir wanted so very much to be a grown-up tree.” —
“The Fir Tree” Try to enjoy what you are now; you’ll be more
grown-up soon enough.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “Now then, let us begin. When
we are at the end of the story, we shall know more than we know
now: but to begin.” —“The Snow Queen” You have to start
somewhere, so get started.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in
reality they did nothing at all. They asked for the most delicate
silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty
looms until late at night.” —“The Emperor’s New Clothes” Just
don’t steal the pretend office supplies.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites. One
day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with
the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was
reflected therein, to look poor and mean…. In this mirror the
most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the
best persons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on
their heads….” —“The Snow Queen” Looking at yourself one
way, you look beautiful; looked at another way, you look like
boiled spinach. Present yourself in a good light.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come leaping along,
and jump right over the little Tree. Oh, that made him so angry!”
—“The Fir Tree” Never mind some little hare. Just be a good
Tree.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “The poor old minister looked and
looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very
good reason, viz: there was nothing there. ‘What!’ thought he
again. ‘Is it possible that I am a simpleton? I have never thought
so myself; and no one must know it now if I am so.’” —“The
Emperor’s New Clothes” Yes, you’re a fraud, but so is everyone
else, so just admit it already and then you, for one, can breathe
freely.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “He had been persecuted and
despised for his ugliness, and now he heard them say he was the
most beautiful of all the birds.” —“The Ugly Duckling” Prepare
for changes in how people respond to you.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “A Flea, a Grasshopper, and
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they invited the whole world, and everybody else besides who
chose to come to see the festival.” —“The Leap-frog” Your competitiveness threatens to get the best of you. Keep it friendly.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “‘But he has nothing at all
on!’ at last cried out all the people. The Emperor was vexed, for
he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession
must go on now!” —“The Emperor’s New Clothes” Eventually
you’ll need to give up the charade; the sooner the better.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “Many years ago, there was
an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that
he spent all his money in dress. He did not trouble himself in the
least about his soldiers; nor did he care to go either to the theatre
or the chase, except for the opportunities then afforded him for
displaying his new clothes.” —“The Emperor’s New Clothes”
Fortify what’s inside before you worry about appearances.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “‘Tis over — ’tis past!” said the
poor Tree. “Had I but rejoiced when I had reason to do so! But
now ‘tis past, ‘tis past!” —“The Fir Tree” Enjoy the moment
now or regret it later.
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
It Takes a Village
A 1970s-style San Francisco commune is
organized around the practice of “orgasmic
meditation,” but for women only, in daily sessions that start promptly at 7 a.m. Men belong
to the commune, too, but are useful only digitally to the women and must remain clothed,
according to a March report in The New York
Times. The founder of the One Taste Urban
Retreat Center, Nicole Daedone, 41, is considered by some former members to be running
a “cult,” because of her dominant personality
and ability to play on the vulnerabilities of her
members, but the three dozen now in residence
seem to admire her vision. One man said,
according to the Times, that he had improved
his own concentration at work (as a Silicon
Valley engineer) through “the practice of manually fixing his attention on a tiny spot of a
woman’s body.”
The Continuing Crisis
Oops!
• In December, Idaho State University sent
certified-mail letters to its adjunct faculty
to disclose (as required by law) that some of
them would soon be laid off. However, only
the first-class mail fee was billed to the university, leaving each professor to pay on receipt
the certified-mail surcharge in order to find out
what the university would send them that was
so important. (The Idaho State Journal reported
that it was the Postal Service’s error.)
• Jailers Not Paying Attention: (1) Chris-
Bright Ideas
• At least four culinarily daring food emporiums in the U.S. serve deep-fried pizza,
including the takeout Pizza Snobz in Wilson,
Pa., though owner David Barker admits the
specialty is more common in Scotland. The
key point, he said, is to begin only with frozen pizza; otherwise, the cheese soon slides off
into the fryer.
• When a supporter of the animal-rights organization PETA contributed, for a fund-raising
auction, a towel that had recently been used by
actor George Clooney, PETA president Ingrid
Newkirk had what she thought was a better
idea: extracting Clooney’s perspiration from it
and using the sweat to flavor a tofu dish. “I can
see people having parties to try CloFu,” she
said. (Clooney rejected the idea, according to
a March Washington Post report.)
• In February, Britain’s Southwark Crown
Court ordered so-called “countess” Eida Beguinua to give back the equivalent of $1.2 million
to investors who had believed her story that she
could recover treasures in the Philippines but
needed money for expenses. Despite the setback, she told the judge that she was sticking
with her story and begged him for more time to
look for the “22 caves,” protected by “10,000”
guards, containing tons of jewelry and gold
worth “300 followed by 41 zeros” (presumably in British pounds).
News That Sounds Like a Joke
(1) The venerable 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei was honored at a gallery in
Florence, Italy, in February to mark the 400th
anniversary of his transformative work,
which was widely discredited at the time
(as contradicting the Bible) and which subjected him to vicious slanders. The exhibit
includes Galileo’s only preserved body part:
one of his middle fingers. (2) London’s Royal Opera House announced in February that
its next biennial original production will be
a libretto based on the life of the late Anna
Nicole Smith.
Semi-Clever Perverts
(1) The Court of Appeal in Brisbane, Australia, rejected in March the challenge of
the man convicted last year for having sex
with his underage stepdaughter but who had
tried to protect himself by having her sign
a “contract” of consent. (When arrested, the
incredulous stepfather indignantly asked the
police, “Did you not see the (expletive) contract?”) (2) Schoolteacher Andrew Melville,
48, was sentenced in January in Scotland’s
Edinburgh Sheriff Court for possession of
child pornography after the tribunal heard
that Melville had initially sought to cover
up word of his March 2008 arrest by buying
up all copies of the newspapers in his hometown of Gullane.
Recurring Themes
Least Competent Criminals: (1) Alleged
bank robber Feliks Goldshtein was arrested
after a brief chase by police, who were summoned to National City Bank in Stow, Ohio,
in January. Employees may have been tipped
off because Goldshtein, wearing a ski mask,
had waited patiently in a teller’s line and
only displayed a gun when he finally reached
the counter. (2) Romeo Montillano, 40, who
was being sought in the December robbery
of a Kmart in Chula Vista, Calif., pleasantly surprised the cops when they learned that
a “Romeo Montillano” had registered for the
upcoming police officers’ exam on Feb. 25.
Indeed, he showed up, and he was arrested.
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• We Welcome Our New Monkey Overlords: Researchers recently revealed that they
had observed monkeys (1) planning future
combat and (2) perhaps teaching their young to
floss. A researcher from Sweden’s Lund University, writing in the journal Current Biology,
described a daily ritual of a 30-year-old chimpanzee that loathes his human visitors at a zoo
north of Stockholm and thus begins every morning by roaming his enclosure to collect stones
and place them strategically in handy piles for
subsequently hurling at irksome visitors. And
a researcher at Kyoto University’s Primate
Research Center told Agence France-Presse in
March that he had observed mother long-tailed
macaques in Thailand flossing their teeth (with
strands of human hair) more frequently if their
young are present and hypothesized that they
were teaching dental hygiene.
• Questionable Pricing: (1) Yale University student Jesse Maiman, 21, filed a lawsuit
against US Airways in March because someone stole the Xbox console from his luggage,
for which he wants $1 million. (2) In January,
after the New York City subway system barred
the oversized “assistance dog” of Estelle
Stamm, 65, she filed a lawsuit for $10 million.
(3) In Lonnell Worthy’s lawsuit against Bank
of America, filed in November in California,
Worthy values his now-ruined iPod playlist at
$1 trillion.
• After Elizabeth Russell, 45, and her 13year-old daughter were arrested in February in
Hartford, Conn., and charged with shoplifting
from a Kohl’s department store, her husband,
Daryll, 47, and son, Jonathan, 19, arrived at
the police station to bail them out. However, a
quick check revealed that both Daryll and Jonathan had warrants against them for violating
probation, and were arrested. Said a police lieutenant, “I don’t ever recall having four related
people in lockup at the same time.”
tian Colon, 21, had a plea deal worked out to
testify against alleged murderer Joel Rivera in
exchange for a lighter sentence, but suddenly decided in February that he would not take
the stand. The change of heart came right after
Colon was accidentally housed in the same
Milwaukee County Jail holding cell with Rivera. (With no plea deal, Colon got 46 years.)
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inmate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary was
found beaten to death in March after being
mistakenly assigned to the same cell as his
ex-partner-in-crime, against whom he had testified in a 2002 murder trial.
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