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Community
Supported Agriculture, or CSA,
is a rather trendy term for
something most of our
grandparents did routinely: buying food from a local
farmer.
A CSA is a group of people who pay a farmer for a share of the food he or she will produce.
Most are for vegetables, but some are for meats
too. Usually CSAs are purchased in the spring.
This helps the farmer by providing money in the
planting part of the season. Consumers get a fresh
and usually affordable supply of food through the
growing season, June through October.
Though the CSA-ers can be a little like those
early adopters of the Prius — like they are single-handedly saving the Earth and annoying us
in the process — CSAs are great for practical
purposes. Sure you’re supporting sustainable
farming, but you’re also eating better and for
less than if you’d bought the veggies at the
supermarket. The other thing I like about the
CSA is that you get the food every week. It’s a
nice constant supply of food.
Local restaurants too are trying to get in on
the act. Cotton and Republic in Manchester are
both trying to organize a local buying group for
restaurants, so they can get fresh and consistent
food from local farms. You can find a story on
our website in the March 5, 2009, issue (search
for CSA in the search bar at the bottom of our
front page) that provides a list of CSAs. Costs
run in the $350 to $450 for a season.
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Hippo | May 6 - 12, 2010 | Page Ten years ago
there were no
Monarchs, Fisher
Cats, Manch Vegas Roller Girls ...
none of the teams
that have become
such an important part of our southern New
Hampshire community. Jeff Mucciarone looks
at how we got from there to here.
Also on the cover: Dork vs. dork, that
duel between two geeky movie lovers, has
returned for the summer movie season. They
start the year off with Iron Man 2 on page 45.
Looking to take mom out for a nice meal on
Sunday? That’s right, Sunday is Mother’s Day
and if you haven’t made plans we have a few
options for restaurants doing something special
on page 36.
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Contributing Editor
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Bridgette Springer, [email protected]
Music listings: [email protected]
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Arts: Adam Coughlin, [email protected], ext. 12
News: Jeff Mucciarone, [email protected], ext. 36
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John Andrews, Cameron Bennett, Doran Dal Pra, John
Fladd, Rick Ganley, Henry Homeyer, Dave Long, Peter
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Karen Plumley, Eric W. Saeger, Bridgette Springer, Gil Talbot,
Rich Tango-Lowy, Michael Witthaus.
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4 News
Parents and teachers meet
PLUS A soap shop; A look
at some green living; News
in brief.
8 Q&A
Michael Robinson, homebrew champion
9 Quality of Life Index
10 Sports
18 THIS WEEK
the Arts:
20 Classical
Two violins create one sound; listings and events
around town.
22 Theater
Dinner and a show; Curtain Calls; listings.
24 Art
Local Color; listings.
Inside/Outside:
26 Gardening Guy
Henry Homeyer helps you with your greenery.
27 Kiddie Pool
Family fun this weekend.
28 Treasure Hunt
There’s gold in them there closets.
30 Car Talk
Click and Clack give you their advice.
34 Tech
John “JaQ” Andrews knows gadgets.
Other listings: Children & Teens, page 26; Crafts,
page 27; Museums & Tours, page 27; Over 50, page
28; Nature & Gardens, page 36.
36 Food
Brunch and dinner ideas for Mom’s special day
PLUS Theme dinner: travel to Sicily at the Co-op or to
medieval times at the Red Blazer; Weekly Dish; Wine
with dinner; Go shopping for Ingredients with Rich
Tango-Lowy; Food listings.
Pop Culture:
45 Reviews
Dorks debate. Reviews of CDs, games & books.
49 Movies
Amy Diaz was powerless against the
cuteness of Babies,
the sweetness of
City Island, the nerdiness of The Art of
the Steal and the
boredom of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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52 Bands, clubs, nightlife
Meet Roots of Creation; upcoming concerts; Nightlife,
music and comedy listings and more.
55 Rock and Roll Crossword
A puzzle for the music-lover.
56 Music this Week
Live performances in Manchester and beyond.
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nEWS & nOTES
news in Brief
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• Sweeney is liquor commissioner: Though
there appeared to be some question as to whether Earl Sweeney would be confirmed by the
Executive Council, in the end the Council gave
Sweeney its approval to serve as interim liquor
commissioner. Sweeney, who was the assistant
safety commissioner, was nominated by Gov.
John Lynch after Lynch fired Liquor Commissioner Richard Simard, who received a drunken
driving charge last week. Sweeney can serve as
much as six months while Lynch finds a permanent replacement. Sweeney will take a leave of
absence from his post in the Department of Safety.
Sweeney joins Joseph Mollica on the commission.
Mollica had been alone on the job; Commission
Chairman Mark Bodi has been on paid administrative leave while investigators examine his potential
involvement in a case with a Keene bar. According to reports, Attorney General Michael Delaney
was planning to issue a report on the case involving Bodi on Wednesday, May 12.
• UNHM loses its dean to Arizona: Professor
Sally Ward (pictured) has been appointed interim
dean of the University of New Hampshire Manchester. Ward, whose term would officially begin
July 1, would serve in the role for two years,
announced University Provost John Aber. Ward
is a professor of sociology at UNH and a senior
faculty advisor in the Carsey Institute. She has
30 years of experience teaching at UNH. Current
Dean Kristin Woolever will take over the presiden-
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cy at Prescott College in Arizona. Ward will be in
charge of maintaining services for more than 1,500
undergraduate and graduate students. A search for
a permanent dean is expected to begin in the next
academic year, according to a UNH press release.
Ward holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a master’s and Ph.D. from
Brown University.
• Trust funds scrutinized: Members of
the state Senate and House of Representatives
announced plans to consider legislation that
would make it clear when excess funds must be
returned to taxpayers who have contributed to a
pooled risk management program. The issue came
up in the wake of complaints about the nonprofit Local Government Center’s health and benefits
trust, which many communities have paid into,
according to a Senate press release. As a result
of litigation, it was clear the Local Government
Center had amassed a significant surplus, the
release said. Sen. Deborah Reynolds, D-Plymouth, said the secretary of state asked legislators
to act before the end of the legislative session to
provide him with increased authority and to protect taxpayers from being overcharged when
they paid into any such program. The Senate was
expected to introduce an amendment to House
Bill 1393 to address the concerns. The amendment was designed to define what constitutes
an adequate reserve for a pooled risk management fund. Any excess funds would be returned
to the communities that paid in. If the measure is
approved, it would require the Local Government
Center or any other pooled risk management program to return excess funds this year.
• Securities director resigns: State Securities Director Mark Connolly resigned reportedly
because of issues tied to a cover-up of an alleged
Ponzi scheme in Meredith. Connolly told the
Concord Monitor that by resigning he could have
more freedom to be a “whistleblower” regarding
how officials failed in halting the scheme. Connolly said the state has not released all its records
on the case. Lawmakers were expected to hold
hearings on the matter beginning Friday, May
7. The House and Senate commerce committees will assess the ability of the state’s regulatory
systems to protect investors in the future from
events, such as the collapse of Financial Mortgage, Inc., the company accused of running the
Ponzi scheme. The company, along with its servicing arm, CL&M, closed abruptly last fall,
leaving 500 people having lost as much as $80
million. The companies’ presidents, Scott Farah
and Donald Dodge, were indicted in March by a
federal grand jury. The committees were expected to hear from the public on Friday, May 14, and
lawmakers were expected to issue their recommendation on Friday, May 28.
• What to do with old rail trails: Intown
Manchester will focus on “Rails & Trails” at
its annual luncheon Tuesday, May 18, from
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel
in Manchester. The luncheon is open to the public. Speakers will include former state senator
Peter Burling, chairman of the New Hampshire Rail Authority, who will talk about efforts
to establish passenger rail service. Chris Drobat of Lavallee Brensinger Architects will speak
about local efforts to refurbish and connect trails
along the city’s abandoned rail beds for nonmotorized use. Greg Bakos, an engineer with
Vanasse, Hangen and Brustlin, will discuss how
Manchester fits into plans for a statewide trail
network. Bakos and Drobat are members of the
local activist group Manchester Moves. The luncheon costs $35 and reservations are required to
attend. Call 645-6285 or send e-mail to [email protected]. Space is limited.
• Final park clean-up: In the final clean-up for
the Manchester Urban Ponds Restoration Program
this season, volunteers will clean Nutts Pond at
Precourt Park on Saturday, May 8, from 9 a.m. to
noon. Latex gloves and plastic bags are provided.
Visit www.manchesternh.gov/urbanponds. Send
e-mail to [email protected].
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Amber Chesbrough recently opened The Soap Bar in downtown Nashua. The
new shop will offer all varieties of soap. Courtesy photo.
“Every kind of soap you could possibly
imagine,” Chesbrough said The Soap Bar will
offer. She mentioned fragrance soap, pet soap,
organic soap, shaving soap, goat’s milk soap
and soap shaped like food. She has soap from
all over the country and Canada. Chesbrough
is also featuring a “Made in New England”
display with products made in the region.
A world of soap
Amber Chesbrough is bringing the soap to
downtown Nashua.
Chesbrough officially opened The Soap Bar
at 111 Main St. this past weekend. She’s been
working with soap for a couple years now and
owns three soap businesses. Most of her previous work had been online until now.
Chesbrough, who has lived in Nashua her
entire life, said she wanted to take her soap to
a retail setting and found downtown Nashua
to be the right fit. She’s working with 1,200
square feet: “We have a lot of soap.”
“I know downtown has a strong presence,”
Chesbrough said.
Chesbrough began seriously thinking about
starting a retail business after the holidays this
past year. It was her biggest year in business
and she said it felt like the right time to take
the next step. She worked with soap as a hobby for a while but after she left her previous
job in retail, her fiancé kept pushing her to
make it a real business. Driving down Main
Street, she saw an open space and pursued it.
“I like the creativity involved,” Chesbrough said. “There are a lot of incredible
things you can do with soap. The possibilities are endless.”
Chesbrough said soap can be a special gift
that won’t end up unused in the bottom of a
closet.
The Soap Bar will offer two new fresh cut
“Soaps du Jour” each day costing $5 per inch.
The shop will also put together gift baskets
— customers can pick out items and staff will
piece together the basket for a small fee.
Visit www.bollasoaps.com for information
on one of Chesbrough’s online businesses.
Call 577-5511.
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Exploration and Giving,” will
take place at local inventor
and entrepreneur Dean
Kamen’s Bedford home.
Merrimack
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hundreds of dollars worth
of footwear from a variety of
stores, including JCPenney
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breakfast on Thursday,
May 13, from 7:30 to 9
a.m. at the Grappone
Conference Center,
70 Commercial St. in
Concord, regarding the
anticipated merger of the
Franklin Pierce Law Center
and the University of New
Hampshire. UNH President
Mark Huddleston and
Franklin Pierce Dean
John Hutson will lead the
conversation.
Super Bebris, a Latvia-based eco-friendly
home-building company, is building its first
homes in America in Manchester. Near the
Elliot at River’s Edge project, Super Bebris
(www.bebris.lv/eng) is working to make the
eco-townhome community Baltic Townhomes at River’s Edge available in June.
The homes will be more than 1,600 square
feet and will feature three-floor living, a full
walk-out basement, garage, two bedrooms,
2.5 baths, office and open living, dining and
kitchen areas.
The company uses all natural products
— wood, concrete and steel — and a rigid
timber frame with massive wood beams. Sort
of like a log home within a log home, the double-wall construction design allows builders
to pack walls full of eco-friendly insulation.
The frame is most typically used for concrete
and commercial projects. It allows for a tighter seal than normal building practices allow,
said Karin Provencher, co-owner of Super
Bebris. The company also uses tightly sealed,
handcrafted windows and doors to keep the
cold where it belongs, outside.
“It’s like an urban log home,” Provencher
said.
Provencher said the company expects the
townhomes’ utility costs to be at least 49 percent less than standard homes built today. She
said she thinks the percentage will increase
from that figure.
This project, located at 23 Vernon St., about
500 feet from the Riverwalk, is the first of its
kind in America and the company is working
to buy land in Rye to build its first single-family homes in the U.S. The Manchester project
will be one building, with four townhouses,
Provencher said.
Officials are expecting The Elliot at River’s Edge, which is in construction and will
be an urgent care facility, to help revitalize the
section of Manchester near Queen City Avenue. The location of that project was a big
reason Super Bebris chose the location it did,
Provencher said.
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business associates who was connected to
Super Bebris. Provencher said the countryside in Latvia is similar to the countryside
in New Hampshire — minus the hills — and
that helped win over Super Bebris.
“We feel the neighborhood is really turning,” Provencher said, adding the Elliot
and the proximity to the highway were key
factors.
Despite the poor economy, Provencher said
there has been a rise in “ecologically motivated buyers,” people who want to live in green
homes. She figured the market for these townhouses would be young professional couples.
“It’s a great spot for a young couple to start
out,” Provencher said.
Provencher said even though the real estate
market has taken a hit, the green building
market has grown and she said officials are
predicting the green building market will
double between now and 2013.
“We feel that our project takes [green
building] to a whole new level that Americans
haven’t seen,” Provencher said.
“Green building” in the United States too
often consists of the same old construction
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River’s Edge in Manchester. The four townhomes, which will be the company’s first in the
United States, are expected to be complete in June. Courtesy photo.
tactics with a high-efficiency heating system
popped in at the end, Provencher said.
—Jeff Mucciarone
One big parent-teacher conference
Concord event now in its third year
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
The Partnerships for Education 2010 conference aims to make sure high school
graduates are ready for their next steps.
The conference, which is in its third year,
will focus more than it has in past years on
issues before the high school student. JohnMichael Dumais, executive director of the
Parent Information Resource Center, said
several courses are geared toward addressing
students’ readiness for life after high school,
whether that be college or the workforce. A
University of New Hampshire admissions
official will host a course on preparing students for their next step.
“This year, we really kind of pulled out all
the stops,” Dumais said.
Leo Corriveau, superintendent of the
Mascenic School District, will provide the
keynote address at the conference, slated for
Saturday, May 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. at the Grappone Conference Center in
Concord. Visit www.picnh.org/p4e2010 to
register. Conference organizers have set Saturday, May 8, as the deadline for registration.
The conference will feature courses in
21st-century education, parental involvement,
special education and early childhood education. First Robotics will be present to discuss
how technical programs can help prepare students for careers in math and science.
The conference is geared toward parents,
teachers and administrators. Dumais has seen
more parents attend each year so far. With lots
of media coverage centered on bullying in
New Hampshire and regionally, Dumais said
bullying experts will be talking about that at
the conference as well.
“We tried to offer something for everyone,”
Dumais said.
The U.S. Department of Education is paying for about two thirds of the cost of the
conference, while the $35 registration fee
would cover the other third, Dumais said.
PIRC offers scholarships for people who can’t
pay the registration fee, as well as transporta-
tion and childcare assistance for those who
need it. The conference will also be translated
in real time for Hispanic parents, who would
be set up with wireless headphones.
There are obstacles to getting parents in the
audience. For one, many simply aren’t used to
attending this type of event. Dumais said it’s
very different from parent-teacher conferences that parents are likely to be more used to.
More and more high schools are looking to
provide real-world outlets to students, so that
they can garner some professional experience. It’s not just professional experience that
students need, but help with interviewing and
practicing using strong language, which is
of particular importance given the increased
use of texting or e-mail. Dumais said students
need to understand how to communicate properly and professionally.
Manchester Superintendent of Schools
Thomas Brennan will be one of the education officials speaking at the conference
about learning outside the classroom and how
schools are making the adjustment to that
style of learning.
“Not all students like sitting in a chair all
day...reading and listening,” Dumais said. “A
lot don’t do all that well that way.”
Alternative learning opportunities would
reduce dropout rates and encourage students to be “much more in the driver’s seat,”
Dumais said.
At the heart of the Parent Information
Resource Center is communication between
parents and their children. There are challenges before parents when it comes to getting
involved in the lives of high school students.
For one, high school kids often don’t want
their parents involved. Programs often focus
on parental involvement during elementary
school. Parents aren’t going to be pitching in
on a school project at the high school level,
but Dumais said there is still a role to play.
Dumais said the conference will include
information on how parents can intervene with their high school-age children.
“It’s an opportunity to maximize the childparent relationship,” Dumais said.
Along with high school students often not
wanting to “deal” with their parents, there are
new barriers to communication — kids are
more likely to be on their cell phones, text messaging, playing video games or on a computer.
“Parents are understandably concerned,”
Dumais said. “They may need to set some limits. Not just ‘Don’t do this’ and ‘Don’t do that.’
But maybe hours per day. Communicate with
kids about why and what they might be missing.
Technology certainly plays a role...parents need
to be more aware of the effects of technology.”
Dumais said there are things parents can do
to maximize the opportunities with their kids
and “to minimize the feeling of tensions, of
parents and children being on opposite side
of the divide.”
Dumais said the traditional “do as I say”
mode of communication doesn’t really work
that well. But on the other side, parents need
to be respected by their children as well. And
the conference can serve as a resource for
parents looking for some insight into communicating and getting through to children.
“When you’re getting ready for dinner, you
could be listening to the radio or watching TV
or you could spend a couple minutes asking
creative thinking questions about what kids are
learning in school,” Dumais said. If parents are
interested in what their children are learning,
the child knows it’s important, Dumais said.
Parents can encourage open-ended conversations rather than focusing on grades
specifically.
“The quality of the relationship is harmed
by focusing too much on judgmental aspects,”
Dumais said.
The conversation can go more smoothly if parents are not jumping to conclusions
about how much their children are trying in
school. Instead of opening with “How come
you didn’t do better?” parents can open with,
“I noticed you’re getting a C. Can we talk
about it?” Ask students what they think first,
Dumais said.
“There might be all kinds of reasons, and
maybe it’s not their own efforts,” Dumais
said.
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LONGSHOTS
Sox have holes in early going
We are a month into
the baseball season,
which is a benchmark
of sorts. Especially since when people
wanted Big Papi’s
head in just the first week, I said you’ve
got to give it until May 1. Now that May 1
has arrived, let’s check in to see what we’ve
learned so far.
David Ortiz: Hate to start off with the
negative, but with the Sox 11-14 and seven
games out in the AL East as I write this it’s
hard to avoid. Obviously the 1,200-pound
elephant in the room is David Ortiz. As bad
as it was last April, it’s worse in 2010. He
left April 2009 hitting .230 with 12 RBI and
no homers. This year he’s got three homers, but half as many RBI and he’s at .151.
Maybe the two homers Saturday are a sign,
but sorry to say if he matches his 2009 May,
which pretty much mirrors what he did this
April, he’ll be on the clock to get released
sometime in June.
Would They Release Him? Hey, Babe
Ruth got released twice. Once from the
Yanks after the 1934 season when he hit 22
homers and 84 RBI and then from the Boston Braves in 1935, not too long after he hit
three homers in a game including the first to
ever go onto the roof in right at Forbes Field
in Pittsburgh. If it can happen to the Babe,
no one is safe.
The Record at Fenway: Is it disturbing or
comforting to know they’re just 5-8 at home?
You could argue that it’s evidence they’re
just in a bad patch, which every team goes
through, and it appears worse than it actually is because it’s not buried in the totality of
the record as it would be in July ’cause you
know they’ll play well at Fenway. Or you
could argue they’ve morphed into the Celtics
who inexplicably lost games at the Garden
to teams that couldn’t beat SNHU to underscore a much bigger problem.
Run Prevention: Let’s just say the PR
spin from the Jason Bay defection is off to
a rough start. They’re 13th-worst in fielding percentage. Ditto in errors with 19. The
Twins have just five.
Adrian Beltre: Why does he remind me of
Edgar Renteria? He ain’t been Brooks Robinson so far. He’s 23rd in a 15-team league
in fielding percentage and his five errors are
most in the AL among third baseman. Over
a full season that projects to a Butch Hobson-like 33. He has time to smooth things
out, but right now it’s a seven on the Yikes!
meter.
Marco Scutaro: He had a few damaging
errors that came in a four-game flurry, but
he hasn’t had any lately and seems to have
settled. Not spectacular like Alex Gonzalez
can be, but he’s been solid. And do you think
Theo is aware Gonzalez is fourth in the AL
in runs batted in with 21?
Outfield Defense: Mike Cameron made
the year’s worst error on a can of corn right
to him, then he AND Jacoby Ellsbury went
out three weeks ago, so there’s not much of
a sample. Although my major objection to
putting Cameron in center was that 37-yearold players get hurt and that’s exactly what’s
happened to him with the abdominal strain.
The Pitching: Overall it’s been better
as they climbed from 30th overall in ERA
to 23rd at 4.78 in the last week, so they are
going in the right direction.
The Starters: The mantra has been that
horrible starts by Josh Beckett, Jon Lester
and John Lackey will straighten out. And
it appears that way, especially for Lester,
who was lights out in his last start. And then
there’s the debate over whether they should
have sent Clay Buchholz to the bullpen
instead of Tim Wakefield. The point well
taken on their side is you can’t pitch Wake
in the eighth or ninth because you can steal
on the knuckleball with impunity and that
Buch would be more effective there. But, the
best way not to tax the pen is to get outs, and
Buchholz, with a ninth-best-in-the-AL 2.19
ERA, is showing he’s on his way to being
a dependable starter, and putting him in the
pen retards his growth. Wake should remain
an insurance policy in case anyone goes
down, as already happened with Dice-K.
Middle Relief: Manny Delcarmen,
Ramon Ramirez, Scott Schoeneweis, Scott
Atchison, et al. Do those names scare you?
That is, I mean, unless you’re sitting in the
Sox dugout when they enter the game. How
can a guy have a 1.59 ERA and you’re scared
to death when he comes in? Maybe it’s the
six walks Manny has in 11 innings — but as
Forrest Gump likes to say, “it’s something.”
Eighth- and Ninth-Inning Relief: Same
thing — the ERAs look great, at least for
Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon, but
they’ve been far from lights out as the ERAs
suggest. By far the biggest worry is Heart
Attack Pap, who picked up the nasty habit
of walking people last year when the number
tripled from 2008. Well, in giving up nine in
13 innings it’s worse this year. Last year he
gave up 24 in 64 innings; if the current pace
continues he’ll walk FORTY-FOUR in 64
innings. Maybe I’m wrong, but as I said in
a column last November and again in March
he looks like a one-pitch pitcher whom people have figured out.
Stolen Basegate: The hysteria has thankfully subsided. True, Victor Martinez
looked terrible during the onslaught vs.
Tampa Bay and Texas. But if he’s so bad,
how did he manage to throw out more than
30 percent of runners his last two years in
Cleveland? And isn’t this the EXACT same
complaint we heard about Jason Varitek
last year when Carl Crawford stole six in
one game? What’s the common denominator? Both catch Red Sox pitching, which
philosophically is more concerned with
throwing strikes than being distracted by
runners at first. Joe Maddon figured that out
and exploited it, followed by Ron Washington. But since then, runners are two for nine
against them trying to steal.
The Hitting: Believe it or not, with 33,
the Sox are fourth in baseball in homers. But
they’ve scored 34 runs fewer than Tampa
Bay, which is 15th best/worst in the majors.
That’s with Ortiz and JD Drew (who appears
to be coming out of it) below the Mendoza
Line through all April. One thing for certain
is they need a real fifth hitter to hit behind
Kevin Youkilis — which they won’t get
unless a big trade happens. Beyond that,
several have been solid or better, like Dustin
Pedroia, who leads in homers and RBI, while
at .330 Beltre is the top hitter and Scutaro
leads in on-base percentage.
A little on the pessimistic side. I’ll admit,
but I don’t think I’ve exaggerated any of the
issues. Do you?
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“Baseball Like It Ought To Be” Award: Forget “run prevention;” I like the action from a
lot of hits and runs, so this award goes to the
F-Cats’ 14-12 win over the Trenton Yankees,
which had 25 hits, six errors and a seven-run
fifth inning in which they sent 11 batters to the
dish on Thursday. Al Quintana keyed it all by
going 3-5 with two doubles and three ribbies,
while Darin Mastroianni and Manny Mayorson each had two hits and Eric Thames hit
his team-leading third homer. And I do know
it says “Thunder” on the Trenton uniform, but
they are the AA affiliate of the Empire and it’s
time to call a spade a spade.
Sports 101: Name the three 30-homer guys
and four 100-RBI guys for the 1977 Red Sox
that are referenced in this week’s Sports Glossary entry for Butch Hobson.
Hot Ticket: It’s Friday night (May 7) as
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Coming and Going: Guess graduate school
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UNH tight end will have to put the plans he
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5 – errors survived by the
Goffstown baseball team as
it beat Nashua North 15-9 to
stay undefeated at 7-0 thanks
in part to the big day by Brad
(new) York, who knocked in
three with two doubles and a
triple as Steve Beal picked up
the win in relief after striking
out eight in just four innings
of work. Unfortunately they
suffered their first loss in their
next game 8-7 to Pinkerton.
6 – home runs hit in a 1410 slugfest win for Trinity
over Dover with the three
Pioneer blasts coming from
Connor Lyons, Nick Nalette
and Jake Hamel.
Numbers:
.667 – winning percentage
in April of the 14-6 F-Cats
to record their best month in
team history.
0 – runs allowed by DField’s Marty McCormick
when he allowed just three
hits and struck out five in
whitewashing
Portsmouth
Christian 3-0.
2 – runs scored on a firstinning home run by Heather
Fyfe as she led undefeated
Bedford to an 8-1 win over
previously undefeated St.
Thomas. The homer came off
Mariah (coco) Crisp, who
had thrown no-hitters in two
of her first three starts prior to
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lacrosse action. Jon Taylor for Central and
Memorial Adam Tack each scored a gamehigh two goals.
Performance of the Week: How about Bedford’s Trevor Morrisette, who scored 11 goals
in lacrosse wins over Dover (14-10) early in the
week and Keene (9-5 ) on Friday to help the
Bulldogs remain undefeated.
A Little History: Seems like yesterday, but
column contributor Tommy Ameen reminds us
that 41 years ago this week (May 5, 1969) Bill
Russell played his final game as the C’s won
Game Seven over the Lakers in L.A. 108 -106.
Now-Golden State coach Don Nelson hit the
winning shot after it bounced high off the rim
and came back down straight through the hoop
after the Celts blew a 16-point third-quarter
lead. It’s the balloon game where Lakers owner
Jack Kent Cook had the USC band in attendance to play “Happy Days Are Here Again”
when the Lakers won. Unfortunately that was
foiled by the great Russell as he won his 11th
ring in 13 years and buddy Sam Jones got his
10th in 12 years in his final game as well.
Sports 101 Answer: The three 30-homer guys
for the 1977 slugging Red Sox were Jim Rice
(39), George Scott (33) and Butch Hobson (30).
The four 100-RBI guys were Rice (114), Hobson (112), Carlton Fisk and Yaz (both 102).
7 – career-high goals
scored by SNHU’s Emily
Monngeau in Northeast-10
Lacrosse action when the
Penwomen were 21-17 losers
to Merrimack.
11 – different players scored
as the powerful Pinkerton
girls’ lacrosse squad moved
to 4-1 on the year with a 17-1
win over Salem as Erin Santuccio was the high scorer
with three goals.
3,343 – fans on hand as three
were wild at the V on Saturday
when Worcester scored with
33.3 left on the clock to claim
a 3-2 win over the Monarchs to
knot their AHL playoff series
at two apiece.
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regarding players batting above or below
.200. Named for light-hitting shortstop
Mario Mendoza. Despite hitting under the
line five times and .215 lifetime, he managed to last 12 years in the majors during
the ’70s and ’80s with mostly Pittsburgh.
Not only couldn’t hit for average, but he also
had no power, with just four career homers.
Origin of the name is hazy as former players Tom Paciorek and Bruce Boche have
put in claims as the originator, as have folks
in Pittsburgh for their late broadcaster Bob
Prince. But most likely it’s from the great
George Brett saying the first thing he does
on Sunday is to check to see who’s hitting
below the Mendoza line, and was picked
up and popularized by Chris Berman in the
fledgling days of ESPN.
Butch Hobson: Real name Clell Laverne
(and Shirley); Alabama QB under Bear
Bryant and third-sacker for the Sox. Came
out of nowhere to hit 30 homers and knock
in 112 in 1977, and did it hitting ninth for the
powerful Sox, who had three 30-homer guys
and four 100-RBI guys. Nearly matched it in
’79 when he went for 28 and 93, but it was
all downhill after that and he was out of the
majors by 30.
Laverne and Shirley: Cheesy 1970s
series starring Penny Marshall and Cindy
Williams that managed to stay on TV for
eight seasons. Created by Penny’s brother
Gary Marshall and spun off from schlocky
Happy Days. Those series produced bigtime directors in Ron Howard (Apollo 13,
A Beautiful Mind), Gary Marshall (Pretty
Woman, Mork and Mindy) and the aforementioned Penny (Awakenings and A
League of Their Own — which had L&S’s
Squiggy as the PA for every game home and
away somehow).
Paul “Bear” Bryant: Legendary coach
who won six national titles at Alabama.
Trademark houndstooth fedora was tipoff
that Alabama-born Bear wasn’t much of a
dresser. Also coached Maryland, Kentucky
and Texas A&M, where his brutal first-year
training camp that wiped two thirds of team
led to famous nickname for survivors: “the
Junction Boys.” Got his nickname after
agreeing to wrestle a captive bear when he
was 13. Not good at retirement, he suffered
a fatal attack 23 days after coaching his final
game for Alabama.
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10 years of
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By Jeff Mucciarone
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above: April 5-11, 2001
Sports fans throughout New England went through an attitudinal change
during the past 10 years, driven by the overall success of New England’s
major sports teams, the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Celtics and the New
England Patriots. It may have been the Red Sox 2004 World Series title
that truly allowed area sports fans to “believe” and to relax a little.
As big things were happening with Boston-area sports teams, the
landscape of sports in southern New Hampshire was evolving. A decade
ago, there was no Verizon Wireless Arena, no Manchester Monarchs and
no New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
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Today, the Fisher Cats, the Double-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays,
and the Monarchs, the primary affiliate for the Los Angeles Kings, are
the two marquee sports franchises in the state and the Verizon Wireless
Arena is the premier entertainment destination. Additionally, the Manchester Millrats, who play in the Premier Basketball League, made their
way to Manchester in 2007.
The last 10 years have seen other sports franchises succeed and then
falter. A decade ago, the Nashua Pride, an independent baseball team
playing in the Can-Am League, was an ingrained piece of the Gate
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Today, the Sports and Social Club has three locations — Manchester, Nashua and Portsmouth
— and has sports taking place six nights a week in
Manchester. And there are area rugby teams, rowing clubs, roller derby teams, dodge ball teams at
area YMCAs and a slew of other sports leagues
for competitive and non-competitive players.
Along with mainstream sports such as hockey and baseball, southern New Hampshire also
saw an infusion of kickboxing, fighting schools
and dojos. The region has seen interest grow
considerably in mixed martial arts and ultimate
fighting tournaments, which first came to New
Hampshire in a formal tournament in 2006.
Also, interest in the Manchester City Marathon
has grown in recent years with more than 1,700
runners taking part in the 26-mile jaunt last fall.
New Hampshire residents’ love of sports only
grew as the Boston-based professional teams
had a particularly successful 10-year run, winning six championships between the Red Sox,
Celtics and Patriots. (Boston Bruins fans are still
waiting for a Stanley Cup.)
“I think it’s an incredibly loyal area,” said
Rick Brenner, president and general manager of
the Fisher Cats. “It’s great to have fans that care
so much. It’s just a phenomenal thing to be a
part of.”
The Monarchs and Verizon
City puzzle. The Pride was sold in 2008 and
was renamed the American Defenders of New
Hampshire. The team folded last year. The last
10 years saw the Manchester Wolves, an arena
league football team, come and go as well.
And then there are the sports that the nonprofessional adults play. No longer just about
company softball teams or bowling leagues,
sports-as-social-scene have become part of the
fabric of urban New Hampshire life. The New
Hampshire Sports and Social Club was nonexistent just a few years ago.
Team Spirit
• New Hampshire Fisher Cats (www.
nhfishercats.com) play at MerchantsAuto.
com Stadium, 1 Line Drive in Manchester;
641-2005. Their season started in April and
runs through September.
• Manchester Monarchs (www.manchestermonarchs.com) play at the Verizon
Wireless Arena, 555 Elm St. in Manchester;
626-7825. Their season started in October
and runs through May. They’re currently in
the playoffs.
• Manchester Millrats (www.manchestermillrats.com) play at the fieldhouse
at Southern New Hampshire University;
888-646-7287, [email protected]. The
Millrats’ season finished in March.
• ManchVegas Roller Girls (www.manchvegasrollergirls.com) just began another
season of bouts. Their home court is West
Side Arena, 1 Electric St. in Manchester.
• New Hampshire Roller Derby (www.
nhrollerderby.com, [email protected]) has bouts from February through
October this year. Their home court is JFK
Coliseum, 303 Beech St. in Manchester.
• New Hampshire Sports and Social
Club (494 Elm St. in Manchester; www.
nhssc.com; 644-3570: [email protected]) has
leagues year-round.
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The Manchester Monarchs gave the state its
first professional hockey outlet and gave Manchester its first professional sports team during
its aughts revival.
“What a great hockey town Manchester is,”
said Jeff Eisenberg, who was president of the
Monarchs from their inception in 2001 until he
stepped down earlier this year to run a local advertising firm, Eisenberg, Vital and Ryze. He was
succeeded as team president by Darren Abbott.
The Verizon Wireless Arena, home to the
Monarchs and formerly the Wolves, has helped
transform downtown Manchester, not only with
regular sporting events but also with arts, music
and other entertainment events.
“The time in which the arena arrived offered
a great opportunity for the building to be a real
stimulus and catalyst for what became somewhat of a downtown revitalization,” Eisenberg
said. “Manchester at the time, and really southern New Hampshire, was just so ready to have its
own thing, our own hometown team. We’d been
going to Boston for many, many years for sports
and culture and we still do, but it was wonderful
to have to drive 15 minutes, have reasonable prices and root for our own hometown team.”
The arena created sort of a tipping point for
the city, which had already demonstrated considerable momentum leading up to the arena’s
construction. The arena was paid for in funds put
up by area banks, and about $50 million came
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from 30-year city bonds. Manchester relies on
state revenue sharing from the rooms and meals
tax to make its annual bond payments on the
stadium.
“We created the critical mass,” Eisenberg
said. “The momentum had already started to
take hold of downtown.”
Eisenberg said in his career in the industry,
which had spanned 20 years prior to his taking
over leadership of the Monarchs, he’d seen other
sports teams arrive in communities with a promise of sparking revitalization. Subsequently, he’d
seen many projects fail to live up to that promise.
“What’s so remarkable to me, all the components that are typically envisioned came together
and interfaced with each other, including the
major community investment into the building,
all came together and really worked,” Eisenberg
said. “I think it’s a model.”
Essentially, the arena provided a platform
— naturally there can’t be a sports team without a building and vice versa: “It all has to come
together,” Eisenberg said.
Eisenberg said the fan response to the team
was spectacular right from the beginning. The
team was welcomed with open arms and people
invested themselves in the team’s success.
Dave Long, who has been writing about local
and national sports in the Hippo since 2003,
agreed with Eisenberg. He said he thought the
Verizon Wireless Arena provided an outlet for
“pent up energy” from people looking for something to do.
“People just charged to it,” said Long, who
hosts Dave Long and Company from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. on Saturdays on WGAM The Game. At first
Long said he thought the arena would draw 4,000
or so fans to hockey games each night. He said he
had underestimated. The team drew an average of
9,141 people per game in the 2003-2004 season.
Not only did people want to see hockey, but they
wanted to check out the building itself.
The team and the sport had a bit of a builtin audience in Manchester. The city’s population
includes the descendants of many French Canadians who moved here for work in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries and brought their love
of hockey with them. The first organized hockey game in the United States took place at the St.
Paul’s School in Concord in 1883.
“The hockey roots go way, way, way deep
here,” Eisenberg said. “It’s the kind of sport that
people feel very, very passionately about.”
“It was the perfect storm for a team to arrive
in the town and be widely successful,” Eisenberg said.
When the team arrived in Manchester, the
Monarchs were a phenomenon of sorts but they
weren’t a brand — that was built over the years.
Attendance numbers have now leveled off;
Eisenberg said he knew that would happen, but
he added that interest, visibility and recognition
are higher than ever.
“Attendance and consumption has plateaued
at a very, very strong and viable level,” Eisenberg said.
The Monarchs are currently taking on the
Worcester Sharks in the 2010 Calder Cup Atlantic Division Final. The best-of-seven series is
tied at 2-2. Game Four was slated for Wednesday, May 5, in Worcester, and Game Five will
take place Friday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Manchester. The Monarchs finished the regular
season third in the Atlantic Division.
“We need to continue to establish our brand,”
said new President Darren Abbott. “We need
to make sure we become more and more a part
of the city and more and more a part of New
Hampshire.”
Abbott said after the first five years of a franchise’s life, an organization is challenged to
develop new reasons for people to come out.
The Monarchs will look to continue to expand
their market. He said games are appealing not
just to hockey fans but also to families looking
for a night out and companies looking for corporate outings. Abbott also expected the Monarchs
to step up their efforts on the charitable front.
“We want to make it something everyone
in the community can associate with,” Abbott
said.
Home teams
When the Monarchs played their first game
in 2001, they brought in not only hockey fans
but also people looking for local entertainment
and something new to do. Over time, those
casual sports fans and families in search of an
outing had other teams to cheer for.
The Monarchs’ success paved the way for
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the Fisher Cats in a sense, though their beginning wasn’t quite as smooth, given the political
nature of negotiations surrounding bringing the
team to the Queen City. The end result has been
a “gem” of a stadium that provides another outdoor source of entertainment for people, Long
said.
It was six years ago that the Fisher Cats made their way into town, first
playing at the historic Gill Stadium before
moving to the brand new MerchantsAuto.
com stadium, formerly Fisher Cats Stadium.
The stadium cost the city $24.3 million, despite
former mayor Bob Baines’ pledge that the city
would not pay for construction of a new stadium, having just recently paid $74 million for
the Verizon Wireless Arena, which was initially named the Manchester Civic Center. In the
end, the city paid for the baseball stadium but
received a substantial chunk of change from the
Fisher Cats each year. For the first 10 years of
the 25-year agreement with the city, the Fisher Cats will pay Manchester $750,000 per year.
After 10 years, the Fisher Cats’ payment will
increase by either 5 percent or the Consumer
Price Index, whichever is less. Merchants Automotive Group purchased naming rights for the
ball park in 2006 in an undisclosed deal.
The team itself had a bit of a bumpy ride in
the beginning. The Fisher Cats were first called
the New Hampshire Primaries in honor of the
state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
But fans didn’t like it. Switching gears, team
management decided to put the name before
fans, who were given the chance to vote on the
name. In the end, the team was named the Fisher Cats, after an animal that is not a cat and that
does not fish.
Long said he figured baseball would end
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Hampshire. Despite the deep hockey roots in
New Hampshire, Long said this is firmly Red
Sox country. When the Portland Sea Dogs, a
Red Sox affiliate, play the Fisher Cats, a Blue
Jays affiliate, in Manchester, the home team
seems to lose its home advantage.
Long remembered a time a few years ago
when then-Fisher Cats manager Bill Masse
voiced his displeasure over the supposedly
home crowd that offered a standing ovation for
Red Sox prospect Clay Buchholz, playing for
the Portland Sea Dogs, who pitched particularly well against the Fisher Cats in Manchester.
The Fisher Cats tend to sell out every home
game played against the Sea Dogs. The Fisher
Cats set several attendance records last season.
Brenner said he and the organization feel
fortunate to be in this area and in Manchester
specifically. He said the organization’s members operate under the belief that if they serve
their community, the community will serve
them. So far, so good.
“We play in an absolutely gorgeous building here,” Brenner said. “...It’s not just about
baseball. We’re building our brand as a community organization. We’re creating that as our
brand.”
Brenner said fans come out to see the Fisher Cats for the overall experience, not just the
baseball. Last Friday, the team was shooting off
fireworks after the game and Brenner figured just
as many people were coming for the fireworks
as were coming for the baseball. The package of
affordability is key as well. In a package deal, for
$30, people can get four tickets, hotdogs, soda
and chips, all while watching some baseball and a
golden retriever serve as bat boy. “It’s really about
summertime and outside and fun, and this is close
to home,” Brenner said.
Officials from the Lowell Spinners, American Defenders of New Hampshire and the
Fisher Cats spoke last summer about how
minor league and independent league baseball
try to provide a well-rounded and affordable
experience for the whole family.
The Manchester Millrats joined the mix in
2007. Playing their home games at Southern New
Hampshire University, the professional basketball team, which plays in the Premier Basketball
League, seems to have found a market in people who formerly went to area college basketball
games. The Millrats finished 6-14 this year, following a 16-4 campaign the year before.
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Nashua Mayor Donnalee Lozeau had city workers lock the team out of the stadium and park a
tractor on home plate, as the team had failed to
pay thousands of dollars in rent to the city. That
effectively ended the franchise’s time in Nashua.
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the Manchester Wolves football team folded at
the end of last year. The Wolves did have some
success, particularly in 2005 when they finished
12-4 in their second season in Manchester. The
team also finished 10-6 a couple years after that.
The Wolves finished 7-9 last year.
The Wolves were formed in 2001 as a Connecticut expansion team, Long said. They came
to Manchester on the success of the Monarchs
and the Fisher Cats. The management and ownership — which included Steve Schubert, a
former player in the National Football League
and at the University of Massachusetts, and Dick
Anagnost, one of the most prominent developers in the state — were strong, but the team had
several things against it.
The Wolves often played at the same time as
the Fisher Cats and they played indoors during
warm weather, when New Englanders with their
limited number of good-weather days like to be
outside. The season also started after the Super
Bowl, a time when many fans have had their fill
of football, Long said.
“The people who ran it did a good job,” Long
said, but he added arena football may be more
successful in warmer climates, where it’s so hot
during the summer that people don’t mind heading inside for some football. In the end, though,
the economy may have been what ultimately did
the team in, he said.
And then there was Nashua’s sports team. The
Nashua Pride, once a staple at Holman Stadium
in Nashua, fell on hard times, perhaps partially
due to the success of the Fisher Cats. The team
began playing in Nashua in 1998 and continued
to do so until it was sold in 2008. There was success for the Pride. Former Red Sox player and
manager Butch Hobson had a successful run
managing the Pride for eight seasons. The Pride
won their league championship twice, in 2000
and in 2007, and lost in the finals in 2003.
But the squeeze play was on.
Market-wise, the Nashua Pride found itself
stuck between the Fisher Cats in Manchester
and the Lowell Spinners, both affiliated teams
offering more talented and promising rosters.
The Fisher Cats and the Spinners also cut into
the Pride’s sponsorship, Long said. “They got
squeezed to just Nashua proper,” Long said.
People in the Manchester area were more
likely to go see the Fisher Cats and people in the
Nashua area were often making the drive south
to Lowell, Long guessed.
The team’s name was changed to the American Defenders of New Hampshire when a new
ownership group took over in 2008. At that time,
former Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette
became team president.
In its second year as the American Defenders of New Hampshire, the team’s season was
You can’t talk about sports in New Hampshire without taking a look at what’s happened
to the south.
New Hampshire and all of New England’s
view of sports may have changed dramatically in
2004, when the Red Sox ended an 86-year championship drought. After being down three games
to one in the American League Championship
Series to none other than the hated New York
Yankees, the Red Sox won four straight games,
including the clincher at Yankee Stadium. That
win propelled them to the World Series, where
they swept the St. Louis Cardinals.
“Basically, [Red Sox fans] were grumpy old
men until 2004,” Long said.
The Red Sox’s championship was only one
of the big wins for New England teams this
past decade. The New England Patriots won
three Super Bowls, and the Boston Celtics
ended their own 22-year drought with a championship in 2008. The Red Sox won another
World Series title in 2007. Since the Patriots
won their first Super Bowl in 2001, they have
been perennial contenders. Celtics fans struggled through years of losing before the team
made a couple big trades in the summer of
2007, effectively transforming itself into a contender. The Celtics are currently in the second
round of the playoffs, taking on the Cleveland
Cavaliers.
The Boston Bruins, who are in the midst of
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doesn’t stop with merely spectating; people
need to get out and play some sports. And,
while high schoolers and kids on soccer teams
have always had a chance to show their team
spirit, there have been more opportunities for
the NHL playoffs this year, have had their troubles — they are the one major New England
sports team that hasn’t won a championship in
the past decade. They haven’t won the Stanley
Cup since 1972. The Bruins upset the Buffalo
Sabres in the first round and are now taking on
the Philadelphia Flyers.
Long said the change in mentality for Red
Sox fans began in the mid-1990s, when the
team began to have some success. They won
a division title and went to the playoffs several times. It was 2002 that the new ownership
group, led by John Henry, bought the team. It
took only two years for the team to become
World Series winners.
Not only were the new owners willing to
spend money on high-quality talent, but they
also made improvements to the aging Fenway
Park, such as adding seats above the Green
Monster. They also took a new, friendlier
approach with the media, Long said.
Long said the Red Sox weren’t always the
draw they are now — they’ve sold out more
than 500 straight games.
“Fans have come to have an expectation they
never had,” Long said.
Despite all the success coming out of Boston, the success of the home teams is unrelated
as the New Hampshire sports are sold on a local
level, Long said. Still, New Hampshire’s home
teams offer a much more affordable option for
sports-lovers than Boston sports.
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adults of varying levels of athletic ability to get
in on the fun.
The New Hampshire Sports and Social Club
(www.nhssc.com) has given athletes a chance
to exercise their competitive juices, get a little exercise and make some new friends, as the
organization prides itself on both the sports and
the social scene.
“Things are going really well,” said Elijah
Quimby, general manager of the club. “We’ve
expanded quite a bit....”
The club began in Manchester and has
expanded to Portsmouth and more recently Nashua. Participants take part in sports six
nights a week in Manchester, three to four
nights in Portsmouth and four or five nights
per week in Nashua. Quimby said the league
has seen plenty of growth, particularly with
softball, which now has 52 teams just in Manchester. A newer soccer league is picking up
steam as well.
“We really offer a good alternative to some
of the more intense leagues,” Quimby said.
Quimby said there are not a lot of sports
programs geared toward working professionals and adults. He said people play in high
school and maybe college and then it just sort
of ends.
“It allows adults to keep playing sports,” Quimby said. “Who doesn’t want to play sports?
It’s just a great opportunity to do that.”
The club is always looking at different locations for expansion, as well as different sports
to offer. It has recently added a bowling league
and a horseshoe league, Quimby said.
“As long as we can find enough people that
are interested,” Quimby said.
The leagues, which are coed, are also broken into recreational and semi-competitive, so
as to make sure there’s an appropriate level for
everyone. The league builds team spirit and a
team mentality.
Roller Derby has also increased in popularity in the area — but participants need to be
ready to get jostled and bumped around, maybe more than a little bit. Roller derby is a team
sport where skaters called “jammers” try to lap
the pack of “pivots” and “blockers” while trying to avoid opposing teams’ blockers. Points
are awarded for lapping opposing team members. The Manch Vegas Roller Girls and the
New Hampshire Roller Derby have both seen
interest grow.
Regardless of the sport, there’s something to
being a member of a team.
“It’s nice to be a part of that,” Quimby said.
“It’s nice to feel you’re a part of the team and
play together to come together for a common
goal.”
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will play in area IMAX theaters as well as on regular screens. With
the return of summer movies comes the return of our Dork vs. Dork
feature. See the Dorks debate Iron Man 2 on page 45 and see page
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Thursday, May 6
The Palace Theatre in Manchester will hold is eleventh
annual Gala Fundraiser tonight
from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Manchester Country Club, 180 South
River Road in Bedford. Enjoy a
variety of eats (including chocolates by Hippo’s Ingredients
columnist Rich Tango-Lowy)
and performances from The Full
Monty. Tickets cost $75. Call
668-5588 or go to www.palacetheatre.org.
The Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries in
Depot Square in Peterborough, 924-2787,
sharonarts.org, will hold a free opening reception to its multi-artist show “Creatures: Real
and Imagined” on Friday, May 7, from 5 to
7 p.m. The Monadnock Humane Society will
also be there for a family and pet adoption
event. The show will run through July 4.
Saturday, May 8
The member’s of this year’s
NH Poetry Slam Team will be
picked tonight at the slam poetry finals in the auditorium of the
French Building at the NH Institute of Art next to the Manchester
city library. Doors will open at
7 p.m. and the competition will
begin at 8 pm. Tickets to this allages event cost $5 at the door.
Five poets will be picked for the
team. See myspace.com/bridgepoetryopenmic or myspace.
com/russianrouletteprod.
Cheap: Books for kids
The Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St. in
Nashua, will hold a children’s book sale from
Monday, May 10, through Sunday, May 16.
Hardcovers will go for $1, paperbacks will be
four for $1. Science fiction books will go on
sale the week of May 17 at $2 for hardcovers
and $.50 to $1 for a paperback. Some books
will be specially priced.
Sunday, May 9
Israeli food as well as music
(including karaoke with Barak
Brener), dancing, crafts and
more will be a part of the Israeli Independence Day celebration
Sunday, May 9, from 2 to 5 p.m.
at the Jewish Federation of New
Hampshire, 698 N. Beech St. in
Manchester. See www.jewishnh.
org or call 627-7679.
Splurge: A meal
with Mom
Treat Mom right with a meal — brunch,
dinner and everything in between — on Sunday, May 9. Zorvino Vineyards in Sandown
will have a brunch buffet with seatings at 10
a.m., 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. for $35. The
Bedford Village Inn will have a brunch buffet
(featuring desserts and carving stations) for
$39 for adults. A dinner in the dining room
features three courses for $39. See page 36
for more tasty ideas.
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ARTS
You got your jazz in my classical
Orchestra finishes its season with a performance that blends genres
By Adam Coughlin
[email protected]
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It is very difficult for lightning to
strike twice. Sometimes an experimental collaboration works only
between the two musicians willing
to risk what it takes to have a unique
performance. But two Granite State
concertmasters, who have known
each other for much of their musical
careers, will look to capture lightning
with their violin strings.
Elliott Markow and Gerald Mordis,
two Granite State Symphony Orchestra (GSSO) concertmasters, will
conclude the GSSO’s 16th season by
performing the works of famous violinists Stéphane Grappelli and Yehudi
Menhuin on Saturday, May 8, at 8
p.m. in Concord. During the 1970s
and ’80s, Grappelli combined his
jazz skills with Menhuin’s classical
training to produce six albums. The
collaboration was heralded as a success but the blending of two genres,
one based on hours of training, the
other bursts of unbridled creativity, is
not for the faint of heart.
Markow and Mordis are up for the
challenge. And Mordis believes that if
you’re a good violinist and have a soul
for music you can bend with any style.
“I listened to Grappelli when I was
in my 20s and I thought ‘I can do
that’,” Mordis said. “And now I am
doing it.”
But Grappelli was a trained jazz
musician. Mordis is not. But no matter. It is in his blood and he said he has
a flair for that type of music, which
leaves him with a great feeling.
“I get great satisfaction after playing an opera concert,” Mordis said.
“But I’ve got some fire in me when
I’m playing that [jazz violin] music.”
While Mordis is not strictly a
jazz violinist like Grappelli, he does
believe Markow is as much a virtuoso as Menhuin.
“Elliott is a virtuoso,” Mordis said.
“I say these things because I really
believe them. He admires me for what
I do and I for what he does.”
That admiration dates back to their
early days at the Boston Community
Music School, where Mordis remembers meeting Markow when he came
to study with one of Mordis’s teachers. Since then they have both gone
on to have extraordinary careers.
Markow, who plays on a violin
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made in 1709 by famous Italian luthier Giovanni Battista Rogeri, is also
a concertmaster for the New Hampshire Philharmonic and the Nashua
Symphony Orchestra.
Mordis loves variety and his career
highlights it. Besides performing as a
First Violinist with the Boston Pops
Esplanade Orchestra and the Boston
Ballet, Mordis also performed on the
Aerosmith music video, “Dream On.”
As a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he performed on
soundtracks for Saving Private Ryan
and Schindler’s List.
Despite these decorated backgrounds, the two men have never
soloed together. But their upcoming
duet brought them together for one
rehearsal in Mordis’s living room.
Mordis said the two did not want to
over-rehearse the performance, but
putting everything together with only
one rehearsal has been a challenge. It
is a challenge Mordis revels in.
In fact, it was Mordis who brought
the idea of the duet to GSSO Conductor and Artistic Director Robert Babb.
Mordis had performed the pieces with
the Boston Pops and loved them so
much he purchased the music from
Gerald Mordis (left) and Elliott Markow. Jen Alice C. Flaherty photo.
the conductor.
“It is fun to do duets,” Mordis said.
“When you put two styles together it
becomes a real crowd-pleaser.”
As the performance is the last of
the season for the Granite State Symphony Orchestra, there will also be
a silent auction, according to Nuha
Haddad, the GSSO board member in
charge of the silent auction. Some of
the prizes up for bid include a week’s
lodging in September on Nantucket
Island, a chance to sit in the orchestra
during a performance, and an opportunity to conduct the orchestra. You
can also win a two-hour piano performance by maestro Robert Babb at
your home. Or, if sport is your vice,
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you can play a round of golf with
Babb.
GSSO president Bob Senko is happy this final performance is by two
accomplished musicians and is something a little different.
“It is always our challenge to attract
a new audience,” Senko said.
Violin times two
Where: Concord City Auditorium,
2 Prince St. in Concord, 228-2793,
www.concordcityauditorium.org
When: Saturday, May 8, at 8 p.m.
Audience can arrive at 7 p.m. to
review silent auction items
Tickets: Range from $7 to $33
Info: www.gsso.org or 226-4776
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Classical Listings
• THE FOUR SEASONS A night
of music at the Zimmerman House,
which is part of the Currier Museum
of Art, 150 Ash St. in Manchester,
www.currier.org, 669-6144, on Thurs.,
May 6, at 5 p.m.. Vsitors will enjoy
a tour and music at the house first,
and return to the museum for wine &
cheese and time in the museum afterwards. Music begins at 6:30 p.m.
• YOUTH AND UNH SYMPHONIC BAND on Thurs., May 6, at 8 p.m.,
Johnson Theatre, Paul Creative Arts
Center, Durham. The Youth Band under
the direction of Sara Ann Shea and
assistant director Sean Giardino features
students in grades 6-12. Their program
includes “Microburst” by UNH alum,
Brad Ciechomski, “Acrostic Song”
by David Del Tredici and arranged by
Mark Spede, “Enchanted” by Ryan
Nowlin and “Joy” by Frank Tichelli.
The Symphonic Band, under the direction of Nicholas Orovich will perform
“Coastal Overture” by Steve Reisteter,
“Fantasy on a Theme by Sousa” composed by UNH faculty member Andrew
Boysen and conducted by graduate student Brian Starck, and conclude with
the ever-popular “Lincolnshire Posy”
by Percy Grainger. The concert is free
and open to the public. See www.unh.
edu/music. • BACH’S LUNCH LECTURE
Peggy Senter will speak about
Schubert’s Vienna: Musical Friendships from 12:10. to 12:50 p.m. at the
Concord Community Music School, 23
Wall Street, Concord on Thurs., May
6. For more information, call 603-228-
1196 or visit www.ccmusicschool.org
• LOWELL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA in a free “Pops” Concert on Fri., May 7, 2010 at 8 p.m. at
the Pawtucket Congregational Church,
15 Mammoth Road in Lowell, Mass.
• STUDENT RECITAL Concord
Community Music School students perform at 7 p.m. on Fri., May 7, Fri., May
14 and Thurs., May 27 at 7p.m.. There
will also be an Adult Student Recital on
Tues., May 11 at 7 p.m.; all at 23 Wall
Street, Concord. Call 603-228-1196 or
visit www.ccmusicschool.org.
• FLUTE PERFORMANCE the
Mariposa will host Monadnock Flutes
on Fri., May 7, at 7 p.m. Under the
direction of Denise Nolan the ensemble will perform classical and popular
music from Bach, Schubert, Wanausek, Tcherepnin and Mancini. They
will perform on a variety of flutes,
from piccolo to bass flute. Members
of Monadnock Flutes are from the
Monadnock Region and Massachusetts. Call 924-4555 or email info@
mariposamuseum.org.
• SOUHEGAN VALLEY CHORUS
will present its 30th Anniversary Concert on Satur., May 8 at 7 p.m. in the
Souhegan High School Auditorium,
Amherst, $15 for adults & $10 for
seniors/ students, children under 12free. Tickets can be purchased at The
Toadstool Bookshop in Milford, at
the door or by calling 673-7573. For
additional information, please visit:
www.wolaver.org/SVC.
• UNH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in concert on Sat., May 8, at
8 p.m. in the Johnson Theatre of the
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Paul Creative Arts Center on the Durham campus. The orchestra will perform “Karelia Suite” by Jean Sibelius, “Emperor Waltzes” by Johann
Strauss, and Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 5.” The concert is free and
open to the public. Call 862-2404, or
visit www.unh.edu/music.
• GRANITE STATE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA Elliott Markow and
Gerald Mordis will perform the works
of famous violinists Stéphane Grappelli
(jazz) and Yehudi Menuhin (classical)
at the 8 p.m. concert on Sat., May 8 to
be held at the Concord City Auditorium.
Tickets cost $7-$33. See www.gsso.org
or call 226-4776. Tickets may also be
purchased at Pompanoosuc Mills in
downtown Concord.
• LAKES REGION SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA features violinist Matthew Green Sat., May 15, 7:30 p.m.,
at the Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium, Rt. 25, Meredith, www.lrso.org.
• MANCHESTER CHORAL
SOCIETY presents its spring performances “This is the Garden: Blitzstein
vs. Bernstein” on Sat., May 15, at 8
p.m. and Sun., May 16 at 3 p.m. at St.
Joseph’s Cathedral, 145 Lowell St.,
Manchester. Tickets are $20/$15 for
seniors and students and are available
at the door, online at www.mcsnh.org,
or call 472-6627.
• PHANTON OF THE OPERA on
Sat., May 15 at 8 p.m. at the Middle
New Hampshire Arts and Entertainment Center at the historic Franklin
Opera House. Tickets $18 (advance),
$21.50 (door).
• VARIETY SHOW On Sat., May
15, the Merrimack Concert Association
will perform at Merrimack High School
beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets, $16 for
adults and $14 for seniors (65) and students, may be ordered before May 12th
by calling Executive Director Laurie
Ludvigsen at 424-0558, or contacting
[email protected], or writing
to Merrimack Concert Association, P.O.
Box 461, Merrimack, NH 03054.
• THE NH GAY MEN’S CHORUS
will perform Sat., May 15 at 7:30
p.m. at the Christ Episcopal Church
in Portsmouth and again on Sunday,
May 16 at 4 p.m. at Keene State College in Keene. See www.nhgmc.com.
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
Broadway on
display
On Saturday, May 15,
the Merrimack Concert
Association will offer
Broadway and movie musical hits at its
fourth annual Variety
Show. Members of the Merrimack Chorus and Concert Band
perform as trios, quartets and ensembles, presenting wellknown hits from Hollywood films and tunes from Broadway
shows. Choral director Sara Phelps and band director Anthony Varga will also be performing. The program includes show
tunes from 42nd Street, The Wiz, Paint Your Wagon, South
Pacific, Les Misérables and Jersey Boys. The performance
starts at 8 p.m. at Merrimack High School, 38 McElwain St.
in Merrimack. Tickets cost $16 for adults and $14 for seniors
and students and are available before Wednesday, May 12,
by calling 424-0558 or contacting info@merrimackconcert.
org or by writing to the Concert Association, P.O. Box 461,
Merrimack, NH 03054. • 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,
www.theaudi.org
• Concord Community Players
224-4905, communityplayersof
concord.org
• The Dana Center
100 Saint Anselm Drive,
anselm.edu
• The Majestic Theatre
281 Cartier St., Manchester,
669-7469, majestictheatre.net
• Manchester Community
Music School
2291 Elm St., 644-4548,
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Rain date May 22nd
Theatre
KAPOW
completes its second season with a production of
Oleanna on Friday, May
14, and Saturday, May
15, at the Stockbridge
Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St.
in Derry. The performance is directed by Carey Cahoon.
Oleanna is the story of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students: Carol comes
to John’s office to ask for a passing grade: although he is preoccupied with his tenure review and buying a new house, he
decides to help her. What follows is a matter of individual
interpretation. KAPOW’s cast features New Hampshire actor
and playwright Don Tongue as John. Manchester native Arielle Kaplan, a senior acting student at Brandeis University,
plays Carol. Performances are Friday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m.
and Saturday, May 15, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. at the Blackbox at
the Stockbridge Theatre in Derry. Tickets can be purchased
by calling the Stockbridge Theatre box office at 437-5210 or
at www.tkapow.com. Courtesy photo
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and member discounts will apply.
Performances are on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m.
Call 436-8123 or purchase online at
playersring.ticketleap.com. Due to
adult subject matter, this musical may
not be suitable for all audiences.
• YOU CAN’’T TAKE IT WITH
YOU presented by the New Hampshire Theatre Project with shows from
May 14 through May 23. Fridays and
Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sunday shows
at 2 p.m., $22 general admission and
$15 for students and seniors. Visit [email protected] or call
431-6644 ext. 5.
• THE WEDDING SINGER presented by the Peacock Players Fridays at 7 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 & 7
p.m.; and Sundays at 2 p.m., May
14-23 at the 14 Court St. Theater in
Nashua, $10-$15.
• CROSSING DELANCEY presented
by the Manchester Community Theatre Players for two weekends, May
15-23, 2010; with shows on Saturdays
at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2 p.m. at
the Jewish Federation of NH Theatre,
698 Beech St, Manchester.
• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST May
18, 19, 29 at 7 p.m. and May 30, at 2
p.m. at the Palace Theatre. Tickets are
$12 for adults and $8 for children.
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after 7:30 p.m. shows. • THE FULL MONTY Through May
15 at the Palace Theatre, $15-$45.
• GALA EVENT The Eleventh
Annual Gala Fundraiser for the Palace Theatre will be May 6 from 6 to
9 p.m. at the Manchester Country
Club in Bedford. Tickets cost $75.
Call 668-5588.
• MURDERS IN THE HEIR Dinner/dessert theater at the Majestic
Theatre on Fri., May 7, and Sat.,
May 8, at 7 p.m. and Sun., May 9,
at 4 p.m.. Tickets are available at
majestictheatre.net.
• THE HABIT OF ART Mother’s
Day weekend theater event at the
Peterborough Players will broadcast
live, via satelite the performance by
Londond’s National Theatre on Sat.,
May 8, at 2 p.m. at 55 Hadley Road,
Peterborough. Tickets are $22 adults,
$18 students, and can be purchased
by calling 924-7585 or online: www.
peterboroughplayers.org.
• OLEANNA Theatre KAPOW
completes its second season May 14
and May 15 with Oleanna by David
Mamet. Performances are Fri., May
14, at 7:30 p.m. and Sat., May 15, at
2 and 7:30 p.m. at the Blackbox at
the Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton
St., Derry. Tickets can be purchased
by calling the theater’s box office at
437-5210, or at www.tkapow.com.
• HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY
INCH May 14 trhough May 30 at
The Players’ Ring Theater, 105 Marcy
St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $12 for
adults, $10 for students and seniors,
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• Manchester Community
Theatre and Second Stage
Professional Co.
698 Beech St., Manchester,
627-8787
• Milford Area Players
673-2258, milfordareaplayers.org
• Muchachos Drum
& Bugle Corps
PO Box 5197, Manchester,
674-7650, www.muchachos.org
• Music and Drama
Company (MADCo.)
Londonderry, madco.org
• My Act
myact.org, 429-3950
• Nashua Theatre Guild
PO Box 137, Nashua,
03061, 320-2530
nashuatheatreguild.org
• New Thalian Players
newthalianplayers.org, 666-6466
• Nashua Community
College Performing
Arts Club (PAC)
505 Amherst St., Nashua,
428-3544
• The Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588, palacetheatre.org
• Peacock Players
14 Court St., Nashua, 886-7000,
peacockplayers.org
• Profile Chorus
profilechorus.org
• School of Theater Arts
at The Amato Center for
Performing Arts
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 20
• Seacoast Repertory Theatre
125 Bow St., Portsmouth,
433-4472
• SNHU Drama Club
2500 North River Rd., Hooksett
• Yellow Taxi Productions
yellowtaxiproductions.org
• CABARET AFTER HOURS presented by Cabaret De Boheme of New
Hampshire Mondays, 7-10 p.m., at the
Element Lounge, 1055 Elm St., Manchester, 627-2922. Brandon Mallard
and Barbara Lawler perform classic
jazz standards and Broadway showtunes (www.nhcabaret.com).
• PROOF, by David Auburn through
May 9 at the Seacoast Repertory
Theatre, at 125 Bow St., Portsmouth,
www.seacoastrep.org, 433-4472.
• THE ISLES OF SHOALS:
ETERNAL SOUND OF THE SEA
presented by Pontine Theatre through
May 9 at the West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth,
www.pontine.org, 436-6660, $23.
• THE BLONDE, THE BRUNETTE AND THE VENGEFUL
REDHEAD through May 16 the
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, at 50
East Merrimack St., Lowell, 978-
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Auditions/workshops
• PALACE SUMMER STOCK
AUDITIONS Children ages 8 to
15 can audition for ANNIE on Saturday, May 8, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the
Palace. The play will run for three
weekends, July 16 - Aug. 1. Actors
who cannot attend the auditions
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IN THE HISTORIC FRANKLIN OPERA HOUSE,
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With the explosion of new media from Twitter to Facebook and everything in between
there is no shortage of technology vying
for people’s attention. And yet one form of
entertainment that dates back to the 1950s in
America is thriving.
Dinner theater, sometimes known as “dinner
and a show,” is a classic combination that made
its formal debut in the U.S. at the Barksdale
Theatre in Richmond, Va., in 1953. Since then
the fad of one-stop entertainment has come and
gone and now, seemingly, come back again.
“I wish I knew the magic formula ... about
why it so successful,” said A. Robert Dionne,
artistic director at The Majestic Theatre. “A
few years ago we had two shows; now we put
on five dinner theater shows a year and it has
really taken off.”
Part of that popularity may be due to the fact
that dinner theater is a bit of a novelty. Very
few theater houses in New Hampshire offer the
option.
Michael Gendron of the Greater Derry Arts
Council said he would love to have dinner theater shows but because the Adams Memorial
Opera House is a public building its managers
would have to jump through hoops to be able
to have alcohol served. Still, Gendron thinks it
might be worth it.
“It is something that is convenient for people,” Gendron said. “They love to go out to
dinner. It would really bring people into the
seats.”
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will be Sunday, May 16 from 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. and Saturday, May 22 from
1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The performances
will be July 30 - Aug. 1 at the Janice B. Streeter Theatre, 14 Court St.,
Nashua NH. For more information
contact Actorsingers.
• ACTING IN THE MOMENT
Actress Melinda Chilton’s traveling
workshop will make its first stop at
Studio 99 in Nashua, May 15-16. The
workshop is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
each day. The cost is $150 for both
days including a $50 non-refundable
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But as Dionne pointed out, that dinner has to
be worthy of a fancy restaurant.
“It can’t be spaghetti on paper plates,”
Dionne said. “You have to have real china and
cloth tablecloths. It’s the little details. People
hold us to a higher regard and are expecting a
classy event.”
Class often comes with a price, and dinner
theater can get a little expensive. However, there
are options. Dionne said the Majestic recently
introduced dessert theater, which allows audience members to sit in the balcony, enjoy the
show and consume light dessert treats, which
satisfies the belly but is lighter on the wallet.
While it is smart business to appeal to a variety of checkbooks, it also helps, in the case
of The Majestic Theatre, to offer a variety of
shows to a diverse demographic.
The appeal of dinner theater is often in the
experience more than the show.
“I’m not going to show The Diary of Anne
Frank because that is a downer,” Dionne said.
“But we don’t have to put a well-known show
because the dinner theater sells it.”
Dionne said he usually picks a comedy or
a musical. And of course a murder mystery,
which, by adding audience participation, adds
to the interactive experience.
The Majestic Theatre will be premiering
Murder’s in the Heir, written by Billy St. John,
directed by Larry Pizza and Kim Cassetta,
beginning on Friday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. In the
play, billionaire Simon Starkweather is murdered and any one of his numerous heirs had
the ability and motive. Secret ballots gathered
at intermission from the audience will determine the killer.
“We’ll have three shows and we could have
three endings,” Dionne said. “We really like to
incorporate audience participation but we only
involve the audience as much or as little as they
like.”
Murder’s in the Heir
Where: The Majestic Theatre, 281 Cartier St.,
Manchester, 669-7469, majestictheatre.net
When: Dinner theater is Friday, May 7, and
Saturday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday,
May 9, at 1:30 p.m. Dessert theater is at 8:30
and 2:30 p.m., respectively.
Tickets: Dinner theater $35 Friday and Saturday, $31 Sunday. Dessert theater $22.
Advance reservations are required.
Info: majestictheatre.net
dio99nashua.com.
• SINFULLY ARTISTIC Ghostlight Theater Co., seeks submissions
from playwrights and visual artists
for the Seven Deadly Sins Festival,
which will be part of the Capitol
Center for the Arts’ Spotlight Cafe
series Sept. 18-19. The festival will
comprise seven one-act plays, each
relating to one of the “deadly sins”
along with an art exhibit of the same
theme. The script deadline is May 14
and the art deadline is July 1. Send
submissions to [email protected], or Ghostlight
Theater Co., 258 Main St., Salem,
NH 03079. Visit www.gltne.org.
• ANNIE Leddy Center for the Performing Arts Director Elaine Gatchell has announced open auditions for
Annie will be held Saturday, June 5,
at Leddy Center, 38C Ladd’s Lane
in Epping, www.leddycenter.org. The
play will open Oct. 29 and run through
Nov. 17. Rehearsals begin in September and all parts are open. Call Leddy
Center at 679-2781, Monday through
Friday from 3 to 5 p.m., to make an
audition appointment.
• YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH
YOU Pulitzer Prize winning comedy
by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart.
Auditions for 20 roles for ages 12 to
18 begin June 1 at 6:30 to 9 p.m. and
Wed., June 2 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Contact Toby 465-3456 or tobytarnow@
yahoo.com to reserve a time.
ART LISTINGS
Art events
• FIRST THURSDAYS The Currier Museum of Art is open late from
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. first Thursdays
each month with special programs
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including live music, lectures and
film, at 150 Ash St., Manchester.
Call 669-6144 ext. 108 or see www.
currier.org for tickets.
• ARTSFEST SHOWCASE The
Rochester Opera House will hold
an evening of theater, music, dance,
art and comedy on Sat., May 8, at 7
p.m. The event will feature the Sharp
Dance Company from Philadelphia,
Revelation reggae jam band, the
Artsfest Dance Company performing
hip-hop style dances and burlesque
comedy skits and more (perfomers
Ali Henchy, Barry Livingstone and
Erin Lovett Sherman are pictured
here). Tickets cost $18 ($16 for children under 10). See www.rochesteroperahouse.com or call 335-1992.
• DUNBARTON ARTS AND
GARDENS FESTIVAL will be
held Mother’s Day weekend May 7
and 8, Route 13 in the center of historic Dunbarton at the home of Patricia Dooly Murphy. The hours are
Saturday 10 a.m. -5 p.m. and Sunday
10 a.m. -4 p.m. For more information and a list of participants please
visit the website at www.dunbartonarts.com or call 603-774-8455.
• SCULPTURE IN NASHUA
The third annual Nashua Sculpture
Symposium, themed “Diversity,” is
scheduled for May 16 through June
6 at NIMCO in the Nashua millyard.
Visitors can attend between noon
and 2 p.m., Monday through Friday;
between 4 and 6 p.m. on Thursdays;
and between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Saturdays. Check http://sites.google.
com/site/sculpturesymposiumof-
nashua. E-mail Nashua.Sculpture@ for the senior AP exhibit is Fri., May
gmail.com.
7, 5:30-6:30 p.m., followed by a
senior recital. The gallery hours are
gallery openings and events Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. -4 p.m. and
• STUDENT ART SHOW at EW Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon.
Poore Gallery, 531 Front St. in Man- • CHLOE FELDMAN EMISON:
chester, 622-3802, through May 22. BEHIND THE CURTAIN features
Reception Thurs., May 6, from 5 to three series of images at Three Grac7:30 p.m.
es, 105 Market St, Portsmouth from
• LAND AND SEA The work of May 7 - May 31. Opening RecepKarin Hovey and Joan Tierney will tion with the artist, Fri., May 7, 5 to
be on display at East Colony Fine Art, 8 p.m. Admission is free. For more
55 South Commercial St., Manches- information visit www.threegracester, 621-7400, www.eastcolony.com. gallery.com or call 436-1988.
Reception on Fri., May 7, 5 to 8 p.m. • BILLERICA: TIME AND
Exhibit will run through May 22.
PLACE A mixed media study of
• CREATURES: REAL AND the town and its architecture by
IMAGINED The Sharon Arts Eugene C. Elementary Students at
Downtown Galleries in Depot 119 Gallery located at 119 ChelmsSquare, Peterborough, 924-2787, ford Street, Lowell, Mass. Reception
sharonarts.org., will host a multi Sat., May 8, noon to 3 p.m.
artist show. The opening reception • BRING IT! TOGETHER Stuwill be held on Fri., May 7, from dent works created at the Currier
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. A Family and Pet Museum of Art and New Hampshire
Adoption Night will also take place Institute of Art will be on view at the
at the reception in partnership with Currier until June 14. There will be
the Monadnock Humane Society. an Opening Reception on Sat., May
The reception is free and open to the 8, 10:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m.
public. The show runs until July 4.
• WILD WOMEN OF HOLLIS’
• PRINTMAKERS Multi artist ART SHOW Multi artist show at
show through June 6 at the at Lucy’s the Art Gallery at the Lawrence
Art Emporium, 303 Central Ave., Library at 15 Main Street, Pepperell,
Dover,
www.lucysartemporium. MA, which runs through May 30.
com. Opening reception on Fri., Come meet the artists at the Artists’
May 7, 5 to 7 p.m.
Reception on Sat., May 8, 2 to 4 p.m.
• ADVANCE PLACEMENT Call 978-433-0330 .
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Hampton School’s Gallantly Gallery her work through the month of May
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• Tale as old as time: The Palace Youth
Theatre will produce Disney’s Beauty and the
Beast with shows on Tuesday, May 18, and
Wednesday, May 19, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May
29, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 30, at 2 p.m. at the
Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in Manchester,
668-5588, www.palacetheatre.org. Tickets cost
$12 for adults and $8 for children.
• Sweet Charity at the Keefe Auditorium:
The Actorsingers (www.actorsingers.org) will
present Bob Frosse and Neil Simon’s 1960s
romantic comedy Sweet Charity at the Keefe
Auditorium at Elm Street Middle School,
117 Elm St. in Nashua, on Friday, May 21,
and Saturday, May 22, at 8 p.m. and Sunday,
May 23, at 2 p.m. Donna O’Bryant Metzger,
two-time winner of a New Hampshire
Theatre Award for Best Choreography, will
choreograph the musical. Paul Metzger
directs and Blake Leister will serve as music
director. Tickets cost $18 ($15 for seniors
and students) and can be purchased at www.
actorsingers.org or by calling 320-1870.
• This one time, at theater camp: The
Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley, 56
Mont Vernon St. in Milford, is getting ready
for teens this summer. A variety of one- and
two-week teen camps will be offered from
Monday, June 21, through Friday, Aug. 20,
including recreation camps, trip camps and
Counselor in Training camps. In addition,
several new specialty camps are being
offered, beginning with a week of field trips
to New England college campuses, with
special presentations on campus life and
admissions procedures, Monday, June 21,
through Friday, June 25. See www.svbgc.org,
call Cory Sullivan at 672-1002 ext. 18 or email [email protected].
• You Can’t Take It With You: The New
Hampshire Theatre Project and Senior
Repertory students will perform Moss Hart
and George S. Kaufman’s comedy You Can’t
Take It With You at the West End Studio Theatre
(WEST), 959 Islington St. in Portsmouth, the
weekends of May 14 and May 21. Friday and
Saturday shows are at 7 p.m. and Sunday shows
are at 2 p.m. Directed by Genevieve Aichele, the
Senior Repertory Company is a conservatorylevel training program for high school students.
Tickets cost $22 for general admission and $15
for students and seniors. Visit reservations@
nhtheatreproject.org or call 431-6644 ext. 5.
• A new season of Met performances,
from New York to Portsmouth: The Music
Hall, 28 Chestnut St. in Portsmouth, has
announced its 2010-2011 season of Met@
The Music Hall, which presents live, highdefinition screenings of Metropolitan Opera
performances from Lincoln Theater in
New York. Tickets go on sale to the public
on Saturday, May 15, at noon. The lineup
features seven new productions, including
two company premieres and the first two
installments of a new Wagner Ring cycle,
directed by Robert Lepage and conducted by
James Levine. The season also marks the 40th
anniversary of Maestro Levine’s Met debut.
Tickets cost $27.50 per opera, $15 for ages 18
and under. Tickets are available at The Music
Hall box office, by phone at 436-2400, or
online at www.themusichall.org.
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• Sing out canceled: NH Citizens for the
Arts has canceled its Sing Out NH! event,
which was intended to be a celebration of the
arts. The event was scheduled for May 12 outside the Statehouse in Concord, but the intense
negotiations going on there over the state budget for Fiscal Year 2011, which could lead to
cuts to the Department of Cultural Resources
of approximately $245,000, led organizers to
believe this was an inopportune time for such
a display. “Although disappointing to us all,
we believe that canceling the event for now
is the only prudent course,” said Sara Germain, a spokesperson for NH Citizens for the
Arts. “The event was to be a celebration of
the arts in New Hampshire and a demonstration of their importance. It was not intended
to be confrontational.” NH Citizens for the
Arts will continue monitoring the budget process as it moves through the legislature over
the next few weeks. And Germain said a similar event will be planned for the future. While
she didn’t have a head count for the now canceled Sing Out NH!, she did say it had received
support from a number of professional chorale
directors.
• Outdoor market in Concord: Concord’s
outdoor artisan marketplace, which is located
in Eagle Square, is set to begin its season on
June 5, the same day the city’s farmers market
(which runs from 8:30 a.m. to noon) begins for
the season. The Concord Arts Market is open to
all, has free admission and will run from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. every Saturday until July 30, with
a special three-day event starting July 15 for
Market Days. The market will be held rain or
shine and will feature not only local artists and
8, between noon and 3 p.m. the public is invited to meet the artist.
• SUNNY DAYS Multi artist exhibition at the Manchester Art Association gallery in the McIninch Gallery
at 1528 Elm Street, Manchester
through June 26, with a reception
Thurs., May 20, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The Gallery is open Wednesday
through Saturday from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Admission is free. For more
information visit www.manchesterartists.org/gallery.
• A SYMMETRICAL LOVE photographs by Nicole Ratos Enerson
from May 19 - June 8 at 119 Gallery located at 119 Chelmsford St.,
Lowell, Mass, www.119gallery.org.
Reception Sat., May 22, from 3 to
6 p.m.
• OF NIGHTMARES installations,
sculpture, painting and drawing
by various artists from June 15 to
July 4 at 119 Gallery located at 119
Chelmsford Street, Lowell, Mass.
Reception is June 17 at 7 p.m.
• OPEN DOORS CULTURAL
TROLLEY Trolley ride through
some of Manchester’s art destinations will happen on Thursdays, July
22 and Oct. 21. Call 669-7469 or
visit www.majestictheatre.net.
In the galleries
• 10 FOR 2010: Ten Emerging
Painters to Watch, features work
by alumni of the New Hampshire
Institute of Art through Aug. 31
at the Robert M. Larsen Gallery at
Sulloway & Hollis, 29 School St. in
Concord.
• ART UNDER GLASS work of
current students and recent graduates
artisans — showing and selling blown glass,
handbags, jewelry and more —but also live
music. Go to www.concordartsmarket.com or
call 229-2157.
• Scholarship applications available: “The
School of Art Supporters” (SAS), a nonprofit
organization involved in events and fundraisers to support the School of Art located at the
Kimball Jenkins Estate, will give scholarships
to students wishing to attend the school’s summer arts camp. The camp is open to children
ages 6 to 13, operates daily from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. and offers a variety of week-long programs designed for children. Each week has a
different focus providing an educational experience as expressed through art projects. Go
to www.kimballjenkins.com or call 225-3932
for a scholarship application. SAS will accept
applications for assistance with enrollment
costs through May 17 and award scholarships
in June for classes beginning in July.
• NH Arts honored: The National Endowment of the Arts recently selected a team of
New Hampshire’s brightest leaders in the fields
of arts, education and media literacy to attend
the 2010 National Education Leaders Institute.
Nineteen states applied to attend the institute but
only five, New Hampshire, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon and Washington, will participate. “It is the
creative economy that will move America forward in the 21st century,” said Fred Bramante,
a member of the state board of education who
will be attending, in a press release. “This will
require integrating the arts into curriculum areas
that we haven’t regularly thought of as logical
places for the arts to be, including science, math
and technology.” — Adam Coughlin
of the Rivier College Department of
Art exhibited in the front windows of
100 Main St., Nashua.
• AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
Multi artist show running through
June 5 at the North End Framers
Market at 1301 Elm Street Manchester from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday
- Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on
Saturday or by appointment.
• CELEBRATING NEW HAMPSHIRE ART AND ARTISTS
through June 7 at the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester,
www.currier.org, 669-6144, ext.
108.
• CONTINUING THE TRADITION, “Spirit of the Maker” exhibition through June 25 at the League of
NH Craftsmen’s Gallery 205, 205 N.
Main St., Concord, 224-3375, www.
nhcrafts.org.
• DOWNTOWN WINDOWS The
Capitol Kids spring art show will
appear in downtown Concord storefront windows through May 15, presented by Main Street Concord and
the Merchants Roundtable, www.
mainstreetconcord.com.
• EMERGING ARTISTS Works
from 17 emerging artists will be on
display at the Museum of Art, UNH
Durham. The artists are part of the
2010 senior B.A. and B.F.A. exhibition and the 2010 M.F.A. thesis
exhibition. The works include painting, ceramics, photography, drawing, woodworking and printmaking.
• FURNITURE AS ART The exhibition will be on display until June 4
at the NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy
Gallery, which is located at 136 State
Street, Portsmouth. Gallery hours
are Wednesday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Noon
to 4 p.m. Additional information or
questions can be obtained by calling
603-431-4230.
• GAIL HOAR is a juried member
of the New Hampshire Art Association and Keyes Art Group and her
work will be featured for the month
of May at the Wilton Public Library
at 7 Forest Rd., Wilton. For more
information visit wiltonlibrarynh.org
or call 603.654.258.
• GARY HAVEN SMITH
recent paintings and sculptures,
“Focal Point,” through May 14, at
McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave. in
Concord, 225-2515.
• HOMER TO HOPPER: American Watercolor Masterworks from
the Currier Museum of Art through
June 7 at the Currier Museum of Art,
150 Ash St. in Manchester, www.
currier.org, 669-6144.
• MAMAN DISAIT A featured art
exhibit by Rhea Cote Robbins in
the Beliveau Galeria at the FrancoAmerican Centre, 52 Concord St.,
Manchester, 669-4045, www.francoamericancentrenh.com.
• MANCHESTER ARTS Web site
presented by the city arts commission, manchester-arts.org.
• MARTHA C. SHEPP artwork
through May at Red River Theatres
Community Gallery, 11 S. Main St.,
Concord, 224-4600.
• NEW HAMPSHIRE INSTITUTE OF ART Faculty Exhibit
with work by Chris Archer, Elizabeth Cameron, Karen Francis, Patrick McCay, Maureen Mills, Ernest
Montenegro, Glen Scheffer and
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Members of the New
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Association
will join forces with
members of the New
Hampshire Art Association in the collaborative
exhibition “Furniture
as Art/Art as Furniture” through June 5. The exhibition,
which features works by 14 Furniture Masters and 18
NHAA artist members, will be on display at the NHAA’s
Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St. in downtown
Portsmouth. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. The gallery
is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. The opening reception
will be held on Friday, May 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. Works by
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Classes/workshops/open calls
• CREATIVE PREGNANCY
THROUGH ART Sharon Arts Center, located at 457 Route 123, Sharon,
will host a Mother’s Day workshop
from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sat., May
8, facilitated by Michael and Paola
Dias.
• ZENTANGLE WORKSHOPS at
E.W. Poore Frame Shop & Art Gallery, 531 Front St., Manchester, 6223802, www.ewpoore.com, second
session Sat., May 8.
• SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SUMMER ARTS CAMP The School
of Art Supporters (SAS) will offer
scholarships for students wishing to
attend the Summer Arts Camp. Summer Arts Camp and for scholarship
application forms, visit the website
at www.kimballjenkins.com or call
225 -3932.
• THE PORTABLE PORTRAIT
WORKSHOP on using speedlights
in photography with Sid Ceaser Saturdays, 1-8 p.m.; April 24 at Plymouth
State University; or May 8 or May 22
at Ceaser Photography Studio, Nashua. $150 fee includes model fee. Ask
about NHIA student discount. Visit
www.portableportrait.com.
• PAINTING ON THE GREEK
ISLAND OF SKOPELOS with
Sue Swinand May 18-28, a Currier
Art Center & Worcester Art Museum: Travel and Learn program for
students of the visual arts. Call 508799-4406 ext. 3148 or visit www.
worcesterart.org/education.
• ARTISTRY OF THE ISLES OF
SHOALS: Past & Present conference,
held on Star Island June 19-23, sponsored by the Isles of Shoals Historical
& Research Association (ISHRA).
Visit www.ishra.com, www.starisland.
org or call 778-6480.
• ART WALK NASHUA seeks
venue, artist and volunteer participants for the 2010 Nashua downtown and millyard Art Walk Oct.
2-3. Contact Bonnie Guercio at
[email protected]. Visit
www.cityartsnashua.org.
• CALL FOR ART for monthly
displays in the rotunda of the Wilton Public & Gregg Free Library.
Contact library director, Carol
Roberts at carolrose56@hotmail.
com or 654-2581. • CALL FOR ART Exhibit artwork in the Citizens Bank Building
at 835 Hanover St., Manchester.
Contact Lisa Underhill at Bourque
and Associates, 623-5111 or [email protected] for details.
• CALL FOR ART Exhibit for
two months at Art on the Wall
at City Hall Gallery, 1 City Hall
Plaza, Manchester, for $300. Contact Georgie Reagan, Mayor’s
Assistant for the Arts, 624-6500
to apply.
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handles as well as the many objects
created with this unique tool, will be
on display until October 31at the Mt.
Kearsarge Indian Museum located at
18 Highlawn Road, Warner.
• THE LIGHT FANTASTIC Artwork from more than 85 artists is
on display at Art 3 Gallery (44 West
Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650,
www.art3gallery.com) through July
9 during regular gallery hours Monday–Friday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.; weekends and evenings by appointment.
• TYPOGRAPHICA IV: Annual
Student Exhibition through May
8, at the McIninch Art Gallery at
Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 N. River Rd., Manchester,
www.snhu.edu/908.asp, 629-4622.
062028
David P. Wells through May 30, at
the Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture
Garden, 236 Hopkinton Rd., Concord, 226-2046, www.themillbrookgalllery.com.
• NHIA FACULTY Mill Brook
Gallery & Sculpture Gardens, 236
Hopkinton Road in Concord, 2262046,
www.themillbrookgallery.
com, is currently exhibiting works
by faculty at the New Hampshire
Institute of Art. The show will run
through May 30. See works by
Chris Archer, Elizabeth Cameron,
Karen Francis, Patrick McCay,
Maureen Mills, Ernest Montenegro,
Glen Scheffer and David P. Wells.
The gallery is open Tuesday through
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
by appointment.
• OPEN STUDIO NIGHTS third
Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. at Verdigris Artisans, 88 N. Main St., Suite 205, Concord, www.verdigrisartisans.com.
• OUT AND OUT ART at the
Hampshire First Bank Gallery located at 227 Main Street, Nashua will
showcase the work of three local artists through May 20.
• PEMBROKE ACADEMY STUDENT ART EXHIBIT Through
June 5, at the Epsom Public Library,
Epsom. Monday through Thursday,
10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. Call 736-968
• PHILIPPA DUNN, oil paintings,
at Apotheca Flowers & Tea Chest,
24 Main St. in Goffstown, 384-3939,
apothecaflowers.com.
• RANDA DUBNICK “Woods and
Lakes” paintings and posterized
photographs through May at the
UNH Center for Graduate & Professional Studies at Manchester, 286
Commercial St., 4th floor.
• SENIOR EXHIBITIONS at the
Wadleigh Gallery at Chester College of New England, 40 Chester
St., Chester, www.chestercollege.
edu, 887-7406. “Week 6,” through
May 10, featuring work by Jennifer
Spinelli, Fairlee Anderson, Kelly
Johnson and Geri Nonnewitz.
• SOPHA, members of the Studio
of Photographic Arts in Manchester
exhibit through May and June at
Art On The Wall At City Hall Gallery, 1 City Hall Plaza, Manchester,
624-6500.
• TEA, SWORDS AND STITCHES: A Contemporary Interpretation
of Classic Kimono Design through
June 6 at the Brush Gallery & Artists Studios, 256 Market St., Lowell, Mass. Visit www.thebrush.org
or call 978-459-7819 to learn about
more related events.
• THE ART AND FUNCTION
OF CROOKED KNIVES The
exhibit, highlights the blend of utility and artistry of the carved wooden
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26 Children & Teens
inside/outside
Activities for children and families, workshops, volunteer opportunities, events to keep you healthy and more
Gardening Basics of gardening design
Guy Plant what you like, but never buy just one perennial
Events, stuff for teens...
27 Crafts
Fairs, classes...
27 Museums & Tours
Exhibits, tours...
28 Over 50
Events, health screenings...
32 Nature & Gardens
Hikes, nature-watching...
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Features
26 The Garden Guy
Advice on your outdoors.
27 Kiddie pool
Family activities this weekend.
28 Treasure Hunt
Find buried treasure in your closet
30 Car Talk
Click and Clack give you car advice.
34 Tech
John Andrews gives you gadget advice.
Food
36 Food for Mom
Restaurants make special plans for
Mother’s Day PLUS Italian night at the
Co-op; Medieval night at Red Blazer;
Go Ingredients shopping with Rich
Tango-Lowy; Food listings; Weekly
Dish; the experts help you pick Wine
with Dinner.
Get Listed!
[email protected]
From yoga to pilates, cooking to languages to activities for the kids, Hippo’s
weekly listing offers a rundown of all
area events and classes. Get your program listed by sending information to
[email protected] at least three
weeks before the event.
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Sneezeweed. Henry Homeyer photo.
By Henry Homeyer
[email protected]
I have lots of coffee table books on garden
design, each with glossy photos and a subliminal message: this is the way it’s supposed to be.
But I am, at heart, a plant collector — and a bit
rebellious. My gardens don’t look like Martha
Stewart’s — and never will. Sometimes I make a list of what’s in bloom
for me, and have, in high season, listed well over
100 different kinds of flowers in bloom at once.
That doesn’t leave me space to have a hillside
of lupine, or drifts of pink cosmos. So here’s my
message: it’s my darn garden, and I can make it
look like whatever I want. You can, too.
That said, I’m also a professional garden
designer and gardener so I need to create pleasing gardens for others. The first thing I do when
designing a garden is determine what plants are
special to the homeowner. My grandmother
grew peonies, and they resonate with me. If you
have fond memories of poppies or iris or roses in
your youth, you should grow them.
So when designing a garden I work on developing a plant list of a person’s favorites, which I
supplement with flowers that I know will do well
in that environment. If there’s an old apple tree,
for example, I know that primroses will grow
Children & Teens
Events
• DERRYFIELD SCHOOL OPEN
HOUSE at The Derryfield School, Manchester, on Thurs., May 6, 6 p.m. Registration begins at 5:45 p.m. College preparatory day school for students in grades 6-12 is
hosting its May open house for prospective
parents and students. Call 669-4524 or visit
www.derryfield.org.
• MOTHER’S DAY TEA on Thurs., May
6, from 10 to 11 a.m., at Kaleidoscope
Children’s Museum, 250 Commercial St.,
Waumbec Mill, Suite 1004, Manchester.
Celebrate moms at a tea party, story time,
and card craft activity. Call 606-3381, email [email protected], or visit
www.kaleidoscopechildrensmuseum.net.
• FREE FAMILY NIGHTS at Children’s
Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington
St., Dover, on Fri., May 7, & Fri., June 4,
5:30-8 p.m. Open to families at no charge
thanks to People’s United Community
Foundation. Call 742-2002 or visit www.
childrens-museum.org.
• MOTHER’S DAY GIFT WORKSHOP
at Concord Cooperative Market, on Fri.,
May 7, 2-7 p.m. or Kearsarge Cooperative Grocer, on Sat., May 8, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Make a free heart-shaped handprint for
mom. Must be accompanied by an adult.
well under it — so I’ll suggest them, even if your
grandma never grew them.
Never buy just one perennial. At a minimum, buy three. Three will look good, even in
Year One. One daisy? Pretty lonely and pathetic. Three, arranged like the dots on dice, look
great. And they will, by year three, join into one
big visually yummy clump. Of course, there are
exceptions: big decorative grasses or other plants
that will get huge quickly can be used singly as
specimen plants. I planted a single Joe Pye weed
(Eupatorium purpureum) plant, and in five years
the clump was more than 4 feet across and the
stems 5 feet tall. Three? They’d take over all but
the biggest garden.
Color is important, but each of us has strong
preferences and we should plant accordingly. I
wear pink shirts, and purple ones, because I like
the colors. I use a lot of pinks and purples in the
garden, too. But I’ve known people to ask for a
garden that only displays white flowers. White
is great at dusk because it stands out much more
than other colors, but I like more variety. As I
said before, it’s your garden, and you can have
what you like.
Sydney Eddsion in her lovely book The Gardener’s Palette: Creating Color in the Garden
explains that colors can be contrasting or harmonious. Contrasting colors are opposites on the
color wheel: red and green; yellow and violet,
blue and orange. They create a bold statement
that stands out. But, she explains, “You don’t
want too many extreme contrasts battling it out
in a perennial border.” Used in moderation, contrasting colors add zip and vigor to a garden.
If you want a relaxing garden, choose plants
with harmonious colors. Adjacent colors on the
color wheel go well together, and create a quiet feel: red with violet and blue, for example.
They are near each other on the color wheel —
violet is the blending of red and blue, after all.
Warm colors — red-orange and yellow — give
the feeling of advancing toward you; cool col-
No reservations necessary. Visit www.concordfoodcoop.coop.
• BOOKS ALIVE! MEET CLIFFORD
at Children’s Museum of NH, 6 Washington St. in Dover, 742-2002, www.childrensmuseum.org, Sat., May 8, from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. Meet children’s book character Clifford the Big Red Dog, and participate in
many literacy-themed activities. Admission
is $8 for adults & children, $7 for adults
age 65+, free for children under age 1 and
museum members.
• COSPLAY 101 by Human Sushi Cosplay,
at Goffstown Public Library, 2 High St.,
Goffstown, on Sat., May 8, 10-11:30 a.m.,
for grades 5 and up. Refreshments provided. Register at www.goffstown.lib.nh.us or
call 497-2102.
• TOUCH A TRUCK at the Mall of New
Hampshire, Manchester, on Sat., May
8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The food court
parking lot will feature dozens of vehicles
including Manchester Fire Department ladder truck, FairPoint Communications bucket truck, and many construction trucks and
emergency vehicles that kids will love to
sit in, climb on, and have their photos taken
in. Bouncy houses, face painting, meet and
greet Max from the Manchester Monarchs,
and musical performance by Steve Blunt.
Cost is $5, $20 for families, children under
ors - blue green and violet – give the impression
of receding.
Intensity of color matters, too. A bright red is
much more intense than a pink, which really is
just red with white added. Different shades and
tones of a single color can be used to create a
harmonious garden. The problem is, of course,
that you cannot always know the exact shade of
blue you will get when buying plants unless you
buy them in bloom.
Height is important, too. Generally, the rule is
to place tall things in the back of a border, shorter
things in front. That said, you can create a “peekaboo” effect by hiding a small or medium-sized
plant behind taller plants. That works well if trying to grow shade-loving plants in full sun. Some
plants get browned lower leaves early in the
summer — sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)
for example — so should always be planted so
that other things will block view of their “legs.”
Don’t forget how important foliage is in a garden: it’s there all summer, even when the plant
is not in bloom. When I was young I wanted
bright colors that popped out at me. Now, I have
come to love the shades of green that plants have
to offer. I enjoy studying the different colors of
green in a mixed bed of hostas, for example.
Texture is another facet of designing a garden. A garden where there is a predominance of
smooth glossy leaves can get boring. Add something spiky and tall or with finely cut leaves to
remove the monotony.
So whatever you do in the garden this summer, follow your own instincts. Let your garden
be a reflection of your personality or demonstrate what you hope to be. If you’re a quiet
mouse who wants to be more outgoing, plant a
new flower bed with outrageous colors and dramatic plants.
Henry Homeyer can be reached at P.O. Box
364, Cornish Flat, NH 03746 or by e-mail at
[email protected]. His website is
www.Gardening-Guy.com. 1 free. Bring box of pasta donation for NH
Food Bank. Call 669-7990 or visit www.
noahsarknh.org.
• MOTHER’S DAY at Children’s Museum of NH, 6 Washington St. in Dover,
742-2002, www.childrens-museum.org,
on Sun., May 9, from noon to 5 p.m. All
moms and grandmothers admitted free and
special gift-making activity for the kids.
Admission is $8 for adults & children, $7
for adults age 65+, free for children under
age 1 and museum members.
• BOOK SALES at the Nashua Public
Library, 2 Court St., Nashua, on May 1016. Children’s books will be for sale in
the library lobby. Hardcovers are $1, and
paperbacks are 4/$1. New inventory of science fiction books will go on sale the week
of May 17, with a price of $2 for hardcovers, $0.50-$1 for paperbacks. Some books
will be specially priced.
• LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL presentation at Merrimack High School,
Room 205, 38 McElwain St., Merrimack,
on Tues., May 11, 7-9 p.m. Overview for
parents of kids with disabilities of the transition requirements in the IEP. Registration
required. Call PIC NH at 224-7005 or email [email protected].
• TEDDY BEAR PICNIC on Wed., May
12, from 11 a.m. to noon, at Kaleidoscope
Children’s Museum, 250 Commercial St.,
Waumbec Mill, Suite 1004, Manchester.
Bring a favorite stuffed animal and picnic
lunch (no peanuts). Story time, face painting, and musical guest. Call 606-3381,
e-mail [email protected], or visit
www.kaleidoscopechildrensmuseum.net.
• SANT BANI SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE
on Thurs., May 13, 6:30-8 p.m., at Sant
Bani School, Sanbornton, for high school
admissions, grades 9-12. Call 934-4240 or
visit www.santbani.org.
• CAMP FOSS OPEN HOUSE at YMCA
Camp Foss, 242 Willey Pond Road, Strafford, on Sat., May 15, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Overnight camp for girls ages 7-15. Check out
the dining hall, new bathroom facilities,
lodge, trails, climbing tower, horseback
riding ring, ropes course and more. Parent
orientation, BBQ lunch, beach volleyball,
field games and other fun activities. Sign
up for camp and receive 10% discount.
• CAMP MITENA OPEN HOUSE on
Sat., May 15, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., located at
Halfmoon Lake, 65 YMCA Road, Alton,
for boys 7-15. Take a tour, meet staff,
attend parent orientation and enjoy a BBQ
lunch. Boys can play paintball, climb the
tower, play sports and other fun games.
Register for a 2-week session at the open
house and get 10% discount. Call Debo-
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• See the big trucks at the
Touch a Truck 2 event at the
Mall of New Hampshire in
Manchester on Saturday, May
8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The
food court parking lot will
feature dozens of vehicles
including a Manchester Fire
Department ladder truck, a
bucket truck and construction
trucks and emergency vehirah Farmer at 232-8642 or e-mail
[email protected]. Visit www.
campmitena.org or www.manchesterymca.org.
• FISHFEST at Amoskeag Fishways Learning Center, 6 Fletcher
St., Manchester, on Fri., May 15, 11
a.m.-3 p.m. Fish crafts, fish viewing,
fish hats, fish games, and special
musical guests. Cost is $3 per person, $6 per family. Call 626-3474 or
visit www.amoskeagfishways.org.
CRAFTS
Fairs/Exhibits
• SPRING CRAFT FLING hosted
by the Craftworkers’ Guild, at Kendall House, 5 Meetinghouse Road,
Bedford, through Sat., May 8. See
work from more than 50 artisans,
visit the seasonal shop, enjoy the
Treat Yourself Night on Thurs., May
6, 5-9 p.m. Visit www.thecraftworkersguild.org, or e-mail craftworkers-
• Bring the family to a special bird walk and nesting
ball workshop at the Massabesic Audubon Center, 26
Audubon Way, Auburn, on
Saturday, May 8, from 10 to
11:30 a.m. Kids can make a
wool stuffed nesting ball to
take home and then enjoy a
walk outside to identify birds
and their nests. Cost is $9 per
individual or $25 per family,
plus $9 material fee. Call 6682045 to learn more.
• Stick around for the
live owl presentation at the
Massabesic Audubon Center,
26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
on Saturday, May 8, from
Bicycles Wanted
[email protected].
• APPLE COUNTRY CRAFT
FAIR at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church,
Mammoth Road, Londonderry, on
Sat., May 15, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Juried crafters from New England
area, baked goods, grilled foods, lemonade and more. Free. E-mail [email protected].
• QUILT SHOW at Memorial High
School, Manchester, on Sat. and
Sun., May 15-16, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Raffles, quilt auctions, prizes, vendors, and refreshments. Multi-day
admission is $6. Visit www.amoskeagqg.org.
• BLOOMING QUILTS SHOW
by Souhegan Valley Quilters Guild
will be held Fri., May 21, and Sat.,
May 22, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Messiah
Lutheran Church, 303 Route 101,
Amherst. Colorful quilts will be on
display, as well as vendors, raffles
and a handmade quilt turndown.
E-mail [email protected] or visit
www.nhquilts.org.
• CRAFT EXHIBITION at Gallery
205, Concord, through Fri., June 25.
Multimedia exhibition titled, “Spirit
of the Maker”, features leather/beaded handbags, blown glass, jewelry,
rugs, gourds and more, by members
of the League of N.H. Craftsmen.
Call 224-3375.
MUSEUMS & TOURS
• Canterbury Shaker Village
288 Shaker Road, Canterbury,
783-9511, shakers.org
• McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center
2 Institute Dr., Concord, starhop.
com, 271-7831
• Currier Museum of Art
150 Ash St., Manchester,
669-6144, currier.org
• Laconia Historical
& Museum Society
visit our new
expanded showroom
Quality more reasonably
priced than you would think.
• Furniture
• Strollers & Car Seats
• Bedding
• Organic & Eco-Friendly
• Toys
• Much More
delivering everything
but the baby since 1946
Waumbec Mill Building
250 Commercial Street
Manchester, nH
603 • 623 • 6171
www.tinytotland.com
Family fun
The outdoors
2 to 2:30 p.m. See a live
barred owl. Cost is $5. Call
668-2045.
• Every Sunday, families
can enjoy a nature video
matinee at Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way
in Auburn, www.nhaudubon.
org, 668-2045. On Sunday,
May 9, at 1 p.m., watch a
nature video in a peaceful,
serene setting. Free and open
to the public.
• Learn about migrating
fish in the FINtastic Voyage program at Amoskeag
Fishways, 6 Fletcher St.,
Manchester, on Friday, May
7, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Participants will find out which fish
can go the farthest, play fish
games, make a fish craft, and
look for migrating fish in the
ladder. Cost is $5 per family. Advance registration with
payment is required. Call
626-3474 or visit www.amoskeagfishways.org.
• On Friday, May 7, at 7
p.m., enjoy another Super
Stellar Friday. This installment is about “Potential
End-of-World
Scenarios
from Above.” UNH Physics graduate student Richard
Woolf will discuss the hostile universe we live in, what
can (and cannot) be done to
prevent disasters from above,
and how concerned our civilization should be about the
potential for disaster. Following the program will be a free
skywatch outside with the
New Hampshire Astronomical Society. Telescope viewing
begins at dusk. Admission is
$9 for adults, $6 for children
(3-12), $8 for students/seniors,
free for members. For info,
call 271-7827 or visit www.
starhop.com.
060439
Mon & Thurs 9-8, Tues - Sat 9-5:30, Sun 12-4:30
062216
• Visiting the Children’s
Museum of New Hampshire
(6 Washington St., Dover) this
weekend will be a treat for
children and economical for
families. On Friday, May 7,
from 5:30 to 8 p.m., the museum will be open to families
free of charge, thanks to the
People’s United Community
Foundation. Then on Sunday,
May 9, from noon to 5 p.m.,
moms and grandmothers will
be admitted free for Mother’s
Day. There will also be a special gift-making activity for
the kids. Regular admission
of $8 for dads and children, $7
for seniors, and free for children under 1 still applies. Call
742-2002 or visit www.childrens-museum.org.
• Make mom a gift at the
food coop during the Mother’s
Day gift workshop, on Friday,
May 7, from 2 to 7 p.m. at Concord Cooperative Market, 24 S.
Main St., Concord, or on Saturday, May 8, from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. at Kearsarge Cooperative
Grocer, 52 Newport Road, New
London. Children can work on
a free make and take, heartshaped handprint. An adult
must accompany each child.
No reservations are necessary.
Visit www.concordfoodcoop.
coop.
cles that kids can sit in, climb
on and have their photos taken
in. There will be bouncy houses, face painting, Max from
the Manchester Monarchs,
and a special musical performance by Steve Blunt. Cost is
$5, $20 for families, free for
children under 1. Bring a box
of pasta to donate to the NH
Food Bank. Call 669-7990 or
visit www.noahsarknh.org.
• Strap on the sneakers for
the 6K run/walk at Southern
NH Medical Center, 8 Prospect
St., Nashua, on Sunday, May
9, at 9:30 a.m. The 6K running course and 1.25-mile fit
walk are both offered in different age groups and will begin
at 10 Prospect St. Awards will
be given in all categories, and
free green water bottles will
go to the first 300 registrants
who register at www.active.
com/event_detail.cfm?event_
id=1835499. Cost is $25 for
the run (or $30 for a family of
runners), $10 for the walk (or
$20 for a family of walkers),
free for kids 12 and under.
OveR 50 On dISplay!
First Annual
Manchester Bike Swap
FRIDAY MAY 14TH & SATURDAY MAY 15TH
4PM-9PM
10AM-4PM
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KID’S • HYBRIDS • RECUMBENT BIKES
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DROP OFF YOUR USED EQUIPMENT
WED OR THURS MAY 12TH & 13TH
10AM - 8PM - STAFF WILL HELP YOU WITH PRICING.
COME EARLY FOR BEST DEALS
CHECK OUT THE $1.00 • $5.00 • $10.00 & FREE TABLES
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Family events for this weekend
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Dear Donna,
It is marked “Royal Bayreuth” on the bottom
and “Bavaria.” It looks like it was a creamer because it is six inches tall. I got this at an
estate sale because my husband is a fisherman
and thought the scene was nice for our camp.
I have now had it for 22 years and am cleaning out, so I thought I would ask if there were
any collectors who would like to give it a new
home.
Ellen in Hooksett
I would say your
pitcher is from
between the late
1800s to the turn of
the century. This was
a popular time for
the gold trimming
on pieces. I think
just having the mark
“Royal Bayreuth”
makes it collectible
but the subject matters as well. I think your subject is a very pleasing
one. The value would be in the $80 range.
I am sure someone will be glad to have it.
Royal Bayreuth is a nice collection if you can
pick up the ones like this one — every one is
like a miniature painting.
Royal Bayreuth is one of the highest-quality German porcelains ever made. It has been
around since the late 1700s and was made in
Tettau, Bavaria. The company made a lot of
figurines and lines such as The Sun Bonnet
Babies that are very collectible today. Common
lines were the tomato pieces, lobster pieces and
so much more.
Your small pitcher is hand-painted; after
the firing, the gold on the handle and rim was
applied. Usually there are a lot of areas where
a hand would commonly touch the piece where
the gold would be worn off.
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).
An antiques expert helps you
search for buried treasure
Who: Children and adults from adopted or multicultural families.
What: Language & Culture Class, Cooking Class, Crafts, Games,
Traditional Drum, Archery.
Where: 10 Brace Avenue, Hooksett NH 03106 (603)674-3415
August 9th - August 13th
*Each session limited to thirty students.
Fee:
$150 per student
For Elementary through Middle School Aged Students
Contact: 978) 835-9168, 978)457-5510 or [email protected]
062459
062243
Registration Due June 20th
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Must present coupon at time of purchase. Not valid with any other offers or insurance plans.
Minimum $250 purchase. Free pair from select frames and lenses. Expires 5/15/10.
062261
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in the Laconia Public Library at
695 Main St. in Laconia,
527-1278, laconiahistorical.org
• Langer Place
55 South Commercial St.,
langerplace.com
• Lee Scouting Museum
& Library
571 Holt Ave. in Manchester,
669-8919, scoutingmuseum.org
• Manchester City Hall
One City Hall Plaza, off Hanover
St. in Manchester, 624-6455
• Millyard Museum/Manchester
Historic Association
200 Bedford St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• New England Synthesizer
Museum
6 Vernon St., Nashua, 881-8587,
synthmuseum.com
• New Hampshire Aviation
Museum
South Perimeter Road,
Manchester, 669-4820, nhahs.org
• New Hampshire Snowmobile
Association Museum
Beaver Brook State Park Museum
Complex off Route 28,
Allenstown, 648-2304,
nhsnowmobilemuseum.com
• Museum of N.H. Natural
History
6 Eagle Square in Concord,
228-6688, nhhistory.org
• Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
18 Highlawn Road, Warner,
456-2600, www.indianmuseum.org
• Seacoast African American
Cultural Center
135 Daniel St. in Portsmouth,
430-6027, saacc-nh.org
• SEE Science Center
200 Bedford St., Manchester,
669-0400, see-sciencecenter.org
• Speare Museum
5 Abbott St., Nashua, 883-0015,
nashuahistoricalsociety.org
• U.S. Marconi Museum
14 N. Amherst St. in Bedford,
472-8312, marconiusa.org
Tours
• ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWERY 221 DW Hwy., Merrimack,
595-1202,
budweisertours.com,
Handwriting analyzed
What does your signature say
about you? Perhaps you will find the
answer at the handwriting analysis
event at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Exit 8, Nashua, on Thursday,
May 20, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn about the branch
of psychology that analyzes the slant, size, pressure and
the crossing of t’s and determines both conscious and
unconscious behavior. The event is presented by certified
handwriting expert Sandra Scheiner of Rivier College, and
sponsored by Brenda Hodgkiss of Send Out Cards. Lunch
is included and there will be a raffle to raise money for
education programs run by Greater Nashua Business and
Professional Women’s organization. Cost is $20. RSVP
not required. For more information, visit www.BPWNashua.com or e-mail [email protected].
offers free tours daily between 10
a.m. and 4 p.m. Free samples available to guests 21 and older.
• CLYDESDALE CAMERA DAY
at Anheuser-Busch (221 DW Hwy.,
Merrimack, 595-1202, www.budweisertours.com) on the first Saturday of every month from 1 to 3 p.m.
Bring a camera and pose for a photo
with a world-famous Budweiser
Clydesdale.
• EDUCATIONAL FARM AT
JOPPA HILL (174 Joppa Hill Road,
472-4724, Bedford) is a nonprofit
organization operated exclusively for
the charitable and educational purposes of increasing public awareness of
sustainable agriculture. Farm tours are
given daily to children and adults.
• TIMELESS TEA HOUSE
TOUR starting at Hillsborough
Heritage Museum, Central St., Hillsborough, on Sat., June 12, 1-5 p.m.
View exceptional homes. Tickets are
$25 each on the day of the event, $20
(2 for $30) if purchased in advance.
Call 464-4781 or e-mail shuggard@
mcttelcom.com.
on Wed., May 12, 1:30-2:30 p.m., at
Horseshoe Pond Place, in Concord
and Tues., May 18, 10:30 a.m.-1:30
p.m., at the William B. Cashin Senior
Center, in Manchester. See www.hugs4health.org. For more about Home
Instead Senior Care, contact 668-6868
or visit www.homeinstead.com.
Support groups
• BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
at Elliot Senior Health Center (138
Webster St., Manchester) second
Tues. monthly, 11 a.m.-noon. Call
663-4567.
• CAREGIVERS SUPPORT
GROUP Free, Elliot Senior Health
Center (138 Webster St., Manchester). Meets first and third Tues.
monthly from 10 to 11 a.m. To register, call 663-4567.
• RETIRED MEN’S GROUP
meets on the third Tuesday of each
month at 10:30 a.m. featuring speakers and refreshments at Prime Time,
195 McGregor St. in Manchester.
Coffee and donuts are available.
After the meeting, join other members at Chez Vachon Restaurant on
OVER 50
the West Side at 12:30 p.m. for lunch
Events
and cribbage. Contact Everett Harri• HUGS FOR HEALTH DAY man at 391-1663.
Seniors of all ages are invited to fill
their pretend prescriptions for hugs
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
Is reader a genius or just lucky?
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Dear Tom and Ray:
I am really bad at keeping up with timely oil
changes on my 2005 Ford Windstar. When I do
change the oil and filter, I write the date and the
odometer mileage on the side of the oil filter. The
last time I changed the oil, I had gone 13 months
and 10,000 miles since the previous change. To
make up for my lack of timeliness, I drain the oil
out of the engine, pour a gallon of diesel fuel into
the crankcase, start it up and let it idle for five
minutes. I then shut it off, drain it again, replace
the oil filter and add new oil. I have been doing
this for the past 100,000 miles, and the engine
still runs great, with no leaks or burning oil. Is
flushing the engine like this OK, or am I eventually going to trash it?— Paul
TOM: Gee, I was about to tell you to stop this
immediately. Then I got to the part about 100,000
miles without burning or leaking oil, and I ran
right out to try it on my car!
RAY: And now his car is the world’s largest
Italian-made paperweight.
TOM: Actually, it is a testament to how wellbuilt your engine is, Paul, and how good modern
oils really are, that you’ve had no damage to date.
RAY: Everything we know about engines and
lubrication suggests that you should be doing
serious harm. Engines have metal parts that rub
against each another continuously. The piston
rings rub against the cylinder walls; the connecting
rod bearings rub against the crankshaft journals.
TOM: To keep these parts from destroying
each other, engine manufacturers have spent
untold millions of dollars devising sophisticated oils and lubrication systems. If something as
simple as flushing the engine with diesel fuel
added to an engine’s longevity, I’m sure manufacturers would have recommended it years ago.
Remember, they’re the folks who pay the warranty claims, so they have a financial interest in
keeping your engine running.
RAY: At least until the warranty’s up!
TOM: The truth is, any liquid can be used as
a lubricant. You can put water or eggnog in your
engine, and it will provide some degree of lubrication -- more than nothing. But it’s not as good
as motor oil. And neither is diesel fuel -- especially the newer diesel fuel, without sulfur. And
when you’re dealing with parts as expensive as
internal engine components, why would you
ever risk damaging them?
RAY: So I’d have to conclude that you’ve been
phenomenally lucky, Paul. You clearly have led an
exemplary life. And I have to assume that the reason you’ve neglected your oil changes is that you’ve
been in Calcutta, filling in for Mother Teresa.
TOM: But like all people who’ve gotten by on
luck, it’s going to run out at some point. I think
sooner rather than later.
RAY: So we want to advise all of our readers
to be careful about purchasing any ‘05 Windstar
next week from a guy named Paul. Or a guy with
a heavy beard who calls himself Mother Teresa.
TOM: My advice would be to simply skip the
“flushing” step when you change your oil, Paul.
Even if you’ve waited too long between changes, whatever damage you’ve done by then is
done. The best thing you can do is simply change
the oil and filter. Or if itreally been a long time,
change it, drive for a week and then change it
again.
RAY: Or, if you know you’re not good about
changing the oil, switch over to a synthetic oil,
which costs more but lasts longer, and gives you
more time to perform your saintly duties between
oil changes.
Dear Tom and Ray:
When I was a kid doing my own tune-ups, I
understood that the color of the deposits in the
very end of the tailpipe was an indicator of how
well-tuned the car was. Tan-colored deposits
were good; black and sooty deposits were bad.
My new car doesn’t get the 24 mpg highway
that it should, and the tailpipe has a black sooty
deposit. I told the dealer the black soot means
that the mixture is too rich, and that causes the
poor mileage. He disagrees. Am I right, or is the
dealer? — Jerry
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tailpipe WAS an indication that your mixture
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TOM: And besides, what are you doing looking up the inside of your tailpipe, Jerry? What if
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NATURE
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• Amoskeag Fishways
6 Fletcher St., Manchester,
626-FISH, amoskeagfishways.org
• Beaver Brook Association
117 Ridge Road, Hollis, 465-7787,
beaverbrook.org,
• Charmingfare Farm
Route 27, Candia, 483-5623,
visitthefarm.com
• McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center
2 Institute Drive, Concord,
271-STAR, starhop.com
• Educational Farm
at Joppa Hill
174 Joppa Hill Road, Bedford,
472-4724, theeducationalfarm.org
• Friends of Stark Park
North River Road, Manchester,
645-6700, friendsofstarkpark.org
• Londonderry Trailways
PO Box 389, Londonderry,
londonderrytrails.org
• Manchester Historic
Association
129 Amherst St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• Massabesic Audubon Center
26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
668-2045, nhudubon.org
• McLane Center
84 Silk Farm Road, Concord,
224-9909, nhudubon.org
• Peabody Mill
Environmental Center 66 Brook
Rd, Amherst, 673-1141, pmec.org
• Seacoast Science Center
570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 436-8043,
seacoastsciencecenter.org
• Society for the Protection
of NH Forests
224-9945, spnhf.org
Animals/insects/plants
• BIRD WALKS hosted by Nashaway Chapter of the NH Audubon
Society, various dates, from 6:30 to
10:30 a.m. Sat., May 8, at Horse Hill
Preserve, Merrimack; Sun, May 9, at
Mine Falls Park, Nashua; Sat., May
15, Beaver Brook, Hollis; Sun, May
16, Southwest Park/Yudicky Farm,
Nashua; Sat., May 29, Ponemah Bog,
Amherst with biologist Pamela Hunt.
Bring binoculars and bug spray. Call
Richard Maloon at 424-5621 or e-mail
[email protected].
• COASTAL BIRDING TRIP at
Hampton Beach State Park, hosted
by the Massabesic Audubon Center,
Auburn, on Wed., May 19, 9 a.m.2:30 p.m. Lunch not provided, but
group will stop at local restaurant.
Cost is $9. Call 668-2045.
Gardening/farming
• BOW GARDEN CLUB meets on
alternating Monday and Wednesday
evenings, the second week of each
month at 6:30 p.m. at the Old Town
Hall, 91 Bow Center Road, Bow.
Nonmembers are welcome to attend
up to two meetings and new members are encouraged. Visit www.
bowgardenclub.org.
• GOFFSTOWN COMMUNITY
GARDEN CLUB holds meetings on
the first Thursday of every month at
6:30 p.m. at Mountain View Middle
School (41 Lauren Lane, Goffstown).
Visit gardencentral.org/nhfgc/gcgc.
• 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, and holds
regular workshops, plant and leaf
sales and swaps. New members and
visitors welcome; call 887-3154.
• HAMPSTEAD GARDEN CLUB
holds meetings on the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the
Hampstead Congregational Church
Education
conference
The NH Partnerships
for Education Conference titled “All Together
Now” welcomes parents,
teachers, students, school
administrators, business leaders and community organizations on Saturday, May 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord to explore
how to improve outcomes for New Hampshire students.
Workshop topics include early childhood, special education, college and career, 21st-century education, and
family-school partnerships. The keynote address will be
presented by Dr. Leo Corriveau, superintendent of the
Mascenic School District. The cost, which includes breakfast, lunch and entry into a door prize drawing (grand prize
is a netbook), is $45 for adults, $25 for students. Registration is required. Scholarships, transportation and childcare
assistance are available. Call 224-7005 or visit www.picnh.org/p4e2010 for details and to register. (61 Main St., Hampstead). Visit
hampsteadgarden.org.
• HOOKSETT GARDEN CLUB
is holding programs open to the public at the Hooksett Public Library
(1701B Hooksett Road, Hooksett)
on the last Wednesday of every
month at 6:30 p.m. Visit nhclubs.
esiteasp.com/hooksettgardenclub.
•
MERRIMACK
GARDEN
CLUB meets the fourth Tuesday
of the month at 7 p.m. at St. James
United Methodist Church, 646 DW
Highway in Merrimack See www.
merrimackgardenclub.org or contact
Chris B. at 880-3739.
• NASHUA GARDEN CLUB
(nashuagardenclub.org) holds meetings the first Wednesday of the
month at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist
Church (121 Manchester St., Nashua). The public can attend meetings
for a $5 fee. Membership is $20.
• NH ORCHID SOCIETY meets
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on second Saturday
of each month at the Bedford Town
Hall, at the intersection of Meeting
House Road and Bedford Center
Road. Refreshments are available
and visitors are welcome.
• OPECHEE GARDEN CLUB is
online atopecheegardenclub.com.
• PERENNIAL EXCHANGE cosponsored by Friends of the Audi
and Concord’s General Services
Department, at Concord City Auditorium, Concord, on Sat., May 8, 8
a.m.-noon. Split and swap perennials. Also, annuals, perennials and
special Mother’s Day mugs will be
on sale. Free. Call 228-2737 or email [email protected].
• PLANT SALE by the Milford
Garden Club, at the Community
House Lawn, Union St., Milford, on
Sat., May 15, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Plants for bargain prices, vendors
and educational exhibits. Bake table
and raffle. Call 673-4431 or e-mail
[email protected].
• PLANT SALE by the Nashua
Garden Club, at Nashua Historical
Society, 5 Abbot St., Nashua, on Sat.,
May 15, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Plants, baked
goods, and a raffle. Call 883-0015 or
visit www.nashuagardenclub.org.
• READY, SET, SOW! Saturday
morning garden talk series at the
Canterbury Shaker Village, 288
Shaker Road, Canterbury, 783-9511,
www.shakers.org. Program runs
monthly on Saturdays. Light refreshments will be served. Cost is free.
Call or visit the Website for dates.
• SHEEP BOOM LECTURE at
Weare Public Library, 10 Paige
Memorial Lane, Weare, on Fri., May
7, 7 p.m. Steve Taylor, former N.H.
Commissioner of Agriculture, will
discuss the great sheep boom and its
enduring legacy on the New Hampshire landscape. Free and open to the
public. Call 529-2044.
• TIMBERLAND OWNERS
ANNUAL MEETING at Currier
Museum of Art, Manchester, on Sat.,
May 15, throughout the morning. Also,
guided tours of Manchester Water
Works. Cost is $35/adult. Lunch, raffle
and auction included. Call 224-9699
or [email protected].
Outdoors
• BOATING EDUCATION classes
through the state’s Department of
Safety. One-full-day Saturday classes and two-day weeknight classes
are available at locations around the
state through the fall. Classes cost
$30. Call 267-7256 or see www.
nhboatingeducation.com.
• GPS RENTALS every Saturday
and Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m., at
Peabody Mill Environmental Center
in Amherst. Cost is $10.
•
MANCHESTER
CEDAR
SWAMP conservatory area on
Hackett Hill Road in Manchester
offers a 602-acre ecological preserve
with established trails. Follow Hackett Hill Road to Countryside Boulevard and watch for the trailhead.
• MCLANE CENTER (84 Silk Farm
Road, Concord, 224-9909, newhampshireaudubon.org) offers trails for hiking and searching out wildlife.
• WHITE PARK POND (Washington and White streets in Concord,
www.onconcord.com/recreation)
offers a tree trail — see a map online.
Photography
• MASSABESIC AUDUBON CENTER (26 Audubon Way, Auburn, 6682045, www.nhaudubon.org) offers
classes on nature photography and
nature writing, so you can document
all those outdoor experiences.
• NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AT
NIGHT at Massabesic Audubon
Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
on Fri., May 14, 7-10 p.m. Cost is
$40. Digital cameras strongly preferred. Bring a tripod. Advanced
registration required. Call 668-2045.
• OUTDOOR DIGITAL PHOTO
CLASSES at Silver Hills Studio (75
Tenney Road, Goffstown, 497-4674,
www.silverhillsstudio.com), 9 a.m. to
noon, on the second Saturday of every
month. Hands-on shooting in the natural landscape. Cost is $25. To sign up,
visit www.silverhillsstudio.com.
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What does $1.2 billion buy
these days? If you’re computer giant HP, it gets you a
little company called Palm.
Back in the day, the handheld market was
pretty much dominated by Palm. They were
bulky, black and white devices with a couple
megabytes of memory and few applications
other than calendars and address books. They
became more capable as competitors emerged
— Dell’s Axim line, the Compaq iPAQ, HP’s
Jornada and others — but fundamentally, they
didn’t change much.
Even when BlackBerrys started attaching
themselves to the hips of executives everywhere, it took Palm a few years to catch up
and integrate a phone into its portable organizer, creating the Treo.
And then, the iPhone. BlackBerry still has
a good hold on the business market, but the
iPhone entered with Apple’s splash and dash
behind it, something stodgy ol’ Palm could
never compete with. Their best comeback was
a rewrite of their operating system, upgrading
from the venerable PalmOS to the sleek new
webOS. Higher performance and definitely
prettier to look at, webOS made the recent Pre
and Pixi phones worth considering among the
tons of smartphone options available.
Worth considering, but not exactly
winners.
Enter HP, a major computer maker but only
a small phone player. Did you even know they
made phones? They do. Mostly higher-end
deals with touchscreens or QWERTY keyboards and running Windows.
“Windows on a phone? That’s crazy!” I hear
you. That familiar interface can only take you
so far, and a handheld device really demands a
different thought process than a desktop with
a big monitor, mouse and huge, comfortable
keyboard. You need super efficiency not just
in the use of limited hardware resources, but
in user interaction.
Hey, didn’t Palm just totally rewrite their
operating system? Hmm…
When HP merged with Compaq in 2002,
it took a couple years for the two companies’
strengths to really come together. HP still
retains some of Compaq’s Presario branding
on its consumer computers, because the name
is trusted. HP just completed another acquisition last month — 3Com, a major networking
company. Even though HP has its own line of
enterprise-class networking products, the 3Com
lines will still be available for some time.
In other words, don’t look for a sudden
burst of HP phones and the disappearance of
the Palm name any time soon. Palm stayed
connected with consumers by offering fairly cheap phones, so it fills out the low end
of HP’s existing product line quite well. If
they’re smart, HP will attach the Palm name
to its high-end phones too.
Some industry watchers are concerned that
HP’s ownership of webOS is a slap in the face
to Microsoft, but really it promotes Windows
very well: on cheap phones, you get webOS;
pay more and you get Windows! Besides, HP
has offered its own version of UNIX on servers
for ages without Microsoft throwing a hissy fit.
If there’s one machine where webOS and
Windows could compete, it’s the upcoming Slate touchscreen tablet. A ZDNet writer,
Andrew Nusca, mocked up the phone software
on the HP Slate for kicks and it has all them
bloggers buzzing. While it might happen, I’d
bet on a Windows version coming out first. The
Palm purchase isn’t even complete yet, and the
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• Carriage House 230 Route
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• CASTRO’S BACK ROOM 182
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. PANERA BREAD 8 Spit Brook
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• Liberty Book Store 75
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• PANERA BREAD 75 Fort Eddy
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• Airport Diner, 2280 Brown
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• Bea’s Wash N Dry 478 South
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• Billy’s Sports Bar &
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• CLUB 313 93 South Maple St.,
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Notes from the local food scene
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• World chili champions: Manchester will host
the 2010 World’s Championship Chili Cook-off
Oct. 1 through Oct. 3 at Veterans Park in the city’s
downtown. The International Chili Society is the
cook-off’s parent organization. “The economic
impact to Manchester is significant; previous host
cities have estimated a direct impact of roughly
$1.5 million,” said Jay Minkarah, director of economic development for the City of Manchester,
in a press release. Area restaurants will have the
opportunity to compete in a restaurant division
cook-off, and the public is invited to participate by
voting for the People’s Choice Cook-off winner,
the release said. There will also be a Miss Chili
Pepper and Mr. Hot Sauce contest. See www.chilicookoff.com. • First annual festival: NH Winery Association will hold its first NH Wine Festival, “Live
Free and Wine,” on Sunday, June 13, from noon
to 5 p.m. at Flag Hill Winery and Distillery in Lee.
The festival will feature wine from 14 wineries,
food including cheeses from the NH Cheesemaker’s Guild and music from One Time Bluegrass
Band, The SpaceHeaters and The Evan Goodrow Band. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $15 at
the door, and all guests must be at least 21 years
old. See www.nhwineryassociation.com or call
659-2949.
• New owner: Lucia’s Tavola, 181 Route 13 in
Brookline, has a new owner. Chef Mark diCicco
has 35 years of restaurant experience. View his
menu at www.luciastavola.com. The restaurant’s
hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 5 to 9 p.m.,
and Friday and Saturday, 5 to 10 p.m.
• New eats alert: Great American Subs and
Deli is now open at 999 Elm St. in Manchester.
The menu features breakfast items, quesadillas,
wraps, sandwiches, and hot and cold subs, and
there’s a huge salad bar. The hours are Monday
through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Check them out on Facebook.
• New eats on the way: The Sahara Market,
750 Massabesic St. in Manchester, will soon open
a dine-in restaurant in the shop. The owners are
just waiting for the final permits to be approved.
Keep an eye on the website, www.saharamarket.
org, for the latest.
• Grill school: Williams Sonoma in the Mall
at Rockingham Park in Salem will offer free technique classes in May. Learn all about backyard
braising on Sunday, May 16, and how to make a
better burger on Sunday, May 23. Call 890-3506
to reserve your spot in the class.
• Garden school: Concord Cooperative Market, 24 S. Main St. in Concord, 410-3099, www.
concordfoodcoop.coop, has a variety of food and
garden classes on its schedule. On Tuesday, June
29, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., it’s a free class on “The
Wonderful World of Worm Composting.” Learn to
make compost for indoor and outdoor plants. On
Thursday, July 8, from 6 to 7 p.m., it’s a free class
on how to “Grow the Easy Way with Square-Foot
Gardening.” On Sunday, July 18, from 11 a.m. to
1:15 p.m., it’s a free class on “Meditating Outdoors” starting at Yoga Center, 28 S. Main St. in
Concord. Travel to a natural setting for exercises
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Mother’s Day meals
FOOD
Make your reservations a.s.a.p.
[email protected]
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 9, and many
restaurants offer special brunch buffets as well
as special brunch and dinner menus. Reservations are, of course, key. Here is what some area
restaurants are doing to treat mom right; see
their websites for more details on menus:
• 900 Degrees, 50 Dow St., Manchester,
641-0900, www.900degrees.com, will serve
a brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will
include the restaurant’s signature pizzas and,
for the first time, breakfast pizzas.
• Bedford Village Inn, 2 Olde Bedford
Way, Bedford, 472-2001, www.bedfordvillageinn.com, has brunch and dinner options
for Mom. In the Great Hall will be the brunch
buffet with cold items such as citrus poached
shrimp with Bloody Mary cocktail sauce, and
hot dishes like cheese blintz topped with a
warm peach compote, plus carving stations,
omelets to order and a dessert buffet. (Buffet
cost is $39 per adult, $19.95 per child 4 to 10
years old.) The dining room will serve a threecourse fixed-price menu from noon to 5:30
p.m. The meal will feature appetizers such as
Maine Jonah crab cakes and oysters of the half
shell; entrées such as pan-seared New Bedford sea scallops, Misty Knoll Farms chicken
breast, and artichoke and goat cheese manicotti; with dessert features of strawberry crème
brulé, blueberry tart, and chocolate profiterole with mixed berries and vanilla Bavarian
cream. (Dinner cost is $39 per adult, $19.95
per child 4 to 10 years old.) The Tavern will
also be open with a special menu.
• A Caribbean Affair, 915 Elm St., Manchester, 792-9770, acaribbeanaffair.com, will
offer Mother’s Day hours — noon to 8 p.m.
• Colby Hill Inn, 3 The Oaks, Henniker,
428-3281, www.colbyhillinn.com, will offer
a fixed-price dinner from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The menu will feature items such as panseared lump crab cakes, pan-roasted Atlantic
salmon with salmon caviar, vanilla-infused
grilled pork chop, and cumin-dusted New
Zealand rack of lamb. The cost is $39.99 per
person, half price for children 12 and under.
Call for reservations since this is one of the
inn’s busiest days of the year.
• Cotton, 75Arms St., Manchester, 622-5488,
cottonfood.com, will have special Mother’s
Day hours: noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
• Country Tavern Restaurant and Pub,
452 Amherst St., Nashua, 889-5871, www.
countrytavern.org, will serve a brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be a
carving station with ham, lamb, pork and turkey. Omelets will be made to order, and there
will be the traditional breakfast items and
luncheon items as well. The buffet includes
coffee and orange juice. The cost is $19.95
for adults and $12.95 for children under 10.
• C. R. Sparks, 18 Kilton Road, Bedford,
647-7275 ext. 112 for reservations, offers a
special three-course dinner menu from noon
to 6 p.m. with a choice of appetizer, entrée
and dessert (about six choices for each). Pricing will vary between $26 and $39 depending
on entrée choice, and a children’s menu will
be available. Call
for reservations. The
Event Center at C.
R. Sparks will hold
a brunch buffet from
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The cost is $30.95
for adults, $22.95
for seniors, $15.95
for children 5 to 12
years old, and free
for kids under 5. Call
666-5880 ext. 112
for reservations.
• Damian’s on the River, 737 River Road,
New Boston, 497-8888, will offer a special
Mother’s Day menu from 11:30 a.m. to 6
p.m. Some of the entrée highlights are veal
Marsala, chicken and pasta alfredo, pankocrusted Maryland crab cakes with tomato
basil sauce, and baked haddock with lobster
stuffing.
• The Derryfield, 625 Mammoth Road,
Manchester, 623-2880, www.thederryfield.
com, will serve a Mother’s Day buffet from
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. There will be omelet,
waffle, bread, salad, dessert and carving stations as well as a hot line of traditional (corned
beef hash, French toast, scrambled eggs) and
non-traditional items (seafood Newburg, seafood paella, beef peppercorn.) The cost is
$22.95 for adults, $18.95 for seniors over 65,
and $15.95 for kids 2 to 12 years old.
• Fratello’s, 155 Dow St., Manchester,
624-2022, www.fratellos.com/Manchester,
will have a brunch buffet with two seatings,
at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. There will be omelet,
waffle and carving stations as well as traditional menu items, including prime rib and
roasted turkey. The cost is $24.95 for adults,
$14.95 for children 6 to 12 years old, and free
for kids under 5. Call 641-6776 for brunch
reservations. The restaurant will serve dinner
from a special holiday menu by reservation
only with seatings at noon, 2:30, and 5 p.m.
• Gauchos Brazilian Steakhouse, 62
Lowell St., Manchester, 669-9460, gauchosbraziliansteakhouse.com, will open at 2 p.m.
on Sunday. The steakhouse’s standard menu
is buffet-like: after a trip to the salad bar,
sides and a continuing supply of slow-cooked
meats will come by your table. The cost is
$27.45 for adults and $10.95 for children 10
and under. (not including drinks or desserts)
• Giorgio’s Ristorante & Meze Bar,
524 Nashua St. in Milford, 673-3939, giorgios.com, will offer a brunch with American
and Greek dishes (spanikopeta, locanico and
baklava are on the menu with other brunch
favorites) as well as carving, omelet and pancake stations. Brunch will run from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. The cost is $25.99 for adults, $10.99
for children.
• Granite Restaurant at the Centennial,
96 Pleasant St., Concord, 227-9000, www.
graniterestaurant.com, will have special eats
for mom including waffle and carving stations. Seatings are scheduled for 11 a.m. and
1 p.m.
• The Hanover Street Chophouse, 149
Hanover St., Manchester, 644-2467, www.
hanoverstreetchophouse.com, will have
some spring dishes and the regular menu
available for dinner. Prices start at $22 and
seating begins at 1 p.m.
• The Holy Grail Pub, 64 Main St.,
Epping, 679-9559, www.theholygrailpub.
com, will hold a Mothert’s Day brunch featuring a selection of breakfast and dinner
iteams as well as a carving station and assorted breads and pastries.
• Inn at Danbury, 67 NH Route 104,
Danbury, 768-3318, www.innatdanbury.com,
will be serving for Mother’s Day from noon
to 5 p.m. Treat Mom to a Spring Special $35
dinner for two, which features a shared appetizer, two entrees and a shared dessert, or one
of Chef Bob Graf’s newest creations.
• The Peddler’s Daughter, 48 Main St.,
Nashua, 821-7535, www.thepeddlersdaughter.com, will serve Sunday brunch from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. The menu will feature housemade brown bread, muffins and Danish, cold
salads, a carving and omelet station, a hot
station with cheddar cheese frittata, waffles,
corned beef hash, and country-fried chicken
with sausage gravy, and a dessert table. The
cost is $17.95 for adults, $6.50 for kids 4 to
10 years old, and free for children younger
than 4.
• The Red Blazer, 72 Manchester St.,
Concord, 224-4101, www.theredblazer.com,
offers two ways to enjoy Mother’s Day. First
is a breakfast buffet from 7:30 to 11 a.m.
that features all the favorites — omelets,
egg lasagna, eggs benedict, stuffed biscuits,
French toast, pancakes and a dessert station.
The cost is $10.99 for adults and $6.99 for
children. Second is the dinner buffet from
12:15 to 3:15 p.m. It will feature a prime
rib carving station, baked seafood Newburg,
baked stuffed chicken breast with a cranberry-orange relish, four-cheese stuffed shells,
a salad bar and a dessert station. The cost is
$19.99 for adults and $9.99 for children.
• Saffron Bistro, 80 Main St., Nashua,
883-2100, thesaffronbistro.com, will offer the
regular menu as well as specials for Mother’s
Day from 1:30 to 8 p.m.
• Tenderloin Room at the Chateau, 201
Hanover St. , Manchester, 627-2677, will be
open from 3 to 7 p.m. on Mother’s Day. The
Chateau will have a special Mother’s Day
buffet starting at 9:30 a.m. with a last seating
at 12:30 p.m. The buffett will feature omelet
and pasta stations and more and cost $12.95
for adults and $8.95 for children under 10.
• Vintner’s Cellar Winery, 410 S. River Road, Suite 7, Bedford, 627-9463, will join
forces with chef Oonagh Williams of Royal
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fast fare as well as dinner items such as seafood
Newburg, rosemary chicken, and barbecue
kielbasa, plus roast beef, turkey, lamb and ham
carving stations. The cost is $19.95 for adults
and $9.95 for kids under 10. Children under 3
eat free. Reservations are required.
• Z Food & Drink, 880 Elm St. in Manchester, 629-9383, www.zfoodanddrink.com,
will hold brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and
dinner from 3 to 8 p.m.
• Zorvino Vineyards, 226 Main St, Sandown, 887-8463, www.zorvino.com, will have
a Mother’s Day brunch buffet with seatings at
10 a.m., 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. There will
be an array of foods such as crudités, salad
station, omelet station, entree station, desserts
and beverages. A cash bar will be open as well
for mimosas, Bloody Marys or other cocktails. The cost is $35 for adults, $16 for ages 4
to 12, and free for kids 3 and under. Reservations are required.
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Tickets: $40 per person, tax and gratuity
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There’s no need to purchase a plane ticket to enjoy the flavors of southern Italy. The
Concord Cooperative Market will host Una
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Thursday, May 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be
an evening to enjoy the flavors of the Mediterranean and sample the talents of Chef
Mike Cook and the staff of the Co-op’s Celery Stick Café.
“It’s a great way to showcase our café,”
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Enjoy an evening of medieval mayhem at
the Red Blazer Restaurant and Pub in Concord
on Saturday, May 8. The Marry Me Medieval
Dinner will feature food and merriment from
the days of jousts and sword fights, all under
the watchful eye of the King and Queen.
The show is performed by BrickRoad Production out of Massachusetts, a dinner theater
company that puts on events of various styles.
“They’re funny and our crowd loves them,”
The Red Blazer’s Marianne Langley said.
“Last year we had them here twice. Once was
a spoof of The Sopranos and the other was a
murder mystery at a class reunion. They choreograph their skits around the dinner courses
and they involve the audience in the fun. Our
customers absolutely love it.”
The night’s story will center around the marriage of a “doofy” princess from one kingdom
to a “doofier” prince from another. Throw in a
jester who is in love with the princess, and the
subsequent angry prince, and a crazy showdown is sure to follow. (FYI — be prepared
to ask the King’s permission if you wish to
leave your table for, say, a bathroom break.)
The restaurant has created a five-course feast
to go along with all the fun.
“There will be no utensils,” Langley said.
“It is a complete finger food menu to go with
the medieval theme.”
The evening will begin with a complimentary drink called Medieval Madness, which is
made with peach and cherry brandy, raspberry vodka, ginger ale, and a touch of grenadine
to make it red. The first course will feature
hog wings (a pork shank trimmed to leave
one bone with a large chunk of ham meat
attached) and ribs. Next will be a “salad” of
filled endive leaves along with whole loaves
of breads and pitas. The soup course is the restaurant’s popular tomato vegetable soup that
Langley describes as “to die for.”
The entrée will be roasted chicken served
with roasted potatoes and root vegetables.
For dessert, each guest will receive a plate of
small cheese, chocolate-raspberry and orangealmond tarts, plus a deep-fried rice pudding
ball. Every course has a wine recommendation that is sold by both the glass and bottle.
Langley said the Red Blazer managers
started the mystery dinner productions after
they discontinued performances by large
bands and customers started to ask if they
were planning other special events. The first
show took place on a stormy night when the
city got a foot of snow; still 80 people showed
up to enjoy the fun.
The medieval dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m.,
but Langley recommends guests arrive early to
enjoy their complimentary drink beforehand.
Tickets cost $40 per person, which includes
the tax and gratuity, and may be purchased in
person or by calling the restaurant.
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Temptations to create a Mother’s Day brunch
from noon to 2 p.m. Guests receive a champagne-infused fruit wine served with mini filo
tarts filled with mascarpone cheese and herbs
topped with shrimp. Next is a shrimp and crab
bisque, chicken Waldorf salad, sirloin steak slices served over potato pancakes, baked brie with
mandarin orange chutney, and tiramisu for dessert. Each dish will be paired with a different
wine. The cost is $55 per person. Reservations
are required with a $20 deposit per person.
• The Way We Cook, 1361 Elm St., Manchester, 625-5454, will open for Mother’s
Day from noon to 5 p.m.
• The Yard Seafood and Steakhouse,
1211 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 6233545, www.theyardrestaurant.com: Mother’s
Day brunch will be served from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., with seatings on the hour for parties up
to six, and every two hours for parties of seven
or more. The menu features traditional break-
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Homemade
& Fresh
FOOD
Food Listings
Farmers markets
• 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.
• 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.
• SEACOAST MARKETS (6595322, [email protected],
www.seacoastgrowers.org)
See
www.SeacoastEatLocal.org.
CSAs
• LEWIS FARM at 192 Silk Farm
Road in Concord has begin accepting CSA sign-ups (communitysupported agriculture that assures
you a share of the bounty). A full
share costs $700; a half-share costs
$400. The first pick-up date will
Concord Cooperative Market
Where: 24 S. Main St., Concord, 2256840, www.concordfoodcoop.coop; Celery
Stick Cafe hours: Monday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday, 10:30
a.m. to 6 p.m.
What: Una Notte in Sicilia (A Night in Sicily)
is Thursday, May 6, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Tickets: $10; may be purchased in person
or by calling the store.
likely be in the middle of May.
This year’s crops will include produce and herbs as well as additional
spinach and Swiss chard and new
items strawberries and mushrooms,
according to an e-mail. See lewisfarmnh.com or call 228-6230.
• LOCAL HARVEST CSA is
signing up locavores for 18 weeks
of certified organic, locally grown
produce. The CSA will start with
fresh greens, radishes, baby turnips,
spinach and greenhouse tomatoes
in June and continue through early
fall, according to a press release.
There is a Concord pick-up near the
Concord Hospital. See www.localharvestnh.com or call 731-5955.
• MIDDLE BRANCH FARM in
New Boston is selling shares for its
CSA, which will run for 16 weeks
starting no later than July 5 (an
exact date is set when vegetables
and greens start to come in). The
share costs $505 for the summer
($485 if you pick it up at the farm).
Distribution days are Mondays from
3 to 6 p.m. or Saturdays from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. at the farm or off-site
on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at
Brookside Church in Manchester,
Thursdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at
Stonyfield Yogurt Corporate Office
in Manchester; Thursday from 3:30
to 5:30 at the Derry Montessori
School in Derry; Fridays from 4 to 6
p.m. at Family Chiropractic of Merrimack, 36 Baboosic Lake Road, or
Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. at
Pilgrim Congregational Church, 4
Watson St. in Nashua. The farm is
also offering meat share with a distribution once a month July through
October. The share, which will cost
$225 and is available only to vegetable subscribers, will feature farm
raised chicken, beer and pork. Pick
up is only available at the farm. Call
487-2540 or e-mail [email protected].
• MOUNTAIN FARM — PIG
Mountain Farm in Sutton sells farm
fresh meat, eggs and dairy (mountainfarm.biz). Now, it is starting a
pick your own pig program. They
will grow the pig (which will eventually yield about 150 pounds of
meat) using grain and vegetables
— no animal by-products. The cost
is spread over six months: $199 the
first month and $129 each month
after that (working out to roughly $5.60 per pound). The yield
includes fresh meat (pork roast,
pork tenderloin, spare ribs, country
spare ribs, sausage and pork chops)
and smoked meat (ham and bacon).
Call Mountain Farm at 456-2739 or
see their Web site.
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties/book events
• BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL The
Richmond Blueberry Fiddle Festival held annually at the Cheshire
Fairgrounds has set its date for Sat.,
Now Serving
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• Full Bakery • Deli & Bakery Platters
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that we do catering. People have the misconception we are all about Birkenstocks,
tie-died shirts, and the Grateful Dead. They
aren’t sure what a co-op is versus a regular
grocery store.”
The evening will feature a free sampling
of 15 Sicilian wines from various distributors. And with a $10 ticket, guests can enjoy
a culinary sampling of the region. Chef
Cook has created a dozen different dishes that feature the flavors of Sicily. Some
offer familiar tastes, such as an olive tapenade, stuffed grape leaves, stuffed cherry
tomatoes, eggplant carbonnade, and antipasto with tuna salami. Other dishes will
be a bit more adventurous. These include a
sea urchin ceviche, fried sardines, calamari
quarto, and tuna carpaccio. Everyone’s
sweet tooth will be satisfied with peach
granita, almond cookies, and crostata di
frutta fresca (fresh fruit tart). And live
accordion music will set the mood.
Chef Cook has spent 25 years in the culinary business, the past two at the Co-op.
His creative dishes are not just for special
events. The menu for the Celery Stick Café
changes daily to fit a wide range of unique
ingredients.
Spinach Pita
Cannolis • Pastries
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Chef Mike Cook of the Concord Cooperative
Market’s Celery Seed Café. Courtesy photo.
“Everything comes from local farmers.
They might come to me and say, ‘I have
onions I need to use up,’ and I’ll create a
dish that features onions,” Cook said.
Giordano added, “He uses all kinds of
unique ingredients. Last week he made fiddleheads sautéed in garlic.”
The Concord Cooperative Market is a fullservice natural foods grocery store. Anyone
can shop its wide selection of organic and
local produce, grocery items, and health,
beauty and household products. Those who
choose to invest in the market by becoming members ($100 per household) receive
members-only specials and get 10 percent
off all purchases during Member Appreciation Days.
The Co-op’s Celery Stick Café offers a
selection of hot dishes, grab-n-go salads
and sandwiches, and bakery items for lunch
and dinner. The hot bar features two meat
dishes and two vegetarian/vegan selections
daily, plus a selection of soups.
“A lot of foodies come here to shop,”
Chef Cook said. “Half the benefit of being
local and organic is the food tastes good.
The flavor can’t be buried in a lot of preservatives. And a lot of the stuff sold here is
hand-crafted.”
Only 150 tickets will be sold for Una
Notte in Sicilia. Purchases can be made at
the store or over the telephone.
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yahoo.com or calling 226-0680. On Thursday, July 22, from 6 to 7 p.m., it’s a free
class called “Cooking from the Farmers
Market.” On Tuesday, Aug. 24, from 6 to
7 p.m., it’s “DIY Natural Body Cream &
Lip Balm,” a $5 class offering home recipes for skin products. On Tuesday, Sept.
21, from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m., it’s a free class
on “The 7 Word Diet” taught by chiropractor Dr. Sam Sanzone, a workshop
based on Food Rules by Michael Pollan.
On Saturday, Sept. 18, from 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m., it’s a free class called “Restorative
Yoga: Rest, Relax, Renew” at Quest Yoga
Studio, 114 Dover Road in Chichester. To
register for classes, call 225-6840 or email [email protected].
• Brew school: IncrediBREW, 112 DW
Highway in Nashua, 891-2477, incredibrew.com, has wine and beer events on the
schedule. On Thursday, June 17, at 6 p.m.,
it’s “Organic Blues Brewfest.” For $35 per
variety case, make three new organic beer
recipes, listen to the blues, make some ales
and enjoy light snacks. On Wednesday,
June 30, at 6 p.m., it’s “IPA Brewfest.” For
$55 for two caases (bottles not included)
make a variety of India Pale Ale recipes
and return in two weeks for bottling. On
Friday, June 18, at 7 p.m., it’s “By the
Sea Winefest” featuring seafood-friendly wines such as pinot grigio, Beaujolais,
German Riesling, Barbera, New Zealand
Sauvingon Blanc and Australian Shiraz.
Get six different bottle of wine for $50.
• Taste NH Beer and Cheese: Butter’s
Fine Food and Wine, 70 N. Main St. in
Concord, 225-5995, www.buttersfinefood.
com, will hold a tasting of White Birch
Brewing beer and Robie Farms cheeses on
Tuesday, May 11, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
• Cookies and pie: Extra Touch Gourmet, 4 Hawthorne Drive in Bedford,
488-6620, www.extratouchgourmet.com,
now serves pie and cookies from Slice of
Heaven in Epsom.
• Lasagna, art and music: On Saturday, May 8, from 6 to 9 p.m., it’s the
Food and Fiddles Fifth Annual Fundraiser at Parish Hall on Hackleboro Road in
Canterbury. Tickets cost $12 at the door.
The event includes the lasagna dinner, an
art raffle and a performance by Speed the
Aug. 14. In addition to music and
other old-school festival fun, the
event has included a blueberry dessert bake-off. See www.blueberryfiddlefestival.com.
• CHOCOLATE LOVERS FANTASY The Caregivers Inc. will
hold their annual Chocolate Lovers
Fantasy fundraiser on Sun., May 16,
from noon to 3 p.m. at the Radisson
Hotel in downtown Manchester.
Tickets cost $17 in advance, $19
at the door. Bakeries, candy makers and restaurants from around the
state will produce chocolate creations for your sampling pleasure.
See www.caregiversnh.org.
• SPRING HERB & GARDEN
The Northeast Organic Farming
Association New Hampshire Herbal Network will hold its Spring
Plough at 7 p.m. Call 227-9989.
• Clothes and pancakes: On Saturday,
May 8, from 8 a.m. to noon it’s a pancake
breakfast for $3 per person and a clothing yard sale, with many items for $1 and
jeans for $2 at The Salvation Army, 121
Cedar St. in Manchester. The event is rain
or shine.
• Breakfast for mom: Head to American Legion Post 79, 35 W. Brook St. in
Manchester, on Sunday, May 9, for a
Mother’s Day breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m.
The cost is $6 per person, $3.50 for children. The event will feature mimosas and
Bloody Marys for mom onl, as well as
raffles.
• More pancake events: On Saturday,
May 22, The Nashua Breakfast Exchange
Club will host a pancake breakfast at The
Nashua Senior Activity Center, 70 Temple
St. in Nashua, from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Tickets cost $5 each; children under 3 eat free
with a full-price adult. Call 204-7800 or
882-3000.
• Wine deal: Hanover Street Chophouse, 149 Hanover St. in Manchester,
606-5737, www.hanoverstreetchophouse.
com, will offer half off its reserved bottles
of wine on Tuesdays. The offer is good for
one bottle per customer. See the reserve
list on their website.
• Beer tasting: On Tuesday, May 18,
Bert’s Better Beers, 1100 Hooksett Road
in Hooksett, 413-5992, www.bertsbetterbeers.com, will hold a tasting of Sierra
Nevada Brewing beers from 4:30 to 7:30
p.m. including Southern Hemisphere Harvest Wet Hop, Summerfest, Pale Ale,
Kellerweiss, Torpedo and Porter. The
event is free and open to the public.
• Common Man’s iron chef: Sample the eats from the various Common
Man restaurants at Taste of the Common
Man, a benefit for The Circle Program and
the Pemi-Baker Literacy Foundation, on
Thursday, May 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. at The
Common Man Inn & Spa in Plymouth.
The event will include a face-off between
teams of Common Man chefs for an Iron
Chef-like competition and the Plymouth
State University Ice Cream Apprentice
Competition. Tickets cost $10 each. See
www.thecman.com.
Herb and Garden Conference on
Sat., May 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at the Pine Hill Waldorf School in
Wilton. The event will include
workshops on organic gardening,
herbal medicine, native plant identification, bee keeping, sustainable agriculture and more as well
as nature walks, a scavenger hunt,
children’s music, crafts, a baby animal petting zoo, a regional farmers
market and eco-friendly vendors.
See www.nofanh.org.
• TASTE OF MILFORD On Friday, June 4, it’s the Taste of Milford.
The event proceeds the Milford
Keyes Art Festival that weekend
and will give tasters a chance to
preview art to be raffled. The Taste
takes place in the Milford Oval
from 6 to 9 p.m. So far, 10 Milford
restaurants are participating —
Amigos Mexican Cantina, Elisha’s,
Foodees, Giorgios, the Mile Away,
the Red Arrow Diner, the Rustic
Leaf Bistro and the Union Street
Grill, according to a press release.
Tickets cost $20 per person and are
on sale at www.milforddoit.org or
by calling 672-4567.
• TASTE OF DOWNTOWN
NASHUA Tickets for the annual
Taste of Downtown Nashua are on
sale now, and the sooner you buy
them, the cheaper the price. The event
takes place on Wednesday, June 2.
Tickets cost $30 from May 1 to June
1, and $35 on the day of the event. To
purchase tickets, go to www.downtownnashua.org/taste. The Taste will
run from 6 to 9 p.m. but a cocktail
hour is planned from 4 to 6 p.m.
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NO OWNER OR OPERATOR OF A
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What you’ve just read is an extract from
New York Assembly bill A10129 designed
to improve the health of New Yorkers by
banning salt. It’s unlikely to pass, but if it
did the New York restaurant scene would
effectively die. First the bakeries would
close; salt is a necessary part of the chemistry of baking. No bread, no cookies, no
biscuits, no pastries, no pies. The wonderous New York deli’s would fade almost as
quickly; you can’t cure pastrami without
salt. And does Asian food exist without soy
sauce or fish sauce? And all the fine restaurants. The very thought of it makes me
somber.
“What’s the chef’s favorite ingredient?”
I asked Peaches, wife of chef/owner Jeff
Paige of Cotton Restaurant in Manchester.
“Salt,” she answered without a pause. After
our meal, Jeff wandered out to speak on
what is clearly a favorite topic. “I love salt,”
he explains. “It brings out the flavor of a
dish. We use it for taste, we use it for texChef events/special meals
• CIGAR WHISKEY SIDEWALK DINNER The Barleya
House, 132 N. Main St. in Concord,
www.thebarleyhouse.com,
2286363, will hold at Cigar Whiskey
Sidewalk Dinner on Thursday, May
20. The cost is $75.
• PIZZA WARS The third annual
Pizza Wars will take place Fri.,
May 14, at 5 p.m. at Londonderry
High School, 295 Mammoth Road.
Tickets cost $8 per person; $35 per
family of five or more and include
the pizza as well as salad and solda.
Call 657-4632 or 425-1273 for tickets. A bake sale will also be held
during the event.
Church/charity suppers
• SWEDISH MEATBALL DINNER The Concordia Lutheran
Church, 211 N. Main St. in Concord, will hold a Swedish Meatball
Dinner and Silent Auction on Saturday, May 22, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Tickets cost $8 for adults, $4 for
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ture. There are hundreds of salts and they’re
all interesting. Kosher salt, rock salt, truffle
salt, sea salt. I prefer coarse salts to fine or
iodized salts. Course salt crystals hit your
mouth differently and have more taste.”
Salt is a part of almost every cuisine, and
a chef like Jeff knows how to use it properly. He knows to salt and pepper meats
before browning. To salt soups and stocks
at the end so they don’t over-concentrate.
To sprinkle coarse salt on a salad so you’ll
taste and feel the crunch. He knows that salt
in the caramel will cut the sweetness.
I guess New Yorkers who want good food
will just have to drive to New Hampshire,
where we take our food seriously.
Mother’s Best: 150 Favorites from
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The Taunton Press, 394 pages)
Based on the food found in this
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Portland, Ore., is not a place where you
go when you want a little something. If
the Boeuf Bourguignonne, Chicken Cacciatore and Bacon
and Cheddar Macaroni & Cheese listed here are any indication, you leave Mother’s happy, full and ready for a nap.
Not that this is heavy food, per se, but it is, as advertised, definitely comfort food. There is a lazy weekend
quality to the dishes — particularly the breakfast section,
where you find pumpkin pancakes, Mother’s Crunchy
French Toast, Wild Salmon Hash and other reasons to get
out of bed early.
Throughout luscious recipes, you get tips called “Love
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flour) or how to choose which black olive best suits your
taste for the Greek Macaroni & Cheese (that’s right, there
are multiple mac & cheese recipes; there is, in fact, a mac
& cheese section).
If you’ve lost your kitchen mojo, Mother’s Best may be
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has become more of a chore, put aside calorie and time concerns by carving out a few hours in your weekend to make
Mother’s Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting or Pork
Chops with Apple Chutney. The careful crafting of soulsatisfying comfort foods can help remind you of the joy of
baking and cooking. — Amy Diaz
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cheese and a little onion. It is popular for
brunch (think Mother’s Day) and the wine
experts made selections to fit the mid-morning meal.
• 2008 St. Christopher
Gewurztraminer — $11.99
(Recommended by Kristy
Ammann from Butters, 70 N.
Main St. in Concord, 2255995) Ammann said this
slightly sweet wine is great for
brunch. It has a light to medium body with sweet apple, candied citrus,
peach syrup, and light spice flavors. Finishes on a pithy note.
• Roger Goulart Cava Rose
— $18.99 99 (Recommended
by Amber Lorden of Wine
Society, 650 Amherst St. in
Nashua, 883-4114, www.
winesociety.us) “Perfect for
brunch. This Spanish sparkler
is dry with delicate herb and
Drink Listings
Brewerys/Distillerys/Cider
• ANHEUSER-BUSCH 221 DW
Hwy in Merrimack. Complimentary tours include a visit to the
Clydesdale Hamlet, home of the
world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales. Open daily 10 a.m. 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
midnight; Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• REDHOOK BREWERY 35
Corporate Drive, Pease Tradeport,
Portsmouth, www.redhook.com, produces Redhook ales and features the
Cataqua Public House offering brews
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 4308600 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
• BARLEYWINE BREWFEST
On Tues., May 18, at 6 p.m.
IncrediBREW, 112 DW Highway
in Nashua, 891-244, www.incredibrew.com, will hold Barleywine
Brewfest. For $70 get two variety
cases (bottles not included) of these
strong ales including Trappist, California, English and Wheatwine ver-
strawberry notes. A sip of crisp cava and
a bite of light, fluffy quiche—yum!” Lorden said.
• 2008 River Aerie Gewurztraminer
—
$17.99
(Recommended by Maureen
Adams from The Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett Road in
Manchester,
622-WINE
(9463), and 27 Buttrick Road
#3 in Londonderry, 432WINE (9463), www.thewinestudionh.
com) Adams said this is a drier gewürztraminer than most, with no oak to
overpower the flavor.
• 2008 OS Winery Riesling
— $20.99 (Recommended
by Tom Brock from The
Meat House, five locations
in New Hampshire, www.
themeathouse.com) Brock
described this wine as
“slightly sweet, with good
acid and nice fruit flavors. It’s a low-alcohol wine, so you can enjoy the whole
bottle.”
sions. These beers need three weeks
to ferment and cellar aging. Events
need an RSVP and spaces fill up
quick.
• 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 — CONCORD 133 Loudon
Road, allows customers to make
custom wines in batches of 24 to
28 bottles.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY — PORTSMOUTH Design
and create your own high-quality
wine. At 801 Islington St. in Portsmouth. Open Mondays through
Wednesdays, and Saturdays, from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays and
Fridays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays
and evenings by appointment only.
Call Gail at 431-5984.
Classes/workshops on beer/
wine tasting
• WINE SOCIETY (18 Pondview
Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978-6498993; 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 wine tastings
• WINE SOCIETY BOOK CLUB
The Wine Society runs a Wine
Society Book Club at its Tyngsborough store at 18 Pondview Plaza
on certain Thursdays from 6:30 to
8 p.m. The cost of each book event
is $25 per participant. Wines to go
with each discussion will depend
on the number of attendees. Registration for each month’s discussion will be closed one week in
advance. The schedule includes The
Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery
of the World’s Most Expensive Wine
by Benjamin Wallace, on Thursday,
May 13, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The
cost is $25 (and includes a wine
tasting) and reservations must be
made by Thursday, May 6. For info
or to RSVP, call 883-4114 or e-mail
[email protected].
Weekly/monthly tastings
• BLIND AT UNWINE’D Wine
Society holds its monthly blind tasting at UnWine’d on Second Street
in Manchester, on the fourth Tuesday of the month, 6:30 to 8 p.m.,
$25. RSVP to 625-9463.
• BUTTER’S Weekly wine-tastings
at Butter’s Fine Food and Wine, 70
N. Main St., Concord, 225-5995,
Thursdays, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Some
tastings are held Fridays as well.
Call for information.
• CORNUCOPIA WINE AND
CHEESE MARKET 72 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham, 772-4447,
holds a tasting every Friday from
4 to 7 p.m.
• THE DRINK SHOPPE 214
Central St. in Hudson, 578-1130,
www.thedrinkshoppe.net, holds a
free beer and steak tasting Fridays
from 4 to 6 p.m.
• DURHAM MARKETPLACE
at 7 Mill Road in Durham, 8682500, holds wine tasting on Friday
from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
• NH LIQUOR STORES statewide host wine-tastings and promotional events. See www.nh.gov/
liquor/mktevent.shtml.
• WINE SOCIETY (650 Amherst
St. #9 in Nashua, 883-4114; www.
winesociety.us). Membership in the
Society costs $30 and includes discount on wines and Society events,
which include weekly and monthly
wine tastings, wine and food pairings and classes on wine varietals.
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MUsIC, Books,
GAMEs, CoMICs,
MoVIEs, DVDs,
TV AND MoRE
Index
Dork vs. Dork: Iron Man 2
CDs
The best known example of allotropy in a superhero.
pg46
• Bullet For My Valentine, Fever, D• Balkan Beat Box, Black Eyed Black
Boy, A
Books
pg47
• Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs, B+
Includes listings for lectures, author events,
book clubs, writers’ workshops and other literary events. To let us know about your book
or event, e-mail Lisa Parsons at lparsons@
hippopress.com. To get your author events,
library events and more listed, send information to [email protected].
DAN REspoNDs
First, you can pretend to hide your enthusiasm for an Avengers movie behind
your foppish brow all you want, but you’re not fooling anyone. Second, Sam Jackson yelling at a donut is something I want to see (and you should too!). Third, way
to pull a Kirk Cameron and rip on Robert Downey Jr. for being an ex-junkie – boo
hoo, movie stars take drugs! Maybe he’ll cast you in the Sherlock Holmes sequel.
Cry all you want about Marvel’s movie machine. Maybe when DC has more to
offer than Smallville and Watchmen, somebody will start to care.
FILM
pg42
And, we’re back! Finally, the summer blockbuster season will start with something that resembles a blockbuster.
Kick-Ass did no ass-kicking, and Clash of the Titans was
less than titanic. So, Iron Man 2, whadya got? How about
Happy Hogan, Tony Stark’s personal assistant/Freak? Jon
Favreau, who also directs the movie, is perfectly cast.
Then there’s Natasha Romanoff, or should I say Black
Freakin’ Widow. Know anything about Nick Fury or • A Nightmare on Elm Street, D
Daredevil? Yeah, you get it. Even played by Scarlett
Johansson (or maybe because she’s played by Scarlett Johansson) it’s amazing
it took Marvel so long to get to this character.
Then there’s Justin Theroux, who also wrote Tropic Thunder. ’Nuf said.
And finally, as though I even have to mention it, there’s Micky Rourke, looking like he walked straight out of the Mad Max desert shooting electricity out of
his finger-whips as Whiplash. It’s like his character in The Wrestler just walked
onto the Iron Man 2 set and started blowing things up. Good career move.
You’ll soon get used to the nay-sayers; there’s already a lot of yammering going • City Island, B
on out there about too many characters or the movie trying to pack too much story
into such a small space. And, yes, Gywneth Paltrow is still Pepper Potts, but maybe
she’ll just be turned into the cyborg soon and become more interesting.
Iron Man 2 is free of the oppressive weight of the origin story, and that’ll
make it sing. Robert Downey Jr. is Tony Stark and it looks like the second
movie will also begin to explore the darker side of Stark — his alcoholism, for
example. Almost as important is the increased role of Samuel Jackson’s Nick
Fury and the beginning of the build-up that will eventually become The Aveng• Babies, B
ers. Look for an after-credits scene to cement this arc.
Don’t be fooled by its sequel status. Iron Man 2 will start the summer right.
GLENN REspoNDs
Dan, Dan, Dan, you poor deluded soul. I realize that it has been a long
winter since last we debated, but this flimsy list of Iron Man 2 accolades is
weak, even by your notoriously comprimised standards. You do realize you
began your defense by calling out Favreau’s cameo as Happy Hogan. Have
you notified your opinion’s next of kin? ’Cause that argument is dead.
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Hey, Robert Downey Jr.! I know you were on screen
with the immatchable Rodney Dangerfield and think
that his charm and wit may have rubbed off on you, but
sadly that is not so. The twitch and mumble of an “ex”junkie can sleaze you through a lot of jobs, St. Elmo,
but I’m sorry to say that your tank ran dry in the third
act of Iron Man. Now it would be fair to blame this on
semi-pro director Favreau or the bloated corpulence
of Marvel mythology mandated to backhoe into this
sequel, but you are not blameless. No amount of poor man’s Jumanji holdover CGI or clip-on plastic dart-launching repulsor toys can distract from your
shambling incoherence as an actor.
Listen up, movie-morlocks, Iron Man 2 is an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for the forthcoming Avengers (directed, if you can call it that, by idiot savant
Joss Whedon, in which I’m certain the Black Widow or the Wasp finds their
innerstrength and uses their magic ovaries to defeat Ultron), which is going to be
an off-the-rails abomination set to rival Indiana’s Great Circus Train Wreck of
1918 (look it up, it’s worth a read). Iron Man 2 is just a series of nonsense explosions sprinkled with the dough-faced blahs of Johannsen, the flibberdigibbit
plastic surgery theatrics of Rourke and the lesser man’s (is that even possible?!?)
Downey Jr. in Sam Rockwell. Sam Jackson yells at a giant donut!
Plus points for Garry Shandling, minus points for shoehorning nerd drool
mop Olivia Munn into a meaningless role. Also, double minus points for the
presence of Gwenyth Paltrow, who spells her words British style despite being
born and raised in LA.
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Bullet For My Valentine, Fever
Zomba Records, April 27
The cover of
this album — a
hot chick with
a lobster claw
for a right hand
— isn’t just the
story of this
dreadful screamo fail, it’s the
story of the whole “neo-metal” genre, comprising bands that mortally fear guitar solos,
outside-the-norm ethnic influences and, most
lobster-clawy of all, women. The lyrics read
like the liner notes for one of your stupid torture-horror Hostel flicks — my chick is mean,
so I’ll light us both on fire, things like this.
Maybe I’m missing some egghead nuance
(maybe I’m misconstruing “So now I dance
in the flames, I love you crying and screaming
my name”), but whatever, who ordered this
slop? These ingredients — Slayer gore lyrics,
gelded Iron Maiden guitars, gelded Boyz II
Men vocals interrupted occasionally by a
gelded Cookie Monster — are really what
you want, young teens? Does Lobster Girl
scare you? Does she make you want to rock?
This would normally be evolution at
work, being their third album, but the only
part that’s been studiously tweaked is the
Boyz II Men harmonizing.
What on earth. Maybe you kids aren’t
learning everything you need to know from
YouTube and 4chan. Maybe you really do
need that talk about the birds and the bees
(and the mean-ass metal) after all. We’ll be
in front of the flat-screen, recuperating from
working off your stupid texting bill. D- —
Eric W. Saeger
Balkan Beat Box, Blue Eyed Black Boy
Natgeo Records, April 27
It may not be
weird enough
for you that
BBB’s drummer/programmer
Tamir Muskat
dragged his
two
bandmates away
from
their
New York comforts to record their newest
LP in downtown Tel Aviv, but some of this
was also recorded in Belgrade, and you
guessed it, there were anti-Kosovo riots
going on at the time. This urgent, inescapable humanity somehow bled into the
record, lending an amazingly lively shimmer that makes it seem more urban than
maybe anything you’ve ever heard. Two
things that might dissuade people from
investigating this are Muskat’s one-off with
Gogol Bordello and the reggae element that
flows throughout, but BBB are adamantly
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hacks with a spurious ethnic edge. Ori
Kaplan gets world-beating shtick out of his
sax, one minute mocking up the sounds of
Iranian pop-radio blasting out of a 1980
Chevette, then weaving in and out of hiphop, dance and rock beats, evoking things
Yiddish, then Armenian, then Egyptian,
then salsa — it literally demonstrates once
and for all how closely knitted all ethnic
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• Soccer-mom dictator
Oprah Winfrey introduced her
minivan minions to teen Filipino singing sensation Charice,
whose fame spread throughout the YouTubes when a
few idiots noticed she could
sing “Happy Birthday” really
loudly, a feat that can obviously only be accomplished by
light-beam-riding aliens from
Neptune. Since the record
companies now take their
orders from Oprah and Ellen
DeGeneres instead of going
with things that are good
music, they will release this
teen singing sensation’s selftitled debut album next week.
Picture a Disney-fied Michael
Jackson with no actual musical instruments ever, and that’s
what this sounds like.
• Your essential alt-rock bulletin is that Dead Weather is
releasing their second LP Sea
of Cowards next week, into
your personal iPhone nuisance
and completely deserted record
store. The first song you’re
supposed to buy is “Die By
the Drop,” a Siouxsie-meetsMuddy Waters tune featuring
crypto-goth nonsense lyrics,
Gravity Kills-type bullhorned
singing from Alison Mosshart,
and overexcited backing vocals
by the band’s drummer, Jack
White, who is a guitarist. Hurry
before the MP3s are all gone!
• Oh blow my brains out,
it’s English dim-bulbs Keane,
with more dim-bulb music
on their new dim-bulb album
Night Train. If you thought
this band sucked before, with
their Phil Collins-style horns
in “Spiralling” (sic), I can
inform you that they have discovered and conquered an
entire new continent of suckage with Night Train, like for
instance the song “Stop For
a Minute,” which starts out
sounding like the Strokes trying to be a boy band, which is
a more horrifying thing than a
million Freddy Kruegers, but
then some token rapper starts
rapping about something, in
rap tones, with rapped words.
Why do I do this to myself?
• Since all the new rock
albums completely suck, you
may as well just buy the Lost
Season 5 Soundtrack next
week, if your record store
doesn’t have its giant FOR
LEASE sign up quite yet. That
TV show Lost used an actual orchestra, did you know,
and it is quirkily retro-hip
also, so this will either consist of old ’70s hits like Three
Dog Night’s “Shambala” or
be an entire album of those
loud violin upward-glissandos that warn you when it’s
about to cut to commercial,
which happens every 10 seconds, because Lost is the last
bastion of TV advertising (has
anyone ever told those advertisers that no one ever watches
the first commercial after the
loud violin glissando, because
everyone is looking at their
spouse saying “WTF?!” about
Hurley announcing he’s pregnant with a time-traveling Ben
or whatever?).
— Eric W. Saeger
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Poetic crank: Jottings from the edge of poetry
Happy Birthday,
Mr. Corwin by Dan J. Szczesny
Lord God of trajectory and blast
Whose terrible sword has laid open the
serpent
So it withers in the sun for the just to see,
Sheathe now the swift avenging blade with
the names of nations writ on it,
And assist in the preparation of the
ploughshare.
So it got me thinking about the lesson for
today. And that is, what is eternal art anyway?
This poem, so important then, is barely remembered today. It’s no longer a poem, it’s history, a
literary footnote. (To be fair to Corwin, his body
of work is deep, complex and worth study.)
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in his poetry notebook, of course, in a
series of sonnets, prose and quatrains.
And just as in the first book in the series,
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, Ron Koertge
makes it work. A little cheesy, sure, but it’s
nice to find a smart young adult book that
isn’t about vampires or wizards.
Koertge’s story is direct, his protagonist
appears realistic, and for a teenager who likes
poetry, Kevin Boland is decent role model.
There are also e-mails between Kevin and
others to move the story and provide some
poetry lessons.
If you’re looking for a way to get your
sports-obsessed kid into poetry, this may be
it. B+
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• FRAN HAWTHORNE dis-
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to emotional depths, is considered one of the
classics, a poem among poems. High art.
I tell you why with an example. A few years
ago, at the start of the Iraq war, a collection of
anti-war poetry was released, to which many
modern poets contributed. I forget the title right
now, but it’s no matter. The poems were forgettable. Why? Because poetry is not supposed to
address you directly — it is not supposed to look
you in the eye and stare you down.
Oh, you’ll remember it for a while if it
does, just as people remembered “On a Note
of Triumph” for many years after. But a word
of advice to all you “anti” and “pro” poets
out there — anti-war, anti-government, proAmerica, pro-religion. Poetry should circle
around. Poetry should be seen out of the corner of the reader’s eye. A poem should sink
in, not shout out. It should be worn like an old
hat, not saluted like a crisp flag. It should be
about something, and about everything, and
about anything.
Years after you read a good poem, you may
be sitting at a traffic light, eating at a restaurant,
playing catch with your kid, when you remember. NPR should not have to remind you.
Ever heard of Norman Corwin? Me neither, though I feel foolish for not.
Mr. Corwin celebrated his 100th birthday
Monday. There were a few stories here and
there — NPR mostly, as it turns out Corwin
did a series of radio plays for NPR when he
was a mere youngster in his 80s. Norman
Corwin is a name pretty well lost in the annals
of time now, which is a shame, I guess. I mean
just a quick Google search lists his Academy Award, Peabody Medals, Golden Globes
and Emmys. He is an inductee into the Radio
Broadcasting Hall of Fame, and that’s where
he fits into this column.
When it comes to the Golden Age of Radio,
Corwin is a peer to Orson Welles. He was an
inspiration to Rod Serling and Norman Lear. His
nickname is “Poet Laureate of Radio.”
He is most famous, in fact, for a poem. The
65th anniversary of the broadcast of “On a
Note of Triumph” is Saturday. That single
broadcast, which celebrated the Allied victory in Europe on VE Day, was broadcast to
60 million people. Guys like Studs Terkel and
Carl Sandburg heard it. Sandburg called it the
most important radio broadcast ever. Folks
from that generation can quote whole verses.
It brought people to tears. It made them proud
to be Americans. It helped them remember
the terrible toll of World War II. It did everything a poem, and a poet, is supposed to do
— it created a moment of collective consciousness, when regular people from New
York City to New Mexico came together in a
moment frozen forever in time.
It is also a dreadful poem. The verbiage is
overwrought. The lofty patriotic verses smother
the grandiose metaphors. Here’s a typical verse:
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Book discussions
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LIBRARY evening book discus- info, visit myspace.com/bridgepoetsion group meets on the second ryopenmic or e-mail mark.palos@
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in the Hunt Room. May 13: The
Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Call Writers’ groups
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Library, 2 Court. St., and welcomes a.m. to 3:15 p.m. at the McConnell
new members. Thursday, May 13, Center at 61 Locust St. in Dover.
at 7 p.m., Change of Heart by Jodi Keynote speaker is John Clayton,
Picoult.
presenting “A Life Sentence” and
an afternoon nonfiction workshop.
Poetry
Registration is $70 for nonmem• 2010 NH POETY SLAM bers, includes continental breakfast
FINALS competition on Sat., May and lunch. See www.seacoastwrit8, at the NH Institute of Art in ersassociation.org or call 778-8182.
Manchester (French Building, next • SIXTH ANNUAL WRITERS
to city library), will determine who IN THE ROUND creative retreat
represents NH at the National Poet- on Star Island Sept. 9-12 is a chance
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Other
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children’s books will be for sale in
the library lobby. These books were
not available at the March book sale.
In general, children’s hardcovers are
$1 and paperbacks four for $1; some
books are specially priced.
• Bring pasta to the library: The
Manchester City Library is collecting nonperishable foods, especially pasta, in May
for the NH Food Bank (nhfoodbank.org).
Drop off donations at the main branch on
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FILM
REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
The Art of the Steal (NR)
Art lovers, art professionals
and competing members of
Philadelphia society fight over a
collection of modern and postimpressionist works of art in The
Art of the Steal, a fascinating
documentary about sharp claws in
the art world.
Babies
Babies (PG)
If the world population takes a
spike in nine months, I think we
can all blame Babies, a point-free
documentary about four babies
that is chockfull of adorableness.
Reviewlets: Snack-sized movie reviews
* Indicates a movie worth seeking out. Previously reviewed
movies have grades. For full
reviews of most movies here or
movies previously released, go to
www.hippopress.com.
Alice in Wonderland (PG)
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham
Carter.
Tim Burton brings his Beetle
Juice perspective to the story
of young Alice (or in this case
a 19-year-old Alice who has
just been proposed to) and her
return to Wonderland. Coming
Right At You in 3D. C+
The Bounty Hunter (PG-13)
Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston.
Exes reunite when ex-husband
is hired as a bounty hunter to
catch ex-wife. Gerard Butler
is going to keep showing up in
romantic comedies unless we
all put a stop to it, people. D
Clash of the Titans (PG-13)
Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson.
Release the Kraken! C
Date Night (PG-13)
Tina Fey, Steve Carell.
Two people with generally
well-regarded Thursday night
NBC sitcoms can’t help but
make a funny-adventure
dohicky like this a laugh riot,
right? Right? Sorta. B-
The Back-up Plan (PG-13)
Jennifer Lopez, Alex
O’Loughlin.
J.Lo gets herself pregnant, the
Death at a Funeral (R)
new-fashioned way, and then
meets the man of her dreams. D+ Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan.
The 2007 British comedy gets
an American remake in the
tale of a family dealing with
the paterfamilias’ funeral.
Peter Dinklage, who played
the guest with a surprise in
that movie, keeps that role in
this movie. Meh, but then so
was the British one. C
Furry Vengeance (PG)
Brendan Fraser, Brook
Shields.
It’s man vs. digitally altered
nature in this “comedy” about
a developer besieged by angry
woodland creatures. F
The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo (R)
Michael Nyqvist, Noomi
Rapace.
The first in the series of hugely popular mystery novels is
made into a movie (in Swedish, but don’t let the subtitles
scare you). Old-fashioned
mystery-in-the-big-manorhouse storytelling gets some
updated flourishes and some
gritty violence in this captivating tale. B
Greenburg (R)
Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans.
Angry man-child snarks
through a sharp and funny
Noah Baumbach movie. B
Iron Man 2 (R)
Robert Downey Jr., Don
Cheadle.
Tony Stark is Iron Man, who
is awesome. Opens wide on
Friday, May 7.
Kick-Ass (R)
Christopher Mintz-Plasse,
Aaron Johnson.
A teenage comic book fan
decides to pull on some tights
himself. B
your plastic water bottles and
20-minute showers. B-
She’s Out of My League (R)
Alice Eve, TJ Miller.
The Losers (PG-13)
An average Shmo gets a
Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba.
smoking hot girlfriend and
One of several movies coming can’t figure out why. C
out over the next little while
about a Special Forces-type
Shutter Island (R)
group ending up on the wrong Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark
side of the government and
Ruffalo.
then turning around to give
And the omnipresent Ben
The Man what-for. C+
Kingsley. Martin Scorsese
directs this Dennis Lehane
Oceans (G)
book about U.S. Marshals sent
Whales, assorted cute sea
to investigate a disappearance
creatures.
at a prison for the criminally
Just in time for Earth Day,
insane off the Massachusetts
the people from Earth give
coast. C
you another movie filled with
natural wonders and animal
cuteness to remind you what
you’re screwing up with all
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Ponijao of Namibia, Bayar in Mongolia,
Mari in Tokyo and Hattie in San Francisco wear iron-armored, weaponized suits and
travel the world fighting evil…or maybe I’m
getting my May 7 releases mixed up.
Babies is actually the exact opposite of
Iron Man 2. That movie is all story and characters and special effects and people speaking
words. Babies is just four babies being babies
in front of a camera — no narration, very little
dialogue. We met these four babies, competing fiercely for the title of Absolutely Cutest
Baby Ever, shortly after their respective births
in their various corners of the world. We see
them in their newborn bread loaf stages, we
see them pee and poo and gurgle. They interact with the babies and children around them.
They put things — dirt, rocks, whatever —
in their mouths. They learn to crawl. They
weave like drunks on a bender as they learn
to stand and eventually walk. They make
those pre-verbal noises. They cry.
The Mongolian baby has an older brother, maybe about 2 or 3 years old, who seems
fairly intent on getting rid of him — at one
point we see him push the baby in a stroller
into a field of cows (who are only mildly curious about his presence). The Japanese baby
is adorably frustrated when she can’t figure
out a specific toy and cries exactly the way
we all want to when our computers crash.
The baby from Namibia eats fistfuls of sandy dirt. The San Fran baby’s most memorable
scene is when she seems to desperately want
to leave a rather granola baby-music-enrichment class. (They are singing about Mother
Earth and she is pulling on the door.)
Babies is like Oceans but without the
annoying narration. The babies just are and
we watch them. They are shot beautifully, like
the full-color wonders on a Discovery nature
documentary. Why are we watching the
babies? The movie never really explains this
— there is less point, per se, to Babies than to
Oceans or March of the Penguins or any other of the life’s-rich-pageantry documentaries
that have come out in the last decade or so.
The babies are cute, so cute that even when
you don’t want to buy into their cuteness and
laugh you still find yourself thinking “awwww, babies.” B
Rated PG for cultural and maternal nudity
throughout. Directed by Thomas Balmes, Babies
is an hour and 19 minutes long and is distributed
by Focus Features. It opens on Friday, May 7.
The Barnes Foundation houses some many
billions of dollars worth of art — Renoirs,
Cezannes, Manets, Monets, Van Goghs,
Picassos and more. The works were collected
by Albert Barnes, an up-from-his-boot-straps
creator of a venereal disease medication. A
contrarian-sounding man, Barnes set up his
collection in a building in a Philadelphia suburb and wanted it to serve an educational
purpose (not just bring in the tourists like the
museums with which he had disagreements).
He was picky about who could see the art and
set up various legal covenants that required
the art to stay where he put it.
Then in 1951 he died, and over time the
integrity and location of the collection became
issues of constant contention by those who
sought to break up, move or send for loan the
collection. The foundation was located in a
residential neighborhood, making the logistics of having thousands of visitors difficult.
Eventually (in the last, say 15 years), the issue
became whether or not to move the collection
to a newly created museum in Philadelphia
(setting up a suburban-vs.-urban fight on top
of everything else). Fans of the Barnes Foundation are adamant that the art should stay
in the building where Barnes arranged the
works with furniture and a variety of historical cultural items, such as ancient Egyptian
or Roman pieces, in a building surrounded by
a garden. Barnes wanted the art to be part of
an educational experience and not part of the
art establishment. Politicians and others saw
the moving of the Barnes as a boon for Philadelphia tourism.
And then, of course, there’s the control of
something worth billions.
The movie sets it up as a fight of one
scrappy art lover and his students versus a
moneyed class of art professionals and politicians. Leaving aside the question at hand
for a moment: If you want to know why, for
example, your city can’t build a performing
arts center (or, for that matter, a dog park),
this movie explains it. Money, politics, people with ideas and people with a cause — the
mix can turn even generally agreed-upon
good projects into a quagmire.
The validity of points of the opposing
sides in the Barnes fight isn’t nearly as interesting to me as the big honking, entertaining
mess that is everything from Barnes’ own
initial clashes with wealthy Philadelphians
(including the Annenberg family in charge
of the Philadelphia Inquirer) to the court case
brought by boosters of the original Barnes
location to attempt to get a reconsideration of
the move. Economic development, cultural
prize, bragging rights and charitable foundation muscle are all at issue, as are issues
of history, tradition and the strength of one
rich person’s wishes as spelled out in his will.
Though the movie clearly has a side — that
of keeping Barnes’ art where he put it — it
does a good job of showing all sides (public,
private, legal, political) of how big institutions act. As someone who has sat through
public meetings on issues far less fraught, I
appreciated how messy this fight became and
how much mess the movie shows us.
Whether the movie makes its argument
successfully is less interesting to me — and
less certain. If you agree going in to the film
that the moving of the Barnes collection is
a horror, you’re likely to keep on believing
that. If you go in with little or no background,
it’s likely you’ll find some eye-roll-worthy
“why I never” haughiness on all sides.
Like a planning board meeting with beautiful paintings, The Art of the Steal is a great
exploration of the not-so-pretty business of
building and running cultural institutions. BNot rated. Directed by Don Argott, The Art
of the Steal is an hour and 41 minutes long
and distributed by IFC Films.
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A Nightmare on Elm
Street (R)
Freddy Krueger gets a reboot
in A Nightmare on Elm Street,
the remake of the 1984 horror
movie that spawned so many
sequels.
Back again on Elm Street, we meet a group
of high schoolers who, unbeknownst to each
other — at least at first — all have the same
nightmare. A man with knives for fingers and
a burnt face chases and terrifies them and,
after a few of their number are killed, they
soon realize that when you die at his hand in
the dream you die in real life.
The man, of course, is Freddy Krueger
(Jackie Earle Haley). (This is a remake,
so, while, SPOILER ALERT I don’t really
consider anything here a plot twist.) His connection to these teens, their connection to each
other and the source of his evil is the mystery
our ever dwindling number of kids must solve
if they are to have a chance at stopping him.
The movie gives more or less equal time
to all the teens — a few of whom are recognizable but none of whom are breakout stars
— before finally landing on Nancy (Rooney
Mara) as the girl who gets to do a good chunk
of the sleuthing. Her mother (Connie Britton)
and the father of another one of the sleepless
teens (Clancy Brown) are TV famous and get
a bit more to their parts than other adults.
I came to Freddy late and remember more
about the increasingly cheesy and campy
sequels than the original film. Thus, while I
knew what would happen here, I had a considerably elevated expectation of camp. The
reality offered no surprises and none of the
humor (unintentional or not) I’d come to
expect from a Freddy movie. The movie is all
grim mystery, suspense-free horror, plodding
slasherness. I must admit I didn’t expect this
movie to be great cinema, but I didn’t quite
expect it to be such an unpleasant slog. It’s a
poorly written Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit with a pre-Saw approach to blood and
guts and an absolutely flat story, without the
chill-inducing sparks you want in your movie
monsters. There is nothing in this movie that
answers the “why would you remake this”
question that every dull, disagreeable moment
makes you ask.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is absolutely no
fun — not a good scare, not a good laugh, not
a good use of your $8. D
Rated R for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language.
Directed by Samuel Bayer and written by Eric
Heisserer and Wesley Strick, from characters by
Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street is an
hour and 35 minutes long and is distributed in
wide release by Warner Bros.
City Island (PG-13)
Andy Garcia is a man with big
aspirations and big problems in
City Island, a loveably goofy movie
about family dreams and secrets.
Vince Rizzo (Garcia) is a prison guard
— or rather, as he reminds everyone, a corrections officer — who dreams of being an
actor. He reads from a book about Marlon
Brando each morning as he smokes the cigarettes his wife thinks he’s given up. Joyce
(Juliana Marguiles) has told Vince that she
has also stopped smoking — and, just like her
husband, she grabs a fresh cigarette whenever
he’s not around. Which is more, recently, and
she fears it means he’s having an affair. Actually, he’s in the city taking an acting class, after
which he works on a monologue with Molly
(Emily Mortimer), a woman who encourages
him to go to an open call audition for a Martin
Scorsese movie. Because they are also working on an assignment requiring them to turn
their most secret secret into a monologue,
Vince can tell Molly what he can’t bring himself to tell Joyce — that Tony (Steven Strait),
a young man he’s recently bailed out of jail
and brought home to live in the family’s boat
house, is the son he walked away from nearly
three decades earlier. Tony doesn’t know that,
but he’s quickly privy to all the other family secrets: Vince’s acting, Joyce’s feelings of
abandonment, teenage son Vince Jr.’s (Ezra
Miller) appreciation of (and desire for) chubby women and, eventually, the true vocation
of daughter Vivian (Dominik Garcia-Lorido).
The family thinks she’s in the city at college
but in a very different line of work.
All of this drama — flavored with kitschy
“aaaaaaay”s and “oooo”s and “when don’t I
make it nice” that movies and TV have taught
us to expect from New York Italian American
families — takes place on City Island, a fishing village in the Bronx that is shown here as
both lovely and “authentic.” With its beachfront homes for regular joes and its small-town
appearance in the shadow of skyscrapers, City
Island is the perfect “land far far away” for
this once-upon-a-time to take place in.
This movie is a big cheese-covered meatball
and yet I couldn’t help smiling throughout.
Vince is a bit of a stereotype, sure, but also an
honest, sort-of real person. Margulies might
be laying on the accent and the hard squint a
little thick, but she’s still rather charming. The
whole movie is, at times, unforgivably cutesy but it just can’t seem to be anything but
endearing. B
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, smoking and
language. Written and directed by Raymond De
Felitta, City Island is an hour and 40 minutes
long and distributed by Anchor Bay Films.
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423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com
Flagship Cinemas Derry
10 Ashleigh Dr., Derry, 437-8800
Entertainment Cinemas 6
192 Loudon Road, Concord,
224-3600
AMC at The Loop
90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen,
Mass., 978-738-8942
O’Neil Cinema 12
Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry,
434-8633
Regal Concord
282 Loudon Road, Concord, 226
3800
Regal Hooksett 8
100 Technology Dr., Hooksett,
641-3456
Showcase Cinemas Lowell
32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass.,
978-551-0055
BLUES AND JAZZ
~JAM SIT-IN~
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 654FILM.
• Greenberg (R, 2010) Thurs., May
6, at 7:30 p.m.
• The Runaways (R, 2010) Thurs.,
May 6, at 7:30 p.m.
• Un Prophete (The Prophet) (R,
2010) Fri., May 7, through Thurs.,
May 13, at 7:30 p.m. Plus, Sun.,
May 9, at 2 p.m.
• Date Night (PG-13, 2010) Fri.,
May 7, through Thurs., May 13, at
7:30 p.m. Plus, Sun., May 9, at 2 at
4:30 p.m.
• Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Sat., May 8, at 4:30 p.m.
MILFORD DRIVE-IN
101A in Milford, 673-4090, www.
milforddrivein.com.
Scheduled
to open soon, weather permitting.
Check Web site for changes related
to weather or screenings. Open Friday and Saturday; drive-in opens at
6:15 p.m.; movies begin at dusk.
Admission is $20 per car (up to 6
occupants).
• Screen 1: Iron Man 2 (PG-13,
2010); Clash of the Titans (PG-13,
2010)
• Screen 2: Date Night (PG-13,
2010); A Nightmare on Elm Street
(R, 2010)
FRANCO-AMERICAN
CENTRE
52 Concord St., Manchester,
669-4045, www.francoamerican
centrenh.com
• Ne le dit a personne (Tell No One,
2006), Tues, May 18, at 7 p.m.
• Michael Jackson’s This Is It (PG,
2009) Fri., May 7, at 3 p.m.
• Leap Year (PG, 2010) Fri., May
14, at 3 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday • Noon - 5pm
Burger & fries
-or2 hotdogs & fries $2.95
624-2022
Thursday - Friday • DJs
Saturday - Live Music (no cover)
155 DOW STREET • MANCHESTER
www.fratellos.com
061393
Monday - Friday • 3pm - 6pm
$1.99 Appetizers
NASHUA PUBLIC
LIBRARY
NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua,
589-4600, www.nashualibrary.org.
Call 589-4646 for the library’s film
line. Films subject to change. Seating is limited. Food and drink are
not permitted in the theater.
• The Lovely Bones (PG-13, 2009)
Fri., May 7, at 7 p.m.
• The Tooth Fairy (PG, 2010) Sat.,
May 8, at 2 p.m.
• Crazy Heart (R, 2009) Fri., May
14, at 7 p.m.
• Planet 51 (PG, 2009) Sat., May
15 at 2 p.m.
THE MUSIC HALL
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 4362400, www.themusichall.org
• Ajami (NR, 2009) Thurs., May 6,
at 7 p.m.
• A Prophet (R, 2009) Sat., May
PALACE THEATRE
8, at 7 p.m.; Sun., May 9, at 3:30
80 Hanover St., Manchester, 668- & 7 p.m.; Mon., May 10, through
5588, www.palacetheatre.org
Thurs., May 13, at 7 p.m.
Silent movie screenings will feature • Greenberg (R, 2009) Fri., May 14,
live music by Jeff Rapsis. Admis- at 7 p.m.; Mon., May 17, through
sion costs $8 per person.
Wed., May 19, at 7 p.m.
• Greed (1924) silent drama directed by Erich von Stroheim, on Mon., OTHER
May 10.
• UNCANOONUC FILM FESTIVAL on Thurs., May 6, at Goffstown
MANCHESTER CITY
High School, 11 School St. in GoffsLIBRARY
town, at 6 p.m. in the Step Room. The
405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550, event is free and will feature locally
www.manchester.lib.nh.us
student and staff of SAU 19 made
• Fame (PG, 2009) Tues., May 11, films competing in categories includat 6 p.m. and Wed., May 12, at 1 ing animation, sports, documentary,
p.m.
news,
music/dance/performance,
• Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adven- instructional, narrative, comedy and
ture (PG, 1989) on Wed., May 19, science fiction.
at 1 p.m.
• LOST IN LACONIA a one-hour
documentary about the history of the
WEST BRANCH
Laconia State School, on Mon., May
COMMUNITY LIBRARY
10, at 7 p.m. at the Laconia Middle
76 N. Main St., Manchester, 624- School. Tickets cost $5. Call 5276560, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
1278 or see aconiahistorical.org.
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RED RIVER THEATRES
11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600,
www.redrivertheatres.org
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(R, 2009) Thurs., May 6, at 7 p.m.;
Fri., May 7, at 5 & 8:05 p.m.; Sat.,
May 8, at 1:45, 5 & 8:05 p.m.; Sun.,
May 9, 1:45, 5, 8:05 p.m.; Mon., May
10, at 7 p.m.; Tues., May 11, at 1:14
& 7:15 p.m.; Wed., May 12, at 7 p.m.;
Thurs., May 13, at 7:15 p.m.
• Greenberg (R, 2010) Thurs., May
6, at 5:30 & 7:50 p.m.
• Babies (PG, 2010) Fri., May 7, at
5:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 8, and
Sun., May 9, at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 &
7:30 p.m.; Mon., May 10, at 5:30
& 7:30 p.m.; Tues., May 11, at 2 &
5:30 p.m.; Wed., May 12, at 5:30 &
7:30 p.m.; Thurs., May 13, at 5:30
p.m.
• The Art of the Steal (NR, 2009)
Fri., May 7, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May
8, at 2 & 7 p.m.; SUn., May 9, at
2 & 7 p.m.; Tues., May 11, at 2 &
6:30 p.m.; Wed., May 12, at 7 p.m. ;
Thurs., May 13, at 7 p.m. Screening
on Tues., May 11, at 6:30 p.m. with
post film discussion.
• Law Day: The Response, a 30
minute dramatic portrayal of a
Guantanamo military tribunal, on
Thurs., May 13, at 6:30 p.m. with
discussion.
Tues 9–12 Blues Jam
with Wantu Blues Band
Thur 7–10 Jazz Jam
Ferdinando Argenti Trio
061556
AMC Tyngsborough
440 Middlesex St., Tyngsborough,
Mass., 978-649-3980.
Chunky’s Cinema & Pub Nashua
151 Coliseum Ave., chunkys.com
Chunky’s Pelham Cinema & Pub
150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499
Cinemagic Hooksett
1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett,
644-4629, cinemagicmovies.com
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Nite Roundup
Local music
& nightlife news
By Michael Witthaus
[email protected]
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• Sittin’ in: One lucky person will watch the
Brooks Young Band front and center from a
leather easy chair, while others stage a charity
sit-in on the floor of the Middle New Hampshire Arts & Entertainment Center, part of a
26.2-hour “Sit Happens” fundraiser. Balcony
seats are available for non-volunteers. It’s also
the first chance for BYB fans to purchase the
new CD, Counting Down. See Brooks Young
Band on Friday, May 7, at 8:30 p.m. at the at
the Franklin Opera House in Franklin. Tickets
are $10 at www.themiddlenh.org.
• Up close and personal: Rising country
star Dierks Bentley steps away from the big
sound of his more recent efforts to play bluegrass with legendary picker Del McCoury’s
band, sans the patriarch. It’s part of Portsmouth Music Hall’s “Intimately Yours” series.
Bentley will preview tracks from his forthcoming Up on the Ridge album, an edgy work that
includes a cover of U2’s “Pride (In the Name
of Love).” See Dierks Bentley on Friday, May
7, at 7 p.m. at the Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St.
in Portsmouth. Ticket prices range from $33
to $38.50 at www.themusichall.org.
• Throwing down: Banshee, Raising Scarlet and 7th Child compete in a battle of bands
for the Amherst Junior Women’s Club annual
spring fundraiser, with comedian Mike Koutrobis serving as emcee. A guest judge panel will
pick the winner at the event, which includes
a raffle, door prizes and a silent auction. See
Banshee, Raising Scarlet and 7th Child on Friday, May 7, at 7 p.m. at Sky Lounge & Bistro,
522 Amherst St. in Nashua. Tickets are $10
at the door. For more, call 672-2092 or go to
www.amherstjuniors.org.
• Queen of Mean: Lisa Lampanelli brings
her good-natured mean streak to Concord.
The Harvard graduate is an equal opportunity
offender, lambasting across the color, religion
and body weight line — fat people, beware.
But it’s all in fun, and the shtick has elevated Lampanelli to a level of success enjoyed
by just a handful of comedians. At press time,
only a few seats remained for her show. See
Lisa Lampanelli on Friday, May 7, at 8 p.m. at
the Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main
St. in Concord. Tickets are $32.75 at www.
ccanh.org.
• No quarter for the jukebox: Weekly jazz
at Nashua’s Estabrook Grille is no longer, a
victim of music publisher ASCAP, an organization increasingly known for heavy-handed
collection policies. Manager Brian Lorman
said Maiden Capable, the regular band since
early this year, offered to take a pay cut, but the
cost was too much for the restaurant to absorb
and they couldn’t ignore ASCAP’s demand
for payment. Said Lorman, “There’s no way
around it — they will take you to court. Their
attitude is, ‘Pay me now or pay me later.’”
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HIPPO NITE
Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
Roots of Creation get back to their roots
Milford club show will include new material, special guests
By Michael Witthaus
[email protected]
From its beginning as a Franklin Pierce
College party band, Roots of Creation
rose through the club scene to become a
staple on the regional festival circuit. The
four-piece band mixes improvisational
island rhythms with electronic elements
and loop treatments for a highly original
sound they call “dubtronica.”
Drummer Mike Chadinha uses an electronic drum pad, while keyboard player
Talmadge “Tal” Pearson also employs a
full range of synthetic effects. Guitarist
and lead singer Brett Wilson’s vocals are
fed through a delay pedal.
It’s no ordinary reggae band.
“We have a lot of stuff going on,”
Wilson said recently from his home in
Milford.
Since their frat party days, the band’s
core — Wilson, Chadinha and Pearson
— has remained intact. Wilson notes,
however, that they’ve had a few bass
players over the years; the latest is Chris
Beam.
“We’re kind of like Spinal Tap,” Wilson
laughs. “Each one has added a unique element and brought different things to the
table, so it’s been an evolution. There’s
not malice; it’s part of the journey.”
The band has several bookings for the
upcoming festival season. At the end of
May, they appear with headliners Strangefolk and Max Creek at the Strange Creek
Campout in Greenfield, Mass. Over the
Fourth of July weekend, they’re part of
the massive four-day Nateva festival in
Oxford, Maine, sharing the stage with
Furthur, The Flaming Lips, STS9 and
others.
They also perform regularly at listening rooms like the Stone Church and
Harlow’s. Two of their more recent area
appearances were big-ticket affairs: a
Halloween show at the 888-seat Colonial Theatre in Keene and the Pirates and
Wenches New Year’s bash in Nashua.
But on Thursday, May 6, Roots of Creation will play an intimate show at the
Pasta Loft in Milford. Wilson said they
plan to use the gig to try out material they’re working on for a new album
in the fall, and invite a couple of special
guests to sit in with the band.
But mostly, it’s a welcome opportunity to “bring it back old-school style,”
Wilson said. Guitarist Jay McGuiness, a
well-regarded sideman who’s sat in with
Luther “Guitar” Johnson, and bass player
Brandon Downs (of the band Lowercase
P) will join them for the free show.
“It’s like anything, you start to play in
these huge venues and the grass is always
greener,” Wilson said. “I miss it when
we would just show up to a place and it
would be packed and like 100 kids, and
they didn’t have to pay anything to get
in.”
Roots of Creation. Courtesy photo.
While laying down tracks at Wilson’s
home studio for the new album, Roots of
Creation will release Live Volume 2 later
this month, a collection of band favorites
recorded over the past two years.
“We’re really focused and we feel like
this is a pivotal point in our development as a band,” Wilson said. “We have
a bunch of songs … we feel like they’re
solid.”
They’ve built a reputation as a live unit,
welcoming tapers and encouraging file
trading. Pivoting to the studio presents
some interesting challenges — spontaneity and improvisation are in many ways
the band’s backbone. “How do we make
these songs really sound good,” Wilson
asked, “and not too polished?”
The new album represents the band’s
continuing evolution, Wilson said. “It’s
going to be a little roots, reggae-based
and incorporate a lot of home studio techniques that I’ve been learning over the
years to create something new and current that our fans are going to enjoy, but
also open us up to a broader audience.”
The goal is college radio airplay — the
band recently did an in-studio performance at Boston’s WERS-FM — and
perhaps more.
“Maybe we can change the soundscape
of some of the [area] radio stations,” Wilson said, “and have something original
come on there.”
A lofty aspiration perhaps, but the
band’s shows continue to be a big draw,
as well as providing good networking opportunities. The Nateva gig came
about when the promoter for Grateful
Dead spinoff band Furthur’s recent Verizon Wireless Arena show in Manchester
caught their after-party gig at Penuche’s.
“He saw that it was at capacity and we
were ripping it up,” Wilson said. “He was
like, ‘Whoa, let’s get these guys.’”
Since moving to Milford nine months
ago, Wilson has become a one-man
booster team for the local music scene,
promoting shows and DJ dance parties,
including an upcoming one featuring DJ
Midas on May 20 at the Pasta Loft.
“I’m kind of musical entrepreneur on
the side,” he said, noting he dabbles in
record production (he’s been at the console for each of Roots of Creation’s three
albums) as well as festival and concert
promotion. “I wear a lot of different hats.
I enjoy music in general, and I like anything involved in it.”
He’s also booked shows by personal
favorites like Moon Boot Love. “These
are early ’90s jam bands that never got
huge, but still play around,” Wilson said.
These gigs give him a chance to be
both a fan and a musician.
“When I’m there I get to have a couple
of drinks and really absorb the music,” he
said. “It’s part of making a living in the
music industry [but] it’s also fun, and it’s
lacking in Milford.”
Roots of Creation
Where: Pasta Loft, Milford, 241 Union
Square in Milford, 672-2270, www.
pastaloft.com
When: Thursday, May 6, at 9 p.m.
Info: www.myspace.com/rootsofcreation;
the band will also play the “Steamin’ Party”
at the Isle of Shoals aboard the MV Thomas Layton Cruis Ship out of Portsmouth on
Friday, June 4, at 6 p.m.
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CONCERTS
Venues
Capitol Center for the
Performing Arts
44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111
The Colonial Theatre
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033
Dana Humanities Center at
Saint Anselm College
100 Saint Anselm Dr.,
Manchester, 641-7700
Franklin Opera House
316 Central St., Franklin
934-1901
Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588
Rochester Opera House
31 Wakefield St., Rochester
335-1992
Tupelo Music Hall
2 Young Road, Londonderry,
603-437-5100
Verizon Wireless Arena
555 Elm St., Manchester,
644-5000
Whittemore Center Arena at
UNH
128 Main St., Durham, 862-4000
This Week at the
Strange Brew:
Thursday,
May 6
Gatchell and Holmes
34 Tarrytown Rd, Manchester
(At the corner of Valley and Massabesic)
622-3644 • Fax 647-6320
www.billysspor tsbar.com
Thursday, May 6th
7pm-9pm
Red Sox Tix
giveaway
Love Dogs
Sat, May 8
BJ Magoon
& Driving
Sideways
Sunday, May 9
Sunday, May 9th
Mother’s Day
Breakfast Buffet
Open from
7:30am - Noon
Swing for a cause with the
Freese Brothers Big Band on
Friday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. at
the Concord Auditorium, 2 Prince St. in Concord, 2282793, www.concordcityauditorium.org. The proceeds
go to The Lend Me A Hand Fund, which helps cancer
patients with out-of-pocket expenses. Ticket cost $20
($15 for seniors and students). Buy tickets at the box
office, by calling 228-1226 or at Caring Gifts, Strings
N THings or Ballards in Concord. Find more about the
band at freesebrothersbigband.com.
don Souls Sun., June 6, at 8
p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Mindy Smith Sun., June 6, at 7
p.m., Tupelo
• Bryan Adams Wed., June 9, at
7:30 p.m., Cap Center
• Aaron Lee Marshall with The
Lucas Cates Band, Sweatpants
in Public, Maybe Utah, Dave
Emeney Thurs., June 10, at 7:30
p.m., Rochester Opera House
• Zade Thurs., June 10, at 7:30
p.m., Cap Center
• Charlie Farren and John
Butcher on Fri., June 11, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Concert for a Cause on Fri.,
June 11, at 7:30 p.m., Cap Center
• Jordin Sparks Fri., June 11, at
8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Jonathan Edwards Sat., June
12, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Levon Helm Sat., June 12, at 8
• Big Head Todd and the Monsters Sun., June 13, at 7 p.m.,
Palace
Friday, May 7
BILLY’S PROMOS
Freese Brothers Big
Band
26, at 7 p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Dark Star Orchestra Fri., May
28, and Sat., May 29, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Captured: The Journey Show
Sat., May 29, at 8 p.m., Cap
Center
• Chad Perrone Sat., May 29, at
8 p.m., Tupelo
• Country Throwdown Festival
Mon., May 31, all day, Meadowbrook
• The Black Crowes Fri., June 4,
at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Dave Rawlings Machine Fri.,
June 4, at 8 p.m., Music Hall
• Granite State Blues Society
Challenge Fri., June 4, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• KC & the Sunshine Band
Fri., June 4, at 8 p.m., Casino
Ballroom
• Recycled Percussion Fri., June 4,
and Sat., June 5, at 8 p.m., Palace
• The Fools Sat., June 5, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• The Black Crowes with Lon-
Lisa
Marie
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The Leddy Center for the Performing Arts (on Ladd’s Lane in Epping)
presents
singer/songwriter/pianist
Mary Gatchell in concert with drummer Rodney Holmes on Friday, May
21, at 7:30 p.m. Holmes joined the
Santana Band for the Santana-Bob
Dylan Tour, then toured extensively with the Brecker Brothers for two
years and went on to perform with
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Loop. Gatchell has a degree in Jazz Theory and Composition from NYU and has sung with Lionel Hampton, Clark
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p.m. Visit or call Leddy Center at 679-2781 for ticket information or order tickets at www.leddycenter.org.
059867
• Great Big Sea Thurs., May 6,
at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• One Night of Queen by Gary
Mullen & the Works Thurs., May
6, at 8 p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Deborah Henson-Conant Fri.,
May 7, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Dierks Bentley with Travelin’
McCourys and Hays Carll, Fri.,
May 7, at 8 p.m., Music Hall
• Korn on Fri., May 7, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Swimming for a Cause Fri.,
May 7, at 7:30 p.m., Concord
Auditorium
• Dennis DeYoung of Styx Sat.,
May 8, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Lucy Kaplansky Sat., May 8,
at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Keene Chamber Orchestra
Sun., May 9, at 4 p.m., Colonial
• Peter Wolf Sun., May 9, at 7
p.m., Tupelo
• Alan Jackson with Josh Turner & Chris Young Thurs., May
13, at 7 p.m., Verizon
• Chris Botti, Thurs., May 13, at
7:30 p.m., Cap Center
• Brett Michaels with Resin
Fri., May 14, at 8 p.m., Casino
Ballroom
• Ellis Paul (Taylor Carson opens)
Fri., May 14, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Buddy Holly Family Reunion
Sat., May 15, at 8 p.m., Colonial
• Puddle of Mudd with Downplay Spaulding Sat., May 15, at
8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Jefferson Starship Sun., May
16, at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• The Saw Doctors Irish supergroup Sun., May 16, The Music
Hall
• Carbon Leaf Thurs., May 20, at
8 p.m.; Fri., May 21, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, May 22, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
•Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood Thurs., May 20, at 8 p.m.,
Palace
• Fuel with Living Syndication
& Jaded Thurs., May 20, at 8
• Beatlejuice Fri., May 21, at 8
p.m., Palace
• The Blanks, Fri., May 21, at 8
p.m., Cap Center
• Collective Soul with Leaving
Eden Fri., May 21, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Mary Gatchell with Rodney
Holmes from Santana Fri, May
21, at 7:30 p.m., Epping
• Boston Legends: A Tribute to
James Cotton Sat., May 22, at 8
p.m., Cap Center
• Glenn Miller Orchestra Sat.,
May 22, at 8 p.m., Dana Center
• New Hampshire Philharmonic
Sat., May 22, at 8 p.m., Palace
• Rusted Root Sat May 22, at 8
• Melissa Ferrick Sun., May 23,
at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• Darius Rucker Sun., May 23,
at 8 p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Daniel O’Donnell Wed., May
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Nightlife Listings
Music & parties
• BIG BAND CONCERT
“Swinging for a Cause” on Fri.,
May 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium. Benefit
for the Payson Center Lend Me a
Hand Fund. Tickets are $20/15 at
Ballard’s, Caring Gifts, Strings &
Things. Call 227-7000 ext. 3082.
• LYDIA WARREN Boston-based
indie blues guitarist/singer/songwriter on Fri., May 7, 10 p.m. to
midnight at Boynton’s Taproom,
155 Dow St., Manchester. Call 617590-2105 or e-mail [email protected].
• CINCO DE MAYO CELEBRATION Families in Transition’s 5th
Annual Cinco de Mayo Celebration will be on Sat., May 8, at 6:30
p.m., CR Sparks in Bedford, to
raise money for individuals and
families in New Hampshire who
are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Tickets cost $125.
Call 935-7900 x1721 or e-mail
[email protected]. • COFFEEHOUSE CONCERT
“Random Acts of Harmony,” on
Sat., May 8, at 7:30 p.m., at the
Exeter Congregational Church.
Random Acts of Harmony performs
traditional and contemporary folk
tunes sung in three-part harmony
with guitar, banjo, and stand-up
bass. Musical influences range from
Weavers and Kingston Trio through
bluegrass to blues, gospel and contemporary folk. Suggested donation
$12/$10 at the door or call office to
reserve table 772-4216.
• SOUHEGAN VALLEY CHORUS 30TH ANNIVERSARY
CONCERT on Sat., May 8, at
Souhegan High School, 412 Boston Post Road, Amherst. Presenting
songs from 15 years of performances,
like “Lullaby” (Billy Joel), “Fiddler
on the Roof” medley, “You’ll Never
Walk Alone,” “Over the Rainbow”
and more. Call 673-7573.
• VOCAL PERFORMANCE
the Dartmouth Glee Club will
sing “Viennese Spring,” a concert
of Romantic-era vocal selections
from Johann Brahms’ Liebeslieder
Valzer (Love song Waltzes) and
Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus
(The Bat), Louis Burkot, conductor, on Mon., May 10, ay 7 p.m.,
at the Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth
College, Hanover. Cost is $14,
Dartmouth students $5. Tickets can
be purchased at the Hopkins Center
Box Office, 646-2422 or hop.dartmouth.edu.
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Blues summit
Tickets are on sale now for
The Blues Summit featuring Johnny Winter, Ronnie
Earl and the Broadcasters
and Joe Louis Walker as the
next installment of Child and
Family Services’ 25th anniversary of Concerts for the
Cause. The event happens Friday, June 11, at 7:30 p.m.
at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. Tickets are
$44, $38 and $20 and will be available at the CCA box
office, 225-1111, www.ccanh.com. VIP tickets, which
come with priority seats and a private reception with featured artists, will be available only through Child and
Family Services, 518-4156, www.cfsnh.org. All proceeds
will support the organizations’ services to at-risk youth,
victims of abuse and neglect and impoverished families.
• JAZZ MUSIC on Thurs., May 13,
8-10 p.m., at Boynton’s Taproom,
155 Dow St. Manchester Community
Music School presents an evening of
jazz, with performances by faculty
ppianists Joe Deleault and Yvonne
Aubert, with faculty percussionist
Jared Steer. See www.boyntonstaproom.com or call 623-7778.
• COSMO NIGHT the Women’s
Council of Realtors will be presenting “Cosmo Night, What’s in YOUR
Future?” on Thurs., May 13, 6-9 p.m.,
at the Manchester Country Club in
Bedford. A portion of the event’s proceeds will benefit the Animal Rescue
League of NH. Tickets at the door
are $15, advance purchase is $10 at
the League (545 Route 101 in Bedford) during open hours; Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 1-7 p.m., and
Fri- Sun, 12-5 p.m., or by contacting Tiffany Paul at 494-4227, Fannie
Dionne at 296-2730 or Donna Dufour
at 296-2733. There will be approximately ten psychics at the event, each
with a different background and psychic strength, 15-minute reading for
$20. • FOLK CONCERT on Sat., May
22, at 7:30 p.m. at Bedford High
School auditorium, 47 Nashua
Road. The nationally known Shaw
Brothers will play a fundraising
concert sponsored by the Bedford
Historical Society. Cost is $50/$30
at
www.bedfordhistoricalnh.org,
$55$/35 at the door. Call 471-6336.
cord, 224-0941.
• LAKESIDE LANES 2171 Candia Road, Manchester, 627-7722,
www.lakesidelanes.com.
• LEDA LIGHTHOUSE 340
Amherst St., Nashua, 889-4884,
www.ledalanes.com.
• KING BOWLING LANES 751
Mast Road, Manchester, 623-9215,
www.kinglanes.com
• MERRIMACK TEN PIN CENTER 698 DW Hwy., Merrimack,
429-0989, 8:30 a.m. to midnight.
• STADIUM TEN PIN Maple
Street, Manchester, 625-9656,
www.stadiumtenpin.net.
• TONY’S LANES 244 Elm St.,
Milford, 673-6673.
Scrabble
• FAMILY SCRABBLE nights at
the Nashua Public Library continue
this spring on Thursdays, May 6 and
June 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. See www.
nashualibrary.org or call Carol at
589-4610.
• SCRABBLE for adults every
Monday 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Hollis Social Library. Invite a favorite
Scrabble partner to come with you,
or meet new opponents. Bring a
Scrabble board.
• SCRABBLE NIGHT every
second Wednesday, 7 to 9 p.m.,
Richmond Room, Bedford Public
Library, 2 Meetinghouse Road,
Bedford. 472-2300.
• SCRABBLE on Sat., May 8, 24:30 p.m., at the Manchester city
Bowling
library, 405 Pine St., Manchester.
• BOUTWELL’S BOWLING Families are welcome. Call 624CENTER 152 N. State St., Con- 6550 ext. 335.
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354 Sheep Davis Rd,
Allenstown
225-7665
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown Rd. Penuche’s Ale House
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
The Red Blazer
Amherst
Club Comedy 72 Manchester St., 224-4101
at Amherst
Country Club Deerfield
Lazy Lion Café
72 Ponemah
Road,673-9908 4 North Road, 463-7374
Derry
Adams Opera House
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102
Brookstone Grille
14 Route 11 E., 328-9250
Burgundy’s Billiards
35 Manchester St., 437-6600
Deerhead Club
314 Londonderry Turnpike,
Halligan Tavern
Barrington
32 W. Broadway, 965-3490
Chip ‘N Run
Pub Nippo Lake King’s Row
Golf Course, 550 1 E. Broadway
Steve-N-James Tavern
Province Rd.
187 Rockingham Rd,
664-2030
434-0600
Barnstead
Dover
Barnstead
American Legion Post 8
Music Hall 96 Maple St,
640 Central Ave.
269-2000
Barley Pub
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
Bedford
Dover Elks Lodge
C.R. Sparks
282 Durham Road
18 Kilton Rd, 647-7275
Dover Bowl
Slammers
547 Donald St., 668-2120 887 Central Ave., 742-9632
Dover Brick House
2 Orchard St., 749-3838
Belmont
11th Frame Bar
The Lodge at Belmont
Route 106, 877-872-2501 887 B Central Ave., 742-9632
Kelley’s Row
421 Central Ave., 750-7081
Boscawen
RJ’s
Alan’s
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 83 Washington St.
Top of the Chop
One Orchard St., 740-0006
Brookline
Griffings’ Side Trax
Durham
99 Route 13, 673-3244
Acorns Restaurant
The Loft at the Grange
15 Strafford Ave., 862-2815
12 Main St., 315-9423
Auburn
Auburn Pitts
167 Rockingham
Rd, 622-6564
Holiday’s Bar
and Grill
346 Hooksett
Rd, 483-0880
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Concord
The Barley House
132 N. Main St., 228-6363
Beijing & Tokyo
61 S. Main St., 228-0888
Green Martini
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
Hermanos
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Loudon Road Restaurant
and Pit Road Lounge
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533
Makris
Thursday, May 6
Auburn
Holiday’s: Head Shop
Bedford
CR Sparks: Siroteau
Slammers: karaoke w/
Legion of Doom
Boscawen
Alan’s: John Pratt
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
1686 House Tavern
Exeter
127 Main St., 642-3637
Shooter’s Pub
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856
Laconia
Black Cat Café
Gilford
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233
Gunstock Ski Area
Cactus Jacks
719 Cherry Valley Rd,
1182 Union Ave., 528-7800
293-4341
Fratello’s
Patrick’s
18 Weirs Road, 293-0841 799 Union Ave., 528-2022
Weirs Beach Lobster Pound
72 Endicott St., 366-2255
Goffstown
Weirs Beach Smokehouse
Village Trestle
Rt 3 Laconia, 366-2400
25 Main St., 497-8230
Margate Resort
Wa Toy
76 Lake St., 524-5210
611 Mast Rd, 668-1088
Naswa Resort
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341
Hampstead
Route 111 Village Square Paradise Beach Club
322 Lakeside Ave., 366-2665
472 State St., 329-6879
Weirs Beach Smoke House
Route 3, 366-2400
Hampton
Breakers By the Sea
409 Ocean Blvd, 926-7702 Londonderry
Coach Stop Restaurant
Old Salt
409 Lafayette Rd, 926-8322 and Tavern
176 Mammoth Rd, 437-2022
Ron’s Landing
379 Ocean Blvd, 929-2122, Mayflower Grange
535 Mammoth Road,
Wally’s Pub
144 Ashworth Ave., 926-6954 867-3077
Stumble Inn Bar & Grill
20 Rockingham Road
Henniker
Whippersnappers
Daniel’s
44 Nashua Road, 434-2660
Main St., 428-7621
Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
Loudon
24 Flander’s Road,
Graverobbers Coffeehouse
888-728-7732
Loudon Congregational
Sled Pub
Church, 7018 Church St.,
686 Flanders Road,
783-9478
888-728-7732
The Henniker Junction
Manchester
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
900 Degrees
50 Dow St., 641-0900
Hillsborough
American Legion Post 59 American Legion Wm H
Jutras & Post No 43
538 West Main St
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467
Boomerang’s
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 American Legion Post #79
35 W. Brook St.
American Legion
Hollis
Sweeney Post
Alpine Grove
19 S. Depot Rd, 882-9051 251 Maple St., 623-9145
Black Brimmer
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
Hooksett
Bo’s Riverside
Asian Breeze
1328 Hooksett Rd, 621-9298 500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Boynton’s Taproom
Hudson
155 Dow St., 623-7778
Johnny’s Pizzeria
Breezeway Pub
11 Tracy Lane, 943-5382
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
Linda’s Sport Bar
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792 City Sports Grille
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Club 313
Kingston
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
The Kingston
Guillotine, Night of our
Epping
Holy Grail: Matt & Howard Lives, Astrela and Acarius
Starbucks: Pete Smith
Unwine’d: Chad LaMarsh
Gilford
WB’s: DJ Bob
Patrick’s: SEV
Z: Alli Beaudry
Hampstead
Milford
Village Square: live DJ
Pasta Loft: Roots of Creation
J’s Tavern: An Acoustic
Laconia
Evening w/Ron
CJ’s: Brian & George
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ Louie
Devito, DJ Danny D
Fody’s: Josh Logan Band
Martha’s Exchange: DJ
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Burgundy Miso, Brian Lemire
Peddler’s Daughter:
Derry
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Mindseye live karaoke night
Brookstone: Bruce Marshall Club 313: DJ Biggie,
Stella Blu: Chad Verbeck
Burgundy’s: karaoke
karaoke w/CJ
Studio 99: piano karaoke
w/DJ Steve
Club Liquid: Renegade
Soundstation
Newmarket
Dover
Fratello’s: Ferdinando
Stone Church: Mark
Barley Pub: bluegrass
Argenti Trio
jam w/Steve Roy
Murphy’s: Jim Devlin Duo Benvento Trio
Rocko’s: I See Stars, Versa
Portsmouth
Durham
Emerge, Let’s Get It, Run
Blue Mermaid: Jim
Acorns: Chris Way
Forest Run, Operation
Concord
Barley House: Barleyoke
Green Martini: open
mike w/Steve Naylor
Hermanos: Jared Steer
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Mama Kicks, Four Sticks
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Press Room: Family Affair
Red Door: Beat Pervert
Ri Ra: Conor O’Brien Duo
Seabrook
Chop Shop Pub: Redlock,
Vegas Temper
Friday, May 7
Allenstown
Ground Zero: Exiting the
fall, Twisted Legacy, 13
Bedford
Slammers: Best Not Broken
Club Liquid
23 Amherst St., 645-7600
Derryfield Country Club
625 Mammoth Rd, 623-2880
Don Quijote
333 Valley St., 792-1110
Element Lounge
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Fratello’s
155 Dow Street, 624-2022
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
Hanover St. Chophouse
149 Hanover St., 644-2467
The Hilton Garden Inn
101 S. Commercial St.,
669-2222
Ignite Bar & Grille
100 Hanover St., 494-6225,
Jewell & The Beanstalk
793 Somerville St., 624-3709
Jillian’s Billiard Club
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
626-7636
Johnny Bad’s
542 Elm St., 222-9191
J.W. Hill’s
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Lafayette Club
387 Canal St., 623-9323
Mad Bob’s Saloon
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
McGarvey’s
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Milly’s Tavern
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Mint Bistro
1105 Elm Street, 625-6468
Moe Joe’s
2175 Candia Rd, 668-0131
Murphy’s Taproom
494 Elm St., 644-3535
New England Revival
Coffehouse
Calvary Fellowship Church,
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550,
Olympic Lounge
506 Valley St., 644-5559
Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge
815 Elm St.
Penuche’s Grill
96 Hanover St., 626-9830
Rocko’s Bar & Grill
253 Wilson St., 626-5866
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909 Elm St., 625-0246
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1111 S. Willow St., 641-4839
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88 Market St., 666-4292
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865 Second St., 625-9463
Wally and Bernie’s
20 Old Granite St., 641-2583
Makris: Full Circle
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Brick House: Crank Records
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RJ’s: DJ Big Pez
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Holy Grail: Karen Grenier
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The Homestead: Julia V
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Patricks: Cody James &
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183 Douglas St.
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1211 S. Mammoth Road,
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4 Canal St., 595-9831
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136 Pine St., 886-3501
The Polish American Club
15 School St., 889-9819
Shorty’s
Nashua Mall, 882-4070
Simple Gifts Coffee House
Merrimack
58 Lowell St.
Jade Dragon
603 Lounge
515 DW Highway, 424-2280 14 W. Hollis St., 821-5260
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Milford
522 Amherst St., 882-6026
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15 Cottage St., 673-9804
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Country Tavern
452 Amherst St., 889-5871
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57 Palm St., 943-5035
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9 Clinton St., 577-9015
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56 Canal St., 598-8256
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Nashua Mall, 883-6662
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34 High St, 889-9860
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245 Main St.
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185 Main St., 883-8781
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212 Main St., 595-9334
Nashua Garden
121 Main St., 886-7363
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Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
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27 International Dr.,
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Players Ring Theater
105 Marcy St., 436-8123
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45 Pearl St., 431-0148,
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77 Daniel St.,431-5186
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107 State St., 373-6827
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35 Corporate Drive,
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22 Market Square, 319-1680
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172 Hanover St.
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Salem
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43 Pelham Road,
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355 S. Broadway,
870-0045
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326 S. Broadway,
893-4055
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136 Cluff Crossing Rd,
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67 Main St., 898-4344
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Sandown
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148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893
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Daniel Street Tavern
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111 Daniel St.
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Sunapee
15 Bow St., 431-5222
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104 Congress St.,
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Ron’s Landing: Matt
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Hudson
Johnny’s: Smokehouse
Lightning
Linda’s: Project Mess
Kingston
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Piccola: Tim Cannon
WB’s: DJ Bob & DJ
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Milford
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Fody’s: Chad LaMarsh
Gate City Pub: Ramone
Miso, Brian Lemire
Sunday’s Well
Sky Lounge: Raising
Scarlet, Banshee, 7th
Child
Studio 99: Craig
D’Andrea
Sunplaza: DJ Chris Lovett
Newmarket
Stone Church: Truffle
Peterborough
Harlow’s: The Toughcats
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Sad Café: Aurora, Last
Minute Sedative, Rescue
Endeavor, Thieves and
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the Lightning Band
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Blue Mermaid: Connor
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Gas Light: Pat Foley
Band, Ben Kilcollins
Press Room: Preacher Roe
Red Door: Eli Wilkie
Salem
Black Water Grill: Rob
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Brick House: Eternal
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karaoke w/CJ
Mortuus Ortus, Absynthe
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah Plaistow
Sad Café: Urias, Teeth,
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Bands battle
Banshee, Raising Scarlet and 7th Child will
play the Battle of the Bands on Friday, May 7,
at 7 p.m. at SKY lounge & Bistro, 522 Amherst
St. in Nashua. Tickets cost $10 at the door. Mike
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include raffles, door prizes and a silent auction.
See www.skyloungenh.com.
Get your giggles
Nick Lavallee and Ken Reid will bring the
funny along with Jay Chanoine, Sean Tumblety and Shawn Rough at a comedy show
Saturday, May 8, at the Shaskeen, 909 Elm St.
in Manchester. Doors open at 8:45 p.m., show
begins at 9:15 p.m. There is a $2 cover for this
21 and over show. Dave Carter will host. Nick
Lavallee was named “Best Local Comedian” in Hippo’s Best of 2010 readers’ poll; see
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named Best Comedian in the 2010 Boston Phoenix poll, see www.
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Homestead: Jazz Plus w/
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Durham
Acorns: John Leicht Trio
Dover
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Whippersnappers: The
Beloved Few
Manchester
900 Degrees: blues jam
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Club 313: karaoke w/CJ
Element: karaoke w/DJ
Sharon
Shaskeen: The Spain
Brothers & Friends,
traditional Irish session
Strange Brew: blues jam
Portsmouth
Press Room: Judith
Murray Trio
Red Door: Hush Hush
Sweet Harlot music
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Ri Ra: Oran Mor
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Barley House: Dave Tonkin
Hermanos: State Street
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Dover
Kelley’s Row: traditional
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Top of the Chop: Dave
Ogden
Manchester
900 Degrees: blues jam,
Rhythm of Manchester
Element: Cabaret De
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Murphy’s: open mike
Shaskeen: Scalawag, open
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Nashua
Fody’s: Joe Macdonald
Newmarket
Stone Church: Kids
Make Music
HIPPO CLASSIFIED
Black Brimmer: Salsa
Night w/DJ Billy
Fratello’s: blues jam
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Milly’s: open mike w/
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Shaskeen: Manchuka
Milford
J’s Tavern: G Man from
Tuesday, May 11
Mama Kicks
Bedford
Slammers: karaoke w/DJ
Newmarket
Robin
Stone Church: bluegrass
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Concord
Barley House: traditional
Portsmouth
Irish session
Press Room: Larry Garland
Hermanos: Andrew
Jazz Jam w/Dave Gerard
Greene
Red Door: PB Kidd
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: acoustic open Wednesday, May 12
Concord
mike w/ Mike Belkas
Hermanos: Joe Deleault
Manchester
Comedy
Dover
Barley Pub: Mary Delea
Brick House: Dusty and
The Know, The Dino
Monkeys
Gilford
Patrick’s: Chris Lester
Kingston
The Carriage Towne
Bar & Grille: Mike
Belkas
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Matt
Langley
Manchester
Black Brimmer:
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Johnny Bad’s: open mike
Murphy’s: Blues Jam
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Unwine’d: Craig Fahey
Saturday, May 8
Amherst
Country Club: Amy T,
Bob Gaultreau
Friday, May 7
Concord
Cap Center: Lisa Lampanelli
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Manchester
Boynton’s: Eddie Brill,
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Derry
Tuesday, May 11
Adams Memorial Opera Manchester
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Across
1 Maggie Gyllenhaal’s brother
5 Tallahassee’s st.
8 Earthy shade
13 Fix text
14 “___ Boot”
15 Weasel out (on)
16 “You’d think Band A would hold up, but
it’s flimsy. Band B wins.”
19 Like some computer errors
“Battle of the Bands” — who would win? By Matt Jones
20 Blood type for about 6% of the U.S. pop.
21 They follow B
22 Unable to work, perhaps
24 First responder
26 Comp. storage sites
27 Forever, it seems
31 “Charter” tree
33 Diamond Head locale
35 “Band B wins, since Band A only has a
tolerance for booze.”
39 Drink from
(a bowl), like
a cat
40 Cutesy-___
41 Four
Holy Roman
Emperors
43 “Drop Band
A on Band B?
Band B wins,
no contest.”
46 Art ___
47 Suffix for
orange or
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27 The whole thing
28 Burrito add-on, for short
29 Fashionable sandal
30 Drive-thru drink
32 Villainous surname in the Super Mario
Bros. series
34 Request to the dealer
36 Blacksburg sch.
37 What automobile interiors may drown out
38 Geologic time periods
42 Sault ___ Marie Canals
44 Candle type
45 Hound healer
49 “Se ____ español”
50 “___ wisely”
52 Reptilian warning
54 Clueless response
Down
1 Constantly napping member of the Wiggles 56 Obesity drug Orlistat, more familiarly
2 Song from Sarah McLachlan’s “Surfacing” 58 Not too many
60 CEOs may have them
3 Highland Games garb
61 Stripper’s fixture
4 “At Last” blues singer ___ James
62 “The Neverending Story” author Michael
5 Prez on the dime
63 Jimmy of sausage
6 Kitschy illumination
65 Half of an eternal balance
7 Part of AARP
66 Ready to roll
8 “___ the fields we go...”
9 “Mad Money” network
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11 Spurred (on)
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12 Hull wreckers
Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card,
15 Stringy cleaner
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17 Mr. Manning
#0465.
18 “Isn’t that something?”
23 ___ Lobos
25 California/Nevada attrac-
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lemon
48 Gaelic tongue
49 “Ben-___”
51 Abbr. in some town names
53 Furthest degree
55 Fertile Crescent’s place
57 Golfer Aoki
59 Inspected diamonds?
64 “Band B wins, because it’s pointy and
doesn’t digest well.”
67 Early actress Langtry
68 Dir. opposite WNW
69 “Scientific American Frontiers” host Alan
70 Didn’t dine out
71 “Slippery When ___” (Bon Jovi album)
72 Spotted
CONCORD ST: Manchester
Upper End. 1 and 2
bedroom apartments.
Washer/dryer hookup,
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From $750/mo. Pater Real
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CONCORD, CANTERBuRY
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Washer and dryer. Call
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Velma
or practicing a single skill intensely. In
any case, welcome new experiences and
spend some time pondering old ones.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “Many
leaders intuitively understand the need
to press on when the weather is stormy
and the going is hard. Far fewer, it seems
to me, understand the need also to press
By Dave Green
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on when the weather is sunny and the
going is easy.” Regardless of the weather, you’ll need to press on.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “On
balance, the financial system subtracts
value from society.” This is your time to
add value to society.
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column, and every 3x3 box contains
the digits 1 through 9.
Last week's puzzle answers are below
4/29
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(or, more often, factoids) are everywhere. But wisdom…is in short supply.”
Your mind is like an experience-absorbing, wisdom-building sponge. Focus on
acquiring a depth rather than a breadth
of knowledge. This might mean turning off the Twitter for a week while you
read The Oxford History of something,
All quotes are from Enough, by anywhere near getting what they pay
John C. Bogle, born May 8, 1929.
for.” Make sure you are getting what you
pay for; if you don’t focus, you’ll lose
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “To out, financially or otherwise.
be clear, I’m not against success. But
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “The fact
because there are so many possible defi- is that most of those who make the greatnitions of success, I try to avoid using the est contribution to the daily working
word whenever possible.” Success is in of our society never experience even a
the air, if you know how to define it.
moment of the kind of fame that involves
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “In favorable recognition and public adulabusiness, we place too much emphasis tion.” Fame is overrated. Set your sights
on what can be counted and not near- on other things. You’ll be recognized
ly enough on trust and being trusted. … among those who matter.
And we think more like managers, whose
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “Comtask is to do things right, than as leaders, petition is part of life. But again I ask,
whose task is to do the right thing.” This competition for what? For test scores
could be your time to shine as a leader.
rather than learning? For form rathCancer (June 21 – July 22) “…no er than substance? For prestige rather
matter what career you choose, do your than virtue?” Don’t let the urge to combest to hold high its traditional profes- pete overwhelm relationships and basic
sional values, now swiftly eroding, in achievements.
which serving the client is always the
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “If
highest priority. And don’t ignore the only those who strive for fame would
greater good of your community, your ask themselves two essential questions:
nation, and your world.” Pay attention From what source? To what avail?” Any
to your colleagues’ professional val- attempt at fame is in danger of backfirues. You might want to work together to ing. Do not seek fame for fame’s sake
update them.
alone. It would be an empty and shortLeo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “If charac- lived victory. Longer-range satisfaction
ter is not taught, how can it possibly be lies in a job well done, whatever the job
learned?” The time is ripe for you to may be, and in helping others.
learn a few things, but you’ll need to find
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “But
your own teachers. Maybe try the library in fact entrepreneur simply means ‘one
or a class.
who undertakes an enterprise,’ a person
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “The who founds and directs an organizafinancial industry is not only the largest tion.” It’s a good time to undertake an
sector of our economy; it is also the only enterprise.
industry in which customers don’t come
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “Facts
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America’s Got Talent
Blair Fowler, 16, delights her frenzied fans as
a “haul queen,” inspirationally “shopping for glory” by smartly tearing through stores and then
displaying and expertly describing her purchases
on Internet videos. A March Times of London dispatch from Los Angeles noted Fowler’s acclaim
“for her ability to deliver a high-pitched 10minute lecture on the merits of skinny versus
low-riding jeans, apparently without drawing
breath.” According to The Times, at least 100,000
“haul” videos are available on YouTube, mostly
from “amateurs.” Fowler’s videos, though, have
been viewed 75 million times by “haul” wannabes (mostly teenage girls).
Leading Economic Indicators
Abnormal Science
• Child-Bearing, Explained: Virginia state legislator Bob Marshall, speaking in February in
opposition to state funding for Planned Parenthood, said the organization is partly responsible
for the number of disabled children in America.
According to the Old Testament, he said, being
forced to bear a disabled child is punishment for
the mother’s having earlier aborted her first-born.
“(W)hen you abort the first-born ... nature takes
its vengeance on the subsequent children.” Said
Marshall, the organization ought to call itself
“Planned Barrenhood.”
• When stroke victims recover, they have
sometimes acquired bizarre obsessions, like one
by David Stopher of North Tynesdale, England,
who found himself unable to say no to salespeople. According to a March Daily Mail report, the
biggest beneficiary of Stopher’s condition has
been the wireless telephone network (known as
3), whose marketers had signed Stopher up for
six different phones and plans at the same time
(and paid all on time until his brothers stepped in
to persuade 3 to restructure the account).
• Heather Has Two Mommies and a Daddy: Scientists at Britain’s Newcastle University
announced in April that they had grown human
embryos free of certain serious genetic diseases
by first merging DNA from two fertilized eggs
to eliminate the potential deadly marker(s). The
resulting child would have over 99 percent of the
DNA of the mother and father (i.e., all except the
unhealthy markers). One scientist compared the
procedure to “changing the battery on a laptop”
(which leaves the data files intact).
• Intelligent Evolution: Researchers from Royal Roads University in Canada reported last year
that the large, carnivorous pitcher plants of Borneo prefer to eat insects and spiders, but where
those are in short supply, as in the Philippines
highlands, the pitchers have grown to a size
accommodating an alternative source of the nitrogen they need. The pitchers have “learned” that if
they produce copious amounts of nectar, it will
attract the tiny-mouse-sized tree shrew to harvest it, and the shrews, trapped inside the plant,
will leave droppings directly on the spot most
advantageous for the pitcher to consume them.
Said professor Charles Clarke, discovery of the
arrangement “totally blew us away.”
Least Competent Criminals
(1) Police in Berwick, Maine, made an easy
collar in April, solving four residential burglaries. As it turns out, their two suspects (ages
33 and 32) committed the crimes while wearing their GPS monitoring bracelets following
an earlier arrest in New Hampshire, and their
movements perfectly coincided with the burglars’ route. (2) The Drug Warehouse burglar
in Tulsa, Okla., in April escaped, but the crime
was captured on surveillance video and features the perp, apparently hearing sirens,
grabbing his ladder and scrambling up through
the ceiling to find the passage he used to get
in. However, as he scrambled, he kept falling
through the ceiling to the floor, only to have
to try again. He fell to the floor six times, but
apparently escaped on the seventh try.
The Aristocrats!
Jacoby Laquan Smith, 33, was charged with
beating up his quadruple-amputee girlfriend
in St. Paul, Minn., in March because, he said,
she had blocked his view of the television. The
girlfriend, 28, who lost both hands and part
of both legs from a childhood illness, fought
back, punching Smith and dumping her bedpan on him. Said Smith, of his frequent fights
with her, “She’ll swing, push me down, and
choke me with her nubs.”
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• American companies continue trying to
outsource work overseas, no matter how increasingly improbable the project. The Chronicle of
Higher Education in April reported on the University of Houston business school’s contract
to have student papers uploaded to “teaching
assistants” (mostly residing in India, Singapore
and Malaysia), who read them, mark them up
and offer constructive advice. UH professor
Lori Whisenant, who initiated the university’s
contract with the firm EduMetry, said she is
generally pleased with the results.
• Recycled Components: (1) Swiss clockmaker Artya announced in March the creation of a
wristwatch set in fossilized dinosaur feces (with
a strap made with skin from an American cane
toad). Designer Yvan Arpa told the Associated
Press the watch would sell for about $12,000.
(2) The spa Ten Thousand Waves near Santa Fe,
N.M., is only the latest U.S. facility to offer as a
“signature” treatment the “Japanese Nightingale
Facial,” supposedly used for centuries by Japanese geisha for skin rejuvenation. Nightingale
droppings are dried and sanitized, then spiced
with oils and used as a face scrubber.
• Recession-Proof Markets: (1) Jimmy Choo
stores in New York City quickly sold out recently
of their new, blinking, women’s shoes with fiveinch heels, which light up with every step taken,
at $2,495 a pair (although the unrechargeable
battery dies after about 100 uses). (2) A Georgia
Tech advertising researcher, writing in the current Hastings Center Report, found that college
women seeking to donate their eggs for in vitro
fertilization could expect to make on average
$2,350 more than someone just like them except
who had SAT scores 100 points lower.
• Stimuli: (1) A North Carolina research organization in March, picking the state’s 10 worst
destinations for federal stimulus grants, included
two ongoing projects at Wake Forest University: long-term cocaine-addiction in monkeys, and
the potential benefits of yoga on menopausal hot
flashes. (2) The Florida Legislature, sensing a
need to jump-start business in the faltering yacht
industry, reduced the sales tax. Rather than tax the
entire selling price, tax would be levied on only
the first $300,000 (for example, giving a beleaguered yacht buyer a $42,000 cut on the overall
price of a $1 million boat).
• Bailing Out AIG (update): In 2006, the aboutto-fail AIG wrote a $15 million life insurance
policy on the nearly impecunious Suzy Tomlinson (then 72), wildly inflating her net worth, with
her 32-year-old “social companion” as beneficiary. Two years later, Ms. Tomlinson drowned,
fully dressed, in her bathtub following a night of
partying, and the last person to see her alive was
that $15 million man himself. Authorities in Indianapolis called the death an “accident,” but AIG
thinks it was gamed by the companion, an investment consultant. According to an April Wall
Street Journal report, this is but one of 100 or so
challenges to “stranger originated” life insurance
policies sold in the go-go years in which investors
sought creative ways to bet on “derivatives” like
“stranger” life insurance.
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