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Our education system
has historically done a
pretty bad job of educating our girls; however,
in recent years, it’s boys
who are lagging behind.
From seeing who are
the valedictorians to looking on college
campuses (almost 60 percent are women), boys just aren’t measuring up. There
are many theories to why boys have been
falling behind, including the canceling of
energy-releasing activities such as recess
and gym.
But I think our boy problem is more
than just the changes to how we educate
our kids in classrooms. The problem goes
to what boys expect and what we expect
out of them. Do we expect them to get
good grades or is it OK for a boy to be a
goofball?
Not to overly pick on the hip-hop or
country music culture (really one message in the same), but they give little
importance to education. Reality TV
shows similarly value outrageous behavior over a good job.
We’re not going to change hip-hop or
country music or end the reality show
genre, but we can make sure our boys
know what behavior is acceptable and
where — and we can make sure that we
expect good grades and a good job.
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12 Crafting success
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least paying for their art) by turning to old traditions is growing. Jewelry makers, fabric artists,
furniture makers and more are selling their
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18 THIS WEEK
the Arts:
20 Art
The building is the art; Local Color, listings.
23 Theater
Curtain Calls, listings.
24 Classical
Events around town in listings.
Inside/Outside:
25 Gardening Guy
Henry Homeyer helps you with your greenery.
26 Kiddie Pool
Family fun this weekend.
27 Treasure Hunt
There’s gold in them there closets.
30 Car Talk
Click and Clack give you their advice.
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32 Food
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Manchester PLUS Weekly Dish; Food listings; Rich
Tango-Lowy helps you shop in Ingredients; Wine with
dinner; listings.
Pop Culture:
38 Reviews
Reviews of CDs, games & books.
41 Movies
Amy Diaz giggles at
Extract, guffaws at In
the Loop, gives peace
a chance at Taking
Woodstock, groans at
Halloween II and gets
impatient with Death at
The Final Destination.
NITE:
46 Bands, clubs, nightlife
Viva Manch-Vegas — Elvis festival comes to town; the
musical romance of Long Time Courting; Nightlife and
comedy listings and more.
49 Rock and Roll Crossword
A puzzle for the music-lover.
50 Music this Week
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Signs of Life
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A New Hampshire-based reality television show
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prepare them for the jobs of their dreams. Legacy Productions conducted video interviews during
last week’s job fair at the New Hampshire Motor
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They’re out?
Nashua may lose baseball for good
Mayor Donnalee Lozeau, who
is a season ticket holder of the
Defenders, was unavailable for
comment as the City waits for the
team to act.
Defenders management could
not be reached for comment.
In a statement printed in the Telegraph and reprinted in the Union
Leader, Dan Duquette, former Red
Sox general manager and current
Defenders team president, said “It
is a shame that more residents did
not take advantage of the baseball
and concerts that were held at HolThe City of Nashua locked the American Defenders of New
man Stadium this summer...The
Hampshire, an independent league baseball team, out of
problems the team is facing are
Holman Stadium for failing to pay rent and expenses to
very unfortunate. I had high hopes
the City. Mayor Donnalee Lozeau ordered a tractor to be
for what the ownership was bringparked on home plate. Photo by Carole Alfano.
ing to our area.”
By Jeff Mucciarone
The team’s final home stand of the
[email protected]
season, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 4, through
Monday, Sept. 7, was expected to be played in
There was a tractor parked on home plate at
New Jersey. Both the New Hampshire Fisher Cats,
historic Holman Stadium in Nashua last week.
which play in Manchester, and the Lowell Spinners
That was far from good news for the American
honored tickets from canceled Defenders games,
Defenders of New Hampshire and their fans.
perhaps ironic, since the success of the two franNo one’s particularly pleased that it came to
chises to the north and south may have hastened
this, but the independent league baseball team
the end for the Defenders in Nashua.
failed to pay its rent and expenses to the city.
The Telegraph reported that a telephone
So the City shut them down last week, peranswering message at Holman Stadium on
haps ending the 12-year string of independent
Tuesday, Aug. 25, stated the night’s game
baseball in Nashua.
had been postponed “due to health and safeFormerly the Nashua Pride, the team’s future
ty issues between the team and the city.” Later
in Nashua appears lost. And Can-Am League
in the week, calls would not connect at the
won’t let the Defenders find a new home without
stadium. The team’s Web site, www.ameripaying the $45,000 in bills it owes to Nashcandefenders.us, displayed no indication of
ua, according to the mayor’s office. The team is
any issues, as of last week.
owned by Boston Baseball All-Stars, LLC.
The team played before an average crowd
The overdue payments include $35,000 in
of 1,109 fans in a season that finds them more
rent to the City. The team also owes $7,742 to
than 10 games below .500, at 35-47.
the city police department for police details,
David Williamson, director of sales for the
according to a letter from Police Chief Donald
Defenders, said in July that sales and sponsorships
Conley. According to a letter from the City, the
were down this year, but he gave no indication of
team owes the fire department more than $2,000
just how financially strapped the team was.
for coverage at fireworks displays. The City letThe City said while there’s been a perter ordered the team to vacate the stadium by
ception that youth and high school teams no
Monday, Aug. 31. Both letters were dated Aug.
longer use the stadium, that is incorrect —
21. The team vacated the stadium last Tuesday,
youth teams do still take advantage of the
Aug. 25.
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The death of longtime Massachusetts Sen.
Ted Kennedy last week led to an outpouring
of praise from legislators and public officials
far and wide and from varying points along the
political spectrum. Former governor and current state GOP chairman John Sununu said
in a statement, Kennedy “was one of the most
influential figures in American political history. His passing will leave a real void in the
nation’s policy making process. Sen. Kennedy was a principled political advocate who was
able to work across philosophical differences
to produce good, effective legislation. He will
be remembered as the classic model for great
bipartisan policy development.” Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said in a statement,
“Because of his dedication to and passion for
service, literally tens of millions of Americans
lead better lives and dream bigger dreams. It’s
very difficult to imagine life without Sen. Kennedy, but I know his legacy of compassion and
generosity will live on forever. It was a privilege to know Sen. Kennedy and to call him a
friend.” “Sen. Kennedy was a force in the United States Senate because he understood that he
could hold firm to his principles and still reach
across the aisle to find common ground,” Gov.
John Lynch said in a statement. “Sen. Kennedy’s willingness to listen and compromise led to
progress for all Americans.” And this from Sen.
Judd Gregg: “In the Senate, Ted and I had a
remarkable working relationship, and a friendship I will always cherish. He was undoubtedly
one of the single most effective senators in the
history of our country and the impact of his loss
will be felt far beyond the halls of Washington
or the streets of Hyannis Port. Where his booming voice once echoed through the Senate, there
will now be a resounding echo from this great
loss, but his memory will never leave us.”
New Hampshire businesses received some good
news last week when a Massachusetts Supreme
Court Judge ruled Massachusetts couldn’t collect
sales taxes from out-of-state businesses selling
products to its residents. Controversy grew earlier this year when the Massachusetts Department
of Revenue tried to collect more than $100,000 in
taxes from Town Fair Tire Centers in New Hampshire. The department had sought to collect a “use
tax” since Bay State residents buying the tires
in New Hampshire were presumably to use the
tires in their home state. Town Fair Tire, which
is based in Connecticut, has locations throughout
New England. According to a report by WMUR,
there were 313 invoices at New Hampshire stores
that listed Massachusetts addresses for buyers.
The judge ruled invoices alone weren’t sufficient
to determine where the tires were actually used,
the article said.
Seacoast businessman Jack Kimball appears
to be the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to emerge. Kimball would face off against
Lynch, who has not announced whether he’ll
seek a fourth term. Kimball told NHPoliticalReport.com last week he would announce his
candidacy soon. Kimball owns Great Bay Facility Services in Portsmouth.
State Republican leaders had been critical of
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter for not hosting any
town hall meetings during the current congressional recess. Well, she held a pair of meetings
last weekend, so Republicans have shifted their
focus to Rep. Paul Hodes, who is also a 2010
Senate candidate. The state GOP issued a press
release Monday, Aug. 31, criticizing Hodes for
not meeting face to face with voters. Hodes will
likely face a challenge from either former attorney general Kelly Ayotte or Manchester lawyer
Ovide Lamontagne.
Nashua Alderman David MacLaughlin won’t
be seeking reelection in November as he’s waiting
out a prison sentence in Massachusetts for a third
drunk-driving offense that occurred in Wilmington, Mass. The Telegraph reported MacLaughlin,
who represents Ward 8, will serve out his term
once he’s released in November. The article said
MacLaughlin didn’t tell other aldermen for more
than one month why he was missing meetings.
The article went on to report most aldermen
didn’t know of MacLaughlin’s situation until the
Telegraph informed them in mid-August.
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Perhaps more than ever, elderly folks need to
be on the lookout for con artists eyeing them as
easy targets.
Area communities have been hit with several
incidents this summer in which thieves have taken advantage of elderly residents.
In June, two men claiming to be repairing water
lines approached a 92-year-old Concord resident
and told the individual they needed access to the
home. While one man kept the elderly individual busy, the other stole money from the home. In
August three men approached a different 92-yearold resident and this time claimed to be installing
fences in the area. While one man held the individual’s attention, the other two slipped into the
home and attempted to remove a safe, according
to Concord police.
Jane Constant, senior relations officer with
the Nashua Police Department, has seen a rise in
incidents targeting the elderly, especially in the
midst of the poor economy.
“There’s a lot of things happening to the elderly right now,” Constant said. “People are hitting
the most vulnerable populations.”
Concord police have seen all criminal offenses
where the victim was 55 or older rise by 3 percent from Fiscal Year 2008 to Fiscal Year 2009.
The increase is right in line with national crime
trends. The most serious offenses, like murder,
rape or arson, have increased by 7 percent during
the same period — again looking at victims 55
or older. During the same period and again looking at the same population, thefts, such as fraud,
identity theft, credit card scams and wire transfer
thefts, have increased by 19 percent in Concord,
from 143 in 2008 to 179 in 2009.
Police blame the rise in theft at least in part on
the poor economy, but it’s also because criminals
are beginning to target older folks more regularly,
because they see them as vulnerable, said Joseph
Wright, Concord’s community relations officer.
“They’re con artists,” Wright said. “They have
to be fairly skilled at what they do. It’s their profession. They’re making money.”
With the increase in technology such as the
Internet, older individuals seem to be falling victim to online scams involving bad wire transfers,
Wright said.
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and to question everything.
“Don’t be pressured to be getting anything
done right away or to provide payment right
away,” Constant said.
Police have also seen funeral or burial scams
where con artists attempt to get payment in
advance for services. Wright said it’s fine to make
arrangements in advance, but people shouldn’t
provide payment up front.
If people want payment in the form of cash or
some type of money wire, be wary. Once someone hands over cash, there’s really no way to get
it back, Constant said.
Do research. If approached by someone looking to do work or even soliciting donations for
a charity, find out what the organization is all
about.
“Take the time to find out who they are,”
Constant said, adding any door-to-door salesman must obtain a permit from the city. She said
not to hesitate to ask to see the permit or to see
identification.
If an individual decides he or she does want
to donate to a particular charity, that person still
shouldn’t feel any pressure to provide that donation when someone comes door-to-door. The
donation can always be made via mail at a later date once proper research has been conducted,
Constant said.
“One of the biggest things is not to feel like
they have to give or be pressured to give any kind
of money,” Constant said. “Never send money by
wire or cash. Don’t let anybody into the home.
Those are the key points. Always ask for identification. Don’t be as trusting — don’t be as trusting
as you want to be. Question everything.”
Wright said to be suspicious if anyone claiming to be from a bank asks for account numbers
or social security numbers. Banks don’t operate
that way, he said.
On the identify theft front, Wright said people should be shredding any documents that have
personal information on them as thieves will
“dumpster dive” to get what they are after.
Visit www.guidestar.com or www.charitywatch.com to see which charity organizations
are legitimate. Check with the Better Business
Bureau, or the state attorney general’s office. If
people notice any suspicious activity of any kind,
don’t hesitate to call police. NH sees rise in exploitation of elderly or incapacitated adults
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
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“If it sounds too good to be true, it probably
is,” Wright said.
Wright said people need to be more cautious
with work crews, even if they know they are
legitimate. If people are working on someone’s
home, think about what they could have access
to. If they’re using the bathroom, take out any prescription medication and certainly any valuables.
Police are seeing utility worker scams, where
criminals try to impersonate legitimate work
crews, right down to seemingly official signage
on vehicles. Typically, they’re working in teams,
Constant said. “They try to gain entry, often using
the distraction technique,” Constant said. “Then
someone else tries to find something of value
to them, a wallet, social security number, credit
cards, bank cards.”
Richard Head, chief of the consumer protection bureau within the attorney general’s office,
said the attorney general’s office appointed a
prosecutor to deal specifically with elder crimes
and abuse scams.
“We have certainly recognized that a significant number of scams and financial exploitation
crimes do get directed at the elderly, and we’ve
created that position in response to that,” Head
said. Nashua recently had a paving scam where an
apparent work crew would show up offering to
pave driveways since they had extra materials
they said they needed to use. They’d offer to do
the work for free or at a cheap rate. With no written contract, workers would then demand some
exorbitant sum for the work, which was typically of poor quality. In some cases, criminals went
so far as to drive elderly individuals to the bank to
obtain payment, Constant said.
Seniors are also targets for telemarketing or
door-to-door salesman scams, along with Internet scams. “It’s just rampant,” Constant said.
“The amount of crime happening to them is pretty high.”
Criminals playing out these cons tend to be
practiced in what they do. They can be “easy talkers” and they can dress professionally, Constant
said. “They try to look as legitimate as possible.”
“They try to befriend the person to gain their
trust,” Constant said. “A lot of [elderly people]
are very trusting. They don’t know how to be
rude. They don’t know how to say, ‘get off my
property.’ That’s not the era they were born in.”
While law enforcement has dealt with a rise in
scams targeting the vulnerable elderly, state officials have also seen a rise in the exploitation of
elderly and other dependent residents statewide.
The state’s adult protection program, which provides services for incapacitated adults ages 18 or
older who are abused, neglected, exploited or selfneglecting, saw exploitation cases rise from 224
in Fiscal Year 2008 to 297 in FY 2009, nearly a
33-percent increase. Officials figure the economy played a role in the increase in exploitation
cases, which can take a variety of forms, such as
a caregiver taking money from an incapacitated
individual, even if they intend to pay it back.
“There are times that people do get preyed on
by others,” said Rachel Lakin, Adult Protective
Services program operations administrator.
The state defines exploitation as the illegal use
of an incapacitated adult’s person or property for
another person’s profit or advantage, or the breach
of a fiduciary relationship through the use of a person or a person’s property, including situations
where a person uses undue influence, harassment,
duress, deception or fraud.
The state has also seen self-neglecting cases
jump from 1,153 in FY 2008 to 1,293 in FY 2009,
a 12-percent increase. Officials think that too may
be due to the poor economy, as more people neglect
appointments or services that might cost money.
Abuse cases have remained fairly steady in recent
years, with a slight decrease in some instances.
Joseph Wright, community relations officer for
the Concord Police Department, said police have
seen more incidents where a son or daughter starts
taking money from an incapacitated parent, usually because money is tight in their own life. The
intention is typically to pay back the debt, but over
the course of a few months or longer, the dollar
signs grow and their capability to repay the debt
decreases. “Sometimes it’s not necessarily malice,”
Wright said. But the reality is, the purpose of their
financial control was never so they could use the
money for themselves, no matter how legitimate
the reason may seem. From a law enforcement
perspective, even if someone says they were going
to pay the money back, it’s theft.
Protective Services officials do not prosecute
people, though they sometimes work with law
enforcement, as some cases constitute crimes.
Protective Services officials are more interested
in making sure people are helped and situations
resolved. Officials stressed the importance of community collaboration.
“Whenever somebody says ‘I’m concerned
and I don’t know whether I should call,’ for help
or advice, that’s usually an indication they should
call,” Lakin said. The program is confidential. Call
800-949-0470 or 271-7014 to report instances of
abuse, neglect or exploitation. Visit www.dhhs.
state.nh.us/DHHS/BEAS.
Gatsas vs. who?
In Manchester’s upcoming primary, state senator Ted Gatsas seems to have the edge
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
figured taxes and economic growth would be key
for candidates to address.
Roy, who Briggs said is positioning himself
as the “education mayor,” said on Tuesday that
more than $7 million in state aid should have gone
directly into the education budget rather than the
city’s general fund. Komi has also stressed the
need to make education more of a priority.
Briggs thinks Roy has been more idealistic while Gatsas is taking a more pragmatic and
shorter-term vision of the city: “Gatsas is three
years out. Roy is 10 years out,” Briggs said.
Girard said Roy gets most of his support within the education establishment and city unions.
Voters are likely to look at Gatsas and Roy as
city hall insiders as they’ve both been around for
six to 10 years in city government. If voters hold
them accountable for tax increases and some
union deals that included “sweet” pay raises, it
could hurt both candidates. But if voters aren’t all
too upset with the city’s direction, Girard figured
both would get their share of votes, and in that
case Girard figures Gatsas’ notoriety would help
him prevail.
Girard said Gatsas is more or less running to
be the city CEO. During Tuesday’s debate, Gatsas pointed at his diverse business experience.
Stephen is essentially running against City Hall
— “He’s trying to position himself as a fed-up outsider who’s had enough,” Girard said.
The question for Stephen is whether he can
mobilize a vote in the primary. If so, it would
create a “fairly classic showdown” between Stephen and Gatsas, political outsider versus city
hall insider. That’s the match-up Girard is expecting to see. Briggs figured it would come down to
Gatsas and Roy. But Stephen’s campaign is wellfunded, Briggs said.
Ghost masks and ‘death panels’
Shea-Porter faces questions, shouting at a Manchester town hall meeting
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
A couple handfuls of protestors stood across
the street from the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester. Some dressed as ghosts
protesting health care scare tactics — complete
with the mask made famous by the Scream
movie series. Another man wore a poster reading “Chappaquiddicare.”
That was outside. Inside, there was shouting.
There was interrupting. There were threats of
removing unruly folks. It all added up to another town hall meeting on health care.
Following criticism from Republicans for
not holding town hall meetings during the current congressional recess, Democratic Rep. Carol
Shea-Porter hosted two of them Saturday, Aug.
29, one in Manchester and one in Portsmouth to
discuss health care reform. The Manchester meeting was limited to one hour and its 90 attendees
were required to pass through metal detectors.
The Manchester meeting was marked by consistent interruptions from many of those admitted
to the meeting. President Barack Obama faced criticism following a town hall meeting in Portsmouth
last month where some thought his audience was
too friendly. Given the general animosity in the
room in Manchester, no one could suggest SheaPorter faced anything of the sort.
Shea-Porter fielded questions on how to pay for
health care reform, whether she supported a single-payer system and why more emphasis wasn’t
placed on tort reform. She stood toe-to-toe with
a man accusing her of “fast-tracking to hell” for
supporting “death care,” provisions in the reform
proposal that opponents have maintained promotes
assisted suicide for the elderly. Both supporters and
objective sources have refuted those claims.
Shea-Porter thanked the man for bringing up
the idea of so-called death panels. She told the
audience the legislation simply provides people
an opportunity to plan their last days in advance
with a physician.
“I don’t recognize you as my spiritual advisor and you don’t recognize me as yours and
that’s probably just right,” Shea-Porter told the
man after he asked her to begin repenting.
Federal police officers were constantly in
motion trying to quiet folks who were interrupting speakers. One man was removed for
disrupting Shea-Porter and others. Shea-Porter asked the audience to mind their manners.
Every time people would interrupt, they would
be met with a chorus of “respect.”
A heated exchange erupted prior to the meeting after one man found that some people were
allowed into the meeting despite not living in
Shea-Porter’s congressional district.
The Union Leader reported that Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, who will run against
Shea-Porter in 2010, waited in line to attend the
event and was offered admittance but refused
because he didn’t want to step ahead of others.
Shea-Porter was asked why she didn’t choose
a bigger venue. She said town hall meetings typically have room for up to 60 people and often far
fewer show up. The capacity for the Manchester
meeting and the Portsmouth meeting, which was
reported to have included 150 people, was in line
with what other politicians have done this year.
Nashua resident Karen Thoman said she thought
the meeting was essentially political rhetoric. While
she acknowledged that Shea-Porter responded to
audience questions, she was displeased that there
was no “back and forth” allowed.
“That to me is a town hall,” said Thoman,
who said she came to this town hall meeting
because her Congressman, Paul Hodes, isn’t
holding any. Others said they were upset they
weren’t able to ask follow-up questions.
Nashua resident Stan Olejczak said it was
a shame the meeting was dominated by yelling. Still, he said the forum was useful, “when
[Shea-Porter] had the chance to speak,” for
those looking to learn about the health care
reform proposal, which would include a pool
of health insurance plan options, including one
public plan. Shea-Porter told the audience that
people who already have insurance through
their employer would stick with that plan.
Olejczak was personally interested as he has
a preexisting condition that many insurance
plans won’t take on. He said he left a copy of the
rules of order at the front of the room. “She did
the best she could,” Olejczak said. “She tried to
answer everybody’s questions.”
“She didn’t back down,” said Zandra Rice
Hawkins, of Granite State Progress, a progressive
advocacy organization. Prior to the event, Hawkins
was berated by a man, who was later removed, for
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If a Republican can win this year’s Manchester
mayoral race, he could end up the most prominent elected GOP member in New Hampshire
once the dust clears after the 2010 mid-term elections. There are certainly lots of “ifs” along the
way, but following a disastrous election year for
the GOP in 2008, state Republican leaders definitely don’t want to see a Democrat step into
Frank Guinta’s office in the Queen City.
“I’d say it’s Ted Gatsas’ race to lose,” said Richard Girard, former politician and current columnist
for the Manchester Express. “He clearly has the
best name recognition and organization in the city.
He’s widely believed to be the front runner.”
Judging by political signs, Gatsas, a Republican
state senator and Manchester alderman, seems to
be on top leading up to the city’s Sept. 15 primary, which will narrow the field to two. Girard said
many city politicians and much of the business
establishment have lined up behind Gatsas.
“He’s worked very hard putting together and
managing a very tight organization,” Joe Briggs,
co-host of MCAM’s Two Joes Live, said of Gatsas.
“He’s being very hands-on, very aggressive, really
leaving nothing to chance.”
Girard said the real question is who, other
than Gatsas, can win the primary, which is officially non-partisan. Will it be former state Sen.
Bobby Stephen or current Alderman Mark Roy?
State Rep. Richard Komi and Glenn Ouellette,
who has surprised some with his success during
debates, are also running.
Stephen (who released a set of 14 ideas for saving the city money on Tuesday, Sept. 1; see www.
bobbystephen.com) continually criticized Gatsas
during a debate that day for approving a budget
that increased taxes by 8 percent over two years.
Gatsas pointed to a 1983 vote Stephen took that
increased real estate transfer taxes and the business
profits tax. Stephen said he didn’t recall that vote.
On Tuesday, Komi, Roy and Ouellette said
the proposed spending cap that could end up on
November’s ballot was a gimmick. Gatsas and
Stephen said they supported it. Gatsas said it was
a great blueprint to work from. Roy countered
that the city charter was the blueprint the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen should be working from.
Asked to identify places to cut this year’s city
budget, Roy said the city spends $8 million a year
on solid waste removal, with city recycling at a 9percent rate. A city of Manchester’s size should be
at 50 percent, at least, he said. Increasing recycling
could cut the solid waste budget in half, Roy said.
Gatsas suggested saving money on street lighting by placing solar panels on school buildings
and installing solar panels at the old Manchester
dump to generate electricity. Komi said he would
like to see smaller city buses used, since he said
there’s usually only about five people on them,
even at commuting times. Smaller buses would
save on fuel, maintenance and insurance costs,
he said. Ouellette said the city should operate its
construction projects more efficiently.
“These are all great ideas,” Roy said of those
and other cost-saving ideas. “But they’re very
small ideas. If you want to make real change, you
need to talk about things that save millions.”
Gatsas reminded his competition that to reduce
the city budget by 1 percent would require a $1.9
million cut. “That’s not easy,” he said.
“I think that the issue that defines the race is,
number one, education funding this year, without a doubt,” Briggs said. After education, Briggs
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On the shrink’s couch in a near
francoma
I’m having a problem with what can only
be described as a building obsession with the
way Terry Francona handles the pitching. That
doesn’t mean I don’t like Tito. I do. And even
though I call him Mother Francona at times, all
things considered, he’s the best manager the Sox
have had since at least Dick Williams. But I’m
now having dreams about it. Like the one from
the other night when I flew to Vienna for a session with Sigmund Freud that went something
like this:
Dr. Freud: Gooten mourning — please come
in and go lay on the couch over there.
Me: Thanks, Doc.
Dr. Freud: Vhaaat seems to be da problem?
Me: Terry Francona is making me crazy. Every time the TV flashes to him from the
sixth inning on, my eye starts to twitch the way
it did for Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink
Panther movies whenever Inspector Clouseau
came into the room. He makes me CRAZY!!!!
Dr. Freud: Fvay does that make you, uhm,
insane?
Me: Because he keeps removing totally incommand pitchers because they’ve passed 100
on the ALMIGHTY PITCH COUNT for the
uncertainty of a new guy from the bullpen.
Dr. Freud: And why does that bother you?
Me: Because you know the guy on the mound
has it and you don’t have that guarantee from a
new guy. And if it’s a one- or two-run game you
don’t have a lot of time to discover that. Plus if
he’s leaving ’cause he’s tired, it’s because he’s
not conditioned to go longer as these days going
110 is looked at like surviving the Bataan Death
March.
Dr. Freud: Is it like that in all cases?
Me: No. I don’t mind with a big lead as
he did with Paul Byrd on Sunday. A 7-0 lead
means there’s a margin of error to work with in
case the pen isn’t real sharp. So if you want to
give a guy a little extra rest then it doesn’t bother me.
Dr. Freud: Den vhat does bother you?
Me: Almost anytime Jon Lester pitches —
who the Sox have scored two runs or less TEN
freak’n times in 23 starts. The last time the Sox
were in Tampa he’s in control having given up
just a run in a pretty important game consider-
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ing they have a tough time winning in Tampa
and are off to Yankee Stadium for four really
big games against the red hot Yanks after that.
But he’s out after six stinking innings when the
almighty pitch count hits 100, in part because
he’s struck out 11 guys — which is a good thing,
right? Daniel Bard, who has pitched well,
comes in and BOOM — Longoria homers to tie
it and they lose in 13.
Flash forward to Sunday in the Bronx. He
leaves after seven and 107 in a REALLY big
game since they’ve lost five in a row. Bard
comes in again and BOOM — Johnny Damon
hits a homer to tie it at 2-2. Next, Mark Teixeira — BOOM — into the bullpen to make it 3-2
and they lose their six straight. Then Tuesday
he’s leading Chicago 3-1 in the seventh. He’s
got two guys on and two outs. He STRIKES
OUT Alexei Ramirez for what should be the
third out — but the ball hits the plate and gets
away from Jason Varitek and a run scores. Not
V’s fault, just bad luck — but Tito’s pacing that
familiar pace. Next batter hits a liner that goes
in and out of Mike Lowell’s glove to let the other runner score to tie it. Out comes Tito and — I
go Grrrrrr!!!!!!! This time the bullpen does the
job and they win. Then Saturday Clay Buchholz takes a two-hitter into the ninth,.where a
seeing eye grounder gets through for a single
to start the inning. He gets the next guy — but
Tito brings in Hideki Okajima for the coveted
lefty-vs.-lefty match-up with the next two hitters. Adam (gone with the) Lind is first and
BOOM — he hits a double to score the first run
and Lyle Overbay — goes semi-BOOM. Not a
homer, but a sharp single to drive in the second
run before Jonathan Papelbon comes in to get
the final two outs.
Dr. Freud: And vhat bothers you about that
— they von, didn’t they?
Me: YES — but he over-managed a 3-0 win
into a barely-got-out alive 3-2 win. DON’T
YOU GET IT EITHER?
Dr. Freud: Calm yourself. Don’t get excited.
Me: I can’t help it. Every time it happens my
blood pressure spikes. It’s almost as bad flicking
by the fair and balanced network and hearing
the dumbest guy on TV blathering about eastern
establishment, left wing, media elite, liberal bias
on stories ranging from bulldog Sarah Palin’s
play during Wasilla’s run to Alaska’s state bas-
ketball crown to the Lindberg kidnapping.
Dr. Freud: Is that all that’s bothering you?
Me: NO! I haven’t even gotten to what
REALLY bugs me. I mean who came up with
100 as the number for the all mighty pitch count
anyway???? A pitching coach, doctor, trainer, a
pitcher or a math teacher who liked the symmetry of the 100?
Dr. Freud: But it does prevent injuries
— right?
Me: Who says so? I have to see the data
before I’ll believe it. In fact, I think it leads
to more time on the DL and all this situational pitching HURTS a team — because 13-man
pitching staffs mean you have three stiffs on a
staff that never would have been there in the
1970s when the pitching was better.
Dr. Freud: How can you prove that?
Me: The good pitchers then went more
innings. I mean who would you rather face, a
tiring Luis Tiant in the eighth or Casey Janssen and his 5.81 ERA? I’’ll take my chances
with the latter — which managers do all the time
these days. And that’s why the lowest leaguewide ERA this decade in the AL was 4.36 and in
the ’70s it was 3.47 and the highest in the 2000s
was 5.28 and the highest in the ’70s 4.23. It ain’t
rocket science. It’s there for all to see but they
don’t and it makes me nuts. So as I said, you’ve
got to help me — please!
Dr. Freud: OK — it’s simple. You have a
condition called know-it-all-itis. It agitates you
because you don’t like it when people just accept
things — just because experts say so.
Me: What do you know — I thought it was
just that I didn’t like seeing winnable games
blown by micro-managing from the dugout.
Dr. Freud: No — you want people to question the experts who may have the trend on their
side, when you have ALL the historical evidence on your side. You are fine. It’s everyone
else who is, er, crazy.
Me: Now we’re getting somewhere — ’cause
that’s what I thought all along.
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F-Cats roll the Dice-K out of
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Sports Glossary
The Big Story: It was a rather eventful week
for the F-Cats. Since we last talked they set a
new attendance record for a sixth straight season on Friday when they passed last year’s total
of 372,227 on Friday, and wherever he is they
made Bill (Sunday) Masse smile by sweeping
the Portland C-Dogs over the weekend. And
they saw the attendance record soar again as
Daisuke Matsuzaka packed the house again
for a rehab appearance on Sunday. However, it
was not a happy day for him or the Nation as
he was lit up for five runs in the FIRST inning
after giving up a sound-familiar? four hits and
three walks.
Thumbs Up: To retiring linebacker and
should-be All-Time Patriot Team member Tedy
Bruschi. He gets it because in the most gloryfilled time in franchise history he epitomized
what a Patriots-type player was — smart, tough
and clutch.
Coming and Going: It doesn’t look good for the
fate of the American Defenders of Nashua, who
were locked out of Holman Stadium last week for
being some $45,000 in arrears to the City.
Are You Ready for Some Football: The Bo
Dickson Memorial Queen City Jamboree annually signals the beginning of the football season,
so with it going off Friday night, football season has arrived. The day’s stunner was seeing
Central ripped 34-0 by Bishop Guertin in just
24 minutes of play as Nick Phillips and Adam
Hall (of a good cheese) ran for two quick scores
to get the Cardinals out of the box quickly. Trinity and Memorial were winners in games over
Campbell and Timberlane respectively as Con-
The Numbers:
3 – goals scored in his varsity debut by freshman Erik
Martel led Bedford High to
a 4-2 opening-day win over
Con Val when Mike Marinelli
had the other goal and (to the)
Max Cote added to assists.
5 – number of active Patriots players remaining to have
played in all three Super
Bowl victories, namely Tom
Brady, Matt Light, Richard
Seymour, Kevin Faulk and
Stephen Neal.
nor Lyon ran for two Trinity scores in a 29-14
win, while Fred (Mr.) Rogers threw for two
Crusaders TDs with the big one being a 59-yard
toss-and-run to Adam Reynolds-Ruschel. And
finally on the down side — West came out on
the short end of a 37-0 loss to Souhegan.
Honors: Since they’ve been doing battle since Ronald Reagan was in the White
House it seems fitting that Keith Dickson and
Stan Spirou should receive the honor of being
inducted into the New England Basketball Hall
of Fame together. That will be the case on Oct.
9, when both will be enshrined at its Mohegan
Sun Casino home. Spirou gets in after winning
484 games, compiling a .673 winning percentage and appearing in 14 NCAA Tournaments
while at Southern New Hampshire University.
For Dickson it’s 437 wins, a .642 winning percentage and 11 times in the tournament 1 with
Saint Anselm. Congrats to both.
Alumni News: Dickson and Spirou ain’t the
only locals in this year’s class at the Hall. Kerry
Kelley-Pickus, of the athletically fertile Dick
and Polly Kelley clan, also will be inducted.
She was a three-sport star at Manchester Central when the girls’ basketball teams dominated
Class L Basketball in winning three straight
titles. After high school she went on to a fine
career playing point guard for Brown University in the early ’90s.
Hot Ticket: After a 17-14 loss on the road
to Kutztown, it’s the home opener for Saint
Anselm football at Grappone Stadium when
they go for win number one against Plymouth
State on Saturday at 1 p.m.
8 – not-to-be-outdone-bythe-boys number of goals
scored by the Bedford Girls in
an 8-0 opening-day thumping
of Con Val as Colleen Murray
and Sarah Kelley each had hat
tricks and Margaret Steward
chipped in with a pair of goals.
10 – number of times a
national TV audience will get
to see local fave Tyler Roche
in this hard-to-believe-it’shis-final season at Boston
College according to its just
released 2009-10 schedule.
72 – percent of 2,100+
voters on the Fox.com poll
who said Bruschi was a Hall
of Famer an hour after the
retirement
announcement
was made.
101 – speed (miles per
hour) of the fastball Red Sox
reliever Daniel Bard threw
past Sox killer Jim Thome to
extract Boston from an eighthinning jam on Wednesday in
a game Boston later won 3-2
on a ninth-inning walk-off by
David Ortiz.
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Ronald Reagan: Long gone president
with the twinkle in his eye and former radio
sportscaster with cool nickname “Dutch.”
Followed that up with a move into films
with his most famous being the tale of the
doomed Notre Dame football coach in the
Knute Rockne story. He played the slick
running back and equally doomed George
Gipp, who gave a future political world the
phrase “win one for the Gipper.” Next was
to run to the left wing union as prez of the
Screen Actors Guild. After a conversion
to the other side it was into politics with
the GOP with a stop first in the governor’s
mansion in California in 1966 and later at
the White House starting in 1981.
Sigmund Freud: Cocaine-tooting, Austrian-born all-world psychiatry rock star
with famous catch phrase “Sometimes a
cigar is just a cigar.” Outside of Dr. Frazier
Crane he’s gotta be the most well-known
practitioner of the head game trade in the
USA. Inspired many great lines for Woody
Allen in films like Annie Hall – where a
split screen shows him and girlfriend Diane
Keaton at their respective analysts being
asked simultaneously “How often do you
have sex.” Keaton says “Constantly — three
times a week,” while Allen says “Almost
never — three times a week,” clearly demonstrating that life is a matter of perspective.
Woody Allen: Seen-better-days, insecure, 5’9”ish film giant with the odd family
life that led to marrying the stepdaughter
of his then-girlfriend Mia Farrow —
who, oh by the way, was once married to
Frank Sinatra. Real name Allen Stewart
Konigsberg. Best movie: Annie Hall. Best
line from the film: “Life is full of misery,
loneliness and suffering and it’s over all
too soon.” Funniest movie: 1969’s Take the
Money and Run, though Sleeper and Play It
Again Sam give it a run for its, er, money.
Terry Francona: Good-guy manager who leads this reporter in the race for
most World Series rings two rings to zip.
Believe it or not even with them his .581
winning percentage ranks just sixth on the
Sox all-time list. Just look at the interaction
between him and Jon Lester the day of the
latter’s no-hitter to know what kind of guy
he is. But don’t bring that up to the folks in
his last managerial stop as they don’t have
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Crafting
Success
How artisans try to make a living
from their hand-crafted creations
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Making a living
Scores of Granite Staters who make their livings as artisans can be found at the League of
New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair.
The 76-year-old August event represents
about a third of annual sales for many, according
to the League. About 400 League members are
full-time craftspeople.
“It’s a fantastic place to live. And it’s a great
place to be an artist because of organizations
like the League — you get a lot of support and
that’s really key. We work in a vacuum for the
most part. I live in a log cabin in the woods, so I
live this kind of idyllic quiet, peaceful lifestyle.
And then I’ll go and do shows and be very sociable ... but artists for the most part can live on
the moon, it doesn’t really matter.... It’s actually
nice to live somewhere that is kind of out of the
way because you have a better chance of concentrating on your work,” said Patricia Palson, a
Contoocook handweaver, midway through this
year’s nine-day Fair at Mount Sunapee Resort.
Weaving is her second career. She majored in
interior design, grew up in Ohio, lived in Chicago and Milwaukee.
When you talk about craft in New Hampshire,
many immediately mention the League.
Not every state has such a thing, said Goffstown weaver Tom Jipson, who grew up in
Detroit but has lived in New Hampshire for
about 30 years.
Laurie Ferguson, the executive director of
independent nonprofit New Hampshire Made, is
one of those who suspects that the League itself
is one reason for the prevalence of craft in the
state. Founded in 1932, it was one of the first
organizations in the country to offer things like
marketing support, Ferguson, a former League
employee, said.
The League, in particular David Campbell,
who became its director in 1938, made an effort
early on to recruit masters to the state who then
attracted students, according to Ferguson, Graton and others.
Current executive director Susie Lowe-Stockwell said they don’t recruit these days. However,
Kristin Kennedy moved here partly for the
League.
She grew up in Oklahoma, started making
jewelry when she was about 17, has a BFA from
Northern Arizona University, and took courses
through the Gemological Institute of America.
She learned the “ins and outs of running a small
business” apprenticing for a jeweler in Sedona,
Ariz., for about three years. When she saw her
work selling, she said, “[I] decided I was going
to go out a limb and try it on my own.” She’s
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In New Hampshire, you can find people spinning their own
yarn, weaving, making pottery and glass, and creating and selling
all kinds of other things that might be considered traditional craft.
While some aspects don’t change, some do — like the ability for
artisans to sell worldwide by clicking a mouse.
Craft is very prevalent as a New Hampshire cottage industry, said Lynn Martin Graton, the traditional arts coordinator for
the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, a division of the
Department of Cultural Resources.
“I think it is part of a larger phenomenon in New Hampshire
that goes back to colonial settlement. It’s a fairly difficult environment to live in. So people fairly early on developed a willingness
and flexibility to do lots of different things to make ends meet
and make the things they needed,” Graton said.
Graton was referring to the tough agricultural environment.
New Hampshire winters are long so the growing season is short
and the soil is what “old-timers” call “bony,” or rocky, she said.
When the railroads opened up to the Midwest there was an agricultural exodus from New Hampshire.
“The people who stayed were resourceful...and preserved craft
traditions connected to the home and recreation including making baskets, rugs, clothing, furniture, wrought iron work, pottery,
fishing flies, and even dog sleds,” Graton wrote in an e-mail.
Today, a Merrimack couple uses a Japanese painting technique
on their handmade dinnerware, including saki and sushi sets. A
Hillsboro couple sold glass they make from scratch wholesale.
And a Nashua woman sells yarn she spins on Etsy.com. That craft
site launched in 2005 and has grown to more than 2.8 million
members and more than 250,000 sellers (press.etsy.com).
In this age of do-it-yourself jobs and self-employment as one
alternative to no employment, New Hampshire artisans are using
old traditions and new technologies to create successful businesses with their hand-crafted works.
been self-employed since 1997.
Kennedy lived in Flagstaff for about 11 years.
When her husband was looking for schools,
Kennedy realized that this area was a top choice
for her because of the League. As a member, she
could sell at the Fair and in the nine (at that time)
League shops. She feels fortunate to be able to
work at home and be a part of her children’s
life while doing something she enjoys, and she
thinks that’s apparent in her work.
The League has about 786 juried members
(some are just over the borders in Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine although between 85 and
90 percent live in New Hampshire). But there
are many others who are not members but are
“still very much viable businesses,” Ferguson
said.
The Fair started during the Great Depression,
Jipson said. He’s sold there for 20 years — one
brought 40 percent of his take, but he averages
20 to 25 percent of his annual income there.
The Fair stretches across the ski resort’s
grounds and it’s hard to see everything in one
day. About 200 crafters have booth space in large
tents. A booth fee can be about $1,000 depending on the size, electricity use, etc. Others stock a
“shop” tent. Crafters’ offspring sell at the “Next
Generation” tent. Smaller tents house about a
dozen demonstrations. The New Hampshire Art
Association and other guest groups exhibit.
Exhibits of League work, “Living with Craft”
and “CraftWear,” are in the lodges. Overall,
about 350 League members are represented.
Contoocook spoonmaker Dan Dustin did a
brisk business selling wooden spoons at about
$35 and $60 each Aug. 5. “Thank you for buying my spoon,” he said as another customer left.
Dustin makes more than half of his annual
income at the Fair.
“I’ve been here 35 years and never missed a
day,” he said.
He learned to make ax handles (no longer hot
products) from a friend of his grandfather’s and
uses those techniques for spoons. He uses wood
that lends itself to the spoon, rather than the other way around. It took him years to learn to find
spoons in nature — woodworkers are instead
trained to shape wood to human desire, Dustin
said in March after winning Best Arts Instructor
in Concord, in Hippo’s 2009 Readers’ Poll.
While business looked good Aug. 5, “there
are days when you miss every sale ... I did one of
those yesterday,” Dustin said. Some of Dustin’s
spoons are in the Currier Museum of Art collection, but he doesn’t think that fact affects sales.
Asking Dustin if the spoons are usable
launched him into one of his “raps.” It ends like
this:
“All the way through history the rich are using
metal spoons and eating white bread. The poor are
using wooden spoons and using brown bread.
We have learned something about bread,
haven’t we?
It’s time we learned something about spoons.
I make a wooden spoon to eat with. Everybody who buys one and uses one never uses
metal again. [Wooden spoons are] warmer with
ice cream, cooler with soup...etc.,” Dustin said.
Jeweler Jack Dokus grew up in Newark, N.J.,
where he attended an arts high school and then
received an art education degree from Kean College. Halfway through a master’s he moved to
New Hampshire in 1976 so his children could
attend the Sant Bani School in Sanbornton.
“I feel it was the greatest move of my life,”
Dokus said. New Hampshire has a unique atmosphere for the arts, he said. “If you look historically,
you’ll find in New Hampshire there have always
been schools and camps and retreats for the arts
going back over ... 150 years,” Dokus said.
This year’s was the 31st Fair he’s sold at. Multiple generations of customers visit. The Fair can
bring 30 to 40 percent of his annual take. “It’s a
lot, but it’s a nine-day fair. So it’s kind of equal
to three or four other fairs,” Dokus said. It’s the
oldest such ongoing craft fair in the nation, and a
major New Hampshire event — people coincide
their vacations with it, Dokus said.
“As long as your craft is good enough, everywhere is a good place for it,” Boyan Moskov
said during his first day of his first year at the
Fair. A trained artist, Moskov isn’t strictly a potter but pottery sells well, he said. He moved to
Contoocook a couple of years ago with his wife,
Anna. They met in his native Bulgaria where she
was a Peace Corps volunteer.
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Ton Worcester of Hopkinton, NH,
has been making wood carvings for
35 years. He was one of the first
wood carvers to use a chain saw
and was sponsored by Husqvarna
for a number years traveling to fairs
across the country. Gil Talbot photo.
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Potter Ron Tornow is a long time
NHLC Fair exhibitor and trustee. Gil
Talbot photo.
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Patricia Paulson,
Contoocook, NH,
makes hand woven
jackets. She has
exhibited at the fair
for 20 years.
Gil Talbot photo.
Periodic horn noises in Tent 4 turned out to
be the clay didgeridoo created by potter Ethan
Hamby. He runs Rooted in Clay with Shana
Brautigam in Ringe, and recently started experimenting with clay instruments. A five-year
League member, Hamby was juried in at 18.
“I was extremely blessed to be accepted ... it
has just been such a rewarding organization as
far as income and just being part of a community
of great artists and art appreciators.” Networking is another Fair benefit, Hamby said. “I do a
lot of education in pottery and sustainable living as well. It’s a great way to talk to people and
spread inspiration around.”
Ron Tornow has sold at the League fair for 21
years. He and his wife Sibylle have collaborated since 1988.
“We have actually ... a very strong tradition
for crafts in New Hampshire,” Tornow said.
His wife Sibylle is the wheelworker of the pair
and does much of the decoration for their seven
lines. Tornow hand-builds and makes plates.
They use sumi-e brushwork, which means
“no bones” in Japanese, Tornow said. “That’s
because the artist does not have a skeletal sketch
to work from ... everything is very spontaneous,” Tornow said.
Thomas Dupell grew up in Walpole, N.H., and
“fell into” his craft, he said. At 18, he found a job
making Shaker-style oval wooden boxes. “I was
just the sort of person that enjoyed working with
my hands more than anything, and feeling the
satisfaction of having that result at the end of the
day,” Dupell said. He decided to go out on his own
about 10 years ago, he said. Dupell found a niche
— most of his sales are through wholesalers to
Getting past the jury
To sell at the Fair, you need to be juried into
the League, and “New Hampshire is full of good
craftsmen who have not been able to get past
the jury,” Dustin said. Gigi Laberge said being
accepted was a lifelong dream.
“They have a very rigorous jury process,
which can be quite intimidating,” Laberge said.
But she had encouragement from other artists to
keep trying, she said.
The Fair provides about 25 to 30 percent of
her annual sales. This was her second year with
a booth.
Laberge worked in business until she was in
her early 40s although now she’s a full-time artist creating landscapes in fused glass. She also
blends glass with natural materials like pearls.
She donates a portion of the proceeds from her
“Slice of Life” jewelry series to hospice or organizations that help families fighting disease
(www.gigilaberge.com).
Jeff and Erica Lamy of Bedford combine
glassblowing and lampworking techniques in
their glass artwork. They are in their fourth year
as League members, and just went to their third
Fair. It brings about two thirds of their annual
income for their Innervision Glass Studio, Erica Lamy said.
Erica Lamy thinks the League jury system
helps attract Fair patrons.
“It really raises the standard of work. It
ensures that the product that’s being sold is of
the highest quality,” she said. It was a difficult
process, “but it really helped both me and my
husband to ... expand as artists and to push our-
selves a lot further,” Lamy said.
“They [customers] seem to understand that
they can really trust that what they’re buying
here is quality and that it will last,” Lowe-Stockwell said.
The League “was founded on the principle
of education and preserving the tradition of fine
crafts. So our standards are very high for the juried work. We really work hard to maintain that,”
Lowe-Stockwell said.
the year-round fair
Artisans develop other ways to get work out.
Jipson sells at Manhattan shows. “That’s
always been my market,” he said. His Web site,
www.tomjipson.com, was three weeks old when
I spoke to him.
Palson sells to upscale boutiques and galleries
in New York, Chicago and Santa Fe. She uses her
Web site, www.patriciapalson.com, to let people know where her next show is, but doesn’t sell
online. Clothing needs to be fitted, she said.
The Tornows’ work is in the seven League
retail stores and other New Hampshire shops,
and they sometimes sell wholesale out of state.
You can see their work at their home studio
in Merrimack or at www.sibyllespottery.com,
which has a gift registry, but you have to call to
order. Because of the decline in the economy,
the Tornows recently started going to smaller
craft fairs since entry fees are lower, a tactic that
seems to work, Tornow said.
Glassblower Alex Kalish was at his 13th Fair.
He runs North Country Glass with his wife Trish
Dalto in Hillsboro. Kalish starts with raw materials. “In other words, I don’t melt glass, I make
glass,” Kalish said.
To market, Kalish and Dalto do several little
shows, and hand out lots of postcards and brochures, he said. They are part of the Hillsborough
Area Artisans Studio Tour Sept.19-20 (www.hillsboroughartisans.com) and have their own open
house on Columbus Day weekend in October
(www.northcountryglass.com), and will be part
of NH Open Doors in November (www.NHO-
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Adapting to the economy
Kalish said the economy hit business badly starting about eight years ago — “Galleries
just dried up.” His sales at a large Philidelphia wholesale show went down by 60 percent
around 2001 or 2002. Kalish has stopped selling at wholesale shows altogether.
“You could attribute it to 9/11. You could
attribute it to the Bush administration.... The
middle class has been squeezed out. And I pretty much throughout my career in glassblowing
made stuff for the middle class,” Kalish said.
He only recently started making high-end
pieces.
“You know, it’s hard,” Kalish said. Quality
might be apparent, but the work might not be
to everyone’s taste. And even wealthier people
seem to be hanging onto money a little tighter
these days, Kalish said.
“Yeah, we see that,” Lowe-Stockwell said of
a drop in middle-class discretionary income.
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penDoors.com), another League event.
Moskov has sold at the Concord Arts Market
and lists other places he’ll be at www.boyanstudio.com, but doesn’t sell through his Web site.
He teaches at Kimball-Jenkins School of Art in
Concord this fall (www.kimballjenkins.com,
225-3932).
While some League members are part-time
artisans, “This is my job,” Moskov said. Days
sitting at his League booth are days away from
his studio. Building a “shop” (League fair
booths can be elaborate and are also judged,
apparently) and selling are completely different
jobs than creating pottery, through he does get
to meet more people this way, he said.
Dokus had his own gallery for 11 years.
“You have to take care of the retail business,
which is one thing, and produce your craft,
which is another. I’m 63. When I was a young
man, I was able to stretch myself and do that.
Now, that’s too hard.” Now he sells through
League shops and a few other galleries in New
England.
The Fair can provide leads to commissions,
Dokus said. (The cost of commissioning a
wedding ring from him can be about $500, not
including the materials.)
Dustin does one other craft fair in New York,
and locals come to buy from him (“You gotta
know what you’re getting into,” Dustin said).
He has a Web site for has hand-hewn beams,
not spoons, but you can call him at 746-5683
if you are interested. He’s teaching at Kimball-Jenkins this fall, and giving a workshop
Nov. 6-8 at the Henniker House in Henniker
(428-3198).
“The way that I work is I do shows, then I stop
doing shows and work in the studio,” Laberge,
of Henniker, said. With support from friends in
the League, Laberge is also renting the Capitol
Center for the Arts in Concord essentially as the
promoter for a Nov. 21-22 “Crafts at the Capitol” fair featuring 24 of her favorite artists.
Brautigam and Hamby post information
about where to find their work, classes and
more at rootedinclay.com. Much of their marketing is word of mouth, Hamby said. They do
some direct mail, but “basically try to do work
out in the community,” he said.
“Education is what I’m passionate about.
This year we taught over 1,000 students. It just
so happens to be my best financial year, also.
I believe in having a diversified portfolio of
work,” Hamby said. He’s now making pizza
ovens, for instance. “I think it’s important to
have your arms outstretched to different areas
so you can survive,” Hamby said.
ied members who do make higher-end work
and they seem to be doing fine. In the clothing
industry, some of the glass, metal, jewelry and
some of the furniture people are really doing
fine. That seems to be stable,” Lowe-Stockwell
said.
“Our stores were down by the end of the
winter, about 8 percent, which wasn’t too bad
compared to the rest of retail, but it does have
an impact. Depending on if the craftsman is a
high-end or a medium-end person they have
different degrees of being down. I just talked
to a Windsor chair-maker who said he had the
best year he’s had in couple of years this past
winter,” Lowe-Stockwell said.
Kennedy used to do about 13 craft shows
from May through October, but now with two
small children she only goes to the League’s.
To adjust, she’s changed her medium, “working with more precious gems and higher-end
materials. That’s worked out OK for me actually because my clients ... have kind of followed
my work and seen it evolve and they continue
to collect, so I feel really fortunate,” Kennedy said. She had mainly worked in silver, and
“artistically was trying to put more design [in]
than I could afford to.” She started dabbling in
gold and decided to switch over.
About a third of her income comes from the
Fair, the rest from custom orders, often from
people she met at the Fair or people they know.
She also sells and showcases at www.kristinkennedy.com.
Along with competing among a growing
number of craft jewelers, Dukos is competing
against TV home shopping channels, he said.
People see cheaper prices on jewelry made in
third-world countries in what amounts to slave
labor, he said. “These people are paid a belowsubsistence wage, but they’re happy to get the
work,” Dukos said. Importers can charge less
than what it costs Dukos in electricity and other consumables, “plus the salary that I have to
get just to live, I don’t even mean live well,”
Dukos said.
Kalish said he has to compete with stemware and glassware produced in China. You
could buy a box of those at Crate and Barrel for
about $50, or one of Kalish’s wine glasses for
$46, he said. “They’re basically exporting on
slave labor. It’s far from an even playing field,”
Kalish said. Another thing American artisans
have to worry about is healthcare (a joy of
being self-employed).
During a transaction for a $20 bowl, Moskov
discussed the trials of credit cards. Credit card
companies charge the seller a percentage per
transaction, so you might find League members (and vendors at other fairs) prefer cash or
check. In Bulgaria, there’s just cash, Moskov
said. He’s trying plastic as a convenience for
customers.
“For many of us, craft is not connected very
strongly with economics,” Dustin said. He tried
to explain. He’s made one rice paddle because
he found wood that lent itself to that. It was
bought by the first person who saw it. But he
hasn’t made another rice paddle. “I can only
make what’s there,” Dustin said. “I don’t pay
attention to my work. My body does it.”
On the other hand, some do operate for a
market — you’ll see a lot of jewelry at the Fair
that is silver with a little gold, a formula to get
more money for a little gold, Dustin said.
Dustin pointed out that his wife has a good
job, but she’s retiring soon, so economics might
change for him.
Etsy phenomenon
The ability to make something and sell to a
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(left)
Dan Dustin has exhibited his hand
carved wooden utensils at the LNHC
Fair for 35 years. He is an 11th generation grandson of Hannah Dustin.
Gil Talbot photo.
(below)
Jewelry maker Kristen Kennedy of
Concord has been exhibiting at the
NHLC Fair for years. Gil Talbot photo.
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Thomas Dupell
makes Shaker-style
wooden boxes and
lives down the road
from Canterbury
Shaker Village.
Heidi Masek photo.
etsian marketing
“I think that a lot of people expect when they
open an Etsy site they’ll just have automatic
sales,” said Holly Klump, 32, of Nashua. Not
so, said these Etsians. You still have to promote
yourself like a regular business. You can’t just
expect people to come find you, Klump said.
Klump joined Etsy at its beginning, evident
from her user number 173 (they are assigned
in order), and sells hand-spun and -dyed yarn
at www.misshawklet.etsy.com. She switched to
spinning in 2004 by watching online demos and
Handbag-maker Katy Brown, 34, of Concord,
creator of the Concord Arts Market, is a “Facebook junkie.” She keeps up with some crafters
through blogs (muchachak.blogspot.com); people in the online craft community cross-post to
help promote each other, she said.
Brown was able to build a presence on Etsy
early — she’s user 1,186. Now, it’s almost
impossible to gain Etsy visibility for a jeweler
studio-mate of hers. The primary way is to post
regularly, she said. “I’ve heard crazy stories,”
Brown said. People will relist over and over
even though they are charged each time.
Offline
These folks don’t leave promotion to the
virtual world. Quilter Jessica Fredette, 26, of
Concord started leaving business cards at local
quilt shops (www.lovejessicaalways.etsy.com).
Laura Langley includes business cards with
orders for satisfied customers to pass on to
friends.
Jeweler Erica Jeanes carries her business
cards with her, and handbag-maker Melanie
Chabre leaves hers everywhere.
Klump gained exposure by donating yarn
for Tamie Snow to use in Tiny Yarn Animals.
Klump was featured in Spin to Knit, by Shannon
Okey, and the 2008 Stitch and Bitch Page-ADay calendar.
Jeanes holds jewelry parties at friends’ homes,
and her work is at shops on Newbury Street in
Boston and in Newport, R.I.
Chabre said people have found her Etsy shop
through boutiques that stock her bags. One in
Groton, Mass., asked for pet-themed handbags
to go with a pet-themed display. She’s also in
shops in West Concord, Mass., Michigan, and
Arizona.
Paulus’ pet i.d. tags will be at the Animal Rescue League of Bedford’s Sept. 19 Pet Step, and
at Barktoberfest Sept. 20 in Westford, Mass.
Jeweler Lauren Boss sells in Maison de l’Art
and Gallery One in Nashua, and Straight Ahead
Hair Design in Salem. She planned to be at the
Greeley Park art show in August. She usually
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potentially worldwide audience is now rather
simple through the Internet.
The Lamys have sold glass art online for
about nine years. It’s kind of how they established themselves, Erica Lamy said. They use
etsy.com and eBay.com, and their own Web site,
www.innervisionglass.com.
Other League members have used Etsy.
“They’re looking for any avenue they can to sell
their work,” Lowe-Stockwell said.
Etsy takes low fees compared to auction sites,
users say, and it eliminates the need to learn to
build a Web site with a “shopping cart” or pay
someone else to.
Aimee Terravechia of Manchester started
using the site last November and selling in June.
She likes working with her hands and the idea of
buying handmade, vintage, and supporting small
business. Terravechia makes fine art prints from
her paintings, and mainly sells quirky greeting
cards on Etsy (www.aloucreations.etsy.com).
She’s part of the New Hampshire Etsy street
team (nhstreetteam.blogspot.com, team.etsy.
com/profilest/nh.shtml).
reading instruction books about
it, after starting to
learn to knit from
her roommate.
Etsy
offers
ways to promote on the site.
Etsians can pay
to advertise on the site’s “Showcase.” Some
promote themselves in Etsy chat rooms, or start
“Convos,” Etsy’s e-mail system. Its “superblog,” The Storque, has links to such things as
“The Etsy Seller Handbook: All Our How-To’s
About Selling.” Stephanie Paulus, 34, of Nashua gained visibility by creating a “Treasury,” 12
items a member likes. “If they like your Treasury, that’s what’s on the front page,” Paulus
said. Paulus went to photography school, and
sells photographic jewelry on Etsy (ebonypaws.
etsy.com).
A Google Analytics log is available, artist
Glenna Normyle said. “You can tell the number
of people who have looked at each of the items
in my shop,” she said. It also shows how people
find your Etsy page, Paulus said.
Originally, Klump got a lot of her business
through keeping a blog. That and Flickr have
been the “cheapest and most successful ways to
promote my business,” she said.
Other New Hampshire Etsians rely on social
media. Paulus started a Facebook fan page that
helped her get feedback on a new item — pet
i.d. tags she created with her graphic design
skills and Shrinky Dinks. She had her friends
become fans, so their friends would then see
Paulus’ link.
Along with using a Facebook page, Terravechia recently started writing a blog to
showcase Etsy sellers she thinks are unique.
She can post Etsy links into the blog, and uses
Google AdSense to sell advertising on www.
aloucreations.blogspot.com. “So far I’ve only
made two pennies. I get paid per click.... For
every hundred dollars I make they’ll send me a
check,” Terravechia said.
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sells at home shows in New York, where her
sister lives, before Christmas, and sells at some
local school craft fairs.
“The jewelry market is really, really competitive,” Boss said. On Etsy, she actually does
better selling supplies (www.mermaidbeadbooty.etsy.com), she said.
Jeweler Becca Turcotte, 25, of Manchester
also sells at school craft fairs and at the Concord Arts Market. “I love the Concord Arts
Market,” Turcotte said.
a wedding invitation, on canvas. She can create memorials using a person’s favorite flower,
for example. Normyle joined Etsy as part of
her recovery and mainly uses Etsy (www.gnormyle.etsy.com) to advertise for her gallery site,
www.putiton.com/glennanormyle. “Being that
I’m disabled, I find that Etsy is a really good
way for me to get my name out,” Normyle said.
She uses a blog, www.blogspot.com/glennasgarden and Twitter, twitter.com/gnormyle, in
her marketing.
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Customizing
People also use Etsy to generate custom
work. Carol Butler, 61, of Nashua, and her husband Lloyd have had a functional art business
since 1991, and started using Etsy about a year
ago. A current focus is custom pet memorial
boxes — her husband makes a wooden box,
and Butler paints a portrait of the pet on a disk
affixed to it.
They also make custom pet treat jars, glass
with a pet portrait painted on the lid. Pets have
become a multi-billion dollar industry, she said.
(The Butlers started making memorial boxes
after receiving the ashes of their own pets in
plastic containers.)
Etsy is “click and buy,” though, Butler said.
People can contact them for custom work
through www.hrt2hand.etsy.com, or their own
Web site, www.hearttohandcreations.com.
They’ve only had a few sales through Etsy, but
the site led to some offline sales, Butler said.
The Butlers also put some of their work on
Flickr.
Glenna Normyle, 50, of Manchester, uses
pressed flowers from an occasion
along with other related items, like
Going international
Someone in the U.K. may be wearing Turcotte’s jewelry. “I just find that really cool,”
Turcotte said.
The worldwide factor of Etsy brought Langley, 49, of Hudson, free press in Greece. An
editor found her eco-friendly sleep masks on
Etsy and the two e-mailed back and forth, resulting in a spot in Glamour Magazine Greece.
(Langley had a number of international orders
in August, though none from Greece.)
Brown is starting to explore dawanda.com,
which has mainly a European audience, she
said. On her grad school budget, instead of
buying, she does trades throughout the world,
receiving things like olive oil from Greece.
Turcotte thinks how much she spends and
makes on the site is about even.
When Boss needs a gift or other item, she
visits New Hampshire Etsians’ shops first, but
tries to sell more than she buys. Other Etsians
spoke of buying supplies through Etsy.
Teravechia “Hearts” an item she likes, and if
she still wants it a few days later, makes the purchase. Right now, selling through Etsy is pretty
much covering the cost of supplies, advertising
and listing, Terravechia said.
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D.I.Y.
Generally, “craft” can fall into about three
fluid categories. There’s traditional craft that
professionals like League members or New
Hampshire Furniture Masters might make.
Then there’s the sort of thing you found
at a local craft fair your mom took you to.
(Remember those ruffled air freshener covers?) In recent years, there’s also been a
D.I.Y. craft movement.
Indie or D.I.Y. is somewhat tied to other movements in music, art or attitude, and
has sort of a “mid-century modern aesthetic” Brown said.
Klump has sold at the Bazaar Bizarre in
Boston (www.bazaarbizarre.org) and the
Renegade Craft Fair (www.renegadecraft.
com), which cater to indie style.
Those movements seem to need to separate themselves — the Bazaar Bizarre’s
tagline is “Not your granny’s craft fair,”
Klump pointed out.
Like any genre, it develops its own clichés,
Brown said. “Like how many times can you
appliqué a deer on a messenger bag?”
“I think a lot of people would probably look at me and assume certain things,”
Brown said. She has hipster glasses, and
often funny hair colors, she said. But Brown
sees things like local craft fairs or church
bazaars as great community-builders.
“I think usually my work doesn’t seem
to reflect my cultural tastes,” Brown said.
She’s 34 and not married herself but works
with fairly traditional brides. She thinks they
like the vibrant colors she uses, a departure
from lavenders or baby blues.
Greenjeans tried to bridge the traditional and D.I.Y. craft movements, Shaw said.
“Really, I think that there’s very little difference,” Shaw said. People want to make their
own beautiful things and create an alternative to mainstream culture, “whether it’s
Shaker-style wooden boxes or weird little
felted animals,” Shaw said.
Making a living
Etsy features a blog on how to quit your day
job, but Klump doesn’t know of anyone who
makes a living from Etsy without support from
another family member.
“I would love to live off my crafts, but I
don’t really see that as viable option,” Klump,
who works at a library, said. “My ultimate goal
is to work for myself,” but maybe not through
yarn, she said.
“I think it depends on what you call a living,” Langley said. She believes it’s possible,
and feels more confident since a major magazine found her by searching Etsy, she said.
“For jewelry, it would be really hard,” Boss
said. Fredette said the same of quilting.
Brown thinks she could support herself in
theory, only because she currently doesn’t have
a mortgage or car payment or kids. However,
her student loan payments start soon.
Chabre said she’s met “two men” who use
Etsy. Chabre said many stay-at-home moms she
knows are looking for a way to make money
“and keep themselves sane.” About 96 percent
of Etsy sellers were women in 2008, according
to an Etsy “non-scientific poll,” Adam Brown
of Etsy wrote in an e-mail.
Selling online is not for everyone
Amy Shaw grew up around craft in Northwood. Her mom gave her presents from
League shops, and organized small craft fairs.
Her father preserves old barns.
In 2005 she and her husband, Jae Kim,
opened their Brooklyn shop, Greenjeans, as a
space for new craft. Both had been in the art
world for a long time. Greenjeans sold work
from League members and artisans around the
country.
They closed Greenjeans last summer in the
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Those are for things like developing a Web site
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skills, which don’t involve giving out money.
The Arts Council also keeps juried rosters of
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budget).
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development training, networking events,
access to loan capital, and individual development accounts — a matched savings
program, director David Hamel said. The
ArtWorks-NH annual “Artist Exchange,” a
day of business workshops and networking,
was recently expanded to two per year, one
in the North Country and the other in southern New Hampshire. The next is Friday, Nov.
6, at Southern New Hampshire University in
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NH Made has an online store, www.nhmade.
com. The organization doesn’t just teach about
marketing, but creates mechanisms because
small businesses don’t have time, or in some
cases, the clout or funding, Ferguson said.
NH Made can rent a building at a major
fair for members who otherwise might be on
a booth space waiting list for years, Fergusan
said. NH Made has about 800 business members statewide; joining costs $75 per year.
The NH Made brand helps members differentiate their product — the label “verifies this
was not made in China,” Ferguson said. Other states usually do this through a state agency,
often agriculturally based, Fergusan said.
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hopes of finding more space. When the economy started looking bad, they waited, and Shaw
is glad they did. They continued to sell online
and at art markets through the holiday season.
Eventually, Shaw realized she’s not interested in online sales. She liked engaging
customers, being a matchmaker. Crafts became
commodities online rather than an experience,
Shaw said.
Lowe-Stockwell thinks many League
members are able to sell online, but the
League doesn’t, except for its annual holiday
ornament.
“People want to touch a piece of fine craft,
they really want to see it as they would with
art.... They might use the Web site to get a sense
of who the person is or what the work is. But
we really want to drive the customer to the galleries or to the fairs where they can actually
meet the craftsperson and see the work ... then
it’s irresistible,” Lowe-Stockwell said.
Still, Shaw thinks the Internet has had an
immense impact in revitalizing the craft community, linking people interested in the same
things, she said. She still keeps a blog about
the artisan world, www.greenjeansbrooklyn.
blogspot.com, but doesn’t sell ad space.
As it grew, Etsy lost that close-knit community aspect Brown liked originally, Brown said.
“I pretty much use Etsy as a shopping cart”
now, she said. She replicates her Etsy shop on
www.muchachak.com.
Others have found the community of the
New Hampshire Etsy Street Team reassuring.
Sue Paradis, 47, of Paradis Farm in Strafford,
has used Etsy to sell wool from her sheep, plus
jewelry and crafts. “The NH Etsy group has
been very helpful, like with ideas on advertising. You know, you basically having a sounding
board,” Paradis said.
Jeanes has made jewelry for more than 20
years, but started teaching herself silversmithing over the past two with help from Etsians.
Etsy has an “incredible network of artists,”
Jeanes said. She sent Convos to sellers she
admired, seeking advice.
Shaw cited a few articles she’d read that
show growing criticism of Etsy — that the
idea that people can make a living using it is
kind of a false promise. She blogged about a
July 15 CNN Money article that reported that
Etsy’s founder, Rob Kalin, 29, had left his role
as CEO, among other issues.
Paulus said she started making things to sell
because she found Etsy. You can find others
who did that, but there’s nothing really definitive about Etsy, Shaw said.
“I don’t think there’s any hard and fast rules
about Etsy, which is partly why it’s so interesting to try to understand,” Shaw said. It’s rich
and varied, but at the same time, there are hacks
there, just like there are at the League Fair —
people who make something technically sound
but with “no soul,” she said.
Shaw said she’s also heard that craft is more
prevalent in New Hampshire, and thinks the
League and Fair are factors. “People can make
some good money” selling in League shops
and at the Fair, Shaw said.
Dustin also thinks the League is a draw, but
said “there are other centers. Craftsmen have
been going down to the Carolinas for years....”
Shaw is seeing crafters starting to reinvent with things like the Renegade Craft Fair
(there’s one in Brooklyn) and the Austin Craft
Mafia (www.austincraftmafia.com).
D.I.Y. art shows
Brown started the Concord Arts Market
with a preview run in 2008, and it ran in the
spring and summer of 2009 with about 25 to 30
vendors per week. Brown’s goal was an average of 30, “so it’s been perfect,” she said. Both
League members and Etsians have sold there.
Items have included glass, jewelry, handbags,
fine art, sculpture, painting, mixed media and
mosiac.
It starts again Sept. 12 for a fall season
(details at www.concordartsmarket.com).
“I definitely feel like it’s successful,” Brown
said. That vendors sign up again “tells me that
they think it’s worth their time,” Brown said.
An eight-person jury selects sellers; Brown
acts as a tie-breaker. They like work to have
cohesiveness, Brown said. (If you see Moskov’s pottery, for example, it’s likely you can
identify other pottery made by Moskov.)
“Foot traffic is obviously a really, really
good thing to have,” Brown said. Their location at 33 Capitol St. wasn’t natural for that, so
they advertised to let people know they were
two blocks off Main Street.
The Concord Arts Market moves to Eagle
Square this fall, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. through Oct. 31. They will still have “that
great synergy” with the Concord Farmers Market (Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.-noon on Capitol
Street) there, Brown said.
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6. Dolores O’Riordan,
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According to Amazon’s
best sellers (each book
is listed only once)
1. The Lost Symbol, by
Dan Brown (Doubleday
Books, Sept. 15, 2009)
2. Publication Manual
of the American Psychological Association
by American Psychological Association
(American Psychological Association, 2009)
3. Mastering The Art
of French Cooking,
Volume One, by Julia
Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck,
Sidonie Coryn (Illustrator) (Alfred A. Knopf;
40 Anniversary edition,
2001)
4. True Compass: A
Memoir, by Edward M.
Kennedy (Twelve, Sept.
14, 2009)
5. The Help, by Kathryn
Stockett (Putnam, 2009)
6. Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case
Against an Out-ofControl Government,
Inspired by Thomas
Paine, by Glenn Beck
(Threshold Editions,
2009)
7. The Time Traveler’s
Wife, by Audrey
Niffenegger (Mariner
Books, 2004)
8. Culture of Corruption: Obama and His
Team of Tax Cheats,
Crooks, and Cronies, by
Michelle Malkin (Regnery, 2009)
9. South of Broad, by
Pat Conroy (Nan A.
Talese, 2009)
10. Catching Fire (The
Second Book of the
Hunger Games), by
Suzanne Collins (Scholastic, 2009)
DVD
According to Hollywood Video
1. The Last House on
the Left (R, 2009)
2. I Love You, Man (R,
2008)
3. 17 Again (PG-13,
2009)
4. Obsessed (PG-13,
2009)
5. The Soloist (PG-13,
2009)
6. Race to Witch Mountain (PG, 2009)
7. Fast & Furious (PG13, 2009)
8. Hannah Montana:
The Movie (G, 2009)
9. Knowing (PG-13,
2009)
10. Surveillance (R,
2008)
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Top movies at the
box office Aug. 28-30
(weekend/cumulative)
1. The Final Destination, Warner Bros. ($28
million/$28 million)
2. Inglourious Basterds,
The Weinstein Company ($20 million/$73
million)
3. Halloween II, The
Weinstein Company
Saturday, Sept. 5
Country star Tim McGraw — responsible for “Live Like You Were
Dying” — comes to the Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion (72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford) today for a 7:30 p.m. show. Tickets start at $49
for lawn admission; see www.meadowbrook.net or call 293-4700. For
more about live music, see page 46.
Thursday, Sept. 3
The New Hampshire Poetry Slam Team takes over the
Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash
St., Manchester, www.currier.org,
669-6144) tonight. A social hour
starts at 5:30 p.m., a “Poetry and
Art” talk at 6 p.m. Read your own
work at open mike from 7 to 7:30
p.m. Admission costs $10 for adults
and is free for those under 18. For
more about art, see page 20.
Friday, Sept. 4
Bid the summer adieu with a
drive-in movie marathon. The
Milford Drive-in shows triple features for Labor Day weekend on
Route 101A in Milford. Films
start at dusk, and the drive-in
opens at 6:15 p.m. Call 673-4090
or see www.milforddrivein.com
for updates. Admission costs $20
per car. For more about film, see
page 46.
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“Aloha from New England”
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Green living
New Hampshire Institute of Art’s new green building is almost ready
By Heidi Masek
[email protected]
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Some New Hampshire Institute of
Art students are starting this semester in some cozy dorm situations.
The growing visual art school’s new
building at 88 Lowell St. in Manchester is scheduled to open in October
and includes dorm space to house
56 students. In the meantime, some
single rooms are serving as doubles, and some doubles as quads, in
NHIA’s Brady-Sullivan Plaza dorms
at 41 Mechanic St. (But those rooms
are “quite spacious,” said Roger Williams, NHIA president.)
As of Aug. 26, NHIA planned to
provide housing for 239 students,
about 40 more than last year, Williams said. There are probably about
430 BFA students enrolled now, mostly full time. About 1,500 students take
continuing education or certificate
courses.
That’s one of the reasons for 88
Lowell, an $8.8 million project that
involved moving a historic building
— Manchester’s first high school —
and for which NHIA will seek LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification.
“I think according to our best planning efforts and projections, we will
have enough housing next year,” Williams said.
The Manchester Institute of Arts
and Sciences started in 1898. In 1997
it was allowed to award Bachelor of
Fine Arts degrees by the New Hampshire Postsecondary Commission.
The National Association of Schools
of Art and Design accredited it in
2001. NHIA recently acquired dorm
space at Saint Anne’s Rectory for
upperclassmen. Neither Saint Anne’s
nor 88 Lowell is full this year, which
provides space to grow into next year,
Williams said.
“We’ve tried to add dorm space as
we need it rather than substantially
overbuilding,” Williams said.
At 88 Lowell, classrooms and studios are on the lower floors. The
six-story new addition has dorms on
its top four floors. There’s a great
view of Manchester from the upper
stories, and a clear view of NHIA’s
“campus,” Williams said. Many of
NHIA’s buildings are around Victory Park.
“If you’re committed to an urban
campus, it’s more difficult to accommodate your growth because you
don’t have land to build on. You’ve
got to find spaces that can be readapted,” Williams said.
The new building is designed for
limited energy and water use, alternative energy production, conservation
measures and “green” materials.
For starters, NHIA expects a LEED
point for reusing the original brick
building. That conserves energy that
would have been used in rebuilding,
architect Dennis Mires said. Its interior was gutted, but things like the
original central staircase are being
recreated.
Runoff from the historic building’s sloped roof waters a vegetated,
or planted, roof on the connecter to
the new building. That keeps the
connector’s roof cool and absorbs
rainwater, in concert with a rainwater harvesting system that filters and
collects water from the two roofs (the
new building’s is a reflective white)
in 4,500-gallon storage tanks. Those
feed a 400-gallon supply tank in the
building designed to hold enough
water to “satisfy flushing every toilet
at once,” Mires said. That conserves
water, as do low-flow fixtures.
Rainwater harvesting reduces the
building’s contribution to the storm
system, “which in this case is connected with the sewer system in the
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city so it’s really important that we
minimize our stormwater runoff,”
Mires said.
External sun shades are set at the
ideal angle for this latitude to keep
direct solar gain out of the south-facing windows of the new building in
the summer. Installed on those are
photovoltaic panels capable of producing 14 kilowatts of electricity.
Officials expect it will be enough to
power the systems required for the
building’s geothermal heating and
cooling system, Mires said.
This configuration of geothermal
will use two wells averaging about
1,500 feet deep, to either extract heat
from a loop or give heat back to the
loop, depending on the time of year.
Heating and cooling efficiency is
maximized with a “seriously upgraded building envelope,” Mires said.
It has an overall R-value of 33, and
a roof R-value of about 60. Depending on which you use, that’s about 95
or 50 percent better than Manchester
code, Mires said.
The building makes use of the
north light often preferred by artists,
or north-facing windows, for some
studios while some classrooms are in
the south-facing historic building, and
computer rooms are away from windows, Williams and Mires said.
Inside, the building will use Energy Star appliances and materials with
low or no volatile organic compounds
(VOCs). “You need to do all that to
meet the LEED criteria, but it’s also
good thing to do,” Mires said.
“It’s an educational institution that
is making a commitment to energy
conservation,” Mires said.
“Our students tend to be pretty interested in energy conservation
and green technology. They’re more
aware than you might imagine,” Williams said.
“They’re going to play a real par-
A view from New Hampshire Institute of Art’s latest dorm and academic
space under construction at 88 Lowell St. in Manchester. Heidi Masek photo.
ticipatory role,” Mires said. Recycling
rooms are on each floor, and students
will be able to see meters showing the
production of photovoltaic panels.
Williams thinks NHIA will continue to use green practices wherever it
can.
“We have a lot of visitors to our
buildings. And we’re making a special effort to use our educational skills
to inform people about green technologies and how they’re used in
this building. There will be, I hope,
an extensive and clear display,” Williams said.
As for designing for an art school,
Mires said that’s why there’s some
color on the sunshades. Also, vertical
safety glass fins have colored film on
the west wall to keep out low afternoon sun.
The “energy-conserving features
help articulate the building,” Mires
said. People can look up and see the
PV — “We’re not hiding them on
the roof,” Mires said. Exterior metal panels and blue lights “sort of pick
up” a branding image from NHIA’s
Amherst Street building.
Meeting LEED standards means
that indoor air quality will be “greatly improved,” but the monitoring
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required also improves the odds of
maintaining building performance
throughout its lifetime, Mires said.
Williams believes many of the features that cost more now will balance
out in future savings on utilities.
“It’s what we have to do to begin
reducing our carbon footprint. And in
terms of the cost, we’re independent
of fluctuating price of oil and gas,”
Mires said.
“If you think about it, the Institute
is over 100 years old ... in the same
way we imagine that this building ...
will be here another 100 years, serving the Institute,” Williams said.
The historic part of 88 Lowell was
built in 1841, Mires said. “We have a
part-time faculty member who actually was a student in that building.
She’s very pleased to see it restored,”
Williams said. It was vacant for about
15 years before NHIA acquired it
in 2008. The last city use was for
school administration, although in
between, an organization had apparently planned to use it as a museum
but didn’t raise enough money, Williams and Mires understand.
A construction cam takes a photo
every five minutes — see www.nhia.
edu.
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Includes listings for gallery events, ongoing exhibits, classes and workshops. Includes listings, shows, auditions, workshops and more. For information on Includes listings for symphony and orchestral performances and choral
For more information on exhibits, see past stories on hippopress.com. Send shows plus features and reviews of performances, see past stories on hippo- events. To get your event some press, write [email protected]. To get
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your event listed, send information to [email protected].
Art Listings
Gallery Events
• ANYTHING GOES Sept. 8-Oct. 30,
with work from more than 65 regional
artists at Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook
St., Manchester, 668-6650. Reception
Thurs., Sept. 17, 5-8 p.m., in conjunction with Open Doors Manchester.
• ART ’ROUND TOWN gallery
walk, Portsmouth, Fri., Sept. 4, 5-8
p.m., artroundtown.org.
• BEAUTY INSIDE AND OUT still
life and landscapes in oil by Richard
Bergstrom and Doreen Boissonneault
are featured Sept. 1-Sept. 26, at East
Colony Fine Art, 55 South Commercial St., Manchester, 624-8833, www.
eastcolony.com. Reception Thurs.,
Sept. 17, 5-8 p.m., during Open Doors
Manchester.
• THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY — 30th Annual Parfitt
Exhibition through Sept. 25 at New
Hampshire Art Association’s Robert
Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St.,
Portsmouth, 431-4230, www.nhartassociation.org. Artwork by Karen Bushold
& Jim Kelly is featured in the East Gallery. Reception Fri., Sept. 4, 5–8 p.m.
• FIRST THURSDAYS The Currier
Museum is open late from 5:30 to
7:30 p.m. first Thursdays each month
with special programs including live
music, lectures and film. Poetry Slam
Open Mic Night with the New Hampshire Poetry Slam team, Thurs., Sept.
3, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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• FIRST PEOPLE OF THE
NORTHEAST contemporary paintings and traditional crafts through
Sept. 20 at Mill Brook Gallery &
Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton
Road in Concord, 226-2046.
• GALLERY 6 presents “A Continuous Thread,” textile art by Sarah
Haskell, Lisa Grey and Suzanne
Pretty through Sept. 6 at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire,
6 Washington St., Dover, 742-2002,
www.childrens-museum.org.
• GROUP SHOW of New Hampshire art through Sept. 30 at White
Birch Fine Art, LLC, 8 Mohawk Dr.,
Londonderry, 434-0399, www.whitebirchfineart.com.
• HEAVEN AND EARTH multime-
dia art by Humberto Ramirez of Chile
(www.humbertoramirez.net)
Sept.
4-Oct. 31 at Sharon Arts, 30 Grove
St., Peterborough, 924-2787, www.
sharonarts.org. Reception Fri., Sept.
4, 5-7 p.m. “Painting Now: From
Periphery to Proliferation,” artists’
forum with Ramirez Fri., Oct. 2, 5-7
p.m. “Storytime in the Gallery (for
Families) Wed., Oct. 7, at 10:30 a.m.
• JEFF SCHAPIRA photography
“Moments of Time in the Worls”
through Sept. 30 at the Wine Studio,
53 Hooksett Rd., Manchester, 6229463,
www.thewinestudionh.com.
Reception Thurs., Sept 10, 6-8 p.m.
• JIM JEFFERS “Genii Loci (Ghosts
of Protection)” through Sept. 25, at the
University Gallery at UMass Lowell,
71 Wilder St., Lowell, Mass., 978-9343491,www.uml.edu/Dept/Art/galleries.
Reception Wed., Sept. 9, 3–5 p.m.
• KIMBALL-JENKINS School of
Art presents artwork by Susan Schwake
and abstract paintings by Denise Jansson through Sept. 30 at the galleries at
266 N. Main St. in Concord, 255-3932,
www.kimballjenkins.com.
• LIFE IS ART IS LIFE IS...sculptor Patrick Pierce and movement
artist Claire Elizabeth Barratt collaborative installation through Sept.
27 at 119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford
St., Lowell, Mass., 978-452-8138,
www.119gallery.org. Performances
by the artists are Fridays, Sept. 4,
Sept. 25, and Sun., Sept. 26 (during
Lowell Open Studios), at 8 p.m.
• MICHELA VERANI metal clay
jewelry through September at Maison
de L’Art, 57 East Pearl St. Nashua, 8799888, www.moniquesakellarios.com.
• NEW HAMPSHIRE FURNITURE MASTERS preview of the
Masters’ 2009 auction pieces (www.
furnituremasters.org) through Sept.
16, at New Hampshire Historical
Society Library, 30 Park St., Concord,
228-6688, www.nhhistory.org.
• SANDY WADLINGTON pastels,
oil paintings & charcoal drawings
exhibit, “Up North,” Sept. 8-Oct. 16,
at McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave.,
Concord, 225-2515. Reception Fri.,
Sept. 11, 5-7 p.m.
• SPOTLIGHT NEW ENGLAND
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Dawn Sanel’s pastel “Pub Lunch, Connemarra” is part of East Colony Fine Art’s “Food for
Thought” show.
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• Seacoast this week: A juried New Hampshire Art Association exhibit, “The Evolution
of Photography,” which is their 30th annual
Parfitt Exhibition, runs through Sept. 25 at
NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136
State St., Portsmouth (431-4230, www.nhartassociation.org). See the work and meet the
artists at a reception Friday, Sept. 4, from 5
to 8 p.m.
• College time: UMass-Lowell assistant professor Jim Jeffers’ intermedia exhibit, “Genii
Loci (Ghosts of Protection)” runs through Sept.
25 at the University Gallery at UMass-Lowell,
71 Wilder St., Lowell, Mass. (978-934-3491,
www.uml.edu/Dept/Art/galleries). There’s an
artist performance Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 3
p.m., followed by a reception through 5 p.m.
New England College faculty member Peter
Granucci’s exhibit “Venus Revisited” consists of large nude paintings and drawings,
according to an NEC press release. “My work
continues the millennia old search for the ideal of the nude as an art form that was begun in
ancient Greece.... The nude is a perfect means
for expressing emotions and ideas,” Granucci stated in the release. The Gallery at New
England College is on Main Street in Hennker
(428-2329, www.nec.edu). The exhibit closes
Sept. 25. Meet Granucci at a reception Thursday, Sept. 10, between 4 and 6 p.m.
• Coming soon: See food-inspired artwork by the 28 member artists of East
Colony Fine Art at the gallery’s “Food for
Thought,” exhibit, Sept. 12 through Sept. 26.
Bring a non-perishable food donation to the
show opening Saturday, Sept. 12, between
4 and 8 p.m. A portion of sales benefit the
New Hampshire Food Bank. East Colony is
in Langer Place, 55 South Commercial St.,
Manchester (621-7400, www.eastcolony.
com).
Sandy Wadlington’s pastels, oil paintings
and charcoal drawings make up “Up North,”
at McGowan Fine Art (10 Hills Ave., Concord, 225-2515) from Sept. 8 through Oct.
16. Meet Wadlington at an opening reception
Friday, Sept. 11, from 5 to 7 p.m.
• Happenings: The Andres Institute of
Art opens its 11th “Bridges and Connections
International Sculpture Symposium,” themed
“Cornerstone,” with a reception Sunday,
Sept. 13, from 3 to 5 p.m., at Daniels Academy – Town Hall, 1 Main St., Brookline.
Meet the visiting sculptors and learn about
the symposium there. Pre-reception, visit
Andres Institute at 98 Route 13 in Brookline (www.andresinstitute.org, 673-8441) for
a collaborative art and nature tour with Beaver Brook Association from 1 to 3 p.m. Visit
the Park before the symposium closes Oct. 4
to see the sculptors at work.
New England Culture Fest, along with live
music, dance, DJs and plenty of food, offers
an Ethical Art & Biz Expo, 200-foot NECF
Art Fence, “Fashionably Fair” fashion show
and video projected on buildings Saturday,
Sept. 12, from 2 to 10 p.m. (rain date Sept.
13) across from 172 Middle St., Lowell,
Mass. (www.second-world.com). Admission
costs $10 (see bit.ly/NECF09coupon for a
coupon). Kids under 12 enter free.
More than 20 artists are expected to show
and sell work in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, drawing and mixed media at the fifth
annual Art on the Common. Londonderry
Arts Council presents this at the Londonderry Town Common at Mammoth and Pillsbury
roads Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. (rain date Sept. 13). Nutfield Sessions
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10 Hills Avenue
Concord, NH
603-225-2515
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Manchester, www.currier.org, 6696144.
• TWILIGHT Manchester Artists
Association group show Sept. 2- Oct.
24 at the MAA Gallery, 1528 Elm
St., Manchester, 785-6437, manchester-artists.org. Reception and
awards Thurs., Sept. 17, 5-8 p.m.,
during Open Doors Manchester.
• TURNING WOOD INTO ART:
The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection through Sept. 27 at the Currier
Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, www.currier.org, 669-6144.
• WATERCOLOR DELIGHT
paintings by New Hampshire artists
Bill Childs, Becky Darling, Ethel
Hills and Fran Mallon at UNH Manchester, 400 Commercial St., 6414306, www.unhm.unh.edu. in collaboration with the NH Art Association (NHAA) located in Portsmouth,
Reception Thurs., Sept. 17, 5-6 p.m.
on the second floor.
• WORLDWIDE ARTIST PAINT
OUT hosted by the International Plein
Air Painters, includes NHPleinAir
Artist members participating Sept.
11–Sept. 13. Visit www.nhpleinair.
com for locations. A wet paint sale and
reception is Sun., Sept. 13, 3-5 p.m.,
at White Birch Fine Art Gallery, 8
Mohawk Dr., Londonderry, 434-0399.
THEATER Listings
• The Acting Loft
516 Pine St., Manchester
666-5999, actingloft.org
• Actorsingers
219 Lake St., Nashua, 889-9691,
actorsingers.org
• Adams Memorial
Multimedia art
Meet Humberto Ramirez
of Chile at a reception opening his multimedia exhibit
“Heaven and Earth,” Friday,
Sept. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m., at
Sharon Arts, 30 Grove St.
in Peterborough (924-2787,
www.sharonarts.org). The
show closes Oct. 31. An artists’ forum with Ramirez
“Painting Now: From Periphery to Proliferation,” is Friday,
Oct. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. See www.humbertoramirez.net. Work
by Humberto Ramirez is seen here.
Opera House
29 W. Broadway, Derry,
437-0505, derryarts.org
• Amato Family Center for the
Performing Arts at Souhegan
Valley Boys & Girls Club
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 2, svbgc.com
• Andy’s Summer Playhouse
Wilton, 654-2613,
andyssummerplayhouse.org
• Anselmian Abbey Players
Dana Center, 641-7700
• Bedford Off Broadway
Meetinghouse Road, Bedford,
557-1805, bedfordoffbroadway.com
• Bedford Town Hall
70 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford
• Belle Voci
bellevoci.org, 848-7986
• Capitol Center for the Arts
44 Main St., Concord, 225-1111,
ccanh.com
• Concord Chorale
224-0770,
concordchorale.org
• Concord City Auditorium
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Larry Pizza and Mari Keegan performing in
Dinner with Friends, Nashua Theatre Guild’s
winning entry for the 2008 New Hampshire
Festival of Community Theatre. Courtesy photo.
www.dancestudiomanchester.com
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• Mom Tot Dance Play (18mos. - 3yrs)
• Ballet • Pointe • Tap • Hip Hop
• Jazz • Contemporary • Gymnastics
• Kids Yoga • Adult Ballet • Adult Tap
• Adult Jazz • Adult Yoga/Pilates
• Adult Hula Hoop
Manchester’s largest & voted best
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Call 669-1929 for our Fall Brochure
Parents are always allowed
to sit inside the studio
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and watch classes.
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• Nashua Theatre Guild
PO Box 137, Nashua,
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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
• THE EEGAD COMEDY SHOW
Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the Leavitt
Park Clubhouse, Elm Street in Laconia, $5, 528-4798.
• OVER THE RIVER & THROUGH
THE WOODS Sept. 3-5 at 8 p.m.
and Sept. 5 at 2 p.m. during ACT
ONE’s Festival of Fun, at West End
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• Let’s get the judges’ reactions...: Actorsingers, Ghostlight Theater Company of New
England, Nashua Theatre Guild (defending champ), Actors’ Circle Theatre and the
Majestic Theatre compete in the 38th annual New Hampshire Festival of Community
Theatre, Sunday, Sept. 13. The judges host
workshops open to the public starting at 10
a.m. Theater companies start competing at
1:30 p.m. — they have 10 minutes to set up,
an hour to perform, and 10 minutes to break
down their set. Then, the audience gets to
hear the judges’ critiques. Pay $25 for a fullday pass, $15 for the performance session, or
$5 per workshop. This NH Community Theatre Association event is being hosted at the
Majestic Theatre, 281 Cartier St., in Manchester. See www.nhcommunitytheatre.com
for details or call 669-7469 for tickets.
• Info overload: Gala IXX previews the
Concord City Auditorium’s 105th season with
a taste of more than 105 events Sunday, Sept.
13, at 7 p.m. State Senator Sylvia Larson hosts
this fast-paced theater, music and dance event,
presented by the Friends of the Concord City
Auditorium. Tickets cost $5. Come early for
ice cream — there’s an Arnie’s ice cream social
at 6 p.m. Local arts organizations will also
have information available then, according to
a Friends of the Audi release. Call 225-7474 or
visit www.theaudi.org.
• Coming up: Merrimack Repertory Theatre opens its season of professional work
with a world premiere of Flings & Eros,
“a new vaudevillian romp” by the Flying
Karamazov Brothers. The four brothers play
all the parts, “as they rehearse scenes from
their reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo
and Juliet,” with music, combat juggling and
dancing, according to a Merrimack Rep press
release. There’s a “Pay What You Will” night
Thursday, Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m., followed by
a chance to talk with the director and designers. Previews ($23-$31) continue through
Sept. 13 at 2 p.m. Flings & Eros continues
Sept. 13, at 8 p.m. (opening night — there’s
a champagne toast) through Sept. 30 ($34$56), with performances Wednesday through
Sunday at 50 East Merrimack St. in Lowell,
Mass. (978-654-4678, www.merrimackrep.
org). Student tickets cost $15.
Theatre Kapow heads into its second season with performances of The Lover, by
Harold Pinter, and The Problem, by A.R.
Gurney Jr., Friday, Sept. 11, at 7:30 p.m., and
Saturday, Sept. 12, at 2 and 7:30 p.m., at the
Stockbridge Theatre at Pinkerton Academy in
Derry (437-5210, www.tkapow.com). Tickets
cost $12 and $15. Matthew Cahoon directs
Carey Cahoon and Brian Kennedy.
Milford Area Players offer a free “Off the
MAP” staged reading of The Sleeper, by Catherine Butterfield, about a post-9/11 “security
mom” Friday, Sept. 11, at 8 p.m., at the Amato Center, 56 Mont Vernon St., (Route 13) in
Milford, according to a MAP press release.
It’s not appropriate for children. Visit www.
MilfordAreaPlayers.org.
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Atomic era
Jack Koenig, Gus Kaikkonen and Lisa Bostnar
appear in Copenhagen, a
drama by Michael Frayn,
at the Peterborough Players professional theater.
A 1941 meeting between
two top scientists changes their relationship forever in this
drama. Copenhagen runs Tuesday through Saturday at 8 p.m.,
and Sundays at 4 p.m., through Sept. 13, at 55 Hadley Road,
Peterborough (924-7585, www.peterboroughplayers.org).
Ticket costs range from $38 to $45. Student rush tickets cost
$15, and “rush for all” tickets are available on the first Thursday of each run. The SantaLand Diaries, a comedy by David
Sedaris adapted by Joe Montello, closes the summer stock
season with performances from Sept. 16 through Sept. 27.
• CRUSH DEPTH, by Jacquelyn
Benson, Fridays and Saturdays at 8
p.m., and Sundays at 7 p.m., Sept.
4-Sept. 20, at the Players Ring in
Portsmouth, $8-$12, 436-8123,
www.playersring.org. Special performance Sept. 4 ($20-$24).
• KRISANTHI PAPPAS sings
“Broadway Hits” Fri., Sept. 4, at 8
p.m., as a fundraiser concert ($20$22) at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Alpenrose Plaza, routes 3 and
11B in Weirs Beach, Laconia, 3667377, www.winniplayhouse.com.
Rory Raven, mentalist and mindbender performs “Brainstorming”
Sat., Sept. 5, at 8 p.m., ($16-$18).
• THE BEMA SEAT, by Michael
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Sewell, Sat., Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. (www.
michaelsewell.com), presented by
New England Revival Coffeehouse,
at Calvary Fellowship Church, 60
Bailey Ave., Manchester, free, www.
nerch.org, 625-9550.
Auditions/workshops
• DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS, auditions for Manchester
School District students grades 812, for the Theatre Knights at West
High School, 9 Notre Dame Ave.,
Manchester, Thurs., Sept. 3, from 4
to about 7 p.m. Visit www.theatreknights.com for audition details.
• THE CASTAWAYS, by Jill and
Michael Gallina, auditions Sept. 8-
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NH Phil’s 105th
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Prairie Home Companion. Kim performs
Beethoven’s
“Violin Concerto” with the
New Hampshire Philharmonic on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 3
p.m., at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in Manchester
(668-5588, www.nhphil.org). It’s the first NH Phil concert
of its 105th season, which continues with “Holiday Pops”
Nov. 28 in Derry, “Sunday Classics” March 14 in Manchester and “Spring Pops – Love and Laughter,” May 22
in Manchester.
TIONS starts six-week Saturday
sessions on vocal technique and
“Reader’s Theatre” Sept. 19 ( $100)
at 25 Front St., Suite 501, Nashua,
320-6321, 672-9664. Musical theater dance classes start Sept. 9 and
run Wednesdays ($12 each/$40 for
four weeks).
• AUDITION for the New Hampshire Theatre Project Youth Repertory Companies (ages 8-17) Sept.
9-10, 4-7 p.m., at 959 Islington St.,
Portsmouth, www.nhtheatreproject.
org. Call 431-6644 ext. 3 to reserve.
Classical Listings
• SOUTHERN NH CHILDREN’S
CHOIR for grades 1-8 auditions
Sat., Sept. 12, 9 a.m.-noon for grades
1-3; noon-3 p.m. for grades 4-6, and
3-5 p.m. for grades 7-8 at 25 Front
St., fifth floor, Nashua (functions
under StageCoach Productions).
Prepare a short song. Call 320-6321
or 672-9664 for details.
• FALL CLASSES in instruments
and voice, and ensemble placement
start Sept. 14 at Concord Community
Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord,
228-1196, www.ccmusicschool.org.
• MANCHESTER CHORAL
SOCIETY holds an “open sing”
Mon., Sept. 14, at 7 p.m., at Grace
Episcopal Church, Pine and Lowell
streets, Manchester, for interested
singers high school and older to try
the chorus. See www.mcsnh.org.
• MERRIMACK CONCERT
ASSOCIATION seeks new members for the Merrimack Concert Band
and Merrimack Chorus, who are high
school students, amateur or professional adult musicians (424-0558,
www.merrimackconcert.org). Band
practices start Tues., Sept. 15, 7:309:30 p.m., in the Merrimack Middle
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Chorus rehearsals start Sun., Sept. 13,
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• PEACOCK PLAYERS fall theater arts classes for children and
teens start Sept. 8.
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When I was a boy my grandfather grew
gooseberries and currants (Ribes spp.). Unfortunately they are secondary hosts for the white
pine blister rust, a disease that can kill pine
trees. In New Hampshire and Maine (but not
Vermont) there are restrictions and prohibitions about growing these tasty fruits. There
are now named cultivars that are resistant to
this malady, and available and legal to plant
and purchase. For New Hampshire, go to
http://agriculture.nh.gov/documents/FinalRibesList2009.pdf for a complete list of
approved cultivars. In Maine, contact your
local extension agent.
Gooseberries (Ribes hirtellum) are easy
to grow, and very tasty not only in pies, but
straight off the bush. They can be as small as a
pea or as big as a small plum, and range in color from green to lavender to a deep red. They
have a nice crunch, and taste something like a
cross between a kiwi and a grape. They grow
on bushes that rarely exceed five feet in height
or diameter. The late Lewis Hill of Greensboro, Vt., loved gooseberries, claiming that
no pie can beat a well made gooseberry pie
for flavor. His book Fruits and Berries for the
Home Garden is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in growing any small fruits.
Red and black currants are grown widely in Europe and made into a variety of soft
drinks and throat lozenges. They are tasty off
the bush, or cooked into jellies or juice. Once
you have tasted them you will probably want
to grow them. They are generally pest- and
disease-free, but can suffer from powdery mildew in wet summers like this one.
Having had an Irish great-grandmother, I
like to diversify what I grow. The potato famine was a severe problem, in part, because only
one kind of potato was grown. So I like to grow
many different kinds of fruits and vegetables. I
lost a lot of raspberries to fungus this year, but
my blackberries are great, and it looks to be an
excellent year for elderberries. Now I just need
some gooseberries.
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My elderberries (Sambucus canadensis)
are starting to ripen, and I bet the birds in
my neighborhood are singing my praises for
planting them. Yes, I do sometimes pick some
berries for juice, and once I made some truly
horrible wine with them, but my elderberries
are primarily for the birds — literally.
According to Trees, Shrubs and Vines for
Attracting Birds by Richard DeGraaf, the berries of American elder are a preferred food
for 14 species of birds, including some I am
pleased to have around: robins, bluebirds, cardinals, thrushes and the rose-breasted grosbeak;
another 21 species eat the berries on occasion.
It is used for nesting by mockingbirds, catbirds,
yellow warblers and goldfinches, among others. It is used for cover by 26 species of birds.
Overall, it is one of the better things you can
plant if you like attracting birds. Thumbing
through DeGraaf’s book, it appears that only
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some types of cherries.
Elderberries grow best in moist places,
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blueberries, they will grow not only in acidic soil but in alkaline soil. I grow mine right
next to a brook where their roots stay nice and
moist. My books tell me that they spread by
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have not spread aggressively. In 8 to 10 years they have
expanded from a plant in a
3-gallon pot to a clump perhaps 10 feet across. Each
plant is 8 to 12 feet tall. I’ve
been told that growing two
different named cultivars of
elder increases fruit load,
though that is not essential.
I love my elderberry in
the spring. It blooms magnificently, the entire top of
the plant alive with clusters
of white flowers arranged in
cymes and populated with
bees. A cyme is “a more or
less flat-topped determinate
inflorescence whose outer flowers open last”
(per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants by
Michael Dirr). Think Queen Anne’s Lace on
steroids. And they are fragrant. You can make
tea from them, and some people do — though
I haven’t, as yet.
In late summer or early fall elderberries come
ripe. It is somewhat of an old-fashioned fruit,
generally favored by people in their 70s and 80s
for its jelly-making potential. The berries are bbto pea-sized, so I use my pruners to cut off the
cymes. If you use it for jelly, juice or wine I suggest that you pull the berries off their stems, as
the stems are somewhat noxious-tasting. A report
from Purdue University indicates that elderberry outperforms both cranberries and blueberries
as an antioxidant, and for levels of Vitamins A
and C. It is rich in calcium and iron, too. In folk
medicine it has commonly been used for treating
colds and rheumatism.
As a landscape plant American elder is not
perfect. It is weak-wooded, so stems break
easily in ice storms. It is a short-lived plant,
but sends up suckers, so normally that is not
a problem. There are now available a number
of named cultivars including two dark-leaved
ones, ‘Black Beauty’ and ‘Black Lace.’ They
are actually Sambucus nigra, a European species, which is less winter-hardy than our native
form. I tried a ‘Black Beauty’ and it only lasted two years for me.
rarities
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www.vacationbound.net
• The Annunciation Greek
Orthodox Church in Dover
will hold its Greek Heritage Festival Friday, Sept. 4,
from 4 to 11 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 5, from 11 a.m. to
11 p.m., rain or shine at the
Hellenic Center on Long Hill
Road in Dover. Admission is
free but of course bring money
for all the eats — foods listed
on the Web site for this year
include souvlaki, pastichio,
moussaka, spanakopeta, plaki, gyro, lamb dinner, meat
balls, dolmathes and loukaniko in addition to pastries like
baklava, diples, finikia, loukoumades and more. The event
will include live music and
dancing, children’s games and
entertainment and cooking
demonstrations. See www.
dovergreekfestival.com.
• The Inn at Danbury, 67
Route NH 104 in Danbury,
will hold its annual Oktoberfest on Saturday, Sept. 5, and
Sunday, Sept. 6. This will be
a scaled-down version of previous years’ events. For the
weekend’s menu selection
and entertainment line-up, go
to www.oktoberfestnh.com.
• The Super Stellar Friday
program at McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2
Institute Drive in Concord,
271-7827 ext. 110, www.starhop.com) on Friday, Sept.
4, at 7 p.m. is about Jupiter
and its Moons. The program
includes a look at the night
sky, a tour of the new observaChildren & Teens
Events
• HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE
MEMBER OF YOUR CHILD’S
IEP TEAM on Wed., Sept. 9, 6-7:30
p.m. in Portsmouth. This workshop
will provide participants with an
introduction to the special education
process with a focus on the IEP. This
session includes a brief overview of
each step in the process, as well as of
the important role of parents in the
process. Preregistration is required.
Call 422-8208 ext. 123 or e-mail
[email protected]
to register.
• BUG BALL on Sat., Sept. 12, 11
a.m.-3 p.m. at The Amoskeag Fishways (6 Fletcher St., Manchester,
626-FISH, amoskeagfishways.org).
Activities will include an insect petting zoo, buggy crafts, and special
guest, Dr. Paul Johnson, UNH insect
expert. Participants will enjoy special staff presentations, “Moths and
Butterflies”, featuring the two most
beautiful and diverse insect families
on the planet. Cost is $3 per person
tory and a live look at Jupiter.
Admission costs $9 for adults,
$6 for children (age 3 to 12),
$8 for students and seniors
(free to members).
• That same day, the McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery
Center, has a grand opening of its new observatory
starting at noon with special
demonstrations on telescopes
and optics throughout the day.
Admission costs $9 for adults,
$6 for children (3 to 12), $8
for students and seniors (free
to members).
newenglandelvisfest.com.
• There’s a UFO Festival on
Saturday, Sept. 5, 8:45 a.m.5:30 p.m. at the Exeter Town
Hall (7 Front St., Exeter), with
activities for kids, an Earthlingand-alien ball, a self-guided
UFO safari and a session featuring a panel of experts. See
exeterufofest.com.
• The Keene Music Festival, a free day of music in
downtown Keene, will be
held Saturday, Sept. 5, from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m. More than
50 bands and performers will
play five stages and three
sidewalk areas throughout
the day. For festival map and
schedule, see www.keenemusicfestival.com.
• The King (or at least dozens of impersonators) will be
in Manchester Friday, Sept. 4,
through Sunday, Sept. 6, for
the First Annual New England Elvis Festival at the
Radisson Plaza Hotel, 700
Elm St. in Manchester. The
event will feature 20 tribute
artists competing for more
than $3,500 in prize money
and performances by Elvis
tributers like Shawn Klush
and Pete Paquette. On Sunday
morning, there will be a gospel concert. There will be a
memorabilia sale all weekend
long. See the schedule and
ticket information at www.
• The Francestown Labor
Day Fair on Monday, Sept. 7,
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is free
and will include children’s
games with prizes, a juried arts
and crafts exhibit and sale, a
road race (starting at 8:15 a.m.),
a parade at 2 p.m., musical
entertainment (everything from
dulcimer to kids’ rock to band
music), a book sale, antiques
and food. See www.francestownhistory.org.
• Milford’s Labor Day
Parade, on Monday, Sept. 7,
starting at 1 p.m., has a theme
of “Honoring the Greatest Generation Veterans.” The parade
begins at Milford High School
(West Street, Milford) and ends
at the Milford VFW, where a pig
roast, chili contest and activities
for children will be in place.
Contact VFW Commander
Kim Davis at 620-3860.
or $6 per family. No registration is
required. Call 626-3474.
• FAMILY SAFETY DAY on Sat.,
Sept. 12, from noon to 4 p.m. at Matthew Thornton School, 275 Mammoth
Road in Londonderry. Have child’s car
seat inspected for correct installation,
get a free child ID kit, visit the smoke
house trailer and learn what to do in
a house fire, get information on emergency preparedness and learn driving
tips. Games, activities, food, drink and
free raffle tickets. Call Vinny Curro at
432-1100 X 367.
• NATUREFEST 2009 Little Nature
Museum and Gould Hill Orchards,
656 Gould Hill Road in Contoocook,
will host NatureFest on Sat., Sept. 12,
and Sun., Sept. 13, from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. The event will feature museum
tours, trail walks, hayrides, nature
avtivites, a HikeSmart program and
special exhibits. During a walk on
Sunday from noon to 1 p.m., learn
about edible wild plants and how to
prepare them. The Museum is in
a new location at the Orchard. See
www.littlenaturemuseum.org or call
603-746-6121.
• GRANDPARENT LOST SUPPORT for children 5 to 17 who have
lost grandparents in the last year at
Home Health & Hospice Care, 80
Continental Blvd. in Merrimack, on
Sun., Sept. 13, 2 to 4 p.m. Pre-registration is required; cost is $10 per child.
Call 424-3822 or 882-2941 or e-mail
[email protected] to register.
• ALEJANDRO’S OLDE TYME
MAGIK SHOWE on Sun., Sept. 13,
2 p.m. in the Library Auditorium at the
Concord Public Library. Magician
Andrew Pinard will bring magic and
comedy. Reservations are not required;
seating is limited. Doors open at 1:55
p.m. Call 225-8670. Continuing
Continuing
Education
Open houses/sign-ups/job
fairs
• GED PREP Free GED prep classes will be held at the Marion Gerrish Community Center in Derry on
Monday and Wednesday mornings
from 9 to noon. Register Mon., Sept.
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An antiques expert helps you
search for buried treasure
Dear Donna,
I found this in my parents’ house when cleaning it out. It had a sticker on it that said RARE
(my mom must have put it on it). On the back of
the pieces as I have shown you it says Quimper.
My husband and I have done some research
and can’t seem to find this piece. We have
found lots of other wares by this manufacture
but none like this one. Can you help ?
Carol and Ed in Merrimack
14, at 9 a.m. at the Community Center. A $20 refundable book deposit
required. Call Adult Learner Services of Greater Derry 603-432-1907.
Adult education
• ADULT EDUCATION classes
offered by Nashua School District at
Chuck Druding Drive, Nashua, 5896416. Nashua Adult and Community
Education offers courses for adults 18
and older to earn credit toward a high
school diploma, drivers education
program and an enrichment program,
which offers classes in arts and crafts,
cooking, language, engine repair, college planning, computers and more.
Courses run at night and cost $150
for Nashua residents. See nashua.edu;
classes begin again in fall.
• CLASSES FOR LIFE Concord
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Let us remove one.
I think it depends on what they could get their
hands on to photograph at the time of printing
each reference guide.
I did come up with several coquille-style
dishes and a few single designs. The value was
in the $150-$200 range. A lot of the ones that
brought any higher value were older ones. The
age plays a big part in the value. Yours, a more
modern pattern, is in the price range I quoted.
I don’t think it’s rare, but I would say it’s an
unusual pattern.
Thanks so much, Carol and Ed, and I hope
you enjoy your piece of Quimper. It must have
meant a lot to your mom. Maybe after your
research you might want to add to it and start
a collection.
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).
Visit www.nec.edu, click on “Academics” and follow the LINEC links
or call 746-6212.
• NASHUA ADULT LEARNING
CENTER (4 Lake St., Nashua, 8829080, adultlearningcenter.org) offers
classes in basic adult education,
GED preparation, ESOL classes,
adult learner services, computer and
job training, and community education. Check online or call for a complete schedule.
• NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY (2
Court St., Nashua, 589-4603, nashua.
lib.nh.us) offers free college and high
school courses on CD. Library cardholders can borrow any of 33 courses
on a wide range of subjects.
• NASHUA SCHOOL DISTRICT
(10 Chuck Druding Dr., Nashua,
589-6416, www.nashua.edu/district)
offers a diploma program, drivers
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program which includes classes in
technology, science, math, foreign
languages, arts and crafts, cooking,
health and wellness and applied
technology. Check online for a full
list of classes.
• OLLI COURSES The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute provides classes, lectures and field trips for adults
ages 50 and over through Granite State
College, 513-1377, www.granite.edu.
Membership costs $35; costs vary for
individual classes. Some classes are
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See Web site for the schedule; classes
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LIBRARY49 Nashua St. in Milford,
673-2408,
www.wadleighlibrary.
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IUGO holds a monthly luncheon
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Dear Carol,
The dish you have sent a picture of is Quimper (pronounced Kem Pair). They have been
made for over 300 years and so there are a lot of
different marks on them and a lot of styles and
patterns. It’s from France and most of them are
marked as yours on the back. Dishes had different marks depending on the period of time and
the factory they came from.
The style of the dish is called a coquille, and
the mark on yours dates it to the period of time
between 1942 and 1968 from the Henriot Factory. The tough part was to find the pattern.
The problem with researching is that if no
one who has written a book has this one dish,
you won’t find the rooster. Now I am sure that
there were many made but even after reviewing several books and going online myself I
was unable to match one to yours.
Most Quimper is with people and scenes,
but in some of the reference books you can find
only one of a piece that isn’t repeated throughout the book. I don’t believe that means it’s rare;
Too many
items on
your list?
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
Stuck oil filter has reader stumped
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Dear Tom and Ray:
I have a 2006 4.7-liter V-8 Jeep Grand
Cherokee with 50,000 miles, and we change
our own oil every 3,000 miles. We always
have. This last time we went to change the oil,
my husband and I battled for two and a half
hours to get the oil filter off! We started with a
cap-style oil-filter wrench, which started slipping. Then we used every wrench we could
find, including a Channellock. A few hours
later, the filter looked like a crushed beer can!
The filter is in a tight spot, so we don’t have a
lot of room to work the thing. We got so desperate that we drove a screwdriver through it
to use that for leverage. Didn’t work. We finally realized we’d lost this battle, so now our
car needs to be pushed out of the garage and
towed to our mechanic. But for future reference, are there any other techniques or tricks
for loosening stuck filters? — Lasha
RAY: No, you pretty much hit ‘em all,
Lasha!
TOM: The one other advantage we have at
than five miles. She wants her ‘98 Buick Regal
with 40,000 miles to last as long as possible.
Therefore, she refused to drive the 350 miles
to visit for the holidays. I believe that an occasional long drive actually extends the life of
the car. Which one of us is correct, and why?
— Bill
RAY: Well, I think she just didn’t want to
visit you, Bill. Do you have a houseful of bratty kids or a neglected cat box or something?
TOM: She certainly wouldn’t ruin the car
by putting another 700 miles (round trip) on
it. After all, that’s what cars are designed to
do: Drive places. But is it GOOD for the car?
Not really.
RAY: In the old days, when cars had carburetors, and excess fuel poured into the
cylinders, taking a long, high-speed ride
could help burn off some of the carbon deposits that tended to build up on the pistons. But
fuel injection meters the fuel so precisely on
modern cars that carbon deposits rarely are a
problem.
TOM: The only problem with repeated short
drives now is moisture. When the engine runs,
one of the byproducts of combustion is water.
That water is sent out the tailpipe. But if you
drive only a few miles, the exhaust system
and muffler never get hot enough to vaporize that water. That makes the exhaust system
Dear Tom and Ray:
rust prematurely.
My sister and I recently had an argument.
RAY: So your sister may drive up to the
She drives only short distances, rarely more pumps and say, “Fill her up, check the oil and
the shop is that we have some better wrenches
to try. We have one that grabs around the bottom of the filter, and attaches to a ratchet. But
sometimes even that doesn’t work.
RAY: And then the only option is to grab the
air chisel and break it off. And you’re absolutely right to tow it to a professional to have
that done. It’s not something you want to try
yourself, because if you screw it up and take a
chunk out of that mating surface on the engine
block, every filter from then on will leak.
TOM: And you want to be able to blame the
SHOP for that, rather than your husband.
RAY: I can tell you why the filter stuck: You
forgot to put oil on the filter gasket. The filter
comes with a rubber O-ring on top that creates a seal between the filter and the engine.
If you don’t lubricate the seal with oil before
tightening the new filter, it will “wed” to the
engine block, and be extremely difficult to
remove.
TOM: How does he know that? Personal
experience!
RAY: Right. Nowadays, we prefer a nice,
healthy dollop of Filippo Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil to lube the gasket, but the truth
is, a fingertip full of motor oil will do just as
well. You’ll remember it next time, I’m sure,
Lasha.
change the muffler!”
TOM: But you don’t need to drive 350
miles to heat up your exhaust system. Five or
10 miles will do it, depending on the weather. And, in any case, a long trip once a year
is not going to help keep your muffler from
rusting anyway, if it’s staying moist the other 364 days.
RAY: So there’s no real advantage for her
car in making this trip. In fact, the opposite
is true. There’s a pretty direct correlation
between the number of miles driven and the
end of a car’s life. So in general, the fewer
miles a car is driven, the longer it lasts.
TOM: So forget about the car, Bill. Send your
sister a plane ticket for Christmas next year.
But if she starts chirping about all the potential
wear and tear on the airplane, give up.
Used cars can be a great bargain, and
reliable, too! Find out why by ordering Tom
and Ray’s pamphlet “How to Buy a Great
Used Car: Secrets Only Your Mechanic
Knows.” Send $4.75 (check or money order)
to Used Car, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL
32853-6475.
Get more Click and Clack in their new
book, “Ask Click and Clack: Answers from
Car Talk.” Got a question about cars? Write
to Click and Clack by visiting the Car Talk
Web site at www.cartalk.com. (c) 2009 by Tom
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Personal finance
• FINANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAM offered by the Nashua Pastoral Care Center, 7 Concord St. in
Nashua, www.nashuanpcc.org, 8862866, starting Wed., Sept. 9. The
sessions will run seven weeks and go
from 6 to 8 p..m., covering the basics
of personal financial management
(banking, borrowing money, credit
reports, budgeting and more). Call to
register.
• GNBPW The Greater Nashua Business and Professional Women’s organization will hold an event focused on
“Women of Excellence: Setting Goals
and Inspiring Others” on Thurs., Sept.
17, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Crowne
Plaza Hotel off Exit 8 in Nashua. See
www.BPWNashua.com.
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The truth is out there (Exeter)
Break out your Scully and Mulder action figures — the
Exeter UFO Festival will examine the 1965 UFO sighting in Exeter as well as the fun side of extra terrestrials
on Saturday, Sept. 5, in and around Exeter Town Hall.
The day beings at 8:30 with a UFO Children’s Charity
Art Show. Events for kids and families will include:
• 9 a.m. — face painting in Founders Park, E.T. and
UFO drawings throughout town with chalk and
• 10 a.m. — UFO construction for kids using recyclables in Founders Park as well as a story circle.
• 11:30 a.m. — ET Costume contest in Founders Park
and a sidewalk parade downtown
Presentations on the subject of unidentified flying
objects will include:
• 9 a.m. — Peter Geremia with “Incident at Exeter and
NH UFOs.”
• 10:30 a.m. — Kathleen marden with “Captured! The
Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”
• 1 p.m. — Peter Robbins with “The Power of Ridicule
Vs. A Most Uncomfortable Truth: Why We Need to Take
UFOs Seriously”
• 2:30 p.m. Ted Loder with “The Disclosure Project:
UFO Secrecy and Our Future”
• 4 p.m. guest speaker
• 4:30 p.m. panel discussion
The day will conclude with “Happy Hour at Alien
Café” (the Loaf and Ladle, 9 Water St. in Exeter) at 6
p.m. and a 1960s Rock & Roll Dance at town hall featuring the band The Morlocks at 8 p.m. See exeterufofest.
com for more about the presentations and events.
• 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
• 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. Classes in
sustainable organic agriculture and
horsemanship lessons are available.
• WALKING TOUR OF THE
MILLYARD on Sat., Sept. 12,
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the
Manchester Millyard hosted by
the Manchester Historic Association and led by Aurore Eaton. The
cost is $10 ($5 for members). Call
622-7531 to register. See www.
manchesterhistoric.org.
• WALKING TOUR OF THE
FRANCO-AMERICAN WEST
SIDE in Manchesteron Sun., Sept.
13, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., hosted by the
Manchester Historic Association and
led by local historian Robert B. Perreault. The cost is $10 ($5 for members). Call 622-7531 to register. See
www.manchesterhistoric.org.
• WORKER’S HOUSING WALKING TOUR on Sat., Sept. 26, 10:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m., on east Canal
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be a special night out
and will be returning
to Silo’s again when
we have something to
celebrate — Okay, even
when we don’t.”
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641 Daniel Webster Highway,
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A pair of Journey
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Manchester Historic Association and
led by Aurore Eaton. The cost is $10
($5 for members). Call 622-7531 to
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• PELAGIC TRIP at Rye Harbor
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668-2045, nhaudubon.org) on Tues.,
Sept.8, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Explore Jeffreys Ledge, 20 miles off the New
Hampshire coast. Spend all day at
sea, searching the length of Jeffreys
Ledge for pelagic seabirds, whales,
dolphins, and anything else that happens to cross our course. Once you
register, you will receive confirmation
and further information. Participants
need to meet for departure from Rye
Harbor before 8 a.m. Pre-registration
required. Cost is $65 for members
and $85 for nonmembers. Call 6682045 to register.
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• OBSERVATORY GRAND
OPENING at McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center, 2 Institute Dr.
in Concord, 271-7827 ext. 110,
www.starhop.com, on Fri., Sept.
4, at noon with special demonstrations on telescopes and optics
throughout the day. Admission
costs $9 for adults, $6 for children (3 to 12), $8 for students and
seniors (free to members).
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MUSEUMS & TOURS
• Canterbury Shaker Village
288 Shaker Road, Canterbury,
783-9511, shakers.org
• McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center
2 Institute Dr., Concord, starhop.
com, 271-7831
• Currier Museum of Art
150 Ash St., Manchester,
669-6144, currier.org
• Laconia Historical
& Museum Society
in the Laconia Public Library at
695 Main St. in Laconia,
527-1278, laconiahistorical.org
• Langer Place
55 South Commercial St.,
Manchester, 626-4388,
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
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speaker John Taylor of CareerMobility at the Radisson Hotel in Nashua
for “Taking Control of Your Career
Development” on Thurs., Sept. 10;
“New England Hiring Practices in
This Economy” with guest speaker
Tom Hart at the Courtyard Marriott
in Nashua on Wed., Sept. 16, and
“Creating an Integrated Brand” with
Sean Nelson of SONARconnects at
the Courtyard Marriott in Nashua on
Thurs., Sept. 24. All events run from
9 to 11:30 a.m.
• SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE WOMEN’S BUSINESS
NETWORK holds regular networking events and workshops. See
www.snhwbn.org.
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Weekly Dish
Notes from the local food scene
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
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FOOD
The night of 26 restaurants
Sample dowtown Manchester venues new and old at the Taste
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
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• New eats alert: Meena’s Kitchen, a new Indian vegetarian
restaurant, has opened at 113 W. Pearl St. in downtown Nashua.
Lunch is served Tuesday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2
p.m., and dinner is served Tuesday through Sunday from 5:30 to
9 p.m. View the menu at meenaskitchen.com.
• New home for Sausage King: Nashua’s Sausage King
has moved from just the sausage cart to a new retail location
at 53 Main St. The new spot opens at 10:30 a.m. and closes
at 9 p.m., except for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, when it
stays open until 2 a.m. for the late-night crowd. See www.thesausagekingofnashua.com.
• New owner: Chicken n’ Chips, 12 W. Hollis St. in Nashua,
has reopened under new owner Jim Udice. The restaurant will
serve a variety of chicken dishes daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Taste of the harvest: Zorvino Vineyards will celebrate
Harvest month with a New England Harvest Wine Tasting on
Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Chef Phil will be using
the best local harvest products he can find to prepare three appetizers, and Zorvino will be joined by Flag Hill Winery and
Jewell Towne Vineyards in pairing six great wines along with
them. Guests can meet reps from each vineyard to discuss winemaking. The cost is $32 per person. Go to www.zorvino.com.
• Fair season: The Apple Country Craft Fair will take place
Saturday, Sept. 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Sept.
13, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, at
the corner of Peabody Row and Mammoth Road next to Mack’s
Apples in Londonderry. The fair will feature baked goods, jams
and jellies, grilled food, freshly made lemonade and more,
including juried crafters and their work. Admission and parking
are free; the fair is held rain or shine.
• Wine aroma therapy: Bella Vino, 2 Young Road in Londonderry, will hold a second Unlocking the Mysteries of Wine
Aromas class on Friday, Sept. 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Steve Fortune and Ambra Kash from F&F Wine Imports will explain how
to identify wine’s different aromas. The class will feature eight
wines (two white and six red) and light refreshments. The cost is
$35 and seating is limited. Call 426-5212 for reservations.
• Soup for everybody: The annual Empty Bowls event to
benefit New Horizons for New Hampshire is Sunday, Sept. 27,
at the Brookside Church, 2013 Elm St. in Manchester, from
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sponsored by the NH Potters Guild, the
event raises approximately $4,000 for New Horizons’ homeless shelter, soup kitchen and food pantry. Potters make and
donate ceramic soup bowls. Guests choose and buy a bowl of
soup for $20 (lower price for kids). The soups are donated by
over a dozen local restaurants. For more information go to www.
Continued on page 38
The evening Manchester food lovers
wait for is almost here. The sixth annual Taste of Downtown Manchester will
be Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 5 to 8 p.m.
This event allows residents to sample
the flavors of the best restaurants in the
city and scope out the best bargains at
many downtown retailers.
“We have 26 restaurants participating
this year, including the new downtown
hot spots Ignite, Firefly American Bistro,
and Mint Bistro. People were anxious to
get on board this year. With the economy the way it is, this event is a great
opportunity for restaurants and stores to
introduce themselves to new customers,” said Samantha Appleton of Intown
Manchester, the event organizer.
“There are a lot of great things going
on down here with new retail, dining
and entertainment spots opening up. The
more people that experience our downtown means the more people will come
back in the future,” said Diane Dowing
from the Firefly American Bistro.
For the evening, area restaurants will
bring some of their best dishes to retailers throughout the downtown area. For
one ticket price, people can go from
store to store and taste delicious food,
and check out what’s new in the area’s
retail scene.The Firefly will serve
Chicken Farfalle from the dinner menu
(marinated chicken breast, crisp pancetta, artichoke hearts, and sun-dried
tomatoes in a basil pesto cream sauce,
served on a bed of farfalle pasta) at E
Vision on Elm Street.
“We are excited to be paired with EVision,” Downing said. “Not only are
they are neighbors, but they are also a
new business like us. I think it will be a
great partnership and allow both of us
to showcase our businesses.”
Pam Kelley of Commercial Street
Fishery said her restaurant has done the
taste since it opened — three years.
“Justin [Lyonnais, executive chef]
asked personally to be paired with Dumbass Gifts because he is an avid ‘Bass
fisherman.’ He loves shopping at this
store and has become friends with the
owner over the years. We take part in
the Taste to support our community, of
which we are very fond,” she said. “As
for what will be served, I have no clue
yet, but Justin always seems to rise above
and present a stunning offering, so he
will no doubt shine again this year.”
Appleton views the taste as “our
own celebrity chef thing going on in
Manchester.”
“I think they really try to out-do each
other. There is so much food in the downtown, from the mom and pop restaurants
to ones who can compete with the best
restaurants in Boston,” Appleton said.
Cotton owner-chef Jeff Paige said, “We
like participating because it’s a great way
to remind people about the businesses in
downtown Manchester. After work, many
people drive home and forget about coming back into town to shop or have dinner.
This annual event perfectly showcases
what downtown has to offer.”
Some restaurants, such as Richard’s
Bistro, use the event to showcase new
menu items. Chef Matthew Provencher
will serve a celery soup inside George’s
Apparel. Weather permitting, he will fry
up batches of the restaurant’s new Spanish-style donuts outside on the sidewalk,
which will be served with a mocha
mousse. He calls it coffee and donuts —
a new item on his dessert menu.
“We plan for about 800 to 1,000 people
each year, but it’s spread out, so you never
really get too busy. You get the chance to
talk to people,” Provencher said.
There will be live music along the Taste
route, plus wine tastings at select locations. As you visit each stop along the way,
get your Taste ticket marked by the restaurant or retailer. Once the ticket is marked
by at least 10 host locations, bring it to the
Brady Sullivan Plaza to enter to win a $25
gift certificate to a participating Taste merchant of your choice.
Tickets cost $20 and can be purchased
(by cash or check only) at Intown Manchester, located on the corner of Hanover
and Elm streets, across from City Hall.
Or call 645-6285 to reserve a ticket. Only
1,000 will be sold. The price increases to $25 on the day of the event. For a
complete list of participants, go to www.
intownmanchester.com.
“This is one of the cheapest tasting
events in the state,” Appleton said. “Where
else can you sample food for less than $1
per restaurant?”
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SUSHI
cases (bottles not included); return in two
weeks for bottling. On Wednesday, Oct. 7,
at 6 p.m. it’s Oktoberfest 2009 with pretzels, beer and German John. Learn how
to make classic German beers and same
fresh pretzels from German John’s Bakery.
Return in two weeks for bottling; the cost
is $30 for a variety case (bottles included).
For wine lovers, Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7
p.m. it’s Split a Batch of Bella Biano night
(10 bottles for $70) and on Friday, Sept.
18, at 7 p.m. it’s Red, Red Wine … Fest
($50 for six different bottles of red wine).
All events fill up fast so call to reserve a
spot. And, you can taste the wines made
by IncrediBREW for the Animal Rescue
League at tastings at Harvest Market in
Bedford on Thursday, Sept. 3, from 4 to
7 p.m.; the Wicked Wine and Brewfest in
Litchfield on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 2 to
7 p.m.; Sully’s Superette in Goffstown on
Thursday, Sept. 24, from 4 to 6 p.m., and
the A-Market Natural Foods store in Manchester on Saturday, Sept. 26, from noon
to 2 p.m.
• Meet Edie: Edie Clark, author and
regular Yankee magazine contributor, will
discuss her book Baked Beans and Fried
Clams: How Food Defines a Region on
Thursday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Franklin
Historical Society at Webster Place. The
event is free and open to the public. See
www.histsoc.org/NH/FHS.
• Farm to ship: The New Hampshire
Growers’ Dinner series’ next meal will
be on Friday, Sept. 11, on board the M/S
Mount Washington. Cruise Lake Winnipesaukee while enjoying dinner made from
local produce. The cruise boards at 6:15
p.m. at Weirs Beach. The dinner cruise
is from 7 to 10 p.m. The cost is $51 for
adults and $41 for children and includes
the cruise, the food and entertainment. See
www.cruisenh.com.
• Stylin’ with 900 Degrees: For food
lovers who want to get an early start on
their holiday gift buying, 900 Degrees, 50
Dow St. in Manchester, has a special offer.
When you buy $100 worth of gift cards,
you get a free 900 Degrees T-shirt—the
same one the staff wears. The offer is good
through October.
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669-8122
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• Pretty eats: Liz Barbour will offer a
cooking demonstration and tasting called
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to 8:30 p.m., at the Amherst Town Library,
14 Main St. in Amherst, 673-2288, www.
amherst.lib.nh.us. See how to integrate
food, flowers and dishes to create a food
presentation. The event is free and open to
the public. Call or go online to register.
• Wine and art: Kimball-Jenkins
Estate, 266 N. Main St. in Concord, will
hold a tasting of wines and hors d’oeuvres
on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 5 to 7 p.m. The
event will feature guitar performances by
Tom Economides and an art exhibit with
works from Gordon Carlisle and Matt
Sell. Proceeds will benefit Kimball-Jenkins’ School of Art. Tickets cost $35 in
advance, $40 at the door. For tickets, call
225-3932 or go to www.kimballjenkins.
com.
• Celebrate the harvest: Apple Harvest Day in Dover will be Saturday, Oct.
3, and hosted by the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in
downtown Dover. The day includes a pancake breakfast, music, dancers, carnival
games and rides, petting zoo, raffles, pony
rides and an apple pie baking contest. On
Friday, Oct. 2, there is an evening concert
by Don Campbell Band. The Apple Harvest Day 5K Road Race begins Saturday
morning at 8:30 a.m. in downtown Dover
on First Street. Registration costs $17 for
adults, $12 for children 15 and under. Registration closes Wednesday, Sept. 30, at
noon. Call 742-2218. See www.dovernh.
org.
• Beer and wine: IncrediBREW, 112
DW Highway in Nashua, 891-2477, incredibrew.com, has a variety of tastings and
classes in the coming weeks. On Thursday, Sept. 17, at 6 p.m. it’s an Amber
Alefest. For $30 per variety case (bottles
included), help brew amber ale recipes and
return in two weeks for bottling. On Saturday, Sept. 26, at 11:30 a.m., it’s a Back
to Brew School Brewfest where you can
learn how to design a beer recipe and then
brew it. The cost is $50 for two variety
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Food Listings
Farmers’ markets
• AMHERST (OUTDOOR)
FARMERS’ MARKET at the
Amherst Village Green, Thursdays
through October, 2:30-6:30 p.m.
Call 249-9809 or e-mail [email protected].
• BEDFORD FARMERS’ MARKET at Wallace Road in Benedictine Park, Tuesdays through October, 3-6 p.m. Events include musicians, July 4 celebration, pumpkin
decorating and trick or treat at the
market. Call 435-6410, e-mail
[email protected] or go to
www.bedfordfarmersmarket.org.
•
BROOKLINE
INDOOR
FARMERS’ MARKET offers
breads from Stormy Moon Farm
bakery, a freezer of meats from
Kelly Corner Farm in Chichester,
locally raised chickens, free-range
turkeys that can be pre-ordered,
DJ’s Pure Natural Honey, Yankee
Farmers pepperoni, garlic from
Country Dreams Farm, Nashua.
The market is on Route 13, next to
TD Banknorth, the Brookline Florist and Farwell Realty. Hours are
Mondays, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and
Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Call 554-6002
• BROOKLINE (OUTDOOR)
FARMERS’ MARKET at Brookline ballpark on Route 130, Tuesdays through October, 3-6 p.m.
Call 672-4229 or e-mail www.
brooklinefarmersmarket.org.
• CANTERBURY FARMERS’
MARKET at Canterbury Center in
Elkins Library parking lot Wednesdays through October, 4-7 p.m. Call
783-9649, e-mail farmer@ccfma.
net or go to www.ccfma.net.
• CONCORD FARMERS’ MARKET runs Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to
noon on Capitol Street next to the
Statehouse. Look for live music,
plants, flowers, meat, maple syrup
and baked goods along with the traditional seasonal fruits and vegetables.
• DEERFIELD FARMERS’
MARKET at Deerfield Fairgrounds
on Fridays through October, 3-7
p.m. Call 463-8812, e-mail [email protected] or go to www.
farmersmarket.deerfield-nh/us.
• 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
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greek eats
for Labor Day
Weekend
Looking for more than
just hot dogs and hamburger for your Labor Day weekend eats? Head to the
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church on Long Hill Road
in Dover for their Greek Heritage Festival, where you can
enjoy a souvlaki dinner, pastichio, moussaka, spanakopita, chicken, fish, gyro, loukaniko (sausage), dolmathes
(stuffed grape leaves), meatballs and, of course, lamb —
look for roasted lamb slow-braised with vegetables and
Greek spices. Don’t fill up on dinner, though — dessert
offerings will include baklava, loukoumades (the donuty
pastries drizzled with honey), diples (the crispy pastries),
finikia, kourambiethes (cookies covered with powdered
sugar), koulourakia (the twisted cookies with sesame
seeds) and more.
The festival will take place rain or shine at the Hellenic Center — admission is free (though bring cash to load
up on eats). The festival will run Friday, Sept. 4, from 4
to 11 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 5, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The festival will include live Greek music and dancing as
well as a DJ. See www.dovergreekfestival.com.
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and Land Care.” The site lists farms
by region and can narrow down the
search by type of food.
• FRANKLIN FARMERS’ MARKET, 206 Central St. on Tuesdays,
July through September, 3-6 p.m.
Call 648-6586 or e-mail [email protected].
• HILLSBOROUGH FARMERS’ MARKET at Butler Park
on the corner of Central and Main
streets, on Saturdays, July through
September, 9 a.m. to noon. Call
464-4640.
• JAFFREY FARMERS’ MARKET, Route 202 at the Monadnock
Plaza, on Saturdays, July through
September, 9 a.m. to noon. Call
532-6561.
• KEARSARGE MARKET 51 E.
Main St. in Warner in the Brookside
complex. This year-round market is
open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. Owner Mike McChesney says
the market features locally grown
or made fruits, vegetables, cheese,
ice cream, pies, cakes, breads, freerange meats, eggs, herbs, spices,
herbal products, tomato sauces,
maple products, candy and more as
well as art, jewelry and other items
from local artisans. For more information or to learn how to become
a vendor, call 731-6253 or e-mail
[email protected].
• LACONIA FARMERS’ MARKET on Beacon Street East, Saturdays through October, 8 a.m.
to noon. Call 267-6522 or e-mail
[email protected].
• LEE FARMERS’ MARKET
at Old Fire Station on Route 115
Thursdays through October, 3-6
p.m. Call 659-9329 or e-mail [email protected].
• MANCHESTER’S DOWNTOWN FARMERS’ MARKET
every Thursday until Oct. 22, from 3
to 6:30 p.m. (until 6 p.m. in October).
Parking in the Harnett Parking Lot
next door to the market is free during
market hours. The market is located
on Concord Street next to Victory
Park. Visit www.manchesterfarmersmarket.com for a list of vendors and
activities.
• MILFORD FARMERS’ MARKET at Granite Town Plaza on
Elm Street on Saturdays, 9 a.m. to
noon, through early October. Call
673-5792, e-mail mosseyapples@
aol.com or go to www.milfordnhfarmersmarket.com.
• NASHUA — MAIN STREET
BRIDGE MARKET is held on the
side of Main Street, on the bridge
near Peddler’s Daughter in downtown Nashua, Sundays, 10 a.m. to
3 p.m., through Oct. 25. See www.
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883-5700.
• NASHUA — SCHOOL STREET
MARKET runs Fridays 2-6 p.m.
until Oct. 30. See www.greatamericandowntown.org or call 883-5700.
• NEW BOSTON FARMERS’
MARKET at the gazebo in the
Town Common on Route 13 on
Saturdays, July through October, 9
a.m. to noon. Call 487-2480, e-mail
[email protected] or go to www.
newbostonfarmersmarket.org.
• NOTTINGHAM FARMERS’
MARKET at Blaisdell Memorial
Library, 129 Stage Road, Sundays
through October, 1-4 p.m. Call
679-8484 or e-mail blaisdelllml@
comcast.net.
• PELHAM FARMERS’ MARKET at St. Patrick Parish, 12 Main
St. in Pelham, Mondays through
Sept. 28, 4-7 p.m. Look for New
Hampshire wines, fruits and vegetables, homemade breads and
baked goods, plants, flowers and
entertainment for kids. E-mail [email protected].
• PETERBOROUGH FARMERS’ MARKET in Depot Square
on Wednesdays through October,
3-6 p.m. Call 8786124, e-mail [email protected]
or go to www.peterboroughfarmersmarket.webs.com.
• SEACOAST MARKETS (6595322,
[email protected],
www.seacoastgrowers.org) Markets
are held in Dover, 118 Silver St., on
Wednesdays through Oct. 14, 2:156 p.m.; in Durham, Pettee Brook
Road, on Mondays through Oct. 12,
2:15-5:30 p.m.; in Exeter, Swasey
Parkway off Water Street, on Thursdays through Oct. 15, 2:15-6 p.m.;
in Hampton, Route 1 in the Sacred
Heart Church parking lot near Hampton Cinemas, on Tuesdays through
Oct. 13, 3-6 p.m.; in Kingston, on
the plains across from the Kingston
Fire Station near the intersection of
Church and Main streets, on Tuesdays through Oct. 13, 2:15-5:30 p.m.,
and in Portsmouth, 1 Junkins Ave., on
Saturdays through Nov. 7, 8 a.m. to 1
p.m. Dover, Exeter, Newington, Rye
and Stratham also have winter markets that run on Saturdays, November
through April, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
See Web site.
• TILTON TANGER OUTLET
The Tanger Outlet Center in Tilton,
Exit 20 off Interstate 93, will host
a farmers’ market on Wednesdays
from 3 to 6 p.m. in the parking lot
between Old Navy and Banana
Republic. The market will run
through Sept. 23.
• WARNER FARMERS’ MARKET on the Town Hall lawn on Saturdays, mid June through mid October, 9 a.m. to noon. Call 456-2319.
• WEARE FARMERS’ MARKET in Weare Center around the
gazebo on Fridays through September, 3-6 p.m. Call 413-6213 or
e-mail [email protected].
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties/book events
• HARVEST MOON FESTIVAL
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum,
Education and Cultural Center, 18
Highland Road in Warner, www.
indianmuseum.org, will hold its 18th
Annual Harvest Moon Festival on
Sun., Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Celebrate the harvest with games,
kids’ activities, crafts and crafts demonstrations, entertainment and of
course food. Grace’s Kitchen will sell
lunch featuring popular Native foods.
Admission costs $7 for adults, $4 for
children ages 6 to 12 and $20 for a
family (museum members receive
discounts). See the Web site or call
456-2600.
• LACONIA MULTICULTURAL DAY Laconia will hold its 8th
Laconia Multicultural Market Day
on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. with food as well as crafts,
arts and music, from more than 30
nations. The event will be held in
downtown Laconia in Belknap Mill
and Rotary Park. The event is free
(though bring money for the eats).
See www.laconiamulticulturalmarketday.org.
• LOBSTER FEST The Bow
Community Men’s Club will hold
their annual Lobst’a Fest on Saturday, Sept. 26, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the
Bow Community Building, 2 Knox
Road in Bow. Tickets for a meal cost
$22 and include a lobster, a bowl of
fresh steamers, clam chowder, corn
on the cob, gingerbread cake and
lemonade. The lobster-only costs
$12. (A seafood-free kid’s menu
costs $2.50.) To purchase tickets,
call Paul Hammond at 225-4225,
Charlie Griswold at 228-9621, Dick
Welch at 225-5862 or Kirk Hemphill at 731-8392. Purchase tickets
on or before Sept. 24.
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Never waste the browned bits after you’ve
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full of flavor. After removing the meat from
the pan, carefully pour in half a cup of wine,
water, stock or other liquid and gently whisk
it around to pick up the fond. Remove the pan
from the heat, whisk in a tablespoon of butter, and pour over the meat before serving.
Speaking of caramelization, my barber
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uses, pour in the water first to protect the sugar from burning, then evenly add the sugar
leaving a thin water moat around the side of the pot. Turn the heat to medium-high and —
without stirring — let the sugar come to a boil. Turn the heat to medium and continue to
cook — without stirring — until the color turns deep straw. Gently swirl the caramel until
the color turns dark amber, then carefully pour the caramel into your ramekins.
I’m going camping this weekend and I’ll be taking butter. Ghee, or clarified butter, is
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almost anywhere you’d use butter or oil.
If you’ve never tried browned butter, it’s an easy way to add complexity and interest
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and starts to smell nutty. Butter toasted this way takes on a noticeable hazelnut flavor,
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It’s always appropriate to finish with chocolate. Grate a small amount of high-quality
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(you won’t actually taste the chocolate). I do the same with gravies and meat sauces.
When using chocolate for baking, it’s good to know that chocolate is allergic to a little
liquid but doesn’t mind a lot of liquid. Even a drop of water added to a pound of melted
chocolate will turn the entire bowl into an unusable gloppy mess (we chocolatiers would
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Perfect For Any Occasion - Menu Customized For Your Event
Call John At 770-1403 For Details
815 Elm Street, Manchester, NH
Reservations Strongly Recommended • www.piccolaitalianh.com
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22 Concord Street
Downtown - Manchester, NH
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Lunch 11:30am - 4pm
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drink
Wine with dinner
What to drink when you’re eating
Barbecued Chicken
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
Drink listings
Brewerys/Distillerys/Cider
• ANHEUSER-BUSCH 221 DW
Hwy in Merrimack. Complimentary tours include a visit to the
Clydesdale Hamlet, home to the
world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales. Open daily 10 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
brew and a pub menu. Tours offered
Monday and Tuesday at 2 p.m.;
Wednesday and Thursday at noon,
1, 3 and 4 p.m.; Friday and Saturday every hour on the hour from
noon to 4 p.m.; Sunday every hour
on the hour from 1 to 4 p.m. For private tours, call 430-8600 ext. 327.
• TUCKERMAN BREWING
COMPANY 64 Hobbs St. in Conway, 447-5400, www.tuckermanbrewing.com, offers tours every
Saturday at 3 p.m.
Classes/workshops on wine/
beer making
• AMBER ALEFEST on Thurs.,
Sept. 17, at 6 p.m. at IncrediBREW,
112 DW Hwy., Nashua, 891-2477,
www.incredibrew.com. The cost
is $30 for a variety case (bottles
included). Brew Forever Amber,
Tennessee Red, Wildfire Red, Easy
Rider Red, Fat Tyre and 60 Shillings Scotch Ale and return in two
weeks to bottle. Space fills up fast
and reservations are required. Call
the store or go online to register.
• RED, RED WINE FEST on Fri.,
Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. at IncrediBREW,
112 DW Highway in Nashua, 8912477, www.incredibrew.com. Six
different bottles of red cost $50.
Make Super Tuscan, Malbec, Austrilian Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Barbera and
Rosso Grande. Space fills up fast and
reservations are required. Call the
store or go online to register.
• 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.
Classes/workshops on beer/
wine tasting
• CONNOISSEUR WORKSHOP
A new wine workshop series kicks
off at the Tyngsborough store at the
Wine Society (18 Pondview Place
in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978-649-8993;
650 Amherst St. #9 in Nashua, 8834114; www.winesociety.us) — the
Connoisseur Workshop on Thursdays, Sept. 10 through Oct. 15, at 7
p.m. The classes last about two and a
half hours. The cost is $225 ($200 for
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members); call 883-4114 to RSVP.
• 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 dinners
• SOPRANOS DINNER Have
dinner with Salvatore “Big Pussy
“Bonpensiero (Vincent Pastore)
and Artie Bucco (John Ventimiglia)
on Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Bedford Village Inn, 2 Olde Bedford
Road off Route 101 in Bedford,
472-2001, www.bedfordvillageinn.
com, at 7 p.m. (a reception is at
6:30 p.m.). The meal is celebrating a line of The Sopranos label
Italian wines. The cost for the dinner is $95 per person and reservations are required. Pastore (whose
character slept with the fishes
after being found out as a rat) and
Ventimiglia (whose beleaguered
restaurant owner was a childhood
friend of Tony Soprano) will meet,
greet and mangia in support of the
wines. (The pair will also attend a
bottle signing at the liquor store in
Nashua, 27 Coliseum Ave. off Exit
6, from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sept. 10.)
The dinner will feature the Sopranos wines including the Cabernet/
Merlot/Sangiovese blend, the pinot
grigio, the Chianti classico and the
Chianti Classico Riserva. The meal
will include antipasto, seafood dishes, ziti with “Sunday gravy,” steak
pizzaiola and dessert. See the entire
menu online.
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Contemporary
Asian- American
Fusion with
Japanese
Hot Pots
and Full Sushi Bar
Casual Fine Dining
San Francisco Kitchen
133 Main St., Nashua
886-8833
Sun. 4-10
Mon.- Wed. 11-10
Thurs. - Sat. 11-11
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Asian Bistro
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A wine selection for barbecued chicken
is not an easy match. The wine experts had
to consider the complexities of the barbecue sauce and the smoke flavors, which led
them to four very different selections.
• Hugel Riesling—$16.99
(Recommended by Gordon Heins from the New
Hampshire State Liquor
Commission,
nh.gov/
liquor) “Not an easy
match for wine if the sauce
is wet and very sweet. But
a drier- style barbecued chicken without too
much spice (heat) works great with a dry Alsatian like Hugel Riesling,” Heins said.
• Melanto Terrace Zinfandel—$16.99 (Recommended
by Kristin Ryall from Butter’s
Fine Food and Wine, 70 N.
Main St. in Concord, 2255995) Ryall said this wine’s
“spicy flavors of cracked pepper and sweet oak will pair
perfectly with the sweet and spicy flavors
of your favorite barbecue sauce. This wine
displays a near perfect balance between
fruit and oak, with neither overpowering
the other, the result being [that] the wine
won’t overpower your food.”
• 2005 Playmates
Fetish Wines Shiraz—$23.99
(Recommended by
Paula Doucette of
Bella Vino, 2 Young
Road in Londonderry,
426-5212, www.bellavinonh.com) “With a smoky and/or sweet
sauce, pair your barbecue chicken with this
Australian Shiraz. It has a spicy mid-palate
that will complement your meal,” Doucette
said.
• 2006 Windmill Estates
Old Vines Zinfandel—
$15.99 (Recommended by
Manager Paulette Eschrich
of Wine Society, 650
Amherst St. in Nashua,
883-4114, and 18C Pond
View Place in Tyngsboro,
Mass., 978-649-8993, www.winesociety.
us) “Zesty, sweet, smoky barbecue sauce
slathered over chicken calls out for a robust,
fruity red. From the folks who make 7
Deadly Zins, this Windmill old-vine zinfandel is up to the challenge, delivering aromas
of black cherry and raspberry jam and finishing with hints of cocoa, licorice and
freshly ground coffee beans,” Eschrich
said.
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POP CULTUrE
index
POP CULTUrE:
CDS
pg38
• Sally Shapiro, My Guilty Pleasure, B+
• Eyedea & Abilities, By the Throat, A
BOOkS
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Includes listings for lectures, author events, book
clubs, writers’ workshops and other literary events.
To let us know about your book or event, e-mail Lisa
Parsons at [email protected]. To get your
author events, library events and more listed, send
information to [email protected].
FiLM
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• Extract, B-
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• Halloween 2, D+
• Taking Woodstock, C+
• The Final Destination, C
Playlist
CDS
• Good Day by Peter White
• Welcome to the Masquerade by Thousand Foot
Krutch
• Joy by Phish
• Reunited by Gaither
Vocal Band
• 11:11 by Rodrigo y
Gabriela
• Popular Songs by Yo La
Tengo
Sally Shapiro, My Guilty Pleasure
Paper Bag Records, Aug. 25
Oh Sally, get
out of our faces
with the fumbled sub-genre
names already
— “Cosmic disco” my patoot,
just call it what it is: house music sung
by a glazy-eyed twee chick. “Cosmic
disco,” by the by, not that you care, and
you shouldn’t, was named after an Italian club, and is personified by lots of
tribal percussion (none of that here, at
all, ever) and funk/Brazilian/yaddayadda. But belay trying to fix the world,
the stuff itself here isn’t bad, especially
if you’re keen on the notion of Kylie
Minogue reinvented as a sexless spacecadet, you know, PJ Harvey but with
more pills. And with, say, Armand Van
Helden or somesuch Euro-house middlemind superstar-DJ tabling the beats,
to wit “Love in July,” pure poolside
bliss comprising a 4-note importantsounding chill-riff that helps the rich
kids remember their Ibiza jaunts.
There’s a bit of pretty good IDM here
as well, and more good tuneage, pound
for pound, than you’ll find on any bigDJ artist album; dismissing this as
house, which most everyone will — is
a disservice. But then again, taking
into account Sally’s dreadfully generic
vocal style and stripping out the useless stuff, such as their Madonna ripoff
(“Save Your Love”), threatens to leave
them as fodder for the great remix
machine in the club-land sky. B+ —
Eric W. Saeger
• True Blood by Nathan
Barr
• Love Drunk by Boys Like
Girls
• The Interview Sessions by
Bruce Springsteen
• Monk by Thelonious
Monk
• Sound The Alarm by
Howie Day
Eyedea & Abilities, By the Throat
Rhymesayers Records, July 21
Conventional
wisdom says
hip-hop is dead,
more accurately
referring to the
hip-hop
that
can’t seem to
get out of its own bling-bling way or
stop making non-fans hate its guts; the
hip-hop that refuses, to its peril, to weld
anything non-hip-hop to it. Meanwhile
the underground thrives, thanks maybe
not so much to long-faced Jazzy Jeff
reanimators but to acts like this honky
Minneapolis twosome. The shorthand
is Eminem fronting early Melvins for a
good half of this, which comes from
MC Eyedea’s steel-trap cerebrum; the
other good half is about DJ Abilities’s
wild-card theatrics, throwing down
some — I don’t know if it’s your daddy’s turntablism, but it’s uniquely crazed
and crazy-musical, for example the
whiz-bang jaw-dropper solo that closes
“Spin Cycle” after some Strokes-ish nuBritish too-good-to-be-garage-rock, in
turn preceded by a breathless wordplay
marathon encompassing literally every
aspect of Everyman angst. In “Burn
Fetish,” Eyedea flings the instantly
appealing epithet “No wonder we lost
the battle: the counterculture can’t
count,” flagging the end of a common
Jay-Z-generation piano loop and descent
into knee-deep sludge-guitars that could
have come from Sunn(((O)))’s Marshall
stacks. Something’s dead out there,
yeah, but these culture-cholos have ironclad alibis. A —E.W.S.
A seriously abridged
compendium of recent
and future CD releases
• You Tweeting ringtone-tards out there really should know
that old-schoolers laugh at you a lot and draw pictures of you
in mustaches. Used to be that if one of us got caught downloading a stupid screensaver (or downloading “pkunzip” to unzip
the screensaver, or using the COPY command to somehow get
the screensaver into the Windows\System directory, or configuring the stupid thing in Control Panel, or looking for a new job
after getting fired for downloading screensavers), jeez, we were
TOTALLY HOPELESS GEEK POINDEXTERS, whether or
not we were actually hot-looking. But now it’s all about your
monstrous Ringtone Nation, damn all you dirty apes to hell, so
have a big tall glass of what you’ve won: Weird Al is hereby
your new Music God. His five-song digital-only EP, Internet
Leaks, dropped last week at iTunes, Amazon and all your other greedy webbernet corporations, and it features your new
national anthem, “Ringtone,” a mash of Queen songs backing
the story of the person with the most annoying ringtone in the
world. Buy this tune (or any of the other four songs from the
EP, which includes a tribute to Charles Nelson Reilly, a mocking of T.I.’s “Whatever You Like” and a joke-band tribute to
the Doors called “Craigslist”) and you can deduct the cost from
the end price of the forthcoming full-length album, you dirty
cheapskate texting-addicted apes, all in your little CARS with
your stupid HANDS.
• With Jacko dead and living on Phobos, whoever owns
the Beatles catalog is no longer hamstrung by whatever weird
legal mumbo-jumbo prevented him/her from exploiting every
last song in the band’s catalog, so here come the remasters,
again, next week. Fanboys can start small, with the remasters of Abbey Road, Revolver and all that Oasis-ripoff junk,
or live QUITE large with The Beatles Stereo Box Set, which
requires a guy with a van to get it to your house and only costs
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS, total
chump-change in this easy-money Beanie-Baby-and-housing-bubble economy.
• Alison Sudol of A Fine Frenzy may grow up to be some
sort of Tori Amos Lite, but meanwhile she must put out albums,
like next week’s Bomb in a Birdcage, featuring “Blow Away,”
which is about as good as any filler tune from the Submarines.
• But all you care about anyway is the forthcoming Blueprint
III album from Jay-Z. Rihanna and Kanye West drop in for “Run
This Town,” featuring a pretty wizzer rubber-band-guitar riff that
Rihanna jumps all over. The first all-points call-out is “DOA
(Death of Auto Tune),” a self-explanatory smackdown of something that’s already been smacked down to death. — E.W.S.
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• #1’s...And Then Some by
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• Abbey Road (Remastered)
by The Beatles
• The White Album
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• Bomb in a Birdcage by A
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MUSiC, BOOkS,
gAMES, COMiCS,
MOViES, DVDS,
TV AnD MOrE
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Bookstores
• Barnes & Noble
1741 South Willow St.,
Manchester, 668-5557;
235 DW Hwy, Nashua,
888-5961; bn.com
• Borders
76 Fort Eddy Road, Concord,
224-1255;
281 DW Hwy, Nashua,
888-9300; borders.com
• Gibson’s Bookstore
27 South Main St., Concord,
224-0562,
gibsonsbookstore.com
• MainStreet Bookends
16 E. Main St., Warner,
456-2700,
mainstreetbookends.com
• River Run Books
20 Congress St., Portsmouth,
431-2100, riverrunbookstore.com
• Toadstool Bookshop
Nonfiction
• Mrs. Perkins’ Electric Quilt: And
Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics, by Paul J. Nahin
(Princeton University Press)
586 Nashua St., Milford,
673-1734, toadbooks.com.
room at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays.
Sept. 3: The Mandala of Sherlock
Holmes, by Jamyang Norbu. Oct.
1: Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergovic.
• WHERE IS AMERICA
GOING? CULTURAL AWARENESS AND THE ART OF
DIPLOMACY program presented by Glen Swanson on Sept. 10
at 7 p.m. at the Red House in Wilton Center, free and open to all.
Presented by the Wilton Public
Library and the Unitarian Society
of Wilton. Call the library at 6542581 for info.
• SEASONS OF THE WHITE
MOUNTAINS slide show presented by hiker and professional
photographer Dave Smith on
Thurs., Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. at
Nashua Public Library. Free and
open to all.
Other
• Manchester Historic
Association
200 Bedford St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• New Hampshire
Humanities Council
19 Pillsbury St., Concord,
224-4071, www.nhhc.org
• New Hampshire State Library
20 Park St., Concord,
www.nh.gov/nhsl
• New Hampshire
Writers’ Project
SNHU, 2521 N. River Rd.,
Manchester, 314-7980,
nhwritersproject.org
• Rivier College
420 Main St., Nashua,
888-1311, rivier.edu.
• UNH Manchester
400 Commercial St., Manchester,
641-4101, unhm.unh.edu
Author events
• ANN MCLANE KUSTER will
discuss her book The Last Dance
and her family’s struggle with
Alzheimer’s disease on Sept. 9 at
5:15 p.m. at Gibson’s Bookstore.
• VINCENT CANNATO will
discuss American Passage: The
History of Ellis Island, on Sept.
10 at 7 p.m. at Gibson’s.
• JOAN DAY visits Borders in
Concord Sat., Sept. 12, at 2 p.m.
to sign copies of Thinking of Yesterday Today, her memoir about
growing up in Bath, N.H. See
www.joandaymemoirs.com.
• SALMAN RUSHDIE will
deliver the keynote address at the
NH Humanities Council’s 20th
annual dinner gala Tues., Oct. 13,
at the Radisson Center of NH in
Manchester. Tickets to the gala
cost $100. nhhc.org or 224-4071.
Lectures and discussions
• UNHM BOOKS IN THE
MILL FALL 2009 series of book
discussions is open to the public. This fall’s theme is works by
authors from around the world.
Monthly discussions are held in
library mezzanine conference
The Book
Report
• BackStory: Just days after I discovered
The American History Guys on a random
walk through iTunes’ podcast store, it turns
out they’re coming to Concord. The press
release from the New Hampshire Humanities Council, which will host them, calls
them “the Click and Clack of American
History.” They will speak on Wednesday,
Sept. 23, at 11:45 a.m. at the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce Luncheon in
Governor’s Hall at the Capitol Center for
the Arts. Their topic: “Star Quality: Celebrity in America.” Tickets cost $30 including
lunch; reserve at concordnhchamber.com
or 224-2508. In the meantime, enjoy their
BackStory radio program via podcast
at iTunes or go backstoryradio.org. The
Guys will be on NHPR’s The Exchange
Poetry
• NH POETRY SLAM TEAM
performs at an open-mike night
Thurs., Sept. 3, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
at Currier Museum of Art (Manchester). Social hour 5:30-6:30
p.m.; “Poetry and Art” talk 6-6:15
p.m.; Poetry Slam Team 6:30-7
p.m. and open mike 7-7:30 p.m.
The evening is free with museum
admission: $10 for adults, $9
for seniors, $8 for students, free
under age 18, free for members.
Reservations may be made at currier.org or 669-6144 ext. 108.
Writers’ groups
• FEATURE WRITING CLASS
from the Nackey S. Loeb School
(749 East Industrial Park Drive,
Manchester, 627-0005, loebschool.org), taught by Steve Billingham, a former editor at the
Eagle-Tribune and adjunct journalism professor at Chester College. The course will examine the
structural and emotional component of feature stories, and feature
writing as “creative nonfiction.”
The class will be held Wednesday
nights 6:30-8 p.m. starting Sept.
9. Free of charge to students of
all ages. To apply, call or visit the
school’s Web site.
that morning (see nhpr.org). p.s. If you buy
a ticket to this event, you can get $10 off
a ticket to see Joe Klein two nights later at
the Cap Center.
• Fall library hours: Exhibit A: Like
many area libraries, the Concord Public
Library will soon be making the switch to
fall hours. As of Sept. 13, the main branch
will be open Sunday 1-5:30 p.m.; Monday
and Tuesday 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Wednesday
9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Thursday 11 a.m.-5:30
p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturday 9
a.m.-1 p.m. The Penacook branch is only
open limited hours on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
• Fall library hours: Exhibit B: Manchester City Library begins its fall hours
Sept. 7. That means it’ll be open Saturdays
again. Call for specifics.
—Lisa Parsons
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Introducing
The Recession Buster!
1 Margherita Pizza
& a Caesar Salad $10.00
3-6pm, Mon-Thurs
Also, stop by
for acoustic Tuesdays
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
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Book & Lecture
listings
Libraries
• Bedford Public Library
3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford
472-3023, bedford.lib.nh.us
• Concord Public Library
45 Green St., 225-8670,
onconcord.com/library
• Goffstown Public Library
2 High St., Goffstown,
497-2102, goffstown.lib.nh.us
• Hills Memorial Library
18 Library St., Hudson,
886-6030, hillsml.lib.nh.us
• Hollis Social Library
2 Monument Sq., Hollis,
465-7721,
hollis.nh.us
• Hooksett Public Library
1701B Hooksett Rd., Hooksett,
485-6092, hooksettlibrary.org
• Manchester City Library
405 Pine St. (main branch)
and 76 N. Main St.
(West branch), 624-6550,
manchester.lib.nh.us
• Nashua Public Library
2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4610,
nashualibrary.org
• Rodgers Memorial Library
194 Derry Road, Hudson,
886-6030, rodgerslibrary.org
• The Magician’s Elephant, by
Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
• Day After Night, by Anita
Diamant (Simon & Schuster)
THE HEALTHY BUFFALO

In stores this week
Fiction
• The Anthologist: A Novel,
by Nicholson Baker (Simon &
Schuster)
BOOKS
50 Dow Street, Manchester
603.641.0900
www.900degrees.com
   

POP CULTURE:
(Located behind the former Dunn Furniture
store on Canal St.)
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FILM
In theaters Friday, Sept. 4
• All About Steve (PG-13, wide release)
• Extract (R, limited release)
REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
• Gamer (R, wide release)
• Carriers (PG-13, limited release)
In theaters Wednesday, Sept. 9
• 9 (PG-13, limited)
Extract
Extract (R)
Beavis & Butthead, Office Space,
Idiocracy, King of the Hill — Judge
has a history of producing comedy
that is sort of confounding. Office
Space, which I saw and loved in theaters, did poorly until it became a
DVD cult hit. Idiocracy was in theaters for all of five minutes but was
like a diamond in the rough when
I saw it on cable. King of the Hill
has plugged away for a dozen years
without half the attention that The
Simpsons or South Park has received
and yet watch any one episode and it
will surprise you with how smart it is
in addition to how much funnier it is
than you remember. And then there’s
Beavis & Butthead, for which I have
a vast well of fondness. Something
drugs, but when Joel meets Cindy
(Mila Kunis), a hot new temp at the
factory, Dean’s idea involves hiring
a gigolo named Brad (Dustin Milligan, who is excellent as an attractive
moron) to seduce Suzie. The “logic”
being that if Suzie has an affair with
Brad then Joel can feel free to have a
guiltless affair with Cindy. But Cindy
isn’t at Reynold Extracts by chance;
her appearance corresponds with a
rather spectacular accident and a plan
to score big from a long con.
Extract is all over the place. Not
surprisingly, it’s at its best when Bateman is at the center of the action. He
isn’t quite Arrested Development’s
put-upon Michael Bluth here, but he
is frequently the reasonable man trying hard not to roll his eyes or shout
obscenities while unreasonableness
swirls around him. Wiig, probably the
next big female star to come out of
Saturday Night Live, also does a good
job of reacting small to big craziness.
The problem is that these potential
anchors for the movie are frequently
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British and American
officials bumble into war
in In the Loop, a stomachcrampingly hilarious
political satire.
Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi, channeling real-life White House
Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel but
British), head of communications for
the British Prime Minister, starts his
work day by looking for problems
of message — in this case, by listening to a radio program wherein Simon
Foster (Tom Hollander), a minister for
international relations, says that a war
in the Middle East is “unforeseeable.”
What does this mean, exactly? It’s not
clear that even Foster knows what he
meant but whatever it means, it has
Tucker alive with fury and shouting
swear-laden insults. Foster is off message, he screams, “unforeseeable”
about a potential war that the prime
minister supports is not the correct
answer. Later, Foster meets with the
press and attempts to talk his way out
of his sticky situation. Predictably, he
gets himself further tangled in verbage
when he ends up saying that sometimes on the road to peace you have to
“climb the mountain of conflict.”
These potentially opposing statements have both sides of the war
argument in the American government thinking that Foster could be an
ally. Assistant Sec. of State (diplomacy) Karen Clarke (Mimi Kennedy)
and Army General George Miller
(James Gandolfini) think war will be
a disaster while Assistant Sec. of State
(policy) Linton Barwick (David
Rasche) has already formed a War
Committee and is cheering on the war.
Floating around these various people
of actual (though debatable) power
are aides — some highly competent,
like the stick-in-the-mud Foster aid
Judy (Gina McKee); some creepy and
sycophantic, like Chad (Zach Woods),
who hangs around the assorted assistant Secretaries of State sucking up
to whomever is the most powerful
at the moment. These people can all
potentially change the debate with the
slight nudges of their ideas and desires
(many of which have petty aims
behind the policy).
And then there’s Toby (Chris Addision), who in his first few moments
working in Foster’s office is referred
to by Malcolm as a fetus and as Ron
Weasley. Soon Toby is tangling Foster up even faster than he was doing it
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Jason Bateman deals
with the hassles of running a
business and the frustrations
of middle-aged marriage in
Extract, an uneven comedy
from Mike Judge.
tells me Extract is bound for the same
“funnier the second time you watch
it” shelf in the video library.
Joel Reynold (Jason Bateman) is
the owner of Reynold Extracts, a maker of vanilla extracts, almond, cherry,
etc. He and his second in command,
Brian (J.K. Simmons), stare at their
complaining, disagreeable employees and hope that a possible buyout by
General Mills is truly in their future.
Brian calls the workers “dingus” and
“boy genius” whereas Joel is just desperate to leave the office in time to get
home before 8 p.m., at which point
his wife Suzie (Kristen Wiig) puts on
the sweatpants and turns off the porch
light on any possible marital whoopee. Uninterested wife, hen-pecking
employees, irritating neighbor (David
Koechner) — the only place Joel can
shake off these worries is at the local
hotel bar where he’s served by Dean
(Ben Affleck, clearly enjoying the
comfortable slobbery behind facial
hair and a long wig), a friend full
of bad ideas. Most of them involve
crowded by gangs of jokesters —
the Extracts employees, the wacky
neighbor, Dean and his weird circle
of friends, Step (Clifton Collins Jr.),
the employee who was involved in
the accident. The deeper we get into
the movie, the more all of these different ingredients start to muddy
the overall flow of the story. Different amounts added at different times,
perhaps? I’m not sure what’s needed
to make all of these parts work, but as
is the movie doesn’t quite bring us to
the point where, as in Office Space,
a variety of plots and characters can
come together in one story.
I want to see Extract again, which
isn’t a full-throated endorsement,
more of a suspicion (and hope) that
there’s more to the movie than I saw
the first time. Some technical difficulties (a lack of sound for the opening
scene, a volume level that left a lot of
dialogue muffled by even light laughter from the audience) got in the way
of really getting a full sense of the
movie, as probably did my own expectations of what Judge would deliver.
But there were enough little moments
of humor (as well as another glimpse
at Judge’s surprisingly sweet world
view, particularly as it pertains to people’s relationship to work) to make
me want to keep seeking out what this
movie has to offer. BRated R for language, sexual references and some drug use. Written
and directed by Mike Judge, Extract
is an hour and 32 minutes long and
is distributed by Miramax Films. The
movie opens on Friday, Sept. 4.
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himself, in part by sleeping with a State Department aide and in part by unintentionally letting
information slip at exactly the wrong time
Listening to Malcolm insult Toby — or
anybody, really — is one of the great delights
of this movie. While every character gets the
chance to deliver a searing insult (and all the
actors are able to do it with panache), Malcolm is the true virtuoso. He weaves together
stabs at class and age with pop culture references (the “climb the mountain of conflict”
line leads him to call Foster a “Nazi Julie
Andrews”) and Shakespearean-level manipulation of swear words. While this is definitely
a movie worth seeking out in the theaters, I
would almost suggest watching it at home so
you can rewind the insults you miss while you
are gasping for air with laughter.
This movie digs around in the sausage
that is international policy and shows us all
the strange bits that go into making the decision to go to war. All of this hilarity has a
dark side, of course, which is that it’s probably a little too close to the truth. You do get the
sense that the pettiness, status-seeking, dealmaking and straight-up fabrications shown
here are unsettlingly similar to how national
and international policy have been developed
in real life.
A definite must-see for the poli-sci nerd, In
the Loop is a smart and engaging comedy for
anyone who likes their humor dry and razor
sharp. B
Not rated. Directed by Armando Iannucci
and written by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony
Roche, In the Loop is an hour and 45 minutes
long and is distributed in limited release by IFC
Films. It is available in the IFC Films section of
Comcast OnDemand for $7.99. It is scheduled
to open on Friday, Sept. 4, at Wilton Town Hall
Theater and Red River Theatres.
Taking Woodstock (R)
The son of Catskills resort
owners helps plan the most
important musical event of all time,
man, in Taking Woodstock, a movie
that seriously harshes its own
mellow by never giving us any of
the actual performances from the
three days of peace and music.
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Which is not to say that you have to show
every piece of history in a historical movie —
not every World War II movie needs the battle
of Midway, not every French Revolution mov-
ie needs the beheading of Marie Antoinette.
But Woodstock was about music. And this
movie that has a sampler of period and even
festival music on its soundtrack doesn’t really
give the music a serious role in the story.
Elliot (Demetri Martin) has let his interior design business and his life in New York
City fall by the wayside to help out his parents
(Henry Goodman, Imelda Stauton) with their
crumbling resort in upstate New York. Actually, less a resort, it is more of a seedy motel
with an overgrown lawn and a grungy pool.
But Elliot’s determined to make something
of it. He begs the bank for more time before
they foreclose and gets a permit for his annual music festival, a move he hopes will bring
a little business to the resort. President of the
Bethel Chamber of Commerce, Elliot, who
seems lacking confidence in other areas of his
life, is remarkably gung-ho about finding ways
to revive his and other businesses in town.
So when he hears that the neighboring town
of Wallkill won’t allow a three-day concert
that is expected to bring thousands of young
music fans, Elliot calls up Woodstock Ventures and offers to let them hold their festival
at his parents’ resort, where he already has the
permit. When his land proves too small, he
introduces him to a neighboring farmer, Max
Yasgur (Eugene Levy), and helps to set up the
festival that eventually attracted hundreds of
thousands of people and, yes, a truly phenomenal lineup of musicians.
Ang Lee uses split screens reminiscent of
Woodstock the movie to give us the sense of
the chaos surrounding the festival. Things fall
apart over and over again and we get fun little
glimpses into how quickly the festival surpassed the ability of its planners to control it
(one scene shows someone asking for food to
be brought in, specifically rice, bananas and
other foods that might decrease the need festival-goers would have for using the bathroom,
as the facilities were going to be limited). Mix
this with the wry but zen commentary by organizer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) and the
general moment-specific peace-love-long-hair
vibe and you have a fun little document about a
time and place full of sweet nostalgia.
That is, you have those things if you also
have a bit of the music.
What fills the space left by the thing that
the movie is about but doesn’t show is a story about Elliot’s learning to stand on his own
two feet (stand up to his parents, be honest
to them and himself about his sexuality) and
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little side stories about Elliot’s friend Billy
(Emile Hirsch) a Vietnam vet having a hard
time readjusting to civilian life and about Vilma (Liev Schreiber), a cross-dressing Marine
who shows up to provide security and offer
wisdom to Elliot and friendship to Elliot’s
father. These things are nice enough but they
don’t quite pull together into a cohesive story.
The movie focuses in tight on Elliot at just the
moment when everything in the story makes
you want to focus on the concert or the historical moment of what’s happening. This urge
to tell the camera “no, shoot over there” is just
as aggravating as the urge to turn up the background where very faintly something like the
music of Woodstock is playing.
OK, so perhaps my generational weariness
at hearing about this, the best musical event
in history, never to be repeated or trumped,
did not have me dancing into the theater with
flowers in my hair. But that doesn’t mean I’m
not interested in learning something about this
concert that I didn’t know. I like creation stories — I like to see how things come together
and how they come to have a greater meaning
than the mere sum of their parts. I like music,
I like history. I just wish there had been more
of any of these things here. C+
Rated R for graphic nudity, some sexual content, drug use and language. Directed
by Ang Lee and written by James Schamus
(Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte), Taking Woodstock is two hours and one minute long and is
distributed by Focus Features.
Halloween II (R)
Rob Zombie sets up the tent to
present you with another MichaelMyers-and-family freak show
in Halloween II, a sequel to the
remake of the classic horror movie.
We start moments after the end of the first
film with Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton), the
central victim of Michael Myers (Tyler Mane)
in the second part of the first Halloween movie, bloodied and walking down the street with
a gun in her hand. She believes that she has just
killed Michael Myers after he went on a bloody
Halloween rampage. After she is rescued by
the sheriff (Brad Dourif), we see her about a
year later, living with him and his daughter
Annie (Danielle Harris). As we know (but she
doesn’t), she is the sister of Myers, the only survivor (along with Myers’ mother, who later died,
played by Sheri Moon Zombie a.k.a. Mrs. Rob
Zombie) of Myers’ childhood murder spree. She
is having a hard time sleeping and is about to be
terrorized by another book by Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), Myers’ childhood
psychologist, who has made a career talking
about the deeply troubled man. And, of course,
Laurie is uneasy about the fact that, even though
Myers is certainly, definitely, most assuredly
dead, they’ve never found his body.
But, you know, don’t worry. There’s no
chance he could be alive and planning another
Halloween attack on Laurie, this time egged on
by a vision of his mother and a white horse.
So how’s this for faint praise: I don’t not
appreciate the look of the film. There’s a
grimy, gritty 1970s look to the film, which
helps to create an overall fog of despair. And
despair seems to be the appropriate tone when
you’re dealing with an unstoppable wordless psycho killer. You feel extra despairing,
despair over and above the despair you might
feel about, say, watching yet another mostly-
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naked girl screaming as she attempts to crawl
on her hands and knees away from yet another
lumbering faceless nutjob. I feel despair when
I watch this for reasons that have nothing to
do with retro grit, but additionally Halloween
II features a kind of movie-wide despair that
works for this kind of horror.
And hidden in this gloom there are chunks
of humor, particularly anytime Malcolm
McDowell is around turning Loomis into a fatuous British Nancy Grace-like character with
a hardcore diva-ish bent. You can picture him
demanding a bottle of French wine and a bowl
of only green M&Ms in his dressing room.
But back to that screaming, crawling girl
(an image that appears a couple of times
here). It’s a wearying image, one that is so
familiar it’s not even worth warming up your
feminist-lit-crit muscle to pull apart but one
that sucks the energy out of a movie, in the
way that hearing the words “new initiative”
during a staff meeting can suck the energy out
of your morning. I’m just tired of that being
the go-to picture of fear. Pick something else,
Rob Zombie. Pick something with, I don’t
know, spiders and eye-squishing. I promise to
be freaked out by that. For a movie that offers
you a boring unkillable lumbering villain, it is
too much to also tire an audience out with disturbing horror movie clichés.
Perhaps die-hard fans of the naked-girl-inperil genre or of Rob Zombie will find things
to cheer here. For the rest of us, this Halloween romp is more of a muddy slog. D+
Rated R for basically every scene in the
movie (or, as the MPAA puts it, for strong
brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, disturbing graphic images, languages, and some
crude sexual content and nudity). Written and
directed by Rob Zombie, Halloween II is an
hour and 41 minutes long and is distributed in
wide release by the Weinstein Company.
The Final Destination (R)
After a group of 20somethings
don’t meet Death’s minimum
balance, Death tacks on a finance
charge of horrible gory fatality in
The Final Destination, the fourth
movie in the you-can’t-cheat-thereaper horror series.
And, should you be so inclined, all those
projectile-through-the-eye,
guts-suckedout-by-a-swimming-pool-pump moments
can come at you in 3-D. (And kudos, movie,
for originality on that whole guts-suckedout thing.)
So Nick (Bobby Campo), his girlfriend
Lori (Shantel VanSanten) and a bunch of people whose names you’re not going to bother
learning are at a car race. Nick sees a horrible deadly crash that kills dozens of people
including his friends and people seated around
them. In a flash, he’s back in real time, precrash, where his vision causes him to hustle
his friends out of the stadium. In the process, a
few of the other would-be victims end up outside as well, including a security guard named
George (Mykelti Williamson) and a hick awesomely referred to in the movie mostly as “the
racist” (Justin Welborn).
The racist’s wife (Lara Grice, and that is
literally what her character is called in Internet Movie Database) and another woman die
when the crash Nick foresaw comes to pass.
The key here is that they die slightly later than
they would have — though still in the order
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that they would have had Nick not pulled the
group out of the stadium.
Nick and Lori save us scenes and scenes of
“what’s happening here” by figuring out that
though they avoided death at the race, Death
is still after them and it will try to take them in
the order in which they would have originally
died. The only way to save themselves will be
to break the chain and thwart Death for good.
Or, you know, until they die properly — it’s
not like they’re winning eternal life or anything.
The racist, a jerky frat-type guy, a snooty
mom — these people are padding in this parade
of death, the people we don’t mind seeing die
in inventive and horrible ways so that the characters we “like” can have time to work out the
math on the whole stopping-death thing. As
Sept. 4, through Thurs., Sept. 10, at
7:30 p.m. Plus Sun., Sept. 6, at 2 &
4:30 p.m.
• Cabaret (1972) Sat., Sept. 5, at
4:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted.
MILFORD DRIVE-IN
101A in Milford, 673-4090, www.
milforddrivein.com. Check Web site
for changes. Open Friday and Saturday after Labor Day; drive-in opens
at 6:15 p.m.; movies begin at dusk.
Admission is $20 per car.
Thurs., Sept. 3
• Screen 1: Halloween II (R, 2009);
Inglourious Basterds (R, 2009)
• Screen 2: Shorts (PG, 2009); The
Final Destination (R, 2009)
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• Hairspray (PG, 2007) Wed., Sept.
16, at 1 p.m.
WEST BRANCH
COMMUNITY LIBRARY
76 N. Main St., Manchester, 6246560, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
• Hannah Montana: The Movie
(G, 2009) Fri., Sept. 4, at 3 p.m.
• Earth (G, 2009) Fri., Sept. 11, at
3 p.m.
NHTI Sweeney Auditorium, 31 College
Drive, Concord, 271-7185, www.
nhti.edu
• MANHATTAN SHORT FILM
FESTIVAL with screenings of
shorts by the 10 finalists on Fri.,
Fri., Sept. 4 thru Sun., Sept. 6
Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. and Sat., Sept.
• Screen 1: Up (PG, 2009), The 26, at 2 & 7 p.m. Admission costs
Final Destination (R, 2009), Trans- $8. See www.msfilmfest.com for
formers: Revenge of the Fallen more on the festival.
(PG-13, 2009)
• Screen 2: G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra WADLEIGH MEMORIAL
(PG-13, 2009), Halloween II (R, LIBRARY
2009), Harry Potter and the Half 49 Nashua St. in Milford, 673-2408,
Blood Prince (PG, 2009)
www.wadleigh.lib.nh.us
• Veterans’ Affairs, documentary
FRANCO-AMERICAN
on homeless veterans by veteran
CENTRE
and Milford resident Matthew Ber52 Concord St., Manchester, nard who will discuss his film, on
669-4045, www.francoamerican­ Wed., Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. Free.
centrenh.com
• La Vie En Rose (PG-13, 2007)
Tues., Sept. 15, at 7 p.m.
THE MUSIC HALL
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436MANCHESTER CITY
2400, www.themusichall.org
LIBRARY
• Whatever Works (PG-13, 2009)
405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550, Thurs., Sept. 3, through Sat., Sept.
www.manchester.lib.nh.us
5, at 7:30 p.m.
• The Soloist (PG-13, 2009) Tues., • Easy Virtue (PG-13, 2009) Sun.,
Sept. 8, at 6 p.m.
Sept. 6, at 4 & 7 p.m.; Mon., Sept. 7,
• Norma Rae (1979) Wed., Sept. 9, through Thurs., Sept. 10, at 7 p.m.
at 1 p.m.
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WILTON TOWN HALL
Main Street in Wilton. Tickets cost $6
($4 for seniors and children) unless
otherwise stated. wiltontownhalltheatre.com or call 654-FILM.
• The Hurt Locker (R, 2009)
Thurs., Sept. 3, at 7:30 p.m.
• Seraphine (NR, 2009) Thurs.,
Sept. 3, at 7:30 p.m.
• (500) Days of Summer (PG13, 2009) Friday, Sept. 4, through
Thurs., Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m. Plus
Sun., Sept. 6, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.
• In the Loop (NR, 2009) Friday,
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with the previous movies, The Final Destination does have a sick little sense of humor
about how it dispatches them. And when the
intentional humor isn’t giving you a little
snicker, the dialogue and the Old Navy-commercial-level acting offer up their own delights
(everything Racist says is campily hilarious).
And, with enough pizza, alcohol and friends
gathered around the TV, I’m sure all of this
adds up to big fun. The effect in the quiet of a
movie theater is not as exciting. C
Rated R for strong violent/gruesome accidents,
language and a scene of sexuality. Directed by
David R. Ellis and written by Eric Bress (from
characters by Jeffry Reddick), The Final Destination is an hour and 22 minutes long and is
distributed in wide release by Warner Bros.
Movies outside the cineplex
RED RIVER THEATRES
11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600,
www.redrivertheatres.org
• (500) Days of Summer (PG-13,
2009) Thurs., Sept. 3, at 1:15, 3:30,
5:45 & 8 p.m.
• Food, Inc. (PG, 2009) Thurs.,
Sept. 3, at 1:10 & 5:25 p.m.
• Under Our Skin (NR, 2009)
Thurs., Sept 3, 3:10 & 7:30 p.m.
• Taking Woodstock (PG-13, 2009)
Thurs., Sept. 3, at 12:30, 3, 5:30 &
8 p.m.; Fri., Sept. 4, through Mon.,
Sept. 7, at 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Tues., Sept. 8, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Wed., Sept. 9, at 8 p.m.; Thurs.,
Sept. 10, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.
• The Hurt Locker (R, 2009) Fri.,
Sept. 4, through Mon., Sept. 7,
at 12:25, 2:55, 5:25 & 8:05 p.m.;
Tues., Sept. 8, at 2:05, 5:25 & 8:05
p.m.; Wed., Sept. 9, at 6:30 p.m.
with post film discussion; Thurs.,
Sept. 10, at 5:25 & 8:05 p.m.
• In the Loop (NR, 2009) Fri., Sept.
4, through Mon., Sept. 7, at 1, 3:15,
5:35 & 7:45 p.m.; Tues., Sept. 8, at
2:10, 5:35 & 7:45 p.m.; Wed., Sept.
9, and Thurs., Sept. 10, at 5:35 and
7:45 p.m.
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Nite Roundup
Local music
& nightlife news
By Michael Witthaus
[email protected]
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• Fit-ful pop: The Vermont-based Conniption Fits’ A Heaping Helping of Perspective is
a delicious CD, a power-pop blend of swagger and finesse. Guitarist Stevens Blanchard’s
metal kid past (with Motorplant) bleeds
through, but the headbanging is tempered with
three-part harmonies and the sort of musical
discipline no power trio can survive without.
Scheduled to play the Derryfield in Manchester Friday, Sept. 4, the Fits will mix originals
with well chosen “re-makes” — don’t call
them covers. Now that’s swagger. The show
starts at 9 p.m., is 21+ and has a $5 cover. See
www.thederryfield.com.
• America’s Got Taste: You have to love
a band that turns David Hasselhoff into Monster the Muppet Drummer – being from New
Hampshire is a bonus. On NBC’s America’s
Got Talent, Hoff fell hard for Recycled Percussion’s shtick, best described as Blue Man
Group meets Stomp, with scratch mixing and
power tools. Voting viewers agreed, sending them to the semifinals. The winner gets
a million bucks and a Vegas headlining gig,
so hopes are high for the junk-banging quartet, which got its start playing Goffstown High
talent shows. Catch the show on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on NBC.
• Brooklyn grrl: Krista comes on like
Avril with a Lil’ Kim backdraft, apropos of
her Brooklyn mean streets upbringing. The
22-year-old oozes bruised youth on her eponymous Sony debut EP – “I’m not even worth
saving,” she complains at one point; another
song’s called “What I Hate.” This pose should
endear her to the all-ages crowd at Suncook’s
Ground Zero club on Saturday, Sept. 5, at 8
p.m., but Krista’s skill at easily shifting from
glass-shattering alto soprano to hardcore rapper makes her worth an adult look. There is a
$10 cover. See www.groundzzzero.com.
• Grown up: One of the best things about
Chris Smither, who performs Saturday, Sept.
12, at 8 p.m., at Tupelo Music Hall, is his razor
wit on topical songs like “Origin of the Species” and “Surprise, Surprise,” a gem from the
forthcoming Time Stands Still. Smither also
knows a few things besides politics — Bonnie
Raitt called him her favorite guitar man. Tickets cost $22; see www.tupelohall.com.
• Young and Rich: Capitol Center for the
Arts’ Spotlight Café, a cabaret-style theater
with adult beverages and an inventive approach
to programming, will feature golden-throated
18-year-old Jessica Ingui on Friday, Sept. 18,
with a performance tapping Porter, Gershwin,
Rodgers & Hart and other Great American
Songbook stalwarts. The show starts at 8 p.m.;
tickets cost $20. See www.ccanh.com.
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Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
Elvises (Elvii?) in Manch Vegas
New England Elvis Festival shakes its hips in the Queen City
By Michael Witthaus
[email protected]
This is Manch Vegas, not the city in
Nevada, and the first annual New England
Elvis® Festival is happening at the Manchester Radisson, not Bally’s on the Strip.
This weekend, however, you’ll be forgiven for looking up, half expecting the Flying
Elvises to parachute down. For three days,
the Queen City will resemble the final scene
of Honeymoon in Vegas. Though it’s unlikely
anyone will drop from the sky, rhinestones,
sideburns, hip shakes and well-honed Tupelo drawls will be coming from every other
direction
The King — make that Kings — is in the
building.
It’s a whole lot of Elvis — 21 Presley
impersonators vying for the title of top ETA
(Elvis Tribute
Viva Manch-Vegas
What: New England Elvis® Festival
Where: Radisson Center of NH, 700 Elm
St. in downtown Manchester
When: Friday, Sept. 4, through Sunday,
Sept. 6
Tickets: $65-$115 for packages including the entire weekend (room not included);
Elvis® Tribute Artist Competition Schedule
($15 for both sets each day / $40 for all three
days); tickets start at $35 for Saturday evening’s show
Events: Here are some of the scheduled
events. See www.newenglandelvisfest.com
for the complete schedule as well as more
detailed pricing information.
• Friday, Sept. 4
5 p.m. — Set One, First Round: 10 ETAs,
backed by recorded music
8 p.m. — Set Two, First Round: 10 ETAs,
backed by the Change of Habit Tribute Band.
11 p.m. — After Hours Party, J.D.’s Tavern.
Tribute artists “perform hits from Elvis and
anything else they feel up to.” (free)
• Saturday, Sept. 5
10 a.m. — Set One, Second Round: 10 ETAs,
backed by the Change of Habit Tribute Band.
1 p.m. — Set Two, Second Round: 10 ETAs,
backed by recorded music
8 p.m. “Aloha from New England” starring
Shawn Klush, featuring Pete Paquette, Master
of Ceremonies Ronnie Craig, and the Change
of Habit Tribute Band. ($35 and up if ticketed separately)
11 p.m. — After Hours Party, J.D.’s Tavern.
Tribute artists “perform hits from Elvis and
anything else they feel up to.” (free)
• Sunday, Sept. 6
10 a.m. — Gospel concert: Tribute Artists perform Elvis’ Gospel Hits (free)
(Both sets backed by the Change of Habit
Tribute Band)
1 p.m. — Set One, Final Round: Five of the 10
finalists sing five songs each
3 p.m. — Set Two, Final Round: Five of the 10
finalists sing five songs each
5 p.m.— Awards Ceremony: top 10 finalists are
awarded over $3,500 in prize money.(free)
6:30 p.m. — Wrap party, J.D.’s Tavern (free)
Artist). The pack includes a Manchester man
who’s entering his fourth competition.
Two
professional
Presley-channeling champions will also be on hand. Pete
Paquette opens the festival with a tribute
to Elvis’ early years. Later, Shawn Klush,
winner of the first-ever Elvis Presley Enterprises’ Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist award,
recreates every detail of the King’s Aloha From Hawaii 1973 television broadcast,
except perhaps the weather.
Show Talent Director Terry Collins said
that among the hundreds of ETAs he’s seen,
Klush is the “one person who makes me sit
still for 90 minutes with my mouth open in
amazement.”
Ronnie Craig’s long career as an ETA
included a five-year run headlining his own
Branson, Missouri, Elvis review before
hanging up his cape. Craig is the MC for the
weekend, which begins with the first round
of competition Friday, Sept. 4. Ten of the
competing Elvises will sing to prerecorded
music in the first set, while the rest perform
backed by the Chicago-based Change of
Habit Band, a group as adept at re-creating
Presley’s music as the ETAs are at duplicating the King’s voice and moves, for set two.
For Saturday’s second round, everyone
trades places — Friday’s band-backed Kings
switch to karaoke, and vice-versa.
JD’s Tavern in the Radisson hosts an afterhours party Friday and Saturday nights from
11 p.m. until closing, where the Tribute Artists are free to perform their favorite obscure
Elvis song, or anything else they feel like
dialing up — Johnny Rivers, perhaps.
Cue Also Sprach Zarathustra — the main
event of the New England Elvis® Festival
happens Saturday night at 8 p.m. At the time
it was broadcast, Aloha From Hawaii garnered more viewers than the first moonwalk
— 51 percent of the U.S. television audience,
a staggering figure in today’s fragmented
cable market.
Elvis!
More than 20 performers will compete in
this weekend’s festival. Here are the 2009
competing Elvis® Tribute Artists:
Jim Barone of Mullica, NJ
Carl Brandon of Quebec, Canada
Michael Bravener of New Brunswick,
Canada
Garyelvis Britt of Plant City, FL
John Cigan of Ontario, Canada
Wayne Curtis of Tully, NY
Eric Haws (E-Rock) of Buckner, MO
Bruce Herron of Ontario, Canada
Paul Hunt of Schenectady, NY
Michael O’Connor of Philadelphia, PA
Lamar Petersof of Maspeth, NY
Drew Polsun of Scotia, NY
Joe Ramsey of Glens Falls, NY
Dave Robinson of Ontario, Canada
Bryant Scott of Quebec, Canada
Mark Stanzler of Manchester, NH
Mark Gagnon of Fayetteville, NC
Robert Washington of Auburn, ME
Dana Zagoreos of Peabody, MA
Jay Zanier of Ontario, Canada
Ernest Hefferon of Suffolk, VA
Shawn Klush. (Courtesy photo)
The songs Presley performed for the show
spanned his career, from “Hound Dog” to
“Suspicious Minds.” Any fans disinclined
to spend the whole weekend with the King
may get just enough from the separately ticketed ($35 and up) event, which stars Shawn
Klush and includes appearances from Pete
Paquette and Ronnie Craig.
After a free all-ETA performance of
Elvis’s gospel hits on Sunday morning, 10
finalists will compete for cash prizes totaling $3,500.
Manchester’s Mark Stanzler is a cook by
trade who’s been getting his King on for the
past eight years. He spent his youth listening
to punk rock bands like Minor Threat and
the Clash, but says that “after a while, you
wind up coming back to the stuff you grew
up with.”
On the phone from his home in Manchester, a taciturn Stanzler acts like his favorite
Presley song might be “A Little Less Conversation (A Little More Action).” He seems
reluctant to discuss the show, pleads the
Fifth when asked his age, and demurs on his
chances against the weekend’s Elvis crop.
Stanzle also chafes at the notion that he, a
chef, might have a favorite Elvis dish.
“People have this picture in their heads
of all of us sitting around eating fried peanut
butter and banana sandwiches,” he complains. “It’s not like that.”
How is it, then?
“It’s about the music,” he said. “Everybody has something different, believe me.
You’ll see the same songs over and over, but
you’ll never hear any of them sung exactly
the same, I can guarantee you that.”
Stanzler will perform as a ’70 s-era Elvis
for his part of the competition, and admits
that “My Way” is his favorite song to perform. His top Elvis movie is, he says, “hands
down, King Creole.”
Beyond that, he’d rather let the music
do the talking, not white leather jumpsuits,
oversized sunglasses and full-length, rhinestone-encrusted capes.
“If it weren’t for the music, no one would
care about the clothes,” Stanzler said.
But have a good time, right?
“I take it seriously, but I don’t take myself
too seriously. Let the festival speak for
itself,” he said.
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A musical romance
NITE
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Liz Simmons talks about Long Time Courting
songs and thought it would be fun to do
something permanent. Then Ellery and I got
together and went oh, this could be really cool.
And then Shannon and Ellery got together at
another point … this is like spanning a year
and a half. Ellery was the big push.... She was,
like: girls, let’s do this — finally.
When did you start playing music?
I grew up with music, my parents were
musicians, I was classically trained when I
was a teenager, but I was also really interested in folk music at the same time. My mother
sang me ballads growing up … from England,
Scotland, Ireland and Appalachia that she
knew from bands like Pentangle and also folk
revival singers like Joan Baez, That’s part of
what first triggered it.
tesy photo.
By Michael Witthaus
[email protected]
What was the spark for Long Time
Courting?
Shannon and I got together and sang some
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What else did you listen to growing up?
When I was 13-14, Indigo Girls, Sarah
McLachlan, Tracy Chapman … contemporary
folk. It’s really funny because I started listening to Enya and from Enya I started listening
to Clannad, which is her sister’s band. Their
recent stuff is new age-y but their older stuff
is totally traditional. That’s how I entered that
world of traditional music. But at the same time
I grew up listening to this record by the Bothy
Band. They were one of the first Irish traditional bands to put all the instruments together and
have that full sound with rhythm guitar.
For someone who doesn’t know a lot about
traditional Irish music, describe your sound.
We play really fast, really high-energy fiddle tunes, and we sing ballads accompanied by
guitar, flute, cello and fiddle. The ballads can
be slow or fast, and there’s four-part harmony.
That’s actually something that people who are
less familiar can enjoy, because it’s more of a
folk sound. Our sounds sound more folk than
traditional, though a lot of traditional musicians sound folk now.
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Traditional Irish folk music, perhaps more than
any other genre, thrives on cross-pollination.
Whether it’s the weekly session at Salt hill
Pub in Lebanon, a sing-along at Manchester’s
Wild Rover or open-mike nights in Nashua,
Portsmouth or Cambridge — Celtic music is a
pick-up band looking for a way to happen.
This collegiality of a common language
created Long Time Courting, a tuneful marriage of Appalachian, Cape Breton, English
and Emerald Isle musical traditions. A little
cabin fever also helped push them into existence, but more on that in a moment.
Long Time Courting got together at a time
when three of the band’s four members — guitarist Liz Simmons, fiddler Ellery Klein, cellist
Ariel Friedman and flute player Shannon Heaton — were involved with other projects.
Simmons plays solo, hosts a weekly openmike night at John Harvard’s in Cambridge, and
is a member of the neo-traditional band Annalivia, which also includes her husband, guitarist
Flynn Cohen. Heaton duets with her husband
Matt, while Friedman is a member of the wellregarded fiddle band Childsplay and performs
regularly with her sister Miia, also a fiddler. After
a long run with the acclaimed Gaelic Storm,
Ellery Klein left that band to have a baby. By last
fall, with her son approaching his second birthday, she was anxious to get back into music.
Liz Simmons is excited about bringing
Long Time Courting to Studio 99. She played
the club for the first time two weekends ago,
with English singer Hannah Sandford.
“It’s a very nice listening space, probably the
newest venue in Nashua,” she said. “It’s getting
a lot of attention and I’m really hoping it continues to thrive.” Simmons talked about the band,
her roots (she recently learned her great-greatgrandmother was a traditional Appalachian
singer) and her various projects from her home
in Peterborough.
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How about for an aficionado?
Oh, boy. What we do is draw from the Irish
tradition, English and Irish song tradition, and
fiddle tradition, and we infuse our own American sensibilities into them. We even do one
Swedish polska, which is exciting. We’re open
to different styles.
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You have three ongoing projects – how are
they different from one another?
Annalivia [combines] Cape Breton with
Appalachia, Scottish, Irish and English music.
So bringing in the Cape Breton and Appalachian is a big thing. This is our side of the
water, so we’re bringing that element in. Long
Time Courting is a traditional folk band in the
sense that we play the jigs and reels. But we
also sing Irish songs, write songs and melodies. It’s more like a traditional Irish band, but
we bring our own stuff to it.
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Long Time Counting
Where: Studio 99, Millyard District in
Nashua
When: Saturday, Sept. 5, at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $12, $9 for students with ID
More info: www.studio99nashua.com
Come see why we are voted Best Bar for Live Music 9 years straight by Hippo readers!
Located in downtown Manchester: 1087 Elm St. (Parking on Lowell St.)
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Clockwise from top left — Ariel Friedman, Ellery
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• Hot Tuna, Fri., Sept. 4, at 7:30
p.m., Lowell Summer
• Southside Johnny & The Asbury
Jukes with The Fools, Sat., Sept. 5,
at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Tom Rush, Sat., Sept. 5, at 7:30
p.m., Lowell Summer
• Living Colour, Fri., Sept. 8, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Al Kooper Rockabilly Trio,
Sat., Sept. 9, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Pete Francis, Thurs., Sept. 10, at
7 p.m., Tupelo
• Mitchel Musso, Thurs., Sept. 10,
at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Chuck Wicks, Thurs., Sept. 10,
at 7 p.m., Palace Theatre
• Jonathan Edwards, Fri., Sept.
11, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Journey with Heart, Sat., Sept.
12, at 7:30 p.m., Verizon
• Chris Smither, Sat., Sept. 12, at
8 p.m., Tupelo
• American Idol top 10 finalists,
Leddy Center
38c Ladd’s Lane, Epping, 6792781,leddycenter.org
Lowell Auditorium
East Merrimack Street, Lowell,
Mass., 978-454-2299
Lowell Summer Music Series
Boarding House Park, 40 French
St., Lowell, Mass., www.lowellsummermusic.org
Meadowbrook Musical
Arts Center
72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford,
293-4700
The Music Hall
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth,
436-2400
The Old Meeting House,
1 New Boston Rd., Francestown
Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588
Tsongas Arena
300 M.L.K Jr. Way, Lowell,
Mass., (978) 848-6900
Tupelo Music Hall
2 Young Road, Londonderry,
603-437-5100
Verizon Wireless Arena
555 Elm St., Manchester,
644-5000
Whittemore Center Arena at
UNH
128 Main St., Durham, 862-4000
Edge of reggae
KRucial Reggae (www.
reggae4i.com)
presents
Dominican-American artist Roberto Gell from L.A.
with his band I-Trinity,
teaming up with the Boston
Award-winning Dub Station band, at Milly’s Tavern
(500 Commercial St. in
Manchester) on Thursday,
Sept. 10, from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Roberto Gell draws from
rock, alternative, hip-hop and Caribbean sounds with two
horns and a full band, including violin. New Hampshire’s
own Burnin’ Roots will be opening. The show is 18+. Tues., Sept. 15, 7 p.m., Verizon
Wireless
• Adam Ezra Group, Fri., Sept.
18, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Eddie Money, Fri., Sept. 18, at 8
p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Gaelic Storm, Fri., Sept. 18, at
7:30 p.m., Lowell Summer
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Day kicks off at 12 Noon with
19th Annual ½ way to St. Patricks Day Road Race!
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ROADRACE • ST. BALDRICK’S DAY • MUSIC FESTIVAL
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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
Great Waters Music Festival
58 N. Main St., Wolfeboro,
569-7710, www.greatwaters.org.
Hampton Beach
Casino Ballroom
169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton
Beach, 929-4100
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nightlife LISTINGS
• NEW ENGLAND ELVIS FESTIVAL The King (or at least dozens of
impersonators) will be in Manchester
this weekend, Friday, Sept. 4, through
Sunday, Sept. 6, for the First Annual
New England Elvis Festival at the
Radisson Plaza Hotel, 700 Elm St. in
Manchester. The event will feature 20
tribute artists competing for more than
$3,500 in prize money and performances by Elvis tributers like Shawn
Klush and Pete Paquette. On Sunday
morning, there will be a gospel concert. There will be a memorabilia sale
all weekend long. See the complete
schedule and find ticket information at
www.newenglandelvisfest.com.
• KEENE MUSIC FESTIVAL, a free
festival of music in downtown Keene,
will be held on Saturday, Sept. 5, from
10 a.m .to 10 p.m. More than 50 bands
and performers will play five stages
and three sidewalk areas throughout the
day. For festival map and schedule, see
www.keenemusicfestival.com.
• CHARITY BACHELOR AUCTION on Thurs., Sept. 10, at Jillian’s
Manchester (50 Phillipe Cote St.,
Manchester, 626-7636, manchester.jilliansbilliards.com) to benefit
Make-A-Wish Foundation of New
Hampshire. The auction theme is
“Techs in the City” and will feature
eligible bachelors with both technical
and non-tech backgrounds who will
put themselves and a pre-planned
“dream date” up for auction. To apply
to be a bachelor in the auction contact Melissa Tunberg at [email protected] or call 626-7636.
• MUSIC ON MAIN STREET on
Sat., Sept. 12, 5-10 p.m. in Henniker.
The event has food, crafts and music.
Visit spiritofhenniker.org.
• NEW ENGLAND CULTURE
FEST, featuring film, fashion, world
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culture, music and more, on Sat., Sept.
12, (rain date Sun., Sept. 13) from 2 to
10 p.m. in the Enterprise Bank parking
lot in downtown Lowell, Mass. See
www.second-world.com/sw/.
• HOPE ETERNAL LOUD MUSIC
FESTIVAL, a Women’s Cancer
Awareness Benefit to celebrate the
recovery of Eternal Embrace violinist,
Carla Rae, from cancer and to raise
awareness on Sat., Sept. 19, 1 p.m. to
1 a.m. at Rocko’s Bar and Grille, 253
Wilson St. in Manchester. Event will
feature 10 bands (rock, metal, alternative, covers and more), vendors (health
& beauty, jewelry, erotica, food, music,
books and art) and more. Show is all
ages. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12
at the door (ages 5 and under get in
free). Contact Eleanor Moyer at [email protected] or
233-3217 to get involved.
• MARGUERITE’S PLACE
FUNDRAISER on Fri., Oct. 2, at
the Crowne Plaza Hotel, (2 Somerset
Pkwy., Nashua) This event will be
emceed by WZID personality Mike
Morin, and will feature live music, a
dinner, and silent and live auctions.
Tickets for the event are $75 per person. Visit www.margueritesplace.org
or call 598-1582.
Bowling
• BOUTWELL’S BOWLING
CENTER 152 N. State St., Concord,
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 CEN-
TER 698 DW Highway, 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.
DJs
• 603 LOUNGE 14 West Hollis St.
in Nashua, 821-5260, Monday and
Thursday.
• AMBER ROOM 53 High St. in
Nashua, 881-9060, Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday.
• AUBURN PITTS 167 Rockingham Road in Nashua, 622-6564,
Saturday.
• BREEZEWAY 14 Pearl St. in
Manchester, 621-9111, Friday and
Saturday.
• BREWERY LANE TAVERN 95
Brewery Ln., in Portsmouth, 4337007, Friday, and Saturday.
• BRICK HOUSE 2 Orchard St., in
Dover, 749-3838, Thursday (no DJ
the 1st Thursday of the month).
• CATTLEMAN’S SPORTS BAR
14 Railroad Sq. in Nashua, 880-6001,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
• CLUB 313 93 S. Maple St. in Manchester, 628-6813, www.club313.net,
Thursdays with DJ Biggie; Fridays
with DJ Susan Esthera; Saturday
with DJ Dave G and DJ Bob.
• CLUB LIQUID 23 Amherst St. in
Manchester, 645-7600, Thursday.
• CONCORD GRILLE 1 Eagle Sq.
in Concord, 228-6608, Friday and
Saturday.
• GAS LIGHT 64 Market St. in
Portsmouth,430-9122, Friday and
Saturday.
• JIMMY’s 15 Mechanic St. in Dover,
742-9818, Friday and Saturday.
• KELLEY’S ROW 421 Central
Ave. in Dover, 750-7081, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
• KING’S COURT, 22 Central St. in
Hudson, 821-5100, www.kingscourtcatering.com, retro Friday nights
with DJ NuStyl & DJ T-Roy, through
June 19, 21+, $5 cover.
• MILLY’S TAVERN 500 Commercial St. in Manchester, 625-4444,
Wednesday w/ DJ Spinelli.
• PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER 48
Main St. in Nashua, 821-7535,
Wednesday.
• RED DOOR 107 State St. in Portsmouth, 373-6827, Tuesday.
• RJ’s 83 Washington St. in Dover,
617-2940. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
• SLAPSHOTS, 515 DW Highway
in Merrimack, www.myspace.com/
slapshotssportsbar, Friday with Big
Daddy Scott.
• WB’s 20 Old Granite St. in Manchester, 641-2583 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Thursday night features DJ Bob and
Spivak in the main room and Midas
outside in the playground.
Trivia Nights
• BARLEY HOUSE 132 North
Main St. in Concord, 228-6363,
Wednesday.
• CENTRAL WAVE 368 Central
Ave. in Dover, 742-9283, Tuesday.
• FRATELLO’S RISTORANTE
ITALIANO, 155 Dow St. in Manchester, 624-2022, www.fratellos.
com, Tuesdays 7 to 9 p.m.
• KELLEY’S ROW 421 Central
Ave. in Dover, 750-7081, Wednesday, 8-10 p.m.
• PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER 48
Main St. in Nashua, 821-7535, Tues.
hopefully
24. Alt-country Aussie McCue
25. What Cyndi Lauper was not
26. Just for “Pryros”?
27. “You’re__ __ a million, ya
that’s what you are”
29. Ryan Adams song that rolls?
30. DMB “Under The __ And
Dreaming”
31. Panic! __ __ Disco
32. What parents want volume to
be
33. Springsteen’s “Change”
38. Tabloid’s “chat” partner
41. Seminal English punk band
42. Wall Of Sound loon Phil
44. “Winter’s cold, spring ___”
Satellite
45. Silversun Pickups “__ Of”
49. Avril Lavigne “He ____”
50. What “The Leader” led
51. Jack Wagner’s “ripping” “__
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52. Girlfriends, usually the __ one
53. Rockers out of Mexico
54. “Cool” alternative music
55. What Kravitz let “Rule”
56. Guns “Garden Of ___”
57. The Man Who __ The World
59. Famous Journey album (abbv)
60. Lowriders
© rockandrollcrosswords.com
Written By: Todd Santos
Scrabble Night at
Nashua Library
The Nashua Public
Library will hold monthly Scrabble Nights for
adults this fall on Thursdays, Sept. 3, Oct. 1 and
Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. Invite
your favorite Scrabble
partner to come with you, or meet new opponents. Please bring
a Scrabble board if you have one. The program will be held in
the library’s Music/Art/Media Wing. For more information, go
to www.nashualibrary.org or call Carol at 589-4610.
Doug the Comic
The Comedy Mill at
Studio B789 (3 Front St.
in Rollinsford, in the lower mill building) presents
The New Hampshire Comics Show on Friday, Sept.
4, hosted by Doug Blay
and featuring Jay Grove
With: Michele Mortensen
and Dave Decker. Special
guest is Robin Nitschelm.
Doors open at 8 p.m.; tickets are $10 at the door and this is a BYOB event. For details
see www.studiob789.com or call 303-8219.
Sharky’s Poker Room in Manchester.
Proceeds for charity. Ages 18 and up.
606-4456, playnhpoker.com.
• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAMENTS Every Sunday at 1 p.m.,
Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial St.
Poker
Manchester. Proceeds to benefit Viet• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAnam Veterans of American Central NH
MENTS Amoskeag Bingo Center/
Chapter 41.
• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAMENTS River Card Room at 185
Elm St., Milford. Thursday through
Sunday. 249-5548, www.nhcardroom.com.
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Africa”
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3. Alex Chilton’s “Big ___”
when something bigger”
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Allenstown
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown
Rd.
Parlor
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001
Pasquales Ristorante
145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005
Amherst
Club Comedy at Amherst
Country Club
72 Ponemah
Road,673-9908
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Concord
Annicchiarico Theatre
1 Thompson St.
The Barley House
132 N. Main St., 228-6363
Borders
76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255
Auburn
Green Martini
Auburn Pitts
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
167 Rockingham Hermanos
Rd, 622-6564
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Loudon Road Restaurant
Barnstead
and Pit Road Lounge
Barnstead
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533
Music Hall
Makris
96 Maple St,
354 Sheep Davis Road,
269-2000
225-7665
Penuche’s Ale House
Bedford
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
C.R. Sparks
The Red Blazer
18 Kilton Rd,
72 Manchester St.,
647-7275
224-4101
Mark’s Showplace Route 3,
Deerfield
668-7444
Lazy Lion Café
Slammers
4 North Road, 463-7374
547 Donald St., 668-2120
Quackers Lounge 121 S. Derry
River Road; 622-3766
Adams Opera House
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102
Belmont
Brookstone Grille
The Lodge at Belmont
14 Route 11 E., 328-9250
Route 106, 877-872-2501 Burgundy’s Billiards
35 Manchester St.,
Boscawen
437-6600
Alan’s
Steve-N-James Tavern
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 187 Rockingham Road
434-0600
Brookline
Big Bear Lodge
Dover
106 Route 13, 672-7675
Barley Pub
Village Gate Folk Stage
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
12 Main St., 315-9423
Dover Elks Lodge
282 Durham Road
Bow
Biddy Mulligan’s
Chen Yang Li
1 Washington St., 749-1100
520 South St., 228-8508
Dover Brick House
Mama Clara’s
2 Orchard St., 749-3838
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
Dover Soul
364 Central Ave., 834-6965
Candia
Kelley’s Row
Henderson’s Pickin’
421 Central Ave., 750-7081
City Sports Grille:
Morse Code
Club 313: DJ Biggie
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Derryfield: Pat Foley
Johnny Bad’s: blues jam
Boscawen
Milly’s: OPAQ, Simple
Alan’s: John Pratt
Witz, Top Shelf Habit,
May Thorns, Sipowitz
Concord
Green Martini: open mike WB’s: DJ Bob, DJ Midas
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Hermanos: Joe Gattuso
Makris: Joe McDonald
Nashua
Pit Road: karaoke with
Fody’s: Josh Logan
Mark from Day Janiero
Martha’s Exchange: DJ
Miso, Brian Lemire
Dover
Barley Pub: bluegrass jam Peddler’s Daughter:
Brick House: 40 oz. Free- Mindseye
603 Lounge: karaoke
dom, Howard Jennings
Kelley’s Row: DJ Coach with DJ Misty
Sky Lounge: DJ Tsunami
RJ’s: DJ Big Pez
Studio 99: Brian Thomas
Trio
Epping
Holy Grail: Matt & Howard
Peterborough
Harlow’s: Jatoba
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Mike Belkas
Portsmouth
Brewery Lane: Andrew
Hillsborough
Boomerang’s: open mike Merzi
Dolphin Striker: Jeremy
Lyons
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Chris Lester Gas Light: Ryan HalliMargate: Jason Mancine burton’s Alive Duo
Press Room: Connor
Garvey
Londonderry
Red Door: Gary Kim
Whippersnappers: The
Mighty Bad Habits
Friday, Sept. 4
Allenstown
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Burgundy Ground Zero: The Seris,
Thursday, Sept. 3
Bedford
CR Sparks: Steve Wark
Slammers: jam night
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RJ’s
Lowell Road, 880-7087
83 Washington St.
Linda’s Sport Bar
Top of the Chop
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792
One Orchard St., 740-0006
Laconia
East Hampstead
Black Cat Café
The Pasta Loft
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233
220 E. Main St., 378-0092 Cactus Jacks
1182 Union Ave., 528-7800
Epsom
Fratello’s
Circle 9 Ranch
799 Union Ave., 528-2022
Windymere Dr., 736-9656 Weirs Beach Lobster
Pound
Epping
72 Endicott St., 366-2255
American Legion
Weirs Beach Smokehouse
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
Rt 3 Laconia, 366-2400
Holy Grail Food & Spirits Margate Resort
64 Main St., 679-9559
76 Lake St., 524-5210
Naswa Resort
Exeter
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341
Shooter’s Pub
Paradise Beach Club
10 Columbus Ave.,
322 Lakeside Ave.,
772-3856
366-2665
Weirs Beach Smoke House
Gilford
Route 3, 366-2400
Patrick’s
18 Weirs Rd., 293-0841
Londonderry
The Homestead
Goffstown
Restaurant
Village Trestle
Rte 102 and Mammoth
25 Main St., 497-8230
Road, 437-2022
Mayflower Grange
Hampstead
535 Mammoth Rd,
Route 111 Village Square 867-3077
472 State St., 329-6879
Whippersnappers
Route 102, 434-2660
Henniker
Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
Manchester
24 Flander’s Road,
900 Degrees
888-728-7732
50 Dow St., 641-0900
The Henniker Junction
Alpine Club
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
175 Putnam St., 623-8202
American Legion Wm H
Hillsborough
Jutras & Post No 43
Boomerang’s
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 American Legion
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
Post #79
W. Main St. 464-6766
35 W. Brook St.
American Legion
Hollis
Sweeney Post
Alpine Grove
251 Maple St., 623-9145
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051 Begy’s Lounge
The Dream Farm
333 Valley St., 669-0062
64 Dow Road
Black Brimmer
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
Hudson
Bo’s Riverside
Johnny’s Pizzeria
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Breezeway Pub
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
City Sports Grille
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Chateau Restaurant
201 Hanover St., 627-2677
Club 313
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
Club Liquid
Amherst St., 645-7600
Commercial St. Fishery
33 S. Commercial St.
296-0706
Derryfield Country Club
625 Mammoth Road,
623-2880
Don Quijote
333 Valley St., 792-1110
East Side Club
786 Massebesic St.,
669-1802
Element Lounge
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
1111 Elm St., 222-2304
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
Brazilian Steak House
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
Grandstands
216 Maple St., 625-9656
The Hilton Garden Inn
101 S. Commercial St.,
669-2222
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
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Mad Bob’s Saloon
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
McGarvey’s
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Milly’s Tavern
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Murphy’s Taproom
494 Elm St., 644-3535
New England Revival
Coffee House (NERCH)
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
Olympic Lounge
Joshua Stewart, Again She Hudson
Said, Exit 26, Twitch the Linda’s: Tony Zzz karaoke
Ripper
Laconia
Belmont
Margate: Jeff Lines
The Lodge: DJ & karaoke Paradise: Tiger Lily
by Pro Sound Enteratinment T-Bones: Ron Adams
Peddler’s Daughter:
Ripcord
Boscawen
Alan’s: Elijah Clark
Concord
Barley House: Bob
McCarthy
Beijing & Tokyo
Lounge: karaoke
Green Martini: Matt Poirier
Dover
Barley Pub: Dan Walker
Brick House: Mistress
Juliya, The Guns Next
Door, Think Again, To
Rise We Fall, Avenge the
Dead, Mummified in Circuitry, Shatter This World,
Till We Die, Through Fear
Kelley’s Row: The Monkey Fist Incident
Epping
Holy Grail: Rojo Mojo
Gilford
Patrick’s: Tim Theriault
Duo
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Stranded Roots
Village Square: Top Shelf
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
The Shaskeen
909 Elm St., 625-0246
Strange Brew Tavern
88 Market St., 666-4292
Unwine’d
865 Second St., 625-9463
Wally and Bernie’s
20 Old Granite St., 641-2583
The Wild Rover
21 Kosciuszko St.,
669-7722
Workmen’s Club
183 Douglas St.
The Yard
1211 S. Mammoth Road,
623-3545
Merrimack
Buckley’s Great Steaks
438 DW Hwy, 424-0995
Slapshot’s
515 DW Hwy, 262-9335
Silo’s Steakhouse
641 DW Hwy, 429-2210
Milford
The Pasta Loft
241 Union Sq., 672-2270
Santos-Dumont
770 Elm St., 672-5464
Shenanigans
586 Nashua St., 672-2060
Nashua
The Amber Room
53 High St., 881-9060
Black Orchid Grille
8 Temple St., 577-8910
Borders
281 DW Hwy, 888-9300
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.
595-2121
Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square,
880-6001
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Country Tavern
452 Amherst St., 889-5871
Portsmouth
Brewery Lane: DJ SKD
Dolphin Striker: The
Joyce Andersen Band
Gas Light: The Hot Club
of Portland, DJ Biggie,
Londonderry
Jim Devlin Band
Whippersnappers:
Press Room: DJ Bruce
Mama Kicks
Pingree
Red Door: Tom Bartlett Epsom
Manchester
Circle 9 Ranch: BorBlack Brimmer: The Hit
rowed Time
Salem
Men
Jocelyn’s:
M.C.
Renn
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Gilford
Club Liquid: Renegade
Patrick’s: Justin James,
Saturday,
Sept.
5
Soundstation
Bryan Conway
Club 313: DJ Susan Esthera Allenstown
Ground Zero: Krista,
Derryfield: Conniption
Animatronic the Abolisher Hampstead
Fits (lounge); Resonant
Pasta Loft: Bill Bonnel
Soul (deck)
Village Square: Lunch Box
Boscawen
Milly’s: Slicko and EFC,
Alan’s: John Ayers
D.U.R., Ghost, L. Killa,
Hudson
Apesh!t and Undu-Kati,
Johnny’s Pub: Sweet
Concord
NoBody Cares and PROJGreen Martini: D.J. Bruce Willy D
ECT HYBRID
Shaskeen: Backseat Lover Hermanos: Ben Levergood
Laconia
(Pearl Jam tribute band)
Lobster Pound: Paul
WB’s: DJ Midas, DJ Jian, Dover
Warnick Band
Barley
Pub:
Qwill
DJ Bobby G
Margate: Tommy Dempsey
Brick House: Mistress
Naswa: Hot Tamale Brass
Juliya,
Nothing
to
Gain,
A
Nashua
Band
Amber Room: DJ Jonny Wanted Awakening, From
Simple Fear, Rebuilding the Paradise: Tiger Lily
C, DJ Danny D
Ruins, Thurkills Vision, Tear
Boston Billiards: DJ
Down The Sun, , Thrill for Londonderry
Roberto
Whippersnappers: Radio
Fody’s: Dave Ortiz CMG The Kill, Divine Vengence,
Daze
Gate City Pub: Ramone Shadow Sanctuary, Severed
Martha’s Exchange: DJ Oath, OPAQ
Kelley’s Row: Elijah Clark
Miso, Brian Lemire
Fody’s Tavern
9 Clinton St., 577-9015
Gate City Pub
56 Canal St., 598-8256
Haluwa Lounge
Nashua Mall, Exit 6
883-6662
Killarney’s Irish Pub
Holiday Inn, Exit 4
888-1551
Laureano Nightclub
245 Main St.
Manhattan on Pearl
70 E. Pearl St., 578-5557
Martha’s Exchange
185 Main St., 883-8781
Michael Timothy’s
212 Main St., 595-9334
Nashua Garden
121 Main St., 886-7363
The Peddler’s Daughter
48 Main St., 880-8686
Penuche’s Ale House
16 Bicentennial Sq.,
595-9831
Pine Street Eatery
136 Pine St., 886-3501
Shorty’s
Nashua Mall, 882-4070
Simple Gifts Coffee
House
58 Lowell St.
603 Lounge
14 W. Hollis St., 821-5260
The Sky Lounge
522 Amherst St., 882-6026
Slade’s Food & Spirits
4 W. Hollis St., 886-1334
Villa Banca
194 Main St., 598-0500
New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Blue Mermaid
Island Grill
The hill at Hanover and
High streets, 427-2583
Brewery Lane Tavern
96 Brewery Ln, 433-7007
Chestnuts at the Nest
3548 Lafayette Road,
373-6515
Daniel Street Tavern
111 Daniel St.
Dolphin Striker
15 Bow St., 431-5222
Gas Light Co.
64 Market St., 431-9122
The Hilton Garden Inn
100 High St., 431-1499
Muddy RiverSmokehouse
21 Congress St., 430-9582
Paddy’s American Grill
27 International Dr.,
430-9450
Player’s Ring Theater
105 Marcy St., 436-8123
Portsmouth Pearl
45 Pearl St., 431-0148,
portsmouthpearl.com
Press Room
77 Daniel St.,431-5186
The Red Door
107 State St., 373-6827
Red Hook Brewery
35 Corporate Dr., 430-8600
Ri Ra Irish Pub
22 Market Sq., 319-1680
The Wet Bar
172 Hanover St.
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
Jocelyn’s Lounge
355 South Broadway,
870-0045
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Plaistow
The Sad Café
Tilton
148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893 Old Friends Tavern
& Restaurant
Portsmouth
927 Laconia Rd, 524-1777
AK’s Bar and Bistro
111 State St.
Hot tunes, cool shows
Have upcoming shows you want listed in the
music this week? Send information about the
coming week — Thursday through Wednesday
— [email protected] or by fax at 625-2422
no later than noon on Monday. (E-mailed links to
updated Web sites are also be appreciated.)
Manchester
Black Brimmer: The
Rock Daddy’s
Breezeway: DJ James, DJ
McKay
Derryfield: Ripcord
(lounge); Kieran McNally
(deck)
Milly’s: Adversaria,
Streak, Mortuus Ortus
Wild Rover: Christa
Renee Band
The Yard: Country Mile
Gas Light: Root 3, DJ B
Money
Muddy River: The
Change Up, The Fiends
Press Room: Ron Noyes
Band
Red Door: Matt Dimond
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ Rick
Naples, DJ Danny D
Black Orchid: Tim Gurshin
Fody’s: Dave Ortiz, CMG
Peddler’s Daughter:
Amorphous Band
603 Lounge: DJ Misty
Studio 99: Long Time
Courting; Liz Simmons
Dover
Barley Pub: Yvonne
Aubert Group
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Los
Sugar Kings
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Revelation
Lobster Pound: Those Guys
Sunday, Sept. 6
Concord
Hermanos: Paul Bourgelais
Derry
Burgundy’s: open mike
Epping
Holy Grail: Tim Cannon
Hudson
Johnny’s Pub: Sweet
Willy D
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Margate: Jim Tyrrell
Naswa: DJ Terry Moran
Paradise Beach: Fighting Friday
Londonderry
Whippersnappers: Joel
Cage
Manchester
900 Degrees: blues jam
Black Brimmer: Vacant
Mirror
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Derryfield: Chad LaMarsh
Element: karaoke with
DJ Sharon
Shaskeen: Spain Brothers; Irish music
Strange Brew: Sunday
night blues jam
Nashua
Sky Lounge: dj Kyko,
dj daffy
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: The
Tokyo Tramps
Press Room: jazz
Monday, Sept. 7
Concord
Hermanos: Paul
Bourgelais
Dover
Kelley’s Row: Irish
75 bands, one
day of free music
The ninth annual Keene
Music festival will feature
75 bands performing at eight
venues in downtown Keene
on Saturday, Sept. 5, from
11 a.m. to 11 p.m. — all for
free.
Hear rock, acoustic,
jazz, country, chamber, barbershop, folk and more at
City Tire, Miller Brother’s
Alley, the Colonia Theatre, the Blue Toad, Railroad Square, the farmers’ market, Keene Gas, the Moving Company, on Church street, at the
Gazebo, at Starving Artist and at the Art in the Park festival (see www.
keeneartassoc.org for more on that two day festival — Saturday, Sept.
5, and Sunday, Sept. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — running in Ashuelot
River Park on West Street). Look for The Spinning Leaves of Philadelphia (pictured), The Keene Chamber Orchestra and Derrik Jordan
of Vermont. This year the Festival has a national sponsor, Magic Hat
Brewery. Local businesses also have donated prizes, food, and cash support for the musicians.
The weekend will get started with the final summer series concert,
featuring the band Dreamosiac, at Railroad Square in downtown Keene
at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4. For details including a schedule of performances, a list of bands and a map showing all the venues, visit www.
keenemusicfestival.com.
Laconia
Naswa: Pulse of Boston Dover
Brick House: acoustic
Londonderry
open mike with Anthony
Whippersnappers: jam Vito Fiandaca
with Gardner Berry
RJ’s: DJ J-Smooth
Manchester
Derryfield: Lisa Guyer
Jillian’s: open mike
night
Shaskeen: Scalawag
Manchester
900 Degrees: acoustic
Derryfield: Gary Lopez
Jewell: acoustic
Shaskeen: Manchuka
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Old
School
Nashua
Fody’s: karaoke
603 Lounge: open mike
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Joel
Cage
Muddy River: Cam-
Tuesday, Sept. 8
Concord
Barley House: Irish
Comedy
Friday, Sept. 4
Londonderry
Tupelo: Steve Bjork and
Caroline Plummer
eron Gray
Red Door: Roots Reggae, Dub & Dancehall
Classics
Wed., Sept. 9
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike
Hermanos: Jared Steer
Dover
Barley Pub: Jamantics
Gilford
Patrick’s: Paul Warnick
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Eric Grant
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Mama
Kicks
Derryfield: Aaron Seibert
J Dub’s: Scott Barnett
WB’s: DJ Pat
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Nashua
Fody’s: Joe Macdonald
Peddler’s Daughter:
DJ St. Julian
Slades: karaoke with
DJ Eric
Studio 99: acoustic jam
at Hampshire Hills
Planet Friendly
We recycle cardboard and oil, use
compostable take out containers,
and serve organic and all natural
chicken and beef.
Family Friendly
Our casual, sporty atmosphere
is perfect for families.
We even have a special menu just for kids.
Live Music
Fridays
6-9
Wallet Friendly
We offer a full menu from appetizers
to desserts at affordable prices.
Open Mon-Sat
50 Emerson Rd, Milford, NH
603.673.7123
at
4:30
hampshirehills.com
056315
Peterborough
Harlow’s: acoustic open
mike
Portsmouth
Muddy River: Adam
Furious
Red Door: PB Kidd
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Manchester
Element Lounge: comedy night with Mama
Savannah Georgia
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Hermanos: Richard
Gardzina
Pit Road: karaoke with
Mark from Day Janiero
Family Grille
Wednesday, Sept. 9 Friday, Sept. 11
Manchester
Concord
Shaskeen: open mike
Cap Center: Live Free
comedy night
or Die Laughing
SEPT. 5
Dance Lessons from 7:30 - 8:30pm
Live performance at 9:00pm
Featuring COUNTRY MILE
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topper brand)
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7 ___ Cup (tennis event)
12 Florence’s river
13 Vert. counterpart, on old
TVs
14 Like noses on some wines
15 Word in Portuguese place
names that means “fig tree”
17 University prep schools,
in France
18 She played the created object
of desire in “Weird Science”
20 The “one man” in the tagline, “One man’s struggle to
take it easy”
23 Wade opponent
24 Hallow follower
25 Zealous
27 Say “I do”
28 Split fruit
29 With 34-across, movie
with the line “What’s happenin’, hot stuff?”
34 See 29-across
35 Elite squads
36 Crooked
37 Really smart people
38 He’s quoted in “The Little
Red Book”
39 “...man ___ mouse?”
42 Redhead featured in three
of John Hughes’ films
46 Film named after a hit
Psychedelic Furs song
48 “The Vampire Chronicles”
character de Romanus
51 1996 comedy with Sinbad
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52 Liquor in an Italian restaurant
53 New U.S. citizen’s course
54 Camera part
55 Like many San Francisco
streets
56 Dash lengths
57 Anal ending, in Britain?
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
19 “Reverend” of 1980s rap
21 Equal, in French
22 Philosopher Descartes
26 Dorm leaders, for short
27 “The Darjeeling Limited”
director Anderson
28 “Transformers” director
Michael
29 Get droopy
Down
30 Checkout lane unit
1 Short-lived
31 Prefix meaning “stranger”
2 Certain fisherman
32 Place for a prank involv3 Prefix meaning “clown,”
ing a potato
especially used for fear of
33 Particle physicist whose
clowns
findings were first accepted
4 Potful at cook-offs
by Einstein
5 Predicted
34 Buddies-first mentality
6 Used a pot for catching,
36 It may be charged by airperhaps
port shuttle services if you’re
7 Get stains out, in a way
late from a flight
8 New Zea38 He played B.A.
land’s most
39 Has the rights to
populous city 40 With full attention
9 Go toe to toe 41 Look-___ (impostors)
10 Samson fol- 43 “___ jumpy rhythm makes
lower?
you feel so fine” (Johnny Cash)
11 Part of OS: 44 Bathroom door word
abbr.
45 Battleship call near the
12 “I’m not at middle edge of the grid
the computer” 47 Singer lang et al.
initialism
48 Booker T’s backers
14 Ice chunk
49 Song or dance, e.g.
16 Charlotte
50 Singer Corinne Bailey ___
Bronte heroine
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“King John” — goodbye, Mr. Hughes. By Matt Jones
SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from songs recorded by Beyoncé Knowles,
born Sept. 4, 1981.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “If I were a boy / Even just for
a day / I’d roll outta bed in the morning / And throw on what
I wanted, then go” —“If I Were a Boy” No matter who you
are, this is a good week to roll out of bed, throw on whatever
you want and just go.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “And when you talk, everybody
stops / ’cause they know you know just what to say” —“Hello” Plan ahead what you’re going to say at an important event.
This will increase your chances of being understood.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “I think I’m in love with my
radio / Because it never lets me down / And I fall in love with
my stereo / Whenever I hear that sound” —“Radio” You
could really benefit from listening to some old favorites for
inspiration just now.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “Satellites / Flashing
by / It’s a beautiful state we’re in / But how can we love in
isolation / Think how happy we can be / When we just try”
—“Satellites” It’s time to make serious efforts at increasing
your circle of friends—in quality or quantity. Isolation is a
risk if you don’t get out there and make connections. It will
take conscious effort on your part to establish and maintain
relationships, and it’s worth it.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “If I begged and if I cried /
Would it change the sky tonight? / Would it give me sunlight?
/ Should I wait for you to call? / Is there any hope at all? /
Are you drifting by?” —“Disappear” You will feel a pull to
spend all your time pining for that certain someone. Resist it.
Do not waste your time waiting by the phone — get on with
your own business.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “Everything you own in the
box to the left / In the closet, that’s my stuff / Yes if I bought it,
baby, please don’t touch” —“Irreplaceable” Share and share
alike, but it’s OK to keep certain prized possessions off limits
to others. Don’t borrow without permission. Return things in
the condition you found them in or better. Demand the same
consideration from others.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “Listen to the song here in
my heart / A melody I start but can’t complete / Listen to the
sound from deep within / It’s only beginning to find release. /
Oh the time has come for my dreams to be heard / They will
not be pushed aside and turned / Into your own, all ’cause
you won’t listen.” —“Listen” If your words fall on deaf ears,
which is likely, find a new direction in which to pursue your
dreams.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “If you liked it then you
shoulda put a ring on it / Don’t be mad once you see that he
want it / If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it” —
“Single Ladies” A fear of commitment will have noticeable
repercussions.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “I thought that we’d grow up
and grow together at the same time / Guess I passed you by
at that old stop sign” —“Stop Sign” Look at an established
relationship with new eyes and ask yourself if it’s a case of
growing together or growing apart. If the latter, a reconfiguring of the relationship is called for.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “Diamonds used to be coal /
Look young ’cause they got soul / That’s why they’re beautiful” —“That’s Why You’re Beautiful” Look for the timeless
wisdom inside a thing of youth and dazzle.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “You need to stop for a minute / Before you get too deep up in it / ’Cause everything ain’t
what it seems … You need to think about it / Before you get
hooked on the venom / And can’t live without it / Can’t believe
everything you see” —“A Woman Like Me” Take care not to
get involved with someone or something that is not good for
you. Cut things off early.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “It don’t matter if we go to the
park or watch a play / Stay in the hotel room all day, I just
wanna be with you / I love everything about you from your
old-school tennis shoes to the way you move when you’re
dancing with me” —“Gift from Virgo” Wherever you are,
enjoy the company.
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
Cultural Diversity
Latest Religious Messages
• The director of a child advocacy group told
The Associated Press in June that, since 1975,
at least 274 children have died following the
withholding of medical treatment based on religious doctrine. In one high-profile case this year,
the father of a girl said turning her over to doctors would violate God’s word (she died), but in
another, a Minnesota family that had trusted their
son’s cancer to prayer, based on advice from
something called the Nemenhah Band, changed
course and allowed chemotherapy, which so far
appears to have prolonged the boy’s life.
• The Shinto temple Kanda Shrine, near
Tokyo’s version of Silicon Valley, does a brisk
business blessing electronic gadgets, according
to a July dispatch in Wired magazine. Lucky
charms go for the equivalent of about $8.50,
but for a personal session, the temple expects
an offering of the equivalent of at least $50.
The Wired writer, carrying a potentially balky
cell phone, approached the shrine with a tree
branch as instructed, turned it 180 degrees
clockwise, and laid it on the altar. After bowing twice and clapping his hands twice, he left,
looking forward to a glitch-free phone.
Questionable Judgments
• They Took It Too Far: (1) Maryland corrections officials, hoping to improve juvenile
rehabilitation by a kinder, gentler approach to
incarceration, opened its New Beginnings Youth
Center in May. The lockdown facility had declined
to use razor wire, instead merely landscaping its
Rock People
(1) Chicago police arrested motorist Daniel Phelan, 27, in August and charged him in
connection with a three-week spree of drive-by
rock-throwing at other cars. Officers discounted ordinary road rage as a cause, in that Phelan
appeared to have been driving around during that
time with an arsenal of rocks in the passenger
seat. (2) A 22-year-old man was arrested in Kitsap, Wash., in August after tossing a barrage of
rocks at people, leading some to chase him until
police intervened. The man explained that he is
preparing to enter Ultimate Fighting Championship contests but had never actually been in a
fight and wanted experience at getting beaten up.
Least Competent Cops
(1) The Supreme Court of Spain tossed
out assault charges against Henry Osagiede
in August because of unfairness by Madrid
police. Osagiede, a black man, was convicted
after the victim identified him as her attacker, in a lineup in which he was the only black
man. (2) Six Ormond Beach, Fla., motorcycle officers, detailed to chaperone the body
of prominent Harley-Davidson dealer Bruce
Rossmeyer from the funeral home to the cemetery, accidentally collided with each other
en route, sending all six riders and their bikes
sprawling.
Recurring Themes
(1) “Spitting Contests”: A man was almost
killed in Rodgau, Germany, in July when,
attempting to show friends he could spit a
cherry pit the farthest off of a balcony, made a
running start but accidentally toppled over the
railing. He was hospitalized with hip injuries.
(2) “Assistance Monkeys”: Evidence of the
dexterity and usefulness of monkeys (for fetching objects for disabled people) came from the
Plants & Planters store in Richardson, Texas,
in July. The store owner, seeking to combat
recent burglaries, installed a surveillance camera, which revealed a monkey scaling the
fence, scooping up plants, flowers and accessories, and handing them to an accomplice
waiting on the other side.
Undignified Deaths
(1) Two 22-year-old men were accidentally
killed in Mattoon, Ill., in May during an outing
in which an open-top double-decker bus was
used to transport guests. Several people were
standing in the top tier, but investigators said
only the two tallest men were accidentally hit
when the bus passed under Interstate 57. (2)
A 23-year-old man drowned in Corpus Christi, Texas, in February, when he sought to back
up his claim in front of “friends” that he could
hold his breath underwater for a long period of
time.
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• Lonely Japanese men (and a few women)
with rich imaginations have created a thriving
subculture (“otaku”) in which they have allconsuming relationships with figurines that are
based on popular anime characters. “The less
extreme,” reported a New York Times writer in July, obsessively collect the dolls. The
hardcore otaku “actually believes that a lumpy
pillow with a drawing of a (teenage character)
is his girlfriend,” and takes her out in public
on romantic dates. “She has really changed
my life,” said “Nisan,” 37, referring to his
gal, Nemutan. (The otaku dolls are not to be
confused with the life-size, anatomically-correct dolls that other lonely men use for sex.)
One forlorn “2-D” (so named for preferring
relationships with two-dimensionals) said he
would like to marry a real, 3-D woman, “(b)ut
look at me. How can someone who carries this
(doll) around get married?”
• Thousands of Koreans, and some tourists,
uninhibitedly joined in the messy events of July’s
Byryeong City Mud Festival, which glorifies the
joys of an activity usually limited to pigs. Mud
wrestling, mud-sliding, a “mud prison” and colored mud baths dominated the week’s activities,
but so unfortunately did dermatological maladies,
which hospitalized 200 celebrants.
• National Specialties: (1) In May, Singapore’s Olympic Council, finding no athlete good
enough, declined to name a national Sportsman
of the Year. (2) A survey of industrialized nations
by the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development revealed that Japanese and
Koreans sleep the least, while the French spend
the most time at both sleeping and eating. (3) A
Tokyo rail passenger company, Keihin, installed
a face-scanning machine recently so that employees, upon reporting for work, can tell whether
they are smiling broadly enough to present a
good impression.
chain-link fences with thorny rose bushes. After
one inmate easily escaped on the second day of
operation, razor wire was installed. (2) Bride Lin
Rong wed in August in China’s eastern Jilin province, walking down the aisle in a dress that was
more than 7,000 feet (1.3 miles) long (rolled up
in a wagon behind her).
• Britain’s National Health Service of Sheffield
issued a “guidance” to schools this summer to
encourage teaching students alternatives to premarital sex, including masturbation. According to
the Daily Telegraph, the leaflet (titled “Pleasure”)
contains the slogan “(A)n orgasm a day keeps the
doctor away” and likens the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables, and exercising, to the
benefits of masturbating twice a week.
• Latest Questionable Grants: (1) Welsh artist Sue Williams was awarded the equivalent of
about $33,000 in June, from the Arts Council
of Wales, to explore cultural attitudes toward
women’s buttocks, especially “racial fetishism”
in African and European culture. Williams said
she will create a series of plaster casts of buttocks to work with, beginning with her own.
(2) In July, the National Institutes of Health
awarded $3 million to the University of Illinois
Chicago to identify the things that cause lesbians to drink alcohol. It will be very important,
said research director Tonda Hughes, to compare why lesbians drink with why heterosexual
women drink. (This is a different NIH grant
from the ones reported in News of the Weird in
June, to study why gay men in Argentina drink
and why prostitutes in China drink.)
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