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through lax lending regulations, cheap interest
rates and a tax code that favors debt over equity.
Going a long way to change that would be
to end the home interest deduction, which lets
some homeowners not pay taxes on income
that goes to pay mortgage interest.
As it is now the person who buys a home with
cash is at a huge disadvantage compared to someone who takes out a mortgage. The one who
borrows gets a sizable write-off while the person
who buys the home outright gets no tax deduction.
In fact, the cash buyer in effect pays higher taxes
to offset the $100 billion or so annually that goes
to cover the cost of the home interest deduction.
Economists have also said the home interest deduction doesn’t actually help more people
get into homes, as it was intended, but instead
allows people who can afford a home to just buy
bigger homes. So in effect the government is
helping people buy bigger homes while people
who can’t afford to buy a home or don’t want to
buy one help pay for it through their taxes.
While ending the deduction outright would
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• Cullen for office? Fergus Cullen, former state GOP chairman, is reportedly
mulling a run for congress in the state’s
1st District. If Cullen were to enter the
Republican primary race, he would join a
field that is already headlined by Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta. Bob Bestani is
also running and Richard Ashooh formed
an exploratory committee last month.
Michael Castaldo and Peter Bearse are
in the Republican mix as well. U.S. Rep.
Carol Shea-Porter is running alone on the
Democratic side.
• Testerman exploring: Karen Testerman, who founded Cornerstone Policy
Research, had been considering running
for governor. This week, she formed an
exploratory committee to help her prepare
to run. The Republican would join Jack
Kimball on the Republican side. Gov. John
Lynch, who hasn’t signaled his intentions
yet, would be seeking a record fourth term
if he does decide to run again.
• Replacing Gatsas: State Rep. David
Boutin, R-Hooksett, and Jeff Goley, DManchester, formally filed papers on
Monday to run in a special election for
Manchester mayor-elect Ted Gatsas’ senate seat. Gatsas resigned after he won the
mayoral election in November. Former
state Rep. Terry Pfaff is also running and
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•AG appoints law firm for CMCDHMC: The Union Leader reported
last week the attorney general’s office
has assigned an independent law firm to
help with documentation regarding the
proposed affiliation between Catholic
Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Clinic. The McLane, Graf, Raulerson &
Middleton law firm, whose services CMC
and Dartmouth-Hitchcock would pay
for, would analyze and advise, the article said. Once the two entities submit a
formal notice of acquisition, the attorney
general would have 120 days to reject or
approve it. The affiliation would allow
CMC to collaborate directly with the 120
Manchester-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock
physicians. CMC has maintained leased
multi-specialty physician services would
be subject to the religious directives set
out by the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, but abortion opponents
have concerns over how the two would
conform to those directives given that
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a secular facility.
Officials have said the affiliation would
improve patients’ access to care, including
sub-specialty care such as neurosurgery
and oncology services. Along with the
attorney general, any agreement would
need the final approval of the Bishop of
Manchester, John McCormack. Officials
have said there’s no specific time line, but
they expected to report on progress in the
first quarter of 2010. Officials had initially hoped to have an agreement in place by
the end of this year.
• Cold cases: The state launched a new
cold case Web site (doj.nh.gov/coldcaseunit/index.htm) this week as part of
the new Cold Case Unit that was formed
this fall. In the past 40 years, there have
been about 120 unsolved homicides in the
state. The new unit is staffed with a prosecutor and three detectives who will focus
solely on unsolved homicides, unresolved
suspicious deaths and missing persons
cases in which foul play is suspected, the
Web site said. The site includes a link to
a “tip form” and a list of the state’s unresolved cases. The unit is the result of a
bill sponsored by Rep. Peyton Hinkle, RMerrimack, who began thinking about the
bill about four years ago when he spotted a news story about Joseph Horak, a
retired detective who has devoted much of
his life to solving the 26-year-old murders
of two teenage girls in Candia. “I thought
it’s just not right that this case can go all
these years and nobody seems to be trying
to solve it,” Hinkle said earlier this year.
• Bartlett online: The Josiah Bartlett
Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank, recently created www.
NewHampshireWatchdog.org, a Web site
set to publish stories by investigative
reporter Grant Bosse, Center President
Charles Arlinghaus’ weekly column and
updates about the Center’s government
transparency project overseen by Jay
Flanders. The site will serve as a library
for the nearly 1,500 reports filed by the
Watchdog Project during the past year.
Visit www.jbartlett.org.
• Eco-friendly road: A new active
adult community in Pelham is home
to the state’s first porous asphalt road,
which lets storm water drain through the
road rather than pooling on the surface.
The road covers 900 feet of Winterberry
Lane as well as driveways and walkways
in the new 24-unit Boulder Hills condominium community, a UNH press release
said. The road was made possible by the
UNH Stormwater Center in partnership
with developers, contractors and civil officials. The porous asphalt has been
installed at more than 20 parking lots in
the state. Pollution carried by storm water
is one of the biggest threats to water quality nationwide. As water seeps through the
asphalt, pollutants are filtered out. Along
with eliminating the need for storm water
management systems like catch basins
and retention ponds, the porous asphalt
requires less salt for winter de-icing. Visit www.unh.edu/erg/cstev.
said Rebecca Kinhan, communications manager for the Chamber.
Sophomores from Bishop Brady High
School, Bow High School, Concord High
School, Concord Christian, The Derryfield School, Hopkinton High School, John
Stark High School, Merrimack Valley High
School, Parker Academy, Pembroke Academy and Pittsfield Middle High School
are eligible to apply. The competitive program takes a maximum of 24 students. Last
year, 60 students applied, Kinhan said, adding the Chamber initially chose sophomores
because seniors are focused on preparing
for college and juniors traditionally have a
heavier workload.
Students will embark on a three-session program that incorporates history and culture,
communication and the justice system. Along
the way, they’ll learn from community leaders and public officials as they tour Concord’s
downtown, get an inside look at the Merrimack
County House of Corrections, sit in on judicial
hearings at the Supreme Court and participate
in discussions with fellow students and established community leaders, Kinhan said.
“I think the ultimate goal is to familiarize students with the key players and organizations in
Concord that are really making things happen,
who have been involved with the development
Students take part in the Greater Concord
Chamber of Commerce’s Capital Area Student Leadership program.
Seeking future leaders
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce is looking for the area’s future leaders
in its Capital Area Student Leadership Class of
2010.
The program, now in its 16th year and
sponsored by Northeast Delta Dental,
admits sophomores from local high schools
to encourage participants to be active and
effective leaders by exposing them to cultural, environmental, historical and civic
aspects of the area.
“Overall, we want to expose them to what’s
happening in the city and open their eyes to
ways they could be involved and contribute,”
From Dec. 14 to Dec.
25, the City of Nashua
will offer free parking at
metered spaces in the
Elm Street and High Street
parking garages.
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Robert Ngari, 25, is facing
charges after he allegedly
stole an ambulance from
Rockingham Regional Ambulance last Friday, Dec. 4, and
drove to Milford High School,
where he was found by
police, the Associated Press
Goffstown
reported. School officials
apparently called police after
spotting a man wandering
about the premises.
Hooksett
The Eagle Tribune reported
that Londonderry animal
control officer Mike Bennett was called to Hannaford Supermarket on
Sunday, Dec. 6, to corral
a wily rooster in the parking lot. After it made an
attempted getaway up
a nearby fence, Bennett
caught the bird in a net.
He said he would give
the bird to a local farm.
How the rooster arrived in
MANCHESTERthe parking lot remains a
mystery.
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Amherst
Merrimack
Londonderry
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Yvonne Hernandez’s murder trial began
this week in Nashua. Hernandez is
accused of killing Matthew Beaudoin
by running him down with her car. The
incident reportedly stemmed from
an argument centered on the rivalry
between the Boston Red Sox and the
New York Yankees.
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$100,000 will be provided to 38 area
homeless shelters by the Citizens Bank
Foundation through the New Hampshire
Coalition to End Homelessness. The money will be distributed in grants ranging
from $2,250 to $7,000.
$50,000 was donated from the Bank of
America Charitable Foundation to New
Hampshire Food Bank in November,
allowing the Food Bank to provide 60,803
Thanksgiving meals.
$45,000 was spread among five New
Hampshire charities last month by Common Man restaurants, the New Hampshire
Electric Co-Op Foundation and AquaHealth. Donations went to New Hampshire
Food Bank, Webster Place Center of
Franklin, American Cancer Society in
New Hampshire, Nashua Soup Kitchen
and Shelter and Easter Seals of NH.
$40,000 was donated by Company C
to the Vermont-New Hampshire Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. In
October, the company held its first “Passion for Pink” event, in which 15 percent
of all sales were set aside for breast cancer
awareness, research and education.
$15,000 has been donated to Emily’s Place since 2004 by the Manchester
School of Tae Kwon Do. The money has
been raised at an annual one-day martial
arts tournament at Trinity High School.
Emily’s Place is a shelter for women and
their children fleeing domestic violence.
$5,000 was donated by Nashua Bank to
the Hollis Elementary PTA Online Auction. Visit www.hollisptaauction.com.
$4,000 worth of new children’s books
were donated by the Children’s Literacy Foundation (clifonline.org) on Dec.
10 to Wilson Elementary and Henry J.
McLaughlin Middle School in Manchester. McLaughlin has 46 English Language
Learners and Wilson has 120, many of
whom are refugees.
$3,000 was given by St. Mary’s Bank
to the Presentation of Mary Academy’s
Technology Fund last month for enhancement of its school computer lab.
$1,000 was donated this month to
children’s services at Merrimack Valley
Hospice House by the Kiwanis Club of
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$500 was donated to the University of
New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
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Runner’s Alley, a specialty
running retailer with stores
in Portsmouth, Manchester
and Nashua, was recognized
in November as one of the
50 Best Running Stores in
America during “The Running Event,” sponsored by
Competitor magazine. More
than 200 stores received
nominations, and a panel of
industry experts visited each
nominated store to evaluate
it on 20 different aspects of
retailing, including product
knowledge, environment and
community involvement.
of the city over time, involved with revitalization of the cultural segment...,” Kinhan said.
The Chamber uses teams of community
volunteers to interview applicants in January,
an experience that benefits students as many
would soon be applying for college, Kinhan
said.
While the program has seen lots of students
of the valedictorian mold, Kinhan said the
Chamber is also looking for people who “have
been hesitant, for one reason or another, about
taking on a leadership role, that untapped leadership potential.”
“Whether they choose to come back here
after college, to stay, either way, we hope that
they’ll get a sense of what sort of direction
they’d like to go into,” Kinhan said.
The application is due Tuesday, Dec. 15. Visit www.concordnhchamber.com/casl.pdf. Call
the Chamber at 224-2508. —Jeff Mucciarone
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Advocacy groups seeing green
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While the United States Chamber of Commerce remains skeptical in its view of climate
change-related federal legislation, New
Hampshire businesses are saying the U.S.
Chamber isn’t representing there views.
The general theme from business owners at a press conference last week hosted by
Repower New Hampshire and 1Sky was that
not only is climate change legislation necessary to help the environment, but it is also
imperative to ensure the U.S. doesn’t fall
behind the rest of the global economy. Three
business owners and some advocates spoke
last week, while several other business owners spoke against the U.S. Chamber earlier
this fall for similar reasons.
“The U.S. Chamber is seriously low-balling the capacity of my own energy services
industry to grow jobs by saving New Hampshire businesses, towns and schools big
money by making them more energy-efficient and reducing carbon pollution,” said Jim
Grady, founder of Merrimack-based LighTec,
Inc., which installs energy-efficient lighting
systems.
What’s troubling to advocates of clean
energy legislation is that they believe there’s
strong evidence supporting the notion that
investing in green could serve as a major job
creator. Studies suggest the Clean Jobs and
American Repower Act would create 7,700
jobs in New Hampshire alone.
Two months ago, some national corporations, such as Nike, spoke critically of the
Chamber’s stance on climate change. Other big companies, such as Apple and General
Electric, left the Chamber. Business owners
say the Chamber is catering too much to big
oil companies that fear climate change legislation will drastically hurt them. Grady
pointed out that many years ago coal companies fought hard against people moving to
natural gas for the same reason.
But the Chamber’s tone on climate change
does appear to be softening.
Grady, who said he often sides with more
conservative colleagues, said the Chamber’s most recent report shows real progress
as it’s no longer “hung up on denying climate change,” but it still remains hesitant
to embrace the cost of managing climate
change. Grady said he doesn’t take issue with
that — calling climate change “thorny” and
“politically challenging” — but he also said
focusing on the cost of managing it ignores
the cost of staying on the same path. He likened it to the American automobile industry,
which lagged far behind foreign counterparts
in shifting to more fuel-efficient vehicles.
“Congress is performing a balancing act,
striving to preserve energy security while
also limiting energy use and the fuels to be
used for the purpose of addressing climate
change,” according to the Chamber Web site
(www.uschamber.org). “On one hand, Congress seeks to place serious limits on energy
exploration, but, on the other, continues to
push for energy independence and carbonconstraining climate change legislation. The
Chamber is very concerned with Congress’
perceived ability to balance these two goals.”
The U.S. Chamber is highlighting five
goals in terms of climate change: preserve
American jobs and competitiveness; provide
an international, economy-wide solution;
promote accelerated development and deployment of greenhouse gas reduction technology;
reduce barriers to the development of climatefriendly energy sources, and promote energy
conservation and efficiency.
“What Congress must continue to recognize
is that electricity is the ‘juice’ that runs our
country,” according to the Chamber. “And this
country’s economic well-being will depend on
the sustainability of the juicers — coal, natural gas, petroleum, nuclear, and hydropower, to
name a few — for the foreseeable future. This
country’s energy goals will be met only by a
commitment to technology innovation and to
all types of energy sources.”
Though she hadn’t polled businesses in
New Hampshire, Miranda Carter, representing the advocacy group 1Sky in New
Hampshire, said most New Hampshire business owners she’s talked to do support federal
legislation pertaining to climate change and
green energy.
“Most do seem to support it, even if it
doesn’t directly affect their business,” Carter said.
The conference last week featured Grady
and also former state Rep. Don Brueggemann,
who is a manager at The Works Bakery Cafe
in Concord, a local sandwich and coffee shop
chain. A statement from Joseph Keefe, president and CEO of Pax World Management
Corporation, which manages $2.4 billion in
mutual fund assets following a sustainable
investing approach, was also read at the event.
Earlier in the fall, Debby de Moulpied, owner of Real Green Goods in Concord, Pirscilla
Ballara of Waterline Alternative Energies in
Seabrook and Jeff Trombly, owner of Montgomery Financial in Concord, spoke out
against the Chamber. To Carter, it’s important to show the Chamber it’s a wide swath of
businesses that support this legislation.
“When the opportunity presents itself,
you can either seize it or someone else will,”
Brueggemann said. “Technology is coming
with or without us.”
“I’ve seen new businesses open because of
the green economy,” de Moulpied said. “We
need creative, progressive ideas, not the same
old status quo.”
Grady has long been a proponent for investing in efficiencies on the back end of energy
use, rather than spending big money to create
new forms of energy, such as wind and solar.
He isn’t against new and renewable forms of
energy, but he says it’s always cheaper to save
a watt of electricity than to find a new way to
produce one.
Trombly said government and businesses need to be thinking about the economy
as much as 50 years down the road, and he
suggested doing the “hard work” now so the
country doesn’t slip into a deeper hole.
Cultural, business groups work together
Cooperation the theme at recent discussion
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
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Hippo | December 10 - 16, 2009 | Page The New Hampshire Department of Cultural Resources hosted a cultural roundtable
last week to discuss ways cultural entities can
partner with the business community and the
Manchester-Boston Regional airport.
“When you’re working together, you do a
better job,” said Robin Comstock, president
and CEO of the Greater Manchester Chamber
of Commerce.
Comstock explained how the Chamber
worked with the Manchester Historic Association to create a user-friendly walking tour
guide of Manchester’s Millyard. With cost
an issue, the city’s three major medical centers banded together to cover the printing
costs. It wasn’t a partnership Comstock envisioned at first, but thinking outside the box,
the hospitals saw that a walking tour indirectly promotes healthy, active living, Comstock
said.
“It was unconventional on the outside, and
a perfect match on the inside,” Comstock
said.
The Currier Museum of Art partnered
with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, Manchester’s minor-league baseball team, for a
“turned wood” exhibit it was featuring. The
Fisher Cats use bats made from turned wood.
Van McLeod, commissioner of the Department of Cultural Resources, said he thought
there were more connections within the sports
world than might appear at the outset.
The general theme of last week’s discussion seemed to be to think beyond five feet in
front of your door.
McLeod said in the weekly grind of paying
bills, it can be difficult for cultural organizations and groups to see the long-term
benefit in making partnerships, when there’s
no immediate payoff. But he said the organizations that are truly growing and thriving
are the ones that are willing to think outside
the box and to make connections with other
groups and businesses.
“The ones expanding are the ones thinking
of something new,” McLeod said.
“Think about where your guests are com-
ing from and how you can capture them,” said
Judi Window, managing director of Granite
State Ambassadors, a nonprofit organization
that trains “ambassadors” to be proper greeters to the Granite State in any number of
venues, including hotels, restaurants and visitor centers. “We all have to think less about
ourselves and more about the community.”
Partnering can be formal or informal, structured or non-structured. It doesn’t have to be
simply handing over a check so some entity will display your logo. It can be knowing
what’s around so that when someone asks,
they can be directed to the Currier Museum
of Art or the Palace Theatre, or vice-versa, so
the Currier can direct people to certain places
for shopping or a tasty lunch, officials said. A
partnership can be as simple as the Chamber
referring to itself as a neighbor to the Palace
Theatre.
Comstock said the most important partner
is the business community, which she said
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The office wants to know about everything.
She said she’s been trying to get in touch
with new entities that pop up in an effort to
find out what they’re all about. With a solid
amount of foot traffic to her office, she wants
to be able to direct people appropriately.
“Fill our heads with stuff,” Gyawali said.
The Economic Development Office is currently applying for grant money to study the
economic impact of arts and culture in the
community. Gyawali said the arts and culture
community seems to have a lot going on, but
it hasn’t really found a way to pull together
and work as one voice in the city. She said
the city could better promote day-long cultural packages with museums, art galleries
and ethnic restaurants.
Partnerships may work spectacularly, but
making the initial connection isn’t always
easy.
Sara Greene, who recently started Ciel
Rouge Moving Company, an aerial dance
performance company, said it’s been difficult to make connections within the business
community. She’s found a complete lack of
support and she’s wondered what the missing link was.
Comstock said downtown businesses in
particular have limited resources to offer in
the form of sponsorships.
Specifically in Manchester, the city’s master plan calls for more public art. In the face
of some critical news reviews of pursuing
public art, officials said cultural organizations need to stand up.
“Communities that attract a certain quality of life…have public art in them,” McLeod
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Karen Tebbenhoff, director of marketing at the Currier, said the museum’s most
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“We try and look for places where it makes
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As a common entrance point for out-of-state
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“There are opportunities to work together,”
said J. Brian O’Neil, deputy airport director.
“I think we can do more.”
O’Neil said the airport, which contributed
$1.24 billion to the state economy each year,
doesn’t have a lot of money to add into the
equation, but it has space available in a variety of forms that could be utilized with some
creative thinking.
“What helps you out helps us out,” O’Neil
said, adding the airport operates in a very different competitive environment than it did at
its business high point in 2005, making partnerships all the more important. Other area
airports now fly budget airlines like Southwest,
Jet Blue and Air Tran, whereas just a few short
years ago the Manchester airport was the only
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McLeod suggested looking a little below
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where at a locally owned business it would be
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a new promotion that runs for three weeks,
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encourage the public to go into retail locations,
and they can take their shopping receipt and go
to a restaurant and get a discount off of dining.
... [Holiday Shop and Dine Thursdays continue
Dec. 10 and 17.]
[Nashua is considering a business improvement district.] What’s that all about?
The best example is Intown Manchester
... a management organization that has been
contracted by the city to provide services to a
certain geographic area in downtown Manchester. How it’s funded is through an assessment
fee on commercial properties in that district ....
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Right now, we’re a membership organization.
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percent of income comes from the events and
programs that we run, 22 percent from the City
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percent corporate funding and 1 percent from
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of the businesses receive the benefit. ... [GAD
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is charged with finding out what services are
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DECEMBER 10, 2009
Weak charter school law
QoL
QUALITY OF LIFE
INDEX
The Center for Education Reform released report cards for states pertaining
to their respective charter school laws. New Hampshire scored a “D” with the
11th-weakest law, which was passed in 1995 and amended in 2008. The report
indicates New Hampshire charter schools receive nearly half the funding of
conventional public schools, and there is no facilities funding. New Hampshire has 11 charter schools with more than 2,000 students enrolled.
QOL score: -1
Comment: Ten states garnered a B and just two states, California
and Minnesota, grabbed an A.
Less of a boost
Because the New Hampshire Council on the Arts has less funding this biennial, it can’t offer the fourth-quarter “Mini Grants” or “Artist Entrepreneurial
grants” for fiscal year 2010. So if you worried about making the Jan. 4 deadline
to apply for one, never mind. However, that’s also the deadline for the last Arts
Council FY2010 grant available, “Arts in Healthcare.” Arts Council state funding is matched by federal National Endowment for the Arts funding.
QOL score: -1
Comments: This state agency, a division of the Department of Cultural
Resources, expects to start putting out FY 2011 grant information in January.
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Despite a wintery blast on Saturday, Dec. 5, Manchester’s Spirit of the
Season Christmas Parade attracted crowds again this year. The parade,
which was organized by Intown Manchester, handed out prizes to participants who had that extra measure of holiday spirit. Granite State Credit
Union took first place in the commercial category. In the service/social
category, the Jillian’s/Make-A-Wish Foundation float was awarded the
top prize and the Hooksett Girl Scouts placed first in the youth category.
The best float award was given to the New Hampshire Food Bank.
QOL score: +1
Comment: And, though frequently weighed down by snow, Hippo’s
own purple hippopotamus balloon made another trip down Elm Street.
Seek alternate routes
There are just not as many through streets as one would hope for in
downtown Nashua. Roads end at rivers, canals...railroads. East Hollis
Street is one of those that does actually span across a river, through
Hudson, across downtown and elsewhere as Route 111. But East Hollis
will be closed on Dec. 10 and Dec. 11 for rail track repairs, from
Belknap to Temple streets, according to the City of Nashua. Pan Am
Railroad is rebuilding a railroad crossing, the Telegraph reported.
QOL score: -1 for the temporary inconvenience
Comments: That’s near where a coal train derailed just last month.
Last week’s QOL score: 64
Net change: -2
QOL this week: 62
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Woods saga and will it hurt his popularity
over the long term? W. Jefferson Klintin, 1567
Deseat Blvd., Acheetah, South Carolina.
Dear W. Jefferson: The answer to the second part of your question comes in a question.
When is the last time you heard anyone mention
Ray Lewis and pleading guilty to obstruction
of justice in a double murder in the same sentence? Or how about Kobe Bryant and rape?
Or, or, or? So, sadly I don’t think enough people care enough about abhorrent behavior by
star players, as long as they keep performing,
for its shelf life to last to even the next major he
wins. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t become
the butt of an endless stream of Internet jokes
that have been e-mailed all over America, like
“Apparently the police asked Tiger’s wife how
many times she hit him. She said ‘I don’t know
exactly but put me down for a 5.’”
As for me, I tend to hold a really long grudge
if the offense is bad enough. Like I just pardoned George Steinbrenner for his crimes
against sports humanity dating back to 1990
when he paid a convicted felon $40,000 to
smear the reputation of Dave Winfield. My
sentence lasted nine times longer than the lifetime ban he got from MLB (which actually
lasted just two years), but he’s been a good boy
for about 15 years and since he’s getting on in
years, I recently let it go.
Having said that, though, what Tiger did or
did not do isn’t remotely like what Lewis pleaded guilty to — who the Ravens welcomed back
with open arms after he got out of the slammer.
How a couple defines its marriage and the rules
that govern it is up to them, not me. It’s pretty
obvious Tiger and his wife aren’t on the same
page in that department and his conduct is not
anything I look up to, but he gets a stiff sentence
from me for another reason. The worse thing
you can do to me is treat me like I’m stupid, so
using the “family” shots on his Web site and all
the rest to create an image that just does not exist
is enough to make me like the Soup Nazi in saying, “THAT’S it, come back, FIVE years!!!”
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Dear Dave: Any idea how New Hampshire
always seems to stumble into these big national stories like the UNH alum paramour (or
one of them) in the Tiger Woods story? L. Bud.
Melman, 1207B Stephanie Birkitt Highway,
New York, N.Y.
Dear Bud: You got me. It’s like a Kevin
Bacon six degrees of separation thing where a
New Hampshire connection was in the recent
Dave Letterman sex/extortion scandal and
the embellished phony résumé in the George
O’Leary mess three coaches ago at Notre
Dame. Plus on the good side, how does a dinky, bad-weather state like ours wind up with
guys like Josh (aye) Hoyer and Brian Sabean
as major-league general managers and others
like Allard Baird, Ben (sonny and) Cherington, Don Orsillo and Dave O’Brien in varying
big-time roles on that level as well? Don’t really have the answer — but I do think the results
are curious.
Dear Dave: Now that the Patriots have the
same number of losses with Tom Brady that
they did all year with Matt Cassel running the
show, do you feel vindicated from the flack you
took last year after saying they should consider trading Brady if the right deal came along?
Victor Kiam, 14 Furnaceblast Road, Deviltown, New Mexico.
Dear Vic: Probably not for the reason you
think. I love Brady, and while he has made
BIG mistakes this year in being intercepted
in the end zone in losses to New York, Indy
and Miami where a field goal would have won
two of the games and a TD would have tied
the Jets, I wasn’t trying to run him out. I just
thought the emergence of Cassel (who’s only
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and we’ll see if he’s grown up. In the meantime,
since I only root for people I admire, I’m hoping
Jack Nicklaus’ record for majors stands. And if
Tiger breaks it in the meantime it will be greeted with the same excitement Barry Bonds got
when he passed Hank Aaron. I’m also changing his animal nickname from Tiger to Dog
Woods, which is a good name for someone selfish enough to put his interests above those of his
kids and wife, and a nice twofer, because I think
that’s the type of tree his car hit on the fateful
night that put events in motion.
been OK in KC) presented a unique opportunity to get a mother lode of draft picks and
provide cap space to help rebuild a defense that
I thought needed a huge infusion of talent at
linebacker, in the secondary and pass rushers
in the quickest way possible. And what we’ve
seen in 2009 says that assessment was right.
Whether they would have gotten the godfather offer or not is another story, but there’s no
question the defense is in transition from the
Super Bowl group, which desperately needs an
impact pass rusher or two, two linebackers (at
least) and more time to let us see if the young
DBs can lock people down in a way they have
been unable to do in 2009.
Dear Dave: What is the deal with Theo
Epstein and his merry-go-round at shortstop?
Joe D. Read, .389 OBP Way, Fickle Finger of
Fate, Montana.
Dear Jackie: You got me. As I said last week,
he’s like Elizabeth Taylor with husbands —
picky, picky, picky and probably unsure of
exactly what would satisfy him at shortstop,
aside from what looks to be an obsession with
the stat geeks’ numbers. My issues go back to
Orlando Cabrera being allowed to walk after
being THE ingredient change that sent them
onto their first world title in 86 years in 2004.
He was first in a line that has now stretched
to eight shortstops after being deemed not
good enough. He cost less than Julio Lugo
and Edgar Renteria and was younger than
both. And since he left five years ago he’s won
a gold glove, while averaging 154 games, 15
errors, 70 RBI per season while hitting .257,
.282, .301, .284 and .289. All of which is better than what Marco Scutaro put on the board
in his “career year” of 2009, except in errors,
where he had just 10. We’ll see what happens
on Scutaro, but I kind of look at Theo making the right choice at short (at least for more
than two months) like A-Rod in the post-season before this year. Until he does it, I expect it
not to work out.
Dave Long can be reached at [email protected]. He hosts The Saturday Morning
Sports with Dave Long from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each
Saturday on WGAM – The Game, 1250-AM Manchester, 900-AM Nashua.
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Sports Glossary:
Kelly’s green come up roses
in heading to Pasadena
The Big Story: Year one with Chip Kelly at
the helm ended on an exciting note as his Oregon Ducks earned the school’s first trip to the
Rose Bowl since 1995 with a thrilling 37-33
win over arch-rival Oregon State on Thursday
night. The only real stunner in the back-andforth high-scoring affair was that it turned into
a defensive battle in the fourth quarter with
U of O’s Morgan Flint’s 34-yard field goal
being the only score. It moved Kelly’s club to
10-2 after winning the first game between the
rivals that decided who went to the Rose Bowl.
It also gives the school a chance to end a victory drought in the Rose Bowl that incredibly
stretches back to 1917 when it beat Penn 14-0
in the third game ever played.
Sports 101: Only two people have ever been
selected as draft choices in the NFL, NBA and
MLB draft. Who are they?
Bummer of the Week: This could have been
the big story, if things had gone a lot differently for UNH in its NCAA College Sub-Division
round II 46-7 loss to Villanova. But it didn’t as
it went straight downhill after a first possession
turnover as Nova scored 39 unanswered points
before the Cats got on the board on Mickey
Mangieri’s 18-yard TD catch from back-up
QB Kevin Decker. It left the U 10-3 on the
year and allowed #2 ranked, 11-1 Villanova to
avenge its only loss of the year.
Honors: The New Hampshire Fisher Cats were
The Numbers:
1 – paltry point total that
got lucky-to-be-alive Texas
into the BCS championship
game by the hair of their
chiny-chin-chin in a 13-12
win over Nebraska.
8 – lucky number for
ex-Central hoopster Joey
Fremeau when he grabbed
eight rebounds and scored
the same number of points
in 29 minutes when he faced
the home town as his Bentley
Falcons beat SNHU 81-73 at
the start of the week.
15 – career-high rebounds
grabbed by SNHU forward
Tory Stapleton to go along
named winners of the Bob Freitas Award at the
Double-A level for 2009. It annually recognizes
the outstanding franchise at the Triple-A, Double-A, Class A and Short-Season level that has
achieved long-term success in Minor League
Baseball. The announcement was made in the
current print edition of Baseball America and is
named after the late Bob Freitas, a long-time
minor-league operator, promoter and ambassador
who passed away in 1989.
Coming and Going: They are starting to
fill out the roster for the Millrats with the first
two names being the return of point guard
Al (year of the cat) Stewart and power forward Marlowe Currie. Stewart was the PBL
Co-Defensive Player of Year last season while
averaging11.9 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.0 assists
and 2.8 steals per game. And Currie was a playoff star in averaging 16 points, 7.6 rebounds,
4.0 assists per game in its round-two loss to the
Rochester Razorsharks.
Sports 101 Answer: The only two people
drafted by all the three professional drafts are
former Browns and Broncos 1970s wide out
Dave Logan after his college career at Colorado and the more well-known baseball Hall
of Famer Dave Winfield, who in addition to
being taken in the first round by the Padres was
selected the Atlanta Hawks and by the Vikings
in the 17th round despite never playing football
in college at the U of Minnesota.
with a game-high 20 points
on 9 of 12 shooting from the
field in leading the Penmen to
a 73-55 win over St. Michaels
at the start of the week.
15.9 – team-leading pointsper-game average for the
SNHU women by Derry’s
Jenny McDade, with her
season high for the 5-4 Penwomen a 24-point effort in a
November win over Mercy.
19.1 – percentage of times
the Monarchs have scored in
115 power play opportunities
when they lit the lamp so far
in 2009.
22 – points scored by West
alum Amanda Kania in a 67-
Celebr
ate thfore Holidays
Perfect
Parties!
66 thriller won by Plymouth
State over UMass-Dartmouth
on Saturday when Laura Kent
scored the game-winners with
three seconds remaining and
Central alum Alicia Doucet
chipped in with a double double in scoring 10 points and
grabbing 10 rebounds.
1979 – besides a good year
for wine in the Bordeaux
region of France, number of
career saves by Jonathan
Bernier after getting 28 in a
2-0 loss last week to Portland
that moved him past Jason
LaBarbera (1,960) into third
place on the Monarchs’ alltime list.
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at the Hanover
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Celebrate the holidays
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The Chophouse
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or business associates. With three private dining rooms we can cater to groups as large as 48.
Join us after the Boston Pops Sunday, December 13, 2009.
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The Soup Nazi: Joseph Stalin lookalike,
“No Soup For You!”-spewing character
from hit sitcom Seinfeld. He took George’s
soup privileges away for a day and banned
Elaine long-term with the line “Come back
— one year!” Was inspired by real-life soup
stand chef in New York who demanded customers order just so or they would be banned
from getting soup. Got actor Larry Thomas
an Emmy nomination in 1996, but he came
up short to Carol Burnett Show alum Tim
Conway for a guest spot on Coach.
Joseph Stalin: Soviet dictator for life
and a guy not to trifle with as if you were
in the way he took you out. Like in the infamous purges of the 1930 when an estimated
700,000 political and military enemies were
executed without trials in the name of antiterrorism — including political rival Leon
(home run) Trotsky, who took an ice pick to
the head while in exile. Not surprisingly, also
made a non-aggression alliance with Hitler
at the start of WWII, where fittingly he was
double-crossed leading to Stalin becoming
allies with the decadent “capitalists from
the West,” England and the U.S. Talk about
strange bedfellows
Kevin Bacon: Scammed in the Madoff
rip-off, you-name-it-he’s-been-in-it actor.
First role came as Delta House pledge Chip
Diller in Animal House. Followed that up
with roles as a 1960s gay convict in JFK,
prosecuting attorney and shaky hoopster
in A Few Good Men, a corrupt cop in Wild
Things, an astronaut in Apollo 13 and a Richard Nixon loyalist in Frost/Nixon. Subject of
the parlor game Six Degrees of Separation
with Kevin Bacon, which lets you link him
to just about any actor in a few steps thanks
to his prolific career.
George O’Leary: UNH alum tabbed to be
football coach at Notre Dame in 2001 after
successful run at Georgia Tech. Venture was
derailed five days in after UL reporters the
late Doc Hussey and “Big F” Jim Fennell
discovered what turned out to be untruths
on his résumé that said he lettered in football
at the U, which he didn’t, along with a phony Master’s from NYU. Fast forward eight
years and he’s now 34-40 at Central Florida
after five years in charge and ND is in exactly the same place. Looking for a coach after
firing Charlie Weis last week, where candidates would be wise not to pad the résumé
this time.
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Join us before
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Performance at Verizon Wireless Arena on 12/14.
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Dining room open 12 noon – 8 p.m.
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Don’t
let the
winter
get you
down
A guide to surviving
our cold season
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About this time last year, Mother Nature
reminded us not to get too comfortable.
And, though it’s not technically winter yet,
our recent snow/ice fall and our frigid temperatures have ushered in that season of gray. In ice
storm hindsight, here is a look at winter survival, from putting up with power outages, to
keeping warm outside and in, keeping your car
accident-free and untowed, staying uninfected
by colds and flus, and keeping spirits up when
sunlight is scarce.
Paul Callahan of Lakes Region ThermalScan conducting a blower door test to find air leaks in a home. It’s part of the
energy audit process to make reccomendations for home weatherization (www.LRThermalScan.com). Courtesy photo.
How to deal with: Ice
Last December we were all reminded how dependent we are
on electrical power.
“We’ve never had an outage like that previously in the history of PSNH,” said Matt Chagnon, spokesman for PSNH,
which was founded in 1926. The company’s previous record
was 95,000 outages. The 2008 storm left more than 322,000
of its customers in the dark. In 13 days, PSNH replaced 780
utility poles, 1,300 transformers and 13,600 fuses, according
to a press release.
“It was a pretty challenging time, but we got through it,”
Chagnon said.
Prevention
If homeowners see branches or trees they think might be of
concern near power lines they should “absolutely give PSNH
a call...we’ll access it from there,” Chagnon said. He does not
recommend that customers try to trim branches around power
lines. It’s not safe. (Also let the utility assess whether a down
power line is live or not. Stay away.)
Keeping in touch
“We monitor weather in this agency pretty much constantly,” said Jim Van Dongen, the public information officer for
New Hampshire Department of Safety and Division of Home-
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land Security and Emergency Management. From last year’s
experience, the utilities have learned to improve communications, and so has his office, he said.
“The radio was not helpful, particularly during the first
weekend,” Van Dongun said. Most radio stations are automated during nights and weekends now, so when people turned on
their radios looking for storm news at those hours, there wasn’t
any. Now, “We have a new fall-back plan” and can get station
general managers on their cell phones, Van Dongun said.
During last year’s ice storm, the state set up an ice storm
hotline, which is still posted at the New Hampshire Storm
Resource Center Web page, www.nh.gov/disaster/. That hotline is no longer in use; the New Hampshire 211 line is now
the appointed resource and is available all the time, Van Dongun said.
PSNH lists things people should do to cope with an extended outage on its Web site.
Be prepared
Mike Weinstein, coordinator for New Hampshire’s VOAD,
or Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (see www.volunteernh.org), said because a winter emergency may involve
inability to travel, it’s important to have supplies at home. It is
recommended to have enough food and water (and medicines)
to last at least 72 hours, he said.
Also, know your resources, such as the NH Info line, 211,
Weinstein said.
Mark Hastings, who runs emergency management and preparedness at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in
Nashua, said the most common winter mistake is not preparing. A lot of people go to the supermarket the day a storm is
arriving, but stocking up should be done ahead of time. You’ll
want to have extra food and water, batteries and flashlights
available, Hastings said.
People should try to establish an emergency link with
friends and family ahead of time, Hastings said, “but sometimes friends and family are in trouble, too. That’s when local
shelter becomes important.”
Rebecca Field, Sc.D., director of communications for the
Red Cross Granite Chapter, said the Red Cross is charged at
both the national and state level with providing people with
food, shelter, clothing and immediate needs in disasters. She
recommends you know who your town emergency management director is before an emergency (call your town offices
to find out).
“Emergency management proceeds in New Hampshire
from the bottom up for the most part,” Van Dongen said. Every
town has an emergency management director, and police and
fire departments, and there’s a lot of overlap and interchange
among them, he said.
“It’s up to local officials, if they need additional help, to call
on mutual aid or to call on the state,” Van Dongun said.
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Words from your state Division
of Homeland Security and
Emergency Management
Ask an Eagle Scout
Troop 109 Eagle Scout Brandon Cardwell,
17, of Londonderry, was in town during the
December 2008 ice storm.
Did any of your skills as an Eagle Scout
or from scouts in general come in handy?
I’ll go with the slogan, “Be prepared.” We
had a bunch of flashlights. We had a generator. We had a wood stove which allowed
us to keep the house warm if our generator
had failed. We actually made a nice soup too,
when we put a pot on top of the stove.
Regarding the “Be prepared” motto,
did you feel like you were in a better position? Did you feel more prepared than folks
around you?
Yeah. We definitely had an idea of what
was going on and what we had to do to keep
everything running.
Did your neighbors end up looking to you
for some ideas?
Not really for ideas. But once we got
our house warm and everything, then we
unplugged our generator for a while and
went around and helped other people at least
get their houses warmed up so their pipes
wouldn’t freeze. Then once our power came
on we lent it to a friend.
Helping out in your community like that,
is that another scouting practice?
Yeah. The motto is “Be prepared.” The slogan is “Do a good turn daily” … so when we
were in a good position to help somebody out,
who wasn’t quite where we were.... Actually
Red Cross advice
The Red Cross recommends three steps
to preparedness, said Rebecca Field, Sc.D.,
director of communications for the Red Cross
Granite Chapter: Make kit. Make a plan. Be
informed.
A kit means thinking ahead about supplies
you might need in a disaster. If you have to
leave the house or community quickly, you’ll
want a grab-and-go bag by your bedside, with
perhaps extra car keys and copies of critical
documents like your health and house insurance. A kit for disasters that require you to
stay at home, like a blizzard, can include not
only your food, but pet food and litter. A gallon of water per person per day, stored, is a
good idea, Field said.
Making a plan is the next step. Talk with
members of the household, and hold a fire
drill like schools do. Let your town emergency manager know if there’s someone with
mobility issues at your home, before there’s
an emergency.
A third step is to think about where you can
get more information. You can call the NH
regional Red Cross office at 1-800-464-6692,
or visit the state’s emergency management
and homeland security Web site at www.
nh.gov/safety/divisions/hsem. Some people
like to follow NOAA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association, for weather data
(www.nws.noaa.gov). For that, a crank radio
or radio with battery can be of use in your kit,
she said.
my scoutmaster, he had dressed up as Santa Claus for a fundraiser, and we took him in
one of the fire trucks to the shelter at the high
school and handed out some candy canes. It
made some people smile who’d been in the
gym for a day or two.
What kind of scouting training do you do
for winter conditions?
We learn some just basic stuff, like dressing in layers. Staying well fed and hydrated
so that your body stays normal. Most people
won’t really think about drinking water when
out in the cold, but you dehydrate much faster
in winter, because your body’s trying to keep
itself warm. We go on mini-trips to practice.
I was one of the first people in our district to
get the 100 Degrees of Frost Award, which
is basically for every night that you spend
below freezing, for every degree below freezing, you get a point.
What else should people know when they
are getting ready for winter?
Think ahead. Don’t wait for the snow
storm to come and wipe out power to look for
generator. Get ready, and develop knowledge
[through other] people and the Internet.
Any safety things you would recommend?
Just don’t be stupid. [Laughs.] Drink lots
of water. Be conscious of what’s going on.
Like, if you start to start sweating, eventually
the weather will cool you down, you get very
cold, when sweat starts to freeze....
That sounds uncomfortable.
Yeah. You just gotta be conscious of what’s
going on.
How to deal with: Heat
(or the lack thereof)
Keeping warm outdoors
One of the biggest concerns in the winter is
hypothermia, said Aaron Gorban of the AMC.
Using the right clothing is critical to staying warm,
he said; use synthetics or natural fibers that insulate when wet and dress in layers.
Mark Hastings, of Southern New Hampshire
Medical Center, said the backwoods motto is “Cotton kills.” Use fabrics like wool and Gore-Tex, and
wear layers so if you happen to be overdressed
you can take some layers off, which is better than
being underdressed, Hastings said.
When SNHMC sees hypothermia cases, it’s
usually because people are underdressed in cold
weather. They might go out for a quick errand in a
sport jacket, for instance.
The earliest sign of hypothermia is usually a
simple chill — “It’s your body saying, ‘You’re
not really prepared to be out here. Why don’t
you think about moving into a warmer environment?’” Hastings said. When you stay out
too long and your temperature
Dial 211 drops below a simple chill,
If you don’t know where to look for assistance or information in New Hampshire, call
211. The New Hampshire information referral line is operated by United Way and is the
best way to find resources, Weinstein said.
Lend a hand
To be ready to help your neighbors in an
emergency, you can get involved in a New
Hampshire Citizen Corps local council,
Weinstein said. They offer training for volunteers. Visit www.nhcitizencorps.org for
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Sometimes, going without lights, heat,
refrigeration or cooking equipment can
seem kind of like camping.
Bringing that down sleeping bag out
makes sense. However, a key thing to
remember is that combustibles meant for
the outdoors, like the hibachi, are meant
for the outdoors.
Aaron Gorban, AMC’s Leadership Training and Risk Management Manager, and
Rob Burbank of AMC agreed that people
with a basic foundation of winter outdoor
skills will probably be better prepared to
cope in winter power outages.
“Certainly, some basic tools we use in
the out of doors can be ... helpful,” Gorban said. A camp stove can be useful to boil
water, to make it treatable and potable.
Lisa Eaton at Jetboil, a New Hampshire
company that makes lightweight camp
stoves, said her Jetboil stove “bailed me
out during the ice storm last year — it was
awesome to be able to wash up and have
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When you are using a camp stove, “one
of the things to be mindful of is carbon
monoxide poisoning,” Gorban said. Winter campers are urged not to use stoves in
tents for this reason, Gorban said. But if
you have the skills to use a portable camp
stove, it can help you during a power outage, Gorban said. Burbank recommends
using them outdoors, and said there are
many kinds out there, so you’ll want to be
familiar with yours before an emergency
(AMC offers relevant workshops).
In an ice storm, basic winter foot travel skills, such as using traction devices like
Stabilicers or Yaktrax that strap onto your
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To be prepared, the best single source is the
federal Web site ready.gov, Van Dongun said.
It has a complete PDF handbook on emergency preparedness, he said. However, “None of
this is rocket science,” he said. You just need
to take the basic information and adapt it to
your circumstances.
And always, if you have a life or death
emergency, call 911, he said.
Van Dongen’s office strongly discourages
the use of candles during a blackout — your
house can go from having a power outage to
having a fire, he said.
They encourage having a battery-powered
radio so you can get news and information.
Van Dongen said people should develop a family plan for emergencies, and
said sometimes it’s a good idea to have an
out-of-state point of contact — “everyone
knows to contact Aunt Joan in Massachusetts, for instance,” he said. Some storms
affect local phones but not long-distance
circuits, he said.
If you have a back-up heat source like a
wood stove, you can generally keep the temperature inside the house up to a livable level,
he said. “But we also have people who try to
use generators. Generators need to be professionally installed,” he said, so they don’t
back-feed current into the electric system and
zap line workers who are trying to get the
power back up.
Also generators create carbon monoxide,
so you can’t use one in your basement or
garage. The fire marshal says it should be at
least 10 feet away from the building, with the
exhaust pointed away from the building, Van
Dongen said. If you’re in a multi-unit building, unless you have access to the outdoors, it
would be difficult to use a generator. Another carbon monoxide issue is that some people
try to use outdoor cooking appliances inside,
Van Dongen said. There were about 60 people
hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning
the last time around, with four fatalities, so
it’s dangerous, Van Dongen said.
Also, “people need to keep their cars in
good shape in the winter time and slow down
on the road,” Van Dongen said. And “When
there’s a big storm, stay home. Enjoy it,” Van
Dongen said.
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your brain isn’t working quite way it should,
Hastings said. You can suffer mild confusion
and then make poor decisions. With the earliest symptoms, get into a warm environment
and drink warm fluids, he said. It’s very important to get wet clothing off, because it causes
the body to lose heat quickly, he said. And stay
hydrated. If you aren’t, you are more prone
to hypothermia. Avoid caffeine and alcohol,
which dehydrate.
Frostbite is another concern. It “can be quite
nasty if people don’t have proper coverings on
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Step away from the foil packet! Hot chocolate
fans can reach a whole new level of satisfaction
with a beverage made from scratch. And with a
few additions, a drink known to warm the spirit
can also tantalize the taste buds.
“Hot chocolate should be a luxurious treat,”
New Hampshire food writer Susan Nye said.
“Think of it as dessert in a mug. Otherwise, it’s
just not worth the calories!”
Warm chocolate beverages have been consumed for centuries, though these drinks were
not the type we know and love. The Mayans and
Aztecs drank a bitter beverage made of crushed
cacao seeds (the key ingredient of chocolate)
mixed with water. Sometimes crush chili peppers were added. Aztec king Montezuma used
the beverage as an aphrodisiac and consumed
50 goblets full each day.
Hot chocolate as we know it came about
when the Europeans brought cacao to their
homeland. They added sugar and hot milk to
make the beverage more drinkable, and at times
added spices such as cinnamon and cardamom.
Hot chocolate — also called cocoa and drinking chocolate — was the only form of chocolate
people enjoyed until the mid-1800s when a British company created the solid chocolate bar.
True aficionados know that hot chocolate and
hot cocoa are two different drinks. One is made
with solid chocolate melted into the beverage,
while the other is made with cocoa powder,
sugar and hot milk. However, some recipes use
both cocoa powder and solid chocolate.
Be sure to not confuse cocoa powder with the
instant cocoa packets you buy in the supermarket. The powder is unsweetened and used in a
number of recipes (brownies, cakes, etc.), and
the packet has sugar and powdered milk included with the cocoa.
Italy and Mexico put their own spin on the
beverage. In Italy, it is known as cioccolata calda and is much thicker than the typical drink,
more like a chocolate pudding. And Mexican
hot chocolate is made with a chocolate that has
cinnamon and other spices added. (Ibarra is the
most common brand.) Extra cinnamon is added, and the mixture is whisked together with
a wooden molinillo, which adds froth. Or go
old-school with a Mayan-style hot chocolate,
complete with cinnamon and chili peppers.
If you have an espresso machine, a little
steamed milk will add to the richness. And for
grown-ups, a bit of liquor can be a nice twist —
Kalhua, Frangelico, Amaretto or Bailey’s Irish
Cream.
How do you make hot chocolate? Nye said,
“My best tip would be to use really good chocolate — a mix of semisweet and milk chocolate
— and whole milk. Add a little espresso or coffee powder and pure vanilla extract to bring out
all the chocolatey-ness.”
This is a good time to use up any unsweetened baking chocolate left over from another
recipe. Just add sugar until the drink reaches the
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zero-degree day with a high wind chill, it won’t
take long to develop a superficial frostbite, and
the longer you stay in the cold, the deeper the
frostbite will go, Hastings said.
Keeping warm indoors
If you want to save on your electric bill, refer
to “Greener ways to power up” in the Oct. 15
issue of the Hippo (hippopress.com/091015/Cover.html).
As for keeping your heat indoors, there are
tips at www.staywarmnh.org and energystar.gov.
Here are some pointers:
with white chocolate instead of dark.
A little salt will also enhance the chocolate flavor. Keep stirring so the bottom doesn’t
scorch, or use a double boiler, and a whisk will
help bring the ingredients together. Don’t let the
mixture come to a boil. At the end, be sure to
give the mixture a vigorous whisk, or whiz it in
a blender, to give it some froth and keep it from
forming a skin on top.
Below are a few recipes to try — but Nye said,
“I don’t have a special recipe. I don’t make hot
chocolate very often, and then I just wing it!”
Hot Chocolate
2 cups whole milk
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
4 oz. bittersweet or semisweet chocolate
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
In a heavy saucepan, whisk milk, cream
and sugar together over medium heat until it
begins to simmer. Reduce the heat and add
the cocoa powder and chocolate. Whisk until
chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth.
Remove from the heat and add the vanilla.
White Hot Chocolate
1 cup heavy cream
3 cups whole milk
6 oz. white chocolate, chopped fine
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Place white chocolate in a heat-resistant
bowl and set aside. In a heavy saucepan, heat
the cream and milk over medium heat until it
starts to simmer. Then remove from the heat
and pour over the white chocolate. Stir gently
until chocolate is completely melted. Whisk
in the vanilla, and continue to whisk until a
light foam forms on top.
Mexican Hot Chocolate
From The Good Home Cookbook edited by
Richard J. Perry (Collectors Press, 2006)
Serves 6
6 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar
3 squares (3 ounces) baking chocolate,
chopped
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Whipped cream, to serve
Combine one cup of milk, the sugar, chocolate and cinnamon in a large, heavy-bottomed
saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the chocolate is melted.
Gradually stir in the remaining 5 cups milk.
Cook, stirring, until the milk is very hot. Do
not allow the mixture to boil. Remove from
the heat and set aside.
Beat the eggs in a small bowl. Gradually
stir 1 cup of hot milk mixture into the eggs,
then transfer the entire mixture to a saucepan.
Cook and stir for 2 minutes over low heat.
Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the
vanilla extract. Beat with a hand beater until
very frothy. Pour the hot chocolate into mugs,
dollop each with whipped cream, and serve.
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ic thermostat, program it so the temperature is
lower while you are at work or asleep, unless you
have radiant floor heating. With manual thermostats, make a habit of lowering the heat when you
leave the house or go to bed. Make sure the thermostat is calibrated correctly.
• Windows: A fast, cheap fix for the winter is
that attractive window plastic wrap to trap insulating air. Pull shades down (thermal curtains are
another option) to trap insulating air, but leave
shades up on south-facing windows on sunny
winter days, to take in solar heat.
• Heating: Change your furnace air filter
monthly, or service your oil system annually.
• Outlets: Put foam gaskets around exterior wall
light switches and electrical outlets. Save the popouts, which offer almost half the insulating value,
said Paul Button of Energy Audits Unlimited.
Keeping the heat on
Avoid a home fire this holiday season by using
caution around candles, space heaters, and
cooking. Granite Chapter-American Red Cross photo.
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• Cover holes: Find products to cover wholehouse fans open to attics or attic hatches, or to
cover air conditioners in the winter. Weatherstrip doors. Turn off kitchen and bath exhaust
fans when you are done. Don’t leave the garage
door open if the garage is attached to the house.
Look at your roof — if snow is gone in some
places, you have an air leak or a gap in insulation. If there’s no snow on your roof but there
is on other homes, you are probably paying
to heat the outdoors. Fireplaces are big holes;
make sure the chimney damper is closed when
there’s no fire, and use a fireplace cover. Chimney balloons are available to seal the flue.
• Temperature control: If you have an electron-
According to the state’s Public Utilities
Commission, New Hampshire utilities follow
winter rules from Nov. 15 through March 31.
During that time, if a non-electrically heated
customer owes less than $225, or an electrically heated customer owes less than $450,
an electric utility can’t disconnect service.
If a customer is older than 65, has a “known
financial hardship” or known medical hardship (with physician statement that electricity
is medically necessary), a utility needs PUC
permission to cut service. If you have a question, call the PUC at 1-800-852-3793 and
they’ll walk you through the rules.
Community action agencies administer
fuel assistance dollars, but talking with the
PUC is usually part of the process. Celeste
Lovett, the Fuel Assistance Program Manager at NH’s Office of Energy and Planning,
urges people who are having a hard time paying fuel bills to apply for fuel assistance. Call
the NH Info line, 211, if you are having trouble finding the right CAA, Lovett said.
Where to find a community action agency
You can call the NH Info line, 211 (seriously, you call them for information about anything
from disaster services to finding computer classes), to find a Community Action Agency where
you can apply for fuel assistance or other programs, or check this list:
• Southern New Hampshire Services:
Central Office, 40 Pine St., Manchester,
668-8010
Hillsborough County: 1-800-322-1073
Voice Mail: 647-4470
How to deal with: Your car
Vermonters assure me it’s not that they all
have four-wheel drive (they don’t), it’s just
that they know how to drive in winter. Knowing how your car will behave in snow and ice,
staying aware, and not panicking (the first
two will help you with the third) are apparently key points. (Continuing to drive at 90 miles
per hour, as observed in Massachusetts winter
driving, is not helpful, I’m told.)
Keeping your car on a
snow-covered road
Patrick Moody, director of public affairs,
traffic safety for Northern New England AAA,
said his number-one winter driving tip is to
“slow down and leave more room between you
and the car in front of you.”
Most learn in driver education to leave a car
length for every 10 miles per hour, Moody said.
However, AAA has moved to a timing system.
Pick a landmark, like a telephone pole. Once
the car in front of you passes it, start count-
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• SNHS outreach offices:
Manchester: 160 Silver St., 647-4470
Nashua: 134 Allds St., 889-3440, toll free in
N.H. 1-877-211-0723
Hillsborough: 4 Church St., 464-5835
• Community Action Program BelknapMerrimack Counties, Inc.,
2 Industrial Park Drive, Concord, 225-3295,
1-800-856-5525
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ing seconds until you pass it. They recommend
being 3 to 4 seconds behind a car in regular
conditions, and 6 to 8 seconds in snow conditions, Moody said. Also, look farther down the road, so you can
anticipate actions of others while there is more
time to react.
Moody said you also need to understand your
brakes. Many cars now have anti-lock brakes
(ABS). With those, when you apply even pressure and the car is skidding, the brake pedal will
feel like it’s vibrating. The brakes are applying
and releasing very quickly, which gives you steering ability. With anti-lock brakes, Moody said to
remember, “Step, stay, steer.” Keep your foot on
the brake while it feels like it’s vibrating. With traditional brakes, if you skid you lose turning ability
until you take your foot off the brakes.
Team O’Neil Rally School offers winter driving school at its driving park in Dalton, near
Littleton and Whitefield (www.team-oneil.com). Instructor Mike Doucette said the first thing
you need is winter tires.
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year,” Doucette said, but snow tires provide
more grip. Rally star and mechanic Tim O’Neil,
the school’s owner, explained that if you are
going to use studded tires, they should be on
all four wheels. One of the most common problems is to put two studded or winter tires on a
front-wheel-drive car. At a corner, the front will
grasp but the back can slide. O’Neil said he’s
seen many accidents from people using only
two snow tires.
“Eye placement skills are vital,” O’Neil said.
“It’s very important that people remind themselves to look where they want to go, not which
way they are headed.” O’Neil teaches students
to “get away from target fixation.” If you are
looking at something you don’t want to hit,
you tend to drive toward it, he said. If a deer, a
moose or another vehicle is in front of you that
you need to avoid, look toward the back of the
animal, for example. By the time you get there,
the deer may have moved or you will hit from
an angle, and the glancing impact should do less
damage than a dead-on impact.
O’Neil recommends developing and practicing
your skills so that your response is automatic if, for
example, an animal jumps in front of you.
“The point is to visualize each one of the
situations so when it happens to you, you automatically do it,” O’Neil said.
Finding a place to practice winter driving and
test your brakes can help too. Years ago, it was
easier to find a parking lot without obstacles like
light posts; each season, “we’d just spin around to
see how our car handles in a skid,” he said. Then
they’d switch to winter mode driving — adjusting
speed and being smoother on brakes and steering.
You can use Team O’Neil Rally School’s skid
pad and slalom areas in your own car (so you
learn how it handles) at the school’s one-day
Winter Safe Schools in January and February.
Call 444-4488 or visit www.team-oneil.com.
It’s not cheap, but customers say a day at Team
O’Neil can later be the difference between getting home and getting stuck in a ditch. O’Neil
also trains
Transportation up above
Southwest Airlines spokesperson Paul
Flaningan’s only tip for flying in the winter is to just monitor the weather. Southwest
doesn’t charge a fee for changing a flight, so if
you want to leave earlier or later because of a
weather forecast, you can make that request.
However, from those who fly frequently, the Hippo has learned it’s a good idea to
investigate which airports are notorious for
delays, and avoid them.
If your flight is canceled, while standing in
line at the service desk with all the other putupon travelers, put your cell phone to work
and call the airline’s customer service department. That can get you results faster (and don’t
forget to endear yourself by being polite, not
bitter). Help increase your odds by offering to
fly out of a different airport if you can. If you
need ground transportation to another airport,
check with the airline or an airport information kiosk to find the best option.
The U.S. Aviation Consumer Protection
Division recommends checking your flight
status early, so you can call and check for
another flight if you have to. They also point
out that booking nonstops at least prevents
the issue of missing connecting flights, and
they say booking earlier in the day will help
you avoid delays and give you more options
if a flight is canceled. Read more tips at airconsumer.ost.dot.gov. They also recommend
checking www.fly.faa.gov for updates on airport situations.
You can usually arrange for your airline to
send you (and your ride from the airport) text
messages with flight status updates, too.
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military and security professionals.
Parking your car in winter
New Hampshire folks don’t have to put a busted microwave or lawn chair on the street to save a
parking spot, as happens in Boston. But, especially in the cities, there are people without off-street
parking in New Hampshire, and there are some
winter parking rules they must keep in mind. One
good tip: check to see if your town offers e-mail
or text message alerts for snow emergencies.
• Manchester: Manchester’s winter overnight parking rules went into effect Dec. 1
— people can only park on one side of the street
each night, to allow for snow removal. It’s in
effect from 1 to 6 a.m., and people have to park
on the odd address-numbered side of the street
on odd days, and vice versa. So if you park your
car for the night at 9 p.m. Dec. 3, you need to
do so on the even side of the street, because at 1
a.m. it will be Dec. 4.
“There’s been several occasions where someone gets it wrong and the whole block follows,
and all [of the cars] get $25 tickets,” said Manchester Parking Manager Brandy Stanley. “It
can be a little tricky,” Stanley said.
Remember that if you live on a street where
parking is only allowed on one side to start with,
that means every other night you need to find a
different street to park on.
A snow emergency is different. If you park during a snow emergency where you aren’t supposed
to, you can be fined $75 and might be towed. (You
can sign up for electronic alerts about snow emergencies through the city’s Web site.)
Visit www.manchesternh.gov/snow or http://
manchesterlibrary.org/read/1517.
Downtown, snow emergency parking is available at the Pearl Street parking lot (6 p.m. to 7
a.m.) and Victory parking garage (anytime, but
not always free).
More tips from Stanley: Look for signs about
where to park — you can’t rely on striping when
snow is covering it. And you need to park 30
feet from an intersection with a traffic light, 20
feet from an intersection with no light, 15 feet
on either side of a fire hydrant, and five feet
from a driveway — but look for signs downtown, where rules can be different.
• Concord: Concord is heading into its second
year of allowing overnight parking downtown.
It has moved snow emergency and winter maintenance parking ban start times from 11 p.m. to
midnight this year. Usually, the city’s General
Services Department puts the winter parking ban
notice out by 4 p.m. at www.onconcord.com. You
can sign up for e-mail or text message alerts, which
is key, because there’s no ticket — Concord goes
straight to towing cars when officials mean to be
plowing. They towed fewer than 100 cars last
year, said parking manager David Florence.
The best place to put your car downtown in a
snow emergency is one of the three city parking
garages, free between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. (And a
covered garage beats clearing off or digging out
your car anyway.) They are close to downtown
residences, and there’s no shuttle, Florence said.
Some people have house guests park in a garage
and then pick up the drivers.
If you are towed, you’ll pay $115 for the
towing fee — this year, the city has contracted
with tow companies for that flat rate, and to not
charge for storage if you pick up your car the
same business day. Oh, and you get a $100 city
citation, Florence said. “I can’t stress enough”
the value of signing up for an e-mail snow emergency electronic alert, he said. In the rest of the
city, people cannot park on the street overnight
between 2 and 6 a.m. anyway.
• Nashua: You can park in a city garage for
An emergency kit and other preparedness supplies available from the American Red Cross.
Granite Chapter American Red Cross photo.
free during a snow emergency. Check nashuanh.gov for notice of one. The city also notifies
broadcast media, and scrolls the snow emergency information on their public access
channel, 16, said Mark Sousa, director of
transportation. Parking is not allowed on the
street overnight.
How to deal with: No sun
In New Hampshire, the shortest day is around
Dec. 21 this year (aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/
dark_days) and sunset is a little after 4 p.m.
this month. For a lot of people, that means it’s
dark when you leave work. However, there are
latitudes with even fewer hours of sunlight midwinter, and we asked a few Granite Staters who
have lived in Alaska and Russia for advice on
coping. We also talked to health professionals
about Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Thriving culture in the dark
Russian folk artist Marina Forbes of Rochester’s New England Language Center runs a tour
to St. Petersburg during White Nights in June,
when the Russian city is in daylight 24 hours per
day. That begs the question: what do you do in
St. Petersburg when it’s dark 24 hours per day?
Plenty, apparently. There’s ballet, opera, drama — and just exploring (dressed warmly) is
fun because the city competes internationally in
lighting schemes for historic buildings.
Of course, St. Petersburg is a city of five million people, about four times more than New
Hampshire’s population.
No matter: “I think every town has something.
And if nothing is going on, you can create it,”
Forbes said. Here are Forbes’ ideas for enjoying
dark winter days in New Hampshire:
• Host a gathering. Celebrate a Tuesday. Get
friends together for a dinner by the fireplace,
storytelling, or a themed party.
• Visit a gallery opening or cultural event.
• Take a workshop, or join a language class,
then invite classmates to meet at a restaurant to
practice the language.
• Enjoy what the weather affords. Ever try
night skiing?
Alaska: It could be worse
“I think I was a rare breed,” said Mont Vernon
resident Judy Hayward, who preferred winter to summer in Alaska. In Anchorage, sunrise
in winter might be at 10:30 a.m., sunset about
3:30 p.m. In the summer it was light all the time
— her kids would want to go out and play at
midnight, then birds would start singing at 3:30
a.m., a recipe for poor-quality sleep.
Her husband Gary agrees that summers were
almost harder than winter: “I’d be mowing the
lawn at 11 o’clock and my wife would say,
‘Maybe the neighbors want to go to sleep.’” The
Haywards lived in Alaska for five years, while
Gary worked in the oil and gas industry (which
frequently took him above the Arctic Circle,
where it was indeed dark 24 hours per day in
the winter).
In Anchorage, there are ways people adapt to
winter. There was a program to encourage people to keep Christmas lights up until March so
things wouldn’t be gloomy — of course, you
can’t get to them to take them down until the
snow melts anyway, Judy said.
There are indoor sport and water park complexes, which people often rent for parties,
Gary said. A lot of things you would think of
doing outdoors here, you can do indoors there,
like indoor tennis or virtual golf games. But
there are also plenty of outdoor winter sports,
like skiing and snowmobiling. There are big
winter festivities with ice sculpting, reindeer
races and more. And the view of the Northern
Lights is spectacular, he said.
Overall, it wasn’t as dark as you might think,
and the snow helped reflect the light, Judy said.
“You just deal with it,” Judy said. Her son’s Cub
Scout troop still went camping in the winter.
And she’s found the temperature in New England can actually get colder than Anchorage.
About Alaska’s extra hours of dark, sculptor and Derryfield School teacher Andy
Moerlein (andymoerlein.blogspot.com) said, “I
never found it a disability.” But he added, “You
shouldn’t live there if you’re not used to it.”
“You know, I think people should get out in
the dark more often. I think people are way too
afraid of the dark,” Moerlein said. But keep a
headlamp in your pocket if you are in the back
woods. To figure out when the sun is out where,
visit www.gaisma.com. Seasonal affective disorder
Some people really don’t cope well with
being in so much dark for part of the year. Betty Welch, Director of Behavioral Health at
Elliot Health System, explained that seasonal
affective disorder is a form of depression that
was first studied in the 1980s.
Symptoms can surface in different seasons at
different latitudes — in Florida a study showed
two different types of seasonal depression, one
in winter and one in summer when people stayed
indoors because of the heat.
SAD can present a lot of the same symptoms as regular depression, including depressed
mood, irritability, difficulty concentrating, and
changes in sleep or appetite. And it can feel like
jet lag, Welch said. Current literature relates cir-
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cadian rhythm problems to seasonal affective
disorder, she said.
There are a number of treatments for seasonal affective disorder. For those who may not
be at a clinical level, experts advise more light
exposure. Sitting by a light box for six hours is
“not what we do anymore,” Welch said (“But
that just shows you how desperate they were.”).
Now people are told to go outside and get a half
hour of exposure to sunlight each day. Look for
full-spectrum light bulbs to use indoors (typically not the energy-efficient compact bulbs
promoted these days).
Before you do too much self-diagnosis,
Welch said, it’s important to be aware that other conditions may present similar symptoms,
including some thyroid conditions. “I would
encourage people to talk with their doctors,”
Welch said.
Too much time inside
Make the most of it, outside
You can enjoy the winter outdoors. AMC’s
Highland Center in Crawford Notch offers programs for various skill levels and has a clothing
and equipment center from L.L. Bean where
guests can try items for free before buying gear.
They are offering an outdoor skills weekend at
Highland with programs on basic winter safety
from March 26 through March 28. Visit www.
outdoors.org, AMC’s Web site, for details and
advice. And visit the state’s Travel and Tourism Web site, visitnh.gov, for loads of ideas, or
skinh.com for the latest skiing deals. How to deal with: The flu
Sure, H1N1 gets all the attention, but winter
is still the season for the regular flu as well as
the colds, sinus infections and other maladies
that land us on the couch and miserable.
Wash your hands
Chris Adamski at New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services said colds
and flu circulate year-round but do tend to be
more predominant from October through May.
Influenza viruses are estimated to be able to
live on surfaces for three to eight hours, Adamski said. She advises:
• Frequent handwashing, ideally with soap
and warm water, for at least 20 seconds. Alcohol hand gels are appropriate when you can’t
get to a sink. Adamski doesn’t think there’s scientific evidence that antibacterial soap is any
better at this.
•Ensuringcommon-
Flu questions?
Visit:
www.dhhs.nh.gov
www.nh.gov/h1n1
www.cdc.gov
www.flu.gov
Or call 2-1-1 or 866-444-4211.
Who needs a flu vaccine?
Seasonal flu vaccine is an effective prevention tool but not the only one, Adamski said.
It’s recommended for individuals with chronic
medical conditions who may be at a risk for a
more complicated or severe illness, but also for
anyone who wants to protect themselves.
H1N1 seems to have less of an effect on people over 65, while people under 24 are more
likely to have complications, she said. Some
perspective you may hear from the scientific
community is that the H1N1 strain has components that circulated previously so older people
may have some level of immunity.
Adamski thinks trying to catch this strain to
develop immunity is a bad idea. “We never want
people to get sick...there can be some adverse
outcomes,” she said. And being sick interrupts
your daily activities — people are at home for
about a week on average, she said. Also, you’ll
be risking passing it on to others since it’s a respiratory disease — and what if those others have
complications? Then won’t you feel bad?
Tim Soucy, of Manchester’s public health
department, was busy prepping for an H1N1
vaccine clinic Dec. 5. Making a regular flu
vaccine can take six to nine months. Companies base the vaccines on the most prevalent flu
strains of the year before, Soucy said. This year,
the seasonal flu vaccine was already in process when H1N1 surfaced, he said. The state’s
Department of Health and Human Services
Web site now offers a tool to find seasonal flu
vaccine clinics, at www.dhhs.nh.gov.
On Dec. 4, DHHS announced that H1N1
flu vaccine availability is expanded to Tier
III — anyone between the ages of 6 months
to 24 years old, and anyone from 25 through
64 with “underlying medical conditions.”
Tier I and II are still eligible, and include
certain health care workers, pregnant women, and those caring for or living with infants
younger than 6 months old.
Staying healthy in the air
Traveling, and especially flying, in the
winter can seem like a guarantee to pick
up a cold or flu. Is it the air in the plane?
The e-check-in touch screen? The moving
walkway railings? The kid sneezing next to
you? Or the fact that you touched your inflight snack, although you’d just touched
everything else in the airport?
Paul Flaningan, a spokesperson for
Southwest Airlines, said actually they use
“hospital-grade HEPA filters” to filter the
airplane air constantly.
However, preventing catching disease
on airplane can be more about “remaining
vigilant about airborne pathogens being
spread on hard surfaces,” like seat back
tray tables, he said. After flights are terminated, crews scrub down inside planes to
try to mitigate that.
They’ve made plenty of hand sanitizer
available to employees, and encourage them
to stay home if they show signs of illness.
And of course they are encouraging the
“safe coughing technique.” As for passengers, you can bring hand sanitizers that are
alcohol- or nonalcohol-based in checked
luggage. As for hand sanitizer on the plane,
the regular rules for fluids apply, he said.
(Visit www.tsa.gov for guidelines.)
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Then there’s the slang expression “cabin
fever.” Ken Snow, vice president of community relations for the Mental Health Center
of Greater Manchester, said it isn’t an official
diagnosis. However, that cabin fever feeling
can compound other issues, he said. Some of
the obvious treatments are to avoid becoming
isolated and find ways to be active.
For older people who can feel trapped indoors
in the winter, mall-walking groups can be useful, allowing them to be moving around in a new
environment and be around other people.
Take care with naps. A problem can develop when people nap out of boredom and then
don’t get quality rest, Snow said.
ly touched surfaces are cleaned periodically,
and disinfecting things like doorknobs, desks
and computers.
• Staying home from school or work if
you are sick, to minimize contagion to other
individuals.
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THIS WEEK
Gold Party New England
Event to Benet SHARE of Milford
Friday, December 11, 6-9 pm
JM Princewell will then donate all
proceeds to SHARE of Milford.
Gold parties have become the latest trend.
Events TO CHECK OUT DEC. 10 - 16, 2009, AND BEYOND
Party goers actually receive money rather than spending
it. Participants bring their unwanted gold pieces to be
evaluated and are paid cash.
Any questions please contact the store or Heidi Barnes at
689.5788 or email [email protected]
J.M. PRINCEWELL
058762
next to the Riverhouse Café on the Milford oval
Open most days 9:30am-9pmish • 673-0611
Sunday, Dec. 13
The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra under the direction of Keith
Lockhart (seen here in a Michael J. Lutch photo) gives a holiday concert, featuring the The Swingle Singers, at 2:30 p.m. at the Verizon
Wireless Arena, 555 Elm St. in Manchester (644-5000, verizonwirelessarena.com, $41-$66). Greg Kretschmar of WGIR/WHEB narrates
holiday tales. For more about classical concerts, see page 24.
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Saturday, Dec. 12
Hundreds of luminaries light
Canterbury Shaker Village, 288
Shaker Road in Canterbury, during
its candlelight stroll today between
3 and 8 p.m. Also find horse-drawn
wagon or sleigh rides, handcrafted
Christmas decorations, demonstrations and performances and much
more. Visit www.shakers.org or
call 783-9511 for the schedule and
admission costs. For more about
local happenings, see page 25.
Free: Irish Christmas
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Sunday, Dec. 13
New York-based a capella group
Harmonia lights the menorah, then
gives a concert at Chanukah at the
Palace, tonight at 7 p.m., which
also features Mark Nizer, “juggler
comedian in 3D,” at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in Manchester
(668-5588, www.palacetheatre.org,
$10-$50). Chabad Lubavitch of
New Hampshire hosts in conjunction with the Palace. For more about
music, see page 46.
Irish ensemble Danú plays the Capitol
Center for the Arts in Concord — it’s free
admission, as part of the William H. Giles
Series. However, tickets for Danú’s “A
Christmas in Ireland” Friday, Dec. 11, at 7:30
p.m., at 44 South Main St. Concord, are first
come, first served, starting two hours before
the show. Visit ccanh.com or call 225-1111
for details.
Cheap: Audibles
Tuesday, Dec. 15
Sweet tooth? Stop by the relatively new Bert’s Better Beers shop
at 1100 Hooksett Road in Hooksett
(413-5992, bertsbetterbeers.com),
for a mead tasting between 4:30 to 7
p.m. You’ll taste mead, also known
as honey wine, from Piscassic Pond
Winery of Newfields. The company started making mead from New
Hampshire honey about seven years
ago (www.nhmead.com). For more
about food or drink, see page 32.
Hannah Sanders, Liz Simmons and Flynn Cohen bring a night of voice, guitar and
mandolin traditional music of England, Appalachia and elsewhere, plus their own songs,
to the listening room at Studio 99, Saturday,
Dec. 12, at 8 p.m., at 115 Main St. in Nashua. Visit www.studio99nashua.com, and find
Sanders’ and Simmons’ video of a haunting
performance of “Two Sisters” at Studio 99.
In another direction (blues and rock), but
hopefully with stand-up bass, Bellevue Cadillac visits Tupelo Music Hall on Friday, Dec.
11, at 8 p.m., at 2 Young Road in Londonderry (www.tupelohall.com, 437-5100).
Wednesday, Dec. 16
Watch the documentary of the
Rolling Stones’ “tumultuous 1969
American tour,” Gimme Shelter (R,
1970), tonight at Red River Theatres, 11 South Main St., Concord
(224-4600,
redrivertheatres.org).
The Rolling Stones Fan Party starts
at 7 p.m. with Bill German, author
of Under Their Thumb, about life
on the road with the Stones. Tickets
cost $10. For more about movies,
see page 41.
Splurge: Food and wine
Austrian vintner Renate Wallem and Chef
Oonagh Williams offer “Holiday Food &
Wine,” a selection of food and wine pairings at the Vintner’s Cellar Custom Winery,
410 South River Road in Bedford. There’s
Genevieve’s Shrimp Mousse (goat cheese!),
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THEATER Listings
• The Acting Loft
516 Pine St., Manchester
666-5999, actingloft.org
• Actorsingers
219 Lake St., Nashua, 889-9691,
actorsingers.org
• Adams Memorial
Opera House
29 W. Broadway, Derry,
437-0505, derryarts.org
• Amato Family Center for the
Performing Arts at Souhegan
Valley Boys & Girls Club
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 2, svbgc.com
• Andy’s Summer Playhouse
Wilton, 654-2613,
andyssummerplayhouse.org
• Anselmian Abbey Players
Dana Center, 641-7700
• Bedford Off Broadway
Meetinghouse Road, Bedford,
557-1805, bedfordoffbroadway.com
• Bedford Town Hall
70 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford
• Belle Voci
bellevoci.org, 848-7986
• Capitol Center for the Arts
44 Main St., Concord, 225-1111,
ccanh.com
• Concord Chorale
224-0770,
concordchorale.org
• Concord City Auditorium
2 Prince St., Concord, 228-2793,
www.theaudi.org
• Concord Community Players
224-4905, communityplayersof
concord.org
• The Dana Center
100 Saint Anselm Drive,
Manchester, 641-7700,
anselm.edu
• The Majestic Theatre
281 Cartier St., Manchester,
669-7469, majestictheatre.net
• Manchester Community
Music School
2291 Elm St., 644-4548,
mcmusicschool.org
• Manchester Community
Theatre and Second Stage
Professional Co.
698 Beech St., Manchester,
627-8787
• Milford Area Players
673-2258, milfordareaplayers.org
• Music and Drama
Company (MADCo.)
Londonderry, madco.org
• My Act
myact.org, 429-3950
• Nashua Theatre Guild
PO Box 137, Nashua,
03061, 320-2530
nashuatheatreguild.org
• New Thalian Players
newthalianplayers.org, 666-6466
• Nashua Community
College Performing
Arts Club (PAC)
505 Amherst St., Nashua,
428-3544
• The Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588, palacetheatre.org
• Peacock Players
14 Court St., Nashua, 886-7000,
peacockplayers.org
• Profile Chorus
profilechorus.org
• School of Theater Arts
at The Amato Center for
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show, created by humorist Ken Sheldon, returns for holiday performances Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7:30
p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 13, at 4 p.m., at the Peterborough Players,
55 Hadley Road in Peterborough. Tickets cost $15 at frostheaves.
com or call 924-7585. Dave Nelson, Kathy Manfre, Ken Sheldon
and Beth Signoretti seen here in a courtesy photo.
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56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 20
• Seacoast Repertory Theatre
125 Bow St., Portsmouth,
433-4472
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plays by playwrights whose work they’ve produced before. Casey Preston and Suzanne Delle
are back together on stage as a married couple who visit New York on the weekend before
Thanksgiving to do some Christmas shopping
in Helter Skelter. The wife catches her husband
with someone else and confronts him in a restaurant. “It’s Neil LaBute, so things go badly,”
Delle said.
Preston and Delle appeared together in Yellow Taxi Productions’ excellent May production
of Burn This.
LaBute’s bash was the first play YTP ever
performed — that was March of 2002. LaBute
has been giving YTP small pieces the company
has used for theater festival-type events. “This
piece has never been done on the East Coast
before,” Delle said.
“We’ve done holiday-type shows and nonholiday-type shows in December at the Hunt for
quite a few years,” Delle said. It felt right to do
Dykstra’s Service/Order.
Nashua playwright Lowell Williams said he
wrote The Diner at one of Ernest Thompson’s
(On Golden Pond) writers’ weekends. Participants have a discussion on a Friday night, spend
the weekend working on a 10-minute play, and
finish with a reading of it, he said.
The premise is that a basketball coach comes
home as a refuge to see his family after 20 years,
after an incident has occurred on the court. But
he gets a surprise when he shows up.
The Diner was recently chosen for the 2010
Acme New Works Winter Festival in Massachusetts (www.acmetheater.com).
Along with teaching at Hesser College,
Williams is currently working on the Negro
Ensemble Company production of his play
about Keene martyr Jonathan Daniels, Six
Nights in the Black Belt, in New York City
(www.sixnightsintheblackbelt.com). YTP premiered Six Nights.
“Playwrights We Love” runs Saturday, Dec.
12, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 13, at 6 p.m., at
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• 3.WISE.MEN., new play by John
Kneeland presented by Ghostlight
Theatre Co. Thursdays, Fridays and
Saturdays at 8 p.m., through Dec. 12,
at The Lafayette Club, 465 Fletcher
St., Lowell, Mass., www.gltne.org,
$12-$15. (Doors open at 7 p.m., and
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• HEROES, by Gerald Sibleyras,
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• Holiday gone twisted: Music and Drama
Company presents a community production of
Judy’s Scary Little Christmas, with Jim Webber
of Manchester, David Church and Joe Patrick
Ward. Originally staged in Equity-waiver theaters around Los Angeles, the musical is set up
as a Judy Garland TV Christmas special, populated with mostly baggage-laden stars of the
1950s. As things go wrong behind the scenes
in Judy’s “carefully assembled” comeback, the
audience sees the stars’ behavior off camera.
Judy’s Scary Little Christmas runs Thursday,
Dec. 10, and Friday, Dec. 11, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 12, at 2 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday,
Dec. 13, at 2 p.m., at the 14 Court St. theater in
Nashua (www.madco.org, www.judyschristmas.com, 669-9975, $15-$18). Half of the
profit benefits Bridges Domestic and Sexual
Violence Support.
• Making merry: Among the holiday fare
this weekend is the Palace Theatre’s annual
professional production of A Christmas Carol,
which continues through Dec. 20 in Manchester (668-5588, palacetheatre.org, $15-$45).
The community theater group Milford Area
Players and Riverbend Youth Company join
forces to present the holiday favorite, complete with Red Rider air rifle, A Christmas
Story, on the stage they both call home — the
Amato Center. The Amato is connected to the
Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley, which
encompasses Riverbend, and the performances benefit the Club. See the show Friday, Dec.
11, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 12, at 2 or 7:30
p.m., or Sunday, Dec. 13, at 2 p.m. at 56 Mont
Vernon St., Milford (672-1002, milfordareaplayers.org, www.svbgc.org, $5-$10).
The Lakes Region Opera Dickens Carolers perform “A Dickens Christmas” Saturday,
Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m., at the Concord City
Auditorium, 2 Prince St. in Concord. It’s free,
sponsored by the All Saints Arts Ministry
(545-9079, www.allsaintsnh.com).
Over in Loudon, the Church of the Nazarene
(33 Staniels Road, 224-1311) presents a live
interactive experience called “Journey to Bethlehem,” Friday, Dec. 11, and Saturday, Dec. 12,
from 6 to 9 p.m. “We want to give the community a great Christmas present by offering them
the opportunity to meet and talk with the people who lived and worked in Bethlehem during
the time of Jesus’ birth,” event director Gary
Lambert stated in a press release. “Our guests
will walk the streets of the town and interact
with characters such as the innkeeper, Roman
soldiers, census takers, shopkeepers, and even
Mary, Joseph and their new baby.” Catch a New Hampshire School of Ballet performance of The Nutcracker Friday,
Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium (www.nhschoolofballet.com, 668-5330,
$13-$14).The show visits the Palace in Manchester Tuesday, Dec. 29.
If you are looking for a new spin on Tchaikovsky, check out Clara’s Dream — A Jazz
Nutcracker when it returns to Portsmouth (it
was created on the Seacoast about nine years
ago) for shows Dec. 17 through Dec. 19 at
The Music Hall at 28 Chestnut St. (jazzandtap.com, 436-2400, $30-$38).
The Panther Players of Nashua High
School South present A Christmas Carol, by
Charles Dickens, Thursday, Dec. 10, through
Saturday, Dec.12, at 7 p.m., at the Thomas
Stylianos Auditorium at NHS South, 36 Riverside Drive (589-4311, $10).
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Local Color
Photography around the region
Photography by Jennifer Levin at A&E Coffee
Roastery & Tea shown here.
• At A&E: Jennifer Levin, a regular A&E
Coffee Roastery and Tea customer, exhibits her
photography of birds at A&E in December. “I
appreciate the way light and patterns can make
the mundane become remarkable,” Levin stated in a release regarding her subjects. A&E
is at 135 Route 101A in Amherst (578-3338).
• At the Wine Studio: David Ward, originally of the U.K., exhibits his photography in
December at the Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett
Road in Manchester (622-9463, www.thewinestudionh.com). Meet him and taste wine at a
reception Thursday, Dec. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m.
• At Massabesic: Winning photos from the
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St., Nashua, www.yellowtaxiproductions.org. Tickets cost $15 at
www.cityartsnashua.org: The Diner,
by Nashua playwright Lowell Williams; Service Order, by Brian Dykstra; Helter Skelter, by Neil LaBute.
• CABARET AFTER HOURS presented by Cabaret De Boheme of New
Hampshire Mondays, 7-10 p.m., at the
Element Lounge, 1055 Elm St., Manchester, 627-2922. Brandon Mallard
and Barbara Lawler perform classic
jazz standards and Broadway showtunes (www.nhcabaret.com).
• THEATRE SPORTS Comedy
Improv series Sat., Dec. 19 at 7 p.m.,
($10-$12), at the Adams Memorial
Opera House, 29 West Broadway,
Derry, DerryArts.TicketLeap.com,
437-0505.
• NEW HAMPSHIRE THEATRE
AWARDS, 8th Annual Fri., Feb. 5,
at 7 p.m., at the Palace Theatre.
Holiday performances
• AN 1836 PORTSMOUTH NUTCRACKER presented by the Great
Bay Academy of Dance Thurs., Dec.
10, and Fri., Dec. 11, at 7 p.m.; and
Sat., Dec. 12, at 2 and 7 p.m. at The
Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St. in Portsmouth, 436-2400, $18-$35. Tickets
for Nutcracker in a Nutshell, Dec.
12 at 10 a.m., cost $20.
• A CHRISTMAS CAROL presented by the Panther Players of Nashua
High School South Thurs., Dec. 10Sat., Dec.12, at 7 p.m. at the Thomas
Stylianos Auditorium, at NHS South,
36 Riverside Dr., 589-4311, $10.
• A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A
MUSICAL GHOST STORY, adapted by Jon Kimbell, David James and
David Zoffoli, Thursdays at 7:30
p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at
2 and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.,
through Dec. 27 at the Seacoast
Repertory Theatre, at 125 Bow St.,
Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org,
433-4472, $17-$42. This production
moved from the now defunct North
Shore Music Theatre.
• JUDY’S SCARY LITTLE
CHRISTMAS presented by the
third annual Wild New Hampshire photography
contest are at the Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, this December
(668-2045, www.newhampshireaudubon.org).
A silent auction closes with an event Saturday,
Dec. 12, from 2 to 4 p.m. Proceeds benefit New
Hampshie Audubon.
• Currier goings on: The monthly Family
Saturday at the Currier Museum of Art Dec.
12, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., features
“Making Multiples,” at 150 Ash St., Manchester (www.currier.org, 669-6144). Manchester
Choral Society singers sing holiday carols in
the galleries from noon to 2 p.m. And from 1 to
3 p.m., in the Community Gallery, the Currier
closes this year’s 70th Anniversary Celebration
of the Currier Art Center with a Center faculty
exhibit. A percentage of sales go to the Center’s
scholarship fund. The topic for this month’s
Currier New Parent Gallery Talk is “Brett
Weston – Out of the Shadow,” Thursday, Dec.
17, from 11 a.m. to noon.
• Snow shots: Silver Hills Studio of Goffstown holds a Winter Digital Photo Class on
capturing snow on camera Saturday, Dec. 12,
from 9 a.m. to noon. The fee is $30; visit www.
silverhillsstudio.com or call 497-4674.
Music and Drama Company Thurs.,
Dec. 10, and Fri., Dec. 11, at 8 p.m.;
Sat., Dec. 12, at 2 & 8 p.m.; and
Sun., Dec. 13, at 2 p.m., at the 14
Court St. Theater in Nashua, www.
madco.org, 669-9975, $15-$18.
• A CHRISTMAS CAROL mostly
on Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays
at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2
p.m., through Dec. 20 at the Palace
Theatre, $15-$45.
• A CHRISTMAS CAROL Fridays
and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through Dec. 13 at
the Leddy Center, 38C Ladd’s Lane,
Epping, leddycenter.org, 679-2781,
$16-$18.
• A CHRISTMAS CAROL, adapted
by F. Gary Newton, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 7
p.m., Dec. 11-23 at the Players’ Ring
in Portsmouth, $8-$12, 436-8123,
www.playersring.org.
• A CHRISTMAS STORY presented
by Milford Area Players with Riverbend Youth Company, Fri., Dec. 11,
at 7:30 p.m., Sat., Dec. 12, at 2 &
7:30 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 13, at 2
p.m. at the Amato Center, 672-1002,
milfordareaplayers.org, www.svbgc.
org, $5-$10. Benefits the Boys &
Girls Club of Souhegan Valley.
• JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL, presented by StageCoach Productions Fri., Dec. 18, at 8
p.m.; Sat., Dec. 19, at 2 & 8 p.m.; and
Sun., Dec. 20, at 2 p.m., at the StageCoach Theatre, 14 Court St. Theater,
Nashua, www.stagecoachproductions.org, 320-3780, $15-$18.
• JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM
live interactive event Fri., Dec. 11,
and Sat., Dec. 12, 6-9 p.m., at the
Church of the Nazarene, 33 Staniels
Rd., Loudon, 224-1311 • A NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS presented by Pontine Theatre
and Vintage Voices Fri., Dec. 11 at
8 p.m., Sat., Dec. 12, at 4 & 8 p.m.;
and Sun., Dec. 13 at 2 p.m., at Pontine’s West End Studio Theatre, 959
Islington St., Portsmouth, $23, www.
pontine.org, 436-6660.
• THE NUTCRACKER presented by
the New Hampshire School of Ballet
Fri., Dec. 11, at 7 p.m., at the Concord
City Auditorium; Sun., Dec. 13, at 1
p.m., at the Claremont Opera House;
and Tues., Dec. 29, at 6 p.m., at the
Palace Theatre, www.nhschoolofballet.com, 668-5330, $13-$14.
• A DICKENS CHRISTMAS
presented by All Saints Anglican
Church Sat., Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m.,
at the Concord City Auditorium
with the Lakes Region Opera Dickens Carolers. It’s free, sponsored by
the Arts Ministry at All Saints (5459079, www.allsaintsnh.com).
• FROST HEAVES holiday show
Sat., Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m., and Sun.,
Dec. 13, at 4 p.m., at the Peterborough
Players, 55 Hadley Rd., Peterborough,
$15, frostheaves.com, 924-7585.
• CHANUKAH AT THE PALACE
featuring Mark Nizer & Harmonia
Sun., Dec. 13, at 7 p.m., at the Palace
Theatre, hosted in conjunction with
Chabad Lubavitch of New Hampshire, $10-$50.
• GLAD TIDINGS, Songs of Holiday Cheer, Christmas cabaret and
luncheon presented by the Summer
Theatre in Meredith Village at The
Conference Center at Lake Opechee
in Lakeport Sun., Dec. 13, at 1:30
p.m., 888-245-6374, www.interlakestheatre.com, $40.
• CLARA’S DREAM - A JAZZ
NUTCRACKER presented by MaD
Theatricals Thurs., Dec. 17, and Fri.,
Dec. 18, at 7 p.m.; and Sat., Dec.
19, at 8 p.m., at The Music Hall, 28
Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400,
$30-$38.
• CHRISTMAS REVELS through
Dec. 17-20 at Dartmouth College’s
Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for
the Arts, Hanover, 646-2422, hop.
dartmouth.edu, $5-$23.
•
CLARA’S
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DREAM presented by Northern
Ballet Theatre Dance Centre with
Northern Ballet Theatre, Fri. Dec.
18, at 7:30 p.m., and Sat., Dec. 19,
at 2 p.m., at Keefe Auditorium, Elm
Street Middle School, 117 Elm St.,
Nashua, $15-$20, www.nbti.org,
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• A CHRISTMAS STORY, by Jean
Shepherd, Fridays and Saturdays at
7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.,
Dec. 18-20 at the Majestic Theatre,
$10-$13.
• THE NUTCRACKER presented
by St. Paul’s School Ballet Company Fri., Dec. 18, at 7 p.m., and Sat.,
Dec. 19, at 2 and 7 p.m., at Capitol
Center for the Arts, 44 South Main
St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com,
$12.50-$16.50.
• THE NUTCRACKER presented
by Turning Pointe Center of Dance
Sat., Dec. 19, at 2 p.m., at Concord
City Auditorium, 485-8710, $15.
• THE CHILDREN’S NUTCRACKER Sat., Dec. 19, at 2 and
7 p.m. at the Middle NH Center, 119
Central St., Franklin, themiddlenh.
org, 934-1901, $7.50-$20.
• LIVING NATIVITY Wed., Dec.
23, at 5:30 p.m., at Bedford Presbyterian Church, 4 Church Rd., Bedford,
472-5841, with a carol sing and handbell performance accompanied by
organ, piano and chamber orchestra,
followed by a dramatic retelling of
the Christmas story that travels to the
Manse barn. Bedford Center will be
closed to traffic from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
• MURDER BY MAGIC, New
Year’s Eve dinner theater show
Thurs., Dec. 31, at 7:30 p.m., at the
Majestic Theatre, $20-$35. Reservations are required. Proceeds benefit
the Majestic’s 2010 programming.
Holidays in the galleries
• ART FOR HOLIDAY GIVING
group show from the New Hampshire Art Association through Jan. 8
at their Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery,
136 State St. in Portsmouth, 431-4230,
www.nhartassociation.org. It’s also a
drop-off for the Toy Bank of the Professional Firefighters Association. • EVA-LYNN (EVIE) LOY holds
a Holiday Open Studio of watermedia paintings and greeting cards
Sat., Dec. 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at 93
Cheney Ave., Peterborough, www.
eva-lynnloy.com, 924-0223.
• EAST COLONY FINE ART holiday miniature works show continues
through Dec. 24 in Langer Place, 55
South Commercial St. in Manchester
(621-7400, www.eastcolony.com).
• HOLIDAY MINIATURES SHOW
of small, affordable works at the Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries through
Dec. 31 in Depot Square, Peterborough, sharonarts.org, 924-2787.
• HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
includes artwork for sale at One
Washington Center in Dover Sat.,
Dec. 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., (www.onewashingtoncenter.com).
Gallery openings and events
• CHERYL KUMISKI dichroic glass
jewelry trunk show and sale Sat., Dec.
12, and Sun., Dec. 13, noon-4 p.m.,
at Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries
in Depot Square, Peterborough, 9242787, sharonarts.org.
• MICHELE KINCAID “Spirit of
the Maker” fiber art demonstration
Sat. Dec. 12, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the
League of NH Craftsmen Gallery, 279
D.W. Hwy, Meredith, 279-7920, $40.
• WILD NH Photo Contest Exhibit
through December at the Massabesic
Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way,
Auburn, 668-2045, www.newhampshireaudubon.org. Silent photo auction
Sat., Dec. 12, reception 2-4 p.m.
In the galleries
• “6X6” SIGNATURE SHOW
exhibit of work by 41 members of the
Women’s Caucus for the Arts/New
Hampshire Chapter through Jan. 8 at
The Paper Tree, 865 Second St. (Mallard Pond Plaza), Manchester, www.
thepapertree.com, 472-8875. The 6by 6-inch artwork each cost $66. • AIANH New Hampshire Chapter
of the American Institute of Architects exhibits its 2009 award submissions through Jan. 15 at New
Hampshire Institute of Art’s French
Building Gallery, 148 Concord St.,
Manchester, 836-2573, nhia.edu.
• ALFRED “CHIEF” JOHNSON
watercolors featured through January at Gallery One, Nashua Area
Artists Association’s space at 5 Pine
St. Extension in Nashua, 883-0603,
www.naaasite.org.
• AARON BAKER photography
through Jan. 9 at Epsom Public Library,
Dover Road, Epsom, 736-9920.
• CHARLIE MARTEL “Brush
and Brooms,” in December at the
Beliveau Gallery in the FrancoAmerican Centre, 52 Concord St.,
Manchester, 669-4045, www.francoamericancentrenh.com.
• CHUCK GIBSON DESIGN: 20
Projects through Jan. 15, at the Marian
Graves Mugar Art Gallery at the Sawyer Fine Arts Center, 541 Main St.,
New London, 526-3000, www.colbysawyer.edu/academic/art, free.
• DAN BROWN photography in
December at Canal Art and Framing,
1 Water St., Nashua, 886-1459.
• DOOR, ROOF, FLOOR: Dwelling in Essays & Photographs, Poems
& Art year-long series at the Amherst
Town Library, 14 Main St., 6732288, www.amherst.lib.nh.us.
• BRETT WESTON: OUT OF
THE SHADOW, work by the 20thcentury photographer organized by the
Phillips Collection thru Jan. 3 at the
Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St. in
Manchester, currier.org, 669-6144.
• CELEBRATING THE LOOM
exhibition of work by the New Hampshire Weavers Guild through Dec. 11
at the League of NH Craftsmen’s Gallery 205, 205 N. Main St., Concord,
224-3375, www.nhcrafts.org.
• ED SERINO fused and slumped
glass in Dec. at Valley Artisans Craft
Cooperative, 10 Goboro Rd., Epsom,
736-8200, valleyartisansnh.com.
• EVOLUTION OF A SHARED
VISION: The David and Barbara
Stahl Collection, exhibit of prints and
drawings through Jan. 3 at the Currier
Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, currier.org, 669-6144, ext. 108.
• FALL ART EXHIBIT of work by
Robert K. Carsten, Sally Ladd Cole,
David Fleming, Heidi Lorenz, Fleau
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• HOT BED HOTEL auditions
for the Pittsfield Players Dec. 1314 at the Scenic Theatre, 6 Depot
St., Pittsfield, 435-8852. Shows in
March and April.
• THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE,
JR. auditions Sun., Dec. 13, at 2
p.m., and Mon., Dec. 14, at 4 p.m.,
for the Pittsfield Players’ 2010 Kid’s
Theater Workshop at the Scenic Theater on Depot Street in Pittsfield, for
ages 8-17. Call 736-9563.
• RIVERBEND ONE ACT-PLAY
FESTIVAL auditions Dec. 16-17,
4-6 p.m. for ages 12-18 at the Amato
Center. Performances are in March.
E-mail [email protected] or
details or see www.svbgc.org.
• THEATRE KAPOW auditions for
one-acts by David Lindsay-Abaire
and David Mamet, Thurs., Dec. 17, at
7 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 20, at 4 p.m., at
the Stockbridge Theatre at Pinkerton
Academy in Derry. Shows in February.
Visit www.tkapow.com to sign up.
• DRAMA STORY TIMES with
activities Fridays, 9-9:45 a.m., Dec.
18, Jan. 8, for ages 2 to 5, with a parent, at Peacock Players, 14 Court St.,
Nashua, www.peacockplayers.org,
816-2693. Drop-in $10, siblings $5.
Art Listings
Art events
• CRAFTWORKERS’ GUILD
Holiday Fair with work by 50 juried
New Hampshire artisans through
Dec. 20, daily 10 a.m.-4 p.m., in the
Kendall House, behind the Bedford
Library on Meetinghouse Road. • HOLIDAY ART SHOW hosted by
the Exeter Arts Committee Saturdays
and Sundays, noon-4 p.m., through
Dec. 20, at Exeter Town Hall, 10 Front
St. (exeterarts.home.comcast.net).
• WESTERN AVE STUDIOS,
workspace for more than 200 artists, hold Holiday Open Studios Saturdays and Sundays, noon-5 p.m.,
through Dec. 13, at 122 Western
Ave. in Lowell, Mass., www.westernavestudios.com, 978-349-8069. 23
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Concord, 226-2046, www.themillbrookgallery.com.
• THE FRAMERS MARKET
exhibits “Oil & Water: the perfect
mix” featuring artwork by Judy
McLean and Shuanna Duffy Smith
through Dec. 29 at 1301 Elm St.,
Manchester, 668-6989.
• IZOLAJEANNE handpainted
scarves at E. W. Poore, 531 Front St.,
Manchester, ewpoore.com, 622-3802.
• L’ATTESA E L’ASCOLTO, (Waiting and Listening) paintings, drawings,
prints by Michelle Arnold Paine thru
Dec. 11 at Rivier College Art Gallery,
435 South Main St., Nashua, 8978276, rivier.edu/art/artgallery.html.
• LIFE WORKS of Chinese artist
Fan Tchunpi’s (1898-1986) thru Jan.
21 at New Hampshire Institute of Art’s
Amherst Street Gallery, 77 Amherst
St., Manchester, 836-2573, nhia.edu.
• MANCHESTER ARTISTS
ASSOCIATION members Noella
Breault, Kim Roth and Yvonne
Wheeler exhibit through Jan. 4 in the
Bedford Library, 3 Meetinghouse Rd.,
www.bedford.lib.nh.us, 472-3023.
• MONOCHROME member show
through Jan. 1 at the Studio of Photographic Arts (SOPHA), 941 Elm St.,
Manchester, thesopha.com, 582-1492.
• NEW HAMPSHIRE ART
ASSOCIATION: A Regional Presentation through Jan. 30 at the UNH
Center for Graduate & Professional
Studies at Manchester, 4th floor, 286
Commercial St., Manchester, unhm.
[email protected], 641-4313.
• NOTES FROM THE FIELD:
Learning Through Service through
Dec. 12 at the McIninch Art Gallery at
Southern New Hampshire University,
2500 N. River Rd., Manchester, www.
snhu.edu/908.asp, 629-4622.
• PAULA SUPER paintings (www.
paulasuperart.com) through December at the Image Gallery at the Nashua Library, 2 Court St., 589-4600,
www.nashualibrary.org.
• RAYMOND LAROSE, “The
Nature of New England,” photography in December at the Wine Studio,
27 Buttrick Rd., Londonderry, 4329463, www.thewinestudionh.com.
• ROBIN FRISELLA pastels featured through Dec. 15 at Maison de
L’Art, 57 East Pearl St. Nashua, 8799888, www.moniquesakellarios.com.
• ROBIN FRISELLA pastels, “An
Apple a Day,” featured through Dec.
24 at East Colony Fine Art, 55 South
Commercial St., Manchester, 6217400, www.eastcolony.com.
• STEPHEN PREVITE and Dick
Fischer paintings thru Jan. 31 at New
Hampshire Antique Co-op, 323 Elm
St./Route 101A, Milford, 673-8499.
Pops in Concord
A guest conductor from
the North Pole is expected during the Granite State
Symphony
Orchestra’s
“Holiday Pops” concert,
which also features a singalong Sunday, Dec. 13, at 3
p.m., at the Concord City Auditorium (2 Prince St., Concord). Visit www.gsso.org or call 226-4776.
• STUDENT AND FACULTY exhibitions at Kimball-Jenkins School of
Art through Jan. 1 at the galleries at
266 N. Main St., Concord, 255-3932,
www.kimballjenkins.com.
• TED ARNOLD paintings exhibit, “Objects of Desire,” through
Jan. 2 at McGowan Fine Art, 10
Hills Ave., Concord, 225-2515.
• TINY PIXEL: A Photographic
Show of Camera Phone Images
through December at the Darkroom Gallery, Hunt’s Photo and
Video, 4 Vinton St., Manchester,
darkroomgallery.net, 606-3322.
• TRADITIONS Manchester
Artists Association group show
through Dec. 24 at the MAA Gallery, 1528 Elm St., Manchester,
785-6437, manchester-artists.org.
• TREASURES a holiday/winter
group show through Jan. 29 at Art
3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650.
• WATERCOLOR DELIGHT
paintings by New Hampshire artists
Bill Childs, Becky Darling, Ethel Hills
and Fran Mallon at UNH Manchester,
400 Commercial St., 641-4306, www.
unhm.unh.edu.
• YONG CHEN, children’s book
author and illustrator, exhibits in
December in the Nashua Library,
2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4610,
www.nashualibrary.org.
Classical Listings
• MANCHESTER CHAMBER
PLAYERS at the Manchester Community Music School, 2291 Elm
St., Manchester, www.mcmusicschool.org, 644-4548. “An Evening
of Jazz,” with Yvonne Aubert and
Friends Thurs., Dec. 10, at 7 p.m.
• BACH’S LUNCH LECTURES
Thursdays, 12:10–12:50 p.m., free,
at the Concord Community Music
School, 23 Wall St., Concord, 2281196, ccmusicschool.org: “In Dulci
Jubilo” concert Dec. 11.
• IN DULCI JUBILO presented
by the Pemigewasset Choral Society Fri., Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m., at
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church,
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• CONCORD CHORALE presents “Sounding Joy! Sounds of the
Season,” with the Concord Chorale
Chamber Strings and Youth Chorus,
Sat., Dec. 12, at 8 p.m., Sun., Dec.
13, at 3 p.m., at Saint John the Evangelist Church, 72 South Main St.,
Concord, 746-4624, www.concordchorale.org. • HOLIDAY CAROLING by
Manchester Choral Society members in the Currier Museum of Art,
Sat., Dec. 12, noon-2 p.m.
• A ROCKAPELLA HOLIDAY
Sat., Dec. 12, at 7 p.m., at the Stockbridge Theatre, 44 North Main St.,
Derry, 437-5210, www.stockbridgetheatre.com, $10-$22.
• BOSTON POPS ESPLANADE
ORCHESTRA holiday music with
The Swingle Singers Sun., Dec. 13,
at 2:30 p.m., at Verizon Wireless
Arena, 555 Elm St., Manchester,
644-5000,
verizonwirelessarena.
com.
• HOLIDAY POPS presented by
the Granite State Symphony Orchestra Sun., Dec. 13, at 3 p.m, at the
Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince
St., Concord, www.gsso.org, 2264776.
• SOUHEGAN VALLEY CHORUS concert, “A Family Christmas,” Sun., Dec. 13, at 7:30 p.m., at
Souhegan High School, 412 Boston
Post Rd., Amherst, www.wolaver.
org/SVC or call 672-0025.
• THE TUBA CHRISTMAS and
Timberlane Community Band holiday concert Sun., Dec. 13, at 2 p.m.,
at the Timberlane Performing Arts
Center, 40 Greenough Rd., Plaistow,
free.
• CHORAL CONCERT of vocal
ensembles & the Purple Finches
Mon., Dec. 14, at 7 p.m., at the Concord Community Music School, 23
Wall St., Concord, 228-1196, ccmusicschool.org, free.
• MUSIC’S ON THE MENU
Wednesdays, 12:10-12:50 p.m. at
Grace Episcopal Church, Lowell
and Pine streets, Manchester: “Guitar Duo,” Logan Gabriel and Ted
Mann, Dec. 16.
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In this section:
Activities for children and families, workshops, volunteer opportunities, events to keep you healthy and more
Gardening Protecting plants for the
Guy Another phase of the great dance of gardening
By Henry Homeyer
[email protected]
Children & Teens
Events
• COMIC BOOK CLUB on Thu., Dec.
10, at 4 p.m. at Manchester City Library,
405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550. Children in grades 3 through 5 can make a
comic book. Registration recommended.
Call 624-6550 ext. 335n.
• HOLIDAY STORYTIME & CRAFT
at Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., 5894631, nashualibrary.org, for children ages 2
to 10, on Thurs., Dec. 10, at 4 p.m. Holiday
stories, a craft, and a puppet show. Register
at www.tinyurl.com/nplkid.
• DISCOVERING NEW WORLDS
teen night program at McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center, 2 Institute Drive in Con-
cord, 271-7827, www.starhop.com, Fri.,
Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. Pizza and soda provided
at no extra charge. Cost is $7 per teen (ages
13 to 19); program ends by 8:45 p.m.
• FREE CD RELEASE CONCERT on
Sat., Dec. 12, at 10:30 a.m. at Manchester
City Library, 405 Pine St., Manchester.
Come celebrate the release of Judy Pancoast’s new CD entitled, Weird Things are
Everywhere! in the library auditorium. Call
624-6550 ext. 335 for more information.
• HANUKKAH STORYTIME at Barnes
& Noble (1741 S. Willow St., Manchester)
on Sat., Dec. 12, at 3 p.m. for Hanukkahthemed stories and games. Call 668-0022
for more information.
• PICTURE WITH SANTA DAY a free
If you think it was easy to
gain weight, wait until you
see how easy it is to lose it!
Society will host a Victorian Christmas Tea
and Open House on Sun., Dec. 13, from 1
p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Amos J. Blake House
Museum, Rte. 119, Fitzwilliam. All are cordially invited to attend this old-fashioned
holiday event. Event includes tabletop tree
judging, prizes, pictures with Santa from
1 p.m. to 2 p.m., homemade gingerbread
houses, and refreshments. Call 603-5857742 or visit www.fitzhistoricalsociety.org.
• JUST SNIFFING AROUND Local
author Kathy Brodsky will be signing her
new book, Just Sniffing Around, at the Animal Rescue League, 545 Route 101, Bedford, Sun., Dec. 13, from noon to 4 p.m. A
portion of all book sales will be donated to
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27 Misc.
Holiday fairs, tree-lightings, story times
and other events
Features
25 The Garden Guy
Advice on your outdoors.
26 Kiddie pool
Family activities this weekend.
28 Treasure Hunt
Find buried treasure in your closet
30 Car Talk
Click and Clack give you car advice.
Food
32 Wine and travel
Carla Snow’s book on wine in NH; Your
map to culinary tourism PLUS Food listings; Rich Tango-Lowy helps you shop
for ingredients; Weekly Dish; the experts
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in a wide circle around them. The idea is to keep
the ground from freezing for as long as possible. Roots are actively growing on most woody
plants until the ground freezes, and the more the
new roots grow now, the better.
Then there are those tender plants you are
growing that are a zone north of where they are
happiest. Some will survive if you give them
some protection. Here’s my method: I wait until
after the ground has frozen, then cover them
with the cut branches of my Christmas tree when
I take it out of the house in January. The branches won’t smother the plants, and will support the
straw I cover the branches with. The ground will
stay a bit warmer, even if there is not much snow
cover, and the branches protect flower buds from
cold winds.
Tender, early-blooming shrubs and vines have
buds that were set this summer, and the cold
winds of January can freeze and dehydrate the
buds, killing them even when the shrub or tree
shows no sign of damage. Small things like roses
you can wrap in burlap, or protect with cut evergreen branches as described above. I’ve done it
and it works.
Gardening is a dance. We put one foot forward,
then sometimes two steps back. I lose a few plants
every winter, or grow plants that just don’t thrive
in our climate. I try, and if, after a few years, they
are just limping along I get rid of them. So do
what you can to protect your plants — or let them
go to the great compost pile in the sky. Henry Homeyer is a UNH master gardener
and the author of three gardening books. His
Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
event hosted by the Nashua Parks & Rec.
Dept. at Greeley Park in Nashua on Sat., Dec.
12, from 1 to 3 p.m. Bring your camera to
take a photo of your child with Santa.
• A VICTORIAN CHILD’S CHRISTMAS at the American Independence Museum, 1 Governors Lane in Exeter, 772-2622,
www.independencemuseum.org. on Saturday, Dec. 12, for 7- to 11-year-old kids and
their dolls. The event will celebrate Christmas
like Samantha Parkington from the popular
American Girl book series. Four sessions will
be held, beginning at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m.
and 2 p.m. Admission costs $20 per person.
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It won’t be long now before snow flies and
we’ll be in the throes of winter overnight. I keep
puttering in the garden, hoping for another week
of warm weather. There are still a few chores that
you should consider doing to protect plants over
the winter.
First, protect your young trees, especially fruit
trees, from vole damage. Voles are the bad boys
of the garden — they kill young trees by chewing
on tender new bark during the winter, though they
rarely bother mature trees. If they girdle a tree by
chewing all the way around it and eating the light
green cambium layer, the tree will not survive.
The cambium layer of bark is the layer that grows
and provides new tissue in the trunk.
Voles resemble mice but have smaller ears,
short tails, and blocky bodies. If mice are ballerinas, voles are hockey players. They live above
ground, hiding in leaf litter, long grass or mulch
— you’ve probably seen their trails in the lawn
after the snow melts. They are active all winter
and are the primary winter food source for many
of our predatory birds.
There are two measures you can take to protect your trees: first, pull back any mulch that
is close to the trunk — leave a six-inch band
around the tree. This will remove any nesting
material near the tree, and leave it free of hiding places. It will also eliminate the bark rot that
is so fatal to trees (after several years) that are
subjected to the “mulch volcano look” that some
landscapers like.
To be sure your tree is protected you must
encircle the lower trunk with a wire mesh called
hardware cloth. It is like chicken wire, but is stiffer and has much smaller openings — too small
for voles. Ideally the base of the mesh collar will
be buried in the ground a little, and extend above
the snow line. I use 18- or 24-inch-wide hardware cloth which is sometimes buried in snow,
but have never had a problem. The biggest liability is forgetting it is there for five years and
getting the wire embedded in the bark. You need
to remove it before that happens. If you have flower beds near your driveway or
road they may get sand, salt and gravel plowed
onto them each winter. There is little we can do
to keep the salt out of the beds, but you can do
something about the debris. Get a roll of burlap,
and spread it over the bed to catch the sand and
gravel after you have cut back your perennials.
Then in the spring, just drag it onto the driveway
and dump the detritus out. If you cut the burlap
into 6-foot sections it will be easier to handle
than one long piece in the spring.
I’m sure you have seen those plywood teepees some folks put out to protect shrubs that
are planted under the eaves of the house. If you
have plants where they can be damaged, they
will be — unless you protect them from the ice
and snow that falls off the roof. A better solution? Dig them up and move them next year, or
get rid of them. The front of the house is a good
place for flowers, but an awful place for shrubbery if the roof slants toward it.
Trees and shrubs you planted this fall can benefit by a four-inch layer of bark mulch spread
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• Local author Kathy
Brodsky will be making two
appearances to showcase
her newest picture book,
Just Sniffing Around. Brodsky, a psychotherapist, poet
and author from Manchester, will be at the Animal
Rescue League, 545 Route
101 in Bedford, Sunday,
Dec. 13, from noon to 4 p.m.
Just Sniffing Around features
Brodsky’s own dog, Cali, her
beloved real-life companion for 11 years. A portion of
the sale of each book will be
donated to the ARL. Brodsky
and local illustrator Cameron
Bennett will be available for
signings and a special story
time featuring Just Sniffing
Around as well as two other published works (My Bent
Tree and The Inside Story)
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• There will be a holiday
skating exhibition at Sullivan Arena on the campus
of Saint Anselm College
(100 Saint Anselm Drive,
Manchester, www.anselm.
edu) on Saturday, Dec. 12,
at 6 p.m. Members of the
Southern New Hampshire
Skating Club, who are skaters of all ages and abilities,
will showcase their talent set
to popular holiday music.
There will also be a food
drive to benefit New Horizons for New Hampshire.
Guests will be able to participate in raffles and a 50/50
sale. All proceeds will benefit the SNHSC and its skating
programs. Admission cost is
$4 with a food item, $5 without. Call Andrea Manseau
at 540-7240 or visit www.
snhsc.com to register.
• Celebrate the first day
of Hanukkah with a special Hanukkah story time at
Barnes & Noble (1741 S.
Willow St., Manchester) on
Saturday, Dec. 12, at 3 p.m.
Hanukkah-themed stories
will be read and children of
all ages will enjoy favorite
Hanukkah games. Call 6680022 to learn more.
• Santa will make an
appearance at Greeley Park
in Nashua for a free picture
day with Santa hosted by the
Nashua parks and recreation
department. Bring the kids
and a camera to the park on
Saturday, Dec. 12, from 1
to 3 p.m. and get a photo of
your child with Santa.
• American Girl fans and
their families will consider
A Victorian child’s Christmas a real treat. This holiday
event is being held at the
American
Independence
Museum, 1 Governors Lane
in Exeter, 772-2622, www.
independencemuseum.org,
on Saturday, Dec. 12, for
children ages 7 to 11 and
their American Girl dolls.
The event will celebrate
Christmas like Samantha
Parkington from the popular
American Girl book series.
Four sessions will be held,
beginning at 10 a.m., 11 a.m.,
1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Admission
costs $20 per person. Registration is required; call or
visit the museum online for
more details.
• The Fitzwilliam Historical Society will host a
Victorian Christmas Tea
and Open House on Sunday,
Dec. 13, from 1 to 4 p.m. at
the Amos J. Blake House
Museum, Route 119, on the
Common in Fitzwilliam.
All are invited to attend this
old-fashioned holiday event.
Guests will have a chance to
judge the tabletop trees on
display, and the winner will
receive a prize. Children
can have their pictures taken
with Santa from 1 to 2 p.m.
while they view the homemade gingerbread houses
made for this occasion.
Refreshments will be served.
Call 585-7742 or visit www.
fitzhistoricalsociety.org for
more information.
• Get in the spirit of the
season with holiday films
at Red River Theatres, 11 S.
Main St., Suite L1-1, Concord. Dec. 11-17, the holiday
film Prancer will be shown
in the screening room. Regular admission prices are $8,
$6 for members, and $7 for
students and seniors 62+.
Matinee prices are $6 for all
ages, $5 for members.
• Enjoy a free holiday
double feature at Rodgers
Memorial Library, 194 Derry Road, Hudson, 886-6030,
www.rodgerslibrary.org.
The family-oriented movie
event is being held on Saturday, Dec. 12. Showing at
1 p.m. is The Santa Clause,
and playing at 3 p.m. will be
the classic It’s A Wonderful
Life. Friends of the Library
of Hudson are sponsoring
these holiday films.
• Enjoy the talents of Concord Community Music
School’s The Purple Finches
as they perform Canterbury
Shaker Village’s “Christmas
in Canterbury” at the school
at 23 Wall St. in Concord,
on Saturday, Dec. 12, at
3:30 p.m. The Purple Finches are a chorus of children in
grades K-8 directed by Maria
Isaak. For more information,
call 228-1196 or visit www.
ccmusicschool.org.
• The Derry Dance Center
will be performing a youth
rendition of The Nutcracker
Ballet at the Adams Memorial Opera House, 29 West
Broadway in Derry on Saturday Dec. 12. There will be
two shows offered, at 2 and
7 p.m. Join Clara, Fritz, the
Mouse King and the beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy for
a magical presentation of
dance and music. The performance will be narrated
to make it easier for young
guests. Tickets are $10 and
can be purchased in advance.
Call 432-7174 or visit www.
derrydance.net. Tickets will
also be available at the door
for $12. Tickets for groups
of 15 or more are $8.
• New Hampshire resident
and children’s music artist Judy Pancoast will be at
the Manchester City Library,
405 Pine St., Manchester, on
Saturday, Dec. 12, at 10:30
a.m. to celebrate the release
of her new CD, Weird Things
are Everywhere! Children of
all ages are welcome to enjoy
a free CD release concert in
the library auditorium. Call
the library at 624-6550 ext.
335 or visit www.judypancoast.com for information.
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Breakfast with
Santa
Celebrate Christmas
at JW Tumbles, located
at 545 Hooksett Road,
Manchester, manchester.jwtumbles.com, by
enjoying a hearty breakfast with Santa and Mrs.
Claus on Sunday, Dec. 20, from 10 a.m. to noon. The Little Maestros Band, a four-member singing and musical
troop from New York City, will be in attendance to entertain
infants and young children as well as parents. Enjoy singing
Christmas carols with the band, participate in special holiday activities, and have Christmas pictures taken with Santa.
Family portraits will optionally be available by Rheault Photography. Cost is $10, or $5 for members. Call 624-0400 or
e-mail [email protected] to reserve a spot.
payment required. Call 626-3474 or
see www.amoskeagfishways.org.
• HOLLY-JOLLY PRESCHOOL
HOLIDAY PARTY at Wadleigh
Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St. in
Milford, 673-2408, www.wadleighlibrary.org, on Wed., Dec. 16, from 10
a.m. to noon. Party includes music,
crafts, fun, and refreshments.
nosis of cancer. Call 230-6031 or
visit www.concordhospital.org.
• HERBS FOR THE IMMUNE
SYSTEM on Sat., Dec. 12, 9 a.m.
to noon, at Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way in
Auburn,
www.nhaudubon.org,
668-2045. Cost is $35 per person
($25 for Audubon members) plus a
$5 materials fee. Call to register.
• HERBS FOR REPRODUCTIVE
SYSTEM on Sat., Dec. 19, 9 a.m. to
noon, Massabesic Audubon Center,
26 Audubon Way in Auburn, www.
nhaudubon.org, 668-2045. Cost is $35
per person ($25 for Audubon members) plus $5 materials fee. Call 6682045 to register.
Health
& Wellness
• MEDITATION/RELAXATION
FOR CANCER CARE at Concord Hospital Payson Center on
first Tuesdays, December through
February, 10 to 11 a.m. Patients and
their family members are welcome
to participate in the full program or
Miscellaneous
just stop by to sample a variety of
relaxation techniques to help man- Holiday events
age stress during and after a diag- • FESTIVAL OF TREES Bid on
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ARL. Call 472-3647 or visit www.
rescueleague.org/events.
• CHILDREN’S ART CLUB on
Tue., Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. at Manchester
City Library, 405 Pine St., Manchester.
Meeting includes activities and crafts
that will teach the basics of drawing,
painting, and other creative fun for
grades K-5. Registration recommended. Call 624-6550 ext. 335.
• BOOK FAIR WITH MRS.
CLAUS at Barnes & Noble (235
D.W. Highway, Nashua, 888-0533,
www.barnesandnobleinc.com) on
Tue., Dec. 15, run by Marguerite’s
Place. All customers using a voucher
for purchases that day will help the
nonprofit’s preschool earn funds
to offset educational programming
costs. Vouchers will be available at
the store, or online at www.margueritesplace.org. A special storytime
with Mrs. Claus will take place in
the café at 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Call
598-1582 for more information.
• FAR-OUT PLANETS, a program for 3- and 4-year-old children accompanied by an adult,
at McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery
Center, 2 Institute Drive in Concord, 271-7827, www.starhop.
com, on Wed., Dec. 16, at 10 a.m.
Cost is $10 per child/adult combo
plus $5 for each additional child.
• ANIMALS IN WINTER on
Wed., Dec. 16, 10 a.m. or 1 p.m. The
Amoskeag Fishways, 6 Fletcher St.
in Manchester, presents a preschool
program about where wild animals
go in the cold weather. Discover how
they get ready for winter and where
they “hide out” when water freezes
and snow covers the ground. Help
them through the winter by creating
some winter animal treats to hang
outside your home. Cost is $5 per
family. Advance registration with
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Dear Donna,
I have a new grandson, and my wife and I
want to start a new collection for him. When
I was young I had a collection myself of
Matchbox cars. I enjoyed them and played
with them daily. So we were thinking that this
would be a great collection for our grandson.
My question to you is: where do we begin to
know where or how to start?
Kent in New Boston
Dear Kent,
I think to start you should get a reference guide
book on Matchbox cars. This would give you the
history and some values in today’s market.
The Matchbox company started in the late
1940s (it was a British company). It has since
been sold a couple of times and I believe it
belongs to the Mattel Co. now. The cars are
considered die-cast toys (mold-injected metal toys). When you hear about Matchbox cars
you usually think of Hot Wheels as well. They
didn’t come around until the 1960s or ’70s.
Both are collectible today.
To buy old Matchbox cars, you might do
some shopping in an antique shop or at a toy
show — most shops have monthly newspapers
that will have dates and locations of shows. Buy
in great condition with minimal or no damage;
I have heard that ones that were played with
decorated donated trees on Thurs.,
Dec. 10, 5-7 p.m., at Pleasant Valley Nursing Center, 8 Peabody
Road in Derry, 434-1566 ext. 14.
• STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM CANDLELIGHT STROLL
on Saturdays and Sundays, Dec. 5
through Dec. 20, from 4 to 8 p.m. at
the Portsmouth museum. The Museum grounds glow with hundreds of
luminaria, the houses are adorned in
period-appropriate holiday finery of
live greens and dried flowers, and
the scents and sounds of the season
abound. Complimentary traditional
refreshments and hot apple cider are
offered at the Cider Shed. Tickets
cost $18 for adults, $8 for children
(5 to 17 years old) and $38 for a family. Go to www.strawberybanke.org
or call 433-1107.
• HOLIDAY PARTY
at the
American Independence Museum,
1 Governors Lane in Exeter, 7722622, www.independencemuseum.
org. on Saturday, Dec. 12, for 7- to
11-year-old kids and their dolls.
The event will celebrate Christmas
like Samantha Parkington from
the popular American Girl book
series. Four sessions will be held
each day, beginning at 10 a.m., 11
a.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Admission
costs $20 per person. Registration is required; call or go online.
•
SANTA’S
STOCKING
STUFFER CRAFT FAIR at
Grappone Conference Center (70
Constitution Ave., Concord) on
Sat., Dec. 12, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Free admission and over 75 exhibitors will be present. Contact Joyce
Endee at 528-4014. • CHRISTMAS AT CANTERBURY at Canterbury Shaker Village
on Saturday, Dec. 12, 3-8 p.m. Hundreds of luminaries will light the way
as visitors take candlelight strolls
around the decorated Village. Visitors
can also take horse-drawn wagon or
and have some nice wear to them are not very
valuable in the market. Make sure you do your
research first — you want to know what the
one you are buying is worth, so you don’t overpay. I think one of the most important things in
these toys is for them to be complete and in the
original box (the box is half the value, if not
more, in some cases). And you want to make
sure you don’t buy reproductions (toys or boxes) — believe me, they are out there.
Whether you are looking for old Matchbox
cars or new ones to collect, you might want to
talk to Kevin from Kev’s Collectibles in Goffstown (496-7309, www.kevsmatchboxkars.
com). He buys them and sells them, and he has
been a collector for many years. I think you
would enjoy speaking with him and maybe this
will be where your collection will start.
Note: Don’t purchase the older die-cast
toys for children to play with. The older ones
have paint that chips off easily and some have
removable parts. If you’re buying for fun buy
the new ones.
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).
sleigh rides (3 to 6 p.m.). Inside historic Shaker buildings, visitors will
find handcrafted Christmas decorations as well as activities, demonstrations and performances. Performances include Concord Community Music School’s The Purple
Finches, Two Fiddles, The Sugar
River String Band, a 19th-century
magic show, Pat Spalding’s puppet
show, a sing-along with the Canterbury Shaker Singers and traditional
Christmas music. Hot cider will be
available in the North Shop. Visitors
can visit 19th-century physician “Dr.
Seth Miller” in the Infirmary and
the Gingerbread Showcase in the
Creamery, with a scavenger hunt and
traditional recipe sampling. Inside
the Carriage House, visitors can
see traditional arts demonstrations
against the backdrop of furniture and
craft exhibits. Kids of all ages can try
origami, ornament-making, and holiday decorations made from Villagegrown greens. Visitors can also see
demonstrations on broom-making
and letterpress printing. Visitors can
bring non-perishable food items and
clean, gently worn clothing items to
Admissions. Admission costs $17
for adults, $8 for children 6-17,
$42 for family (two adults and two
or more children); children 5 and
under and members get in free. For
a complete Christmas at Canterbury
schedule, visit www.shakers.org or
call 783-9511.
• CHRISTMAS PAGEANT &
NATIVITY EXHIBIT at the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
1242 Old North Main St. in Laconia
on Sat., Dec. 12, 4 to 8 p.m. The event
will feature a crèche exhibit, petting
zoo, the movie Mr. Kruger’s Christmas, a pageant with recorded music
and more. Free. Call 556-4700.
• LIGHTS ON THE HILL, the
annual Christmas Celebration, on Sat.,
Dec. 12, and Sun., Dec. 13, 4 to 8 p.m.
at the junction of Route 27 and South
Road in Candia. The event will feature
a variety of holiday activities in 19thcentury historic buildings. Walk the
luminary-lit village campus or ride the
shuttle. Tour the Stephen Clay Homestead Bed and Breakfast and share a
cup of warm cider. The Heritage Commission will greet you at the Smyth
Building, which is on the National Historic Register. View crèches from all
over the world. The Christmas Store
is a delightful place to buy inexpensive
stocking stuffers. Elves are available to
help your children purchase and wrap
gifts for the entire family. Young adults
will be drawn to the Coffeehouse to sip
a cup of cappuccino while listening to
acoustical music selections. Call 4830506 or go to www.candiacongregational.com.
• AMHERST CONCERT &
TREE LIGHTING The Amherst
Town Band will perform its annual
concert of Christmas holiday music
on Sun., Dec. 13, at 1 p.m. at the
Congregational Church on the town
green in Amherst. The concert also
features selections by the Souhegan
High School Accapella Singers.
The concert is part of the Town of
Amherst Tree Lighting ceremony.
See www.amhersttownband.org.
• LESSONS AND CAROLS on
Sun., Dec. 13, at 4 p.m. at St. Jude Parish, 435 Mammoth Rd., Londonderry.
The free concert will feature traditional
advent music and scripture readings.
Call 432-3333.
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
What caused engine explosion?
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Dear Tom and Ray:
My daughter was going to soccer practice in
our 2001 Mercury Sable Wagon. When she turned
the key, there was an explosion that apparently
blew the intake manifold off the engine. Needless
to say, it drove a bit rough after that. The mechanic
could not offer any speculation as to why this happened. But I really need to be able to discuss this
semi-intelligently with my father-in-law, who is a
car expert. Otherwise, he’ll think I’m not manly.
Please help. — Brian
TOM: Well, you might want to stop wearing
those flowered sundresses on New Year’s Eve,
Brian. That’ll go a long way toward winning him
over.
RAY: I’m wondering if it could be the manifold
gasket that blew, rather than the manifold itself?
I’ve never seen a manifold actually blow off an
engine (although I’d like to!), but I can give you a
semi-intelligent explanation for a blown manifold
gasket -- which is a rubberized “seal” that goes
between the manifold and the engine.
TOM: If the manifold gasket was already
cracked or breached somehow, that would have
allowed extra air to be sucked into one or more of
the cylinders, creating what we call a “lean condition” -- that is, too much air, not enough gas.
RAY: My brother usually has too much gas, but
that’s a discussion for another day.
TOM: A lean condition also can be caused by a
faulty fuel injector or a misfiring coil. But whatever the cause, a lean condition can lead to a backfire,
which is an explosion in a cylinder that happens
when it’s not supposed to -- when the valves are
open instead of closed.
RAY: And a backfire can go in one of two directions: It can either go through an open exhaust valve
and come out the tailpipe, or it can go through an
open intake valve and come out the air intake —
which is what happened on your car, Brian.
TOM: The backfire is most often recognized by
the loud “ka-boom” it makes, and, occasionally, by
the pieces of your former manifold or exhaust system clanging down the road behind you.
RAY: My guess is that a backfire blew out what
was left of your already-compromised manifold
gasket. That’s what made the car run rough.
TOM: If it really was the manifold itself that
blew off, it would have to have been a heck of a
The Hudson Mall
backfire -- like the ones they use in the “William
Tell Overture.” Or the manifold would have to
have been cracked or loose before the backfire
occurred.
RAY: In either case, now that you’ve replaced
the gasket and resecured the manifold, you’ve
probably also solved the backfire problem. So my
guess is that you’re good to go, Brian.
TOM: But if the car backfires again, you can
impress your father-in-law by asking him what
else -- other than a crack in the intake manifold or
manifold gasket -- can cause a lean condition in an
‘01 Sable Wagon. Then just nod your head as he
goes through the list and say, “Yeah, that’s what I
was thinking, too.”
electrically speaking.
TOM: Unless you touch the wrong terminals
together.
RAY: Bingo.
TOM: And that’s what this guy did. He hooked
up the batteries backward. They were in series -like when you line up several batteries inside the
tube of a flashlight. So instead of 12 volts, he sent
24 volts through your electrical system.
RAY: Some accessories can handle that. For
instance, if your windshield wipers had been on,
the motor would just have pushed them to wipe so
fast that the raindrops wouldn’t have known what
hit them.
TOM: Any accessories that were turned off
would be protected, as would any components that
are protected by fuses or fusible links.
RAY: But some things just can’t handle 24
volts. Your headlights, for example, probably blew
immediately. And if you’d had other lights on, like
the taillights, they probably would’ve blown, too.
Or at least suffered some damage that would’ve
shortened their lives.
TOM: And the alternator can’t take 24 volts
because the diode bridge gets burned out.
RAY: But there won’t be any hidden damage.
Anything that was harmed will be apparent to you
because it doesn’t work now, or is on fire.
TOM: But you might notice that everyone on
your car radio is now talking twice as fast.
Dear Tom and Ray:
We had a dead battery and called for a jumpstart. The service agent could not jump-start the
battery with his cables. He then proceeded to turn
another battery over and lay it on top of my battery. Is this a common practice, and is this a safe
practice? Could this have caused any damage to
the electrical system? He left all the accessories
on, and my headlights blew out and the alternator
had to be replaced. — Susan
TOM: Can it cause damage? Apparently, yes!
RAY: It shouldn’t, if it’s done correctly (leaving
out, for a moment, the issue of spilled battery acid).
When you jump-start a car, essentially you’re
touching the terminals of two batteries together.
Write to Click and Clack at www.cartalk.com. (c)
You’re just doing it via cables. So if you remove
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• Family-style dinner without the family-style washing of dishes: Richard’s Bistro,
36 Lowell St. in Manchester, is now serving
family-style dinners on Sundays. Chef Matt
Provencher said he plans each week’s menu
with dishes that families would find at grandma’s house. The three-course dinner begins
with a large bowl of Bistro salad to pass around
the table. Then comes the main course with all
the sides — shepherd’s pie, roast pork loin with
red potatoes, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken
and dumplings, etc. — followed by a homey
dessert such as bread pudding, rice pudding or
chocolate mousse. The dinner is $15 per person. Go to www.richardsbistro.com.
• Laugh, and eat, for a cause: Damian’s on
the River, 737 River Road in New Boston, will
host an adult comedy night on Friday, Dec.11,
to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. and a special holiday three-course dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The evening will finish with a performance by
comedian Bucky Lewis and his high-spirited
one-man show, complete with a cast of many
dysfunctional characters. The cost for the event
is $38 per person and reservations are required.
Call 497-8888 or go to www.damiansotr.com.
• Coffee for the holidays: White Mountain
Gourmet Coffee, 15 Pleasant St. in Concord and
2 E. Main St. in Warner, now has four new holiday flavors — egg nog (with hints of nutmeg
and cinnamon), holly berry (flavors of chocolate,
raspberry and vanilla), Christmas cookie (hazelnut, cinnamon and vanilla) and candy cane mint.
See www.whitemountaingourmetcoffee.com.
• A new year of beers: IncrediBREW, 112
DW Highway in Nashua, 891-2477, incredibrew.
com, has a January of beer- and wine-making
fun scheduled. On Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 6 p.m.,
it’s “Happy New Beers.” For $30 per variety
case (bottles included) brew new beer recipes
including Ernie’s Bock, TP Cream Ale, Crossed
Fingers Dark Rye and Catfish Head 60 Minute
IPA. On Thursday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m., it’s “Dark
and Stormy Night.” For $50, brew two cases
(bottles not included) of dark beers (including
Russian Imperial Stout, Whiskey Barrel Porter,
Irish Dry Stout, Robust Porter, Gorilla Doppelbock and Black Satin). Return in two weeks to
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a.m. it’s the Chowder and Beer Fest. For $30
per variety case (bottles included) brew a variety
of light beer and enjoy creamy clam chowder.
Return in two weeks for bottling. On Friday,
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make, bottle and taste six different wines (six
different bottles for $50): Australian Chardonnay, German Riesling, Italian Pinot Grigio,
Austrian Zweigelt, Viognier and Shiraz. IncrediBREW is looking for taste testers on Thursday,
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• A little shop, a little nosh: Downtown
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Concord native returns, with beer
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
Concord has a new brew shop. This one gets
its inspiration from the Great Northwest. Big
Al’s Brew owner Alyson Trombly, a Concord
native who lived in Oregon for 10 years before
her return, wanted to highlight this region’s
microbrews along with a lot of fun, offbeat
items common in those western beer shops to
inspire everyone’s inner child.
“Oregon is microbrew heaven,” Trombly
said. “You just don’t drink anything but microbrews. It’s just not done. I didn’t see anything
like that here. I wanted a store on Main Street
because it’s busy with a lot of people walking
around, and I wanted a hip, funky store like the
ones I went to in Oregon.”
The shop’s name is a play on Trombly’s first
name. What can customers expect to find? The
shop specializes in microbrews. New Hampshire labels are top priority, such as Manchester
Brewing and new White Birch Brewing. “Anyone I can get,” Trombly said.
Next on the priority list are regional microbrews, followed by labels from other regions,
which include ones Trombly enjoyed in Oregon. What you won’t find are the mainstream
brands — “Those you can get anywhere —grocery stores and convenience stores. I wanted
a place where people can come and get only
microbrews,” Trombly said.
This is Trombly’s first shop. The Concord
High grad went to college in Ohio and worked
in Massachusetts and Connecticut before she
settled in Oregon. For 10 years she worked
in the insurance industry. She wanted to open
a microbrew store when she first returned to
Concord five years ago, but her family was
concerned about the risk. So she continued in
the insurance field, “but my heart wasn’t in it,”
she said.
Along with the microbrews, Trombly plans
to feature a number of fun toys that appeal
to adults. Currently she has a line of Awika
wind-up toys by Brazilian designer Chico Bicalho. The stainless steel, multi-footed creature
climbs and emits sparks.
Customers will also find beer accessories
(glasses, coasters, etc) and home brewing kits.
Trombly plans to expand her home brew supplies in the near future. There is also a selection
of convenience foods since the state requires a
certain amount be sold in beer shops,
When Trombly is asked what her favorite brew style is, she says without hesitation,
Owner Alyson Trombly with some of the
microbrews at Big Al’s Brew in Concord. Linda
A. Thompson-Odum photo.
“Stouts. I also like IPAs. Honestly, unless it’s
brussels sprout flavor, I’ll probably like it.”
Big Al’s Beer Shop
58 N. Main St., Concord, 230-8121
Hours are still being adjusted. Open 7
days a week, usually from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Second home for the Free Range
A Portland seafood shop expands to Manchester
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
Step into the new Free Range Fish and Lobster in Manchester and it’s hard to believe the
location was once a Ritz Camera. The new,
shiny floor gives customers the feel of walking on water as they approach the store-wide
fish counter.
The company began 12 years ago as a wholesale seafood business out of Portland, Maine.
Six years later the first retail store opened in
that city. The new Manchester location, which
opened just a few weeks ago, is part of an
expansion process that the owners hope will
result in 10 locations total.
Freshness is, of course, the top priority. For
example, manager Toby Walls noted that a
recent batch of scallops was so fresh they could
be consumed raw. Everything has to pass his
scrutiny, and he isn’t afraid to reject a selection
if it doesn’t meet his standards. He recently
sent back two sushi-grade tunas because they
weren’t good enough.
“I would rather go without than sell an inferior product,” Walls said.
Free Range’s seafood comes from four different exchanges along the New England coast.
The company sells a huge amount of fish each
week. Sales of haddock reach 30,000 pounds.
And this type of volume creates lower prices.
This week haddock was $4.99 per pound.
“The prices are pretty close to wholesale,
and the quality is hard to beat. The fish stays
fresh because of the volume we sell, which
means we are constantly bringing in new product,” Walls said.
The core seafood selection will remain much
Once a Ritz Camera, this Second Street location is the new home of Free Range Fish and
Lobster in Manchester. Linda A. Thompson-Odum photo.
the same each day, with slight adjustments that
reflect availability. The fish case consists of
all sizes of shrimp (including Maine and wild
jumbo Gulf varieties, in season), three types of
scallops, haddock (skin-on and skin-off), cod,
salmon (Alaskan and Atlantic), catfish, swordfish, halibut, Finnan Haddie (smoked haddock),
mahi mahi, and monk fish, as well as stuffed
clams, crabs and scallops. On an iced table there
are oysters, steamers, littleneck clams, and mussels, and a selection of lobsters in the tank.
According to Walls, the Manchester store
sells more oysters than the Portland location,
which not surprisingly sells more lobster than
the Queen City (8,000 lobsters compared to
1,200). And parts of the Manchester location’s
fish selection are the result of costumer preferences. For example, Walls said the skin-on
haddock is more popular in Manchester, which
he believes is due to the number of Massachusetts transplants, and he offers the Gulf shrimp
and catfish for the area’s Southern transplants.
“I’ll always have one southern fish in the
case, such as the mahi mahi, but the rest we’ll
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try to have available all the time,” he said.
The freezer case contains items such as
house-made lobster stew, Portsmouth Chowder
Company soup, smoked salmon, escargot, alligator meat and frog legs. The shop also offers
produce, breads, sauces, marinades and seasonings so customers can purchase all the necessary
ingredients for that night’s dinner. There are gift
items, such as lobster buoys made into bird
houses, and decorated glasses, as well as fish
accessories. And thanks to a recently obtained
liquor license, wine will be offered soon.
For kids who come into the store, Walls will
show how a lobster eats and how to put one to
sleep while it’s propped on its claws. He also
offers advice to customers on the best way to
prepare their selections. His primary tip: Don’t
overcook. “People tend to cook scallops too
long, and a lot of the fish that we have can be
cooked rare,” he said.
“I’ve always been a foodie and enjoy creating good food. And I’ve always believed
in buying good product because you enjoy it
more. I like to give people four-ingredient recipes. Keep it simple, and everyone can do it,”
he said.
Free Range Fish and Lobster
885 Second St., Manchester, 518-5585,
www.freerangefish.com
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10
a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
058604
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Continued from page 32
perfect holiday wine? Taste a few new vinos at The Wine Studio in Manchester, 53
Hooksett Road in Manchester, 622-9463,
thewinestudionh.com, on Thursday, Dec.
10, 6 to 8 p.m., and view the art of David
Ward, a photographer whose exhibit, ondisplay throughout December, is called “Walk
About New England.”
• More wine to try: The Wine Society (18
Pondview Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978649-8993; 650 Amherst St. #9 in Nashua,
883-4114; www.winesociety.us) will hold a
tasting of its wines of the month at both stores
on Saturday, Dec. 12, from noon to 4 p.m.
The society will also hold a “French Wine
Tasting with Charlie” on Thursday, Dec. 17,
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. For $45 per person, taste
wines from Champagne, Bordeaux, dessert
wines and more. RSVP by calling 883-4114.
The Society’s next complimentary Black
Orchid Grille, 8 Temple St. in Nashua, tasting is on Tuesday, Jan. 5, from 5 to 8 p.m.
The Society’s book club is taking December off and will return on Thursday, Jan. 14,
from 6:30 to 8 p.m., with discussion and
tasting about To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science and the Battle for
the Wine Bottle by George Taber. The cost is
$25; RSVP by Thursday, Jan. 7, at 883-4114.
And wine education will continue in the new
year — the six-week wine connoisseur seminar will run Wendesdays, Jan. 20 through
Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. at the Tyngsboro store. The
cost is $225 ($200 for members). Call 8834114 to RSVP.
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Nashua is holding its Holiday Shop & Dine
Thursdays on Dec. 10 and Dec. 17. About
40 businesses are participating in the event,
which features special offers and extended
holiday hours. Retail stores are offering sales
and deals like free gift wrapping. Deals at restaurants include between 10 and 25 percent
off dinner, discounts on pizza and subs and
buy-one-get-one-free on dinner entrees. See
www.downtownnashua.org for all the participating businesses and their offers.
• Christmas tea: The Fitzwilliam Historical Society will host a Victorian Christmas
Tea and Open House on Sunday, Dec. 13,
from 1 to 4 p.m., at the Amos J. Blake House
Museum, Route 119 on the common in Fitzwilliam. The event will feature a table-top
tree contest, photos with Santa from 1 to 2
p.m., a display of homemade gingerbread
houses and refreshments. Call 585-7742 or
go to www.fitzhistoricalsociety.org.
• Food at the library: The Manchester
City Library, 405 Pine St. in Manchester,
www.manchester.lib.nh.us, 624-6550, has
started a teen cooking club for ages 11 to
18. The club will meet once a month and
learn to make new foods and old favorites. For grown-up cooks, Oonagh Williams
will demonstrate how to shop for and make
gluten-free foods and keep your kitchen a
gluten-free zone on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 1
p.m. Register for this class by contacting
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Josh and Rachel Boynton have created a new food and entertainment spot in Manchester.
Courtesy photo.
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
What’s a business to do with a mixture of
office space and function room? If you’re Josh
and Rachel Boynton, you turn the function
area into Manchester’s newest entertainment
spot, complete with an out-of-the-ordinary
menu of beers, wines and tapas. And you name
it Boynton’s Taproom.
The Boyntons discovered this unique Millyard space in the Fratello’s building while they
searched for a new location to house their business, Lifeshare Management Group, which
helps support people with developmental disabilities. The office space was just what they
needed, but they were uncertain about what
to do with the function area — a former beer
training facility with a large, curving wooden
bar, beautiful old-style beer taps, and an urbanstreet scene space for a stage and seating.
“People would come in either wanting
office space or a restaurant,” Rachel Boynton
said. “We were afraid the function area would
be torn down and made into more office space,
so we wanted to find a creative way to utilize both areas. Josh has always had a passion
for the theater. He has always had a burning
passion to have some type of theater or entertainment going on.”
The plan the couple created was for an entertainment space with a food selection that would
not compete directly with Fratello’s. The first
step was to partner with Scott Hayward, owner
of Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry, to schedule musical entertainment. So far, the Taproom
will host comedy on Fridays and music on Saturdays. Josh hopes to bring in small theater
performances for Thursday nights.
While Josh oversees the entertainment,
Rachel is in charge of the food and beverages. The taproom serves only beer and wine for
the time being, and Rachel’s focus is on varieties that are not necessarily found at other bars
and restaurants. She has become a big fan of
corked Belgium beers, and she recently tasted
a raspberry beer that she described as having a
rich Chambord aroma.
“I don’t want to exclude anyone’s tastes,”
Rachel said. “I want to have something for
everyone, but things that are hard to find
elsewhere.”
For the food fare, Rachel went with a smallplate, tapas-style menu: “I feel it is more social
and so much more conducive to sitting and
chatting with friends,” she said.
The start-up menu was developed by Rachel
and Denise Doucette, Lifeshare’s vice president
of finance, whom Rachel describes as a Food
Network junkie. The pair brought in their own
recipes, such as Rachel’s garlic hummus and
black bean salsa fresca, and Doucette’s warm
spinach and cheese dip. Also on the menu are
a cheese fondue and chocolate fondue for two,
Caprese skewers (mozzarella, grape tomatoes,
and basil on a skewer, drizzled with olive oil
and balsamic vinegar), an artisan cheese board,
and dessert items from Manchester’s Van Otis
Chocolates (brandy disks, chocolate popcorn,
chocolate-covered Oreos, and fudge.)
The Taproom’s kitchen is in final renovation
stages, and a chef will soon come on board to
manage the menu. For opening night in November, Rachel and Doucette prepared all the dishes
themselves behind the bar — and promptly sold
out of the spinach dip and the Caprese skewers.
Once the oven is up and running, the menu will
expand to items such as caramelized onion and
goat cheese flatbread, lobster and mango crisp,
mini deep-dish pizza, asparagus and shiitake
mushroom puff pastry, brie and raspberry phyllo stars, and spring rolls with peanuts.
Besides the entertainment-filled nights, Boynton’s Taproom is also available for private
functions. Events may be scheduled before the
shows, such as a cocktail party that stays for the
entertainment. And if the desired food item is not
on the menu, Rachel, Josh and the staff will work
to create food that fits the event, with catering
services provided by Fratello’s.
Rachel describes her husband as the visionary and herself as the one who figures out how
to make it work. “He says up late wondering
about selling tickets and I stay up wondering
how we’re going to feed everybody,” she said.
“This is the type of venue we would want to go
to, with great entertainment, food, drink and
ambience.”
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623-7778, www.boyntonstaproom.com
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than 15 minutes. This is an amazing sauce,
but don’t try to throw it together when you’re
sleepy or distracted by the kids; Hollandaise
needs your full attention.
In 1651, famed French chef Francois Pierre de La Varenne wrote the basic preparation for
“Asparagus in Fragrant Sauce” in his cookbook Le Cuisine Francois. It hasn’t changed much
over the past 360 years.
“...make a sauce with good fresh butter, a little vinegar, salt, and nutmeg, and an egg yolk to
bind the sauce; take care that it doesn’t curdle; and serve the asparagus garnished as you like.”
Here, in excruciating detail, is how I do it:
Melt 4 tablespoons of butter in a small dish. Whisk an egg yolk in a bowl, then set the bowl
on a smaller pot over simmering water, taking care that the bottom of the bowl doesn’t actually touch the water. Whisk in a few drops of the melted butter, then a few more drops. Continue
to whisk, increasing the butter to a very thin stream until all the butter is incorporated. If you
add the butter too quickly, the emulsion will break and you’ll end up with melted butter floating
atop yolks rather than a smooth sauce. If you let the yolks get too hot, they’ll curdle and you’ll
end up with scrambled eggs. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll now have a shiny sauce of
butter and egg yolks. Slowly whisk in a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice (to taste), then continue whisking until the sauce just begins to thicken. Salt to taste and...
Spoon a little sauce over steamed asparagus and finish with cracked black pepper. Don’t
feel like asparagus? Substitute broccoli, cauliflower, artichoke hearts, or even baked potatoes.
How about a drizzle on crab, lobster or any delicate white fish? Haven’t had your fill of leftover Thanksgiving turkey? Halve and toast one English muffin per person. Drape over a thin
slice of turkey, slide on a poached egg, and drizzle with a spoonful of Hollandaise sauce. Voila! Turkey Eggs Benedict!
Hollandaise, a classic sauce well worth the mastering.
Food Listings
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties/book events
• BARLEYWINE Redhook Ale
Brewery in Portsmouth will have
their Treblehook Barleywine, the
fall’s limited release brew, on tap for
one day only at Redhook’s Cataqua
pub in the Portsmouth facility, 35
Corporate Drive, on Fri., Dec. 11.
There will be a brewer’s toast at
5:30 p.m., music by EJ & Crazy
Maggy at 7:30 p.m. and food pairings suited specifically to the Treblehook. See www.redhook.com.
• CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM
New Hampshire Farm Museum on
Plummer’s Ridge in Milton (www.
farmmuseum.org; 652-7840) will
hold Christmas on the Farm on
Sat., Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sleigh or hayride, make a gingerbread man, tour the farm house.
• COOKIES & SNOW Waterville
Valley businesses are offering a day
of Cookies & Snow at its Town
Square shops on Sat., Dec. 12.
Stroll the shops and redeem a coupon for a different cookie at each
place. Later, vote for your favorite.
The day’s events will also include
a coffee tasting, Candy Cottage
Workshop, and events for kids. See
www.waterville.com or call 2368175.
• CURRIER & IVES COOKIE
TOUR The Inn at East Hill Farm,
460 Monadnock St. in Troy, 2426495,
www.east-hill-farm.com,
will hold a Currier & Ives Cookie
Tour on Saturday, Dec. 12, from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit local inns
and businesses to taste homemade
treats. Each participant will receive
a small booklet with all the recipes
of the sweets offered. Refreshments
will be provided as well.
• GINGERBREAD COMPETITION The Strawbery Banke in
Portsmouth will have homemade
gingerbread creations on display
throughout its Candlelight Stroll
evenings, on Saturdays and Sundays, Dec. 12, Dec. 13, Dec. 19 and
Dec. 20, from 4 to 9 p.m. See www.
strawberybanke.org or call 4331100 for more information.
• GINGERBREAD VILLAGE
Frederick’s Pastries, 109 Route
101A in Amherst, has begun building their gingerbread house village
display. This year’s theme is Christmas movies, according to a press
release.
• HOLIDAY FOOD & WINE
Austrian vintner Renate Wallem
and Chef Oonagh Williams will
present a holiday food and wine
experience on Wed., Dec. 16, from
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Vintner’s Cellar Custom Winter, 410 South River
Road in Bedford. The cost is $47
per person and includes food and
wines paired to complement the
eats. See www.vintnerscellarnh.
com. Call 424-6412 or 627-9463
for reservations.
• HOLIDAY TAPAS The Concord
Cooperative Market, 24 S. Main
St. in Concord, www.concordfoodcoop.coop, 225-6840, will hold
a holiday tapas tasting on Thurs.,
Dec. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. The Coop’s Celery Stick Café chefs will
offer samples of tapas and Spanish
wine. There will be an accompanying live Spanish jazz performance.
Tickets cost $10; call to reserve a
spot.
• WINE & TREATS TASTING
Black Forest Café and Bakery, 212
Route 101 in Amherst, 672-0500,
www.theblackforestcafe.com, will
hold a wine tasting on Fri., Dec.
11, 4 to 6:30 p.m. Megan of Crush
wines will offer two of her wines
for sampling — but that’s not the
only tasting available. Get a taste of
salsa,s dips and chips from Mitchell’s Salsa and coffees from A&E
Coffee Roastry. Bring a tory for the
Share Holiday Toy Box and 10 percent of your purchase price will be
donated to SHARE. Head back to
the café on Saturday, Dec. 12, from
noon to 2 p.m. for a book signing
with Carla Snow and her book Wine
and Dine with New Hampshire.
Chef events/special meals
• HOLIDAY MOTHER &
DAUGHTER TEA The girls can
celebrate the holiday season in high
style at the BVI Holiday Mother
and Daughter Tea at the Bedford
Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way,
off Route 101, Bedford, www.bedfordvillageinn.com, 472-2001) on
Saturdays, Dec. 12 and Dec. 19.
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daughter menu and more gourmet
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made their selections by taking into account
the flavor of the peppers and traditional
meat and rice stuffing.
• 2007 Rojo Mojo Shiraz —
$9.99 (Recommended by Tom
Brock from The Meat House,
five locations in New Hampshire,
www.themeathouse.
com) This Spanish red has
dark fruit flavors of blackberries and black cherry, with a
light to medium body and low tannins. “It’s
light on the wallet and easy to drink,” Brock
said.
• Capcanes Mas Donis
Barrica Montsant Red —
$10.99 (Recommended by
Gordon Heins from the
New Hampshire State
Liquor Commission, www.
nh.gov/liquor) “This is a
great opportunity to discover the plethora of different Spanish
wines in the market which represent such
incredible values. While there are monolithic wines in places like Priorat (my
favorite) and Rioja, with good old stuffed
peppers, simple is the way to go. The
region of Monstant is close in proximity
and geographical composition of the soil to
Priorat, giving us kind of a ‘Baby Priorat’
style,” Heins said.
• 2006 Terrazas Reserva
Malbec — $14.99 (Recommended by Scot Kinney of
Unwine’d, 865 Second St. in
Manchester,
625-WINE
(9463), www.unwined.net) A
wine that is full-bodied, balanced, elegant, with slight
earthy tones to match the bell peppers and a
heartiness to match what’s inside.
• 2006 Hobo Zinfandel —
$21.99 (Recommended by
Paula Doucette of Bella Vino,
2 Young Road in Londonderry,
426-5212,
www.
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and fruity body of this Zinfandel will hold up well
against the flavors of the pepper and meat.
It has both spicy berry and pepper flavors,”
she said.
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• Kid Sister, Ultraviolet, C
• Electric Six, Kill, B+
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• the Interrogative Mood: A Novel?, CIncludes 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
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• Brothers, B
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Electric Six, Kill
Metropolis Records, Oct. 20
Oh cripes, I don’t know what I’m supposed
to say about Electric Six. Obvious old-school
ravers, they’re from Detroit, and sound it,
toward a house-music sense — where reviewers used to offer sounds-likes like Prince or
Giorgio Moroder, nowadays it’s The Presets
or Chromeo, see? But that’s on the housepunk side, where Electric Six does a lot of
their joke-band stuff, in the past singing about “girls eating evil
burgers” and whatnot, but really, how many people buy albums for
their knee-slapping lyrics? That’s right, nobody who actually matters in your social circle, so that sort of leaves this band — on
whom Metropolis appears to have pinned a lot of hope, or at least
PR money — in the grey joke-band area Datarock left behind when
they decided to put out Red and try a little serious artistry on for
size. Here, though, similarly, E6 — who can match tight, well-executed electro moves with pretty much anyone — prove once and
for all they can post up a techno-ized MC5 (“Escape From Ohio”)
at will; they love old Bowie (“One Sick Puppy”); and if God and
commerce call for it, they can dust any Marilyn Manson wannabe
on the Metropolis roster (“Waste of Time and Money”). Given all
this, may I say that I have no use whatsoever for cutie-pie techno
joke bands, but all in all this album is better than the last Fischerspooner and Chromeo records. B+ —Eric W. Saeger
• Armored, C
• Transylmania, F
Playlist
CDS
Kid Sister, Ultraviolet
Downtown Records, Nov. 17
If you’d off yourself and take everyone with
you while being Clockwork-Oranged to the
dance-off between Anne Hathaway and Kate
Hudson in Bride Wars ever again, this is not
an album you’ve the mental makeup to withstand. It’s not the type of album that was
intended for serious critical review, either,
just something for your (very) average onenight-stand to sip nauseatingly sticky umbrella drinks to while
pondering how to tell her friends she’ll catch up with them lateafternoon tomorrow, unless, of course, yuk yuk, you’re a serial
killer, eeeeek!
The big draw is a drop-in from Kanye West in the nauseatingly sticky plod-spazz-plod club-hit “Pro Nails,” which is about long
painted fingernails, which are (very) important to some people, so
chill already. The rest is an Excedrin roller-coaster of loud, vacuous melody, a hangover hurricane that’s the musical equivalent of
the stupidest reality TV show moment Talk Soup ever dropped its
jaw at, Missy Elliot for the slow, savvy? Bletch. Day-glo throwup-buckets would be the perfect tie-in. C —Eric W. Saeger
• Everybody’s Fine, C+
A seriously abridged
compendium of recent
and future CD releases
• Just so you have it straight, Lady Gaga is a mystery wrapped
in a David Bowie sandwich, and what you’re supposed to be
spending all your waking hours thinking about is whether or not
she’s a bimbo who writes great songs or a gen-yoo-wine arteeste
making one big performance-arteeste statement about fame or
whatever, all of which is a great thought-provoking thingamajig for our wounded era and totally not simply a marketing ploy
that worked like a charm. But she does write great songs, all of
which you can hear in one sitting if you purchase her limitededition Fame Monster album, streeting Tuesday.
• You all know that Avatar is a wonderful sci-fi film that
you’re going to watch at some point whether you want to or
not, because everyone has weird friends who love wonderful
cartoons about blue leopard girls being chased by killer robots,
even though, with one clip in the chain-gun, killer robots could
totally wipe out defenseless blue cartoon leopard girls forever and make the movie shorter than Bambi vs. Godzilla, but
(SPOILER ALERT) probably won’t. Next week its soundtrack
will be released, composed by James Horner, who gave us
those hilarious joke-songs during Leo DiCaprio’s wicked funny
drowning in Titanic, and the heavy metal songs that accentuated
the march of plague-carrying killer rodents in American Tail.
• There’s not enough time for Animal Collective to put out
another album this year, but there’s just enough time before
Christmas to make you surrender your Laundromat money to
them in exchange for their last-second five-song EP, Fall Be
Kind, highlighted by a quiet-loud-quiet ambient track called
“Graze” which features a flute solo, because flute solos will
probably be the big new thing in the hipster world this year, at
which point all rock critics will hang up their keyboards because
it Couldn’t. Possibly. Get. Worse.
• Vampire Weekend also wants the last few coins of the
Laundromat money of hipsters, but what’s totally rad is they
only have ONE song ready to go, and it is called “Cousins,”
a single your Laundromat coinage can buy this Tuesday. But
this would not be Laundromat money wasted, and while you
sit in your trademark poopy-smelly jeans, which, come on, you
weren’t going to wash anyway, you can “rock out” (or whatever
hipsters do to show enthusiasm, like throwing up or overdosing
on Tylenol) to this song, which is like Red Hot Chili Peppers
trying to run away from J Geils’s “Night Time” while someone
grinds pepper over spaghetti once in a while (it’s true, it’s true,
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Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy
Presents for the Holidays, by Joel Waldfogel,
2009, Princeton University Press, 2009.
Wharton economics professor Joel Waldfogel has gotten
attention recently for this economical (it’s physically
compact) little book asserting
that too much of our December gift-giving is stupidly
wasteful. It’s a brief read
divided into 14 easily digestible chapters, even
with the occasional econ technicalities.
Waldfogel neatly makes his case that holiday gift-giving destroys value — if only Aunt
Gertrude had just given you the $40 instead of
buying you that god-awful sweater you never
would have paid more than 15 cents for yourself — and fleshes it out with some stuff about
how it’s not just the U.S. but other countries
too, and how it would be better if we could give
cash but we can’t because social norms attach
a stigma to cash. And how we’re going into
debt to give people stuff they don’t want. All
this is nicely validating if you hate yourself for
giving Uncle Joe an electronic singing toenail
clipper. Waldfogel doesn’t have a great solution; the best he comes up with is gift cards,
and he doesn’t really address why those have
any less stigma than cash. He also likes charitable giving and naming rights (buy yourself
something in June, give Santa naming rights to
it in December), and he finds out that gift-giving is apparently, economically speaking, more
of a chore or necessity than a luxury, and that
people would give cash if they could afford to.
He doesn’t tell us how to change the stigma, or
rearrange the traditions, but he’s right when he
says that, hey, the first step is admitting there’s
a problem. Yes, there are some cases when a
gift does not destroy value — when you really
know what someone wants, or when you find
something that she will love but isn’t yet aware
of and thus would never have gotten for herself. But for those other cases — I’m talking
to you and your Aunt Gertrude — something
needs to change. Pick up this little book and
get the ball rolling.
Mrs. Scrooge: A Christmas Poem, by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by Beth Adams,
2009, Simon & Schuster, 37 pages.
And speaking of Scrooge
and his ’nomics, here’s a
lovely illustrated story by
Britain’s poet laureate that’ll
have you thinking in a more
artful way about what it
really means to be a Scrooge.
The way it’s laid out, you
can imagine its author reading it aloud, hear
the cadence within the loose structure, the
occasional rhyme appearing as if by chance,
and the illustrations bring it to bright, warm,
whimsical life. The widow Mrs. Scrooge, an
ardent anti-commercialist and planet-protector, is visited by ghosts of Christmas past,
present and future, who show her their visions
and bear messages from her late husband — of
whom she has fond memories (she wears his
old PJs to bed). You’ve got to like a Mrs.
Scrooge who reacts to a ghost in her bedroom
with “Good grief!” and “Who the hell are
you?”, and she is well-liked, as future ghost
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Here you have a comforting
collection of sometimes
uncomfortable stories and
essays about the holiday season. To give you a sense of
the variety: the opening essay
by eccentric, boundary-pushing filmmaker John Waters
(PG-13, all about excess and neurosis) is followed by one from the relatively staid Calvin
Trillin about fruitcake (definitely G, and no
boundaries pushed, except the love of fruitcake). There are entries from this year and
earlier this decade, others from the ’90s, ’80s
and ’70s, an S. J. Perelman story from 1936
and a Corey Ford entry from 1951 (very Mad
Men) — and one from 350 years ago. As collections go this boasts a high percentage of
hits, and while the diversity is there it’s not
overmuch and doesn’t feel forced. “Susie’s
Letter from Santa” by Mark Twain, “Christmas Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide” by Dave
Barry in his good days, and a couple of poems
by Billy Collins all play well together, and can
help you feel less alone as you navigate holiday challenges. The duds are easy to identify
and skip, and the good ones are worth your
time, if maybe not a ton of your hard-earned
cash. It’s a small lightweight book in library
binding, no dust jacket, so it’s highly portable
— pass it around among friends. Make sure to
read “Selections from Mercurius Religiosus:
Faithfully Communicating to the Whole
Nation, the Vanity of Christmas” (anonymous,
1651) and the closing essay, David Sedaris’
“Christmas Means Giving,” before turning
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ently negative attitude about shopping and
buying and building. What’s the difference
between a Grinch and a hero? Perhaps it’s in
the heart. And what do you know, maybe Mr.
Scrooge doesn’t belong in a pigeonhole either.
“Scrooge sends a message from the grave—
keep going! You shall overcome!” and when
Christmas Present ghost transports Mrs. S. to
the melting polar ice caps, he includes a message from Mr. S.: that one person can make a
difference. Think about it.
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The Truth About Santa: Wormholes,
Robots, and What Really Happens on
Christmas Eve, by Gregory Mone, 2009,
Bloomsbury, 144 pages.
As for me, I prefer a little
more magic and a little less
technology in my Santa, but
if the detailed engineering
approach is up your alley, you
could do a lot worse than this
peppy, erudite hardcover
written by a Popular Science
magazine editor. Although its topics will
appeal to young nerds, it’s written at a sophisticated level and they’d need help with it. (Plus,
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• FRITZ WETHERBEE discusses his brand new story collection,
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com, on Sun., Dec. 13, at 2 p.m.
• MANCHESTER GHOSTS
author Renee Mallett signs copies
of her book at Barnes & Noble,
1741 S. Willow St., Manchester,
668-5557, Sun., Dec. 13, at 3 p.m.
• JOHN CLAYTON local columnist signs his new book Remembering Manchester at Barnes &
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topics like “How Santa Holds his Booze” and
the mommy-kissing exploits tend toward the
PG in this presentation, never mind the annual
getaway in Vegas.) It’s really an overview of
cutting-edge tech topics, with reference to real
researchers and their current lines of inquiry,
couched in a North Pole narrative. Here, Santa
prints himself new internal organs when the
poor diet destroys his old ones; he time-travels
through gift delivery with the help of cloned
elf minions; his gifts construct themselves; he
uses remote EEG detection, phone-tapping
and micro-sized aerial vehicles (mosquitosized surveillance drones) to know if you’re
naughty or nice. There’s quite a lot to learn
here about the state of the art, as long as you
don’t mind the implications about the chubby,
jolly old-fashioned elf being a cold-hearted,
single-minded high-tech spy who uses “memory-erasing milk” on his “mindless wage
slaves” and was created by aliens out of a mid1800s Brooklynite named Jebediah Meserole.
Blech. But gloss over that part, and you might
enjoy the neat tech and the latest speculations
on time travel. It feels good-hearted enough,
and more substantive than some of those “How
Santa does it all” Web sites you see.
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REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
Armored (PG-13)
Armored car drivers
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and then watch it crumble
apart in Armored, a movie
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two explosions involving
big piles of cash.
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Brothers (R)
When a brother at war is
lost, a brother at home cares
for his family in Brothers,
a mostly well-done movie
about the collateral damage
of war on the home front.
Robert De Niro is an
EveryDad on a journey
to visit his children in
Everybody’s Fine, a threehanky weepy.
Frank (De Niro) is a retired widower
who spends most of his time gardening and is eagerly awaiting a visit from
his four adult children. At the last minute, though, they all cancel. He decides
to surprise each of them with a visit. Because of weak lungs, he doesn’t
fly but gets on trains and buses to cross
the country. First, he goes to New York
City to look for his son David (Austin
Lysy), a painter. Then he goes to visit
Amy (Kate Beckinsale), an advertising executive with a son and a posh
modern house, exuding yuppie success. Then it’s to Denver to see Robert
(Sam Rockwell), his son who he thinks
is a conductor in the local symphony.
Then it’s another train to Las Vegas to
see Rosie (Drew Barrymore), a professional dancer, he believes.
At each kid’s house he finds things
different from what he’s been led to
believe. That his kids have been lying
to him, about big and little things, all
these years gnaws at him. And their
lies of omission continue — while
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Brothers seems to me to be doing,
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war as viewed from the home front.
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Capt. Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire)
is headed to Afghanistan just as his
brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal) is headed home from a stint in
jail. Sam’s wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), is not overly fond of Tommy,
and he doesn’t get along well with
his father, Hank (Sam Shepard), himself a former soldier, either. But then
one day Grace’s two young daughters — Maggie (Taylor Geare) and
Isabelle (Bailee Madison) — answer
the door to find two soldiers standing
there and Grace, coming downstairs
in her robe, starts to cry even before
she invites them in. Sam, she is told,
has died in a helicopter crash.
At first, this seems to push this shaky
family to the edge. The girls refuse to
wear their black dresses to the funeral;
Tommy and his father get in a fight and
are barely restrained by Hank’s wife
Elsie (Mare Winningham); Grace regularly finds herself unable to sleep or,
on other days, to get out of bed.
Slowly, however, they pull together. Previously unreliable Tommy
becomes someone Grace can lean on,
Hank starts to melt and see his younger son’s better qualities, the girls and
Grace find moments of happiness.
Sam may be dead but his family,
though deeply wounded, is surviving.
Except Sam’s not dead.
As we see his family adjust, we also
see Sam and another soldier taken prisoner by Afghan fighters and held for
weeks in a bunker. They are starved,
tortured, freezing. Sam holds it together — until he can’t and when he is
finally rescued the look on his face tells
you that the man going home has little
in common with the man who left.
His homecoming and what happens after are what truly makes the
movie. Warriors go to war, warriors
come home — but these scenes are
about the lasting horror of war, what
happens to all the people (the soldier,
the family) who are affected by battles halfway around the world long
after they happen.
Like all the best movies about our
current The War, Brothers works
because it isn’t so much about The
War, it’s about the people fighting it.
You are left — mostly — to draw your
own conclusions about whether or not
Mike (Matt Dillon) and Baines
(Laurence Fishburne) are the instigators of the plot to steal millions of
dollars. The plan is that two armored
cars — filled with cash on a particularly busy day — will be “robbed”
and forced to hand over money in
exchange for the safety of one of their
men. Except there will be no robbery
and instead the money will be stashed
for a time when — after the police
attention dies down — they can live
the life they please as very rich men.
Ty Hackett (Columbus Short) is
new to the crew and not a fan of the
thievery. But after a threatened bank
foreclosure puts his ability to care for
his teenage brother (Andre Kinney)
in doubt, he decides to go along with
the plan. Promise me nobody will get
hurt, Ty — a recent veteran of Iraq —
says to Mike. Nobody will get hurt,
Mike says foreshadowingly.
Naturally, people getting hurt starts
almost right away and quickly escalates to a level Ty finds unacceptable.
He turns on his fellow robbers and
spends the rest of the movie shimmying under cars, blowing stuff up,
getting shot at, playing armored-vehicle bumper cars and otherwise working
up a sweat to right the wrong.
Armored has its moments of bad
acting — most entertainingly from
Fishburne and Dillon, bad dialogue,
ridiculous plot holes (those trucks are
just now getting GPS?), improbable
stunts and nifty action. But it doesn’t
have enough of these moments and it
doesn’t string them together with the
sense of playfulness that you need to
make an all-adrenaline action movie like this really sing. The bloody
and self-serious Ninja Assassin, the
giddy man-fights-back movies from
John Cena, even the nonsensical vengeancefest of Law Abiding Citizen
— these are not great movies but
they can be fun to watch. They have
a kind of joy-filled, all-singing-alldancing, jazz-hands approach to their
action. Armored seemed to want that,
seemed to be heading in that direction but just couldn’t quite deliver. C
Rated PG-13 for sequences of
intense violence, some disturbing images and brief strong language. Directed
by Nimrod Antal and written by James
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25 minutes long and is distributed by
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all trying to find their brother David, who
appears to be in some kind of trouble.
Everybody’s Fine is like one of those TV movies from the 1980s about dying or kidnapped
kids mixed with the teariest of Oprah-book
melodramas stuffed in, I don’t know, an old
Kodak commercial about your grandma and a
puppy. It pokes at your tear-ducts with something very near to glee, all but slicing onions
under your nose and pouring lemon juice in
your paper cuts. And it doesn’t let you pshaw
off its grandiose emotions — it sneaks a solid De Niro performance in, so you can’t help
but get invested in Frank. This is De Niro at
his most underplayed. He’s just a guy, one who
doesn’t over-emote but also isn’t cartoonishly
stoic. He’s all little gestures — shrugs, blinks,
half smiles and grimaces. It’s the sort of thing
he can make look effortless and therefore look
genuine. So even though he is Mr. Robert De
Niro, when he’s there nodding and smiling at
the image of his adult children, who he sees
for a second as their elementary school selves,
well, hell, people, I’m not made of stone.
Having said that, Everybody’s Fine feels
more like a very successful weepy than a
well-developed drama. I actually like all the
adult kids’ performances and even think their
stories are, at least, satisfactory. But there’s
something about the whole endeavor that
doesn’t completely gel.
This movie has now piqued my interest
about 1990’s Italian-language Stanno tutti bene
(“everybody’s fine”), the movie from which this
one appears to be adapted. It’s an interesting
concept for a story — the difference between the
people we think our family members are and the
people they think they are. Our ideas are created
in childhood (ours, theirs) and therefore nearly impossible to change. With more finesse, I
think a movie could really build a complete story around concept, not simply use it to showcase
one standout talent. So I’ll add the Italian version to my Netflix queue and be certain to stock
up on Kleenex just in case. C+
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief
strong language. Written and directed by Kirk
Jones (from an Italian movie by Massimo De
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So, let’s see if I can get this right: Transylmania is a sequel of sorts to some direct-to-DVD
release called National Lampoon’s Dorm
Daze 2, which was itself a sequel to National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze, which received a
very limited release before finding what is
apparently enough success in the DVD market to warrant all these sequels (according to
that trusted news source, Wikipedia). So those
are the waters we’re swimming in.
Because a middle-aged-looking college student named Rusty (Oren Skoog) has started
an online affair with a Romanian girl named
Draguta (Irena A. Hoffman), he and his band
of skuzzy college friends pack up the one
brain cell they share between them and head to
Transylvania for a semester abroad. Allow me
to skip the plot description (vampires attempt
to revive an evil sorceress) and go right to the
thing that might attract one to this movie —
the crude (and crudely constructed) sight gags
and potty humor. There are some farting horses, lots of pot jokes, a girl with a hunchback,
some mildly homophobic humor about dudes
kissing, at least one case of penis injury, a lot
of orgy talk and a joke about a local delicacy
that features both goat’s and sheep’s testicles.
And those are the cleverest, most memorable
parts of the film.
Movies like this make you ask yourself
some core questions, in my case, specifically about the grading of the movies that have
slid this far down into the muck of cinematic
awfulness. For example, the recent Old Dogs
received a “D+” from me. But was it really more of an “F” (after all, the D and the +
were due almost entirely to, like, three funny moments)? Or is this movie the “F” — an
entire scene about vomit, a sight gag featuring
one giant boob. Old Dogs failed despite the
potential for actual chemistry between John
Travolta and Robin Williams and what was
probably a grown-up movie budget. Transylmania was likely built to be this awful. Which
is the greater crime?
More than anything else, Transylmania is
tiring. It’s like sitting through an endless knockknock joke (that “orange you glad I didn’t say
banana” one for example) for a punchline that
you know will be stupid. It doesn’t really have
fun with its crudeness. Old Dogs had the one
scene with John Travolta’s face contorting and
spazzing in frightening ways; Transylmania
doesn’t even have that. F
Rated R for crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and some
violence. Directed by David and Scott Hillenbrand and written by Patrick Casey and
Worm Miller, Transylmania is an hour and
35 minutes long and is distributed in wide
release by Full Circle.
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Cinema locator
AMC Tyngsborough
440 Middlesex St., Tyngsborough,
Mass., 978-649-3980.
Chunky’s Cinema & Pub Nashua
151 Coliseum Ave., chunkys.com
Chunky’s Pelham Cinema & Pub
150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499
Cinemagic Hooksett
1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett,
644-4629, cinemagicmovies.com
Cinemagic Merrimack 12
11 Executive Place Dr., Merrimack,
423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com
Flagship Cinemas Derry
10 Ashleigh Dr., Derry, 437-8800
Entertainment Cinemas 6
192 Loudon Road, Concord,
224-3600
AMC at The Loop
90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen,
Mass., 978-738-8942
O’Neil Cinema 12
Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry,
434-8633
Regal Concord
282 Loudon Road, Concord, 226
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Regal Hooksett 8
100 Technology Dr., Hooksett,
641-3456
Showcase Cinemas Lowell
32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass.,
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Movies outside the cineplex
WILTON TOWN HALL
Main Street in Wilton. Tickets
cost $6 ($4 for seniors and children) unless otherwise stated.
wiltontownhalltheatre.com or call
654-FILM.
• Coco Before Chanel (PG-13,
2009) Thurs., Dec. 10, at 7:30
p.m.
• Pirate Radio (R, 2009) Thurs.,
Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m.
• Amelia (PG, 2009) Fri., Dec. 11,
through Thus., Dec. 17, at 7:30
p.m. Plus, Sun., Dec. 13, at 2 &
4:30 p.m.
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
(R, 2009) Fri., Dec. 11, through
Thus., Dec. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Plus,
Sun., Dec. 13, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.
• Holiday Inn (1942) Sat., Dec.
12, at 4:30 p.m. Free; donations
to charity accepted.
• It’s a Wonderful Life (R, 1946)
Sun., Dec. 20, at 4:30 p.m.
• The Circus (1928) silent comedy with Charlie Chaplin on Sun.,
Dec. 27, at 4:30 p.m. Live music
by Jeff Rapsis. Free.
FRANCO-AMERICAN
CENTRE
52 Concord St., Manchester,
669-4045, www.francoamerican­
centrenh.com
• Joyeux Noel (PG-13) Tues.,
Dec. 15, at 7 p.m.
MANCHESTER CITY
LIBRARY
405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
• The Rainmaker (PG-13, 1997)
Wed., Dec. 16, at 1 p.m.
• Family Man (PG, 2000) Wed.,
Dec. 23, at 1 p.m.
• National Lampoon’s Family
Vacation (1983) Tues., Dec. 29,
at 4 p.m. (teen movie series)
• Afternoon movie, Wed., Dec. 30,
at 1 p.m.
• The Da Vinci Code (PG-13,
2006) Wed., Jan. 6, at 1 p.m.
• The Proposal (PG-13, 2009)
Wed., Jan. 13, at 1 p.m.
WEST BRANCH
COMMUNITY LIBRARY
76 N. Main St., Manchester, 6246560, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
• Harry Potter and the Half
Blood Prince (PG-13, 2009) Fri.,
Dec. 11, at 3 p.m.
• Santa Buddies (G, 2009) Fri.,
Dec. 18, at 3 p.m.
NASHUA PUBLIC
LIBRARY
NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua,
589-4600,
www.nashualibrary.
org. Call 589-4646 for the library’s
film line, a schedule of upcoming
movies. Films subject to change.
Seating is limited. Food and drink
are not permitted in the theater.
• Night at the Museum: Battle for
the Smithsonian (PG, 2009) Fri.,
Dec. 11, at 7 p.m.
• Aliens in the Attic (PG, 2009)
Sat., Dec. 12, at 2 p.m.
• Julie & Julia (PG-13, 2009)
Tues., Dec. 15, at 7 p.m.
• Taking Woodstock (PG-13,
2009) Fri., Dec. 18, at 7 p.m.
• Shorts (PG, 2009) Sat., Dec. 19,
at 2 p.m.
• G-Force (PG, 2009) Sat., Dec.
26, at 2 p.m.
RODGERS’
MEMORIAL
LIBRARY
194 Derry Rd., Hudson, 8866030,
www.rodgerslibrary.org.
Free holiday double feature show-
ing on Sat., Dec. 12. At 1 p.m.,
• The Santa Clause (PG, 1994)
Sat., Dec. 12, at 1 p.m.
• It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) on
Sat., Dec. 12, at 3 p.m.
THE MUSIC HALL
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 4362400, www.themusichall.org
• The September Issue (PG-13,
2009) Mon., Dec. 14, and Tues.,
Dec. 15, at 7 p.m.
• Where the Wild Things Are
(PG, 2009) Mon., Dec. 21, and
Wed., Dec. 23, at 2 & 7 p.m.
• An Education (PG-13, 2009)
Sat., Dec. 26, at 2 & 7 p.m.; Sun.,
Dec. 27, through Wed., Dec. 30,
at 7 p.m.
NEWBURYPORT
SCREENING ROOM
82 State St.., Newburyport, Mass.,
978-462-3456, www.newburyportmovies.com
• Capitalism: A Love Story (R,
2009) Thurs., Dec. 10, at 7:30
p.m.
• Bright Star (PG, 2009) Fri., Dec.
11, at 6 & 8:45 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 12,
at 3:15, 6 & 8:45 p.m.; Sun., Dec.
13, at 4:45 & 7:30 p.m.; Mon.,
Dec. 14, through Thurs., Dec. 17,
at 7:30 p.m.
• Horse Boy (NR, 2009) Fri.,
Dec. 18, at 6:30 & 8:45 p.m.;
Sat., Dec. 19, at 4:15, 6:30 & 8:45
p.m.; Sun., Dec. 20, at 5:15 &
7:30 p.m.; Mon., Dec. 21, through
Wed., Dec. 23, at 7:30 p.m.
• The Men Who Stare At Goats
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8:45 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 26, at 4:15,
6:30 & 8:45 p.m.; Sun., Dec. 27, at
5:15 & 7:30 p.m.; Mon., Dec., 28,
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Thurs., Jan. 7, at 7:30 p.m.
• Where the Wild Things Are (PG,
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8:45 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 10, at 5 &
7:30 p.m.; Mon., Jan. 11, through
Thurs., Jan. 14, at 7:30 p.m.
THE COLONIAL THEATRE
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033,
www.thecolonial.org
• Coco Before Chanel (PG-13,
2009) Thurs., Dec. 10 at 7 p.m.
• A Serious Man (R, 2009) Fri.,
Dec. 11, through Thurs., Dec. 17,
at 7 p.m.
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG, 1993) Sat., Dec. 12, and
Sun., Dec. 13, at 2 & 4 p.m.
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• Men Who Stare at Goats (R,
2009) Thurs., Dec. 10, at 5:30 &
7:45 p.m.
• Coco Before Chanel (PG-13, 2009)
Thurs., Dec. 10 at 7:40 p.m.
• The Messenger (R, 2009) Fri.,
Dec. 11, at 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Sat.,
Dec. 12, and Sun., Dec. 13, at 3:15,
5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Mon., Dec. 14,
at 5:30 p.m.; Tues., Dec. 15, at
2:05, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Wed.,
Dec. 16, at 5:30 p.m.; Thurs., Dec.
17, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.
• Inglorious Basterds (R, 2009)
Fri., Dec. 11, at 7:40 p.m.; Sat.,
Dec. 12, and Sun., Dec. 13, at 2 &
7:40 p.m.; Mon., Dec. 14, at 7:40
p.m.; Tues., Dec. 15, at 2 & 7:40
p.m.; Wed., Dec. 16, and Thurs.,
Dec. 17, at 7:40 p.m.
• The Cove (PG-13, 2009) will run
Fri., Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m. Sat., Dec.
12, at 2:10 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Dec.
13, at 2:10 & 7:30 p.m. Post-film
discussion with Dr. Barry Taylor of
the Franklin Veterinary Clinic at the
Mon., Dec. 14, 7 p.m. screening.
Tues., Dec. 15, at 2:10 & 7:30 p.m.;
Wed., Dec. 16, and Thurs., Dec. 17,
at 7:30 p.m.
• Prancer (G, 1989) screening
Fri., Dec. 11, at 5:25 p.m.; Sat.,
Dec. 12, and Sun., Dec. 13, at 1
& 5;25 p.m.; Mon., Dec. 14, at
5:25 p.m.; Tues., Dec. 15, through
Thurs., Dec. 17 at 5:25 p.m.
• Rolling Stones Fan Party featuring a screening of Gimme Shelter (R, 1970) as well as discussion with Bill German, author of
Under Their Thumb, about life on
the road with the Rolling Stones.
The party will be Wed., Dec. 16,
at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10. The
first 60 tickets come with a signed
copy of the book.
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
(G, 1992) Fri., Dec. 18, through
Wed., Dec. 23.
• Hollywood Movie Memorabilia
Exhibition on Fri., Dec. 18, from 5
to 8:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 20,
from 1 to 5:30 p.m. See props from
a variety of movies collected by local
film buff Darin Hollis.
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Nite Roundup
Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
Local music
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By Michael Witthaus
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• Yule grass: After rising to prominence
with New Grass Revival — the Beatles of
American bluegrass music —John Cowan
shifted gears and lent his vocal sheen to the
Doobie Brothers. He’s been solo since 1992,
usually surrounded by the cream of Nashville’s pickers. That’s certainly the case on
his latest, Comfort and Joy, a holiday record
that should feature prominently at the show in
Peterborough. See the John Cowan Band on
Friday, Dec. 11, at 9:30 p.m. at Harlow’s Pub
in Peterborough, 21+. Tickets cost $5 to $10.
Visit johncowan.com.
• Classical tap: Ballet-averse? Try Clara’s
Dream: A Jazz Nutcracker, inspired by Duke
Ellington’s re-imagining of the Tchaikovsky
holiday staple. Conceived and created by
Seacoast jazz-tap dancer Drika Overton, it
seamlessly melds the timeless tale of toys
come to life with the cooler sensibilities of
jazz. See it at the Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St.,
Portsmouth, on Thursday and Friday, Dec.
17 &18, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 19, at
8 p.m. Tickets range from $34 to $42; call
436-2400.
• Blues at Blu: The music beckons anyone walking past Stella Blu, just the other side
of a street-facing window. But Lisa Marie’s
brand of rowdy blues-rock would entice passersby from any corner of the tapas restaurant
and bar. The singer is a one-woman music
machine, and the energy level goes up a notch
when it’s her own band. Hear Lisa Marie and
All Shook Up on Thursday, Dec. 10, at 8 p.m.
at Stella Blu, 70 East Pearl St. in Nashua,
stellablu-nh.com.
• On the horizon: Just announced at Capitol
Center for the Arts’ Spotlight Café are evergreen folk duo Aztec Two-Step on Saturday,
Feb. 13, Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso Ed
Gerhard on Sunday, March 14, local heroes
Jamantics and Darlingside on Friday, April
23, and British Invasion survivors Chad and
Jeremy on Friday, April 30. The café is an intimate, club-style venue with a cash bar located
in the Governor’s Hall of CCANH. Call the
box office at 225-1111.
• Metal mind meld: Both Slayer and Megadeth were nominated for Grammy awards this
year; could the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
be next? Given the cool reception to Metallica’s set at the recent 25th-anniversary HOF
concert, probably not. Still, it’s big news that
these two bona fide Monsters of Metal are
pairing up for a national “American Carnage”
tour, with support from Testament. See them
Valentine’s Day, Sunday, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. at
Tsongas Arena, 300 MLK Way, Lowell. Tickets are $37.50 and $57.50; go to ticketmaster.
com.
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Sweet, hot and hoping for a holiday reunion
Female trio mixes harmonizing and bluegrass in songs old and new
By Michael Witthaus
[email protected]
Sweet, Hot and Sassy were a big musical
item in the 1990s, specializing in a melodic
marriage of Andrews Sisters-inspired harmonies and bluegrass traditions. The trio took a
knack for reviving oldies and reinventing contemporary hits like the Judds’ “Mama He’s
Crazy” and built a solid regional following.
By the end of the decade, though, the group’s
members had gone their separate ways. Ellen
Carlson was the first to leave, in 1999. “I was
working on my Master’s,” Carlson said recently
from her home in Tilton. “I was playing with a lot
of people, and I was just burning out.”
Mary Maguire and Val Blachly recruited
two other musicians and continued as a quartet, Sweet, Red, Hot & Sassy, for a while before
turning to solo projects. Since leaving the band,
Maguire has fronted her own eponymous group,
while Blachly has played with Tim Mowry,
Mink Hills Bluegrass Band and most recently
the ’30s & ’40s-themed Swing the Cat.
Despite the breakup, the three stayed friends.
Over the years, they’ve frequently joined each
other to make music. Sweet, Hot and Sassy
even reunited for a few one-off gigs, many at
house parties for friends. They never tired of
playing together, says Carlson.
“That’s the way the musical community
works. When you find someone you work well
with, you stick with that,” she says, adding that
when the band split, “there was no falling out,
we were just at different times in our lives.”
Late last summer, the three began planning
a series of reunion shows, to culminate with
a holiday performance at the former Franklin
Opera House, now known as The Middle. “We
did the last reunion because our Christmas
album [1992’s Swingin’ ‘Round the Christmas Tree] was so popular,” Carlson said. “In
our heyday, Christmas was so big for us. We
stayed so busy. We did concerts at the mall on
weekends. We enjoyed doing it. So we thought
we’d do it again this year.” Then came devastating news.“Mary got cancer.”
Mary McGuire was diagnosed with ovarian
cancer in September, and soon was undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Performing plans
were put on hold as Maguire focused on her
recovery. Miraculously, though, encouraging
news began to arrive. The cancer was found
early, on the inside of her ovaries, making it
easier to remove. With four rounds of chemo
behind her and two more to go, Maguire has
an amazingly positive outlook.
“I’m feeling really well, so I might join them
for a few songs,” said Maguire on Nov. 29.
“I’m suffering more from the chemo than
the cancer,” she added. The laparoscopic
treatments are very debilitating, but she’s cautiously optimistic that by Dec. 12, the date of
the show, the ill effects will have passed.
The plans aren’t set in stone, obviously.
Maguire may end up performing off stage to
avoid contagions. But everyone is hopeful
that the planned reunion will happen, however briefly, and the in any case the night will
include rousing performances from Swing the
Cat, with Carlson sitting in as guest fiddler.
Carlson remains confident that trio will be
able to perform.
“Mary has a great new tune she just wrote
called ‘Winter Whiteness,’ which is not on our
album,” she said. “It’s something she wrote
Sweet, Hot and Sassy. Courtesy photo.
when we were doing our last Christmas thing.
We’re also doing ‘Star of Wonder’ and ‘There
Was a Little Baby.’”
This Christmas miracle is made even better
by Blachly and Carlson’s announced plans to
donate the show’s proceeds to help ease Maguire’s financial burdens — she hasn’t been able
to work since getting sick. Maguire says that
in addition to the recommended hospital treatments, she’s been receiving holistic therapy.
“My sister had cancer six years ago and survived, and she did natural healing techniques
like Reiki and energy healing, so I’m trying
it,” Maguire said. “I like the idea of endorphins
— laughter as medicine.”
Hear it live
Who: Sweet, Hot and Sassy
Where: The Middle NH Arts & Entertainment Center, 316 Central St., Franklin,
934-1901,
When: Saturday, Dec. 12, at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $17, www.themiddlenh.org
Ben Geyer — down to a science
Sextet’s debut album The Narrative brings stories to jazz
By Michael Witthaus
[email protected]
The musical representation of visual ideas
has been around since Beethoven, with modern
examples as recent as John Williams’ Star Wars
scores. But program music, as this discipline is
known, is relatively uncommon in jazz.
So when Derry composer and pianist Ben
Geyer created “East of Eden Suite,” a jazz interpretation of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel
as filtered through the John Steinbeck novel, he
found himself reaching across the ages.
“I actually wrote this piece right after I took
a music history course,” Geyer said recently
from his home in Brooklyn, adding that he was
focused on “testing out relationships between
jazz and classical music.”
Geyer submitted the work as his senior thesis
at the University of Miami; it’s now the centerpiece of The Narrative, the debut album by the
Ben Geyer Sextet.
The four movements of “East of Eden Suite”
are best listened to with the lights down and
the shades drawn, to allow the sounds to evoke
mental images. The opening notes of the first
movement, “Sonata allegro: Cain and Abel,”
are full of foreboding and
help to establish Cain and the
misery that lies ahead. These
sinister elements are soon
joined by Abel’s theme, a light,
almost playful piano melody
that to Geyer sounds heroic but
that could be taken in a number of ways.
“It’s tough to translate very
specifically to music because it
is subjective,” he says. “What
I hear could be different from
what anyone else hears.”
The suite deftly uses the
modern language of jazz to tell Courtesy photo.
its ancient story of sibling rivalry. Geyer cites influences from
Bach to Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis to death
metal, Keith Jarrett to Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson?
“This is a 40-minute album, and I’d say in
any one moment … it could be directly influenced by somebody,” said Geyer, who has also
said that he often describes his musical style as
jazz because the alternative is too complicated
to explain.
“Let me give you a specific example,” he
said. “In ‘The Fight’ [the third and most climactic movement of “East of Eden Suite”],
there’s a section that begins with a weird sort
of counterpoint — there’s a line in the bass,
there’s a line in the piano and a line in the
horns. They’re all weaving in and out of each
other. I grew up playing classical piano, and I
sort of got that idea from Bach. But it doesn’t
sound anything like Bach. Bach was not a
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jazz musician — yet I got that sort of idea
from him.”
The rest of The Narrative is given over to
a more abstract program music work called
“The Slip,” a three-movement piece originally performed as an interpretive dance
directed by choreographer Annie Now.
“I really love the art form of dance,”
Geyer says. “I think there are a lot of implications of combining jazz and dance. First
of all, jazz was initially dance music in the
big band era. That sort of went away with the
emergence of bebop.”
There’s a classic SNL skit (circa 1976)
with Gerald Ford, played by Chevy Chase,
debating Dan Aykroyd’s Jimmy Carter. “It
was my understanding that there would be
no math,” Chase stammers at one point.
That’s not unlike the feeling one gets listening to Ben Geyer explain “The Slip,”
which he says is based on Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg’s theory of serialism.
“He basically assigned numbers to the notes,”
Geyer explains. “C is zero, C sharp is one, B
is two, and so forth. He used math in order
to compose.”
Geyer says “The Slip” doesn’t strictly adhere to Schoenberg’s rules as much it
draws inspiration from them. For example,
“Hydrogen Theme,” which opens the piece,
is based on the atomic weight of hydrogen.
“The challenge is to take numbers and make
them musical,” the composer said.
It’s a lot like haiku, Geyer said: “You have
to make something beautiful that somehow
fits. You take a structure that’s determined
beforehand, and you have to fit in a way to
make it musical.”
Fans will have to wait until Feb. 13 to see
the Ben Geyer Sextet perform, at the Press
Room in Portsmouth. Geyer is planning a
short tour to coincide with the full release of
The Narrative and hopes to add more dates
soon. The Narrative is currently available for
PayPal purchase at www.bengeyer.com.
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• WinterBloom: Holiday Traditions Rearranged with Meg
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Natalia Zuckerman, Anne Heaton,
Thurs., Dec. 10, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Jingle Ball 2009, Thurs., Dec. 10,
at 7 p.m., Tsongas
• Asleep at the Wheel, Fri., Dec. 11,
at 8 p.m., Rochester Opera House
• Bellevue Cadillac, Fri., Dec. 11, at
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• Danu’s A Christmas in Ireland,
Fri., Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m., Capitol
Center
• Keith Lockhart and the Boston
Pops Esplanade Orchestra Holiday Concert, Sat., Dec. 12, at 7:30
p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Sweet, Hot & Sassy, Sat., Dec. 12,
at 7:30 p.m., Franklin Opera House
• Hannah Sanders, Liz Simmons
and Flynn Cohen, Sat., Dec. 12, at
8 p.m., Studio 99
• Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Sat., Dec. 12, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Boston Pops Holiday Concert,
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• Pat McGee, Fri., Dec. 18, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Kenny Rogers Christmas & Hits,
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Music & parties
• WINTERBLOOM Singer-songwriters Antje Duvekot, Anne Heaton,
Meg Hutchinson and Natalia Zukerman perform as Winterbloom on
Thurs., Dec. 10, at 8 p.m. at Tupelo
Music Hall, 2 Young Road in Londonderry, tupelohall.com. Performing Holiday Traditions Rearranged,
the trio presents new arrangements of
holiday favorites and special winter/
holiday songs written for this minitour. Call 437-5100
• CHRISTMAS IN IRELAND
Acclaimed Irish ensemble Danu
performs a free “Christmas in Ireland” concert Friday, Dec. 11, at
7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Center for
the Arts, 44 South Main St. in Concord. The program, An Nollaig in
Éirinn, features fiddle, flute, button
accordion, percussion and the lovely singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh.
No advance tickets are required or
available; entry is first-come, firstserved, one ticket per patron.
• SUSIE BURKE & DAVID
SURETTE, folk/rock/jazz/Celtic/
blue-influenced duo performing
Christmas folk, on Sat., Dec. 12, at
Concord Community Music School,
on Wall Street in Concord, at 7:30
p.m. See www.ccmusicschool.org
or call 228-1196.
• ROCKAPELLA HOLIDAY
arrives at the Stockbridge Theatre
at Pinkerton Academy in Derry on
Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. with
a program of classic and contemporary holiday hits, all spiced up with
the five-man powerhouse vocal
band’s signature style. Tickets are
$22 for adults, $18 for seniors, $15
for students and $10 for Pinkerton
students. Call 647-6476.
• CHORDSMEN Barbershop
vocalists the Lakes Region Chordsmen will perform traditional and
popular songs of the season, including “Stille Nacht,” “Sleigh Ride”
and “Winter Wonderland,” on Sat.,
Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Dec.
13, at 3 p.m., at the Inter-Lakes
Community Auditorium, Route 25
in Meredith. Visit www.lrso.org.
• CHANUKAH AT THE PALACE The third annual Chanukah at
the Palace event happens Sun., Dec.
13, at 7 p.m. at the Palace Theatre,
80 Hanover St. in Manchester, www.
palacetheatre.org. Performing are
New York a capella group Harmonia,
along with “3-D Juggler and Comedian” Mark Nizer. Tickets cost $18
for adults, $12 for children. A $50
VIP ticket includes a meet & greet
Traditional
songstresses
Hannah Sanders (from
Old England), Liz Simmons
(from New England) and Flynn Cohen (from Cleveland)
will bring their harmonizing,
their guitars and a mandolin to Studio 99, 115 Main St.
in Nashua, www.studio99nashua.com, on Saturday, Dec.
12, at 8 p.m. The group will perform ballads from England and Appalachia as well as original music.
Gimme Shelter —
and a book!
Red River Theatres, 11 South Main
St. in Concord, www.redrivertheatres.
org, 224-4600, will hold a Rolling Stones
Fan Party on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 7
p.m. For $10, see the 1970 documentary Gimme Shelter about the Rolling
Stones 1969 American tour and hear stories about the band from Bill German, author of the new book
Under Their Thumb about life on the road with the band. The
first 60 tickets will come with a signed copy of the book.
Yes
The Capitol Center for the
Arts, 44 S. Main St. in Concord, 225-1111, www.ccanh.
com, will host An Evening with
Yes on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 7:30
p.m. Tickets go on sale at the Cap
Center’s Web site and at www.livenation.com on Saturday,
Dec. 12; tickets cost between $25 and $85. The tour’s lineup
includes Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White joined by
Benoit David on vocals and Oliver Wakeman on keyboards.
See www.yesworld.com.
reception. Call 668-5588.
• HARVEY REID HOLIDAY
CONCERT Harvey Reid begins his
annual holiday concert tour through
New Hampshire on playing seasonally inspired American contemporary
and roots music, folk, blues, bluegrass,
Celtic and ragtime, including appearances with partner Joyce Anderson in
Tamworth (Sun., Dec. 13) and Dover
(Fri., Dec. 18), are available at www.
harveyreid.com.
• KLEZMER BAND on Thurs.,
Dec. 17, at 7:30 p.m., at the Hunt
Building, 6 Main St. in Nashua. The
Raymond Street Klezmer Band will
play a concert that is free and open
to the public. They will preform
Hanukkah songs in Spanish, Russian and English. Call 594-3661.
• BENEFIT CONCERT Milly’s
Tavern, 500 Commercial St. in Manchester, will host an event to benefit
the New Horizons Homeless Shelter
on Friday, Dec. 18, featuring live
music from Streamline, Alli Beaudry,
Shannon Corey, Adam from Prospect
Hill and Josh Logan. Tickets cost $10
in advance, $15 at door. Call 6254444 or visit www.millystavern.com.
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15. Pavarotti, e.g.
16. Glamsters ____ Rocks
17. Grammy winning Brazilian
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18. _______ The Machine (4,7)
20. Gooey Collective Soul hit?
21. Romantic rock stars seen
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22. Okkervil River ‘___ It Kicks’
23. Teen rocker dropout
25. Gig ___
26. All You ___ Is Love
27. Unsigned band?
28. What Bon Jovi puts ‘Roses’ on
31. Eric Bachman ‘To The ___’
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37. Bill Withers ‘Lean __ __’ (2,2)
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41. ‘92 Alice In Chains EP
42. Like rock star palace
43. Bodyguard
44. Diamond Dave
45. Michigan band that has multiple members
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Concord
Ground Zero
The Barley House
48 Allenstown Rd. 132 N. Main St., 228-6363
Green Martini
Amherst
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
Club Comedy
Hermanos
at Amherst
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Country Club
Loudon Road Restaurant
72 Ponemah
and Pit Road Lounge
Road,673-9908 388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533
Makris
Auburn
354 Sheep Davis Rd,
Auburn Pitts
225-7665
167 Rockingham Penuche’s Ale House
Rd, 622-6564
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
Holiday’s Bar
The Red Blazer
and Grill
72 Manchester St., 224-4101
346 Hooksett Rd,
483-0880, holiDeerfield
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Epsom
Circle 9 Ranch
Johnny’s Pizzaria
Windymere Dr., 736-9656 11 Tracy Lane, 943-5382
Linda’s Sport Bar
Epping
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792
American Legion
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125) Kingston
Holy Grail Food & Spirits The Kingston 1686 House
64 Main St., 679-9559
Tavern
127 Main St., 642-3637
Exeter
Shooter’s Pub
Laconia
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856 Black Cat Café
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233
Gilford
Cactus Jacks
Patrick’s
1182 Union Ave., 528-7800
18 Weirs Rd., 293-0841
Fratello’s
799 Union Ave., 528-2022
Weirs Beach Lobster
Goffstown
Village Trestle
Pound
25 Main St., 497-8230
72 Endicott St., 366-2255
Wa Toy
Weirs Beach Smokehouse
Barrington
Derry
611 Mast Rd, 668-1088
Rt 3 Laconia, 366-2400
Chip ‘N Run
Adams Opera House
Margate Resort
Pub Nippo Lake 29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102
Hampstead
76 Lake St., 524-5210
Golf Course,
Brookstone Grille
Route 111 Village Square Naswa Resort
550 Province
14 Route 11 E., 328-9250
472 State St., 329-6879
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341
Rd. 664Burgundy’s Billiards
Paradise Beach Club
35 Manchester St., 437-6600 Hampton
322 Lakeside Ave., 366-2665
2030bowjunction.com
Steve-N-James Tavern
Breakers By the Sea
Weirs Beach Smoke House
187 Rockingham Rd,
409 Ocean Blvd,
Route 3, 366-2400
Barnstead
434-0600
Hampton, 926-7702,
Barnstead Music Hall 96
breakersbythesea.com
Londonderry
Maple St, 269-2000
Dover
Old Salt
The Homestead Restaurant
Barley Pub
409 Lafayette Rd, 926176 Mammoth Rd, 437-2022
Bedford
328 Central Ave.,742-4226 8322, www.oldsaltnh.com Mayflower Grange
C.R. Sparks
Dover Elks Lodge
Ron’s Landing
535 Mammoth Rd, 867-3077
18 Kilton Rd, 647-7275
282 Durham Road
379 Ocean Blvd, 929-2122, Whippersnappers
Slammers
Dover Bowl
www.ronslanding.com
44 Nashua Road, 434-2660
547 Donald St., 668-2120
887 Central Ave., 742-9632 Wally’s Pub
Dover Brick House
144 Ashworth Ave.,
Loudon
Belmont
2 Orchard St., 749-3838
926-6954, wallyspubnh.com Graverobbers Coffeehouse
The Lodge at Belmont
Kelley’s Row
Loudon Congregational
Route 106, 877-872-2501
421 Central Ave., 750-7081 Henniker
Church, 7018 Church St.,
RJ’s
Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
783-9478
Boscawen
83 Washington St.
24 Flander’s Road,
Alan’s
Top of the Chop
888-728-7732
Manchester
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 One Orchard St., 740-0006 The Henniker Junction
900 Degrees
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
50 Dow St., 641-0900
Brookline
Durham
American Legion Wm H
Big Bear Lodge
Acorns Restaurant
Hillsborough
Jutras & Post No 43
106 Route 13, 672-7675
15 Strafford Ave., 862-2815 Boomerang’s
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467
Griffings’ Side Trax
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 American Legion Post #79
99 Route 13, 673-3244
35 W. Brook St.
East Hampstead
The Loft at the Grange
The Pasta Loft
Hollis
American Legion
12 Main St., 315-9423
220 E. Main St., 378-0092
Alpine Grove
Sweeney Post
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051 251 Maple St., 623-9145
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Club Lafayette: karaoke
w/DJ Lance
Concord
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Fratello’s: Ferdinando
Green Martini: open
Argenti Trio
mike w/Steve Naylor
Hermanos: Craig Fahey Johnny Bad’s: blues jam
w/Wan-tu
Murphy’s: Brian
Derry
Brookstone: Dan Webster Bergeron Duo
Shaskeen: Josh Logan
Strange Brew: Mike FioDover
Barley Pub: bluegrass jam retti Band
Unwine’d: Chad LaMarsh
Jimmy’s: DJ J Jigga
Kelley’s Row: DJ Coach WB’s: DJ Bob, Aaron
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
RJ’s: DJ Big Pez
Top of the Chop: Tony
Milford
McManis
Pasta Loft: Morgan & Pete
Durham
Nashua
Acorns: Paul Caraher
603 Lounge: karaoke
w/DJ Misty
Epping
Holy Grail: Chris O’Neil Boston Billiards: DJ Roberto
Fody’s: Josh Logan
Peddler’s Daughter:
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: The Beloved Few Mindseye
Studio 99: Bryan Thomas
Londonderry
Homestead: Joe McDonald Newmarket
Stone Church: The Vegas
Whippersnappers: KT
Report with The Alibi District
and The Fuse
Thursday, Dec. 10
Auburn
Holidays: Just Us
Portsmouth
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Stu Sin- Blue Mermaid: Nickie
Farr, Courtney Brock
Brewery Lane: Andrew
Merzi
Press Room: Bob Halperin
Red Door: Riddles
Ri Ra: Wise R Katubadrau
Friday, Dec. 11
Allenstown
Ground Zero: The Thickness
Boscawen
Alan’s: Alan Siebert
Brookline
Griffing’s Side Traz:
karaoke with Shadow
Concord
Barley House: Amorphous Band
Green Martini: The Kitchen
Makris: Not Dead Yet
Pit Road Lounge: Code 3
Dover
Barley Pub: Charlie Strater
Brick House: Gazpacho
Kelley’s Row: Big John
and The Twins
Epping
Holy Grail: Aaron Denney
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Johnny Bravo
Village Square: Stompin
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Black Brimmer
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
Bo’s Riverside
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Breezeway Pub
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
Chandler’s Grille & Bar
1181 Elm St., 836-5115,
City Sports Grille
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Club 313
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
Club Liquid
23 Amherst St., 645-7600
Derryfield Country Club
625 Mammoth Rd, 623-2880
Don Quijote
333 Valley St., 792-1110
Element Lounge
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
The Hilton Garden Inn
101 S. Commercial St.,
669-2222
Ignite Bar & Grille
100 Hanover St., 494-6225,
Jewell & The Beanstalk
793 Somerville St., 624-3709
Jillian’s Billiard Club
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
626-7636
Johnny Bad’s
542 Elm St., 222-9191
J.W. Hill’s
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Lafayette Club
387 Canal St., 623-9323
Mad Bob’s Saloon
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
McGarvey’s
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Milly’s Tavern
500 Commercial St., 6254444
Moe Joe’s
2175 Candia Rd, 668-0131
Murphy’s Taproom
494 Elm St., 644-3535
New England Revival
Coffehouse
Calvary Fellowship Church,
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550,
nerch.org
Olympic Lounge
506 Valley St., 644-5559
Rocko’s: Only Blood Will
Tell, Armor For The Broken,
Hampton
The Awakening, Pangea,
Wally’s Pub: Before the Hive Smasher, Machine
Crash
Language, Shot Down Sun
Shaskeen: Toolfist
Hudson
Strange Brew: Love Dogs
Johnny’s: Dirty 3rds
Unwined: instrumental jazz
Linda’s: Sarah B & Company WB’s: DJ Midas, DJ Jian,
DJ Bobby G
Kingston
The Kingston 1686 House Milford
Tavern: Mike Belkas
Pasta Loft: Groove Thang
Shenanigans: Catfish Howl
Londonderry
Homestead: Paul Luff
Nashua
Whippersnappers: Last Amber Room: DJ Jonny
Kid Picked
C, DJ Danny D
Black Orchid: Doug Mitchell
Manchester
Boston Billiards: DJ Roberto
Black Brimmer: Jimmy’s Fody’s: Chad LaMarsh
Down
Gate City Pub: Ramone
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Haluwa: The Toni Knott
Chandler’s: Grinning
Band
Lizards
Martha’s Exchange: DJ
Club Liquid: Renegade Miso, Brian Lemire
Soundstation
Peddler’s Daughter:
Club 313: DJ Susan
Ronan Quinn
Esthera, karaoke w/CJ
Sky Lounge: Mama Kicks
Derryfield: Crash Girl
Stella Blu: Siroteau
Element: DJ Daddy Dave Acoustic Duo
Jillians: The Spinz
Studio 99: Steer/Sargent/
Mad Bob’s: Damage
Stern Trio
Moe Joe’s: Warlocks
Murphy’s: Best Not Broken Newmarket
(Cans for a Cause food drive) Stone Church: Old
Piccola: Matt Frye
School Percy Hill
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
Silo’s Steakhouse
641 DW Hwy, 429-2210
Milford
American Legion
15 Cottage St., 673-9804
The Pasta Loft
241 Union Sq., 672-2270
Shenanigans
586 Nashua St., 672-2060
Nashua
The Amber Room
53 High St., 881-9060
Black Orchid Grille
8 Temple St., 577-8910
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.,
595-2121
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Country Tavern
452 Amherst St., 889-5871
Estabrook Grill
57 Palm St., 943-5035
Fody’s Tavern
9 Clinton St., 577-9015
Gate City Pub
56 Canal St., 598-8256
Haluwa Lounge
Nashua Mall, 883-6662
Killarney’s Irish Pub
Holiday Inn, Exit 4,
888-1551
Laureano Nightclub
245 Main St.
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
4 Canal St., 595-9831
Pine Street Eatery
136 Pine St., 886-3501
The Polish American Club
15 School St., 889-9819
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
Stella Blu
70 E. Pearl St., 578-5557
Villa Banca
194 Main St., 598-0500
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Plaistow
The Sad Café
148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid Island Grill
The hill at Hanover and High
streets, 427-2583
Brewery Lane Tavern
96 Brewery Ln, 433-7007
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
The Music Hall
104 Congress St., 433-3100
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,
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.
Raymond
Strikers East
4 Essex Dr.
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
Jocelyn’s Lounge
355 S. Broadway, 870-0045
Maggie May’s
326 S. Broadway, 893-4055
Sayde’s Restaurant
136 Cluff Crossing Rd,
890-1032
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Seabrook
American Legion Post 70
169 Walton Rd
Players Bar & Grille
920 Lafayette Rd, 474-6001
Prime Time Sports Grill
620 Lafayette Rd, 7607230, primetimesportsbarandgrill.com
Sunapee
Sunapee Coffee House
Methodist Church, Route 11
Windham
Jonathon’s Lounge
Park Place Lanes, Route 28,
800-892-0568
Melvin
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] no
later than noon on Monday. (E-mailed links to
updated Web sites are also be appreciated.)
Peterborough
Harlow’s: John Cowan
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Doug
Baker Blue Yodel Night
Brewery Lane: DJ SKD
Gas Light: Elijah Clark,
DJ Koko P
Press Room: The Serfs
Red Door: KC Hallett
Ri Ra: Mugsy
Salem
Blackwater: Rob Breton
Jocelyn’s: M.C. Renn
Concord
Barley House: Scott Solsky
Green Martini: Kenny Weiland with The Roof Top 3
Hermanos: Joe Deleault
Pit Road Lounge: Code 3
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Annita & Jeff
Village Square: Spins
Hampton
Wally’s Pub: Funnel
Derry
Hudson
Burgundy’s: Pop Farmers Johnny’s: The Chris Fitz
Band
Dover
Linda’s: The Slakas
Barley Pub: Qwill
Brick House: Roots Nation Londonderry
Reggae
Homestead: SEV
Kelley’s Row: The Modu- Whippersnappers:
lators
Souled Out Show Band
Seabrook
Player’s: The Rockoholics Epping
Holy Grail: Robert Charles
Saturday, Dec. 12 Epsom
Boscawen
Circle 9 Ranch: Karen
Alan’s: Those Guys
Morgan
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Last
Laugh
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Chandler’s: country music
Club 313: DJ Bob, CJ
Brookline
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Goffstown
Country Mile: Jeff Davis Village Trestle: Common Derryfield: Chafed
Knowledge
Element: DJ Took
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Milford
Shenanigans: Best Not
Broken
Newmarket
Stone Church: Superfrog
Peterborough
Harlow’s: Dave & The
Daddy-O’s Band
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Artty
Raynes
Gas Light: Ryan Hal-
Monday, Dec. 14
Concord
Salem
Barley House: dinner
Blackwater: Danny Sky jazz w/Dave Tonkin
Hermanos: State Street
Seabrook
Combo
Player’s: Drop Zone
Dover
Sunday, Dec. 13
Top of the Chop: Dave
Concord
Ogden
Hermanos: State Street
Combo
Londonderry
Whippersnappers: jam
Dover
w/Gardner Berry
Barley Pub: Joe Gattuso Trio
Manchester
900 Degrees: blues jam
Durham
Element: Cabaret De
Acorns: John Franzossa Boheme
Duo brunch
Shaskeen: Scalawag
Goffstown
Village Trestle: blues
jam w/Wan-tu
Newmarket
Stone Chruch: Elizabeth Parmalee
Hudson
Linda’s: Tim LaRoche
Portsmouth
Press Room: jazz w/
Zumbao Tres
Red Door: Hush Hush
Sweet Harlot music series
Ri Ra: Oran More
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Gardner Berry & David
Stephanelli
Manchester
900 Degrees: blues jam
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Club 313: karaoke w/CJ
Element: DJ Sharon
Shaskeen: The Spain
Brothers & Friends, traditional Irish session
Strange Brew: blues jam
Nashua
Studio 99: Jason Myles
Goss, Mia Giovanni
Newmarket
Stone Church: Gospel
Brunch and open mike
w/Dave Ogden
Portsmouth
Press Room: Seacoast
Comedy
Friday, Dec. 11
Nashua
Amber Room: Nick’s
Comedy Stop
Big Band Holiday Show
Ri Ra: Rocky (Irish)
Tuesday, Dec. 15
Concord
Barley House: traditional Irish session
Hermanos: Draa Hobbs
hosted by Dually
Shaskeen: Manchuka
Strange Brew: Strange
Brew All Stars
Newmarket
Stone Church: bluegrass
jam w/ Dave Talmage
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Portsmouth
Press Room: Larry
Garland Jazz Jam, open
mike w/ Rick Watson
Wed., Dec. 16
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike w/Steve Naylor
Hermanos: Mike Morris
Dover
Barley Pub: Moon Minion
Kingston
The Carriage Towne Bar
& Grille: Mike Belkas
Manchester
Black Brimmer:
Stomping Melvin
Moe Joe’s: open mike
blues jam w/ Catfish Howl
Strange Brew: Scott
Barnett
Unwine’d: Craig Fahey
WB’s: DJ Pat
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Milford
Pasta Loft: open mike
w/ Morgan Pete and Ryan
Bossie
Dover
Brick House: acoustic
open mike with Anthony Nashua
Vito Fiandaca
Fody’s: Kevin Horan
RJ’s: DJ J-Smooth
Peddler’s Daughter:
Revels Glen
Hampstead
Studio 99: bluegrass jam
Pasta Loft: acoustic open
mike w/ Mike Belkas
Newmarket
Stone Church: Lonely
Manchester
Gus and the One Night
Black Brimmer: DJ
Stand feat. Chris O’Neill
Chad Ardizzoni
Fratello’s: blues jam
Portsmouth
w/Wan-Tu
Red Door: PB Kidd
Milly’s: open mike
Ri Ra: Granite Men
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THIS WEEK and beyond
Saturday, Dec. 12
Monday, Dec. 14
Wed., Dec. 16
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester
Headliner’s: Steve Scarfo MCAM (540 Commer- Shaskeen: open-mike
cial St. in Manchester): comedy night
Raymond
comedy contest (7 p.m.)
Striker’s East: Kenny
Rogerson and Tom Hayes
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
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Nashua
603 Lounge: DJ J Smooth
Amber Room: Club
Circus with DJ Charlie
Black Orchid: Brian Kellett
Fody’s: Jesse Magnusson Band
Haluwa: The Toni
Knott Band
Peddler’s Daughter:
Amorphous Band
Martha’s Exchange:
DJ Miso, Brian Lemire
Simple Gifts: Bill Staines
Slade’s: The Old #7 Band
Stella Blu: Rampage Trio
Studio 99: Liz Simmons, Flynn Cohen,
Hannah Sanders
liburton, DJ Pez
Press Room: TJ Wheeler & The Smokers
Red Door: Lord Bass
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
Mad Bob’s: Craving Lucy
Milly’s: Eternal Embrace,
Beneath the Stone, Potsy
and Mortuus Ortus
Moe Joe’s: DJ and karaoke
w/Empire Entertainment
Penuches: Manchuka
Piccola: Oscar’s Fault
Rocko’s: For the Fallen
Dreams, Stray From The
Path, Lionheart, Upon
A Burning Body, Cruel
Hand, Trials, Me VS Me,
Vril, Last Shot, Los Bungalitos, The Sloans
Shaskeen: Joshua Tree
Strange Brew: Paws Up
Unwined: instrumental jazz
WB’s: DJ Bobby G
The Yard: Tom Dixon
Band
NITE
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Across
1 Leon Uris novel “___ 18”
5 Enter
9 Uses as a source
14 Shape of some mirrors
15 It now includes Lat. and Lith.
16 Muhammad Ali’s daughter
17 Macho way to say “dandruff”?
19 How bad grades are sometimes written
20 Jackson or Johnson
21 Category for everything else:
abbr.
23 Night before
24 They may get stroked
26 Drying-out stage
28 Watch chain
31 “Hedwig and the Angry ___”
33 Wine refused in “Sideways”
36 “He’s a complicated man/but
Velma
“Bank Job” — you’re getting colder. By Matt Jones
no one understands him/but his
woman”
38 Shankar on the sitar
40 “Slithy” “Jabberwocky”
creature
41 Like Shaquille O’Neal
42 Rocky and Bullwinkle’s
nemesis
43 Graceful swimmer
44 Airport near Paris
45 2007 NBA Draft #1 pick Greg
46 He voices Shrek
47 Currency replaced by the
euro
49 Musician descended from
Herman Melville (hence the
name)
51 “Marble” deli loaf
52 Perot, formally
54 Exhaled response
56 Blood-type system
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58 Ticket leftover
60 Childbirth assistants
64 Fictional typing tutor Beacon
66 What somehow happens to
the vegetables in your TV dinner?
68 Beyond husky
69 Muppet with his pet fish
Dorothy
70 Bullring yell
71 Cobb, for one
72 “Liquid sunshine”
73 Word that can precede either
word in 17- and 66-across and
11- and 30-down
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
you just ran over?
12 Abbr. on a mountain sign
13 “No Ordinary Love” singer
18 For real
22 Mid-tournament rounds
25 Atlantic catch
27 Bohemian
28 Camera setting
29 Frequent site for flight layovers
30 Tool used to clean out the pits
in kiddie playlands?
32 Group of wives
34 Egg producer
35 Edgy
37 It may get jammed under
Down
your windshield wiper
1 N.Y.C. gallery
39 Italian restaurant selections
2 “One Day in the Life of ___
42 Be a braggart
Denisovich”
46 “___, it’s full of stars!”
3 Arrive at the airport
(“2001” line)
4 Woodard of
48 Threw out
“Desperate
50 Tries for, in an auction
Housewives”
53 Awesome
5 Chew, as with 55 Smarts
a rawhide bone 56 “Good Times” actor John
6 “Charter” tree 57 The Who’s “___ O’Riley”
7 Prop, really
59 Horror actor Lugosi
8 Polite refusal 61 Mane man?
9 “Think outside 62 Fuzzy style
the box,” for
63 Put away your carry-ons
instance
65 “Love ___ Battlefield” (Pat
10 James Bond Benatar)
creator Fleming 67 “___ dreaming?”
11 That sharp
nail in the road ©2009 Jonesin’ Crosswords (edi-
[email protected])
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this puzzle, call:
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Reference puzzle
#0443.
12/3
By Dave Green
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column, and every 3x3 box contains the
digits 1 through 9.
Last week's puzzle answers are below
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4 2 6
3 7 9
8 1 5
1 9 2
6 3 7
5 8 4
7 6 1
9 4 3
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Hippo Crossword
SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from chef Bobby Flay, born Dec. 10,
1964.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “Chiles seem to frighten otherwise brave people, who handle them hesitantly and
worry that they’ll be too hot.” —Bobby Flay’s Bold American
Food. You are otherwise brave but may find yourself momentarily frightened by a tiny spicy object of desire. Master your
fears or risk a bland experience.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “One thing I don’t use is
dried herbs—to me, they all taste like tea. … Nothing beats
fresh herbs, and they are easy to find at most greengrocers
and even at supermarkets.” —Boy Meets Grill. A focus on
freshness is key to your success this week. Pay close attention
to what’s newly harvested.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “There is some controversy over whether it is better to cook with the grill lid closed or
open.” —Boy Meets Grill. Others may try to draw you into a
debate over something that is ultimately trivial. Recognize the
pros and cons of each side, then make a choice and move on.
If you have the opportunity, try both ways for yourself.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “When people put something
down on the grill, the tendency is to start moving it around
immediately, so it won’t stick. Actually, the opposite happens:
if you move it too soon, it’s bound to stick.” —Boy Meets Grill.
Don’t move it too soon. Be on the lookout for counterintuitive results. Pay close attention, like a scientist investigating
a new process.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “My feeling is, now that we
have the technology, we might as well use it, but that’s strictly
personal.” —Boy Meets Grill. Only you can decide what level of technological intervention is right for your life. You’re
likely to find some formerly annoying tech to be at least
momentarily useful this week.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “Forget the bells and whistles and keep your equipment simple…” —Boy Meets Grill.
Someone will tempt you with fancy, complicated gadgetry or
accessories that are not necessary. They are likely to do little
more than distract you. Your best bet right now is to stay simple as long as you have what you need.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “Fancy and exotic ingredients don’t make great cooks.” —Boy Gets Grill. You need
practice, practice, practice. It won’t matter much what materials you’re using; the focus for you right now should be on
technique and skills. Read the procedure manual and watch
the experts, too.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “Lighting your fire is a lot
easier now than it was just a few years ago.” —Boy Meets
Grill. Make the most of the heat.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “Oh, and one more thing: please
remember to melt the cheese completely!” —Bobby Flay’s
Burgers, Fries & Shakes. Melted cheese could make all the
difference this week.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “The burger is incredibly popular, but is it truly appreciated?” —Bobby Flay’s Burgers,
Fries & Shakes. Stop and take the time to offer true appreciation to something you frequently enjoy all too thoughtlessly.
Express your gratitude in a concrete way.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “Just because your bun is soft
does not mean that it has to be tasteless.” —Bobby Flay’s
Burgers, Fries & Shakes. You will find a way to combine two
or more seemingly contradictory or unrelated features into
one successful and synergistic presentation.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “Look at dessert as a whole
other gig — that’s how I do it. To me, desserts are almost like
a separate meal.” —Bobby Flay’s From My Kitchen to Your
Table. Enjoy a really wonderful dessert. You might even be
able to create it yourself. Share.
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FOR SALE
“GIVE THE GIFT OF
WARMTH” THIS HOLIDAY
SEASON! Seasoned
& Kiln Dried Firewood.
$250-$300/cord. Free
Delivery within 15
miles of Henniker.www.
wood4burning.com or
603-428-3746.
ANDRE’BESSETTE TREES
ARE BACK! AT 121 South
River Road (Wayfairer
Parking Lot) in Bedford.
Large Assortment and all
size trees. 603-237-8895.
CHRIS’S WINDOW
CLEANING: Quality
cleaning at low prices.
Streak free guarantee.
BEST RATES IN THE STATE.
Call 603-341-0482.
WATSON FARM: CUT
YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS
TREES. 30 WATSON
ROAD, BELMONT, NH.
CALL 603-267-8118.
DAYLIGHT HOURS
ONLY. ALL TREES $30.
BALSAMS.
DO YOU NEED MORE
ENERGY?: 100% Natural
products at affordable
prices.30 day money
back guarantee. Call
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Santa and Holiday Pictures
Bring your Pets
$10.00 Per Picture
3 Picture Minimum
Put on CD
Call 603-566-5790
For Appointment
BEAUTIFUL 1/2CT
HEART SHAPED
DIAMOND RING
FOR SALE. Paid
$1000 Perfect, CCC.
603-485-1199.
CHOOSE AND CUT
CHRISTMAS TREES:
Complimentary Wagon
rides, hot cocoa and
hot apple cider avail.
on Saturday’s. Our own
Maple Syrup and Pure
Honey for sale. Closed on
Sunday’s.603-673-9077
or miracleacresfarm.net.
Miracle Acres Tree Farm
523 Mason Road Milford,
NH
FIREWOOD FOR
SALE: SEASONED, CUT,
SPLIT AND DELIVERED
$250 A CORD. CALL
603-434-1212
FRESHLY CUT
CHRISTMAS
TREES: Variety of
trees,Wreaths,Kissing
Balls. West Manch.
on Mains Street (in
OPUS parking lot)
603-533-5511
Autos for Sale
BMW X5 SUV 2001:
Automatic, silver, all black
leather seats, all auto
windows, sun roof, Price
$14,500. Call George at
603-391-2688
WANTED
WOULD LIKE TO
BUY OLD VINTAGE
CLOTHING! Purses,
shoes, hats, costume
Jewelry, 20’s-60’s eras.
Call Kathy 603-669-1584.
BUYING VINTAGE
(PRE 1970) JEWELRY,
Christmas Ornaments,
Sterling, Rosaries,
Buttons, Clothing,
Pottery, Souveniers,
Small Furniture. Call Deb
603-540-7052
DIABETIC TEST STRIPS
WANTED Will pay up
to $10 per box. Call
623-3954.
I BUY OLD MAGAZINES.
All types.From 1-1000.
Sports,Cars,Motorcycles,
Fashion,Music.Call
603-206-5643.
OLD BOOKS, cast iron
door stops, cast iron
banks, old picture frames,
and old photographs.
437-0775.
WANTED Pinball
Machines & Arcade
Video Games. Any Type.
Any Condition. Call Gary
603-471-0058
WILL$ TOWING We Pay
Ca$h for Mo$st Junk
Car$! 23 hr $ervice. Greg
603-670-3771.
SERVICES
AFFORDABLE
MASONRY: Steps,
walkways, walls, etc. “NO
JOB TO SMALL” Call Jim
603-232-1199
ALL PLOWING
SERVICES!: Commercial/
residential. Big & Small.
Manchester & surrounding
areas. Prof./depend. Fully
insured. Refs. avail. Call
Ken at 603-765-7653.
ANNE’S QUALITY
CLEANING: Immediate
openings. Full or partial
cleaning 12 years exp.
Free est. 603-463-7347
ANYWHERE FITNESS:
Private In-Home Personal
Trainer. Specializing in
Body Weight Movement
and Functional Movement.
Free Consultation. Ask for
Jesse at 603-219-9575 or
Anywheretness@gmail.
com
CHRIS’S DISCOUNT
TIRES: New and used,
quality tires at discount
prices. Delivery service
available. BEST RATES
IN THE STATE. Call
603-341-0482
COMMERCIAL SNOW
PLOWING: Snow
plowing,removal,
shoveling and sanding.
Call Jason at Old
School Landscaping.
603-325-5246.
GUTTERS CLEANED OUT:
Expert Service. Good
Rates. 603-341-0482
K. V. CLEANING
SERVICE All Natural
Products • Home or
Ofce Cleaning • Free
Estimates • Call Keila
for an appointment
603-689-3260.
LITTLE DOGS INN: Loving
care for your small dog in
our home. 603-848-5058
or leave message on
machine or e-mail at
[email protected].
MANCHESTER PLOWING:
Absolute best commercial
and residential snow
plowing,sand and
FINE PRINT
Phone: 625-1855 x25 Fax: 625-2422
E-mail: [email protected]
SOFT PELLETS FOR
HORSE BEDDING:
High absorbency, Cleaner Stalls,
Reduces Dust! Save Money!
$149.90/ton plus delivery
or $125 for pick up
in Goffstown, NH.
Delivery throughout NH
Call 1-800-PELLETS(735-5387)
or www.WoodPellets.com.
PREMIUM WOOD PELLETS:
$249/TON. Quantities
limited. Odd lots, sold as-is.
Brands vary. Pick up only at
WoodPellets.com. 84 Daniel
Plummer Road. Goffstown, NH
03045. Call 1-800-PELLETS
(735-5387) for information.
shovel. Insured. Call
603-645-SNOW(7669) or
manchesterplowing.com
SNOWPLOWING: Snow
Blowing, Shoveling and
sanding.Commercial or
residential. 603-627-4634
or 603-533-5511.
APARTMENTS
1, 2 & 3 BEDROOM APTS.
EAST MANCHESTER.
Starting at $700/mo.
Ht/Ht Wtr included.
Section 8 welcome.
Call 603-512-1290 or
603-512-2910.
503 BEECH STREET:
Exceptionally clean, quiet,
furnished rooms. Fridge,
microwave, full kitch/liv.
rm., laundry, parking. All
utils.inc. $120/wk.Call Jim
at 603-234-6890.
AMOSKEAG
APARTMENTS:
Walking distance to
downtown,Verizon
Center and restaurants!
Newly renovated units.
Units include: heat,hot
water,cooking gas,open
area deck.Selected units
have dishwashers,room
fans and new carpets.
Please call 603-778-6300.
Studio
RIVERSIDE
APARTMENTSALLENSTOWN, NH: All
utilities included! Large
studio apartments, parking,
coin-op, patio & storage
units. $550/mo. Call
603-582-6109.
1 Bedroom
MANCHESTER WEST
SIDE: 583 Hevey Street. 1
Bedroom apt. on second
oor. HW included and free
use of W/D. Parking for one
(maybe two) cars. Storage
in basement. Small pets
maybe. No Dogs. $625/mo
& S/D 603-641-3085.
MANCHESTER: 1
bedroom, heated
apartment,1st oor,off
street parking,large yard,
section 8 welcome,great
neighborhood.$725/mo
Call 603-234-1543.
MANCHESTER: 1
bedroom, 3 large rooms,
off street parking, large
yard, good neighborhood.
Section 8 welcome.$700/
mo. Call 603-234-1543.
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303 PINE STREET,
MANCH: 1 Bedroom, safe,
clean and secure. All Util.
$165/wk. 603-566-1920.
2 Bedrooms
EAST MANCHESTER: 2
bedroom, New bath and
kitchen, new carpet and
oors, fenced yard, large
covered porch, w/d hookup.
$850/mo.& util. www.
palmerbrothersventures
.com or 603-321-1051.
NORTH END: GREAT
NEIGHBORHOOD! 2
BEDROOMS, 1ST FLOOR,
LR, DR, SUNPORCH, NEW
WINDOWS, GAS HEAT, OFF
STREET PARKING. $1100/
mo. NO UTILITIES. CALL
978-764-7000
NORTHWEST
MANCHESTER 2 BR, 1
BA apt. Off-street Parking.
$750/Mo. plus utils.
Call Joe at 895-3849 or
885-3695.
NORTHWEST
MANCHESTER: Large 2
bedroom. Nice area, dead
end street.W/D hookup,2
car parking. $775/mo &
Sec. No utilities,No pets.
Call 603-497-8589
3+ Bedrooms
MANCHESTER EAST SIDE:
4 Bedroom apartments.
Bright, clean & quiet.
Renovated. Each includes
parking, yard and private
porch. Storage avail..
Section 8 welcome. NO
DOGS. From $1115
heated.603-424-2442.
LARGE SUNNY 1ST
FLOOR: 3 bdrm, 1 BA,
washer/dryer hookup,
storage, parking, NO PETS.
$895/mo. 111 Third St.
Manch. 603-666-7378
Houses for Rent
MANCHESTER
RIVERVIEW: Cape, 3
bedrooms, 2 full baths,
large deck, central air, NO
Smokers, NO Pets. $1550/
mo & utils. 603-622-4056.
DEERING TRI-LEVEL
HOME: 2 bedroom, 2
bath, private entrance on
lower level.Private Yard,
washer/dryer, LP/Wood
heat.$1185. Stigliano RE.
603-672-1985. Must See!
PITTSFIELD HOME: 3 BR,2
BA,parking,large yard,non
smokers, pets nego.,avail.
now.$1250/mo & sec.
603-625-8393.
Roomate wanted
in my townhouse in
Nashua.$650/mo. Utilities
included.Call Lisa @
603-661-4608.
Roomates
ROOMATE WANTED in
my townhouse in nashua.
$650/mo. Utilities
included. Call Lisa @603661-4608
AUTO BUYERS GUIDE
2006 FORD F-350 XLT
FX4, Lariat, Powerstroke,
4x4, Diesel. $28,995.
1-866-275-1846
2003 JEEP LIBERTY
LIMITED Roof, 4x4, Auto.
$8,695. 1-866-275-1846
2005 TOYOTA RAV 4S
Gray, Roof, Auto, AWD.
$13,995. 1-866-2751846
2004 TOYOTA TUNDRA
Maroon, TRD, 4x4,
Leather, Step Side.
$19,995. 1-866-2751846
2004 CHEVY
TRAILBLAZER LS
4x4, Auto, Real Clean!!
$11,995. 1-866-2751846
2002 FORD F250 Black,
XLT, Quad Cab, 4x4.
$13,995. 1-866-2751846
2004 DODGE 1500
Blue/Silver, SLT, Quad
Cab, Low Mileage, 4x4,
70k. $13,995. 1-866275-1846
2001 FORD F250 Blue/
Silver, Plow, 4x4, XLT,
Auto. $13,995. 1-866275-1846
2004 CHEVY 1500
Green, 5.3L, Z-71, Auto,
4x4. $12,995. 1-866-2751846
2006 GMC 2500 HD SLE
4x4, Crew Cab, Duramax
Diesel. $23,995. 1-866275-1846
2004 FORD F-350 Crew
Cab, Lariat, Roof, 5.4L,
4x4. $16,995. 1-866-2751846
2006 GMC 2500 HD SLE
Duramax Diesel 4x4, Crew
Cab. $23,995. 1-866-2751846
2002 CADILLAC
ESCALADE Black, Real
nice truck, Loaded, AWD.
$16,995. 1-866-2751846
2005 NISSAN FRONTIER
Gray, S.E., 4x4, Crew Cab,
Auto, V6. $15,995. 1-866275-1846
2003 GMC 1500 Z71
SLT, Quad Cab, 4x4,
22” Wheels, Leather.
$18,995. 1-866-2751846
2001 FORD F350 Quad
Cab, 4x4, Lariat. $13,995.
1-866-275-1846
2003 FORD RANGER
Maroon, XLT, 5 Spd,
4x4, Quad Cab, Loaded.
$9,995. 1-866-275-1846
2003 CHEVROLET 1500
Charcoal, Plow, 17K, Like
New. $16,995. 1-866275-1846
2002 FORD F350 White,
7.3L, Auto, XLT, 8ft. Bed,
4x4. $14,995. 1-866-2751846
2003 GMC 2500 HD
Pewter, Avail Cab, SLT,
6.6L, Duramax Diesel,
Loaded, 4x4. $18,995.
1-866-275-1846
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
The Continuing Crisis
In October in Orange County, Calif.,
Billy Joe Johnson, who had just been
convicted of murder as a hit man for a
white supremacist gang, begged the judge
and jury, in all sincerity, to sentence him
to death. Johnson knew that those on
California’s death row get individual
cells and better telephone access, nicer
contact-visit arrangements, and more personal-property privileges than ordinary
inmates. The Los Angeles Times reported that the state’s spending per death-row
inmate is almost three times that for other inmates. The current death-row census
totals 685, but because of legal issues,
only 13 have been executed since 1977
(compared to 71 death-row fatalities
from other causes). In fact, Johnson was
so eager to be put on death row that he
tried to confess to two murders that no
one yet knew about.
The Continuing Crisis
• Lisa Blair and her six sisters were
enjoying a Thanksgiving meal in Hamilton, Ontario (in Canada, Thanksgiving
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News That Sounds Like a Joke
• In September, prominent chocolate
food engineer Hanna Frederick introduced
her latest concoction at a conference of
the Meat Industry Association in New
Zealand: dark chocolate truffles tinged
with venison and salami. Said Frederick:
“There’s this smoky taste to start, then a
strong chocolate flavor comes in, and at
the end you have this wonderful taste of
salami.” Earlier in the year, she had introduced chocolates injected with Tongkat
Ali, a Southeast Asian herb reputed to
stimulate testosterone production.
• In August, the Thorpe Park amusement
facility in Chertsey, England, posted signs
on its roller coaster admonishing riders not
to wave their arms during the ride. According to director Mike Vallis: “We’ve found
that when the temperature tops 77 degrees
(F), the level of unpleasant (underarm)
smells can become unacceptable, and we
do receive complaints.”
Family Values
(1) Kenny Jackson, 30, was arrested in
St. Paul, Minn., in August after rampaging
through his house, destroying furniture and
menacing his son, 4, upon finding the boy
wearing a blue shirt, which happens to be
the color favored by a rival gang (to Jackson’s Bloods). (2) In April, Helen Ford was
evicted from her home of 30 years in Cambridge, Mass., the result of, she says, being
tricked by her son six years earlier to sign
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was Oct. 12), when they began noticing
suspicious flecks in the food and realized
that their necklace lockets, containing the
ashes of their mother (who had passed
away two weeks earlier) were leaking. A
local funeral services store restocked and
sealed the lockets.
• In November, researchers roaming
the depths of Scotland’s Loch Ness in
a submarine, looking for the legendary
monster, reported finding mainly “hundreds of thousands” of golf balls at the
bottom, from popular use of the lake as
a driving range. A recent Danish Golf
Association report lamented the slow
decomposition of golf balls (taking 100
to 1,000 years), and one U.K. legislator
has called golf balls “humanity’s signature litter.”
• The October “Miss Asia” beauty pageant in Hong Kong mostly followed a
traditional script, but special bonus competitions were added, according to a
report in The Straits Times. Contestants
appeared behind boards with only certain
body parts exposed so that judges could
comment without knowing which woman they were observing. Breast-judging
turned out well for each of the three finalists, as did waist-judging. However, the
judges had harsh words for two contestants’ hair. Wang Zhi Fei was criticized
for “lots of dandruff and oily scalp,” and
Wang Chen learned the hard way that she
had significant “signs of hair loss.”
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• Veteran marathoner Jerry Johncock,
81, was four-fifths through the Twin Cities Marathon in October when he was
overtaken by a medical problem common to men of his age: urinary blockage.
As he stopped to discuss his plight with
officials, noting that he would have to
quit the race to get to a hospital before
his bladder burst, a spectator overheard
the conversation and offered him the use
of a “spare” catheter he had in his car.
Johncock repaired to a rest room, administered the catheter, and returned to finish
the race.
• Shipments of Ford passenger vans
arrive each month in Baltimore from
a Ford plant in Turkey, but each time,
workers immediately rip out the nondriver seats and replace the side windows
with steel. The reason, according to a
September Wall Street Journal report, is
to avoid an expensive tariff on imported “delivery vans,” which is 10 times the
tariff on “passenger vans.” Ford found
it less costly to re-fit passenger vans
than to acknowledge importing delivery
vans. Ironically, the tariff was imposed in
1963 specifically to protect the U.S. auto
industry from foreign imports.
• In October, Poland’s Polskieradio
reported a settlement in the 18-month
legal battle between two neighbors in
Mikowice over a plastic bucket worth
about $4.50. One had sued, accusing the
other of ruining the bucket by kicking it.
The respondent had elaborately offered
proof of innocence by submitting video of the neighbor continuing to use the
bucket as before, but the neighbor had
countered by calling an “expert” witness,
who examined the bucket and concluded
that it was probably damaged.
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the house over to his “business associates”
(who recently defaulted on the mortgage).
Her son is former college and pro basketball player Rumeal Robinson, 43, who is
under federal indictment for bank fraud.
Ford (for exemplary community service)
and Robinson (for basketball fame) are
both prominent citizens of Cambridge, and
the house in question sits on Rumeal Robinson Way.
Names in the News
(1) The victim of fatal gunshots in Buffalo, N.Y., in October: Mr. Mister Rogers,
23. (2) Arrested for flashing women in
Annville Township, Pa., in October: Mr.
Hung Thanh Vo, 19. (3) Sentenced for
burglary in Portland, Ore., in November
(for a December 2008 incident in which
he, nude, was detained by the 88-yearold female homeowner, who had grabbed
hold of his scrotum): Mr. Michael G.
Dick, 47. (4) Arrested (for the second
time; the first was also reported in News
of the Weird) for prostitution in Forsyth
County, Ga., in October: massage parlor
employee Mi Suk Yang, 47.
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new status and legally marry, and continue their devotion, even though Charlie
remained sexually attracted only to men.
Read News of the Weird daily at www.
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Classic (August 2007)
Widower
Charlie
Bonn
Kemp, 77, of Vero Beach, Fla.,
took especially hard the loss of
his wife, Lee, in 2006 because
she was unquestionably the
love of his life even though the
couple had stopped having sex
even before they got married in
1978. According to a June 2007
St. Petersburg Times profile,
Lee had been Charlie’s gay lover for 26 years, until revealing
in 1978 that he could no longer resist the urge to become a
woman, and especially a housewife. Such was their attachment
that, following Lee’s full sex
change, she and Charlie decided to take advantage of Lee’s
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