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BY JODY REESE
pUBLISHER’S
NOTE
Creative economy
While we’re not skating
out of this thing unscathed,
New Hampshire has fared
much better during this
economic downturn than
any of the states around
us.
Our unemployment rate is 6.2 percent
compared to more than 10 percent in
Rhode Island and more than 8 percent in
Massachusetts. When the reporter for the
Manchester Express went down to Southern
New Hampshire University to talk to those
hordes of jobs seekers, he found that most of
them were from out of state.
So what does New Hampshire have going
for it? Small businesses and a growing
creative economy.
This week’s cover story explores part of
that work by looking into our great mill
buildings to see a growing world of business
and art. It helps that our state government
is less invasive than most and that rents are
still cheaper here than in states to the south.
Another important factor is education.
We have the New Hampshire Institute of
Art, a growing college in Manchester, and
Chester College, also a growing college that
focuses on the arts. Add the fact that New
Hampshire has a strong series of state and
private schools, including Dartmouth, and
we’re moving in the right direction.
While New Hampshire’s primary and
secondary schools have struggled with
funding issues, many of them are very good
— including the larger urban schools in
Manchester and Nashua. Kids from those
schools go off to many of the Ivy League
schools — and Hippo’s associate publisher
Jeff Rapsis attended Nashua High School
(when there was only one) and went on to
Fordham University in New York.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that we can’t forget
that education is one of the most important
elements in economic development available
to a company and a government. Sometimes
we forget. We need a school system that is
child-focused and that means the two sides
– our elected officials and the teachers — need
to find common ground to make sure we’re
doing all we can to push our kids to the next
level.
A proposal in Manchester recently to cut
the school week down to four days seems
like a bad start to this needed discussion.
In some countries, kids go to school on
Saturday too — and we’re considering a
four-day week.
Of course staying student-focused isn’t
easy. For example, towns may have to
accept an increase in school costs again this
year, but teachers and staff should seriously
consider a wage freeze. We should look
at extending school days and increasing
recesses.
That said, the news for New Hampshire
is mostly good. Our schools are some of
the best in New England and our students
clearly demonstrate that — as does our 6.2
percent unemployment rate.
Education is one of the most important tools
for economic development; let’s be sure we
remember it in bad times as well as good.
4 News
Entrepreneurship Day
approaches; New local
businesses start up;
more news in brief
12 Art and brick
Local mill buildings continue to hold an important place in their communities’ art scenes. For
art lovers, they offer one-stop shopping for works
by a diversity of painters, fabric artists, woodworkers and more. For the artists themselves,
these buildings are a place to set up shop in a
creative environment with relatively cheap rents.
We look at four such mills and the artists who
fill them.
Cover photo by Sid Ceaser, Ceaser Photography / www.
ceaserphotography.com outside the Picker Building in
Nashua. Artists pictured, from left: Albert Wilkinson, Elise
MacDonald, Mark Frank and Sara Prindiville.
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Henry Homeyer. Dave Long, Peter Noonan, Marianne
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Beth Ryan, Eric W. Saeger, Gil Talbot, Rich Tango-Lowy.
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10 Sports
19 THIS WEEK
the Arts:
20 Theater
Preview of a Full Monty; Curtain Calls, listings.
23 Art
Local Color, listings.
24 Classical
Events around town in listings.
Inside/Outside:
25 Gardening Guy
Henry Homeyer helps you with your greenery.
26 Kiddie Pool
Weekend events for the family.
27 Car Talk
Click and Clack give you their advice.
28 Treasure Hunt
There’s gold in them there closets.
31 Tech
John Andrews gets you going faster.
Other listings: Children & Teens, page 25; Museums & Tours, page 26; Nature & Gardens, page 30;
Sports & Rec, page 30; Wi-Fi listings, page 31.
32 Food
Eats Week comes to Manchester; True Brew comes to
Concord PLUS Weekly Dish; Food listings; Rich TangoLowy helps you shop in Ingredients; Tim Protzman
knows his booze; Wine with dinner; listings.
Pop Culture:
38 Reviews
Reviews of CDs, TV, games, DVDs & books.
41 Movies
Amy Diaz watches furry
animals in Earth, frumpy
reporters in The Soloist
and State of Play, frowny
hitmen in Crank High Voltage and funny supporting
characters in 17 Again.
NITE:
46 Bands, clubs, nightlife
An interview with Paula Cole; Flambeaux closes; Scorch
conquers late-night; PLUS concerts, nightlife and
comedy listings and more.
50 Music this Week
Live performances in Manchester and beyond.
Odds & Ends:
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Sudoku
Crossword
Signs of Life
News of the Weird
This Modern World
Hippo user’s guide
Classifieds:
53 Help Wanted
53 Buy & Sell Stuff
53 Apartment Guide
54 Business Directory
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NEWS & NOTES
News in Brief
ton M. Christensen; 929 undergrads and 392
graduate students are expected to attend.
Residents of Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, Merrimack, Milford,
Mont Vernon, Nashua, Pelham and Windham
may rid their homes of toxic waste on Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day,
Saturday, May 2, from 8 a.m. to noon at the
Milford Public Works Garage, 289 South St.
in Milford. The price of admission is a $10
user fee per vehicle, plus additional for electronics recycling. See nashuaprc.org/hhw or
call 424-2240.
cottontail rabbit habitat, according to a
news release from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. That award will be accompanied by
a non-federal match of $315,299, the release
said. New Hampshire Fish and Game also
gets $992,592 in federal funds for “Staying
Connected in the Northern Appalachians —
Mitigating Fragmentation & Climate Change
Impacts on Wildlife through Functional Habitat Linkages,” a project to “maintain, enhance,
and restore habitat connectivity for 41 widerange and forest-dwelling species of concern
including Canada lynx, American marten,
wolf, black bear, and bob cat…,” the Service
said.
United Way grants
College for veterans
Kick out Mr. Yuk
Delfeayo Marsalis. Courtesy photo.
Commencement speakers
New England College in Henniker will
award an honorary degree to jazz musician
Delfeayo Marsalis (brother of Wynton, Branford and Jason) and he will give the keynote
address at the school’s 62nd commencement
ceremony on Saturday, May 16. The school
will have 230 graduating seniors and 130
master’s degree recipients.
Southern New Hampshire University in
Manchester will hold its commencement the
same day and will award honorary degrees
to New Hampshire poet Wesley McNair and
New Hampshire businessman Robert Finlay. SNHU’s commencement speaker will be
Harvard Business School professor Dr. Clay-
Heritage United Way, headquartered in
Manchester, approved $1,539,500 in program
grants on April 16 supporting 49 local health
and human services programs in New Hampshire for the year starting May 1, according to
a press release. The receiving programs must
report quarterly on their progress toward community goals. The grants provide unrestricted
operating support for the programs. See www.
heritageunitedway.org.
Money for nature
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
recently announced an award of $731,975 to
the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department to restore 1,200 acres of New England
New England College has announced new
tuition benefits for veterans: The Post-9/11 GI
Bil and the Yellow Ribbon Program, through
the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, will
allow veterans to attend any undergraduate or
graduate program at NEC with no charge for
tuition or fees for books or supplies. Details
are available from the school’s admissions
office at 428-2223. NEC was founded in 1946
with veterans’ educational needs in mind, the
press release said.
Because every day is boys’ day?
Gov. John Lynch has proclaimed April 30
to be the first annual Girls Day at the Statehouse. More than 50 girls from programs
throughout New Hampshire (including Girls
Scouts and Girls Inc.) will participate in guided tours and a question-and-answer lunch with
legislators. The event is supported by the New
Hampshire Women’s Alliance (nhwomenslobby.org) and the New Hampshire Commission
on the Status of Women (www.nh.gov/csw).
Those who teach
The seventh annual Teachers as Researchers conference will be held at the University
of New Hampshire at Manchester on Friday,
May 8, with registration at 8 a.m. and presentations scheduled until 3:50 p.m. The
conference is the capstone event for the
UNHM Master of Education and Master of
Arts in Teaching programs, according to a
UNH press release. More than 30 presenters
from around the region will attend, including UNHM degree candidates, novice and
veteran classroom teachers, community members and curriculum specialists. The keynote
address will be given by Indiana University assistant professor Gerald Campano, a
Carnegie Scholar and author of Immigrant
Students and Literacy: Reading, Writing, and
Remembering. “The seventh year of the TAR
Conference should not be missed by anyone
interested in learning about new trends and
methodology in the field of education,” the
release said. For information, call 641-4318
or e-mail [email protected].
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Stephen Abbott is figuring the economy is
keeping money tight across the board. But that
doesn’t mean people don’t want to read; they
just might not want to pay as much to do so.
Abbott opened Abbott ePublishing in Manchester last month and will offer online books
at an average of $6 each and none more than
$8. With no printing or distribution costs,
Abbott can keep prices low.
“Part of it is economics,” said Abbott, who
owns Abbott Public Relations as well. “People don’t have the money, $15 to $25 to buy
a book, but they might have a few dollars for
an e-book.”
The online publishing company has started
out with about 30 books, which Abbott said
was a bit unusual, as many online publishers start with only a handful. Abbott offers a
variety of book subjects, such as business, literature, history, humor, philosophy, politics
and travel.
“I’m a writer,” Abbott said. “I built my
[public relations] business on writing. This is
a natural extension of that.”
A key for online books is keeping them
shorter. Most are within the 75- to 100-page
range.
“People want a quick read, they want information or they want to be entertained,” Abbott
said. “Shorter books make more sense for
today’s life.”
Abbott is actively looking for writers, who
would receive 50 percent of royalties. It’s not
an open forum for writers, but Abbott said he’s
eager to get “unpublished people published.”
George Polley is the company’s first signed
fiction author. He specializes in short stories
based loosely on Japanese folklore. Polley’s
two books are selling well so far, Abbott said.
Abbott himself authored Hot Jobs in a Cold
Economy: Service Businesses You Can Start
for Little Cash, published April 15.
“The response has been good so far,” said
Abbott, who has done very little advertising
and has instead relied on Facebook and Twitter to get the word out. Most books on the
site are offered in both Adobe.pdf format and
mobipocket formats. Visit www.abbottepub.
com.
Jittergram
“Walk in, show your phone, save money”
— that’s the name of the game for Bedfordbased JitterGram.
Businesses, mostly restaurants and spas so
far, can use JitterGram, a social mobile marketing company, to send coupons and deals to
customers through text messages. Customers,
who can sign up for free, can join online, via
text message and over the phone. The service
is set up by zip code, so users receive deals
from local businesses. People can sign up for
all the businesses with the service in the area or
one, said Katie York, who handles marketing
and communications. Visit www.jittergram.
com to peruse the list of merchants.
The company officially launched in September 2008, but it has “basically just gotten
off the ground in the last couple months,”
York said. When people go on vacation, they
can sign up for the location they’re going to
and receive text-messaged deals there. Once
the trip’s over, users can simply opt out, which
can also be done by phone call, text message
or online, York said.
The first month is free for businesses. The
text messages are completely spam-free. People have to sign up to receive them, York said.
JitterGram also offers JitterNation, which
allows users to discuss JitterGram online. “It’s
another social networking platform,” York
said.
Since it’s based in southern New Hampshire,
most of the merchants are in New Hampshire,
but it’s growing in Boston and the company
has businesses in New Orleans and California signed on, York said, adding the company
has a bunch of businesses in Manchester and
is building up its base in Nashua. To sign up,
dial 877-551-7711 from your mobile phone.
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On Feb. 2, Anne McDonough, who is the
mother of three children, opened the online
store Take-A-Peek Boutique (www.tapboutique.com) out of her Salem home. The store
specializes in children’s clothing, dancewear, gifts for new babies, diaper bags and
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“There’s not a lot in the area,” McDonough
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the ones that are accessible don’t carry everything people want. “When you have kids, you
don’t have a lot of free time to be running
around all over the place.”
“It’s pretty much for convenience,” she said
of the Web site. McDonough initially planned
to open a physical store along with a Web site.
While doing her research ahead of time, she
found stores with Web sites often weren’t able
to put the time into their Web site that it needed — “They can’t keep up with both,” she
said. Given the troubling economy, she figured it was safer to just go with a Web site.
McDonough said she’s been able to keep
her prices lower than typical boutiques.
“I tried to stay with more everyday prices
considering the economy,” McDonough said,
adding that if things pick up she may bring in
some higher-priced options to supplement her
product lines. For now, she says shoppers can
easily dress their child at her store for less than
$50.
McDonough, who studied fashion and has
a background in marketing, ships her products
from her home, typically once her children
have gone off to bed, she said.
Considering that fashions and the seasons
are always changing, McDonough said she’s
constantly updating her product line.
“If you don’t see it today, that doesn’t mean
it’s not going to be there tomorrow,” she said.
Call 234-3946 or send e-mail to [email protected].
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Students are taking the social issues of
New Hampshire in hand to find practical
solutions. The Social Entrepreneurship Student Leadership (SESL) Challenge is nearing
its close and students are readying for the
state finals.
High school and college students formed
teams of five to eight members to tackle
social challenges. There were 11 high school
teams and 10 college teams this year. Beginning with the virtual kick-off Feb. 10, teams
have creatively tried to piece together strategies to address issues in the Granite State.
Teams competed regionally this week, and
the top six teams from each division move
on to the state competition Monday, May
4, which Gov. John Lynch declared Entrepreneurship Day. The final competition will
take place at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
“Their presentations have really wowed the
judges in the past,” said Executive Director
Elizabeth Foy, whose non-profit organization, Leadership Teacher, helped established
the challenge. “Their articulation, their quality of research and their persuasiveness.”
Projects this year have focused on the
environment, raising visibility for disease,
integrating students with disabilities into the
general student population and raising awareness for historical attractions. Since 2006,
more than 300 high school students have
competed in the challenge, which is an initia-
tive of the Center for Real World Education,
an umbrella organization connecting classroom learning with real-world experience.
For three years the program has been open
to high school students statewide. This year
the program included a college division as
well.
“They start to recognize their strength
individually and as a team,” Foy said. “Their
self-confidence improves. They recognize
that their ideas matter. It makes them feel a
sense of accomplishment and a sense that
they can make a difference...”
Not only does the finished product potentially help solve a New Hampshire problem,
it also allows students to gain valuable
experience working on something they are
passionate about — all in a team environment — which is important as they’ll soon
enter the real world, Foy said last fall.
The experience helps students develop
skills in communicating, problem solving
and creative thinking, Foy said, and feedback
from business leaders helps fit the program
to skills businesses are looking for.
Student videos from previous years are
available at www.youtube.com. Visit www.
seslchallenge.org to learn more or to register for the May 4 state finals. Winners will be
recognized at a dinner sponsored by the New
Hampshire High Tech Council on May 4.
Student presentations are open to the public.
Lunch costs $35 per person but includes keynote speaker Jessica Jackley, who co-founded
www.Kiva.org, the first person-to-person
lending Web site.
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We don’t need no Monday education
The Manchester school board may be at least entertaining the idea of a fourday school week. According to a story in the Monday, April 20, Union Leader,
such a move could save $1.6 million (in reduced bus and utility costs and an
estimated reduction in the need for substitute teachers), the president of the
Manchester Education Association said. The plan would include a lengthening
of the other four school days by 90 minutes, the article said. So instead of
most kids getting out around 2:30 p.m. (or, at some city schools, around 2
p.m), students would be getting out around 4 p.m. — still an hour or so before
many people’s quitting time. And they would have Mondays off. While the
13-year-old QOL would have given a “dude, sweet!” to this idea, the adult
QOL questions the wisdom of creating new hurdles for families looking to
hold jobs (the key to affording homes) in Manchester and of creating an entire
day when kids have limited supervision.
QOL score: -1
Comments: Is this secretly a plan by Bedford people looking to sell their
houses to get us to follow Manchester’s Ward 12 alderman in her plans to
move out of the city to start a family?
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To belt, or not to belt
Seat belts in the news: Merrimack High students and others compete in a
team safety belt challenge (in which four kids try to rotate around the seats in
a police cruiser, getting seat belts on as fast as possible), according to a report
from The Telegraph. Meanwhile, the debate continues among state lawmakers
about requiring seat belts for adults (New Hampshire is the last state not
requiring adults to buckle up). If we’re teaching the kids about seat-belt safety,
shouldn’t that eventually take care of getting adults to buckle up?
QOL score: -1 (because all this seat belt talk is giving QOL drivers’
ed flashbacks)
Comments: Despite Massachusetts’ seat belt law, their buckle-up
rate is lower than ours.
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We’re number 11!
But when it comes to breweries per capita, 11th in the nation (the
Granite State’s rank) is pretty nice, particularly when it means that for
every 87,721 of us there is a brewery (15 in all) producing delicious,
refreshing beer (excuse QOL while for wiping a bit of Homer-Simpsonlike drool from QOL’s chin). Vermont and Maine have New Hampshire
beat for breweries per capita, according to the Brewers Association (www.
beertown.org). Vermont is top in the U.S., with one brewery for every
32,698 people (a total of 19 breweries there); Maine ranks fourth. We can
take comfort, however, in beating Massachusetts, which ranks 23rd.
QOL score: +1
Comments: Eleventh place is OK by QOL as long as Maine and
Vermont share.
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ers like Jeff George, who had his moments
but spent more time wrecking teams with a
surly personality and me-first ways than turning them into winners like Peyton Manning
did after going first overall. Though George
doesn’t have the most destructive personality
of a high QB pick. That was Ryan Leaf, who
set the Chargers back years after being taken second overall in 1998 by lasting just three
years, thanks in large part to a personality that
only a mother could (maybe) love.
What I’m saying is that while drafting well
is a critically important component to building a contender and staying at the top of the
league, as the Patriots have done since Coach
B arrived, it’s still a crap shoot. And unless
you do it well, and have people who can identify players in the low rounds — like they did
with Tom Brady at 199 or like Danny Ainge
has in finding four straight good players in the
second round when NBA teams rarely get one
— the draft can have an expensive down side.
So my question is, are number one picks overvalued by NFL teams vs. what you can see
in front of their eyes, like in the case of several QB-hungry teams this winter? Some are
lining up to take one in the draft or go with
mediocre guys at best because they wouldn’t
part with a number one for Matt Cassel, who
was very solid in his first year as a starter.
And in the case of Minnesota, who are going
with Tavaris Jackson, who can’t play, it’s
particularly nuts, because if they have decent
QB play they’re arguably the best team in the
NFC. Seems to me a number one is worth a
trip to the Super Bowl.
That’s because people treat those picks
like gold and would rather give up their first
born than a first or high pick even when it’s a
known quantity coming back like the Patriots
did when they smartly gave Miami a second pick for Wes Welker as he was headed
to free agency. With him catching over 200
balls already, could they have done better
with a number-one pick, let alone a second?
Not likely. And they made similar deals for
Randy Moss and Corey Dillion that paid big
dividends. So it makes me wonder why more
people don’t see that and do the same thing
when you can get great value from a player who you KNOW can perform in the NFL
instead of giving too much value to a top pick
when there’s a 25-percent chance they’ll be
an expensive bust. Especially now in the free
agency era when good players often don’t
stay with the team that drafted them as long
as they once did.
One of the few who took the opposite view
was George Allen when he coached the L.A.
Rams and Redskins starting in the ’60s. He
hated draft picks and was always willing to
trade them for reliable veterans who were, to
quote Hillary Clinton, ready to go on day
one. That was really true with Washington,
who went ELEVEN years without a numberone pick. And on draft day in ’72 he traded
away so many (his first seven) he had Commissioner Pete Rozell laughing out loud
while announcing the final move. And while
most frown on that route, it should be pointed out he’s behind only John Madden and
Vince Lombardi in all-time NFL winning
percentage.
Then again the Steelers and Cowboys
dominated the 1970s after abandoning the
traditional method of drafting for need in
becoming the first teams to take the best athlete available regardless of position. It made
them bigger, stronger, faster and eventually deeper. In 1974 alone the Steelers got an
astonishing four Hall of Famers in a single
draft. And as the good players piled up in Dallas they flipped expendable veterans to bottom
dwellers for more high first-rounders where
they got terrific players like the Manster (half
man, half monster) Randy White and Too
Tall Jones for parts they didn’t need.
So it works either way and, like in most
things, it’s decision making and being able to
judge talent that counts most. Because in the
end all a first-round pick is is a tool to get
where you want to go. Which for the Vikings
is the Super Bowl, and if they don’t get there
with the team they have, it’ll most likely be
because they were penny wise and pound
foolish with their number-one pick.
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The NFL draft
arrives this weekend, which to many
who follow football is
nearly as much fun as a playoff game. They
love the pre-draft intrigue, the maneuvering
up and down the board on draft day and Mel
Kiper Jr.’s big board and mock draft.
But most of all, almost everyone loves the
number-one picks more than anything. That
includes personnel people who do it for a living. These picks are guarded by most with
their football life. Funny, though, while most
think first-rounders are a lock to be an impact
pro, each year around 25 percent turn out to be
anywhere from mediocre to a flat-out bust.
Take the 2003 draft, which now offers
enough time gone by to judge how everyone turned out. With Carson Palmer at the
top pick, the Bengals beat their history, which
over the previous 20 years saw them blow
it on the first overall pick TWICE and seven of the nine times they’ve been in the top
six. Though I’d say Palmer’s USC teammate
Troy Polamalu, taken at 16 by the Steelers, is
probably the best player. But 11 of the 32 players picked either go into the “still around but
are nomads” or “flat-out bust” categories led
by Charles Rogers out of Michigan State at
number two and New Orleans sixth pick Jonathan Sullivan, who are both already out of
the league. And with David Carr the top pick
and Joey Harrington going third, 2002 is even
worse. According to my grading system it had
four A selections, 11 Bs and 11 Ds or Fs. And
of the 64 players selected in the first round of
those two drafts, 32 are with different teams
and seven are out of the NFL entirely!
Looking further back to the first combined
AFL-NFL draft in 1967, when Michigan
State’s Bubba Smith was the first pick, an
astonishing 11 of the 41 players taken first
overall have been a complete bust for what
was expected of them. That group includes
the serviceable but not close to great Kenneth Sims with the Patriots in 1980, Ki-Jana
Cater and Big Daddy Dan Wilkinson in
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Smith all in just this decade! And that doesn’t
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Trinity baseball wins 11-0,
Central shuts out Merrimack
The Numbers:
4 – goals scored by Marc
(pep) Perroni in leading Central to an 11-3 win
over Memorial in Class L
Lacrosse action as Justin
(time) Colvin chipped in
with three more for the Green.
10 – points scored by oneman band Cameron Lencki
as Derryfield lacrosse got
by Merrimack Valley 1612 thanks to Lencki’s seven
goals and three assists.
19 – goals by the Pinkerton
lacrosse squad in a 19-2 win
over West as Teagan Norris was high man with five
al Dawson Dickson had 15 points and tourney
MVP. High-scoring honors went to versatile
North LL star Carmen Giampetruzzi with 18
and Pat Keefe, whose dad just led Trinity to the
state title in basketball, had 14. No word in on
Coach of the Tourney honors but since the Cats
were 5-0 you’ve got to think head man Tommy Dickson and, stepping over from the media
side, assistant coach CJ McCarthy have to be
in the running.
Injured List: The hits just keep on coming
for Chris Carpenter as he went to the DL last
week for up to eight weeks with an oblique
muscle tear in his ribcage. It occurred when he
was up 3-0 on the D-backs in a game St. Louis
eventually lost 7-6.
Sad News of the Week: It was learning of the
death of Central great Stan Pinkos, who passed
away in Las Vegas of a heart attack at 56. He
was legendary all-state running back and defensive back for the Green in the early ’70s
Walk-Off Award: While it wasn’t actually a
walk-off, Brie LaRoche’s homer had almost
the same effect as it came in the top of the 10th
to break a scoreless tie and gave Central a 1-0
win as Tanya Robideau shut out Merrimack on
just three hits and struck out 11.
Sports 101 Answer: Rusty Staub, who had
2,716 hits total with five teams over a 23-year
career, got the 500 with Houston, Detroit and
over two stints with Montreal and the Mets.
and Brian Estes and Tom
Auger added three apiece.
12 – first-half goals scored
by the Londonderry laxsters
in an 18-3 win over Souhegan when Kayla Green and
Dana Boyle each scored five
goals. They followed that
with a 22-0 win over Salem
and a combined 10 more
goals and 16 points overall.
14 – strikeouts by Rachel
Hedge (fund) while allowing six hits in Memorial’s 6-2
win over G-town.
27 – saves made by Scott
Greer as Phaneuf Funeral Home and Crematorium
burned LeClerc State Farm
THE SITE OF
Insurance 6-2 to capture
the Amoskeag Cup in the
over-40 ice hockey action. 29 – runs scored by Derryfield in a 14-1 and 15-0
doubleheader sweep of Nute
when Steve Burke and Dean
O’Reilly both pitched onehitters and combined for
eight hits.
65 – Dice-K-he-ain’t
astonishingly efficient pitch
count of Trinity’s Dylan
Clark in the aforementioned
1-0 win over Concord, when
he allowed just two hits and
struck out 14 over six innings.
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The Big Story: You’ve got to like the start of
the Trinity baseball team fresh off the heels of the
boys’ Class L title in basketball. They jumped out
of the box 2-0 thanks in large part to the pitching
and hitting of Dylan Clark and Garrett Cole.
They combined to shut out Concord in a 1-0 win
that ended when Connor Lyons (and tigers and
bears oh my!) knocked in Sean Lyons with two
out in the seventh. Then Cole came back to nohit Timberlane over five innings in an 11-0 win
that was sparked by two Clark home runs.
Sports 101: This one comes from my friend
Pete K via ESPN. Name the only player in baseball history who got at least 500 hits with four
different teams.
Wolves Winners: Hey, nice crowd on hand of
6,353, at the Verizon Wireless (plug, plug) Arena on Saturday when the Wolves were 74-53
winners after crunching Albany as James (pretty in) Pinckey threw for seven TD passes and
ran for another as he won the Russell Offensive
Player of the Game Award. The win moved the
Wolves to 2-1 on the year. The Wolves will be
back at it this Saturday at the V vs. Tri-Cities,
who comes in at 0-3.
Out-of-Town Scores: It was a nice ride for
the Manchester YMCA Wildcats at the 60th
annual Connie Bean Basketball Tournament at
the city’s legendary Community Center. They
took the 7-8th-grade division with a 69-50
finals win over the Hampton Heat. Floor gener-
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Sports Glossary
George Allen: Bill Belichick of his time
as top defensive coordinator/genius with
the 1963 NFL champion Bears, eccentric
head coach for the Rams and Redskins
in the 1960s and ’70s. Hated draft picks
more than Rush hates Democrats and
showed it by trading almost everyone he
had. It worked, though — his 116-47-5
is third best all-time. Got to the big game
just once when his Redskins were the final
victim in Miami undefeated season.
Bubba Smith: At 6’7” 280 pounds,
behemoth for the DE out of Michigan
State the last time it was ranked number one in all the land. That it was back
in 1966 lets you know times haven’t been
the same at MSU since. Best MSU crowd
chant when he went in the game: “Kill,
Bubba, Kill.” Was one of four from MSU
taken in the first round of the ’67 NFL
draft. But the three-time All-Pro is probably better known by the above-the-Tarrier
Line crowd as Moses Hightower in the
sophomoric but funny Police Academy
movie series.
1967 NFL Draft: First-ever joint draft
held by the NFL and AFL when 13 of the
26 drafted in round one could be called
busts. It had the aforementioned MSU four
taken in the first eight picks, along with
three future Hall of Famers: the late NFL
Player Association chief Gene Upshaw,
Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan
Page and Bob Griese, who was Miami’s
QB in their undefeated season of 1972.
The biggest bust? Florida’s Heisman Trophy-winning Steve Spurrier, who went
number three overall but never did much
in 10 seasons with the 49ers and Bucs.
1974 Pittsburgh Steelers Draft: Arguably the greatest one-day haul in NFL
history as they selected four of the five
Hall of Fame players selected in the 1974
draft. Even more amazing, they did it with
just one pick in the first round, not to mention picking at the bottom of the order.
After they got Lynn Swann out of USC in
round one, Jack Lambert came in round
two from Kent State, John Stallworth
followed in the fourth and center Mike
Webster a round later. In case you’re wondering, it was their arch rival Oakland who
got the other Hall member in that draft by
taking tight end Dave Casper one pick in
front of the ferocious Lambert.
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Great Events in Manchester
Edwards Central To Sending West South In 1999 Win
It was April of 1999. Jason Krog of UNH had just won college hockey’s most prized honor as the Hobie Baker Award winner
for that year, while classmate Jerry (Hall of Mont) Azumah was less than a week away from being drafted by the Chicago Bears.
Strange Brew Tavern just opened in Manchester, Roger Clemens pitched his first game in pinstripes for the Yankees and UL scribe
Vin Sylvia had just signed off on the Red Sox for the first time in 31 years after they’d let Mo Vaughn walk during the off-season.
Locally there was the first diamond meeting of the year between Central and West at Gill Stadium. Chris Edwards was on the
mound for the green and turned in a virtuoso performance. It was a scoreless tie until the fourth - when Central got to Blue Knight
starter Andy (3rd degree) Burns for four runs. Chris (had a nice) Day got it started with a single, which was followed by walks
to Jeff Stone and Andrew Statires and then Edwards helped his own cause with a two-run double. And while the big lefty did walk
five batters, he took it from there shutting down West on just four hits on 115 pitches in going the distance to get a win in what was
another great event for Manchester.
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There’s a service elevator, and I was told
to watch where I stepped — that someone
had lost their lunch near it. At the end of one
hallway are giant doors that were opened to
let in spring sunshine and air.
Usually, things are by appointment in 21
West Auburn.
Manchester Mills at 21 West Auburn St. is
the kind of building where you need to leave
a trail of bread crumbs to find your way out.
It’s a place where people go to get work done
without bothering about presentation. Some
tenants put signs on their doors. A lot don’t.
To find OPUS’s workspace, look down.
“OPUS” is spray-painted on a doormat.
From Manchester Mills, walk past satellite dishes near WMUR toward the baseball
stadium, and you can find the shiny floors
and the well-marked companies of Langer
Place, which recently allowed the public to
wander through some of its studios as part of
the Open Doors Manchester Art and Cultural Tour on April 16 (look for the next Open
Doors and its accompanying Langer Place
open house on Thursday, June 25 — see
majestictheatre.net for a map).
Both buildings currently house several
creative businesses, and both are in Manchester’s former mill area.
Nashua has two mill buildings that hold a
similar place in the artistic community — the
Picker building and the #6 Mill Annex. Go to
any of these mills and you’ll find not only art
but new business in these old buildings.
From left: Albert Wilkinson of A.W. Emboss, Elise MacDonald
of Studio99, Mark Frank of Renaissance Glassworks and
photographer Sara Prindiville of Plastic Camera Studio. Photo
by Sid Ceaser Photography. www.sidceaserphotography.com
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Langer Place
Sheehan Academy of Painting,
which nationally known artist
Dennis Sheehan
opened recently after having a
studio and later a gallery in the building.
Walker noted that the concentration of visual arts education has grown in Manchester, with
places like Paul Ingbretson’s Studio of Drawing and Painting (also in Langer), Sheehan’s
academy, and the Currier Museum of Art and
New Hampshire Institute of Art.
Whereas many Langer tenants have interesting custom-made entrances to their spaces,
Paul Ingbretson’s studio door is rather plain
and unassuming. Thus it’s somewhat surprising when you enter the studio and find out it
extends far down the north side of the building. Huge hanging cloths separate the vast area
into eight or nine work spaces, each with window access.
During the April 16 Open Doors, students
hosted visitors and talked about Ingbretson’s
rigorous training program, which can accommodate up to 18 students. They are part of
what’s considered the Boston School of painting. Paul Ingbretson is president of the Guild of
Boston Artists — the first to hold that place was
Edmund C. Tarbell in 1914.
“This is called
a
professional
enhancement program,” said Irene
Woss, who has studied with Ingbretson
for about six years.
Students start with
drawing, for about a
year or more, Woss
said; they work on
still life, then fig-
ures, then portraits. Often
there are landscape workshops
before they break for the summer (studio.ingbretson.com).
Commercial
photographer Althea Haropulos has
worked from Langer for about
10 years, although she normally shoots on location, doing corporate and
public relations work. It’s easy to use her space
as a gallery during public events like Open
Doors, she said. She usually tries to show other
artists during these events. She used April 16’s
Open Doors to show photos a friend took at Mt.
Everest.
There are several photographers in the building and they have been known to borrow things
from each other. Larry Dunn does mostly
advertising photography, Jeff Dachowski does
portraits, and Diane Sage does weddings, Haropulos said.
“It’s funny, because I was the first photographer,” and the Langers asked Haropulos if she
would mind if another moved in, Haropulos
said. She’s seen a lot of changes in the building
The Adrienne Silversmith Fine Art studio
during open Doors Manchester, April 16.
Jack Reader with an exhibit of
photos he took trekking Mt. Everest, at
photographer Althea Haropulos’ studio
during open Doors.
Fabric art set up for a special event at
Hatfield Gallery.
Althea Haropulos’ converts her studio
into a gallery usually to show other
artists’ work during open Doors.
Painted gourds by Micheline at Hatfield
Gallery.
Amy Sullivan at Sullivan Framing inside
East Colony Fine Art.
Kye Power, Inc., specializes in women’s
golf clothing. The space opens for some
retail business during open Doors.
otherwise, call for an appointment.
Richard Tucker trying out and
discussing a product at Tucker Library
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55 South Commercial St., Manchester
626-4388, www.langerplace.com
“I’ve got a real mishmash of tenants,” Jan
Langer said.
Langer Place as an artists’ space was kind of
accidental, Langer said. Paul Ingbretson was
looking for inexpensive space with north light
— natural light that doesn’t change during the
day. Artists ended up filling the north side of the
building, which the Langers had thought was
least attractive as the cold side. “They taught us
some interesting things,” Langer said.
Langer said early on, while they were marketing the building as an “artist enclave of
sorts,” businesses like packaging design engineers and patent attorneys also wanted to move
in, and said they, too, were creative businesses.
“As a result, we ended up with a very eclectic customer base in the building,” Jan Langer
said. Now they have civil engineers, photographers, manufacturing and a variety of art.
The Langers bought 55 Commercial St. in
1992. The previous owner was having some
trouble. “We were supporting the building,”
Langer said. The Langers own Plastifoam and
Avilite manufacturing companies, still run from
55 S. Commcerial St.
They’ve refurbished as needed. They let
their tenants design their own spaces, “and we
support them in an awful lot of ways,” Langer
said.
Tucker Library Interiors is one of those
niche creative businesses in Langer. Richard
Tucker’s father started the company in 1978
and it’s been located in Langer since 2002,
Tucker said. He’s been with the company since
1982, and his business partner, Cori McGrath,
has worked there for 17 years (www.tuckerlibraryinteriors.com). The company moved from
155 Dow St., also in the Millyard.
They sell furnishings and provide interior
design for public, school and college libraries
in New England — things like study carrels,
reading tables and custom circulation desks.
Their current project is furniture and shelving
for Hudson’s new George H. and Ella M. Rodgers Memorial Library (www.rodgerslibrary.
org).
Cabinet maker Ed Reinish has worked out
of Langer for more than 15 years. He does custom woodworking, including commissioned
furniture pieces and “what I call furniture-grade
interior woodworking,” Reinish said (6415147). A custom kitchen with components built
and designed like furniture is an example, he
said.
Hatfield Gallery is going on its fourth year
in Langer Place, owner Diane Boucher said. “I
love it here, it’s just right,” she said. Hatfield
offers framing services and sells art. Boucher was branching out for a two-day “Not Only
Paintings” event April 18 and April 19 with
things like painted gourds and stained glass.
You could probably fit about five gallery and
frame shops of typical storefront size in Hatfield’s two spaces. Boucher likes sharing the
building with so many working artists — she
frames for some.
“It’s never boring here,” Boucher said.
East Colony Fine Art has a corner near the
main entrance of Langer. It’s run by 26 member
artists, said member Mary Walker. Their work
includes oils, pastels, acrylic and mixed media.
East Colony also houses Sullivan Framing.
“I rent from East Colony,” Amy Sullivan said.
She’s been there for about five years and owns
the business with Cory Sullivan.
Walker has started studying upstairs at the
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over the years.
One thing that has made it easier for
creative businesses to move in is
that the Langers don’t mind splitting their building into smaller
Bits of information set up on the third
spaces. Most building owners
floor of Manchester Mills.
would rather just “blow out” a
A hall skylight in Manchester Mills.
whole floor to lease, Haropulos
you know you’ve found the oPUS
workspace when you see their doormat. said.
Ruins next to L & M Vending on
Dachowski Photo specializDepot Street in Manchester’s “Gaslight
es
in photos of people, including
District.”
weddings or commercial scenes,
Signage at Manchester Mills.
Jeff Dachowski said. He works
with his wife, Carolle, and they
have one employee, who does graphic design
and some customer service. Before they opened
a photography business, Carolle worked in
nursing, and Jeff in construction while photographing on the side. They moved into Langer
in 2003.
“When we walked into Langer [Place], we
could tell that [the owners] worked here” by
how the Langers kept the building, Dachowski said. They were also attracted to the roster of
tenants that included artists and some corporate
offices, not only manufacturing, Dachowski
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said.
“In our building right now there are seven photographers ... which is kind of crazy,”
Dachowski said. They have good relationships,
though, and sometimes pass work around, and
there are also painters, he noted. “I like the
vibe ... I think the clients notice it,” Dachowski said.
Diane Sage at Sage Studio (www.sagephoto.com, 641-5756) does weddings, portraits
and fashion photography, frequently on location, “but we like to incorporate the mills a lot,”
Sage said. She’s been based at Langer for 10
years. She likes the historic mill feel, with high
ceilings, natural light and hardwood floors, she
said.
With the new minor-league baseball field
nearby, Langer is feeling a lot of activity in
the area, Sage said. “Before, a lot
of people didn’t know where we
were,” Sage said.
Adrienne Silversmith’s Langer
studio used to be known as Art Pad.
She moved and her new space is
called Adrienne Silversmith Fine
Art
(www.adriennesilversmith.
com). It’s a working studio and
artist Heather Hilton also uses it.
Hilton also works for New Hampshire Institute of Art, where she
earned a BFA. The space is open
by appointment and for shows or
events.
Silversmith paints
mostly oils
in realism,
figures and
landscapes.
Hilton’s
work might
be
called
abstract
expressionist, Silversmith
said. Both are
also students
— Hilton in
a
master’s
program
in
Boston, and
Silversmith
at NHIA for a
BFA.
Silversmith
was an East Colony member for four years,
and moved into her own space about two years
ago, she said. She switched for north light. “For
most artists painting from life, north light is the
most consistent and desired location,” Silversmith said.
She still works with East Colony and interacts with other tenants, like sharing model lists
with Dennis Sheehan.
“I love the energy on the fourth floor,” Silversmith said.
Near Sage Studio is Keza (www.kezamedia.com, 622-3685), a multimedia, interactive
print and Web business, said Zach Heathwaite,
who owns Keza with Kelly Richard. Their clients are businesses small and large, including
Comcast. Keza created kiosks for San Francisco’s airport’s environmental campaign, where
airline patrons can offset their carbon footprints
from flying, Heathwaite said.
Keza has been in Langer for about two years,
having moved from Elm Street.
“We love the mill buildings,” Heathwaite
said. They like the history, and their ability as
renters to make changes. They were able to
gut and renovate and make it their own unique
place when they moved in.
Langer tenants also include Makers Product
Development and Stark Equipment, the New
England Models Group, Elizabeth Jones
Studio, Blue Moon Massage, Action Photo, Business NH Magazine, Celebrity Cheer
gym, Studio North, women’s golf clothier
Kye Power (www.kyepower.com, 627-8885),
artist Charles Baroody (charlesbaroody.com),
photographer Larry Dunn (www.larrydunnphotography.com, 641-6575), Full Spectrum
Wellness (www.fullspectrumwellness.com),
intellectual property attorneys Grossman,
Tucker, Perreault and Pfleger PLLC, Northeast Panels and Reliable Technologies.
Manchester Mills
21 West Auburn St., downtown
Manchester
Manchester Mills is owned by Ben Gamache
of Gamache Enterprises.
Manager Justin Gamache said creative business owners were attracted to the building’s
accessibility, its “unique structure and what the
building offers at its price. These businesses do
offer, I’d say, a positive impact to the community” and surrounding businesses. The tenants
know and talk to each other, he said.
Glass lampworker Aaron Slater shares
space with painter Jaime Grady on the third
floor. The two subdivided it into eight studios,
and they sublet to other artists. One tenant was
a trapeze artist looking for a place to stay in
shape during the winter.
Slater’s band, The Broadcasters, practices
there.
“It’s cool for me. I don’t know how cool it
is for everybody else,” Slater said. He likes to
have the instruments there, because sometimes
other people will start to play. “It’s a garage
band, weekend warrior project,” he said.
Painter Dan Greuling is across the hall
with painter Kim Logan — “I always like
going over there,” Slater said. Greuling also has
tools and woodworking equipment. “That’s my
favorite thing about having more people in the
building. I can borrow their stuff,” Slater said.
Slater has worked there for about five years.
He moved in because it was affordable. Slater
(www.aaronslaterglass.com) said the third floor
had its first open studio in March. Slater and
Grady were previously involved in the Monastery Artist Collective, which held public art
events there.
“The fact that there’s some stirrings of these
open studios makes me feel like there really is a community, sharing ideas and helping
each other. That’s what want we wanted out of
Monastery. It worked to a certain degree. But
this is nice because there’s not as much effort
involved. ... I can just try to make a living,”
Slater said.
One hallway in 21 West Auburn seems to go
straight through Cedar and Oak’s workshop.
Co-owner Mike Rousseau apparently does a
lot of directing for costumer Mary Selvoski
because of this.
Cedar and Oak makes furniture to sell wholesale to mid- to upper-end stores around New
England, Rousseau said.
They moved in last October, expanded
across the hall, and plan to expand further in
the building soon. They now have a workforce
of seven.
Rousseau said their furniture’s look is a cross
between country, Shaker and contemporary
styles. Although the name is Cedar and Oak,
their designs are mainly made from pine. Rousseau points out that their scrap does not go to
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Side, at 194 South Main St., that opened about
three years ago. It’s only been using Manchester Mills space for about six months.
OPUS does estate clean-ups, and often finds
furniture and other items that can’t be sold
as they are but shouldn’t just be thrown out
(throwing them out also involves dump fees).
So Dube, Rahill and other artisans take the solid wood furniture that has water marks or other
problems, paint it and put it on the sales floor
at OPUS. Their workshop holds drawers of
old costume jewelry pieces to decorate lamps
they’ve re-worked. They break up mismatched
China plates to use in mosaics on
furniture. Doilies are attached to pillows. Frames and mirrors are given
new life. “I cannot throw things out
that are quality,” Dube said.
Mary’s Closet is across the hall
from OPUS. Mary Selvoski and her
family moved the thousands of theatrical costumes they rent, and she
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Burlington said Museware started at Manchester Mills because the rents are very
reasonable.
Richard Little, of Little Painted Creations,
paints furniture and murals, does decorative
painting, and teaches. He moved into 21 West
Auburn about a month ago, after moving back
to the area from Florida with his wife. He grew
up in Manchester, moved to Massachusetts,
where he had a ceramic studio for a time, raised
two children, and then he and his wife tried
Florida for a semi-retirement. They’ve decided
against it year-round. Rents are reasonable and
there’s a lot of space at 21 West Auburn, Little
said. He’s interested in working with other tenants on a studio tour near the holidays.
Across the hall is Marie O’Donnell’s MDR
Quilting (627-6888). She has a long-arm quilting machine in her studio. After people piece
their quilt tops together, they send them to
O’Donnell for batting and quilting, since that
part can be hard with a regular sewing machine.
She also makes quilts by consignment and
works with people who want to learn.
O’Donnell also gives individual and small
group ballroom dance lessons in the building.
She’s been there for about six or seven years,
taught ballroom for 44 and quilted for more
than 20, she said. Like most everyone in the
building, O’Donnell works by appointment.
The Manchester Mills also includes D & D
Cabinets (www.danddcabinets.com), Semper
Fi Power Supply (www.semperfipowersupply.com) and others.
Picker Building
Some studios seem to extend into
their hallways in the Picker Building.
Some of the Picker Building studios keep up communications in the
hallways, like Renaissance Glassworks does.
The mail system and bulletin board
in the Picker Building.
and Signs in the stairwell help
visitors figure out who is on which
floor.
and Works in progress inside
Renaissance Glassworks. They are
commissioned for residential and commercial work, but also offer stained
glass classes in the Picker Building.
A Picker Building staircase.
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the dumpster. Cedar
and Oak keeps onion
bags around the shop
to collect it. They sell it to Agway, which sells it
for kindling. Rousseau’s wife, Carol, was staining a piece using water-based General Finishes
on April 15. Her brother Broderick Lang is the
other co-owner. They do business as Amoskeag Fixtures and Design (518-5123).
Cedar and Oak received help from the
Manchester Economic Development Office,
Rousseau said.
If Cedar and Oak needs a hand-painted
design or decorative work, they head upstairs
to OPUS, Rousseau said. If they need help, they
subcontract to the other furniture-makers in the
building.
“Why are we somewhat successful? Would
you want to buy a piece of country furniture
that says ‘Made in China’?” Rousseau said.
Dawn Dube, a co-owner of OPUS, shares a
third-floor space with artist Lori EberhardtRahill. OPUS (Other People’s Unique Stuff)
is a consignment store on Manchester’s West
builds, there
in the fall
after a search
for affordable
space. They
are
providing costumes
for
dancers
and a model at the International Fantasy
Hair Competition, April 23 at the Verizon
Wireless Arena in Manchester.
Brooks Tanner does custom acoustic
woodworking and makes stereo cabinetry.
His business, Resonant Woods (6279663, www.resonantwoods.com), mostly
works with high-end audio shops, which
sell the gear, and then Tanner builds the
furniture or built-in pieces. There are
several woodworkers in the Manchester
Mills, which Tanner said is “a good thing
because we all work together.”
“We each have our own customer base,” Tanner said, and if one shop needs help, another
might be able to handle it.
“Everyone has their own niche,” David
Moynihan said. His Amoskeag Furniture
and Cabinetry (www.amoskeagfurniture.com,
622-9212) has been in business for 15 years at
different Millyard locations. He does custom
wood furniture and cabinetry for homes.
“I like the feel of the mills. There’s a lot of
history here,” Moynihan said.
Sheree Burlington’s Museware Pottery has
been in Manchester Mills for more than three
years (645-6873, www.musewarepottery.com).
“We are a custom hand-painted pottery business,” Burlington said. Their primary focus
is wedding, baby and personalized products.
They wholesale to gift stores and high-end craft
galleries, Burlington said. Museware does the
hand-painting, decoration, glazing and firing
and ships nationwide. Their pieces are all func-
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Tenants had good things to say about Jack
Bolger, who owns the Picker Building.
Mixed-media artist Bonnie Guerico (www.
bonnieguercio.com, 465-2769) opened studio
space there after retiring from teaching art at
Clearway Alternative High School. She chose
her location because it’s an interesting building
at more than 140 years old, she said. When cotton was brought up from the South, the bails
would be full of weeds, twigs and bugs. Mill
girls picked that stuff out — hence the name
“Picker Building,” she said.
Many Picker artists became friendly with
the visiting sculptors at the first International
Sculpture Symposium of Nashua last spring,
she said. The next opens May 17 — “We’re
planning a dinner for them,” Guerico said.
Pennie L. Arnott-Reitano of Stepping Stones
Jewelry Designs (www.steppingstonesjewelry.com) shares her space with Out on a Limb
Pottery (www.outonalimbpotterystudios.com).
Reitano has been in Picker for about eight
years. She previously worked on murals and
painted furniture. Now, her Stepping Stones
jewelry has hand-made pottery as a focal point,
embellished with semi-precious stones, fresh
water pearls, Swarovski crystals and sterling
silver, she said.
About working in a place with other creative
businesses, Reitano said, “Oh my God, It’s so
great. We bounce ideas off of each other. It’s
very inspirational. It’s really a nice environment to work in.” The owner of the building is
“so sweet,” she said.
“I create and teach metal clay jewelery,”
said Carol A. Babineau, at Art Clay Studio
(560-5402, www.artclaystudio.com), who has
worked out of Picker for about three years.
Babineau is one of 10 master art clay instructors
in the country, she said. She’s also a member of
the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, and
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wrote Metal Clay — Beyond the Basics (Kalmbach Publishing).
Albert Wilkinson of A.W. Emboss, LLC,
has kept his laser engraving and embossing
business in the Picker Building since 2003.
He’s also a photographer. Wilkinson chose the
space for the location and price, he said. Last
year, Wilkinson photographed the International
Sculpture Symposium, which will be exhibited at Hampshire First Bank, 221 Main St. in
Nashua, during this May’s event. The sculptors
will again work at nearby Ultima NIMCO, and
Wilkinson will probably photograph it and create signs for finished work.
Mark Frank of Renaissance Glassworks
(882-1779) in the Picker said his family business does mostly custom stained glass
commissions these days, usually for private
homes, with some commercial work.
Their latest is a large job for Amherst College, a double entryway for a historic dorm
building. They teach classes in their studio and
shop at Picker, where they’ve been for almost
three years. “We like the atmosphere here,”
he said. They have a view of the river and it’s
quieter than their former Main Street location.
Having other creative businesses nearby is a
plus, Frank said. They do interact; for example,
Wilkinson works with Renaissance on projects
that involve his etching or engraving skills.
“We are a digital screenprinting company,”
said Mike Biundo of NSP Graphics (889-7474),
which does everything from political signs to
graphic design to full-color digital banners and
T-shirts. NSP has been in Picker for about 20
years, and Biundo has owned it since 2003.
“I’ve seen a huge change in the demographic make-up of those who come in,” Biundo said.
It’s changed from just manufacturing. There’s a
demand for the space, and the rent is very reasonable, he said. “It allows folks that work in
the building to do their craft and not be overburdened by how much it costs,” Biundo said.
Biundo also owns political consulting company
Meridian Communications, and he ran campaigns for Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta
twice. “I’m probably known more for politics ...
but I love the print side of it,” Biundo said.
Contract Embroidery (www.contractembroidery.net, 577-9997) does mass-production
custom embroidery jobs and screen-printing
throughout New England, down through Florida and as far west as Illinois. It has just branched
out into offering services with organic thread.
It’s been at Picker for five or six years.
“It’s interesting, because they have more of a
unique flavor to their businesses ... we do a lot
of mass productions,” said owner Mark Boiszert, of the neighbors. His company turns out
about 1,000 pieces a day, although they are still
custom and creative, he said. “We fit in, actually, very well,” Boiszert said.
When the studio artists have downtime and
Contract Embroidery needs more hands, they
hire the other tenants, Boiszert said.
Sid Ceaser and Sara Prindiville work out
of their Plastic Camera Studio (www.plasticcamerastudio.com). Ceaser does creative
editorial and headshot portraiture and fine art
photography. His fine art photos have been
represented by McGowan Fine Art in Concord
since 2003, he said. Ceaser and Prindiville have
been at Picker since 2004. It was the first thing
they did after graduating from New Hampshire Institute of Art. They knew they needed a
dedicated studio space to keep creating, Ceaser said. They’ve since moved from a too-small
space on the second floor to the fourth.
Ceaser thinks there are now eight or nine
photographers in Picker.
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“I do fine art landscape photography,” Prindiville said. Most of the time she’s using a wooden
box with a pinhole and likes to shoot things “that
don’t show the hand of man,” Ceaser said.
Prindiville mostly shoots in New Hampshire,
but also Maine and Vermont. She sells some of
her work through Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough (www.saraprindiville.com), she said.
Prindiville said of the creative businesses in
Picker, “It’s fantastic to have that environment
to bounce ideas off of people.”
Elise MacDonald is the director for Studio 99, relatively new to Picker. “Well, we’re
sort of a hybrid,” MacDonald said. Studio 99
have music education going on during the day
with a faculty of about six. Their emphasis “is
definitely on American music — jazz, blues,
bluegrass, Broadway...,” MacDonald said.
Ceaser took headshots for MacDonald and
happened to know a space was open. “I was
able to act on it quickly and move in,” MacDonald said.
They opened last August and started holding
jazz and blues jam sessions, which have continued and are open to the public with people
from high school to age 70 playing. In January
they started adding open mikes, on the second
Saturday of the month, bringing in featured artists usually from the Boston area.
“Our audiences are just amazing,” MacDonald said. “Everyone seems to understand we
are a listening room,” she said. Studio 99 isn’t
a night club — if there’s a performance, people come to listen, not to talk and hang out with
friends, she said.
Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade performed
Friday, April 17. Miss Tess was a winner of last
year’s Boston Music Awards, MacDonald said.
Ceaser photographed the band with Prindiville’s help before the performance.
MacDonald said she tries to put everything
going on on www.studio99nashua.com.
Studio 99 has “flown under the radar for a
while,” MacDonald said. But word seems to be
getting out.
They can seat 75 and have “a killer view of
the river” and the city, she said. And the Picker Building has supportive neighbors. In June,
MacDonald is working with Warm Stone
Studios and Plastic Camera for a charity art
sale. Proceeds will go to Nashua Habitat for
Humanity.
Warm Stone and Plastic Camera held one in
2006 to benefit the Nashua Soup Kitchen and
Shelter, MacDonald said. This time they wanted to add a green component, and Habitat now
builds green homes, MacDonald said.
Wild Opal (www.wildopal.com), Polyworx (www.polywerx.com), River Art Studio
(www.riverartstudios.com), Caliper Designs
(www.caliperinc.com), Infinite Image Studios
and Northern Sands (northern-sands-studio.
net) are some of the other businesses in the
Picker Building.
#6 Mill Annex
5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua
Not far from the Picker Building (which is
also near Clocktower Place, Technology Park,
and Keystone Hall) is #6 Mill Annex.
Suzanne Delle of Yellow Taxi Productions
said her professional theater company looked
for a venue for more than a year and came back
to the first place they looked: #6 Mill Annex.
She called it a little bit hip and a little bit rustic.
Peter Bonnette of P.M. MacKay made it so
“that a nonprofit organization can sustain itself
here,” Delle said of their landlord. P.M. MacKay’s Mill-House Design Center is housed
there (www.pmmackaygroup.com).
Neighboring Nashua Community Music
School keeps chairs for recitals and has been
lending them to Yellow Taxi for audience seating during performances, Delle said.
“We’re friendly with Gallery One because
they’re right next door to us,” Delle said,
although they haven’t collaborated on anything yet. Gallery One is the exhibit and class
space used by the Nashua Area Artists Association (naaasite.org).
YTP uses the building’s lobby area for a box
office for shows. However, if anyone else is
using the lobby, “we hear it,” Delle said. They
let people know when they have scheduled performances in their black box venue, and try to
be good neighbors, Delle said. Holding simultaneous events can also affect parking.
Founded in 1984, the Nashua Community Music School had used a church’s space
but moved to the Mill Annex in about 2006,
said executive director Gillian Hinkle. Hinkle
said it’s off the beaten path but convenient for
repeat visitors who know where to find them.
They now have
about 250 stuGrowing a district
Manchester City Hall has ideas
for West Auburn Street
Manchester has had some ideas
in mind for downtown redevelopment for some time.
Plans and studies for the area
surrounding the Verizon Wireless Arena include a nightlife
and entertainment section called
the Gaslight District. It’s bordered by Elm, Old Granite, West
Auburn and Canal streets, said Jay
Minkarah, Economic Development Director for Manchester.
Documents about it pre-date
Merchantsauto.com Stadium.
“There’s a lot of things
that we would like to see happen,” Minkarah said. They
have streetscape improvements
planned for sidewalks, lighting
and landscaping.
“With all of these types of
projects, there are two parts,”
Minkarah said. The public investment is mainly for infrastructure,
and that’s intended to stimulate
private development and investment, he said.
There are various ways to redevelop a district — one way is for
a private developer to come in
and follow the city’s vision. This
area has smaller property owners
and is changing in a more organic
way, Minkarah said.
Minkarah said what’s happening in Ben Gamache’s building,
Manchester Mills, is an example.
The fact that there are more creative businesses there is part of the
evolution, he said.
It may not be nightlife (although
a lot of the artists work in the evening — and there is nightlife there,
in the form of Murphy’s Taproom,
W.B.’s and Verick’s) but “if you
want to have a dynamic urban district, you want it to be mixed use,”
Minkarah said. A variety of things
could happen in Gaslight District
buildings. Some lend themselves
to retail or clubs. Upper floors
might work as businesses or residences, he said.
Next to West Auburn is Rockwell International’s property,
which has a large parking lot. That
dents and about 20 faculty members. Student
ages range between 3 and 70, although most
are school age. They offer private and group
lessons, a youth choir, a wind ensemble and
summer music camps.
Hinkle said that “a lot of these talented kids
and adults” in Peacock Players, Actorsingers or
local instrument ensembles study at the Nashua Community Music School.
“The emphasis here is on enjoyment....
That’s why we call it playing music,” she said.
Hinkle said they also work with Yellow
Taxi by offering class discounts to each other’s patrons. The school has been involved in
the Nashua Art Walk by providing music in the
past and sometimes space for artists to hang
their work.
The #6 Mill Annex also houses The Dancer’s Loft (www.thedancersloft.com, 882-0415)
and Ruth Boland Basketry (www.ruthbolandbasketry.com, 424-1234).
tenant plans to leave, and it’s the
preferred location for a possible
commuter rail station, although
that would not require the whole
site, “by any means,” Minkarah
said. The hope would be to integrate intermodal passenger rail
there, Minkarah said. It would be
a catalyst for redevelopment.
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter’s office
has an FY 2010 federal appropriations request for $10 million
for improvements to the Gaslight
District. Minkarah said that probably includes south Elm Street.
Aspirations in Nashua
In Nashua, photographer Sid
Ceaser has great hopes for the former mill building he works in.
His model is the Button Factory in Portsmouth. Its annual
holiday open studios art sale “just
goes so tremendously well,” Ceaser said. He acknowledged that it’s
had about 20 years to grow.
Jim Buttrick has focused on
artist spaces at the Button Factory
(where buttons were once manufactured) since he bought it in
1986. Dozens of artists now work
there, he said. Some just want
space dedicated to work that is
not in their home. Others are there
because they need a lot of space.
Some need the natural light.
Button Factory open studios are
held the weekend after Thanksgiving, both days from 11 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Back in Nashua, “A lot of
people don’t know about the millyard in general,” Ceaser said,
but he’s hoping Elise MacDonald brings more foot traffic to the
Picker Building with musical performances at Studio 99. Ceaser
thinks he was the only photographer when he moved in and now
there are about eight. Primarily, he
said, artists have heard about the
building from word of mouth.
If you build it…
Another mill-to-art locale on
the Seacoast, Salmon Falls Mills,
will hold its spring open studio
Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. (www.millartists.com, 7498879) at 1 Front St., Rollinsford.
Cutter Family Properties owns
it. Leanne Peloran is the general
manager with her husband.
“We have two mill buildings.
One of them, at this point, it’s all
artists,” Peloren said — and that
one is full. “The artists decided
that they really liked the mill feel
and the prices are the lowest in the
area,” Peloren said. When they
bought it in 2000, it was totally
empty, and someone suggested
that it would be good for an artist
community. “We asked if there’s
need,” Peloran said. Apparently, there was. They filled the first
couple floors in eight months.
Now more than 100 artists of all
kinds work there. It’s on Salmon
Falls River and has an “absolutely
gorgeous view,” she said.
There’s an open studios event in
November, organized and advertised by tenants. Last fall about
2,800 people attended — the town
has a population of about 2,700,
Peloran said. There’s a waiting list
for studio space.
But wait, there’s more
The artists listed in this millstory are just a fraction of what’s
happening in terms of creative
businesses in these buildings
and others like them. Painter Dennis Sheehan pointed out
that there’s all kinds of ventures
hidden in Manchester’s mills,
pointing to the rock climbing
gym as an example.
It’s hard to get an exact census of who’s working where,
especially because these are
work spaces for many people
– they aren’t set up for visitors, and many are subletting or
sharing. People and businesses
come and go. They are “organic,” to use the Manchester
Economic Development Office
term, in that they are continually evolving.
And for each artist or creative
business tucked away in a century-old or older mill, there’s
also a whole other story.
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Another school vacation thought — Canobie Lake Park opens for the season today with
hours from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. More than a century old, the amusement park (open on weekends only through May 21) is at 85 N. Policy St. in Salem (893-3506 , www.canobie.com).
Spring tickets cost $20 for kids and seniors, $23 for others. For more about local happenings, see page 25.
Thursday, April 23
Renot Lopes’ “Babies” or “bboy”
is in an exhibit of more than 100 pieces by 14 Colby-Sawyer College Fine
and Performing Arts Department students, which includes graphic design,
ceramics and sculpture. It opens with
a reception tonight from 6 to 8 p.m.
in the Sawyer Fine Arts Center on
Main Street in New London (5263000, www.colby-sawyer.edu). Find
work priced between $25 and $450.
For more about art, see page 23.
Friday, April 24
To kick off spring school vacation,
pack the kids (and probably some
warm blankets) into the car and head
to the Milford Drive-In. It’s now
open Fridays and Saturdays with
films starting at dusk on Route 101A
in Milford (673-4090, www.milforddrivein.com). Admission costs $20
per car for up to six people. Check
their Web site for the latest on movies or weather issues. For more about
film, see page 41.
Sunday, April 26
Manchester’s “Eats Week”
starts today. Find discounts, or
deals like $5.95 lunch items at
Cotton or $5 lunches at Richard’s
Bistro around the downtown
area. Visit www.intownmanchester.com for the list of eateries and
offerings or call 645-6285. For
more about food, see page 32.
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Chris Woods and LaNette Synan (seen here in a photo by director
Michael Curtiss) perform in The Elephant Man. Nashua Theatre Guild
presents Bernard Pomerance’s work,
based on the true story of a man
whose deformity left him ostracized
in Victorian Britain. See it today
at 8 p.m. at 14 Court St. in Nashua. Tickets cost $10 and $12 (www.
nashuatheatreguild.org, 320-2530).
For more about theater, see page 20.
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Concord does the Full Monty
ARTS
Plight of the out-of-work man
By Heidi Masek
[email protected]
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Wayland Bunnell is directing The Full Monty
for Community Players of Concord.
Yes, that’s a play in which guys get naked, an
interesting choice for community theater, but
Bunnell sees far past that aspect of the show.
“My primary interest in The Full Monty is
in the story itself,” he said. It deals with men’s
issues, which is rare for musicals, he said.
The central dilemma is that a father will lose
any custody of his son if he can’t come up with
child support. He and his friends have been laid
off from the steel mills, yet wives are working.
“It’s really not about stripping at all ... but
that’s kind of the factor that brings people to the
theater,” Bunnell said.
The stage version is set in Buffalo, which
went through a major recession in the 1990s and
saw thousands of people move out as steel mills
closed and the economy collapsed. “It’s very
current in terms of the present
economy,” Bunnell said.
If you go
What: The Full Monty, presented by Community
Players of Concord
When: Thursday, April 30, through Saturday, May
2, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 3, at 2 p.m.
Where: Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St. in
Concord
Cost: $12 to $15
Contact: www.communityplayersofconcord.org,
224-4905
Note: Recommended for mature audiences.
The Full Monty was turned into a 2001 Broadway musical from the 1997 British version,
Bunnell said. Bunnell saw one of the national
touring performances in Boston and was amazed
at how much of the story remains.
This is the first time amateurs stage it in New
Hampshire, according to the company.
“I’ve seen every professional production within 100 miles within the last two years,” Bunnell
said. He also said, “I’ve never seen a musical
that energizes an audience like this one does.”
The Players might have an advantage in that
most professional theaters hire younger actors.
Yet many characters in The Full Monty are
midlife. Bunnell’s cast includes people from age
12 to 76 (they don’t all strip).
Concord’s production was planned for 2008,
but the Players’ studio roof collapsed under
snow before auditions were held.
“In the intervening 12 months, the economy
went to hell,” Bunnell said. Economic relevance
wasn’t originally a reason the Players chose The
Full Monty.
It was the men’s issues — things like what
it means to be a real man or not, and employment status.
“This is absolutely a musical that men should
go see. It’s hard to get a lot of men to the theater,” Bunnell said. But the story is something
guys can relate to.
The stripping comes in, by the way, when
Jerry Lukowski (played by Kevin Roberge, a
Manchester area actor) finds out how much his
ex-wife and her friends are paying to see a Chip-
20 Theater
Kevin Roberge, Marc Willis and Jerry Smith rehearse with music director Joel Mercier.
Anne Orio photo.
pendales show.
The musical spends more time than the film
on the women’s struggle to keep afloat while the
men are out of work, Bunnell said. In that way,
women can also identify.
Bunnell said he surprisingly didn’t have trouble filling the roles of Lukowski and his friends.
It was the largest turnout he’s had at auditions,
with almost 50 people for 19 roles, he said.
“The community … is really interested in the
show,” Bunnell said.
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Most of the 2008 production staff stayed on.
Music direction is by Joel Mercier. Sue Sartorelli choreographs. Set design is by Jim Webber,
costumes by Gay Bean and Kim Miracle and
lights are by Wally Pineault. There’s a live seven-piece pit band.
This is the Community Players of Concord’s
81st season — it’s one of the oldest community
theater groups in the country, Bunnell said.
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THEATER Listings
• The Acting Loft
516 Pine St., Manchester
666-5999, actingloft.org
• Actorsingers
219 Lake St., Nashua, 889-9691,
actorsingers.org
• Adams Memorial
Opera House
29 W. Broadway, Derry,
437-0505, derryarts.org
• Amato Family Center for the
Performing Arts at Souhegan
Valley Boys & Girls Club
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 2, svbgc.com
• Andy’s Summer Playhouse
Wilton, 654-2613,
andyssummerplayhouse.org
• Anselmian Abbey Players
Dana Center, 641-7700
• Bedford Off Broadway
Meetinghouse Road, Bedford,
557-1805, bedfordoffbroadway.com
• Bedford Town Hall
70 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford
• Belle Voci
bellevoci.org, 848-7986
• Capitol Center for the Arts
44 Main St., Concord, 225-1111,
ccanh.com
• Concord Chorale
224-0770,
concordchorale.org
• Concord City Auditorium
2 Prince St., Concord, 228-2793,
concordcityauditorium.org
• 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
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• The Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588, palacetheatre.org
• Peacock Players
14 Court St., Nashua, 886-7000,
peacockplayers.org
• Phoenix Academy
25 Front St., Suite 501, Nashua,
886-2768, phoenixacademynh.com
• Profile Chorus
profilechorus.org
• School of Theater Arts
at The Amato Center for
Performing Arts
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 20
• Seacoast Repertory Theatre
125 Bow St., Portsmouth,
433-4472
• SNHU Drama Club
2500 North River Rd., Hooksett
• Yellow Taxi Productions
yellowtaxiproductions.org
• THE ALTOS ... Like the Sopranos
Only Lower, Murder & Mayhem dinner theater production Sat., May, 2, 6
p.m., to benefit the Nashua YMCA’s
Strong Kids Campaign, at the YMCA,
17 Prospect St., Nashua, 577-9530,
www.nmymca.org, $35.
• BOB DOROUGH Schoolhouse
Rock composer and lyricist performs
and discusses Schoolhouse Rock during the Jazzmouth Festival, Sat., April
25, at 1 p.m., at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth,
433-4472, www.seacoastrep.org, $10.
Kids pay their age up to $10. Senator Jeanne Shaheen joins Dorough
and the Rep’s Schoolhouse Rock Jr.
cast to talk about how a bill “really”
becomes a law.
• BURN THIS, by Lanford Wilson,
presented by Yellow Taxi Productions
May 7-May 16 at YTP, 5 Pine St.,
Extension, Nashua, $10-$25, www.
theatermania.com, 791-4558.
• CORDIALLY COLE PORTER A
Tribute to a Great American Composer dinner or dessert theater May
1-May 3, at the Majestic Theatre,
$20-$32. Reservations required.
• DON QUIXOTE presented by the
Russian National Ballet, Fri., April
24, at 8 p.m., at The Music Hall, 28
Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400,
www.themusichall.org,$20-$52.
• DUNNET LANDING STORIES
presented through puppetry by Pontine Theatre April 24-May 10 at West
End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St.,
Portsmouth, www.pontine.org, 4366660, $20-$25. Original stage adaptation of Sarah Orne Jewett’s series.
• THE ELEPHANT MAN, by Bernard Pomerance presented by Nashua
Theatre Guild Thurs., April 23 and
Fri., April 24, at 8 p.m., and Sat., April
25, at 2 & 8 p.m., and Sun., April 26,
at 2 p.m., at the Jan Streeter Theatre,
14 Court St., Nashua.
• AN EVENING OF DANCE presented by Keene State College Theatre and Dance majors Wed., April
22-Sat., April 25, at 7:30 p.m., at the
Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard
Pond, Keene, $5-$10, 358-2168.
• FULL MONTY presented by Concord Community Players, Thurs.,
April 30-Sat., May 2, at 8 p.m., and
Sun., May 3, at 2 p.m., at the Concord
City Auditorium, $12-$15.
• LUNA NEGRA DANCE THEATER of Chicago Wed., April 29, at
7 p.m., at the Dana Center, $5-$25.
• A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, by Eugene O’Neill April
23–May 17, at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack St.,
Lowell, Mass., 978-654-4678, www.
merrimackrep.org, $26-$56.
• MULAN, JR. presented by Kids
Coop Theatre May 14-15 Thurs.,
May 14, and Fri., May 15, at 7 p.m.,
and Sat., May 16, at 1 p.m., at the
Adams Memorial Opera House, $9$12, www.kids-coop-theatre.org. • THE PACT, based on a Jodi Picoult
novel, adapted by Jeannette Angell
for Yellow Taxi Productions, Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., and
Sundays at 2 p.m., through April 25,
at 5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua, 7914558, www.yellowtaxiproductions.
org, $15-$25.
• PLAY BALL! A Celebration Of Our
National Pastime in Song and Story
conceived, produced and directed by
Gary Locke through May 3 at the
Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth, 436-8123, www.playersring.
org, $10-$12.
• THE PRODUCERS Mel Brooks
musical presented by the Actorsingers
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., May
1-May 9, and Sun., May 3, at 2 p.m.,
at the Keefe Auditorium, Elm Street
Middle School, 117 Elm St. in Nashua, www.actorsingers.org, $15-$18.
• PSYCHO BEACH PARTY presented by NHTI Stage Lynx Drama Club
“spoof of 1960s ‘beach party’ movies
crossed with a bit of Alfred Hitchcockstyle psychological horror,” Fri., April
24-Sat., April 25, at 7 p.m., and Sun.,
April 26, at 4 p.m., at NHTI’s Sweeney
Auditorium, 31 College Dr., Concord,
271-8904. Admission by donation.
• RUMORS through April 26 at the
Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow St. in
Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org,
433-4472, $24-$28.
• SHOULDERS, by Jeffrey Kinghorn,
presented by UNH Dept. of Theatre &
Dance, Wed., April 22-Sat., April 25, at
7 p.m., and Sun., April 26, at 2 p.m., at
UNH Hennessy Theatre, 30 Academic
Way, Durham, 862-2290, www.unh.
edu/theatre-dance, $10.50-$12.50.
• SLEEPING BEAUTY through April
26, Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m.
at Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow St. in
Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org, 4334472, www.seacoastrep.org, $8-$10.
• THIS AMERICAN LIFE at New
York University in New York City,
shown in HD Thurs., April 30, at 7
p.m., at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut
sek
Craig Howard of Bedford, Mass., and Lisa
owen of Derry perform as Max Bialystock
and Ulla in the Actorsingers production of
Mel Brooks’ The Producers. Courtesy photo.
St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, www.
themusichall.org,$18-$20.
• URINETOWN May 8 – May 31
at the Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow
St. in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.
org, 433-4472, $24-$28.
• WHAT A WAY TO GO, first public
reading of a new play by Jay MacNamee, Sun., May 3, at 5 p.m. at the
Portsmouth Pearl, $10 donation to
Seacoast Hospice, [email protected], 918-0764, www.
WhatAWayToGo-ThePlay.com.
• VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve
Ensler, Sat., April 25, at 1 & 7 p.m.,
at the Unitarian Universalist Church,
274 Pleasant St., Concord, $7-$10.
Buy tickets at Gibson’s Bookstore,
27 S. Main St. Proceeds benefit
Rape & Domestic Violence Crisis
Center, 225-7376.
• YOLANDA FARINA, onewoman cabaret Fri., May 1, and
Sat., May 2, at 8 p.m., at Yellow Taxi
Productions, $12 at the door and at
cityartsnashua.com.
Auditions/workshops
• THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
auditions Sun., April 26, 1-4 p.m.,
and Mon., April 27, 7-9 p.m., for
Actors’ Circle Theatre’s Shake-
17 Freetown Rd #1, Raymond, NH 03077
(Located at Raymond Shopping Center)
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• Psychos on the beach: Chicklet is a
15-year-old wannabe surfer with multiple-personality disorder in Charles Busch’s
Psycho Beach Party. It’s an “outrageous
spoof” of beach party moves from the 1960s
mixed with some Alfred Hitchcock, according
to a press release. NHTI’s Stage Lynx Drama
Club presents it Friday, April 24, and Saturday, April 25, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 26,
at 4 p.m., at NHTI’s Sweeney Auditorium,
31 College Drive, Concord (271-8904). A $5
donation is suggested.
• Springtime for Hitler: Community company Actorsingers presents Mel
Brooks’ musical The Producers. Max Bialystock and accountant Leo Bloom plan to
stage a flop with Springtime for Hitler and
run off with the investors’ cash. See it Fridays or Saturdays at 8 p.m. from May 1 to
May 9, or at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 3, at
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Ball! A Celebration of Our National
Pastime in Song and
Story. It’s conceived,
produced and directed by Gary Locke and runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8
p.m. through May 3, and Sunday, April 26, at 3 p.m., at
the Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth (436-8123,
www.playersring.org). Tickets cost $10 and $12.
speare in the Park production (www.
actorscircletheatre.org) at Club Cannon, 40 Grove St., Peterborough. No
prior experience necessary. Shows
in August. Call 924-3121 or e-mail
[email protected].
• EQUITY PRINCIPLE AUDITIONS Tues., April 28, and local
Equity auditions Wed., April 29, 10
a.m.-5 p.m., at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 132 Warren St., Lowell, Mass. Actors Equity Association
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calling 978-654-7563 or e-mailing
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about shows and roles at www.merrimackrep.org.
ArT LISTInGS
Gallery Events
• 2009 SENIOR B.A. and B.F.A.
Exhibition through May 23 at UNH
Museum of Art, Paul Creative Arts
Center, 30 Academic Way, Durham,
www.unh.edu/moa, 862-3712.
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the Keefe Auditorium at Elm Street Middle
School (Elm and Lake streets) in Nashua.
Tickets cost $15 and $18; visit www.actorsingers.org or call 320-1870. Kathy Lovering
directs, with musical direction by Judy Hayward and choreography by Val Psoinos.
• “I’m Just a Bill”: Start school vacation
with a trip to Portsmouth to hear Schoolhouse
Rock composer and lyricist Bob Dorough
at a performance and discussion Saturday,
April 25, at 1 p.m. It’s part of Portsmouth’s
Jazzmouth Festival and is being held at the
Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St. The
audience will also get to see Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on stage with Dorough and the cast of
the Rep’s Schoolhouse Rock Jr. show. Tickets cost $10 for adults. Kids pay their age up
to $10. Call 433-4472 or visit www.seacoastrep.org.
• In dance: Latino and Afro-Caribbean
dance influences the ballet and contemporary
dance of Luna Negra Dance Theater of Chicago. They perform Wednesday, April 29, at
7 p.m., at the Dana Center at Saint Anselm
College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. Ticket costs range from $5 to $25.50.; call
641-7700 or see www.anselm.edu/dana.
• Break-up blues: Yolanda Farina performs her one-woman cabaret Friday, May 1,
and Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m. Farina played
Cathy in Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five
Years in 2003 for Yellow Taxi Productions,
and “Life soon imitated art,” according to
YTP. Farina’s marriage ended, and her “The
Next Few Years” follows the post-breakup
journey. It’s directed by James J. Girgenti with musical direction by Jed Holland.
YTP hosts at 5 Pine St. Extension at #6 Mill
Annex in Nashua. Tickets cost $12 at the door
or through www.cityartsnashua.org. Besides
acting, Farina sings with Afro-Cuban Armenian salsa band Black Sea Salsa and with Mr.
Ho’s Orchestrotica.
• Good cause: See a production of Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler on Saturday,
April 25, at 1 or 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 274 Pleasant St. in Concord.
Tickets cost $7 and $10 and are available at
Gibson’s Bookstore, 27 S. Main St. Proceeds
benefit the Rape & Domestic Violence Crisis
Center (225-7376).
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• 2009 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition (I)
features work by Christopher Dolan
and Gregory Poulin through May 4
at UNH Museum of Art.
• ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION through June 29 at New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Amherst and
French Building galleries (77 Amherst
St. and 148 Concord St., Manchester),
836-2573, nhia.edu. Reception Tues.,
May 17, at 3:30 p.m.
• ABSTRACTIONS, COULEURS
– MES HISTOIRES, The Abstract
Paintings of Dominique Boutaud at
the Beliveau Gallery in the FrancoAmerican Centre, 52 Concord St.,
Manchester, 669-4045, www.francoamericancentrenh.com.
• ART IN ACTION ~ Artists at
Work presented by Londonderry
Arts Council, free, Sat., May 2-Sun.,
May 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Grange
Hall No. 44, 260 Mammoth Rd.;
Higgins Barn, 87 Pillsbury Rd.; and
White Birch Fine Art, 8 Mohawk Dr.
Nutfield Sessions musicians perform
at the Grange Hall 1-3 p.m., both
days. Visit www.LondonderryCulture.org or call 432-2447.
• ART BEYOND SIGHT© juried
exhibit through May 1 presented by
the New Hampshire Art Association
and New Hampshire Association for
the Blind at Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth, 4314230, www.nhartassociation.org.
• ART CONCORD gallery walk
June 25, Aug. 20 and Dec. 3, 5-8
p.m., and Oct. 10, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
See concordnhchamber.com or call
224-2508.
• ART IN ACTION radio segment
hosted by author/artist Robin Ann
Peters Wednesdays, noon-1 p.m. on
WSMN 1590 AM.
• ART @ NOON: Liz Chalfin
owner of Zea Mays Printmaking
Studio talks about contemporary and
non-toxic printmaking Wed., April
29, noon-1 p.m., at New Hampshire
Institute of Art.
• BACK TO BASICS: Two Friends’
Perspectives features paintings by
David Preece and jewelery by Diane
Terragni through April at “Art On The
Wall At City Hall Gallery,” 1 City Hall
Plaza, Manchester, 624-6500.
• THE BAILEYWORKS ART
PROJECT in April at ellO
gallery&shop, 110 State St., Portsmouth, 433-9110, www.ellogallery.
com. Also see www.baileyworks.com.
• BRENDA WILBERT “Colors
Inspired By Joy” mixed media
exhibit in April at the Wine Studio,
53 Hooksett Rd., Manchester, 6229463, www.thewinestudionh.com.
• BUILDING BOOKS – The Art
of David Macaulay through June 14
at the Currier Museum of Art, 150
Ash St. in Manchester, 669-6144,
features more than 100 works from
the author and illustrator of The Way
We Work, and other titles.
• BUSINESS IN THE ARTS
AWARDS Gala, Mon., May 11, at
6 p.m., at the Center of New Hampshire - Radisson Hotel in Manchester,
$75, 224-8300, [email protected].
• CAROL GOVE paintings and
mixed media through April 30 at
New Hampshire Institute of Art’s
Amherst Street Gallery, 77 Amherst
St., 836-2573, nhia.edu.
• CLAY SCULPTURE CLASS
for adults with Marilyn Coon, Mondays or Thursdays at 7 p.m., May 4May 28, $175, 642-8588, mcoonl@
yahoo.com.
• COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE
senior student art exhibition at the
through May 9 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. Reception
Cam
Sinclair
“Autumn
Barn,” by Cam
Sinclair, is at Village Artists &
Gallery, 51 Main
St., Ashland (9684445),
where
his oil paintings are featured in April. Sinclair, of Plymouth, is a self-taught artist who took up painting about 30
years ago. Born in Shanghai, China, and growing up mainly in Bombay, India, Sinclair creates impressionistic work
focusing on New England.
Thurs., April 23, 6-8 p.m.
• CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
EXHIBIT through May 10 at Mill
Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Rd., Concord,
226-2046. Features work by Megan
Bogonovich, Marsha Hewitt, William McLane and James Rappa.
• DAN BROWN photography
series, “Frost,” through mid-May at
DesignWares, 206 Main St., Nashua,
882-5535.
• DAVE DODGE oil paintings
through July 31 in the Tower Gallery
at New Hampshire Antique Co-op,
323 Elm St./Route 101A, Milford,
673-8499.
• DAVE MARDEN photography in
April at Canal Street Collectibles, 1
Water St., Nashua, 886-1459, www.
davemardenphotography.com.
• DIVERSIONS through June 12 at
Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650.
• EMERGING ART exhibit by
14 graduating Keene State College
art majors through May 9 at the
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery,
Wyman Way, in Keene, www.keene.
edu/tsag/, 358-2720. Includes work
by Peter Dibble of Hudson, Lauren
Duffy of Nashua and Karla Nagele
of Manchester.
• ERNEST ELLIS Neolithic-style
stone tools in April at Sharon Arts
Fine Craft Gallery, Depot Square,
Peterborough, www.sharonarts.org,
924-2787.
• GALLERY 6 presents “From
Scribble to Finish: Illustrating Picture Books,” with work by Gina
Perry, Laura Rankin and Nathan
Walker through June 1, at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire,
6 Washington St., Dover, 742-2002,
www.childrens-museum.org.
• GARDEN IMAGERY exhibit
through April 24 at Gallery 205, 205
North Main St., Concord, 224-3375.
• GIFTS OF GRACE miniature oil
paintings by Roger Croteau at Hatfield Gallery, 55 S. Commercial St.,
Manchester, www.syncrecity.com.
• “JENN 11” the artwork of 11 Jennifers through April 30 at artstream
gallery, 56 North Main St., Rochester, 330-0333, artstreamstudios.com.
• JENNIFER WOOD photography
in April at Wilton Public Library, 7
Forest Rd., Wilton, wiltonlibrarynh.
org, 654-2581.
• JERRY MACMICHAEL “LakesRegion ArtWork” through May 7 at
OSSIAN’s Loft, 118 Beck Rd., Loudon, 783-4383, [email protected].
• JURIED ‘09 Fine Arts Student
Exhibition through May 2, at the
the Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm
College, 100 Saint Anselm Dr., Manchester, 641-7470, www.anselm.
edu/chapelart.
• KATHY TANGNEY exhibit of
watercolors through May 16 at the
Framers Market, 1301 Elm St., Manchester, 668-6989.
• KAYROCK & WOLFY: When
Art Imitates Life Imitating Art featuring Karl LaRocca and Jef Scharf
designs and art through May 13 at
the University Gallery at UMass
Lowell, 71 Wilder St., Lowell,
Mass., (978) 934-3491, www.uml.
edu/dept/art/gallery.htm.
• LISA RAE WINANT through
May 15 at the Starving Artist, 10
West St., Keene, 352-6900, www.
thestarvingartistcollective.com.
• MARC WINNAT series of pencil drawings of the old Hillsboro
Branch Rail Line through April 30
at the Nashua Library, 2 Court St.,
589-4600.
• MARCIA BLAKEMAN and
Debra Grubbs oils and pastels,
“Waterways…Frozen to Flowering,” featured through April 25 at
East Colony Fine Art.
• MARLENE SAWAF & MONICA WING: “Between the Lines”
through April 27 at Three Graces,
105 Market St., Portsmouth, 4361988, www.threegracesgallery.com.
• MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY
COLLEGE “Lost in Learning,”
exhibition of B&W photographs by
Newburyport artist Eva Timothy
through April 23, 591 Springs Rd.,
Bedford, 781-280-3803.
• MILL TOWN MEMORIES:
Views of the New England Landscape, drawings and watercolors by
Marian Cannon Schlesinger at the
Museum of New Hampshire History through May 3, 6 Eagle Square,
Concord, nhhistory.org, 228-6688.
• MONIQUE SAKELLARIOS oil
painting demonstration Wed., May
6, 7-9 p.m., at Gallery One, 5 Pine
St. Extension, Nashua, 883-0603,
www.naaasite.org, free. • MOTHER EARTH group show
through April 25 at the MAA Gallery,
1528 Elm St., Manchester, 785-6437.
• NASHUA BREAKFAST CLUB
annual exhibit through April 25 at
the Jaffrey Civic Center, 40 Main
St., Jaffrey, 465-2013.
• NASHUA SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM “Future,” the second
“Footprints: International Sculpture
Symposium” to create public artwork for Nashua May 17-June 7 at
Ultima NIMCO, 1 Pine St., Extension, Nashua. To donate or assist,
call 882-1613.
• NATURE’S TREASURES watercolors by Diane Grigas Statkum in
April at the Wine Studio, 27 Buttrick
Rd., Londonderry, 432-9463., www.
thewinestudionh.com.
• NHTI STUDENT EXHIBITION
in April at Kimball-Jenkins School
of Art, 266 N. Main St. in Concord,
255-3932.
• OUT OF AFRICA exhibit through
early June at Mariposa Museum,
at 26 Main St., Peterborough, 9244555, www.mariposamuseum.org,
$3-$5.
• PHOTOGRAPHY by Laurie
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Center (www.sudsdiving.org).
• PRINTS, PAINTING, & PHOTOGRAPHY, first exhibition in
Chester College’s new Witherill Gallery at the Coffee Factory, 55 Crystal
Ave., Derry, 432-6006, through May
5.
• PRINTMAKING – IMPRESSIONS, national juried exhibition
through April 30 at New Hampshire Institute of Art’s French
Building Gallery, 148 Concord St.,
Manchester, 836-2573, nhia.edu.
Juried by collector Parker Potter.
• SHER KAMMAN photography,
“Whispers of Trees,” through May
8 at the Conservation Center Gallery, 54 Portsmouth St., Concord,
224-9945, www.forestsociety.org.
• SENIOR ART EXHIBITION
featuring work by 14 Colby-Sawyer College students opens with
a reception Thurs., April 23, 6-8
p.m. in the Marian Graves Mugar
Gallery at the Sawyer Fine Arts
Center in New London, 526-3000.
Show closes May 10. Includes
work by Christine L. Letendre and
Meaghan Teneriello of Hudson and
Sam Moore of Loudon. Visit www.
colby-sawyer.edu/events.
• SENIOR STUDENT Art Exhibition April 26-May 8, at Rivier College Art Gallery, 435 South Main
St., Nashua, 897-8276. Reception Sun., April 26, 3–5 p.m.
• SENIOR STUDENT exhibits
through May 4 with openings Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. at Chester College, 40
Chester St, Chester, 887-4401, www.
chestercollege.edu: Nicole Glynn,
Eryn Murphy, Joe Reardon and Patrick Tobin and a reading by Ryan
Hoarty April 29.
• SPRING FLING photography
exhibit through May at Gallery
One, 5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua,
883-0603.
• STEVE AND LEAH MURPHY
artwork in April at Jewell & The
Beanstalk, 793 Somerville St.,
Manchester, 624-3709.
• TOM DRISCOLL paintings,
“Speaking in Marks,” through May
8 at McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills
Ave., Concord, 225-2515.
• TYPOGRAPHICA III: Annual
Student Exhibition from the Southern New Hampshire University
graphic design program through
May 3 at the McIninch Art Gallery, SNHU, 2500 North River Rd.,
Manchester, 629-4622.
• ZIMMERMAN HOUSE tours
leaving from Currier Museum.
Call 669-6144, ext. 108 for schedule and tickets or visit currier.org
to see this Frank Lloyd Wrightdesigned home. Focus Tour: “32
Simple and Basic Design Ideas
by Frank Lloyd Wright to Make a
Small House Seem Bigger,” Sun.,
April 26, at 3 p.m., reservations
required, $8-$18.
at 3 p.m., at the Manchester Library,
405 Pine St., 669-9191, free.
• OPERA NEW HAMPSHIRE
Antiques Appraisal Day Sun., April
26, 1-4 p.m., at the Palace Theatre,
80 Hanover St., Manchester. Bring
items to be verbally appraised
for $5 each, or three items for
$10. Proceeds benefit Opera New
Hampshire, www.OperaNH.org,
647-6564.
• COMMUNITY SING Motown
and Music of the Sixties Tues., April
28, 7 p.m., at Concord Community
Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord,
228-1196, $10.
• UNH MUSIC DEPT. Concert
Band, Wildcat Winter Percussion
Ensemble and Wind Symphony
Wed., April 29, at 8 p.m., at the
Johnson Theatre, Paul Creative Arts
Center, Durham, free, 862-2404. • NEW HAMPSHIRE PHILHARMONIC “Spring Pops” Sat., May 2,
at 8 p.m., at the Palace Theatre, 80
Hanover St., Manchester, 668-5588,
www.nhphil.org, $25-$50. Featuring
Broadway works by Rodgers and
Hammerstein and 19th century pops.
• A WORLD OF MUSIC Nashua
Flute Choir Spring Concert Sat., May
2, at 7:30 p.m., featuring Norm Dobson, harmonica soloist, in the world
premiere of “Music for Harmonica
and Flute Choir,” at First Church of
Nashua, 1 Concord St., Nashua, www.
nashuaflutechoir.com, 888-1741.
• SUNDAY CONCERTS at the
Classical Listings
Bedford Library, 3 Meetinghouse
• FLUTIST TRISHA CRAIG 20th Road: Soulhouse presents “Rhythm
century flute recital presented by Ted and Blues Review” May 3, www.
Herbert Music School Sat., April 25, bedford.lib.nh.us, 472-2300.
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• Free Currier: Adults can visit the Currier Museum of Art for free during Manchester’s
April school vacation, from Monday, April 27,
through Friday, May 1, (note that the Currier
is closed Tuesdays) courtesy of the Citizens
Bank Foundation, which is underwriting the
week. Youth under age 18 are always admitted
free to the museum.
Special programming for the week includes
“Storytime in the Gallery,” Monday, April 27,
at 11:30 a.m., with Manchester City Library
children’s librarian Karyn Isleb. Hear What
it Feels Like to be a Building by Forrest Wilson, and check out the “Building Books: The
Art of David Macaulay” exhibition. Isleb
reads Rome Antics, by David Macaulay, at
1 p.m. Short gallery talks follow the stories, which are recommended for ages 3 to 5.
The museum is closed Tuesday and returns
Wednesday, April 29, with “Family Studio –
Building Books,” art-related activities from
2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
“Family Drawing in the Galleries” is Thurs-
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day, April 30, from 1 to 3 p.m. Bring pencils
and papers to do some sketching or use the
Currier’s.
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Mike Morris gives a family performance Friday, May 1,
at 1 p.m. Guided tours of “Building Books” are
available at 12:30 p.m. during these free days.
“The Currier recognizes that in this challenging economy many families may chose to
stay closer to home and will look for local family-friendly activities,” Currier director Susan
Strickler said in a press release. Their February
vacation free week brought 2,300 visitors.
Museum admission is also free to everyone Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon.
The Currier is at 150 Ash St. in Manchester
(www.currier.org,
669-6144).
• Tuna and pictures: SOPHA (Studio of Photographic Arts) is holding a members’ exhibit
and reception Thursday, April 30, from 7 to 10
p.m., at 941 Elm St. in Manchester. SOPHA
has studio, equipment, classroom and gallery
space, which people pay to become members
and use, or pay to rent (www.thesopha.com,
584-1492).
Part of the proceeds from sales of artwork benefit the New Hampshire Food Bank.
Admission is free, but SOPHA asks that you
bring canned tuna to donate (April is canned
tuna month at the Food Bank).
• College: Anthony DeCarolis of Londonderry, Rob DeVita of Pelham and Stephen
Southerland of Hooksett are some of the art and
design students showing work at Rivier College
Art Gallery’s “Senior Student Art Exhibition,”
at 435 South Main St. in Nashua (897-8276). It
opens with a reception Sunday, April 26, from
3 to 5 p.m., and continues through May 8.
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Gardening Spring lawn care can be easy Guy Living in harmony with the moles and dandelions
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25 Children & Teens
Classes, sports, camps...
32 Museums & Tours
Exhibits, tours...
30 Nature & Gardens
Astronomy, gardening...
30 Sports & Rec
Spectator sports, team sports...
Features
25 The Garden Guy
Advice on your outdoors.
26 Kiddie pool
Family activities this weekend.
27 Car Talk
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28 Treasure Hunt
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31 Tech
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[email protected]
From yoga to pilates, cooking to languages to activites for the kids, Hippo’s
weekly listing offers a rundown of all
area events and classes. Get your program listed by sending information to
[email protected] at least three
weeks before the event.
Children & Teens
Spring vacation camps
• THE ACTING LOFT (516 Pine St.,
Manchester, 666-5999, www.actingloft.
org) April Theatre Intensive Camp runs
April 27 to May 1, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The cost is $215 per camper, and financial
aid is available for Manchester residents.
• CAMP CRITTER The Animal Rescue
League of NH’s Camp Critter is a weeklong day camp for children between the
ages of 7 and 10. Camp runs April 27 to
May 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, and
covers responsible pet ownership, safety
around animals, animal behavior, wildlife
and more. $150 per camper. To register
contact Marianne Jones at 472-3647.
• CURRIER ART CENTER offers
camps for school vacation. The theme of
the camp is “Comics, Books and More”
and runs from April 27-May 1, 9 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. It studies book making, drawing,
comic books and print making. The camp
will work with with the Macaulay exhibit
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on the deck. Once the mole-diggings have been
cleaned up, the moles don’t bother me again until
NEXT spring, when they kindly deliver more
free soil. And since it doesn’t seem to create any
real problems in the lawn, I don’t worry about it.
(Maybe in 20 years my entire lawn will implode
into a cavern of mole tunnels, but I don’t worry
about it — or not much.)
I have one section of lawn near an aging sugar maple that is in decline. Because the maple’s
roots are in the lawn, I do some soil improvement there most years — for the tree rather than
the lawn. I spread compost over the lawn, just
flinging it by shovel and spreading it out around
with a lawn rake until half an inch of compost
covers the lawn. The compost is mixed into the
soil by the earthworms that love it.
And I generally spread some Pro-Gro (a bagged
organic fertilizer) around the maple. It will add
not only nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium
(which also come in a bag of chemical fertilizer),
but also beneficial trace minerals. Among other things, Pro-Gro contains seaweed and ground
oyster shells — ingredients from the sea that
include trace minerals that have washed downstream and accumulated in them.
Organic fertilizer makes more sense for the
lawn, despite the fact that it costs more: it is
slow-release and its ingredients will not wash
away in a rainy period, the way many chemical
fertilizers do.
If I see clover and a variety of other “weeds”
growing in a lawn, I know it’s an organic one. I
might plunk myself down and look for a fourleaf clover just for good luck. And maybe this
year I’ll make myself some organic dandelion
wine — fresh from my lawn.
Henry Homeyer is a gardening coach and the
author of three gardening books. You may reach him
at P.O. Box 364, Cornish Flat, NH 03746 or henry.
[email protected]; his Web site is.GardeningGuy.com.
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Every spring most of us begin our garden
chores by cleaning up the lawn. Winter’s debris
is everywhere, and the first sunny day brings gardeners out in droves, raking leaves and picking
up sticks and those vagrant beer cans that spawn
by the roadside each winter. And although I warn
folks not to walk or work on a soggy lawn, and
not to rake dormant grass vigorously for fear of
ripping some out, most of us just go out and get
started when the weather turns nice. I’d like to
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lawn. Except we weren’t all cute, and our lawns
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one without clover or dandelions, despite the fact
that the taproots of dandelions help penetrate and
break up hard pan and improve drainage. And
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from the air and changing it, with the aid of soil
bacteria, into a form that can feed the grass.
The chemical industry that promotes “Weedn-Feed” lawn products worked hard to convince
us that clover is a weed. They did that because
the herbicides that kill dandelions and other
broad-leafed weeds also kill clover. But the messages sent out in glossy magazines and TV ads
make it clear: a lawn is a monoculture. Everything but grass is bad. I disagree.
I recently got a nice e-mail from a reader in
Kirby, Vt., who wanted to know what to do
about the “Creeping Charlie” or lawn ivy (Glechoma hederacea) that is taking over her lawn.
I asked her to think outside the box. In part I
wrote, “Please repeat after me: “If it’s green and
doesn’t hurt bare feet and you can mow it, it’s
a LAWN!” Repeat as needed. Worry about thistles, which hurt feet, not Charlie! … Unless you
are prepared to nuke your lawn with herbicides,
which you are not, you are stuck with it.”
And, I continued, “Many people think dandelions are obnoxious, but I love them. I tell folks
to think of them as daffodils that come back after
mowing. Please let me know if you can get your
mind around this, and live with Charlie. Think
of him as a needy Uncle who lives with you and
whom you can not throw out.” I heard back, and
Uncle Charlie will get to stay in the lawn.
Right now, my lawn does not look very good.
There are large brown spots, but I know they
will go away. And there are mounds of soil
where moles have dug tunnels during the winter,
leaving piles of nice top soil for me to harvest.
Instead of trying to kill the moles, or even repel
them (which my book Notes from the Garden
tells readers how to do), I thank the moles.
That’s right, every spring the moles deliver to
my lawn a few wheelbarrows full of delicious
topsoil. All I have to do is take a rake and shovel and pick it up. Then I can use it wherever I
need fill dirt, or use it to make raised beds, or mix
some into the potting mix I make for my plants
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1 2 2 4 H A N OV E R S T R E E T
MANCHESTER , NH
603.622 . 3722
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• It’s the return of the
Rocketeers at the McAuliffeShepard Discovery Center in
Concord (2 Institute Drive) on
Saturday, April 25. Beginning at 9 a.m., participants can
build and launch their own
model rockets under the guidance of Phil Chouinard, who
has been teaching rocketry at
the Planetarium for more than
10 years. The Rocketeers program can be applied toward a
Boy Scout of America (BSA)
Rocketry Merit Badge. Tickets cost $25 per person;
visit www.starhop.com or call
271-STAR.
• The Adams Memorial Opera House in Derry (29
West Broadway) is holding an
Evening of Dance on Saturday, April 25, with shows at 2
and 7 p.m. The Derry Dance
Center presents three dances performed by students: La
Boutique Fantastique (The
Magic Toy Store), Aurora’s Wedding (a version of
Sleeping Beauty) and Young
Person’s Guide to the Orchesthe SEE Science in Manchester from
April 27-May 1, for grades kindergarten through 5. Sport-A-Day vacation
camps also run out of the Manchester
branch on the same dates for grades 2
through 8.
• MERRIMACK YMCA CAMP
(6 Henry Clay Drive, Merrimack,
881-7778, nmymca.org) during New
Hampshire school vacation in April
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for kids ages 5
to 12. Includes swimming,a new playground. Preschool camp available for
those under 5 from 6:30 to 9 a.m. and
4 to 6:30 p.m. Cost for YMCA family
members is $123 and use members is
$146.
• MLS APRIL VACATION SOCCER CAMP Through Pelham
Parks and Recreation (6 Village
Green, Pelham). Camp will run from
April 27 to May 1, and is offered for
both boys and girls ages 5 and up.
To register call 635-2721 or e-mail
[email protected].
• PALACE SPRING CAMP (palacetheatre.org) for grades 2-8, from
9 a.m.-4 p.m., April 27-May 1, at
the Palace Theatre. Theme is “Camp
• The Verizon Wireless Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester)
is hosting an arena football
match-up on Friday, April
24, between the Manchester Wolves and the Tri-Cities
Fever. The game starts at 7:30
p.m. Adult ticket prices range
from $15 to $45. Youth and
senior tickets range start
at $12.50. For tickets, call
627-WOLF or go to www.
manchesterwolves.com.
• On Saturday, April 25,
the New Hampshire Fisher
Cats take on the Binghamton Mets at MerchantsAuto.
com Stadium in Manchester
(at the end of South Commercial Street, off Exit 5 of
I-293). The game begins at
1:05 p.m. The first 2,000 fans
will receive a Fisher Cats hat
from the New Hampshire
Liquor Commission, and it is
also Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Day at the stadium. The Fisher Cats play the Mets again
Sunday, April 26. Ticket prices range from $6 to 12; visit
www.nhfishercats.com or call
the ticket office at 641-2005.
• The Grace Baptist Church
(67 Bedford Road, Merrimack, 424-2552) will host
an Italian dinner and family movie night on Saturday,
April 25. Dinner will take
place at 5:30 p.m., and will be
followed by the movie Paulie.
Jungle Safari.”
• PRESCHOOL SOCCER CAMP
For ages 4-6 through Concord Recreation. This camp introduces skills
and games in a non-competitive
atmosphere to allow campers to
learn and have fun. At the end of the
week it’s the Parents vs. Campers
game. April 20-24, from 1 to 2 p.m.
at Keach Park in Concord. $83 ($63
for Concord residents). Call 2258690, e-mail recreation@onconcord.
com or visit www.onconcord.com.
• RACQUET CLUB OF CONCORD (10 Garvins Falls Road, Concord, 224-7787, www.rccofconcord.
com) has April vacation programs
that include a wide arange of activities
including swimming, team, games,
arts and crafts and a field trip to go
indoor rock climbing on Wednesday.
April 20-24, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• RAMP CAMP (170 Lafayette
Road, Rye Airfield, Rye, 964-2800
ext. 13, www.ryeairfield.com) will
offer camps in February and April,
Monday through Wednesday, from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. during school vacation
week. There will also be overnight
Admission to the event is free
and open to the public.
• Canobie Lake Park in
Salem (85 North Policy St.,
off Exit 2 of I-93; 893-3506)
is celebrating its 2009 grand
opening on Saturday, April
25. The park’s annual OneDay Sale takes place from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. that day: 2009
admission passes will be on
sale for $22 each (the regular
price of a general admission
pass for 2009 is $30 — unless
you’re over age 60 or under
48 inches tall, in which case
the price is $21). Rain date is
Sunday, April 26.
• Celebrate John James
Audubon’s 224th birthday
on Sunday, April 26, from
1 to 4 p.m. at the McLane
Center on Silk Farm Road in
Concord. Take a “Walk for
Wildlife” and enjoy a program on New Hampshire’s
bird populations. There will
also be an Earth Day Art
Show featuring the work of
St. Paul’s School art students,
birthday cake and other celebrations at 3 p.m. The event
is free and open to the public.
See www.nhaudubon.org.
• Celebrate the National Day of Puppetry at the
Concord Public Library (45
Green St., 225-8670) with the
Shoestring Puppets (www.
shoestringpuppets.com) presenting a special encore
performance of their National
Library Week show on Saturday, April 25, at 2 p.m.
Free tickets to the event are
required and can be picked up
at the library.
lock-ins from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. for $40.
• SOCCER SPHEREAPRILVACATION DAY CAMP at Southern New
Hampshire University (2500 North
River Road, Manchester, 645-9703,
[email protected]) is for kids ages
5 to 16 from April 27 to May 1, from
9 a.m. to noon each day. Cost is $100
per camper. $10 off for an additional
sibling, $10 off if you are a SNHU
employee. Coaching staff includes
the SNHU men’s soccer coaches and
current and former SNHU men’s and
women’s student-athletes. Applications at www.snhupenmen.com.
MUSEUMS & TOURS
• Canterbury Shaker Village
288 Shaker Road, Canterbury,
783-9511, shakers.org
• McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center
2 Institute Dr., Concord, starhop.
com, 271-7831
• Currier Museum of Art
150 Ash St., Manchester,
669-6144, currier.org
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
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TOM: But we apparently wrote “coolant reservoir” instead of “windshield-washer reservoir,”
leading some readers to wonder whether WE were
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But starting tomorrow, we’re offering a $75 brakehosing special at the garage.
TOM: What she’s having her kid do can’t really
hurt the brakes, unless it’s done while the brakes
are hot. Then the cold water could warp the rotors.
So you want to make sure the brakes have been
sitting for at least an hour before turning a hose
on them.
RAY: But otherwise, it’s a harmless exercise.
The brakes are designed to shed rain and road
water. I’m just not sure it’s doing much good.
TOM: Right. You can put the hose on the outside
of the wheel and rinse off any loose dust on that
side of the brakes. But it would be very hard to get
to the other side (the inboard side) of the brakes. So
you’d never clean more than half of them.
RAY: I’m not aware of small amounts of brake
dust being a cause of brake squeal. Normally,
when someone comes into our shop with squeaking brakes, we remove the rotors and all the pads,
and deglaze everything with an abrasive. But who
knows? Maybe the hose is doing a much more
rudimentary version of that.
TOM: And if it works, why not?
RAY: Personally, I think she’s just getting her
son out of the house for half an hour so she can
have some peace and quiet. Have you ever heard
her tell him that it’s time to go out and wax the
mailbox?
Dear Tom and Ray:
My daughter-in-law just sent her son out to
wash her car’s brakes. I told her I had never heard
of that before. She said that when her brakes start
to squeak, she gets her son to wash the accumulated dust out and they stop squeaking. She said she
learned this from her dad. She said you can see
the water coming out black for a while, then when
the water comes out clear, the dust is gone. Is this
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A group of us get together at a diner for coffee
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when it’s 20 below zero, my Toyota warms up
quickly. And instead of the temperature gauge sitting near the “cold” mark all day, it comes up
about a quarter of an inch on the gauge. Well,
the responses ranged from “Have you lost your
mind?” to “You’re going to ruin the engine,” to
“It won’t do any good.” My friend — our resident
pseudo-engineer — explained that the thermostat
in the cooling system handles all that stuff, and
that any participation on my part, by adding cardboard, is completely unnecessary. He convinced
the group that he was right. But is he? — Joe
TOM: No. He has his head up his radiator hose,
Joe. In extreme cold temperatures, like when it’s
20 below zero, your cooling system may work too
well.
RAY: Here’s a basic description of how the sys-
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engine to reach operating temperature. And then,
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pushed into the engine, lowering the engine temperature far more than necessary. So, the engine
spends a lot of time BELOW operating temperature, fighting to get warm enough.
TOM: So when it’s bitterly cold out and you
cover up the grill with cardboard, you’re preventing the frigid outside air from blowing through
it, and keeping the coolant inside the radiator
from dropping to the temperature of the outside
air. You’re also allowing some of the radiant heat
from inside the engine compartment to warm it as
well.
RAY: That’s why you see a lot of big diesel
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It’s not because the engine is doing something pri-
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nashuahistoricalsociety.org
• U.S. Marconi Museum
14 N. Amherst St. in Bedford,
472-8312, marconiusa.org
• Wright Museum
77 Centre St. in Wolfeboro,
569-1212, wrightmuseum.org
Exhibits and Events
• NH FAVORITES EXHIBITION Tuesday
through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the
New Hampshire Historical Society Museum in
Concord. Features a wide variety of the NHHS’s
favorite objects from its collections. Open to the
public. Cost is $5.50 for adults, $4.50 for seniors,
$3 for children 6 to 18, family max of $17. Call
228-6688. www.nhhistory.org.
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• AVIATION MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS
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occasions. Contact the museum Director, Vincent Devino, at 669-4820.
• BOOTT DISCOVERY TRAIL Pick up
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entrance and, through hands-on activities,
explore how raw cotton was made into finished
cloth at Lowell National Historical Park.
• “THE EVOLUTION OF COLLECTING” exhibit at the Millyard Museum in Manchester. For 110 years the Manchester Historic
Association has collected a wide variety of
historical artifacts ranging from General John
Stark’s cooking pots and breeches to the personal effects of the famous 29-inch-tall circus
performer “Commodore” George Washington
Morrison Nutt. Today the MHA’s collections
include more than 660,000 objects covering
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• LEGO MILLYARD PROJECT representing Manchester’s downtown and Amoskeag
Millyard as they might have looked circa
An antiques expert helps you
search for buried treasure
Dear Donna,
I found this wonderful Mickey Mouse child’s rocking
toy and I’m not sure if it’s from the 1940s or 1950s. The
wooden, carved cutout of Mickey measures 15¼ inches
tall and 6 inches across and less than an inch wide; the
seat is 9¾ inches long and 6 inches wide, then the seat
tapers to 2½ inches. On the bottom, the curved rocking
slats (not sure if that is what you really call them) measure 24 inches long and 10½ inches wide. Underneath
Mickey’s painted figure it has the copyright (“©”)
WALT DISNEY. Although the red paint on the seat and
slats is well worn, the painted figure of our favorite
mouse is in fairly good condition. If you can help me
with an approximate year and value of this item, I’d
greatly appreciate it. Also, how would I go about finding the best way to sell this item?
Marla in Loudon
Dear Marla,
I would say that you are right about the item’s age.
Earlier ones were called pie-eyed Mickey Mouse (this
was when the black spot in the eye had a pie wedge
shape cut out of it and the facial features were different than now). Mickey Mouse was created in 1928.
Some of the more collectible Mickey Mouse items
are marked with the Walt Disney mark, like yours.
This means it was made here in the United States.
Now the items are being made overseas as well.
I would say that the earlier tin toys are probably the
most sought-after and rarer items. But your riding toy
is an unusual item as well; I am just not sure the form
will make it a higher-priced item to a collector.
When collecting anything the form is key. Space is
always an issue, so smaller unusual items are more likely
to sell first. The condition is considered as well.
Your riding toy is cute and I think the value would
be in the $100 range. To market it might be tough; I
would start by going to a local antique shop to see
what they might offer you. There is a large one right
in Concord on Depot Street. They might even be able
to help you by consigning it.
I wish you luck, Marla, and thank you for sharing
your cute Mickey riding toy.
Note: When items have paint loss, do not repaint
them or touch them up. That will decrease the value
more than the paint loss.
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
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• Laconia Historical
& Museum Society
in the Laconia Public Library at
695 Main St. in Laconia,
527-1278, laconiahistorical.org
• Langer Place
55 South Commercial St.,
Manchester, 626-4388,
langerplace.com
• Lee Scouting Museum
& Library
571 Holt Ave. in Manchester,
669-8919, scoutingmuseum.org
• Manchester City Hall
One City Hall Plaza, off Hanover
St. in Manchester, 624-6455
• Millyard Museum/Manchester
Historic Association
200 Bedford St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• New England Synthesizer
Museum
6 Vernon St., Nashua, 881-8587,
synthmuseum.com
• New Hampshire Aviation
Museum
South Perimeter Road,
Manchester, 669-4820, nhahs.org
• New Hampshire Snowmobile
Association Museum
Beaver Brook State Park Museum
Complex off Route 28,
Allenstown, 648-2304,
nhsnowmobilemuseum.com
• Museum of N.H. Natural
History
6 Eagle Square in Concord,
228-6688, nhhistory.org
• Seacoast African American
Cultural Center
135 Daniel St. in Portsmouth,
430-6027, saacc-nh.org
• SEE Science Center
200 Bedford St., Manchester,
669-0400, see-sciencecenter.org
• Speare Museum
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NATURE
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• Amoskeag Fishways
6 Fletcher St., Manchester,
626-FISH, amoskeagfishways.org
• Beaver Brook Association
117 Ridge Road, Hollis, 465-7787,
beaverbrook.org,
• Charmingfare Farm
Route 27, Candia, 483-5623,
visitthefarm.com
• McAuliffe-Shepard
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2 Institute Drive, Concord,
271-STAR, starhop.com
• Educational Farm at Joppa Hill
174 Joppa Hill Road, Bedford,
472-4724, theeducationalfarm.org
• The Fells Gatehouse
456 Route 103A in Newbury,
763-4789, thefells.org
• Friends of Stark Park
North River Road, Manchester,
645-6700, friendsofstarkpark.org
• Londonderry Trailways
PO Box 389, Londonderry,
londonderrytrails.org
• Manchester Historic
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129 Amherst St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• Massabesic Audubon Center
26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
668-2045, nhudubon.org
• McLane Center
84 Silk Farm Road, Concord,
224-9909, nhudubon.org
• Peabody Mill
Environmental Center 66 Brook
Rd, Amherst, 673-1141, pmec.org
• Seacoast Science Center
570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 436-8043,
seacoastsciencecenter.org
• Society for the Protection
of NH Forests
224-9945, spnhf.org
• Squam Lakes Science Center
Holderness, 968-7194, nhnature.org
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• WOLVES: BEYOND THE
MYTHS On Saturday, May 2, The
Little Nature Museum will sponsor a
free program called”Wolves: Beyond
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Loki Clan Wolf Refuge. It will be
held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the
Community Room of the Hopkinton
Town Library in Contoocook. Come
and learn more about one of nature’s
most misunderstood animals. Visit
www.littlenaturemuseum.org or call
746-6121.
• WATCH SALMON STOCKING Wed., April 29, at 10 a.m. at
the Amoskeag Fishways. Watch US
Fish and Wildlife biologists deliver
adult broodstock salmon to our fish
ladder. Fishways staff and biologists will be on hand to answer all
of your questions. There is a suggested donation of $2 per person or
$5 per family.
Tai Chi Qigog
Day
World Tai Chi
Qigong Day is Saturday, April 25, from 10
to 11:30 a.m. There
will be events at several locations throughout
New Hampshire, including the Academy of Health &
Martial Arts in Milford; Averill’s Martial Arts Academy
in Concord; Tai Chi for Every Body in Newmarket, and
Golden Crane Traditional Martial Arts in Windham. Demonstrations will include the Sword and Kung Fu Fan forms.
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day began in 1999 and is celebrated in hundreds of cities and towns in 60 nations. Contact Lin
Lin Choy at 858-2333. Astronomy
• ASTRONOMY DAY is Sat., May
2, from11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center.
Visitors can take advantage of solar
observing, lunar observing, planetary
viewing of Venus, telescope displays,
magnification displays, and more. All
exhibits and activities are free and
open to the public.
• GALAXIES AND THE DISTANT UNIVERSE Learn about
the various types of galaxies and then
“fly” through them in our theater.
This event is part of the Super Stellar Friday program at the McAuliffeShepard Discovery Center. Visit the
edged of the visible universe with
Discovery Center educator Mal
Cameron as your guide. Fri., April
24, at 7 p.m. Cost is $8 for adults, $5
for children 3 through 12, $7 for students and seniors. Free for Members.
SPORTS
& RECREATION
Spectator sports
• Manchester Freedom Football
9 Notre Dame Ave., 627-7270,
manchesterfreedom.com
• Manchester Monarchs Hockey
Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
St., monarchshockey.com,
626-7825
• Manchester Wolves Football
Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
St., manchesterwolves.com
• NH Fisher Cats Baseball
1 Line Drive, Manchester,
641-2005, nhfishercats.com
• Verizon Wireless Arena
555 Elm St., Manchester, 8687300, verizonwirelessarena.com
Spectator
• MANCHESTER FREEDOM
Womens tackle football team and
is part of the Independent Women’s
Football League. Home games are
played at the West High School
football field in Manchester, at 4
p.m. 2009 season runs through June
13. Next home game is Sat., April
25, versus the Central PA Vipers.
Then Sat., May 9, versus the New
England Intesnsity. Visit manchesterfreedom.com.
• MANCHESTER WOLVES
(Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
St., Manchester, 644-5000). Professional Arena football team. Next
home game is Fri., April 24. at 7:30
p.m. against the Tri-City Fever.
Then Sat., May 9, at 7:30 p.m. versus the Quad City Steamwheelers.
The 2009 season runs through July
24. Visit www.manchesterwolves.
com.
• NH FISHER CATS (Merchantsauto.com Stadium, 1 Line Drive,
Manchester, 641-2005) is the AA
minor-league affiliate of the Toronto
Blue Jays baseball team. Upcoming
home games are Thurs., April 23, and
Fri., April 24 at 6:35 p.m. against the
Binghamton Mets; Sat., April 25, and
Sun., April 26, at 1:05 p.m. against
the Binghamton Mets. The 2009 season runs April 1 through Sept. 7. Visit
www.nhfishercats.com.
Runs/running
• A WHALE OF A RACE Help
bring a new exhibit “Tofu: The
Journey of a Humpback Whale”
to the Seacoast Science Center in
Rye. The Center is holding a 5K
race, a fun run for kids and a concert for everyone on Sat., April 25,
with event kicking off at 8 a.m. The
5K cross-country trail run was created by Eastern Mountain Sports
Extreme Team winner Jennifer
Shultis. The Jumbo Circus Peanuts
band will perform in the evening.
5K registration is $12 in advance;
$18 day-of. Kid’s Fun Run is $6.
Concert tickets cost $10 for ages 13
and up and $5 for children ages 3 to
12.Visit www.seacoastsciencecenter.org/events or call 436-8043.
• CHARITABLE 5K ROAD
RACE/WALK Rivier College’s
Biology Club will host a 5K Charitable Road Race/Walk on the Rivier
College campus in honor of Earth
Day on Sat., April 25, starting at
9 a.m. Proceeds will benefit the
Beaver Brook Association in Hollis
and the Loon Preservation Committee. The course will begin and
end at the Memorial hall Parking
Lot (intersection of Clement and
South Main Streets in Nashua).
Last year’s event raised more than
$1,800 for local charitable organizations. Pre- and race day registration. Contact Nina Harrold at
897-8624 or [email protected].
• MARCEL’S WAY MILES
FOR MITO 5K RACE/WALK
takes place on Sat., May 9, at Arms
Park in Manchester. Registration
is $20 per person. Register on-line
at www.marcelsway.org or www.
active.com. Raise $100 and have
your registration fee waived. Arrive
at registration no later than 9:15
a.m., race begins at 9:30 a.m.
• MEDICAL CENTER 6K race
Sun., May 10, at 9:30 a.m. at the
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center (8 Prospect St., Nashua). Online registration available
at
www.medicalcenter6k.com.
Proceeds will benefit the Patient
Transportation Fund at Southern
New Hampshire Medical Center
for local cancer patients.
• SALVATION ARMY 5K RACE
& FITNESS WALK is Sat., June
6, at 10 a.m. All proceeds benefit
the Nashua Salvation Army Summer Camp Program. Visit www.
craceproductions.com for all race
details.
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• PANERA BREAD 933 South Willow St, Manchester, 627-2443, and 7
Colby Ct., Bedford, 641-0500, panerabread.com, free.
• Patio and Pavilion Restaurants Hilton Garden Inn,
101 S. Commercial St., 603-669-222.
Free.
• PENUCHE’S GRILL 96 Hanover
St., 626-9830.
• TWO FRIENDS BAGEL &
DELI 542 Mast Road, Goffstown,
627-6622, twofriendsbagel.com. Free
to customers.
• VAN OTIS CAFE 341 Elm St.,
627-1611. Free.
• WILD ROVER PUB 21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722. Free.
• YOUR SALON 18 S. Commerical
St. Free.
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• A & E ROASTERY 131 Route
101A, Unit 2, Amherst, 578-3338,
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• Bea’s Wash N Dry 478 South
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• Billy’s Sports Bar &
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• CASTRO’S BACK ROOM 972
Elm St., 606-7854. Free.
• CLUB 313 93 South Maple St.,
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• DERRYFIELD COUNTRY
CLUB 625 Mammoth Road, 6690235. Free.
• GOFFSTOWN PUBLIC LIB
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• Highlander Inn Fusion
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• Hooksett Public Lib
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• JEWELL & THE BEANSTALK
797 Somerville St., 624-3709. Free.
• Jillian’s 50 Phillippe Cote St.
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• Caffenio 84 N. Main St., 2290020, caffenio.com, free
• Centennial Inn 96 Pleasant
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• CHEERS DOWNTOWN
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• Common Man, 25 Water St.,
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• Concord Public Library
45 Green St. Free.
• CONCORD TIRE & AUTO
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• Heritage Harley-Davidson, 142 Manchester St., 1-800HARLEY-1. Free
• PANERA BREAD 75 Fort Eddy
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• SOUTH END VILLAGE LAUNDROMAT 71 Downing St., 2288768. Free.
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One complaint you’ll rarely hear from Windows and
Mac users is that their computers boot up too darn fast.
Many folks leave their computers on all the time, sucking up electricity,
so they don’t have to wait when they want to
quickly check e-mail. A better option comes
in the form of alternative operating systems
that boot up much more quickly.
Your simplest bet might be to buy pretty much anything new from Asus. A number
of notebooks, desktops and motherboards the
company sells come with Splashtop pre-loaded, either on a flash memory chip or the hard
drive. You can also find it on one or two laptops from HP, Lenovo and LG. It includes a
Web browser, music player, photo manager
(not editor), and a chat program that’s interoperable with AOL, Yahoo!, ICQ, MSN, QQ
and Windows Live instant messengers. www.
splashtop.com
If buying a new machine isn’t in the budget, check out HyperSpace from Phoenix
Technologies, a longtime maker of the bootstrapping BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
software running on many brands of motherboards. It focuses exclusively on Web-based
applications that can run in its browser and
claims a 30-percent reduction in power usage
over Windows. You can download a 21-day
free trial of their instant-on operating system,
but beware: if you like it too much, you’ll be
sucked into paying an annual subscription fee.
It’s $59.95 a year or $149.95 for three years
for HyperSpace Hybrid, which lets you switch
between HyperSpace and Windows by pressing F4. HyperSpace Dual, which requires you
to shut down one operating system to start
the other, is $39.95 a year or $99.95 for three
years. www.hyperspace.com
The really adventurous can check out the
coreboot project, which is a BIOS replacement itself. Installing it requires compiling
source code and knowing your hardware pretty intimately, so even though it’s free and open
source, it’s not for everyone. Since it installs
on flash memory on your motherboard, it’s
only compatible with certain hardware. www.
coreboot.org
On the other hand, another quick-boot
installer runs within Windows and gives you
a prompt at boot-up time, for you to choose
between Windows and the lightweight Presto. It’s made by Xandros, a company known
for its Linux products. On my HP Pavilion
dv5t, Presto booted to a usable desktop in less
than 20 seconds from the prompt, while Windows Vista took almost a minute. There’s a
launch bar with icons for the Firefox browser,
Skype, the Pidgin instant messenger client, a
file manager and an application store, which
shows you the programs already installed and
links you to others for free. If you’re familiar with Linux in general, you’ll enjoy poking
around Presto’s 400MB footprint, but it’s not
all that easily configurable for the novice. As
of April 13, Presto will cost $19.95. www.
prestomypc.com
You can even download the same operating
system running on many netbooks: Linpus
Linux Lite. It’s a 700MB disc image download, but has good hardware support and
plenty of applications in its tabbed interface.
To install, you need to burn a CD and partition
your hard drive. www.linpus.com
There are other small Linux distributions
not specifically focusing on booting quickly, but they usually do so nonetheless. Puppy
Linux (www.puppylinux.org) runs from a
100MB disc image, and Damn Small Linux
(www.damnsmalllinux.org) is committed
to never being larger than 50MB. Note that
the John Andrews who created Damn Small
Linux is not me, but I’m sure as a hard core
Linux hacker he’s just as charming.
Saturday, May 2 . . . . . . . 1 PM to 10 PM
Sunday, May 3 . . . . . . . . . Noon to 5 PM
Tickets: 1=$1, 10=$9, 20=$17, 36=$30
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FOOD
Weekly Dish A week of eats in Manchester
Notes from the local food scene
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
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• Wine tasting for a cause: Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial St. in Manchester, will
hold a wine tasting on Thursday, May 7, from
7 to 9 p.m. to benefit the breast cancer threeday walk. Tickets cost $20 and include wine
tastings and wine discussions with Horizon
Beverages, cheese and crackers, a chocolate
fountain, raffles and more. Purchase tickets by
calling Milly’s at 625-4444.
• Get a ticket to Taste: Tickets are now on sale
for the 15th annual Taste of Downtown Nashua,
which will be held Wednesday, June 3, at 6 p.m.
Tickets cost $30 through May 15 and are available online at www.downtownnashua.org/taste.
Tickets will go on sale at downtown retail locations the first week in May. See the Web site or
call Great American Downtown at 883-5700.
• World of wine: Damian’s on the River,
Route 13 in New Boston, will hold a five-course
dinner on Sunday, April 26, at 5:30 p.m. featuring
a world tour of wines from Perfecta Wine Company. Each course will be paired with a glass of
wine — two from France, one from South Africa, one from Austria and one from New Zealand.
The cost is $75. To make a reservation and to hear
the complete menu, call 497-8888.
• Chocolate vacation: Looking to fill those
spring vacation days with some fun events?
Van Otis, 341 Elm St. in Manchester, 6271611, will offer factory tours Tuesday, April
28, and Wednesday, April 29, at 10 a.m., noon
and 2 p.m. each day. The tours will offer candy-making activities and a behind-the-scenes
look at how the chocolates are made. The tours
are free; the cost for the candy-making is $4.
Reservations are required — call 627-1611 or
e-mail [email protected] and include the number of people attending and whether you want
to include the candy-making.
• Spice it up: Chef de cuisine Corey Fletcher of Colby Hill Inn (3 The Oaks in Henniker,
www.colbyhillinn.com) has created five unique
blends of herbs and spices that are used in the
dining room and are now available for purchase. The selection includes Herb Chicken
Spice, Henniker Steak Spice, Lemon Pepper,
Moroccan Spice, and Herbs de Provence. All
come in glass bottles with shaker tops and can
be purchased for $3.50 each or $15 for the collection, plus shipping and handling. Stop by the
inn or call 800-531-0330 to place an order.
• Margaritaville in Sandown: Zorvino
Vineyards (226 Main St., Sandown) will hold
a Cinco De Mayo Margarita Tasting and FourCourse Dinner on Friday, May 1 from 6:30 to 9
p.m. The evening will feature a tasting of four
different types of Margaritas — two classic
and two creative — paired with a four-course
Mexican meal. Cocktail and cheese hour will
start at 6:30 p.m. and the dinner will begin at
7:30 p.m. sharp. The cost is $50 per person,
plus tax and gratuity. Go to www.zorvino.com
to view the complete menu and make reservations, which are required.
• New brews: Butter’s Fine Food & Wine
(70 N. Main St., Concord) has added Milford’s
Pennichuck Brewery’s Halligan IPA to its beer
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Special dishes, special prices
[email protected]
This year’s Manchester Eats Week will be
held from Sunday, April 26, through Thursday, April 30. It is the perfect chance for food
lovers to enjoy a meal at their favorite restaurant or try a meal at a different eatery — all
for a great value.
The event is sponsored by Intown Manchester, the city’s downtown booster
organization.
“The event was created as a way for Intown
to thank all of the restaurants within our district that participate in the annual Taste of
Downtown Manchester. It’s no easy task to
make over 1,000 food samples for an event
like that and we both appreciate and respect
them for it. They do a phenomenal job year
after year,” said Samantha Appleton, director
of marketing and public relations for Intown
Manchester.
Eats Week offers something for every
budget and food type. Some of the city’s
best-known fine dining restaurants will have
special menus for the week that allow customers to give them a try without breaking
the budget. More casual food spots, such
the Red Arrow and Milly’s Tavern, will also
have specials, and there are two sweet spots
participating — Ben & Jerry’s and Van Otis
Chocolates.
900 Degrees Pizzeria is one of the restaurants taking part in the event.
“It’s a good way to participate in our local
community, it’s a way to say thank you to our
regular and new customers, it’s a good way to
get people out from their hibernation after a
long winter, and it’s just plain fun!” said 900
Degrees co-owner Priscilla Lane-Rondeau.
“Eats Week is awesome,” chef-owner Jeff
Paige of Cotton said. “First, it gives us a
chance to say ‘Thank you’ to all of our wonderful customers who come out and support
us every day throughout the year. Second, the
special menu with reduced pricing gives many
people an opportunity to come and experience
Cotton who might not normally be able to.”
Chef and owner Tom Puskarich of Z Food
and Drink said of Eats Week, “I’ve always
been a ‘downtown’ kind of guy. It’s not only
where I set up business, but where I like to
do business, and I think I have that mindset
because of programs like Eats Week. Programs that bring people out of their homes and
into the streets to get to mingle, get to know
new businesses, and support their favorites.”
“The economy is helping this event, not
hurting it,” Appleton noted. “Going out to eat
is an experience, sharing a meal with family
and friends in a warm and inviting setting is
uplifting, and people need that right now.”
Every Eats Week restaurant’s specials can
be found at www.intownmanchester.com.
This year’s participants include:
• 900 Degrees Pizzeria, 50 Dow St., 6410900, www.900degrees.com: Buy one pizza
and get the second pizza for half price. Good
for dine-in only.
• Ben & Jerry’s, 940 Elm St., 674-9400,
www.benjerry.com/elmstreet: Two small
smoothies for $6 plus tax; two large smoothies for $8 plus tax; two banana splits for $10.
• Commercial Street Fishery, 33 S. Commercial St., 296-0706, www.csfishery.com:
Three courses for $30 — first course of
grilled wild American shrimp with hot Italian
sausage & white cheddar grits, and smoked
jalapeño puree; second course of coriander
seared salmon with gnocchi, bacon, shiitake, frisee, and grilled lemon butter; and third
course of ginger-lemon ricotta cheesecake
with lemon Grand Marnier caramel and sugared pecans.
• Consuelo’s Taqueria, 36 Amherst St.,
622-1134,
www.consuelostaqueria.com:
Lunch and dinner — $5 for choice of Tacos
a La Crema (potato and cheese fried tacos
topped with a cream red or green sauce) or
Empanadas; $10 for Chile Relleno de Chorizo
(poblano chile stuffed with chorizo, potato
and cheese), served with rice and beans, Mexican jello dessert and a drink.
• Cotton, 75 Arms St., 622-5488, www.
cottonfood.com: Cotton will be offering a few
surprises and introducing some new drinks
during Eats Week — “Stirred not Shaken”
martini pitchers, made the old-fashioned
way, stirred in large glass pitchers that serve
two to four people, in Bourbon Port Punch,
Lychee Tea, Lemon Drop, Cherry Margarcia,
Pomegranate Martini and Cotton’s famous
Cosmopolitan. The huge lunch specials selections, each for $5.95, and the dinner selections
with entrees as low as $11.95, can be viewed
at www.intownmanchester.com.
• Edible Arrangements, 1000 Elm St., 6251010, www.ediblearrangements.com: A Little
Special Expression (a bouquet of pineapple
daisies, strawberries, cantaloupe, honeydew
and grapes), regular price $24, Eats Week
$14. A Little Appreciation Expression: (a taste
of fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate and
arranged in a keepsake vase), regular price $29,
Eats Week $19. These prices do not include tax
and are available for pick-up only.
• Fratellos, 155 Dow St., 624-2022, www.
fratellos.com: Lunch, turkey wrap sandwich for $5; dinner, Chicken Capri (boneless
chicken sautéed with roma tomatoes, sliced
onions, artichoke hearts, fresh garlic, parmesan cheese and white wine tossed with bowtie
pasta) for $10.
• Hanover Street Chophouse, 149
Hanover St., 644-2467, www.hanoverstreetchophouse.com: Dinner selection of prime
rib, New York sirloin, or stuffed shrimp for
$20.09 each. The complete Eats Week menu
can be seen at www.intownmanchester.com.
Note: Hanover Street Chophouse is not open
Sunday, April 26.
• Jillian’s, 50 Philippe Cote St., 622-3480,
www.jilliansonline.com: Lunch specials run
from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. $5.99 menu
items include Chicken Quesadillas, Cheeseburgers, Grilled Chicken Salad and more.
Free billiards with lunch purchase.
• J.W. Hill’s Sports Bar & Grill, 795 Elm
St. 645-7422, www.jwhills.com: Lunch and
dinner — half sandwich and soup (choice of
ham, turkey, chicken salad or tuna salad) for
$6.99; beef stew in a bread bowl for $8.99.
• Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial St.,
625-4444, www.millystavern.com: Lunch,
$5 Chicken Parmigiana Sub with chips or $5
Classic Milly’s Burger with chips; Dinner,
$8.95 Chicken Tenders Dinner or $10 Tasha
Steak Tip Dinner.
• Murphy’s Taproom, 494 Elm St., 6443555, www.murphystaproom.net: Full menu
of Black Angus Burgers for 50 percent off.
Half-priced appetizers and $2 drafts from 4 to
6 p.m. daily.
• Penuche’s Grill, 96 Hanover St., 6269830, www.piccolaitalianh.com: $10 for your
choice of BBQ Trio (pulled pork, ribs and
beef brisket with French fries), Prime Rib (8
oz. cut), Chicken Fra Diavolo (spicy chicken served over pasta) or grilled boneless pork
chops.
• Piccola Italia, 815 Elm St., 606-5100: 10
percent off entire bill throughout Eats Week.
• Red Arrow Diner, 61 Lowell St., 6261118, www.redarrowdiner.com: All day Eats
Week — Queen Dinah Breakfast (two eggs,
two bacon, two sausage, two pancakes with
beans, toast and a coffee) for $5.
• Richard’s Bistro, 36 Lowell St., 6441180, www.richardsbistro.com: Select brunch
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items on Sunday, April 26, for $10. Lunch for
$5 — choice of cup of soup, salad, sandwich
or petit bistro entrée. Dinner — appetizer,
entrée and dessert for $30. Complete dinner specials menu can be viewed at www.
intownmanchester.com.
• Van Otis Chocolates, 341 Elm St., 6271611, www.vanotischocolates.com: ¼-lb. box
of chocolates and a small coffee or tea for $5.
Cup of Gelato and iced tea or water for $5.
• Wild Rover Pub, 21 Kosciuszko St.,
624-5270, www.wildroverpub.com: 20 percent off any regular menu item (food only).
• Z Food and Drink, 860 Elm St.,
629-9383, www.zfoodanddrink.com: Com-
plimentary Asian Nacho with reservations.
$10 Lunch — cup of fish chowder and choice
of half sandwich. $25 three-course dinner
— Asian Nachos; entrée selection of Atlantic pan-seared salmon with saffron risotto,
cumber noodle relish, and charred tomato vinaigrette; grilled free bird chicken breast with
roasted red peppers, broccoli, frisee, extra
virgin olive oil, and fettuccine; or New England Family Farms roast tri tip of beef with
caramelized onion-horseradish sour cream,
broccoli and smashed Yukon gold potatoes.
Dessert is Chocolate Raviolis with chocolate
fudge sauce, fresh strawberries and whipped
cream.
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Rob and Stephanie Zinser, with their children Devan and Jake. Linda A. Thompson-Odum
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grow the beans,” Stephanie said.
The Zinsers are also serious about being
environmentally friendly. Right now the shop
serves beverages in cups made from corn
that can go into a compost pile, though they
are considering making the switch to plastic
because of Concord’s recycling program. At
home they created so much compost they had
to give it away, and the kids, Devan and Jake,
get charged for leaving lights on.
Besides coffee, True Brew also offers several varieties of black, green, white, oolong,
mate and rooibos teas — both hot and cold
and many organic. There are also smoothies
made to order with just about any ingredient
imaginable. Soon there will be a selection of
food items from Café Indigo in Concord and
Magic Oven in Bow, and coffee available by
the bag to brew at home.
The Zinsers opened the shop at the end of
March and are still adjusting the schedule to
meet the most demand. “Our first priority is
that it has to work for our family. E-mail us
your ideas for our hours or our services. We
are open to suggestions,” Stephanie said.
For now, the shop is open Monday through
Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Thursday and Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. or until
Rob feels like closing. It is hit or miss on
Saturdays.
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3 Bicentennial Square, Concord, 225-2776,
[email protected]
Hours (for now): Monday through Wednesday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursday and Friday,
7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Rob Zinser has been a coffee guy most of
his life. Now he gets to show off his skill at
True Brew Barista in Concord, the new coffee
shop he owns with his wife, Stephanie. They
specialize in fair-trade, organic coffee drinks,
teas and smoothies.
“Making coffee is an art,” Rob said. “It
takes a good ear because you have to listen to
the milk and how it sounds. You listen to the
grinding of the coffee. You watch the color of
the espresso as it drips into the shot glass.”
Rob comes from an Italian family in
upstate New York. His mom taught him the
basics of coffee when he was eight years old.
His grandfather instructed him in the keys to
proper espresso drinks such as cappuccinos
and lattes.
“My grandfather would bring me to different places and tell me to listen to the sounds.
He’d say, ‘Listen. That won’t be a good coffee.’” Rob said.
Stephanie, on the other hand, is more of a
tea person. A Concord native, she works full
time as a respiratory therapist and helps in the
shop when she can. She starts her day with a
cup of tea and then enjoys coffee in the afternoon. Rob has a cappuccino in the morning
as a taste test.
The couple impressed their friends with
their skilled coffee preparation, so much that
those friends encouraged them to open a coffee shop. The business actually started as a
delivery service that brought coffee to offices in downtown Concord. Then they found a
shop space in Bicentennial Square, where they
did the remodeling work themselves. Stephanie said that Rob did most of the work, such as
construction of the coffee bar. She painted the
walls a color known as toast. The space also
has old hardwood floors, an electric fireplace
with a flat-screen television above the mantel,
and a cozy sofa and chair set.
The coffee is ground to order, with beans
from Java Tree in Manchester, and about
ninety percent of it is certified organic and
fair trade. Fair trade certification helps small
coffee farmers make a living wage. They
organize into cooperatives and serve as their
own processors and exporters. Coffee companies trade directly with these cooperatives
and in return the farmers are guaranteed more
money for their coffee.
“We believe in the philosophy of fair trade
and giving back to the small farmers who
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selection. It is a fairly mild IPA (Indian Pale
Ale) that is a bit smoother and a bit less bitter than most IPAs.
• Take a Leap at BVI: The Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford) will
hold a Frog’s Leap wine dinner with winery owner Todd Williams on Wednesday,
May 6. A five-course dinner will be paired
with wines. The event will start at 6 p.m.;
the cost is $85 per person. Call 472-2001 to
make a reservation, and go to www.bedfordvillageinn.com to see the evening’s menu,
which will be posted soon.
• Spring additions: Two spring menu
favorites have returned to The Black Forest (212 Route 101 in Amherst). One is
the cream of carrot dill soup and the other is the strawberry-rhubarb pie. View the
complete spring dining room menu and the
marketplace take-out menu at www.theblackforestcafe.com.
• New ale: Redhook Ale Brewery of
Portsmouth is releasing Slim Chance, a new
light ale. The blonde-style ale has 125 calories per 12 ounces, according to a Red Hook
press release, and will be available nationally for about $8.99 per six-pack. See www.
redhook.com.
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Food Listings
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties/book events
• CHOCOLATE LOVERS The
Caregivers, Inc. will present their
7th annual Chocolate Lovers Fantasy fundraising event on Sun.,
May 17, from noon to 4 p.m. at
the Radisson Hotel in Manchester.
Tickets cost $17 in advance, $19 at
the door. The event will feature a
variety of chocolate eats — sweet
and savory — which attendees can
sample and judge as well as auctions and other activities. Go to
www.caregiversnh.org for the link
to buy tickets. Contact The CareGivers at 19 Harvey Road in Bedford, 622-4948.
• KITCHEN TOUR The Music
Hall (104 Congress St. in Portsmouth, 433-3100, themusichall.
org) will hold its 18th Annual
Kitchen Tour on Sat., May 2, from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets cost $20
in advance, $25 on the day. Take the
• Barbecue deals: The Village Smokehouse, 98 Middle St. in Lowell, Mass.,
978-441-BBQU, www.villagesmokehouse.
com, is offering meal deals. All students as well
as members of the faculty and staff at Middlesex Community College and U-Mass Lowell
can receive 20 percent off their food bill with
college ID Sundays through Wednesdays
through June 1. The Smokehouse is also offering 25-cent Buffalo wings Sunday through
Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m.
• Cup of joe or dish of gelato: J. Dub’s
Coffee, at 1000 Elm St. in Manchester, has
added authentic Italian gelto to its menu.
The gelato, which can have a creamier consistency than ice cream but is lower in fat,
will be made on site, according to a J. Dub’s
release. See www.jdubscoffee.com.
• Kids eat free: Area T-Bones and Cactus Jack’s will offer free meals to kids under
12 from Saturday, April 25, through Sunday, May 3 (April vacation for many kids in
southern New Hampshire). Also, Monday,
April 27, will be Prime Rib Day, with 25
percent off prime rib at T-Bones and Cactus
Jack’s. See www.tbonesis25.com for restrictions and locations.
self-guided of the homes of Rye and
North Hampton — modern, historic
and waterfront.
•RUTH REICHL Ruth Reichl
— author, former New York Times
food critic, current editor of Gourmet magazine and star of Diary
of a Foodie on PBS — will participate in the Portsmouth Music
Hall’s Writers on a New England
Stage series on Friday, May 1, at
7:30 p.m. She will discuss her new
book Not Becoming My Mother &
Other Things She Taught Me Along
the Way. Tickets are still available
and can be purchased on the Music
Hall’s Web site, www.themusichall.
org. The cost is $17.
• TASTE OF DOWNTOWN
NASHUA will be held on Wed.,
June 3, at 6:30 p.m. Call 883-5700
or go to www.nashuataste.com to
find out about ticket sales.
• TASTE OF THE NATION Tickets are on sale now for the Taste of
the Nation, which will be held on
Wednesday, May 6, at the Radisson
Hotel, Center of New Hampshire,
from 6:30 to 10 p.m. The event
will benefit Share Our Strength (a
hunger fighting organization). More
than 50 restaurants are expected to
participate in the event and wines
will be provided by Martignetti
Companies of New Hampshire,
according to a press release. Tickets
cost $50 per person. A $75 VIP ticket includes a reception at 5:30 p.m.
Call 877-26-TASTE or go to www.
tasteofthenation.org for tickets.
Chef events/special meals
• BEST OF THE WURST On Fri.,
May 22, through Sun., May 24, the
Inn at Danbury, 67 NH Route 104
in Danbury, 768-3318, will hold its
6th Annual Best of the Wurst Festival. The event features three days
of fresh bratwurst, schnitzels, sauerkraut, red cabbage, German potato
salad, spaetzle, German beers, German wines and more. Go to www.
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Ingredients
Foodie Rich Tango-Lowy helps you search the aisles
Knife skills
innatdanbury.com for the menu.
Call for reservations for live music
dinners with several seatings available each day.
• CELEBRITY DINNERS The
Bedford Village Inn, 2 Olde Bedford Way off Route 101 in Bedford, www.bedfordvillgeinn.com,
472-2001, will kick off its season
of Celebrity Invitational dinners on
Mon., June 1. This year, the dinners
(which run through Mon., Nov. 30)
will include Hollywood celebrities
from the big and small screen as
hosts. Dinners will begin at 6 p.m.
Prices start at $85 per person. Check
the Web site later in the spring for
dates and personalities.
• EATS WEEK — MANCHESTER Save the date for downtown
Manchester’s Eats Week; it’s scheduled for Sun., April 26, through
Thurs., April 30. Restaurants will
offer reduced prices, fixed-price
meals and more. Call 645-6285 or
go to www.intownmanchester.com,
• NEW ZEALAND WINE DINNER The Inn at Jaffrey, 2379 Main
St. in Jaffrey, 532-7800, www.theinnatjaffreycenter.com, will host a
New Zealand themed wine dinner
on Thursday, April 23, at 6 p.m. The
dinner will feature foods from New
Zealand plus wines from Perfecta
Wine Company. The first course
will feature the Green Lip Mussel
in a soup with grilled ramps and
smoked paprika oil accompanied
by an unoaked chardonnay from
Alpha Domus Hawkes Bay Vineyard. The second course will be
spicy grilled jumbo prawns with
corn and coriander fritters avocado
and red grapefruit accompanied by
a Manu Sauvignon Blanc. The third
course will be seared rabbit loin
in a marsala reduction with sweet
potato gnocchi and blueberry chutney paired with a merlot from Bell
Bird Bay Winery. The fourth course
will be a short loin of lamb served
with an Alpha Domus red blend,
The Navigator. For dessert, a Kiwifruit Mousse with almond pavlovas
and port wine gelee will be paired
with Alpha Domus Leonarda Late
harvest Semillon. The dinner is prix
fixe at $80 per person; call for reservations.
• PANCAKE BREAKFAST The
Nashua Breakfast Exchange Club
will host a pancake breakfast at the
Nashua Senior Activity Center, 70
Temple St. in Nashua, on Saturday,
May 16, from 7:30 to 11 a.m. Tickets cost $5; children under 3 eat free
with the purchase of a full priced
ticket. Each ticket purchased enters
you to win a $100 gift certificate.
The event benefits programs aimed at
improving the quality of life for low
income seniors in Greater Nashua. To
buy tickets in advance and for more
information, call Diane at 240-7800
or Lisa at 882-3000.
• SPANISH WINEMAKERS
DINNER Zorvino Vineyards (226
Main St., Sandown) will hold a
Spanish Winemakers Dinner on
Friday, April 24, from 6:30 to 9
p.m. The evening will start with a
cocktail and cheese hour, and the
move on to the four-course gourmet meal paired with four glasses
of Spanish wine. The cost is $50
and reservations with pre-payment
are required. Go to www.zorvino.
com to view the complete menu
and make reservations.
• WINE DINNER — SAFFRON
BISTRO The Saffron Bistro (80
Main Street, Nashua) will hold a
wine dinner on Monday, April 27, at
6 p.m. The evening will feature five
courses matched with five wines,
and each selection will be presented
by the restaurant’s chef and sommelier, who will explain the pairings.
The cost is $80 per person. For
reservations, call 883-2100 or go to
www.TheSaffronBistro.com.
Cooking classes/
workshops
• BREAD MAKING Liz Barbour
will hold a hands-on artisan bread
and pie dough class on Wed., May
20, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Derry at 16
Manning St. The cost is $40. This
two hour class will include recipes, take-home dough, a snack and
samples. Required materials include
two large mixing bowls, large cutting
board, chef’s knife and a large baking
sheet pan. Registration in advance is
required. See www.thecreativefeast.
com, e-mail lizb@thecreativefeast.
com or call 465-6929.
• CONCORD COMMUNTIY
EDUCATION Concord Community Education’s spring semester
offers a number of cooking classes.
Sour dough bread making will be
taught by Laury Nichols on Thurs.,
April 23. A vegetarian sampler on
Monday, April 27; and summer recipes on Monday, May 18, taught by
Barbara Bonsignore. Chinese home
style cooking by Sandy Schafer
will have six different classes on
the following Tuesdays: April 7 and
21, May 5 and 19, and June 2 and
16. The cost is $24 per class, with
an extra food cost of $12 per class.
Pre-registration is required. Go to
www.classesforlife.com or call
225-0804 to register.
•GLUTEN FREE COOKING
Chef /Instructor Oonagh Williams
will hold a gluten free cooking talk
and demonstration at the Merrimack
Public Library on Wed., April 29,
from 7 to 9 p.m. The class will investigate food labels and learn how to
convert favorite baked goods to gluten free, as well as understand how
to cook foods the whole family will
enjoy. The session is free and open
to the public but pre-registration is
required by calling Merrimack Public
Library at 424-5021. For any questions, e-mail [email protected] or phone 424-6412.
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Shwiiip!
That the sound I imagine Ho’s
knife makes, though it doesn’t
actually make noise at all. Shwiiip!
The sound of a man who knows
how to cut a piece of raw fish
intuitively and exactly — the perfect shape and thickness to make
each piece melt perfectly on the
tongue. I envy Ho’s deftness
with a blade and I tell him so.
“Expensive knife, everyday knife.
Doesn’t matter,” he says, holding
up a knife that looks like it came
from a very old Sears catalog. “You have to know how to use it.” Swhiiip! A few
quick cuts, a flick of the wrist and he hands me a perfect handroll from over the counter. Every bit as perfect as any I’ve consumed in the depths of Japan-Town in L.A.
Ho used to give classes; now he’s hard-pressed keeping up with a busy restaurant and a
sushi-bar full of demanding fans. Still, knowing how to use a knife is a valuable skill for
the home chef and is well worth learning. It will help you pull dinner together faster and
with more confidence. It’ll make you feel like a pro. For those self-starters out there I recommend going straight to the guru of kitchen knifery, Jacques Pepin. Pick up a copy of
Pepin’s La Technique at a local bookstore or spend a few weekends on the couch watching
any of his public television cooking shows and you’ll be sure to sharpen your skills, hone
your edge. If you’re more of a hands-on sort, Liz Barbour of The Creative Feast (465-6929)
holds occasional knife skills courses for around $40. Of course, you can always head over
to Dynamite in Hudson and learn by watching the sushi master at work. Shwiiip!
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drink
What to drink when you’re eating
Salad Niçoise
[email protected]
Drink Listings
Classes/workshops on wine/
beer making
• BARBERA IncrediBREW, 112
DW Hwy, Nashua, 891-2477,
incredibrew.com, is Split a Batch
of Barbera, Thursday, April 23, at 7
p.m.. The cost is $70 for 10 bottles
to make this wine from northwest
Italy. Return in six weeks for bottling. For all events, space is limited
and fills up fast so call for a reservation. You can also e-mail dave@
incredibrew.com with questions.
• BEER & PIZZA NIGHT IncrediBREW, 112 DW Hwy, Nashua, 8912477, incredibrew.com, will hold its
beer and pizza night on Fri., May 29,
at 6 p.m. (bottles and pizza included).
Make lagers and pilsners for $30 per
variety case and return in two weeks
for bottling. For all events, space is
limited and fills up fast so call for a
reservation. E-mail [email protected] with questions.
• MEAD FREE OR DIE Brew
Free or Die will host the first Mead
Free or Die competition in New
England on Sat., April 25, at Cadec
Global, 645 Harvey Road in Manchester. Brew Free or Die, which
hosts an annual beer homebrew
competition, plans for Mead Free or
Die to be annual event with awards
including Best in Show and others.
For information on how to compete
in or judge Mead Free or Die, go to
www.meadfreeordie.com.
• SCOTTISH BREWFEST IncrediBREW, 112 DW Hwy, Nashua,
891-2477, incredibrew.com, will
hold its Scottish Highlander Brewfest on Thurs., May 7, at 6 p.m. The
cost is $50 for two variety cases
(bottles not included) for beers like
Scotch Ale, 60 Shillings Scotch Ale,
Beam Me Up Scottish and Heather
Ale. Return in two weeks for bottling. For all events, space is limited
and fills up fast so call for a reservation. You can also e-mail dave@
incredibrew.com with questions.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR CUSTOM WINERY — BEDFORD
Vintner’s Cellar at Sebbins Brook
Marketplace, 410 South River Road
Route 3 in Bedford, offers a chance
to taste and create custom wines.
Call 627-9463 or go to www.vintnerscellarnh.com.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY 133 Loudon Road in Concord, allows customers can make
custom wines in batches of 24 to
28 bottles.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY — PORTSMOUTH Design
and create your own high-quality
wine. At 801 Islington St. in Portsmouth. Open Mondays through
Wednesdays, and Saturdays, from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays and
Fridays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays
and evenings by appointment only.
Call Gail at 431-5984.
Classes/workshops on beer/
wine tasting
• OENOPHILE WORKSHOP
The Wine Society (18 Pondview
Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978649-8993; 650 Amherst St. #9 in
Nashua, 883-4114; www.winesociety.us) kicks off the Oenophile
Workshop will kick off on Wednesday, April 29, and run through June
3. Each week’s class begins at 7
p.m. at the Tyngsborough store and
runs about two and a half to three
hours. The costs is $250 for society
members and $275 for non-members. Call the Tynsborough store to
sign up.
• WINE APPRECIATOIN 101
IncrediBREW, 112 DW Hwy,
Nashua, 891-2477, incredibrew.
com, will hold Wine Appreciation
101 with a free wine tasting, Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m.. For all
events, space is limited and fills up
fast so call for a reservation. E-mail
[email protected].
Special tastings
• AUSTRALIAN/ACORN WINE
TASTING The Wine Society (18
Pondview Place in Tyngsboro,
Mass., 978-649-8993; 650 Amherst
St. #9 in Nashua, 883-4114; www.
winesociety.us) has its a tasting with
Australian winery owner Jim Lambert and Acorn winery owner Bill
Nachbaur on on Tuesday, April 28,
from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Nashua
store. The event is free; but call the
Nashua store to RSVP.
• DOGFISH HEAD BEERS
TASTING The Wine Society (18
Pondview Place in Tyngsboro,
Mass., 978-649-8993; 650 Amherst
St. #9 in Nashua, 883-4114; www.
winesociety.us) on May 1 is holding is a tasting of Dogfish Head
craft beers. The cost for that tasting
is $10; call to RSVP.
•WINE & CHEESE LaBelle Winery, on Chestnut Hill in Amherst,
www.labellewinerynh.com,
will
hold a open house wine and cheese
tasting on Saturday, April 25, from
noon to 3 p.m. The event will pair
LaBelle wines with New Hampshire cheeses. The event is free but
registration is required; go online to
register.
MIDDLE BRANCH FARM
280 Colburn Road, New Boston, New Hampshire 03070
Tel: 603.487.2540 [email protected]
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• CHOCOLATE
RASPBERRY PLUNGE
Summer is the perfect time for a Salad Niçoise. Inspired by the cuisine of
Nice, France, this salad traditionally contains lettuce, tomatoes, black olives, garlic,
anchovies, French green beans, onions,
tuna, hard-boiled egg and herbs. The
diverse ingredient list posed a challenge for
the Hippo wine experts, which may explain
why they each chose something different.
• 2005 Chateau La Nerthe
White Chateauneuf-duPape
—
$38.99
(Recommended by Paula
Doucette of Bella Vino, 2
Young Road in Londonderry,
426-5212,
www.
bellavinonh.com)
“Salad
Niçoise served with a cool, crisp, mediumbodied wine with some fruit and earthy
minerality is a great combination,” Doucette said.
• 2006 Erath Pinot Blanc
— $17.99 (Recommended
by Marilyn McGuire from
the Cracker Barrel, 377
Main St. in Hopkinton, 7467777) An Oregon wine that
is fruit-forward and a little
bit dry. “It’s crisp and
refreshing. Very nice chilled in the summer,” McGuire said.
• 2007 Honig Sauvignon
Blanc — $19.99 (Recommended
by
Marissa
Bontatibus from The Wine
Studio, 53 Hooksett Road in
Manchester,
622-WINE
(9463), and 27 Buttrick
Road #3 in Londonderry,
432-WINE (9463), www.thewinestudionh.
com) A traditional California-style sauvignon blanc that has nice grass scents with a
light fruit finish. “With the tuna and the
olives in the salad, this wine will round out
their flavors,” Bontatibus said.
• 2007 Domaine du Poujol
Rosé — $17.99 (Recommended by Kristin Ryall
from Butter’s Fine Food and
Wine, 70 N. Main St. in
Concord, 225-5995) Ryall
felt that rosé is the perfect
aperitif wine, or wine to be
paired with any sort of lighter fare. This
selection from France is a blend of cinsauit,
carignan, grenache and syrah grapes, which
makes this a versatile wine — “a superb
pairing for all the flavors in Niçoise salad,”
Ryall said.
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CINNAMON PIE
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Wine with dinner
…by becoming a member of our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)!
Our 16 week Summer Share runs from July into October. Members pick up weekly shares
at our farm in New Boston on Wednesdays or Saturdays or at a satellite distribution site
in Manchester, South Manchester, or Derry.
Weekly shares contain herbs, salad & cooking greens, bunched veggies (turnips, beets,
carrots, etc) and other seasonally available produce such as tomatoes, eggplant,
potatoes, peppers, melons, garlic, onions, shallots, broccoli, cauliflower, summer &
winter squash and much more. Over an acre has been set aside for pick-yourown peas, green beans, edamame, herbs and cut flowers (included in share price).
Members can also purchase our naturally raised grassfed beef, pastured
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storage Share price is $465/farm pick up or $485/satellite pick up
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POP CuLTurE
Index
CdS
POP CuLTurE:
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• Slim Thug, Boss of All Bosses, C+
• A Camp, Colonia, B
BOOKS
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Includes listings for lectures, author events, book
clubs, writers’ workshops and other literary events.
To let us know about your book or event, e-mail Lisa
Parsons at [email protected]. To get your
author events, library events and more listed, send
information to [email protected].
FILM
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• Earth, B+
• State of Play, B-
• 17 Again, C+
• Crank: High Voltage, C+
Playlist
CdS
• Ben Folds Presents: University a Cappella! by Ben
Folds (Verve)
• Five Peace Band, by Chick
Corea and John McLaughlin
(Concord Records)
• Down the Wire, by Spyro
Gyra (Heads Up)
• Coaster, by NOFX (Fat
Wreck Chords)
• Secrets, by Marion Mead-
Slim Thug, Boss of All Bosses
E1 Music, April 21
In a return, more
or less, to the
Swishahouse
way of doing
things, kickedback Houston
g-rapper Slim
Thug has the biggest indie record
around, toward a financial point of
view at least. In an inexplicable coincidence, when Houston’s 15 minutes of
scene-importance ran out and people
realized Mike Jones really was no
more memorable than a cell phone
number, Thug’s relations with Geffen
Records crashed and burned, thus a
“backward” move to the country’s biggest indie label (E1 was Koch Records
up until a couple of months ago) does
seem right in a weird way.
Hopeful radio single “I Run,” a
mall-gangsta re-futzing of the Flock of
Seagulls hit, tells the whole tale, really;
it’s not about posing in candy-painted
Caddy convertibles (a silly idea in broiling Houston, and why didn’t more people
ask) or drinking beer out of jeweled goblets, even though he feels we need to be
reminded about it even now; it’s that
Thug’s got the streets in his blood, seriously, even after LA glory, no lie.
Land’s sakes alive, with all the
super-necessary backstory I forgot to
remind you that Thug’s is a rough Biggie-like flow and mention that there’s
pre-crunk (“Show Me Love,” others)
and borderline hyphy (“Smile” —
do people still actually use the word
“fly” as an adjective?) on here, all of
ows (Heads Up)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine,
by Harry Gregson-Williams
(Varese Sarabande)
• Growing Up Is Getting
Old, by Jason Michael Carroll (Arista)
• No Hassle, by Tosca (K7)
• Fast & Furious, by Brian
Tyler (Varese Sarabande)
it totally (insert meaningless hyperbolic descriptive), and now you know the
rest of the story. C+ — Eric W. Saeger
A Camp, Colonia
Nettwerk Records, April 28
Second album
from the pompindie band fronted
by Nina Persson,
ex of the Cardigans, who gave
us the Austin
Powers-ified ’60s-candy-pop single
“Carnival” and buzzy roller-rink classic
“Love Fool.” Her days of airheaded
brat-bubble are behind her, apparently,
since she’s now on a path that’s more
deeply conceptual, dare one say, and yes,
you should be thinking Decembrists but
in a more lighthearted, less self-serving
vein. Her voice has departed Taylor
Swift/Lisa Loeb territory to embrace her
impending cougar-ness: if, in your radio
travels, you happen upon something that
sounds like a dead-bang cross between
Chrissie Hynde and Shania Twain, that’d
be Persson on “Stronger Than Jesus,”
the most bald-faced attempt at a charttopper on Colonia. Key to this project’s
success with college drunkards is the
hope that people aren’t taken aback by a
chick singer who doesn’t waste a syllable posing as a glaze-eyed moonbat,
wounded hater or untouchable diva, as
those who are will miss some interesting
modernizations of Patsy Cline (“The
Weed Had Got There First”), Pretenders
(“My America”, “Here Are Many Wild
Animals”) and ’70s big-deal-radio (“I
Signed the Line”).B — EWS
A seriously abridged
compendium of recent
and future CD releases
• Joey Ramone must be a total hater in Hades, watching Bob Dylan roll around in another 15 minutes of
fame, this time croaking the blues in a Captain Beefheart
voice in new single “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” from
his forthcoming millionth album Together Through Life,
due in your Walmarts on the April 28. His MySpace
interpage is so funny now, dolled up in all pictures of
Young Dylan and then you scroll down and all of a sudden there’s the picture of him as he is now, an angry
Gandalf appearing to hate something deep and universal, probably apathetic youth.
• Heaven & Hell is the reunion of the guys who
played on Black Sabbath’s Mob Rules album, in other words there isn’t a real drummer but Vinnie Appice
will pretend. New album The Devil You Know‘s teaser
track, “Bible Black,” is a boring, weepy Dio-like slog
that would have been immediately rejected by Tony and
Geezer, so their re-breakup is surely moments away.
• Starbucks-decaf-jazz singer Melody Gardot serves
up new album My One and Only Thrill on Tuesday. As
usual, the jazz geeks are astounded that there’s a new
23-year-old girl passively interested in their trip (at least
enough to take their money and make like a BradyBunch Amy Winehouse), and so, even though she sings
like a plain-Jane cross between Macy Gray and Renee
Olstead and doesn’t really like jazz, the geeks are all
squishy daisies about her, even though they’d really
rather be in their rooms at their mom’s house guzzling
Monster by the gallon and trying to figure out the same
bass-drum line from Mingus they’ve obsessed on since
puberty.
• Because he’s mental, Ben Folds decided to fly in a
bunch of college singing babes and have them perform
his music a capella, including the piano parts, while he
eats entire roast pigs and throws the bones at them while
laughing like a giant fat Viking. The album is called
University A Cappella, out Tuesday, and that’s the last
you’ll ever hear of this. (Last-minute update, literally
just before I turned this in: OK, WTF – Epic Records
just sent me this album today, I AM NOT KIDDING.
Ben Folds is so crazy he can make you paranoid just by
spying on you.) — Eric W. Saeger
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On shelves April 28
• Together Through Life, by
Bob Dylan (Columbia)
• Songs Around The World,
by Playing For Change
(HEAR MUSIC)
• The Devil You Know, by
Heaven & Hell (Rhino
Records)
• My One and Only Thrill,
by Melody Gardot (Verve)
MuSIC, BOOKS,
GAMES, COMICS,
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In stores this week
Fiction
• Nobody Move: A Novel, by
Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux)
• Camilla, by Madeleine
L’Engle (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux)
• Sag Harbor: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Book & Lecture
listings
• CYNTHIA NEALE discusses The
Irish Dresser on Thurs., April 23, at
3:45 p.m. at B&N in Manchester.
• RUTH REICHL discusses Not
Becoming My Mother: And Other
Things She Taught Me Along the Way
on Fri., May 1, at 7:30 p.m. at The
Music Hall (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, www.themusichall.
org). Reichl will be interviewed on
stage by NHPR’s Laura Knoy; Q&A
session with the audience to follow.
$13, or $11 for members.
Book discussions
• BOOK CLUB EVENING Tues.,
April 28, at 7 p.m. at Gibson’s Bookstore, 27 S. Main St., Concord, 2240562, with Ron Koltnow and Lesley
Vasilio from Random House and Ann
Wachur from Penguin Books. Free
Nonfiction
• The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You
a Happy Birthday: Unexpected
Encounters in the Changing
Middle East, by Neil MacFarquhar (PublicAffairs)
• Destiny Disrupted: A History
of the World Through Islamic
Eyes, by Tamim Ansary (Publi-
cAffairs)
• Amazing Tales for Making
Men out of Boys, by Neil Oliver
(William Morrow)
• The Noticer: Sometimes, all a
person needs is a little perspective, by Andy Andrews (Thomas
Nelson)
SPECIALS FOR APRIL
What are you reading?
Wendy Jensen, DVM
Jensen Homeopathic
Veterinary Practice,
Bow
I’m reading Release
the Vital Force: The
Exact Science and Art
of Homeopathic Patient
Examination by Nikki Henriques. It’s a
brand new book .... I’m
a homeopathic veterinarian, and though my patients are non-human animals,
the principles are the same: Leave no stone unturned in
divining the complete picture of your patient. For example, for each symptom, find out when it occurred for
the first time, when and how it has changed, what time
it occurs, what causes it to occur, where on the body it
occurs, and what makes the symptom worse or better
[pages 49-50]. If you treat people, the added information of sensations is also useful. This book is an excellent
guide for those interested in the practice of homeopathic
medicine, as well as a great review for the more experienced practitioner.
snacks; all books discussed 20% off.
Free, no registration required, but call
or e-mail Gibson’s if your book group
will attend, to provide a head count
for refreshments.
• BOOKS IN THE MILL discussion series at UNH Manchester is free
and open to the public. Spring 2009
theme is time travel. First Thursdays
in library at 6:30 p.m. May 7: The Plot
to Save Socrates, by Paul Levinson.
• DERRY LIBRARY readers’ group
meets monthly, new members always
welcome. Thurs., April 23, at 7 p.m.,
discussing works by Edgar Allan
Poe.
• THE GREAT GATSBY is featured
for Southern New Hampshire Reads,
a program of The Big Read. See
www.northeastculturalcoop.org and
www.neabigread.org. Related events
at area venues through April 25.
• MAINSTREET BOOKENDS
book group meets Sun., April 26, at 3
p.m. to discuss The Middle Place, by
The Book
Report
• SNHU instructor writes textbook:
Julie Baker, who is both an MFA student
and an instructor of writing at Southern
New Hampshire University, has written a
fourth-grade social studies textbook, New
Hampshire, Our Home, covering “geography, history, economics and government
while placing the state’s historical events
in the context of national history,” according to a SNHU press release. She has
master’s degree in education from Boston
College and has contributed to American
History magazine.
• New nook at DPL: Derry Public
Library has a new section: The Job Search
Kelly Corrigan.
•
MANCHESTER
CITY
LIBRARY Brown Bag Book Club
meets on the last Tuesday of the
month from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. April
28: The Air We Breathe, by Andrea
Barrett.
• NOW OR NEVER READING
GROUP at the Learning Institute at
New England College in Henniker
offers spring classes April 23 through
May 14 with exploration of Russian
writers—short stories and plays of
Chekhov and more. Open to all adult
lifelong learners at a minimal fee.
Visit www.nec.edu and follow links
to LINEC to enroll or call the registrar at 746-6212.
Poetry
• JAZZMOUTH music and poetry
festival in Portsmouth, April 23-26,
includes workshops, book discussions and readings, www.jazzmouth.
org.
and Career Research Center is a space
within the library dedicated to career and
job search materials. With comfortable
chairs, Internet stations, tables and lots of
relevant books, e.g. the Occupational Outlook Handbook, this area of the library
should help job-seekers and go-getters find
what they need all in one place, according to a Library press release. The nearby
computer stations can link to NHWorks,
the state’s official Web site for job-seekers and employers, and to LearnATest, an
online database of practice tests for civil
service jobs and other forms of employment. The DPL reference staff will be
happy to help patrons use these resources,
the press release said. —Lisa Parsons
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from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Engineering
technology senior project presentations are Fri., April 24, from 8:30
a.m. to 12:30 a.m. All take place on
the 3rd floor of 400 Commercial St.,
Manchester.
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AMERICAN ADVERTISING presentation by Mark Foynes, director of
the Wright Museum, on Fri., April 24,
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FILM
In theaters Friday, April 24
• The Soloist (PG-13, wide release)
• Obsessed (PG-13, wide release)
REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
• Fighting (PG-13, wide release)
• The Garden (limited release)
• The Informers (R, limited release)
• Mutant Chronicles (R, limited release)
• Tyson (R, limited release)
The Soloist
The Soloist (PG-13)
I know, it sounds like faint praise.
But after watching it, “What a neat
story” was my first thought. Perhaps
because this based-on-a-true-story
started as a newspaper column, the
movie has a long magazine article
feel to it. There’s no great conspiracy
uncovered, no dramatic change to the
world — just interesting characters
and an engrossing study of them.
Character #1: Steve Lopez
(Downey), a columnist for the Los
Angeles Times. He is a good writer
but — at least as the movie shows it
— a bit lacking in confidence elsewhere in life. His editor is also his
ex-wife, Mary (Catherine Keener,
who is like a ray of light here). He is,
as we come to find out, prepared to
let people down.
Character #2: Nathaniel Ayers
(Foxx), a homeless man who Lopez
meets under a statue of Beethoven.
Ayers is playing violin and doing
surprisingly well considering it only
has two strings. In their first meeting, Ayers mentions off-handedly to
Lopez that he was at Juilliard. Lopez,
in need of just this kind of story, looks
into it, confirms that Ayers was once
a student at one of the world’s most
prestigious music schools and then
starts to piece together Ayers’ life
and how he ended up on the streets
(where he still plays the classical
music he learned in New York).
After this first article, Lopez
receives a cello from a reader to give
to Ayers. The instrument becomes the
first link in an uneasy but growing
friendship between Lopez and Ayers.
Lopez appreciates the access to Ayers
and other homeless people, many of
Downey (not, perhaps, the absolute
best from either man but the kind
of solid why-you-hire-them performance that you’d expect). The
third main character in this movie is music. And that performance is
equally solid. The movie does a good
job using the music to give us insight
into Foxx’s character. In one scene in
particular, Ayers doesn’t just hear but
seems to feel the music while listening to a symphony perform. For us,
it’s translated into bursts of color that
force you to focus almost solely on
what you’re hearing. It’s a neat little
effect that the movie uses just enough
to put us in the moment. B
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements,
some drug use and language. Directed
by Joe Wright and written by Susannah
Grant (from a book by Steve Lopez),
The Soloist is an hour and 45 minutes
long and is distributed by DreamWorks. It opens in wide release on
Friday, April 24.
Earth (G)
Creatures great and small
share a year cohabitating
and occasionally eating each
other in Earth, a lovelylooking nature movie perfect
for the whole family.
Assuming all members of the
family are OK with baby animals
occasionally getting eaten. It’s not
presented with any gore, but the
consequences of the circle of life are
pretty clearly laid out.
And who better to narrate the circle of life than Mufasa himself, Mr.
James Earl Jones, whose voice adds
to the whole “majesty and grandeur
of nature” aesthetic that the film is
clearly going for. (Fun fact: apparently the British version of the film
uses Patrick Stewart and his Shakespeare-by-way-of-Captain-Picard
Crank High Voltage
(R)
Death and the loss of
a major internal organ
does not stop hitman
Chev Chelios from running
around the L.A. area,
fighting guys, stealing
cars and occasionally
electrically shocking
himself in Crank High
Voltage, a silly fun Jason
Statham action movie.
Whereas Chev (Statham) woke
up in the last movie to find that he
was about to die, he wakes up in
this movie to find that he was dead
and has been revived so a powerful old mobster can take his organs,
starting with his heart, which has
been replaced with an artificial version. After dispensing with a couple
of “doctors,” stealing some clothes
and a car and figuring out who’s
been poaching his parts, Chev sets
off into the world to find his heart
in hopes that his equally sarcastic-quotes-deserving “doctor,” Doc
Miles (Dwight Yoakam), the same
one helping him through the Chinese-death-poison problem in the
first movie, can put the heart back
in him and send Chev on his merry
criminal way.
The search for his heart sends
him past a parade of people of
various ethnic stereotypes and
eventually throws him into the path
of Eve (Amy Smart), his girlfriend
who believed he was dead and has
become a stripper. Because a man
can’t be expected to always steal
cars, evade police and beat up bad
guys on his own, Eve helps Chev,
intermittently yelling at him for not
calling and for eventually convincing her to have sex with him in front
of the crowd at the Hollywood Park
race track. Why the public sex?
Because skin on skin creates friction, and static electricity becomes
one of the many absurd ways that
Chev keeps the battery for his artificial heart charged.
Crank High Voltage, like the
original Crank, isn’t just an action
movie — it’s supercharged fastacting action. Fast cuts and sped-up
footage zip us through fights and
zip us across town (with the help
of GoogleEarth maps) making the
whole movie feel fast-forwarded,
particularly when the losing-juice
Chev jump-starts himself with a car
battery or an electrical transformer or Taser. He revs up like Popeye
swallowing a can of spinach and
a tornado of fists rain down on
whichever interchangeable henchman is in his way. It’s all very …
well, OK, it’s all very stupid, but
it’s also fun in its ridiculousness. It
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Robert Downey Jr. and
Jamie Foxx play unlikely
friends in The Soloist, a
very neat little story.
whom, like Ayers, are mentally ill, living in downtown Los Angeles, and
Ayers is occasionally lucid and able
to make and deeply appreciate beautiful music.
Occasionally. Other times he is lost
in the fear and delusion of schizophrenia. One of the things this movie does
best is to show the frustration that is
part of dealing with a friend or loved
one with a severe mental illness. It is
not an illness-is-cured, and-they-alllived-happily-after kind of disease.
And, thankfully, the movie doesn’t
turn it into one. Nor does it go out
of its way to Say Something about
all mental illnesses or what society
should do about people with mental illnesses (other than to make clear
that what we are doing isn’t enough
or always particularly useful).
Instead, it gives us these characters,
their situations and a bit of their background, much like what you’d get in a
really well-written Sunday newspaper
long feature. More than the conspiracyuncovering in State of Play, this kind of
precision- and skill-requiring feature
writing is what truly sets newspapers
apart from the instant headlines that
the Internet offers. These stories aren’t
something a blogger can dash off in the
morning; these take investigation and
constant work and spending time with
people. A good story of government
malfeasance or political wrong-doing
is just as fun and important (and equally difficult to report correctly), but the
everyday amazing stories don’t cry
out to be covered in the same way.
You have to dig, and once you find
them you have to make sure that sentiment and the desire for a good story
don’t run ahead of the facts. It’s an easy
balance to get wrong and this movie
reminds you how great it can be when
it gets it right.
Into this solid story go equally solid performances by Foxx and
voice.) Over the course of the film,
we check in with a family of polar
bears in the Arctic, a mom and baby
elephant in the Kalahari, and a mom
and baby whale migrating through
the oceans. In between the stories of
these stars are smaller segments featuring little moments of life in other
kinds of terrains — the sub-Arctic
forests of pine, the forests of Europe
and North America, a rain forest, the
Himalayas and assorted more lush
parts of Africa. (Fans of the BBC’s
Planet Earth will recognize footage
from that series.) As we meet wolves,
birds of paradise, gazelles, cheetahs,
polar bears, monkeys, walruses, baby
ducks and one truly awesome-looking shark, we get the nickel tour of
the people-free parts of the globe with
occasional and very gentle reminders
of how the people-intensive parts of
the world might be mucking things
up for all these cool animals.
The movie, scheduled to be
released on Earth Day, is clearly
meant to wow us with all the crazy
plumage, spotted fur and massive
teeth that exist in the world, leaving
the “don’t screw it up” mostly to us to
consider on our own. That’s probably
for the best. In the polar bear story,
one of the members of our bear family finds it harder and harder to hunt
fish because of the thinning ice in his
hunting grounds. This is traumatic
enough to provoke a family discussion about turning the lights off when
you leave a room. Likewise, when
it comes to the relationship between
carnivores and their prey, the movie
generally stops at the point when the
fast running thing with teeth catches the slower (and inevitably cuter)
animal, leaving it to you to decide
how much to explain to younger kids
about what happens next.
Assuming this part of nature
(and about an hour and a half of
live-action movie) isn’t too much
for your kid, this is truly a movie that has the potential to entertain
all members of the family. The kids
will laugh at the scenes of monkeys
delicately wading through a flooded
plain and you will marvel at dizzying shots over waterfalls and the
Shark Week coolness of the shots
wherein a great white leaps almost
entirely out of the water and opens
its mouth to show off its massive
eating-things capability. Though it’s
screened in a regular stadium nonIMAX theater, Earth gives you that
big-screen IMAX-like sense of awe
about what you’re seeing. The colors
are vibrant, the images are stunning
and the animals are, where appropriate, terrifying or adorable. B+
Rated G. Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield and written by
Fothergill, Linfield and Leslie Meghey,
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State of Play (PG-13)
A 24-esque plot about a
Blackwater-like private military
company is uncovered by a
Woodward-and-Bernstein-ish
reporter in State of Play, a total
wish-fulfillment fantasy about
what it’s like to be a journalist.
Government plots connected to seemingly everyday murders and clandestine
meetings in shadowy locales — these are
things that reporters dream about, salivate for, but that rarely happen. For most
of us, covering “the government” consists of sitting in meetings wherein people
argue about how big a store sign can be
and whether or not it can be lit. These are
important issues, but I doubt anybody’s
going to make a movie called All the Alderman’s Zoning Boards.
So we dream of getting involved in
those once-in-a-lifetime Watergate-like
stories and satiate ourselves with journalism porn like this. Here, Cal McAffrey
(Russell Crowe), some kind of senior cops
reporter or something (most big newspapers actually have fairly well defined
turfs over which people fight but this is
boring and seldom something you’ll see
in movies about newspapers), goes to
investigate a murder of two people in a
Washington, D.C., alley — probably drugrelated, officialdom tells him. Meanwhile,
a story is unfolding about the death of a
young woman named Sonia Baker (Maria
Thayer) who worked in the office of Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck).
He’s in the middle of committee hearings
about a Blackwater-ish defense company
called PointCorp and rather than simply
take a moment of silence over his staffer’s
death, he chokes up and starts crying, thus
confirming to everyone instantly that he’d
been having an affair with her.
Cal McAffrey is the point at which these
two stories initially converge. He was Collins’ college roommate and years later had
an affair with Collins’ wife, Anne (Robin Wright Penn). Now, Della Frye (Rachel
McAdams), a scrappy young reporter for
McAffrey’s Washington Post-like newspaper’s Internet division, is heading up
the coverage on Collins and she goes to
McAffrey for help. At first he swats her
away, but then he finds a link that connects
his run-of-the-mill murders to her political
intrigue and he decides to enlist this cubby
reporter in helping him uncover a massive
government conspiracy.
Points to State of Play for being less
absurd than a similar plot on this season’s
24 and for showing reporters spending a
lot of time making phone calls and getting
hung up on, which is actually more true to
life than meeting secret sources or getting
chased through parking garages (things
that also happen here). Also, any movie
that puts Helen Mirren in charge of people
and lets her swear at them is good eatin’. I
find myself incapable of taking this movie
seriously as a government thriller (Congressman Ben Affleck, indeed), but as junk
food entertainment offering guilty-pleasure
level suspense it works just fine. Sure, you
never forget Russell Crowe is the one rumpling himself up as a journalist, but that
doesn’t get in the way of the action, which
plays out a bit like a TV procedural, complete with requisite twists and feints. And
McAdams is just fine — you believe that
she’s equal parts bright-eyed and dogged.
And we’re thankfully spared all the things
that could push this movie from fast food
into unappetizing — no “stop the presses,” no speech about the Importance of
Journalism. State of Play is not the All the
President’s Men for a new age but it’s perfectly satisfying to feed a media junkie’s
addiction. BRated PG-13 for some violence, language
including sexual references and brief drug
content. Directed by Kevin Macdonald and
written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony
Gilroy and Billy Ray (from the TV series by
Paul Abbott), State of Play is an hour and 58
minutes long and is distributed in wide release
by Universal Pictures.
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SUNSHINE CLEANING (R) 91 min. Fri. 2:00, 5:30, 8:00, Sat. 1:00, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00,
Sun. 1:00, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, Mon. 5:30, 8:00, Tue. 2:00, 5:30, 8:00, Wed. 5:30,
8:00, Thu. 5:30, 8:00
DOOR OUT OF THE DARK (NR) 25 min. In the Screening Room — NHTI Film Series
Fri. 7:00, 8:00
THANK YOU
The Haunting in Connecticut (PG-13)
1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 9:50
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603-437-8800
PHOTO ID REQUIRED FOR
ALL R RATED FILMS 0
TOWN HALL THEATRE
(603) 654-FILM (3456)
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Starts Fri “”
Every Evening 7:30 Sun mats 2:00
Londonderry, NH - 603-434-8633
Showtimes for April 24 - April 30
MIDNIGHT SHOWING OF
X-MEN ORGINS: WOLVERINE THUR., 4/30
Continuing... “ ” French
Every Evening 7:30 Sun mats 2:00-4:30
PRESENTED IN DIGITAL 3D
MONSTERS VS. ALIENS 3D B
12:15, 2:35, 4:40, 6:55, 9:15
Saturday Afternoon Library Classic Film
Dick Powell — Ruby Keeler — Joan Blondell
Busby Berkeley’s “” (1934)
Sat 4:30pm - Free Admission - Donations to charity
$2.00 surcharge for admission to all 3D films
PRESENTED IN DIGITAL PROJECTION H
HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE A
12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00
KIDTOONS CELEBRATE EARTH DAY 2009 I
10:30 AM
Sunday... silent Double Feature
William S. Hart western
“’ ” (1917)
Douglas Fairbanks comedy “  
 ” (1919)... with live music by Jeff Rapsis
Sun late matinee 4:30pm - free admission
Admission Prices: All Shows
Adults $6.00
Children (under 12) and Seniors (65 and over) $4.00
The Community Players of Concord
present
makes Michael Bay movies look downright
sedate and scientific with its over-the-top
burst of explosions and physics-defying
feats. Crank High Voltage is exactly what
you want if you want see to the ruggedly
appealing (and — thank you, movie — frequently shirtless) Statham punch guys and
kick guys and throw guys against the wall
and get thrown against the wall and drive
recklessly all over the city. Crank High Voltage is an amusement park ride of a movie
offering immediate (and nearly immediately forgettable) action and entertainment
without a lot of unnecessary thought. C+
Rated R for frenetic strong bloody violence
throughout, crude and graphic sexual content,
nudity and pervasive language. Written and
directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor,
Crank High Voltage is an hour and 35 minutes
long and is distributed in wide release by Lionsgate and Lakeshore International.
Main Street, Wilton, NH • (603) 654-3456
www.wiltontownhalltheatre.com
623-8022
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State of Play
Romantic comedy starring
Douglas Fairbanks
Live music by Jeff Rapsis
SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 4:30 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION! (Donations accepted)
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
‘When the Clouds
Roll By’ (1919)
FIGHTING C
11:20, 2:15, 4:40, 7:25, 9:50
OBSESSED C
11:25, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00
THE SOLOIST C
11:15, 1:55, 4:25, 7:20, 9:55
EARTH A
11:00, 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30
11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40
17 AGAIN C
CRANK HIGH VOLTAGE E
7:35
STATE OF PLAY C
10:55, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45
OBSERVE AND REPORT E
10:05 PM
FAST & FURIOUS C
1:50, 7:10
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT C
9:35 PM
KNOWING C
11:05, 4:25
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN B
11:10, 1:30, 4:00
www.oneilcinemas.com

How far will
a man go?
April 30, 8:00 pm
May 1&2, 8:00 pm
May 3, 2:00 pm
Concord City Auditorium
Order tickets at
www.communityplayersofconcord.org
or 60--0
Partial nudity; suggested for mature audiences.
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THE HEALTHY BUFFALO
POP CULTURE:
Healthy Meals Start with Healthy Meats!
FILM Continued
Samples offered on Sat & Sun
reat & Good For You!
Tastes G
A pub that captures the
mythical and Old World feel that takes hold
and slowly pulls you toward another time
SUN:
Sing Session w/Spain Brothers
2pm-5pm, followed by Traditional Music
MON:
Bison, Venison, Elk, Ostrich
Quail, Duck, Wild Boar, Alligator
Thurs & Fri 12pm-6pm, & Sat & Sun 10am-4:30pm.
Scalawag
TUES:
MANCHUKA
Funk & Soul
258 Dover Rd ( Rt.4 ) Chichester, New Hampshire
1 mile East of the Weathervane Restaurant.
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www.healthybuffalo.com
603-369-3611
17 Again
WED:
Open Mic Comedy Night


A sad-sack Matthew Perry
becomes a newly invigorated
Zac Efron in the second-chance
comedy 17 Again.
FRI: 4/24
Back Room
TBA
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SAT: 4/25
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Back Room
TBA
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Brunch Sat & Sun 11:30 AM
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1,000 cards: $99
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Back Room
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17 Again (PG-13)
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Ted Foster
Camp Director
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Current Golf Coach
Trinity High School for
1992-1999 Golf
Coach
St. Anselm College
1997-1998 Northea
st-10
Collegiate Coach
of the Year
American Red
Cross
Certified
Member NH Camp
Director’s Associa
tion
Dear Parents and
Junior Golfers:
Our objective at
Foster’s Golf Camp
to provide junior
is
golfers with a
better
understanding
and a
the sport. We offer greater appreciation for
a learning environ
that emphasizes
solid fundamentals, ment
teamwork, and
is fun.
helps develop self-dis Golf is a sport that
confidence, lifetim cipline and selfe
important for every traits that are so very
each Junior a positivindividual. We instill in
e attitude and the
that with proper
belief
instruction and
teaching
methods, all golfers
have the ability
better players.
to be
We welcome the
opportunity
to teach your child.
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603-532
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603-890-1015
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603-524-1370
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$299
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Intermediate to
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Week of August
3 - August 7
All courses are
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PAYMENT
either a $50 deposit
or
Payment in Full
for each
week reserved
is required
with registrat
ion.
BALANCE IS
DUE PRIOR
TO SCHEDULED
WEEK
*We will accept
reservations right
up to the start of
any
there are openings. week providing
Payment in full
is
required with registration
REGISTRATI
ON FORM
Parent’s Names:
______________
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Address: _______
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City, State, Zip:
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Phone: (H) _______
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Intermediate
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$250 per week
$ _________
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$299 (Aug. 3-7)
$ _________
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Hat $15 each
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Golf Shirt $15
each
$ _________
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per week
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Group Photo $15
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TOTAL
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$_________
ON
I have adequate
medical coverage,
attend the Foster’s
and give my daughter/so
Golf Camp. We
n permission to
attended, their
employees, Foster’s (or I) agree to indemnify the
golf courses
claim which may
Golf
hereafter be presented Camp and it’s employees,
such injuries.
for any
by my daughter/so
In addition, our
n as a result of
daughter/son understand
regulations of
Foster’s Golf
s all the rules
Camp and promises
authorize Foster’s
and
to conform to
Golf Camp to
such rules. I
son for use in
photograph and/or
publications and/or
videotape my
or instructors
daughter/
website. I hereby
to act
authorize Ted
requiring medical on my behalf, using the best
Foster and/
judgement in
attention other
any emergency
responsible for
than
any charges incurred that maintained by the camp.
medical care of
I will be
and will pay such
my child.
chages arising
from the
Parent’s Signatur
e: ______________
______________
Date: _______
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Emergency Contact:
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Phone No. _______
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A 17-year-old Mike O’Donnell (Efron)
is about to play the basketball game of his
young life — a college scout is in the stands
and his bright future is just about to take
off. His girlfriend, Scarlett (Allison Miller),
appears to wish him a good game — except
she does it with a strange look on her face.
What’s wrong, baby, he says. Baby, indeed.
Next thing we know, Mike is walking away
from the court to follow Scarlett into the hall,
where he proposes and gushingly tells her
that she and their child are his bright future.
Years later, Mike (Perry) is bitter and
sad, having been pushed out of his house by
Scarlett (Leslie Mann), who is sick of hearing him complain about how much better
his life would have been if he’d taken that
basketball scholarship and gone to college.
He’s now living with high school friend Ned
(Thomas Lennon), formerly a geek whom
Mike protected from the other jocks and now
a geek who has made bags of money with
software and has a house full of Star Wars
memorabilia, medieval weaponry and other
geekcessories. Mike’s kids, the 17-year-old
Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) and the
younger, slightly nerdy Alex
(Sterling Knight), are now
students at his alma mater,
Be Spielberg for
but this shared teenage expetwo days
rience hasn’t brought them
New Hampshire will host
together — they seem just as
its own 48-Hour Film Projdisenchanted with their dad
ect competition this year.
as Scarlett is.
Competitors will meet on
It’s in this state that Mike
Friday, June 12, and get a
does a little bit of chatting
character, prop, line of diawith a mysterious janitor
logue and genre to include
and, after an It’s a Wonderin their movie, according
ful Life-like jump/fall from
to a press release. By Suna bridge, he awakes the next
day, June 14, they need to
morning to find himself a
have a completed movie. A
changed man. Actually, a
week later, the movies will
changed boy — he’s been
be screened and a panel of
returned to his 17-year-old
judges
will
choose
a
top
entry
to submit to an internationEfron state and decides it’s
an opportunity to live his al competition, the release said.
Registration was scheduled to open on Tuesday, April
life over again.
Annoyingly wholesome 21. The registration fee for each team is $125. Teams are
as those High School Musi- admitted on a first come, first served basis and a limitcal movies may be, Efron ed number of teams will be allowed to participate. See
has a solid screen presence. www.48hourfilm.com/newhampshire for all the rules or
He has a big teen-dream grin contact Chris Proulx at [email protected]
but he has enough sense of or 540-2381 for more information.
In 2008, about 30,000 filmmakers made films in 70 cithumor about himself to keep
it from becoming unsettling ies, according to the press release.
In the spotlight
Many other sizes & options available!
1
(i.e. Tom Cruise). Since this whole endeavor is played at a sitcom level, Efron seems
perfectly matched to the task of mimicking
a few Perry/old-man-isms while still being
a winning character in his own right. Anything verging on edgy — some scenes that
touch on a building crush Maggie has for
her teenage dad (who calls himself Mark);
the feelings young Mark/Mike has for the
older Scarlett, leading to “cougar” jokes —
is played for goofiness. Some talk about
whether or not Maggie will have sex with
her boyfriend, Stan (Hunter Parrish), a
lughead who bullies her younger brother, is
addressed in the most wholesome way you
can address teen sex and Efron does a believable job of expressing middle-aged dad-ness
from behind his young man features.
Helping Efron keep the funny moving
are Leslie Mann (Mrs. Judd Apatow and a
regular in his comedies) and Thomas Lennon, whose weirdness is on display with his
attempt to romance the high school’s principal, played by Melora Hardin. This isn’t
cutting-edge humor but it is middle-brow
comedy done fairly well. C+
Rated PG-13 for language, some sexual
material and teen partying. Directed by Burr
Steers and written by Jason Filardi, 17 Again is
an hour and 42 minutes long and distributed in
wide release by Warner Bros.
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POP CULTURE:
FILM Continued
Cinema locator
AMC Tyngsborough
440 Middlesex St., Tyngsborough,
Mass., 978-649-3980.
Chunky’s Cinema & Pub Nashua
151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua,
chunkys.com
Chunky’s Pelham Cinema & Pub
150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499
Cinemagic Hooksett
1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett,
644-4629, cinemagicmovies.com
Cinemagic Merrimack 12
11 Executive Place Dr., Merrimack,
423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com
Flagship Cinemas Derry
10 Ashleigh Dr., Derry, 437-8800
Entertainment Cinemas 6
192 Loudon Road, Concord,
224-3600
AMC at The Loop
90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen,
Mass., 978-738-8942
O’Neil Cinema 12
Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry,
434-8633
Regal Concord
282 Loudon Road, Concord, 2263800
Regal Hooksett 8
100 Technology Dr., Hooksett,
641-3456
Regal Manchester 9
1279 S. Willow St., Manchester,
641-3456
Showcase Cinemas Lowell
32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass.,
978-551-0055
Movies outside the cineplex
WILTON TOWN HALL
Main Street in Wilton. Tickets cost $6
($4 for seniors and children) unless
otherwise stated. wiltontownhalltheatre.com or call 654-FILM.
• Duplicity (PG-13, 2009) Thurs.,
April 23, at 7:30 p.m.
• The Class (PG-13, 2009) Thurs.,
April 23, through Thurs., April 30,
7:30 p.m. PLUS Sun., April 26, 2
& 4:30 p.m.
• Adventureland (R, 2009) Fri.,
April 24, through Thurs., April
30, 7:30 p.m. PLUS Sun., April
26, 2 & 4:30 p.m.
• Dames (1934) Sat., April 25, at
4:30 p.m. Free admission; donations to charity.
• Hell’s Hinges (1918); When the
Clouds Roll By (1919) William S.
Hart Western and early Douglas
Fairbanks comedy. Sun., April 26,
at 4:30 p.m. Live music by Jeff
Rapsis. Free.
MILFORD DRIVE-IN
101A in Milford, 673-4090, milforddrivein.com. Check Web site for
changes related to weather or screenings. Open Fridays and Saturdays;
movies begin at dusk. Admission is
$20 per car (up to 6 occupants).
• Screen 1: Hannah Montana:
The Movie (G, 2009); Race to
Witch Mountain (PG, 2009)
• Screen 2: Fast & Furious (PG13, 2009); I Love You, Man (R,
2009)
PALACE THEATRE
80 Hanover St., Manchester, 6685588, www.palacetheatre.org.Classic
Silent Film series featuring live music
by Jeff Rapsis. Tickets cost $7.
• The Wind (1928) Thurs., April
23, at 7 p.m.
PETERBOROUGH
COMMUNITY THEATRE
6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, www.thepct.com. Schedule
subject to change, call ahead.
• Monsters Vs. Aliens (PG, 2009)
Thurs., April 23, and Fri., April 24, at
7:30 p.m. ; Sat., April 25, and Sun.,
April 26, at 3 & 7:30 p.m.; Wed.,
FRANCO-AMERICAN
CENTRE
April 29, at 3 & 7:30 p.m.; Thurs.,
52 Concord St., Manchester, April 30, at 7:30 p.m.
669-4045, www.francoamerican
centrenh.com
THE COLONIAL THEATRE
• Inch’Allah Dimache (NR, 95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033,
2001, French with subtitles) Tues, www.thecolonial.org
May 19, at 7 p.m.
• Last Chance Harvey (PG-13,
2008) Thurs., April 23, at 7 p.m.;
MANCHESTER CITY
Sun., April 26, at 2 & 7 p.m.;
Mon., April 27, through Thurs.,
LIBRARY
405 Pine St., Manchester, 624- April 30, at 7 p.m.
6550, www.manchester.lib.nh.us • Spooktacular — King Kong Vs.
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Local music
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• Talking ’bout a Revolution: WVNH’s
Revolution Show will bring Tulsa-based
Capital Lights to its Sunday evening concert series on April 26 at the Black Brimmer,
1087 Elm St. in Manchester. Capital Lights
will share a bill with local groups Sonance,
Kaelumway and Wells Fargo. The show is
part of a series of alcohol-free, all-ages concerts at the venue. Tickets can be purchased
for $10 at the door or at www.revolutionshow.org. The Revolution Show airs online
and on WVNH 91.1 FM/104.3 FM (Concord), 96.1 FM (Laconia), and 96.9 FM
(Ashland/Plymouth) from 8 to 10 p.m. on
Saturdays.
• Southern comfort: Tickets are now
on sale for the Allman Brothers’ and Widespread Panic’s Monday, Aug. 24, show at
the Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion
in Gilford. The Allman Brothers are now in
their 40th year of touring, and Widespread
Panic is touring to promote their 10th CD,
Free Somehow. Lawn tickets start at $30
and can be purchased at www.meadowbrook.net.
• From Memphis to Tupelo: Legendary Memphis soul musician Booker T will
play a solo set on Wednesday, April 29, at
8 p.m. at Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road
in Londonderry. Booker T is promoting his
new album, Potato Hole, released by Anti
Records and featuring guest artists such as
The Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young.
Tickets ($30) can be purchased at www.
tupelohall.com.
• Fighting for their lives: Cage Fighting Extreme, a team of cage fighters with
lots of brawn and lots of heart, are teaming up on April 25 at 6:30 p.m. for Thunder
in the Dome at the New Hampshire Dome,
50 Emerson Road in Milford. Tickets cost
$45, and part of the proceeds will go to
DKMS Americas, which pairs bone-marrow patients with donors. Tickets can be
purchased online at www.cagefx.com or by
calling 718-510-6000.
• Jazz it up: The UNH Department of
Music presents an evening of small group
jazz offered by students of David Newsam,
Mark Shilansky and David Seiler on Monday, April 27. The concert takes place in the
Johnson Theatre of the Paul Creative Arts
Center on the Durham campus, begins at 8
p.m. and is free and open to the public. Call
the UNH Music Department at 862-2404.
• Visualize this: Everyday Visuals, native
Granite Staters who make regular appearances in the area, released their eponymous
alt-country and indie-inspired sophomore
CD on April 14. The CD is available in
stores, on iTunes and at cdbaby.com. The
band is slated to play shows in New York
and D.C. next month, along with some
Beantown-area gigs in the summer. Sample some of the album’s tracks at myspace.
com/everydayvisuals.
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HIPPO NITE
Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
Doesn’t have to wait
Paula Cole finds new direction — on stage and off
By Katie Beth Ryan
[email protected]
A decade ago, Paula Cole was in her early
30s and thriving in a music industry receptive
to soulful female artists in the wake of the
Lilith Fair tour. “Where Have All The Cowboys
Gone” and the string of hits that followed
— including “I Don’t Want To Wait,” cherrypicked by Kevin Williamson as the theme song
for WB teen drama Dawson’s Creek — made
Cole a constant presence on the radio and on
the road, and earned her a Grammy for Best
New Artist. Her life then took some unexpected
turns. Her third album, the spirituality-infused
Amen, didn’t resonate with critics as her earlier
work had, and her daughter Sky, now 7, was
born with severe asthma, requiring Cole’s
constant vigilance. Now Cole is living with her
daughter in her hometown of Rockport, Mass.,
and fashioning new music with friend and
manager Bobby Colomby. On the eve of her
shows at Tupelo Music Hall (Thursday, April
23, and Friday, April 24), Cole spoke with The
Hippo about her struggles of recent years and
the direction her career is taking.
Your most recent album [Courage] marks
a softer trajectory that began with Amen. Has
this been a conscious move away from the raw
emotion of your earlier work?
It’s funny, because now I’m starting to write
material for another album and I find myself
getting back to more raw feelings and raw
expression. I think when left to my own devices,
I tend to go there. Courage was a much more
collaborative effort with Bobby Colomby…. I
had left Warner Brothers and was on a hiatus,
which would turn to be a seven-and-a-half-year
time away from working. He coaxed me out, first
singing with Chris Botti, some standards, which
was just pure fun. I guess I was psychologically
fragile …. Courage ended up forming itself in
this gentle and eclectic way. Even though I was
going through a lot, I wrote those songs when
I was still married, and those songs were little
white flags from the unconscious saying, “Get
out.” They don’t have vitriol in them, and I was
proud of that. I also enjoyed having some of my
jazz influences to kind of embroider my other
influences, and Bobby helped to bring that out.
You originally intended to be a jazz singer,
right?
Yeah, I wanted to be a jazz singer. When I was
in high school, I was a senior in high school at
Rockport Public, and I would drive into Boston
and I would take lessons with a faculty member
at Berklee College of Music, and that’s really
when I started to teach myself jazz standards,
and starting to improvise, and learning chord
changes to standard songs. Then, most of
my time at Berklee, I was really focused on
jazz, listening and transcribing Miles Davis. I
thought, “I wanna be the shit” [laughs], like a
female Chet Baker or something. But it just felt
too difficult and it felt wrong, and I even tried
writing jazz, and it didn’t come out that way. It
came out more pop and modern. My first record
deal offer came from a jazz label. I
turned it down, and kept pursuing
a more major label deal. So there
you go. It’s part of me, and I very
much plan on making an album of
jazz standards. It’s part of me. It’s
like I really am a jazz singer in a
way. When I write my own original
material, it’s eclectic and blended.
There was a seven-year hiatus
between Amen and Postcards
from East Oceanside. What was
going on during this time?
I was trying to make
communications with Warner
Brothers and trying to make an
album for them. I guess it just
wasn’t meant to be. … Those songs
never saw the light of day, although
... “Tomorrow I’ll Be Yours” ended
up being on the greatest hits. So I Paula Cole. Courtesy Photo.
2005? Maybe it was 2005. He e-mails me
wasn’t totally shut down musically
… I very much felt the need to back away. I out of the blue and asks me how I am. And I
wanted to have a child, and I did, and I ended say, “Well, I’m OK. But I don’t have a deal
up marrying the man who made the child with anymore and I don’t know if I want to do this
me, but it was not a happy life equation at all. anymore.” That’s when he started reaching out
It just took a long time to get myself free of and asking me to sing on Chris Botti’s albums,
that. And also Sky, my daughter, she had really and befriended me and lured me back out and
bad asthma [and] I just couldn’t even think helped me find the joy in singing again. Then
about working. I had to take care of her. We he single-handedly got me signed to Columbia
were visiting the ER and I was toting around and we started collaborating. Then I found what
a nebulizer, and she was on four meds. It was a musician and what a passion he has. I wasn’t
an awful, awful time. … And now she’s better. even aware of that.
I’m able to work, and I want to work. I need
You’ve been through your fair share of
to work. I need it. I need it for my own health,
my own happiness, and I won’t ever take a label shakeups. How has the move to Decca
hiatus like that again. It’s going to be different gone thus far?
It’s great. I like their history — talk about
now. I think at the age I am — I’m 41 — and
it’s a different music business. I don’t think I eclectic! “White Christmas” is the number-one
will have a career like that ever again, and I selling single of all time in recorded history.
don’t really want a career like that ever again. That’s a Decca record. They’ve had jazz artists,
I want it to be more intermittent, mixed with the Stones, The Who, classical. It’s a very
motherhood, and more eclectic. But I’m going musical label, and probably more adult label,
which I like, too. I mean, labels are going
to keep working. I don’t want to stop again.
extinct. We don’t know what the future holds.
Tell me a little bit about your relationship with I just gotta keep doing what I’m doing and try
Bobby Colomby. How long have you known him to be the best I can be, and let the landscape
change, and try to survive as a species.
and when did he come back into the mix?
I first met him in ’94. I was performing at
In general, how do you think the music
the Roxy and there was an aftershock from the
’94 L.A. earthquake. Literally, the moment we industry’s attitude toward women changed in
met, we were … standing under a doorway the years since Lilith Fair?
I feel a little bit on the outskirts of the music
’cause there was a quake. I thought, “Who
is this obnoxious person?” [laughs] Then I business now, which is fine by me. I still think
ended up doing him a favor. I sang on a jazz it’s a really hard place to be. This is not for the
tune — he was producing a jazz album for a faint of heart, and it takes all of my strength
friend and I ended up singing this standard sometimes to be good at this job. I’m naturally
called “Call Me Irresponsible.” I didn’t even an artist. I have a basic talent, but there’s a whole
know the tune, but I was just so familiar with other inner strength that’s required to be in this
learning jazz tunes that I got the lead sheet and business. And it’s hard. It’s still really hard. I
I learned it in the studio before performing it, think it just comes in waves, and probably
old-school, reading it and learning it off the someone like Gloria Steinem could comment
page. And he’s a real jazz guy. I guess he made on that more eloquently than me, because you
up his mind that day that he would just help me see it everywhere. I think the music business
somewhere down the road, because there were is a very non-boundaried place. It’s a place
sparks in the studio that day. We had something where there’s loads of potential lawsuits, so it’s
special in our artistry together. So fast forward probably worse and more flagrant than if you
to, I don’t know what year it was — 2004 or worked in software. But it comes in waves.
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You’re living in your hometown of
Rockport. How is it being back?
Sometimes it feels like a spiritual full
circle, and that’s great, and other times I
cannot believe I’m back here. And I can’t
have judgment about it. I am back here,
and I’m back here because of family, and
that’s the most important reason. … That’s
more important than being in a major city
because it’s close to the music business.
It means I have to schlep more to cities to
make my career run. I find some kind of
poetic meaning in it. I think it’s lovely.
Do people still recognize you from
Dawson’s Creek?
Thankfully, that song still gets played a
lot. I’m just so impressed with how the song
lives on. People know the songs more than
they know me certainly at this point, and
I’m happy with that.
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Lunch is Back
Paula Cole
When: Thursday, April 23, and Friday,
April 24, at 8 p.m. (Thursday’s show also
features special guest Lori McKenna)
Where: Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young
Road in Londonderry, 437-5100, www.
tupelohall.com
Tickets: $45 (see Web site)
How important is fan accessibility to you?
I’m not one to Twitter or Facebook yet. I
need some kind of privacy, but when I reach
out in my notes online, yeah, that’s kind of the
only way I know to be. I usually take time after
shows to meet with people … and thank them.
A lot of people tell me about themselves and
what the music has meant. It feels to me that
there’s a really important connection there.
The music is my therapy and … it becomes
other people’s therapy. Music just helps all
of us. Music helps people. It helps heal us. It
helps us to dialogue with our unconscious. It
helps us to connect with our feelings. It has
a healing power that’s mysterious. It’s as
though we’re all part of it at the shows.
There is like this little community of love at
the shows, I’m happy to say.
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renaissance, golden day of sisterhood and
respect. It seems like the airplay lists on radio
station feel a little broader. And then it gets
tight again another decade or another half of
a decade. I don’t know. I think that it’s just
purely a reflection of the struggle that women
go through their whole lives. I think we’ve seen
eras of consciousness and then eras of not-soconscious, even within my lifetime. I think
it comes and goes. ... I don’t know if you’ve
read Girls Like Us, a Sheila Weber book. It’s
really interesting. Carole King, Joni Mitchell,
they had to go through things that we didn’t
have to go through, certainly, but they also got
to experience a better time in music and the
music business. It was a more prolific time.
Gloria Steinem sometimes thinks that things
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that. It will be a lifetime issue. I think being
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Farewell, Flambeaux
NITE
Musicians mourn the loss of Elm Street club
By Katie Beth Ryan
[email protected]
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CONCERTS
Venues
Capitol Center for the
Performing Arts
44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111
The Colonial Theatre
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033
Dana Humanities Center at Saint
Anselm College
100 Saint Anselm Dr.,
Manchester, 641-7700
Hampton Beach
Casino Ballroom
169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach,
929-4100
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Its tenure at 1181 Elm St. in Manchester was short, but The Flambeaux Sports
Bar & Entertainment Complex provided
a wealth of memories for those bands that
managed to play there during its 13-month
lifespan.
The Flambeaux was abruptly shut down
on April 15 for reasons relating to building management and city ordinances,
according to co-owner Tommy Spangler.
Spangler and co-owner Jeremy Jordan had
high hopes for the venue when it opened in
February of last year, aspirations that the
current downturn in the restaurant and bar
industry made difficult to attain.
“It was a lot of work, and I think having
the biggest club in town put a lot of eyes
on us, and that was too much of a pain in
the butt to deal with,” Spangler said.
Aaron Parent, who deejayed at the venue on Saturday nights, lamented the loss of
a musical hub in the city.
“I think it’s a shame ... myself and all
the other performers, we not only performed there, it was basically like a home,”
he said. “We’d go there five nights out of
the week. It was a networking center for
people like us. I don’t think there’s a lot of
places out there that have the camaraderie
that we all had at The Flambeaux.”
With the bar’s closure came the end of
the Thursday night open-mike sessions
hosted by Josh Logan, who is currently
searching for a new home for the event.
“It’s just sad ... because it was pretty
much my favorite bar in town,” he said. “It
had the potential to be a lot more than they
made it to be.”
The bar had special significance for
the members of Manchester cover band
Soundtrack to Monday.
“That’s actually where we met as a
band,” said lead singer Peter Higgins.
Logan introduced Higgins to drummer Dan
George, guitarist Byron Marks and bassist
Bobby Whitworth at The Flambeaux last
summer, and the band became a staple at
the venue over the last eight months. Higgins didn’t hear about the bar’s closure
until he saw a slew of comments on The
Flambeaux’s MySpace page.
“The people who go to see shows at
The Flambeaux actually enjoyed seeing
music and not just getting drunk with their
friends,” he said. “It was nice to go to a
place where there were fans of music, not
just fans of a good time.”
Spangler said that he’d like to make
another contribution to Manchester’s nightlife scene, in spite of what he characterizes
as a less than welcoming environment.
“I would like to do something [else],
but smaller and not just a big deal, something that wouldn’t require a lot of work,
and something that would get everyone
else to back off of me,” he said. “I don’t
have that mean, killer instinct that a lot of
these bar owners have. When they want to
play hardball, I don’t want to play hardball back.”
Despite the setback, Higgins said he
remains optimistic about what Jordan and
Spangler are planning next.
“Once I found out the story of what was
going on, I didn’t ask Tommy about it,” he
said. “I just sent him a message that said…
‘Whatever you do next, I know it will be
great.’”
• Jazzmouth Festival, Thurs.,
April 23, at 5 p.m., Music Hall
• Slavic Soul Party, Thurs., April
23, at 7 p.m., Dana Center
• Jo Dee Messina, Thurs., April
23, at 7:30 p.m., Capitol Center
• Paula Cole, Thurs., April 23 and
Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• All American Rejects, Fri.,
April 24, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Jazzmouth, Sat., April 25, at 8
p.m., Music Hall
• Jeffrey Gaines, Fri., April 25, at
8 p.m., Tupelo
• Antje Duvekot, Sun., April 26,
at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• kd lang, Sun., April 26, at 7:30
p.m., Music Hall
Lowell Auditorium
East Merrimack Street, Lowell,
Mass., 978-454-2299
Meadowbrook Musical
Arts Center
72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford,
293-4700
The Music Hall
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth,
436-2400
The Old Meeting House,
1 New Boston Rd., Francestown
Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588
Tsongas Arena
300 M.L.K Jr. Way, Lowell, Mass.,
(978) 848-6900
Tupelo Music Hall
2 Young Road, Londonderry,
603-437-5100
Verizon Wireless Arena
555 Elm St., Manchester,
644-5000
Whittemore Center Arena at
UNH
128 Main St., Durham, 862-4000
• Fall Out Boy, Tues., April 28, at
6:30 p.m., Tsongas Arena
• The Doobie Brothers, Wed.,
April 29, at 7:30 p.m., Music Hall
• Booker T, Fri., April 29, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• The Alternate Routes, Thurs.,
April 30, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Get the Led Out, Fri., May 1,
at 8 p.m., Capitol Center
• Brett Michaels, Fri., May 1, at
8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Marc Cohn, Fri., May 1, at 8
p.m. and 10 p.m., Tupelo
• Get the Led Out, Sat., May 2,
at 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre
• Patty Larkin, Sat., May 2, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Chris Trapper, Sun., May 3, at
7 p.m., Tupelo
• Yanni, Wed., May 6, at 7:30
p.m., Verizon
• Tiempo Libre, Thurs., May 7,
at 7:30 p.m., Capitol Center
• Michelle Shocked, Sat., May 9,
at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Buddy Holly 50th Anniversary
Family Reunion, Sat., May 9, at
8 p.m., Colonial Theatre
• Little River Band, Sun., May 10,
at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Tupelo
• Harlem Gospel Choir, Mon.,
May 11, at 7:30 p.m., Capitol Center
• Third Eye Blind, Thurs., May
14, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Livingston Taylor, Fri., May
15 and Sat., May 16, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
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DJ at the station.
The PFG-TV set includes a
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cake kit, The Clapper and a box
Scorch and Nick Carpinelli. Katie Beth Ryan photo.
of CVS-brand hygienic douche.
show, aired on pfg-tv.com and YouTube.
Scorch’s desk features a peepee doll that relieves itself when its red shorts The show bounced from bar to bar every
are pulled down. Local cover band the Free week, until it found a permanent home in the
Radicals move through a solid medley that MCAM studios last September.
As the word spread, the sponsors showed
includes “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Cold as
Ice.” The most magnetic forces in the room, up. Computer Tech, LLC, has provided some
though, are the two hosts, who playfully funding for the show, and Papa Gino’s supplies
banter about their drunken escapades the the hosts, crew and audience with pizzas each
weekend previous. Carpinelli allegedly left week. The word spread south to Fitchburg,
Scorch hanging on Saturday night, and his Mass., where a public access station picked
up PFG.
buddy was none too pleased.
“Then I marketed it around to a couple
“You’re not a good drunk, and you
certainly didn’t act like a good friend in this of other stations,” Scorch said. “And then,
case,” said Scorch, before grabbing the box kabloom! It just exploded.”
PFG’s guests are local, but Scorch believes
of douche from the shelf and holding it next
to Carpinelli’s face. “See the resemblance?” the show has universal appeal because of its
They could almost pass for Johnny Carson no-holds-barred approach. On last week’s
and Ed McMahon, if Carson had a shaved show, Scorch teased Free Radicals guitarist
head, two rings in his left eyebrow and 20 and new dad Greg Mitchell about his 11years of competitive wrestling under his belt. pound newborn. He made his feelings about
Scorch (who goes solely by the one name) ’80s rocker Bryan Adams known, calling
himself likens PFG-TV (which stands for him “pock-faced,” before wishing him
“Pretty F**ing Good TV”) to a cross between the best with his new show. He carefully
Letterman “and a classy Man Show,” and helped Desmond Keefe, SNHU professor
believes it might be the first locally produced of health and nutrition, as he made spinach
late-night talk and entertainment show. ravioli. And he consoled Felicia Lue, a local
That may explain why a total of 58 stations finalist for Maxim magazine’s “Hometown
Hottie” competition, who was told by Sports
nationwide have picked it up.
“Honest to God, I’ve wanted to do a TV Illustrated that she was too buff to appear on
show forever,” he said. “It never quite came to its pages. “I was told the same thing, sweetie,”
fruition.” Then, during a night out on the town he said.
The show is completely independent of
with Carpinelli, he found himself accosted
by a steady stream of fans, all eager to buy its hosts’ radio careers, though their name
him drinks. A part-time actor, Carpinelli had recognition nearly ensures a built-in audience.
long shared Scorch’s desire for a television Scorch, who continues to receive calls from
across the country, thinks PFG is his next step
audience to complement his radio career.
“We have always both wanted to be on to world domination.
“To me, it’s another form of expression. It’s
TV,” Carpinelli said. “We figured the only
way it was going to happen is if we did it fun. I want more. I want to be worldwide.”
PFG-TV currently airs at 9 p.m. Saturdays
ourselves.”
PFG-TV had its origins as an Internet TV and at 10 p.m. Mondays on MCAM.
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MUSIC THIS WEEK
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City Sports Grille
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Chateau Restaurant
201 Hanover St., 627-2677
Amherst
Club 313
Club Comedy At
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
Amherst Country Concord
Laconia
Club Liquid
Club
Annicchiarico Theatre
Black Cat Café
Amherst St., 645-7600
72 Ponemah
1 Thompson St.
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233 Commercial St. Fishery
Road,673-9908
The Barley House
Fratello’s
33 S. Commercial St.
132 N. Main St., 228-6363 East Hampstead
799 Union Ave., 528-2022 296-0706
Auburn
Borders
The Pasta Loft
Margate Resort
Derryfield Country Club
Auburn Pitts
76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255 220 E. Main St., 378-0092 76 Lake St., 524-5210
625 Mammoth Road,
167 Rockingham
Concord Grille
Naswa Resort
623-2880
Road, 622-6564
1 Eagle Square
Epsom
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341 Don Quijote
Green Martini
Circle 9 Ranch
Paradise Beach Club
333 Valley St., 792-1110
Bedford
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
Windymere Dr., 736-9656 322 Lakeside Ave.,
East Side Club
C.R. Sparks
Hermanos
366-2665
786 Massebesic St.,
18 Kilton Road,
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Epping
Weirs Beach Smoke House 669-1802
647-7275
Loudon Road
American Legion
Route 3, 366-2400
Element Lounge
Mark’s
Restaurant and
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Showplace
Pit Road Lounge
Holy Grail Food & Spirits Londonderry
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
Route 3,
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533 64 Main St., 679-9559
The Homestead
1111 Elm St., 222-2304
668-7444
Makris
Restaurant
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
Shorty’s of Bed354 Sheep Davis Road,
Exeter
Rte 102 and Mammoth
Brazilian Steak House
ford
225-7665
Shooter’s Pub
Road, 437-2022
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
230 Rte. 101,
Penuche’s Ale House
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856 Mayflower Grange
Grandstands
637-1050
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
535 Mammoth Road,
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Slammers
The Red Blazer
Goffstown
867-3077
The Hilton Garden Inn
547 Donald St.,
72 Manchester St., 224-4101 Village Trestle
Tupelo Hall
101 S. Commercial St.,
668-2120
25 Main St., 497-8230
2 Young Road, 437-5100
669-2222
Quackers Lounge
Deerfield
Whippersnappers
Jewell & The Beanstalk
121 S. River Road; 622-3766 Lazy Lion Café
Hampstead
Route 102, 434-2660
793 Somerville St.,
4 North Road, 463-7374
Route 111 Village Square
624-3709
Belmont
472 State St., 329-6879
Manchester
Jillian’s Billiard Club
The Lodge at Belmont
Derry
Alpine Club
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
Route 106, 877-872-2501 Adams Opera House
Henniker
175 Putnam St., 623-8202 626-7636
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102 Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
American Legion Wm H Johnny Bad’s
Boscawen
Brookstone Grille and
24 Flander’s Road,
Jutras & Post No 43
542 Elm St., 222-9191
Alan’s
Event Center
888-728-7732
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467 J.W. Hill’s
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 14 Route 11 E., 328-9250 The Henniker Junction
American Legion
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Burgundy’s Billiards
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
Post #79
Mad Bob’s Saloon
Brookline
35 Manchester St., 437-6600
35 W. Brook St.
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
Big Bear Lodge
Steve-N-James Tavern
Hillsborough
American Legion
McGarvey’s
106 Route 13, 672-7675
187 Rockingham Road
Boomerang’s
Sweeney Post
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Village Gate Folk Stage
434-0600
Restaurant & Bar
251 Maple St., 623-9145
Milly’s Tavern
12 Main St., 315-9423
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 Begy’s Lounge
500 Commercial St.,
Dover
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
333 Valley St., 669-0062
625-4444
Bow
Barley Pub
W. Main St. 464-6766
Black Brimmer
Murphy’s Taproom
Chen Yang Li
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
494 Elm St., 644-3535
520 South St., 228-8508
Dover Elks Lodge
Hollis
Bo’s Riverside
New England Revival
Mama Clara’s
282 Durham Road
Alpine Grove
500 Commercial St.,
Coffee House (NERCH)
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
Biddy Mulligan’s
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051 625-4444
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
1 Washington St., 749-1100 The Dream Farm
Breezeway Pub
Olympic Lounge
Dover Brick House
64 Dow Road
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
506 Valley St., 644-5559
Allenstown
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown Rd.
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Candia
Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001
Pasquales Ristorante
145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005
Thursday, April 23
Bedford
C.R. Sparks: Pat Loomis
Trio
Slammers: Barr None
Manchester
Breezeway: Kamikaze Drag
Club 313: DJ Biggie, DJ
Susan Esthera
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Johnny Bad’s: blues jam
Concord
w/ Wan-tu blues band
Concord Grille: Gardner Rocko’s: Oceana, Confde,
from Mama Kicks
Therefore I Am, To Speak
Green Martini: open mike of Wolves
Hermanos: Craig Fahey Strange Brew: Tom
Keller and Co
Derry
WB’s: DJ Bob
Burgundy’s Billiards:
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
karaoke/DJ Steve
Milford
Dover
Pasta Loft: Rich Kumpu
Barley Pub: bluegrass jam
Brick House: Andy
Nashua
Laliotis,Granola Funk
603 Lounge: DJ Misty
Express
Club Social: DJ Big Daddy
Jimmy’s: DJ J Jigga
Gate City Pub: Liquid
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Audio
Fody’s: Charlie ChroDurham
nopolis Experience
Acorns: UNH Jazz students Peddler’s Daughter:
Mindseye
Epping
Holy Grail: Matt Howard Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Flood
Hampstead
Watch, Krystal, Katrin
Pasta Loft: Jimmy D
Brewery Lane: Greg
Luttrell
Laconia
Dolphin Striker: Jeremy
Cactus Jack’s: Relevation Lyons
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder Press Room: Poor Howard
Red Door: Press Project,
Londonderry
MC Face of Fate w/Ryan
Whippersnappers: Four Obermiller
Sticks
The Muddy: Scott Barnett
Tupelo: Paula Cole with
and Sarah Blacker Show
special guest Lori McKenna
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2 Orchard St., 749-3838
Dover Soul
364 Central Ave., 834-6965
Kelley’s Row
421 Central Ave., 750-7081
RJ’s
83 Washington St.
Top of the Chop
One Orchard St., 740-0006
Friday, April 24
Allenstown
Ground Zero: The Yellow Team, The Philosophy of Time Travel, The
Inevitable Backlash, The
Imaginary Friends Club
Band, The Envy of August
Hudson
Johnny’s Pizzeria
Lowell Road, 880-7087
Linda’s Sport Bar
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Stranded Roots
Village Square: Baked
Naked
Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge
815 Elm St.
Penuche's Grill
96 Hanover St., 626-9830
Rocko’s Bar & Grill
253 Wilson St., 626-5866
The Shaskeen
909 Elm St., 625-0246
Strange Brew Tavern
88 Market St., 666-4292
Unwine’d
865 Second St., 625-9463
Wally and Bernie’s
20 Old Granite St., 641-2583
The Wild Rover
21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722
Workmen’s Club
183 Douglas St.
The Yard
1211 S. Mammoth Road,
623-3545
Merrimack
Buckley’s Great Steaks
438 DW Hwy, 424-0995
Slapshot’s
515 DW Hwy, 262-9335
Silo’s Steakhouse
641 DW Hwy, 429-2210
Milford
The Pasta Loft
241 Union Sq., 672-2270
Santos-Dumont
770 Elm St., 672-5464
Shenanigans
586 Nashua St., 672-2060
Nashua
The Amber Room
53 High St., 881-9060
Black Orchid Grille
8 Temple St., 577-8910
Borders
281 DW Highway,
888-9300
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.
595-2121
Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square,
880-6001
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Country Tavern
452 Amherst St., 889-5871
Fody’s Tavern
9 Clinton St., 577-9015
Gate City Pub
56 Canal St., 598-8256
Haluwa Lounge
Nashua Mall, Exit 6
883-6662
Killarney’s Irish Pub
Holiday Inn, Exit 4
888-1551
Laureano Nightclub
245 Main St.
Manhattan on Pearl
70 E. Pearl St., 578-5557
Martha’s Exchange
185 Main St., 883-8781
Michael Timothy’s
212 Main St., 595-9334
Nashua Garden
121 Main St., 886-7363
The Peddler’s Daughter
48 Main St., 880-8686
Penuche’s Ale House
16 Bicentennial Sq.,
595-9831
Pine Street Eatery
136 Pine St., 886-3501
Shorty’s Mexican Roadhouse
Nashua Mall, 882-4070
Simple Gifts Coffee
House
58 Lowell St.
The Sky Lounge
522 Amherst St., 882-6026
Slade’s Food & Spirits
4 W. Hollis St., 886-1334
Villa Banca
194 Main St., 598-0500
111 State St.
Blue Mermaid
Island Grill
The hill at Hanover and
High streets, 427-2583
Brewery Lane Tavern
96 Brewery Lane,
433-7007
Chestnuts at the Nest
3548 Lafayette Road,
373-6515
Daniel Street Tavern
111 Daniel St.
Dolphin Striker
15 Bow St., 431-5222
Gas Light Co.
64 Market St., 431-9122
The Hilton Garden Inn
100 High St., 431-1499
Muddy River
Smokehouse
21 Congress St., 430-9582
Paddy’s American Grill
27 International Dr.,
430-9450
Press Room
77 Daniel St.,431-5186
The Red Door
107 State St., 373-6827
Red Hook Brewery
35 Corporate Dr.,
430-8600
The Wet Bar
172 Hanover St.
New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Tilton
Old Friends Tavern
& Restaurant
927 Laconia Rd, 524-1777
Plaistow
The Sad Café
148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893
Portsmouth
AK’s Bar and Bistro
Milford
Pasta Loft: Groove Thang
Nashua
603 Lounge: Jesse Rutstein
Hudson
Amber Room: DJ Jonny
Linda’s: The End Result C, DJ Nelski
Black Orchid: ChristoLondonderry
pher James
Bedford
Whippersnappers:
Club Social: DJ Big
Slammers: Tom Dickson Stomping Melvin
Daddy
Band
Tupelo: Paula Cole
Country Tavern: Jimmy D
Fody’s: Chad LaMarsh
Boscawen
Manchester
Peddler’s Daughter: Best
Saturday, April 25
Alan’s: Jim Hollins
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Not Broken
City Sports Grille: Fri- Sky Lounge: Felix Brown Allenstown
Ground Zero: Of Hope
Brookline
day Night Out
and Rescue, The Wakeup
County Corral: Ballou
Club 313: DJ Susan
Plaistow
Call, Shot Heard Around
Brothers
Esthera
Sad Cafe: Hetfield and
Derryfield: Mama Kicks Hetfield, OBRUO, Living The World, The Truth
Concord
Element Lounge: DJ
Syndication, To Rise We About North
Barley House: Scott Solsky Daddy Dave
Fall, Pure Decibels
Bedford
Green Martini: Gary
Fratello’s: Marc ApolSlammer’s: No Remorse
Banker and Friends
stolides
Peterborough:
Pit Road: Undercover
Mad Bob’s: Favorite Sons Harlow: Rockspring
Boscawen
Operatives
Milly’s: Tucker Brook,
Alan’s: Bill Folley
Brikked, Breakdown NH, Portsmouth
Derry
Reign In Ruin
Blue Mermaid: Otis Grove
Brookline
Burgundy’s Billiards:
Murphy’s Taproom: Tim Gas Light: ’70s party
Country Corral: Crisis
Karaoke/DJ Steve
Theriault Band
w/DJ Biggie
Rocko’s: Seeker Destroy- Press Room: Jazzmouth
Concord
Dover
er, Aminals, Hammer
Jazz Fest featuring Bob
Green Martini: Masceo,
Biddy Mulligan’s: Digbees Hands, Astronomer
Dorough
Brick House: Famous,
Shaskeen: Whiskey Prison Red Door: Joe Bermudez jamAntics
Penuche’s: Kitchen
The Hornitz
Strange Brew: Racky
The Muddy: Sugar
Jimmy’s: DJ Bounce, DJ Thomas
House Fizz, The Whatnot, Pit Road: Powerlock
Whiz Kid, DJ J-Jigga
UnWined: Craig Fahey
This Blue Heaven
Dover
Kelley’s Row: The Twitch Jazz Ensemble
Barley Pub: Rockspring
WB’s: Bobby G and DJ
Salem
Brick House: CamaEpping
Bob
Blackwater Grill: SunHoly Grail: Mike Morris The Yard: Dave Bundza glasses at Night, DJ Dean rojuana
Jimmy’s: DJ Whiz Kid
and DJ J-Jigga
Hot tunes, cool shows
Have upcoming shows you want listed
in the music this week? Send information about the coming week — Thursday
through Wednesday — [email protected] or by fax at 625-2422 no later
than noon on Monday. (E-mailed links to
regularly updated Web sites would also
be appreciated.)
Kelley’s Row: Discount
Gigolos
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Derryfield: Mama Kicks
Element Lounge: Irma
and guests
Fratello’s: Marc ApolEpping
stolides
Holy Grail: Jim Gallant Mad Bob’s: Vegas Temper
Milly’s: Streamline, Into
Goffstown
Apathy, Prevalence, HeiVillage Trestle: Common rosonic, and Eve to Adam
Knowledge
Murphy’s: Grayspot
Penuche’s: Manchuka
Hampstead
Rocko’s: Dr. Manhattan,
Pasta Loft: Chris Gardner Kiss Kiss, In Aviate
Village Square: Baked
Shaskeen: Soundtrack to
Naked
Monday
Strange Brew: Tabasco
Hudson
Fiasco
Linda’s: Pulse
WB’s: DJ Bobby G
Unwined: Craig Fahey
Londonderry
Jazz Ensemble
Whippersnappers: Ript The Yard: Joe McDonald
Tupelo: Jeffrey Gaines
Milford
Manchester
Pasta Loft: Fatback
Breezeway: DJ McKay
City Sports Grille: Bob Nashua
Pratte
603 Lounge: Kojak &
Club 313: DJ Bob, DJ
4Eign
Dave G
Amber Room: DJ Rick
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Naples and special
guests
Black Orchid: John
Chouinard
Club Social: DJ Big
Daddy
Country Tavern: Brian
Kellett
Fody’s: Erin and the
Soul Drivers
Peddler’s Daughter:
The Skels
Saffron Bistro: Brad
Smith, Mark Pucci
Slade: Slakas
Peterborough
Harlow’s: Cody James
Plaistow
Sad Cafe: Fly Upright
Kite, This Car Up, My
Last F light, Your Favorite Ex, Shut Up And Deal
Salem
Blackwater Grill: Rob
Pebble
Sunday, April 26
Concord
Hermanos: State Street
Combo
Penuche’s: open mike
Dover
Barley Pub: open
acoustic jam, Yvonne
Aubert Quartet
Brick House: The
Nasty, Afflictions,
Weight of the World
Hampstead
Village Square: blues jam
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Josh Logan, Nate Comp
and Paul Costley
Tupelo: Antje Duvekot
Poetry & jazz
The fifth annual Seacoast Poetry & Jazz
Festival — Jazzmouth 2009 — will be held
Thursday, April 23, through Sunday, April 26,
at locations in Portsmouth. Highlights include:
• the film Cachao: Uno Mas, about Cuban
musician Israel “Cachao” Lopez, on Thursday
at 7 p.m. at the Music Hall.
• Jazzfest at The Press Room with the Bob
Dorough Trio, the Portsmouth Music & Arts Center Student Jazz Ensemble
and Larry Simon and the Seacoast Allstars on Friday.
• The 2009 Jazzmouth Extravaganza on Saturday at the Music Hall with
headlining poets Mose Allison, Donald Hall and David Amram and the
Larry Simon Ensemble and guest.
For complete schedule, see www.jazzmouth.org.
Manchester
900 Degrees: open-mike
blues jam
Element Lounge: DJ
Sharon
Shaskeen: The Spain
Brothers and Friends,
trad. Irish session
Strange Brew: Howard
Randall Blues Jam
Nashua
Michael Timothy’s:
jazz brunch
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: David
Surette & Suzie Burke
Press Room: Dave
Newsam
Monday, April 27
Concord
Hermanos: State Street
Combo
Dover
Kelley’s Row: Irish
session
RJ’s: DJ E-Ness
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
open-mike jam w/ Gardner Berry
Nashua
603 Lounge: Local
artist’s night
Portsmouth
Press Room: Matt
McCabe Trio
Tuesday, April 28
Concord
Barley House: Celtic
acoustic jam
Comedy
Hermanos: Richard
Gardzina
mike
Hermanos: Mike Morris
Dover
Brick House: Anthony
Vito Fiandaca
Jimmy’s: Koko-P
Kelly’s Row: DJ Coach
RJ’s: Whiz Kid
Dover
Barley Pub: Moon
Minion
Brick House: Resin,
Bigfoot
RJ’s: DJ B-Money
Laconia
Hudson
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder Linda’s: Shadow
Manchester
Black Brimmer: DJ
Ignite
East Side Club: openmike night
Shaskeen: Manchuka
Strange Brew: Hipology
WB’s: guest DJs
Merrimack
Slapshots: open mike
Nashua
603 Lounge: Akustik
Kid, open mike night
Haluwa: Jimmy Z
Piano Bar
Portsmouth
Press Room: Larry
Garland Jazz Jam, Hoot
w/Jerry Tillett
Red Door: Scissor Test
Tuesdays
The Muddy: Acoustic
music series featuring
Regina
Wed., April 29
Bow
Chen Yang Li: DJ
Brian B
Concord
Green Martini: open
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Aaron
Seibert
Fratello’s: Neil Martin
Londonderry
Tupelo: Booker T
Manchester
Bo’s Riverside: College
Wednesdays
Strange Brew: David
Rousseau
UnWined: Craig Fahey
Jazz Ensemble
Wild Rover: Marty
Quirk
Milford
Pasta Loft: Ryan
Bossie
Nashua
Fody’s: Bill Foley
Peddler’s Daughter:
DJ St. Julian
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Larry
Shrek
Press Room: Tim Cahill
Red Door: PB Kidd
The Muddy: Stiffwater
Jct.
THIS WEEK and beyond
Saturday, April 25
Tuesday, May 5
Concord
Manchester
Capitol Center: Frank Mad Bob’s Saloon:
Santos
Queen City Comedy
Showcase
Manchester
Headliner’s: Larry
Friday, May 8
Myles
Londonderry
Palace Theatre: Bob
Tupelo: Dave Russo,
Marley
Robbie Printz
Saturday, May 16
Manchester
Headliner’s: Steve
Scarfo
Tuesday, June 2
Manchester
Mad Bob’s: Queen City
Comedy Showcase
Tuesday, May 19
Manchester
Mad Bob’s Saloon:
Queen City Comedy
Showcase
Friday, June 5
Rochester
Opera House: Geist
Wed., April 29
Manchester
Shaskeen: open-mike
comedy
Saturday, May 9
Manchester
Headliner’s: Robbie
Printz
Saturday, May 23
Manchester
Headliner’s:Rob Steen
Saturday, May 2
Manchester
Headliner’s: Johnny
Joice
Sunday, May 10
Manchester
Verizon: Dane Cook
Thursday, June 11
Concord
Capitol Center: Brian
Regan
Friday, June 12
Friday, May 29
Londonderry
Manchester
Tupelo: Mark RicPalace Theatre: Jimmy cadonna
Dunn’s Comedy Allstars
PAULA COLE with
Special Guest LORI MCKENNA
Thurs,
April 23
8:00 p.m.
THE RADIATORS
$45
RS-Theatre
Friday, May 22
8:00 p.m. • $32 • GA
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ENGLISH BEAT
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Sat, May 23
8 p.m.
Sun, May 24
7 p.m.
$32 • GA
8:00 p.m.
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JEFFREY GAINES
JD SOUTHER
Saturday,
April 25
8:00 p.m.
Wednesday,
May 27
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$25
GA
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ROCKABILLY TRIO
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Wednesday,
April 29
Saturday,
May 30
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Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Sand
Machine
Brewery Lane: Dollhouse DJs
Dolphin Striker: Deep
Fry’d Blues
Gas Light: DJ B
Money
Press Room: Larry
Garland, Penhollow
Red Door: Lord Bass
The Muddy: AM
PM, Tan Vampires,
Gnarlemagne
NITE
$45
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Sunday, May 10
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Full Schedule and Tickets:
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Hippo Crossword
“Triple Threats”— five names, one unusual pattern. By Matt Jones
Across
1 Disk storage acronym
4 It may be indisputable
8 Bewildered
12 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Rod
14 “Am ___ loud?”
15 The Buckeye State
16 Boxing venue
17 Singer with the album
“Mind, Body & Soul”
19 One of the Detroit Pistons’
“Bad Boys” of the 1990s
21 “Strange...”
22 Nay’s opposite
23 Some film ratings
26 TV’s “Science Guy” Bill
27 “...___ may be the Lord”
(Bob Dylan lyric)
30 Native New Zealander
32 Thanks, in Tokyo
35 Warty hopper
36 He can tell if “you might be
a redneck”
39 Give in
40 Used the changing room
41 Feature of some American
accents
43 Ward of “Once and Again”
44 N. ___ (Fargo’s state, for
short)
47 Fig. in identity theft
48 Suffix after sex or fetish
51 “M*A*S*H” episode where
a clumsy nurse dates Hawkeye
53 Sister of actor Emilio and
semi-regular on “The West
Wing”
56 NPR books reporter and former “All Things Considered”
cohost
59 Scripture that’s source to
yoga methods
52
60 Top guy at the U.
61 Buffalo’s county
62 Ohio city where a Burger
King worker YouTubed himself
bathing in the sink in 2008
63 Photocopier problems
64 “Atlas Shrugged” author
65 Airport screening org.
29 Rides around town
31 Memo abbr.
32 Not many
33 Affectedly dainty
34 Bunches
36 Canning needs
37 Sen. Bayh
38 It’s paid yearly for transportation
39 They’re read by lasers
Down
1 It occurs once in a blue moon 42 Property claim
44 Armless couches
2 Ultimatum words
45 Red blood cell deficiency
3 Edison’s ___ Park
46 Peer-to-peer MP3 network
4 Nation with three dots in a
49 Unkind look
row
50 Jerry Stiller’s comedy part5 It’s split in a lab
ner Anne
6 He played Cliff Huxtable
7 “We’re off ___ the Wizard...” 52 “Letters, ___ letters...”
(“Late Show” mailbag song
8 Frodo’s film series, to fans
lyric)
9 “Well, lookie here!”
53 The last two were in St.
10 Lust, so it’s said
11 Little piggy Paul in 2008 and NYC in 2004
54 Title role for Julia
12 Log home
55 Teary-___
13 Salad with
56 J.F.K.’s successor
apples and
57 Peruvian singer Sumac
grapes
58 ___ de plume
18 Baseball
feature
©2009 Jonesin’ Crosswords
20 Floating at
(editor@jonesincrosswords.
sea
23 Eeyore’s pal com) For answers to this
puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800,
24 Overcast
25 Pitcher Fer- 99 cents per minute. Must be
18+. Or to bill to your credit
nandez
28 Dr. Franken- card, call: 1-800-655-6548.
stein’s assistant Reference puzzle #0410.
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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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5 4 8
9 6 7
2 3 1
1 2 9
7 8 6
3 5 4
8 1 3
4 9 2
6 7 5
Difficulty Level
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2009 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
By Dave Green
SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from the sonnets of William Shakespeare,
baptized April 26, 1564 (birthdate unknown).
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “But thou contracted to thine
own bright eyes, / Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, / Making a famine where abundance lies, / Thy self
thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel” (1) You’re being harder on
yourself than anyone else is. Ease up.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “Shall I compare thee to a
summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
(18) Learn how to take a compliment.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “As an unperfect actor on the
stage, / Who with his fear is put beside his part, / Or some
fierce thing replete with too much rage, / Whose strength’s
abundance weakens his own heart; / So I for fear of trust, forget to say, / The perfect ceremony of love’s rite, / And in mine
own love’s strength seem to decay, / O’ercharged with burthen of mine own love’s might” (23) Fear of saying something
stupid is apt to lead you right into saying something stupid.
Don’t worry, it happens to everyone. Don’t pressure yourself
so much.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “Like as the waves make towards
the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end, /
Each changing place with that which goes before, / In sequent
toil all forwards do contend.” (60) Look, another second just
went by that you’ll never get back! And there goes another…
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “If I could write the beauty of
your eyes, / And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
/ The age to come would say this poet lies, / Such heavenly
touches ne’er touched earthly faces.” (17) A secret admirer
swoons; let him or her down easy.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “The painful warrior famoused
for fight, / After a thousand victories once foiled, / Is from the
book of honour razed quite, / And all the rest forgot for which
he toiled: / Then happy I that love and am beloved / Where
I may not remove nor be removed.” All your anger and criticism are wasted energy, whereas love is forever. Whatever
good you do now will last.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “So true a fool is love, that in
your will, / (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill.” (57)
Take advantage of political capital you have earned among
acquaintances.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “The rose looks fair, but
fairer we it deem / For that sweet odour, which doth in it live”
(54) You know, if you make your house smell like cinnamon
and apple pie, it’ll sell quicker. For that matter, try making
yourself smell like cinnamon and apple pie and watch your
popularity skyrocket.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “Yet do thy worst old Time:
despite thy wrong, / My love shall in my verse ever live young.”
(19) You want to preserve something? Write it down.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “Rough winds do shake the
darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short
a date” (18) Enjoy good weather whenever possible by getting out into it.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “Grant if thou wilt, thou art
beloved of many, / But that thou none lov’st is most evident”
(10) Never mind what others think of you; practice generosity toward others.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “Weary with toil, I haste me
to my bed, / The dear repose for limbs with travel tired, / But
then begins a journey in my head / To work my mind, when
body’s work’s expired.” (27) You will find it a challenge to
calm your mind. Reduce the number of things you’re trying
to keep track of.
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

Hippo Classified Form



 


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





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






 


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






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 
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 
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
 
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FINE PRINT

A common
passion for
caring
Live-in Companion
Easter Seals NH is seeking a supportive LIVE-IN Companion
for a woman with a developmental disability in the Nashua
area. Provide assistance with daily living skills and
community activities. Behavioral experience preferred.
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For more information contact Bette Ouellette at
(800) 607-1565 x226 EOE
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



www.eastersealsnh.org


  
   




Hippo
the


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

Is it Thursday yet?
HELP WANTED

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






FOR SALE













WANTED
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







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
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

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
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
Super Super Secret
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration recently postponed its
crucial program to rejuvenate quarter-century-old Trident missile warheads because
no one can remember how to make a key
component of the weapons (codenamed
“Fogbank”), according to a March 2 report
of the Government Accountability Office.
The GAO found that, despite concern over
the bombs’ safety and reliability, NNSA
could not replicate the manufacturing process because all knowledgeable personnel
have left the agency and no written records
were kept. Said one commentator, “This
is like James Bond destroying his instructions as soon as he’s read them.” (The GAO
report came two months after the German
Interior Ministry reported to Parliament
that over a 10-year period, it had lost 332
secret files that were in fact so secret that no
one in the Ministry could recall what was
in them.)
The Frontiers of Science
Leading Economic Indicators
• Tight Money: (1) As Italy’s banks (like
so many others) curtailed lending during
the global financial crisis, the country’s
180,000 small businesses had nowhere
to turn for liquidity except to the Mafia,
whose lending continued (at ridiculous
interest rates, of course), unrestricted by the
recession, according to a March Washington Post dispatch from Rome. Organized
crime in Italy collects an estimate of the
equivalent of $315 million a week. (2) In
March, because of budget cuts, the Municipal Court in Mount Gilead, Ohio, ordered
its clerk to accept no new filings of any kind
The Continuing Crisis
• For the past two years, Britain’s Jean
Driscoll, 72, has been studied by two doctors and three hospitals’ staffs, but so far
no one knows why she belches constantly every day. “I don’t go out anymore,” she
said. “People laugh and stare at me. One
man said, ‘Can’t you control that?’”
• The Democratic Process: (1) In March,
George Snyder Jr., 39, was removed from
the May election ballot in Westmoreland
County, Pa., when a judge ruled that Snyder lived outside the county and not really
in the garage storage room that he claimed
was his main residence. (2) In December,
John Kaye, a member of Australia’s New
South Wales Parliament, proposed a remedy
for the recent displays of immature partying
by some of his colleagues: “Honestly,” he
told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, “if you are
going to have breathalyzers for people driving cranes, you should have breathalyzers
for people (who pass) laws.”
Least Competent Criminals
• Not Ready for Prime Time: In March,
two men were seen on a backyard surveillance camera in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
attempting a home break-in during the day
when no one was home. According to the
police report, one of the men assumed a
football stance, then ran the length of the
yard and rammed the back door. However,
the latch held, and the impact sent the man
backward, leaving him on the ground, writhing in pain. The collision also triggered an
alarm, and the men escaped before police
arrived. (2) Two adults and three teenagers were arrested in Waterville, Maine, in
March and charged with arson, with all the
evidence needed consisting of a video the
five made, describing their crime, crafted with theme music and cast-and-crew
credits.
Update
• Several Florida jurisdictions have
restrictions on where convicted sex offenders can live, even those who long ago
finished their sentences. As noted in News
of the Weird in 2007, Miami-Dade, Florida’s most populous county, has only one
spot far enough away from places where
children roam: the approach to the Interstate 195 bridge to Miami Beach (the Julia
Tuttle Causeway). Judges routinely give
released sex offenders the choice of either
leaving town or camping under the bridge.
One man has been there so long that he
now has a Florida driver’s license with his
address as “Julia Tuttle Causeway Bridge.”
In March, the encampment of about 50 men
welcomed its first female sex-offender,
43-year-old Voncel Johnson, who told the
Miami Herald that she had so far been treated respectfully.
The Jesus and Virgin Mary
World Tour
• Recent Public Appearances: Dade City,
Fla., February (Jesus in a stain on the door of
a car-dealer sales manager’s office). Huntsville, Ala., February (Jesus on a rock on the
side of Keel Mountain Road). Near Helena, Mont., January (Mary on a translucent
agate rock along the Yellowstone River).
Sydney, Australia, January (Mary and Jesus
in a lava lamp). Hamilton, New Zealand,
December (Jesus on a pita bread). Melton,
England, November (Jesus on a chocolate
cookie). Fort Pierce, Fla., December (Mary
in the MRI brain scan of a cancer patient).
Read News of the Weird daily at www.
weirduniverse.net. Send items to [email protected].
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• Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck
Institute recently published findings of a
cross-cultural study of people’s spit. “(W)e
can get more insights into human populations (from saliva) than we would get from
just studying human DNA,” the team’s
leader told Reuters in February. The study’s
main conclusion was that spit content does
not vary much around the world, even given regional differences in diet.
• Spanish researchers at Autonomous
University of Madrid reported in February
that wolves (and almost surely dogs), when
relieving themselves, deliberately seek out
the most conspicuous places they can find
(both as to sight and smell), to assure maximum territorial signaling. Male wolves prefer
tall trees (and dogs, prominently located fire
hydrants) and try to leave urine as high up as
they can to increase its wind-carry, according to a Discovery Channel summary.
• Biologist Michelle Solensky, of Ohio’s
College of Wooster, reported late last year
in the journal Animal Behavior that male
monarch butterflies are such calculating inseminators that they even decide the
optimal level of sperm necessary for reproductive advantage. While injecting fluid,
the male can “selectively” determine how
much of it will be fertility cells, depending on how much residual sperm the female
holds from previous suitors (and thus to
always inject more than the other guys did).
Solensky told New Scientist magazine that
the penis acts as a kind of “dip stick” to
check the quantity already present.
(including criminal cases) unless the filer
brings his own paper for printing the legally required copies to be distributed.
• London’s Daily Mail reported in March
that among the recession-themed business start-up grants awarded by the Welsh
Department of Work and Pensions was the
equivalent of about $6,600 to the Accolade
Academy of Psychic and Mediumistic Studies. One of the Academy’s owners defended
the award, noting that parents who have lost
a child need to know that the child is safe.
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