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BY Jody Reese
pUBLISHER’S
NOTE
I need credit, dude
When money was
cheap no one complained.
It fueled a rise in all
property values and in
values of stocks and
private companies. Life
was so good. Values were
just going to keep increasing. CEOs took
big pay packages, banks took in huge fees
and loaned out huge amounts of money
(sometimes 30 times what they had),
investors and the Chinese bought up every
bit of debt available. Homeowners used
second mortgages (now neatly called home
equity lines) to buy all sorts of goodies. You
could have just declared bankruptcy, been
living in a tent and gotten a mortgage to
buy a $300,000 house with zero down. Man,
times were good.
Then just as quickly and without any more
reason, times stopped being good; we know
the story. Now our government is engaged
in a grand plan to get us back on the road to
prosperity.
At the nexus of that plan is credit. Senator
Jeanne Shaheen and many of her fellow
senators brought New Hampshire-based
Coed Sportswear co-creator Mark Lane
to Washington, D.C., to testify in front of
Congress about how the banking system is
broken because they won’t lend his company
money. Shaheen complained that banks
have been telling her they have money to
loan, but business owners have been telling
her the banks won’t loan to them — Lane
is such an example. A $1 million credit line
was frozen.
While I completely sympathized with Lane,
when did it become a bank’s responsibility
to loan out money? In fact, we as depositors
want our banks to be conservative with our
money. After all, it’s our money they lend
out. I find it hard to criticize banks for not
lending to a business that — such as Lane’s
— didn’t make money in 2008. Would you
lend his business money?
It’s confusing. Banks got into trouble —
that the federal government had to bail them
of of – for lax lending and now Shaheen and
others want banks to loan to businesses to
get us out of trouble?
We want credit; we even may need
credit; but we can’t expect to have a right
to credit. For example, we as a rule at Hippo
do not extend credit to new advertisers or
new businesses. We extend credit only for
businesses that have passed the five-year
mark and sign a personal guarantee. Our
suppliers have similar practices.
Credit got us into this mess and cajoling
banks to extend more of it should not be
what gets us out of it. That will not create
lasting economic growth. We need to base
our economy on creating real value; that’s
building things, increasing our population;
digging thing out of the dirt, and creating
new technologies. Sure, credit will be needed
to get some of these things off the ground, but
it should be a very small part of the value.
You don’t need a huge bankroll to start
a business. Start small, work hard, reinvest
your profits and find good people to help
you with your plan. That’s the future of
small business and I think the future of our
economy, if we do this right.
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Stimulus money for small
businesses; Reviewing
prison needs, New local
businesses; and more
news in brief
5 Q&A
9 Quality of Life Index
10 Sports
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12 Going out on the cheap
Just because you want to save money doesn’t
mean you want to foresake the fun of an evening out. Our reporters with (limited) cash on
hand made the trek out into the world to find
evening entertainment to fit any budget.
the Arts:
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UNH brings commedia dell’arte; Curtain Calls, listings.
22 Art
Local Color, listings.
24 Classical
Events around town in listings.
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Man and Duplicity
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Republican Sen. Judd Gregg said Friday,
March 20, that President Barack Obama’s
spending policies will increase national debt
to “shocking levels” that will devastate future
economic opportunities. In a statement, Gregg
said the debt “could very well bankrupt future
generations.”
Former Milford Selectman and current
school board member Len Mannino is reportedly mulling a run for Congress. Mannino
would seek the Republican nomination for the
state’s 2nd Congressional District, according
to published reports. Democratic Rep. Paul
Hodes holds the seat but has said he will run
for Gregg’s Senate seat in 2010. Gregg will not
seek reelection.
Gov. John Lynch announced Monday,
March 23, that Manchester, Nashua, Derry,
Rochester and Berlin would be eligible for
$19.6 million of federal Neighborhood Stabilization Funds. The money is to be used to
strengthen neighborhoods with high levels of
foreclosures and to provide more affordable
housing options, according to a press release
from Lynch’s office.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen attended a three-day
conference in Brussels, Belgium, this past
weekend to discuss national security interests
for the United States and European nations.
Capping taxes no more?
Call it a spending cap or a tax cap, but for
Concord, a judge called it unconstitutional.
Merrimack County Superior Court Judge
Diane Nicolosi ruled Wednesday, March
18, that the proposed spending cap in Concord, which is slated for a vote in November,
is unconstitutional. The City of Concord had
appealed the ruling of the New Hampshire
Secretary of State, Attorney General and Commissioner of the Department of Revenue. The
Court ruled spending caps preempt the state
legislature and give citizens the power to oversee a new form of government. Current state
law allows municipalities to amend their form
of government, but not to create new processes. Specific to Concord, the Court said the
spending cap “would interfere with the City
Manager’s duty to present to the City Council
an original budget that is based upon the financial needs of city departments,” according to
the decision.
The ruling comes as a blow to the New
Hampshire Advantage Coalition, which
promotes spending caps. The most recent community to pass a cap was Rochester, which
did so last fall. Manchester is also slated for
a spending cap vote in November. The ruling could put in jeopardy the six spending
caps in place in New Hampshire communities. New Hampshire Advantage Coalition
Chairman Michael Biundo said the Coalition would ask for the ruling to be reconsidered
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Mailing cutbacks
The United States Postal Service will
close six of its 80 district offices, including
one in Manchester, will eliminate 15 percent
of its administrative positions nationwide at
the district level and will offer another early
retirement opportunity. According to a Postal Service press release, the moves will save
more than $100 million annually. The release
said as many as 84 positions in the New Hampshire and Vermont district could be affected.
Visit www.usps.com.
Medicinal marijuana
The state House of Representatives was
expected to vote on a bill this week that would
allow certain patients to grow marijuana if doctors recommend they use it to relieve certain
medical conditions, according to a House press
release. The House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee voted 13-7
to pass the bill. The bill would allow patients
to have two ounces of marijuana in their pos-
session. Supporters say it will aid patients
suffering from cancer, multiple sclerosis or other chronic or terminal diseases. Those against
say it would violate federal law.
No-tolling zone
A group of New Hampshire and Massachusetts legislators gathered at the Massachusetts
Statehouse on Monday, March 23, to express
their opposition to toll booths on Interstate 93
in Massachusetts or in New Hampshire. The
Telegraph reported that about six members of
the 100-member Border Coalition gathered
Monday. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick
has suggested installing tolls at the Granite
State border, while New Hampshire Department of Transportation Commissioner George
Campbell has proposed placing tollbooths
in Salem on the highway’s southbound side,
reports indicated.
Lights out
For Earth Hour 2009, Concord will turn
its lights off. Last week the city announced it
would support the event, which is run by the
World Wildlife Fun, by joining the more than
240 communities worldwide that will turn off
the lights Saturday, March 28, from 8:30 to
9:30 p.m. The event is meant to support global
action on climate change. Last year more than
50 million people in 400 cities participated.
Visit www.earthhourus.org. Contact Concord
City Councilor Rob Werner at 674-9810.
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would only impact the portion of a community’s budget affecting taxes. Additional federal
funding would not impact a spending cap. In
other communities, spending caps have been
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100-mile race cut short for Bow man
David Hill, 48, of Bow traveled to Alaska in February to compete
in the Susitna 100, a 48-hour, 100-mile mountain bike race
(www.susitna100.com). After going from 9 a.m. one morning
to 12:30 a.m. the next, persistent snowfall and painful chafing
caused Hill to scratch the race. Hill, director of marketing at
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event to raise money for children and young adults from abusive
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This whole time, you’re still walking. You
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cyclists that weighed about 140 pounds or so
and might have been a little light on gear, who
knew they could finish it in jig time — I think
the winning biker won it in under 16 hours, so
he was going twice as fast as I was, which probably means he had to be biking a lot more than
I was — I’m thinking these 140-pound guys ...
might have been able to ride a whole lot more
than we could. But for the majority of the people, it was a walk. A lot of walking.
Do you have a sense of how many people
actually finished?
... I think out of the people that started, I
think it was roughly 20 that bailed. [About 80
riders started.]
When you woke up [for day two, after
spending the night in a cabin], was it going to
be more of the same — more walking?
... It had snowed all night and we were in the
middle of a snowstorm so I think it would have
[Prior to the race] you were worried about
moisture management.
Yeah, the extreme cold, when you stop, it can
really create a hypothermic situation. We did
have one individual come in in the middle of
the night into our cabin. He just kind of came in
and fell down. He was just done. He slept right
up until we were evacuated the next day.
If you were going to do it again, would you
train any differently?
I’ll be a year older, so I’ll need to train equally as hard.
You had some issues because you had to
walk. But … did you feel strong?
I felt fantastic about my training. I was so, so
disappointed to have to scratch. I worked hard.
I’d trained in snowstorms, pushed my bike, ridden in soft conditions. And thought of water
systems, battery backup, food intake, foot gear
— everything but the bike pants I aced ... I
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I know you’re disappointed, but it sounds
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looking at it now?
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I’ll do it again, whether it’s going to happen
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Play it straight
Prison budgets get a hard look
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
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Officials say New Hampshire’s prison system is one of the state budget’s major drivers. Its
costs keep rising and there’s little in place to stop
them from continuing upward.
Many, including Department of Corrections
Commissioner William Wrenn, are saying the
state needs to look closely at alternative methods of incarceration, particularly for criminals
convicted of non-violent crimes. Home confinement, electronic monitoring systems, community
service and community-based rehabilitation are
all things officials are talking about.
In a time of budget crisis, revamping the prison
system, which has a budget of about $106 million,
may prove difficult, but some say it’s necessary.
The vast majority of the Department of Corrections
budget comes from the general fund. In context,
the state Department of Health and Human Services has a budget of $720 million and the university
system comes in at about $100 million.
“It’s all driven by money — as the economy
gets worse, there’s more crime, unfortunately,”
said Rep. Stephen Shurtleff, D-Penacook.
“In a time of crisis, it’s a service that you can’t
really cut,” said Steve Norton, director of the New
Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies.
At a cost of more than $31,000 per inmate per
year, the state had 2,615 inmates in 2007. That
compares with 394 inmates in 1982 — a 560percent increase in 25 years. The spike can be
largely attributed to laws adopted in the early 1980s, termed “Truth in Sentencing,” that
essentially hardened the state’s stance on crime
by mandating criminals serve at least the minimum sentence. If a judge hands down a two- to
five-year prison term, that individual is not eligible for parole until the end of the second year,
according to a report by the New Hampshire
Center for Public Policy Studies.
The result has been a growing prison population that doesn’t correlate with the state’s
population growth and the crime rate, which has
decreased. In 2007, the state had 20 inmates for
every 10,000 state residents, compared with three
inmates per 10,000 state residents in the 1970s.
Nationally, one in every 100 adults is confined
in an American prison or jail, according to the
report. The report also says the decrease in the
state’s crime rate could at least in part be tied
to the rise in imprisonment. The rise could also
be tied to the fact that the state, following the
national lead, reduced its mental health operations during the 1980s and 1990s. The result was
more mentally ill inmates, the report said.
Advocates for reform say the state needs to
look at alternatives not only for incarceration
but also for inmates reentering society. Norton
said from 1998 to 2008 parole violators have
increased from 22 percent to 34 percent. Many
violations were for technicalities, rather than reoffending. Some are pushing to change parole
laws so those breaking parole on technicalities,
such as consuming alcohol, would face punishment but not further prison time. About one third
of the people in prison now have already been
there.
“What that means is the system is failing,”
Norton said. “We’re either not releasing the right
people or we don’t, as a community, we don’t
support them once they’re released.”
No one wants to be light on crime, but legislators
also must cope with the financial element of housing an expensive and growing prison population.
The figure of $31,000 per inmate per year can be
Hippo | March 26 - April 1, 2009 | Page misleading, because that only covers starting
costs of room and board, not specialized medical treatment, which can cost considerably
more and is not uncommon, said Jeff Lyons,
public information officer for the Department
of Corrections. (In an effort to reduce the prison population, the state is also working with
immigration services to deport non-violent
offenders who meet the guidelines of federal
immigration laws, Lyons said.)
Lyons said the feeling of being tough on
crime — locking people away and throwing
away the key — doesn’t really help the individual rehabilitate. “The idea is to try to get
them to change and be a positive force in the
community.”
“We’re really good at incarcerating people,” Norton said. “Is it time to make sure
we’re good at making sure people we release
can actually make it in the community?”
Manchester does have a reentry program
that allows parolees to receive support and
resources before they are simply released
back onto the street. Lyons said his department wants to see more of that.
“It’s more hands-on. There’s one-on-one
counseling,” Lyons said. “The majority who
do come back, it’s technical violations. We
need to provide them with tools. Help them
make choices. They need that continued support. We’re not really sure what the answer is
right now.”
Nashua Police Capt. Douglas Sparks said
he supported examination of communitybased sentencing alternatives for non-violent
offenders. Law enforcement’s worry would
be further expansion of sentencing to include
violent offenders, he said.
Sparks also supported more state investment in treatment programs. He said the state
could do better in treating and handling people
with substance abuse issues, both during prison sentences and after. “Treatment is cheaper
than incarceration,” he said. Despite limited
state funding, he said the mental health court
in Nashua is effective in dealing with offenders with mental health issues. He’d like to see
continued expansion of mental health courts,
particularly for folks with alcohol and substance abuse issues, he said.
“It keeps a lot of people out of expensive
incarceration,” Sparks said.
Norton says the issue is managing public
safety and rehabilitation. Currently, the state’s
preferred policy choice is risk containment,
essentially by incarceration. Norton suggested alternatives such as mental health courts or
drug courts. Such alternatives can help people
who would have gone to prison but who have
mental health issues that need treatment and
rehabilitation, Norton said.
“I think the state has two obligations: protect
society and ... try to find a way to rehabilitate
the individual so they don’t commit criminal
offenses in the future,” Shurtleff said. “We
need to strike a balance.”
Since some of the monitoring programs
can cost about $700 per year, Shurtleff figured, financially, the state has to consider its
options. He said Wrenn is on the right track in
looking for community-based alternatives.
“It may be more beneficial to the individual as
well as the state,” Shurtleff said.
Officials are looking nationally at discharge
management and ways to help people never return to prison. Norton called for a more
“holistic approach.” States like Washington, Oregon and Kansas have put forth broad
reform efforts to refocus from incarceration to
community management, Norton said.
Norton figured that within three to five years
the state would be at a crossroads of creating
community-based alternatives or expanding
the current system again.
Lyons said about 80 percent of the current population has substance abuse issues. Those inmates
need alternatives to a prison cell, he said.
Beyond that, officials said the state simply
needs to look at its sentencing statutes to see
if they are aligned with the times. Lyons said
any theft less than $500 is a misdemeanor and
anything more is a felony. A bicycle can cost
more than $500 now.
Community-based methods, while cheaper —
since some can be about $2 per day per person
— also allow potential inmates to remain productive members of society. If someone owes
restitution for crimes, they can’t pay that off
while serving jail time. But under a communitybased system, they could remain employed and
could pay back their debt, Lyons said.
“There’s certainly going to be crimes, but
should prison be the only alternative?” Lyons
asked. “Really our position is we need to do a
complete review of sentencing laws. Are they
still as viable now as they were then? It’s a
fine line.”
“We need to find a smarter and more effective way to penalize people and also protect
the public,” Lyons said.
Changes can be especially tough in tight
budgetary times. But Shurtleff thought some
changes could be made sooner rather than
later.
Laconia facility
With the state projected to face a deficit of
more than $500 million in the next two fiscal years, the Department of Corrections may
very well lose its Lakes Region prison facility in Laconia, which will cost it 171 positions,
many of which are currently filled. State officials said the facility was the state’s least
efficient as it wasn’t initially intended to be
a prison. The 350 inmates in Laconia will be
moved into prisons in Concord and Berlin.
With Gov. John Lynch requiring and desperately needing tight department budgets this
year, the corrections budget needed to cut 3
percent. With 75 percent of its budget salary
and benefits, the department needed layoffs.
“It was the only solution,” said Jeff Lyons,
public information officer for the Department
of Corrections.
By closing the Laconia prison, which was
a converted school complex that opened in
1991, the department will save $10 million
annually. The budget is yet to be passed, but
Lyons said the department is operating under
the assumption the facility will be closed.
Reportedly, the state House of Representatives
was mulling cutting the Department of Corrections overtime budget to save 20 prison guards’
jobs when the facility presumably closes.
Small business recovery
Federal money available for those hurting most
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
Love it or hate it, the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 presents some
options for struggling New Hampshire small
businesses right now — but not for ones that
are simply not viable anymore.
“I think it will be very, very helpful,” said
Witmer Jones, New Hampshire district director for the United States Small Business
Association. “A lot of businesses will benefit.
There is a hole there for businesses that have
simply suffered too much. Businesses have to
make the case that they’re viable. Most still
can.”
Nationally, the federal government is providing $730 million to be used by the SBA,
including $10 million designated for the
Inspector General to ensure proper oversight.
The program doesn’t allot money state-bystate, Jones said, so it’s more or less first
come, first served.
In New Hampshire, small manufacturing
companies and car dealerships, which Jones
said are typically independent small businesses, are hurting the most. Still, he assured
residents the state’s economy had not tanked.
Some industries were doing better than others,
but there is plenty to build on, he said.
As part of the Recovery Act, the SBA had
received approval for some substantive changes to programs as recently as last week, Jones
said. Perhaps most substantial is that the Administration will now guarantee bank loans at 90
percent, instead of 75 or 85 percent, depending
on the size of the loan. The 90 percent guarantee will last through 2009 or until funds are
used up.
“Ten percent is enough skin in there to make
sure they make loans that can be paid back,”
Jones said. “Ninety percent hopefully will give
it that nudge.
“Simply raising that percent guarantee will
hopefully provide capital to small businesses.”
An elimination of fees should also increase
the amount of cash businesses have on hand,
Jones said. Fee elimination is retroactive to
Feb. 17, when the bill was signed. The Administration is developing a system to refund fees
paid since then, according to the SBA.
“That’s going to help,” Jones said.
Through non-profit micro lenders, the Administration also works with a micro loan program
allowing for direct loans to businesses up to
$35,000. Congress recently approved another
$50 million for that program, Jones said.
With secondary markets drying up in recent
months, the Recovery Act includes funding to
allow the SBA to essentially establish a secondary market to help back banks that want to
make a loan but don’t have the necessary cash
on hand, Jones said.
Additionally, there are more options for businesses coming, such as the American Recovery
Capital program, which would guarantee 100
percent of certain loans to struggling businesses, with no fees. “The lender will have no risk,”
Jones said, adding the Administration would
cover interest payments. Businesses would
only need to pay back the principal and they
would owe nothing in the first year.
But businesses need to prove they have a plan
to be productive. If not, Jones said, he doesn’t
have a program to keep them afloat until the
economy picks itself back up again.
“If they can’t show how they’re going to
generate income, that loan won’t be made,” he
said.
Phones at the SBA are “ringing off the hook,”
Jones said, adding that banks seem to have the
most interest, but plenty of individuals are calling as well.
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The wait is over. Lisa Jones, who recently opened Nia NH and Yoga, said Nia,
which is a combination of yoga, martial arts, dance and healing arts, has been
around for 27 years but it’s taken a while
to get to the Granite State.
“I think of it as an intelligent way to exercise,” said Jones, whose studio is located at
76 Route 101A in Amherst. “There are all
different kinds of movements and exercises and they all fuse together.”
Jones went to her first Nia class in the
Berkshires in Massachusetts in 2003. She
thought, “Oh my gosh, this really speaks to
me. This is how I want to exercise.”
Since there weren’t any instructors in
New Hampshire, the Peterborough resident figured she’d better become one.
After her training in Northampton, Mass.,
Jones taught Nia part-time for a couple
years before quitting her job of 13 years as
an advisor in the University of New Hampshire’s nursing program to develop her
own Nia studio.
She opened her doors March 1 and she says
she’s still fine-tuning her class schedule and her
Web site (www.nianhandyoga.com).
“I’m getting at least a few [people] in
every class and a couple calls every day,”
said Jones, who still holds limited classes in Peterborough and Dublin. “I’m really
bringing Nia to a whole new area.”
Jones also offers traditional yoga classes. She figures if people come in for yoga,
they may eventually — or quickly — make
the transition to Nia.
“People come in and they’re pleasantly
surprised,” she said, adding it can be effective exercise for high-level athletes, people
who haven’t exercised in a while and anyone in between. “They can all get what
they need to. A lot of times, there are not
two people doing the same thing. So you
can modify it.”
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Order of March for the 2009
St. Patrick’s Parade
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A reader e-mailed to complain about drivers ignoring drop-off and traffic rules, and thereby causing unsafe situations, near the Dr. Crisp School
in Nashua. Classes there start about 8 a.m., but arrivals start much earlier for childcare and breakfast. The reader said that students have almost
been hit because some droppers-off have not followed the school’s rule to
park (legally), shut the car off and walk elementary students to the door.
Who isn’t in a hurry in the morning but it’s still important for all drivers
(including non-parents whose commutes take them past school zones) to
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QOL score: -1
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New Hampshire is the safest state in the United States according to the
annual Crime State Rankings released by CQ Press Monday, March 23. It
was followed in its safeness by Vermont, Maine and North Dakota. For the
fifth year running, Nevada was ranked the most dangerous state. The rankings are based on six categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault,
burglary and motor vehicle theft. Categories are measured by frequency,
percentage, rate and percentage change of reported crime.
QOL score: +2
Comment: The Granite State came in with the lowest murder rate
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Film fests blooming all over
The Jewish Federation of New Hampshire has partnered with Red River
Theatres in Concord to host the 2009 New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival.
It kicks off Saturday, March 28, with a 7 p.m. reception and an 8 p.m.
screening of romantic comedy The Deal (2007) at Southern New Hampshire
University, 2500 South River Road in Manchester. Harvard professor Alan
Dershowitz’s documentary The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost
(2008) screens Tuesday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Federation, 698
Beech St. in Manchester. Four more films are scheduled to run at Red River
through April 5; see www.jewishnh.org or call 627-7679.
QOL score: +1
Comments: Look out, Sundance; New Hampshire film fests aren’t just for
fall any more. The Frano American Centre finishes up a screening of three
Jay Craven films about life on the Vermont/Quebec border on Thursday,
March 26. Red River is also hosting Womanimation! this weekend, a
celebration of animated features and shorts by women. Next weekend, it’s
the Arab American Forum’s second annual film festival at Southern New
Hampshire University in Manchester and the second annual Lowell Film
Festival. (See details for all these events in the film listings on page 44.)
Last week’s QOL score: 41
Net change: +2
QOL this week: 43
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Mount Rushmore offerings and
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I’ll admit I’ve been
kind of grumpy in this
space for a while. And
with columns about
Bud Selig trying to lay the steroids blame on just
the players, my crankiness at the Pats just getting
a number for Matt Cassell and a recent offering
about Rush Limbaugh being the Terrell Owens
of conservative talk radio, I have been willing to
fire away.
I’m going to blame it on the malaise brought on
by the economic free fall that hit in the fall. But,
with daylight savings time making it brighter for
longer, the crisp (albeit colder than you’d expect)
spring air upon us and tournament basketball in
full swing, last week I felt a bit optimistic for the
first time in a while. The hoop games in the early
spring always have that effect on me and it often
leads to a random series of thoughts as the games
go on through the weekend — with the latest
being what follows.
Are Mike and son Cormac Fitzpatrick of
Memorial and Trinity respectively the best fatherson basketball combo since — who, Pete and
Press Maravich maybe?
And who the heck would name their kid Press
anyway? The only one I can think who might do
it is the great Woodsville hoop coach from back
in the day John Bagonzi.
Speaking of the press I took Louisville in the
(plug, plug) WGAM online pool because of
the pressure they apply and I’m sticking to it.
Although I’ve got to say I liked what North Carolina did on Saturday when it pulled away from
LSU at the end in an 84-70 win.
And why couldn’t Rick get the Celtics to run
and chase as does Louisville? They are relentless.
NH Hoop 101: What New Hampshire basketball coach can now claim disciples of his have
now won six Class L state titles among them?
There are triple doubles and then there are
TRIPLE doubles and the 13-point, 20-rebound,
TEN-blocked-shots submission by Kansas sophomore (old king) Cole Aldrich in Sunday’s 60-43
win over Dayton fits into the latter category.
That loss for Dayton was a dagger in the heart
to Flyer alum and Verzion Wireless Arena impresario Tim Bechert. But fortunately for him with
NCAA Hockey at the V this weekend he doesn’t
have time to dwell on it. And if you need a bit
of diversion yourself, there are still a few tickets
Easter
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And buddy Monarchs Prez Jeff Eisenberg
may finally be on the road to recovery from
last year’s debacle of hometown fave Memphis
coughing up the title with awful foul shooting down the stretch. The Tigers moved on by
destroying Maryland with a 53-33 first half in a
19-point rout in game two.
And speaking of a school from the volunteer
state, that scary look coming from the sidelines is
from Pat Summitt — who lost for the first time
EVER in the opening weekend of tournament play
when Tennessee’s 42-game opening-weekend
winning streak ended in a 71-55 stunner to Ball
State, which was making its tournament debut.
And one final thing about Summitt. Given her
stature in Tennessee, with the Memphis Grizzlies
of the NBA struggling on the court and at the box
office, think they’d have the guts to make her the
first female head coach of a men’s professional
sports team in the U.S.?
You may be aware that I’m kind of into the Mt.
Rushmore thing. So here’s mine for college players, although since it’s basketball mine has five, not
four. Lew Alcindor — the greatest ever. Bill Walton — the key guy to the 88-game winning streak
and two undefeated seasons. Christian Laettner
— two titles, four straight Final Fours, three buzzer-beating shots to win, including the one against
Kentucky in what may be the greatest game ever.
Oscar Robertson — three-time player of the year
and three-time finals participant in three tries. Bill
Russell — won two titles and 60 straight. Toughest omissions: Pete Maravich, David Thompson,
Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, Bobby Hurley, Larry Bird, Phil Ford and, OK, Michael
Jordan, though he wasn’t close to the dominant
player he became in the NBA.
Of course that may have more to do with the
old joke that went like this: Who’s the only man
in America who can regularly hold Michael Jordan to under 20 a night? Answer: Dean Smith.
Speaking of Deano, here’s the Mt. Rushmore
for coaches: John Wooden (da), Deano, Bobby Knight, Coach K and Adolph Rupp — with
Roy Williams coming up on the outside neck
and neck with Pitino.
Before you get on me about being a back-in-theday guy — because the best of the best now are at
best one-and-done guys — they can’t build a body
of work like all the folks mentioned above have.
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Now if you want to say who’s the best one-anddone freshman ever, I’ll take Carmelo Anthony
even though my friend and Syracuse alum (not
so liberal) Lou DeMato wouldn’t put Anthony
on his Mt. Rushmore of Syracuse players on my
radio show last week because he was a one-anddone guy.
In case you are wondering, here’s my Rushmore of New Hampshire players (that I’ve seen):
Matt Bonner, Mike Flanagan, Scott Drapeau,
Tyler Roche and Tunji Awojobi.Toughest
omissions: Rich Shrigley, Chris Lutz, Danny
Duval, Skip Barry, James Best, Matt Alosa,
Jeff Cross and the five or six I should have on
here but can’t think of. Send me any additional choices to consider, but you can leave out the
“how could you leave off so and so, you stupid
idiot” pleasantries.
And with another big year I’m thinking Trinity’s Jordan Laguerre will make a run at this list.
And by the way if they are going to add a fifth
President up there on the real Mt. Rushmore,
President Obama’s going to have to do better
with the economy than he did with his brackets. Though I will say when I saw him giving his
reasons on ESPN I said he’s got no shot of winning because he knows too much about the teams
involved and those people never win.
NH Hoops 101 Answer: With Dave Keefe
picking up his first over Fitzpatrick (who has two)
on Saturday, Stan Spirou now has six state titles
in his family tree when added to the three Doc
(10) Wheeler has won at Central. Doc played for
Spirou at NHC, while Keefe and Fitzy played for
him at Central and were followed by Colby-Sawyer mentor Bill Foti as well.
And speaking of Foti and Fitzpatrick, seeing
Jason Chevrefils headed to Colby-Sawyer brings
to mind the inside baseball that led to Kevin Garnett winding up in Boston thanks to the Kevin
McHale and Danny Ainge teammate connection.
Does Trinity win some sort of prize for the
boys winning and the girls team coming up just
short by losing in the finals?
There, that made me feel better. No more Forrest Grump.
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PeoplE, places & other stuff
Sports Glossary:
Tickets still available as
NCAA Hockey takes center
The Big Story I: For hockey folks it’s the NCAA
Tournament this weekend, and for local hoopsters
it was the all-Manchester final at the Class L Tournament in Durham last Saturday. Let’s call it the
Big Story I and I-A. The hockey tourney brings
number-one seed and Hockey East champ Boston
University to the backyard of three-seed UNH this
Saturday at the Verizon Wireless Arena. The Terriers face Ohio State University in the second half of
the twin bill at 5:30 after the U and North Dakota
kick things off at 3:30 p.m. Sunday’s final goes at
5:30 p.m. And if you are of a mind to go, tickets are
still available at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 868-7300.
The Big Story I-A: The big basketball story
was the Trinity-Memorial meeting in Durham.
It had a little bit of everything. There was the
father-son match-up of Crusader head man Mike
Fitzpatrick and long-range bombing son Cormac, who got the game’s first bucket. It was the
Crusaders’ first trip to the final since 1982. And
the first time two Manchester teams had met in
a final since Tommy Archer and West got a win
over Jeff Wallace and Central in 1973 — with
both being pretty hard to believe.
This time number-one Trinity held serve with
a 50-25 win thanks to a dominating defensive
effort that held Memorial to single digits in all
four quarters. In particular the suffocating team
pressure they put on Crusaders top scorer Jason
Chevrefils was key, as it held him to two field
goals and 10 points. It was led by the Madol
brothers (Richard and David), Zach Ibanez
and (bob) Dylan Clark. And if you are into
buried leads … Jordan Laguerre led the Pioneers with a game-high 26 as the Trinity boys
claimed the title.
Sports 101: Local legend Tommy Ameen
The Numbers:
3.5 – points scored and 1.5
rebounds averaged per game
by the aforementioned Tyler
Roche during the 2008-09
season in 13 minutes of action
per game for Boston College.
4 – career-high goals and
one assist registered by Penacook’s Dustin Latham in
a 13-12 SNHU loss to Pace
in NE-10, when Mike Ball
pointed out I got it wrong last week when I said
Mike Flanagan still holds the Class L scoring
record of 44 he set in 1970. So who does?
Big Story – Part III: Ordinarily, a local kid,
er, young man, playing in the big dance would be
the week’s biggest story. It drops to number three
in the rankings, in part because of BC’s short stay
in the tourney which was a one-and-done after a
72-55 loss to USC. For the record Tyler Roche
had three points in nine minutes of action.
Thursday’s Hot Ticket: The local basketball
season isn’t quite finished yet, as the 16-4 Manchester Millrats play their final home game on
Thursday vs. the Vermont Frost Heaves. They
are coming off a rugged 118-105 win on the
road vs. Halifax when Marlowe Curry led the
injury-depleted Rats with 30 points. Thursday’s
contest is a key game because a win keeps their
hopes alive to have home court throughout the
PBL playoffs, which begin next week. Game
time is 7:30 p.m. at SNHU.
Thumps Up: To QCTV for covering the Class
L basketball game in Durham last week — but
can anyone do something about the sound,
which blares at two levels, LOUD and even
LOUDER? Besides that, they did a nice job.
In Case You Missed It: Tyler Roche wasn’t
the only one getting some NCAA Tournament
pub. Former Trinity, Northeastern, SNHU
player and current Louisville red shirt Chris
Brickely turned up in Bob Ryan’s piece in the
Globe on Friday morning.
Sports 101 Answer: Speaking of a local guy
playing for Rick Pitino, the Class L tournament
scoring record is actually 46 points and set in
1984 by Portsmouth’s James Best, who then
migrated south to play for Pitino at Providence
for a short time.
also had three goals for the
Penmen.
7 – combined goals scored
by Matt Surette and Jeff
Dunkle in a 14-8 lacrosse
win for St. Anselm over
Dominican.
22 – point margin of victory for Becker College when it
met Daniel Webster in lacrosse
on Saturday when Shawana Kavanagh scored DWC’s
lone goal in a 23-1 loss.
27 – game-high points
scored by Jason Chevrefils
when Memorial knocked out
two-time defending champion
Salem on Wednesday 49-41.
50 – points scored in the
final two Trinity wins over
Alvirne and Memorial by Jordan Leguerre.
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Press and Pete Maravich: One-two
punch that took LSU and college basketball by storm in the late 1960s. Press was the
coach who let his son shoot all the time and
Pete the son who did in obliterating NCAA
scoring marks by averaging a robust 43.8,
44.2 and 44.5 during his three seasons in
college. Never quite lived up to that as a pro
performance where he led the league scoring once, was first team All-NBA twice
but scored “only” 15,948 –—which is way
down the all-time list. That was due in part to
knee injuries that shortened his career after
10 years, with the last half of his last season
being spent with the Celtics.
Phil Ford: All world point guard at North
Carolina in the ’70s who never quite followed it up in the NBA despite a sparkling
first two years in the league. The best player
on arguably UNC’s most talented team ever
in the 1976 bunch. But despite a club that
included current Laker GM Mitch Kupchak, the great Walter Davis — who later
formed the NBA’s top 1-2 scoring punch
with Paul Westphal in Phoenix along with
future number-one pick Tom Lagarde —
and former Celtics Assistant Coach John
Kuester, they got bounced in round one by
Alabama. And if it wasn’t the best group, it’s
second to the Jordan-Worthy-Perkins Tar
Heels that won in 1982.
Patrick Ewing: Swashbuckling leader of
dastardly Georgetown juggernaut that took
college basketball by storm in the early ’80s.
First seen in these parts dominating Nashua
High’s 1979 Holiday Tournament in leading
Cambridge Rindge and Latin to title. Despite
being an NBA Top 50 player, he was better
in college as the shot-blocking, ball-chasing
defensive intimidator he was in leading the
Hoyas to one title and three appearances in
the finals before morphing into the fall-away
jump shooter he sadly became in the NBA.
John Wooden: Greatest coach of them
all and ONLY person to be enshrined in the
basketball Hall of Fame as a coach AND a
player. The 98-year-old Wizard of Westwood did his work on the hardwood as a
player at Purdue — where he was a threetime All-American and led Boilermakers to
the 1932 national title. After a stint as coach
at Indiana State, moved on to UCLA in 1948
and stayed for 27 years, which he closed out
without with 10 titles in 12 years, including
a string of seven straight.
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Out on
the cheap
How to hit the town without putting a dent in your wallet
By Dana Unger and Christina Nyquist
Feeling the urge to cut back but not the urge to stay in?
You don’t have to blow a lot of money to have a good time out on
the scene. With a little planning and creativity, you can still paint
the town red without spending a lot of green. Reporters Dana Unger
and Christina Nyquist went searching for an evening of fun no matter how little change you have in your pocket — from a deluxe $25
evening to a night of fun had mostly for free. Do you have a favorite
way to spend an evening without spending a bundle? Let us know at
[email protected]
$0 – My best “dude”
impression and a nice syrah
Admittedly, I thought this night might be
an impossible task. A night out on the town
for free? Is that even possible? Happily, I
found out it is, but not without some planning
ahead and reading of the fine print. My first
stop for my $0 evening was Nashua’s Black
Orchid Grille, at 8 Temple St. The restaurant
holds a complimentary wine sampling from 6
to 8 p.m., featuring five of their select wines.
The tasting is only held the first Tuesday of
the month, so make sure to mark your calendar ahead of time. For more information, call
577-8910.
After the good wine, I headed over to Stadium Ten Pin, 216 Maple St., Manchester,
for a free game of bowling. Stadium Ten
Pin offers a one-time free game of bowling
for up to six people if you go to their Web
site at www.stadiumtenpin.net and print out
the free game coupon worth $25. However, there are a few conditions. The coupon
is not valid on Fridays or Saturdays after 5
p.m., there is a limit of one coupon per visit,
and you have to use the coupon the day you
print it out. Avoid Tuesday nights if you are
going to do this, since it is their league night
and is not valid. If you don’t have your own
pair, shoe rental will still cost you $6. Luckily, I had a friend spot me, so I made it through
the night without dropping a cent. Be warned
though: the trick with trying to do a free night
out is to remember that if something sounds
too good to be true, it probably is, so plan
ahead. Do research, call the venue, ask questions, and find out what’s really free and what
comes with strings attached. Stadium does
serve plenty of sodas, beers and snacks, but
the thrill of trash-talking my friends on their
game was far more satisfying prospect to me
— and it was free.
Wine: $0
Bowling: $0
—Dana Unger
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Cheapie Tip #1:
Go early
What’s your cheap night out?
Do you have a great idea for a cheap night out or a deal on food, drinks or entertainment not mentioned here? Let us know at
[email protected] or contact editor Amy Diaz at [email protected]. Or talk directly to the experts. For food, wine,
beer and cocktail related goings-on, write [email protected]. For music, nightlife and comedy, write music@hippopress.
com. For art gallery events, theater performances and classical music happenings, write [email protected].
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Many bars and clubs charge a
cover fee after a certain time, usually
when a band is playing that night. To avoid
shelling out an additional $5 or $10 on your
night out, head over early, usually before 8
p.m. You’ll save cash and avoid crowds.
More $0 Stuff:
Live music can often be enjoyed for $10 or less at local bars like The Shaskeen. Photo by Dana Unger
Langer Place, East Colony Fine Arts Gallery,
Franco American Centre, Manchester Community Access Media at 540 N. Commercial St.
Keep an eye on Hippo’s Art Gallery listings for
more free culture.
• Go to the movies for free, thanks to local
libraries and cultural organizations (though
some groups screen their movies for free but
accept donations for charity; some library
events are for members only, call in advance).
The Nashua Public Library (2 Court St., 5894600) offers films on Friday nights at 7 p.m.
as part of their Cinema Cabaret series and the
third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. as part
of its World Cinema series (which includes
features, documentaries, foreign films and
indies). Looking for a night out with the family? Hooksett Library (1701B Hooksett Rd.,
485-6092) offers free family films on the first
Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Even
foreign films sometimes enter the free movie
mix. The French group Gens Unis du Richelieu shows free French language films
on the fourth Wednesday of the
month at 6:30 p.m. at the Pem-
Cheapie Tip #2:
College pays
College campuses are great
resources for cheap (and often free)
entertainment. Whether it’s athletic games,
gallery shows, or live bands, many collegiate events are open to the general public.
If you’re a college student yourself, make
sure to show your student ID when you’re
out on the town — you never know what
kind of deals you can get with it, and many
places do offer special College Night deals
for students.
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For my $5 night, I knew the best strategy was to incorporate one free element, so I
decided to check out the free trivia night at
The Barley House, 132 North Main St., Concord. Their Wednesday night trivia starts at 8
p.m., and is always packed with laughing and
groaning trivia die-hards, testing their knowledge on everything from pop culture and film
to geography and current events. Between
questions, their DJ spins tons of Top 40 tunes
that keep you bouncing in your seat as you try
to come up with an answer. For more information, call 228-6363.
Nothing starts or ends the evening better
than a good beer, so I headed over to Strange
Brew, 88 Market St. in Manchester, where
the pub’s beer menu reads like a small novel, including sections for American Lagers,
hard ciders, wheat beers, brown ales, pilsners,
porters and stouts. Though there are a few
selections that run over, there are still plenty of affordable and refreshing brews $5 and
under to choose from — I settled on a pint of
Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat for $4, and after
my ample, frosty beverage, I still had $1 left
over for the toll ride home.
Trivia Night: $0
Beer: $4
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• Head over to Wally and Bernie’s at 20 Old
Granite St., Manchester, 641-2583, where Tuesdays and Wednesdays there is no cover charge
to get in and party hearty.
• Take in live jazz at Hermanos Cocina
Mexicana at 11 Hills Ave., Concord, 224-5669,
Sunday through Thursday. There is never a cover to sit and listen to the live tunes.
• Concord’s Capitol Center for the Arts is
probably one of the last places you think you
could take in free entertainment, but the venue
offers the free Gile Concert Series, which will
feature the Harlem Gospel Choir on Monday,
May 11, at 7:30 p.m. Visit www.ccanh.com, and
print out a free ticket request for the shows.
• Grab a pool cue and do your best The Color
of Money impression at The Pit Road Lounge
at 388 Loudon Road, Concord, 226-0533. The
Lounge offers free pool every Sunday.
• View original landscape oil paintings by artist Monique Sakellarios on Saturdays from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m., at Maison de l’Art, 57 East Pearl
St., Nashua, 879-9888. By appointment only.
• LaBelle Winery will host two complementary wine tasting events at New Hampshire State
Liquor Stores, one on Thursday, April 23, from
4:30 to 6:30 p.m., at Store #69, 27 Coliseum
Ave., Nashua, and another on Friday, May 8,
from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., at Store #33, North Side
Plaza, 31 Hamel Drive, Manchester. Check out
more free tastings happening in their stores all
over the state at www.nh.gov/liquor.
• There is never a cover charge for live music
at Murphy’s Taproom, 494 Elm St., Manchester, 644-3535. The Taproom also doesn’t charge
for pool, darts or their UFC events and trivia
nights.
• If dancing is your speed, The Queen City
Ballroom at 21 Dow St., Manchester has free
coupons available for newbies. They offer free
admission on Thursdays at 7 p.m., as well as
the 5:15 p.m. beginner group sampler lesson on
Sundays (new students only). They also offer a
free admission for their weekly dance parties on
Fridays at 7 p.m. or Sundays at 6 p.m. for firsttime guests only. To print out the coupons, visit
www.queencityballroomnh.com.
• For waitresses, bartenders and more, the
Element Lounge, 1055 Elm St., Manchester, 627-2922, hosts a Service Industry Night
on Mondays at 6 p.m. with free pool and free
Wii play.
• The 2009 Walker Lecture Series is running several free concerts and presentations in
conjunction with their lectures. All events will
be held at 7:30 p.m., at the Concord City Auditorium, Prince Street, behind City Hall. Their
next event, “Beneath the Jungle and Beyond,”
will be on Wednesday, April 1, and will feature the work of filmmaker Dale Johnson and
his documentation of ancient Mayan kingdoms. The full schedule is available at www.
wcnh.org.
• Every Friday is Ladies’ Night at The Amber
Room, 53 High St., Nashua, 881-9060, so ladies
get in free before 11 p.m.
• If you’re a college student, head to Boston Billiards Club, 55 Northeastern Blvd.,
Nashua, 595-2121, for free pool. Appetizers
are half price from 7 p.m. to close.
• Pool is free at Slade’s Food and Spirits, 4 West Hollis St., Nashua, 886-1334, on
Saturdays from noon until 6 p.m., so play a
game, and then take in a live band with no
cover charge.
• Free chocolate sampling at the chocolate
fountain at Swan Chocolates, 501 DW Highway, Merrimack, 423-5950, on Saturday from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Open-mike nights and live band karaoke nights can be a gold mine for free
entertainment, since most are free to attend,
such as Concord’s Green Martini open-mike
night and The Flambeaux’s open mike with
Josh Logan, both on Thursday nights.
• Area art galleries often change exhibits once
a month or once a quarter and each new exhibit is a new excuse to hold an artist reception.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings seem
to be a popular time for these to-dos, which
offer opportunities for mingling and meeting
new people as well as a chance to get to know
local artists and spend some time ruminating on a painting, photo or sculpture while
enjoying the cheese cubes, crackers or
other snacks that make the usual spread.
In addition, many local arts organizations
hold open-gallery events that feature multiple galleries and artists offering hours of
entertainment while still being free. In Manchester, that “free’ includes a free trolley as part
of Open Doors Manchester, which is a tour of
local arts and culture organizations. Upcoming
Open Doors events are scheduled for Thursdays, April 16, June 25, Sept. 17 and Nov.
12, from 5 to 8 p.m. In the past, venues have
included Manchester City Hall, MAA Gallery,
Millyard Museum, SEE Science Center at 200
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before 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays.
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Pub, 21 Kosciuszko St., Manchester, 669-7722,
offers drafts for $2.50 after 9 p.m., and 25/35cent wings on Mondays. They also offer lunch
specials (most under $10) during the week.
• Quench your thirst at Thirsty Thursdays
from 3 to 7 p.m. at Concord Grille, 1 Eagle
Square in Concord, 228-6608. The Thursday
special features $1.25 on all draft beers
and the “big three” bottles. Make sure
to figure out what time you’ll be going,
though, because beers go up a quarter
every half hour.
• Murphy’s Taproom at 494 Elm St.
in Manchester, 644-3535, offers domestic
beers on Mondays for only $1, and for every
pizza you by after 6 p.m. you can get another beer free.
• Monday nights at J.W. Hill’s at 795 Elm
St., Manchester, 645-7422, will score you
some cheap eats. J.W. offers a Monday night
football special where you can get buffalo
wings for just 30 cents apiece.
• For cheap, cerebral entertainment, hit the
poetry nights at the Bridge Café, 1117 Elm
St., Manchester, 647-9991. Slam Free or Die
holds open readings there every other Friday
from 7 to 11 p.m., for a $3 cover.
• Tuesday through Friday is “The Sky
Lounge Economic Stimulus Plan” at Sky
Lounge, 522 Amherst St. in Nashua, 8826026, in which selected items are half off
from 5 to 7 p.m. So buy a drink for $3 or
a beer for $1.75, and stick around for live
entertainment or a sports event on the largescreen high-definition televisions.
• Bring your own skates and go ice skating
at Conway Skating Arena, 8 Riverside St.,
Nashua, 595-2400, for a mere $5 per skater.
(There’s a $3 rental charge for skates.)
• You can fill your tummy with a hearty
dog on a bun or a tasty sausage for not much
money. Jonathan’s Quick Eats has a hot dog
stand outside the Black Brimmer in downtown
Manchester (corner of Elm and Bridge streets)
Thursday through Saturday nights from 10 p.m.
to 2 a.m., and The Sausage King of Nashua
(www.thesausagekingofnashua.com) sets up
outside Martha’s Exchange on Main Street in
Nashua on Friday and Saturday nights from 8
p.m. to 2 a.m., weather permitting.
• There is a wealth of cheap deals at The
Gate City Pub, 56 Canal St., Nashua, 5988256. The pub offers free pool on Sundays,
and live acoustic music on Friday and Saturday. Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m.
is Happy Hour, with $1.50 on Bud & Bud
Light drafts, $1 Miller drafts and $2 bottle
specials. Pub Game Night on Tuesday features $1.50 drafts and ping-pong, darts and
board games. College Night on Wednesday
offers $3 drink specials, and every day, all
day at the pub, Pabst Blue Ribbon is just $2.
• The Manchester area’s first-run loss was
its second-run gain when the Regal Hooksett
8 (100 Technology Drive in Hooksett) started
showing older movies for the wallet-friendly
price of $3.50 a ticket (even in the evening).
On Monday, March 23, a night at the movies
could have had you choosing between supernatural-themed movies Twilight, Underworld:
The Rise of the Lycans and The Uninvited; late
2008 award-hopefuls like Last Chance Har-
vey, Doubt, Milk and Revolutionary Road; and
kid-friendly films like Tale of Despereaux, Inkheart, Bedtime Stories or Bolt.
• Enjoy cheap treats until 5 p.m. at Riverwalk Café & Coffee House, 35 Railroad
Square, Nashua, 578-0200. They have a large
selection of coffees, teas, hot chocolates,
lattes, and cappuccinos from $1.50 to under
$4. All menu items are $5 or less, with cookies at $1.25 and pecan sticky buns at $2.75.
• Tickets to Manchester Millrats games
are $5 to $10 each. The team’s next home
game will be on Thursday, March 26, at 7
p.m., at Southern New Hampshire University against the Vermont Frost Heaves.
Call 646-7287 or visit www.manchestermillrats.com.
Cheapie Tip # 3:
Seek out the eats
specials
Often restaurants will run daily specials
on their menu items, so you can get great
deals on appetizers and early dinners (usually before 7 p.m.) Sports bars often run food
and drink deals during Red Sox, Patriots,
Bruins, or Celtics games and will have specials and promotions running those nights.
$10 – Snacks, wine, and a
little “Piano Man”
As I left the Hippo offices around 4:45 p.m.
in mid-winter, the sun was just beginning to set
for my drive toward the capital city. Cruising
down Main Street as evening fell, I pulled up
in front of Butter’s Fine Food and Wine (70
North Main St., Concord, 225-5995) for my
first stop of the night. I entered the warm, cozy
store, and felt instantly festive as I walked past
shelves of homemade pasta and specialty jams,
and past their gourmet cheese counter, to the
back where the wine-tasting table was set up.
There, the sommeliers laughed and joked with
me and imparted some worldly wine wisdom.
Trying six different complementary wines, I
learned how to compare hues, swirl my glass
like an oenophile, inhale the complex aromas
and swish the wine around my taste buds to get
the full effect before imbibing. It was a pleasant, fun and educational way to get myself in
the mood for the rest of my $10 night on the
town.
I braved the late January night to walk
toward Concord’s Eagle Square, where I
headed into the Concord Grille (1 Eagle
Square, 228-6608) for a “Thirsty Thursday”
special. This constituted the big-spender element of the evening, as I bought a beer for $2
and a half-priced appetizer for $5. To my surprise, I was even treated to a live keyboard
and vocal performance that started off with
Elton John’s “Rocket Man” and finished
around 8 p.m. with Billy Joel’s “Piano Man,”
both guilty-pleasure favorites of mine.
The music finished just in time for the
beginning of the final activity scheduled on
my agenda. Around 8:05 p.m. I walked into
the Green Martini Lounge (6 Pleasant St.
Ext., 223-6672) for open-mike with Steve
Naylor. There is no cover charge at the Green
Martini, so I sat at a little table in the small,
red-walled hideaway and enjoyed Naylor’s
mellow, folksy sound.
Wine tasting: $0
Beer and appetizer: $7 (not including tip)
Open mike: $0
—Christina Nyquist
Cheapie Tip #4:
Plan ahead; read the
fine print
Going out on the cheap often requires
doing a little more research and planning,
so make sure to call ahead and find out all
the details of the deal, since it may mean
arriving at a certain time, or having to
order a certain item. As is the case with
deals, there are often strings attached.
More for $10 and under:
Ladies get in free before 11 p.m. on Friday
at Nashua’s Amber Room. Photo by Dana Unger.
15 Loudon Road in Concord, 228-2784, on
Sunday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cost is $5.
• The Black Brimmer has live music four
days a week, and cover is $5 for the bands if
you head in after 8:30 p.m. The Brimmer is
now offering deals on meals, including the
Brimmer Burger for $4.95 and a full steak tip
dinner for $8.95.
• Dinner specials are all under $10 at Koi
Japan, 946 Elm St., Manchester, 622-1234,
Monday through Sunday, from 3:30 p.m. to
close. They also will do free delivery to all of
Manchester with a minimum order of $8.
• The Flambeaux, 1181 Elm St., Manchester, 512-2333, offers a Girls Night Out at 9
p.m. on Wednesdays with half off drinks and
no cover charge for the ladies. Get your groove
on at their Groove Saturdays, featuring Top 40,
Retro, House, Dance, R&B and rock with DJ
Vicious and DJ Midas. Cover is $5.
• For a full stomach without breaking the
bank, check out the long list of burritos at Dos
Amigos Burritos at 26 North Main St., Concord, 410-4161. All of their menu items are
under $9, and they also offer soft tacos, chili,
quesadillas and even char-grilled jalapeños.
• Watch a movie at Chunky’s Cinema
Pub, 151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua, 880-8055.
The theater offers Bargain Night on Mondays,
where film-goers get $2 off their admission
ticket.
• Monday night from 6 p.m. to midnight,
Nashua’s Leda Lanes, 340 Amherst St., 8894884, holds Monday Madness. Their $10
special gets you two hours of glow bowling,
shoe rental, pizza and soft drinks, and prizes
handed out all night. Games cost $3.50 and
shoe rental is $2.25. Their bar, Kegler’s Den,
offers Happy Hour during the week from 3
to 6 p.m.
• The Nashua Table Tennis Club, 48
Bridge St. in Nashua, 880-6271, is open Tuesday through Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. and
Sunday from 3 to 10 p.m. $8 for adults and $4
for under 18. Players generally bring
their own paddles and balls, but
“house paddles” are available and
Cheapie Tip #5:
Pool your resources.
If you’re out with friends, chip
in on appetizers or a pitcher of beer
together. More often than not, it can be a
lot more cost-effective than everyone buying something individually.
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• Bowling is a blast and good exercise, and
it’s inexpensive. At Leda Lanes (340 Amherst
St., Nashua, 889-4884, www.ledalanes.com),
for example, shoe rentals cost $2.25 and
games cost $3.50 per game per person after 5
p.m. on weeknights and all day on weekends.
Bowling lanes abound in the area: try Tony’s
Lanes (244 Elm St., Milford, 673-6673), King
Bowling Lanes (751 Mast Road, Manchester, 623-9215, www.kinglanes.com), Lakeside
Lanes (2171 Candia Road, Manchester, 6277722, www.lakesidelanes.com), Stadium Ten
Pen (216 Maple St. in Manchester, 625-9656,
www.stadiumtenpin.net), Merrimack Ten
Pin Center (698 DW Highway, Merrimack,
429-0989), and Boutwell’s Bowling Center (152 North State St., Concord, 224-0941).
Some venues offer glow bowling on particular nights.
• Tuesday night is Beat the Clock night and
open-mike night with Dually at 7 p.m. at Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial St., Manchester,
625-4444./ No cover charge for those 21 and
over. Monday through Friday appetizers are
half-price from 4 to 7 p.m.
• Check out Thursday nights at Club 313, 93
South Maple St., Manchester, 628-6813, where
it’s 18+ and appetizers, drinks and cover costs
$2 per person.
• After a long night out on the town, head
over to the Red Arrow Diner at 61 Lowell
St., Manchester, 626-1118. The famed eatery
is open 24 hours, and their Dinah-Mite Bursting Breakfast, King Moe’s Fuller Breakfast,
and Queen Dinah’s Full Breakfast are all under
$10, and give you all the eggs, pancakes and
sides you could ask for.
• At Murphy’s Taproom, 494 Elm St. in
Manchester, 644-3535, all appetizers and
beers are half-price from 4 to 6 p.m. every
day; on Tuesdays all beers are $2, and on
Fridays beers are $2 until 9 p.m.
• Take in some public skating at the
Douglas N. Everett Ice Skating Arena,
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cream are also sold on the premises. Visit www.
nashuattc.com for more information.
• Tuesdays at C.R. Sparks, 18 Kilton Road,
Bedford, 647-7275, are a deal, with tacos and
a glass of wine from the Southern Hemisphere
for $10. Wednesday nights offer drink and
dinner specials for the ladies, as well as free
drawings for prizes.
• For some late-night dancing, The Amber
Room, 53 High St., Nashua, 881-9060, has a
$5 cover on Friday and Saturday, and ladies get
in free before 11 p.m. on Friday.
• Every Thursday at Saffron Bistro, 80
Main St., Nashua, 883-2100, the restaurant
offers free appetizers and 25 percent off drinks
from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
• Take in European and American paintings,
photography, sculpture, and more at the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester,
669-6144. The museum is open late the first
Thursday of the month from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Adult admission costs $10. (Or, the super
thrifty art lover can wait until Saturday, when
the museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
admission is free from 10 a.m. to noon.)
• The Airport Diner, 2280 Brown Ave.,
Manchester, 623-5040, offers Thrifty Thursdays for college students from 4 to 7 p.m.,
where you can buy an entree and get one free
with a valid student I.D. They also offer Toss
Up Tuesdays from 4 to 7 p.m., where the server flips a coin, you call it, and if it comes up
in your favor you get half off your entree.
Wednesday is Spaghetti Night, where it’s all
the spaghetti you can eat for $6.99 for a red
sauce, or $7.99 for a meat sauce.
They serve breakfast all day,
and all of their desserts are
priced under $5. The diner is open Monday
through Sunday, 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
• Get dinner, drinks and stick around for
entertainment at the Strange Brew, 88 Market
St. in Manchester, 666-4292, www.strangebrewtavern.net. The Brew runs a special on
$2.50 and up beers, $3 single liquors, and halfprice appetizers all night on Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday. The tavern has $4
burgers and $2.50 domestic beer specials on
Wednesday, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., and on Friday
and Saturday have $2.50 draughts and $3 single liquors from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Many of these
prices apply to selected items, so be sure to ask
your server.
$25 — a trip to Spain, Mexico
and space
For a $25 night out, there are more options
available; it’s just a matter of deciding which
ones to take advantage of. For a deal on wine,
I headed over to Michael Timothy’s, 212
Main St., Nashua, for their wine sampling.
They start their wine flights on Tuesday at 5
p.m., but if you miss the Tuesday night, the
restaurant offers the featured tasting for the
entire week, so you can sample when you
want. You can try by the glass or by 2-ounce
sample, which, at $2 to $3.50 each, is cheaper than a full pour and is a good opportunity
to try some new varietals. I sampled a lovely pinot noir and syrah, as well as a stunning
Spanish granache, while my companion opted for a couple of nice whites. My tab added
up to a mere $9.50. So, with a wad of cash
still burning a hole in my pocket, I was ready
for some entertainment.
There are plenty of bands playing in the
area, and most for no more than $5 or $10,
but I decided to indulge my inner science
geek and took advantage of Concord’s
Cheapie Tip #6:
Christa McAuliffe Planetarium’s
Light up Wednesday
Super Stellar Fridays. These special
night
late shows start at 7:30 p.m., and it’s $8
Consider going out on a weeknight. Frito take in all the planets, meteor showers
day and Saturday are the busiest nights
and black holes you can handle. On this
for bars and restaurants, so there are fewparticular night, we settled into a show
er deals to be had on those nights than on
about the Hubble space telescope under
a Tuesday or Thursday evening.
the soft red glow of the dome, where a
planetarium expert took us through the
technological ins and outs as we all oohed
and ahhed. The planetarium is located at 2
Institute Drive, Concord, and ticket reservations can be made at 271-7827.
For a quick and cheap nosh, there are a
couple of options that will keep you under
the $25 mark for the night. For $5.25, order
the pierna torta at Consuelo’s Taqueria, 36
Amherst St., Manchester. The grilled, crusty
bread is packed with vegetables, roast pork
and refried beans. If you are in the mood
for Italian, Sopranos Pizza, 23 Main St.,
Nashau, has eggplant parmigiana, spaghetti
and salad for $6.95, and the roast pork pad
Thai is $6.75 at Bamboo Garden, 329 Lincoln St., Manchester.
Wine Tasting: $9.50 (not including tip)
Planetarium: $8
Late-night food: between $5
and $7
—Dana Unger
Cheapie Tip #7:
don’t fear the coupon
623-1000
101 Stark Street • Manchester
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The Wild Rover offers regular draft and food
specials during the week. Photo by Dana Unger
Have a few favorite restaurants?
Sign up for their newsletters and check
out their Web sites. Sometimes coupons
and other special deals are available if
you’re willing to dig around.
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More for $25 and under:
theater is offering a special reduced price of
$15 for seating in the back section of the balcony for shows like Little Shop of Horrors
and The Producers. This price applies to all
age groups and cannot be combined with any
other discount. Limited availability.
• The Manchester Wolves play their first
2009 home game on Saturday, April 18, at
7:30 p.m. against the Albany Firebirds at the
Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm St. in Manchester. Adult tickets for the lower and upper
end zones cost $19 and upper sideline tickets
cost $15. See www.manchesterwolves.com.
• For the best in music, Tupelo Music
Hall, 2 Young Road, Londonderry, has several concerts and special events for $20 and
under, including Chad Perrone on Saturday, March 28; Ryan Montbleau on Sunday,
March 29; comedy with Kenny Rogerson and
Jon Fisch on Saturday, April 11; Antje Duvekot on Sunday, April 26, and The Alternate
Routes on Thursday, April 30. Call 437-5100
or visit www.tupelohall.com.
• Try new restaurants or revisit old favorites
during area cities’ restaurant weeks. Nashua
will hold its Spring Feast Week Wednesday,
April 1, through Tuesday, April 7, when restaurants will offer fixed-price meals (many at
right around $20) or discounts on their regular prices (see page 34 for more). Manchester
will holds its Eats Week Sunday, April 26,
through Thursday, April 30 (see www.
intownmanchester.com). The Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way in Bedford,
472-2001, www.bedfordvillageinn.com) is at
the tail end of its Hospitality Month, when its
main dining room, its Tavern and its wine bar
Corks are all offering special deals and discounts. For example, in the Tavern through
March they’re running a Burgers and Bordeaux special. The famed pairing of a juicy
burger with a bartender-chosen glass of red
Bordeaux will run you $15.
• And, if you’re looking to keep your evening luxe but light, Corks, the new wine bar
inside the Bedford Village Inn, offers imaginative and tasty little nibbley items, most of
which run less than $10 and all of which are
$12 and under. Try the fried olives ($5), the
chorizo lollipops ($5) or the grilled cheese
(made with duck confit and brie on brioche
for $8) and you’ll still have left to sample a
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• For some inexpensive yuks, head to
Headliner’s Comedy Club, 21 Front St.,
Manchester, 669-2660. The club features
shows by top comedians every Saturday
night at 7 p.m., and tickets cost $15.
• There are deals to be found on Manchester Monarchs tickets at the Verizon Wireless
Arena, 555 Elm St., Manchester. Silver tickets for adults cost $16, and gold and silver
tickets for kids cost $12. Call 868-7300 or
visit www.verizonwirelessarena.com.
• Concord’s Capitol Center for the Arts,
44 South Main St., 225-1111, www.ccanh.
com, has deals on some upcoming performances for $20 and under, including
comedian Frank Santos, Jr., on Saturday,
April 25, and $15 tickets to the Spotlight
Café performance of Annalivia on Friday,
May 22, at 8 p.m.
• Almost all the dinner entrees at Cotton, 75 Arms St., Manchester, 622-5488, are
under $25, including Wood Grilled Lamb
Sirloin and Lobster Spaghetti. The restaurant
is also running a matinée special Monday
through Thursday, from 3 to 6 p.m. For $25,
you can get a pitcher of martinis and the
matinee also features special appetizers and
other drinks.
• The schedule of shows at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom continues to
roll out, and there are several affordable
options for $20 and under (if you purchase
in advance), including G. Love & Special
Sauce on Thursday, April 2, the SnoCore
Tour featuring Static-X and Saliva on Saturday, April 18, and Badfish! A Tribute to
Sublime on Friday, July 3. Call 929-4100 or
visit www.casinoballroom.com.
• There will be plenty of eats, sweets and
drinks at Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial
St. in Manchester, 625-4444, on Thursday,
April 9, at 7 p.m., when they host a wine-tasting fundraiser to benefit the New Hampshire
Food Bank. For $20, attendees will be able
to sample wines and participate in a wine
discussion with representatives of the Horizon Beverage Company, and dig into plenty
of cheese and crackers as well as a chocolate fountain. Visit Milly’s in person to get
a ticket.
• Grab a deal on dinner at Fody’s Tavern,
9 Clinton St., Nashua, 577-9015. The restaurant offers a 2-for-1 Tuesday, where diners
can buy one entrée and get a second entrée
of equal or lesser value free. Just visit www.
fodystavern.com, print the home page and
present it to your server when you buy
your initial entrée.
• General-admission tickets to UNH
Wildcats games against BU, BC,
Maine and Wisconsin cost $21 and are
on sale at 10 a.m. the Wednesday before
the scheduled match-up. Call 868-7300 or
visit www.unhwildcats.com.
• Fratello’s Ristorante Italiano, 155 Dow
St., Manchester, 624-2022, offers a special
Prime Rib Night on Wednesday evenings
for $13.99, and it includes a 12-oz. prime rib
with salad, veggie, potato, bread sticks and
dessert.
• This season, take advantage of the Cheap
Seats program at The Palace Theatre, 80
Hanover St., Manchester, 668-5588. The
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Hot List
Thursday, March 26
Claudette Gamon’s oil “Middle
Earth” (www.claudettegammon.
com) is part of “Jury Show ’09”
at E.W. Poore Picture Framing & Art Gallery, 531 Front St.
in Manchester (www.ewpoore.
com, 622-3802). Work by 32
New England artists was chosen
for the show. Meet the artists at
a reception today between 5 and
7 p.m., with awards presented at
6:30 p.m. For more about art, see
page 20.
What’s hot now in...
CdS
According to to Bull
Moose Music’s top sellers
1. Twiztid, W.I.C.K.E.D.
2. Les Claypool, Of Fungi
& Foe
3. U2, No Line on the
Horizon
4. Static-X, Cult of Static
5. Neko Case, Middle
Cyclone
6. Van Morrison, Astral
Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl
7. New Found Glory, Not
Without a Fight
8. Lamb Of God, Wrath
9. Lily Allen, It’s Not Me
It’s You
10. Lady Gaga, Fame
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BOOKS
According to Amazon
1. New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2), by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
2. The Twilight Saga
Collection, by Stephenie
Meyer (Little, Brown
Young Readers, 2008)
3. Breaking Dawn (The
Twilight Saga, Book 4), by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
4. Eclipse (The Twilight
Saga, Book 3), by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown,
2007)
5. Twilight (The Twilight
Saga, Book 1), by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown,
2006)
6. The Shack, by William
P. Young (Windblown
Media, 2007)
7. The 5000 Year Leap:
A Miracle That Changed
the World, by W. Cleon
Skousen (National Center
for Constitutional Studies,
2006)
8. Act Like a Lady, Think
Like a Man: What Men
Really Think About Love,
Relationships, Intimacy,
and Commitment, by
Steve Harvey (Amistad,
2009)
9. Liberty and Tyranny:
A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin
(Threshold Editions, 2009)
10. Watchmen, by Alan
Moore, Dave Gibbons
(Illustrator) (DC Comics,
1995)
dVd
According to Hollywood
Video
1. Role Models (R, 2008)
2. Transporter 3 (PG-13,
2008)
3. Australia (PG-13,
2008)
4. Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 2008)
5. Milk (R, 2008)
6. Body of Lies (R, 2008)
7. Rachel Getting Married
(R, 2008)
8. Changeling (R, 2008)
9. Cadillac Records (R,
2008)
10. Quarantine (R, 2008)
FILM
Top movies at the box
office March 20-22
(weekend/cumulative)
1. Knowing, Summit
Entertainment ($24.8
mil/$24.8 mil)
2. I Love You, Man, Paramount ($18 mil/$18 mil)
3. Duplicity, Universal
($14.4 mil/$14.4 mil)
4. Race to Witch Mountain, Buena Vista ($13
mil/$44.7 mil)
5. Watchmen, Warner
Bros. ($6.7 mil/$98 mil)
6. The Last House on the
Left, Rogue Pictures ($6
mil/$24 mil)
7. Taken, 20th Century
Fox ($4 mil/$133 mil)
8. Slumdog Millionaire,
Fox Searchlight ($2.7
mil/$137 mil)
9. Tyler Perry’s Madea
Goes to Jail, Lionsgate
($2.5 mil/$87 mil)
10. Coraline, Focus Features ($2 mil/$72.8 mil)
Friday, March 27
The latest from DreamWorks
Animation, Monsters vs. Aliens,
opens today. A California woman grows to 49 feet, 11 inches,
after being hit by a meteor on her
wedding day. The government
stashes her with a variety of other
monsters until aliens threaten the
planet. For more about film, see
page 43.
Friday, March 27
Groove Thang includes Dave
Gerard and David Bailey, who
have performed together for
more than 20 years and co-founded the band Truffle. Listen to
Groove Thang at the Pasta Loft,
241 Union Square in Milford
(672-2270, www.pastaloft.com),
tonight at 9 p.m. For more about
live music, see page 46.
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Sunday, March 29
Manchester West High alum
William Hartery returns to the
Palace Theatre as Max Bialystock for a professional run of
Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers. See a performance today
at 2 p.m. at 80 Hanover St., Manchester (www.palacetheatre.org,
668-5588). Ticket costs range
from $15 to $40. (Courtesy photo.) For more about theater, see
page 20.
Sunday, March 29
True, St. Patrick’s Day was
almost two weeks ago, but no
matter. Celebrate again at Manchester’s St. Patrick’s parade on
Elm Street between Salmon and
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today. Visit www.saintpatsnh.
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The original sitcom
ARTS
UNH Durham brings commedia dell’arte to UNH Manchester
By Heidi Masek
[email protected]
Productions from the University of New
Hampshire’s Department of Theatre and Dance
in Durham don’t normally make it west to UNH
Manchester. In fact, I C No Arrlechino might be
the first to travel between the two.
David Kaye, associate professor at the Department, created this part-scripted, part-improvised
commedia dell’ arte piece, which will be performed Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m., at UNH
Manchester.
Kaye said UNH’s Little Red Wagon summer touring show for children has stopped at
the Manchester campus, but
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What: I C No Arrlechino, presented by UNH
Durham’s Department of Theatre and Dance
When: Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m.
Where: UNH Manchester, third-floor auditorium, 400 Commercial St., Manchester.
Cost: $10
Contact: 641-4321, www.unhm.unh.edu
it’s not geared to the student body. I C Arrlechino is the first departmental production he’s tried
to bring. One reason for the appearance is to
provide a low-cost opportunity for UNH Manchester students to see work related to courses
like Introduction to Theater. UNH Manchester
English associate professor Susanne Paterson
helped make the event possible. (Some students
are required to watch this show for class.)
Commedia dell’arte originated in Italy in
the 14th century and is the basis for perhaps all
comedy we see today, Kaye said. Basic plots
and characters in TV, theater and film, including
The Simpsons and “pretty much any American
sitcom,” can be tracked to commedia dell’arte,
Kaye said. Mr. Burns of The Simpsons is “perhaps one of the greatest examples” of Pantalone,
the commedia stock character of the old miser.
The title of Kaye’s show comes from another
stock character, Arrlechino, also known as Harlequin. He’s “the put-upon crafty servant ... very
naive, but very sweet ... he often finds himself
in middle of all this madness,” Kaye said. Art
Carney in The Honeymooners is one example,
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Kaye said.
Because Italy had many different dialects,
commedia actors relied less on language and
used very physical comedy. They also used
masks, costumes and specific behavioral traits
to identify the roles. Commedia troupes didn’t
need to spend much time establishing the characters since everyone knew them, Kaye said.
Commedia originally was almost entirely
improvisation, and evolved into a scripted form
in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a mixture
in between those times, as is I C No Arrlechino, Kaye said.
For UNH, they “decided to keep it very traditional,” Kaye said. Four actors play eight roles,
using traditional masks and costumes, using a
set reminiscent of an Italian piazza.
“The most important thing is it’s really funny,” Kaye said. It’s tailored to the audience and
“completely unrepeatable,” he said.
Ginger Lever, of UNH Manchester College Relations, said while this is the first such
exchange, students from both campuses interact by taking courses at other campuses and
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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
• 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
• ALL THE RAGE Fridays and Sat-
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urdays, at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 7 p.m.,
through March 29 at the Players’ Ring,
105 Marcy St., Portsmouth, 436-8123,
$8-$12. Sequel to Sharp Dressed Men,
by G. Matthew Gaskell.
• ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
March 27-April 5, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2
p.m., and Wed., April 1, at 2 p.m., at
Leddy Center for Performing Arts,
30C Ladd’s Lane, Epping, www.leddycenter.org, 679-2781, $16-$18.
• BAD DATES by Theresa Rebeck
through April 12 at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack St.,
Lowell, Mass., 978-654-4678, www.
merrimackrep.org, $26-$56.
• THE CASE OF HUMANITY VS.
PONTIUS PILOT Reader’s Theatre
Wesleyan Arts event Wed., April 8, at
7 p.m., at Wesley United Methodist
Church, 79 Clinton St., Concord, 2247413, free. The jury will be selected
from the audience.
• DISNEY’S THE JUNGLE BOOK
presented by the Peacock Players
through March 29 at the 14 Court St.
Theater, in Nashua.
• FESTIVAL OF IRISH DANCE &
Music featuring Leahy Thurs., March
26, at 7:30 p.m., at The Music Hall, 28
Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400,
www.themusichall.org, $20-$48.
• GIORDANO JAZZ DANCE
CHICAGO Sun., April 5, at 7:30
p.m., at the Capitol Center for the
Arts, $29.50-$34.50.
• GODSPELL presented by Kids Coop
Theatre, Sat., April 4, at 1 & 7 p.m., and
Sun., April 5, at 1 p.m., at the Adams
Memorial Opera House, Derry, $9-$12,
www.kids-coop-theatre.org.
• GUYS AND DOLLS presented by
Nashua High School South Class of
2009 Thurs., March 26-Sat., March
28, at 7:30 p.m., in the Nashua High
School South Auditorium, 36 Riverside Dr., $10, 589-8597, dehners@
nashua.edu.
• HAIRSPRAY Thurs., March 26, at
7:30 p.m., at the Capitol Center for
the Arts, $35-$75.
• I C NO ARRLECHINO Commedia
del Arte with comedy improvisation
from UNH Professor David Kaye,
Thurs., April 2, at 7 p.m., featuring
UNH Department of Theatre and
Dance students at UNH Manchester,
400 Commercial St., Manchester,
$10, 862-2150.
• THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ
presented by Petit Papillon ballet Sat.,
March 28, at 2 & 7 p.m., at the Concord
City Auditorium, 224-6463, www.petitpapillon.org, $6-$8. Score written for
Petit Papillon by Emmy award nominee, Ward Dilmore of Hampton Falls.
Free school performance Fri., March
27, at 9:30 a.m.
• LOWELL FIVE Performing Arts
Series at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium: The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee, March 29, at 3 p.m.
• NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH! by Anthony Marriott and Alistair
Foot, presented by Milford Area Players’ Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.,
and Sundays at 2 p.m., through March
29 at the Amato Center, $7-$12. Call
673-9073, or see www.MilfordAreaPlayers.org for details.
• ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
FENCE youth musical presented
by Manchester Community Theatre
Players, Thurs., March 26, at 7 p.m.,
and Sun., March 29, at 2 p.m., at
the Jewish Federation Theatre, 698
Beech St., Manchester, www.mctp.
info, 627-7679.
• THE PACT, based on a Jodi Picoult
novel, adapted by Jeannette Angell
for Yellow Taxi Productions, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., and
Sundays at 2 p.m., April 9-April 25,
at 5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua, 7914558, www.yellowtaxiproductions.
org, $15-$25. Preview tickets cost
$10, April 9 and April 10.
• THE PRODUCERS March 27-April
11 at the Palace Theatre, $15-$40.
• RISING STAR TALENT SHOW
presented by the Boys & Girls Club
of Manchester, Thurs., April 2, at 6
p.m., at the 555 Union St. Clubhouse,
625-5031 ext. 231. Top talents from
two age groups advance to the Statewide Talent Show April 18 in Milford. Tickets cost $1 and $2, or $5 per
family at the door.
• RUMORS March 27-April 26 at
the Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow St.
in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org,
433-4472, $24-$28.
• THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
single-performer theatrical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel Tues.,
April 7, at 7 p.m., at Spotlight Café at
the Capitol Center for the Arts, $20.
Also Wed., April 8, at 10 a.m., at Bow
High School, open to the public.
• SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL presented by Anselmian Abbey Players
Fridays and Saturdays, at 7:30 p.m.,
March 27-April 4 at the Dana Center
at Saint Anselm College. • SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES
Sat., April 4, at 8 p.m., at The Music
Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth,
436-2400, $26-$32. A new musical
fable featuring the Indie pop/rock
sensation GrooveLily.
• WATER SHEERIE, by John-Richard Thompson, presented by Bedford
Off Broadway Fridays and Saturdays
at 8 p.m., through March 28, at the
Bedford Old Town Hall, 3 Meetinghouse Rd., Bedford, www.bedfordoffbroadway.com.
• V-DAY NASHUA EVENT Vital
Signs, by Jane Martin, presented by
Actorsingers, Sat., April 4, at 7:30 p.m.,
and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant
and A Prayer edited by Eve Ensler and
Mollie Doyle, at 9 p.m., at Janice B.
Streeter Theater, 14 Court St., Nashua.
Pay $15 for both shows. Call 889-0858
or see www.bridgesnh.org. The event
is part of V-Day efforts to stop violence against women and girls (www.
vday.org). Proceeds to help victims of
domestic and sexual violence.
• YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN presented by ACTORS
Inc. March 27-April 5 at the Village
Inn Restaurant, 544 Broadway, Dracut, Mass., Mon., Call (978) 9843151 or see www.actorsincorporated.
com, $40 includes dinner.
Auditions/workshops
• STRANGER THAN FICTION
improv troupe auditions Sat., March
28, in Portsmouth. Visit www.
Strangerthanfiction.us or e-mail
[email protected].
No
experience required.
• MASTER CLASSES at Middlesex Community College Theater
Department: “Playwriting Intensive,” Sat., March 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.,
$20 for general public. Classes are at
5 East Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass.
Call (781) 280-3939 to reserve.
• WORKSHOPS at the Community
Players of Concord Studio. Seating
is limited, $3-$5: “Script Analysis
& Character Development,” March
28. Call 225-2887 or e-mail [email protected] to sign up.
• AIDA by Elton John & Tim Rice,
auditions for youth and adults Sundays, March 29 and April 5, at 7
p.m., at the Majestic Theatre. Shows
July 10–19.
• THEATER WORKSHOPS for
adults taught by Boston professionals in Nashua at Yellow Taxi
Productions, noon-3 p.m. $65 per
workshop, discounts available. Jim
Spencer teaches “Dialect” April 4,
noon-3 p.m.; Ben Emerson teaches
“Sound Design” April 18, noon-3
p.m.; Lia Wright teaches “Method
for Beginners” May 9, noon-3 p.m.
• THE TEMPEST auditions for ages
14 and up, Thurs., April 9, 6:30-
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John Adie and Ashley Perry rehearse for
Guys and Dolls. Photo courtesy Skye Sweeney.
8:30 p.m., and Sat., April 11, noon3 p.m., at the Nashua Library, 2
Court St., for the Nashua Theatre
Guild Shakespeare in the Park in
July. Visit nashuatheatreguild.org
or call 880-0243.
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Gallery Events
• ANN TRAINOR DOMINGUE
“Italia Fresca” mixed media series in
March at the Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett Rd., Manchester, 622-9463.
•
ANNICK
BOUVRONGROMEK & DORIS RICE
monotypes through April 13 at the
Derryfield School’s Lyceum Gallery, 2108 River Rd., Manchester,
669-4524.
• ART BEYOND SIGHT© juried
art exhibit April 1-May 1 presented
by the New Hampshire Art Association and New Hampshire Association for the Blind at Robert Lincoln
Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth, 431-4230, www.nhartassociation.org. Reception, Fri., April 3,
Handel and Haydn
The Concord Chorale and Chamber Orchestra present “Celebrating
Handel & Haydn,” the second of the
three concerts scheduled for their
40th-anniversary season. The program
includes Handel’s last major liturgical
work, “Dettingen Te Deum” (1743),
and Haydn’s Missa in Augustiis “Lord
Nelson Mass” (1798). Performances are Saturday, March 28, at
8 p.m., and Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m., at Saint Paul’s Episcopal
Church, 21 Centre St. in Concord (224-0770, www.concordchorale.org). Tickets cost $15 and $20.
5–8 p.m. Lecture: “To Touch and
Be Touched,” by Rosalyn Driscoll,
Tues., April 21, at 5:30 p.m., at the
Portsmouth Library, 175 Parrott
Ave.
• ART IN THE MILL, work by
Ken Harvey through April 15 at
UNH Manchester, 400 Commercial
St., Manchester, 641-4313.
• ART ’ROUND TOWN gallery
walk, Portsmouth, Fri., April 3, 5-8
p.m., artroundtown.org.
• ARTS TELEFEST, Sun., March
29, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., on Concord Community TV (local channels channels
22 and 6), cablecast from Concord
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• Senior class play: A gambler falls for a
missionary in Guys and Dolls, which first ran
in New York in 1950. More than 60 students
participate as musicians, actors and behind
the scenes for Nashua High School South’s
Class of 2009 production and class fundraiser. Glenn Sweeney, Molly Bruckman,
Christopher Humber and Taylor Peterson
star. See Guys and Dolls Thursday, March
26, through Saturday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m.
at NHS South, 36 Riverside Dr. in Nashua.
Tickets cost $10; call 589-8597 or e-mail
[email protected]. NHS South Choral
Director Sophia M. Santerre directs with Paul
Santerre directing the pit orchestra and choreography by Laura Prior. Music and lyrics are
by Frank Loesser; the book is by Jo Swerling
and Abe Burrows.
• Kid options: Seussical, a musical derived
from classic Dr. Seuss stories, hit Broadway
in 2000. Anselmian Abbey Players of Saint
Anselm College perform Seussical: The
Musical Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.,
from March 27 through April 4 at the Dana
Center on campus, 100 Saint Anselm Drive,
Goffstown. Saint Anselm College alum Carey
Cahoon (class of 1998) directs with choreography by Jennifer Coburn (class of 1999) and
musical direction from Blake Leister. Call
641-7700 or visit www.anselm.edu/dana for
tickets, which range in cost from $6 to $13.
Emmy nominee Ward Dilmore of Hampton Falls wrote the score for The Lost Princess
of Oz, for Petit Papillon. It’s based on an L.
Frank Baum story using characters also in his
The Wizard of Oz. The Concord-based ballet company performed it in London in 2001.
See Petit Papillon perform The Lost Princess
of Oz Saturday, March 28, at 2 and 7 p.m.,
at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince
St. Tickets cost $6 and $8; call 224-6463,
see www.petitpapillon.org. Choreography is
by Patricia Walker and Kelly Doremus Stuart. Costumes are by Cynthia Capodestria and
Martha Lovejoy.
• By kids: “It was 1973. Godspell was the
first professional musical I had ever seen. It
was playing at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston. I
loved it so much, I saw it twice,” co-producer
Bridget Detollenaere stated in a press release
from Kids Coop Theatre. Kids Coop produces
Godspell (score by Stephen Schwartz), under
direction by Jude Bascom, Blake Leister and
Nikki Aubert, Saturday, April 4, at 1 and 7
p.m., and Sunday, April 5, at 1 p.m. Tickets
cost $9 and $12 at Daren’s Music Center in
Derry and at www.kids-coop-theatre.org.
Peacock Players closes a run of Disney’s
The Jungle Book, Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 7 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.,
through March 29 at the Janice B. Streeter
Theater, 14 Court St. in Nashua. Call 8867000 or visit www.peacockplayers.org for
tickets, which cost $12 and $15. Peacock’s
improv troupe, Technical Difficulties, performs Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m., at the
Streeter Theater. Ticket costs range from $8
to $12 at the door.
• Closing: And for the adult playgoer, consider two shows by community groups that
are closing. Bedford Off-Broadway’s romantic comedy set in New Hampshire, Water
Sheerie, by John-Richard Thompson, runs
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., through
March 28 at the Bedford Old Town Hall, 3
Meetinghouse Road. Tickets cost $10; see
www.bedfordoffbroadway.com or call 6472864. Milford Area Players stages the 1960s
farce No Sex Please, We’re British Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2
p.m., through March 29 at the Amato Center
for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St.,
Milford (673-9073). Tickets cost $7 and $12
at Toadstool Bookshops, www.MilfordAreaPlayers.org and at the door.
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Can Art Spider link NH?
Watch Concord public access Arts Telefest live this year
Trinity Music Academy Handbell Choir. Joe
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The Concord TV Arts Telefest isn’t simply a
fundraiser for the public access cable station.
“It’s a celebration of arts in the Concord
region,” said Doris Ballard, outreach and development director.
This year, the focus is on getting people to
come watch performances in person as they are
cablecast from the Concord High School auditorium on channels 6 and 22 in Concord. The
12-hour Telefest, which starts at 9 a.m. on Sunday, March 29, will also be streamed from www.
yourconcordtv.org.
Event goals also include building awareness
about the talent in the area and the arts organizations that can bolster a vibrant creative economy,
Ballard said. She also hopes it helps people realize the station is there for them during the rest
of the year. While many Telefest participants
are local, like Community Players of Concord
(who kick things off with a number from The
Full Monty) and Concord Community Music
School, some have Concord ties but come from
several towns away. A student involved in the
High School. Includes live performances by local dance, theater and
musical groups. Call 226-8872 or
visit www.yourconcordtv.org.
• AN ART OF SMALLNESS Collages, Prints & Miniature Books by
Karen E. Roehr through April 2 at the
University Gallery at UMass Lowell,
71 Wilder St., Lowell, Mass., (978)
934-3491, www.uml.edu/dept/art/gallery.htm.
• THE ART OF ROCK AND ROLL
through April 4 at the McIninch Art
Gallery, Southern New Hampshire
University, 2500 North River Rd.,
Manchester, 629-4622.
• BACK TO BASICS: Two Friends’
Perspectives features paintings by
David Preece and jewelery by Diane
Terragni through April at “Art On The
Wall At City Hall Gallery,” 1 City
Hall Plaza, Manchester, 624-6500.
• THE BAILEYWORKS ART
PROJECT in April at ellO
gallery&shop, 110 State St., Portsmouth, 433-9110, www.ellogallery.
com. Reception, Fri., April 3, 6-9 p.m.
Also see www.baileyworks.com.
• BUILDING BOOKS – The Art of
David Macaulay through June 14 at
the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash
St. in Manchester, 669-6144, features
more than 100 works from the author
and illustrator of The Way We Work,
and other titles.
• BY LOCAL through March 31 at
ellO gallery&shop.
• CAROL TRAVERS LUMMUS
station is bringing in a UNH opera performance.
A segment from Nashua Theatre Guild’s upcoming performance of The Elephant Man closes
the cablecast. Ballard said collaborations have
resulted from artists meeting at Telefest.
About 17 live performances are scheduled
for the auditorium. Representatives from places
like Red River Theatres will be interviewed in
the Concord TV studio, which is also at the high
school. About half of the Telefest segments, visits to visual artists’ studios in particular, are taped
ahead of time.
Most fundraising is also accomplished early by seeking sponsorships. Last year, Concord
TV raised $15,000 to buy an equipment van that
allows them to do more taping throughout the
community. Previously, volunteers used their
own cars. Ballard said the station’s budget is
“bare bones.” Thirty-six percent of cable franchise fees paid to the city is allocated for the
public access station, she said.
Ballard said a good time to drop by the auditorium with kids is for 20 minutes of performances
from Beaver Meadow School at 11:50 a.m. Concord food pantry Friends of Forgotten Children
will sell concessions throughout the day. That
income will benefit both groups.
Arts on TV
What: Concord TV Arts Telefest
When: Sunday, March 29, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Watch: Live performances at Concord High
School, Christa McAuliffe Auditorium, 170
Warren St. in Concord (schedule at www.yourconcordtv.org), or on Concord channels 6 and 22,
or streamed from www.yourconcordtv.org.
Contact: 226-8872
Landscapes
Dave Dodge’s oil “Mt.
Monadnock” is part of an
exhibit of Dodge’s work
at the New Hampshire
Antique Co-op’s Tower
Gallery through July 31.
Meet him at a reception Saturday, March 28, between 1 and 3 p.m. The Peterborough
plein air landscape painter studied art at Syracuse University. Works in this exhibit and sale show scenes from New
Hampshire, Nantucket, Arizona, California and Scotland.
New Hampshire Antique Co-op is at 323 Elm St./Route
101A in Milford (673-8499, www.nhantiquecoop.com).
etches in March at at Sharon Arts
Fine Craft Gallery, Depot Square,
Peterborough, www.sharonarts.org,
924-2787.
• COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE
Gladys Greenbaum Meyers Juried
Student Art Exhibition through April
9 at the Marian Graves Mugar Art
Gallery at the Sawyer Fine Arts Center, 541 Main St., New London, 5263000, www.colby-sawyer.edu/academic/art. Includes ceramics, drawing, graphic design, mixed media,
painting, photography, printmaking,
sculpture and video.
• CONCORD SCHOOL DISTRICT presents student artwork for
National Youth Art Month through
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March 29 at the Steeplegate Mall,
Loudon Road, Concord.
• CONSTANCE PRICE art and photography show Sat., April 4, at 1 p.m.,
at Bella Vino Specialty Wines and
Gourmet, 2 Young Rd., Londonderry,
426-5212 (below Tupelo Music Hall).
Wine tasting by R.P. Imports of Manchester.
• CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
EXHIBIT April 1-May 10 at Mill
Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Rd., Concord,
226-2046. Features work by Megan
Bogonovich, Marsha Hewitt, William
McLane and James Rappa. Reception
Thurs., April 16, 5-8 p.m., during Art
Concord.
Dan Brown’s photograph “Frost Bonsai” is at
DesignWares.
• Fine arts: Professional fine artists have
met at Borders in Nashua on Wednesdays since
1991, artist Nita Casey said. Besides Nashua,
they come from towns like Milford, Wilton,
Hudson and Hollis, plus Pepperell, Tyngsboro
and Westford, Mass. They come to network
and exchange information such as deadlines for
national art shows. They bring artwork to shows
for each other. There are no dues, no “boss,”
Casey said. However, the Nashua Breakfast
Club puts its own annual exhibit together. Twenty-two artists show three or four pieces each in
watercolor, oils, pastel, acrylic and photography
at the Jaffrey Civic Center, 40 Main St., Jaffrey (www.jaffreyciviccenter.com, 532-6527),
from March 27 to April 25. Yes, it’s far, but it’s
a beautiful place to hold a show, and familiar
to many in the group, Casey said. Plus, Nashua doesn’t have one, she said. Commission
helps support the center. You can meet the artists at the opening, Friday, March 27, from 5
to 8 p.m. Some of the talented folks involved
include Phil Bean, Kathy Cooper, Joyce Kingman, Joanne Tierney, Marilene Sawaf, Steven
Previte, Susan Whitten and Harriett Winchester.
• Photo focus: Marylou Blaisdell of DesignWares said the downtown Nashua shop started
working with the Hollis Arts Society on promotional events last year. They expand their efforts
with a quarterly artists series starting with photography by Dan Brown of Hudson. Meet him
and see his “Frost” series Thursday, March 26,
between 5 and 7 p.m., at 206 Main St. (8825535). “Blending the science of photography
and the art found in nature is what motivates
him,” according to DesignWares.
• CURRIER MUSEUM ART CENTER exhibition and reception Thurs.,
March 26, 5-8 p.m., at 180 Pearl St.,
Manchester, www.currier.org, 6696144, ext. 122, Open house Sat.,
March 28, noon–4 p.m.
• DAN BROWN, presents his new
photography series, “Frost,” at
DesignWares, 206 Main St., Nashua,
Thurs., March 26, 5-7 p.m.
• 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. Reception Sat., March 28,
1-3 p.m.
• DAVE MARDEN photography in
April at Canal Street Collectibles, 1
Water St., Nashua, 886-1459, www.
davemardenphotography.com.
• DIVERSIONS April 6-June 12 at
Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St., Man-
Local Color
• Linking: Larry Graykin credited his wife
Justine with the idea to develop Art Spider.
The fiction writer was looking for cover art for
a podcast. “She’d been noticing there was real
difficulty in finding ways for people to connect with each other outside of their specific art
community,” Graykin said. The Art Spider hub
or Web portal is “not going to try to reproduce
Facebook, but essentially [it will] have a very
complex Rolodex that’s easy to use,” Graykin
said. Graykin said they don’t want to duplicate,
just connect existing resources. However, Art
Spider will also be a place where artists without
Web presence can easily create one. They also
want to use it to help communities, like their
town of Deerfield, that don’t have many ways to
promote local events or arts.
Art Spider will be specific to New Hampshire, so those using the network can actually
meet in real life.
The Graykins are currently looking for a Web
designer, but already have a fact site up, www.
artspider.info, where people can learn about the
project and offer feedback. Art Spider is for-profit, at the suggestion of State Cultural Resources
commissioner Van McLeod, Graykin said. They
hope to support it through advertising.
Meet the Art Spider coordinators at planning
events around the state, posted at www.artspider.info, including meetings Tuesday, March 31,
at 6:30 p.m., at the Philbrick-James Library on
Church St. in Deerfield, and Wednesday, April
22, at 6:30 p.m. at Studio 99, in the Picker Bldg.,
99 Factory St. Extension in Nashua. E-mail
[email protected] for details.
• Poet interpreted: In “Emily Dickinson: Zero to the Bone,” Nanette Perrotte uses Dickinson’s words set to rock and jazz to tell the poet’s
story. Perrotte and Sebastian Lockwood, faculty members at New Hampshire Institute of Art,
wrote the show, which will be performed as an
NHIA public presentation Thursday, March 26,
at 7 p.m., in the French Auditorium, 148 Concord St. in Manchester. Visit www.nhia.edu or
call 836-2573. • Too late: The Currier Museum of Art’s “First
Thursday” April 2 event looks like fun with its
Roaring ’20s theme to go with the Big Read’s
2009 selection, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great
Gatsby. It also looks sold out. Libraries around
southern New Hampshire are participating in the
Big Read (see www.northeastculturalcoop.org
and neabigread.org). Guess you’ll have to find
some place else to wear that flapper dress.
—Heidi Masek
chester, 668-6650. Reception, Thurs.,
April 16, 5-8 p.m., during Manchester’s Open Doors trolley tour.
• DRAWING THE LINE and
“Renewal: Printmakers from the New
Northern Ireland” exhibits through
April 8 at UNH Museum of Art, Paul
Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic
Way, Durham, www.unh.edu/moa,
862-3712.
• EYES ON THE PRIZE: An Honors Exhibition for High School Sophomores and Juniors with cash awards
and Rivier scholarships through April
8 at Rivier College Art Gallery, 435
Main St., Nashua, 897-8276.
• ESPACE QUÉBEC photography
installation in honor of the Quinzaine
de la Francophonie through March 31
at the Beliveau Gallery in the FrancoAmerican Centre, 52 Concord St.,
Manchester, 669-4045.
• E.W. POORE JURY SHOW
through April 18, 531 Front St., Manchester, www.ewpoore.com, 6223802. Reception and awards Sun.,
March 26, 5-7 p.m.
• FIRST THURSDAYS The Currier
Museum is open late from 5:30 to 7:30
p.m. first Thursdays each month with
special programs including live music,
lectures and film. “Roaring 20s,” on
April 2 celebrates The Big Read’s 2009
selection for southern New Hampshire,
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Art of the Great Gatsby Era”
museum tour at 5:30 p.m. Silent film
comedies with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis at 6 and 7 p.m. The
café features “bathtub gin,” and a demonstration from Kathy Blake Dance
Studios at 6:30 p.m. Competition for
best 1920s costume. Admission costs
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• GALLERY 6 presents an exhibit of work by Seacoast
area artists, “Children as Seen Through the Eyes of the
Artist,” through March 31 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.
• GERALD AUTEN: Works on Paper & Paul Bowen:
Sculpture through April 10 at the New England College
Gallery, Main Street in Henniker, 428-2329 or www.nec.
edu. Reception Thur., March 26, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
• GIFTS OF GRACE miniature oil paintings by Roger
Croteau at Hatfield Gallery, 55 S. Commercial St., Manchester, www.syncrecity.com.
• HIGH SCHOOL DRAWING COMPETITION
exhibit through April 3 at New Hampshire Institute of
Art’s Amherst Street Gallery, 77 Amherst St., and French
Building, 148 Concord St., Manchester, 836-2573, nhia.
edu.
• JANE KAUFMANN “Pie in the Sky and Other Recession Art” in March at Exeter Fine Crafts, 61 Water St.,
Exeter, 778-8282.
• JEANNE LACHANCE and Cheryl Vratsenes featured
through March 28 at East Colony Fine Art, Langer Place,
55 S. Commercial St. in Manchester, 621-7400.
• JUDITH SOWA: Vermeer Revisited through March 30
at Three Graces, 105 Market St., Portsmouth, 436-1988,
www.threegracesgallery.com.
• MARCIA BLAKEMAN and Debra Grubbs oils and
pastels, “Waterways…Frozen to Flowering,” featured in
March 31-April 25 at East Colony Fine Art. Reception
Fri., April 17, 5-8 p.m.
• MOTHER EARTH group show through April 25 at the
MAA Gallery, 1528 Elm St., Manchester, 785-6437. Open
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• NANETTE PERROTTE –Emily Dickinson: Zero to
the Bone, Thurs., March 26, at 7 p.m., free performance
at the New Hampshire Institute of Art French Auditorium,
148 Concord St. in Manchester, 836-2573, nhia.edu.
• NASHUA BREAKFAST CLUB annual exhibit March
27-April 25 at the Jaffrey Civic Center, 40 Main St., Jaffrey, 465-2013. Meet the artists Fri., March 27, 5-8 p.m.
• NEW HAMPSHIRE ARTISTS Caitlyn Cedarstrom,
Denise Janssen and Manchester’s Lisa Occhipinti exhibit
through March 30 at artstream, 56 North Main St., Rochester, 330-0333, www.artstreamstudios.com.
• OPEN DOORS MANCHESTER Thursdays, 5-8
p.m.: April 16, June 25, Sept. 17 and Nov. 12. Tour of
arts and cultural venues with free trolley, 669-7469, [email protected], majestictheatre.net. Venues have
included Manchester City Hall, MAA Gallery, Millyard
Museum, SEE Science Center at 200 Bedford St., Art 3
Gallery, NH Institute of Art, Langer Place, East Colony
Fine Arts Gallery, Franco American Centre, Manchester
Community Access Media at 540 N. Commercial St.
• PETITE ANIMATIONS, by Hyun Ju Kim, through
March 28 at 119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St., Lowell,
Mass., 978-452-8138, www.119gallery.org.
• PHOTOGRAPHY by Laurie Daily, Dennis Dean and
Kevin Morris March 29-April 24 at the Massabessic
Audubon Center to benefit Soldiers Undertaking Disabled
Scuba, based at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (www.
sudsdiving.org). Open house Sat., April 4, 2:30-5 p.m.
• PROCEDERE-An Emerging Artist Series featuring
Leah Kuehne through April 4 at the the Chapel Art Center,
Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Dr., Manchester,
641-7470, www.anselm.edu/chapelart.
• ROBIN GOODWIN “Abstract Art with Acrylics” in
March at Wilton Public Library, 7 Forest Rd., Wilton, wiltonlibrarynh.org, 654-2581.
• STUDENT video installation through March 27 at
Chester College, 40 Chester St, Chester, 887-4401, www.
chestercollege.edu. Senior student exhibits March 30-May
4 with openings Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
• UNCOMMON GROUND exhibit through March 29 at
the Rey Center Brookside Gallery in Waterville Valley’s
Town Square, www.reycenter.org, 236-3308.
• UNDER THE INFLUENCE New Hampshire Potters
Guild Biennial Exhibit through March 26 at Kimball-Jenkins School of Art, 266 N. Main St. in Concord, 255-3932,
www.nhpottersguild.com.
• UNEARTHED II Don Campbell, Jane Kaufmann, Jon
Keenan, Gerry Williams and Mark Shapiro through April
3, at McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord, 2252515.
• WILD ABOUT ANIMAL ART through March 27 at
Gallery One, 5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua, 883-0603.
• PASTEL SOCIETY of New Hampshire Exhibition
through April 19 at Stockbridge Theatre Gallery at Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry, 437-5210, www.pastelsocietynh.com.
• YOUTH ART MONTH Region 2 of the New Hampshire Art Educators’ Association exhibit in March at Red
River Theatres Community Gallery, 11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600.
Classical Listings
• CONCORD CHORALE and Chamber Orchestra present “Celebrating Handel & Haydn,” Sat., March 28, at 8
p.m., and Sun., March 29, at 3 p.m., at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, 21 Centre St., Concord, 224-0770, www.
concordchorale.org, $15-$20.
• SWING INTO SPRING benefit gala for the Manchester Choral Society Sat., March 28, from 6:30 to 9:30
p.m. at the Manchester Country Club, 180 South River
Road, Bedford. Live music from the Freese Brothers Jazz
Combo, hors d’oeuvres and desserts, swing dance lessons,
silent auction, raffles. Prepaid tickets cost $45 per person
or $75 per couple, or $50 per person at the door. Call 4726MCS or visit www.mcsnh.org.
• SONGWEAVERS 125-voice women’s chorus concert
celebrates U. S. Women’s History Month Sun., March 29,
at 4 p.m., at South Congregational Church, 27 Pleasant St.,
Concord. Call the Concord Community Music School for
tickets, $12-$15, 228-1196 or visit www.ccmusicschool.org.
• AIR FORCE BAND OF LIBERTY Bay State Winds
Clarinet Quartet, Tues., March 31, at 7 p.m., free, at Bratton Recital Hall, Paul Creative Arts Center, UNH, Durham, 862-2404.
• BACH’S LUNCH LECTURES Thursdays, 12:10–
12:50 p.m., free, at the Concord Community Music
School, 23 Wall St., Concord, 228-1196, www.ccmusicschool.org: “Listening to Jazz: A Road Map,” with Mark
Shilansky April 2. “The Legacy of Bassist Charlie Haden,”
Matt Langley, saxophones; David Tonkin, guitar; Brendan
Dowd, bass; Tim Gilmore, drums April 9.
• MUSICIANS OF WALL STREET “Liederabend:
Music of Strauss, Schubert, Brahms and Mahler,” Fri.,
April 3, at 7:30 p.m., faculty concert at the Concord
Community Music School, $10-$12. Hannah Schramm
Murray, soprano; Peggy Senter, piano.
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• THE ACTING LOFT (516 Pine St.,
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org) April Theatre Intensive Camp runs
April 27 to May 1, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The cost is $215 per camper, and financial
aid is available for Manchester residents.
• BASEBALL CAMP for ages 8 to 14
through Concord Recreation. Learn and
practice fundamentals of the game. Bunting, hitting, catching, throwing, fielding,
pitching and the mental side of baseball will
all be covered. April 20 – 24, from 1 to 4
p.m. at Keach Park in Concord. $138 ($118
for Concord residents). Call 225-8690, email [email protected] or visit
www.onconcord.com.
• BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION
Offering programs during school vacation
including a maple sugaring class and snowshoe hikes.
• 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 going on at the
museum and features an artist in residence.
Cost is $250 for a week of full days; $140
for a week of half days for five-year-olds.
• GREATER MANCHESTER FAMILY YMCA (30 Mechanic St., Manchester, 623-3558, www.manchesterymca.org)
School vacation camp is run at the Allard
Center and the SEE Science in Manchester
from April 27-May 1, for grades kindergarten through 5. Sport-A-Day vacation camps
also run out of the Manchester branch on
the same dates for grades 2 through 8.
• HAMPSHIRE HILLS (50 Emerson
Road, Milford, 673-7123, www.hampshirehills.com)
• HORSEBACK CAMP for kids ages 8
to 12, offered through Concord Recreation,
April 20-24, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
The camp is held at the Gelinas Farm (471
4th Range Road, Pembroke, 225-7024,
www.gelinasfarm.com) Campers will be
transported to the farm from White Park in
Concord. Waivers can be downloaded or
picked up at the White Park office. Limited
to 8 campers. &385 ($365 for residents).
Call 225-8690, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.onconcord.com.
• MERRIMACK YMCA CAMP (6
Henry Clay Drive, Merrimack, 881-7778,
www.nmymca.org) during New Hampshire
school vacation in April from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. for kids ages 5 to 12. Includes swimming, use of the field house for sports, a
new playground, the media center for computer use. Preschool camp available for
those under 5 from 6:30 to 9 a.m. and 4 to
6:30 p.m. Cost for YMCA family members
is $123 and use members is $146.
• MLS APRIL VACATION 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 for grades
2-8, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., April 27-May 1,
at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in
Manchester, 668-5588, palacetheatre.org.
Theme is “Camp Jungle Safari.”
• PRESCHOOL SOCCER CAMP For
ages 4-6 through Concord Recreation. This
camp introduces skills and games in a noncompetitive atmosphere to allow campers to
learn and have fun. At the end of the week
it’s the Parents vs. Campers game. April 2024, from 1 to 2 p.m. at Keach Park in Concord. $83 ($63 for Concord residents). Call
225-8690, e-mail recreation@onconcord.
com or visit www.onconcord.com.
• RACQUET CLUB OF CONCORD (10
Garvins Falls Road, Concord, 224-7787,
Aside from her work at Nashua Christian
Academy, Luttik, who is originally from New
Jersey, has her own clarinet studio in her home,
where she’ll work with individuals and groups.
Luttik spent 20 years in the Netherlands, much
of it with clarinet in hand. She says she misses
the trio she used to play with. Teaching provides
a nice outlet for her skills, but she says it’s performing that really draws her to music.
For her, the clarinet has a “lovely sound” with
similarities to the human voice. George Pieterson — “I loved his sound” — could make music
sound almost like poetry, she said. “You can kind
of say things with the clarinet.”
She looks at music as a way to give back.
Musicians can certainly play for themselves, but
their family and friends can share in the enjoyment as well.
Luttik also uses a teaching method called
MusicaLeren, which is Dutch for “musical
learning.” It’s a musical method for illustrating
business and management principles of organizational learning and development, she said.
Karate Recorder costs $5 per lesson; lessons
take place for 55 minutes after school. Visit
www.karenluttik.com. Call 438-6362 or send an
e-mail to [email protected].
www.rccofconcord.com) has April vacation programs that include a wide arange
of activities including swimming, team,
games, arts and crafts and a field trip to go
indoor rock climbing on Wednesday. April
20-24, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• RAMP CAMP (170 Lafayette Road,
Rye Airfield, Rye, 964-2800 ext. 13, www.
ryeairfield.com) will offer camps in February and April, Monday through Wednesday,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during school vacation week. There will also be overnight
lock-ins from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. for $40.
• ROBOTECH CENTER (3-i Taggart
Drive, Green Ridge Park, Nashua, 8886102, www.robotechcenter.com) Junior
Video Game Designer camp for grades 4
through 7 runs April 21 through April 24,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. No programming experience required. Cost for
camp is $399 per camper.
• SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER offer
its Seaside Safari Winter Vacation Camp
for kids in grades K through 5. The spring
session has two sessions, April 20-24, and
April 27-May1. Camp runs Monday throgh
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each day has a different theme and activities that highlight
the theme. Cost is $45 ($40 for members)
per day, or $225 ($200 for members) for a
full week. Registration is accepted by mail,
fax at 433-2235, or in person. Registration
closes the Thursday before camp begins.
Visit www.seacoastsciencecenter.org to
download the registration form.
• SOCCER CAMP through Concord
Recreation, for kids in grades 1 through 6.
Camp will provide players the opportunity
to receive high-level soccer coaching from
international coaches. Foot skills, technical
drills and games. April 20 – 24, from 9:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Keach Park in Concord. $138 ($118 for residents). Call 2258690, e-mail [email protected]
or visit www.onconcord.com.
• SOCCER SPHERE APRIL VACATION DAY CAMP at Southern New
Hampshire University (2500 North River
Road, Manchester, 645-9703, m.hubbard@
snhu.edu) 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 if applications are received before April 1, $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.
Arts/Crafts
• FAMILY STUDIO AT CURRIER on
Wednesdays, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Adults and
children can participate in an art-related
activity and a brief family gallery talk. Each
month has a new theme.
• FAMILY SATURDAYS AT CURRIER
second Saturday of each month, 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. Guided gallery walk and hands-on
art activity. Admission is free from 10 a.m.
to noon.
• KIDZART for children in grades 1
through 5. Explore the world of art on
Thursdays through April 9, from 5 to 6
p.m. Classes are held at the West St. Ward
House (60 West St., Concord). Visit www.
onconcord.com for prices.
• NATURE NUTS NATURAL ART FOR
KIDS will be held Thurs., March 26, from
3 to 4:30 p.m., at MainStreet BookEnds (16
East Main St., Warner). Each student will
create several natural art pieces, including a
picture frame, a mobile, puppets and more.
Ages four and up. All materials provided.
Each class costs $40 per child. Contact
Meryl at 568-2441 or e-mail merylfox86@
yahoo.com.
Sports
• BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TRYOUTS The Nashua Parks & Recreation
Department is accepting registration for
tryouts for Girls Softball and Babe Ruth
Baseball. Registration forms are available
at www.gonashua.com or at Greeley Park,
Jeannottes Market, Bright Spot Convenience Store, Nashua Public Library, and
the City Clerks Office in Nashua. Forms
are due at the Recreation Office at Greeley
Park by April 10.
25 Children & Teens
Classes, sports, camps...
32 Language
Chinese, Japanese...
32 Nature & Gardens
Bird-watching, gardening ...
33 Sports & Rec.
Races, team sports, spectator sports...
Features
26 Kiddie pool
Family activities this weekend.
27 Treasure Hunt
Hit paydirt in your old stuff.
28 Car Talk
Click and Clack give you car advice.
30 The Garden Guy
Advice on your outdoors.
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Karen Luttik is working to make sure all her
students are fearless black belts — black belts
with the clarinet or recorder, that is.
Luttik, formerly of the Netherlands and now of
Nashua, teaches clarinet to students at the Nashua
Christian Academy after school using the “Kara-
te Recorder” program. There’s no kicking and
punching. But she would like to see her students,
who range from second-graders to eighth-graders, practice with a little discipline. As students
progress through the nine songs of the program,
they are awarded a belt for each song they complete, until they reach the top song, when they’ll
be awarded the prodigious black belt. The ninth
song is Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.”
A recorder is a small, flute-like instrument for
beginners that requires users to simply cover up
holes to change the tune. It’s a precursor to other
instruments. When lessons are taking place, students are performing for each other, while Luttik
listens carefully to the sounds they produce, she
said.
Luttik, 45, says the kids love it. The program
is effective because it provides students with a
real, tangible incentive to practice. And it keeps
it fun, she said.
“Kids that are interested and motivated —
that’s exciting,” said Luttik, who graduated from
the Manhattan School of Music in New York
City in 1984. Luttik studied with Charles Russo, who was principal clarinetist in the New York
City Opera Orchestra. She was also a solo clarinetist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
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Food
34 Food on the calendar
Make space on the calendar — foodie
events will fill the next few weeks: This
weekend, taste the fun of maple season;
next week, Nashua holds its Spring Feast
Week; Unums pits brunello vs. brunello at
upcoming wine dinner PLUS Food listings;
Weekly Dish; wine tastings; Wine with Dinner.
Get Listed!
[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.
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Events for the family this weekend
• On Friday, March 27,
and Saturday, March 28,
The Dana Center (100 Saint
Anselm Drive, Manchester)
will host a performance of
Seussical at 7:30 p.m. The
production is based on the
works of Dr. Seuss and features the classic characters
the Cat in the Hat, Horton the
Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz,
Lazy Mayzie and all the
Whos down in Whoville.
Tickets cost $13 for adults,
$11 for Saint Anselm College faculty, staff or alumni
and seniors and children 14
and under. Other show dates
are Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April 4.
• The Music Man is coming to the Bedford High
School Theater (47 Nashua
Road, Bedford) on Friday,
March 27, and Saturday,
March 29. The show is being
performed by the Bedford
Youth Performing Company. Showtimes are 7 p.m. on
Friday, and 1 and 7 p.m. on
Saturday. Tickets cost $12
for reserved seats. Purchase
tickets at www.bypc.org or
by calling 472-3894.
• On Sunday, March 29,
at 1 p.m. at the Concord City
Auditorium (39 Green St.,
Concord) there will be a children’s concert with recording
artist Rick Charette, to benefit the Emerson School for
Preschoolers. Tickets cost
$8 in advance, $9 at the
door, and are free for children two and under. They
can be purchased at Imagination Village, Sal’s Pizza,
Kaleidoscope
Children’s
Museum, Flipz Gym and JW
Tumbles. Contact Faith Berry at 228-2793 or visit www.
emersonschoolnh.org.
• On Sunday, March 29,
the Nashua High School
North auditorium (10 Chuck
Druding Drive, Nashua) will
host musicians Steve Blunt
(pictured) and Marty Kelley
for a concert from 3:30 to 5
p.m. There will be music and
stories for the whole family. Their concert will also
feature dancers from the
Academy of Movement and
will benefit the Nashua College Club. Tickets cost $6,
or $20 per family. Call 8824785 or 888-2239.
• Downtown Manchester
will be alive with green on
Sunday, March 29, as the
annual St. Patrick’s Day
Parade comes marching
through. The event kicks off
at noon and is free and open
to the public. Come by and
see bagpipers, high school
bands, marching units and
other festivities. The parade
begins at Salmon Street.
• Celebrate the coming
of spring with the Spring
Fling at the Grace Episcopal Church Hall (30
Eastman St., Concord) on
Saturday, March 28. From
noon to 2 p.m., there will be
music, crafts, food and family events, all to celebrate the
arrival of spring. The event
is hosted by The Children’s
Place and Parent Education Center of Concord. The
event is free and open to the
public.
• The Prescott Farm Audubon Center (888 White Oaks
Road, Laconia) will host
a New Hampshire Maple
Open House on Saturday,
• BASKETBALL COACHES
NEEDED The Concord Recreation
Department is looking for volunteer
coaches for the grade 5-6 boys basketball team and a grade 3-4 girls
basketball team. Contact the department offices at 225-8690.
• DEERFIELD HOOP CLASSIC Deerfield Parks and Recreation
annual Hoop Classic will be Mon.,
March 23, to Tues., March 31. Divisions are boys grades 3-4, and boys
grades 5-6. Cost is $150 per team.
Space is limited. All games are
played at the Deerfield Community
School (66 North Road, Deerfield).
Send check, roster and contact information to: Deerfield Parks and Recreation, PO Box 159 Deerfield, NH
03037.
• FIELDHOUSE SPORTS (12
Tallwood Drive, Bow, 226-4646,
www.fieldhousesports.com) “Little
Strikers” soccer clinics for ages 5 to
6, “Mini Strikers” soccer clinics for
ages 4 to 5, “Jeff Pill’s Soccer Skills”
for ages 9 and older. Recreational
programs available for various age
groups, up to adult.
•
MANCHESTER
EAST
COBRAS Youth Football and Spirit
Association is holding registration
March 28, from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Come and celebrate the
end of the sugar season with
a tour of the sugar house and
sugar bush and create your
own maple treats. The sugar
house will be operating that
day for participants to watch
the production of fresh syrup.
Contact
Samantha
Kenney at pfac@nhaudubon.
org or call the farm at 3665695. Cost is $10 per person
($8 for members), $30 per
family ($24 for members).
• The Paper Moon Dance
Center, 515 DW Highway
in Merrimack, 429-1100,
holds Ballroom, Latin and
Swing dance classes on Fridays beginning at 6:45 p.m.
Each month features a new
theme such as Waltz, Salsa
or Cha-Cha. Cost is $10 per
student per week. Participation in the classes includes
a $5 discount off the price
of the Friday evening social
dance.
• The Queen City Ballroom at 21 Dow St. in
Manchester, 622-1500, features dance classes for ages
11 to 19 on Sundays from
4:30 to 5:15 p.m. Learn how
to Ballroom and Latin dance
while having a great time
with others. There will be a
different dance focus each
month. Classes are free, but
a commitment to regular
attendance is required.
• On Saturday, March
28, the Petit Papillon Ballet
Theatre of New Hampshire
presents an original ballet
called The Lost Princess
of Oz at 2 and 7 p.m. at the
Concord City Auditorium (2
Prince St., Concord). The
performance is based on The
Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and
her friends encounter the
wicked magician Ugu, Frogman and Cayke the Cookie
Baker. Tickets cost $8 for
adults and $6 for children.
days at Stadium Ten Pin (216 Maple
St., Manchester). Thurs., April 16,
from 6 to 8 p.m.
• NEW JUNIOR BASEBALL
LEAGUE is open to all children
living in Manchester interested in
continuing to play baseball with
Little League International. Players
must have been born between May
1, 1993 and April 30, 1996 (ages 1315). Visit www.mwsll.com or call
Dick Marston at 666-7334.
• NH GRIZZLIES AAU baseball
team has a few select openings on
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Dear Donna,
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Dear Sylvia,
As you probably already know, the Scheiers
were a part of New Hampshire’s history.Mary
and Edwin Scheier had been sculpting pottery
sine the 1930s. They were both instructors at
UNH from the 1940s until the 1960s. After that
they moved out of the state.
Mary stopped sculpting in the 1960s due to
problems with her hands. Edwin continued into
the 1990s. A lot of their pottery pieces depict
scenes with woman and children, Adam and
Eve, abstract figures, etc. These pieces are the
ones that are very sought-after today. I have
seen a lot of their work bring as much as thousands of dollars throughout the country.
They also did a lot of what would be considered utilitarian pieces such as the one you
have. Since both Mary and Edwin died in the
past couple of years, prices on their work are
soaring and I believe all of their pieces will be
hard to acquire soon. They were both in their
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
How long does wind stick around?
brats could have spilled some milk and not told
you about it. So you might want to ask an impartial nasal observer (call the Nasal Observatory) to
take a ride with you and offer an honest opinion.
RAY: But even if you get a clean bill of smell,
for the sake of family unity, I’d have the car
detailed, D.D. That’ll cost you about $100, but it
includes a very thorough cleaning of the inside of
the car. Tell them you want the seats and carpets
shampooed, and ask them to use a “heavy hand”
with the pine-tree air freshener. That way, Mom
will know immediately that something has been
done.
TOM: Then tell her you’ve had the car fumigated and you’ve called the kid’s mother and had his
diet changed, and that if she’s willing to ride shotgun again, you’ll take her to a yard sale nearby
with lots of military surplus items, including gas
masks. Good luck.
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Dear Tom and Ray:
The other day, I went to purchase two tires for
my Dodge Intrepid. I wanted to replace the front
pair and move my old front tires to the back. That
way, I’d get good tread for the snow in the winter.
The local tire store told me that due to insurance
regulations, when a customer buys just one pair
of tires, they MUST go on the rear. They say the
tire manufacturers advise the same thing. I argued
back at him, and said that because my car is frontwheel drive, I need good tread on the front tires
more than on the rear. “Well,” he replied, “then
you’ll have to buy four new tires.” Is this true? I
think he just wants to sell me four tires instead of
two. — Chester
TOM: Of course he does, Chester. But he’s also
technically correct.
RAY: Tire manufacturers and safety people now
recommend that your “better” set of tires go on the
back, even if you have a front-wheel-drive car.
TOM: It does sound crazy at first. It also sounds
suspicious, because it provides a highly convenient argument for selling two extra tires. When
we first heard about this policy, we said: “That’s
a fraud! It’s a blatant rip-off! Let’s implement it at
the garage immediately!”
RAY: But the logic is actually sound. Putting
tires with brand-new tread on the front certainly
would help you get started in the snow. But having
worn-out tires on the rear could cause the rear end
to slide out when you try to turn or stop.
TOM: And since you can steer the front wheels,
you have a better chance of maintaining control
of the car if the front wheels slide than if the rear
wheels slide. Once the back end starts to slide, it’s
a lot harder to control the car, and an accident is
often the result.
RAY: Of course, having four good tires is best.
But my guess is that this policy came from the
tire companies’ legal departments, not their sales
departments -- despite the conclusion it leads to.
Although I’m sure the policy has been warmly
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Dear Tom and Ray:
My problem began when I was driving down
the road in our 2005 Dodge Caravan, packed full
of our own kids and kids from the neighborhood.
My elderly and ... let us call her “severe” mother
was asleep in the front passenger seat when one
of the neighborhood kids — now a hero among
his peers — excreted certain organic gases, which
announced themselves with a remarkably acute
“crrrrraaaack.” My severe, elderly and not very
well-liked (by the kids) mother startled awake in
her seat and said, “What?” This resulted in a tidal wave of elementary- and middle-school-aged
hilarity. My kids now pay daily homage to the
perpetrator of the pungent pontification — he’s a
local hero, but that isn’t my problem. Mom refuses to get back into the vehicle, claiming, “That
awful thing is still loose in there.” This is a problem, since she likes to attend each and every yard
sale within 50 miles and is even more unpleasant
if she is denied that pleasure. I have accused Mom
of being vengeful about the children laughing. She
denies this and claims there is a good, valid reason for her refusal to re-enter the vehicle. What I
need is an authoritative statement on whether it’s
possible that the “awful thing is still loose” in the
vehicle. Exactly how long is it justified for people
to avoid a vehicle interior after such an incident?
She thinks we need to get a new car! — Distraught
Daughter in a Dodge
RAY: Gee, Distraught Daughter — we’ll call
you D.D. — I think this is largely psychological
on Mom’s part. She just doesn’t want to ride with
those little brats anymore.
TOM: I agree. I mean, even if that “awful
thing” was a magnitude nine or 10 on the WindBreak Scale, it would still dissipate in a matter of
minutes. Certainly within an hour.
RAY: I take it she hasn’t refused to enter your
living room, where your husband, no doubt,
watches TV from the same spot on the sofa night
after night and has his way with that poor foam
cushion.
TOM: Cars have ventilation systems to bring
fresh air into the passenger compartment. So, air
is always circulating. And even with the vents off,
cars are not airtight. If you put a car in water, it
will sink. So it’s nearly impossible for that particular collection of nitrogen, hydrogen, methane and
hydrogen sulfide to still be inside your vehicle.
RAY: Unless, of course, it was more than just
“wind” this kid released. But let’s not go there.
TOM: It’s also possible that Mom is smelling
something else. You could have mold spores in
your air-conditioning ducts, or one of those little
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Spring has sprung!
For now, be careful not to step on it
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Spring is here! I know, I know, we still
have snow in the woods and mud on the back
roads. But it’s clear to me that spring is here
because my snowdrops are blooming and
more flowers are on the way. I’ve planted a
few seeds indoors and will be planting the rest
before long. This is an exciting time of year to
be a gardener.
Depending on where you live and how
much snow you got this winter, you may still
have snow on the lawn, as I do. I also have
a lot of sand and road gravel dumped on the
lawn by the plows. I try to clean up the strip
of lawn along the road before the snow is all
gone. I shovel big clumps of dirty snow onto
the road (or to the edge of the road) so I will
not have to rake it up later. It’s much easier
to get the grit off the lawn with a shovel now
rather than later when it has settled into the
grass, particularly if you left the grass a little
long last autumn.
Once the snow has melted it is advisable
to stay off the lawn until the frost is out of the
soil and the soil has dried out. Right now the
soil may be frozen down deep, but not at the
surface. That means rain and melt water can
not drain off properly, and your soil is soggy — just like the dirt roads. If you walk on it
now it will be compacted, ruining soil structure. So stay off the lawn as much as possible,
at least for now.
Flower beds are susceptible to compaction as well. As much as you may wish to
get into them to clean out debris and dead
plants, walking in them while the soil is soggy is a very bad idea. If you really must do
some work in them to maintain your sanity,
distribute your weight to minimize the effect.
Wear your snowshoes, for example. Or, if you
have neighbors who will think you crazy for
wearing snowshoes, put down six-inch-wide
boards to walk on. Another alternative, a nice
one, is to find some flat stones and lay them
in the beds in a rambling path that allows you
to enter wide beds anytime without damaging plants.
Rototilling the vegetable garden too early
in the season is another common mistake. I
generally clean and prepare my veggie patch
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in the fall so it is ready to plant as soon as the
soil dries out and warms up. And I don’t rototill. But if you do, try this simple test first: Pick
up a handful of soil and squeeze it. Open your
hand and tap the lump of soil. It should fall
apart. If it stays together like modeling clay,
your soil is still too wet — and may also be
high in clay. Later on, when your soil is ready
to rototill, add compost or chopped leaves to
increase organic matter and help your soil to
become fluffier and drain better.
Assuming you still have snow, this is a good
time to walk around with your camera and
take pictures. No, not of the snow. The lack of
snow. If you’re like me, you may not remember next fall exactly where the snow melts off
first. But if you have pictures, you can see
where to plant the early, diminutive bulbs.
An alternative is to use those little white plastic plant labels and write “Plant snowdrops
here,” and stick them in the ground.
Snowdrops, glory-of-the-snow, scilla and
crocus are a few of the small bulbs that bloom
earlier than most daffodils or tulips. And
unlike the bigger bulbs, these beauties can
be planted easily by poking a hole in the soil
just a couple of inches deep and dropping in
a bulb. I like my CobraHead weeder (www.
CobraHead.com) for that. It allows me to pull
back the soil, creating a small hole. I drop in
a bulb and push the soil and grass back over
the bulb. I can plant small bulbs very close to
trees and shrubs that way, despite their roots.
Come spring, snow in the area around the
trees melts first as the trees absorb the sun’s
heat and radiate it back to melt the snow.
As you might have surmised, I am ready
for spring. To hasten it along — or at least to
give the semblance of spring — I have planted shrubs that bloom early, too. One of my
favorites is a pink-blossomed shrub called
February daphne (Daphne mezereum). It
blooms in late March to early April with small
(half-inch diameter) fragrant blossoms that
bloom before the leaves appear. It is reliably
hardy in Zone 4, and may be okay in even
colder zones.
Another April-blooming shrub I grow is
fothergilla (Fothergilla major). This bush is
worth growing for its fall foliage colors, even
though the blossoms are a bit unreliable —
some years there are lots, some years few.
Each is like a small white double peony. Try
to see one this spring so you can decide if you
want to plant one or not. In fall the leaves on
mine turn a multitude of colors — red, purple,
yellow and orange.
So get ready for another gardening season.
Summer is just around the corner.
Henry Homeyer is the author of three gardening books. You may reach him at P.O. Box 364,
or [email protected]; his Web site is
www.Gardening-Guy.com.
reational teams; all others are full
time with the Grizzlies. Participation on school teams is strongly
encouraged. Visit www.nhgrizzlies.
com or email nhgrizzlies@comcast.
net.
• PUBLIC SKATING at the
J.F.K.Coliseum. Admission is $5
for adults and $3 for seniors and
students. Skate rentals cost $5 but
are not available for the Tuesday
and Thursday morning sessions.
Stick and puck days are $5 per
skater and skaters must be at least
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skills or improve the ones you have
at the Concord YMCA. Instructors
will teach skills, run fun drills and
split kids into teams to play games.
The program is for ages 4 through
9 and is on Wednesdays from 4:30
to 5:15 p.m. Free for members, $29
for nonmembers.
• SPORTIES FOR SHORTIES is
a program for ages 4 to 5. Several
spots are still available for the Friday Sporties for Shorties class. The
class is a great introduction to several different sports and the basic
skills for each. The 6 week course
ends April 10, and runs 1 to 2 p.m.
at the Green St. Community Center
Gym.
• SOCCER OFFICIALS NEEDED Concord Recreation Department
is looking for volunteer officials for
5th- and 6th-grade soccer leagues.
Games are played on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. Call 2258690 and ask for Karen. Must be at
least 17 years old.
• SWIMMING LESSONS for
kids ages 6 months to 13 years
at the Greater Manchester Family YMCA. Classes meet once a
week for seven weeks and begin on
Mon., May 4. Choose the day and
time that fits your schedule. Contact Matt Hammond at 232-8622 or
[email protected].
• TUMBLING CLASS for ages 3
to 5. Rolls, cartwheels and fun will
be taught by instructors from Dance
Inspirations. The program runs on
Wednesdays, from 9 to 9:45 a.m.
until April 6 at the Green Street
Community Center.
• WEST SIDE LL CHALLENGER DIVISION West Side Little
League is offering a Challenger
Division for boys and girls with
physical and mental disabilities who
want to play baseball. Teams are set
up according to abilities. Players
must have been born between May
1, 1990 and April 30, 2004 (ages 518). Open to children living on the
west side of Manchester bordered
by Hooksett on the north, Goffstown on the west, Bedford on the
south and the Merrimack River on
the east. Visit www.mwsll.com or
call Dick Marston at 666-7334.
• YOUTH BASKETBALL REGISTRATION is now open at the
Greater Manchester YMCA. Mini
Basketball League for kids 5 to 8
years old, Youth Basketball League
for kids 7 to 13 years old, and Teen
Basketball League for kids 13 to
16 years old. Contact cwebster@
gmfymca.org.
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On Tuesday, April 7, the
nursing class from NHTI is
sponsoring the 14th Annual
Wellness Fair from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. in the Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center at the school’s Concord campus. This
year’s theme is “A Chance to Enhance.” The fair includes
demonstrations, exhibits, health screenings, refreshments
and door prizes. Admission is free and the community is
invited. Accompanying the event is a Red Cross blood drive
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room (Room
102) in the Student Center. Contact NHTI Health Services
director Shirley Rennie at 271-7152 or [email protected].
Clean, clear waters
Seasonal Specialty Stores
(120 Route 101A, Amherst)
is offering free classes on
swimming pool care on
Wednesdays from 7 to 8:30
p.m. “Introduction to Pool
Maintenance” is offered May 6 or June 3; “Introduction
to Pool Chemistry” May 13 or June 10; “Pool Care Lite”
on July 1; “Easy Pool Opening” on April 29 or May 20.
Seating is limited. Call 880-8471. All classes are in the
store. Visit www.seasonalstores.com.
Language
• CHINESE language programs from
the Derry Chinese School, including
preschool, elementary, intermediate,
teen and adult programs, in Derry. All
classes are Saturday mornings at the
Marion Gerrish Community Center,
39 W. Broadway in Derry. Call 888928-8470 and visit www.derrychineseschool.org
• CHINESE CLASSES in several
location in New Hampshire Exeter,
Meredith, Nashua and Concord.
Class begins Tues., April 7. Classes
include those for beginners and
younger students. For details and
registration information contact
Ying Xia Peterson at 224-0164, email [email protected].
• CHINESE MANDARIN classes
at New Hampshire Chinese School
(in Concord at West Congregational Church, 499 North State St.;
in Nashua at Girls Incorporated of
NH, 27 Burke St.; in Manchester,
Belknap Hall at Southern New
Hampshire University, 2500 N.
River Road) on weeknights and
Saturdays. Levels range from
preschool to adult, beginner to
advanced. Classes run year-round.
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• Amoskeag Fishways
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Visit www.nhChineseSchool.org or
call 888-262-1993.
• JAPANESE language learning
group held Sundays, 7 p.m., at Borders, 76 Fort Eddy Road in Concord, 224-1255.
• LANGUAGE SOFTWARE “I
Can Speak” Language Learning
software available at Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., to teach
Spanish, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese,
Indonesian, Russian or Portuguese.
Consists of 20 to 40 hours of intro
material using listening, speaking,
reading and writing exercises. Call
589-4603. Cardholders only.
• MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
Conversational Spanish, German,
Russian, French, Italian, Portuguese,
Swahili and ESL classes at the New
England Language Center (16 Hillside Drive, Rochester). New classes
begin March 30. Multiple skill levels.
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or e-mail [email protected].
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Outdoors
• ADOPT A TRAIL program is
being formed by the Winnipesaukee Trail Association. Volunteers
are needed to provide light maintenance for a one-tenth-of-a-mile
stretch of trail that starts in Franklin.
E-mail [email protected].
• GPS RENTALS every Saturday
and Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m., at
Peabody Mill Environmental Center in Amherst. Cost is $10.
• LONDONDERRY TRAILWAYS
nonprofit organization staffed by volunteers working to make Londonderry more accessible to pedestrians
and bicycles. The group improves
and maintains trail systems throughout 900+ acres of conservation land
within the town of Londonderry. londonderrytrails.org.
• McLANE CENTER 84 Silk
Farm Road in Concord, 224-9909,
newhampshireaudubon.org, offers
trails for hiking and searching out
wildlife.
• OUTDOOR VENTURES Opportunities to enjoy the outdoors in the
company of like-minded people, for
ages 50+. Hiking, biking, snowshoeing, skiing and kayaking. Call 6682045, www.nhaudubon.org.
• WHITE PARK POND (Wash-
Girl power
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The Women’s Fund of
New Hampshire’s 10th Anniversary Dinner is Saturday,
April 4, at the Radisson Hotel
(700 Elm St., Manchester).
The theme is “Investing in the
Power of Women and the Future of Girls.” There’s a 5:30
p.m. cocktail reception and a 7 p.m. dinner, followed by
program events and live entertainment. Tickets cost $100
per person. Proceeds will support the mission of the Women’s Fund of New Hampshire by investing in the potential
of women and girls throughout the state. To order tickets
call 226-3355 or visit www.wfnh.org.
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Taste, sip, sample and other wise play
with New Hampshire-made products this
weekend during the 14th Annual Made
in NH Expo at the NH National Guard
Armory, 1059 Canal St. in Manchester.
Tickets, which can be purchased at the door, cost $9 for
adults and $3 for children 12 and under; seniors receive
a $1 discount with ID.
The Expo will run Friday, March 27, from 1 to 8 p.m.;
Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday,
March 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
More than 150 exhibitors are expected to attend,
according to a press release, representing fields such
as manufacturing, crafts, service providers, food retailers, restaurants, educators, home décor, beauty products,
local authors and more. Many booths offer opportunities to sample or otherwise check out the products being
offered — a particular bonus when it comes to items like
the House on the Hill spiced pecans, Michelle’s Totally Awesome Gourmet Popcorn or one of the many New
Hampshire wines are schedule to exhibit at the event.
See www.eventsnh.com for a list of expected vendors
and more.
ington and White streets in Con- ship costs $25.
cord,
www.onconcord.com/recreation) offers a tree trail — see a Runs/running
map online.
• CHARITABLE 5K ROAD
RACE/WALK Rivier College’s
SPORTS
Biology Club will host a 5K
& RECREATION
Charitable Road Race/Walk on
Spectator sports
the Rivier College campus in
• Manchester Freedom Football
honor of Earth Day on Sat., April
9 Notre Dame Ave., 627-7270,
25, starting at 9 a.m. Proceeds will
manchesterfreedom.com
benefit the Beaver Brook Associa• Manchester Monarchs Hockey
tion in Hollis and the Loon PresVerizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
ervation Committee. The course
St., monarchshockey.com,
will begin and end at the Memori626-7825
al hall Parking Lot (intersection of
• Manchester Wolves Football
Clement and South Main Streets
Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm in Nashua). Pre- and race day regSt., manchesterwolves.com
istration. Contact Nina Harrold at
• NH Fisher Cats Baseball
897-8624 or [email protected].
1 Line Drive, Manchester,
• THE BOBCAT BOLT 5K and
641-2005, nhfishercats.com
10K run walk and the Oyster River
• Verizon Wireless Arena
Festival is Sat., May 9, around Dur555 Elm St., Manchester, 868ham. The 5K and 10K races are USA
7300, verizonwirelessarena.com Track & Field sanctioned and certiBiking/races
fied. Registration is $35; www.bob• GRANITE STATE WHEEL- catbolt.com.
MEN (granitestatewheelmen.org) • MEDICAL CENTER 6K race
is a recreational biking club that Sun., May 10, at 9:30 a.m. at the
offers rides for all levels and is open Southern New Hampshire Medito ages 18 and over. Members get a cal Center (8 Prospect St., Nashua).
newsletter, discounts on some ser- Online registration available at www.
vices and invitations to events.
medicalcenter6k.com. Proceeds will
• NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN benefit the Patient Transportation
BIKE ASSOCIATION (nemba.org) Fund at Southern New Hampshire
offers rides and opportunity to help Medical Center.
preserve trails. Look for information • SNHMC 6K race on Sun., May
on the southern New Hampshire 10, at 9:30 a.m. at the Southern New
chapter at www.snemba.org.
Hampshire Medical Center (8 Pros• NH CYCLING CLUB (www. pect St., Nashua). Proceeds will bennhcyclingclub.com) is an organiza- efit the Patient Transportation Fund
tion for people of all ages who want at SNHMC. Online registration at
to compete in bike races. Member- www.medicalcenter6k.com.
Take a Stress-Free Yoga or Pilates Class
Receive a free class with a purchase of
Class Card or Gift Certificate
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• Beaver Brook Association
117 Ridge Road, Hollis, 465-7787,
beaverbrook.org,
• Charmingfare Farm
Route 27, Candia, 483-5623,
visitthefarm.com
• Christa McAuliffe Planetarium
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
Association
129 Amherst St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• Massabesic Audubon Center
26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
668-2045, nhudubon.org
• McLane Center
84 Silk Farm Rd., 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
Hikes & walks
• BEECH BROOK BEAVER
POND WALK on Wed., April
15, from 3 to 5 p.m. at The Fells.
Join Forest Society naturalist Dave
Anderson on a guided tour through
the Hay Forest Reservation to the
site of a recently renovated beaver
pond and lodge. Members $16,
non-members $20. To register call
763-4789 ext. 3, limit of 20. Meet
at The Fells Gatehouse.
• MANCHESTER CEDAR
SWAMP conservatory area on
Hackett Hill Road in Manchester
offers a 602-acre ecological preserve with established trails. Follow
Hackett Hill Road to Countryside
Boulevard and watch for trailhead.
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Notes from the local food scene
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• Friday night date? Tickets are still available
to the Taste of the Towns, the annual event benefiting the Nashua Center and offering a chance
to taste eats from several local restaurants and
food shops. The event is Friday, March 27, at the
Radisson Hotel, 11 Tara Boulevard in Nashua.
Tickets cost $60. Call 883-6163 or go to www.
nashuacenter.org to purchase tickets.
• Coming attractions: Jalapeños Mexican
Grill is in the works at 1001 Elm St. in Manchester, according to ads and to its Web site www.
mijalapenos.com.
• Food to rock with: Two Concord restaurants
are featured in special events before and after the
Irish rock band Black 47’s concert at the Capitol Center for the Arts on Friday, March 27. First,
Nonni’s Italian Eatery will serve dinner in the
center’s Spotlight Café with a menu that features
chicken Marsala, lemon salmon with roasted vegetables, eggplant involtini with ricotta cheese, and
penne vodka. Dinner tickets cost $27 and include
one free bar drink. After the show, the Barley
House (132 N. Main St. in Concord, www.thebarleyhouse.com) will host a post-concert party with
the band in the restaurant’s downstairs B-Lounge
with free appetizers.
• Cook green: Amherst Family Chiropractic Wellness Center (89 Route 101A in Amherst,
770-7300, www.realfood4reallife.com) will hold
a cooking class on “Glorious Greens” on Monday,
April 6, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Learn the benefits of
and how to cook more leafy greens and sample
some recipes. The cost is $20. Call or go online
to register.
• Favorites coming in: Butter’s Fine Food &
Wine (70 N. Main St. in Concord) announced via
e-mail the return of Atteca Garnacha wine from
Spain, a new barrel of Butter’s own organic olive
oil (bring your own container) and Gorgonzola
Dolce, a mild blue cheese from Italy.
• Wine at the Expo: Winemaker Robert Dabrowski from Candia Vineyards announced that
the Indoor Wine Trail will take place again this
year at the Made in NH Expo, which runs this
weekend at the NH National Guard Armory, 1059
Canal St. in Manchester (Friday, March 27, from
1 to 8 p.m.; Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. to
8 p.m.; and Sunday, March 29, from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.). Wine lovers are invited to visit the wineries’
booths and have their Indoor Wine Trail brochure
stamped at each booth to receive a free gift. Expo
patrons can print the brochure from www.IndoorWineTrail.com, or pick one up at any winery
booth. Tickets to the Expo cost $9 for adults, $8
for seniors and $3 for children. For a list of who
else will be there, go to www.nhmade.com.
• Ticket to Taste: 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 childhood 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 87726-TASTE or go to www.tasteofthenation.org.
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Maple Weekend offers a chance to taste the sweet stuff
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
Maple sugaring season has arrived once
again in New Hampshire. And the state’s
maple producers have their trees tapped and
their evaporators fired up, ready to welcome
visitors for this year’s Maple Weekend, Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29.
“The sap has been running for a number of
days now, so we’re off to a good start. We’re
hoping that everyone has a good season and
Mother Nature cooperates with cold nights and
warm but not too warm days,” Barbara Lassonde of the New Hampshire Maple Producers
Association (NHMPA) said.
This past winter’s ice storm did cause
damage to some of the maple orchards, but
perhaps not as extensive as some reports have
indicated.
“The most damage was in south-central
New Hampshire along the Massachusetts border, around Temple, Jaffrey and Lyndeborough.
Some of those farms have found new orchards
to tap, and some have decided to take a year off
and do clean-up this summer. But the amount
of taps lost in the ice storm that were not made
up by tapping new orchards is only about one
percent of the total taps,” Lassonde said.
The maple sugaring season lasts approximately six weeks, once the daytime
temperatures are in the low 40s and the nighttime temps are in the high 20s. That’s when the
sap begins to run in the trees. The state’s maple
industry produces approximately 90,000 gallons of maple syrup each season.
Sap looks like water and has a slightly sweet
taste, and it takes 40 gallons of it, boiled in an
evaporator, to make just one gallon of syrup.
It’s graded according to color, flavor and clarity. The most popular are Grade A-light amber,
produced early in the season, and Grade Amedium amber. Grade A-dark amber and
Grade B work best in recipes, though some
people enjoy their almost molasses-like flavor
on pancakes and waffles.
New Hampshire’s Maple Weekend started 17 years ago as Maple Sunday and was so
successful that the event was extended to two
days. This year more than 65 maple producers
will open their sugar shacks to the public. Lassonde noted some of the farms in the southern
part of the state will get 100 to 200 visitors that
weekend.
“People like to know where their food comes
from, especially with the recent food scares.
This is a great opportunity to see the syrup
being made. And people have been cooped up
all winter, so this is a chance to get outside and
enjoy the spring weather,” Lassonde said.
Tamarack Farm in Canterbury is one of the
producers that will participate in the weekend
event. Owner Jim Snyder said his place wasn’t
damaged in the ice storm, and he plans to offer
horse-drawn hayrides, syrup, and sugar on
snow — a maple candy made when syrup heated to between 230 and 235 degrees is poured
onto clean snow or shaved ice.
“It’s shaping up to be a pretty good season
but could still go either way,” Snyder said.
Dean Wilber of Mapletree Farm in Concord
said he experienced very little storm damage
both at the farm and the area he leases farther up the road. He was concerned about the
warmer weather the area experienced for a
time, which can stop the sap run. For Maple
Weekend, he said, “We go all out on Saturday with free samples of syrup, maple-coated
nuts, maple cream, and sugar on snow. Weather permitting, there is a self-guided tour of the
orchard and woods. We may or may not be
boiling on Sunday, depending if there is sap.
Only syrup samples will be available Sunday,
if we are boiling.”
Here is a list of some farms that will open
their sugar houses to the public on Maple
Weekend. For a complete list, plus more information on maple syrup, check out the New
Hampshire Maple Producers Web site, www.
nhmapleproducers.com.
• Tamarack Farm (125 Asby Road,
Canterbury, 783-9226, www.geocities.com/
tamfarm2001) will be open Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with free samples,
sugar on snow, syrup tasting, farm tours and
horse-drawn rides (for a small fee).
• Mapletree Farm (99 Oak Hill Road, Exit
16 off Interstate 93, Concord, 224-0820) will
be open Saturday only, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
offering sugar on snow, samples of maple syrup and other maple products, and coffee — no
charge — and a self-guided walking tour of
orchard and woods, weather permitting. Boiling Sunday afternoon if there is sap.
• Ben’s Sugar Shack (83 Webster Hwy.,
Temple, and 694 Route 103, Newbury, 5626595) will be open Saturday and Sunday from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with free samples of sugar on
Make several dates
snow, maple cotton candy, hot maple syrup
on vanilla ice cream, maple candy and baked
goods.
• Maple Butternut Farm (Pine Echo Road,
off Route 136, New Boston, 487-5508) will be
open Saturday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with free maple syrup
samples, coffee and doughnuts, and a demonstration of making syrup with a wood-burning
evaporator. Visitors are always welcome when
you see steam.
• Middle Branch Farm (280 Colburn Road,
New Boston, 487-2540) will be open Saturday
and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (it’s open
daily throughout the sugaring season) with
wood-fired boiling of sap the traditional way.
There’s a post-and-beam sugar house and sugar woods tours. They’ll be serving sugar on
snow, coffee, homemade donuts, pancakes,
maple baked beans and other maple treats.
• The Grant Family Pond View Maple
Sugar House (224 Mt. Dearborn Road, Weare,
529-4148) will be open Saturday and Sunday
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free food Saturday
only; sample maple products and try homemade chili, hot dogs steamed in sap, coffee,
tea, popcorn and maple cotton candy. Coloring
books and crayons for kids.
• Beaver Meadowbrook Farm Sugar
House (402 Route 103 E, Warner, 456-6052 or
224-2452) will be open Saturday and Sunday
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with free syrup samples,
maple coffee and other goodies.
Tour the new sugar house and maple orchard;
try sap-gathering for kids. Watch the boiling process and learn the history of maple sugaring.
Nashua restaurants hold Spring Feast Week
Downtown Nashua will hold its Spring
Feast Week Wednesday, April 1, through Tuesday, April 7.
For diners, this means a chance to try new
restaurants or return to old favorites for special
meals and meal deals. Here are some of the
planned offerings, according to Great American Downtown (greatamericandowntown.
org/restaurantweek). Check back with the Web
site or call 883-5700 for late additions. Call the
restaurants with questions or for reservation
information.
• At Black Orchid Grille (8 Temple St., 5778910, www.blackorchidgrille.com) they’ll be
offering a three-course prix fixe meal for $25.
• The City Room Café (105 W. Pearl St.,
882-5016) will offer different specials each
day. On Wednesday, April Fool’s Day, a $25
gift certificate will go to the customer voted
by the staff to have the most foolish hat. On
Thursday, April 2, the café will give a 20-percent discount to seniors over the age of 60. On
Friday, April 3, and Monday, April 6, they will
give a free coffee, tea or soda with a meal over
$5. On Saturday, April 4, and Sunday, April 5,
they will hold a drawing for a $50 gift certificate for those who purchase one of the “daily
specials.” On Tuesday, April 7, they will give
veterans and members of the armed forces half
off their meal with a military ID.
• Cooking Matters (97 Main St., 880-6200)
will offer 20 percent off soup and sandwich
combo and 20 percent off the weekly sandwich special.
• Fody’s Tavern (9 Clinton St., 577-9015,
www.fodystavern.com) will offer one free
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appetizer per table with the purchase of at
least one entrée.
• Giant of Siam (5 E. Hollis St., 595-2222)
will offer 20 percent off lunch and dinner entrees
(not valid with other offers) and a $5 gift certificate when you mention Spring Feast Week.
• Michael Timothy’s (212 Main St., 5959334, www.michaeltimothys.com) will offer a
three-course prix fixe meal for $20.09. Choose
a starter (a field salad of mixed greens with a
scallion sour cream and crispy ham croutons
or a cup of soup), an entrée (oven-roasted haddock with steamed shrimp gyoza over Napa
cabbage slaw with a shoyu-ginger glaze or a
marinated pork tenderloin with German potato salad and apple gravy) and a dessert (banana
bread pudding with caramel sea salt ice cream
or a small white chocolate crème brulee).
• Patisserie Bleu (215 Main St., 886-007,
www.patisseriebleu.com) will offer 20 percent off purchases of $10 or more.
• The Peddler’s Daughter (48 Main St.,
821-7535, www.thepeddlersdaughter.com)
will offer a 20-percent discount on food on
the lunch and dinner menu.
• The Saffron Bistro (80 Main St., 8832100, www.thesaffronbistro.com) will offer a
three-course prix fixe meal for $30.
• Seedling Café (9 Water St., 594-4002,
www.seedlingcafe.com) customers will
receive two hold punches on their frequent
diner card for every one sandwich purchased.
• Stella Blu (70 E. Pearl St., 578-5557,
www.stellablu-nh.com) will offer 30 percent
off their spring menu preview.
• Surf (207 Main St., 595-9293, www.surfseafood.com) will offer a three-course prix fixe
meal for $20.09. Choose one starter (Surf clam
chowder or Surf salad), one entrée (pretzel
wrapped Canadian salmon with whole grain
mustard butter sauce and orange balsamic
greens with sliced apple or potato-horseradish
crusted haddock over cooked green beans and
brown butter hollandaise) and a dessert (coconut rice custard with caramelized sugar fresh
mango and a cardamom twist or a banana rum
cake topped with butterscotch rum, caramel
sauce and sugared plantains).
• Unums (47 E. Pearl St., 821-6500, www.
unums.com) will hold the April 1 wine dinner
(see below) and from Thursday, April 2, through
Tuesday, April 7, 20 percent of its dinner menu.
Attendees will also receive a coupon for a future
visit (buy one entrée and get the second one half
price Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday).
• Villa Banca (194 Main St., 598-0500,
www.villabanca.com) will offer three special
menus — one with Italian wine, one with California wine and one with beer.
All dressed up with someplace to go.
The look good, feel good, taste good place to be is COTTON.
Open from 12 to 5 on EASTER SUNDAY and taking reservations now.
75 Arms Street, Manchester 6 0 3 . 6 2 2 . 5 4 8 8 www.cottonfood.com
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ON APRIL 4TH, THE BVI
Predicts An Earthquake!
That is if you attend our Michael & David Winery Dinner on Saturday evening, April 4
and enjoy some ground-shaking wines including Earthquake Cabernet.
Michael & David Phillips, sixth generation winemakers specializing in
hand-crafted Rhone varietals as well as Lodi’s famous Old Vine Zinfandels will be on hand
to talk about the great wines they produce like 7 Deadly Zins, 7 Heavenly Chards,
6th Sense Syrah, Incognito and the earth-shattering Earthquake Cabernet.
Look for menu and further information at www.bedfordvillageinn.com.
Italian wines are the stars at Unums dinner
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
Two Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, NH 603.472.2001 www.bedfordvillageinn.com 800.852.1166
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[email protected]
Italian wines and accompanying eats will
be on the menu at Unums in Nashua on
Wednesday, April 1, for a special dinner billed
as featuring “Dueling Brunellos.”
The wine list for the evening was prepared with the Wine Society in Nashua and
wine expert Pat Dunn. The menu begins with
crispy rock shrimp and white fish fritz paired
with Collalbrigo Prosecco sparkling wine.
Next is a sweet potato and spicy prosciutto
tart matched with Vignarco Orvieto Classico. Then comes a twist on the classic surf and
turf: wood-grilled sea bass with filet mignon,
paired with Le Tobele Valpolicella Ripasso.
The highlight of the evening will come
with course number four. That dish — which
is still under discussion (it may be venison au
pouive blanc, according to Unums co-owner
Steve Williams) — will be served with both
Poggio Guidone Brunello Di Montalcimo and
Terrasole Brunello Di Montalcimo. Guests be
able to compare the two selections — one of
which costs $85 a bottle and the other $140 a
bottle. The meal will end with a banana tiramisu served with Felsina Vin Santo.
The dinner costs $85 per person and
starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 821-6500 to make
reservations.
The dinner is one of several wine dinners
hosted at the restaurant (and one based on
French wines is planned for May). And there
are other new things happening at Unums.
A new bar menu to quell late-night cravings
features dishes such as a cast iron roasted
nut trio with brown sugar crusted pretzels,
Unums pulled pork sandwich with barbecue
horseradish sauce and seafood cocktail with
Caribbean fruit salsa. On Thursday nights
customers may build their own pasta or flat-
Amateur Chef Night
March 30th at 6:30pm (Seriously!)
The open kitchen at Unums in Nashua let
guests watch the chef at work. Linda A. Thomp-
Think you’ve got what it takes? Nikki and John Scaplen do.
This dynamic duo will be cooking and serving their
ideal four-course menu on March 30th to benefit the
New Hampshire Food Bank.
four courses :: great fun
good cause
son-Odum photo.
bread by selecting favorite ingredients. And
there is entertainment offered every Friday
and Saturday night.
Owner Williams said the name “Unums” is
Latin for “coming together as one.” He said
it symbolizes how the restaurant’s three partners joined forces to create a place that he
describes as “fine dining that’s not stuffy. People come and just feel comfortable.”
Williams, his wife Karen and chef Constantine Brianas took six months to turn two
retail spaces into the current restaurant, which
opened in fall 2007. They used 13 tons of stone
to create the bar, walls in the entryway and the
counter around the open kitchen where guests
can sit and view the chef in action. The long
wall of the dining room features dark-stained
cabinets and shelves to hold the chef’s cookbook collection and a large wine rack.
Unums is open for dinner Tuesdays through
Sundays.
Unums
What: Italian wine dinner
Where: Unums, 47 E. Pearl St. in Nashua,
821-6500, www.unums.com
When: Wednesday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $85 per person plus tax and tip;
call for reservations (which are required)
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$50 per person. Reservations strongly recommended.
Event begins promptly at 6:30pm.
860 Elm Street, Manchester, NH 03101
(603) 629.9383
www.zfoodanddrink.com
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(in the Holiday Inn)
Concord, NH
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17 West Main St.
Hillsborough, NH
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Food Listings
CSAs
• FIELD TO FORK FARM, 522
Haverhill Road, Chester, 548-4331,
www.fieldtoforkfarm.com:
This
farm offers a year-round meat,
eggs and dairy CSA for families
who want a regular supply of certified organic eggs, milk and meats
(chicken and pork) from pastureraised and organically fed animals.
Additional options include maple
syrup and goat meat. Participation
at the farm is encouraged but not
required. A subscription costs $125
a month, with a required up-front
contribution of 1/4 of the yearly subscription fee (three months/$375) to
be put toward organic feed and livestock maintenance. Weekly pick-up
at the farm.
• HOLLAND FARM CSA, 269
Osgood Road, Milford, 673-0667,
www.hollandfarmcsa.com:
This
year, membership costs $500 for a
full membership, which will feed
two adults and two or three children. A half membership, enough
for two adults, costs $325. Members choose the vegetables they
enjoy, but a weekly limit for each
vegetable will apply depending on
the membership level.
• LEWIS FARM, 192 Silk Farm
Road, Concord, 228-6230, www.
LewisFarmNH.com: Because of the
farm’s extensive greenhouse system, the season will begin in May
and run through October. Besides
vegetables and herbs, the farm will
include fruits and other items from
other farms. A full share costs $600.
If paid in full at sign-up, there is a
10-percent discount. A three-payment plan is also available: $200
at sign-up, $200 by March 20 and
$200 by May 20.
• LOCAL HARVEST c/o NOFANH, 4 Park St., Suite 208, Concord,
731-5955,
www.localharvestnh.
com: This is a cooperative of eight
New Hampshire organic farms that
work together to provide sharemembers with fresh certified organic products. Weekly pick-up is at
the Unitarian-Universalist Church
in Concord. A single share feeds
two people, and a family share is for
four people (or two hungry vegetarians). The cost is $495 single; $588
single with weekly loaf of bread;
$742 family, and $922 family with
two loaves of bread weekly.
• MIDDLE BRANCH FARM,
280 Colburn Road, New Boston,
487-2540: The season is from
June through October. A share is
designed for a couple or a family
with small children. The farm also
has pick-your-own herbs, peas,
beans and flowers and offers naturally raised pork and beef to share
members. Baskets may be picked
up at the farm or a satellite location
(see details at www.localharvest.
org/csa/M6928).
Approximately
300 shares are offered each season.
A 16-week summer share costs
$465. For satellite pick-up, a share
costs $485. Prices may increase
after April 1.
• NH CSA, 24 Haverhill Road,
Chester, www.nhcsa.com: A full
share costs $535, and a half share
$285. Members will receive
instructions on how to preserve the
vegetables to enjoy all winter. Pickup locations are at the farm, and in
Derry and Londonderry. See the
Web site for dates and times.
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TRACIE
COMMUNITY
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh,
Healthy and Creative African
American Cuisine, by Bryant Terry (2009, Da Capo, 223 pages)
Bryan Terry had me at “goobers.”
“Spicy Goobers” to be precise, the
recipe that appears on page 42 and
sounds like it would make a perfect
cocktail party snack or, should you be so inclined, postwork snack-meal. Spicy Goobers are really just peanuts
coated with a spicy, salty, zesty, sugary mix that makes
them sound like the kind of thing that one might not be
capable of only having “a handful” of. Sure, it’s vegan
and healthy and all that jazz (specifically, that jazz being
“Salt Peanuts,” covered by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Bud Powell) but it’s a snack that
won’t for a minute make you feel denied.
Mixing good ingredients with delicious spices (to the
tune of a suggested very cool soundtrack) and presenting
a dish that doesn’t sound particularly vegan or stressfully
healthy is what Vegan Soul Kitchen is all about. Sure, a
dish like Creole Hoppin’-Jean (page 140, to “Burnin’ and
Lootin’” by Bob Marley from Talkin’ Blues) doesn’t have
meat and is exactly the kind of mix of protein and fiber
that we all need more of but don’t let that get in the way
of its being a very hearty-sounding, very leftover-friendly
(think of the next-day burrito possibilities) bean-and-rice
dish. Mark Bittman’s latest book, Food Matters, recommends a diet that occasionally takes a break from meat,
dairy and processed foods for ecological and health reasons. Vegan Soul Kitchen offers further evidence that it
is possible to do so without worrying that you’ll be left
to push an unsatisfying salad around your plate. Looking for ideas of what to do with the coming harvest of
greens? How about grilled asparagus with rosemary sea
salt, mixed herb marinated grilled summer squash and
bell peppers, grilled corn on the cob with spicy garlicmiso dressing or Jamaican veggie patties? Sure, these are
also tasty additions to the meat-free menu for the dedicated vegan but these are also great, satisfying dishes
for meat-eaters. For the even more vegan or vegan-curious, there are tofu and tempeh recipes as well as great
stock, condiment and sauce recipes that work no matter
what your diet. Plus, where else will you get a recipe for
Chocolate Orange Pudding so appropriately scored with
“Addiction” by Kanye West? — Amy Diaz
FARM 72 Jaffrey Road, Fitzwilliam, 209-1851, www.traciesfarm.
com: The 17-week season begins
mid-June and continues through the
beginning of October. Each week’s
basket includes washed vegetables
and a newsletter explaining how
things are going on the farm, how
to prepare and store the vegetables,
and what to expect in the next
week’s basket. A large family share
costs $600, a family share $420,
and a single share $300. Shares for
mesclun, herbs and greens are sold
separately. The price of the share
includes delivery, and there is a $50
discount if you pick up your basket
at the farm.
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties
• CHOCOLATEFEST The Lake
Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce and Colby-Sawyer College
are co-sponsoring the 14th annual
ChocolateFest on Sat., April 4, from
noon to 3 p.m. at Colby-Sawyer College, Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus
Center. Tickets cost $10 (children 5
and under get in free). Sample the
various chocolate offerings and vote
for your favorite. Call 526-6575 or email [email protected].
• GOURMET GALA The Friends
of the Seacoast School of Technology’s Culinary Arts Program will
hold a Gourmet Gala benefit featuring a dinner, wine tasting and auction on Friday, April 3, at the Exeter
Inn in Exeter, from 7 to 10 p.m.
Tickets cost $100. For tickets, contact Bobbi Burns at 978-884-4175
or e-mail [email protected].
• TASTE FOR A CURE The
Third Annual Taste for a Cure, a
fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation, will be held Thurs.,
April 16, from 7 to 10 p.m. at
Southeastern Regional Education
Service Center, Conference Center
29 Commerce Drive in Bedford.
New Hampshire chefs will be on
hand preparing samples of their
signature items for guests to enjoy.
Tickets will be pre-sold at $50 each.
See www.cff.org/Chapters/newengland or call 598-8191.
• TASTE OF THE TOWNS The
Taste of The Towns, a benefit for
Nashua Center, will be on Fri.,
March 27, from 6 to 10 p.m. The
event will be held at the Radisson
Hotel, 11 Tara Boulevard in Nashua, and tickets will cost $60. Call
883-6163 or go to www.nashuacenter.org for reservations.
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Thursday, March 27th
Siroteau
Friday, March 28th
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Firefly American Bistro & Bar
22 Concord Street
Downtown - Manchester, NH
(603) 935-9740
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drink
Wine with dinner
ENJOY GREAT FOOD AT A GOOD PRICE
What to drink when you’re eating
NOW OPEN FOR BREAKFAST
Buy one get second entree 1/2 price
Friday & Sunday dinner with reservations
Prime Rib
Saturdays
9am - Noon
Clip & bring coupon for discount. Not valid on Easter Sunday or for Story
Telling Brunch. Offer cannot be combined, valid until 4/19/09.
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
[email protected]
Full Menu details on our website
Reservations required Story Telling
TACOS • ENCHILADAS • QUESADILLAS • NACHOS & MORE!
Sunday April 5th and 19th 11:45am
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• 2004 O. S. Winery BSH
— $34.99 (Recommended
by Tom Brock from The
Meat House, five locations
in New Hampshire, www.
themeathouse.com) Brock
described this Washington
State wine as “Bordeaux on
steroids. It has enough tannins, acid and
richness to complement the richness of
prime rib.”
• 2006 Sepp Zweigelt —
$11.99 at state liquor stores
(Recommended by Alexandra Graf from The Inn at
Danbury’s Alphorn Bistro,
67 Route 104 in Danbury,
768-3318,
www.innatdanbury.com) This red wine is
Drink Listings
Brewerys/Distillerys/Cider
• ANHEUSER-BUSCH 221 DW
Hwy in Merrimack. Complimentary tours include a visit to the
Clydesdale Hamlet, home to the
world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales. Open daily 10 to 5 p.m. Call
595-1202.
• FARNUM HILL CIDERS 98
Poverty Lane, Lebanon, 448-1511,
www.farnumhillciders.com
• ELM CITY BREWING COMPANY Colony Mill Marketplace,
222 West St., Keene, 355-3335,
www.elmcitybrewing.com. Restaurant, brewery and pub, open
Mon.-Thurs., 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.,
Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Happy hour Monday through Friday, 4 to 6 p.m.
• REDHOOK BREWERY 35
Corporate Dr., Pease Tradeport,
Portsmouth, www.redhook.com,
produces Redhook ales and features
the Cataqua Public House offering
brew and a pub menu. Tours offered
Monday and Tuesday at 2 p.m.;
Wednesday and Thursday at noon,
1, 3 and 4 p.m.; Friday and Saturday every hour on the hour from
noon to 4 p.m.; Sunday every hour
on the hour from 1 to 4 p.m. For private tours, call 430-8600 ext. 327.
• TUCKERMAN BREWING
COMPANY 64 Hobbs St. in Conway, 447-5400, www.tuckermanbrewing.com, offers tours every
Saturday at 3 p.m.
Classes/workshops on wine/
beer making
• BEER/WINE-MAKING classes
and demonstrations on making beer,
wine and soda at IncrediBREW,
112 DW Hwy, Nashua, 891-2477,
incredibrew.com. Shop features
fest-nights that focus on making a
particular kind of beer.
• INTERNATIONAL WINE &
made with Austria’s national red grape. “It
has nice dark fruit flavors. It’s un-oaked and
is not as huge a wine as a Cabernet,” Graf
said.
• Whitehall Lane Merlot —
$34.99 (Recommended by
Maureen Adams from The
Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett
Road in Manchester, 622WINE (9463), and 27 Buttrick
Road #3 in Londonderry, 432WINE
(9463),
www.
thewinestudionh.com) This is a big, rich,
full-bodied Napa wine to go with a great cut
of meat. “It has a wonderful balance of
acidity and fruit,” Adams said.
• 2004 Philippe Colim
Premier Cru ChassagneMontrachet Burgandy
— $28.99 (Recommended
by Paula Doucette of Bella
Vino, 2 Young Road in
Londonderry, 426-5212,
www.bellavinonh.com)
“Burgundy is exceptional with beef, especially with the higher fat and rareness of
this dish,” Doucette said.
CHEESE FEST On Friday, April
17, at 7 p.m. it’s the International
Wine and Cheese Fest at IncrediBREW, 112 DW Highway in
Nashua, 891-2477. Make wine and
bottle wines made six weeks earlier
from South Africa (Pinotage), the
U.S. (Pinot Noir), Austria (Gruner
Veltiner), Germany (Piesporter),
Italy (Barbera) and Chile (Rosso
Grande) and taste cheeses that
complement their flavor. The cost is
$50 for six different bottles of wine.
Call or go to www.incredibrew.com
to reserve a spot.
• MEAD FREE OR DIE Brew
Free or Die will host the first Mead
Free or Die competition in New
England on Sat., April 25, at Cadec
Global, 645 Harvey Road in Manchester. Brew Free or Die, which
hosts an annual beer homebrew
competition, plans for Mead Free or
Die to be annual event with awards
including Best in Show and others.
For information on how to compete
in or judge Mead Free or Die, go to
www.meadfreeordie.com.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR CUSTOM WINERY — BEDFORD
Vintner’s Cellar at Sebbins Brook
Marketplace, 410 South River Road
Route 3 in Bedford, offers a chance
to taste and create custom wines.
Call 627-9463 or go to www.vintnerscellarnh.com.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY 133 Loudon Road in Concord, allows customers can make
custom wines in batches of 24 to
28 bottles.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY — PORTSMOUTH Design
and create your own high-quality
wine. At 801 Islington St. in Portsmouth. Open Mondays through
Wednesdays, and Saturdays, from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays and
Fridays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays
and evenings by appointment only.
Call Gail at 431-5984.
Classes/workshops on wine
tasting
• WINE EDUCATION The Meat
House wine guy Tom Brock will
offer a series of wine education
classes in Salem (March 26), and
Portsmouth (April 2). The classes
are from 7 to 9 p.m. and will go
in-depth on how to properly “taste”
wine, discuss characteristics of
varietals, and offer fool-proof pairing recommendations. The cost is
$20 and space is limited to 15 people. Call the store of your choice to
reserve a space (Pembroke at 2275261, Salem at 685-0302, Exeter at
418-6557, Dover at 834-6328 and
Bedford at 472-5444). See www.
themeathouse.com.
• WINE SOCIETY (18 Pondview
Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978649-8993; 650 Amherst St. #9 in
Nashua, 883-4114; www.winesociety.us) offers classes for wine lovers of all levels. New sessions start
every few months. Call for upcoming schedule.
Special dinners
• ITALIAN FOOD & WINE
DINNER On Wednesday, April 1,
it’s a wine dinner featuring dueling brunellos at Unums in Nashua
at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $85 per
person. Call 821-6500. See www.
winesociety.us.
• SPRING FLING Zorvino Vineyards (226 Main St., Sandown,
887-8463, www.zorvino.com) will
hold their Spring Fling price-buster
dinner on Thurs., March 26, from
6:30 to 9 p.m. The four-course dinner features dishes such as spinach
and tatsoi salad served with a blood
orange and cracked coriander vinaigrette; braised pork shank with
creamy polenta; and Meyer lemon
tart, and each course will be paired
with a Zorvino wine. The cost is
$35 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are required.
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POP CuLTurE
Index
CdS
POP CuLTurE:
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On store shelves March
31
• It’s Blitz!, by Yeah Yeah
Yeahs (Interscope Records)
• Everyday Demons, by The
Answer (The End)
• New Jack City II, by Bow
Wow (Columbia)
• Burn Halo, by Burn Halo
(Rawkhead Rekords)
• The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love, A
• Papa Roach, Metamorphosis, A
BOOKS
pg45
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].
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• Duplicity, B
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MuSIC, BOOKS,
GAMES, COMICS,
MOVIES, dVdS,
TV And MOrE
Playlist
CdS
• Live In London, by Leonard
Cohen (Columbia)
• Quiet Nights, by Diana Krall
(Verve)
• Rules, by The Whitest Boy
Alive (Asound / Bubbles)
• Free, by Gavin DeGraw (JRecords)
• The Place And The time, by
Steve Forbert (429 Records)
The Decemberists, The Hazards of
Love
Capitol Records, March 24
If thou dost seek,
in thy quest for jibber-jabber
dusty-libraryindie, a kludgey,
indie-sounding
new missive from
Decemberists that harkens back to premajor-label tunes like “16 Military Wives,”
thou shouldst bug off elsewhere.
There’s no reason for the band to
step backward anyway, with plenty of
mainstream fans eagerly awaiting them
wherever their “Dr. Herring’s brand Dirigible Balloon” may land; cred is no longer an
issue, they’re eggheads, the end. Their literary ambitions, however, don’t disappoint
in this entry. The Crane Wife, their first for
Capitol, centered around a Japanese folk
tale and included some Zep influences, but
this time they’ve busted open the K-Tel
Sounds of the ’70s and gone for it, cleverly
arranging their pieces to accentuate a storyline centered around a woman who’s been
ravaged by a shape-shifter (furries start
showing up to mingle with the pirate guys
at Decemberists shows in 3... 2...). There
was always something Ten Years After
about these guys, and “Hazards of Love I”
is as close to “Here They Come” as they’ve
ever dared, which is sort of nice in a Paleolithic way. The Eagles’ “Victim of Love”
as interpreted by Freddy Mercury is the
rough idea behind “The Wanting Comes
in Waves,” and “The Queen’s Rebuke” is
the LP’s metal thing, Deep Purple in color,
done up with a Kirk Hammett-like guitar solo. Truth is, mainstream fans who’ve
avoided anything indie out of fear could
quickly learn to love Decemberists, down
to the Creedence-vs.-Arcade Fire of “The
Rake’s Song” if not the zydeco-ized Blaz-
• Defying Gravity, by Keith
Urban (Capitol)
• American Soldier, by
Queensryche (Atco)
• R.O.O.T.S. (Routes Of Overcoming the Struggle), by Flo
Rida (Atlantic)
• Living Thing, by Peter Bjorn
and John (Almost Gold)
ing Saddles campfire-beans waltz of “Isn’t
It a Lovely Night.” A — Eric W. Saeger
Papa Roach, Metamorphosis
Interscope Records, March 24
It took a couple
of spins, but the
latest from eyeliner-metal-revivalists
Papa Roach does
have
some
merits.
When last I paid them any attention,
their “Getting Away with Murder”
single had supplanted Rob Zombie’s
“More Human Than Human” as the
go-to background sound when commercials needed to sell monster trucks,
silicon-inflated stripper-thingamajiggy
girls or crazy-ass wrestling guys. I’ll
have to assume that there were at least
half as many “Getting Away” retreads
on the band’s 2006 Paramour Sessions
LP as there are here (obligato misogynist half-ballad “Hollywood Whore”
feeds off the same vocal expressions, and “I Almost Told You That I
Love You” is simply “Getting Away”
wearing a fake beard). Mind, snobby
reviewers don’t expect much from numetal dingbats, especially in this case,
where the only guitar solo is provided
by Motley Crue dingbat Mick Mars,
coff coff, but there are actually a couple of ear-sticking winners on this one.
Opening song “Change or Die” is all
slickness and hard hook, but the real
gem is arena-tearjerker “Carry Me,”
with its gigantic arpeggio and simple but explosive refrain. Def Leppard
gets ghouled up in “Had Enough.” By
the by, I think I’ve figured out why numetallers don’t do guitar solos: any
leather-jacket die-hard would think
this was Skid Row, word. A — EWS
A seriously
abridged
compendium of
recent
and future CD
releases
• On Tuesday, metal oldbies Queensryche release
their 12th album, American Soldier, the lyrics of which
were inspired by interviews with veterans of every war
since the one Tom Hanks won by making all sorts of
chain-gun-porn about it. The band still lives by bummer-deal minor-chords, as evidenced by “If I Were
King,” wherein one ex-grunt laments a lost buddy.
• Frog-throated witchiepoo Stevie Nicks deigned
to perform in Chicago in 2007, and why it took this
long to commit such a world-changing event to compact-disc is anyone’s guess, but out it comes next week,
under the title The Soundstage Sessions. All your dentist-office faves are here, done up live, and there’s a
cover of Dave Matthews’ “Crash,” which she threw in
because Matthews recently obtained the ice-globe that
contains her everlasting witchiepoo soul, because the
economy’s tough and even ice-globe-hoarding devil-dwarves have to sell their cherished possessions to
buy Pop Tarts until John Boehner starts crying golden tears, so that everyone can finally afford to do those
soul-enriching three-hour waits at Olive Garden again,
I so miss America.
• Drawling, slobbering, professionally shaved mallcountry-dillweed Rodney Atkins throws new album It’s
America against the major-retailer wall next week. The
title song is a terrorist-hating Chevy truck commercial
that Atkins hopes will win the war on his own personal
poverty, and it’s so perfect because it talks about what
REAL America is all about: “high school proms and
Springsteen songs.” Which is kind of wistfully funny because no one in high school owns a Springsteen
album, and besides, Springsteen can’t decide which
family-destroying cause to support on any given day,
and he uses makeup to cover his Osama beard, everyone knows that, duh.
• Jazz singer/pianist/hottie Diana Krall sexes up the
whole bossa-nova vibe for the benefit of this undeserving century in her forthcoming LP Quiet Nights, out
on Verve Records on March 31. The title track drips
with a subdued orchestra that’s the aural equivalent of
a chocolate fountain, a nice complement to her fragile,
whispery voice. — Eric W. Saeger
HIPPO FAVOrITES: CURRENT oBSESSIoNS oF THE HIPPo STAFF
Film:
Watchmen
A
stylish, funto-listen-to
adaptation of
Alan Moore’s
classic graphic
novel (though
don’t ask him to talk about the movie),
Watchmen isn’t perfect (or short — it has a
two-hour-and-43-minute running time) but
it is fun and, at times, operatic.
• Knowing, d
Hippo | March 26 - April 1, 2009 | Page 40
Cds: SuperDrag, Industry
Giants
If there were
an
alt-rock
museum,
this
album
would
be in the spot
where you’d find the Tyrannosaur skeleton. The thing’s a pristine specimen of
what the genre was meant to look like
— punk rock in a perfect disguise masquerading as pop.
TV: Battlestar Galactica
More satisfying than most
other sci-fi/fantasy series finales in the last five-or-so years,
the final episode of Battlestar
Galactica might not have
been perfect but it came very
close, hitting on all the series’ major themes,
providing a suitable “here’s what it all means”
and tying up its story in a not-unexpected resolution. Catch the reruns and then prepare for
the prequel series, Caprica, the pilot of which
will be available April 21 on DVD.
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POP CULTURE:
In stores this week
Fiction
• Infinity Blues, by Ryan Adams
(Akashic Books)
• Shadow and Light, by Jonathan Rabb (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux)
• Long Lost, by Harlan Coben
(Penguin Group)
• The Color of Lightning, by
Paulette Jiles (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction
• The Baseball Talmud: Koufax,
Greenberg, and the Quest for
Lectures and discussions
• HOME FIRES: THE STORY
OF SMALL-TOWN NH IN
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
a look at Warner, N.H., which had
10 percent of its population serving
in the armed forces during WWII,
presented by Rebecca Courser on
Sun., March 29, at 2 p.m. at the
Wright Museum. Admission cost
is $5; free for museum members.
RSVP to 569-1212.
• GOD AND THE COMMONS:
DOES RELIGION MATTER?
forum run by the NH Humanities
Council at 10 sites in NH. Wed.,
the Ultimate Jewish All-Star
Team, by Howard Megdal
(HarperCollins)
• The Reel Truth: Everything
You Didn’t Know You Need to
Know About Making an Independent Film, by Reed Martin
(Faber & Faber)
• The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and
Life on the Mound, by Ron Darling (Knopf)
• Let the Journey Begin: God’s
Roadmap for New Beginnings,
by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson)
• Always Looking Up: The
Adventures of an Incurable
Optimist, by Michael J. Fox
(Hyperion)
• Crazy Love: A Memoir, by
Leslie Morgan Steiner (St.
Martin’s Press)
• ’78: The Boston Red Sox, A
Historic Game, and a Divided
City, by Bill Reynolds (NAL)
• Nelson’s Illustrated Guide to
Religions: A Comprehensive
Introduction to the Religions of
the World, by James A. Beverley
(Thomas Nelson)
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Spring Goes Squish,
written and illustrated by
Marty Kelley, Zino Press,
2008.
Marty Kelley has come
full circle.
The New Boston writer
and illustrator of children’s
books gave us Fall Is Not
Easy in 1998, Summer Stinks in 2001 and Winter Woes
in 2004. Now here’s Spring Goes Squish, a rhythmic and
rhyming tour through the season of mud, birds and bugs.
Much like Winter Woes, this story follows one kid — this
time a girl — encountering the vagaries of the season. It’s
a kids’ book, but this stuff is familiar to us all: the birds that
won’t shut up at 4 a.m. (but are silent all day); the rainy
weekend after a sunny work week; the mud, slush, potholes,
allergies and spring cleaning. The unnamed protagonist is
not terribly grumpy or bitter (for long); the story is serious
but also slapsticky. Trying to smack a bug, our girl hits herself in the face by mistake.
Kelley’s books are for sharing with kids the fact that,
yeah, life sometimes stinks, but we’re in the stink together
and we can view it with good humor.
I think Fall Is Not Easy is still my Kelley favorite (he also,
by the way, wrote The Rules and, last year, Twelve Terrible
Things), because I love its character, a tree who is trying oh
so earnestly to turn the right colors for fall and makes some
beautiful, and consternating, wrong turns along the way.
But Kelley’s pretty good with the other seasons too.
Find the book at any bookstore and check out www.martykelley.com. —Lisa Parsons
April 1, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Kelly
Library in Salem. Other dates listed
at www.nhhc.org. Pre-registration
is required; call 899-1025 or e-mail
The Book
Report
• Poetry champ: The 2009 New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud champion is Cote
Laramie, a junior from Concord High
School. Laramie will represent New
Hampshire at the national competition
on April 27 and April 28 in Washington,
D.C. The state competition was held Saturday, March 21, at Keene State College
and Laramie won in a field of 10 finalists.
Each contestant recited two poems chosen
from an anthology posted by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry
Foundation. Laramie won for his recitation of “Two Guitars” by Victor Hernandez
Cruz. Portsmouth Regional High School
senior Molly McCahan was chosen the
alternate champion, to compete if Laramie
is unable. More than 300,000 high school
students in the U.S. participated in Poetry Out Loud this year, according to a press
[email protected].
• BENEATH THE JUNGLE…
AND BEYOND part of Walker
Lecture Series, April 1 at 7:30 p.m.
release. Laramie won a check for $200,
plus $500 for Concord High School to buy
poetry books. He and one chaperone will
receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the
national competition. All champions and
alternates have been offered scholarships
up to $15,000 from New England College
and up to $11,000 from SNHU. See www.
pol.org and www.nh.gov/nharts.
• Poetry month: April is National Poetry Month, brought to you by the
Academy of American Poets (www.poets.
org). Among the Academy’s suggestions
on its list of “30 Ways to Celebrate”: Take
a poem out to lunch (“gives you something
great to read while you eat”); Put poetry
in an unexpected place (“Books should
be brought to the doorstep like electricity, or like milk in England”); or Memorize
a poem. You can sign up at www.poets.
org/poemADay.php to have one poem emailed to you each day in April.
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Author events
• JONAH LEHRER author of
How We Decide and Proust Was
a Neuroscientist visits Gibson’s
Bookstore on Thurs., March 26,
at 7 p.m.
• ASKOLD MELNYCZUK poet
and novelist reads Thurs., April
2, at 6 p.m. at Chester College of
New England. Admission free for
students with ID, $5 donation for
others. Melnyczuk is a professor
of creative writing at UMass-Boston; his first novel was named a
New York Times Notable Book.
• DAVID MACAULAY & DAVID
CARROLL share stories with students, teachers and the public in a
program called “Follow the Passion:
A Celebration and Exploration of
Arts, Literacy and Creativity in Education” at Bow High School at 9 a.m.
April 3. Interviews and discussion led
by Rebecca Rule. Pre-registration is
required; see www.nh.gov/nharts or
call 271-0795.
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Hall) with filmmaker Dale Johnson,
who visits ancient Mayan lands.
• A SOUNDTRACK FOR THE
GREAT GATSBY discussion of
music of the Jazz Age with Paul
Combs, Thurs., April 2, at 7 p.m. at
Manchester City Library. Free and
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Book discussions
• BOOK CLUB EVENING Tues.,
April 28, at 7 p.m. at Gibson’s
Bookstore will feature guest speakers from Random House and Penguin Books. Free appetizers and
desserts; all books discussed 20%
off. Event is free and no registration is required, but please call or
e-mail Gibson’s if your book group
would like to attend, to provide a
head count.
• BOOKS IN THE MILL discussion series at UNH Manchester is
free and open to the public. Spring
2009 theme is time travel. Discussions held in library mezzanine
conference room at 6:30 p.m. April
2: Kindred, by Octavia Butler. May
7: The Plot to Save Socrates, by
Paul Levinson.
• GOFFSTOWN LIBRARY
evening book group meets Tuesdays at 7 p.m., open to any interested teen or adult. April 7: Elmer
Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis.
• HOOKSETT LIBRARY book
discussion of The Great Gatsby
on Wed., April 8, at 1:30 p.m.
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MANCHESTER
CITY
LIBRARY Brown Bag Book
Club meets on the last Tuesday
of the month from 12:15 to 1:30
p.m. March 31: Watership Down,
by Richard Adams.
• THE GREAT GATSBY is the
book featured this spring for
Southern New Hampshire Reads,
a program of The Big Read hosted
by Northeast Cultural Coop and
participating libraries. See www.
northeastculturalcoop.org
and
www.neabigread.org.
Discussions, concerts, etc. are being held
through April 25.
BOOKS
What are you reading?
Douglas Heuser
Director, SEE Science Center, Manchester
[Heuser has kept a list of the
books he’s read since 1992 and
he’s rated each one on a 1-to-10
scale. He reports no 10s and 21
nines.]
I’m currently reading the
northern clemency by Philip Hensher (lowercase letters
intentional, btw) but since I
know it won’t get a “9” or better on my personal rating scale, I’d rather comment on the last “9” I did read:
What is the What by Dave Eggers. This powerful book,
published in 2006, is a novel about the struggles of a
refugee, Valentino Deng, one of the Lost Boys from the
Sudanese civil war of 1983-2005. Deng is an actual refugee and the book is based on many interviews Eggers
conducted with him, so it reads more like an autobiography than a novel. The horrific events that took place in
the Sudan are juxtaposed with appalling events that continued to befall Deng once he was granted asylum in the
United States. While what happened in Africa is almost
beyond comprehension, Deng’s continuing struggles in
this country lead the reader to wonder if all of humanity
has an indelible stain of evil on its collective soul. But it
is not all dark — Eggers gives us reason for hope. People can and do survive unimaginable brutality, through
personal faith, endurance, perseverance, or tapping
into unknown inner strengths. Well written, emotionally challenging and intellectually agitating, What is the
What questions our insular view of the rest of the world
and encourages us to take whatever steps we can to stop
ignoring the plight of others.
Douglas Heuser’s list of books rated 9, of what he’s
read since 1992
• Truman, by David McCullough (1992)
• Exit the Rainmaker, by Jonathan Coleman (1989)
• The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell with Bill
Moyers (1988)
• The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx (1993)
• The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan (1995)
• Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt (1996)
• Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier (1997)
• One True Thing, by Anna Quindlen (1994)
• I Know this Much is True, by Wally Lamb (1998)
• Cloudspitter, by Russell Banks (1998)
• John Adams, by David McCullough (2001)
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (2003)
• Light on Snow, by Anita Shreve (2004)
• Tracks, by Louise Erdrich (1988)
• the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime, by
Mark Haddon (2003)
• The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd (2002)
• Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
(2005)
• The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman (2005)
• Four Spirits, by Sena Jeter Naslund (2003)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
(2003)
• What is the What, by Dave Eggers (2006)
Poetry
• THE KALEVALA The Poetry
Society of NH ([email protected]) hosts a one-day
conference on “The Kalevala,
from Myth to Marimekko©”
Sat., April 4, from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m. at the Rollins Estate of the
Governor’s Inn, 76 Wakefield St.
in Rochester, to mark the 160th
anniversary of the Finnish epic
poem. Speakers include Dr. Clia
Goodwin on “J.R.R. Tolkien and
the Uses of Fantasy.” Free and
open to the public.
• DOGS NIGHT OUT: THREE
GREAT POETS Wesley McNair,
Sharon Olds and Philip Schultz
read on April 17 at 7 p.m. at Concord City Auditorium (attached
to City Hall at Green and Prince
streets). $10; proceeds beyond NH Literary Idol. Register with
expenses benefit local homeless- NHWP online.
ness programs. Tickets are availOther
able at Gibson’s Bookstore.
• ANNUAL BOOK SALE The
March sale will be the only book
Writers’ groups
• WRITERS’ DAY hosted by sale this year at Nashua Public
New Hampshire Writers’ Project Library. Sat., March 28, 9 a.m.
brings together 300+ writers and to 4 p.m. and Sun., March 29, 1
publishing professionals for a day to 4 p.m. Members of Friends of
of networking, workshops and Nashua Public Library may attend
more, April 18 at the Derryfield a preview Fri., March 27, from 6
School in Manchester. Keynote to 8:30 p.m. Memberships may
speaker is Meredith Hall, author be purchased at the preview: teen
of New York Times bestseller $5; senior/student $10; individual
Without a Map. Events include $15; family $30.
• SUSAN B. ANTHONY—THE
INVINCIBLE Actor and educator Sally Matson portrays Susan
B. Anthony on Tues., March 31, at
7 p.m. at Amherst Town Library.
Free and open to the public.
• 7TH ANNUAL SPRING
FUNDRAISER for Manchester
City Library will feature guest
author Jane Cleland (launching
Killer Keepsakes, the newest entry
in her Josie Prescott Antiques
Mysteries series) interviewed by
Rebecca Rule, on Wed., April 15,
at the main library. Sign-up began
March 9; cost is $50 per person.
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FILM
In theaters Friday, March 27
• Monsters vs. Aliens (PG, wide release)
• 12 Rounds (PG-13, wide release)
• The Haunting in Connecticut (R, wide
REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
release)
• The Education of Charlie Banks (R,
limited release)
• Goodbye Solo (limited release)
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (R, limited
release)
In theaters Wednesday, April 1
• Enlighten Up! (limited release)
best friend, prompting a Peter-excluding fist pound).
Sure, this bro-flavored comedy
isn’t exactly untrodden ground, but
I Love You, Man approaches its subject with sincerity as well as humor,
observational comedy as well as
slapstick, making it a more genuine
article than the romantic comedies it
initially appears to spoof. B+
Rated R for pervasive language,
including crude and sexual references.
Directed by John Hamburg and written
by Hamburg and Larry Levin, I Love
You, Man is an hour and 50 minutes
long and distributed in wide release by
Paramount Pictures.
Duplicity (PG-13)
I Love You, Man
I Love You, Man (R)
“-esque” because the man himself
is not involved but there are plenty of
Apatow associates (Paul Rudd and
Jason Segel among them) on the bill.
Peter Klaven (Rudd) is the guy
many a girl dreams of — and he’s
worked hard to be that way. Mature,
understanding, willing to work on
a relationship — he even knows
how to give good wedding proposal. When he asks girlfriend Zooey
(Rashida Jones) to marry him, he
takes her to a beautiful spot overlooking the city that he hopes will be
home to his first big professional success as a developer. She is overjoyed,
says yes of course and proceeds to
call her closest friends to let them
know. And who do you need to call,
she asks Peter? Eh, is his response.
A dinner with Peter’s family more
clearly underlines the situation: Peter,
having spent so much time being a
good boyfriend, does not have any
dude-friends. He doesn’t even have
someone to ask to be best man; he’s
not even all that close with his brother
Robbie (Andy Samberg), a personal
trainer who is so dudely likeable that
he can even woo the straight men
he, Robbie, is hoping to date. Peter,
on the other hand, is much better at
developing female friendships — we
just looking for friends and not for
a romantic relationship. But, as the
movie shows, friends are part of the
balance — not just that work-life
thing but the couple-individual balance. Peter has become so focused
on his membership in coupledom he
has let the individual part of his life
slide. Meanwhile Sydney is so determined to be individual that he is left
behind as his other friends couple off.
This is actually advanced storytelling
stuff, and the movie manages to get it
across fairly well without stopping to
moralize. It plays with the romantic
comedy conventions (even leading
up to the requisite mad-dash to a
wedding ceremony) but tweaks them,
managing to keep a kind of sweetness
without letting it go syrupy.
Of course, before I scare you away
with all this talking of emotion and
adult feelings, let me assure you that
the movie is plenty funny. Segel and
Rudd have wonderful dude chemistry
but the real star pair is Jamie Pressly,
who plays one of Zooey’s friends, and
Jon Favreau, who plays her perpetually angry husband. Their bicker battles,
usually decided with Pressly’s promise of sex later, are some of the movie’s
best scenes even though they are slid
in secondary to the main plot of Peter
trying to find his man. And Samberg,
though appearing in a relatively minor
role, is surprisingly delightful every
time he’s on screen, but particularly
when accompanied by J.K. Simmons,
who plays Peter and Robbie’s father
(and who early on declares Robbie his
Reviewlets: Snack-sized movie reviews
* Indicates a movie worth
seeking out. Previously
reviewed movies have
grades. For full reviews of
most movies here or movies
previously released, go to
www.hippopress.com.
The Haunting in Connecticut
(PG-13)
Virginia Madsen, Elias Koteas.
Let’s all pause for a moment to
reflect on the talented Virginia
Madsen before we plunge into
this horror story where she is the
Because, really, Roberts and Owen
play spies and there’s nothing grownup about spies unless you’re talking
about the paperwork and daily grind
of the tertiary characters in a movie like the F.B.I. counterintelligence
procedural Breach but then where’s
the romance in that.
It’s hard to tell the story of this
movie in a linear manner because
the movie does not unfold in a completely linear fashion. It does begin
somewhere near the beginning when
Ray Koval (Clive Owen) of MI6 and
Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) of the
C.I.A. meet (not knowing each other’s affiliations) at a garden party in
Dubai. They flirt, they make eyes over
drinks and before you can say “take
your shirt off, Clive Owen” Claire has
knocked Ray out and is searching his
hotel room for whatever.
Later, they meet again when Ray,
now a civilian, is running a security
organization for a company run by
Richard Garsik (Paul Giamatti). And
Claire is working for their corporate blood-enemy, a company run by
Howard Tully (Tom Wilkinson). Ray
is looking for a person who he thinks
will be a mole to help with a little corporate espionage and sees Claire, the
woman who endangered his career
all those years ago. He is horrified
to find out that they will be working
together on this operation.
Or is he? Maybe, they met again
mom to a family tormented by
of the 90 jillion commercials or
spookiness in their new house.
stunty promotional pieces: this
Opens wide on Friday, March 27. movie is in 3D (and, if you’ve
got some extra cash, IMAX
Monsters Vs. Aliens (PG)
3D). Earth-native monsters
Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie. (including a woman who grows
Perhaps you’ve heard from one to giant size on her wedding
day) are called in by the
government to fight conquerhappy aliens. Opens wide on
Friday, March 27.
12 Rounds (PG-13)
John Cena, Steve Harris.
A criminal blames a police
officer for the death of his
girlfriend. When the criminal
gets out of jail, it turns in to
a very bad day for the police
officer’s fiancée. Opens wide on
Friday, March 27.
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Paul Rudd is just a dude
in search of a bro in the
wonderfully sweet I Love
You, Man, the latest in Judd
Apatow-esque brom-coms.
see him telling the story of his proposal to the women, not his one male
aquaintence, in the office.
As with any good romantic comedy, Peter’s attempt to find a Mr. Right
(as in Mr. Right for the Job of Best
Man) leads to a series of blind dates
— set up by Robbie, set up by Peter’s
mother (Jane Curtin) — with the goal
of getting Peter some guy friends.
Just when Peter would seem to give
up, in walks Sydney (Segel). Peter
meets Sydney at a house showing —
Peter’s there to sell a mansion owned
by Lou Ferrigno and jump-start his
developer dreams, and Sydney is
there for the free sandwiches and the
possibility that he’ll meet a recently
divorced woman looking for a new
house and no-strings-attached good
time. The boys hit it off and Peter
blushingly calls Sydney to ask him
out on a man date.
Paul Rudd practically owns the
copyright on this kind of too-smart
awkwardness. He’s perfect — slanging it up with nonsensical phrases in a
desperate attempt to sound laid-back
or actually getting his own name
wrong on a voice mail message the
first time he calls Sydney.
It’s not only hopelessly endearing,
it nicely captures adult squeamishness about making new friends in
this kind of purposeful way. After
college — when making friends, at
least of the casual kind, is as easy as
bumping into somebody at a keg party — it can be difficult to set out to
make friends, particularly if you are
Julia Roberts and Clive
Owen are grown-ups having
a grown-up romance in the
grown-up caper comedy
Duplicity, a movie that is
just not-grown-up enough to
still have some giddy fun.
before that. Maybe the Garsik versus Tully battle over some top secret
new product Tully is going to launch
isn’t the cause of a chance meeting between old adversaries but an
opportunity for two people who have
specific and complementary skills.
This is about the amount of information that the trailers give you and
this plus the bouncy little Ocean’s
Eleven-ish music and the adult sexiness of Owen and Roberts really is a
good sense of what this movie delivers. The plot is twisted, the mood is
very gin gimlet, the characters are
very antagonistically attracted. It is
exactly the kind of tart cocktail you’re
hoping for when you enter the theater
and if it sort of effervesces away minutes after it’s over, well, don’t most of
the tastiest drinks do that?
I and everyone else on the planet
can’t help but talk about the maturity
of the leads. Roberts is 41, Owen is
46 — it’s not like 40somethings are
such rare, nearly-extinct creatures.
But if you regularly watch romantic movies, you won’t see them on
the screen. Maybe now and then as a
sassy friend or to serve as a lesson for
what not to do, but rarely as mature
people, saying things with maturity
and falling in love without that kind
of corn-syrupy rom-com behavior
that is perhaps best described as the
Kate Hudson Syndrome.
It’s so lovely to see these characters rat-a-tat at each other with barbs
that are bemusedly weary instead of
aggressively self-conscious. They
are both attractive in a kind of nonphony, I-am-my-age kind of way.
Roberts dresses like a woman, Owen
dresses a little more guy-like. But
there’s nothing silly or teenager-ish
about their manners or the way the
characters carry themselves. Sure,
they’re vulnerable, but just enough to
really make us like them.
Duplicity isn’t quite as much fun
as the Ocean’s Eleven it calls to mind
but it’s still plenty mind-twisting and
fun with characters that might be just
a touch too prickly to be called “likeable” but are thoroughly agreeable
to be around. It is delightful, rollercoaster-ride escapism. You know, for
grown-ups. B
Rated PG-13 for language and some
sexual content. Written and directed by
Tony Gilroy, Duplicity is two hours and
five minutes long and distributed in
wide release by Universal Pictures.
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ARAB AMERICAN FORUM presents its
2nd Annual Film Festival
LOVE & MARRIAGE
IN THE ARAB WORLD
Learn about life in the Middle East
through feature and documentary films
Friday, April 3
The Syrian Bride
7 p.m. - Feature Film (97 min)
POP CULTURE:
ALL STADIUM ALL DIGITAL
Intersection of Route 28 and
Ashleigh Dr. across from WalMart.
DERRY 12 PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS ONLINE AT www.flagshipcinemas.com
SHOWTIMES 3/27 - 4/2
Call of Duty 4 Tournament April 11 @ 1:00pm
Call of Duty 5 Tournament April 18 @ 1:00pm
Monsters Vs. Aliens (PG)
1:00, 2:00, 3:15, 4:15, 6:45, 7:15, 9:00, 9:30
Taken (PG-13)
1:40, 4:25, 7:35, 10:00
The Haunting in Connecticut (PG-13)
1:45, 4:10, 7:30, 9:30
Gran Torino (R)
1:25, 7:25
12 Rounds (PG-13)
1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15
Madea Goes to Jail (PG-13)
4:20, 9:50
Duplicity (PG-13)
1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20
Watchmen (R)
3:55, 9:20
Knowing (PG-13)
1:20, 3:55, 7:05, 9:35
Paul Blart Mall Cop (PG)
1:10, 7:00
I Love You Man (R)
1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:25
Slumdog Millionaire (R)
1:35, 9:40
Race to Witch Mountain (PG)
1:15, 3:40, 6:55, 9:10
Last House On The Left (R)
4:30, 7:20
603-437-8800
Knowing
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Canticle of Stones
5 p.m. - Feature Film (110 min)
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Canticle of Stones tells the story of two Palestinian lovers, now
in their forties. They had barely fallen in love nearly twenty years
earlier when he was imprisoned for political activity. She ran off to
the United States to overcome her grief. Years later, she comes
back to Jerusalem only to find him released from prison. Against a
backdrop of resistance and repression; they fall in love again.
Saturday, April 4
Forbidden Marriages
in the Holy Land
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Nominated Best Picture, Director, Actor
Frank Langella — Michael Sheen
“” a film by Ron Howard
Every Evening 7:30 Sun mats 2:00
Oscar nominee Best Actor Mickey Rourke
Best Supporting Actress Marissa Tomei
“ ”
Every Evening 7:30 Sun mats 2:00-4:30
SUNDAY... 1921 Silent Family Drama
Richard Barthelmess “’ ”
w/ live music by Jeff Rapsis — Sun 4:30pm
Admission Prices: All Shows
Adults $6.00
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Saturday, April 4
Children (under 12) and Seniors (65 and over) $4.00
7:30 p.m. - Documentary (68 min)
Londonderry, NH - 603-434-8633
Showtimes for March 27 - April 2
PRESENTED IN DIGITAL 3D
MONSTERS VS. ALIENS 3D B
11:00, 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 8:30, 9:15
$2.00 surcharge for admission to all 3D films
PRESENTED IN DIGITAL PROJECTION H
BARBIE PRESENTS THUMBELINA I
Exploring the lives and loves of eight mixed marriages from
different generations and backgrounds, director Michael Khlefi
uncovers the mutual intolerance in the practice of the Middle East’s
three monotheistic religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
Saturday, April 4
Women Beyond
Borders
10:40 AM
12 ROUNDS C
11:15, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT C
11:20, 1:50, 4:15, 7:30, 9:50
DUPLICITY C
10:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50
I LOVE YOU, MAN E
11:15, 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00
11:05, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55
KNOWING C
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT E
9:35 PM
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN B
11:10, 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15
6:50, 10:10
WATCHMEN E
2:05, 4:40, 7:10
TAKEN C
HOTEL FOR DOGS B
11:25 AM
11:30, 1:40, 4:15
PAUL BLART: MALL COP B
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www.oneilcinemas.com
9 p.m. - Documentary (58 min)
Acclaimed director Jean Chamoun looks at the lives and
works of some of the women who have joined the fight for their
Palestinian homeland. We learn of young resistance fighter Kifah
Afifi’s experience as a survivor of the 1982 Shatila massacre in
Lebanon when she was just twelve years old. She tells us about
fighting the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 1990s and
of her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility, which was run
by Israel’s auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army.
FREE to the Public!
Mara Auditorium, Webster Hall,
Southern NH University
2500 N. River Rd, Manchester
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Stadium Seating • Dolby Surround • Beer, Wine & Sandwiches
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I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (PG-13) 117 min. — Fri. 8:00, Sat. 12:30, 8:00,
Sun. 12:30, 8:00, Mon. 8:00, Tue. 2:00, 8:00, Wed. 8:00, Thu. 8:00
FROST/NIXON (NR) 122 min. — Sun. 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, Mon. 5:45, 8:15,
Tue. 2:15, 5:45, 8:15, Wed. 5:45, 8:15
AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR (NR) 90 min. — Fri. 7:00
Sponsors:
WOMANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL (NR) — Sat. - See website for schedule
The Spice Center - Mid East and South Asian Foods, 245 Maple St,
Manchester Beirut Shuwarma - Lebanese Take-Out, 245 Maple
St, Manchester David Lamarre - Vincent, Exec. Dir., NH Council of
Churches, Concord Hippo Press - 49 Hollis St, Manchester
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SEVEN DAYS (NR) 103 min. — Part of the Jewish Film Festival Thu. 7:00
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Back in 1959, the Leave-it-to-Beaver-ishly dressed class of an autumnally-enhanced
Massachusetts elementary school buried a time
capsule for the Children of Tomorrow. Everybody drew crayoned pictures of robots and
spacemen but creepy eye-circle-having little
Lucinda Embry (Lara Robinson) filled a page
with numbers, movie crazy-person-style.
Flash forward to roughly now and elementary school student Caleb Koestler (Chandler
Canterbury) is there when his class digs up the
capsule. Everybody gets a crayoned picture
and his, naturally, is the number-filled page
by Lucinda. And, just like Lucinda used to, he
can now hear a mysterious staticy whispering.
Unlike Lucinda, Caleb has a hearing aid, so
when the whispering gets creepy (immediately), he can turn the device down.
Would that the audience had such a luxury.
Caleb’s dad John (Nicolas Cage) is a
mopeypants science professor prone to drinking himself to sleep on account of his sadness
over his dead wife (via fire — a minor disaster,
a-hem). During such a boozing, he accidentally sets a glass down on the page of numbers
and then picks it up, leaving a bourbony ring.
The ring circles a grouping of numbers, among
them 091101 — guess what that means? He
soon finds out that the number appearing next
to the cheap, unearned shock-numerals corresponds with the number of people who died in
the terrorist attacks. Then, he scans the other
numbers on the page, finding decades’ worth
of fires, floods, earthquakes and other catastrophes with high body counts. And not all of
those numbers appear to correspond to past
events — the time capsule number page predicts several disasters in the future.
Because there has to be some running around
between the uncovering of the plot-motivating
gimmick and the big pay-off disaster, Lucinda’s daughter Diana (Rose Byrne) and her
daughter are introduced into the mix (she’s also
a single parent, of course). And, to some extent,
she doesn’t add a whole lot to the story once the
“lots of people will die” wheel starts turning but
she does contribute a truly, deliciously absurd
scene in which an increasingly hysterical Diana
is screaming into a phone at John that they have
to “think about the children!!!!” No, that is not
enough exclamation points. There might not be
enough exclamation points to accurately depict
how an actress known for work on a prestige
show like Damages kicks into chomping-thescenery mode.
What’s even better is that in a movie of unintentionally hilarious scenes, that’s not even the
first one. It might not even be the one I laughed
the loudest at. Knowing starts out as the same
kind of over-serious Cage oddity as Next or
Bangkok Dangerous but then takes an even
weirder than usual turn, with full Martiansare-invading-the-Earth 1950s B-movie sci-fi
operatic score, and, by the end, it has spun out
into total crazyland, complete with pale-suitwearing men in black and menacing weather
patterns. I deeply wish I could in more detail
discuss the ending — it is so startlingly “what
the hell” that it is the kind of thing that stays with
you long after you’ve left the movie, providing fodder for potentially hours of “what were
they thinking.” The final scenes are almost brilliantly bizarre, as though the film-makers were
playing a game of “what’s the weirdest thing
we could have happen next.”
I almost want to recommend this movie —
that’s how strange and awful it is. Were it not
for the time and money you’d never get back,
I’d suggest that you gather a large group of
friends, see the movie and then open some
large bottles of wine (who knows — maybe
the less sober you become, the more the movie makes sense). As it is, I don’t know that a
derisive laugh — even one this big — is worth
the expense. D
Rated PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language. Directed
by Alex Proyas and written by Ryne Douglas
Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart
Hazeldine and Richard Kelly, Knowing is two
hours and one minute long and distributed in
wide release by Summit Entertainment.
Cinema locator
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (R) 120 min. — Fri. 5:30, Sat. 3:00, 5:30, Sun. 3:00,
5:30, Mon. 5:30, Tue. 5:30, Wed. 5:30, Thu. 5:30
For further information, contact:
Nabil Migalli - [email protected]
Steve Harvey - [email protected]
Knowing (PG-13)
Nicolas Cage finds a
mysterious letter that can predict
disaster (though, unfortunately,
it did not predict this movie)
in Knowing, a ridiculous bit of
apocalyptic action fluff.
TOWN HALL THEATRE
Mona’s wedding day may be the saddest of her life. Once she
crosses the border into Syria, she will never be allowed back to
her beloved family in the Druze village of Majdal Shams. Shot on
location in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, The Syrian Bride is
a powerful film about physical, mental and emotional borders and
the courage it takes to cross them.
FILM Continued
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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 Rd, 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 Rd, Concord, 226-3800
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
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POP CULTURE:
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.
• Doubt (PG-13, 2008) Thurs.,
March 26, at 7:30 p.m.
• The Wrestler (R, 2008) Thurs.,
March 26, through Thurs., April 2,
at 7:30 p.m. PLUS Sun., March 29,
at 2 & 4:30 p.m.
• Frost/Nixon (R, 2008) Fri.,
March 27, through Thurs., April 2,
at 7:30 p.m. PLUS Sun., March 29,
at 2 p.m.
• Tol’able David (1921) Family
drama starring Richard Barthelmess. Sun., March 29, at 4:30 p.m.
Live music by Jeff Rapsis. Free.
FRANCO-AMERICAN
CENTRE
52 Concord St., Manchester, 6694045, francoamerican­centrenh.com
• Disappearances, a film by Jay
Craven about life near the Vermont/
Quebec border, on Thurs., March
26, at 7 p.m. Craven will lead a discussion after the film.
MANCHESTER CITY
LIBRARY
405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550,
www.manchester.lib.nh.us
•Pirates of the Caribbean (PG-13,
2003) Wed., April 1, at 1 p.m.
• Short Circuit (PG, 1986) Wed.,
April 8, at 1 p.m.
WEST BRANCH
COMMUNITY LIBRARY
76 N. Main St.., Manchester, 6246560, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
•Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG,
2008) Fri., April 3, at 3 p.m.
SNHU
Southern New Hampshire University,
Mara Auditorium, Webster Hall, 2500
N. River Road in Manchester.
• The Arab American Forum’s
2nd Annual Film Festival: This
year’s theme is “Love and Marriage in the Arab World. Films to be
screened include The Syrian Bride
(2004, 97 minutes) on Fri., April 3,
at 7 p.m.; Canticle of Stones (1990,
110 minutes) on Sat., April 4, at 5
p.m.; Forbidden Marriages in the
Holy Land (1995, 68 minutes) on
Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Women
Beyond Borders (2004, 58 minutes)
on Saturday at 9 p.m. The films are
free and open to the public. Contact
[email protected] or s.harvey@
snhu.edu for more information.
Thurs., April 2, at 7 p.m.
• This American Life — Live! Thurs.,
April 30, at 7 p.m. Aired in HD.
PETERBOROUGH
COMMUNITY THEATRE
6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, www.thepct.com. Schedule
subject to change, call ahead.
• Theme night Tuesdays — Starting in March, it’s TNT at PCT. A
different theme each Tuesday —
first Tuesday of the month, classic
movie; second Tuesday, comedy/
class; third Tuesday, action/sci-fi;
fourth Tuesday, chick flick. Movies
start at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free;
donations accepted.
• Slumdog Millionaire (R, 2008)
Thurs., March 26 at 7:30 p.m.
• Gran Torino(R, 2008) Fri.,
March 27, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., March
28, and Sun., March 29, at 3 & 7:30
p.m.; Wed., April 1, at 3 & 7:30
p.m.; Thurs., April 2 at 7:30 p.m.
THE COLONIAL THEATER
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033,
www.thecolonial.org
• The Reader (R, 2008) Thurs.,
March 26, at 7 p.m.
• Frost/Nixon (PG-13, 2008) Fri.,
March 27, at 7 p.m.; Sun., March
29, at 2 & 7 p.m.; Mon., March 30
through Thurs. April 2, at 7 p.m.
NEWBURYPORT
SCREENING ROOM
82 State St.., Newburyport, Mass.,
978-462-3456, www.newburyportmovies.com
• Gran Torino (R, 2008) Thurs.,
March 26, at 7:30 p.m.
• Wendy and Lucy (R, 2008) Fridays,
March 27 and April 3, at 6:45 & 8:45
p.m.; Saturdays, March 28, and April
4, at 4:45, 6:45 & 8:45 p.m.; Sundays,
March 29 and April 5, at 5:30 & 7:30
p.m.; Mondays through Thursday,
March 30 through April 2, and April
6 through 9, at 7:30 p.m.
HOOKSETT
PUBLIC LIBRARY
1701B Hooksett Rd., 485-6092 Free films and popcorn.
• Clone Wars (PG, 2008) Thurs.,
OTHER April 2, at 6:30 p.m.
• A KALAHARI FAMILY on Fri.,
April 3, at 7 p.m. at the Mariposa
NHTI Sweeney Auditorium, 31 College Museum (26 Main St. in PeterborDrive, Concord, 271-7185, www. ough, 924-4555, mariposamuseum.
org). A film about the bushmen of
nhti.edu
• Timecrimes (R, 2007, Spanish) on Southern Africa. Part of the First
Friday programming, which includes
Fri., April 10.
free admission on the first Friday of
the month from 5 to 9 p.m.
NASHUA PUBLIC
• SILENT FILMS OF THE 1920s
LIBRARY
NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, The Amherst Town Library (14
589-4600, www.nashualibrary.org. Main St., Amherst, 673-2288, www.
Call 589-4646 for the library’s film amherst.lib.nh.us) will present silent
line, a schedule of upcoming mov- films from the 1920s accompanied
by live music from pianist Richard
ies. Films subject to change.
• Rachel Getting Married (R, 2008) Hughes on Tues., April 14, at 7 p.m.
• THE GAY MARRIAGE THING
Fri., March 27, at 7 p.m.
• Bolt (PG, 2008) Sat., March 28, a documentary about a Massachusetts couple, will screen on Wed.,
at 2 p.m.
April 15, at 7 p.m. at Christ Church
United, 180 E. Merrimack St. in
REVOLVING MUSEUM
22 Shattuck St.., Lowell, Mass., 978- Lowell, Mass., with parking available
at Saints Medical Center. Admission
937-2787, revolvingmuseum.org
• Second Annual Lowell Film Fes- is $5 donation and organizers are
tival 2009 focusing on “Food, Fair providing childcare, according to a
Trade & the Global Economy,” Fri., press release. RSVP by April 10 to
April 3, through Sun., April 5. The Suzzanne Cromwell at lowellfilmevent is free and open to all ages. Will [email protected]. See www.
features film screenings, guest speak- wewelcomeall.org or www.lowellers, panel discussions and a fair trade filmcollaborative.org
• FILMMAKER’S WORKSHOP
market. See www.lowellfilms.org.
“How to Produce, Market & Screen
Your Own Digital Film” on Sat.,
THE MUSIC HALL
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436- April 25, and Sun., April 26, from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days at Back
2400, www.themusichall.org
• Wendy and Lucy (R, 2008) Fri., Lot Films production studio, 105
March 27, at7 p.m.; Mon., March Faltin Drive in Manchester, www.
30, and Tues., March 31, at 7 p.m.; digitalfilmmakingworkshops.com.
SEE...
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RICHARD BARTHELMESS in
TOL’ABLE
DAVID (1921)
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SUNDAY, MARCH 29 at 4:30 p.m.
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RED RIVER THEATRES
11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600,
www.redrivertheatres.org
• Two Lovers (R, 2009) Thurs.,
March 26, at 5:45 & 8:15 p.m.
• Slumdog Millionaire (R, 2008)
Thurs., March 26, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Fri., March 27, at 5:30 p.m.; Sat.,
March 28, and Sun., March 29, at 3 &
5:30 p.m.; Mon., March 30, through
Thurs., April 2, at 5:30 p.m.
• Documentary series by John
Gfroerer: Rights & Reds (1992, 57
minutes) about the Cold War investigation of subversive activities in
New Hampshire, on Thurs., March
26, at 7 p.m.; Sherman Adams (1990,
55 minutes), about Adams who was
governor of NH from 1949 to 1953
and a White House staffer for Dwight
Eisenhower, followed by a talk with
Gov. John Sununu on Thurs., April
16, at 7 p.m.; and Powerful As Truth
(2001, 59 minutes) a documentary
about William Loeb, on Thurs., April
23, at 7:30 p.m.
• At the Death House Door (NR,
2007), a documentary the death
penalty, about Fri., March 27, at 7
p.m., followed by a discussion with
an assistant attorney general and a
victims’ rights advocate moderated
by NHPR’s Jon Greenberg.
• Frost/Nixon (R, 2008) Sun.,
March 29, at 12:45, 3:15, 5:45 &
8:15 p.m.; Mon., March 30, at 5:45
& 8:15 p.m.; Tues., March 31, at
2:15, 5:45 & 8:15 p.m.; Wed., April
1, at 5:45 & 8:15 p.m.
• I’ve Loved You So Long (PG-13,
2008) Fri., March 27, at 8 p.m.; Sat.,
March 28, at 12:30 & 8 p.m.; Sun.,
March 29, at 12:30 & 8 p.m.; Mon.,
March 30, at 8 p.m.; Tues., March
31, at 2 & 8 p.m.; Wed., April 1, and
Thurs., March 2, at 8 p.m.
• Womanimation! A film festival
showcasing animated shorts and
features created by women in the
U.S. and Europe. The festival takes
place Sat., March 28, starting at 1
p.m. See the Red River Web site for
a list of films. See www.merginarts.
org for more on the festival.
• New Hampshire Jewish Film
Festival will run Sat., March 28,
through Sun., April 5. See www.
jewishnh.org/filmfest.html. Films
scheduled so far include Seven
Days (2008, Hebrew/French/Arabic with subtitles; Thurs., April 2,
at 7 p.m.), Noodle (2007, Hebrew/
Mandarin with subtitles; Sat., April
2, at 7 p.m. & Sun., April 5, at 5:30
p.m.), Eli and Ben (2008, Hebrew
with subtitles; Sun., April 5, at 1
p.m.), and Holy Land Hardball
(2008, English; Sun., April 5, at
3:30 p.m.).
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Presented by The Jewish Federation of New Hampshire in Partnership with Red River Theatres, Concord NH
The Deal
8:00 pm
Reception: 7pm
In English, USA/Canada, 2007,
99 Minutes
Director: Steven Schachter
EVENT TICKET: $25.00
includes: Opening night Film/
Reception
One additional voucher
redeemable in advance for
a Film Festival ticket at JFNH or Red River Theatres.
Vouchers must be redeemed a minimum of 20 minutes
before the show.
SEVEN DAYS
Thursday, April 2, 2009
7:00 pm
Red River Theatres, Concord, NH
In Hebrew/French/Arabic with
subtitles, Israel, 2008, 103 min.
Directors: Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
ADMISSION: $8.00
THE CASE FOR ISRAEL:
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
7:30 pm
The Jewish Federation of
New Hampshire, Manchester, NH
In English, 2008, 77 min., full length feature documentary.
Director: Michael Yohay
Guest Speakers: Nadav Tamir, Consul General of Israel
to New England and Gloria Greenfield, Producer
ADMISSION: $6.00
NOODLE
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Red River Theatres, Concord, NH
In Hebrew/Mandarin with
subtitles, Israel, 2007, 95 min
Director: Ayelet Menahemi
ADMISSION: $8.00
ELI & BEN
HOLY LAND HARDBALL
Sunday, April 5, 2009
1:00 pm
Sunday, April 5, 2009
3:30 pm
Red River Theatres,
Concord, NH
In Hebrew with subtitles, Israel, 2008, 89 min
Director: Ori Ravid
ADMISSION: $8.00
Red River Theatres, Concord NH
In English, USA, 2008, 75 min
Directors: Brett Rapkin and
Erik Kesten
ADMISSION: $8.00
For tickets, call 603.627.7679
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Nite Roundup
Local music
& nightlife news
By Dana Unger
HIPPO NITE
Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
Black humor
Punk politicos Black 47 come to Capitol Center
By Dana Unger
[email protected]
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• Unplugged: Acoustic musician Jeff
Snow will perform on Thursday, March 26,
at 7 p.m., at the Merrimack Library, 470 DW
Highway in Merrimack. Snow plays six and
12-string guitar, autoharp, Celtic bouzouki
and bodhran, and will have CDs available
for purchase at the show. The concert is
free, but seating is limited, so the public is
encouraged to reserve seats at 424-5021.
• Black and white: Murphy’s Taproom
will host a Black and White benefit show
on Thursday, March 26, at 8 p.m., 494 Elm
St., Manchester. The event will raise money
for the Concord-based organization Global
Benefit, whose mission is to fight extreme
poverty. There will be a jazz band and tunes
from DJ Master Millions. Attire for the evening is black and white. Tickets cost $15
and can be purchased by calling 706-8624
or Murphy’s Taproom at 644-3535.
• Granite gala: The 2009 Granite Gala
will be held on Saturday, March 28, at
8 p.m., at Sky Meadow Country Club, 6
Mountain Laurels Drive, Nashua. The event
will be a fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and will have
food, live music, dancing and auctions for
items like trips to Disney World and Martha’s Vineyard, along with Red Sox tickets
and more. Tickets cost $200 per person and
can be purchased at 222-2300.
• Emily rocks: The NH Institute of Art
will present Nanette Perotte in a one-woman rock performance on Thursday, March
26, at 7 p.m., in the French Auditorium,
148 Concord St., Manchester. Titled “Emily Dickinson: Zero to the Bone,” the show
illuminates the work and life of the famous
poet through music and performance. This
is a free event.
• Clap your hands: Family entertainer Billy Jonas will perform at Durgin Hall
at the UMass-Lowell Center for the Arts
on Sunday, March 29, at 2 p.m., 35 Wilder
St., Lowell, Mass. Jonas’ percussion-based
music uses found objects such as buckets,
bottles and key chains, and Jonas has shared
the stage with artists like Pete Seeger, Patti
Larkin and Ani DiFranco. Tickets cost $12
and may be purchased at 978-934-4444 or
www.uml.edu/centerforarts.
• Project comedy: There will be a comedy night to benefit Oyster River High
School’s Project Graduation on Friday,
March 27, at 7:30 p.m., on the ORHS campus, 55 Coe St., Durham. Comedians Mike
McDonald, Patty Ross, Dave Rattigan and
Jon Rineman will perform. Tickets cost
$15 in advance ($20 at the door) and can be
purchased by calling 659-3271 or at www.
scampscomedy.com.
[email protected]
Since forming in 1989 in New York
City, Irish rock band Black 47 has become
known for politically charged songs dealing with everything from Irish civil rights
to the current war in Iraq. But founder and
vocalist Larry Kirwan says the band members try not to take themselves too seriously.
“We use humor through a lot of our music,”
Kirwan said in a March 18 interview. “If
you’re Irish, you have to look at life through
black humor.”
Kirwan came to New York from Ireland
in the mid-1970s, when disco and punk were
rising in popularity side by side. He formed
Black 47 (named for the worst year of the
Irish Potato Famine) partly as a response to
the sluggish late-’80s music landscape, and
partly as an avenue for the band’s political and social views. Kirwan himself had
long been involved in the Irish civil rights
movement.
“We were political right from the start,”
Kirwan said. “At that time, people weren’t
really dealing with subjects like that. The
Clash was finished and [Bob] Marley was
dead. Black 47 was its own thing right from
the start — we weren’t concerned about what
was popular musically. There wasn’t much
music you could really look up to in 1989.”
Taking their music, a high-energy style of
punk, rock, reggae, jazz and traditional Irish
melodies, the band gained popular recognition in 1993 with their hit single “Funky
Ceili” and was soon appearing on shows like
The Late Show with David Letterman and
being profiled by The New York Times and
Entertainment Weekly.
Never ones to shy away from hot-button
issues, the group came out in 2003 against
the Iraq war, a move that both gained and
cost them fans.
“There are a lot of people who believe that
if you go to war, you should support it,” Kirwan said. “For us, we felt it was important to
support the troops, but that it was patriotic
to say no, we don’t
support the war.
Few rock bands
did that, but for us
to not be what we
are would betray
what we were all
about. But for three
years, it was rough
on stage — half our
audience were for
the war and half
were against it.”
The group’s latest studio album,
Iraq, was written
in response to the Black 47. Courtesy photo.
continuing conflict,
told through the
point of view of the troops.
“Now it’s almost like a historical document,” Kirwan said. “All people care about
now is the economy and trying to keep their
jobs. What my fear is is that all of these men
and women are coming back to different circumstances here, and will it be like when
Vietnam soldiers came back? Will people
shy away, or be there for them when they
return?”
Though dedicated to creating politically informed yet entertaining music, Kirwan
says that Black 47 is not out to convert people to their beliefs.
“We don’t preach when we’re on stage,” he
said. “We’re not saying ‘do this’ or ‘do that’
— our songs are character-driven. You take a
song like ‘Bagdad Blues’ for example. That’s
just about a person in a situation at that point
in their life, and that goes back to even the
traditional Irish songs we do, which are about
taking characters from history and learning
lessons from their lives. Those are songs that
we all can relate to.”
With the history and politics of Ireland at
the core of the group’s songwriting, its not
surprising that many of their tunes have been
used in political science and history courses
in colleges and high schools, and that Kirwan
(who is also a playwright and author) often
guest lectures on these subjects. He said there
is value to everyone in understanding the history and culture of Ireland.
“There are lessons in it everyone can
take,” Kirwan said. “Many Irish-Americans
don’t really know their history, the roots they
came from. So many are so far removed from
that now. What we do is waken that interest.
Every nationality has the desire to discover their roots, to find out where they came
from.”
For Kirwan, it is the Irish black humor that
holds a special place in his heart.
“The Irish have a way of dealing with tragedy in a positive way,” he said. “Take the
Irish wake — it’s the worst tragedy you could
experience, and yet they come together and
celebrate the person — laugh, sing, dance,
drink, and party. For Black 47, it’s not all
political and serious. We want to have people
leave with a smile on their face too.”
Black 47
When: Friday, March 27, at 8 p.m.
Where: Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South
Main St., Concord.
Tickets: $30, 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com
Keeping their edge
Mindset X set to release new EP
By Dana Unger
[email protected]
Many bands have been formed out of the
wreckage of previous incarnations, and the
Manchester metal group Mindset X was no
different. Vocalist Steven Scott and drummer Adam Cote were on the lookout for a
new bassist in the fall of 2004 when they met
up with Jerry Houle, and quickly the three
formed a musical connection.
“All three of us have a wide range of what
we like,” Scott said in a March 18 interview.
“I try to be open-minded about a lot of stuff.
I’m a big Rush fan and grew up listening to
those complex arrangements, and like groups
like Disturbed and System of a Down. Jerry
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grew up on music like The Beach Boys, and
Adam is into Frank Zappa and King Crimson. None of it matches up, but each of it
brings something different to the group.”
Shortly after the guys came together, they
released their first CD, Statecraft, and in
2006 they released their next CD, Physics,
and went on a tour of New England to support it. The band signed to Rat Pak Records
and in 2007 self-produced the album Generation Rx, which became a top seller for the
label. But the band decided to leave Rat Pak
in December 2008 to go in a new direction.
“Joe [O’Brien, owner of Rat Pak] never
put restraints on us or on the way we should
write,” Scott said. “There were other aspects
as to why we left, but really we kind of want-
ed to explore a way of doing different things.
There were no big fallouts or anything.”
Now out on their own terms, Mindset X
will release a new three-song EP on April 4,
called This EP is Self Titled.
“It’s definitely a harder direction,” Scott
said. “It’s more sarcastic, more aggressive,
and shows our personalities more. We’re all
over the place with our sound and range, but
at this point we were angry — I think a lot
of people are right now with the economy
being so bad. All of these songs are written in
a style that everyone can relate to, instead of
just bitching about things. That does nothing
for me as a musician.”
So will the band’s upcoming EP be a prelude to a future full-length album?
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Lunch is Back
Hear them live
Wounded Warrior Project Charity Night w/
Mindset X
When: Thursday, March 26, at 8 p.m.
Where: Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial
St., Manchester
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“We’re obsessed with writing new material right now, so I’d say yes,” Scott said.
“The goal is just to really get our music out
there.”
They are a metal band that wants to surpass metal stereotypes, particularly when it
comes to lyrics.
“Our songwriting changes every album,”
Scott said. “We all write lyrics, bounce
them back and forth via e-mail, add in,
take out, and sometimes it all changes during rehearsals, because you find out what
rhythm is going to work with it. I guess
we’re kind of unusual in that we write the
lyrics first and the music after, but we try
and write real lyrics, and not just stuff about
swords and demons.”
Mindset X is lining up a string of shows,
including JAGFest in Southbridge, Mass.,
on Saturday, April 4, and a special show at
Milly’s Tavern in Manchester on Thursday,
March 26.
“It’s called the Wounded
Warrior Show, and is for soldiers that have been injured
in war, so all the funds from
the night will go towards that
fund,” Scott said. “Kinetic Theory, Great Misfortune,
and Before the Crash will be
there too. We’ve played with
Kinetic Theory before and
we’re pretty similar in style,
so it should be cool.”
The band is also planning an extensive tour for the
spring and summer, and is
hoping to do a full-length release before the
end of the year. Scott said that, over time,
the band has seen the metal scene change in
New Hampshire.
“It changes every year,” he said. “Bands
form, bands break up, venues open and
close. I think it’s thriving, but is not at its
peak at the moment. With some shows, you
always have at least that one that turns out
to be fantastic, but nowadays it seems to be
on the other side, though you cherish anyone that walks through the door and spends
money to hear you play.”
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Grand
Opening
CONCERTS
Lebanon Opera House
51 North Park St., Lebanon,
448-0400
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
Rochester Opera House
31 Wakefield St., Rochester,
335-1992
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
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band
& The Blind Boys of Alabama,
Thurs., March 26, at 7:30 p.m.,
Lebanon Opera House
• Richard Shindell, Thurs.,
March 26, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Leahy, Thurs., March 26, at
7:30 p.m., Music Hall
• Josh Turner, Thurs., March 26,
at 8 p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Black 47, Fri., March 27, at 8
p.m., Capitol Center
• Graham Parker, Fri., March
27, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Livingston Taylor, Sat., March
28, at 7 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Chad Perrone, Sat., March 28,
at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., Tupelo
• Leahy, Sat., March 28, at 8
p.m. Colonial Theatre
• Beatlemania Now, Sat., March
28, at 8 p.m. Rochester Opera
House
• Rick Charette, Sun., March
29, at 1 p.m., Concord City Auditorium
• Cherryholmes, Sun., March
29, at 7 p.m., Music Hall
• Ryan Montbleau, Sun., March
29, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• All New England Jazz Festival, Tues., March 31, at 5 p.m.,
Silver Center
• New Kids On The Block,
Tues., March 31, at 7:30 p.m.,
Verizon
• Brandi Carlile, Wed., April 1,
at 7:30 p.m., Music Hall
• Joan Osborne, Wed., April 1,
at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• G. Love & Special Sauce,
Thurs., April 2, at 8 p.m., Casino
Ballroom
• I Musici de Montreal, Fri.,
April 3, at 7:30 p.m.., Lebanon
Opera House
• Vance Gilbert, Fri., April 3, at
8 p.m., Tupelo
• Tower of Power, Fri., April 3,
at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Presence: Tribute to Led Zeppelin, Sat., April 4, at 7 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Kim Wilson’s Blues Revue,
Sat., April 4, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• GrooveLily, Sat., April 4, at 8
p.m., Music Hall
• Shinedown, Sat., April 4, at 8
p.m., Casino Ballroom
• The Flatlanders, Sun., April 5,
at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• Sounds of The Seacoast &
Yankee Clipper Chorus, Sun.,
April 5, at 7 p.m., Rochester
Opera House
• Joe Bonamassa, Sun., April
5, at 7:30 p.m., Lebanon Opera
House
• John Gorka, Eliza Gilkyson
& Cliff Eberhardt, Sun., April
5, at 7 p.m., Peterborough Players Theater
• Gaelic Storm, Wed., April 8, at
8 p.m., Tupelo
• Colin Hay, Thurs., April 9, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Black Label Society, Thurs.,
April 9, at 7 p.m., Verizon
• Colin Hay, Fri., April 10, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
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Nightlife Listings
Chess
• CHESS CLUB open to players
of all levels, 7 to 9 p.m. Fridays at
Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St.,
Nashua. Call 589-4600.
DJs
• 603 LOUNGE 14 West Hollis St.
in Nashua, 821-5260, Monday and
Thursday.
• AMBER ROOM 53 High St. in
Nashua, 881-9060, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
• AUBURN PITTS 167 Rockingham Road in Nashua, 622-6564,
Saturday.
• BREEZWAY 14 Pearl St. in
Manchester, 621-9111, Friday and
Saturday.
• BREWERY LANE TAVERN 95
Brewery Ln., in Portsmouth, 4337007, Friday, and Saturday.
• BRICK HOUSE 2 Orchard St.,
in Dover, 749-3838, Thursday (no
DJ the 1st Thursday of the month).
• CATTLEMAN’S SPORTS
BAR 14 Railroad Sq. in Nashua,
880-6001, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Saturday.
• CLUB 313 93 S. Maple St. in
Manchester, 628-6813, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, www.
club313.net.
• CLUB LIQUID 23 Amherst St.
in Manchester, 645-7600, Thursday.
• CONCORD GRILLE 1 Eagle
Sq. in Concord, 228-6608, Friday
and Saturday.
• GAS LIGHT 64 Market St. in
Portsmouth,430-9122, Friday and
Saturday.
• JIMMY’s 15 Mechanic St. in
Dover, 742-9818, Friday & Saturday.
• MILLY’S TAVERN 500 Commercial St. in Manchester, 625-4444,
Monday, Wednesday, Sunday.
• PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER
48 Main St. in Nashua, 821-7535,
Wednesday.
• RED DOOR 107 State St. in
Portsmouth, 373-6827, Tuesday.
• RJ’s 83 Washington St. in Dover,
617-2940. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday.
• WB’s 20 Old Granite St. in
Manchester, 641-2583 Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday &
Saturday.
Foosball
• FOOSBALL TOURNAMENT
every Friday at Slammers Sports
Bar & Grill, 547 Donald St., Bedford. Signs-ups start at 8 p.m., tournament starts by 9 p.m. $10.
Swing?
Element Lounge 1055 Elm St.
Manchester, NH
603-627-2922
www.elementlounge.net
Mon 6pm - 1:30am • Tues - Sun 3pm - 1:30am
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Manchester’s
Only
Alternative
07
Karaoke
• 603 LOUNGE 14 West Hollis St.
in Nashua, 821-5260, Monday and
Thursday.
• ALAN’S North Main St. in
Boscawen, 753-6631, Wednesday.
• AUBURN PITTS 167 Rockingham Road in Nashua, 622-6564,
Saturday.
• BIDDY MULLIGAN’S 1 Washington St. in Dover, 749-1100, Sunday.
• BOOMERANGS 37 Henniker
St. in Hillsborough, 464-3912,
Wednesday.
• CANAL STREET PUB 25 Canal
St. in Nashua, 889-3374, Saturday.
• CONCORD GRILLE 1 Eagle
Sq. in Concord, 228-6608, Tuesday
through Thursday and Sunday.
• CATTLEMAN’S SPORTS
BAR 14 Railroad Sq. in Nashua,
880-6001, Wednesday, Thursday
Hangin’ tough
Recently reunited pop
group New Kids on the
Block will play the Verizon Wireless Arena on
Tuesday, March 31, at
7:30 p.m., 555 Elm St.,
Manchester. Since their
debut in the late 1980s,
the group has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and
broken box office concert records. Their current tour will feature performances of songs like “Step by Step,” “Right Stuff”
and several selections from their new album, The Block. Tickets cost $36 to $66 and can be purchased at 800-745-3000 or
www.ticketmaster.com. Courtesy photo.
April Fool’s laughs
The Old Salt will present a
night of April Fool’s comedy on
Wednesday, April 1, at 8 p.m., 490
Lafayette Road, Hampton. Comedians John Turco, Steve Scarfo and
Jon Rineman (pictured) will perform. Turco’s “Twisted Thoughts”
can be heard on Vermont’s Moo92
FM Friday mornings, Rineman
is a contributing writer for The
Tonight Show and SNL’s “Weekend Update,” and Scarfo is a 13-year veteran of the comedy
scene. There will be a three-course dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets
— $39.95 for the dinner and show — can be purchased by calling 926-8322. Courtesy photo.
and Saturday.
• CHEN YANG LI 520 South St.
in Bow, 228-8508, Thursday and
Saturday.
• CLUB 313 93 S. Maple St. in
Manchester, 628-6813, Friday,
www.club313.net.
• ELEMENT LOUNGE 1055
Elm St. in Manchester, 627-2922,
every Sunday at 5 p.m. w/ DJ Sharon Mulrennan.
• FLAMBEAUX 1181 Elm St., in
Manchester, 626-0304, Tuesday.
• FODY’S GREAT AMERICAN
TAVERN 9 Clinton St. in Nashua,
577-9015. Tuesday w/ Mark Allen
• GRANDSTANDS LOUNGE 216
Maple St. in Manchester, 625-9656.
Thursday through Saturday, 8:30
p.m. to 1 a.m. w/ Brian Labrie.
• JADE DRAGON LOUNGE 515
DW Highway, Merrimack Commons, 424-2280, Thursday through
Saturday.
• JIMMY’s 15 Mechanic St. in
Dover, 742-9818, Thursday.
• JOHNNY BAD’S 542 Elm St.,
Manchester, 222-9191, Wednesday
w/ Captain Chris.
• JOHNNY’S PIZZERIA 35
Lowell Road in Hudson, 880-7087,
Thursday w/ Tony ZZZ.
• KELLY’S ROW 421 Central
Ave. in Dover, 750-7081, Tuesday
w/ DJ Coach.
• MCGARVEY’S 1097 Elm St.,
627-2721, Friday, Saturday and
Monday w/ DJ Squidd.
• ROCKO’S 253 Wilson Ave. in
Manchester, 626-5866, Thursday
through Saturday.
• SHENANIGAN’S 586 Nashua
St. in Milford, 672-2060, Monday
and Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday w/ DJ Trinity.
• SLADE’S 4 W. Hollis St. in
Nashua, 886-1334, Wednesday
through Friday, Sunday.
• SLAMMERS 547 Donald St. in
Bedford, 668-2120, every Tuesday
at 8:30 p.m. w/ Shadow Rose.
• STEVE-N-JAMES TAVERN
187 Rockingham Road in Derry,
every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. w/ DJ
Sharon Mulrennan
• WHIPPERSNAPPERS 44
Nashua Road, Londonderry, 4342660, every Wednesday at 8:30
p.m. w/ DJ Sharon Mulrennan.
Poker
• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAMENTS Amoskeag Bingo Center/
Sharky’s Poker Room in Manchester.
Proceeds for charity. Ages 18 and up.
606-4456, playnhpoker.com.
• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAMENTS Every Sunday at 1 p.m.,
Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial
St. Manchester. Proceeds to benefit Vietnam Veterans of American
Central NH Chapter 41.
• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAMENTS River Card Room at
185 Elm St., Milford. Thursday
through Sunday. 249-5548, www.
nhcardroom.com.
Scrabble
•
DECORATIVE
IMAGE
SCRABBLE NIGHT Every
second Wednesday, 7 to 9 p.m.,
Richmond Room, Bedford Public
Library, 2 Meetinghouse Road,
Bedford. 472-2300.
Trivia Nights
• BARLEY HOUSE 132 North
Main St. in Concord, 228-6363,
Wednesday.
• PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER
48 Main St. in Nashua, 821-7535,
Tuesday.
• WILD ROVER 21 Kosciuszko
St. in Manchester, 669-7722, Last
Monday of the month.
Thursday, March 26
Bedford
C.R. Sparks: Groove
Authority
Slammers: open mike w/
Legion of Doom
Boscawen
Alan’s: J. Pratt
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike w/ Steve Naylor
Hermanos: Mike Morris
Dover
Barley Pub: bluegrass
Brick House: Stiffwater
Junction
Jimmy’s: DJ J-Jigga
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Lisa & Lisa
Hudson
Linda’s: open jam w/
Those Three Guys
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Aaron
Seibert
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Southern Breeze
Manchester
Black Brimmer: John
Biddy Mulligan’s
1 Washington St., 749-1100
Dover Brick House
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
East Hampstead
The Pasta Loft
220 E. Main St., 378-0092
Epsom
Circle 9 Ranch
Windymere Dr., 736-9656
Hollis
Alpine Grove
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051
The Dream Farm
64 Dow Road
Hudson
Johnny’s Pizzeria
Lowell Road, 880-7087
Linda’s Sport Bar
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792
Laconia
Black Cat Café
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233
Fratello’s
799 Union Ave., 528-2022
Margate Resort
76 Lake St., 524-5210
Naswa Resort
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341
Paradise Beach Club
322 Lakeside Ave., 366-2665
Weirs Beach Smoke House
Route 3, 366-2400
Epping
American Legion
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
Holy Grail Food & Spirits
64 Main St., 679-9559
Londonderry
The Homestead
Exeter
Restaurant
Shooter’s Pub
Rte 102 and Mammoth
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856 Road, 437-2022
Mayflower Grange
Goffstown
535 Mammoth Road,
Village Trestle
867-3077
25 Main St., 497-8230
Tupelo Hall
2 Young Road, 437-5100
Hampstead
Whippersnappers
Route 111 Village Square Route 102, 434-2660
472 State St., 329-6879
Manchester
Henniker
Alpine Club
Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
175 Putnam St., 623-8202
24 Flander’s Road,
American Legion Wm H
888-728-7732
Jutras & Post No 43
The Henniker Junction
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
American Legion Post #79
35 W. Brook St.
Hillsborough
American Legion
Boomerang’s
Sweeney Post
Restaurant & Bar
251 Maple St., 623-9145
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 Begy’s Lounge
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
333 Valley St., 669-0062
W. Main St. 464-6766
Black Brimmer
Ridlon
Breezeway: Kamikaze
Drag w/ DJ Patrick
Club 313: DJ Biggie, DJ
Susan Esthera
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Flambeaux: open mike
w/ Josh Logan
Johnny Bad’s: blues jam
w/ Wan-tu blues band
Milly’s: Mindset X,
Kinetic Theory, Before the
Crash, Great Misfortune
Strange Brew: Tom Kellery & Co.
Milford
Pasta Loft: Rich Kumpu
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
Bo’s Riverside
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Breezeway Pub
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
Chateau Restaurant
201 Hanover St., 627-2677
Club 313
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
Club Liquid
Amherst St., 645-7600
Commercial St. Fishery
33 S. Commercial St.
296-0706
Derryfield Country Club
625 Mammoth Road, 6232880
Don Quijote
333 Valley St., 792-1110
East Side Club
786 Massebesic St., 669-1802
Element Lounge
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
1111 Elm St., 222-2304
The Flambeaux Sports Bar
1181 Elm St., 626-0304
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
Brazilian Steak House
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
Grandstands
216 Maple St., 625-9656
The Hilton Garden Inn
101 S. Commercial St.,
669-2222
Jewell & The Beanstalk
793 Somerville St.,
624-3709
Jillian’s Billiard Club
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
626-7636
Johnny Bad’s
542 Elm St., 222-9191
J.W. Hill’s
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Mad Bob’s Saloon
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
McGarvey’s
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Milly’s Tavern
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Murphy’s Taproom
494 Elm St., 644-3535
New England Revival
Coffee House (NERCH)
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
Olympic Lounge
506 Valley St., 644-5559
Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge
815 Elm St.
Penuche's Grill
96 Hanover St., 626-9830
Rocko’s Bar & Grill
253 Wilson St., 626-5866
The Shaskeen
909 Elm St., 625-0246
Strange Brew Tavern
88 Market St., 666-4292
Unwine’d
865 Second St., 625-9463
Wally and Bernie’s
20 Old Granite St., 641-2583
The Wild Rover
21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722
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
Franky & Pro Sound
Salem
Varsity Club: DJ Danny R Entertainment
Green Martini: George
Belli & The Retroactivists
Friday, March 27
Pit Road: Dirt Road
Allenstown
Ground Zero: The
Dover
Fate of Society, Seeking
Brick House: Paranoid
Through Silence, Adria
Social Club, Sidecar Radio
Portsmouth
Castaway’s: Bryan Earnst
Brewery Lane: Greg
Bedford
Jimmy’s: DJ Bounce
Luttrell
Slammers: Jammed
Kelley’s Row: Big John
Dolphin Striker: Tim
and the Twins
Theriault & Jamie DeCato Brookline
RJ’s: Monkey Bar
Press Room: The Conor County Corral: Ballou
Band
Brothers
Hampstead
Muddy: Scott Barnett,
Pasta Loft: Black n’ Blues
Chris Candito, Blue RibVillage Square: Cause
bon All Star Band
Concord
Barley House: Grassdawgs for Alarm
Concord Grille: DJ
Nashua
603 Lounge: DJ Misty
Cattleman’s: DJ Bernie D
Fody’s: Charlie Chronopolis Experience
Peddler’s Daughter:
Mindseye
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New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Plaistow
The Sad Café
148 Plaistow Rd, 382-8893
Portsmouth
AK’s Bar and Bistro
111 State St.
Blue Mermaid
Island Grill
The hill at Hanover and
High streets, 427-2583
Brewery Lane Tavern
96 Brewery Lane,
433-7007
Chestnuts at the Nest
3548 Lafayette Road,
373-6515
Dolphin Striker
15 Bow St., 431-5222
Gas Light Co.
64 Market St., 431-9122
The Hilton Garden Inn
100 High St., 431-1499
Muddy River
Smokehouse
21 Congress St., 430-9582
Paddy’s American Grill
27 International Dr.,
430-9450
Press Room
77 Daniel St.,431-5186
The Red Door
107 State St., 373-6827
Red Hook Brewery
35 Corporate Dr., 430-8600
The Wet Bar
172 Hanover St.
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Tilton
Old Friends Tavern
& Restaurant
927 Laconia Road,
524-1777
Derryfield: Day Janerio
Hudson
Johnny’s: Tweed Brothers Element Lounge: DJ
Daddy Dave
Linda’s: Tonnage
Flambeaux: Anniversary
Party w/ Josh Logan &
Laconia
Fratello’s: The Blanchette live DJ’s
Fratello’s: Joe McDonald
& Greene Guitar Duo
Jillian’s: Jama’s Travelin’
Medicine Show, The Spinz
Londonderry
Whippersnappers: Last Milly’s: Thurkills Vision,
Brikked, Before the Rise,
Laugh
Behind the Barricade
Murphy’s: Head Shop
Manchester
Stadium Ten Pin: WorBlack Brimmer: Never
kin’ Stiffs Band
In Vegas
Strange Brew: Howard
Breezeway: DJ McKay
and Roberto
Club 313: DJ Susan
UnWined: Craig Fahey
Esthera
Club Liquid: Renegade Jazz Ensemble
WB’s: DJ Bobby G
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Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square, 8806001
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Fody’s Tavern
9 Clinton St., 577-9015
Gate City Pub
56 Canal St., 598-8256
Haluwa Lounge
Nashua Mall, Exit 6
883-6662
Killarney’s Irish Pub
Holiday Inn, Exit 4
888-1551
Laureano Nightclub
245 Main St.
Manhattan on Pearl
70 E. Pearl St., 578-5557
Martha’s Exchange
185 Main St., 883-8781
Michael Timothy’s
212 Main St., 595-9334
Nashua Garden
121 Main St., 886-7363
The Peddler’s Daughter
48 Main St., 880-8686
Penuche’s Ale House
16 Bicentennial Sq.,
595-9831
Pine Street Eatery
136 Pine St., 886-3501
Shorty’s
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
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Allenstown
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown Rd. Candia
Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor
Amherst
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001
Club ComPasquales Ristorante
edy At Amherst 145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005
Country Club
72 Ponemah
Concord
Road,673-9908 Annicchiarico Theatre
1 Thompson St.
Auburn
The Barley House
Auburn Pitts
132 N. Main St., 228-6363
167 Rockingham Borders
Road, 622-6564 76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255
Concord Grille
Bedford
1 Eagle Square
C.R. Sparks
Green Martini
18 Kilton Road, 6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
647-7275
Hermanos
Mark’s
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Showplace
Loudon Road Restaurant
Route 3,
and Pit Road Lounge
668-7444
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533
Shorty’s of
Makris
Bedford
354 Sheep Davis Road,
230 Rte. 101,
225-7665
637-1050
Penuche’s Ale House
Slammers
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
547 Donald St., The Red Blazer
668-2120
72 Manchester St., 224-4101
Wayfarer Inn & Quackers
Lounge
Deerfield
121 S. River Rd; 622-3766 Lazy Lion Café
4 North Road, 463-7374
Belmont
The Lodge at Belmont
Derry
Route 106, 877-872-2501 Adams Opera House
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102
Boscawen
Brookstone Grille and
Alan’s
Event Center
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 14 Route 11 E., 328-9250
Burgundy’s Billiards
Brookline
35 Manchester St., 437-6600
Big Bear Lodge
Steve-N-James Tavern
106 Route 13, 672-7675
187 Rockingham Rd,
Village Gate Folk Stage
434-0600
12 Main St., 315-9423
Dover
Bow
Barley Pub
Chen Yang Li
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
520 South St., 228-8508
Dover Elks Lodge
Mama Clara’s
282 Durham Road
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Nashua
Amber Room: DJ
Jonny C, DJ Danny D
Black Orchid: Gary
Lopez
Country Tavern: Steve
Wark
Fody’s: Chris White Band
Gate City Pub: Aaron
Seibert
Haluwa: Rock City
Michael Timothy’s: jazz
Peddler’s Daughter:
Thirdstone
Sky Lounge: Mama Kicks
Slade’s: DJ Big Don
Plaistow
Sad Cafe: Matt Mingell, Left Hand Blue,
Redefining Voice, Rail
Gauge, Calling Aviv
Clarion
Hotel
SAT, MAR 28TH
NITE
The Yard: Elijah Clark
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Ben
Kilcollins
Dolphin Striker: The
Grinning Lizards
Gas Light: DJ Biggie,
The Hot Club of Portland
Press Room: Elsa Cross
Band
Salem
Blackwater Grill: Mike
Moore
Maggie May’s: La
Soule Fontaine
Varsity Club: DJ
Danny R, DJ 07
For the kid in everyone
Family entertainer Rick Charette will perform on Sunday, March 29, at 1 p.m., at the
Concord City Auditorium, Prince Street in
Concord. Charette has recorded 10 albums,
including King Kong Chair, Where Do My
Sneakers Go At Night? and Alligator in the
Elevator, which have sold more than a quarter million copies. Tickets cost $8 and can
be purchased at 224-8218 or at Imagination
Village, Kaleidoscope, Sal’s Pizza, Flipz Gymnastics and JW Tumbles. Courtesy photo.
Young country
Country singer and songwriter Josh Turner
will perform at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium on Thursday, March 26, at 8 p.m., 50
East Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass. His songs
“Your Man” and “Would You Go With Me”
both became top country hits and he was nominated for a Country Music Association Award
for Best Male Vocalist. His 2004 album Your
Man went double-platinum, and he recently released the follow-up, Everything Is Fine. Tickets cost $39.75 to
$49.75 and can be purchased by calling 978-454-2299 or visiting www.
lowellauditorium.com. Courtesy photo.
Hudson
Johnny’s: Slipt Mickey
Linda’s: The Country
Felix Band
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Tigerlily
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Jimmy’s Down
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Saturday, March 28 Club 313: DJ Bob and
Allenstown
Dave G
Ground Zero: A Breath
Club Lafayette: Hearts
Beyond Broken, Ballast,
On Fire
Silence In Shadows, The
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Breathing Method, Elyson Derryfield: Chad
LaMarsh
Auburn
Element: DJ Took
Auburn Pitts: DJ Misty Flambeaux: DJ Midas,
DJ Vicious
Brookline
Fratello’s: Mike BourCounty Corral: Angela geois
West
Milly’s: Eluding Gravity, The Shadows Smile,
Concord
Lucretias Daggers, MorConcord Grille: DJ
tuus Ortus, Hero Folklore
Franky & Pro Sound
Moe Joe’s: Eargasm
Entertainment
Murphy’s: Grayspot
Green Martini: Matt
Penuche’s: Lisa Marie &
Poirier
All Shook Up, Manchuka
Rocko’s: Conditions, The
Dover
Arrival, Me As Time
Barley Pub: Bruce
Shaskeen: Good MornBartlett Trio
ing Chester
Biddy Mulligan’s: DJ
Strange Brew: Paws Up
Soho
WB’s: DJ Bobby G
Brick House: C Rayz,
Unwined: Craig Fahey
Outwrite, Eyenine, Def- Jazz Ensemble
con, No Body Cares
Jimmy’s: DJ J-Jigga
Merrimack
Kelley’s Row: GazpaSlapshots: B’Acre Boys
cho, DJ Coach
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Milford
Pasta Loft: Pearly
Epsom
Briggs Band
Circle 9: Shana Stack &
Fast Lane
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ Rick
Hampstead
Naples, DJ Danny D
Pasta Loft: Elmer &
Black Orchid: Leaving
Gang
Eden
Cattleman’s: DJ Bernie D
Country Tavern: Chris
Gardner
Fody’s: Joe Veluchi
Gate City Pub: Akustik
Kid
Haluwa: Rock City
Peddler’s Daughter:
Best Not Broken
Saffron Bistro: Brad
Smith, Mark Pucci
Sky Lounge: Felix Brown
Plaistow
Sad Cafe: Obruo, The
Wake Up Call, Beautiful Noise, Blood of a
Cynic, 23 Enigma
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid:
Melvern Taylor and The
Meltones
Brewery Lane: DJ Biggie
Dolphin Striker:
Brickyard Blues
Gas Light: DJ B Money,
Ryan Halliburton
Press Room: Larry
Garland, RPM Listening
Party
The Muddy: The
Divorced, Molenes,
Girls Guns Glory
Durham
Acorns: Charlie Jenson
Duo
Goffstown
Village Trestle: openmike blues jam w/ WanTu Blues Band
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Endangered Species
Manchester
900 Degrees: open-mike
blues jam
Bo’s Riverside: DJ
Vicious
Club 313: Monique’s
Slumber Party w/ DJ
Susan Esthera
Element: DJ Sharon
Flambeaux: Structural
Integrity
Shaskeen: The Spain
Brothers and Friends,
trad. Irish session
Strange Brew: Howard
Randall’s blues jam
WB’s: DJ Vicious
Nashua
Fody’s: Joe MacDonald
Salem
Michael Timothy’s:
Blackwater Grill: Mike jazz pianist
Gacek
Slade: DJ Chris Lovett
Varsity Club: Greg
Luttrell
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Larry
Sunday, March 29 Shrek
Allenstown
Press Room: Phil Wilson,
Ground Zero: SomeChristine Fawson, The
thing New Punk
Mark Shilansky Trio
Concord
Monday, March 30
Hermanos: Joe Deleault Allenstown
Penuche’s: open-mike
Ground Zero: The Year
w/ Steve Naylor
Ends in Arson, Aurburn
Dover
Barley Pub: acoustic
jam, PJ Donahue Group
Brick House: Suburban
Showdown
Castaway’s: live reggae
Concord
Hermanos: Ben Levergood
Dover
Castaway’s: Pete
Peterson
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NITE
Kelley’s Row: Irish
session
RJ’s: DJ E-Ness
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
open-mike jam w/ Gardner Berry
Manchester
Breezeway: piano night
w/ Robert D
Jillian’s: open mike
Shaskeen: Scalawag
Nashua
603 Lounge: DJ Bernie D
Portsmouth
Press Room: Bring
Back Pluto
Red Door: Hush Hush
Tuesday, March 31
Bedford
Slammers: live karaoke
w/ Shadow Rose
Concord
Barley House: Celtic
acoustic jam
Green Martini: Tom
Ecomonides
Hermanos: Glenn
Paladino
The Prescott Park Arts Festival will
host its annual dance party fundraiser
on Saturday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m., at
Seacoast Harley-Davidson, 17 Lafayette
U.S. Route 1, North Hampton. Before the
dance party, there will be a VIP reception
with entertainment and a wine-tasting at
6:30 p.m., as well as appetizers, dessert buffet, raffle and a silent auction for items like luxury box seats for Celtics and Red Sox tickets. The
event will feature a performance by the Boston 10-piece band Soul City,
which has performed with artists like Ray Charles, Earth, Wind & Fire,
and The Four Tops. Cocktail attire is required for attendees. Tickets cost
$25 for the VIP reception, $65 for the dance party, and $80 for both, and
can be purchased at 436-2848. Proceeds will go to benefit the programs
of the Prescott Park Arts Festival. For more information, visit www.
prescottpark.org. Courtesy photo.
East Side Club: jam
with Wan-tu Blues band
Flambeaux: live band
karaoke
Shaskeen: Manchuka
Strange Brew: Hipology
WB’s: DJ Vicious
Merrimack
Slapshots: open-mike
Nashua
603 Lounge: openmike, Akustik Kid
Haluwa: Jimmy Z
Piano Bar
Portsmouth
Brewery Lane: BLT Idol
Laconia
Dolphin Striker: Dave
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder
Gerard
Press Room: Larry
Manchester
Garland, Hoot w/ Jerry
Black Brimmer: ’80s
Tillett
night w/ Ignite
Comedy
Friday, March 27
Newmarket
Oyster River High
School: Mike McDonald, Patty Ross, Dave
Rattigan, Jon Rineman
Red Door: Scissor Test
Wednesday, April 1
Bow
Chen Yang Li:DJ Brian B
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike
Hermanos: Glenn
Paladino
Dover
Castaway’s: Dustin
Pearce
RJ’s: DJ B-Money
Laconia
Fratello’s: Neil Martin
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Mugsy
Flambeaux: DJ Midas
Milly’s: live DJ
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Nashua
Cattleman’s: DJ Bernie D
Fody’s: Paul Fudin
Michael Timothy’s: jazz
Peddler’s Daughter:
DJ St. Julian
Slade: DJ Paul Roy
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker:
Audrey Ryan
Press Room: Elijah Clark
Red Door: Evaredy and
PB Kidd
The Page: Green Lion
Crew
Sunday, March 29
:00 p.m. • $0 • RS-Theater
KIM WILSON’S
BLUES REVUE
Saturday,
April 4
:00 p.m.
$0
RS-Theatre
THE FLATLANDERS
featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore
and Butch Hancock
Sunday, April 5
7:00 p.m. • $ • RS-Theater
COLIN HAY
Two Shows, Two Nights
Thurs & Fri,
April 9 & 10
:00 p.m.
THIS WEEK and beyond
Manchester
Tuesday, April 7
Headliners: Freddie Stone Manchester
Mad Bob’s Saloon:
Wednesday, April 1 Queen City Comedy
Hampton
Showcase
The Old Salt: John
Turco, Steve Scarfo, Jon Wednesday, April 8
Saturday, March 28 Rineman
Manchester
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“60 Clues Go In”— but in this themeless puzzle, only one solver reigns victorious
By Matt Jones
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25 Tide type
Across
Down
1 Like excessively small pupils
7 Electricity
12 Web competition
15 Christian Bale thriller of
2000
17 Unit used regarding celery,
since it requires more energy to
eat it than it contains
19 Proofreader’s marks meaning “take out”
20 Edible mushrooms
21 Muscles shown off by musclemen
22 Gets oneself focused
23 Go together like green and
purple?
25 Entre ___
27 Like some pickings
28 Capitol Hill figure, for short
29 Combatants in a long-stand-
30 Title for Khan
31 “I’m 100% with you,” in
Internet shorthand
33 Pringles competitor
34 ___ Roses (band that
returned with a 2008 album)
36 Drink with a bottle cap
38 Candlestick alternative
39 It helps govern disputes
offshore
40 Early South African prime
minister Jan
42 It’s yellow and can get
baked
47 Get to the top, maybe?
48 Computer time-waster for
one
49 Be a snitch
50 “Jurassic Park” dinos
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2 “She Believes ___” (Kenny
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3 Jackie O couturier Cassini
4 Long-winded rants
5 Company that eventually
burned down in “Office Space”
6 Fielder and Rhodes, for two
7 Have a craving
8 Like an insult comic’s material, often
9 Frustrated sigh before cleaning up
10 Island that’s now called Sri
Lanka
11 Contacts in the back of the
paper
13 Acquiesce
14 Like many freeways, widthwise
16 Drilling
structures
18 Susie of
“Curb Your
Enthusiasm”
21 Former host
Petros of Spike
TV’s “Pros vs.
Joes”
22 Items at
some tables
23 Doll of the
1960s-70s
24 The heart, to
Henri
26 Cleanser brand
29 Ambling pace for a horse
32 Stink
34 Weathered through
35 Hog the spotlight, perhaps
37 Queso ___ (Mexican cheese
molded in baskets)
38 Stewie’s teddy bear, on
“Family Guy”
40 “The Baroness Redecorates”
singer-songwriter Sarah
41 Roman numeral that translates to a 4-digit palindrome
43 “I’m ___ you!”
44 Put ___ on (levy)
45 Phone book-sized novel,
e.g.
46 Bonanza finds
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By Dave Green
SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from Robert Frost, born March 26,
1874.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “When I see birches bend
to left and right / Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
/ I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. / But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. / Ice-storms do that.”
—“Birches” Plan ahead for next winter.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “I’d like to get away from
earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over. / May
no fate willfully misunderstand me / And half grant what I
wish and snatch me away / Not to return. Earth’s the right
place for love: / I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”
—“Birches” A fresh start may be possible now, if you dare
take it.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “Bless you, of course, you’re
keeping me from work, / But the thing of it is, I need to be
kept.” —“A Servant to Servants” You’re just the person to
help someone who’s been all work and no play lately.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “The way a crow / Shook
down on me / The dust of snow / From a hemlock tree // Has
given my heart / A change of mood / And saved some part /
Of a day I had rued.” —“Dust of Snow” A bad day is not
irredeemable.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; / And give us not to think so far away / As the
uncertain harvest; keep us here / All simply in the springing of
the year.” —“A Prayer in Spring” Enjoy the moment.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “Nature’s first green is gold /
Her hardest hue to hold. / Her early leaf’s a flower; But only
so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. / So Eden sank to grief.
/ So dawn goes down to day. / Nothing gold can stay.” —
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” Try silver.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “But the first thing next morning we reflected / If one by one we counted people out / For
the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long / To get so we had no one
left to live with. / For to be social is to be forgiving.” —“The
Star-Splitter” You will encounter a prime opportunity for forgiveness. Consider it carefully.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “I wonder about the trees. /
Why do we wish to bear / Forever the noise of these / More
than another noise / So close to our dwelling place?” —“The
Sound of the Trees” Think now about planting a tree this
spring.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “A governor it was proclaimed this time, / When all who would come seeking in New
Hampshire / Ancestral memories might come together. / And
those of the name Stark gathered in Bow, / A rock-strewn
town where farming has fallen off, / And sprout-lands flourish
where the axe has gone.” —“The Generations of Men” Take
some time to reflect on your place in history and how you fit
into your family tree.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “Some say the world will
end in fire, / Some say in ice. / From what I’ve tasted of desire
/ I hold with those who favor fire. / But if it had to perish twice,
/ I think I know enough of hate / To know that for destruction
ice / Is also great / And would suffice.” —“Fire and Ice” For
now, try to stick to moderation. Take things slowly, a step at
a time.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “The land may vary more;
/ But wherever the truth may be— / The water comes ashore,
/ And the people look at the sea. // They cannot look out far.
/ They cannot look in deep. / But when was that ever a bar /
To any watch they keep?” —“Neither Out Far Nor In Deep”
Though you may find an ocean view captivating, you’ll be
missing out if you don’t look just as carefully at what’s on
shore.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “For I have had too much
/ Of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I
myself desired.” —“After Apple-Picking” Even when you’re
in the midst of a favorite activity, take breaks and try a different view from time to time.
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O
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ManchesterNH,NH,03109
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603.626.1062••1442
1442Candia
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Road, Manchester
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
Americans’ Special Relationship with “Taxes”
It is not just that the secretary of the Treasury owed back taxes for years, or that two
other presidential cabinet-level nominees
owed back taxes. In January, federal prosecutors revealed that District of Columbia
Council member Marion Barry, who was
already on probation after a 2005 conviction
for failing to file tax returns for the years 1999
through 2004, and subsequently almost tauntingly failed to file a return for 2006, has now
doubled-down the taunt by failing to file for
2007. And in March, a Georgia state senator proposed punishment for the 22 members
of the legislature who either owed back taxes or had failed to file returns for at least one
year since 2002. The 22 were not identified,
in compliance with privacy laws, but the Senate’s Democratic leader, Robert Brown, outed
himself as one of the 22 in the course of calling his scolding colleague a “bloodsucker.”
Prodigies
Can’t Possibly Be True
• Gildazio Costa, 54, was arrested in Framingham, Mass., in February and charged with
kidnapping and beating his girlfriend following a five-hour-long argument they were
having about what the operating hours are for
the local library.
• First, Do No Harm: Tennessee anesthesiologist Visuvalingam Vilvarajah was arrested
in February in Kentucky and charged with
providing controlled-substance prescriptions
(OxyContin, methadone) to as many as 350
non-patients. However, the more basic question is why Tennessee licensed Dr. Vilvarajah
in the first place, since he had been approved
by the state Department of Health even
though officials knew that he was on parole at
the time after serving a sentence for murdering his wife and mother-in-law. A department
spokeswoman told The Tennessean newspaper that no law prevented Dr. Vilvarajah’s
licensing.
Inexplicable
• A 25-year-old man was arrested in Fort
Walton Beach, Fla., in February after an
apparent suicide attempt. According to police,
the man tried to gas himself inside his car in
a closed garage, but apparently did not have a
garage himself, and was arrested for trespass
when he drove into a stranger’s garage for the
attempt, causing about $1,000 damage.
Unclear on the Concept
• In Airdrie, Alberta, in January, police officers responded to a report from the Ralph
McCall Elementary School that a man was
standing in the yard yelling with a portable loudspeaker toward a group of frolicking
kids, calling, “Girls in the field, come over to
my truck, come pet my dog.” When alarmed
adults nearby approached him, the man quickly got in his truck and took off.
• In response to a bomb threat called in to
Hays High School in Buda, Texas, in February,
Principal Shirley Reich directed the evacuation of all students, who were kept out for two
hours until the all-clear. The building had not
been completely cleared, though. Reich had
ordered that eight special-needs students, who
presented mobility problems for the staff, be
kept inside during the evacuation, and afterward Reich defended her decision, crediting
herself for compassion because it was cold
outside, and she wanted the special-needs students to be comfortable.
• In February, a federal jury in Tucson,
Ariz., awarded damages of $77,000 to six illegal immigrants who had trespassed on rancher
Roger Barnett’s land in 2004 (only one of hundreds of forays onto his land over the years by
border-jumpers from Mexico) because Barnett had detained them while he was carrying
a gun, which the jury said constituted “infliction of emotional distress” (though Barnett
said he was merely protecting his property).
Originally, 16 Mexican nationals had sued
for $32 million, accusing Barnett of violating
whatever civil rights illegal-immigrant trespassers might have.
Least Competent People
year-old “psychic” was sentenced to two
months in jail in San Jose, Calif., in December after somehow convincing a woman, who
had come to her for a $10 reading, to pay her,
in ever-increasing increments, $108,000 for
a “spiritual cleansing.” (b) Charles Silveira
filed a lawsuit in March in Morristown, N.J.,
to recover the $250,000 he had incrementally paid to a “psychic,” who said she needed to
make a golden statue for him to ward off negativity. The woman also convinced Silveira to
buy her a $700,000 home, but that house is
in Silveira’s name, and he has asked a court’s
permission to evict her.
• Crime Doesn’t Pay (except maybe $25
an hour): According to police in Longview,
Wash., a 57-year-old woman entered a Winco
Foods store at 5 a.m. on March 2 and did not
leave the store until 5 p.m., and upon exit, paid
for about $80 worth of groceries but also possessed about 100 other small, concealed items
such as greeting cards, sunglasses and batteries (the total value of which was about $300).
She had spent at least part of the day surreptitiously removing the items’ packaging so they
would not appear to be the store’s stock.
Recurring Themes
Once again, a man was found to have
climbed into the waste tank of an outdoor
toilet, but according to a March report in the
Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News, the emergency crew seemed to accept his story that
it was all a mistake and not a manifestation
of perversion. Rescuers from the town of Filer, Idaho, said the man told them he was just
looking for his keys that he had accidentally
dropped and had been in the tank for 15 minutes before help arrived. The man declined to
identify himself, and no official report was
required, but after the man was hosed off by
a fire truck, he “discovered” that his keys had
been in his pocket all along, and he drove
away.
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(1) The 2-Legged Dog: Pet rescuer Judy
Walker of Oviedo, Fla., and Oklahoman Jude
Stringfellow are battling over custody of
Walker’s two-legged puppy, which Walker
believes has special needs but which Stringfellow is seeking to adopt, in part to portray
Stringfellow’s own famous, hind-legs-walking dog “Faith” as a puppy in a movie she
is working on. Stringfellow said Walker had
reneged on a firm Feb. 2 adoption date and
implied that she had hired celebrity attorney Mark Geragos to get the puppy. (2) The
11-Year-Old Bullfighter: Michelito Peniche
killed six young bulls in a single fight before
3,500 spectators in Merida, Mexico, in January, despite the mayor’s ban on the event as a
child-labor violation (but which was allowed
to proceed after Michelito’s father appealed to
a state prosecutor). Michelito began his career
in the ring at age 4.
• Total nudity is prohibited during Brazil’s
annual Carnival, as immoral and, especially, artistically tacky, but samba dancer Dani
Sperle appeared in the street parade in Rio
de Janeiro in February wearing a headdress,
necklace, matching armbands and nothing
else except a patch three centimeters long (1.2
inches) covering an intimate area.
Read News of the Weird daily at www.weirduniverse.net. Send items to weirdnews@
earthlink.net.
• How Could These Victims Have Acquired
So Much Money in the First Place? (a) A 27-
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