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ThisWeek
BY JODY REESE
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“Live by fees or die”
ought to be our state motto.
We tiptoe around broadbased taxes, such as an
income tax, and come up
short on the bill to pay for
all the things we want our
state government to do. Thus, we’re left with
fees to finance our government services.
As fees from business, home and car sales
and stock sales have declined, state government
finds itself cash-strapped and looking to add
and raise fees.
Some lawmakers have suggested adding
a fee for refinancing home mortgages. This
would add thousands to the cost of refinancing.
In most cases these extra thousands would
be added to the amount the homeowner is
refinancing so the fee isn’t paid out of pocket
immediately, but over the life of the loan. This
is also why lawmakers like the idea. The state
gets its money upfront and homeowners pay it
back over 30 years.
Regardless of how appealing that is – like
free money — it’s a very bad idea and sets a
precedent. Taxes, and that’s exactly what this
new “fee” is, should occur around taxable
events. Something is transacted. But in a
refinance, there is no transaction. You’re not
selling the home, you’re just adjusting the
financing. Imagine, if government took this
logic to the extreme and started taxing — sorry.
adding a fee — every time you changed credit
cards to get a lower rate or a business moved
a line of credit from one bank to another for a
lower interest rate.
This new refinancing fee is harmful too by
making it more expensive for homeowners to
lower the cost of their housing. New Hampshire
residents already spend too much of their
income on housing, including some of the
highest property taxes in the nation.
Fees are sometimes justified because
lawmakers argue that people can opt out
of paying them by not participating in that
activity. But that’s an illusion. In fact, fees to
register cars, get a license or refinance a home
are practically universal. As a result, fees tend
to be regressive — that is, they cost the same to
everyone regardless of the ability to pay.
An income tax, reasonably low fee structure
and marginal property taxes would offer a
much more fair taxation system, but it wouldn’t
single-handedly solve our revenue issues. It just
makes the revenue-raising more fair and less
subject to big changes from year to year. For
example, as people stopped buying houses, the
state saw a steep drop-off in property transfer
revenue. An income tax would have kept
revenues more stable.
The question of how we raise tax revenue
sidesteps the issue of whether we should be
raising it; that is, do we really want the services
that revenue pays for? That’s a question voters
answer every two years by electing their
representatives and is almost always confused
with how we raise money for government.
Fees tend to be popular because they
obfuscate the tax-raising process and thus don’t
bring up issues of what we should be spending
our state money on.
A more honest form of revenue generation
would actually expand the discussion on how
much we should be spending. That’s never a
bad thing.
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Music is all around us this summer, in venues
big and small, indoors and out, everything from
the loudest rock and the heaviest metal to the
coolest classical and the slickest jazz. Here’s
your guide to all the sounds around southern
New Hampshire.
Cover photo by Gil Talbot from a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavillion in Gilford
last summer. Lynyrd Skynyrd will play Meadowbrook
again this summer on Aug. 21.
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Inside/Outside:
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27 Car Talk
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28 Treasure Hunt
There’s gold in them there closets.
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NEWS & NOTES
News in Brief
Names and happenings
With the state budget in dire need of a boost,
the Senate Finance Committee approved a
proposal, 4-3, last week to allow slot machines
in the state’s horse and dog tracks. Sen. Lou
D’Allesandro, chairman of the committee, projected the plan would yield $185 million for the
state, helping to narrow a budget gap over the
next two fiscal years initially projected to rise
above $500 million. The full Senate will now
take up the entire $11.5 billion biennial budget. The gambling plan in particular could be
difficult to pass, reports indicated. Legislators
could be voting on the budget this week. Along
with slot machines, the committee’s budget
also increases fees for license and car registration renewals and would require retired state
employees to pay for state-provided health care.
Since Gov. John Lynch made his budget proposal in February, revenue projections for the
coming two fiscal years have dropped by $200
million, reports said. Lynch was also tinkering
with a proposal this week that would tax homeowners who refinance mortgages.
The City of Manchester passed its budget last week, but in the face of stiff cuts, the
School Board is asking the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to take another look. Not
so fast, said the city’s legal counsel. According to a report in the New Hampshire Union
Leader on Tuesday, June 2, since the board
has approved the budget, it can not now
reconsider it. Aldermen passed a $146.4 million budget that the School Board says leaves
it $7 million short on mandated expenses, the
Union Leader reported. The school department has already had to send layoff notices
to 75 teachers and 10 principals. Schools recommended a $152 million budget. It’s not just
schools that could be hurting in Manchester.
According to the Manchester Express, the
Queen City’s budget woes could substantially
impact city bus services. The paper reported that the city could suspend half its 13 bus
routes and could entirely cut out its Saturday
services.
With same-sex marriage still being negotiated in Senate and House committees, Senate
Democrats rejected a measure, 14-10, that
would have put same-sex marriage before
voters in November 2010. Both bodies of
the legislature approved a same-sex marriage
bill this session, but Lynch threatened a veto
if further language protecting vendors and
religious institutions was not included in the
bill. The Senate passed the legislation with
Lynch’s additions, but the House narrowly defeated it. The House did agree to work
out a compromise in committee. Both bodies
would need to pass the same bill. According
to reports, the bill could be before legislators
Wednesday, June 3.
Lynch nominated Superior Court Judge
Carol Ann Conboy on Monday, June 1, to
serve on the state’s Supreme Court. Conboy
would fill the post of the retired Justice Richard Galway. Conboy, 61, of Bow, has served
as an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire
Superior Court since 1992 and is currently the
Supervisory Justice of the Merrimack County Superior Court, according to a state press
release. Conboy’s selection must be confirmed
by the Executive Council. Conboy would be the
second woman to serve on the state’s Supreme
Court. “It is a great honor to be nominated for
this position and I am so grateful for Governor Lynch’s confidence in me,” Conboy said
in a statement. “I look forward to the confirmation process and to meeting with the Executive
Councilors. If confirmed, I would consider it
the highest privilege to serve the people of New
Hampshire in this role.”
Lynch swore in Virginia Barry as New
Hampshire’s Commissioner of Education,
Monday, June 1. Barry takes the post after a
long career at Plymouth State University as a
teacher and administrator, including a stint as
acting president from 2003 to 2004.
Taking a walk up the stairs
Main Street Concord is presenting a walking
tour of downtown Concord’s upper-floor properties Thursday, June 4, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
The public is invited to attend the tour, which
will take in seven downtown properties and feature rehabilitated residential units and restored
office space. The tour will depart the Tuck
Library at 30 Park St. Tickets cost $20 and can
be purchased at www.mainstreetconcord.com
or by calling 226-2150. Ticket sales will benefit Main Street Concord.
New testing facility
Any Lab Test Now, a national retailer offering
convenient and affordable medical lab testing,
recently opened its newest facility in Merrimack
in Pennichuck Square, 707 Milford Road, Unit
4A. With a grand opening Saturday, June 6, the
business will offer free blood tests to customers
between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The company has 55
locations nationwide and, according to a company press release, offers lab tests without the need
for doctor’s orders, insurance or an appointment. Most test results are available within 24 to
48 hours. Visit www.anylabtestnow.com/merrimack or call 943-5360.
TV camp
MCAM-TV in Manchester is telling kids not
to watch television this summer but to instead
make it themselves. The community access
station will host a TV production camp aimed
at teaching kids ages 11 to 15 how to produce
TV shows and commercials, according to an
MCAM press release. Ryan Plaisted will serve
as camp director. The camp will have two sessions, July 13 to 24 and Aug. 10 to 21. The hours
are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and tuition is $375. Visit
www.mcam.org for registration forms or visit
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EPA New England honors Carol Foss
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After more than 30 years at New Hampshire Audubon, Carol
Foss was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by
the Environmental Protection Agency’s New England office.
Foss is currently the conservation director for the Audubon,
but she’s also served as education director and director of
wildlife programs. “New Hampshire has been a rural state
and we have had the luxury of taking ecological services for
granted and we need to stop taking them for granted,” Foss
said. “...And if we want to continue to survive as a species,
we’ve got to learn to be sustainable.”
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menting the distribution and breeding status of
birds throughout the state. Once the data was all
in, we mounted a massive effort to account for
all the species — in all something on the order
of 60 different authors. Being chief editor of the
volume was a major challenge, but it was well
worth it.
Why do you think the EPA chose you?
Because a number of people put together
a good case. Someone has to nominate you ...
completely unbeknown to me, all this was going
on.
You must feel good about the recognition.
One thing that’s important for me to say:
everything we’ve been able to accomplish, has
been a team effort, volunteers, co-workers, partners. It’s all very humbling to be nominated for
this sort of award. It’s really about the team, not
about me.
What are some accomplishments that you
are particularly proud of?
I think getting the New Hampshire endangered species program off the ground. That was
a collaborative effort with the New Hampshire
Fish and Game Department. … The state passed
an endangered species act, and passage of the act
allowed New Hampshire to qualify for federal
funding ... but it was necessary for the state to
provide a match. At that time ... no sportsmen
money could be used for work on endangered
species. The sole source of funding at that time
was license revenues and excise taxes on hunting and fishing. The department had no viable
funding to provide a match. Audubon entered
into a partnership in which we raised the match
and enabled the state to receive federal funding. With that, we were able to begin early work
... with ospreys, [peregrine falcons] and bald
eagles. This was well before we had any bald
eagles in the state again.
Involvement with the first New Hampshire
breeding bird atlas — that was about 10 years of
my life. There was a time when I wasn’t sure I
was going to outlive it, but I did. It was a six-year
field effort involving over 100 volunteers, docu-
What type of effect does the poor economy
have on conservation efforts?
Certainly, funding for conservation work is
more challenging. With that said, the economy
has slowed development, slowed consumption
of materials and energy. I think the conservation
community is no longer a voice in the wilderness. Business and industry recognize the benefit
of conservation and waste-reduction. There have
been some positives when you look at the big
picture.
What are some big environmental issues in
New Hampshire?
Despite the economic slowdown, changing land use continues to be a huge issue. That
would be at the top of my personal list, particularly as it relates to maintaining the ecosystem
that we depend on as a society. Maintaining
water quality. Maintaining water quantity. The
changing microclimate and then just being able
to maintain a landscape that has the capability
to adapt to climate change. That’s a huge global
environmental issue. We need to ensure that our
landscape enables wildlife and plants to move
across it in response to the changing conditions.
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What are your thoughts on the
Lifetime Achievement Award?
It was a complete surprise.
When my boss told me, I actually
thought he was making a joke.
How has the Audubon changed during your
time there?
I remember going to the rented office over
Woolworth’s to pay my membership dues in
high school and college. The Society purchased
the original property on Silk Farm Road when
I was in college. I actually helped do some of
the interior painting the summer they moved
in. I’ve seen a lot of change. Now we have land
and a building at a mutual location ... I’ve also
seen a major change in the kind of focus and
the scope of activities of the organization. In the
early days, it was a complete volunteer organization and now that has evolved to a professional
staff in a number of different areas. In the early days, the program office was field trips- and
nature-focused. We’re certainly still involved
in both of those enterprises, but we’re also now
actively involved in environmental education in
the schools and research and policy work. The
nature of environmental issues has changed a lot
over the last 30 years. I like to think the organization has evolved to respond to those changes.
Issues are more complex. We’re operating over
a much larger geographic scale. They require
greater and different kinds of professional enterprise than was the case 30 years ago.
BEST OF
2009
The newest math in school
Everyday Mathematics is too unusual for some
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
Hollis resident Tony Falcone, a mathematician by trade, likens math to athletics. In
sports, there’s one right way to shoot a basketball, swing a golf club or field a ground ball.
To him, in many cases, there’s really only one
right way to solve a math problem. There might
be other routes to the answer, but none with the
same efficiency as the right way. That’s why the
Everyday Mathematics program, which focuses
on math more conceptually and allows for deviation from traditional methods, has Falcone and
others concerned.
“Of course we want to be conceptual
learners,” said Falcone, who has a Ph.D. in
mathematics and works for Scientific Systems
Company, Inc. in Woburn, Mass. “But that
doesn’t happen by magic.”
The Everyday Mathematics program is used
by many school districts in New Hampshire,
including some of the highest test-scoring districts, such as Bedford and Hollis, as well as
districts with more moderate test scores, such
as Nashua and, just this year, Manchester. With
reports indicating the United States is falling
behind the rest of the world in mathematics, science and technology, programs in those areas
are now more scrutinized than ever.
Developed by the University of Chicago,
Everyday Mathematics was initially designed
for elementary school and now includes a middle school component (see everydaymath.
uchicago.edu).
“Students can choose the way that works best
for them, allowing them to not only feel more
successful but to actually understand the math
better,” writes Andy Isaacs on ednews.org May
28. Isaacs is a professor at the University of Chicago and was an author for the second edition
of Everyday Mathematics. “The highly efficient
paper-and-pencil algorithms that have been traditional in the U.S. may no longer be the best
algorithms for children in today’s technologically demanding world. Today’s elementary school
children will be in the workforce well into the
second half of the 21st century and the school
mathematics curriculum should reflect the technological age in which they will live, work, and
compete.”
Advocates of the philosophy say it focuses
less on memorization and more on self-guided
discovery, the theory being that students garner understanding more thoroughly if they can
determine how to figure out problems on their
own.
The idea is that “the child will discover
these concepts on their own,” said Ann Marie
Banfield, an education advocate in Bedford.
“Unfortunately, there’s a whole lot of people
who would argue against that … The discovery
approach does not work well.”
The program uses spiraling, a technique where
teachers introduce a topic and then come back
to it again and again to reinforce it. Critics say
spiraling doesn’t allow enough time for proper
explanation and practice in the first place.
“It kind of sounds good, but they still never
truly master it,” said Banfield, whose children
attend private school because of her displeasure
with the Everyday Mathematics program. “But
it’s not reality.”
“Clearly, the intent, the goal of this effort is
admirable,” said Falcone, adding that when
he talks about Everyday Mathematics, he’s
referring to the philosophy rather than the specific program, which has been used in Hollis for
about a decade. He has two children in the Hollis
school system. “I have lots of reasons to believe
this is doomed to failure.”
Chip McGee, assistant superintendent of curriculum and assessment in Bedford, sees the
program far differently. It’s now in its seventh
year in Bedford. McGee says he sees the benefits of the program play out in the classroom.
He said Everyday Mathematics builds on kids’
everyday experiences — take 12 army men toys
and divide them evenly between yourself and
two friends. The schools use hundreds of different games and activities using that type of
hands-on approach.
“They focus on the most important, fundamental skills that the kids need,” McGee said.
Bedford decided to adopt the program because
it had one of the longest and best track records
for success, he said.
Christine Downing, mathematics consultant
to the state Department of Education, figured
Everyday Mathematics is the most-used program in the state, though there are some close
seconds. The state does not recommend specific
programs because education in New Hampshire
is built around local control, Downing said.
Falcone understands the idea behind moving
away from memorization, but he says repetition and rigor are big parts of math: “It’s quite
impossible to get to understanding without
going through those motions,” he said. He says
Everyday Mathematics doesn’t focus enough
Planning for college
Londonderry advisor offers help
By Jeff Mucciarone
[email protected]
With college only getting more difficult to
finance, Jim Hayes is trying to offer families the
solution of planning. He’s looking to get families as much free money as possible.
Hayes opened up the College Planning
Authority (www.yourcollegeauthority.com) in
Londonderry in November after doing similar
work in California. The company, located at 75
Gilcreast Road, Suite 200, helps with all aspects
of college planning, with an emphasis on obtaining scholarship and grant money, along with
providing realistic cost estimates. According to
a company press release, New Hampshire fam-
Hippo | June 4 - 10, 2009 | Page ilies this year are projected to meet less than 22
percent of college costs.
Given the economic times and rising tuition
costs, Hayes has been busy, he said.
“There’s a pretty high demand,” said Hayes,
a Newmarket resident. He formerly worked as a
financial advisor and as an admissions agent at
a California college. He’s looking to open satellite offices in Concord and Portsmouth. Students
now are graduating college and finding they
can’t afford to move out of their parents’ homes
because they have so much student loan debt.
“That’s the reality,” Hayes said. “College is a
business and it’s a big business.”
The Planning Authority takes families, usually families with high school children, and first
on computation. “You have to do the mental
exercise of actually doing the work. There’s no
shortcut to that.”
Any new mathematics program is going to
see some controversy when it’s implemented,
Downing said: “That’s not uncommon for a new
program.” She said it’s important to look at how
a district implements a new program and whether teachers are appropriately supported.
While McGee is pleased with the program, he
didn’t want to make too much of it.
“It’s just a kind of foundation,” McGee said.
His district jokes that they “Bedfordized” the
program, supplementing it with content from
other programs where Everyday Mathematics
may be lacking. Bedford also works in pieces
of the Singapore math program. “We’re putting
together what we think are the best pieces of a
lot of different programs.”
In the latest New England Comprehensive
Assessment Test (NECAP), 90 percent of students
in the Bedford school district scored proficient or
better in reading and 86 percent did so in math. But
according to Banfield, the math scores are masking
the inadequacies of Everyday Mathematics.
Banfield said there are grassroots organizations all over the country fighting the Everyday
Mathematics philosophy.
“Some of the people leading the fight are at
the university level,” Banfield said. “They’re
seeing kids come in with no arithmetic skills.”
Banfield said she hears from parents and
teachers that kids who go through Everyday
creates a personality and career profile for the
prospective student, which makes it easier to
match students to colleges.
After the profile is established, the Authority
puts students through some preparation work for
standardized tests, like the SAT and ACT. He calls
them the “money tests,” because like it or not, students who score better on the standardized tests
have more potential to obtain financial aid.
Hayes creates a list of schools that meet the
student’s criteria. While most students tend to
have a Plan A, time and interest often prevent
them from coming up with back-up plans, so
Hayes helps with that. He doesn’t want students
wasting time and money transferring.
Along with looking for one-time scholarships
and grants, Hayes especially seeks merit-based
and need-based aid, which he said often provide
funding all four years. And that’s important, he
said, because the average annual college rate of
Mathematics programs simply don’t know basic
math by the time they get to high school to take
on subjects like geometry or algebra.
“It’s extremely confusing,” Banfield said.
“What happens, they get older, and they’ve been
introduced to so many things, that nothing has
stuck. They end up not having the mastery.”
McGee hears the criticism that the program
doesn’t demand math facts and that it wastes
time teaching alternative algorithms. He refutes
that by saying facts may be grouped differently in Everyday Mathematics programs but are
still very much present. The program does teach
alternative algorithms, which critics said can be
too time-consuming.
Some of the alternative methods for computations are so complicated Falcone figures most
students, and some teachers, don’t understand
why they get the right answer. Critics say it’s
better to only give students the best and most
efficient way to solve a problem.
“Guided self-teaching belies one of the underlying philosophies, which is rigor. Not everyone
is going to be a mathematician, but kids should
know there is a rigorous definition, not just a
matter of opinion. Math is precise. Every term
has a precise definition. They’ve gone so far
away from rigor ... math almost becomes a social
science,” Falcone said.
McGee said traditional algorithms are still
taught and students do adapt to the most efficient methods.
Banfield believes Everyday Mathematics is
geared toward the state test, which she thinks
has poor math standards.
“The test is the flaw,” Banfield said. “I think
our standards are flawed. It’s giving kids a sense
they’re proficient.” She said proficiency in the
United States and New Hampshire is very different than proficiency in Singapore, which she
said is regarded as the top country in mathematics. “They’re miles ahead of us,” Banfield
said. “Not because they have this special gene.
They’re just doing things differently.”
Downing said it’s not just about the standards.
“I’ve seen really highly touted great programs
done horribly and I’ve seen below-average programs done exceptionally,” Downing said. “It
comes down to the support of the teachers and
the professional development.”
Falcone agrees the Everyday Mathematics
approach can work for some, but he doesn’t think it
is best for most students. But he concedes the issues
with mathematics in the U.S. run deeper than any
particular program. He admits he falls into the category of a naysayer with no alternative.
“I have no idea what the right answer is,” he
said.
inflation is 7 percent. From the time a student is
a freshman to the time he graduates, tuition can
jump 20 to 30 percent, Hayes said.
Hayes said he recently helped a student
receive $39,000 in annual aid, which leaves the
student with about $1,500 each year to pay.
“That’s my idea of a scholarship,” he said.
“If you’re going to plan for one student, you
need to plan for them all,” Hayes said, adding
he’s seen too many families who have given all
they had to the first one or two children for college and been left with nothing for the youngest
child. “That’s not a good conversation to have.”
Similar to the mortgage industry, Hayes said
it’s become more difficult to obtain loans as
some providers are simply no longer there.
“You need to have a plan and know what
schools have the best opportunity for the most
free money,” Hayes said.
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home district as well, Hendry said.
“There’s no question that the panel of interviewers were very happy with the four they
passed along,” Hendry said. “They’re absolutely highly qualified. We’re pleased with
the process that led to that.”
The search process had left the Board with
four finalists, including three with experience
in Nashua. The other candidates were Brian Cochrane, director of accountability and
assessment for the Nashua School District;
Kathleen Murphy, director of the division of
instruction for the state Department of Education and who worked for Nashua schools
as an instructional supervisor; and Robert
Reidy, superintendent of the Mahopac, N.Y.,
Central School District.
According to reports, the Board has set a
salary range of $135,000 to $150,000.
In 2005, Julia Earl was named superintendent, but she soon came under allegations of
frequent travel charged to the city. Earl was
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was bought out, reports indicated.
Taking action
“Barn-raising” approach to solar energy catches on
By Heidi Masek
[email protected]
Steven Lundahl is trying to get a new
neighbor-helping-neighbor group off the
ground in the Concord area.
Energy Action NH is modeled mainly on
the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative. Lundahl heard a New Hampshire
Public Radio piece on PAREI on his way
home from work last summer.
Through barn-raiser-style “energy-raisers,” PAREI members have assisted in 100
solar energy installations since they formed
in 2004. They expect to be involved in
another 20 or so this summer, PAREI codirector Peter Adams said. The nonprofit now
has about 300 members in nine towns.
“I work for an energy conservation company down in Massachusetts, so I was
particularly interested in this,” Lundahl
said.
Lundahl joined, and participated in a few
installs, but PAREI likes to stay local. It
wouldn’t make sense for 20 volunteers to
drive all over the state since their mission
involves reducing use of oil.
PAREI is a reaction to “peak oil.” The
United States peaked in oil production in
1970. Oil becomes increasingly energyintensive to extract once an oil well is about
50 percent empty. Once a gallon of oil is
needed to pump out a gallon of oil, you stop
pumping, Adams said. The U.S. had Saudi
Arabian and Alaskan oil to “bail us out” but
“we don’t have anything to replace oil ... so
we need to really reduce the amount of energy we use quite quickly,” Adams said.
Lundahl, who lives in Canterbury, isn’t
the only one interested in copying PAREI.
People across the country have contacted them with questions. The group wanted
to get back to their local focus but “didn’t
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three videos address how and why PAREI
started, how to run an energy-raiser and
how to install a solar thermal system. The
DVD costs $29.
PAREI also recently started offering a
“Community Partnership” membership that
includes a CD-ROM with documentation
for energy-raisers and an assigned PAREI
advisor. That membership costs $150, but
the hope is 15 friends are all putting in $10,
Adams said. There are about 10 community partners including Portland, Maine, and
Portsmouth. Other groups using the PAREI
model include Sandwich and Laconia.
Lundahl also wants to copy PAREI’s
“energy exchanges” — monthly meetings
with discussions about renewables and
related issues. In Canterbury, a lot of people already have various kinds of renewable
energy installed, Lundahl said. He’s also
had interest from people from Pembroke,
Bow and Goffstown.
LARELLA (www.larella.org) in Laconia has a mailing list of about 175, although
monthly meetings attract between about
5 and 28 people. Energy-raisers are only
a small part of what they do, said founder
Malik Haig, who co-owns Sustain Ability in
Laconia.
Launched in January 2008, LARELLA is
a network of people interested in sustainability and stewardship of Earth, renewable
energy and ways to reduce our footprint,
Haig said. PAREI helped with their first two
energy-raisers.
There are a lot of variables regarding how
much money you could save using this volunteer approach. Lundahl thinks it could
average a couple thousand dollars.
“The one thing that we realized very early
on with PAREI ... is the topics we talk about
and the things we work for are things that
are really under the surface,” Adams said. “I
think people have been thinking about this
for a very long time,” Adams said.
Energy Action NH doesn’t have any energy-raisers planned right now.
“We’re educating people about solar thermal hot water,” Lundahl said. For example,
there are excellent federal tax incentives
this year and next.
Solar thermal collectors are less wellknown but more cost-effective than
photovoltaics (the solar panels used to cre-
ate electricity).
Lundahl said about 30 people came to an
open house in March to see a solar thermal
unit he installed last fall. His neighbor lent
a hand and Lundahl hired an electrician and
plumber for some steps.
Lundahl’s heating system and domestic
hot water (drinking/washing water) had both
used an oil-fueled boiler. Now his domestic
hot water is separate and heated by a solar
electric tank. Glycol runs through a closed
loop (the glycol doesn’t touch the water)
through the solar collector and the tank.
An electric heating option brings the
water to temperature when sun doesn’t cut
it, but Lundahl said the unit can run on all
or mostly solar for six to eight months of
the year.
“It’s sort of like prepaying for your hot
water,” Lundahl said.
He’s saving on oil. His electric bill would
have gone up slightly, but his dropped
because of other efficiencies he added to his
home.
People mostly use solar thermal to heat
domestic water, he said. It doesn’t heat
enough for home baseboard heating, but it
can work with under-floor radiant heating,
he said. Lundahl said a nearby home uses a
large solar hot water system for under-floor
radiant heating in the winter and a swimming pool in the summer.
“The energy-raiser — that kind of community action — can work for anything.
We’re right now starting a weatherization
program,” Adams said. Volunteers will go
to houses to figure out the top things that
need to be done. They are also trying to start
a gardening program in which people help
each other get gardens started.
“And you know, there’s two sides to this,”
Adams said. Racking up gallons of oil saved
is wonderful, but bringing people together to
volunteer time and break bread (they hold a
lot of potlucks) “is one of those things that
really makes it so worthwhile,” Adams said.
The first Energy Action NH “Energy
Exchange and Pot Luck” is planned for
Friday, June 12. The agenda includes a presentation on how to look for places to save
energy at home using a load meter like “KillA-Watt” and a PAREI video. You’ll need to
RSVP, it’s at the home of Steven and Kathy
Lundahl; visit www.energyactionnh.org.
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$1 million on the loose
WMUR reported Monday, June 1, that there is a $1 million
scratch ticket unaccounted for either in someone’s possession
or waiting patiently in one of the few NH Millionaire’s Club
scratch tickets yet to be sold. The NH Millionaire’s Club instant
win game is set to finish up. The article said 93 percent of the
$10 tickets have been sold. On top of the $1 million prize, as
of Friday, May 29, the game also had two $10,000 prize tickets
remaining and four $1,000 prizes, according to www.nhlottery.
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QOL score: +1 for the extra excitement
Comment: Unclaimed prizes for all lottery instant games
expire one year after the game is closed, the article said. Double
check those purses and back pockets.
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Stealing granite in the Granite State
Two granite benches on the Hands Across the Merrimack
pedestrian bridge in Manchester were stolen and a third was
damaged recently, according to a June 2 story in the Union
Leader. Police were told about the stolen benches on May 22
and had no leads yet, the story said. Lamps were also damaged
MerchantsAuto.com Stadium on the east bank of the river to
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Meet the artists
Nashua’s second International Sculpture Symposium closes
with a ceremony Sunday, June 7, at 4 p.m., at Rotary Commons
and graffiti was painted. The bridge connects the area near
— a new park in progress at 315 Main St. in Nashua (across
from the Shaw’s plaza). After about three weeks of work at space
provided by Ultima NIMCO, sculptures by Luben Boykov of
Bulgaria, Michele Golia of Italy and Sarah Mae Wasserstrum
of Israel are expected to be installed at Rotary Commons. A
piece by symposium director John Weidman of Brookline is
expected to be installed elsewhere, later. Meet the sculptors
at the June 7 ceremony, which is free and open to the public.
Marjorie Bollinger Hogan of City Arts Nashua said the visiting
artists have been having a great time, and she’s even heard that
Wasserstrum rescued a dog from a river island.
Those behind this symposium include the City of Nashua,
Andres Institute of Art, City Arts Nashua (www.cityartsnashua.
org), Nashua Area Artists Association, For the Artist, New
Hampshire Charitable Foundation, many volunteers and arts
patron Meri Goyette.
QOL score: + 1
Comments: This is essentially free (to the taxpayer) public
art. Hogan said they hope to hold a third symposium next year,
and donations are useful to that end.
Last week’s QOL score: 49
Net change: 0
QOL this week: 49
What’s affecting your QOL? Tell us at [email protected].
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Dave Long’s Hippo Sports
LONGSHOTS
The Mt. Rushmores of the Red
Sox-Yankees Rivalry
With the upcoming series with the
Yanks at Fenway still
five days away, I’m
caught between a rock and a hard place. If I
write this now, most will see it with the Rangers series going on so it won’t be timed quite
right. But if I wait until next issue, chances
are many will see this after they leave town.
What to do? OK — we’ll go today with the
latest offering from my ongoing fascination
with the “Mt. Rushmore of sports” concept,
with this entry being the Mt. Rushmore of All
Things Red Sox–Yankees.
The Mt. Rushmore of Greatest Fielding
Plays: 1. Yaz 1967. An over-the-shoulder diving catch the day Billy Rohr pitched 8.2 of
no-hit ball in his major league debut with the
great Ken Coleman call, “and Yastrzemski
makes a TREMONDOUS catch!!!!!. 2. Lou
Piniella 1978. In the playoff game, stabbed a
Jerry Remy shot to right that he’d lost in the
sun, preventing Rick Burleson from going to
third where he’d have tied it on a Jim Rice fly
out a batter later. 3. Fred Lynn 1975. A diving, bases-loaded, rally-killing catch that took
a divot the size of Rhode Island that sealed
the Yanks’ fate that year. 4. Derek Jeter 2004.
The famous head-first dive into the seats on
a blooper that left him dazed and shaken but
still holding the ball.
The Mt. Rushmore of Cliff Claven-Like
Little Known Facts: 1. Williams out-hit Joe
D. It’s true: he hit .417 to Joe D’s .408 during
the famous 56-game streak in 1941 despite
being hitless in 10 games. 2. Yaz is a New
Yorker. Yup — born and bred on LI, where
he once scored 60 in a high school basketball game. 3. Dick Radatz owned Mickey
Mantle. By the Mick’s admission he couldn’t
hit The Monster, who struck him out 75 percent of the time. 4. Williams and Casey: The
only other person inducted the day Williams
went in the Hall of Fame in 1966 was Casey
Stengel.
The Mt. Rushmore of Cross-Over Players: 1. The Babe. He’d have won 300, maybe
350, if he’d stayed a pitcher in Boston. 2.
Mike Torrez. Moving over in 1978 changed
history. 3. Luis Tiant. This didn’t hurt just
because the Yanks gained a 17-game-winning
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free agent and the Sox lost one in 1979, but he
was beloved by the Nation. 4. Elston Howard in 1967. He only hit .142 in 42 games
after joining them down the stretch, but his
experience in countless Yankees pennant races helped them win.
The Mt. Rushmore of Excruciating Losses: 1. Aaron Boone in 2003. Many say it’s
Dent in ’78, but I’ve never seen such anguish
from any loss ever. I knew people who could
barely talk and callers to WEEI sounded like
they’d lost a family member. 2. Bucky Bleeping in 1978 — I didn’t say it wasn’t bad, just
not the worst of the worst. 3. 1949 — A onegame lead with two to play at home and they
lost both thanks to a great series from Joe
DiMaggio. 4. The Boston Massacre in 1978.
It’s four games really, but it climaxed the collapse of a 14-game lead, and the beating was
so thorough it just seemed like one long game
that lasted the weekend.
The Mt. Rushmore of Yankee Villains:
Impossible to narrow down to four, but here
goes. 1. Billy Martin. I was in the bleachers with a perfect view when he and Reggie
went at it in the dugout. Few moments have
been better for the Fenway faithful. 2. A-Rod.
Jilting the team in ’04, the Varitek fight, slapping the ball from Arroyo’s glove and now
steroids. He’s got it all. 3. Roger Clemens.
Never a better moment for me than when he
was so scared stiff he got knocked out of the
box in a 14-4 loss to Pedro in the 1999 playoffs. 4. George Steinbrenner. I know he’s
ill and it doesn’t seem right, but neither does
leaving the omnipresent Yankees owner off
the list after saving the rivalry from its boring 1955-to-1972 self. Toughest Omission
– Thurman Munson. He and Fisk personified the acrimony of the 1970s edition.
The Mt. Rushmore of Yankees-Red Sox
Fights: 1. Jason Varitek and A-Rod in 2004.
Not the most vicious, but it sparked an underachieving team to its greatest glory. 2. Fisk
and Munson in 1973. This was vicious. Fisk
hated Munson and vice versa. It happened on
a botched suicide squeeze leaving Munson
one option — to run over Fisk, who tagged
him in the face with the ball to make sure he
knew he was out. 3. Fisk and Lou Piniella in
1976. Fisk in the middle again after a play at
the plate. But Sweet Lou was an afterthought
after burly Yankees back-up Otto Velez took
on half the team like King Kong at the Empire
State Building warding off the planes. Plus
Mickey Rivers was sucker-punching guys
from outside the pile and Bill Lee separated
his shoulder at the bottom of the pile. 4. Rico
Petrocelli and Joe Pepitone. A wild slugfest after a play at second base broken up by
a cop on the field who happened to be Rico’s
brother.
The Mt. Rushmore of Exhilarating Wins:
1. Game 4 in 2004 vs. Yanks. Dave Roberts steals, Bill Mueller knocks him in to tie
it and Papi homers to win it as they got off
the deck after a humiliating Game Three loss
to start the greatest comeback ever. 2. Game
6 in 2004 vs. Yanks. Curt Schilling’s The
bloody sock game is baseball’s Willis Reed
moment. 3. Game 5 in 2004 vs. Yanks. Papi
wins it again. 4. Game Seven 2004 vs. NY.
The clincher being fourth best is weird, but
it was a blow-out and a near foregone conclusion after overcoming so much already. All
four in the same series? Hey, there ain’t that
many and all felt pretty good, didn’t they?
The Mt. Rushmore of Craziest Fan Things
in The Rivalry: 1. The Pedro–Zimmer fight.
A surreal and out-of-control day. 2. Chucking Cherry Bombs at Mickey Rivers in
1976. This followed his sucker-punching Bill
Lee during a brawl a week earlier. 3. Jackson–Martin Dugout Fight in 1977 – Fenway
loved that one. 4. Bill Weidacher waves over
Mike Torrez. At a 2006 party in Boston the
local real estate mogul asks the big righty if
he’s ready to admit he messed up by not taking extra warm-up tosses when Dent went
back to get a new bat in ’78. To which Torrez
looks at me and asked, “Who is this [blanking] guy”?
If I’ve left some out, or you have better
choices or some of your own categories, send
them along and I’ll run them the next time the
Yanks and Sox get together.
Dave Long can be reached at dlong@
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Huge turnout to see Smoltz
Sports Glossary
The Big Story: It’s the way people were
flocking to Merchantsauto.com Stadium last
week in record-breaking fashion. A record
8,903 jammed the place to see John Smoltz
make his second rehab start prior to joining the Red Sox. It came in a 5-1 C-Dog win
over the F-Cats when he gave up one run
and three hits. He went 3.1 innings and left
after 58 pitches with the biggest hit being a
third-inning triple by Adam Calderone that
knocked in the F-Cats’ only run of the game.
That helped set a franchise record of 22,619
on hand for a three-game series and a sevengame home stand saw a record 47,794 fans
come through the gates between Friday, May
22, and Thursday, May 28.
Sports 101: In order from 10th to first,
name the top all-time list of Red Sox with best
home run per at bat average. For instance,
Babe Ruth was the all-time leader with a
homer every 12 at bats.
Nice to Know But You Don’t Need to Know:
In college football Miami of Ohio was once
called the cradle of coaching after big-timers
Ara Parsegian, Bo Schembechler and others came out of that program to lead major
programs like Notre Dame and Michigan.
In New Hampshire high school basketball
it may be Goffstown High, as Central’s Doc
(10) Wheeler, Memorial’s Mike Fitzpatrick
and Trinity’s Dave Keefe all coached there
before winning their six combined state titles.
Former Memorial head man Greg Ferdinando and University of Oregon head football
coach Chip Kelly also coached the freshman
team there together. The latest to join the
The Numbers
2 – two solo home runs
by the F-Cats’ Brian Dopirak in a 9-5 loss to Reading
on Saturday, which were his
ninth and 10th of the young
season.
6 – goals for laxsters
Stephanie Haftel and Brendon Shearin respectively for
Nashua South’s 11-3 defeat
of West and Goffstown’s
17-5 pasting of neighboring
Bedford.
8 – goals scored by Charollette Walters in leading
the Derryfield lacrosse team
group is Justin Gorham, who was named
to lead its Boys Basketball team last week
after great success at this level in his native
California.
Word on the Street: Speaking of Keefe, it
looks like his basketball team is going to take
a hit, as word on the street says star guard
Jordan Laguerre appears headed to play on
the prep school circuit at the New Hampton
School in Bristol next year.
Hot Ticket: After a 69-53 loss to the Florida Firecats over the weekend, the Manchester
Wolves will be trying to get back to .500 at
the Verizon Wireless Arena on Friday when
they take on the Albany Firebirds, who they
beat 74-53 in Albany last month.
Disappointment of the Week: West High
rang up the first forfeit in memory when the
lacrosse team did not have enough players
remaining to field a team after a recent defection of eight players. As a result last week’s
15-2 loss to Memorial was its final game of
the year.
Sports 101 Answer: What’s most notable about the home-run-per-at-bat leaders is
who’s not among the top 10. Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, who are second and third on
the team’s all-time homer list, are not among
the top 10. And even with his current struggles David Ortiz remains first all-time by
hitting a homer every 14.1 at bats. He’s followed by Manny (14.4), Ted Williams 14.7),
Jimmy Foxx (14.8) and Mo Vaughn (16.6).
Tony Armas (17.9), Tony C. (18.2), Mike
Stanley (19.5), Vern Stephens (20.8) and Brian Daubach (20.9).
to its 12th win against four
losses with a 12-8 win over
John Stark while Cameron Lencki chipped in with
three goals and three assists
as well.
12 – winning streak for
the Derryfield baseball team
which moved them to 15-1 on
the year with a 7-3 when the
big blow was Matt McCormick’s three run homer.
15 – consecutive wins
for the Londonderry Girls
Lacrosse team after a 15-4
win over Souhegan when seven players scored, including
Marcie Marino and Dana
Boyle, who had five and four
goals respectively.
96 – members of the media
on hand when Tom Brady
spoke after the Pats OTA
workouts last week when just
76 players took part in those
workouts.
316 – yards gained by
Wolves’ James Pinkney in
a 69-53 loss to the Florida
when he was 29-49 with six
TD passes and one interception. He ran one in for a score
as well.
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Otto Velez: Journeyman Yankees outfielder who spent parts of 10 years in
the majors with New York, Toronto and
Cleveland. Peaked with the Jays in 1980
with 20 homers, 62 RBIs after being an
original member of Toronto. That came
after early hype coming out of the Yankees system, where his biggest moment
probably was a 1976 fight with half the
Red Sox team after a play at the plate.
Casey Stengel: Zany Yankees manager
who many claim was greatest in the game’s
history — if he didn’t invent the art of platooning with NY, he perfected it. May be
the all-time best manager, but no one is a
greater testament to the adage “you can’t
win without players.” Won 62.3 percent of
his games, 10 pennants and seven world
titles in 12 years with the Yanks. His winning percentage with the Dodgers, Boston
Braves and Mets was only 39.7 percent.
Ara Parsegian: Seemingly the last really great Notre Dame football coach and he
retired in 1974! In Year One after arriving
in South Bend he revived a moribund 2-7
program to within a whisker of an undefeated, national championship season
before losing to USC in the final 1:33 of
the season’s last game. He did win two
national titles in 11 years with ND — in
1966 and 1973 when they went undefeated. But the ’66 title still sticks in the craw
of some after he played for a 10-10 tie in
that year’s game of the century with undefeated Michigan State. Elected to the Hall
in 1980 for being 178-58-6 in stops at
Miami of Ohio, Northwestern and ND.
Bo Schembechler: Maniacal Michigan football coach known who never saw
a yardage marker he wouldn’t tear up when
things went bad. Went 194-48-5 over 20
years beginning in 1969; holds Big Ten
record for winning percentage at .845. As
UM AD he fired Basketball Coach Bill Frieder on the eve of the NCAA Tournament
after he announced he was headed to Arizona State the next season, because Bo wanted
a “Michigan man coaching Michigan” —
then under assistant Steve Fisher they rolled
off six straight to win the title. As president
of the Detroit Tigers his firing of popular
radio man Ernie Harwell in 1991 led to a
near revolt by fans. Harwell was reinstated
and stayed 11 more years; Bo was gone in
just two.
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Soundtrack
to summer
Concerts, CDs
and festivals for
your listening
pleasure
Like hot dogs and lemonade, music
just seems to go with summer.
Whether it’s the songs you listen to
as you cruise down city streets with
the windows open or the concerts
you enjoy while sitting on a picnic
blanket in the sun, summer
definitely has a soundtrack.
Here are the festivals, the
concerts and the albums
12 that are going to provide the
soundtrack to summer 2009.
And, thanks to a few outdoor
concerts, some of that soundtrack is
even free.
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Sounds of the outdoors
Catch some tunes and some rays at these festivals
Festivals abound in New Hampshire this
summer.
While some offer tickets for three or four
days of music, some are completely free.
Check Web sites or call in advance to find out
about other restrictions on alcohol, children
and pets, particularly for outdoor festivals.
Then slap on some sunscreen and head out in
search of some tunes.
• “The Thing in the Spring,” an all-ages
celebration of music and art in Peterborough,
will take place Friday, June 5, through Sunday, June 7. The event will coincide with
“*broke: The Affordable Arts Fair 2009.”
On Friday, June 5, Sinaloa, Graph and
Amargosa will play at Reynold’s Hall at 6:30
p.m.; tickets cost $8.
On Saturday, June 6, “*broke: the Affordable Arts Fair” will take place from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at the Fellowship Hall in the Union
Congregational Church; admission to that
event is free. Luke MF Duke will perform
at the fair.
On Saturday, June 6, Low Anthem, Atoms
Motion & the Void and Redwing Blackbird will play at the Fellowship Hall in the
Union Congregational Church at 7 p.m.;
tickets cost $12. On Sunday, June 7, the
music will start in Putnam Park at 11 a.m.
(with performances moved inside the Peterborough Community Theatre if it rains); the
line-up includes Experimental Sound Exposition, Ros Bobos, Mysterybear, 23, Ehouie
and DbaCC, and admission is by donation.
On Sunday, June 7, at Union Congregational Church Sanctuary, look for Red Heart the
Ticker, Mac St. Michael and Whales and
Wolves; tickets cost $10 and the show begins
at 4 p.m.
Buy a weekend pass to all the shows for
$25 and receive a 20-percent discount to the
Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough as well
as a hand-screened ticket. Buy passes at the
Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough and at
Turn It Up stores in Keene and Brattleboro.
For more on the concerts, contact Eric at
Toadstool at 924-3543. For more on *broke,
call 498-4108.
• Band members of Kelley Morris & the
Fallen Free (blues) will host the second annual Freedom Festival on Saturday, June 6, at
the Leavitt Park Clubhouse on Elm Street in
Lakeport. The show starts at 5 p.m.; tickets
cost $10 at the door (kids 12 and under get in
free). Performers include Michelle Ribeiro,
The Last House Band, Amanda Snow, Max
Sullivan and The Chris White Band. This
event is family-friendly and alcohol-free. A
portion of ticket sales will go to the Laconia
Police anti-drug campaign, Horizons Counseling Centers, Genesis Counseling Group,
the Lakes Region Chapter of PFLAG, Webster Place Recovery Center and teen author
Maggie Drew. For information e-mail kelley@kelleymorris.
Local live music
Find more music in the open air at local
bars and restaurants, many of which put
their bands on the deck or patio for the summer season. Get the weekly listing of which
of your favorite local musicians are playing
where in the “Music This Week” in Hippo’s
Nite section. To submit a gig for listing in
the Music This Week or nightlife listings,
send all the information to [email protected].
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net.
• The 9th Annual Manchester Blues &
Jazz Festival is a smaller festival this year
with no street fair, but it still has a large
number of acts taking to the stage around
Manchester. This year’s event starts on Thursday, June 11, with two bands playing from
9 to 11 p.m. at two locations in Manchester: the Lisa Haynes Duo plays at the Patio
at the Hilton Garden Inn (101 South Commercial St.) and Yvonne Aubert (myspace.
com/yvonneaubert) plays at Cotton (75 Arms
St.). Friday, June 12, features the main event
of the festival at the Palace Theatre at 7 p.m.
with headliners Roomful of Blues (roomful.
com), Henri Smith, New Orleans Friends &
Flavours (henrismithmusic.tripod.com) and
The Davis and Deleault Quartet. Tickets
range from $15 to $25 and can be bought at
the Palace Theatre box office. Also on Friday,
Eric Klaxton Quartet plays at the Patio from
6 to 9 p.m. and the Craig Fahey Trio plays at
Unwine’d (865 Second St.) from 7:30 to 11
p.m. On Saturday, June 13, three more acts
are hitting the stage: The Grinning Lizards
(grinninglizards.com) play the Patio from 6
to 9 p.m., The Nate Therrien Trio plays the
Commercial Street Fishery (33 South Commercial St.) from 7 to 10 p.m., and the Craig
Fahey Trio plays again at Unwine’d from
7:30 to 11 p.m. The event ends with a Blues
Jam at 900 Degrees (50 Dow St.) on Sunday,
June 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. With a city-wide
event this year, Blues and Jazz Festival may
be different, but there’s still great blues and
jazz to be heard.
• Mike and Ruthy Ungar Merenda will
finish off the season of Deb’s House Concerts in Chesham (part of the Peterborough
Folk Music Society) on Sunday, June 14, at
6:30 p.m., with a potluck at 5:30 p.m. Tickets
cost $15. Call 827-2905 or e-mail [email protected] to reserve seating. See www.
pfmsconcerts.org for more on the concert
series and on the Peterborough Folk Music
Society.
• Barnstead Music Hall, 96 Maple St. in
Barnstead, will present a series of concerts in
the coming months. The season will kick off
on Saturday, June 20, with blues-rock guitarist Johnny A. Upcoming shows include
Bean Hill Bluegrass Band on Saturday, June
27; Brooks Young Band on Saturday, July
18; Ron Noyes Band on Saturday, July 25,
and Rocking Horse Studio All-Star Band
on Saturday, July 31. Shows start at 8 p.m.
See www.barnsteadmusichall.com for more
information and for tickets. Tickets can
also be purchased at Strings & Things, 113
S. Main St. in Concord. E-mail [email protected].
• The Rock’n Ribfest is largely about ribs
and other barbecue, but music plays a significant part of this weekend-long event,
Friday, June 19, through Sunday, June 21, at
the Anheuser-Busch facility, 221 DW Highway in Merrimack. Tickets cost $5 for adults
(with additional fees for amusements and
food). The music will include The Risen,
One Fine Mess, Brickyard Blues, The James
Montgomery Blues Band & Special Guest J.
Geils, Jimmy’s Down, Mama Kicks and, on
Friday, a teen band compet
Summer keeps coming
See the concert and nightlife listings in Hippo’s night section each
week for additional festivals, concerts and other music events this
summer. If you’ve got a concert or
festival, send all the information to
[email protected].
performers including Don Doane
Sextet, David Thorne Scott & Mark
Shilansky Quartet, The Press Room
Trio and Seacoast Big Band. Other
scheduled Prescott Park music festivals include the Folk Festival on
July 18, the WOKQ Country Music
festival on Aug. 1, the Rhythm
& Roots Festival on Aug. 8, the
Americana Festival on Aug. 15 and
special kids’ music performances on
July 25 and Aug. 22 from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. See www.prescottpark.org.
• Derry’s Parks and Recreation
department will host a summer
concert series in MacGregor Park
kicking off on Tuesday, July 7, at
7 p.m. with the local country band
Pony Express, and on Thursday,
July 9, at 7 p.m. with rock cover
band Mirage Band. Concerts will
run Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7
p.m., ending with Recycled Percussion on Thursday, Aug. 6. The
concerts are free. On Tuesday, Aug.
4, at 5 p.m. the park will host a Kidz
End of Summer Bash at 5 p.m. See
www.derry.nh.us for a complete
schedule (click on “Parks & Recreation Calendars” under “Town
Calendars”).
• Concord will hold its Market
Days and Summer Music Festival
Thursday, July 16, through Saturday, July 18, along Main Street in
downtown Concord. Events will
run from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day
(including food, sidewalk shopping
and various activities) with musical performances in the evening as
well as family music performances.
The Concord Arts Market will also
run throughout the event and there
will be free family fun daily from
10 a.m. to noon. See www.mainstreetconcord.com.
• The biggest (and free-est) music
festival in the area, the Lowell Folk
Festival will run Friday, July 24,
through Sunday, July 26. Musicians
playing all kinds of folk, roots, Americana, jazz and more will play on six
stages around downtown Lowell —
free. Bring money, though, for the
crafters in Lucy Larom Park and for
the vendors selling ethnic eats. See
www.lowellfolkfestival.org.
• Redhook Brewery and the River
92.5 FM will celebrate music with
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Summer tunes — summer just lousy
What to look for and what to avoid in summer CDs
By Eric W. Saeger
[email protected]
Every year I look forward to insurmountable piles of CDs sent to me
personally by hard-working people
who work for famous musicians who
don’t know they exist. The glamour
of it all strokes my ego like a porcupine loofah.
Things already
sprawled on
my
desk
include The
Beach Boys’
Summer Love
Songs, a compilation that includes the opening
song from Big Love, “God Only
Knows.” I don’t own any other
Beach Boys CDs, and it’s summer,
so I’ll put this in my car with a most
lofty intention and end up playing
trance albums instead, when I’m
feeling summery, on the drive to visit unemployed friends.
Miss Derringer has an
album called
Winter
Hill
coming out on
July 14. Lots
of big talk on
the blogs about how they’re so great,
being a cross between Dresden Dolls
and Siouxsie or whatever. On first
pass it sounds like a bad Mormon
piano-jazz trio with lots of swears.
Swears are so cool, aren’t they? I like
how lazy screenwriters use swears to
make G-rated movies into PG ones,
so that little kids will think everyone,
including cartoon bears, uses profanity like mom and dad. It’s why there
are armed guards at schools now.
don’t stop believin’
(please don’t try to be Daft Punk like
everyone else, Lord hear our prayer).
Also streeting on that date are exactly
12,825,643 albums from bands that
played the first Woodstock (the festival’s 40th anniversary is in August)
— old stuff from Jefferson Airplane,
Santana and Janis Joplin, all with
ridiculous pop-up origami or something comprising the CD jackets.
On July 21, Lil
Wayne releases
Rebirth,
which might
possibly
be
crunk.
On
Aug. 3, Imogen Heap releases … oh whatever,
you only have to buy it if you lose
sleep trying to look cool. Lastly,
sometime during the summer you’ll
be able to buy Leonard Bernstein
Conducts Haydn, but that’s only if
you’re a total loser who isn’t down
with our ringtone renaissance —
FIGHT THE POWER.
Finally, fans of the musical Hairspray and the John Waters’ movie Hairspray, fans of the 1980s TV show Fame and the 1990s TV show Popular,
fans of watching American Idol and fans of, well, not watching American
Idol have something they can all agree on.
That thing is Glee, a totally cheeseball loveable snarky hour-long drama on
Fox about a high school glee club. Unlike, say, Gossip Girls, the cast features a
combination of popular types and geekier students. While there is plenty of singing, the show isn’t a traditional musical — at least in the first episode characters
don’t break into song; they sing on stage as part of glee club practice. Like cheerleading in Bring It On!, glee club, or show choir as it’s called, has gone big-time,
with fully choreographed and costumed musical numbers performed in highpressure contests. Set in Ohio, Glee was co-created by Ryan Murphy, creator of
Nip/Tuck and Popular. The show will start airing in September on Fox (according
to the current schedule, on Wednesdays at 9 p.m.) but its first episode premiered
after American Idol May 19. It’s available on Hulu.com, which means you have
all summer to get hooked, particularly on the hilarious, delightful musical performances, like a rival school’s Broadway-style performance of Amy Winehouse’s
“Rehab” or the underdog totally winning school’s performance of “Don’t Stop
Believing” at the end of the episode. — Amy Diaz
The hot tickets
Venues overflow with concerts this summer
So maybe a long vacation in a
distant locale isn’t in the cards this
summer.
Memorable summer experiences
can be had right here at home with a
little splurge by seeing one of your
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to check out.
Classic rock
• Orleans, Thurs., June 11, at 8
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favorite bands or performers at one
of several venues offering music
for fans of just about every genre.
And, for many venues, tickets are
available at a variety of price levels. Want to cheer, dance and sing
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Octahedron, by
Mars Volta,
comes out June
23, and is mankind’s last hope
for progressive
rock, because
mankind isn’t aware that Umphreys
McGee became mankind’s greatest
prog band this year. Also coming on that
day is VNV Nation’s next studio album,
Of Faith Power and Glory, which will
be great even if they just brush their
teeth loudly for the entire album.
The only people who hate
Wilco are people
who’ve
never listened
to three of their
songs. Their
seventh studio album, titled (The
Album), streets June 30. Ditto for
Moby’s new album Wait For Me
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ition. See ribfestnh.org.
• Do you play bass? Bass players and guitar fans can check out
the New Hampshire Bass Fest,
Wednesday, June 24, through Saturday, June 27, at Southern New
Hampshire University in Manchester. The event features classes and
workshops all day long with evening concerts featuring Michael
Manring, Celso Pixinga, Todd Johnson, Dave Buda, Danny Morris,
Marshal Wood and Rob Gourlay.
Go to www.nhbassfest.com for
information on registration for the
workshops. Saturday, June 27, will
feature an open house for the public
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Hampstead Meetinghouse
Park summer series will kick off
the season on Tuesday, June 30, at
6:30 p.m. with the Groove Alliance,
a nine-piece show band. Admission is free; attendees are advised to
bring blankets or lawn chairs. The
Meetinghouse Park is at the corner
of Main Street and Emerson Avenue in Hampstead behind the town
hall. Other performances scheduled in the series include the Freese
Brothers Big Band on Tuesday, July
7, at 6:30 p.m.; the Third Annual
Meetinghouse Fiddle Championships and Pickin’ Party on Saturday,
July 18, starting at noon; John Penny Band on Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 6:30
p.m.; a Doo-Wop Night featuring
the Reminisants, the Shirelles, Jay
Siegel and the Tokens and Jay Trainor on Saturday, Aug. 15, at 6 p.m.,
and bluegrass band High Range on
Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 6:30 p.m. See
www.meetinghousepark.org.
• Prescott Park in downtown
Portsmouth hosts several music festivals throughout the summer. The
first big festival is the 13th Annual Tommy Gallant Jazz Festival
on Sunday, July 5, from noon to
5 p.m. Suggested donation is $8
per person. The event will feature
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Frankenreiter will headline the event. Doors
open at noon, music begins at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 at the door. The
show is for all ages; food and beverages will
be for sale inside (ID required to enjoy the
brewery’s goods). See www.redhook.com
for tickets.
• Soulfest, the annual multi-day music festival and family retreat at Gunstock Mountain
Resort in Gilford, will run Wednesday, July
29, through Saturday, Aug. 1. Single- and
multi-day tickets are available with prices
for adults starting at a little over $40 for a
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Most festivals and fairs feature some
music to go with all the pie-eating, facepainting and crafts shopping. Here are a few
to keep in mind.
• Celebrate Wilton at Celebrate Wilton
on Saturday, June 6, in downtown Wilton.
The day-long festivities run from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m. To satisfy your stomach, the day will
feature a pancake breakfast and a chicken barbecue dinner. In between there will
be a Lions Duck Race and games and other activities. To satisfy your ears, look for
performances by Temple Dance Big Band,
singer-songwriter Will Kendler and bands
Allegash, New Boston Rhythm and Blues
and Sweet Tooth. Call 654-3020 or e-mail
[email protected] for more information.
• The Strawberry Jamboree festival at
Canterbury Shaker Village, on Shaker Road
off Route 106 in Canterbury, www.shakers.
org, will be held Saturday, June 20, from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. The event includes the Strawberry Jam open-mike music jam from 11:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. led by TJ Wheeler and Patrick “Hatrack” Gallagher, and a Strawberry
Bake-Off from 1 to 4 p.m. The Bake-Off
includes professional and home-chef divisions, and will be judged by visitors. To
enter the Bake-Off, visit www.shakers.org or
call 783-9077 ext. 284; registration is free.
The Strawberry Jamboree will also feature
strawberry shortcake and sangria, as well as
hands-on activities and craft vendors.
• The annual Hollis Strawberry Festival and Band Concert will be held Sunday,
June 28, from 2 to 4 p.m. featuring strawberry shortcakes and sundaes along with
arts and crafts, activities for the kids and of
course music. The Hollis Town Band will
perform marches, Broadway show tunes and
symphonies. The event will be held at Monument Square (or in the Hollis Brookline
High School in case of rain). Contact Diana
Kroeger at 465-2392 or Lynne Dougherty at
465-2723. • Hillsborough Balloon Festival and
Fair will be held Thursday, July 9, through
Sunday, July 12, at Grimes Field in Hillsborough. Hot air balloon lifts off at 6 a.m.
and 6 p.m. on Saturday. The fair will include
live music, a parade, a carnival, four-wheeler mud bogs, fireworks, mini tractor pulls,
horse pulls and other fun for the whole family. Admission to the festival is free, though
some events do have a fee and parking costs
$5 per car. Call 464-0377 or go to www.balloonfestival.org.
• Canterbury Fair (in Canterbury, Exit
17 off Interstate 93) is Saturday, July 25, and
features crafts, kids’ activities, live entertainment, canoe polo, square dancing, a
bake sale and more. Food includes chicken
barbecue, shrimp rolls, hot dogs, sausages,
hamburgers, veggie burgers, a frappe bar
and more. Admission is free (parking cost is
$3 per car). Visit www.canterburyfair.com.
about $120 for the whole festival. Senior and
youth tickets are also available. The line-up
includes a variety of gospel, worship, Christian rock and other music with performers
such as Skillet, Newsboys, The Afters, Casting Crowns, Natalie Grant and James Upton.
See www.thesoulfest.com for a complete
line-up.
• The Pemi Valley Bluegrass Festival
will run from Thursday, July 30, through
Sunday, Aug. 2, at Branch Brook Campground in Campton, Exit 28 off Interstate 93.
Three-day tickets cost $52 in advance, $60
at the gate. Tickets for single-day admission
(and for dogs) are also available. Performers include Nothin’ Fancy, David Davis
& Warrior River Boys, Remington Ryde,
Amy Gallatin & Stillwater, Carolina Rebels,
Southern Rail, Smokey Greene, Pine Hill
Ramblers, Gopher Broke, Parker Hill Road,
The Muellers. Bluegrass Country Boys &
Co., and Robinson’s Gospel Jam. See pemivalleybluegrass.com.
• The 14th Annual Jerry Jam, a celebration and tribute to Jerry Garcia, will be
held Friday, July 31, through Sunday, Aug.
2, at Toad Hill Farm in Franconia. Six bands
(including Pay the Piper, the Pat Hardy Band,
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• St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 1160
Bridge St. in Manchester, www.stnicholasman-nh.org, 625-6115, will hold its annual
lamb barbecue on Saturday, June 20. The
event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
features marinated lamb, barbecued, as well
as Greek dishes such as pastitsio, souvlaki,
dolmathes, spanakopeta and sweet Greek
pastries. The event also features raffles,
silent auctions, music and kids’ activities.
• Bring cash and an appetite to the 10th
Annual Latino Festival on Saturday, Aug. 15,
from noon to 8 p.m. in Veterans Park, corner of
Elm and Merrimack streets in downtown Manchester. The event, held by Latinos Unidos of
New Hampshire, features music, dancing,
performances and, most importantly, an excellent spread of eats. The event kicks off with
a parade on Elm Street from 11 a.m. to noon.
Check booths for foods from Central America, South America and the Caribbean as well
as the more familiar Mexican food and trucks
with standard festival fare. Admission to the
event is free, but bring money to buy food. See
www.latinosunidosnh.org.
• Held in downtown Lowell, the Southeast Asian Water Festival features the
cuisine of Cambodia, Vietnam and other
Southeast Asian countries as well as dance,
parades, boat tours, crafts and more. This
year the festival is scheduled for Saturday,
Aug. 15. See www.lowellwaterfestival.org.
• Manchester will celebrate its diversity at
the annual People Fest on Saturday, Aug. 29,
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Veterans Park. Look
for food, musical performances and more.
• Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 111
Island Pond Road in Manchester, 623-2045,
www.assumptionchurchmanchesternh.org,
frequently holds a Greek food and culture
festival during the second half of the summer. Check the Web site for updates.
• Our Lady of the Cedars Church, 140
Mitchell St. in Manchester, 623-8944, www.
ourladyofcedars.org, holds its Mahrajan, a
festival of Middle Eastern and Lebanese
culture, in late summer. The event features
food, music, dancing and more. Check the
Web site for updates.
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• The 4th Annual Waterville Valley Bluegrass Festival will run Friday, Aug. 21, through
Sunday, Aug. 23, in Waterville Valley, Exit 28
off Interstate 93. Scheduled performers include
Katahdin Valley Boys, Pine Hill Ramblers,
Blackstone Valley Bluegrass, Monadnock,
Mahogany Ridge, Iron Skillet, Sugar Hillbillies
and Vocal Harmony Workshop. The weekend
will feature tent sales, kids’ games, barbecue
and other food. Events will run 6 to 10 p.m. on
Friday, noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. on Sunday, rain or shine. Admission
is free but a $10 donation per person or $20 per
family is recommended. Call 236-8175 or go
to www.waterville.com.
• The 8th Annual Great Waters Music
Folk Festival will be held Saturday, Aug. 22,
at 7:30 p.m. at Lake Winnipesauke in Wolfeboro. Ticket prices vary according to seating.
Great Waters will host shows all summer long,
starting with the Four Bitchin’ Babes on Friday,
July 10, at 8 p.m. and the Great Waters Symphony & Chorus Concert on Saturday, July 19,
at 8 p.m. See a complete listing of shows and
ticket prices at www.greatwaters.org.
• The King (or at least dozens of impersonators) will be in Manchester from Friday,
Sept. 4, through Sunday, Sept. 6, for the
First Annual New England Elvis Festival at the Radisson hotel at 700 Elm St. in
Manchester. The event will feature 20 tribute artists competing for more than $3,500 in
prize money and performances by Elvis tributers like Shawn Klush and Pete Paquette.
On Sunday morning there will be a gospel
concert. There will be a memorabilia sale all
weekend long. See the complete schedule
and find ticket information at www.newenglandelvisfest.com.
• The Keene Music Festival, a free festival of music in downtown Keene, will be
held on Saturday, Sept. 5, from 10 a.m. to
10 p.m. More than 50 bands and performers
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will play over two days. Tickets cost $30
in advance, $35 at the door, for both days.
Single-day tickets are available. See www.
jerryjam.com.
• Accordions Now! 2009, a festival featuring concerts, jam sessions and workshops
for players, will be held at the Highlander
Inn and Conference Center near the airport
in Manchester during the evening of Friday, Aug. 7, and all day Saturday, Aug. 8.
To participate in all events (as a player or an
attendee), admission costs $99 and includes
lunch and dinner (cost is $89 for New Hampshire Accordion Association members).
Individual events are priced from $20 for
Friday evening, $35 for Saturday and $30 for
Saturday evening. See accordionconnection.
com or call 800-328-5227.
• The Richmond Blueberry Fiddle Festival will be held Friday, Aug. 7, and Saturday,
Aug. 8, at the Cheshire Fairgrounds in Swanzey (near Keene) on Route 12. Admission is
free, parking costs $5 and bring money for
crafts and foods. The festival will feature
blueberry recipe bake-offs and a Friday fish
fry as well as music from the Well-Tuned
Trio, The Fiddling Thomsons and Future
Famous Fiddlers & Blueberry Jammers —
all on Friday, starting at 2 p.m. On Saturday,
the festival opens at 9 a.m. and performers
include the competitors in the fiddle competition, the Future Famous Fiddlers &
Blueberry Jammers, Spirit Fiddle and more.
The event will also feature a contra dance at
6 p.m. on Friday. See www.rbff.net.
• White Mountain Boogie N’ Blues Festival in North Thornton will be held Friday,
Aug. 14, through Sunday, Aug. 16. Tickets
for the weekend cost $45; other tickets are
available for single nights or reserved seating. Scheduled performers include Delta
Generators, Candye Kane, Dani Wilde, New
Soul Cowboys, Deanna Bogart, Tommy
Castro, Deb Callahan, Saffire Uppity Blues
Women, Sonny Landreth, Harper, Paul Mark
The James Montgomery Band
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p.m., Tupelo
• Foghat, Sun., June 14, at 7 p.m., Palace
Theatre
• Fleetwood Mac, Tues., June 16, at 8 p.m.,
Verizon
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited with
The Outlaws, Wed., June 17, at 8 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Don McLean, Fri., June 19, at 8 p.m.,
Capitol Center
• Styx, REO Speedwagon and .38 Special, Sat., June 27, at 7 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Joe Cocker, Tues., July 7, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Dave Mason, Sat., July 18, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Tom Jones, Sun., July 19, at 7 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• The Jon Pousette Dart Band, Sun., July
19, at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• The Beach Boys, Wed., July 22, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Gordon Lightfoot, Sat., Aug. 1, at 8 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Pat Benatar, Blondie and The Donnas,
Wed., Aug. 5, at 7 p.m., Meadowbrook
• KC & The Sunshine Band, Wed., Aug.
5, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Steve Miller Band with The Doobie Brothers, Sun., Aug. 16, at 7 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Little Feat, Thurs., Aug. 20, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Lynyrd Skynyrd with Joan Jett & The
Heartbreakers, Fri., Aug. 21, at 7 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• The Moody Blues, Sat. Aug. 22, at 8
p.m., Meadowbrook
• The Allman Brothers Band with Widespread Panic, Mon., Aug. 24, at 6 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Chicago, Tues., Sept. 1, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Hot Tuna, Fri., Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m., Lowell Summer
Where to look for stuff to hear
Here are some of the local venues
offering regular musical performances this summer. Check back with
these venues throughout the summer
as events may be added.
• Capitol Center for the Performing Arts (44 S. Main St., Concord,
225-1111, www.ccanh.com) The Cap
Center in downtown Concord has
three floors (orchestra, mezzanine,
balcony) of seating, with differing
prices for seats available for most
shows. Printable maps to the venue
are available on the Web site. Parking is available on the street and at a
nearby parking garage.
• Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom (169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton
Beach, 929-4100, www.casinoballroom.com) The Hampton Beach
Casino Ballroom sits across Route 1
from the ocean and along the boardwalk. Parking is available behind
the venue usually for about $5 to
$10. The Ballroom sells food (pizza, wings, sandwiches and more
— see a menu on the Web site) and
alcohol. The Ballroom offers differently priced seating for many shows;
some shows have general admission
tickets.
• Lowell Auditorium (50 E.
Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass., 978-
Classical music
• 3rd Annual Concert — Peacemakers
& Diplomats, Sat., June 20, at 8 p.m., Music
Hall
• Granite State Symphony Orchestra,
Saturday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m., at the Sawyer
Center at Colby-Sawyer College, 541 Main
St., New London, 526-8234. New London’s
Summer Music Associates’ season opens with
a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.
3 and the Brahms violin concerto.
Country & country-rock
• Vince Gill, Wed., June 10, at 8 p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley and
Jimmy Wayne, Sun., June 14, at 7:30 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Poco, Sun., June 14, at 5:30 and 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Blake Shelton and Craig Morgan,
Thurs., June 18, at 8 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Sugarland with Matt Nathanson, Fri.,
Aug. 14, at 8 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Darius Rucker, Fri., Aug. 21, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Richie Furay Band, Wed., Aug. 26, at 7
p.m., Tupelo
• Sara Evans, Sat., Aug. 29, at 8 p.m.,
Lowell Auditorium
• Big & Rich with Luke Bryan, Sun., Aug.
30, at 8 p.m., Meadowbrook
Folk, folk-rock,
roots & Americana
• The Mystix, Sat., June 6, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• John Eddie, Fri., July 10, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Bluegrass Festival, Thurs., July 16, at
7:30 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Christine Lavin & Don White, Sat., July
• Joan Baez, Thurs., July 30, at 7:30 p.m.,
Lowell Summer
• The Duhks, Thurs., July 30, at 7 p.m.,
Tupelo
454-2299, www.lowellauditorium.
com) Directions to the auditorium and nearby parking garages are
available online. The auditorium is
in downtown Lowell and offers two
floors of seating sections, with differing prices for seats available.
• Lowell Summer Music Series
(Boarding House Park on French
Street in Lowell, Mass., 978-9705200,
www.lowellsummermusic.
org). The Lowell Summer Music
Series kicks off its season on June
27. Ticket prices vary according
to show; often tickets are cheaper when purchased in advance than
on the day of the show. A ticket to
the entire season of shows sells for
$250. Seating is lawn seating — see
the Web site for restrictions on what
seating can be brought and for other
rules for these park events. Food is
also for sale.
• Meadowbrook Musical Arts
Center (72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford, 293-4700, www.meadowbrook.
net) Meadowbrook is an outdoor
venue on Lake Winnipesaukee in Gilford (directions are available on the
Web site) and offers different levels
of seating and prices, including lawn
general admission seating. Regional bands frequently play the Magic
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• Catie Curtis, Fri., Aug. 7, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Livingston Taylor, Sat., Aug. 22, at 7:30
p.m., Lowell Summer
• Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience, Fri., Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m., Lowell
Summer
• Tom Rush, Sat., Sept. 5, at 7:30 p.m.,
Lowell Summer
Jazz, blues & blues rock
• Jeff Pitchell, Fri., June 5, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Manchester Jazz & Blues Festival, Fri.,
June 12, at 8 p.m., Palace
• Susan Tedeschi & Shemekia Copeland,
Thurs., June 25, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Sit Down Baby!, Fri., June 26, at 8 p.m.,
Studio 99
• Truffle, Fri., June 26, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Savoy Brown, Sat., June 27, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Diana Krall, Fri., July 3, at 8 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Buddy Guy, Fri., July 10, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Albert Cummings, Sat., July 11, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Edgar Winter, Fri., July 17, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Bob Weir & Ratdog, Thurs., July 23, &
Fri., July 24, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Paul Oscher, Sat., Aug. 1, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Etta James and the Roots Band, Wed.,
Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m., Music Hall
• Earl Klugh, Wed., Aug. 5, at 7 p.m.,
Tupelo
• The Derek Trucks Band, Sat., Aug. 8, at
7:30 p.m., Lowell Summer
• Blues Traveler, Thurs., July 30, at 7:30
p.m., Capitol Center
• Blues Traveler, Fri., July 31, at 7:30 p.m.,
Lowell Summer
• George Thorogood & The Destroyers
and Jonny Lang, Tues., Aug. 11, and Wed.,
Aug. 12, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• B.B. King with Brooks Young Band,
Hat Second Stage Garden before and
after main stage shows. The Center
Stage Buffet offers meals and drinks
(see Web site for menus and reservation information). Snacks and drinks
also are for sale during concerts.
• The Music Hall (28 Chestnut
St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, www.
themusichall.org) The Music Hall is
a recently renovated theater in downtown Portsmouth with street and
garage parking available in the area
(directions are available on the Web
site). Click on “Budget Buys” on the
site to find information on events
with tickets less than $29. The renovated Beaux Arts Lobby, where
events are held before some shows,
features a bar. The theater has balcony and orchestra seating with
different seating sections (Web site
offers views of the stage from seats
in different sections). Ticket prices
vary for different events.
• The Old Meeting House (1
New Boston Road, Francestown,
547-3035, www.francestownmeetinghouse.org) Directions to this
Francestown venue are available
on the Web site. Currently, the only
scheduled event is New England
humorist Tim Sample on Saturday,
July 25, at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25.
Fri., Aug. 28, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Sat.,
Aug. 29, at 7:30 p.m., Lowell Summer
• Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
with The Fools, Sat., Sept. 5, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
Latin & Latin rock
• Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Fri., June
26, at 8 p.m., Music Hall
• Los Lobos, Sat., June 27, at 7:30 p.m.,
Lowell Summer
• Los Lonely Boys, Fri., July 10, at 7:30
p.m., Lowell Summer
• deSoL, Fri., Aug. 21, at 7 p.m., Tupelo
Rock, metal & pop
• The Psychedelic Furs, Mon., June 8, at
7 p.m., Tupelo
• The Black Crowes, Thurs., June 18, &
Fri., June 19, at 8 p.m. at Casino Ballroom
• Live with Candlebox, Fri., June 19, at
7:30 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Huey Lewis & The News, Sun., June 21,
at 7 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Taking Back Sunday, Fri., June 26, at 8
p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Recycled Percussion, Sun., June 28, at 7
p.m., Palace Theatre
• The Church, Fri., July 3, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Reel Big Fish and The English Beat,
Wed., July 8, at 7 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• State Radio, Thurs., July 9, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Staind with Chevelle and Shinedown,
Fri., July 10, at 7 p.m., Meadowbrook
• The Offspring, Fri., July 10, at 7:30 p.m.,
Tsongas Arena
• The Offspring with Sum 41, Sat., July
• Asia featuring John Payne, Sun., July
• Hinder with Saving Abel, Sun., July 12,
at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Carbon Leaf, Thurs., July 16, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Michael Franti & Spearhead, Fri., July
• Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St.,
Manchester, 668-5588, www.palacetheatre.org) The Palace is located in
downtown Manchester (directions
are available online) and street parking is available in the surrounding
area. The theater has two floors of
seating — balcony and orchestra.
A bar in the lobby sells food and
drinks (for enjoyment in the lobby, not in the theater) during some
events. Ticket prices vary according
to events.
• Studio 99 (Pickering Building,
99 Pine St. in Nashua, 562-5179,
www.studio99nashua.com)
Studio 99 offers music classes but also
regular jams, open-mike nights and
concerts. Located in downtown
Nashua’s millyard, Studio 99 sells
snacks and non-alcoholic drinks at
events. Some shows have admission
costs at the door; some are free with
donations welcome for performers. An open-mike night is held on
the second Saturday of each month
at 8 p.m. A jazz jam is held the first
Wednesday of each month from 7 to
9 p.m. An eclectic/acoustic jam is
held the seconds Wednesday of the
month from 7 to 9 p.m. A bluegrass
jam is held the third Wednesday of
the month from 7 to 10 p.m. A blues
jam is held the fourth Wednesday of
the month from 7 to 9 p.m. Some
events have differing fees for openmike or jam participants.
• Tsongas Arena (300 M.L.K. Jr.
Way, Lowell, Mass., 978-848-6900,
www.paultsongasarena.com)
The
Tsongas Arena offers different levels of seating and a concession stand
(which takes cash only), with ticket
prices varying. Directions to the arena are available on the Web site. Paid
parking is available near the arena.
• Tupelo Music Hall (2 Young
Road,
Londonderry,
437-5100,
www.tupelohall.com) The Tupelo
is an intimate hall offering general
admission, table and theater seating
(see the different arrangements on
the Web site). The hall offers light
snacks and desserts. Guests can bring
their own beer or wine for a fee of $3
per person. Directions to the hall are
available on the Web site.
• Verizon Wireless Arena (555
Elm St., Manchester, 644-5000,
www.verizonwirelessarena.com)
Located in downtown Manchester,
the Verizon Wireless Arena features
a concession stand, different sections of concert seating and parking
on area streets or in paid temporary
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• Les Claypool, Sun., July 19, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Moe., Sat., July 25, & Sun., July 26, at 8
• MTVu Sunblock Music Festival (Boys
Like Girls, Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is, The Veronicas, Fashion Show, Never
Shout Never), Sat., July 25, Meadowbrook
• Queensryche, Wed., July 29, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
• Missing Persons, Sat., Aug. 8, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers, Fri.,
• Entrain, Sat., Aug. 15, at 7:30 p.m.,
Lowell Summer
• Judas Priest and Whitesnake, Sun.,
Aug. 23, at 7 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Demi Lovato with David Archuleta,
Mon., Aug. 24, at 7 p.m., Verizon Wireless
• Farrenheit, Fri., Aug. 28, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Hothouse Flowers, Sat., Aug. 29, at 8
p.m., and Sun., Aug. 30, at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• Melissa Etheridge, Mon., Aug. 31, at 8
Rob Halford of Judas Priest
Soul, funk & reggae
• John Brown’s Body, Thurs., June 18, at
8 p.m., Tupelo
• John Legend with Indie Arie, Sat., Aug.
15, at 7:30 p.m., Meadowbrook
• The Wailers, Wed., Aug. 26, at 8 p.m.,
Casino Ballroom
Tribute
• Rain: The Beatles Experience, Thurs.,
June 11, at 7:30 p.m., Music Hall
• Dark Star Orchestra performing the
Grateful Dead’s music, Fri., June 12, and
Sat., June 13, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Beatlemania Now, Sat., June 13, at 2
p.m. and 8 p.m., Capitol Center
• Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, Fri.,
July 3, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
World music
• Bombino, Wed., June 24, at 5 p.m.,
Music Hall
• Hunt Smith & Allison Aldrich, instrumental music from America, the British
Isles and Ireland, on Fri., July 3, at 7 p.m.
at Mariposa Museum in Peterborough. Call
924-4555 or see www.mariposamuseum.
org.
• Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, Fri.,
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According to Bull
Moose Music top sellers
1. Eminem, Relapse
2. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
3. Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown
4. Marilyn Manson,
High End of Low
5. Dane Cook, Isolated
Incident
6. Silversun Pickups,
Swoon
7. Steve Earle, Townes
8. Phoenix, Wolfgang
Amadeus Phoenix
9. Method Man/Redman, Blackout! 2
10. Eric Clapton &
Steve Winwood, Live at
Madison Square Garden
BOOKS
According to Amazon’s
1. Excuses Begone!:
How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating
Thinking Habits,
by Wayne W. Dyer
(Hay House, 2009)
2. The Lost Symbol, by
Dan Brown (Doubleday
Books, Sept. 15, 2009)
3. The Shack, by William P. Young (Windblown Media, 2007)
4. Cook Yourself Thin:
Skinny Meals You Can
Make in Minutes, by
Lifetime Television
(Voice, 2009)
5. New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
6. Breaking Dawn (The
Twilight Saga, Book
4), by Stephenie Meyer
(Little, Brown, 2008)
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society, by Mary Ann
Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press, 2009)
8. Eclipse, by Stephenie
Meyer (Little, Brown,
2007)
9. Liberty and Tyranny:
A Conservative Mani-
festo, by Mark R. Levin
(Threshold Editions, 2009)
10. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2006)
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According to Hollywood Video
1. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
(PG, 2009)
2. Taken (PG-13, 2008)
3. Valkyrie (PG-13,
2008)
4. The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button (PG13, 2008)
5. Underworld: Rise of
the Lycans (R, 2009)
6. My Bloody Valentine
3-D (R, 2009)
7. Bride Wars (PG, 2009)
8. Passengers (PG-13,
2008)
9. Last Chance Harvey
(PG-13, 2008)
10. Seven Pounds (PG13, 2008)
FILM
Top movies at the
box office May 29-31
(weekend/cumulative)
1. Up, Buena Vista ($68
million/$68 million)
2. Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox
($25.5 million/$105
million)
3. Drag Me to Hell,
Universal ($16.6 million/$16.6 million)
4. Terminator Salvation,
Warner Bros. ($16 million/$90 million)
5. Star Trek, Paramount
Pictures ($12 million/$209 million)
6. Angels & Demons,
Sony ($11 million/$104
million)
7. Dance Flick, MTV
Films ($4.9 million/$19
million)
8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 20th Century
Fox ($3.9 million/$170
million)
Saturday, June 6
Alli Beaudry, who was voted “Best Performer of Original Music” in Hippo’s 2009 readers’
poll, plays Penuche’s Grill, 96 Hanover St. in Manchester, tonight at 9:30 p.m. Visit www.
allibeaudry.com to learn more. Beaudry and the band (Kynan Reid and Berklee grads Roston
Kirk and Bob Edinger) will play originals plus some covers. (Sid Ceaser Photography.) For
more about live music, see page 46.
Friday, June 5
Will Ferrell is involved in a
movie remake of the 1970s show
Land of the Lost. Dr. Rick Marshall and two others arrive in
another dimension and are faced
with dinosaurs and unusual creatures. Can they make it home?
Land of the Lost opens today. For
more about film, see page 42.
Friday, June 5,
The annual Relay for Life of
Greater Manchester brings participants from Manchester, Bedford,
Goffstown and Hooksett together
to celebrate those who have fought
back against cancer. Teams start the
relay tonight at 6 p.m. and continue
through 10 a.m. at Livingston Park
in Manchester. Call 1-800-ACS2345 or visit www.relayforlife.
org/manchesternh. For more about
local happenings, see page 25.
Saturday, June 6
Nashua kicks off its SummerFun series with a lot of kid-friendly
fun like a bounce house, face-painting, games and giveaways between
noon and 3 p.m. at Greeley Park
on Concord Street. Marcus Gale
performs for kids at 12:15 p.m., followed by Irish music by Shanachie
at 1:15 p.m. A 5K Fun Run starts at
9 a.m. See the SummerFun schedule at www.gonashua.com. For
more kids events, see page 26.
Sunday, June 7
The Kimball-Jenkins School
of Art closes its first fine arts
fair today at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate, 266 North Main St.
in Concord (255-3932, www.
kimballjenkins.com). About 35
artists show and sell ceramics,
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hours June 6. For more about art,
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Keeping jobs
ARTS
State arts organizations hope for a little federal help
By Heidi Masek
[email protected]
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Federal stimulus funding isn’t just for roads
and bridges: some state arts organizations are
unofficially (at press time) eligible for $10,000
or $20,000 one-time job preservation grants. It’s
called “Arts Jobs: Putting New Hampshire to
Work.”
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
applied to the National Endowment for the Arts
for this money. The NEA has said $230,000 is
available for the state arts council to distribute.
Normally, grant money from this division of
the state’s Department of Cultural Resources
is earmarked for projects or programming, not
salaries, said grant coordinator Cassandra Erickson. There are a lot of stipulations. To start with,
stimulus money (this comes under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or ARRA),
must be accepted by the governor and executive council. That had not happened as of June
1. The state arts council received a letter regarding the ARRA funds May 4.
Once this NEA money is officially accepted,
the Arts Council can go through its usual process of a panel review of applicants, followed by
arts council approval of recipients, followed by
governor and executive council approval.
Nonprofits sound undaunted. “It’s not any
more onerous than most state grants. They’ve
actually, I think, done a really good job of
streamlining it,” said Katie Goodman, director of development at the Capitol Center for the
Arts.
One difference is that ARRA funds are
expected to require more “rigorous” reporting
from both the receiving organizations and the
arts council, Erickson said.
The application deadline was May 8 (the state
got the process started early). The amount of
money requested exceeds what’s expected to be
available, Erickson said. Groups that had either
applied for an arts council operating grant or, in
the past four years, received a Traditional Arts,
Community Arts or Organizational Support
project grant or Cultural Facilities grant were
also eligible, Erickson said. The NEA wanted a
“manageable applicant pool,” she said.
Some arts organizations can also apply directly to the NEA and the New England Foundation
for the Arts. But they can only receive a stimulus grant from one, Erickson said.
The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester applied to both the NEA and the state. If the
Currier receives an NEA ARRA grant, than the
Currier can’t have state Arts Jobs money, so the
arts council has to wait for the NEA’s decision.
Arts Jobs money can be used to fulfill artist
contracts or help with salaries for any job related to the arts organization, but not to create new
jobs. It’s restricted to job preservation and retention, said Peggy Senter, president and CEO of
the Concord Community Music School. It’s also
restricted against any fundraising or development positions, she said.
CCMS made cuts in March to match a
decline in private lesson enrollment that resulted in a $60,000 drop in revenue. Those cuts
included closing their office on Fridays. Affected staff members’ pay and work weeks were cut
20 percent. Arts Jobs money could help CCMS
reinstate Friday office hours and those employees’ shifts. They “really make the Music School
a friendly place to be,” Senter said. Those positions are also conducive to maintaining and
rebuilding enrollment, she said.
Private lessons were down 11 percent this
spring, from the 12 months previous, Senter
said. However, total enrollment has increased
by about 50 percent as the faculty has responded
to the economy by “designing great group classes,” Senter said.
That’s relative. Senter said her colleagues
nationally think 11 percent isn’t too bad.
Included in the expected stimulus money is
$50,000 the arts council applied for to retain one
of its own jobs.
In February, there was concern from the NH
Citizens for the Arts and the arts council that the
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John Faggiano, David Tonkin, Tim Gilmore, Don Williams, Tom Robinson, Matt Langley and
Richard Gardzina of Concord Community Music School’s Musicians of Wall Street Jazz Ensemble. CCMS started closing their office on Fridays in March, and hope to reinstate those hours
through a federal stimulus grant for arts job preservation. Courtesy photo.
governor’s proposed budget at that time left five
full-time staff positions unfunded in that division, leaving one state and three federally funded
staffers. Since normally the NEA matches state
appropriations for that division, a reduction in
state support equals a reduction in federal support, Senter pointed out.
The arts council is an important piece of
infrastructure in the state arts community, Senter said. While some funding is redistributed as
grants, they also provide programming and act
as a “central database” for the arts community,
Senter said.
Senter’s been involved in testifying at legislative budget hearings and said the state House
has restored money to the arts council budget.
The matter was in the Senate finance committee May 27, she said. She hopes the arts council
budget is not cut disproportionately to other
agencies.
The governor’s original proposal dropped
state input from $822,000 to $448,000, which
would essentially put the division at risk of los-
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ing 50 percent of regular NEA matching funds,
Senter said. “That would be terrible,” she said.
She pointed out few municipalities in New
Hampshire make grants the way larger cities
do.
The arts council is currently waiting to decide
on its regular grants until the state’s budget is
done. The fiscal year ends June 30.
The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen,
which has 786 juried craftsmen members and
almost 700 supporting members, applied for the
maximum Arts Jobs grant to help offset the cost
of two staff positions. They’ve also applied for
an operations grant, and a “Moose plate” cultural
conservation grant to help with their permanent
collection and archives, said executive director
Susie Lowe-Stockwell.
“I know a lot more people are asking for
grants,” Stockwell said.
Government grants, of course, aren’t the only
ones these groups apply for.
Visit www.nh.gov/nhculture/recovery/ for
details on Arts Jobs.
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For more information on exhibits, see past stories on hippopress.com. Send shows plus features and reviews of performances, see past stories on hippo- events. To get your event some press, write [email protected]. To get
information to [email protected].
press.com. To get listed, send information to [email protected].
your event listed, send information to [email protected].
Art Listings
Gallery Events
• ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION through June 29 at New
Hampshire Institute of Art’s Amherst
and French Building galleries (77
Amherst St. and 148 Concord St.,
Manchester), 836-2573, nhia.edu.
• ART ’ROUND TOWN gallery
walk, Portsmouth, Fri., June 5, 5-8
p.m., artroundtown.org.
• 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.
• CAROL RODRIGUES paintings
in June at the Wine Studio, 27 Buttrick Rd., Londonderry, 432-9463.,
www.thewinestudionh.com.
• CERAMICS by Michael Fong in
June at Wilton Public Library, 7 Forest Rd., Wilton, wiltonlibrarynh.org,
654-2581.
• CONTEMPORARY ON THE
COAST I features art of Becky Darling, Alison Goodwin, Peter Milton,
Jane Ryan, Peter Sabin, Mark Shapiro
& Sheri Tomek through June 7 at the
Coolidge Center for the Arts on Little
Harbor Road in Portsmouth, www.
wentworthcoolidge.org, presented by
McGowan Fine Art.
• 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.
• DIVERSIONS through June 12 at
Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650.
• EAST COLONY FINE ART seventh anniversary open house Sat., June
13, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., at 55 S. Commercial St. in Manchester, 621-7400.
• ELEMENTS group show through
June 27 at the MAA Gallery, 1528
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Elm St., Manchester, 785-6437.
• FINE ARTS FAIR Sat., June 6Sun., June 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Kimball-Jenkins Estate, 266 North Main
St. in Concord, 255-393, www.kimballjenkins.com.
• 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. “Meet the
Artists” reception June 4, 6-7:30 p.m.
Artists Gary Haven Smith and Gerald
Auten, whose work is featured in the
current Spotlight New England special exhibition, speak in the auditorium at 6 p.m., and answer questions
in the gallery at 6:30 p.m.
• THE FRAMERS MARKET
exhibits work by artists represented
by Island International Artists of
Washington state through July at 1301
Elm St., Manchester, 668-6989.
• GALLERY 6 presents “A Con-
tinuous Thread,” textile art by Sarah
Haskell, Lisa Grey and Suzanne
Pretty June 6-Sept. 6 at the Children’s
Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington St., Dover, 742-2002, www.
childrens-museum.org.
• GALLERY AT NEW ENGLAND
COLLEGE hosts “Kevin J. Cahill:
New Paintings” in the Main Gallery
and “The Here & Now: Recent Mixed
Media Works by David Fleming” in
the Balcony Gallery June 5-July 17
on Main Street in Henniker, 4282329, www.nec.edu. Reception with
the artists Fri., June 5, 5-7 p.m.
• HOLLIS ARTS SOCIETY member
work exhibited at “The Collaboration,”
which includes entertainment, Sat., June
6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Lawrence Barn,
163 Depot Rd., Hollis, free. • THE GLORY OF WATERCOLOR, work by Diane Statkum and Pat
Hurd in June at Canal Art and Framing, 1 Water St., Nashua, 886-1459.
• KATHY TANGNEY watercolors,
“Birds of a Feather” in June at the Wine
Studio, 53 Hooksett Rd., Manchester, 622-9463, thewinestudionh.com.
Reception Thurs., June 4, 6-8 p.m.
• JENNIFER PLATT HOPKINS
photography, “Color, Power, and
Light” through June 11 at the Conservation Center Gallery, 54 Portsmouth
St., Concord, 224-9945, www.forestsociety.org.
• KIMBALL-JENKINS School of
Art presents Michael Garlington photography “Portraits from the Belly of
the Whale,” and abstract paintings by
Roger Goldenberg in June and July at
the galleries at 266 N. Main St. in Concord, 255-3932. Reception Thurs., June
25, 5:30 -7:30 p.m.
• LAWRENCE DONOVAN exhibit,
“Simplicity,” through June 27 at East
Colony Fine Art, 55 South Commercial St., Manchester, 624-8833, www.
eastcolony.com. Reception Sun., June
14, 1-4 p.m.
• LENKA FLAHRETY photography exhibit “Sled Dogs on the Trail,”
through June 30 at The Darkroom
Gallery at Hunt’s Photo and Video, 4A
Vinton St., Manchester, 606-3322.
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD EXHIBITION of work
by potters Vivika & Otto Heino and
Mary & Edwin Scheier through Aug.
12 at the League of NH Craftsmen’s
Gallery 205, 205 N. Main St., Concord, 224-3375, www.nhcrafts.org.
• LINDA MACARTHUR stained
glass featured in June Hatfield Gallery,
55 South Commercial St.,Manchester,
627-7560.
• LIZZ VAN SAUN mosaic art
through July 9 at KAZA Interior
Designs, 202 South Main St., Concord, 244-9445. Reception Thurs.,
June 4, 4-7 p.m.
• LOONS OF MASSABESIC
exhibit from nature photographers
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Where to find what’s opening
Peter Broom, Jamie Pringle, John
Rockwood and Bob Ross through
June 14 at the Massabessic Audubon
Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
668-2045.
• LOVE LETTERS TO KAFKA,
work by Nicole Maloof June 5-June
29 at Three Graces, 105 Market St.,
Portsmouth, 436-1988, www.threegracesgallery.com. Reception June
5, 5-8 p.m.
• MELISSA A. MILLER “Recent
Works” through June 12, at
McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave.,
Concord, 225-2515.
• OPEN STUDIO NIGHTS third
Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. at Verdigris Artisans, 88 N. Main St., Suite 205, Concord, www.verdigrisartisans.com. • OUT OF AFRICA exhibit through
early June at Mariposa Museum, at
26 Main St., Peterborough, 9244555, www.mariposamuseum.org,
$3-$5. Duo LiveOak performs on
“First Friday,” June 5, at 7 p.m.;
reception for exhibit “Oceania---Celebrating the Cultures of the Pacific,”
at 6 p.m.; KidCraft at 5 p.m. • REVIVAL installations from Pine
Haven Collective June 5-June 30 at
ellO gallery & shop, 110 State St.,
Portsmouth, 433-9110, ellogallery.
com. Reception Fri., June 5, 6-9 p.m.
• ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL ART
FACULTY Exhibit: Colin Callahan,
Charles Lemay, Susan Reider, Brian
Schroyer, Ian Torney and Jere Williams through June 14 at Mill Brook
Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236
Hopkinton Rd., Concord, 226-2046.
• THREE JEWELERS, THREE
FRIENDS Lauren Pollaro, Karen
Orsillo, and Blair LaBella in June
at Exeter Fine Crafts, 61 Water St.,
Exeter, 778-8282. Meet the artists
Sat., June 6, noon-3 p.m.
• WE STILL REMAIN: Contemporary Art from Native America
through Nov. 29 at Mt. Kearsarge
Indian Museum, Kearsarge Mountain Road, Warner, 456-2600, www.
indianmuseum.org.
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
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• Walk around: There isn’t too much
time left to visit the special exhibit “Building
Books: The Art of David Macaulay.” Macaulay
is known for The Way Things Work and other
books. You can see more than 100 of his original pieces, including illustrations from The
Way We Work (2008), at the Currier Museum
of Art, 150 Ash St. in Manchester, through June
14. The museum has offered related programs
since “Building Books” opened in March. “The
Way the Amoskeag Millyard Worked” is a
walking tour Sunday, June 7, from 1:30 to 3:30
p.m., from the Currier and the Manchester Historic Association. Tickets cost $5 for Currier
and MHA members, and $10 for nonmembers
(includes Currier admission). Call the MHA at
622-7531 to reserve.
• College: New England College Gallery
holds two exhibits June 5 through July 17:
“Kevin J. Cahill: New Paintings & The Here
& Now: Recent Mixed Media Works by David
Fleming.” “Fleming masterfully weaves and
layers unrelated visual elements with self-portrait painting and other iconic references to
create emotional narratives on the nature of
family, time and loss,” gallery director Dar-
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“Love Put a Window in the Sky” by Kevin Cahill
at the Gallery at New England College.
ryl Furtkamp stated in a release. Cahill’s large
abstract paintings reference landscapes he
passes in his daily routine, according to the
release. Meet Fleming, of Andover, and Cahill,
of Weare, at a reception Friday, June 5, from 5
to 7 p.m., at the NEC Gallery on Main Street in
Henniker (428-2329, www.nec.edu).
• Working together: Teams of artists such
as painters, woodworkers, potters and jewelers
have worked together over the past few months
to create artwork for “The Collaboration.” This
Hollis Arts Society event is Saturday, June 6,
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Lawrence Barn,
163 Depot Road in Hollis. Work is for sale, and
music and snacks will be available. Admission
is free. Call 882-1503 for further information.
• Peacock: Meet Kathy Tangney on Thursday, June 4, from 6 to 8 p.m., at a reception
for her watercolor exhibit, “Birds of a Feather,” going on in June at the Wine Studio, 53
Hooksett Road in Manchester (622-9463,
www.thewinestudionh.com). (There’s also a
wine tasting from F&F Wine Imports happening at the reception.) Tangney, of Manchester,
has been a watercolor painter for more than 20
years. She’s taught art in public schools, gives
lessons in her studio and is a founding member
of the Merrimack River Painters (www.merrimackriverpainters.com).
Tangney recently won a jacket design contest
for the Chico’s Clothing 25th Anniversary. Her
peacock design is inspired by her grandmother
Rose Peacock. Proceeds benefit Manchester’s
Boys & Girls Club.
• In Concord: Hopkinton mosaic artist Lizz
Van Saun of Kast Hill Studio exhibits through
July 9 at KAZA Interior Designs, 202 South
Main St. in Concord (244-9445). There’s an
opening reception Thursday, June 4, from 4 to
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One more night
Peacock alums revive Jason Robert Brown musical
JEFF PITCHELL & Texas Flood
With Special Guest Joe Bouchard
Friday, June 5
8:00 p.m. • $25 • GA
formances with each actor going through a
specific journey in their song,” according to a
Peacock release.
After Nathan died, Peacock began workshop
productions for a scholarship in his name, and
“the kids” asked to do this revival as one of the
fundraisers.
“I think they probably sing it better now,”
Weirich said. But he doesn’t think these Peacock kids have changed at heart.
SAVOY BROWN
Saturday, June 26
8:00 p.m. • $30 • GA
Brady Lynch, Alexandra Socha and Amanda
Tenerillo rehearse. Jason Greenleaf photo.
THE MYSTIX
THE CHURCH
8:00 p.m. • $17 • RS-Tables
8:00 p.m. • $35/$40 • RS-Theater
Saturday, June 6
Nashua native Alexandra Socha recalls
performing in a one-night benefit of Stephen
Sondheim’s A Little Night Music at Roundabout Theater in New York in January. The cast
rehearsed for only a week.
“When you know you have that one shot,
there’s something special about it,” Socha said.
She had been performing in Spring Awakening
on Broadway, at least eight times per week.
Now Socha, 19, Andrea Underhill and Cara
Sennott, friends from youth educational theater company Peacock Players, are organizing
their own one-night-only benefit. Socha lives
in New York but returned for this project.
“We’re only going to have two weeks to
rehearse this and put it on stage ... I know we
can do it,” Socha said.
They’ve gathered the cast of Peacock’s 2006
production of Songs for a New World to raise
money for the Jared Nathan Scholarship Fund.
About eight of the 13 actors will study musical theater in college in the fall, she said.
“From the beginning, we didn’t want to do
it unless we could get the whole original cast,”
Socha said. The original director, Aaron Chilelli, and musical director Andrew Morrissey are
returning. Everyone’s donating their time.
“It just shows what a great community Peacock is to come back to,” Socha said.
Socha and Peacock’s artistic director, Keith
Weirich, are cast members. Weirich was in the
Broadway cast of Victor Victoria with Julie
Andrews and its first national tour.
Weirich remembers Nathan being around during the original Songs rehearsals. Songs was a
“really well-received show even though it didn’t
make a lot of money,” Weirich said. Peacock
wanted to revive it the summer after it closed, but
it was impossible to get everyone involved back.
That was the same summer Peacock alumni,
including Nathan, performed Wild Party.
Jason Robert Brown’s material is “so relatable,” Socha said. Songs for a New World is
a “two-act song cycle encompassing the discoveries and obstacles life has to offer” and
“mainly features solo per-
Friday, July 3
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Friday,
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Thursday, June 11
8:00 p.m. • $45 • RS-Theater
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Saturday,
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Fri, June 12
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June 14
5:30 & 8 p.m.
$45
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ASIA featuring JOHN PAYNE
Sunday, July 12
7:00 p.m. • $40 & $45 • RS-Theater
JOHN BROWN’S BODY
CARBON LEAF
8:00 p.m. • $25 • GA
8:00 p.m. • $25 • RS-Theater
JIMMY TINGLE
EDGAR WINTER
Thursday, June 18
Thursday, July 16
Saturday,
June 20
Friday,
July 17
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What: Songs for a New World, by Jason Robert Brown, presented by Peacock Players to
benefit the Jared Nathan Scholarship Fund
When: Monday, June 8, at 8 p.m.; reception
follows
Where: 14 Court St. Theater in Nashua
Tickets: $15 to $20
Contact: 886-7000
The cause
The second scholarship in Jared Nathan’s
name will be awarded in 2009. Nathan performed with Peacock from 1997 to 2003, then
attended Walnut Hill School and the Julliard
School, according to Peacock. He died after a
car accident in Hollis in December 2006.
“He’s the best and brightest of what it really
meant to be a Peacock,” Weirich said. “He was
certainly talented and handsome and charming ...
but he really was a nice kid,” Weirich said. Dr.
Jeff and June Nathan chair the scholarship board,
which looks for applicants who reflect Nathan’s
best qualities. They consider scholastic achievement, work done at Peacock, personal demeanor
and, “of course, what they want to do,” Weirich
said. “Jared was pretty fearless as far as his future
went. You couldn’t really tell that kid ‘no.’”
Alex Goleman’ won the board’s first award of
$1,500; he was set to begin studying at Hofstra
University last fall.
—Heidi Masek
Neil Simon next for Socha
Alexandra Socha takes on her second Broadway role this fall, performing in Neil Simon’s
Brighton Beach Memoirs.
Socha joined the cast of Spring Awakening on
Broadway in the summer of 2007 as an ensemble member at age 17. When original lead Lea
Michele (Rachel on the Fox pilot Glee), left
almost a year later, Socha replaced her as Wendla. Spring Awakening won about eight 2007
Tony awards, but its run closed Jan. 18, 2009.
Set in 1937 Brooklyn, Brighton Beach Memoirs is part of Simon’s partially autobiographical
trilogy. Socha will play Nora, the daughter of one
of two sisters living in a Brighton Beach home.
She wants to quit school to dance on Broadway,
Socha said. Nora is a typical 16-year-old, “very
flighty, very self-involved ... she really butts
heads with her mother,” Socha said.
Socha auditioned for Nora a week after
Spring Awakening closed.
“I can relate to her because I was once a 16year-old girl wanting to be on Broadway,” Socha
said. Rehearsals start in late August.
Previews start Oct. 2, and Brighton Beach
Memoirs opens Oct. 25. Later, it runs in repertory with Broadway Bound from Simon’s trilogy.
A while back, Socha said she wanted to have a
traditional college experience. But “I think now,
if I went to school, it probably won’t be for theater,” Socha said. She’s learned how to learn on
the job. “I think to switch into a classroom setting would be such a shock.” She can still visit
friends in college for exposure to undergrad life,
and if she enrolls, it will probably be because
she wants to learn about something she’s interested in, she said.
By He
idi Ma
sek
Paige Lucier was chosen to direct a one-act
in Acting Loft’s first “Teen Directors’ Lab.”
Courtesy photo.
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• Seacoast Repertory Theatre
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• SNHU Drama Club
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• Yellow Taxi Productions
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• BROADWAY SHOWCASE musical revue features Souhegan Valley
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Tickets just $15
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A first for Concord: Order forms online: www.concordcityauditorium.org or pick one up at the Audi,
City Clerk & Library, Ballard’s, Chamber of Commerce, Colebrook Bank, Gibson’s,
Professional
Summer Theatre! and the Penacook Pharmacy. Info and reserves: 225-2164 and 225-7474
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
Learn to Dance
885583
• It’s their call: The Acting Loft decided to give teenagers a shot this spring. Teens
had been saying they really want to direct,
and asking how to get experience, said Chris
Courage, Acting Loft artistic director.
Ten students, age 14 through 18, made
director’s proposals including what script they
wanted to direct, how they wanted to stage it,
sketches of set and costume design and lists
of things like lighting and casting needs.
Four were chosen to cast and direct under
mentorship from Courage and Kirstin Kennedy, director of education. After two and a half
months of work, the shows, all by David Ives,
go up Friday, June 5, and Saturday, June 6,
at 7:30 p.m., at the Acting Loft, 516 Pine St.
in Manchester (666-5999, www.actingloft.
org). Admission is by donation. The directors will give five-minute presentations about
their work, and receive assessment and critical feedback.
Tommy Morrissette, 14, of Manchester West High School, directs Mystery at
Twicknam Vicarage; Paige Lucier, 18, of
Manchester Central High School, directs
Soap Opera; Andrew Catulano, 18, directs
The Philadelphia; and Jackie Marcoux, 17,
directs Captive Audience. Catulano and Marcoux are from Nashua High School North.
About 20 actors are involved, some appearing in multiple plays.
Lucier has been involved in theater at the
Acting Loft, Best Foot Forward Productions
and her high school, but had not had an opportunity like this before, she said.
She found Kennedy and Courage’s directing experience helpful to draw from because
Lucier came into the process having only
experienced the receiving end of direction,
she said. She’s learned about things she’d
had not considered before, such as “stage
picture,” how actors are positioned on stage,
Lucier said.
The Acting Loft plans to offer Teen Director’s Lab annually, Courage said.
• Comm. Ave. invasion: Londonderry’s
Don Tongue is bringing New Hampshire with
him to the Playwrights’ Platform 37th Annual Festival of New Plays in Boston. Tongue’s
short play Void was chosen for the event. John
Sefel, of Ghostlight Theatre of New England, directs. Toby Paul of Nashua, Broderick
Lang of Manchester and Meredith Borgioli of
Amherst act.
Void is one of nine shorts playing Thursday, June 18, through Saturday, June 20, at
8 p.m. at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949
Commonwealth Ave. in Boston.
Void’s first public staged reading was at the
Concord City Auditorium in January during
the first season of “Page to Stage.” Friends of
the Concord City Auditorium and Community Players of Concord ran the series to help
New Hampshire playwrights develop new
work.
About 10 other shorts run the previous
weekend as part of the festival, including
ENVIA! - At Work & Play, by Kelly DuMar.
DuMar’s Weekend at the Dreaming Cloud
was chosen as a finalist in Nashua’s Yellow
Taxi Productions 2007 Susan McIntyre Play
Reading Series.
Tickets cost $14 and $17; call 866-8114111 or see www.playwrightsplatform.org.
• Try out: The Majestic Theatre is looking for actors age 15 through adult to audition
for a community production of Nunsensations: The Nunsense Vegas Revue, directed
by Jeff Caron. Auditions are Sunday, June 7,
and Wednesday, June 10, from 6 to 9 p.m.,
at the Majestic, 281 Cartier St. in Manchester. Performances are Aug. 14 through Aug.
23. Get details at www.majestictheatre.net or
call 669-7469.
If drama is more your thing, the Nashua
Theatre Guild auditions for Steel Magnolias
Saturday, June 6, from 3 to 5:30 p.m., and
Monday, June 8, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at the
Nashua Library, 2 Court St. Performances are
in September and Dan Barth directs. E-mail
[email protected] or call 438-9859.
Learn more at nashuatheatreguild.org.
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ING in repertory June 12-Aug. 9,
at the Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow
St. in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.
org, 433-4472, $24-$28.
• I REMEMBER MAMA, by John
van Druten, Fri., June 5, and Sat.,
June 6, at 8 p.m.; and Sun., June 7,
at 2 p.m., at Peterborough Players,
55 Hadley Road, Peterborough, 9247585, www.peterboroughplayers.
org, $10-$15. High school students
work with professional actors in this
Peterborough Players’ Ascending
Stars project.
• JULIUS CAESAR, by William
Shakespeare June 5-June 21, Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays
at 7 p.m. at the Players’ Ring, 105
Marcy St., Portsmouth, 436-8123,
www.playersring.org, $10-$12.
• LOOKING GLASS LAND - The
Misadventures of a Girl Named
Alice presented by Riverband Youth
Company of the Boys & Girls Club
of Souhegan Valley Fri., June 12, at
7 p.m.; Sat., June 13, at 2 & 7 p.m.;
and Sun., June 14, at 2 p.m., at the
Amato Center, $5-$10.
• MERRIMACK REPERTORY
THEATRE 30th Anniversary Gala
Fri., June 12, 6-11 p.m., at Lowell
Memorial Auditorium, 50 East Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass. Cocktails,
dinner, dancing and live performances, $130, www.MerrimackRep.org,
978-654-7552. • THE NERD, a comedy, presented
by the Majestic Theatre Fridays and
Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., June 12-June
20, and Sun., June 21, at 2 p.m.
• NEW CASTLE VILLAGE
WALK & GARDEN TOUR Sun.,
June 14, 1-4:30 p.m., to benefit Pontine Theatre. Self-guided walking
tour of private gardens in historic
New Castle, www.pontine.org, 4366660, $20. Call to volunteer; volunteers tour for free.
• PALACE YOUTH THEATRE
“Night of a 1000 Stars” Tues., June
9, at 7 p.m., at the Palace Theatre,
$8-$12.
• PANCAKE BREAKFAST “All
You Can Eat” Sat., June 6, 8-10
a.m., at Applebee’s Restaurant, Steeplegate Mall in Concord, $5. Benefits the Concord City Auditorium
Flyspace Project. Call 225-7474 to
reserve, walk-ins welcome.
• SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD,
by Jason Robert Brown, presented
by Peacock Players to benefit the
Jared Nathan Scholarship Fund
Mon., June 8, at 8 p.m., at 14 Court
St. Theater in Nashua, $15-$20,
886-7000. It’s a one-night revival
with Peacock’s 2006 cast, including
Broadway actors Alexandra Socha
and Keith Weirich.
• STRANGER THAN FICTION
improv troupe Tuesdays at 8 p.m.,
June 9-Aug. 25, at the Players Ring,
436-8123, $12. “Pacsmouth” live
action Pacman game Sat., June 6 in
Portsmouth’s Market Square during
Seacoast Local Fest.
• STRAW HAT REVUE, 52nd annual, at New London Barn Playhouse,
June 11-14, 84 Main St., New London, 526-6710, www.nlbarn.org.
• TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES,
Peacock Players’ Improv Troupe
performs Sat., June 6, at 7 p.m., at 14
Court St. Theater, Nashua, $8-$10.
• TEEN DIRECTOR’S LAB four
teens were chosen to direct comedic
one-acts Fri., June 5 and Sat., June
6, at 7:30 p.m., at the Acting Loft:
directors are Tommy Morrissette,
Paige Lucier, Andrew Catulano and
Jackie Marcoux.
Keyes Art
tradition
“View
from
Emerson Park,” a
watercolor by Elaine
Riel, is part of the
Keyes Art Group
Annual Art Show
and Sale scheduled
for Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, June 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., inside Milford Town
Hall and outside on the Milford Oval, 1 Union Square.
Browse original art, prints and notecards and meet the artists. Purchases are commission-free. The Keyes Art Group
is sponsored by the Milford Recreation Department. Students, bring your artwork for judging (one or two of your
originals, framed or mounted) to the Milford Town Hall
Auditorium between 8 and 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. There’s
an entry fee of $1 per piece. For more information, call
673-8283 or 673-2746 or e-mail [email protected].
Revue with
variety
Take in an
evening
of
Broadway-style
entertainment
at the Amato Center for the
Performing Arts
in Milford on Saturday, June 6, at 7 p.m. Many from the
Souhegan Valley performing arts community are represented, including Souhegan Valley Chorus, Riverbend
Youth Company, Amherst PTA, Milford High School
Chorus, Kathy Blake Dance Studio, Jen Erdody and John
Ogrodowczyk. Buy tickets for $20 ($15 for students or
seniors) at www.svbgc.org, at the door, at Toadstool Bookstore or call 672-1002 ext. 20. The proceeds support the
Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley’s Amato Center for
the Performing Arts and its Riverbend Youth Company. A
Riverbend rehearsal of The Boy Friend is seen here (Rick
Lopez Photography).
p.m. and Sun., June 7 at 11 a.m.,
at 40 Castle Dr., Hooksett, [email protected]. Best Foot
Forward tentatively presents it in
August in Manchester.
• STEEL MAGNOLIAS auditions
for the Nashua Theatre Guild Sat.,
June 6, 3-5:30 p.m. and Mon.,
June 8, 6:30-9 p.m. at the Nashua
Library, 2 Court St. Dan Barth
directs. Shows in September. Email [email protected] or
call 438-9859.
• NUNSENSATIONS! audition
for Majestic Productions, ages 15
through adult, Sun., June 7, and
Wed., June 10, 6-9 p.m., at the
Majestic. Shows in August.
Classical Listings
• BACH’S LUNCH LECTURES
Thursdays, 12:10–12:50 p.m., free,
at the Concord Community Music
School, 23 Wall St., Concord, 2281196, www.ccmusicschool.org: “The
Thrill of a Premiere: A Performer’s
Perspective” with Peggy Senter June
4; “American Inspirations: Music of
Fletcher, Foss and Copland” with
Jean Benson, flute, and Gregg Pauley, piano, June 11.
• PORTSMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA: “Pictures at an
Exhibition” with Anna Celenza and
Friends Sun., June 7, at 3 p.m., at
The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St.,
Portsmouth, 436-2400, $12-$18.
Auditions/workshops
• NUMBERS, by Scarlett Ridg- • WOMEN SINGING OUT! 10th
way Savage, auditions for college- anniversary concert series Sat., June
age characters Wed., June 3, at 7 6, at 7:30 p.m., and Sun., June 7, at
2 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church,
1035 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth,
$10, www.womensingingout.org,
498-2749.
• AN AFTERNOON TEA WITH
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN performance from vocalists Rebecca
Hains, Angeliki Theoharis, Daniel P.
Kamalic and Tom Frates Sun., June
7, at 3 p.m., at First Church of Nashua, 1 Concord St., Nashua, www.
firstchurchnashua.org,
882-4861,
$4-$9. Call 882-4861.
• NASHUA MUSIC EXCHANGE
female pop group Sun., June 7, at
2 p.m., at the First Baptist Church,
121 Manchester St., Nashua, free.
Donations benefit Community Hospice House, owned and operated by
Home, Health & Hospice Care.
• SONGS OF TRAVEL, music by
Ralph Vaughan Williams, poems by
Robert Louis Stevenson, for baritone voice; the concert also features
opera arias and music theater songs,
Fri., June 12, 8 p.m., at Church of
the Good Shepherd, 214 Main St.,
Nashua, 432-7456, www.musicartsalive.com, $15 -$17. Jimi James,
baritone, of Syracuse, N.Y., sings.
Anna Maria Dwyer accompanies.
• SEACOAST WIND ENSEMBLE Portsmouth Peace Treaty commemorative concert, “Peacemakers
& Diplomats,” with guest artists
Portsmouth Pro Musica at The Music
Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth,
436-2400, www.themusichall.org,
Sat., June 20, at 8 p.m., $5-$15.
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inside/outside
Activities for children and families, workshops, volunteer opportunities, events to keep you healthy and more
Gardening On gardening and grampies
Guy Bridging the generation gap by digging in the dirt
George watering his garden. Henry Homeyer photo.
By Henry Homeyer
[email protected]
Children & Teens
Events
• LAMPREY APPRECIATION DAY,
the 11th annual, at Amoskeag Fishways, 6
Fletcher St. in Manchester, 626-FISH, www.
amoskeagfishways.org, on Sat., June 6, from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Presentations featuring live
sea lamprey every half hour (including the
chance to hold one). Cost is $2 per person or
$5 per family. No registration required.
• SUMMER SAFETY EVENT Join
the Simon Kidgits Club and the National
Crime Prevention Council on Sat., June
6, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a free Safe
Summer educational event at the Mall of
New Hampshire and Pheasant Lane Mall.
Law enforcement leaders will be on hand to
show kids how to enjoy the summer months
safely through games and other interactive
activities. Contact Deb Stone at 888-0005,
ext. 301 or e-mail [email protected].
• SUMMERFUN KICK OFF Nashua will
kick off its SummerFun series of events on
Sat., June 6, from noon to 3 p.m. at Greeley
Park. The day will feature musical entertainment for kids by Marcus Gale at 12:15 p.m.
and Irish music by Shanachie at 1:15 p.m.
The Independent Karate School will perform
a demonstration at 2:15 p.m. and a 5K Fun
Run will start a 9 a.m. (with 8 a.m. registration — or pre-register by calling 589-3370).
Other events will include a bounce house, a
caricaturist, face painting, games, giveaways,
snow cones and popcorn. The day is free and
open to the public. See the full schedule of
SummerFun events at www.gonashua.com.
• AMHERST LIBRARY TALENT
SHOW (amherst.lib.nh.us) on Sat., June 6,
at 3:30 p.m. All talents are welcome. Call
673-2288 and sign up with Miss Jackie.
• AGRICULTURAL ANIMALS are on
display at Charmingfare Farm on Saturdays
and Sundays, June 6 & 7 and June 13 &
14. See the Oakhurst Dairy Discovery Barn
featuring hands-on petting area; see wildlife
exhibits featuring demonstrations and activities. The weekends also feature pony rides,
tractor train rides, horse-drawn trolley rides.
See visitthefarm.com.
• GUIDED HORSEBACK TRAIL
RIDES at Charmingfare Farm on Saturdays and Sundays, June 6 & 7 and June 13
& 14. Guided rides available by advance
registration. See visitthefarm.com/trailriding.php or call 483-5623.
• BOOK BUZZ FOR KIDS at Toadstool
Bookshop in Milford (toadbooks.com).
The event is on Thurs., June 11, 7 to 8 p.m.
Meetings happen one Thursday a month at
the same time. Registration is required call
Sue at 673-1734.
• WHITE PARK REDEDICATION
Concord will rededicate White Park and
celebrate its 125th birthday on Sat., June
him up. We both had fun, and I kept on coming.
My visits with Grampy were wonderful. He
never criticized me. He told lots of bad jokes.
(“Do you want to go get a hair cut?” Yes, I’d
say. He’d respond, “No, you better get them all
cut.”). He taught me to fish. He understood that
kids don’t like to weed. He let me learn to love
gardening at my own pace.
Now I’m a Grampy. My grandson George is
five, and when he visits, we always go down to
the garden. I show him earthworms in the compost pile and we look for toads. We eat whatever
is ripe and tasty.
George has had his own garden since he was
three, and has already won ribbons at the Cornish
Fair for his Purple Dragon carrots. Last summer I
made a wood-sided bed just his size — his height
by his arm span. We made the bed with 1-inch
by 6-inch planks, and put down a thick layer of
newspapers right over the lawn before filling up
the box. We made the soil rich — a 50-50 mix
of topsoil and compost — and everything grew
well. We grew carrots and a cherry tomato and
some snapdragons, all things he likes.
Gardening should be fun for kids, so I never
asked him to weed. The weeds magically disappeared (with a little help from Grampy). If the
soil got to dry — and raised beds do dry out faster than in-ground beds — I watered if George
wasn’t visiting. And I let him play with the hose
when he did visit.
Early experiences count for a lot, so if you
have kids or grandkids and want them to grow
up to be gardeners, go have some fun with them
in the garden. And if you get squirted with the
hose? Laugh, and remember those kids won’t be
small forever.
Henry Homeyer is a gardening coach, the
author of three gardening books, and a UNH
Extension Master Gardener. Contact him at
[email protected].
13, from 1 to 4 p.m. The day will feature
a baseball game, food, games and some
history of the park. Call 225-8690 or go to
onconcord.com/recreation.
dance
• Arthur Murray Dance Studio
99 Elm St., Manchester, 624-6857,
learntodancetoday.com
• Bliss Healing Arts Center LLC
250 Commercial St. # 2007, 6240080, blisshealing.com
• Dance International Studio
858-0162, importers-exporters.
com/DIS.htm
• Kathy Blake Dance Studios
3 Northern Blvd. in Amherst,
673-3978, kathyblakedancestudios.com
• Krystal Ballroom Dance Studio
352 S. Broadway, Salem,
870-9350, krystalballroom.com
• Let’s Dance Studio
5 North Main St., Concord,
228-2800, letsdancenh.com
• Mill-A-Round Dance Center
250 Commercial St., Manchester,
641-3880, millaround.com
• Paper Moon Dance Center
515 DW Hwy., Merrimack,
429-1100, papermoondance.com.
Listings
25 Children & Teens
Events, classes...
26 Dance
Classes, dance parties...
30 Museums & Tours
Exhibits, tours
30 Sports & Rec
Golf tournaments, races
Features
25 The Garden Guy
Advice on your outdoors.
26 Kiddie pool
Family activities this weekend.
27 Car Talk
Click and Clack give you car advice.
28 Treasure Hunt
Hit paydirt in your old stuff.
31 Tech
John Andrews helps you with your gadgets.
Food
• Queen City Ballroom
21 Dow St., Manchester, 6221500, queencityballroomnh.com
• Royal Palace Dance Studio
167 Elm St., Manchester, 6219119, royalpalacedance.com
• Senior Activity Center
70 Temple St., Nashua, 889-6155
• Steppin’ Out Dance Studio
1201 Westford St., Lowell, 978-452- 1111,
steppinoutdance-lowell.com
• ADULT CLASSES in ballet, hip-hop,
and jazz at the Allegro Dance Academy
(100 Factory St., Nashua, www.allegrodanceonline.com).
• ADULT TAP LESSONS weekly at the
Majestic Theatre in Manchester. Drop-in
fee of $15. Beginner and Intermediate held
on Sundays, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tap shoes
recommended but not required. www.
majestictheatre.net.
• NASHUA BALLET THEATRE DANCE
COMPANY (36 Arlington St., Nashua),
offers ongoing classes from beginner to pro
in ballet, pointe, jazz, modern and tap. Call
889-8408 or visit www.nbtdc.com.
• POLE AND EXOTIC DANCE for
women 18+ at Bliss Healing Arts Center.
4- to 6-week sessions for beginners up.
Intro Taster classes 1-2 times a month. Pole
fitness, chair dancing and stretch classes
also offered.
If I make it to heaven, I know there will be
homegrown tomatoes there. And asparagus all
year round, and different colors of lettuce, peppers and potatoes. But to hedge my bets, I grow all
these things — even if I can’t have them all year.
I learned to grow things from my late grandfather, John Lenat. Grampy came over from
Germany about 100 years ago. He was a tailor,
and could make a nice three-piece suit to measure using a treadle Singer. But Grampy’s real
passion was gardening — and sharing the fruits
of his garden with others.
He spoke several languages with a German
accent, and held on to his Old World belief that
all a gardener needs is a good compost pile and a
little manure. That’s right, my grandfather was an
organic gardener — long before it became fashionable. There were always back issues of Organic
Gardening magazine on his kitchen table.
We made manure tea, diluting hen manure in
a wooden rain barrel for use on his tomatoes. We
picked bugs and drowned them in soapy water
— or else he squished them with his fingers. His
compost pile was rich in earthworms that doubled
as fishing worms when it got too hot to garden.
Today, in this age of genetically modified organisms, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, I still
use his methods — and they work just fine.
Grampy loved fresh vegetables. Tomatoes, hot
from the August sun. Cucumbers right from the
garden. I can still see him at the double porcelain
sink in the summer kitchen, rinsing off radishes
and cukes. He’d slice them with a slim, blackhandled pocket knife that he kept razor sharp,
shake a little salt on them, and pop them in his
mouth just five minutes after he’d picked them.
I learned more than just gardening from
Grampy. He was generous of spirit — and with
his vegetables. He had a regular vegetable route:
he drove around town each week in the summer
delivering succulent red tomatoes and crisp heads
of lettuce that he gave away free. We went to the
A&P in his red and white Nash Rambler, Grampy
sitting on a thick cushion so he could see over
the steering wheel. He delivered his homegrown
tomatoes to the checkout clerks. He remembered
everyone, and made each feel important.
If he were alive today, Grampy would be 123.
I can’t imagine him in a 21st-century grocery
store buying tomatoes in a cello four-pack. He
wouldn’t understand why people would want to
buy vegetables that had traveled 1,200 miles, the
average distance an American vegetable travels
today to reach the grocery store.
If, through some miracle, Grampy came back
to visit and needed to buy vegetables, he’d visit
farm stands and farmers markets or maybe join a
CSA. He knew that local food is good food. He
understood that there is no “better life through
chemicals” when it comes to food. Back in his
day, DDT was thought to be the answer for any
wayward bug that appeared in the garden, but he
didn’t buy that idea. I don’t either.
I spent a week or two with Grampy every summer from 1952, when I was six, to 1967, the year
he died. Just the two of us. His wife had died, and
I suppose my parents had initially sent me to cheer
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Make mozzarella at Butter’s and taste
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the food listings; Rich Tango-Lowy helps
you shop for ingredients; Weekly Dish; the
experts help you pick Wine with Dinner.
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• Amoskeag Fishways, 6
Fletcher St. in Manchester,
626-FISH,www.amoskeagfishways.org, holds its 11th annual
Lamprey Appreciation Day
on Saturday, June 6, from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m., with presentations featuring live sea lamprey
every half hour (including the
chance to hold one). Cost is $2
per person or $5 per family. No
registration required.
• Nashua will kick off its
SummerFun series of events
on Saturday, June 6, from
noon to 3 p.m. at Greeley Park.
The day will feature musical entertainment for kids by
Marcus Gale at 12:15 p.m.
and Irish music by Shanachie
at 1:15 p.m. The Independent
Karate School will perform
a demonstration at 2:15 p.m.
and a 5K Fun Run will start at
9 a.m. (with 8 a.m. registration
— or pre-register by calling
589-3370). Other events will
include a bounce house, a caricaturist, face-painting, games,
giveaways, snow cones and
popcorn. The day is free and
open to the public. See the
full schedule of SummerFun
events at www.gonashua.com.
• Help kids play music by
• SALSAEROBICS on Wednesdays
from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. at the Royal
Palace Dance Studio. Exercise your
body and soul to salsa music. Drop-in
costs $15. Meets once a week. Fourweek course is $45.
• URBAN FUNK hip hop group
class on Saturdays, 10 to 10:45 a.m.
at the Royal Palace Dance Studio.
This class is for teens and adults.
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SANGRIA
Events for the family this weekend
MUSEUMS & TOURS
• Canterbury Shaker Village
288 Shaker Road, Canterbury,
783-9511, shakers.org
• McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery Center
2 Institute Dr., Concord, starhop.
com, 271-7831
• Currier Museum of Art
150 Ash St., Manchester,
669-6144, currier.org
• Laconia Historical
& Museum Society
in the Laconia Public Library at
695 Main St. in Laconia,
527-1278, laconiahistorical.org
• Langer Place
55 South Commercial St.,
langerplace.com
• Lee Scouting Museum
& Library
571 Holt Ave. in Manchester,
669-8919, scoutingmuseum.org
• Manchester City Hall
One City Hall Plaza, off Hanover
feeding your kids music.The
Alvirne Friends of Music
sponsor their seventh annual
Bronco “Belly Bustin” Chili
Fiesta on Saturday, June 6,
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The
event will feature live music
from the Alvirne High School
Jazz Band and others, as well
as a chili cookoff sanctioned by
the International Chili Society,
with the winner qualified for
the World Championship Chili
Cookoff. The Fiesta will take
place at the Hills House Field
on Route 102 in Hudson, across
from Alvirne High School, rain
or shine. Admission costs $5
(free for children under 9). See
www.ahsmusic.org for more on
the Friends of Music.
• The Wilton Main Street
Association will hold its annual
Celebrate Wilton festival on
Saturday, June 6, with events
from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Activities
will include a pancake breakfast at the Masons, the Lions
Duck Race and a chicken barbecue dinner at the American
Legion. Call 654-3020.
• Cool off on hot days by taking the kids ice skating. The
Tri-Town Ice Arena, 311 W.
River Road in Hooksett, 4851100, www.tri-towniceareana.
com, offers family skate on
Friday nights from 6 to 8 p.m.
• The Conway Ice Arena, 8
Riverside St. in Nashua, 5952400, www.conwayarena.com,
offers public skating through
June: Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays from 11:50 a.m.
to 1:20 p.m.; Tuesdays from
10:20 to 11:40 a.m.; Thursdays from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.,
and Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m.
The cost is $5 per skater and $3
for rentals.
The NH Fisher Cats will
play at home (Merchantsauto.com Stadium in downtown
Manchester) this weekend
against the Reading Phillies.
Game times are Friday, June
5, at 7:05 p.m., Saturday, June
6, at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday,
June 7, at 1:05 p.m. See www.
nhfishercats.com for tickets.
The Manchester Wolves
will also have a home game
this weekend. On Friday, June
5, they’ll play the Albany Firebirds at 7:30 p.m. See www.
manchesterwolves.com.
Runs for a good
cause
The annual Relay for
Life of Greater Manchester brings participants
from Manchester, Bedford,
Goffstown and Hooksett
together to celebrate those
who have faced cancer
and fight back against the disease. This year’s event takes
place on Friday, June 5, and Saturday, June 6, from 6 p.m.
to 10 a.m. at Livingston Park in Manchester. Call 1-800ACS-2345 or visit www.relayforlife.org/manchesternh.
The Salvation Army 5K Race and Fitness Walk will
be held Saturday, June 6, starting at 10 a.m. at Lewis &
Clark Movers, 131 Burke St. in Nashua. All proceeds benefit the Nashua Salvation Army summer camp program.
Pre-race entry fee is $20; race day entry fee is $25. The
first 40 runners and walkers receive a Salvation Army Tshirt, and the event will include awards and a raffle. Visit
www.3craceproductions.com for all race details, including a course map, and to register, or call 429-8879 for
information.
St. in Manchester, 624-6455
• Millyard Museum/Manchester
Historic Association
200 Bedford St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• New England Synthesizer
Museum
6 Vernon St., Nashua, 881-8587,
synthmuseum.com
• New Hampshire Aviation
Museum
South Perimeter Road,
Manchester, 669-4820, nhahs.org
• New Hampshire Snowmobile
Association Museum
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
Straight-stretch stoppage may be due to sketchy solenoid
lock-up torque converter, and the symptoms
fit, too, I’m going to go way out on a limb
here and suggest that your mechanic check it
out. It’s easy to do. He can simply unplug it
for you.
RAY: Then you can try it out and see if the
problem recurs. If the problem disappears, then
have your guy replace the solenoid. And if the
problem comes back, and your wife and kids
scream at you, blame us! Good luck, Jim.
it’s comparable to your headlights. Using your
headlights may decrease your fuel economy
by about 1 percent.
RAY: But your headlights are on for the
entire length of your drive at night. The rear
defroster runs for about 10 minutes, then automatically shuts itself off. So they’re not really
equivalent.
TOM: Nonetheless, he’s risking your safety to get 20.5 miles per gallon instead of 20.3.
This generally is not something one does with
the woman he loves.
RAY: Especially if that woman also has an
easy outlet for revenge because she prepares
his food. You may want to remind him of that
next time you slide a bowl of congealing gruel in front of him.
TOM: He’s half a taco short of a combination plate, Kari. And he needs you to point this
out to him. I suggest you do it in the form of a
helpful suggestion.
RAY: Tell him that you’ve been thinking
about other ways to save money. And you
realized that the rear defroster is small potatoes, and that if he really wants to save money,
he needs to stop using those energy-hogging
headlights at night. You have our best wishes,
Kari. And our deepest sympathies.
Dear Tom and Ray:
On one of the many frigid days this past winter, my husband and I had a discussion about
using (versus not using) the rear defrost in our
Buick Century. He rarely uses it and tried to
convince me that the rear defrost is one of the
biggest energy guzzlers in the car (as compared with the radio, heater, etc.), so he tends
to turn it off as soon as he can see out a little. I still contest that visibility should be more
important than energy use anyhow. I’m just
wondering if indeed the rear defrost actually
uses any more power/energy than most of the
other standard features in the car. — Kari
RAY: It uses a small amount of electricity, Kari. And anything that uses electricity
does impose an additional load on the engine,
which costs you some fuel.
TOM: We don’t know what your particWrite to Click and Clack by visiting the Car
ular rear defroster actually uses, in terms of Talk Web site at www.cartalk.com. (c) 2009 by
amps. But it’s probably somewhere between Tom and Ray Magliozzi and Doug Berman.
the radio and the headlights. At worst, let’s say Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Dear Tom and Ray:
Our 2000 Saturn sedan has died twice in
the same exact spot (stopping at the end of a
highway exit ramp). The first time, it took 10
minutes or so to get going again; the second
time, it took 30-40 minutes. Then it happened
again on a straight stretch when slowing down
at a stoplight. An engine scan showed a torque
converter solenoid problem, but the mechanic
does not think this is the problem. Could it be a
fuel pressure regulator? Please help! My wife
is stranded at home with two kids. Thanks!
— Jim
TOM: Well, I hate to disagree with your
mechanic, but I think it probably IS the torque
converter solenoid.
RAY: Modern automatic transmissions have
a device called a lock-up torque converter
that improves your fuel economy. Normally,
in an automatic transmission, power is transmitted through the (how’s this for an inventive
name?) “automatic transmission fluid.”
TOM: By using a viscous fluid to transmit power from the engine to the wheels, the
transmission allows for some “slippage.” That
way, the engine can keep running even while
the wheels are stopped (like when you’re at a
red light).
RAY: If you had a rigid mechanical connection, like in a manual transmission, you’d need
to push in a clutch to keep the car from stalling
when you stopped.
TOM: But that slippage, which is necessary
in stop-and-go driving, is undesirable at sustained high speeds. When you’re going over
30 mph or so, you don’t want any slippage,
because it just wastes energy and lowers your
gas mileage.
RAY: So, modern automatic transmissions
have a solenoid (which is an electronic switch)
that activates something called a lock-up torque
converter. That locks up the two halves of the
torque converter, giving you a temporary solid mechanical connection, just like you’d have
with a clutch on a manual transmission.
TOM: But if the lock-up converter happens to stick in the “on” position, the car will
stall when you try to stop it, just like a manual-transmission car will stall if you’re in gear
and you come to a stop without pushing in the
clutch pedal.
RAY: And the car will continue to stall when
you put it in gear until the lock-up torque converter disengages.
TOM: Since the scan showed a code for the
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home canning goods. That’s why the color was
of no importance. Usually you find these with
a sweet mouse hole in them. Yes, I am saying
that at one time it probably was a home for a
critter or two. Sometimes, though, the holes
they left give charm to the piece.
The value on cupboards varies depending on
size and condition. One like yours, refinished,
would be around $225. Not bad for something
that was just stored in a basement for years.
Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in
the antiques and collectibles field and owns From
Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown
(www.fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com). She is
an antiques appraiser, an instructor, a licensed
auctioneer and a member of the N.H. Antiques
Dealers Association. To find out about your
antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the
object and information about it to Donna Welch,
From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465
Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or e-mail
her at [email protected]. Or drop by the shop
(call first, 624-8668).
Do a little discount shopping this weekend. The Weare Historical Society holds a
town-wide yard sale Saturday, June 6, from
8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Stone Building in
Weare Center.
Beaver Brook State Park Museum
Complex off Route 28,
Allenstown, 648-2304,
nhsnowmobilemuseum.com
• Museum of N.H. Natural
History
6 Eagle Square in Concord,
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Dear Lori,
Your cupboard looks to be from around the
late 1800s. It is a yellow pine and looks quite
nice refinished.
Now I am not saying I agree with having
things refinished, but if the color was a not natural yellow then yes it needed it. You wouldn’t
want to touch any piece of furniture that is in
the original finish and not damaged or repainted. This would take away a lot of the value in
the piece, and sometimes all the value. This
would depend on the age of the piece.
Furniture that is from the early 1800s or
the 1700s should always be left in the original
condition you found it in. Later pieces can be
handled differently depending on their condition and how you can fit them into your home.
If they are dirty and damaged and you wouldn’t
put them in your home that way, then refinish
them to your liking so you can enjoy them.
Back to your cupboard — if the yellow
would have made you not use it and enjoy it,
you did a good thing by having it refinished.
It was originally a jelly cupboard that was
probably always in a basement for storage of
Town yard sale
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Hello, Donna,
I have a small one-door cupboard that we
had refinished several years ago. I probably
shouldn’t have touched it, but it was an awful
bright yellow color when it came out of my
grandparents’ basement to me. It is four feet
tall and has three shelves inside. It’s in good
condition (now that it is refinished). I am writing to you to ask if this cupboard has any value,
and can you tell by the photos how old it is?
Lori in Dublin
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18 Highlawn Road, Warner,
456-2600, www.indianmuseum.org
• Seacoast African American
Cultural Center
135 Daniel St. in Portsmouth,
430-6027, saacc-nh.org
• SEE Science Center
200 Bedford St., Manchester,
669-0400, see-sciencecenter.org
• Speare Museum
5 Abbott St., Nashua, 883-0015,
nashuahistoricalsociety.org
• U.S. Marconi Museum
14 N. Amherst St. in Bedford,
472-8312, marconiusa.org
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EARLY BIRD starts at 6:30 pm • Doors Open 4:30 pm
Square in Concord, on Thursday,
June 11. The exhibit features
vignettes of kitchens from colonial New England, 19th century
Illinois, an adobe kitchen from the
Southwest and a 1950s kitchen.
The exhibit will run through Jan.
17. Admission to the museum
(which is open Tuesday through
Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., and
Mondays, July 1 through Oct. 15,
from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission costs $5.50 for adults, $4.50
for seniors, $3 for children aged
6 to 18, free for children under
6 (with a maximum fee of $17
per family). America’s Kitchen, a
book by Nancy Carlisle, Melinda
Nasardinov and Jennifer Pustz that
was published in conjunction with
the exhibit, sells for $34.95 in the
museum shop. See nhhistory.org
or call 228-6688 for more on the
museum and see americaskitchens.org for more on the exhibit.
• ANTIQUE SPORTS EQUIPMENT EXHIBIT This exhibit
will be on view until Sept. 30, at
the New Hampshire Antique Co-op
(323 Elm St., Milford). Open daily
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Book signing & sports appraisals by author:
Sun., June 21, 10 a.m to noon. A
collection of antique sports memorabilia including original jerseys,
baseball bats, baseball gloves, footballs, photographs and more. The
collection will be on view in the
Focus Gallery. Call 673-8499 or
visit www.nhantiquecoop.com.
• “ARE WE THERE YET” a
history of roadside motels and
cabin colonies at the Laconia
Public Library from June 4 to Oct.
31, presented by the Laconia Historical and Museum Society. See
www.laconiahistorical.org.
• “HISTORY OF THE NH AIR
NATIONAL GUARD” at the NH
Aviation Museum. See nhahs.org.
• NH FAVORITES EXHIBITION Tuesday through Saturday,
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the New
Hampshire Historical Society
Museum in Concord. Features
a wide variety of the NHHS’s
favorite objects from its collections. Open to the public. Call
228-6688. www.nhhistory.org.
• STAR TREK EXHIBIT at McAuliffe-Shepard Discover Center, 2
Institute Dr. in Concord, www.starhop.com, 271-STAR. Items from
the 1979 Star Trek movie and chairs
from Star Trek: The Next Generation are accompanied by real history
behind the series.
SPORTS
& RECREATION
• Bow Recreation Department
2 Knox Road, Bow, 228-2222,
bowparksandrecreation.com
• Candia Woods Golf Links
313 South Rd., Candia, 4832307, candiawoods.com
• Concord Recreation Dept.
onconcord.com/recreation
• Granite State Senior Games
11 Stagecoach Way, Manchester,
622-9041,nhseniorgames.org
• Granite State Wheelmen
215 S. Broadway, Salem, 8985479, granitestatewheelmen.org
• McIntyre Ski Area
Kennard Road in Manchester,
622-6159, mcintyreskiarea.com
• Mine Falls Park
Whipple Street in Nashua,
• Nashua Parks & Recreation,
589-3370
• White Park Pond
Washington and White streets in
Concord, onconcord.com/recreation
• YMCA
Postcards from
everywhere
The Granite State
Post Card Collectors
Club, which has nearly 200 active members,
is holding its annual
Spring Post Card Show
and Sale on Sunday,
June 7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Concord
(corner of North Main Street and Loudon Road). Entry is
by $2 donation. At the Concord show there will be approximately one million cards offered by dealers from all six
New England states and New York, according to a GSPCCC
press release — which also notes, “Cards can be purchased
for as little as a few cents while some cards can go for hundreds of dollars each.” Members get in a half hour early;
join at the door if you like — annual dues are $10 for a single and $15 per couple. The club also meets at the Unitarian
Church in Franklin on the third Saturday of non-summer
months, newbies always welcome. For details, contact Larry Cooper, 226-8808, [email protected].
Rev your engines
Motorcycle enthusiasts have two
chances to ride this weekend for a
good cause.
The Mike Corcoran Charity Ride
is sponsored by Leather and Steel
Sisters and will be held Saturday,
June 6. The ride starts at 10 a.m.
at the Burger King in Londonderry. Cost is $15 per rider and $5 per passenger. The ride
ends in Hudson with music, raffles, food and more. Visit
leatherandsteelsisters.com. The Milford Police Benevolent Association’s poker run, sponsored by Souhegan
Motorsports and Hampshire Hills Health Club, is Sunday, June 7. The ride begins at the Souhegan Motorsports
(459 Route 13, Milford). Registration is from 9 to 11
a.m. Cost is $25 per rider and $10 per passenger. Admission includes a T-shirt and a pig roast. Call Jason Palmer
at 673-7742.
30 Mechanic St., Manchester,
623-3558, gmfymca.org
6 Henry Clay Dr., Merrimack,
881-7778, nmymca.org
17 Prospect St., Nashua, 882-2011,
nmymca.org
15 North State St., Concord,
228-9622, concordymca.org
mats played will allow golfers of all
abilities to participate and be part of
the game. Cost is $60 per couple.
Signup with Craig McLaughlin at
603.483.2307 X 101 or [email protected].
• SPRING CLASSIC GOLF
TOURNAMENT through the
Wild Rover in Manchester, takes
Spectator sports
place on Wed., June 10, at Plau• American Defenders of NH
sawa Valley Golf Course in Pemat Holman Stadium, Amherst St., broke. The shotgun start begins at
883-2255, americandefenders.us 8:30 a.m. Cost is $85 per person
• Manchester Freedom Football
and includes breakfast, a buffet lun9 Notre Dame Ave., 627-7270,
cheon at the Wild Rover, entrance
manchesterfreedom.com
into raffles and coupons. Contact
• Manchester Monarchs Hockey
the Wild Rover at 669-7722.
Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
St., monarchshockey.com,
Runs/running/walks
626-7825
• AMERICAN CANCER SOCI• Manchester Wolves Football
ETY’S RELAY FOR LIFE is Fri.,
Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm June 19, at 6 p.m., until Sat., June 20,
St., manchesterwolves.com
at noon at the Pinkerton Academy
• NH Fisher Cats Baseball
Football Field (19 North Main St.,
1 Line Drive, Manchester,
Derry). Relay For Life offers every641-2005, nhfishercats.com
one in the community an opportunity
• Verizon Wireless Arena
to participate in the fight against can555 Elm St., Manchester, 868cer by creating a team to walk or run
7300, verizonwirelessarena.com around a track or path overnight. Call
Golf
Brigit at 471-4113 or visit relayforlife.
• COUPLES SOCIAL GOLF at org/derryandlondonderrynh.
Candia Woods Golf Links (candia- • SALVATION ARMY 5K RACE
woods.com). Every Sunday start- & FITNESS WALK is Sat., June
ing Sun., June 7, at 2 p.m. Candia 6, at 10 a.m. All proceeds benefit
Woods Nine & Dines are, first and the Nashua Salvation Army Sumforemost, a social gathering; it is not mer Camp Program. Visit www.
serious golf. Instead, it is a wonder- craceproductions.com for all race
ful opportunity for golfing couples details.
to gather in a pristine setting and
enjoy an afternoon. In fact, the for-
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OK, so the Internet ain’t all that
By John Andrews
[email protected]
WiFi hotspots
NASHUA
• A & E ROASTERY 131 Route
101A, Unit 2, Amherst, 578-3338,
aeroastery.com. Free.
• BREW’D AWAKENING 61 Market St., Lowell, 978-454-2739. Free.
• Carriage House 230 Route
13, Brookline, 769-6004, carriagehousecoffee.com, free
• CASTRO’S BACK ROOM 182
Main St., 881-7703. Free.
• Herbata Tea Bar, 650
Amherst St., herbatateas.com, 5981212, free for customers
• J BEANER’S COFFEE HOUSE
AND CAFÉ 25 Route 101A,
Amherst. Free.
• MARTHA’S EXCHANGE 185
Main St., 883-8781. Free.
• Merrimack Public
Library 470 Daniel Webster
Highway Merrimack, 424-5021.
Free
• NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY,
2 Court St., Nashua. nashualibrary.
org/WiFi_FAQ.htm. Free.
• NASHUA WIFI PROJECT
Main Street, Nashua. nashuawifi.
com. Free.
• PANERA BREAD 8 Spit Brook
Rd., 891-2133 and 590 Amherst St.,
821-6021, panerabread.com, free.
• The Peddler’s Daughter
48 Main St., Nashua, 603-821-7535
• SKY MARKET 383 E. Dunstable
Rd., 888-7400. Free.
CONCORD
• The Barley House 132
North Main St. 228-6363. www.
thebarleyhouse.com. Free.
• Caffenio 84 N. Main St., 2290020, caffenio.com, free
• Centennial Inn 96 Pleasant
St., 225-7102. Free to guests.
• CHEERS DOWNTOWN
GRILLE & BAR 17 Depot St. 2280180. Free.
• Common Man, 25 Water St.,
228-DINE. Free.
• Concord Public Library
45 Green St. Free.
• CONCORD TIRE & AUTO
SERVICE 63 Hall St., 224-2393.
Free.
• Heritage Harley-Davidson, 142 Manchester St., 1-800HARLEY-1. Free
• PANERA BREAD 75 Fort Eddy
Rd., 226-8966, panerabread.com,
free.
• SOUTH END VILLAGE LAUN-
DROMAT 71 Downing St., 2288768. Free.
MANCHESTER
• 900 Degrees 50 Dow St., 6410900
• Airport Diner, 2280 Brown
Ave., 623-5040. Free.
• Bea’s Wash N Dry 478 South
Main St. 668-7110. Free.
• Billy’s Sports Bar &
Grill 34 Tarrytown Road, 6223644, billyssportsbar.com. Free.
• CASTRO’S BACK ROOM 972
Elm St., 606-7854. Free.
• CLUB 313 93 South Maple St.,
628-6813. Free.
• DERRYFIELD COUNTRY
CLUB 625 Mammoth Road, 6690235. Free.
• GOFFSTOWN PUBLIC LIB
RARY 2 High St., Goffstown, 4972102. Free.
• Highlander Inn Fusion
Hotspot, 2 Highlander Way, 603-6256426. Free to guests.
• Hooksett Public Lib
rary, 1701B Hooksett Road, 4856092. Free.
• JEWELL & THE BEANSTALK
797 Somerville St., 624-3709. Free.
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A few weeks ago, I offered
a few ways to save money by
canceling communications
services that could be replicated on the Internet. They
included television, newspapers, satellite
radio and telephones.
That last suggestion caused a bit of a fuss.
As I should have noted at the time, alternative voice communications differ from
traditional phone service in one very important way, even aside from the fact that phones
often continue working when a power outage
occurs. Unlike a land line tied to a specific address, cell phones and Internet phones
don’t convey the caller’s physical location to
911 operators.
Is that a big deal? Maybe not if you know
exactly where you are and have the presence
of mind to give that information in a calm
manner in an emergency. If you’re a babysitter or guest at one home out of many you
frequent, you might be a tad flustered.
Different alternative phone services have
different levels of compatibility with modern
911 systems. The really free or cheap ones,
like the Skype voice chat application that can
call phone numbers, makes it clear on their
Web site that they can’t do 911:
“Skype is not a replacement for your landline or your mobile phone. Skype does not
offer you the ability to call emergency services for help if you are in distress.”
Subscriber VOIP phone services, like Vonage, do much better. In their early days, they
didn’t offer much in the way of 911 interoperability, but since then, partially because they
wanted to be more competitive with land
lines and partially because of new regulation,
functionality has improved greatly. Since the
phone number isn’t tied to a physical location,
you still have to notify your service provider
when you move so they can update the address
information that is sent to a 911 operator.
Since about half of 911 calls come from
mobile phones, public safety officials have
made great strides in locating those callers
as well. Most call centers can locate a caller by latitude and longitude to within 50 to
300 meters by triangulating the wireless signal between the cell towers handling the call.
That’s great on highways or rural areas, but
not so much in dense urban environments.
The FCC is requiring that more accurate location info be available by Sept. 12, 2012.
Of course, all this is moot if your community is still operating an old 911 system
that doesn’t have the whole automatic phone
number and address display thing going on. If
you’re calling a center without this Enhanced
911, you still need to give your information
verbally.
A few locales also have a “Reverse 911”
system, with which they can call every land
line in a specific area. These systems are typically used to provide information in the event
of a localized disaster or emergency. Reverse
911 is actually a specific product made in California by a company called PlantCML. It’s
not meant to be the only means of transmitting
information — television and radio announcements are often broadcast as well. Check with
your local government if you want to register
a mobile or VOIP phone number to be called.
Some police departments use a non-profit
service called A Child Is Missing. It’s more
limited than Reverse 911, focusing on missing children or disabled or elderly persons.
Calls are placed to enlist local citizen support
in finding someone, kind of like an instant
milk carton photo. You can register your
phone number right on their Web site at www.
achildismissing.org.
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Notes from the local food scene
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[email protected]
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• More on Mint: Mint Bistro, 1105 Elm
St. in Manchester, has set an opening date —
Monday, June 8. According to Mint Bistro chef
George Bezanson, the restaurant will open
Monday for lunch and dinner. Partnering with
Bezanson in the kitchen will be Chef Michael
Dussault, previously executive chef for the former Manhattan on Pearl in Nashua. Jessica
Haight, previously at the Ritz-Carlton restaurant 42, will be pastry chef, he said.
• Strawberry season: Do you have a strawberry recipe that everyone raves over? The
Canterbury Shaker Village, 288 Shaker Road
in Canterbury, will hold its Strawberry Jamboree on Saturday, June 20, which includes a
strawberry bake-off. The only qualification is
that strawberries must be an ingredient. (Entries
must be able to sit out without refrigeration for
several hours without melting or spoiling.) Desserts and other baked goods are welcome, as are
spreads, salads and miscellaneous dishes. There
will be two divisions — restaurants and bakeries, and home chefs. Village visitors will be the
judges. Prizes include a trophy for the top restaurant, and for the home cooks, a first prize $50
gift certificate to the Shaker Table restaurant, a
second prize $25 gift certificate to the Canterbury Shaker Village Museum Store, and a third
prize $10 gift certificate to the Canterbury Shaker Village Museum Store. To enter, go to www.
shakers.org and click on the calendar to find the
Strawberry Jamboree info, or call Maisie Keith
Daley at 783-9077 ext. 284. Registration is free. • Superfoods to the rescue! Chef Liz Barbour of Creative Feast will hold a 30 Minute
Recipes Using Superfoods cooking class on
Friday, June 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. Superfoods is
the term for nutrient-rich ingredients that help
support a healthy lifestyle. Barbour will teach
students how to use these ingredients to create a delicious meal in 30 minutes. The menu
includes Super Composed Salad with Curry
Miso Dressing, Hearty Super Spinach Frittata
with Super Tomato Sauce, Walnut Encrusted
Turkey Breast with Super Steamed Broccoli,
and Super Berry Parfait with Greek Yogurt and
Lemon Green Tea Sauce. The class costs $65
and will be held at Granite State Cabinetry, 384
Route 101, Bedford. A wine tasting is included. To register, visit www.thecreativefeast.com
or call 465-6929.
• Goodbye to an organic farm: Nesenkeag
Farm in Litchfield, known to supply restaurants
such as Z Food and Drink with fresh produce,
has closed. Farm administrator Liana Eastman
said in an e-mail, “Eero [Ruuttila, the farm manager] fell off a ladder last November, shattering
his knee cap and hurting his rotator cuff. He
didn’t feel he was up to the physical demands
of the job. He has a job now, working for the
organic seed company, Seeds of Change, in New
Mexico. The farm land, which was leased, was
taken over by Normanton Farms. ... will be raising organic beef.”
• Lamb barbecue: Saint Nicholas Greek
Orthodox Church, 1160 Bridge Street Extension
in Manchester, will hold its annual spring lamb
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Watch the cheese guru at work
[email protected]
Mozzarella is the crowning touch for most
pizzas and lasagna, and a caprice salad wouldn’t
be complete without it. On Saturday, June 6,
Butter’s Fine Food and Wine in Concord will
hold a mozzarella-stretching demonstration
by cheese expert Adam Prizio. This will allow
visitors to see the technique that makes fresh
mozzarella a culinary delight.
“Adam and I talked about doing something
like this a while ago,” Butter’s manager Kristin
Ryall said. “The real inspiration was the farmers’ market. We thought it would be a great
way to get people to come over and get some
fresh mozzarella to go with their fresh tomatoes and basil.”
Prizio worked for Ryall last summer for gas
money after he graduated from Notre Dame
law school and before he found a job in his
field. She calls him the cheese guru extraordinaire. He first learned the cheese trade at the
well-known Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Then, while he studied in London, he worked at
the famous Neal’s Yard Dairy. There he was the
cheese monger and the shop manager during
the holidays. (Today he works for the Food and
Hospitality Practice Group at Nelson, Kinder,
Mosseau, and Saturley in Manchester.)
While at Zingerman’s, Prizio would get
to the shop early in the morning to build the
cheese and salami displays. “Nearly every day
we would stretch fresh mozzarella,” he said.
“The mozzarella you buy in the grocery store
is at best already a couple of days old. There
is something amazing about fresh mozzarella
that is made just four hours ago.”
Mozzarella was first made in Italy with milk
from water buffaloes. Most of today’s varieties
are made from cow’s milk, though you can still
find the buffalo type around. The fresh mozzarella that Prizio will create is different from
The cheese counter at Butter’s Fine Food and Wine in Concord, which will hold a mozzarellastretching demonstration on Saturday, June 6. Linda A. Thompson-Odum photo.
the regular style found in most supermarkets,
which is drier and less delicate but melts well
on pizzas and pasta casseroles. The fresh style
is usually stored in water or whey and is soft,
creamy, and delicate.
Prizio will demonstrate pasta filata, which
in Italian means spun paste. The process gives
mozzarella its famous chewy stringiness, and
begins with mozzarella curd — the milk solids that are pulled from milk, leaving the whey
behind. The curds are cut into little pieces and
placed into room-temperature water. Gradually
the water temperature is increased with the addition of boiling water until the curd starts to melt
and come together. Then Prizio will gather the
curds together with his hands and stretch them
into long rope-like strands. Next he will shape
the stretched cheese into little 1/3- to ½-pound
balls, which immediately go into ice water.
The traditional method of pasta filata is done
with wooden paddles, but Prizio will use his
hands — not an easy feat with such hot water.
He said he planned to put his hands in hot water
a few times a day to train for the main event. “It
takes about a week for your hands to stand the
water as hot as it should be,” he said.
Prizio’s favorite way to enjoy fresh mozzarella is to warm some up on a soft loaf of
sesame semolina bread and serve it with hot
jardinière (the Italian-style vegetables in a jar).
Ryall’s favorite is the traditional caprice salad of tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, olive oil and
balsamic vinegar: “It’s simple, and I enjoy simple foods. It just screams summer.”
Mozzarella-stretching demo
Where: Butter’s Fine Food and Wine, 70 N.
Main St., Concord
When: Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m. to noon
Eat like an Egyptian
New restaurant owner claims “best falafel in America”
[email protected]
Gamil and Lois Azmy want to make sure
customers understand the importance they
place on fresh fruits and vegetables in their
dishes at Gamil’s Egyptian restaurant. So the
produce — hand picked by Gamil each day —
is displayed for all to see. And the freshness
stands out in each bite of tabouli, messegah,
hommous and salata.
“I do all the cooking with original recipes,”
Gamil said. “We have the best falafel in America. I make it every day, twice a day. I make
hommous every day. Tabouli every six hours.”
How serous is Gamil about his food? He
removed a sandwich from the menu because
he couldn’t get it to taste up to his standards.
However, one person bought the sandwich,
and it has bothered Gamil ever since. He said,
“I want to apologize to him. I hope he comes
back in.”
Gamil was born in Cairo, Egypt. He began
to collect recipes in his head as he traveled to
swim meets around the country and throughout the world — he even competed in the
1960 Rome Olympics in the 100m and 400m
breaststroke and backstroke. He received his
bachelor’s degree in recreation and physical
education, and a master’s degree in recreation
and physical therapy.
Gamil immigrated to the U.S. in 1969 and
settled in California. There he earned additional bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
recreation therapy and recreation administration. However, cooking and restaurants were
his hobby, which eventually grew into a career
that spanned multiple restaurants. He owned
four to five places at one time in California
and a few around the Concord area. The current restaurant is number 41— and he says it’s
the last.
Lois is a native of Contoocook. Her only restaurant experience was working the snack bar
at Bradley’s when she was younger.
“I swore I would never work in restaurants
after that,” she said.
In California, Lois and Gamil were neigh-
bors. She worked in his restaurants there, until
the couple came to New Hampshire on a visit
about 15 years ago and Gamil fell in love with
the state. (“I saw how beautiful it was,” he said
— to which Lois added, “He didn’t come in
the winter.”)
“We were getting tired of the earthquakes,”
Gamil said. “I did sculpture and artwork, and
every time it shakes it’s not good for the artwork. Everything gets ruined.”
Gamil has a few statues for sale at the restaurant, but it’s the food that draws your attention.
A long glass case features fresh-made salads
and sandwich ingredients. Many of the menu
items are vegan and vegetarian, but there also
plenty for meat-lovers. And seating for 25
offers sufficient room for a sit-down meal.
For anyone new to Egyptian cuisine, the
Azmys recommend one or more of their tasting
plates, known as maza. The Maza Salad plate
features tabouli, red cabbage, chickpea, and
Egyptian potato salads. The Maza Dip has hommous, feta, baba ghanouji and tabouli served
with pita bread. Maza Meat offers a selec-
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tion of koufta
(seasoned
ground
beef
and lamb meatballs),
lamb,
chicken, hommous, tabouli
and messegah
(eggplant with
herbs and tomato sauce). Or
order the Combination Maza
with chicken,
koufta, hommous, tabouli
and messegah.
Each Maza and
items from the Gamil and Lois Azmy own the new Gamil’s Egyptian restaurant in Conplatter
menu cord. Linda A. Thompson-Odum photo.
Most of the menu items are priced less than
can be ordered
$10.
for one or two people.
“It is a 100-percent Egyptian menu like we
The restaurant also serves sandwiches,
soups, salads, pizzas and pasta dishes. The made at home,” Gamil said. “You have found
dinners feature kabobs, stir-fried chicken, a place where you can eat healthy food. It is
baked fish, lamb, and megadara (rice mixed filling, and you save money.”
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barbecue on Saturday, June 20, from 11 a.m.
to 7 p.m. The event features George’s famous
marinated lamb barbecue as well as other
Greek dishes such as pastitsio, souvlaki, dolmathes and pita as well as a large assortment
of sumptuous Greek pastries.
• Drink up a storm: Candia Vineyards
has a new sweet American white wine called
Ice Storm. It was inspired by last year’s massive storm, and the label features images
winemaker Bob Dabrowski took of the ice
on his vines. This particular wine is not quite
as sweet as a dessert wine — but it’s close
— and it’s made from juice frozen post-harvest. The first cases were the fastest sell-out
of a wine in Candia’s history. To order, visit
www.candiavineyards.com.
• Chili this weekend: The Alvirne Friends
of Music sponsor their seventh annual Bronco “Belly Bustin” Chili Fiesta on Saturday,
June 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will
feature live music from the Alvirne High
School Jazz Band and others, as well as a
chili cookoff sanctioned by the International Chili Society, with the winner qualified for
the World Championship Chili Cookoff. The
Fiesta will take place at the Hills House Field
on Route 102 in Hudson, across from Alvirne
High School, rain or shine. Admission costs
$5 (free for children under 9). See www.ahsmusic.org for more on the Friends of Music.
• Chowder this weekend: The 25th
WOKQ Chowder Festival is set for Saturday, June 6, beginning at 11:30 a.m. (rain
date Sunday, June 7), at Prescott Park in
Portsmouth, with more than 14 restaurants
scheduled to serve chowders and one winner
to be selected. The cost is $8 for adults, $5 for
youth 12 and under. See www.prescottpark.
org or call 436-2848.
• Historical kitchens: “America’s Kitchens,” a traveling exhibit organized by
Historic New England, will open at the New
Hampshire Historical Society’s Museum at
6 Eagle Square in Concord, on Thursday,
June 11. The exhibit features vignettes of
kitchens from colonial New England, 19thcentury Illinois, an adobe kitchen from the
Southwest and a 1950s kitchen. The exhibit will run through Jan. 17. Admission to the
museum (which is open Tuesday through
Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday
from noon to 5 p.m., and Mondays, July 1
through Oct. 15, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
costs $5.50 for adults, $4.50 for seniors, $3
for children aged 6 to 18, free for children
under 6 (with a maximum fee of $17 per
family). America’s Kitchen, a book by Nancy
Carlisle, Melinda Nasardinov and Jennifer
Pustz that was published in conjunction with
the exhibit, sells for $34.95 in the museum
shop. See nhhistory.org or call 228-6688 for
more on the museum and see americaskitchens.org for more on the exhibit.
• Wine tasting: The Concord Cooperative market, 24 S. Main St. in Concord,
225-6840, www.concordfoodcoop.coop, will
hold a summer wine tasting of whites, pinks
and rosés on Thursday, June 25, from 6 to 8
p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Sample 50 different wines (available for sale
for less than $15 per bottle) while snacking on
treats and listening to live music.
• Wine and cheese tasting: LaBelle Winery in Amherst is holding a free open house
wine and cheese tasting event on Saturday,
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Food Listings
Farmers’ markets
• AMHERST INDOOR Farmers’
Market at Salzburg Square, Route
101 in Amherst. Monday, 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday,
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Thursday, 10
a.m. to 7 p.m. (wine tasting from 4
to 7 p.m.); Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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BROOKLINE
INDOOR
FARMERS MARKET Look for
breads from Stormy Moon Farm
bakery, a freezer of meats from
Kelly Corner Farm in Chichester,
locally raised chickens, free-range
turkeys which can be pre-ordered,
DJ’s Pure Natural Honey, Yankee
Farmers pepperoni, garlic from
Country Dreams Farm, Nashua.
Look for the indoor farmers’ market
to expand to offer coffee, bagels,
and light lunch specials, like soups
in bread bowls. The market is on
Route 13, next to TD Banknorth,
the Brookline Florist and Farwell
Realty. Hours are Mondays, 9 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m., and Tuesdays through
Fridays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 5546002
• KEARSARGE MARKET 51 E.
Main St. in Warner in the Brookside
complex. This year-round market is
open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. Owner Mike McChesney says
the market features locally-grown
or made fruits, vegetables, cheese,
ice cream, pies, cakes, breads, freeranged meats, eggs, herbs, spices,
herbal products, tomato sauces,
maple products, candy and more as
well as art, jewelry and other items
from local artisans. The market
also offers smoked goods — such
as turkey, fish, sausages and other
meats — and serves up sandwiches
with the sausages at the market,
McChesney said. The market also
offers hot stew, coffee, hot cocoa
and more. To get in touch with
McChesney for more information
on the market or to learn how to
become a vendor, call 731-6253 or
[email protected].
• NASHUA — MAIN STREET
BRIDGE The Main Street Bridge
Market (which runs on the side
of Main Street, on the bridge near
Peddlar’s Daughter in downtown
Nashua) will run Sundays, 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m., and ends the season on
Oct. 25. See www.greatamericandowntown.org or call 883-5700 for
more.
• NASHUA — SCHOOL
STREET The School Street Market will run Fridays from 2 to 6 p.m.
and will start on June 5 (ending on
Oct. 30 for the season). See www.
greatamericandowntown.org or call
883-5700 for more.
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties/book events
• CELEBRATE WILTON The
Wilton Main Street Association will
hold its annual Celebrate Wilton
festival on Saturday, June 6, with
events from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Activities will include a pancake breakfast at the Masons and a chicken
barbecue dinner at the American
Legion. Call 654-3020 or see www.
mainstreet.wilton.nh.us for more
information.
• CHILI FIESTA The Alvirne
Friends of Music are sponsoring
their 7th annual Bronco “Belly
Bustin” Chili Fiesta on Saturday,
June 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tacos: 75 Authentic and
Inspired Recipes, by Mark
Miller, photos by Ed Anderson (2009, Ten Speed Press, 173
pages)
All tacos are not the same.
First of all, tacos that come
from most fast food restaurants
in this part of the world aren’t really tacos, so let’s not
even talk about them. But locally, you do have a few restaurants that do tacos right — my personal favorite at
the moment is Manchester’s taco truck. But that’s just
one kind of taco. Visit Texas and you see other varieties (puffy, for example). Visit California and more of the
tacos will contain fish or have some delightfully weird
fusion element.
Tacos captures the way in which tacos, like sandwiches,
can be a million different things. (Or maybe not a million, but I’m willing to taste-test until I get to a million.)
The book starts out with a discussion of taco construction and recipes for corn and flour tortillas. Then we get
into fillings — vegetables, chicken and other birds, seafood, pork, red meat and egg (which fill the tacos known
as breakfast tacos, including the wonderfully named
“Huevos Divorciados” for a taco with two eggs and two
different chile sauces). The book also devotes a chapter
to what can sometimes be the best part of a taco meal —
the accompanying beans, rice, guacamole and salsa.
In addition to broadening your repertoire of this quintessential street food dish, this rundown of taco variations
is a great example of current budget-friendly cooking.
Pulled or roasted meats are a key component in many
tacos. Last night’s pork roast or baked chicken gets you
halfway to tonight’s flavorful, warm-weather friendly
dinner. — Amy Diaz
The event will feature live music,
including from the Alvirne High
School Jazz Band, as well as a chili
cookoff, with the winner qualified
for the World Championship Chili
Cookoff. The event will take place
at the Hills House Field on Route
102 in Hudson, rain or shine, across
from Alvirne High School. Admission costs $5 and children under 9
are free. See www.ahsmusic.org for
more on the Friends of Music.
• COCKTAIL COMPETITION
The third annual Portsmouth Signature Cocktail Competition will
be held Sunday, June 7, from 4 to
8 p.m. For $20 (tickets cost $30 at
the door) walk around downtown
Portsmouth trying several restaurants’ signature cocktails paired
with food. Tommy Grella of The
Next Food Network Star will judge
the best paired cocktail. Participants
include Riverwatch at the Sheraton Harborside, Blue Mermaid
Island Grill, the Hilton Garden Inn,
McMenemy’s, Brazo, Popovers on
the Square, Rudi’s Portsmouth and
the Ri Ra Irish pub, which will be
the final stop and the scene of the
wrap party, where attendees will
enjoy live music, goodie bags and
a chance to vote for their favorite cocktail. For tickets and more
information, see www.portsmouthcocktail.com.
• DAIRY DAY The New Hampshire Farm Museum, Route 125 in
Milton, will hold its annual Dairy
Day on Saturday, June 20, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. The event includes
cows, goats, explanations of how
to make butter and ice cream, farm
games and free ice cream from
noon to 3 p.m. Tickets cost $6 ($3
for kids). For more information,
call 652-7840 or go to www.farm-
museum.org.
• LAMB BARBECUE St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 1160 Bridge
St. in Manchester, www.stnicholasman-nh.org, 625-6115, will hold its
annual lamb barbecue on Saturday,
June 20. The event, which runs
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., features
marinated lamb, barbecued, as well
as Greek dishes such as pastitsio,
souvlaki, dolmathes, spanakopeta
and sweet Greek pastries. The event
also features raffles, silent auctions,
music and kids’ activities.
• ROCK ’N RIBFEST The Rotary
Club of Nashua West will hold
their 7th Annual Rock ‘N Ribfest
on Friday, June 19, through Sunday, June 21, at Anheuser-Busch
in Merrimack. The ’fest will feature national and local ribbers selling tastes of their wares as well as
music, hot air balloon rides, aerial
acrobatics, a car show on Sunday,
kids activities all weekend and the
NH State Barbecue Championship.
Admission will cost $5; children
8 and under get in free. See www.
rotaryribfest.org for more details or
call 889-2333.
• STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
The annual Hollis Strawberry Festival and Band Concert will be held
Sunday, June 28, from 2 to 4 p.m.
featuring strawberry shortcakes and
sundaes along with arts and crafts,
activities for the kids and of course
music. The Hollis Town Band will
perform music such as marches,
Broadway show tunes and symphonies. The event will be held at
Monument Square (or in the Hollis Brookline High School in case
of rain). Contact Diana Kroeger at
465-2392 or Lynne Dougherty at
465-2723. • STRAWBERY JAMBOREE
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FOOD
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Foodie Rich Tango-Lowy helps you search the aisles
Note from Rich: Gentle
Readers, I’m away for a few
weeks investigating foods,
flavors and ingredients. You
can also follow my adventures
as they happen (if wi-fi connections are plentiful) on my
Twitter feed at http://twitter.
com/loveofchocolate. Meanwhile, I present you with that
late-night bit of guilty pleasure, the rerun. Ciao!
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Call or e-mail [email protected] Thurs., June 25 and Fri., June 26,
for tickets.
enjoy a special pre-show dinner in
the historic Kimball House ManChef events/special meals
sion Dining Room (attached to the
• BURGERFEST The Barley Chubb Theatre) catered by Nonni’s
House, 132 N. Main St. in Concord, Italian Eatery. (The House serves as
will hold their annual Burgerfest administrative office space for the
from Fri., June 12 to Sat., June 20. Center.) The menu includes fresh
The restaurant will once again team mozzarella and tomato brochette,
up with the local charity Fred’s vegetable roll ups with chive cream
Fund to raise money for Children’s cheese, Mediterranean chicken
Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock skewers with olive and basil, mini
(CHaD.) In the meantime, Burger eggplant parmesan with ricotta
Mondays feature a different burger cheese, prosciutto and fresh melon
special to try out.
with cracked pepper, and Caesar
• DOUGH RAISER The Friends salad with Nonni’s homemade
will also hold a “Dough Raiser” at dressing. Tickets for the dinner are
UNO’s Chicago Grill on Fort Eddy $16.50 (performance tickets are sold
Road in Concord on Mon., June separately) and must be purchased
15, from 11 a.m. to midnight. The in advance. Go to ccanh.com to get
cast will be at the restaurant from ticket to both events. (The dinner
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from will not be served before the Satur5 to 7 p.m. Wear something plaid day, June 27 performance.)
for the chance to win show tickets • PANCAKE BREAKFAST
and tell the server you’re there for — AUDI Friends of the Audi
the Dough Raiser so the Audi gets (the Concord City Auditorium;
20 percent of the check. See www. see www.concordcityauditorium.
concordcityauditorium.org.
org) will hold an “all you can eat”
• MEDITERRANEAN MEAL pancake breakfast at the Applegate
Before the performance of Girls Restaurant at Steeplegate Mall in
Night: The Musical at the Capitol Concord on Sat., June 6. The cost
Center for the Arts in Concord on is $5.
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An Affordable Taste of Italy
in downtown Nashua…since 1997
Discover budget-friendly
Italian cuisine:
Pick the reruns! Do you have a favorite Ingredients column of Rich’s that you’d like to
see run again while he’s away? Send your request to [email protected].
The Strawberry Jamboree festival at Canterbury Shaker Village,
on Shaker Road off Route 106 in
Canterbury, www.shakers.org, will
be held Saturday, June 20, from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. The event includes
the Strawberry Jam open-mike
music jam from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. led by TJ Wheeler and Patrick
“Hatrack” Gallagher, and a Strawberry Bake-Off from 1 to 4 p.m.
The Bake-Off includes professional
and home-chef divisions, and will
be judged by visitors. To enter the
Bake-Off, visit www.shakers.org or
call 783-9077 ext. 284; registration
is free. The Strawberry Jamboree
will also feature strawberry shortcake and sangria, as well as handson activities and craft vendors.
• SUSHI SMACKDOWN The
119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St.
in Lowell, Mass., 978-452-8782,
119gallery.org, will hold their third
Sushi Smackdown on Sun., June 7,
from 1 to 4 p.m. at the ALL Gallery,
246 Market St. in Lowell. Chefs
Mitch, Talia, Rick and Mira will participate in a sushi competition with
the Skate Free or Die Roller Derby
Girls delivering sushi. Tickets cost
$30 in advance, $35 at the door.
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You’re in for a special treat
this week, folks! My friend,
Dan Duris, chef and owner
of The Gypsy Cafe in Lincoln, was kind enough to
share some notes and one of Dan’s Chipotle Tuna Steak Sandwich
his favorite recipes. Dan’s Recipe courtesy of The Gypsy Cafe, 117 Main St.,
traveled quite a bit, and his Lincoln, N.H.
cooking reflects his interest In a small bowl, mix two finely chopped adobo chipoin ingredients from around tle peppers, some of the adobo sauce from the can,
the world. Gypsy’s offerings 1 tablespoon of finely chopped basil, and ½ cup of
are appropriately eclectic: mayonnaise until well blended. Briefly grill two sashidon’t be surprised to find mi-grade tuna steaks over high heat until seared on
Mediterranean Lamb, Duck the outside but still red in the center. Place the steaks
Confit Tacos and Dim Sum on buns, top with a spoonful of the chipotle-basil mayonnaise, add some lettuce and a slice of tomato, and
on the same menu!
According to chile experts finish with the bun tops.
Dave DeWitt and Chuck
Evans, the word Chipotle (chee-POHT-leh) comes from the Aztec language, Náhuatl,
where chil meant “hot pepper” and poctli, meant “smoked.” Historically, smoked chiles
originated just north of Mexico City and long before the rise of the Aztecs.
Adobo refers to smoked chiles that have been preserved in a tomato-based vinegar sauce.
It lends a tantalizingly smoky, chocolaty, spicy, tangy flavor to a dish. Chipotles in Adobo
can be found in most local Latino markets, such as D&J’s at 3 Bridge St. in Nashua. For
Dan’s Chipotle Tuna Steak Sandwiches, you need ultra-fresh sashimi-grade tuna steaks. I
usually buy mine at Concord Beef and Seafood at 75 S. Main St. in Concord.
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Pulled Pork BBQ
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FEATURING NEW ICE CREAM FLAVORS
MADE ON LOCATION
• BIRTHDAY CAKE
• FUDGE BROWNIE
MACAROON
• FLORIDA SUNSHINE
• TANGERINE CHIP
• MANGO CHIP
• COFFEE CREAM SWIRL
What to drink when you’re eating
Tacos
[email protected]
Drink Listings
Classes/workshops on wine/
beer making
Wine Cocktails: 50 Stylish Sippers
• PILSNER PARTY On Tues.,
that Show Off Your Reds, Whites and
June 16, at 6 p.m. IncrediBREW,
112 DW Highway, Nashua, 891Roses, by A.J. Ratahbun (2009, Har2477, will hold a Pilsner Party.
vard Common Press, 96 pages)
Pay $30 for a variety case (bottles
Wine, for all its greatness, is still
included) and brew a variety of piljust
a beverage — so a wine shop
sners (Czech Pilsner, Budapest Pils,
owner told me once. And it’s true.
Imperial Pilsner, Golden Eagle Pils
and German Oom-pah Pilsner) and
While wines can be fabulous, strange,
return in two weeks for bottling.
delightful, fascinating and instructionSpace is limited for all events so
al, they are also something that you put
call or e-mail dave@incredibrew.
in a glass and drink. Part of learning to appreciate wine is
com to reserve a spot for an event.
learning not to take it (or yourself) too seriously.
See www.incredibrew.com.
In that spirit, Wine Cocktails provides you with a wealth
• SUMMER WINEFEST On Fri.,
June 12, at 7 p.m., IncrediBREW,
of recipes made by — gasp — mixing things into wine.
112 DW Highway, Nashua, 891And, often, putting it all on ice.
2477, will hold the Taste of SumI know, you might need to take a breath for a moment.
mer Winefest. The cost is $50 for
But think about it — how many times have you opened a
six different bottles of wine. Make
bottle
of wine, had a few sips and thought this simply isn’t
wine and take home wines that
you’ve helped bottle and label
for me? Maybe it’s the wine, maybe it’s your taste buds,
(Beaujolais, green apple riesling,
maybe it’s the accompanying food, but the wine isn’t workrosso grande, white zinfandel, Gering out. You can suffer through the bottle (unless it’s corked,
man riesling and pomegranate zinand then you should take it back where you bought it) or you
fandel). The evening will include
can save it by making Kitty Highball (using red wine and
light snacks, a wine tasting and sangrias. Space is limited for all events
some ginger ale), a Rosé Squirt (with rosé, club soda, cherso call or e-mail dave@incredibrew.
ries and maraschino liqueur) or a Loire Lemonade. Some
com to reserve a spot for an event.
of these recipes add extra liqueurs but some don’t, making
See www.incredibrew.com.
these wine cocktails a light and less boozy alternative to a
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINdrink featuring lots of the hard stuff. — Amy Diaz
ERY 133 Loudon Road in Concord,
allows customers can make custom
tail. Participants include Riverwatch Special tastings
wines in batches of 24 to 28 bottles.
at the Sheraton Harborside, Blue • WINERY OPEN HOUSE The
Mermaid Island Grill, the Hilton Vintner’s Cellar of Bedford, SebCocktail events
Garden Inn, McMenemy’s, Brazo, bins Brook Market Place on 410 S.
• COCKTAIL COMPETITION
Popovers on the Square, Rudi’s Ports- River Road, www.vintnerscellarnh.
The third annual Portsmouth Signamouth and the Ri Ra Irish pub, which com, will hold a two day open
ture Cocktail Competition will be
will be the final stop and the scene of house and birthday celebration
held Sun., June 7, from 4 to 8 p.m.
the wrap party, where attendees will on Fri., June 12, from 4 to 7 p.m.,
For $20 (tickets cost $30 at the door)
enjoy live music, goodie bags and a and Sat., June 13, from 4 to 7 p.m.
walk around downtown Portsmouth
chance to vote for their favorite cock- Sample wines and receive discounts
trying several restaurants’ signature
tail. For tickets and more information, on purchases and a chance to win
cocktails paired with food. Tommy
see www.portsmouthcocktail.com.
raffle prizes.
Grella of The Next Food Network
Star will judge the best paired cock-
FA M I LY- O W N E D & O P E R AT E D S I N C E 1 9 4 7
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Try Cafe 324 Weekend
Breakfast once & we’ll
guarantee you’ll come
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324 Commercial St. • 666.5432 • www.cafe324.com
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Tacos come with a variety of fillings (fish,
chicken, pork, beef) and levels of spice. The
wine experts here focused on the traditional
idea of a Tex-Mex taco with a spicy, probably beef filling.
• 2005 Tercos Malbec —
$13.99 (Recommended by
Marissa Bontatibus from The
Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett
Road in Manchester, 622WINE (9463), and 27
Buttrick Road #3 in Londonderry, 432-WINE (9463),
www.thewinestudionh.com) An Argentinean
red wine with a little hint of pepper and spice,
which Bontatibus said will pair nicely with
both mild and spicy tacos.
• 6th Sense Syrah — $17.99
(Recommended by Amber Lorden
of Wine Society, 650 Amherst St.
in Nashua, 883-4114, and 18C
Pond View Place in Tyngsboro,
Mass., 978-649-8993, www.winesociety.us) The dark berry flavors
and hint of spice in this California
selection will stand up to spicy, full-flavored tacos. This wine has a smooth finish
with a hint of cocoa — perfect for all Mexican foods.
• Seven Deadly Zins—
$9.99 at state stores
(Recommended by Alexandra Graf from The Inn at
Danbury’s Alphorn Bistro,
67 Route 104 in Danbury,
768-3318, www.innatdanbury.com) Graf called this
“a Wild West spicy Zinfandel.” It has vibrant
aromas of raspberry jam, molasses and cinnamon toast with silken tannins and spice.
• 2003 White Oak
— $27.99 (Recommended
by
Paula Doucette of
Bella Vino, 2
Young Road in
Londonderry, 4265212,
www.
bellavinonh.com) A Napa Valley syrah with
earthy spice flavors, soft tannins and a long,
rich and viscous finish. It would pair well
with a not-too-spicy beef taco.
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Wine with dinner
drink
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www.nhchocolates.com 225-2591
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POP CuLTurE
Index
Cds
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• Iggy Pop, Preliminaires, A+
MuSIC, BOOKS,
GAMES, COMICS,
MOVIES, dVdS,
TV And MOrE
dork vs. dork: Land of the Lost
Will Ferrell is no Spencer Milligan
• Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw, A
BOOKS
pg40
Includes listings for lectures, author events,
book clubs, writers’ workshops and other literary events. To let us know about your book
or event, e-mail Lisa Parsons at lparsons@
hippopress.com. To get your author events,
library events and more listed, send information to [email protected].
FILM
• Land of the Lost, C
• My Life in Ruins, C
• Drag Me To Hell, A• Summer Hours, B
pg42
OK, my memories of Land of the Lost are murky hallucination (a hazy blur of time, not of the usual Sid and Marty
Krofft pharma-reasons). In fact I was under the impression that Will Marshall was originally portrayed by Patrick
Duffy (of Step by Step and Dallas fame). THIS IS BESIDE
THE POINT, THOUGH. No amount of half-remembered
nostalgia criticism can derail the truth-omotive light rail of
Will Ferrell and Danny McBride humor. While the haterplayers of mass media film comedy may blast Ferrell for
his early films (Superstar and Night at the Roxbury, I’m looking at you), he has
remained consistently funny and McBride has yet to utter a flubbed joke or deflated zinger in my experience. Their jointly produced Eastbound & Down was one
of the humor highlights of last year. Sure, director Brad Siberling is responsible
for the jilted ramshackle Lemony Snicket film, but to his credit he did helm an episode of Cop Rock (widely regarded as the Velvet Underground of network TV
Musical Police Procedurals). And if directing dancing signing cops doesn’t qualify you for remaking Land of the Lost well then lock me up Sally ’cause I don’t
want to be right.
Pedigrees aside, Land of the Lost has Sleestak, and those googly-eyed
lizard men scare the bran muffins out of me. So, if not for the guarantee of
brontosaurus-inspired Ferrell banter we should be excited just to see creepy
dinos-o-men engaging in elaborate chase sequences. Like V meets Benny Hill.
Everybody wins!
Wait, let me guess – I’m betting that at some point in
Land of the Lost
Lost, Will Ferrell loses his pants and runs
around screaming like a goof. That is only hilarious
the first few times.
I don’t know why they decided to redo the Sid and
Marty Krofft kid show from the ’70s. It was for kids, it
had cool mate paintings, it had, well, from a kids’ point
of view, completely amazing dinosaurs. And the Sleestaks...those things scared the heck out of me. Are there
even Sleestaks in the new movie? Who knows. In this new version, it just
doesn’t even matter. I mean, Ferrell fights a T-Rex. (I’ll bet that’s where he
loses his pants.)
It’s really just depressing when you think about it. Forget for the moment
that the director’s claim to fame is Lemony Snicket or that the writers have
literally never scripted a movie or that Anna Friel’s credit list reads like a
going-out-of-business sale at the VHS store. What’s annoying is that Ferrell
is beginning to slide down the Adam Sandler path of idiot man characters.
There is likely a good movie out there with Ferrell’s name on it, and I certainly appreciate Elf, but this can’t possibly be it.
Worse than ruining something great from our childhood, worse than
using special effects to hide bad writing, this movie just looks boring. Go
rent the original.
dAn rESPOndS
Ruining something great from our childhood? Listen, just because you
have seen real dinosaurs doesn’t mean you should be all crabby abby about
a remake. And Ruining? Come now, let’s reserve those terms for George
Lucas, where they are aptly aimed. Perhaps if you had bothered to even
watch a single trailer you’d realize that Yes, Virginia, there are Sleestak
aplenty and your fear of them is part of what makes Land of the Lost so fun.
Also, where is this pantsless grown-man obsession coming from?
Oh you kids and your lack of understanding of all the things that made the
past better! In a world where even the History Channel has better dinosaur
special effects than this movie will have, giant Styrofoam dinosaurs claws
and cardboard trees are so clearly superior to the Ferrell battling a green
screen. No amount of quipping will fix that. So, go play your “video games”
and stay off my lawn!
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GLEnn rESPOndS
On store shelves Tuesday,
June 9
• THE E.N.D. (Energy Never
Dies), by Black Eyed Peas
(Interscope)
• Flight 666, by Iron Maiden
(Sony Legacy)
• The Last, by Aventura (Sony
International )
• The Eternal, by Sonic Youth
(Matador Records )
• The Loving Kind, by Nanci
Griffith (Rounder / Pgd)
CdS
• Congo Square, by Teena Marie
(Stax Records)
• The Excitement Plan, by Todd
Snider (Yep Roc)
• Sirens Of The Sea Remixed,
by Above & Beyond Presents:
Oceanlab (Ultra)
• Rhett Miller, by Rhett Miller
(Shout Factory)
• Volume, by Paul Van Dyk
(Ultra)
• 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows
You’re Dead), by Primal Fear
(101)
• Maladjusted, by Morrissey
(Fontana Island)
• West Ryder Pauper Lunatic
Asylum, by Kasabian (Red Int/
Red Ink)
• The Introduction of Marcus
Cooper, by Pleasure P (Atlantic)
• Battle for the Sun, by Placebo
(Vagrant)
• Here And Now, by Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey (Bar
None)
Playlist
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Iggy Pop, Preliminaires
tails, so what).
Astralwerks Records, June 2
And for the benefit of avclub.com youngHow bitchin’, yet lings who think Taking Back Sunday
vaguely creepy, to have invented punk rock, she is, or was, whatevthis reptilian, cooler- er, a bit financially screwed (“Pennies” isn’t
than-freon guy with a art, it’s existential crisis intervention), and is
voice lower than Lind- adamantly, positively, madly not a grime artsay Lohan’s dating ist as of this sophomore album (this thing
standards
suddenly makes Black Eyed Peas look like Dizzee Rasappear in your room/car and begin speak-sing- cal). With only a couple of bona-fide flows
ing in French — it’s like your 90-year-old — but full-up with sketchy vocoder, instantly
granddad just, you know, appeared at your gratifying choruses and marginally inventive
bedside and he’s possessed by Maurice Cheva- vocal-sample loops — nearly all the songs are
lier, not caring if he messes up the words or if begging to be ruined by dangerously overrated
you even get it. And that’s just the beginning house DJs. No, she’s not yet gone Lily Allen
(“Les Feuilles Mortes”) of this latest mind-rog- — note the goose-honk vocals on “I Got You
ering by That Fellow Who Invented The Dancing” and the sideways she-fighter shout
Stage-Dive; who used to barf on the audience; to MF Doom in “Food Fight,” signs that Sov
who was swan-diving into broken glass before is getting a few chuckles here and there — but
a momentary, frightened outburst of slam- it’s doubtful that that train will end up running
late. Meantime, dance-pop with a lethal overdancing was a glint in your daddy’s eye.
French legend Françoise Hardy duets here, dose of sass? What the hell’s wrong with that?
of course — um, I mean WTF — amid a sea A — Eric W. Saeger
of crooning that finds the odd
filthy word tossed in as casually as you’d use the word “the,”
but this isn’t completely a
A seriously abridged
George Burns-haunted freakout leveled at — oh, who the
compendium of recent
cripes knows who’d want
and future CD releases
this record, aside from anyone who’s ever enjoyed music.
• If you want to know why the new Black Eyed Peas song
Comes complete with typi- “Boom Boom Pow” is especially sucky, it’s because co-procal garage-Iggy (“Nice to be ducer/house-moron David Guetta convinced them that the
Dead”), as well as a “Scary clunky, weak sound of a primitive 808 drum machine is going
Monsters”-style
interlude to revolutionize art itself, but you will buy their new album,
(“Party Time,” starring the The E.N.D, because you love messing with the head of wholyric “I smell slime/the stu- ever compiles the Billboard Top Ten list.
pid people”) and a chill-techno
• While Fergie and will.i.am are busy selling billions of ringmoment or three. A+ — Eric tones, Ludacris is busy being a fake Spaniard with gigantic
W. Saeger
Bachata group Aventura, which means “John Tesh seeking
cred” in Spanish. Their new LP The Last streets next week and
Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw
features lots of Daft Punk vocoder that can at times go really
Midget Records, April 7
well with their orchestral Dominican sound, like on “All Up 2
My my You” (feat. Akon, Wisin & Yandel) for example.
my,
• When Juno dissed Sonic Youth in front of Baby-Hating
what a Loser Husband, she’d obviously only been listening to stuff
mess.
from their no-wave days, and so when the band saw the movie
Everythey decided that getting hated by every teenager in the United
one
States was a good business plan, so they left Geffen Records,
needs to who wouldn’t let them do old-school bad music, then listened
stop and shut up a second about to all the Lake of Dracula or whoever albums they could find,
this victim of American honky- and then hired the Pavement guy to play bass. I can’t realhip-hop blog-ignorance, even if ly think of anything more cool, because teenagers are always
it’s largely her fault for failing to playing with their Pikachu Tamagotchi picture-cellphones and
control a single thread of her need discipline, so you definitely wanna buy their new LP The
own marketing people’s info- Eternal next week, to bum out your local high-schooler and
stream. For the too-old-for-TRL rebel against their awful Disturbed, the worst thing to happen
crowd, Lady Sovereign isn’t an to rock since The Brady Bunch Band.
official midget (she’s 5’1, mean• Iron Maiden releases their seemingly yearly collection
ing she could go 12 rounds with of live stuff on Tuesday with their Flight 666 DVD. As their
more than half the heavy metal press whip states, the actual star of the thing is their giant airguitarists out there) nor a Sporty plane, because it’s piloted by singer Bruce Dickinson, who
Spice clone (she has nicely became a professional pilot when it looked as though no one
rounded apple-cheeks that, yeah, cared about Maiden anymore, lucky them, the end.
are sometimes framed by pig— Eric W. Saeger
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(Voice)
• The Mind-Body Problem: And
Other Poems, by Katha Pollitt
(Random House)
Nonfiction
• Newton and the Counterfeiter:
The Unknown Detective Career
of the World’s Greatest Scientist,
by Thomas Levenson (Harcourt)
• When God Whispers Your
Name, by Max Lucado (Thomas
Nelson)
• Prairie Tale: A Memoir, by
Melissa Gilbert (Simon Spotlight)
• American Passage: The History of Ellis Island, by Vincent J.
Cannato (HarperCollins)
• Satchel: The Life and Times of
an American Legend, by Larry
Tye (Random House)
Poets corner
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Fiction
• Beyond the Grave (The 39
Clues Series #4), by Jude Watson (Scholastic)
• Relentless, by Dean Koontz
(Bantam Books)
• The Actor and the Housewife,
by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury)
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, by Katherine Howe
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An occasional collection of poetry reviews
by Dan Szczesny
Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology
of Poems to Read Aloud, edited by Robert
Pinsky, Norton, 2009, 488 pages
It may sound strange, but
generally poets do not know
how to read poetry aloud.
There’s always a lot of rolling Rs and “Acting!” waving
about. But there are a few
who will make the hairs on
the back of your neck stand up. No one can
read “The Wasteland” like T. S. Eliot himself, and the recordings of him doing just
that are scary amazing. Garrison Keillor
can read a laundry list and make it sound
meaningful.Z
And then there’s Robert Pinsky. Perhaps it’s because the former poet laureate
has spent so much of his career bringing
sound to words through his favorite poem
project or the readoutloud.net Web site that
he seems particularly fitted to tackle some
of the world’s major poems. In this new
anthology Pinsky does three things very
well. First, he organizes the collection into
thematic sections that emphasize particularly vocal elements of the selected poems:
short lines, ballads, repetitions, odes, etc.
Second, he provides brief introductions to
the sections to prepare the listener to hear
certain tones, phrases or word selections
that make the poem a classic. And finally,
a CD is included with Pinsky reading those
works.
And what a selection; Pinsky knows his
poetic history and “Essential Pleasures”
is a dream team of literally all of poetry’s
major players, from Emerson to Whitman
to Shakespeare. What’s even better is that
even though the selected poetry may be
from the world’s most famous poets, the
poems themselves are lesser known, chosen
by Pinsky for their relationship to sound.
No “Mending Walls” or “Road Less Taken”
here. Instead, the first poem in the anthology
by Frost is “Dust of Snow,” a mere eight-line
ditty that Pinsky reads with feverish passion
that I’ll bet would even raise Frost’s conBOOK & LECTurE
LISTInGS
Libraries
• Bedford Public Library
3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford
472-3023, bedford.lib.nh.us
• Concord Public Library
45 Green St., 225-8670,
onconcord.com/library
• Goffstown Public Library
2 High St., Goffstown,
497-2102, goffstown.lib.nh.us
• Hollis Social Library
2 Monument Sq., Hollis,
465-7721,
siderable eyebrows. And make no mistake,
the CD is the real treat here. Pinsky takes
his time, lingering over each piece. Like a
foodie relishing each bite, Pinsky absorbs
the weight and meaning of each poem, yet
manages to stay true to his own cadence.
He even manages to make Emily Dickinson sound interesting. Well done, sir!
The price tag on this collection is the only
reason to hesitate, and even that is a small
reason. This collection works for a family
volume, a casual reader or a scholar looking
to delve more deeply. Pinsky’s readings are
lively and vital, and this anthology is one of
the best to appear in a long, long time. A
The Seven Deadly Sins and Other
Poems, by David R. Slavitt, Louisiana
State University, 2009, 69 pages
Used to be, all poets were
considered classical poets.
Now, in the age of coffee
house slams and erasure
poetry, classicists like David
R. Slavitt aren’t getting
much attention. It’s a shame.
The Seven Deadly Sins is another solid collection from a veteran poet who has nearly
a hundred books under his belt. And anyway, it’s a little unfair to group Slavitt as a
purely a classicist. Sure, he includes a batch
of perplexing translations, but the meat of
the new collection is as witty and clever as
the work of any young poet writing today.
Slavitt’s strength is his ability to transform
simple or mundane tasks into life-exploring
situations: a head cold becomes a consciousness-transforming experience, for
example. In the title poem, each of the seven deadly sins has a voice and argues for its
own worth.
Don’t fear poets like Slavitt because you
see foreign words or mentions of Greek
gods. In The Seven Deadly Sins, Slavitt
has produced a comfortable collection of
insightful poems that are accessible and
have something to say. B
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• Hooksett Public Library
1701B Hooksett Rd., Hooksett,
485-6092, hooksettlibrary.org
• Manchester City Library
405 Pine St. (main branch)
and 76 N. Main St.
(West branch), 624-6550,
manchester.lib.nh.us
• Nashua Public Library
2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4610,
nashualibrary.org
Bookstores
• Barnes & Noble
1741 South Willow St.,
Manchester, 668-5557;
235 DW Hwy, Nashua,
888-5961; bn.com
• Borders
76 Fort Eddy Road, Concord,
224-1255;
281 DW Hwy, Nashua,
888-9300; borders.com
• Gibson’s Bookstore
27 South Main St., Concord,
224-0562,
gibsonsbookstore.com
• MainStreet Bookends
16 E. Main St., Warner,
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456-2700,
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• River Run Books
20 Congress St., Portsmouth,
431-2100, riverrunbookstore.com
• Toadstool Bookshop
586 Nashua St., Milford,
673-1734, toadbooks.com.
What are you reading?
Aaron Slater
Glassworker; see www.aaronslaterglass.com
I’ve been reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot
Diaz. I’m really enjoying it, especially the parts that take place in the
Dominican Republic and what I’ve
learned about the history of the dictatorship there. One of the narrators is
a real nerd and I’m enjoying all the dorky references to
D&D and such (a nerd after my own heart). I think some
readers might be thrown off by the occasional sentences
in Spanish, but doing a little translating got my Spanish
skills dusted off for my recent trip to Mexico. A little dictionary work never hurt a reader, did it? Overall I think
it’s a great read and would recommend it to a friend.
The Book
Report
• New book from Bennett: New Hampshire cartoonist Marek Bennett releases
Breakfast at Mimi’s, a collection of the
first three years’ worth of his “Mimi’s
Doughnuts” comic strip, on June 6 at the
MoCCA-NY (Museum of Comics and
Cartoon Art, moccany.org) Art Festival.
See www.marekbennett.com.
• SWA awards: The Seacoast Writers
Association has announced the winners
of its 2009 writing contest. In Fiction,
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Other
• BOOK SALE at Pembroke
Town Library (485-7851) on the
front lawn, June 6 from 8 a.m. to
2 p.m. (rain date June 13). Bake
sale included. Donations will be
accepted in advance, but no textbooks or encyclopedias. The sale
will continue the following week
in the Pine Grove Farm room during regular library hours.
• BOOK SALE at Goffstown
Public Library on Sat., June 6,
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. during Main
Street’s Old Home Day on the
library lawn.
Book discussions
• RODGERS LIBRARY in Hudson offers an afternoon and an
497-3975
dville
Pinar
Lectures and discussions
• THE MAJESTY AND MYSTERY OF CROP CIRCLES
with naturalist John Root on Wed.,
June 10, at 7 p.m. at Merrimack
Public Library (470 DW Hwy.,
Merrimack). Seating is limited;
reservations recommended — call
424-5021 or e-mail [email protected].
evening book discussion group.
On June 16 at 1 p.m. and on June
23 at 7 p.m. the book groups will
discuss Skeletons at the Feast by
Chris Bohjalian. Books are available at the library; for more info
or to add your name to the group
mailing list, call 886-6030, e-mail
[email protected] or visit
www.rodgerslibrary.org.
• SENIOR BOOK CLUB at
Wadleigh Memorial Library
meets occasionally; copies of
the current book are available at
the front desk. New participants
always welcome. Thurs., June 11:
Dewey: The Small-Town Library
Cat Who Touched the World, by
Vicki Myron.
• TRI-TOWN BOOK CLUB
meets once a month during the
summer and travels to three different libraries for discussions led
by NH Humanities Council facilitators. Attend one or all of the sessions; you need not be a member
of an existing group to participate.
Call any of the libraries to sign
up. June 23: Milford/Wadleigh
Memorial Library, Gaudy Night,
by Dorothy Sayers.
Over 900 Varieties
of hardy perennials
flowering vines
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climbing roses
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choice shrubs
antique roses
Wed-Sun
9:00-5:00
berry bushes
unusual annuals
d of
and free verbal estimate of their
worth.
• LUCIE THERRIEN reads and
performs from her book-and-CD
set Dual Citizen July 16 at 7 p.m.
at Gibson’s Bookstore.
• WRITERS ON A NEW ENGLAND STAGE at The Music
Hall in Portsmouth begins its next
season with a visit from E.L. Doctorow on Wed., Sept. 30, at 7:30
p.m. ($13). Subsequent shows
are Tracy Kidder on Mon., Oct.
19, Barbara Kingsolver on Tues.,
Nov. 3, and Jodi Picoult on Wed.,
March 31, 2010. Tickets on sale
to Music Hall members May 30
and to the general public June
27. Purchase tickets at The Music
Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth,
by phone at 436-2400, or online at
www.themusichall.org.
• ANTHONY BOURDAIN chef
and author of Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour will be at
the Lowell Memorial Auditorium
(50 East Merrimack St., Lowell)
on Sat., Jan. 9, 2010, at 8 p.m.
Tickets ($39.50, $49.50, or VIP
tickets including a meet-and-greet
with Bourdain for $75) are available at the auditorium box office,
at 978-454-2299, or lowellauditorium.com.
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Other
• Manchester Historic
Association
200 Bedford St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• New Hampshire
Humanities Council
19 Pillsbury St., Concord,
224-4071, www.nhhc.org
• New Hampshire State Library
20 Park St., Concord,
www.nh.gov/nhsl
• New Hampshire
Writers’ Project
SNHU, 2521 N. River Rd.,
nhwritersproject.org
• Rivier College
420 Main St., Nashua,
888-1311, rivier.edu.
• UNH Manchester
400 Commercial St., Manchester,
641-4101, unhm.unh.edu
Author events
• REBECCA RULE author of
Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire will
tell stories Fri., June 5, at 7 p.m. at
Dunbarton Gazebo in Dunbarton,
and Sat., June 6, at 7:30 p.m. at
the town hall in Temple.
• P. J. O’ROURKE discusses
Driving Like Crazy Sat., June 6, at
11 a.m. at the Toadstool in Peterborough (924-3543).
• GLORIA STEINEM is keynote speaker at SNHU’s Women’s
Leadership Summit, Fri., June 12.
Business coach Dr. Lois Frankel
and humorist Loretta LaRoche
will also deliver addresses. More
than 50 presenters will participate in the all-day event, which
includes a luncheon and panel
discussions. Purchase tickets at
www.snhu.edu/wls.
• THE NASHUA EXPERIENCE: A THREE-DECADE
UPGRADE, 1978-2008 authors
Alison Zaya, Linda N. Taggart
and Steven Butzel will be at B&N
in Nashua on Fri., June 19, from
6:30 to 8 p.m.
• ED TURNER co-author of
Antique Sports Uniforms &
Equipment 1840-1940, BaseballFootball-Basketball, signs books
and appraises sports-related items
on June 21 from 10 a.m. to noon
at New Hampshire Antique Coop, 323 Elm St./Route 101A, Milford, 673-8499, nhantiquecoop.
com. Bring items in for a history
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first place was Thomas Griffin of Portsmouth, in second was Nancy Antonietti
of Salem, and in third was Virginia DeLuca of Durham. In Poetry, Wendy Galgan
of Brooklyn, N.Y., won both first and
third place, and Joan Doran of New London, N.H., won second place. In Personal
essay, first place went to Catherine Schillinger of Sanbornville, second place to
Jennifer Decker of Rochester, and third
place to Norman Phillips of Exeter. Winning entries will be published in an SWA
anthology. See details at www.seacoastwritersassociation.org. — Lisa Parsons
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FILM
In theaters Friday, June 5
• The Hangover (R, wide release)
• Land of the Lost (PG-13, wide release)
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REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
• My Life in Ruins (PG-13, wide release)
• Away We Go (R, limited release)
• The Art of Being Straight (limited
release)
• Downloading Nancy (limited release)
Land of the Lost
Land of the Lost
(PG-13)
Will Ferrell is a scientist
in search of a parallel
universe in Land of the
Lost, a strange, mixed-up
adventure comedy.
Dr. Rick Marshall (Ferrell) is
skewered in a Today show interview with Matt Lauer (Matt Lauer)
for his theory that a power source
and a means of travel to other worlds
in other dimensions exists through
the use of tachyons and a tachyonharnessing device. This theory gets
him not only laughed off YouTube,
it ends Dr. Rick’s scientific career
— we see him unhappily explaining
his theories to the skeptical tweens
in a science class a few years later. But then chipper British doctoral
student Holly (Anna Friel) shows up
with some fossil evidence suggesting
that his crazy theories might be correct. Though unsure of himself, Rick
builds his wacky tachyon thingamajig and he and Holly head out into the
desert to test it out.
Specifically, they head to a part of
the desert containing a cheap roadside
attraction called the Devil’s Cave and
run by Will (Danny McBride). When
he’s not selling fireworks and mugs
with boobs on them, Will paddles
tourists through the carnival’s tunnel-of-love-style ride. But while he’s
trying to scare Rick and Holly with
ancient legends and cheap props,
they’re picking up on high tachyon
readings and, faster than you can say
“bad CGI,” the trio is sucked into a
vortex.
When they wake up, they find
themselves in a strange world filled
with sand dunes, prehistoric-looking
jungles, volcanoes, dinosaurs, lizard
people and assorted lost objects, like
a Viking ship and a drive-in movie
theater. Rick’s crazy ideas are true,
the gang realizes — prompting the
“Matt Lauer can suck it” moment
from the trailer.
Watching Land of the Lost is a little like what I imagine it’d be like
to look into a supermarket shopping
cart filled by a nine-year-old and a
person who is blindfolded. Some of
it makes sense, some of it is juvenile
but endearing, some things absolutely puzzle you as to why they’re there
and together the whole endeavor is
kind of a mess. With the dinosaurs
and the potty jokes and funny monkey-people, such as group sidekick
Chaka (Jorma Taccone), Land of
the Lost would appear to be a family
adventure movie. Perhaps a Will-Ferrell-ier version of a Journey to the
Center of the Earth-type affair. But
it has enough boob jokes, PG-13
swearing (including requisite solitary
f-word) and comic violence that you
might consider not taking younger
kids. There’s a “let’s add giant crabs!”
and “now cue the Leonard Nimoy
cameo!” and “send in the big gross
bug!” kind of hysteria that makes you
feel like you’re being pulled from
one crazy thing to the next wacky
thing without getting any context for
how it all fits together. It’s less a story than a series of gags, CGI effects
and 1950s sci-fi B movie costumes
and musical cues (the lizard people
are nicely campy, only a few steps up
from a child’s store-bought Halloween costume) strung together by vary
familiar Ferrell antics, including, of
course, a couple of shots of his shirtless doughy midsection.
It’s dizzying, perplexing and honestly it takes a while to figure out
who, exactly, all the characters are —
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which of the one dimension they are.
(Except for Friel; you can peg her
character right away. It’s “girl.”)
Oddly, while Will Ferrell is the
movie’s mega star, I liked minor star
Danny McBride better here. Both
are playing only slight variations on
characters they’ve played in earlier
movies. But, perhaps because none
of the weight of the story rests on him
(Will’s job is merely to follow the scientists around and say funny things),
McBride pulls off this “same character, slightly different jokes” role a bit
better.
Not that Ferrell is completely disappointing. As in even his most
lackluster recent movies, there is
always just a twist of weirdness to his
otherwise “Ron Burgundy/George
W. Bush/Ricky Bobby” big-ego-ed
buffoon character, like a bit of tartness to cut through all the cheese. But
overall Ferrell’s performance and the
movie in general feel like they were
pulled in a dozen different directions
but were never able to complete any
of the possible journeys. C
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual
content, and for language including a
drug reference. Directed by Brad Silberling and written by Chris Henchy
and Dennis McNicholas (from the TV
show by Sid Krofft and Marty Krofft),
Land of the Lost is an hour and 33 minutes long and will open in wide release
on Friday, June 5. It is distributed by
Universal Pictures.
My Life in Ruins
(PG-13)
Nia Vardalos looks for her
“kefi” in the ancient sites of
Greece in My Life in Ruins,
a kinda-likeable-in-spite-ofitself romantic comedy.
Georgia (Vardalos), an American
professor, came to Greece to find herself and to teach at the university in
Athens. But budget cuts have pushed
her from the classroom into the tour
bus, where she bores tourists with
uninspired bits of ancient history as
they travel from one site to the next.
Because she is the least exciting tour
guide, she always gets the lousy group
— the pushy Americans, the unhappily
married couples, the people who don’t
understand English — while her fellow guide Nico (Allstair McGowan)
gets the polite Canadians.
A fed up Georgia climbs on her bus
with broken air conditioner to face
another such group including Mr.
Funny — the older guy who is always
cracking-wise and believes himself
to be hilarious — a role filled by Irv
(Richard Dreyfuss) and Poupi (Alexis Georgoulis), pronounced “poopy,”
the bushy-haired, bushy-bearded bus
driver who doesn’t appear to speak
English. As more things go wrong
with the trip, the bored and frustrated Georgia decides to chuck it all and
quit the tour guide racket, making the
current trip her last.
Perhaps because of that lifted burden or perhaps through the magic
of Irv’s presence — a man with a
romantic heart under all his smartaleckiness — Georgia starts to loosen
up. She discovers, of course, that
Poupi does speak English, that he
might actually be kind of dishy under
all that hair and that her “kefi” (Greek
for groove, let’s say) might not be all
that hard to find.
My Life in Ruins is, in a lot of ways,
fairly awful. It is cringe-worthy and
hokey. Vardalos and Dreyfuss seem to
be shooting for charmingly quirky but
hit eye-gougingly aggravating more
often. Most of the Greek characters
could have been played by cardboard
cutouts with the soundtrack to Zorba
the Greek playing in the background.
And the central romance between
Georgia and Poupi — well, what’s
Greek for “oy”?
In spite of all that, I’m almost
shocked to say I don’t totally hate
this movie. There’s, what, not charm
exactly, but a kind of singing-it-out-tothe-back-row going-for-broke quality
in this fairy tale for grown-ups. Vardalos is a likeable actress. She needs
some structure and some substance
to keep from becoming a full-on ham
(see also Connie and Carla). My Big
Fat Greek Wedding, the lightning in a
bottle that was her 2002 hit, was her
creation (she wrote as well as starred
in it) and it gave her context and characters to play off. Here, the movie is
more of an empty stage, which she
fills up with a not entirely genuine
performance. But it doesn’t entirely
kill her core likeability.
For those romantic comedy fans
seriously jonesing for a new bit of
fluffery, My Life in Ruins isn’t the
worst possible fix until something better comes along. And if you can’t take
an exotic vacation this summer, the
shots of Greece (which are absolutely
worthy of some kind of travel agency promotional material) give you a
glimpse of sapphire ocean and historic locales. For everyone else — I’ll bet
Netflix has plenty of copies of My Big
Fat Greek Wedding on hand. C
Rated PG-13 for sexual content.
Directed by Donald Petrie and written by Mike Reiss, My Life in Ruins is
an hour and 38 minutes long and will
open in wide release on Friday, June
5. The movie will be distributed by Fox
Searchlight.
Drag Me to Hell
(PG-13)
Foreclose on a bad
mortgage and get afflicted
by a Gypsy curse — such
is the harsh penalty a loan
officer faces in Drag Me to
Hell, a funny, chill-inducing,
actual-horror-causing horror
movie.
Christine (Alison Lohman) is a
hard-working,
underappreciated
bank loan officer who is trying for a
promotion to bank assistant manager.
She is working on a résumé-polishing loan for a major company but her
boss still wants to know if she can
make “the hard decisions.” When
the crone-like Sylvia Ganush (Lorna
Raver) comes wheezing and coughing to her desk to ask for another
extension on her mortgage, Christine realizes her promotion could be
on the line. Mrs. Ganush has a history as a good payer but has had
trouble lately due to a health problem, she explains as she hacks up
yellow phlegm and peers at Christine with her one good eye (the other
one is milky and blind). After consultation with smarmy manager Mr.
Jacks (David Paymer) — and a glare
at the brown-nosing, condescending
Stu (Reggie Lee), who is competing
with Christine for the job — Christine politely but firmly informs the
woman that she can’t help her.
Mrs. Ganush doesn’t take this
news well.
After first begging Christine to save
her house, Mrs. Ganush — enraged
because “you shamed me” as she
growls — lunges at her. Later, in the
parking garage, Mrs. Ganush reappears and the women have a full-on,
hair-pulling, kicking-and-scratching
fight (complete with some great denture-facilitated “ewww” moments
and some of the most impressive
office-supply-related violence ever
put on screen). Just as the old woman seems ready to deliver a deadly
blow to Christine, she instead reaches
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But Christine soon comes to believe
that she is indeed being tortured by
a malevolent force and only through
the help of the psychic medium
Shaun San Dena (Adriana Barraza)
can she hope to keep it from, as the
title says, dragging her to hell.
Take away the horror, for a moment,
and there’s lots of great stuff — bugsbeneath-the-rock-style — going on
in this movie. Christine, as we learn,
is a farm girl — adept at home-cooking and a former award-winner for
pig-raising. These, however, are not
things she brags about. She’s worked
hard to lose weight, dress sleek and
even practice her elocution in an
attempt to become the kind of classy
city girl that the wealthy, class-conscious parents of Clay will approve
of. This insecurity keeps her a bit
on edge — with Clay and at work,
where she’s clearly more capable
than Stu but not as adept at ladderclimbing as he is.
As the otherworldly nature of her
problems increases, some of this
meekness is dropped in favor of a
kind of steely ass-kicking quality that,
if you think about it, would naturally be part of an up-by-her-bootstraps
gal’s makeup. She is a fighter — and
ror violence, terror, disturbing images
and language. Directed by Sam Raimi and written by Sam Raimi and Ivan
Raimi, Drag Me to Hell is an hour and
39 minutes long and is distributed in
wide release by Universal Pictures.
Summer Hours (NR)
A family deals with the
death of its matriarch in
Summer Hours, a nicely
bittersweet movie about
the passing of time.
Hélene (Edith Scob) lives in a gently crumbling estate in the French
countryside, surrounded by the
museum-quality pieces of furniture
and paintings left to the family by a
famous artist uncle. As she considers her own death, she has her grown
children — Jérémie (Jérémie Renier),
Frédéric (Charles Berling) and Adrienne (Juliette Binoche) — and her
sons’ wives and children out for her
birthday party and what turns out to
be the last meeting of the whole family. She tells her son Frédéric which
museums to send what pieces to and
to sell the house after she’s gone. He
wants to keep “the collection” together and to keep the house in the family.
But his brother is moving to Beijing
and his sister, who lives in New York
City, is about to get married and plans
to summer with her husband’s family in Denver.
down and pulls a button off Christine’s coat. She hisses some sinister
words at the button and then hands
it back — “soon it will be you who
comes begging to me,” she devilishly
informs Christine and vanishes.
That very night, Christine visits
fortune teller Rham Jas (Dileep Rao),
who informs her she has been cursed
by a horrible demon. Christine’s
psychologist boyfriend Clay (Justin Long) thinks that all this demon
talk is hooey and that it’s just posttraumatic stress when Christine sees
a goat-shaped shadow and is tossed
about her kitchen later that night.
the more she fights the more likeable
she becomes.
This facing-horror-head-on quality
of Christine’s is the basis of some of
the gore and a lot of the humor that
make this move such a laugh-inducer when it isn’t being a chill-inducer.
(Never has the phrase “here, kitty kitty” been funnier or creepier.)
The visitations by Christine’s demon
— given the name Lamia and the
figure of a really cheesed-off, steroidenhanced goat — are a delightful mix
of humor, oozy gore and actual terror. There are “monster under the
bed”-type frights that invoke a deep
fear but also plenty of eye-squishing
and
boogey-man-jumping-out-atyou classic horror moments to keep
the darkness lively. And then there
are the clever, winky moments of
that quirky dark Sam Raimi humor.
The mix is a tart and tasty cocktail
that gets you tipsy — giddy but with
shivers still sent up your spine.
As the center of this crazy storm,
Alison Lohman goes way beyond
the usual victim-of-evil role that the
girls tend to get in movies like these.
She gives as good as she gets. And,
as someone who has watched a lot of
girls sliced and stabbed and otherwise
tortured over the years in movies that
are neither scary nor shocking nor
all that entertaining, all I can say is
— finally. ARated PG-13 for sequences of hor-
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At issue here is not so much the house or
the collection of artwork but the change that
happens after a parent dies, specifically after
the death of the parent — often the mother
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though they may be, together and acting as
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440 Middlesex St., Tyngsborough,
Mass., 978-649-3980.
Chunky’s Cinema & Pub Nashua
151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua,
chunkys.com
Chunky’s Pelham Cinema & Pub
150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499
Cinemagic Hooksett
1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett,
644-4629, cinemagicmovies.com
Cinemagic Merrimack 12
11 Executive Place Dr., Merrimack,
423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com
Flagship Cinemas Derry
10 Ashleigh Dr., Derry, 437-8800
Entertainment Cinemas 6
192 Loudon Road, Concord,
224-3600
AMC at The Loop
90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen,
Mass., 978-738-8942
O’Neil Cinema 12
Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry,
434-8633
Movies outside the cineplex
RED RIVER THEATRES
11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, www.redrivertheatres.org
• Lymelife (R, 2009) Thurs., June 4,
at 5:45 & 7:45 p.m.
• Is Anybody There? (PG-13, 2009)
Thurs., June 4, at 5:40 &7:45 p.m.;
Fri., June 5, and Sat., June 6, at 5:40
p.m.; Sun., June 7, at 3 & 5:40 p.m.;
Mon., June 8, through Thurs., June
11, at 5:40 p.m.
• Sugar (R, 2009) Thurs., June 4,
at 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Fri., June 5, at
5:30 & 8 p.m.; Sat., June 6, and
Sun., June 7, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Mon., June 8, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Tues., June 9, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Wed., June 10, and Thurs., June 11,
at 5:30 & 8 p.m.
• Anvil (R, 2009) Fri., June 5, at
7:45 p.m.; Sat., June 6, at 3 & 7:45
p.m.; Sun., June 7, through Thurs.,
June 11, at 7:45 p.m.
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939) Fri., Jun 5, at 7 p.m; Sat., June
6, and Sun., June 7, at 2 & 7 p.m.
• Earth (G, 2009) Sat., June 6, and
Sun., June 7, at 1 p.m.; Tues., June
9, at 2:15 p.m.
• Dark Victory (1939) Mon., JUne
8, at 7 p.m. and Tues., June 9, at 2
& 7 p.m.
• Each Dawn I Die (1939) Wed., June
10, and Thurs., June 11, at 7 p.m.
milforddrivein.com. Check Web
site for changes related to weather
or screenings. Open Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays; drive-in
opens at 6:15 p.m.; movies begin
at dusk. Admission is $20 per car
(up to 6 occupants).
• Screen 1: Up (PG); Night at the
Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (PG)
• Screen 2: Land of the Lost (PG13); Terminator Salvation (PG-13)
FRANCO-AMERICAN
CENTRE
52 Concord St., Manchester,
669-4045, www.francoamerican
centrenh.com
• The Dinner Game (PG-13,
1998) Tues., June 16, at 7 p.m.
MANCHESTER CITY
LIBRARY
405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
• Mamma Mia! (PG-13, 2008)
Wed., June 10, at 1 p.m.
• O Brother, Where Art
Thou? (PG-13, 2000) Wed., June
17, at 1p.m.
• Medicine Man (PG-13, 1992)
Wed., June 24, at 1 p.m.
HOLLIS SOCIAL LIBRARY
465-7721,
www.hollis.nh.us/
library • Friday flicks for teen for 12- to
WILTON TOWN HALL
Main Street in Wilton. Tickets cost $6 15-year-olds, every other Friday
($4 for seniors and children) unless from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Registration
otherwise stated. wiltontownhallthe- is required.
atre.com or call 654-FILM.
• The Soloist (PG-13, 2009) AMHERST TOWN
Thurs., June 4, through Thurs., LIBRARY
June 11, at 7:30 p.m. Plus Sun., 14 Main St., Amherst, 673-2288,
amherst.lib.nh.us June 7, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.
• Star Trek (PG-13, 2009) Thurs., • Teen movie night, Thurs. July 9
June 4, through Thurs., June 11, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The movie is
at 7:30 p.m. Plus, Sun., June 7, at Twilight and the event is for those
middle school aged and up.
2 p.m.
• Spaceballs (1987) Sat., June 6,
THE MUSIC HALL
at 4:30 p.m.
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436 2400, www.themusichall.org
MILFORD DRIVE-IN
101A in Milford, 673-4090, www. • Duplicity (PG-13, 2009) Thurs.,
Regal Concord
282 Loudon Road, Concord, 2263800
Regal Hooksett 8
100 Technology Dr., Hooksett,
641-3456
Regal Manchester 9
1279 S. Willow St., Manchester,
641-3456
Showcase Cinemas Lowell
32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass.,
978-551-0055
June 4, and Fri., June 5, at 7:30
p.m.
• Hunger (NR, 2009) Sun., June
7, through Tues., June 9, at 7:30
p.m.
• West Side Story (1961) Wed.,
June 10, at 7 p.m.
PETERBOROUGH
COMMUNITY THEATRE
6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, www.thepct.com. Schedule
subject to change, call ahead.
• Night at the Museum: Battle
of the Smithsonian (PG, 2009)
Thurs., June 4, at 7:30 p.m.
• Angels and Demons (PG-13,
2009) Fri., June 5, and Sat., June
6, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., June 7, at 3 &
7:30 p.m.; Tues., June 9, through
Thurs., June 11, at 7:30 p.m.
OTHER • BRIDGE CRUSADER A screening of the feature film filmed in
Pepperell, Mass., and throughout
New England will be held on Fri.,
June 5, at 7 p.m. for free at the Nissitissit Middle School Auditorium,
33 Chace Ave. in Pepperell, Mass.
See www.bridgecrusader.com.
• 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT
New Hampshire will host its own
48-Hour Film Project competition
this year. Competitors will meet on
Friday, June 12, and get a character, prop, line of dialogue and genre
to include in their movie. By Sunday, June 14, they need to have a
completed movie. A week later, the
movies will be screened and a panel
of judges will choose a top entry to
go to an international competition.
The registration fee for each team is
$125. Teams are admitted on a first
come, first served basis and a limited
number of teams will be allowed to
participate. See www.48hourfilm.
com/newhampshire for all the
rules or contact Chris Proulx at
[email protected] or
540-2381.
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Local music
& nightlife news
By Katie Beth Ryan
[email protected]
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• Double header: Jeff Pitchell and Texas Flood will come to Tupelo Music Hall,
2 Young Road in Londonderry, for a show
at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 5. Pitchell, winner of an International Songwriting Contest,
will be joined by Joe Bouchard, a founding
member of Blue Oyster Cult. Tickets cost
$25 and are available at 437-5100 or online
at www.tupelohall.com.
• Jazzy afternoon: DreamFarm Creative Arts and Portsmouth Community
Radio will jointly present The Matt Savage Trio in concert with The Julie Lavender
Quintet on Sunday, June 7, at 3 p.m. at St.
John’s Episcopal Church, 101 Chapel St. in
Portsmouth. The concert will include compositions from jazz artist Savage’s new CD,
Hot Ticket: Live in Boston. Advance tickets ($15 for adults and $10 for kids 14 and
under) can be purchased at mycommunitytickets.com, while tickets at the door cost
$17 and $12, unless already sold out.
• House concert: Deb McWethy will
bring Mike and Ruthy to her Chesham
home for a concert on Friday, June 14, at
6:30 p.m., with a potluck dinner beginning at 5:30. Mike and Ruthy are touring in
support of their latest release, Waltz of the
Chickadee. For reservations and directions,
call 827-2905 or e-mail Deb at deb@pfms.
mv.com. Selections from Mike and Ruthy’s
new CD can be heard at www.myspace.
com/mikeandruthy.
• Salsa at the sea: The Spanish Harlem Orchestra will travel to Portsmouth
on Friday, June 26, for an 8 p.m. performance at The Music Hall, 104 Congress
St. in Portsmouth. The group, formed in
2000 by pianist Oscar Hernandez, will perform selections from their new CD, United
We Swing, and the Music Hall floor will be
available for salsa dancing. Tickets cost $34
and are available via phone at 436-2400 or
at www.themusichall.org.
• Summer kickoff: The Revolution Show
will host its Summer Kickoff show with the
2009 “Don’t Waste Your Life” tour on Friday, June 5, at 7 p.m. at the JFK Coliseum,
303 Beech St. in Manchester. The lineup
includes Christian hip-hop artists such as
Lecrae, Flame, Trip Lee, Tedashii and Sho
Baraka. Tickets cost $15 or $12 per ticket
for groups of 10 or more, and can be purchased at www.revolutionshow.org.
Correction
In the “Thirsty for Rock ‘n Roll” story in the May 28 Hippo, the name of I’m
Thirsty’s proprietor was spelled incorrectly. It is David Southworth. Also, the number
of children he has was incorrectly reported.
He has three children, and a son on the way.
The photo included in the story was of the
band A Day to Remember.
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Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
When country met rock & roll
Poco and Richie Furay still going strong
By Katie Beth Ryan
[email protected]
Beginning in the late ’80s and continuing to
the still-young 21st century, the lines between
rock ’n’ roll and country music have become
increasingly blurred. These days, most longtime country adherents have either embraced
the rock influences in the genre or simply
moved on.
Back in the late ’60s, though, blending rock
and country was a foreign concept, one that
groups like Poco spearheaded with caution.
More than four decades on, the group headed by Dusty Young, along with groups like
Pure Prairie League and Loggins Messina, is
still heralded as an originator of rock-country
fusion. They recently headlined April’s Stagecoach Festival, a country music festival in
Indio, Calif.
“They booked us because they wanted
to show that’s where…the roots of country
music today came from,” Young said recently
from his home in Missouri. “All the press that
came out, the L.A. Times, didn’t even mention Kenny Chesney. They had a big picture of
us and talked about how that was where country music today came from. So I think there’s
some acknowledgement going down about that
now, which has been a little overdue, I think.
But people are acknowledging [us], and that’s
really terrific.”
After 40 years on the road, both Poco and
longtime band member Richie Furay are providing audiences with a blend of their familiar
material along with their newer compositions at
their shows. They’ll each grace Tupelo Music
Hall in Londonderry with separate appearances
this summer, Poco appearing on Sunday, June
14, and Furay on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Fresh
off a string of spring dates with his old Poco
bandmates, Furay said breaking in longtime listeners to his new songs has gone better than he
expected.
“They begin to realize that, hey, it’s basi-
cally the style of music that we’re
familiar [with], that we’re expecting
to hear from Richie Furay,” he said.
“When they hear it, I think then that
they obviously see that, hey, here’s
where the genesis of this music basically started.”
Furay’s musical connections range
from Poco to Steven Stills and Neil
Young from his days as a member
of Buffalo Springfield to the Souther-Hillman-Furay band, which paired
him with fellow country-rockers Chris Poco. Courtesy photo.
Hillman and JD Souther. His career as
friends that last 40-something years and then on
a headlining musician took a back seat to famitop of it all, be able to play music together? It’s
ly and religious life during the ’80s, when Furay
just really special.”
became a born-again Christian and the pastor
The years have also strengthened the legacy
of Calvary Chapel in Broomfield, Colo. After
of the country-rock sound they created together.
many years away from touring, Furay picked
Furay said that while he’s not strictly a country
up his guitar again in the mid-’90s and began
musician, he’s happy that today’s country musipenning mostly devotional songs, although he
cians have continued to see rock as a friend and
released a new secular CD, The Heartbeat of
not a foe.
Love, in 2006.
“I think country music is so much more
“Musically, I think I play the same kind
accessible than a lot of music today, but then
of music. Spiritually, the lyrics might have
again, maybe I’m getting old.”
changed,” he said. “If I’m writing a devotional
song, then it takes more of a worshipful attiPoco
tude, but I can still write love songs about my
wife and in those, form the same perspective
Where: Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road,
that I did years ago.”
Londonderry
Now in their sixties, both Furay and the
When: Sunday, June 14, at 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.
members of Poco are looking to slow down in
Tickets: $45, available at www.tupelohall.com
the next few years. Young is penning a memoir
or at 437-5100
Listen to audio samples of Poco’s latest CD,
about Poco’s backstage experiences with Janis
The Wildwood Sessions, at www.poconut.com.
Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, among others, and has
provided music to accompany children’s videos for Scholastic. He’ll also enjoy a steady
Richie Furay Band
stream of touring and encountering the band’s
Where: Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road,
fans, affectionately termed “Poconettes,” and
Londonderry
hopefully share the stage with Furay, his longWhen: Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 8 p.m.
time collaborator and friend.
Tickets: $35, available at www.tupelohall.
“It’s always really, really fun to get a chance
com or at 437-5100
to work with Richie. When we sit down and
Songs from both Alive, Furay’s new live
album, and The Heartbeat of Love can be heard
play ‘Picking Up the Pieces,’ you know, that
at www.myspace.com/richiefuraymusic
was 1968,” he says. “How many people have
Beneath the blue suburban skies
Kennedy Lane Project records with big-time producer
By Katie Beth Ryan
[email protected]
“Serendipitous” is a word that the members
of Kennedy Lane Project bring up frequently
in conversation, and aptly so.
The paths of Burt Keirstead, Nick Louis and Jamie Perrine might not have crossed
had it not been for Louis and Perrine’s initial
contact as West Point cadets in the mid1990s, and again as employees, along with
Keirstead, at Nashua’s BAE Systems. A song
that Keirstead wrote made it into the company’s end-of-the-year variety show, and Louis
took notice.
“He said, ‘Jamie and I are playing in Jamie’s
basement. Why don’t you come over?’” Keirstead recalls. “The cool thing was that we
all had our different influences, and when we
got together, it was really collaborative.”
The process behind the band’s
new EP, Far From Gone, could
also be described as serendipitous. They had independently
released their self-titled first
album in 2007, tracks from
which were played on The River, an independent radio station
based in Boston. The trio was
hashing out new material when
Louis decided to e-mail legendary producer Kevin Killen
out of the blue, asking him to
listen to a handful of the band’s
Courtesy photo by Teri Beaulieu.
demo songs.
“We were trying to figure out
just not write back.”
why things didn’t sound as good as the stuff
But Killen, known for his work with Elvis
you hear on the radio,” Louis recalls. “One Costello, U2 and Peter Gabriel, did write
day I decided to send one of our songs to back. He liked what he heard. And he wanted
Kevin. The worst he could say was no … or to meet them. A few bounces off the wall lat-
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music careers. With three partners and eight
children between them, balancing work,
music and family time is a delicate act not
easily achieved. After three and a half years
together as a band, it remains a challenge,
Perrine says.
“You have folks who say, ‘Music is my
thing, I’m going for it,’ and either you skip
college or right after college you go for the
music and iron it out and do what you can,”
he explains. “We’ve kind of taken the path
of doing the responsibility thing first, doing
the families and children and careers and
being successful in [our] careers. And now
we’re like, ‘I still really love music.’”
In the near future, Kennedy Lane Project
hopes to continue maintaining the balance
between work and family, but they want to
continue pushing their original music as far
as it can go. With a producer like Killen in
their corner, the odds are definitely in their
favor.
“That sort of feedback reinforced that we
do have something unique and clever here,”
says Louis. “I don’t think it’s pure luck that
these things happen. It’s really been pretty
cool working with these guys.”
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Far From Gone
What: Kennedy Lane Project CD release party
Where: Margarita’s, 1 Nashua Drive, Nashua
When: Thursday, June 11, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
To hear samples from Far From Gone, visit
www.myspace.com/kennedylaneproject.
er, Louis met up with him at a Portsmouth
Starbucks during Killen’s trip to Gateway
Studios in Portland, Maine.
“[We] started chatting and things. He
said, ‘Look, I think you guys have something unique, otherwise I wouldn’t be here
talking to you. I’d be interested in recording
you guys,’” Louis recalls.
After visiting Louis’ home studio, located on Kennedy Lane in New Boston, and
deeming it sufficient for professional recording, Killen spent a week with Kennedy Lane
Project last September, revising and recording
the three songs that make up Far From Gone.
Working with Killen meant 12- to 14-hour
days for the band, fine-tuning their work to
achieve the studio-quality sound they desired.
Keirstead jokingly calls it “a master’s degree
in music production,” but added that working
with Killen is an opportunity most unsigned
bands can only dream of.
“For someone like that, as a businessman, you go, ‘Whoa, why is he spending
time with us when he could be like doing
another album with Elvis Costello?’” Keirstead says. “When you think about it, he’s
heard a lot of stuff, so there must have been
an essence that he kind of dug. But then he
also saw, OK, these guys aren’t crazy. He
saw that it was probably a worthwhile risk
for him to take with us.”
The week the trio spent away from work
with Killen was also a week when their families had to take a backseat to their fledgling
CONCERTS
• Jeff Pitchell, Fri., June 5, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• The Mystix, Sat., June 6, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• The Psychedelic Furs, Mon.,
June 8, at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• Vince Gill, Wed., June 10, at 8
p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Orleans, Thurs., June 11, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Rain: The Beatles Experience,
Thurs., June 11, at 7:30 p.m.,
Music Hall
• Manchester Jazz & Blues Festival, Fri., June 12, at 8 p.m., Palace
• Beatlemania Now, Sat., June 13,
at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Capitol Center
• Dark Star Orchestra performing the Grateful Dead’s music,
Fri., June 12 and Sat., June 13, at 8
• Foghat, Sun., June 14, at 7 p.m.,
Palace Theatre
• Indigo Girls, Sun., June 14,
Casino Ballroom
• Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne, Sun., June
• Poco, Sun., June 14, at 5:30 p.m.
and 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Fleetwood Mac, Tues., June 16,
Leddy Center
38c Ladd’s Lane, Epping, 6792781,leddycenter.org
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
668-5588
Tsongas Arena
300 M.L.K Jr. Way, Lowell,
Mass., (978) 848-6900
Tupelo Music Hall
2 Young Road, Londonderry,
603-437-5100
Verizon Wireless Arena
555 Elm St., Manchester,
644-5000
Whittemore Center Arena at
UNH
128 Main St., Durham, 862-4000
Geist Bring a little comedy to your Friday — in the morning or the evening.
Visual comedian Geist will perform
at the Rochester Opera House on Friday, June 5, at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Learn
more about his one-man, family-friendly show at www.visualcomedian.com.
The opera house is at City Hall, 31
Wakefield St. in Rochester. For tickets
(which cost $12, $6 for children 12 and under with an adult), go
to the box office up to two hours before the show or call 3351992 or go to www.rochesteroperahouse.com.
at 8 p.m., Verizon
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited with The Outlaws, Wed., June
• The Black Crows, Thurs., June
18, & Fri., June 19, at 8 p.m. at
Casino Ballroom
• John Brown’s Body, Thurs.,
June 18, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Blake Shelton and Craig Morgan, Thurs., June 18, at 8 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Keith Emerson, Fri., June 19, at
7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., Tupelo
• Live with Candlebox, Fri., June
• Don McLean, Fri., June 19, at 8
p.m., Capitol Center
• Huey Lewis & The News,
Sun., June 21, at 7 p.m., Casino
Ballroom
• Bombino, Wed., June 24, at 5
p.m., Music Hall
• Susan Tedeschi & Shemekia
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Friday - Mugsy
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The Colonial Theatre
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31. Stormtroopers Of Death
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34. What most female rock stars are
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“The Thing in the
Spring,” a celebration of music and art
in Peterborough, will
take place Friday, June
5, through Sunday,
June 7. The event will coincide with “*broke: The Affordable Arts Fair 2009.”
On Friday, June 5, Sinaloa, Graph and Amargosa will
play at Reynold’s Hall at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $8.
On Saturday, June 6, “*broke: the Affordable Arts Fair”
will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fellowship
Hall in the Union Congregational Church. Admission to the
event is free. Luke MF Duke will perform at the fair.
On Saturday, June 6, Low Anthem, Atoms Motion & the
Void and Redwing Blackbird will play at the Fellowship
Hall in the Union Congregational Church at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $12.
On Sunday, June 7, the music will start in Putnam Park
at 11 a.m. (with performances moved inside the Peterborough Community Theatre if it rains). The line-up includes
Experimental Sound Exposition, Ros Bobos, Mysterybear,
23, Ehouie and DbaCC. Admission is by donation.
On Sunday, June 7, at Union Congregational Church
Sanctuary, look for Red Heart the Ticker, Mac St. Michael
and Whales and Wolves. Tickets cost $10 and the show
begins at 4 p.m.
The weekend-long “Thing in the Spring” is an all-ages
event. Buy a weekend pass to all of the shows for $25 and
receive a 20-percent discount to the Toadstool Bookshop in
Peterborough as well as a hand-screened ticket. Buy passes at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough and at Turn It
Up stories in Keene and Brattleboro. For more on the concerts, contact Eric at The Toadstool at 924-3543. For more
on *broke, contact Mary at 498-4108.
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in the Spring
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Raging Grace
Raging Grace, a
self-described guitardriven rock band with
blues flavor, will play
the GraveRobbers Coffeehouse at Loudon
Congregational Church,
7018 Church St. in Loudon Village, on Saturday,
June 6, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. GraveRobbers Coffeehouse is a substance-free venue for all ages. See www.
loudoncongregational.org or call 783-9478 for more on the
coffeehouse. Hear the band at www.raginggrace.com.
• LAKESIDE LANES 2171 Candia Road, Manchester, 627-7722,
www.lakesidelanes.com.
• LEDA LIGHTHOUSE 340
Amherst St., Nashua, 889-4884,
www.ledalanes.com.
• KING BOWLING LANES 751
Mast Road, Manchester, 623-9215,
www.kinglanes.com
• MERRIMACK TEN PIN
CENTER 698 DW Highway, Merrimack, 429-0989, 8:30 a.m. to
midnight.
• STADIUM TEN PIN Maple
Street, Manchester, 625-9656,
www.stadiumtenpin.net.
• TONY’S LANES 244 Elm St.,
Milford, 673-6673.
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nament starts by 9 p.m. $10.
Scrabble
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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.
• CENTRAL WAVE 368 Central
Ave. in Dover, 742-9283, Tuesday.
• KELLEY’S ROW 421 Central
Ave. in Dover, 750-7081, Wednesday.
Foosball
• PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER
Bowling
• FOOSBALL TOURNAMENT 48 Main St. in Nashua, 821-7535,
• BOUTWELL’S BOWLING
every Friday at Slammers Sports Tuesday.
CENTER 152 N. State St., ConBar & Grill, 547 Donald St., Bedcord, 224-0941.
ford. Signs-ups start at 8 p.m., tour-
NIGHTLIFE
Music & parties
• THE REVOLUTION SHOW
upcoming shoes of the Christian
music promoter includes the Don’t
Wast Your Life Tour on Fri., June
5, at 6 p.m. at the JK Coliseum in
Manchester. The Revolution Show
also has regular events at the Black
Brimmer on Manchester (shows are
at 7 p.m. and the restaurant offers
a full menu, no alcohol). See www.
revolutionshow.org.
• KEVIN SHARPE GROUP, high
energy modern Gospel, at the New
England Revival Coffeehouse, at
the Calvary Fellowship Church, 60
Bailey Ave. in Manchester, on Fri.,
June 5, a 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:30
p.m. Live at the NERCH is taped and
broadcast on MCAM TV 23. Admission and refreshments are free; donations accepted ($5 suggested). See
www.nerch.org or call 625-9550.
• FREEDOM FESTIVAL Band
members of Kelley Morris & the
Fallen Free (blues) will host the
second annual Freedom Festival on Sat., June 6, at the Leavitt
Park Clubhouse on Elm Street in
Lakeport. Show starts at 5 p.m.;
tickets cost $10 at the door (kids
12 and under get in free). Performers include Michelle Ribeiro, The
Last House Band, Amanda Snow,
Max Sullivan and The Chris White
Band. Family friendly; alcohol-free.
A portion of ticket sales will go to
the Laconia Police anti-drug campaign, Horizons Counseling Centers, Genesis Counseling Group, the
Lakes Region Chapter of PFLAG,
Webster Place Recovery Center and
Maggie Drew, teen author. E-mail
[email protected].
• FLUSH Milly’s Tavern, 500 N.
Commercial St. in Manchester, will
host “Flush: Funk and Fashion” on
Saturday, June 6, at 9 p.m. An event
familiar to the Seacoast scene, Flush
features models walking a runway
wearing fashions from local designers
and boutiques (Ablaze, Top Drawer,
Kye Power and La Cage Boutique,
according to a press release) to the
music of the ban The Head. Following the fashion — a DJ and dancing,
the release said. Tickets cost $10 and
are available at the door or at the participating shops. See www.myspace.
com/tvprecords.
• JESSE PETERS, singer/songwriter, at Studio 99, the Picker
Building at 99 Factory St. in
Nashua, on Sun., June 7, at 8 p.m.
Admission costs $8 at the door. See
www.studio99nashua.com.
• BIKE WEEK KICK OFF hosted
by Manchester Wolves, Manchester
Wolves dance team and the Whiskey
Girls, on Thurs., June 11. The event
will be held on Elm Street in downtown Manchester, a portion of which
will be shut down from 3:30 to 7 p.m.
(A Manchester Wolves arena2football game will start at 7:30 p.m.) The
event will include tattoo contests, hot
rod and classic car contests, custom
motorcycle contest, a bike wash,
vendors, live music and more, with
contest winners announced during
halftime. Proceeds from the event
will go to Make a Wish Foundation.
See www.whiskeygirls.net, www.
myspace.com/whiskeygirls2005 and
www.mysweetside.net.
Full set & spa pedicure $48
Spa pedicure & manicure $32
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Allenstown
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001 364 Central Ave., 834-6965
Ground Zero
Pasquales Ristorante
Kelley’s Row
48 Allenstown Rd. 145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005 421 Central Ave., 750-7081
RJ’s
Amherst
Concord
83 Washington St.
Club ComAnnicchiarico Theatre
Top of the Chop
edy at Amherst 1 Thompson St.
One Orchard St., 740-0006
Country Club
The Barley House
72 Ponemah
132 N. Main St., 228-6363 East Hampstead
Road,673-9908 Borders
The Pasta Loft
76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255 220 E. Main St., 378-0092
Auburn
Concord Grille
Auburn Pitts
1 Eagle Square
Epsom
167 Rockingham Green Martini
Circle 9 Ranch
Rd, 622-6564
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
Windymere Dr., 736-9656
Hermanos
Bedford
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Epping
C.R. Sparks
Loudon Road Restaurant American Legion
18 Kilton Rd,
and Pit Road Lounge
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
647-7275
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533 Holy Grail Food & Spirits
Mark’s Show- Makris
64 Main St., 679-9559
place Route 3,
354 Sheep Davis Road,
668-7444
225-7665
Exeter
Slammers
Penuche’s Ale House
Shooter’s Pub
547 Donald St., 6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856
668-2120
The Red Blazer
Quackers
72 Manchester St., 224-4101 Goffstown
Lounge 121 S.
Village Trestle
River Road; 622- Deerfield
25 Main St., 497-8230
3766
Lazy Lion Café
4 North Road, 463-7374
Hampstead
Belmont
Route 111 Village Square
The Lodge at Belmont
Derry
472 State St., 329-6879
Route 106, 877-872-2501 Adams Opera House
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102 Henniker
Boscawen
Brookstone Grille
Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
Alan’s
14 Route 11 E., 328-9250 24 Flander’s Road,
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 Burgundy’s Billiards
888-728-7732
35 Manchester St., 437-6600 The Henniker Junction
Brookline
Steve-N-James Tavern
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
Big Bear Lodge
187 Rockingham Road
106 Route 13, 672-7675
434-0600
Hillsborough
Village Gate Folk Stage
Boomerang’s
12 Main St., 315-9423
Dover
37 Henniker St., 464-3912
Barley Pub
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
Bow
328 Central Ave.,742-4226 W. Main St. 464-6766
Chen Yang Li
Dover Elks Lodge
520 South St., 228-8508
282 Durham Road
Hollis
Mama Clara’s
Biddy Mulligan’s
Alpine Grove
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
1 Washington St., 749-1100 19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051
Dover Brick House
The Dream Farm
Candia
2 Orchard St., 749-3838
64 Dow Road
Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor Dover Soul
Thursday, June 4
Bedford
C.R. Sparks: Pat Loomis
Trio
Slammers: jam night with
Barr None
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike w/ Steve Naylor
Hermanos: Joe Gattuso
Dover
Barley Pub: bluegrass jam
Brick House: Fatback
Supreme, Slicko, Chad
Verbeck
Jimmy’s: DJ J Jigga
Kelley’s Row: DJ Coach
Hampstead
One Eleven Village
Square: Generations
Laconia
Cactus Jack’s: Relevation
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Grinning Lizards
with special guests
Derryfield: The Acousticats
Johnny Bad’s: Blues jam
with The Wan-tu Blues Band
McGarvey’s: DJ Squid
Strange Brew Tavern:
Soup Du Jour
WB’s: DJ Bob, DJ Spivak, DJ Midas
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Nashua
Fody’s: Charlie Chronopoulos
Peddler’s Daughter:
Mindseye
Portsmouth
Brewery Lane: Greg
Luttrell
Dolphin Striker: Avi and
Celia
Gas Light: Tim Theriault
Muddy River: WXGR
Underground Dance Party
Press Room: Chris Klaxton Combo
Red Door: Gary Kim
Friday, June 5
Allenstown
Ground Zero: A Breath
Beyond Broken, A.K.L.,
Elyson, The Envy of August
Milford
Shenanigans: karaoke
with DJ Trinity
Pasta Loft: Joe Birch and Bedford
Slammers: Jammed
Chris O’Neil
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Burgandy
City Sports Grille: open
mike josh Logan
Club 313: DJ Biggie
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Boscawen
Alan’s: Dave Kangas
Brookline
Country Corral: Scott
Barnett Band
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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
Londonderry
The Homestead Restaurant
Rte 102 and Mammoth
Road, 437-2022
Mayflower Grange
535 Mammoth Rd, 867-3077
Whippersnappers
Route 102, 434-2660
Manchester
Alpine Club
175 Putnam St., 623-8202
American Legion Wm H
Jutras & Post No 43
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467
American Legion
Post #79
35 W. Brook St.
American Legion
Sweeney Post
251 Maple St., 623-9145
Begy’s Lounge
333 Valley St., 669-0062
Black Brimmer
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
Bo’s Riverside
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Breezeway Pub
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
City Sports Grille
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Chateau Restaurant
Jillians: Chafed
Murphy’s: Hot Damn
Penuche’s: Alli Beaudry
Rocko’s: She Rides, Hell
Within, Halhearted Comeback, Morning Of The
Dover
Tragedy, The Yueh Betrayal,
Brick House: Drago,
Genuine Rust, Mark Lind, xWidowmakerx, Absence Of
Despair, From Here Its War
The Morgan Knockers
Shaskeen: Backseat Lover
Castaway’s: Karaoke
Strange Brew: Soul Shakers
Jimmy’s: DJ Bounce
Kelley’s Row: Kevin Burt WB’s: DJ Bobby G
The Yard: Elijah Clark
Duo
Concord
Green Martini: Brian
Kellett
Pit Road Lounge: Under
The Gun
East Hampstead
One Eleven Village
Square: Saucy Jack
Hudson
Kings Court: DJ Madio
and DJ NuStyl
Linda’s Sports Bar:
Raven-X
Laconia
Paradise Beach Club:
Funnel
Londonderry
Whippersnappers: Last
Laugh
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Mugsy
Breezeway: DJ McKay
City Sports Grille: Tom
Dixon Band
Club Liquid: Renegade
Soundstation
Derryfield: Jim Devlin
Band, Last Call
Element: DJ Dave
Fratello’s: Gary Lopez
201 Hanover St., 627-2677
Club 313
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
Club Liquid
Amherst St., 645-7600
Commercial St. Fishery
33 S. Commercial St.
296-0706
Derryfield Country Club
625 Mammoth Road,
623-2880
Don Quijote
333 Valley St., 792-1110
East Side Club
786 Massebesic St., 669-1802
Element Lounge
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
1111 Elm St., 222-2304
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
Brazilian Steak House
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
Grandstands
216 Maple St., 625-9656
The Hilton Garden Inn
101 S. Commercial St.,
669-2222
Jewell & The Beanstalk
793 Somerville St.,
624-3709
Jillian’s Billiard Club
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
626-7636
Johnny Bad’s
542 Elm St., 222-9191
J.W. Hill’s
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Mad Bob’s Saloon
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
McGarvey’s
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Milly’s Tavern
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Murphy’s Taproom
494 Elm St., 644-3535
New England Revival
Coffee House (NERCH)
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
Olympic Lounge
506 Valley St., 644-5559
Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge
815 Elm St.
Penuche's Grill
96 Hanover St., 626-9830
Rocko’s Bar & Grill
253 Wilson St., 626-5866
The Shaskeen
909 Elm St., 625-0246
Strange Brew Tavern
88 Market St., 666-4292
Unwine’d
865 Second St., 625-9463
Wally and Bernie’s
20 Old Granite St., 641-2583
The Wild Rover
21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722
Workmen’s Club
183 Douglas St.
The Yard
1211 S. Mammoth Road,
623-3545
Merrimack
Buckley’s Great Steaks
438 DW Hwy, 424-0995
Slapshot’s
515 DW Hwy, 262-9335
Silo’s Steakhouse
641 DW Hwy, 429-2210
Milford
The Pasta Loft
241 Union Sq., 672-2270
Santos-Dumont
770 Elm St., 672-5464
Shenanigans
586 Nashua St., 672-2060
Nashua
The Amber Room
53 High St., 881-9060
Black Orchid Grille
8 Temple St., 577-8910
Borders
281 DW Hwy, 888-9300
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.
595-2121
Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square,
880-6001
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Country Tavern
452 Amherst St., 889-5871
Portsmouth Gas Light:
Evan Goodrow Band, DJ
Biggie
Press Room: 2120 South
Michigan Ave.
Red Door: Tanner Ross
and Matt Dimond; Mike &
Ruthy CD Release Party
Saturday, June 6
Allenstown
Ground Zero: The Yellow
Team, If We Were Saints,
Saved Forever, Kill You in
the Face, 23 Enigma
Laconia
Merrimack
Paradise Beach Club:
Slapshots: DJ and kara- Bedford
Wildside
oke with Big Daddy Scott Slammers: Shuvelhed
Londonderry
Milford
Boscawen
Whippersnappers: Tiger
Pasta Loft: Fat Tuesday Alan’s: Billy Glynn
Lily
Shenanigan’s: 3 Chords
and a Cloud of Dust
Brookline
Manchester
Country Corral: Bluetrain Black Brimmer: 10 Year
Nashua
Vamp
Amber Room: DJ Jonny Concord
Breezeway: DJ McKay
C, DJ Danny D
Green Martini: Matt Porier City Sports Grille:
Black Orchid Grille:
Hermanos: Daniel Glaude/ Wooden Nickels
Robert Charles
Pat Morrison Group
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Fody’s: Chad Lamarsh
Pit Road Lounge: Schro- and special guests
dinger’s Cat
Derryfield: Hit Squad,
Ronan Quinn
Charlie Chronopoulos Duo
Dover
Element: DJ Took
Portsmouth
Barley Pub: Dan
Fratello’s: Gary Lopez
Blue Mermaid: Artty
Blakeslee w/ Chris Moore Jillian’s: Acoustic Outrage
Raynes Acoustic
Brick House: Sirsy, The
Dolphin Striker: Bobby Speed of Film, Traces David Milly’s: FLUSH: Flunk and
Keyes Trio
Castaway’s: Karaoke
Fashion show, with perforGas Light: Sum x 4, DJ Jimmy’s: DJ J Jigga
mance from The Head
B Money
Murphy’s: Josh Logan
Hilton Garden: Sharon
Hudson
Band
Jones
Linda’s Sports Bar: The Penuche’s: Alli Beaudry
Muddy River: Nate Wil- Toni Knott Band
Shaskeen: Sandey Money
son Group
Strange Brew: Rhythm
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
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
Daniel Street Tavern
111 Daniel St.
Dolphin Striker
15 Bow St., 431-5222
Gas Light Co.
64 Market St., 431-9122
The Hilton Garden Inn
100 High St., 431-1499
Muddy River
Smokehouse
21 Congress St., 430-9582
Paddy’s American Grill
27 International Dr.,
430-9450
Portsmouth Pearl
45 Pearl St., 431-0148,
portsmouthpearl.com
Press Room
77 Daniel St.,431-5186
The Red Door
107 State St., 373-6827
Red Hook Brewery
35 Corporate Dr., 430-8600
The Wet Bar
172 Hanover St.
New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Plaistow
The Sad Café
Tilton
148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893 Old Friends Tavern
& Restaurant
927 Laconia Rd, 524-1777
Hot tunes, cool shows
Have upcoming shows you want listed
in the music this week? Send information about the coming week — Thursday
through Wednesday — [email protected] or by fax at 625-2422 no later
than noon on Monday. (E-mailed links to
regularly updated Web sites would also
be appreciated.)
Method
WB’s: DJ Bobby G
The Yard: Scott McRae
Merrimack
Slapshots: Mugshot
Milford
Pasta Loft: Amorphous
Band
Shenanigans: karaoke
with DJ Trinity
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ Danny
D, DJ Rick Naples
Black Orchid Grille:
Karen Grenier
Fody’s: One Fine Mess
Gate City Pub: Brian
Weeks
Muddy River: Nate Ezra
Group
Peddler’s Daughter: Pop
Farmers
Gas Light: Sum x 4, DJ
B Money
Hilton Garden Inn:
Avocado Lounge
Press Room: Jazz lunch
with Larry Garland, Truffle
Red Door: Lord Bass
Sunday, June 7
Allenstown
Ground Zero: Zack Howland, Rick Reilly, The Mix
Tape, Night of Our Lives,
Curse the Chorus
Concord
Hermanos: Paul Bourgelais
Penuches: open mike
Dover
Barley Pub: Mike Walsh
Group
Brick House: Cavender,
For the Story’s Sake, Seeker
Destroyer, Too Late the
Hero, Wolves Among Sheep
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Soul Robot East Hampstead
Dolphin Striker: Even
One Eleven Village
Steven
Square: blues jam
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Hudson
Linda’s Sports Bar:
Tim LaRoche
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Dan
Stevens
Press Room: Steve
Grover Sextet
Red Door: Evaredy
Monday, June 8
Allenstown
Ground Zero: Jacobs
Ladder, Kid Nap Kin,
Highfire Skyline, Casari, Traces David
Dover
Brick House: John
Craigie
Kelley’s Row: Traditional Irish sessions
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Gardner Berry
Manchester
Derryfield: Lisa Guyer
Shaskeen: Irish session
Milford
Shenanigans: open mike
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Foghat
Foghat, with special guest
comedian Tony V., will play
Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover
St. in Manchester, on Sunday,
June 14, at 7 p.m.
The bluesy boogie rock
band that had hits in the 1970s,
including “I Just Wanna Make
Love To You,” “Slow Ride” and more, will play a concert to benefit Child and Family Services.
Tickets cost $39 and can be purchased at 668-5588 or palacetheatre.org.
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Nashua
Music
Exchange
The
women of the Nashua
Music Exchange will perform at the First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester St. in Nashua, Sunday, June 7, at 2 p.m. as part of a benefit
concert for Community Hospice House.The event is free but donations
for the House will be accepted. The program will be a “celebrity series”
featuring jazz standards like “Cheek to Cheek” and “Don’t Get Around
Much Anymore” as well as pop songs from the 1960s and 1970s. Lillian Goulet will direct. Special guest performers will be the Harmonica
Saints directed by Hildegard Gilette. Courtesy photo.
Jam, Hoot with Tom Yoder Strange Brew: Scott
Laconia
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder Red Door: Scissor Test Barnett
Portsmouth
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Dolphin Striker: The
Wed., June 10
Manchester
Rick Watson Show
Concord
Milford
Black Brimmer:’80s
Press Room: Zumbao Tres night with DJ Ignite
Green Martini: open
Pasta Loft: Morgan
Red Door: Phantogram Derryfield: Gardner Berry mike w/ Steve Naylor
and Pete
Hermanos: Jared Steer
Milly’s: open mike w/
Tuesday, June 9
Nashua
Dually
Concord
Fody’s: Chris Gardner
Strange Brew: Hipology Dover
Barley House: Irish
Barley Pub: When
acoustic session
Geeks Unite with John- DJ St. Julian
Milford
Hermanos: Soca y Son Shenanigans: karaoke
ny Doogan
Studio 99: 2nd Wednesday acoustic/eclectic
with DJ Trinity
Dover
Laconia
jam
Biddy Mulligan’s: Tim Nashua
Fratello’s: Neil Martin
Theriault
Portsmouth
Fody’s: Karaoke
Brick House: acoustic
Manchester
Blue Mermaid: open mike
Gate City Pub: Karaopen mike with Anthony oke
Black Brimmer: Mama Dolphin Striker: Jim
Vio Fiandaca
Kicks
Gallant
Jimmy’s: DJ KOKO-P
Derryfield: Ben Kilcol- Muddy River: Mercury
Portsmouth
Kelley’s Row: karaoke
Hat
Dolphin Striker: Dave lins
with DJ Coach
Milly’s: DJ Spinelli
Red Door: K.I.M. with
Gerard
Shaskeen: The Stink
PB Kidd
Press Room: LG Jazz
Comedy
THIS WEEK and beyond
Friday, June 5
Thursday, June 11
Friday, June 12
Tuesday, June 16
Rochester
Opera House: Geist
(visual comedian)
1100 Hooksett Road #108, Hooksett
641-9600 www.MySalonThairapy.com
Concord
Capitol Center: Brian
Regan
Londonderry
Tupelo: Mark Riccadonna
Manchester
Mad Bob’s: Queen City
Comedy Showcase
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Concord
Barley House: Dave
Tonkin
Hermanos: Paul
Bourgelais
It’s just like you...
Naturally beautiful.
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Hampshire Place
72 South River Rd. Suite 202
Across from the Bedford Mall
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Nashua
Fody’s: Jesse Rustein
Studio 99: Jesse Peters
Rock My Soul
Rock My Soul, a 25member secular choir that
specializes in roots-based
gospel, will hold a CD release
concert and fifth-anniversary celebration at The Pearl,
45 Pearl St. in Portsmouth,
on Sunday, June 7. The concert begins at 5 p.m., doors open at 4:30 p.m. The group’s new
CD, Let Your Light Shine: Rock My Soul Live, will be on sale at
the event. Rock My Soul is part of The Gospel Music Project, a
nonprofit nondenominational umbrella organization dedicated to
gospel music and its history. Go to www.dfgp.org to hear sound
clips of the band and to buy tickets (which cost $12; $15 at the
door) or buy tickets by calling 207-450-8016.

Aveda Hair Color is up to
99% Naturally Derived?
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Manchester
Derryfield: Grinning
Lizards
Element: karaoke w/ DJ
Sharon Mulrennan.
Milly’s: Figure 8, A
Wanted Awakening, Letter
in Hand, Diagnosed Thru
Fear, Red Standard, Transcent, Broken Banner
Penuches: reggae
Shaskeen: The Spain
Brothers sing-a-long,
traditional Irish session
Strange Brew: Howard
Randall Blues Jam
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Did you know?
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Velma
Hippo Crossword
Across
1 First name in daytime talk
5 Salt, to a chemist
9 “The Two ___” (Nicholson
movie)
14 Sexy Halloween costume
option
15 Bounce back
16 University of Maine city
17 Sit in with a worker, perhaps
19 Thirst
20 “Hinky Dinky Parlay ___”
(WWI song)
21 It includes bacon, lettuce and
avocado
23 Five-term Mexican president
Benito
26 Iguana, for some
27 Growing sci.
28 Drink that supposedly helps
remove most stains
“That’s B.S.”--at least it’s broken up. By Matt Jones
31 Type of plane rescue over
water
33 “___ the Stockbroker” (“The
Howard Stern Show” personality)
34 Humor ending?
35 Co. with a logo of a dog listening to a phonograph
36 One whose habit may cause
dental problems
41 Rap sheet abbr.
42 Part of some school addresses
43 It’s cold in Koln
46 1977 hit from George Clinton
and Parliament
49 Tale lost on the heartless
52 Weezer genre
53 Actress Lucy
55 Business section section
56 It may be done inside a
toolbar
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60 Govt. agency that addresses
radiation protection
61 Set ___ (plan for the future)
62 They’re called in to check
suspicious packages
66 Blood___ (video game series
with vampires)
67 Burn soother
68 ___ no good
69 Curvy letters
70 Word after empty or love
71 “Bright ___” (Shirley Temple
movie)
mad
13 Cliff Huxtable’s oldest
18 They’re pulled through the
dirt
22 Den mother’s group
23 They offer assoc. degrees
24 Form finish
25 Animal fanatic’s condition
29 Reggae offshoot
30 Numbnuts
32 Singer Corinne Bailey ___
37 Witchy woman
38 Waikiki strings
39 Actor Kier
40 Settle back in the same place
Down
1 Jaw-popping disorder, for short 44 Bug the hell out of
2 Ming of the Houston Rockets 45 Part of PBS, for short
46 Spooky warning
3 Rounded architectural frame47 Fraternity letters
work in cathedrals
48 Louisiana sandwiches
4 Accumulate on the surface,
50 RR stops
like molecules
5 Grant-provid- 51 Engine force
54 Country star Keith
ing org.
57 Aladdin ___ (David Bowie
6 Angus
alter ego)
Young’s band
7 Shoe designer 58 Singer Natalie
59 Some ins. providers
Jimmy
8 Healthy heart 63 Put chips on the roulette table
64 Polished off
rate, on a doc65 Recommended styles, in
tor’s chart
9 Arcade game fashion mags
control
©2009 Jonesin’ Crosswords
10 Neighbor([email protected])
hood
11 Aussie cuties For answers to this puzzle, call:
1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per
12 Make very
minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill
5/28
to your credit
card, call: 1800-655-6548.
Reference
puzzle #0416.
SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from Kanye West, born June 8, 1977.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “Throw your hands up in the
sky / Say we don’t care what people say.” —“We Don’t Care”
You’ll be invited to a celebration. Join in without reserve.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “We livin’ the American dream
/ The people highest up got the lowest self-esteem / The prettiest people do the ugliest things.” —“All Falls Down”
Re-think who you’ve chosen to admire and emulate. Be on
the lookout for better choices.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “For me givin’ up’s way harder
than tryin’” —“Champion” A long-standing project is tiring
but not impossible, if you can enlist some competent help.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “I ain’t played the hand I was
dealt, I changed my cards.” —“Last Call” Make sure you
will have all the necessary resources before accepting a new
challenge.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “I need you to hurry up now /
’cause I can’t wait much longer / I know I got to be right now
/ ’cause I can’t get much wronger.” —“Stronger” You have
nowhere to go but up. Feel the liberation.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “I’m trying to right my wrongs
/ But it’s funny, them same wrongs helped me write this song.”
—“Touch the Sky” Make amends for a recent infraction, but
at the same time, use your experience to teach others.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “You say I think I’m never
wrong. / You know what? Maybe you’re right.” —“I Wonder.” A reasonable humility will be elusive but very helpful
if you can find it.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “Everything I’m not made
me everything I am.” —“Everything I Am.” As you contemplate the job or promotion you didn’t get, the personality traits
you wish you had, or the achievements you haven’t achieved,
seek satisfaction in the complete package that is your life. It
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column, and every 3x3 box contains the
digits 1 through 9.
Last week's puzzle answers are below
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7 5 8
9 2 1
4 3 6
5 6 4
8 9 3
1 7 2
2 8 5
6 4 7
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Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “I had a dream I could buy
my way to heaven / When I awoke, I spent that on a necklace
/ I told god I’d be back in a second / Man it’s so hard not to
act reckless.” —“Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” Avoid sales pitches and ads for material goods.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “This is my life, homey, you
decide yours.” —“Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” Establish healthy
boundaries between yourself and loved ones. Don’t interfere
in their choices and don’t allow them to interfere in yours. A
long-lost friend or relative may try to nose in; be polite but
firm.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “I feel the pressure / under
more scrutiny / and what’d I do? Act more stupidly.” —“Can’t
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By Dave Green
still has potential.
Tell Me Nothing.” Set aside self-consciousness. Whatever
progress you make with an ongoing task will be worthwhile,
whether it includes mistakes or not.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “You ever wonder what it all
really means? You ever wonder if you’ll find your dreams?”
—“I Wonder.” Though you’ll feel pulled to contemplate the
big picture, try to focus on smaller tasks right in front of you.
You’ll be most productive if you don’t get overwhelmed.
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A cheerful and fun loving woman with
developmental disabilities who lives in a
quiet Nashua neighborhood is looking for
a non-smoking couple without children in
which to either share her home or who would
be willing to open their home to her. She will need transportation to and from
social activities and work. Patience along with a desire to help her develop
independent living skills is a must. In exchange for helping with transportation,
budgeting, healthy cooking and grocery shopping you will receive a bi-weekly
stipend. A high school diploma or the equivalent along with a valid New
Hampshire drivers license, a good driving record and an insured vehicle will be
required. If interested, please call Brenda Merrill at 603-889-0652
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
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Weird Science
• Good to Know: A case report in a recent
issue of the journal Emergency Medicine Australasia described the successful removal of a
leech from an eyeball. A 66-year-old woman,
police) Jason Durant, 32, reported to the
hospital in New Milford, Conn., shortly after
knocking off the National Iron Bank in April.
As he fled the crime scene, he accidentally
tumbled down a steep hill behind the bank,
losing control of his stash, and his gun, during the fall. He broke his leg in several places
(saying later that he heard snapping sounds).
At the bottom of the hill, he crashed into a
plow blade, slashing himself before dragging
his bleeding, broken body to his getaway car
(with only $2 left from the robbery). Suspicious hospital staff members notified police.
Recurring Themes
In April, a manager at a Dean Health
System clinic in Madison, Wis., received
corporate instructions to “immediately” lay
off 50 listed employees, and the manager (a
30-year nursing veteran) decided that that
included pulling one RN out of a room in
which she was assisting with surgery, leaving just a physician and lower-level staff
members present. A clinic executive later called the manager’s timing an error, but
said there were no adverse consequences to
the patient.
Russia’s long-running Moscow Cat Circus/Theater, reported in News of the Weird in
1998, is still in service, astonishing all who
ever tried to train a cat. In the United States,
Samantha Martin runs her own similar show
(at such venues as Chicago’s Gorilla Tango
Theatre in March) featuring the Rock Cats
trio on guitar, piano and drums, as well as
a tightrope-walker, barrel-roller and skateboarder, among other daring performers.
Martin admitted to a Chicago Tribune reporter that the cats’ music “sucks,” in that “when
they’re playing, they’re not even playing the
same thing,” and anyway she has two backup drummers because her regular is prone
to “walking off in a huff,” sort of “like diva
actresses.” “This is why you don’t see trained
cat acts. Because ... the managers can’t take
the humiliation.”
Things People Believe
Undignified Deaths
Least Competent Criminals
Read News of the Weird daily at www.
weirduniverse.net. Send items to [email protected].
Leading Economic Indicators
Ms. Indra Ningsih, a 26-year-old maid, was
detained by a court in Hong Kong in April after
her employer accused her of spiking her vegetable soup with menstrual blood. According to
a report of the case in Hong Kong’s The Standard, the maid was employing a belief in some
Southeast Asian cultures that menstrual blood
has special powers and would improve an otherwise-contentious relationship between the
maid and the employer.
First-time bank robber (according to
Difficult Times for Funeral Eulogists: (1)
A 54-year-old man was found dead of a heart
attack in a pornography video booth at the
Beate Uhse sex shop in Cologne, Germany,
in December. (2) A 42-year-old comedian
(and owner of a comedy club in Blackburn,
England) was accidentally asphyxiated in
April inhaling laughing gas while viewing
computer pornography.
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• In a nondescript building next to a mosque
in downtown Karachi, Pakistan, the Qadeer
brothers discreetly make and market a million
dollars’ worth of fetish and bondage products
a year for Americans and Europeans (through
sales to stores and on eBay). In fact, if the radical Islamic office down the street knew about
the Qadeers’ work, they might be in trouble,
according to an April New York Times dispatch, but fortunately, the gag balls, corsets
and whips such as the “Mistress Flogger” are
so odd for Pakistan that even the veiled women
who sew them for the Qadeers do not understand that Americans use them for sex play.
Customs officials, for example, were puzzled
about how to categorize the items for tax purposes. “If our mom knew (the nature of our
business),” said brother Adnan, “she would
disown us.”
• Physician Geoffrey Hart, working
with a grant from the National Institutes of
Health, recently developed the Pedi-Sedate
headgear to trick waiting-room kids into
inhaling nitrous oxide while playing video
games, thus knocking themselves out and,
according to Hart’s company, “dramatically
improv(ing) the hospital or dental experience for the child, parents and healthcare
providers.” The helmet contains sophisticated sensors to monitor the dosages and effects
on the child.
• Manliness: (1) The Redneck Yacht Club
opened in February near Naples, Fla., consisting of an 800-acre carefully designed
mud pit that drivers pay $30 to frolic in with
their own customized off-road vehicles. One
mechanic told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
in April that he had spent $15,000 fixing
up his rig, with 6-foot-high tires and a skull
ornament. His review: “This place is kickbutt.” (2) For Germany’s fathers’ day in
May, the Panzer Fun Driving School in Germany’s Brandenburg state suggested sending
men off to drive one of its 13 Soviet armored
vehicles (following a short class on the controls), and for an extra fee, patrons can ram
their tanks over an old car.
• Britons Sam Bompas and Harry Parr are
revered chef-artists whose medium is the gelatin mold, with which they have created jelly
models of, for example, London’s St. Paul’s
Cathedral and a Madrid airport terminal, and
who, for a New York customer, recently created orange-juice jelly inside some Compari
jelly to produce a Compari-and-soda jelly.
In April, the pair also opened a London bar,
Alcoholic Architecture, in which vaporized
gin and tonic saturate the air in equivalent
strength of one gin-and-tonic drink for every
40 minutes of exposure.
• Confusing Business Model: Patrick
Ellison and Frank Mack, along with Edie
Wells, were arrested in Dalton, Ga., in April
after what police said was a joint venture in
which alleged prostitute Wells knocked on a
man’s door and offered him sex, and when
the man declined, Ellison and Mack arrived
and forced the man to accept Wells’ services.
Following the sex, the three departed with
the man’s money and credit cards.
gardening in her back yard in Sydney, had accidentally flicked some soil into her eye. By the
time a surgeon could extract the leech, it had
roughly tripled its body size by feeding on the
eyeball’s blood vessels. (The key, by the way:
a few drops of saline solution).
• In a recent journal article, researchers
from the University of Whitwatersrand (South
Africa) and the University of Sydney (Australia) reported that young male Augrabies
lizards avoid older predatory males by, basically, cross-dressing (pretending to be female
by suppressing their extravagant male coloration until they are fully developed and able
to defend themselves). Thus, they avoid being
attacked and, at the same time, increase their
own freedom to hit on females. (They must
still be careful, say the researchers, because
the older males might whiff their male scent,
which cannot be suppressed.)
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