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ThisWeek
BY Jody Reese
pUBLISHER’S
NOTE
Unity
In school districts,
towns, cities, counties
and state governments,
public employees are
faced with a difficult
task: How to deal with
the recession.
As less revenue has flowed into public coffers, government at every level is
looking at some crummy options: raise
taxes, lower services, lay off staff. To
make matters worse, many public servants
are getting a raise, negotiated when times
were better.
In Manchester a fight is brewing
between Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta
and the unions over Guinta’s plan to have
all city employees take a week off without pay. The move is said to save 70 or so
jobs. The unions are resisting.
While I understand and sympathize with
the unions, they need to take the lead on
this issue and make real concessions —
not to Guinta, but to their customers, the
people of Manchester.
So what could the unions do?
For starters they could delay automatic
pay increases and look to find efficiencies
in what they do, including the reduction
of overtime. This would set the right tone
going into a budget cycle and an election
year. It would also reduce the threat of
layoffs. It seems hard to defend your most
senior employees getting a raise while
newer employees get laid off.
Of course, those employees were promised those raises and expect them. Like
all of us, they have mortgages to pay,
kids in college and may be dealing with
a lost job in the family. This isn’t a question of value, it’s a question of fairness to
all involved. Taxpayers are stretched and
more junior public employees need their
jobs — and we need those services.
Unions need not sit by and let politicians
set the terms of how to deal with budget
shortfalls. They have an active role to play
and should come to the table with ideas.
One example of a union taking the lead
is in the Hollis School District, where
the Brookline Teachers Association is
foregoing some raises and lowering the
cost-of-living increase. This wasn’t some
plan shoved down their throat by a politician, it came from their own concern
about the effects of layoffs on the school
system.
With hope, their leadership can be an
example to everyone that for the good of
many sacrifice may be necessary.
However, and this is a big however,
it’s not only public employees who need
to sacrifice; it’s all of us. Perhaps there is
more we as citizens can do to lessen the
burden on government. Can we volunteer? Can we help keep the parks clean?
Can we sacrifice some money to pay higher taxes?
I hear some people have signed up to
protest the federal stimulus package and
are sending tea bags to members of Congress. Have these folks sent any money to
their local YMCA or Boys & Girls Club?
What are they doing to help their community thrive in this down economy?
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and capital punishment;
Fat lady sings for Granite
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12 Be your new boss
The job market might be tight but there are
many organizations out there that can help
you create your own dream job. If you’ve been
laid off or just think your career is in need of
a change, check out this story with tips from
experts and information on organizations that
can help you build your own business.
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NEWS & NOTES
News in Brief
the state could only afford to repave 250 miles
of road, the release said.
Gov. John Lynch said last week in a letter that
he supports legislation to protect New Hampshire
businesses from having to collect a sales tax on
behalf of other states. The legislation comes up
after Massachusetts looked to collect sales taxes
from Town Fair Tire Centers in New Hampshire
that had sold tires to Massachusetts residents.
Town Fair Tire has locations throughout New
England. The case is currently in the court system. “We should not allow Massachusetts to turn
New Hampshire businesses into tax agents for
Massachusetts,” Lynch wrote in the letter.
TV cuts
No taxing
760 miles of bad road
Drop in
Gov. John Lynch will host a summit for state
education, business, community and political
leaders on dropout prevention Friday, April 10.
The state will bump up the compulsory age of
education from 16 to 18 on July 1. The summit
will examine the policy and systematic changes
needed in order to make the law a success. The
conference will take place at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.
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Societies throughout New England, including
New Hampshire Audubon Society, for every
Pull out the binoculars
Right on time for birding season, the New
Hampshire Audubon is presenting “Optics
101,” an informational session covering topics such as upgrading optics, eye relief, field of
view and light gathering. The session will take
place at the McLane Center in Concord on Saturday, April 11, from 11 a.m. to noon. The session
will include a presentation by John Wood from
Vortex Optics. The New Hampshire Audubon’s
Nature Store will be having a sale on optics this
month. Call 224-9909.
Consignment for nonprofit
Always New 2 You, a consignment shop in
Merrimack, has an opportunity for local charities and non-profit organizations. The shop will
set up accounts in the names of charitable organizations and will consign items for them, while
sharing 50 percent of the selling price. Organizations can tell the store about an upcoming
fundraising event and Always New 2 You will
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Hippo | April 9 - 15, 2009 | Page Nashua is rolling out major upgrades to its customer service in the Motor Vehicle Registration
Department — many related to the new state-mandated Municipal Agent Automation Project, a city
press release said. The upgrades will provide more
registration services locally; residents can now pay
all fees for vehicles up to 26,000 pounds right at
City Hall (formerly, people had to complete the
state portion at DMV substations). Residents will
also be able to handle late renewals up to 12 months
overdue, replace sets of plates, and replace decals
and registrations. The department in Nashua will
also feature a new customer service resource desk
and enhanced check-in system. With wait times,
particularly at the beginnings and ends of months,
sometimes lengthy, people can now read their wait
time on a monitor. Last year the city registered
90,000 vehicles and processed about 25,000 parking tickets, the release said.
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open an account in the organization’s name.
Members bring in items, of which the store will
determine which ones it believes it can sell. The
organization will get a 50-percent share for any
of the items sold within 60 days. According to a
press release from the store, agreements could be
ongoing or for a specified amount of time. Visit
www.alwaysnew2you.com. Call 424-4100. The
store is located at 360 DW Highway.
Correction: In “Toll rage,” on page 15 of the April 2 – 8, 2009, issue of the Hippo, the number
of jobs that House Bill 644, which would increase the state gas tax, would create was incorrectly
reported. The numbers of jobs should be between 1,100 and 1,400.
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The state approved its first federal stimulusfunded projects last week, when Gov. John
Lynch and the Executive Council signed off
on $20.5 million of paving projects. The state
has accepted $135 million of federal transportation stimulus funds, a state press release said.
The Executive Council approved $7.8 million for repaving Route 101 in the Epping and
Exeter area; $6.2 million for Interstate 89 in
New London; $3.2 million for resurfacing in the
Upper Valley, and $3.3 million for repaving in
the North Country. The work will be done by
Pike Industries, which says the work will retain
or create 185 to 250 jobs. With stimulus help,
the state has plans to pave 760 miles of roads
in all 10 counties. Without the stimulus funding,
Last month, New Hampshire Public Television, based in Durham, announced a major
restructuring that will cost the organization
five full-time positions in its production, technology and development departments. The
station will also not fill several vacant positions and will reduce part-time employees,
according to a NHPTV press release. These
moves come in an effort to reduce expenditures in the wake of the economic downturn
that has substantially hurt non-profits, said
President and CEO Peter Frid in the release.
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Funny man
Hampstead collegian competes for laughs
Hampstead’s Christopher Clemente, 20, is trying his hand at
stand-up comedy. The alum of Pinkerton Academy in Derry
is now a sophomore at Boston University and is a member of
BU’s comedy team, which is competing in Rooftop Comedy’s
2nd Annual National College Comedy Competition. Clemente
is studying film and television at BU.
I do have a friend who is very dedicated
to listening to me and giving me feedback.
I also have a smaller group of friends. You
never know how funny you are when you are
practicing in front of a mirror. I have some
close friends who actually give critical feedback. It’s cool to have that.
Q:
So now you’re on the BU comedy team.
How does that work?
It’s played off the basketball brackets,
March Madness. The competitions are set up
by brackets of schools that compete against
each other. We’re going up against [Emerson
College on April 2] and the winner goes on to
another competition. It’s literally like brackets until you get to the finals in Aspen, Colo.
How do the actual competitions work?
Usually, we each had three minutes and
the audience voted to see who would make
the team of eight. In Emerson, we’ll get five
minutes and there will be judges. It’s still
based on the audience. There’s online voting.
[Clemente said clips from the competitions
are uploaded to www.rooftopcomedy.com,
where people can vote for comedians. The
top four move on.]
It sounds like a lot of fun.
Oh yeah. I can’t wait to perform again.
How do you squeeze all your jokes into
such a short period of time?
It’s not very long at all. I ended up going
well over last time. I can never do really
quick, funny one-liners. I usually tell long
stories. Sometimes it’s tough — last time I
was almost to four minutes. Five minutes is
hopefully better.
How would you describe your humor?
I think it’s very self-deprecating. A lot of
it, I’m making fun of myself. That’s easy to
do. I’m always finding myself in funny, awkward situations. A lot comes from my family,
my mom doing something ridiculous. It
seems to work out well.
Do you have some people you use as practice audiences?
Are there some comedians you look up
to?
One of my favorites is Louis C.K. He’s
from Boston and he’s just starting to make it
big. I kind of model after him. He’s kind of
vulgar. My material can end up a little vulgar.
I don’t let my mom listen. I also like Mike
Birbiglia.
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How did you get into the comedy world?
I don’t really know. It was just
this year, kind of playing around
with some of my friends and some said I
should try out for BU’s Funniest, a student
competition [in October 2008]. I figured,
“Why not try it?” It kind of just started from
there. I had no prior experience with it. I just
gave it a try.
Prior to this, did you think of yourself as
funny?
I never have. Every time I tell my friends
from home, even my parents, they all laughed
and thought I was joking. They didn’t think I
was actually doing stand-up. I was second at
BU’s Funniest and my friends thought, “Oh
wow, I guess you are funny.” It is very weird.
I didn’t think I was ever the funny person in
a group.
How do you feel about being up on
stage?
It’s stressful right up until that last second
when they introduce my name. We’re constantly practicing and reworking our material.
Once I’m up there, it’s like a blur. It goes by
so fast. I get really comfortable once I’m up
there. It’s just the hours and hours of anticipation before. My friends can tell when I’m
nervous — I’m not talking. They can always
tell when I’m nervous.
Do you treat comedy as an outlet from
your schoolwork?
Definitely an outlet. It’s such a big stressreliever. I’m always working and reworking
jokes. It definitely beats schoolwork. It can
be hard to juggle, but it’s definitely a great
stress-reliever. I’m glad to say I’ve tried it.
Is this something you think you’ll pursue
as a career?
I think that all depends. Right now it’s definitely just a hobby. If somebody said “Come
on tour,” I can’t say it would be a dream come
true because I never thought about it like that.
But if somebody offered me an opportunity
to do more regularly, I would. It’s definitely
a hard business to get recognized.
How about the competition aspect?
I’m a competitive person by nature. I’ve
always been very competitive. Most of the
things I have been in were competitions. I’ve
only done one show when it wasn’t a competition. It was kind of this weird feeling — just
an open mike. I actually think [competition]
puts the pressure on in a good way. It’s a
good format for me.
—Jeff Mucciarone
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Cannabis, connubiality, capital punishment
State legislators — and Gov. Lynch — offers hot button social issues
By Jeff Mucciarone
jmucciarone@hippopress.com
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The current state legislative session is certainly grabbing the attention of social conservatives.
The trifecta of same-sex marriage, potential
repeal of the death penalty and the legalization
of medicinal marijuana use are all headed to the
state Senate, just one step or one vote from the
governor’s desk.
“My general reaction is that this is really indicative of the changes we’ve seen in the state over
the last couple of election cycles,” said Dean
Spiliotes, a political analyst who runs the Web
site www.nhpoliticalcapital.com. “On a basic
level, it’s a manifestation of the changing electoral landscape.”
“It hits on every hot button,” said Arnie Arnesen, host of the talk show Political Chowder.
“There’s something for everyone to fear.”
Gov. John Lynch has long since removed the
drama from the death penalty repeal bill — he
says he’ll veto that if it ever reaches his desk. It
may not ever get there, since the Senate could be
looking to push the issue to a study commission
before voting on it. The state House of Representatives voted 193-174 to repeal the death
penalty two weeks ago. The House would need a
two-thirds majority to overrule Lynch’s expected veto. The state hasn’t executed anyone in 70
years, but this past fall a jury sentenced Michael
Addison to death for shooting and killing a Manchester police officer. He is currently the only
inmate on death row in the Granite State.
Lynch has been less committal on the other
two bills, saying he has concerns. It doesn’t surprise analysts that Lynch isn’t tipping his hand
because they’ve seen him in the past wait to
make decisions until he absolutely has to. Analysts agreed the easiest thing for Lynch would be
if the bills never reached his desk.
“My sense is watching Lynch, if he doesn’t
have to confront something — I’m not suggest-
ing he likes to duck things — chief executives
“It’s a lame excuse to just focus on this econ“It would be very interesting,” Spiliotes said.
often withhold judgment,” Spiliotes said. “For omy,” Arnesen said. “That’s not recognizing the “We haven’t seen him in this position before. It
me, I’m not at all surprised to see him wait.”
breadth and depth of their responsibility.”
would put him in a difficult spot given that he’s
The House approved a
Arnesen likened the state Senate to Congress known as centrist.”
bill recognizing sameduring Bush’s adminArnesen suggested Lynch opt for ruling that
sex marriage two weeks
istration.
Democrats
the
state would only recognize civil unions for
“We haven’t
ago, 186-179. The state
criticized Republicans all couples and that religion would be the bearer
seen him in this
approved civil unions
for not standing up to of marriage. That would provide equality while
position before.
for gay couples two
Bush even when they maintaining his personal beliefs. The state could
years ago. Lynch has It would put him in a difficult
knew he would veto a embrace civil unions, she said.
said he opposes gay spot given that he’s known as
particular bill.
“States can do contracts and religions can do
marriage, but he hasn’t centrist.” — Dean Spiliotes
“They should have marriages,” Arnesen said. That way, the state
said whether or not he on Lynch’s
responded on their could provide all the same protections to samewould veto the bill.
own
conscience,” sex couples that heterosexual couples have, while
response to three
The House also voted
Arnesen said, adding keeping marriage with faith, Arnesen said.
to approve a bill allow- controversial bills.
that the state Senate
“What he’s done is not this scary marriage
ing marijuana to be used
in New Hampshire thing, he’s created equality,” Arnesen said if
by terminally ill patients. The bill passed 234ought to do the same. Lynch chooses that route. “There are creative
138. A similar bill failed in the House in 2007. “They’re behaving just like the Republicans in ways to get to solutions here. There are creReports indicated a 2008 Mason-Dixon Poll Congress did. They can’t recognize their own ative ways to come to yes. We can meet every
found 71 percent of New Hampshire residents independence.”
one of his concerns, but we can’t give him a
supported medicinal marijuana reform.
If all three bills were to pass, analysts figured backbone.”
The Senate must act on all three bills by the Gov. Lynch wouldn’t veto all three but would
Despite all the economic news locally and
end of the legislative session at the end of June. probably find some combination of passing and nationally, Spiliotes said some of these social
“This would be a real test for him,” Spiliotes vetoing the bills. The death penalty repeal is pre- issues have been coming up more and more.
said, adding he wouldn’t be surprised to see sumably out before it gets to his desk, but the
“I think the components were always there;
slightly different outcomes for all three bills if future of the other two isn’t as certain.
the changes in the state occurring have allowed
they reach Lynch’s desk. “He understands where
them to go through,” Spiliotes said.
he is in relation to his own party.”
What’s next at the Statehouse
Senators have said the state budget, which
• Prior to the end of the legis- Wednesday, April 8, that would wear seat belts in vehicles.
could face large deficits, will remain their primalative session at the end of June, allow the Liquor Commission
• The Senate must take up a
ry focus. Generally, Spiliotes said, the Senate,
the state Senate must act on bills to sell liquor in grocery stores bill that would reduce the age
which is a smaller body, can slow things down
that would repeal the death pen- and to close state-run stores requirements for buying firea bit. They still have to act, though. The House
alty, approve same-sex marriage that are performing poorly.
works from 21 to 18. The bill
did its part and turned in a budget by its April 1
and allow terminally ill patients
• The state House of Rep- was not scheduled in the Sento possess marijuana. Before resentatives was scheduled to ate as of Tuesday, April 7.
deadline.
the bills go to the Senate floor, vote Tuesday, April 14, on a
• The Senate must vote on a
“[Does the Senate] want to cover for the
they must be taken up by Sen- bill that could increase a gov- bill that would establish a cold
governor or are they going to make a decision
ate committees. The bills were ernor’s term from two years to case homicide unit. The bill
about today, tomorrow and the future?” Arnenot scheduled as of Tuesday, four.
passed the House in March and
sen asked.
April
7.
•
The
House
was
set
to
take
was not scheduled for a vote in
While Arnesen acknowledged the budget hole
•
The
state
Senate
was
up
a
bill
Wednesday,
April
8,
the Senate as of Tuesday, April
facing the state, she said social issues don’t wait
scheduled to take up a bill that would require adults to 7.
around for the budget to be balanced.
Curtain falls on Granite State Opera
Company closes dues to slow economy, falling donations
By Jeff Rapsis
jrapsis@hippopress.com
Granite State Opera has sung its last aria.
After nine seasons, the company is ceasing
operations due to the poor economy.
“The economy has tanked, and unfortunately it’s tanked us as well,” said artistic director
Phil Lauriat, who started the group in 1999.
Granite State Opera staged professional opera
productions in Concord, Manchester, Portsmouth and elsewhere.
The decision was made by Granite State
Opera’s board of directors on Thursday, April 2.
The company’s planned performances of
Verdi’s masterwork Macbeth this May in Concord and Portsmouth have been cancelled.
Ticket-holders can contact the box office of
the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord or
the Portsmouth Music Hall for refunds. Subscribers may not get refunds, Lauriat said, due
to the company’s financial situation.
The chief reason for the decision to close
was lack of money. A production such as Macbeth could cost more than $100,000 to mount,
and ticket sales would generally cover only a
third of those costs.
Though attendance for the company’s performances has been strong, the remaining
Hippo | April 9 - 15, 2009 | Page Phil Lauriat. Courtesy photo.
costs must be made up from grants and donations, which have virtually stopped this year,
Lauriat said.
“We’ve had people who’ve given us $5,000
a year who’ve been suddenly cut back to
$1,000 or $2,000, and to make that up in this
economy is just impossible,” Lauriat said.
Granite State Opera is not alone. Funding
issues have forced several other U.S. opera
troupes to close in the past year, including
companies in Connecticut, Baltimore and
Orlando.
Granite State Opera’s board of directors had
looked at postponing Macbeth’until the fall,
but decided the financial hurdles were too
high to continue, Lauriat said.
The company, which employed an executive director and numerous artistic personnel
depending on the production, brought on a
director of charitable giving as recently as last
January. But a flurry of grant applications has
so far failed to produce any results, Lauriat
said.
“Without doing Macbeth, the number that
we owed isn’t very large,” Lauriat said. “But
seeing that we don’t have the reserve to do the
next production, given the economic climate,
we don’t see that [grant] money coming in in
time to actually do something.”
Also, the board of directors, which had
been as large as eight members in the past, had
recently dwindled to three people, making it
difficult to rally support.
Lauriat launched the company to bring highquality professional opera to New Hampshire
audiences. Granite State Opera’s productions
were generally highly regarded, but were also
costly to produce. Lowering the quality to
keep the company alive was not an option.
Costs for staging an opera include hiring
lead singers from the Metropolitan Opera
and other major companies, plus building or
renting complete sets and costumes and also
hiring and rehearsing a full orchestra for the
performances.
“It is with heartfelt disappointment...that
we make this announcement,” said Lilliane
Lebel, board president, in a prepared statement. “Granite State Opera has brought such
joy and enrichment to the community over the
past nine years, and we are extremely sorry to
have to close.”
Lauriat, who will continue guest conducting at other companies, couldn’t easily pick a
high point of the company’s nine-year run.
“It’s hard to choose a favorite out of all the
children,” he said. “I’m very proud of the work
we did in the past nine years, and delighted
with the people I’ve gotten to work with.”
Right now, the company’s priority is to sell
off any assets and pay off debts.
“We’ll sell whatever we can,” Lauriat said.
“Do you know anyone who wants a decent
grand piano?”
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the intrusion of the uninspiring World Baseball Classic. With Manny gone and no one
like Wade Boggs around to will himself
invisible, maybe it was the lack of controversy. Or maybe it was the economic meltdown
that had many in Red Sox Nation under the
desk in the fetal position for the last nine
months. But it was something.
But that’s over with and it’s time to start
talking baseball as the Sox begin what looks to
be a very interesting three-way race in the AL
East. Joining Boston and the Empire in preseason chatter about who’ll win and who’ll
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the division last year, when the Yanks were
out of the money for the first time in 14 years.
But most thought they were a year away from
making serious noise. Thus it’s their first time
in this particular conversation.
The Sox enter with what most of us feel
is a formidable club, though I think there
are enough things that could go wrong to let
them be the one left without a chair when the
music stops playing in September. So here’s
a look at the storylines to play out and a few
predictions for what may happen as well.
Will Varitek bounce back? Many believe
after hitting just .220 overall and .201 lefthanded he will. But history says he won’t.
Only Carlton Fisk and Mike Piazza among
top catchers have been productive hitters at
37 — which he turns Saturday. On his side
are players today. As evidenced by the puny
bodies on display in the 30th-anniversary TV
re-play of the famous Michigan State – Indiana State 1979 college basketball final this
weekend, today’s players are more physically developed and thus likely to last longer
than earlier models. And he did have four
lefty homers in the spring, so we’ll see. Prediction: Since, with a divorce in progress, he
had a lot on his mind, he’s a little better, but
not much in hitting .237 with 13 homers and
knocking in 51.
Will eight starters work? I like the
approach. It’s Patriots-like in spreading the
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of laying out enormous dough for a couple
of guys as the Yankees did. The last several
years have shown you need more than five
guys sooner or later to weather the storm.
Plus they also have the formula for post-season success with three who can dominate
when hot in Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and
two-time WBC MVP Dice-K. And while it’s
not certain what John Smoltz will do after
missing most of last season, if right, he’s 15-4
in the post-season. Brad Penny is a believeit-when-I-see-it gamble who doesn’t look in
great shape. Ditto for Clay Buchholz for different reasons, although his spring work was
encouraging. And Tim Wakefield is what he
is — a reliable guy who takes one for the team
whom many clubs would like as their fifth
guy. Wakefield vs. Buchholz: This depends
on whether Buchholz continues as he did this
spring — a big if. But if so, he should get the
fifth spot when ready. For all the nice things I
just said about Wake, he’s a supposed innings
eater who’s done 200-plus once since 2003,
who needs his own catcher and is 5-7 in the
playoffs with a gruesome 6.75 ERA. Prediction: It’s all moot if Smoltz is healthy and
Penny is close to what Theo hopes.
Injury risk: The roster is a disaster waiting to happen and is the biggest negative
issue they have given the recent injury history of Smoltz, Penny, Wake, J.D. Drew,
Rocco Baldelli, Julio Lugo (already hurt),
Mark Kotsay (on DL), Mike Lowell and
David Ortiz. Throw in the Varitek question
and age issues and it could be 2005 or 2006
all over again, when Wade Miller, David
Wells, Wake, Varitek, Curt Schilling,
Keith Foulke and others hurt (’05) or decimated (’06) them. On the good side, they
do have depth everywhere, outside of catcher, to withstand it. Prediction: Half of these
guys do time on the DL — which challenges them.
Will it be the 2007 or 2008 Josh Beckett? Injuries were also an issue for him,
as they’ve been in all but two years of his
career. That track record makes you wonder.
But he seemed injury-free in the spring and
looks poised to get back on track. Prediction:
17-9, 3.46 ERA.
Will Jacoby Ellsbury take the next step?
When last we saw him he was on the bench in
lieu of Coco Crisp as they were eliminated
in Tampa. That followed an uneven year that
started OK, fell off the cliff in June and July
and closed with a rush in September when
he hit .340 and scored 20 runs. Maybe he’s
just a good September hitter, as ’08 was like
the September 2007 that had everyone agog.
At the root of his problem was an inability to hit/lay off the low inside fastball and a
.336 OBP that was exactly 100 points lower
than league leader Milton Bradley’s. Both
need to improve. On the good side — despite
his low OBP he led the league in steals, was
very good and versatile in the field and
played through a shoulder injury that affected his June, July hitting. Prediction: I love
the guy, so my judgment is probably clouded, but after seeing the OBP was just .329 in
the spring I’m wary. So while he’ll be a bit
better to around .285 with more consistency and improved power numbers, he won’t
make a big leap until he gets greater control
of his at bats.
Will age start to show? Yes. So don’t
expect 50 and 140 from Papi or the Lowell you saw in 2007. But still, they’ll be
productive. Prediction: Oritz’s projected
full-season homers and RBI numbers during
his injury-riddled ’08 would’ve been 32 and
127. Expect something similar. For Lowell,
20-83-.280.
The five hole? I just don’t get the fascination with J.D. Drew. Whether he’s brittle,
soft or just has bad luck, to quote Coach B
— he is what he is. A guy who plays 135
games and has been over 90 RBI twice. Take
out his two contract years, the number drops
to zero and his per-year average is around
the 64 he’s had each year in Boston. So why
in the name of Trot Nixon is he batting fifth?
The 3-4-5-6-7 in the order should be this:
Youk, Ortiz, Jason Bay, Drew and Lowell. Prediction: If Mother Francona makes
the adjustment to be stronger in front of Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia they score more
runs than in 2008.
I have a few more, but no more space. So
I’ll have to work them in as we go along
through the year.
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Rats roar down the stretch
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Splitsville: One way or another it will be over by
the time you see this, but after getting hammered
in Game One of their PBL playoff vs. Rochester 125-100, the Manchester Millrats roared back
from 18 points down in the third to gain a split of
the first two games. A Desmond Howard three
from 30 feet to beat the clock gave the Rats their
first lead and with Lincoln Glass (half full) and
Tommy Mitchell making five of six from the line
they held on to win 116-110. It was just the second
loss in 59 home games for the RazorSharks. Ferguson led with 21 and Mitchell chipped in with
17, while semi-local lad Keith Friel had 27 for
Rochester. Game Three goes off after our deadline on Tuesday night in Rochester.
Sports 101: How many of the top five all-time
scorers in NCAA Basketball tournament history
can you name?
Hot Ticket: The F-Cats open their home season with a six-game home stand on Wednesday
vs. the New Britain Rock Cats and then the Connecticut Defenders are here for a three-game
series. The Cats return seven players who played
here last year including pitchers Zach Dials
and Sean Stidfole, catchers Brian Jeroloman
and Kyle Phillips and infielders Brian Dopirak, Jonathan Diaz and Chris Gutierrez.
Crosstown Rivalry Game of the Week: That
would be the games won by Saint Anselm
over SNHU. Pitching was the order of the day
as John Healy kept the Penmen at bay with a
three-hit, seven-shutout-inning performance in a
3-1 win on Wednesday. The next day it was a
The Numbers:
1.52 – earned run average
posted during an encouraging spring training with the
Cardinals after two injuryriddled years for Bedford’s
Chris Carpenter compiled
over six starts and 23 innings
when he gave up 17 hits and
struck out the same number
in 23.2 innings pitched.
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Steve Chabot in leading the
way for LeClerc State Farm
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finals in the over-40 ice hock-
2-1 when starter Nick Barese allowed one run
and four hits while striking out six. Brad Monroe was tagged with the hard-luck loss in Game
Two, despite not allowing a hit for the first six
innings. But the Hawks got two in the seventh
with the key blow being a double by T. J. Murphy. SNHU’s run came on a solo homer by Jeff
Giannino.
Stat Sheet: By virtue of BC’s run in the Women’s N. I. T., the last local player standing was
Stefani Murphy. Her season ended in an 82-65
loss to South Florida in semi-finals when she had
three points and three rebounds in 20 minutes. It
closed out her sophomore season with the 23-12
Eagles with season averages of 10.7 points and
6.8 rebounds in 32 games as a starter.
Coming and Going: Former UNH mentor and
used to be Daniel Webster College Assistant VP
for Student Affairs Phil Rowe is on the move
again. He stepped down at the Nashua school
last week to head back to coaching as head man
at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass.
Thumbs Up: To the Millrats for honoring the
Trinity boys’ hoop team at half-time of Game
One of the PBL playoff series with Rochester.
Sports 101 Answer: Duke’s Christian Laettner
with 407 is number one, followed by Elvin Hayes
(358), Danny Manning (326), Oscar Robertson (324) and Glen Rice (308). Though, unless
something bizarre happened, since UNC’s Tyler
Hansbrough entered Monday’s final (after deadline) with 307, Rice, Robertson and Manning
could be dropping down a notch each.
ey league died in a 7-5 loss.
4 – runs batted in by Val
Martins as she went five
for eight as SNHU swept
St. Michaels 5-4 and 3-2 in
Northeast 10 Softball action.
6 – different U.S. states
writers e-mailed from to
weigh in on last week’s Mt.
Rushmore column, which
included Florida, Ohio,
California (San Diego), Wyoming, Maryland and New
York (Albany). Don’t ask
me how they saw it, I have
no idea. Actually when you
throw in the usual from NH
it’s seven.
7 – points rung up by Maura Murphy with five goals
and two assists when SNHU
downed Merrimack 19-14 in
women’s lacrosse action and
she was helped along by Libby Parent (trap), who had
another four goals.
50 – points scored by the
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his PBL playoff series vs.
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in Rochester in the opening
game 125-100 win and 27 in
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first in scoring and fourth in rebounding.
Satan to UCLA fans in the ’60s during the
heyday of the dynasty. Mostly for the 39 he
rung up on the Bruins in the first made-forTV prime-time college basketball broadcast
as Houston ended UCLA’s 47-game winning streak in the Game of the Century at
the Houston Astrodome 71-69 in 1968.
Austin Carr: Long-forgotten Notre
Dame ’60s and ’70s great. Averaged 34.5
in his career and is sixth on NCAA all-time
scoring list. Set tourney record with 61 vs.
Ohio and with two 52s has three of the top
five scoring games in tournament history.
High point was scoring 48 while knocking
off UCLA in 1970 in their last loss before
the legendary 88-game winning streak
began. First pick overall by Cleveland in
’71, but thanks to knee issues, he didn’t
quite reach the same level there, though
he’s one of six Cavs with their number
retired. Why a team with their sorry history
has six numbers retired is another issue.
Danny Manning: One-man band that
led Kansas and Larry Brown to a shocking NCAA title in 1988 in becoming the
team with the most losses (11) ever to that
point to win a national title. He had 31
points, 18 rebounds and five assists in the
final vs. Oklahoma. Was also a top pick
overall not to live up to the billing, thanks
to knee issues that plagued him throughout
his NBA career.
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The economy is putting plenty of people out of work
nationally and in New Hampshire. The latest numbers say
state unemployment is more than 5 percent, compared with
the national rate a month ago of 8.1 percent. There’s no telling when the economy will pick itself up again.
In the meantime, those who are out of work need to make
a living, but finding jobs in their field in New Hampshire
— and anywhere else for that matter — may be proving difficult if not impossible. For people losing their jobs due
to downsizing and poor profit margins, the options can be
limited.
Business resource officials say more and more people
— many of whom have never considered doing so before —
are looking to open their own businesses. After all, no one
likely missed every politician in America explaining how
small business is the backbone of the country this past fall.
“There are a lot of people who have a great deal of ability and skill, and they do feel there is no opportunity for
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Center. “They’re looking to put their skills to best use. One
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— Information came from several business officials, most notably Sheila Kabat,
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of the Amoskeag Business Incubator.
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When times are tough, said Christine
Davis, executive director of the Women’s
Business Center in New Hampshire, people should focus on what they can do to
better the situation, rather than wallow in
all the bad news.
“Forge ahead,” Allain added. She suggested doing some market research. People
need a solid business plan and financial
backing. She pointed folks to places like
the Small Business Administration and the
New Hampshire Small Business Development Center, places that provide guidance
and consultation at low or no cost.
Getting some guidance is key, because
while Davis said she has seen an increase
in people looking to start a business, she’s
also noticed plenty of people seemingly
lacking business knowledge.
“They’re trying to start a business without proper preparations,” Davis said. “They
need to have a business plan before they
just jump into it.”
Julie Gustafson, executive director of the
Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester, also stressed putting together a business
plan, spending time researching the industry and making sure there’s a demand or a
need for the product or service.
“If there’s a lot of competition, we need
to make sure there’s a competitive edge,”
Gustafson said.
Something that could be intriguing to
new business owners is a “low-cost incubation” option provided by the Amoskeag
Business Incubator. Gustafson said eight
people have signed up just in the last month
or so. She has noticed interest in her organization rising with the plunging economy,
much of it due to layoffs, she figures. One
of the biggest reasons businesses fail is cash
flow, causing counselors and consultants
at the Incubator to work with prospective
owners to make sure they have sufficient
funds, whether a loan or their own money,
in place ahead of time, she said.
Randy Roody, Manchester chapter chairman of SCORE, a business counseling
service, said the organization’s workshops
have been busy, including the one on
starting your own business and two on
developing successful business Web sites.
The most recent business plan workshop
saw three times the usual attendance. Not
every attendee is out of work, but Roody
said many are preparing to be jobless.
Roody said SCORE’s concern is the
business success rate, which isn’t all that
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“And that’s optimistic,” Roody said.
“That’s the data. There’s many reasons for
that. Sometimes it’s a lot more than people
think it’s going to be and it can be a little
overwhelming for them.”
Making that plan can be a little overwhelming itself, but the rewards are easy
for business owners to see.
“The most terrifying thing can be jumping
off that cliff,” said Mark Berthiaume, who
started his first business, MJB Technology
Solutions, two years ago. Berthiaume went
through the Amoskeag Business Incubator for business counseling and support
for his business, which specializes in technology support. “There are a lot of things,
when you work for other people, that you
don’t have to worry about. When you work
for yourself, you have to wear all the hats.
Do your homework. Try to understand as
much as possible about what you’re getting
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As SCORE counselors go through the
different things new business owners need
to consider, some withdraw. Roody said
the goal is to get people organized ahead
of time so they can be successful. Business
counseling at SCORE is free and workshops cost $25 per person.
Just because people might not have a
strong business sense now, that doesn’t
mean they can’t acquire the necessary
knowledge, Davis said, but it’s not going
to happen overnight. She suggested taking
a business plan development course, such
as the one they offer with Sheila Kabat
of the Women’s Business Center — “It’s
a great first step to get the ball rolling,”
Davis said.
Kabat works with people in a variety of
business situations to help them develop
constructive business plans — some people
have owned businesses for many years and
never created a plan. It’s never too late.
“It’s a discipline,” Kabat said. “It’s a discovery process.”
She says entrepreneurs need to do their
market research: “Is there anyone else out
there doing it?”
In the class, which is typically six sessions of two hours each, students work
through a template for launching small
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Especially for small businesses, new owners have got to be prepared to multi-task, said Julie
Gustafson, executive director of the Amoskeag Business Incubator.
“That’s a real key to me,” Gustafson said. “Sometimes you’ve just got to be willing to do
everything.”
People should be comfortable communicating with others or they should have someone on
their team who can successfully communicate and network.
“The owner doesn’t necessarily need to be a good people person, but somebody in the management team needs to be,” Gustafson said.
Looking at her experience, Sheila Kabat, who teaches a business plan development course
with the Women’s Business Center, said successful businesspeople can vary greatly.
Success can simply mean adjusting the way someone does things. She mentioned a friend
who spent more than 20 years in the financial world only to become bored by it. She opted to
stay in the field but to begin helping senior citizens with their financial issues. Now she loves it,
Kabat said, even though it’s essentially the same type of work.
“The application makes all the difference,” Kabat said. “Every story is different.”
Gustafson notes the importance of simply treating people well, and that includes employees,
vendors, business connections and anyone else along the way. Strong time management skills
and resilience were other characteristics Gustafson highlighted.
If the owner doesn’t meet all the criteria, he or she can find someone who possesses a necessary skill or characteristic to round out the business, Gustafson said.
“It depends on each person,” Kabat said. “I’m not talking about setting the world on fire; I
mean creating an environment where you can earn a living and do something that you love.”
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businesses. “You’re taking that discovery and putting it into a document,” Kabat
said.
People must think about what makes
their business unique, and about pricing,
vendors, services, products and funding.
“It’s really a mindful exploration,” said
Kabat, who often meets with students prior to class and with students individually
as needed.
Other business resource groups also
provide guidance for developing a plan.
Business support groups can help people
research the industry and the market. It
would also be important for people to have
their financial situation in order, hopefully
with enough money saved to live on for a
while, Davis said.
“There’s a lot that goes into it,” Davis
said.
But there are some simple things people
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As soon as someone has an idea, he or she
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businesses. It is the only organization providing lending and education together.
MicroCredit-NH is offering a free orientation in Manchester, Tuesday, April 21, from
4 to 6 p.m. at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial St. People can
learn about MicroCredit’s programs, including education, loan capital up to $15,000,
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The Women’s Business Center is a
non-profit organization serving female
entrepreneurs in any stage of business development. It conducts regular networking
sessions, offers counseling, education and
peer support. Non-members at the Women’s Business Center receive a free business
counseling session. Members receive two
more free counseling sessions. Visit www.
womenbiz.org. The office in Portsmouth is
located at 1555 Lafayette Road, 2nd floor,
430-2892. The Manchester office is located
at 83 Hanover St., 623-7383. Send e-mail to
info@womenbiz.org.
the Small Business Development Center or
one of the state’s other business resource
groups. Professionals can provide an experienced business mind to give guidance in
fleshing out a new idea. Counselors can
help people develop a revenue plan, Roody
said.
“We will work over several meetings
to kind of interview the client,” Roody
said, adding they’ll make sure the person
understands the competition and how he
will differentiate his business and market
services.
For smaller businesses, SCORE offers a
simplified business plan worksheet that’s
about two pages long. Bigger businesses — say, businesses looking to borrow
$500,000 to get started — will have a more
in-depth, 27-page outline of a business
plan. The simpler business plan template
is targeted for very small businesses, such
as prospective hairdressers or landscapers,
Roody said.
“That was a very enlightening process,”
Berthiaume said of developing his business
plan, which took him six to nine months to
complete. “It makes you think about sales
and marketing and identifying demographics. I definitely recommend it. It helps you
see that whole picture.”
Berthiaume added that the Small Business Administration, which is where he
obtained a start-up loan, requires prospective business owners to have a business
plan before granting loans. Since he had
a business plan, Berthiaume said he was
probably more prepared for any surprises
than he would have been without one. The
business plan also forced him to consider
how he would differentiate his company
from other similar businesses.
Davis advised against selecting a business solely on the basis that you might think
it’s going to be successful.
“You have to do something
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that you love,” she said. “Really successful
people are doing what they love. Go with
what you’re passionate about.”
When Davis first opened her personal
training business, she met with people in
the industry. She took them out for coffee.
She asked them questions about challenges
in the profession, benefits, what to look for
and how it was changing. The more educated a prospective business owner can
become, the better, she said.
With the construction industry nearly at a
standstill right now, Roody has seen many
tradesmen look to open their own contracting business. The times make it tough to
break in “unless you’ve got something
very different,” Roody said. The manufacturing industry in New Hampshire has also
been hit hard.
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The Small Business Administration provides a variety of resources, such as financial
assistance, online courses and business counseling. Many of its services are administered
through other business development organizations. The state district office is located in
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The Small Business Development Center
is a collaborative effort by the state’s university system, the state and the Small Business
Administration. It provides online courses, free business counseling and one-on-one
consultation with certified consultants. The
Manchester office is located at 22 South
Commercial St., 624-2000. The Nashua
office is located in Daniel Webster College,
20 University Drive, 546-1551. Visit www.
nhsbdc.org.
New Hampshire Business
Resource Center
An office of the state Division of Economic Development, the Business Resource
Center provides information on registering
a business, business taxes and licensing and
serves as a directory for small business guidance. The Center is located at 172 Pembroke
Road in Concord. Call 271-2591. Visit www.
nheconomy.com.
Buzgate.org
The Web site www.buzgate.org is a public
service of the Knowledge Institute offering
a variety of business services. The Web site
offers start-up guidance for business owners,
as well as links to resources.
Regardless of the industry, Roody said
he’s always encouraged when someone can
get started without having to invest much
money initially. “I’ll encourage that to go
along,” he said, but added that if someone
has to spend $15,000 to $20,000 or more
initially, he’s going to scrutinize that plan
more.
Davis said people need to investigate
their marketplace and their region. Find out
what’s in need and see if it matches with
peoples’ business interests. If someone has
always wanted to open a coffee shop and
his or her town doesn’t have one, it could
be a good match. If a community has several coffee shops already, the entrepreneur
may want to tweak the plan to offer something unique.
Getting the money to open the business
can be difficult. While banks and lenders may help get people started, there are
currently no grants available for new businesses, Roody said.
“Banks will help, but they are often
going to require some personal collateral
for you to get a loan,” Roody said. “People who start a business and borrow money
often borrow against their house or some
other asset they have.”
That doesn’t mean Roody is trying to
dissuade anyone from jumping into the
business world; he just wants people to
think it through.
One option for prospective business
owners is to obtain a business loan from
MicroCredit-NH, which is a non-profit
program of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. Tara Bishop, who handles
marketing and communications for MicroCredit, said she has seen more people
looking to start businesses since the economy dipped.
The organization, which specializes in
working with businesses with one to five
employees, provides three main services
to businesses: networking; education, and
loans of up to $15,000. For loans less than
$5,000 there usually is no credit check or
collateral required, making it a solid option
for people in need of small-dollar loans
to get things moving. Bishop said people
might need $250 to $500 to buy some supplies. Such loans “can be good stepping
stones,” Bishop said.
MicroCredit also offers a variety of
educational resources, such as tutorials
describing how to create cash flow statements or a business plan. The organization
connects prospective owners with a group
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of business peers to help them develop
their business. Bishop said MicroCredit, which has three membership levels, is
the only place offering loans and education
together.
“These are people that are in the trenches
with you,” Bishop said, adding MicroCredit also offers a variety of workshops. “If
you can teach people these skills, they’re
more likely to succeed.”
For loans less than $5,000 it’s solely the
peer business group, of which there about
60 statewide, that makes the decision on
whether or not to grant the loan, said David
Hamel, MicroCredit-NH director.
“They are there to learn and support one
another in a variety of ways,” Hamel said.
“They have accountability and responsibility to the group.”
The peer business groups tend to include
diverse business owners.
“The benefit is that you have a different
set of eyes and ears that are not ingrained
into the industry that you are in,” Hamel
said. “All the other components and elements of doing business are the same for
everyone.”
MicroCredit is part of an informal collection of microbusiness resource partners
that share programs and refer people back
and forth among themselves, including the
Small Business Administration, the Small
Business Development Center and new
Hampshire Made.
“We realize we all have to be on the
same page in order to provide the best services,” Hamel said.
“People really don’t know what’s out
there,” Bishop said, adding that MicroCredit holds at least six networking
sessions each quarter statewide. “There’s
such a variety of groups...”
“If somebody just has this idea, or if they
want to take a hobby to the next level ...
[MicroCredit has] some of the resources
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Davis agreed with the importance of networking and pointed out that businesses
need to be visible. If someone calls a business the “best-kept secret,” that business
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When someone comes to the Incubator, staff will either critique their business plan or provide help in creating one. They used to require people to have a business plan, but Gustafson
said that scared some people off who had great ideas. Now they require business owners to create a plan within six months.
Staff members run through a resource assessment to see what people have in place. A prospective owner might not have everything at first, but by the time they leave they should have
all the pieces in place, Gustafson said. Maybe they have an attorney and an accountant but they
need some help with human resources or finding a lender. The Incubator and other business
resource groups can help with that.
The Incubator has staff members or members of its business support committee that can provide key areas of support, such as financing, legal, marketing or information technology.
When Gustafson sees a business plan for the first time, she’s looking to make sure the person
has the key pieces in place and that the prospective owner has expertise in the area of service or
that his or her management team does. She wants to make sure the product is in demand. She
wants to see realistic financing and she wants to make sure all expenses are accounted for. In the
financial information, she’s looking for profit-and-loss statements and cash flow information.
“We try to make sure it all matches,” Gustafson said.
Gustafson said staff want to see operation details, information on how the business will be
marketed and research on the competition. The Incubator uses a template to go through plans.
Some people aren’t going to know how to get that information, so staff provides guidance and
assistance in filling out a plan.
“If people have good ideas, we’re going to give them the chance to work up a business plan,”
Gustafson said.
The Incubator can also hook businesses up with student interns from area colleges and universities. About 1,500 students served as interns through the Incubator in the last year.
The Amoskeag Business Incubator provides support to new businesses, including helping
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Meyer (Little, Brown,
2006)
7. Act Like a Lady, Think
Like a Man, by Steve Harvey (Amistad, 2009)
8. The Shack, by William
P. Young (Windblown
Media, 2007)
9. The 5000 Year Leap:
A Miracle That Changed
the World, by W. Cleon
Skousen (National Center for Constitutional
Studies, 2006)
10. Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance
- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
by Jane Austen, Seth
Grahame-Smith (Quirk
Books, 2009)
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Video
1. Quantum of Solace
(PG-13, 2008)
2. Twilight (PG-13, 2008)
3. Role Models (R, 2008)
4. Bolt (PG, 2008)
5. Punisher: War Zone
(R, 2008)
6. Transporter 3 (PG-13,
2008)
7. Australia (PG-13, 2008)
8. Columbus Day (R, 2008)
9. Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 2008)
10. Changeling (R, 2008)
FILM
Top movies at the box
office April 3-5 (weekend/cumulative)
1. Fast & Furious,
Universal ($72.5 million/$72.5 million)
2. Monsters vs. Aliens,
Paramount ($33 million/$105 million)
3. The Haunting in Connecticut, Lionsgate ($9.5
million/$37 million)
4. Knowing, Summit
Entertainment ($8 million/$58 million)
5. I Love You, Man, Paramount ($7.8 million/$49
million)
6. Adventureland, Miramax Films $6 million/$6
million)
7. Duplicity, Universal
($4 million/$32 million)
8. Race to Witch Mountain, Buena Vista ($3.3
million/$58 million)
9. 12 Rounds, 20th Century Fox ($2.3 million/$9
million)
10. Sunshine Cleaning,
Overture ($1.9 million/$4.8 million)
Thursday, April 9
Catch the first preview for The Pact today at 8 p.m. for $10 at
5 Pine St. Extension, Mill Annex #6, in Nashua. The professional Yellow Taxi Productions commissioned playwright Jeannette
Angell to adapt Jodi Picoult’s novel The Pact for the stage. It
follows what happens after a teenage girl is found dead in a New
Hampshire town. For details, see www.yellowtaxiproductions.
org or call 791-4558. For more about theater, see page 20.
Friday, April 10
“Marks are one of the most basic
forms of communication and can
be organized to create an image,
a symbol, a pictogram, a letter or
simply maintain their integrity as
marks,” says Tom Driscoll. Meet
him at a reception for his exhibit “Speaking in Marks” between 5
and 7 p.m. today at McGowan Fine
Art, 10 Hills Ave. in Concord (2252515, www.mcgowanfineart.com).
For more about art, see page 23.
Thursday, April 9
Metal and hard rock bands
Black Label Society (led by a
guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne) and
Sevendust perform at the Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm St.
in Manchester, tonight at 7 p.m.
Till We Die, Dope and Infinite
Staircase also perform. Tickets
cost $29.50; visit the arena or call
644-5000. For more about live
music, see page 46.
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a chance to prove himself when
the mall is infiltrated by a flasher. Observe and Report opens
today. For more about film, see
page 42.
Saturday, April 11
Baseball season is under way.
The NH Fisher Cats, the AA minorleague affiliate of the Toronto Blue
Jays, take the field today at 1:05 p.m.
against the New Britain Rock Cats.
Ticket costs range from $6 to $12.
Visit the unlimited buffet at the Samuel Adams Bar & Grill before the
game for another $15. Merchantsauto.com Stadium is at One Line Drive
in Manchester. Call 641-2005. For
more about sports, see page 10.
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Scotland-bound
ARTS
Manch high school students stage the Scottish play before heading to Scotland
By Heidi Masek
hmasek@hippopress.com
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Manchester West High School senior Jess
Tolz, 17, will leave the United States for the first
time in August when she and 15 classmates travel to the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival
in Scotland as part of the American High School
Theatre Festival.
“I am so excited. This is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity,” Tolz said.
West High was nominated last fall as a potential top theater program nationally, said teacher
and director Tim Benner. The school has been
nominated at least six times over about a decade,
although Benner hasn’t responded every time
with the comprehensive requested data. “This
time I did,” he said. College theater professionals vote on nominees.
Fringe has several levels, including high
school, and it’s more than theater. All kinds of
performances happen over three weeks in Edinburgh. The city is about the size of Manchester
but attracts about one million people in August,
Benner said. West brings American Women, by
J. G. Barefield.
“The production has an ensemble cast. We
play multiple characters throughout the production ... It’s very challenging. It’s a lot of hard
work, but it’s worth it,” Tolz said.
American Women is about an hour long but
“to get our feet wet,” the group brought a 35minute version to a regional festival they hosted,
and then on to the New Hampshire Educational Theatre Guild State Drama Festival, Benner
said. Two performers won All State awards, but
West was not chosen to attend the New England
Drama Festival in Connecticut. The school did
get some “wonderful feedback” along with the
practice, Benner said.
Heading to Fringe isn’t free. The trip costs
about $5,700 per person (four chaperones go,
bringing the total to 20). They’ve collected about
$84,000 so far. About 13 percent of that comes
from fundraising, and the rest is contributed by
participants and their families. Some students
are individually fundraising to cover their costs.
Airfare, accommodation, tours, transportation,
tickets to West End performances and venue
usage fees are included.
Students, parents, local business people and
the Friends of Theatre Knights have all assisted in fundraising, Benner said. Events included
a Theatre in Scotland Golf Tourney and a Barnes
& Noble book fair and gift wrapping. MCAM is
sponsoring a Rock Band competition with GameStop in April (see www.mcam.org). A benefit
dinner theater performance of Mayhem & Murder Productions’ Murder at the Café Noir is May
9 at Milly’s Tavern in Manchester. More options
are posted on www.theatreknights.com, such as a
Bedford Mall Papa Gino’s donation arrangement,
the Shaw’s “Neighborhood Rewards” program,
and ways to sponsor or buy playbill ads. West
needs to raise about $29,000 more.
Benner said they originally hoped to raise 25
to 30 percent of the trip costs, but they realize
the economy may be too tight.
They have a Facebook page and use nhtheater.org.
“We’re doing everything we possibly can
to get the word out,” Benner said. “It’s tough
because we have to raise everything ourselves
with no help from the school district,” he said.
West has a full-time theater curriculum,
which is rare, Benner said. It’s the only one in
Manchester. He teaches four levels of theater
courses, so West students can take one each
year. Tolz is taking the third class in the series,
which focuses on technical aspects like lighting.
Students have transferred for West’s theater program, Benner said.
“Theater is a big part of my life,” Tolz said.
She’s also performed with Bedford Youth Performance Company and at the Palace Theatre in
Manchester. She will major in musical theater at
Plymouth State University next year, a “fantastic” program, she said.
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Rachel Ihde, Anna Boutin, Melanie Stringer and Jessica Tolz, with Kylie Fauquher-Buck and
Meaghan Elrick in the background, rehearse American Women March 10 for a theater festival.
The women in the scene discuss their few rights, inability to own property, and the right of their
husbands to beat them. Courtesy photo.
West’s company, Theatre Knights, is tied into
the upper theater courses, Benner said. Any
student between eighth and 12th grades in Manchester can join. (Only West students participate
in Fringe.) Normally, they must raise about
$25,000 annually to cover their regular theater
program.
Tolz and a friend are the “property heads” for
Theatre Knights’ upcoming production of Macbeth. They’ll be “behind the scenes making sure
nothing happens to any of the properties that
we’ve collected,”
The Scottish play
Tolz said.
“There will be no English accents,” Benner
said. This Macbeth is simplified and meant to
be accessible, like a No Fear Shakespeare version, Benner said.
Benner sent his student executive board out
to poll the student body and Macbeth seemed to
be a popular choice. People auditioned in record
numbers and the cast includes students from
Memorial High School and Parkside Middle
School. It also “seemed kind of fitting,” Benner
said of the Scottish play.
What: Macbeth, in modern English
When: Wednesday, April 15, at 3:30 p.m. (matinee is free for senior citizens); and Thursday, April
16, through Saturday, April 18, at 7 p.m.
Where: Robert A. Baines Auditorium, West High School, 9 Notre Dame Ave. in Manchester
Cost: $6 to $12
Contact: www.theatreknights.com, 582-1253.
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THEATER Listings
• The Acting Loft
516 Pine St., Manchester
666-5999, actingloft.org
• Actorsingers
219 Lake St., Nashua, 889-9691,
actorsingers.org
• Adams Memorial
Opera House
29 W. Broadway, Derry,
437-0505, derryarts.org
• Amato Family Center for the
Performing Arts at Souhegan
Valley Boys & Girls Club
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 2, svbgc.com
• Andy’s Summer Playhouse
Wilton, 654-2613,
andyssummerplayhouse.org
• Anselmian Abbey Players
Dana Center, 641-7700
• Bedford Off Broadway
Meetinghouse Road, Bedford,
557-1805, bedfordoffbroadway.com
• Bedford Town Hall
70 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford
• Belle Voci
bellevoci.org, 848-7986
• Capitol Center for the Arts
44 Main St., Concord, 225-1111,
ccanh.com
• Concord Chorale
224-0770,
concordchorale.org
• Concord City Auditorium
2 Prince St., Concord, 228-2793,
concordcityauditorium.org
• Concord Community Players
224-4905, communityplayersof
concord.org
• The Dana Center
100 Saint Anselm Drive,
Manchester, 641-7700,
anselm.edu
• The Majestic Theatre
281 Cartier St., Manchester,
669-7469, majestictheatre.net
• Manchester Community
Music School
2291 Elm St., 644-4548,
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mcmusicschool.org
• Manchester Community
Theatre and Second Stage
Professional Co.
698 Beech St., Manchester,
627-8787
• Milford Area Players
673-2258, milfordareaplayers.org
• Music and Drama
Company (MADCo.)
Londonderry, madco.org
• My Act
myact.org, 429-3950
• Nashua Theatre Guild
PO Box 137, Nashua,
03061, 320-2530
nashuatheatreguild.org
• New Thalian Players
newthalianplayers.org, 666-6466
• Nashua Community
College Performing
Arts Club (PAC)
505 Amherst St., Nashua,
428-3544
• The Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588, palacetheatre.org
• Peacock Players
14 Court St., Nashua, 886-7000,
peacockplayers.org
• Phoenix Academy
25 Front St., Suite 501, Nashua,
886-2768, phoenixacademynh.com
• Profile Chorus
profilechorus.org
• School of Theater Arts
at The Amato Center for
Performing Arts
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 20
• Seacoast Repertory Theatre
125 Bow St., Portsmouth,
433-4472
• SNHU Drama Club
2500 North River Rd., Hooksett
• Yellow Taxi Productions
yellowtaxiproductions.org
• BAD DATES, by Theresa Rebeck,
through April 12 at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack St.,
Lowell, Mass., 978-654-4678, www.
merrimackrep.org, $26-$56.
• BROADWAY NIGHT Thurs.,
April 16, at 7 p.m., at Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St.,
Concord, 228-1196, www.ccmusicschool.org, free.
• DUNNET LANDING STORIES
presented through puppetry by Pontine Theatre April 24-May 10 at West
End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St.,
Portsmouth, www.pontine.org, 4366660, $20-$25. Original stage adaptation of Sarah Orne Jewett’s series.
• THE ELEPHANT MAN, by Bernard Pomerance presented by Nashua
Theatre Guild Thurs., April 23 and
Fri., April 24, at 8 p.m., and Sat., April
25, at 2 & 8 p.m., and Sun., April 26,
at 2 p.m., at the Jan Streeter Theatre,
14 Court St., Nashua.
• FROST HEAVES “April Foolishness” Sat., April 18, at 7:30 p.m.,
at the Peterborough Players, at 55
Hadley Rd., Peterborough, $12, frost-
heaves.com, 924-7585.
• FULL MONTY presented by Concord Community Players, Thurs.,
April 30-Sat., May 2, at 8 p.m., and
Sun., May 3, at 2 p.m., at the Concord
City Auditorium, $12-$15.
• GEORGE PIEHLAND FRIENDS
musical revue dinner theater presented
by StageOne Productions Fri., April
18 and Sat., April 19, at The Chateau,
201 Hanover St., 669-5511, www.stageoneproductions.net.
• KIDS RULE! Tomás Kubínek,
“Certified Lunatic + Master of the
Impossible” Sat., April 18, at 2 p.m.,
at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St.,
Portsmouth, 436-2400, www.themusichall.org, $15-$20.
• LES MISÉRABLES, School Edition presented by Carey & Henderson
Studios vocal arts academy Fri., April
17, and Sat., April 18, at 7:30 p.m.;
and Sun., April 19 at 2 p.m. at the Janice B. Streeter Theater, 14 Court St.,
Nashua, Ticketleap.com, 889-6580,
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The cast of Pippin. Courtesy photo.
$10-$15.
• LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Thurs., April 16-Sat., April 18, at 7
p.m., and Sun., April 19, at 2 p.m., at
Memorial High School, 1 Crusader
Way, Manchester, 624-6378 $8-$10.
• LUNA NEGRA DANCE THE-
ATER of Chicago Wed., April 29, at
7 p.m., at the Dana Center, $5-$25.
• THE MANTINI SISTERS Canadian trio tribute to the “Ladies of
Broadway,” presented by Concord
Community Concerts Sat., April 18,
at 7:30 p.m., at the Concord City
Auditorium, $24, call 228-0660.
• A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, by Eugene O’Neill April
23–May 17, at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack
St., Lowell, Mass., 978-654-4678,
www.merrimackrep.org, $26-$56.
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• Drink with me: Nashua-based vocal
arts academy Carey & Henderson Studios is
producing Les Misérables, School Edition.
Actors come from Nashua, Manchester, Bedford and other surrounding towns and include
Kaleb Wells as Jean Valjean, Mark Rizzo as
Javert, Lanea Ritrovato as Fantine and Alyssa Dumas as Eponine. See it at the Janice B.
Streeter Theater, 14 Court St. in Nashua, Friday, April 17, or Saturday, April 18, at 7:30
p.m., or Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $12 and $15 with group discounts
available. Visit Ticketleap.com or call 603889-6580. Carey & Henderson instructors are
among the founders of StageCoach Productions, based in Nashua.
• Dinner time: The Majestic Theatre’s dinner theater series this season next presents
an Alfred Hitchcock Presents! show, Who
Dunit! by C.B. Gilford. A famous writer is
sent back to Earth to discover his murderer,
according to the Majestic. Shows are Friday,
April 17, and Saturday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m.
when $32 tickets include dinner. Tickets cost
$28 and include brunch, Sunday, April 19, at
2:30 p.m. Ask about $20 dessert seating. The
Majestic is at 281 Cartier St. in Manchester.
Call 669-7469 for reservations or see www.
majestictheatre.net.
• Magic to do: Pippin is a 1970s musical
based somewhat on Charlemagne’s son, Pippin the Hunchback, according to Best Foot
Forward Productions. Adults in this communi-
By He
ty company perform Pippin with a supporting
cast from The Maskers of Manchester Central
High School on Thursday, April 16, and Friday, April 17, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 18, at
2 and 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m.,
at Central High, 207 Lowell St., Manchester. Music and lyrics are by Stephen Schwartz
and the book is by Roger O. Hirson. The cast
includes Marc Pelletier, Christine Frydenborg and Mike Wood. Timothy Dargon
directs. Tickets cost $12 and $15 at the door.
Visit www.bestfootforwardproductions.org.
• Try out: Here’s a project to get in on: “A
robot with a passion for quality (including
his well-built satellite girlfriend) takes on a
Galactic monopoly and their pervasive but
malfunctioning products ... Hot Buttons is
a farcical take on business, technology, and
the flaws that make us (and robots!) human,”
according to a release from Milford Area
Players. MAP premieres this musical by
Dave Agans and Winfield Clark in July. Jeff
Caron directs and Judy Hayward (another
StageCoach co-founder) musically directs.
Auditions are Sunday, April 19, and Tuesday,
April 21, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Amato Center, 56 Mont Vernon St. in Milford. Visit www.
milfordareaplayers.org for details, e-mail jeffpcaron@comcast.net or call 689-6688.
The Majestic presents Larry Shue’s The
Nerd, with direction from Larry Pizza and
Kim Cassetta in June. Willum owes Rick for
saving his life. But when Rick shows up, his
lack of social skills could put Willum over the
edge. Auditions are Mondays, April 13 and
April 20, at 7 p.m., at the Majestic.
The Tempest, directed by Kevin Riley, is
this summer’s Nashua Theatre Guild Shakespeare in the Park show. Audition Thursday,
April 9, between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., or Saturday, April 11, between noon and 3 p.m., at the
Nashua Library, 2 Court St. Visit nashuatheatreguild.org or call 880-0243 for the details.
New Thalian Players is auditioning for their
summer Manchester Theatre in the Park
show, Disney’s High School Musical, Saturday, April 11, between 2 and 6 p.m., and
Monday, April 13, between 6 and 10 p.m.,
at Manchester Community Music School,
2291 Elm St., Manchester. Appointments are
available; e-mail newthalianplayers@gmail.
com or call 666-6466.
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The Symposium on Politics & the Arts: Informing the Citizen’s Inner Voice, is a “trial balloon,”
said Dr. Barbara Baudot. The all-day event, Saturday, April 18, is sponsored by the Hon. Thomas
J. Dodd Center for the Study of International
Affairs and Law at the New Hampshire Institute
of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Baudot said a
book could come out of the symposium and perhaps further work on the topic.
The event stemmed from the idea that “we
need to be more multi-disciplinary,” Baudot
said. Baudot, whose experience includes working for the United Nations, teaches politics of
the environment and international relations,
two interdisciplinary subjects, she said.
Society’s chief source of knowledge today is
science, Baudot said. Inspiration, imagination
and creativity are lost as sources of knowledge,
Baudot said. “Empiricism and instrumental
rationality is what informs politics and international relations today,” Baudot said. They’ve
lost their “human dimensions,” Baudot said.
“The arts invites one back to consider other
sources of knowledge,” she said.
She quoted the symposium’s call for papers:
“It will consider especially the power of poetry, literature, music, architecture, and the visual
arts to stimulate the imagination and creativity of political actors in their pursuit of peace,
social justice, human dignity, as well as harmony with the natural environment.” The tentative schedule starts with a panel on
the general issues of the value of art in politics, “Logos, Poiesis, and Praxis,” at 9:30 a.m.
Charles Courtney of Drew University presents
“Poiesis: Another Gift from the Greeks.” Con-
nie Rosemont, executive director of the Red
River Theatres in Concord, presents “Is There
Room for Art in an Arthouse Cinema?” Baudot presents her paper “Dimensions of Values
of Art to Politics.”
“Chords of Tyranny, Patriotism, and Freedom” at 10:45 a.m. looks at music and politics.
Lisa Cleveland of Saint Anselm gives “Elysium’s Appeal: The Political Implications of
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.” Concert pianist
Jakov Jakoulov presents “Music and Tyranny”
and filmmaker Jim Tusty discusses “The Singing Revolution.”
“Oppression and Justice: Tales Told: Visions
Shown” at 1:50 p.m. includes “African-American Struggle in Poetry” from Allison Meyers,
executive director of the Cave Canem Foundation; short story writer and playwright Rosanna
Yamagiwa Alfaro presents “The Art of Political
Theater: Staging the Japanese American Internment Camps;” Irja Cilluffo, Honorary Consul
of Estonia in New England, presents “Art in the
Concentration Camp: Way to Survival;” and art
historian Dorothy Chen-Courtin offers “Visual
Art as Instrument for Political and Social Commentary: From Mao to Today’s China.”
The last panel at 4:10 p.m., “Leadership,
Control, and Crisis — Visual Portrayals,”
mainly delves into medieval subjects.
The public is welcome to listen to the panel
discussions. There is no cost to attend.
For details, contact Baudot at bbaudot@
anselm.edu or call 641-7000. NHIOP is at
Saint Anselm Drive and Rockland Road at the
Goffstown and Manchester border.
—Heidi Masek
Spring captured
Jayson Gleneck’s “Spring Tulips”
is among the work exhibited in a photographic group show, “Spring Fling,”
at Nashua Area Artists Association’s
Gallery One, 5 Pine St. Extension in
Nashua (883-0603, www.naaasite.
org), through May 30. Meet the artists at an opening reception Saturday,
April 11, between 2 and 5 p.m.
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• THE PACT, based on a Jodi
Picoult novel, adapted by Jeannette
Angell for Yellow Taxi Productions,
Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.,
and Sundays at 2 p.m., April 9-April
25, at 5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua,
791-4558, www.yellowtaxiproductions.org, $15-$25. Preview tickets
cost $10, April 9 and April 10.
• PIPPIN presented by Best Foot
Forward Productions in conjunction
with The Maskers of Manchester
Central High School April 16-19 at
Central, Beech Street in Manchester,
www.bestfootforwardproductions.
org, bffproductions@comcast.net.
• THE PRODUCERS Mel Brooks
musical through April 11 at the Palace Theatre, $15-$40.
• RISING STAR TALENT competition featuring New Hampshire
Boys & Girls Club members Sat.,
April 18, at 7 p.m., at the Amato
Center, $10. Clubs participating
include Milford, Concord, Manchester, Lakes Region and Nashua.
• RUMORS through April 26 at the
Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow St. in
Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org,
433-4472, $24-$28.
• SHINE musical presented by All
Saints Anglican Church, Sun., April
19, at 3 p.m., at the Concord City
Auditorium, free, 545-9079.
• SLEEPING BEAUTY through
April 26, Saturdays and Sundays at 1
p.m. at Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow
St. in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.
org, 433-4472, www.seacoastrep.
org, $8-$10.
• A SOLDIER’S MOTHER TELLS
HER STORY Sharon Wood portrays
Betsey Phelps, mother of a Union
soldier, Mon., April 13, at 7 p.m., at
the Merrimack Library, 470 Daniel
Webster Hwy., Merrimack, 424-
5021. Free but reserve space.
• THE TRICOLORED ROOF by
Southern New Hampshire University professor Charles Wilbert through
April 12 at the Players’ Ring, 105
Marcy St., Portsmouth, 436-8123,
www.playersring.org, $10-$12.
• WHO DUNIT! by C.B. Gilford, as
featured on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, dinner theater Fri., April 17,
and Sat., April 18, at 7:30 p.m., and
Sun., April 19, at 1:30 p.m., at the
Majestic Theatre, $28-$32. Dessert
and balcony seats for $20.
Auditions/workshops
• THE TEMPEST auditions for ages
14 and up, Thurs., April 9, 6:30-8:30
p.m., and Sat., April 11, noon-3 p.m.,
at the Nashua Library, 2 Court St.,
for the Nashua Theatre Guild Shakespeare in the Park in July. Visit nashuatheatreguild.org or call 880-0243.
• HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL audition for New Thalian Players’ summer
Theatre in the Park production Sat.,
April 11, 2-6 p.m., and Mon., April 13,
6-10 p.m., at Manchester Community
Music School, 2291 Elm St., Manchester. Prepare 16 bars of a song similar in style. Bring sheet music. Dress
comfortably to move and dance. Email newthalianplayers@gmail.com
for an appointment or details, or call
666-6466. Performances in July.
• THE NERD, by Larry Shue, auditions Mondays at 7 p.m., April 13
and April 20, at the Majestic Theatre.
Shows in June. See www.majestic-
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Need a frame?
Artist hotline pilot program launches
Rosie by Stan Moeller at Art 3 Gallery
theatre.net or call 669-7469.
• LUNCH BOX LECTURES Yellow Taxi Productions free monthly
lunchtime lectures and performances
Thursdays, 12:10 p.m., at 5 Pine St.
Extension in Nashua: “Adapting that
Novel into a Play” April 16 led by
Jeannette Angell author of YTP’s
April production of The Pact based on
Jodi Picoult’s novel. “Staging Sex on
Stage,” May 14.
Art Listings
Gallery Events
• ANNICK BOUVRON-GROMEK
& DORIS RICE monotypes through
April 13 at the Derryfield School’s
Lyceum Gallery, 2108 River Rd.,
Manchester, 669-4524.
• ART CONCORD gallery walk
April 16, June 25, Aug. 20 and Dec.
3, 5-8 p.m., and Oct. 10, 11 a.m.-3
p.m. See concordnhchamber.com
or call 224-2508. Thurs., April 16,
includes Mill Brook Gallery and
Kimball-Jenkins School of Art.
• ART FROM ART exhibit of student artwork from Currier Museum
program at the Nashua Senior Activity Center April 18, 10 a.m.-noon, at
70 Temple St., Nashua, 889-6155.
• ART IN THE MILL, work by
Ken Harvey through April 15 at
UNH Manchester, 400 Commercial
St., Manchester, 641-4313.
• BACK TO BASICS: Two
Friends’ Perspectives features
paintings by David Preece and jewelery by Diane Terragni through
April at “Art On The Wall At City
Hall Gallery,” 1 City Hall Plaza,
Manchester, 624-6500. Open Doors
reception Thurs., April 16, 5-8 p.m.,
with “Smoked Kielbasa” band.
• BUILDING BOOKS – The Art
of David Macaulay through June 14
at the Currier Museum of Art, 150
Ash St. in Manchester, 669-6144,
features more than 100 works from
the author and illustrator of The Way
We Work, and other titles.
• CAROL GOVE paintings and
mixed media through April 30 at
New Hampshire Institute of Art’s
Amherst Street Gallery, 77 Amherst
St., 836-2573, nhia.edu. Reception
Wed., April 8, 5-7 p.m.
• CONTEMPORARY PAINTING EXHIBIT through May 10
at Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture
Garden, 236 Hopkinton Rd., Concord, 226-2046. Features work by
Megan Bogonovich, Marsha Hewitt,
William McLane and James Rappa.
Reception Thurs., April 16, 5-8 p.m.,
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• Trolley tour: The Open Doors Cultural
Trolley Tour returns Thursday, April 16. The
quarterly Manchester event is in its seventh
season. A free trolley loops between venues
between 5 and 8 p.m. with free admission to
each location.
Art 3 Gallery at 44 West Brook St. holds an
opening reception for its “Diversions” exhibit
of work from more than 75 artists. Meet artists
involved in Manchester Artist Association Gallery’s current “Mother Earth” group show at
1528 Elm St. The Smoked Kielbasa band with
Jazzy Deb Murby performs at the Art on the
Wall at City Hall Gallery, where Diane Terragni’s jewelry and David Preece’s paintings are
exhibited. Paintings by Ben Demers and Chris
Fram are also displayed at 1 City Hall Plaza,
along with historic photos of L. E. Bagley Co.,
Inc. Framers Market at 1301 Elm St. hosts an
opening reception for an exhibit of watercolors
by Manchester artist Kathy Tangney. Langer Place at 55 S. Commercial St. has
several creative tenants, including East Colony Fine Art Gallery, which holds the reception
for its “Petals2Paint” exhibit of floral arrangements interpreting member artists’ work. See
Adrienne Silversmith’s new studio or Mt.
Everest expedition photos at Althea Haropulos’
studio in Langer. (Proceeds benefit children’s
programs in Nepal.) Sheehan Academy of
Painting holds its first student exhibition.
Both the SEE Science Center and Millyard
Museum are at 200 Bedford St. SEE’s new exhibits include Lux Rota Light Sculpture, and it is
home to a scale LEGO model of Amoskeag Millyard. Sample food featured on The Chef’s Plate at
MCAM TV-23 studios (540 Commercial St.).
Download a map at Majestictheatre.net or
pick one up at a participating venue. For details
or to volunteer, call 669-7469.
• Family stuff: Bring the youngsters to
Eggstravaganza Saturday, April 11, at Kimball-Jenkins School of Art, 266 N. Main St. in
Concord (255-3932). The free event includes
egg-decorating with Kimball-Jenkins instructors and face-painting between 9 and 11 a.m.,
with an egg hunt at 10:30 a.m.
The Currier Museum of Art’s monthly Family Saturday program is Saturday, April 11,
between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Themed “April
Showers, it includes art activities and there’s a
family gallery walk at 11:30 a.m. Admission is
free for everyone between 10 a.m. and noon on
Saturdays.
Those with new babies might want to pack
up the stroller for the “New Parent Gallery
Talk: Building Books – David Macaulay,”
Thursday, April 16, from 11 a.m. to noon at the
Currier, 150 Ash St. in Manchester (669-6144,
www.currier.org). Adult admission costs $10.
Those under age 18 enter for free.
• Design: See what graphic design students
and faculty have been up to at “Typographica
III: Annual Student Exhibition” at the McIninch
Art Gallery at Southern New Hampshire University going on through May 3. The reception
is Thursday, April 9, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.,
in Robert Frost Hall, 2500 North River Road,
Manchester (629-4622, www.snhu.edu).
• Learn: Painter Jerome Witkin speaks at
the New Hampshire Institute of Art on Friday, April 10, from 4 to 6 p.m., in its French
Building Auditorium, 148 Concord St. in
Manchester. The public is also welcome at an
illustrated lecture, “Travels to Cape Breton,”
from NHIA photography chair Gary Sampson,
Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m., in the French
Auditorium. Both are free to attend.
• Hotline: Professional New Hampshire artists can take advantage of a pilot hotline for
advice during rough economic times through
June 26 (although it’s closed during the week
of May 18). The New Hampshire State Council
on the Arts launched the toll-free line, 1-888309-9555, which is staffed Mondays from
9 to 11 a.m. and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. by
Visual Arts Associate Julie Mento, according
to a release. Healthcare for artists, risk management, professional development, legal
resources, current calls for art and networking
are examples of topics up for discussion. “Artists are encouraged to share their own advice
on the New Hampshire Artists’ Hotline Facebook page,” according to the release.
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• DAN BROWN photography series, “Frost,” through midMay at DesignWares, 206 Main St., Nashua, 882-5535.
• DAVE DODGE oil paintings through July 31 in the
Tower Gallery at New Hampshire Antique Co-op, 323
Elm St./Route 101A, Milford, 673-8499.
• DAVE MARDEN photography in April at Canal Street
Collectibles, 1 Water St., Nashua, 886-1459, www.davemardenphotography.com.
• DIVERSIONS through June 12 at Art 3 Gallery, 44 W.
Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650. Reception, Thurs., April
16, 5-8 p.m., during Manchester’s Open Doors trolley tour.
• ERNEST ELLIS Neolithic-style stone tools in April at
Sharon Arts Fine Craft Gallery, Depot Square, Peterborough, www.sharonarts.org, 924-2787.
• E.W. POORE JURY SHOW through April 18, 531
Front St., Manchester, www.ewpoore.com, 622-3802.
• GARDEN IMAGERY exhibit through April 24 at Gallery 205, 205 North Main St., Concord, 224-3375.
• GERALD AUTEN: Works on Paper & Paul Bowen:
Sculpture through April 10 at the New England College Gallery, Main Street in Henniker, 428-2329 or www.nec.edu.
• GIFTS OF GRACE miniature oil paintings by Roger
Croteau at Hatfield Gallery, 55 S. Commercial St., Manchester, www.syncrecity.com.
• HERITAGE ARTS traveling exhibit of music and craft
traditions of New Hampshire through April 10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.,
in the garage lobby of the Legislative Office Building, 33
North State St., in Concord, www.nh.gov/folklife, 271-8418.
• JENNIFER WOOD photography in April at Wilton
Public Library, 7 Forest Rd., Wilton, wiltonlibrarynh.org,
654-2581.
• JERRY MACMICHAEL “Lakes-Region ArtWork”
through May 11 at OSSIAN’s Loft, 118 Beck Rd., Loudon, 783-4383, info@ossianusa.com.
• MANCHESTER ARTS Web site presented by the city
arts commission, manchester-arts.org.
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• MARC WINNAT series of pencil drawings of the old
Hillsboro Branch Rail Line through April 30 at the Nashua Library, 2 Court St., 589-4600.
• MARCIA BLAKEMAN and Debra Grubbs oils and
pastels, “Waterways…Frozen to Flowering,” featured
through April 25 at East Colony Fine Art. Reception Fri.,
April 17, 5-8 p.m.
• MILL TOWN MEMORIES: Views of the New England
Landscape, drawings and watercolors by Marian Cannon
Schlesinger at the Museum of New Hampshire History thru
May 3, 6 Eagle Square, Concord, nhhistory.org, 228-6688.
• MOTHER EARTH group show through April 25 at
the MAA Gallery, 1528 Elm St., Manchester, 785-6437.
Open Doors reception Thurs., April 16, 5-8 p.m.
• NASHUA SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM “Future,”
the second “Footprints: International Sculpture Symposium” to create public artwork for Nashua May 17-June
7 at Ultima NIMCO, 1 Pine St., Extension, Nashua. To
donate or assist, call 882-1613.
• NATURE’S TREASURES watercolors by Diane Grigas
Statkum in April at the Wine Studio, 27 Buttrick Rd., Londonderry, 432-9463., www.thewinestudionh.com.
• NHTI STUDENT EXHIBITION in April at Kimball-Jenkins School of Art, 266 N. Main St. in Concord, 255-3932.
• NOT ONLY PAINTINGS showcase includes jewelry,
handbags, scarves and antiques, Fri., April 17, 4-7 p.m.,
and Sat., April 18, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., at Hatfield Gallery, 55 S.
Commercial St., Manchester, 627-7560. Discussion on painting restoration April 17 at 6 p.m.; Cameron Bennet portrait
sketches for customers April 18; Kathy Brodsky children’s
book signing 4:30-7:30 p.m. both days.
• OPEN STUDIO reception Thurs, April 16, 6-9 p.m., at
Verdigris Artisans (Sandpiper Beads, Nilaven Jewelry, Art
By Verde and muchacha K handmade), 88 N. Main St., Concord, Suite 205, 229-2157, verdigrisartisans.com.
• OUT OF AFRICA exhibit through early June at
Mariposa Museum, at 26 Main St., Peterborough, 9244555, www.mariposamuseum.org, $3-$5.
• PETALS2PAINT April 16-18 exhibition in which garden
club floral designers interpret member artwork at East Colony Fine Art, 55 S. Commercial St. in Manchester, 621-7400.
Reception Thurs., April 16, 5-8 p.m., during Open Doors.
• PHOTOGRAPHY by Laurie Daily, Dennis Dean
and Kevin Morris through April 24 at the Massabessic Audubon Center to benefit Soldiers Undertaking
Disabled Scuba, based at Walter Reed Army Medical
Center (www.sudsdiving.org).
• PRINTMAKING – IMPRESSIONS, national juried
exhibition through April 30 at New Hampshire Institute of
Art’s French Building Gallery, 148 Concord St., Manchester,
836-2573, nhia.edu. Juried by collector Parker Potter.
• SENIOR STUDENT exhibits through May 4 with
openings Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. at Chester College, 40
Chester St, Chester, 887-4401, www.chestercollege.
edu: Cassandra Korbey, Nicole Gonzalez, Holly Mahon
and Michelle Morin April 15.
• SPRING FLING photography exhibit through May
at Gallery One, 5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua, 8830603. Reception Sat., April 11, 2-5 p.m.
• STEVE AND LEAH MURPHY artwork in April at
Jewell & The Beanstalk, 793 Somerville St., Manchester, 624-3709.
• TOM DRISCOLL paintings, “Speaking in Marks,”
through May 8 at McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave.,
Concord, 225-2515. Reception Fri., April 10, 5-7 p.m.
• TYPOGRAPHICA III: Annual Student Exhibition
from the Southern New Hampshire University graphic
design program through May 3 at the McIninch Art
Gallery, SNHU, 2500 North River Rd., Manchester,
629-4622. Reception Thurs., April 9, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
before a SNHU Chorus performance and reading from
former New Hampshire Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin
starting at 5 p.m. in the auditorium.
• PASTEL SOCIETY of New Hampshire Exhibition thru
April 19 at Stockbridge Theatre Gallery at Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry, 437-5210, pastelsocietynh.com.
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• BACH’S LUNCH LECTURES Thursdays, 12:10–
12:50 p.m., free, at the Concord Community Music
School, 23 Wall St., Concord, 228-1196, www.ccmusicschool.org: “The Legacy of Bassist Charlie Haden,” Matt
Langley, saxophones; David Tonkin, guitar; Brendan
Dowd, bass; Tim Gilmore, drums April 9.
• A CHILD OF OUR TIME Manchester Choral Society
spring concert Fri., April 17, at 8 p.m., and Sun., April 19, at
3 p.m., at St. Joseph Cathedral, 145 Lowell St., Manchester.
Also, Sat., April 18, at 8 p.m., at Plymouth State University’s
Silver Center, 472-6MCS, www.mcsnh.org, $15-$20. Features Tippett’s “A Child of our Time,” and Haydn’s “Te
Deum” collaborating with Plymouth State University’s chorale and the Hanover Chamber Orchestra.
• MUSICIANS OF WALL STREET “A Musical
Romance: Music of Brahms & Rachmaninoff” Fri., April
17, at 7:30 p.m., faculty concert at the Concord Community
Music School, $10-$12.
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Activities for children and families, workshops, volunteer opportunities, events to keep you healthy and more
Gardening The plant that previews
Guy Growing members of the Arum family
Calla lilies in California. Henry Homeyer photo.
By Henry Homeyer
letters@hippopress.com
Children & Teens
Spring vacation camps
• THE ACTING LOFT (516 Pine St.,
Manchester, 666-5999, www.actingloft.
org) April Theatre Intensive Camp runs
April 27 to May 1, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The cost is $215 per camper, and financial
aid is available for Manchester residents.
• BASEBALL CAMP for ages 8 to 14
through Concord Recreation. Learn and
practice fundamentals of the game. Bunting, hitting, catching, throwing, fielding,
pitching and the mental side of baseball will
all be covered. April 20 – 24, from 1 to 4
p.m. at Keach Park in Concord. $138 ($118
for Concord residents). Call 225-8690, email recreation@onconcord.com or visit
www.onconcord.com.
• CAMP CRITTER The Animal Rescue
League of NH’s Camp Critter is a weeklong day camp for children between the
ages of 7 and 10. Camp runs April 27 to
May 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, and
covers responsible pet ownership, safety
around animals, animal behavior, wildlife
and more. $150 per camper. To register
contact Marianne Jones at 472-3647.
• CURRIER ART CENTER offers camps
for school vacation. The theme of the camp
is “Comics, Books and More” and runs
from April 27-May 1, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It
studies book making, drawing, comic books
and print making. The camp will work with
with the Macaulay exhibit going on at the
museum and features an artist in residence.
Cost is $250 for a week of full days; $140
for a week of half days for five-year-olds.
• GREATER MANCHESTER FAMILY YMCA (30 Mechanic St., Manchester, 623-3558, www.manchesterymca.org)
School vacation camp is run at the Allard
Center and the SEE Science in Manchester
from April 27-May 1, for grades kindergarten through 5. Sport-A-Day vacation camps
also run out of the Manchester branch on
the same dates for grades 2 through 8.
• HORSEBACK CAMP for kids ages 8
to 12, offered through Concord Recreation,
April 20-24, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
The camp is held at the Gelinas Farm (471
4th Range Road, Pembroke, 225-7024,
www.gelinasfarm.com) Campers will be
growing before other plants do. The heat, I’ve
read, attracts beetles that like to “party” inside
the flower.
When I was growing up, skunk cabbage was
considered a weed as its flowers are hidden
inside a hood of green, and not visible unless
you kneel down in the mud and take a close
look. As I kid, I never knew they had flowers.
As an adult I wanted some and had the perfect
place to grow it: dappled shade with acidic soil
that never dries out.
It isn’t possible to dig up and move skunk
cabbage due to the nature of the roots, so all
are started in pots by seed. It is not generally
available to purchase, but I found it at Sunshine Farms in Renci, W.V. They have an
amazing list of rare plants that will do well in
our climate, so check out their Web site if you
are adventurous (www.sunfarm.com or 304497-2208). Skunk cabbage is a slow-growing
plant, and after five years mine is still a small
plant, but I am patient.
Another related plant is Jack-in-the-pulpit.
They grow well in dappled shade with humusrich acidic soil that drains well but stays lightly
moist. A pH of 5 to 6.5 is recommended. The
spathe (flower) is shielded by a striped hood
so Jack is slightly hidden. In the fall they produce very striking-looking red berries. I pick
the berries when they start to get mushy and
plant them an inch deep. In a few years you
can have a good-sized colony if you do so.
One word of warning: all members of the
Arum family are poisonous. They contain
oxalic acid, which is bitter and nasty (and
found in rhubarb leaves), so I can’t imagine
toddlers munching on them. Some people may
find the juices of seeds irritating to the skin.
I recently bought some pink callas in a pot.
They grace my table and, late at night, whisper
to me that summer is coming. Oh boy.
Henry Homeyer is a gardening coach and
the author of three gardening books. You may
reach him at P. O. Box 364 or henry.homeyer@
comcast.net; his Web site is www.GardeningGuy.com. Listings
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Classes, sports, camps...
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Exercise, senior activities...
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Spectator sports, team sports...
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Outdoors, cultural organizations...
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.
Food
32 Easter eats
After chowing down on some candy, head
to brunch or dinner at one of several local
restaurants offering special Easter meals
PLUS Meals, festivals, cooking classes and
more in food listings; Go Ingredients shop-
Cars and Clydesdales
On Sunday, May 24 (rain
date June 21), the Gate City
Corvette Club will sponsor a
car show at the Anheuser-Busch
brewing plant in Merrimack.
The event will feature music,
food, tours of the brewery and
visits with the famous Budweiser Clydesdales. There will be parking for non-participating
Corvettes and other vehicles in the show. Donations of $10 per attendee will be accepted. Call Carol Whittier at 437-3803 or Dean Gagne
at 472-3524.
transported to the farm from White Park in
Concord. Waivers can be downloaded or
picked up at the White Park office. Limited
to 8 campers. &385 ($365 for residents).
Call 225-8690, e-mail recreation@onconcord.com or visit www.onconcord.com.
• MERRIMACK YMCA CAMP (6
Henry Clay Drive, Merrimack, 881-7778,
www.nmymca.org) during New Hampshire
school vacation in April from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. for kids ages 5 to 12. Includes swimming, use of the field house for sports, a
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During a recent trip to California I was, once
again, bowled over by the majesty and simplicity of the simple white Calla Lily (Zantedeschia
aethiopica) that thrives outdoors there. These
beauties are not true lilies at all, but members
of the Arum family (which includes Jack-inthe-Pulpit, skunk cabbage and the houseplants
Dieffenbachia and Philodendron). Calla lilies
are perennial in warm climates, but, like dahlias and gladiolas, must be dug and brought
inside before the winter gets here. Now is the
time to start some calla rhizomes (a bulb-like
modified stem) indoors.
Members of the Arum family produce flowers that consist of a “spadix” composed of
clusters of tiny flowers on an upright axis that
is usually partially surrounded or hidden by a
leafy bract called a “spathe.” My favorite calla lily has a brilliant white spathe and is a tall
plant (24 to 36 inches) that likes moist soil
and full sun. Grocery stores often sell pink or
peach-colored calla lilies, which are smaller
and do well on a sunny window sill for months
at a time.
One of the advantages of growing calla lilies is that they are not true lilies, hence not
bothered by that dastardly red bug, the lily-leaf
beetle. The lily-leaf beetle attacks Oriental and
Asiatic lilies that I do so love, but have given
up growing. As an organic gardener, I have not
been able to find a good repellent for the lilyleaf beetle that works. When they first arrived,
I picked them daily. Later I picked twice daily. But the pests still devoured the leaves of
my favorite lilies, and I have given up. But the
calla lily is not of interest to the beetles. Calla
lilies also bloom for a much longer time than
true lilies, though they lack the fragrance of
Oriental lilies.
To start calla lilies indoors now, buy rhizomes at your local garden center or from a
reputable supplier such as Dutch Gardens or
White Flower Farms (I am always leery of
buying plant material from lesser-known companies). The rhizomes need to be planted about
3 inches deep, then covered with potting mix.
It is a good plant for people who tend to overwater their houseplants, as it thrives in moist
soil. (By the way, start doubling the water to
your rosemary plants if you over-wintered any.
Otherwise they will dry out and die.)
Once summer is here you can either transplant your potted calla to a nice sunny spot that
stays moist, or keep it in the pot and move it
outside. Come fall, you will need to bring them
inside, as temperatures around 20 will kill
them. Callas need to go dormant in winter.
I grow two other plants in the same family
as calla lilies: skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus
foetidus) and Jack-in-the pulpit (Arisaema
triphyllum). Both are worth growing.
I grew up in Woodbridge, Conn., where
skunk cabbage was one of the first signs of
spring. Its bright green and/or purple leaves
would pop up in wet places near our shady
stream, even when the ground was still frozen.
Like others in the Arum family, skunk cabbage
is thermogenic, meaning that it can use chemical processes to generate heat. Some arums
generate heat in their blossoms to attract pollinators. Skunk cabbage — which really does
smell skunky if you pick the leaves — generates heat to melt frozen soil, getting up and
summer
In this section:
ping with Rich Tango-Lowy; Weekly Dish;
wine tastings and beer making classes
in Drink listings; Tim Protzman knows his
booze; Wine with Dinner.
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From yoga to pilates, cooking to languages to activites for the kids, Hippo’s
weekly listing offers a rundown of all
area events and classes. Get your program listed by sending information to
listings@hippopress.com at least three
weeks before the event.
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• The Rockingham Park
Racetrack in Salem will be
holding a Community Eas-
ter Egg Hunt on Saturday,
April 11, starting at 1 p.m.
Admission to the hunt is free
and is open to children ages
11 and under. Other attractions include face-painting,
a giant slide, a live band and
games for all ages. The event
will take place rain or shine.
Donations for the NH Helping Hands Food Pantry are
being accepted at the event.
• On Saturday, April 11,
Charmingfare Farm will
hold its second Egg-Citing Egg Hunt at 11 a.m.,
noon and 1 p.m. More than
$30,000 worth of prizes will
be given away. The farm’s
petting zoo will be open during the event, and there will
be horse-drawn wagon rides
and pony rides. Tickets cost
$17 per person; children 1
year and younger get in free.
• The Life! Church and
Regal Cinemas Hooksett
8 will hold a free community Easter egg hunt on
Saturday, April 11, from 1
to 3 p.m. at the theater (100
Technology Drive, Hooksett). Children will hunt for
5,000 hidden eggs, in four
different age-based groups.
The hunt will go on rain or
shine.
When it comes to your home mortgage, it’s important to
choose a lender you can trust. At The Merrimack, we’ve
been serving the financial needs of our neighbors for more
than 140 years. We’ve earned our reputation for trustworthy
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• The Radisson Hotel/
Center of NH Convention
Complex will host the All
New England Reptile Expo
on Saturday, April 11, from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This show
is the largest reptile expo in
New England. There will be
more than 100 vendors featuring every kind of reptile,
amphibian and arachnid. Pet
supplies will be available for
purchase. Tickets cost $7 for
adults, $3 for children ages 7
to 12, and are free for children under 7.
• This Friday, April 10,
is Teen Night at the McAuliffe-Shepard
Discovery
Center. This event’s theme
is “The Ultimate Galactic
Adventure” and it starts at 7
p.m. See photographs of distant galaxies and learn where
to find them in the night sky,
and journey through space
with the help of the Center’s
planetarium projection system. Pizza and soda will be
provided at no extra charge.
Tickets cost $7 per teen.
• Peer deep into the night
sky during a star-gazing
event at the Massabesic
Audubon Center on Friday,
April 10, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Learn basic constellations,
names of stars and where
you can look for the Lyrid
meteor shower taking place
on April 21. Dress appropriately and bring a flashlight.
• The Verizon Wireless
Arena will host the Smuckers Stars on Ice skating event
on Friday, April 10, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Some of
the world’s best skaters will
dazzle the crowd with this
Emmy Award-winning production. Ticket prices are
$120, $75, $45 and $25.
For ticket and performance
information visit www.verizonwirelessarena.com.
• On Friday, April 10,
the New Hampshire Fisher
Cats baseball team will take
on the New Britain Rock
Cats at 6:35 p.m. at MerchantsAuto.com
Stadium
in Manchester. Besides the
game, local students will be
nominated by their teachers
for inclusion into the U.S.
Cellular Most Improved Student Program, and there will
be an Atlas Fireworks show
after the game. Ticket prices range from $6 to $12.
• The Manchester Monarchs face off against the
Portland Pirates at Verizon
Wireless Arena on Saturday, April 11, at 7 p.m. The
Monarchs are currently in
their eighth season on the
ice. Tickets cost $22 and $16
for adults; $20 and $14 for
seniors, and $12 for children. Visit the Monarchs
Web site at www.monarchshockey.com.
Pre-registration is required.
Tickets cost $9 for individuals ($6 for NH Audubon
members), $25 for families
($15 for member families).
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
Can antifreeze come out in the wash?
have enough left over to last you a year), and
$1.69 for paper towels. Go for it, Catherine.
Dear Tom and Ray:
My dear, beloved 15-year-old son offered
to wash my 2008 Toyota Sequoia (silver). Of
course, I jumped at this surprising and welcome offer. After about 30 minutes, I went
to check on his progress, and the little darling was using a scourer to clean the car!
You know, those little kitchen scouring pads
that have a sponge on one side and a green
scourer on the other. He had used this scourer on the driver’s side and the hood. Needless
to say, I now have an array of scratches in
various patterns. I managed to refrain from
ripping his sweet head off of his body, and
calmly pointed out the fault. Now, how do I
remove these scratches? I have tried Scratch
Doctor and Turtle Wax Compound, to no
good effect. HELP! — Ian
TOM: You need to visit a body shop, Ian.
RAY: Most cars have two coats of paint: a
colored undercoat, and then a clear coat on top.
In the worst-case scenario, your little sweetheart sanded through the clear coat and into
the undercoat. In that case, you might want to
just get used to the scratches. Because you’ll
have to dock his allowance though graduate
school to ever have a chance of recouping the
cost of a paint job from him.
TOM: If he just scratched the clear top
coat, then chances are a body shop can buff
out the scratches for you. They’ve got profes-
sional buffing equipment that they’ll use with
an abrasive compound, and they’ll probably
have better luck than you did with Turtle Wax
and your right arm.
RAY: But if it’s really bad, they may need
to sand the car down and repaint both layers.
That’ll cost you thousands of dollars.
TOM: You also might want to check with
your car insurance and homeowner’s insurance providers. It’s possible that this sort
of “accident” is covered by one of those
policies.
RAY: But if not -- and if the scratches don’t
buff out -- I’d just learn to live with them.
Look on the bright side: Every time you walk
up to the car, you’ll be reminded of your
wonderful, loving child. Even if the reminder
starts with “That rotten little, no-good ...”
Wait! Don’t buy another car without the
mechanic’s checklist that’s included in Tom
and Ray’s pamphlet “How to Buy a Great
Used Car: Secrets Only Your Mechanic
Knows.” It will help you get a good used car
and avoid the clunkers. Send $4.75 (check or
money order) to Used Car, P.O. Box 536475,
Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
Get more Click and Clack in their new
book, “Ask Click and Clack: Answers from
Car Talk.” Got a question about cars? Write
to Click and Clack by visiting the Car Talk
Web site at www.cartalk.com.
Important Tax
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Recent offers prepared and negotiated by
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City/State
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$265,914
$6,651
$259,263
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$53,450
$8,876
$44,574
17%
Pembroke, NH
$64,875
$24,170
$40,705
38%
Londonderry, NH
$39,767
$7,565
$32,202
19%
Epping, NH $95,201
$57,010
$38,191
60%
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$62,623
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Dear Tom and Ray:
I recently had my 2006 Chevy HHR worked
on at the dealership where I purchased it
new. Long story short, the mechanic put antifreeze in the windshield-washer reservoir.
Of course, the dealer believes his mechanic
would never make that kind of mistake, and
wanted to charge me a large sum of money to
remove and flush the whole system. Is there
a way that I can clean it out myself? Getting
the majority of the fluid out of the reservoir
wouldn’t be too hard (it’s now half washer fluid and half antifreeze), but how can I
get the rest out of the pump and hoses without destroying or replacing everything? It’s
coming out on my windshield as an oily sort
of mix. I have a back window washer that
it’s not coming out of yet, but it’s probably
in the hoses already, since I’ve used it once.
I’m on a very tight budget and have to do it
myself or just not use the washer fluid. Help!
— Catherine
RAY: Not to worry, Catherine. You can do
this.
TOM: It IS a complete pain in the butt to
remove the reservoir and clean it all out. But
I think there’s an easier way.
RAY: Yeah, use a siphon or a turkey baster,
and remove as much of the combined fluid
as you can. Antifreeze is a toxic waste that
shouldn’t be poured on the ground, so put the
stuff you remove into a container, and then
seal it and dispose of it properly (by dropping
it off at a gas station or repair shop).
TOM: Once it’s mostly empty, you can blot
up the bulk of what’s left with paper towels.
And then, to wash it out, you turn the garden
hose on it. Just stick the hose in the windshield-washer reservoir and let it run for a
few minutes. The water will overflow, and
the tiny amount of remaining coolant will be
washed out with it.
RAY: Then go to a good auto-parts store
and pick up a bottle of windshield-washer concentrate. That’s basically concentrated
washer fluid that you mix with water. Put a
little bit in the coolant reservoir, and use half
as much water as it says to use. Then sit in
the car, and use the front and rear windshield
washers until you stop seeing the greasy mix.
That means the new fluid has worked its way
through the rubber washer hoses and cleaned
them out.
TOM: Then you’re all set. Total cost: $10
in windshield-washer concentrate (but you’ll
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Teaming up
against cancer.
An antiques expert helps you
search for buried treasure
Dear Donna,
I have sent you a couple of photos of a clock
that was given to me by a good family friend.
Her family was from the Brentwood/Exeter,
N.H., area. There is no info on the clock, so I
have no idea about it. I do have several other
pieces from the same family. Can you give me
any information?
Zena in Manchester
Marcia J. Browne, MD;
Dorothy T. Doran, ARNP;
Roger R. Hakimian, MD.
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Working together with the Massachusetts
General Hospital Cancer Center to bring
you world-class care close to home.
Remember what you are getting is a vague
estimate of your clock, but what we can say for
sure is that it is a Banjo-style clock form the
1800s and has a hand-painted dial and mahogany case. An approximate value would be in the
range of $800 to $2,000.
If you would like to know more, you could
contact George and Patty directly at 603-6235314. They are located right in your area.
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 footwdw@aol.com. Or drop by the shop
(call first, 624-8668).
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Dear Zena,
Because there were no markings on this
clock, I went to my good friends and horological auctioneers right here in New Hampshire,
the Jones and Horan Auction Team (they specialize in pocket watches and watches, but also
have handled many clocks).
George took a look at your pictures and gave
me some information for you, but to really be
accurate (and he couldn’t stress it enough) you
should have it looked at.
Clocks can be distinguished by very many
different characteristics. The case (this is the
wood frame) can give you information, (style,
wood, carvings, etc.); so can the movements
(this is the parts that make it work inside, and
sometimes that is where your maker mark can
be) or the painting on the front (this is called a
dial scene; yours looks like the Capital building
and this was used often on dials).
When looking at your clock, seeing the sidearms (the wooden curved pieces on the side)
George said that this could be a clock from the
Attleboro, Mass., area from the 1830s. He also
mentioned that there probably was a decorative
finial at the top that is now missing.
puter use. Preschool camp available
for those under 5 from 6:30 to 9 a.m.
and 4 to 6:30 p.m. Cost for YMCA
family members is $123 and use
members is $146.
• MLS APRIL VACATION SOCCER CAMP Through Pelham
Parks and Recreation (6 Village
Green, Pelham). Camp will run from
April 27 to May 1, and is offered for
both boys and girls ages 5 and up.
To register call 635-2721 or e-mail
recreation@pelhamweb.com.
• PRESCHOOL SOCCER CAMP
For ages 4-6 through Concord Recreation. This camp introduces skills
and games in a non-competitive
atmosphere to allow campers to
learn and have fun. At the end of the
week it’s the Parents vs. Campers
game. April 20-24, from 1 to 2 p.m.
at Keach Park in Concord. $83 ($63
for Concord residents). Call 2258690, e-mail recreation@onconcord.
com or visit www.onconcord.com.
• RACQUET CLUB OF CONCORD (10 Garvins Falls Road, Concord, 224-7787, www.rccofconcord.
com) has April vacation programs
that include a wide arange of activities
including swimming, team, games,
arts and crafts and a field trip to go
indoor rock climbing on Wednesday.
April 20-24, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• RAMP CAMP (170 Lafayette
Road, Rye Airfield, Rye, 964-2800
ext. 13, www.ryeairfield.com) will
offer camps in February and April,
Monday through Wednesday, from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. during school vacation
week. There will also be overnight
Check-up
St. Joseph Hospital
in Nashua is offering
free health screenings for men and
women. All exams
will be done by nurse
practitioner students
and faculty from Rivier College. Students will be supervised
by an advanced registered nurse practitioner. On Tuesday, April 21, from 5 to 8 p.m. are prostate screenings. On
Wednesday, April 22, from 5 to 8 p.m. are women’s health
screenings. Pre-registration is required. Call 595-3168.
lock-ins from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. for $40.
• ROBOTECH CENTER (3-i Taggart Drive, Green Ridge Park, Nashua, 888-6102, www.robotechcenter.
com) Junior Video Game Designer
camp for grades 4 through 7 runs
April 21 through April 24, from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. No programming experience required. Cost
for camp is $399 per camper.
• SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER offer its Seaside Safari Winter
Vacation Camp for kids in grades
K through 5. The spring session
has two sessions, April 20-24, and
April 27-May1. Camp runs Monday
throgh from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each
day has a different theme and activities that highlight the theme. Cost is
$45 ($40 for members) per day, or
$225 ($200 for members) for a full
week. Registration is accepted by
mail, fax at 433-2235, or in person.
Registration closes the Thursday
before camp begins. Visit www.seacoastsciencecenter.org to download
the registration form.
• SOCCER CAMP through Concord Recreation, for kids in grades 1
through 6. Camp will provide players
the opportunity to receive high-level
soccer coaching from international
coaches. Foot skills, technical drills
and games. April 20 – 24, from 9:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Keach Park in
Concord. $138 ($118 for residents).
Call 225-8690, e-mail recreation@
onconcord.com or visit www.onconcord.com.
• SOCCER SPHEREAPRILVACATION DAY CAMP at Southern New
Hampshire University (2500 North
River Road, Manchester, 645-9703,
m.hubbard@snhu.edu) is for kids ages
5 to 16 from April 27 to May 1, from
9 a.m. to noon each day. Cost is $100
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per camper. $10 off for an additional
sibling, $10 off if you are a SNHU
employee. Coaching staff includes
the SNHU men’s soccer coaches and
current and former SNHU men’s and
women’s student-athletes. Applications
at www.snhupenmen.com.
• UNPREDICTABLE PUPPETRY
in the Children’s Room of the Concord
Public Library. Part of the Libray’s
April vacation program. Meets Monday through Friday, April 20 through
24, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
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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
83 Hanover St., Manchester,
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.
• 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, 978-4521111, steppinoutdance-lowell.com
Ballroom classes
• BALLET FOR SENIORS
DANCE CLASSES at the Senior
Activity Center (70 Temple St.,
Nashua). Wednesdays from 2:30 to
3:30 p.m. Beginners welcome. $50
for members, $70 for non-members.
Pat Bonfanti will be teaching Ballet
on Wednesday afternoons from 2:30
to 3:30 p.m. First session starts April
15, and runs five week until May 13.
The second session starts May 20 and
ends June 17. Pre-registration and
payment due by April 10 for Session
I, May 15 for Session II. Contact
Gary at 889-6155. Low impact.
• BALLROOM dance classes 7 p.m.
Mondays at the Nashua Senior Activity
Center (70 Temple St., Nashua, 8896155). The cost for six weeks is $50.
• BALLROOM Tuesdays, at 5:45
p.m., for adults in Bow. Cost is $65
($60 for residents) for every six classes.
Call Bow Recreation at 228-2222.
• BALLROOM/SMOOTH beginner
ballroom dance lessons on Thursdays
from 7-7:45 p.m., at the Royal Palace
Dance Studio. $15 per person. Check
the Web site for an updated schedule.
•
BEGINNER
BALLROOM
CLASSES every Sunday, Tuesday
and Wednesday evening at the Queen
City Ballroom. All courses start the
first week of the month and meet once
a week for four weeks. $36 per person
per course. Singles and couples welcome. Register upon arrival. Arrive 10
minutes early for the first class. Bring
an extra pair of shoes. Contact the Ballroom for specific times.
• BEGINNER BALLROOM SAM-
PLER CLASS every Sunday night
from 5:15 to 6 p.m. at the Queen City
Ballroom. Start any week. Classes
are run on a rotating basis with each
week focusing on two different dances. $9 per person per class. Stay for
the party after the class and both class
and party are $15. The first sampler
class is free for new students.
• BEGINNER BALLROOM
GROUP CLASSES at the Mill-ARound Dance Center on Wednesdays,
from 7 to 8:30 p.m. $10 per person.
• BEGINNER DROP-IN GROUP
CLASS on Fridays from 7 to 7:50
p.m. at the Paper Moon Dance Center. No experience necessary. Walkins encouraged, singles and couples
ages 12 and up. $10 per person.
• BEGINNER CHACHA on
Wednesdays from 7 to 7:45 p.m.
at the Royal Palace Dance Studio.
Drop-in costs $15. Meets once a
week. Four-week course is $45.
• BEGINNER RUMBA on
Wednesdays from 6:15 to 7 p.m.
at the Royal Palace Dance Studio.
Drop-in costs $15. Meets once a
week. Four-week course is $45.
• BODY TONING on Fridays at 5:30
p.m. at the Royal Palace Dance Studio. Drop-in costs $15. Meets once a
week. Four-week course is $45.
•
DAYTIME
BALLROOM
DANCE CLASSES at the Senior
Activity Center (70 Temple St.,
Nashua). Wednesdays from 1 to 2 p.m
Singles and beginners welcome. $50
for members, $70 for non-members.
First session starts April 15, and runs
five week until May 13. The second
session starts May 20 and ends June
17. Pre-registration and payment due
by April 10 for Session I, May 15 for
Session II. Contact Gary at 889-6155.
•
EVENING
BALLROOM
DANCE CLASSES at the Senior
Activity Center (70 Temple St.,
Nashua). Thursdays from 6 to 7 p.m.
Singles and beginners welcome. $50
for members, $70 for non-members.
First session starts April 15, and runs
five week until May 13. The second
session starts May 20 and ends June
17. Pre-registration and payment due
by April 10 for Session I, May 15 for
Session II. Contact Gary at 889-6155.
• INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
SMOOTH
AND
RHYTHM
CLASSES Every Friday night from
8 to 8:45 p.m. at the Queen City Ballroom. Each week will focus on a different dance, alternating between smooth
and rhythm. Pre-registration is not
required. $9 per person, per class. Multiple class discounts available.
• INTERMEDIATE SWING/JITTERBUG GROUP CLASS on
Mondays from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
at the Royal Palace Dance Studio.
Drop-in costs $15. Meets once a
week. Four-week course is $45.
• INTRODUCTORY BALLROOM DANCE OFFER The
Queen City Ballroom offers admission to the Beginner Dancers’ Party
held the first Saturday of the month
from 6 to 9 p.m., and a 45 min private
lesson for $49.99 per person.
• LATIN/RHYTHM beginner/intermediate salsa, cha cha, merengue,
rumba, swing, samba, mambo, bachatta, hustle. Wednesdays at 6:15 p.m.,
at the Royal Palace Dance Studio.
$45 per month, $15 pay as you go.
• PRIVATE BALLROOM CLASSES for singles and couples at the Queen
City Ballroom. $50 per 45-minute session for one person or couple.
• SALSA FOR BEGINNERS on
Fridays from 6:15 to 7 p.m. at the
Royal Palace Dance Studio. Drop-in
costs $15. Meets once a week. Fourweek course is $45.
• SALSA FOR INTERMEDIATE
DANCERS on Fridays from 7 to 7:45
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• The Children’s Place and
Parent Education Center
27 Burns Avenue in Concord,
224-9920, thechildrensplacenh.org
• The Compassionate Friends
Greater Manchester Chapter
tcfmanchester.org
• Daniel Webster College
20 University Dr., Nashua,
577-6625, dwc.edu.
• Easter Seals NH
555 Auburn St., 623-8863,
nh.easterseals.com
• Full Spectrum Wellness LLC
55 South Commercial St.,
Manchester, 296-0830,
fullspectrumwellness.com
• Greater Manchester YMCA
30 Mechanic St.,
623-3558, gmfymca.org
• Healing Hands Chiropractic
25 Nashua Rd Suite F2 in
Londonderry, 434-3456
501 Riverway Place in Bedford,
647-0600; healinghandsnh.com
• The Holistic Self Care Center
12 Murphy Drive in Nashua,
883-1490, thehsccenter.com
• Manchester Health
Department Community
Health Division
Health
1528 Elm St. in Manchester,
& Wellness
624-6466, manchesternh.gov
• Nashua Division of Public
HOSPITALS & CLINICS
Health & Community Services
• Catholic Medical Center
18 Mulberry St. in Nashua,
100 McGregor St., Manchester, 626589-4560, gonashua.com
2626, catholicmedicalcenter.org
• Nashua Senior Center
• Concord Hospital
70 Temple St. In Nashua,
250 Pleasant St., Concord, 225889-6155, nashuaseniorcenter.org
2711, concordhospital.org
• National Alliance for the
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
Mentally Ill (NAMI)
100 Hitchcock Way, Manchester,
1-800-242-6264, naminh.org
695-2500, dartmouth-hitchcock.org
• Naturopathic Clinic
• Elliot Hospital
of Concord
One Elliot Way, Manchester,
46 S. Main St. in Concord, 228669-5300, elliothospital.org
0407, concordnaturopathic.com
• Manchester Community
• Pastoral Counseling Services
Health Center
2013 Elm St., Manchester, 627145 Hollis Street., Manchester,
2702, pcs-nh.org
626-9500, mchc-nh.org
• William B. Cashin Senior
• The Mental Health Center
Activity Center
of Greater Manchester
151 Douglas St. in Manchester,
401 Cypress St., Manchester,
624-6536, manchesternh.gov
668-4111, mhcgm.org
• Women Supporting Women
• NH Hospice and Palliative
111 Water St., Exeter, 772-0799,
Care Organization
wswcenter.com
125 Airport Road, Concord, 225• YWCA
0900, nhhpco.org
• Southern N.H. Medical Center 72 Concord St., Manchester,
8 Prospect St., Nashua, 577-2255, 625-5785, ywca.org
Seniors
snhmc.org
• 50-PLUS NO SWEAT EXER• St. Joseph Hospital
CISE CLASS Mondays and Thurs172 Kinsley St., Nashua, 595days, 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. at the Bow
3168, stjosephhospital.com.
Community Building. Call 228-2222.
• Visiting Nurse Association
33 S. Commercial St., Manchester, • ADULT DAY CARE SERVICES
Easter Seals of Manchester offers
622-3781, manchestervna.org
medical adult day programs for frail
or isolated adults and seniors who
PREGNANCY
need a supportive environment with
• Bedford Commons OB-GYN,
nursing care and oversight. Programs
P.A.
Bedford Commons, 201 Riverway are for seniors with mental health
needs; for adults with Alzheimer’s
Place, in Bedford, 668-4646
disease or other dementia; for adults
Overlook Medical Park,
with medical and/or rehabilitative
6 Tsienneto Road in Derry,
needs. 623-8863, nh.easterseals.com.
668-4646; bcog.com
• BEDFORD ADULT & SENIOR
• The Birth Cottage
CONNECTIONS (bedford.adults.
4 Prospect St. in Milford,
seniors.googlepages.com)
offers
673-6010
information on Bedford-area senior
374 Union St. #113 in
programs including Health Days
Peterborough, 924-9883;
(Monday health screenings and clinbirthcottage.com
ics) at the Arbors of Bedford and
• La Leche League
the Bedford Senior Citizens Group,
llusa.org/menh
which meets a couple of times a
• Nini Bambini
166 South River Road in Bedford, month for lunch and health information (often including screenings) as
666-6464, ninibambini.com
well as regular trips.
• BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
OTHER
at Elliot Senior Health Center (138
• American Red Cross
Webster St. in Manchester, 663-2180,
1800 Elm St., Manchester,
www.elliothospital.org.), free drop-in
624-4307, redcrossmanchester.org
center support on Mondays (except
28 Concord St., Nashua, 889-6664,
holidays) from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and
nashua.redcross.org.
the third Monday of each month, 6 to
2 Maitland St., Concord,
7:30 p.m. Call 663-4005. A caregiv225-6697, concord-redcross.org
p.m. at the Royal Palace Dance Studio.
Drop-in costs $15. Meets once a week.
Four-week course is $45.
• SUNDAY NIGHT BALLROOM
DANCE PARTIES and pre-dance
beginner lessons held weekly at the
Queen City Ballroom. Parties are
beginner-friendly with mixer dances
and light refreshments. 6 to 9 p.m. Predance lessons at 5:15 p.m. Cost is $9
per person. Bring a change of shoes.
Free admission for first-timers.
• TANGO FOR INTERMEDIATE
DANCERS on Thursdays from 7 to
7:45 p.m. at the Royal Palace Dance
Studio. Drop-in costs $15. Meets once
a week. Four-week course is $45.
• WALTZ FOR BEGINNER
DANCERS on Thursdays from 6:15
to 7 p.m. at the Royal Palace Dance
Studio. Drop-in costs $15. Meets once
a week. Four-week course is $45.
• WEDDING DANCE LESSONS
at the Queen City Ballroom. Custom
design your wedding dance. Classes
also designed for parents, bridal party
and interested guests.
• WEDDING PREP PRIVATE
BALLROOM LESSONS taught by
Violetta in Manchester. Call 289-8952.
SPCA fundraiser
The
Concord-Merrimack
County SPCA’s “Dinner with the
Animals” fundraiser event will
take place on Friday, April 17,
from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Grappone
Conference Center in Concord.
The keynote speaker will be Dr.
Nick Trout of Angell Animal
Medical Center. All proceeds will
go to caring for the animals of
the Concord-Merrimack County
SPCA. Prices are $50 for members and $60 for non-members. To purchase tickets contact Lin O’Bara at 753-9801.
ers support group meets the first and
third Tuesdays of the month, 10 to 11
a.m. Call 663-7051.
• CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTER offers classes geared toward
senior wellness including AARP Driver
Safety Program, Side by Side for Independent Living, a tax preparation class
and a class on learning to draw.
• CLINICS FOR SENIORS
Registered Nurses from the Visiting Nurse Association of Manchester and Southern New Hampshire,
Inc., will provide clinics for Greater
Manchester seniors, 65+. Monthly
blood pressure clinics are at Bedford
Presbyterian Church in Bedford,
Congregational Church in Candia,
Meeting House in Goffstown. Foot,
ear and flu clinics are at The Elliot
Senior Health Center, 138 Webster
St., Manchester; call 663-4567 for
appointment. Elliot also offers blood
pressure clinics every Monday, 12:30
to 1:30 p.m. Call 663-4074.
• CONCORD SENIOR CITIZEN
PROGRAMS
(www.onconcord.
com/recreation) are offered by the
City of Concord’s recreation department, usually at the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
at 48 Airport Road in Concord. The
center will be open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. and offer a variety of activities
including cards, crafts, bingo, dancing and more. The Sunset Club (for
members 55 and older) meets twice
a month for meals and speakers and
occasionally day trips.
• DIABETES education second
Tuesday of each month from 10 to
11 a.m. at Elliot Senior Health Center, 138 Webster St, Manchester, free.
To register, call 663-4567.
• ELLIOT SENIOR HEALTH
CENTER (138 Webster St., Manchester, 663-7030) offers senior-specific care and features a fitness center
offering fitness classes geared at the
special needs of seniors and clinics
and classes on issues such as fall prevention, health heart and lungs, back
pain and care, and stress management. The Senior Health Center also
features a computer learning center.
The Center also offers blood pressure
clinics, diabetes education and more.
• HEALTHY SENIOR CLINIC at
Roger Dionne MD Senior Center at
St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua. Oneon-one assessments of blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, pulse rate
and more. Call 595-3722 to make
appointment. Free. Bring insurance
card for ear-wax removal service.
Visit www.stjosephhospital.com.
• MATTER OF BALANCE This
four-week course runs Tues. and Thurs.
to April 16, from 1 to 3 p.m. Cost is
$20. The workshop is designed to help
reduce the fear of falling and increase
activity levels of at-risk seniors. Elliot
Senior Health Center (136 Webster St.,
Manchester). To register call Elliot On-
Call at 663-4567.
• MANCHESTER REGIONAL
AREA COMMITTEE ON AGING
monthly meeting begins at 10 a.m. on
the third Wednesday of every month
at the Wm. B. Cashin Senior Activity
Center (151 Douglas St., Manchester). The public is welcome.
• MEDICARE ASSISTANCE
every Monday from 1 to 4 p.m. at
the Elliot Senior Health Center. Free.
To register, call 663-4567. Receive
free and confidential assistance from
ServiceLink for any questions pertaining to Medicare or the Medicare
Prescription Drug Plan.
• NASHUA SENIOR CENTER (70
Temple St. In Nashua, 889-6155, www.
nashuaseniorcenter.org) offers activities for anyone 50 and older from the
greater Nashua area (Amherst, Hudson, Litchfield, Merrimack, Milford
and Nashua). Fitness-related activities
include classes in aerobics, Tai Chi,
yoga, pilates, walking, golf, bowling,
ping pong, billiards and dancing as well
as access to the senior center fitness
room. Other activities include computers, photography, cards, needlework,
chorus, bingo, movies, Spanish classes,
cooking classes and more.
• NH ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR
CENTERS (www.nhasc.org) offers
links to a variety of information on
senior services and senior centers.
• RETIRED MEN’S GROUP meets
on the third Tuesday of each month
featuring speakers and refreshments
at Catholic Medical Center (100
McGregor St. in Manchester, www.
catholicmedicalcenter.org).
• SENIOR FITNESS classes at The
Racquet Club of Concord (10 Garvins
Falls Road in Concord, 224-7787,
www.rccofconcord.com) include yoga,
Tai Chi, cardio, strength and in-water
exercise. The club also holds coffee
times, free blood pressure screenings.
• SENIOR HEALTH CLINICS
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse
Association is offering a number of
Senior Health Clinics for the month
of February. All Senior Health Clinic
services are $10. Blood pressure
checks are free. To make an appointment or for information on locations
and times call 224-4093
• SILVER SNEAKERS (www.
silversneakers.com) offers fitness
programs for older adults. Search
by zip code to find participating fitness centers. YMCAs in Manchester,
Goffstown, Merrimack, Nashua and
Concord are among the locations
listed on the Web site offering SilverSneakers programming.
• SOFTBALL for seniors is offered in
Nashua. Call 889-7302 or e-mail williammulley@worldnet.att.net.
• WILLIAM B. CASHIN SENIOR
ACTIVITY CENTER (151 Douglas
St. in Manchester, 624-6536, www.
manchesternh.gov) offers a variety
of activities and classes including
crafts, fitness, dance, card games,
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Deputy Attorney General Bud Fitch, director
of the state’s Office of
Economic Stimulus, will
speak about New Hampshire’s implementation of
the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of
2009 during the “Meet
the
Commissioners”
program on Tuesday, April 28, from 8 to 9 a.m. at the
Sulloway & Hollis law offices (29 School St., Concord).
The ARRA is expected to bring one half to three quarters
of a billion dollars into New Hampshire. The event is free
and open to the public but seating is limited. To reserve a
seat, e-mail rsvp@sulloway.com or call 223-2896.
REVIVE * RESTORE * REJUVENATE
Earth Day in
the park
The New Hampshire Conservation
Corps of the Student Conservation
Association
will
host the fifth annual Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 18, at
Veterans Park in Manchester. Festivities begin at 11 a.m.
and will feature family-friendly activities, music by the
hip-hop group The Apostles, local vendors and educational booths. Service-learning projects from Manchester
fourth-grade students will also be showcased. Visit www.
manchesterearthday.com.
Volunteer
Outdoors
• ADOPT A BLOCK This annual
event is happening on Fri., April 17,
from 1 to 4 p.m. with Intown Manchester. Help with minor outdoor
cleanup and maintenance. Sweep
sidewalks, remove trash, and spread
mulch. Open to everyone. Businesses
wishing to participate can contact
Samantha Appleton no later than
April 10 at 645-6285 or e-mail sappleton@intownmanchester.com.
• FARM VOLUNTEERS The
Educational Farm at Joppa Hill in
Bedford. Volunteers are needed for
general farm maintenance tasks, farm
animal care, office and administrative work, flyer distribution, house
party hosting, gardening, outreach,
and education programming. Call
472-4724.
www.smoothskinonline.com 213 Rockingham Rd. Londonderry, NH 03104
Seniors
• SENIORS COUNT, NEIGHBORS CARE Nonprofit affiliated
with Southern NH Services and
Easter Seals NH, seeking volunteers via Voluntary Action Center
in Manchester. Call 668-8601.
• YARN Retired and senior volunteer program needs yarn. Each
year, RSVP provides nearly
$45,000 worth of homemade items
to kids, elders and the homeless.
If you have new clean skeins of
yarn to donate, call 634-1169.
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SPORTS
& RECREATION
• Bow Recreation Department
2 Knox Road, Bow, 228-2222,
bowparksandrecreation.com
• Candia Woods Golf Links
313 South Rd., Candia, 483-2307,
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
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
Spectator
• MANCHESTER FREEDOM
Womens tackle football team
and is part of the Independent
Women’s Football League. Home
games are played at the West High
School football field. 2009 season
runs through June 13. Visit www.
manchesterfreedom.com.
• MANCHESTER MONARCHS
(Verizon Wireless Arena, 555
Elm St., Manchester, 644-5000)
minor-league affiliate of the L.A.
Kings. 2008-2009 regular season
runs through April 11. Visit www.
monarchshockey.com.
• MANCHESTER WOLVES
(Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
St., Manchester, 644-5000). Professional Arena football team. 2009
season runs through July 24. Next
home game Sat., April 18, at 7:30
p.m.versus Albany Freebirds. Visit
www.manchesterwolves.com.
• NH FISHER CATS (Merchantsauto.com Stadium, 1 Line Drive, Manchester, 641-2005) is the AA minorleague affiliate of the Toronto Blue
Jays baseball team. Games Wed.,
April 8, through Fri., April 10, at 6:35
p.m. and Sat., April 11, at 1:05 p.m.
vs. New Britain Rock Cats; Mon.,
April 13, through Wed., April 15, at
6:35 p.m. vs. Connecticut Defenders.
Visit www.nhfishercats.com.
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Social services assistance
• BRIDGES, DOMESTIC AND
SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES Free training for volunteers
and interns to provide in-home
phone support to victims and
survivors of domestic and sexual
violence. Choose your hours. Call
889-0858 or visit bridgesnh.org.
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Weekly Dish
Notes from the local food scene
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
FOOD
After candy, brunch and dinner
Local restaurants offer a cooking-free way to celebrate Easter
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• Freshly brewed coffee: Concord’s new
coffee shop, True Brew Barista, has opened
at 3 Bicentennial Square and offers organic and fair-trade coffee drinks, tea and lots of
fruit smoothies. The hours are Monday through
Wednesday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Thursday and
Friday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. See the menu at truebrewbarista.com.
• Gluten-free, cheaper: Heavenly Fodder (33 Elm St. in Manchester) has a two for
Tuesday special. Just buy one of their frozen
entrees and receive a second one of equal or
lesser value for free.
• Win a grill: Need new grill stuff for the
back yard? Just sign up for The Meat House’s
new e-mail newsletter and you will automatically be entered to win the Ultimate Backyard
barbecue prize pack, which includes a patio
grill, gazebo, patio furniture, outdoor heater, fire pit, grilling utensils and propane tank
from Cyr Lumber & Home Center in Windham, plus a $500 gift certificate to The Meat
House. The deadline to sign up is Sunday,
June 21. For contest rules and to sign up, go
to www.themeathouse.com.
• Brunch with an author: Holy Grail Food
and Spirits (64 Main St. in Epping) will serve
a breakfast buffet on Saturday, April 11, from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children’s author and illustrator Kristie McCadden will be there until
noon to promote and sign her new book, The
Twelve Days of Spring.
• Tax relief: On Wednesday, April 15, the
Barley House (132 N. Main St. in Concord)
will offer a little tax relief. According to a
recent e-mail blast, the restaurant will pay
the tax on any of its popular burgers in honor
of the day we fork it over to the IRS.
• Open for season: The store at Miles
Smith Farm (56 Whitehouse Road in Loudon) will return to its regular hours on Monday,
April 20, so customers may purchase fresh
Scottish Highlander ground beef and roasts,
pork, goat, lamb and chickens. Hours of operation will be Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
from 4 to 9 p.m.; and Wednesday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Increase your cooking skills: Concord
Community Education’s spring semester
offers a number of cooking classes. Sourdough bread making will be taught by Laury
Nichols on Wednesday, April 22, or Thursday, April 23. Vegetarian/vegan cooking will
feature ethnic vegetarian cooking on Monday, April 6; a vegetarian sampler on Monday,
April 27; and summer recipes on Monday,
May 18, taught by Barbara Bonsignore. Chinese home style cooking by Sandy Schafer
will have six different classes on the following Tuesdays: April 21, May 5 and 19, and
June 2 and 16. The cost is $24 per class, with
an extra food cost of $12 per class. Pre-registration is required. Go to www.classesforlife.
com or call 225-0804 to register.
• Wine and cheese tasting: LaBelle Winery, on Chestnut Hill in Amherst, www.
labellewinerynh.com, will hold an open
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By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
food@hippopress.com
Though the kids might be looking forward
to chocolate bunnies and marshmallowy
Peeps, Easter is also a great day for real food
— specifically brunch and dinner.
Many area restaurants are offering special
menus for brunches or dinners, often with
fixed prices for adults and children so you
know what you’re getting into before you
head out this Sunday, April 12. You might
also check with your favorite Sunday brunch
locations, as many of them don’t have special menus but might be extra busy or have
different hours. Here are a few of the places
worth brushing off the plastic grass and putting on your Sunday best for:
• The Bedford Village Inn, 2 Olde Bedford Way in Bedford has two options for
Easter dinner. In the Great Hall will be
the grand buffet brunch, which begins at
9:30 a.m. The buffet features an array of
pastries and fruits, salmon, vegetables, salads and pastas. Also on the menu are two
chef-attended stations with carved meats,
omelettes made to order, waffle irons, and
a European chocolate fountain surrounded by fresh baked goodies. The cost for the
buffet is $39 for adults and $20 for children
10 and younger. The dining room will feature a four-course prix fixe menu from 1 to
6:30 p.m., with dishes such as citrus poached
shrimp salad, New Hampshire maple sugar
cured baked ham, grilled Vermont chicken
breast, and milk chocolate cheesecake. The
cost is $49 for adults and $25.95 for children
10 and younger. To make reservations, call
472-2001. Both complete menus are available at www.bedfordvillageinn.com.
• The Black Orchid Grille, 8 Temple St. in
Nashua, 577-8910, www.blackorchidgrille.
com, is offering an a la carte Easter brunch
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call for reservations.
• The Common Man, 25 Water St. in
Concord, 228-3463, will offer a grand Easter buffet from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is
$22.95 for adults; $9.99 for children under
12. The buffet will include appetizers (such
as spanikopita, deviled eggs and fried raviolis), entrees (ham, stuffed sole, salmon,
sliced beef, chicken Florentine and roasted pork loin), children’s favorites (macaroni
and cheese, chicken nuggets and tater tots),
sides (breads, vegetables, fruit salad and
more) and a chocolate fountain.
The Common Man restaurant in Merrimack (304 DW Highway in Merrimack,
429-3463) will serve from its dinner menu
with Easter specials from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Specials in Merrimack will include brown
sugar ham, rosemary roasted lamb, chargrilled salmon and slow roasted prime rib
and, for dessert, carrot cake.
The Common Man in Windham (88 Range
Road in Windham, 898-0088) will offer its
dinner menus with Easter specials from 11
a.m. to 9 p.m. Specials in Windham will
include seafood bouillabaisse, Granny Smith
apple cornbread stuffed with pork loin, herbencrusted lamb rack and baked ham and, for
dessert, chocolate bread puddings.
The company’s two diners — Airport
Diner (2280 Brown Ave. in Manchester,
623-5040) and the Tilt’n Diner (61 Laconia
Road in Tilton, 286-2204) will start serving
from their regular dinner menu at 11 a.m.
with Easter specials of ham dinner and roast
leg of lamb.
• Cotton, 75 Arms St. in Manchester, 6225488, www.cottonfood.com, is open from
noon to 5 p.m. and will offer their regular dinner menu as well as some specials including
a roast leg of lamb and a beef tenderloin.
• Country Tavern Restaurant & Pub,
452 Amherst St. in Nashua, 889-5871,
www.countrytavern.org, will offer an Easter brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for
$19.95 per person. Call for reservations.
• C. R. Sparks, 18 Kilton Road in Bedford,
will offer a special three-course Easter menu.
The cost range is $25 to $37 for adults and $10
to $14 for children ages 5 to 12. Call 647-7275
for reservations, which begin at noon.
The Events Center at C.R. Sparks, 18
Kilton Road in Bedford, will hold a grand
buffet brunch from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The cost is $28.95 for adults and $15.95
for children ages 5 to 12. Call 666-5880 for
reservations.
• Damian’s on the River, 737 River Road
in New Boston, 497-8888, www.damiansotr.com, will serve an Easter dinner from 11
a.m. to 7 p.m. The menu features a choice
of starters, soups, salads and main courses.
The meal is priced according to courses — a
two-course meal costs $28.88, a three-course
meal costs $35.88 and a four-course meal
costs $42.88. See the Web site for a complete
menu. Call to reserve a seating time (seatings are limited).
• The Derryfield, 625 Mammoth Road
in Manchester, 623-2880, www.derryfieldrestaurant.com, will offer an Easter buffet
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring omelet,
waffle and carving stations and desserts.
The meal costs $21.95 for adults, $17.95 for
seniors 65 and over, and $14.95 for children
under 12. Call for reservations.
• Fratello’s, 155 Dow St. in Manchester,
624-2022, www.fratellos.com, will hold an
Easter buffet brunch which is currently sold
out. But, fear not Fratellos fans, the restaurant will also serve a holiday dinner menu in
the dining room with reservations at 12, 2:30
and 5 p.m. and walk seatings available from
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dishes such as smoked salmon and cold salads, plus all the normal breakfast fare. The
cost is $17.95 for adults, $6.50 for kids
under 10, and free for kids under 4. Reservations are preferred and can be made by
calling 821-7535.
• The Red Blazer Restaurant and Pub,
72 Manchester St. in Concord, will offer
two buffets for the holiday. The breakfast
buffet will be from 8 to 11:15 a.m. and feature traditional breakfast fare, egg lasagna,
eggs Benedict, and an omelet station. The
cost is $9.99 for adults and $6.99 for children. The dinner buffet is from 12 to 3:30
p.m. and serves roast leg of lamb, baked
ham, fried chicken with a mushroom cream
sauce, baked haddock with a lobster cream
sauce, and a mini dessert buffet. The dinner
buffet cost $18.99 for adults and $9.99 for
children. Call 224-4101 for reservations.
• Richard’s Bistro, 36 Lowell St. in
Manchester, 644-1180, www.richardsbistro.com, offers brunch from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. and dinner from 3 to 9 p.m. and will
feature a roasted lamb dish at both meals.
Call for reservations.
• The Saffron Bistro, 80 Main St. in
Nashua will serve Easter dinner from 12
to 5 p.m. The restaurant will offer the regular menu as well as three or four additional
menu items for the day. Call 883-2100 for
a reservation.
• The Shaker Table at Canterbury Shaker Village in Canterbury will offer an Easter
brunch from 10 a.m. to noon and a dinner
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The brunch costs
$25 per person ($15 for children under 12)
and includes a choice of entrees (lobster
eggs Benedict, blacksmith shop roast beef
has, grilled prime rib and eggs, Canterbury
Smoke House sausage gravy and eggs, crème
brulee French toast or roasted asparagus and
goat cheese quiche) with a homemade cider
doughnut, fresh fruit, home fries and dessert. The dinner costs $45 per person ($18
for children under 12) and includes a choice
of entrees (roasted spring lamb, herb crusted loin of pork, prime rib of beef, roast of
half a spring chicken, Long Island crispy
duckling, baked stuff haddock, seafood pie
or wild mushroom raviolis) a choice of soup
or salad and fresh squash rolls with butter, a
fire roasted seasonal vegetable, parslied red
bliss potatoes, corn casserole and a dessert.
See www.theshakertable.com for complete
menus and call 783-4238 for reservations.
• Unums, 47 E. Pearl St. in Nashua, 8216500, www.unums.com, will have a special
Easter brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• The Yard, 1211 S Mammoth Road
in Manchester, 623-3545, www.theyardrestaurant.com, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
with seatings every hour for parties of up to
six people and seatings every two hours for
larger parties. The menu includes breakfast
items served until about 2 p.m. and lunch
and dinner items served all day as well as
desserts. The cost is $19.95 for adults, $9.95
for kids under 10, free for kids under 3.
EASTER SUNDAY
APRIL 12
573-4038
Other locations
Open at 1pm
Easter Sunday
17 West Main St.
Hillsborough, NH
603.464.6766
255 Newport Road
New London, NH
603.526.2265
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172 North Main St.
(in the Holiday Inn)
Concord, NH
603.224.0400
www.nonnisitalianeatery.com
All dressed up with someplace to go.
The look good, feel good, taste good place to be is COTTON.
Open from 12 to 5 on EASTER SUNDAY and taking reservations now.
75 Arms Street, Manchester 6 0 3 . 6 2 2 . 5 4 8 8 www.cottonfood.com
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OpenTable.com has named The BVI as one of the
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Sunday eats
Here are a few places usually open Sunday which also offer brunch or early dinner:
• Michael Timothy’s, 212 Main St. in Nashua, 595-9334, www.michaeltimothys.com,
is open for brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Brunches regularly cost $23 for adults, $10
for children under 12.
• Piccola Italia Restaurant, 815 Elm St. in Manchester, 606-5100, www.piccolaitalianh.
com, opens for dinner at noon on Sunday.
Seatings 11am & 2pm
$19.95 - does not include tax or
gratuity. Concord location only!
To reserve, call
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
5 to 7 p.m.
• Giorgio’s Ristorante & Meze Bar,
524 Nashua St. in Milford, 673-3939, www.
giorgios.com, is offering an “American and
Greek-inspired Easter brunch” from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. The meal costs $25.99 for adults;
$10.99 for children 12 and under. The menu
include hot dishes (such as crab cakes with
white bean lemon aioli, spanikopita, locanico, rustic grilled ratatouille and mini quiche),
fresh salads (such as pasta, fruit, Waldorf and
Greek romaine salad), carved meats (such as
Pitt ham with maple dijon sauce, grilled leg
of lamb with Tzatziki, smoked salmon and
roast beef), an omelet station, a pancake
station, a chocolate fountain and a dessert
buffet. Call for reservations.
• The Granite Restaurant at the Centennial, 96 Pleasant St. in Concord, 227-9000,
www.graniterestaurant.com, will offer Easter specials at its Sunday brunch from 10:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m and dinner from 5 to 8 p.m.
Specials will include egg dishes and lamb
dishes. Call for reservations (which are
recommended).
• The Hanover Street Chophouse, 149
Hanover St. in Manchester, www.hanoverstreetchophouse.com, will serve Easter
specials in addition to their regular menu.
Those special items include sugar-cured
Kurobuta ham, a duet of lamb, and swordfish
with lemon-thyme vinaigrette. The restaurant
will open at noon and serve dinner until 6 p.m.
Call 644-2467 for reservations.
• Holy Grail Food and Spirits, 64 Main
St. in Epping, will have a brunch buffet
from 10 a.m. until the kitchen closes. On
the menu will be a wide range of breakfast
items as well as some of the restaurant’s
signature dinner dishes. Reservations are
suggested. Call 679-9559.
• The Inn at Danbury, 67 NH Route 104
in Danbury will serve brunch from 11:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and Easter dinner from
4 to 7 p.m. The cost starts at $12 for adults
and $9 for the kids menu. Call 768-3318 for
reservations. The menu will be posted soon
at www.innatdanbury.com.
• Moe Joe Country Diner, 649 E. Industrial Park Drive in Manchester, 668-0131,
eatatmoejoe.com, is offering a buffet from 7
a.m. to 1 p.m. The spread will include ham,
bacon, sausages (including Portugues Linguica), Portuguese French toast, quiches,
pancakes, home fries, baked beans and more.
Call for reservations for parties of six or more.
The cost is $12.95 for adults, $9.95 for children under 12 and free for children under 3.
• Nonni’s at the Holiday Inn, 172 N. Main
St. in Concord, 224-0400, www.nonnisitalianeatery.com/concord-home.html, is offering
two seatings for Easter Sunday brunch — a
n11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The meal costs $19.95
per person; $10.95 children under 12.
• The Peddler’s Daughter, 48 Main St.
in Nashua will serve a brunch buffet from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Some of the featured
items include a carving station with a roasted rosemary leg of lamb, an omelet station,
a bakery table, and
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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
house wine and cheese tasting on Saturday, April 25, from noon to 3 p.m. The
event will pair LaBelle wines with New
Hampshire cheeses. The event is free
but registration is required; go online to
register.
• Make bread: Liz Barbour will hold
a hands-on artisan bread and pie dough
class on Wednesday, May 20, from 6 to 8
p.m. in Derry at 16 Manning St. The cost
is $40. This two-hour class will include
recipes, take-home dough, a snack and
samples. Required materials include
two large mixing bowls, a large cutting
board, a chef’s knife and a large baking sheet pan. Registration in advance
is required. See www.thecreativefeast.
com, e-mail lizb@thecreativefeast.com
or call 465-6929.
• Day of health: The Concord Cooperative Market, 24 S. Main St. in Concord,
will hold its second annual Spring Into
Healthy Living Fair on Saturday, April
18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A tent in the
market’s parking lot will house 75 farmers, acupuncturists, yoga instructors,
massage therapists and other vendors
offering information on green living,
holistic medicine, wellness and more.
Taste and sample natural foods and other goods. The first 100 attendees will
receive a sapling. The event will include
hourly giveaways, live music, farm animals and kids’ activities. See www.
concordfoodcoop.coop or call 225-6840
for more.
• A little wine, a little cheese, a little retirement learning: RISE (Rivier
Institute for Senior Education) is holding
a wine, cheese and chocolate reception
for seniors over 55 on Friday, April 17,
from 5 to 7 p.m. at Gallery One, Pine
Street Extension in Nashua. Members
of RISE’s membership committee will
be on hand to explain the program (see
www.rivier.edu/departments/rise
for
more). Tickets cost $20. Buy them by
calling Shirley at 883-3956 or the RISE
office at 897-8623.
• Make room on the calendar: Manchester will hold its Eats Week Sunday,
April 26, through Thursday, April 30.
According to the most recent Intown
Manchester press release, 19 eateries in the downtown are participating.
Deals include a three-course dinner at Z
Food and Drink for $25, 10 percent off
the bill at Piccola Italia, a three-course
meal at Commercial Street Fishery for
$30, a prime rib dinner at Hanover Street
Chophouse for $20.09, a Queen Dinah
breakfast at the Red Arrow Diner for $5,
and a trio of pulled pork, ribs and beef
brisket at Penuches Grill for $10. See
www.intownmanchester.com for updated specials and more information.
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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.
• 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 554-6002
• FOOD MAPS The New Hampshire Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association offers maps (available in print from
NOFA-NH at 224-5022 or info@nofanh.org
or in an interactive version at www.nofanh.
org) showing locations of organically produced foods across the state. Online, click
“Organic Farms and Land Care.” The site
lists farms by region and can narrow down
the search by type of food.
• 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
mintmodels@comcast.net.
CSAs
• FIELD TO FORK FARM, 522 Haverhill Road, Chester, 548-4331, www.fieldtoforkfarm.com: This farm offers a yearround meat, eggs and dairy CSA for families who want a regular supply of certified
organic eggs, milk and meats (chicken and
pork) from pasture-raised and organically
fed animals. Additional options include
maple syrup and goat meat. Participation
at the farm is encouraged but not required.
A subscription costs $125 a month, with a
required up-front contribution of 1/4 of the
yearly subscription fee (three months/$375)
to be put toward organic feed and livestock
maintenance. Weekly pick-up at the farm.
• HOLLAND FARM CSA, 269 Osgood
Road, Milford, 673-0667, www.hollandfarmcsa.com: This year, membership costs
$500 for a full membership, which will
feed two adults and two or three children.
A half membership, enough for two adults,
costs $325. Members choose the vegetables they enjoy, but a weekly limit for
each vegetable will apply depending on the
membership level.
• LEWIS FARM, 192 Silk Farm Road,
Concord, 228-6230, www.LewisFarmNH.
com: Because of the farm’s extensive greenhouse system, the season will begin in May
and run through October. Besides vegetables
and herbs, the farm will include fruits and
other items from other farms. A full share
costs $600. If paid in full at sign-up, there is
a 10-percent discount. A three-payment plan
is also available: $200 at sign-up, $200 by
March 20 and $200 by May 20.
• LOCAL HARVEST c/o NOFA-NH, 4
Park St., Suite 208, Concord, 731-5955, www.
localharvestnh.com: This is a cooperative
of eight New Hampshire organic farms that
work together to provide share-members with
fresh certified organic products. Weekly pickup is at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in
Concord. A single share feeds two people,
and a family share is for four people (or two
hungry vegetarians). The cost is $495 single;
$588 single with weekly loaf of bread; $742
family, and $922 family with two loaves of
bread weekly.
• MIDDLE BRANCH FARM, 280 Colburn
Road, New Boston, 487-2540: The season
is from June through October. A share is
designed for a couple or a family with small
children. The farm also has pick-your-own
herbs, peas, beans and flowers and offers
naturally raised pork and beef to share members. Baskets may be picked up at the farm or
a satellite location (see details at www.localharvest.org/csa/M6928). Approximately 300
shares are offered each season. A 16-week
summer share costs $465. For satellite pickup, a share costs $485.
• NH CSA, 24 Haverhill Road, Chester, www.
nhcsa.com: A full share costs $535, and a half
share $285. Members will receive instructions
on how to preserve the vegetables to enjoy all
winter. Pick-up locations are at the farm, and
in Derry and Londonderry. See the Web site
for dates and times.
• TRACIE COMMUNITY FARM 72
Jaffrey Road, Fitzwilliam, 209-1851, www.
traciesfarm.com: The 17-week season begins
mid-June and continues through the beginning of October. Each week’s basket includes
washed vegetables and a newsletter explaining how things are going on the farm, how to
prepare and store the vegetables, and what to
expect in the next week’s basket. A large family share costs $600, a family share $420, and
a single share $300. Shares for mesclun, herbs
and greens are sold separately. The price of the
share includes delivery, and there is a $50 discount if you pick up your basket at the farm.
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/parties
• CHOCOLATE LOVERS The Caregivers,
Inc. will present their 7th annual Chocolate
Lovers Fantasy fundraising event on Sun.,
May 17, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester. Tickets cost $17
in advance, $19 at the door. The event will
feature a variety of chocolate eats — sweet
and savory — which attendees can sample
and judge as well as auctions and other activities. Go to www.caregiversnh.org for the link
to buy tickets. Contact The CareGivers at 19
Harvey Road in Bedford, 622-4948.
• EAT’S WEEK — MANCHESTER
Save the date for downtown Manchester’s
Eats Week; it’s scheduled for Sun., April 26,
through Thurs., April 30. Restaurants will
offer reduced prices, fixed-price meals and
more. Call 645-6285 or go to www.intownmanchester.com,
• KITCHEN TOUR The Music Hall (104
Congress St. in Portsmouth, 433-3100, themusichall.org) will hold its 18th Annual
Kitchen Tour on Sat., May 2, from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25
on the day. Take the self-guided of the
homes of Rye and North Hampton — modern, historic and waterfront.
• RECIPE CONTEST T-BONES and
Cactus Jack’s are holding a recipe contest.
Winners will be announced each quarter for
a recipe that fits the theme (soup, salad, onthe-grill, dessert). At the end of the quarter,
five finalists will be chose and one winner will receive a $100 gift certificate. At
the end of the year, there will be a grand
tasting at the Bedford T-BONES and the
winner will receive a $1,000 gift certificate. Go to T-BONESis25.com or visit the
Cactus Jack’s and T-BONES for details. Or,
Falling Cloudberries: A World of
Family Recipes, by Tessa Kiros (2009,
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 399
pages)
Falling Cloudberries is the kind of
cookbook that is so pretty you almost
don’t want to really use it.
Cook with a cookbook, even if
you’re careful with it, and you’re bound
to splatter. To drip. To encrust a page
with flour or sugar. The lush pictures
of foods, the beautiful photos of family
members or locations — they can leave
you hungry but a little nervous about
having egg and oil around them.
Tessa Kiros has a great family background for food — a Finnish
mother, a Greek-Cypriot father, a childhood in London and then South
Africa, an Italian husband. We get a charming sketch of her family
tree in the beginning of the book that helps us feel like we know these
people (a feeling augmented with the notes and photos surrounding
the recipes throughout the book). The book meanders, family-cooking-style, through recipes associated with Kiros’ many countries — a
chapter on Finland (giving us beautiful and hearty pork dishes, potato
dishes, gravlax with dill cucumbers, cranberry jam), Greece (chickpea, feta and cilantro salad; deep-fried salt cod; baklava with dried
apricots), Cyprus (souvlaki, fried potatoes and artichoke bottoms,
loukoumades), South Africa (itself a blend of cultures with deep-fried
new potatoes, babka and prego rolls) and Italy (Champagne risotto,
baccla and a series of pasta recipes named after specific people). The
final chapter, recipes of the world, is a mix of cultures — salmon
ceviche, chocolate pudding, couscous salad, a Thai soup — and is
probably full of dishes that Kiros’ children will associate with her the
way she associated the Finnish dishes with her mother’s family or
Greek dishes with her father’s.
The book is an excellent way to explore world cuisines, with a kind
of chummy this-is-a-great-recipe feel that you would get from eating
several dinners at Kiros’ house. It’s also the kind of book we probably
all have in us about the different foods that make our family’s cuisine
— grandma’s this, aunt so-and-so’s that, the dueling mothers-in-law’s
versions of some chicken dish (they’re both wonderful, is the only
politically wise answer).
So, don’t be afraid to use these recipes, cook with this book, taste
new flavors. Just, maybe, learn to read through some well-placed plastic wrap. — Amy Diaz
if you’re more of an eater than a cooker,
donate $5 to The CareGivers NH (www.
caregiversnh.org) and receive a $10 dining
certificate to use on your next visit.
• TASTE FOR A CURE The Third Annual Taste for a Cure, a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, will be held Thurs.,
April 16, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Southeastern
Regional Education Service Center, Conference Center 29 Commerce Drive in Bedford. New Hampshire chefs will be on hand
preparing samples of their signature items
for guests to enjoy. Tickets will be pre-sold
at $50 each. See www.cff.org/Chapters/
newengland or call 598-8191.
• TASTE OF DOWNTOWN NASHUA
will be held on Wed., June 3, at 6:30 p.m.
Call 883-5700 or go to www.nashuataste.
com to find out about ticket sales.
• TASTE OF THE NATION Tickets are
on sale now for the Taste of the Nation,
which will be held on Wednesday, May 6, at
the Radisson Hotel, Center of New Hampshire, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. The event will
benefit Share Our Strength (a hunger fighting organization). More than 50 restaurants
are expected to participate in the event and
wines will be provided by Martignetti Companies of New Hampshire, according to a
press release. Tickets cost $50 per person. A
$75 VIP ticket includes a reception at 5:30
p.m. Call 877-26-TASTE or go to www.
tasteofthenation.org for tickets.
through Sun., May 24, the Inn at Danbury, 67
NH Route 104 in Danbury, 768-3318, will
hold its 6th Annual Best of the Wurst Festival. The event features three days of fresh
bratwurst, schnitzels, sauerkraut, red cabbage,
German potato salad, spaetzle, German beers,
German wines and more. Go to www.innatdanbury.com for the menu. Call for reservations for live music dinners with several seatings available each day.
• MEXICAN FOOD FUNDRAISER
— MANCHESTER On Wed. April 22, the
Animal Rescue League of NH will take part
in Shorty’s Mexican Roadhouse’s Fair Share
Program. Got to the Shorty’s at 1050 Bicentennial Drive in Manchester for lunch, dinner
or takeout and ask how you can have 15 percent of the food sales donated to the Rescue
League.
• MEXICAN FOOD FUNDRAISER
—NASHUA On Thursday, April 16, go to
the Shorty’s Mexican Roadhouse off exit 6 in
Nashua (www.shortysmex.com) and help out
Marguerite’s Place (www.margueritesplace.
org), a non profit transitional housing and supportive serves program for homeless women
and their children. Have lunch, dinner or takeout and ask how 15 percent of the food sales
can go to Marguerite’s Place.
• WINE DINNER — BVI The Bedford
Village Inn, (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford)
will hold a Michael & David Winery dinner
on Friday, April 10. The evening will highlight selections from this California winery,
Chef events/special meals
and Michael Phillips will be on hand to talk
• BEST OF THE WURST On Fri., May 22, about his wines. Some of his best known cre-
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Foodie Rich Tango-Lowy helps you search the aisles
Cream
ations are 7 Deadly Zins, 7 Heavenly
Chards, 6th Sense Syrah, Incognito,
and Earthquake Cabernet. The event
will start with a reception at 6 p.m.,
with dinner at 6:30 p.m. The cost is
$85 per person. Call 472-2001 to
make a reservation, and go to www.
bedfordvillageinn.com to see the
evening’s menu.
•WINE DINNER — SAFFRON
BISTROThe Saffron Bistro (80
Main Street, Nashua) will hold a wine
dinner on Monday, April 27 at 6 p.m.
The evening will feature five courses
matched with five wines. The cost is
$80 per person. For reservations, call
883-2100 or go to www.TheSaffronBistro.com.
May 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Derry
at 16 Manning St. The cost is $40.
This two hour class will include recipes, take-home dough, a snack and
samples. Required materials include
two large mixing bowls, large cutting
board, chef’s knife and a large baking
sheet pan. Registration in advance is
required. See www.thecreativefeast.
com, e-mail lizb@thecreativefeast.
com or call 465-6929.
• CONCORD COOPERATIVE
MARKET, 24 S. Main St. in Concord, 225-6840, www.concordfoodcoop.coop, offers a class on “Raw
foods for Spring Cleansing with
acupuncturist Jennifer Woolf” on
Tues., April 21, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Free; preregistration required.
Classes/workshops
•COOKING WITH CHOCO• BREAD MAKING Liz Barbour LATE Amherst Yoga, 17 Old
will hold a hands-on artisan bread Nashua Road in Amherst, 673-7661,
and pie dough class on Wednesday,
www.amherstyoga.com, will hold a
cooking class focused on the health
enhancing properties of chocolate.
with Robin Glowa on Saturday, April
18, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The
cost is $35. Call Amherst Yoga by
April 14 to register and mail checks
to Amherst Yoga (zip code 03031),
made out to Robin Glowa.
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Barbour, chef and instructor at
The Creative Feast, has several
cooking classes scheduled. On
Fri., May 15, the topic is “Eat
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for farmers’ market season). And for the first time in nearly two years I submitted to complete and utter writer’s block and did not submit a column.
Hoofing my way up Elm Street my eyes wandering through Hippo pages flip-flapping in
the almost-but-not-quite spring breeze and Ingredients wasn’t. Not. Missing. Sad. Ah well,
who needs a break anyway.
For many generations Inuit and Inupiat Eskimos lived on a subsistence diet of fish and
seal blubber. Not much in the way of fruits and vegetables up there in the harsh cold land,
but the body gets what it needs and what it needs is fat. Not much in the way of obesity
or heart disease, either. For many generations the French have passionately consumed —
worshiped — food in abundance. Buttery foie gras, unctuous runny cheese, cream, butter.
Fat. Obesity and heart disease aren’t particularly prevalent there, either. For the past few
generations we Americans have viewed lard and cream and butter as Evil Incarnate (though
we’re quick enough to make a meal of carbonated sugar water, pseudo-meat products with
unpronounceable additives, and semi-toxic snack cakes.) Maybe fat really is bad for you,
but I suspect health has more to do with real food and exercise. At least I hope so, because
we New Englanders make some very good fat. We call it cream and it comes from hearty
healthy New England cows. Cream is not evil, cream is good. Without cream there would
be no Butter’s selling Tarentaise and Lazy Lady cheeses, no Cremeland churning local ice
cream, no Michael Timothy’s serving white chocolate creme brulee or Gypsy Café serving
flan. No deliciously rich Vermont Butter and Cheese Company butter. No chocolate Mogador from Madeleines produced with perfect chocolate ganache made with perfect New
Hampshire cream. No scones, gloriously browning on top as the fresh cream caramelizes from the heat of the baker’s oven. Call me a heretic, but I stand with the lovers of good
food, long relaxing walks and fresh New England cream. I stand with the cows.
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It’s been a long time since I felt this way.
I was considering couple’s counseling, but
then this little ray of sunshine parted the scudding grey clouds and let great rays of sun in.
During past break-ups, I just left. A quick
break is easy. But it’s kind of selfish. Not
as bad as some of the classic break-ups I’ve
heard about. Like when Berger broke up with
Carrie on Sex in the City by leaving her a postit note. Or Steve Wozniak and Kathy Griffin.
One day her iPhone just stopped working.
I have three relationships that make me feel
like Al Pacino in Godfather III — “The more
I try to get out, the deeper they pull me back
in.” Or something like that.
One is with my ex-wife. The two kids keep
us pretty much on track and together, even
though they’re in their 20s. Kids — now
there’s a relationship you can’t duck out of.
And even when they’re grown up you have
worries. Some are stupid. Did my 23-yearold son get on the right bus? Cut the apron
strings, Timmie! Is my daughter’s new roommate’s father a West African warlord? That
one could be a little stickier.
The other never-ending relationship is with
a woman with whom I once lovingly shared
a bottle of Louis Jadot Clos Vougeot paired
with a fantastic Duck l’Orange. The wine
was perhaps one of the top four I ever tasted.
(The others were a 1985 Lynch-Bage, a 1990
Jaboulet Hermitage “La Chapelle” from the
Rhone and a Simonsig Redhill Pinotage, and
let’s throw in a 1989 Grand Puy-Lacoste.)
This woman wasn’t really a wine drinker. She, like my late step-grandmother, was a
Coors Light fanatic. But that didn’t sink the
relationship. Boredom and drifting apart did.
Last fall I saw her at a non-profit fair at
her company. She looked good and I pondered rekindling the flame. Instead, I found
her one-legged ex-biker brother an affordable
apartment. We met over drinks, two Coors.
Then we parted, once again.
Until yesterday. Apparently, the one-legged
biker brother was a bit of a terror on the other
residents. Up late at night with his loud girlfriend. Hanging pictures and pounding nails
at 10:30 p.m. Clomping around on his single clod clad foot. Since she was a co-signer
on his lease, I gave her a heads-up before a
Notice to Cure letter arrived. She was distant.
Cool and professional. None of the previous
sparks were there. Totally over. Until I have to
evict the clomping biker brother.
My third never-ending relationship is with
wine. So many times I’ve gone through the
equivalent of catching it cheating on me. The
$100 bottle that tasted sour. The moderately
cult-y California Cabernet that reminded me
of grape fingernail polish remover. The bad
champagnes and horrible chardonnays.
But then came Shotfire.
I had given up the trampish, loose Australian shirazes years ago. Acidic, lacking depth
and flavor. Generally annoying and harsh- tasting. I took a gamble and picked up Shotfire, a
Barossa Valley Shiraz from Thorn & Clarke, a
medium-sized family-owned vineyard. It was
truly good. And it was only $18.99. Double
infatuation.
The winery united two old-time Barossa
families: the Clarkes, who were originally gold
miners, and the Thorns, who were vintners in
the Barossa since 1854. The Shotfire is the
second-tier wine they produce. The William
Randall line is named after an ancestor who ran
a steamboat line on the Murray River.
The Shotfire line includes a chardonnay,
pinot gris, a Cuvee of cabernet sauvignon,
petit verdot, malbec and merlot and cabernet
franc, a Quartage of cabernet sauvignon, petit
verdot, malbec and merlot and the 100-percent
shiraz. I would love to be able to taste their
full product line, but I fear that with limited
availability and low brand recognition Thorn
& Clarke will never get the market share they
deserve. Usually, unless the wine is truly outstanding — La Tache, Petrus, Ceretto Barolo
— it doesn’t pay to buy wine from a foreign
country. Taxes and the amount of paperwork
are exorbitant. Locally, Shotfire can be hard to
come by and might have to be part of a road
trip (Vermont, it’s available at Windsor Wine
& Spirit in Windsor the Food Coop in Brattleboro and in Massachusetts it’s available at
the Discount Liquor Mart at 103 Broadway in
Lawrence and the Andover Whole Food at 40
Railroad St.). A few domestic direct shippers
can also send you the wines (Vintage Cellars at www.vintagecellar.com, San Francisco
Wine Trading Company at www.sfwtc.com
and Hi-Time Wine Cellars at www.hitimewine.net) all have some Shotfire products.
It was a one-time wine. A passing discretion. A vibrant memory and a treasured
encounter. Very much like other relationships,
including the imaginary one with the tattooed
arm girl from American Idol. Maybe that’s
why they kept rhapsodizing about the mortal
trinity of Wine, Women and Song?
Here are the wines I drank.
• 2006 Shotfire Barossa Valley Shiraz
— $18.99. Big and voluptuous. Grape soda
flavors with a touch of vine stem and seeds. A
pleasant hay-like aroma, reminiscent of great
Bordeaux. Delicate violet and plum notes. An
easy evolving finish that fades slowly like a
train whistle in the night.
• 2005 Clos Du Val Napa Valley Merlot
— $28.99. From either the Stag’s Leap or Silverado districts, I never found out which. The
wine was a bit austere and graceful. Plum,
cassis (raisin) and chocolate. I’m glad I never considered merlot as a “joke wine” and I’m
glad that the wine marketers didn’t yank all
the Clos Du Val vines out four years ago.
• 2005 Kistler Sonoma Coast Chardonnay — $55.49. it was a ton of cash to pay for
a chardonnay and I was expecting something
Burgundian, but I wasn’t totally disappointed
because that fake oak taste wasn’t there.
Maybe that’s why I like wine (and women).
You take one out and they show up in a platinum blond wig and it’s like you’re seeing a
whole different person. Thank you to all the
wineries who don’t just bottle homogenized,
focus-group-created products with one goal, to
rip as much cash as possible out of the marketplace and then sell the whole operation to
Constellation Brands. Thank you, you wineries
who dare to be the pretty Goth Chick nobody
asked out because she was too complex.
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Wine with dinner
What to drink when you’re eating
Ham
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Ham often takes center stage at a holiday
meal. The wine experts each chose a different variety to go with this dish, but for
primarily the same reason — to balance the
saltiness of the ham.
• 2006 Albert Bichot Bourgogne
—
$18.99
(Recommended by Tom
Brock from The Meat House,
five locations in New Hampshire, www.themeathouse.
com) Brock said this wine
has enough fruit and smokiness to balance the smokiness and saltiness of
the ham. “It’s not too strong and not too
weak,” he said. “It’s a nice complement.”
• 2006 Foris Pinot Noir — $21.99 (Recommended by Maureen Adams from The
Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett Road in Manchester, 622-WINE (9463), and 27 Buttrick
Road #3 in Londonderry, 432-WINE (9463),
www.thewinestudionh.com) This Oregon
in or judge Mead Free or Die, go to
www.meadfreeordie.com.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR CUSTOM WINERY — BEDFORD
Vintner’s Cellar at Sebbins Brook
Marketplace, 410 South River Road
Route 3 in Bedford, offers a chance
to taste and create custom wines.
Call 627-9463 or go to www.vintnerscellarnh.com.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY 133 Loudon Road in Concord, allows customers can make
custom wines in batches of 24 to
28 bottles.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY — PORTSMOUTH Design
and create your own high-quality
wine. At 801 Islington St. in Portsmouth. Open Mondays through
Wednesdays, and Saturdays, from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays and
Fridays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays
and evenings by appointment only.
Call Gail at 431-5984.
Classes/workshops on beer/
wine tasting
• BEER WARS Beer connoisseurs
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After the Beer Wars documentary
(which will air in HD), the movie
event will include a broadcast of a
live discussion with Ben Stein and
brewers and beer experts on Thursday, April 16, at 8 p.m. at Showcase
Cinemas Lowell, 32 Reiss Ave. in
Lowell, Mass., 978-551-0055.
• WINE EDUCATION The Meat
House wine guy Tom Brock will offer
a series of wine education classes in
Portsmouth (April 2). The classes are
from 7 to 9 p.m. and will go in-depth
on how to properly “taste” wine, discuss characteristics of varietals, and
offer fool-proof pairing recommendations. The cost is $20 and space is
limited to 15 people. Call the store of
your choice to reserve a space (Pembroke at 227-5261, Salem at 6850302, Exeter at 418-6557, Dover at
834-6328 and Bedford at 472-5444).
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• INTERNATIONAL WINE &
CHEESE FEST On Friday, April 17,
at 7 p.m. it’s the International Wine
and Cheese Fest at IncrediBREW,
112 DW Highway in Nashua, 8912477. Make wine and bottle wines
made six weeks earlier from South
Africa (Pinotage), the U.S. (Pinot
Noir), Austria (Gruner Veltiner), Germany (Piesporter), Italy (Barbera)
and Chile (Rosso Grande) and taste
cheeses that complement their flavor. The cost is $50 for six different
bottles of wine. Call or go to www.
incredibrew.com to reserve a spot.
• MEAD FREE OR DIE Brew
Free or Die will host the first Mead
Free or Die competition in New
England on Sat., April 25, at Cadec
Global, 645 Harvey Road in Manchester. Brew Free or Die, which
hosts an annual beer homebrew
competition, plans for Mead Free or
Die to be annual event with awards
including Best in Show and others.
For information on how to compete
selection is silky and soft, with fruit tones
to pair with the saltiness of the ham. Adams
also said it is great with a mustard sauce.
• 2004 Carol Shelton Wild
Thing Old Vine Zinfandel —
$34.99 (Recommended by
Marilyn McGuire from the
Cracker Barrel, 377 Main St.
in Hopkinton, 746-7777)
McGuire described this wine
as fruit-forward with rich body
to help balance the ham’s saltiness. It’s also
smooth without a lot of tannins, with a
vibrant pepper spice.
• 2007 St. Urbans Hof
Riesling Qba — $14.99
(Recommended by Nicole
Brassard from the New
Hampshire State Liquor
Commission, www.nh.gov/
liquor) “This Top 100 Wine
Spectator Riesling is a steal
and will pair perfectly with your holiday
ham. A limited number of cases are available at select stores,” Brassard said.
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
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Index
POP CuLTurE:
CdS
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On store shelves April
14
• Swoon, by Silversun Pickups
(Dangerbird)
• The Open Door EP, by Death
Cab for Cutie (Atlantic)
• Fantasies, by Metric (02.
Records)
• Forever in a Day, by Day26
(Bad Boy)
• Live 1969, by Simon & Gar-
• Queensryche, American Soldier, B+
• Thunderheist, Thunderheist, ABOOKS
pg39
• The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The
Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and
Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime, A
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 listings@hippopress.com.
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• Sunshine Cleaning, B-
• Fast & Furious, C+
funkel (Sony Legacy )
• California Years, by Jill
Sobule (R.E.D. Distribution)
• Dookie [180g Vinyl LP], by
Green Day (Reprise Records)
• Whatever Gets You Off, by
Last Vegas (Eleven Seven
Music)
• The Tudors: Season 2, by
Trevor Morris (Varese Sarabande)
Queensryche, American Soldier
Rhino Records, March 31
In today’s culture’s
schizoid black-andwhiteness, bankers
are bad and soldiers
are good, never mind
Fallujah or the lady
at Banknorth who
bent over triple-backward to get you a car
loan. In keeping with our mainstream
media’s fear of having yellow-ribbon magnets
thrown
at
them
by
Republican-for-the-heck-of-it
soccer
moms, Queensryche passes no judgment
on the subject of this aural metal-ocumentary, declining to use their lyrics to footnote
the whack-a-mole snatches of interviews
that weave in and out of the tunes, words
from soldiers of every war since WWII. In
that, the wizened ’80s hair-metallers are
no different from TV reporters trained in
communications rather than journalism;
the album is a compass without an arrow.
But the record will get you thinking about
what war is like close-up. The music, toothier than anything they’ve done in a while,
leverages such elements as “Rooster”-evoking wah-wah pedal and doom-metal ringouts
to drag the listener kicking and screaming
into the abyss the soldiers lived through but
still obviously don’t fully comprehend. The
hype-advance tune, “If I Were King,” is predictably the weakest, most cookie-cutter link,
belying the decent amount of anger-management riffing that appears in other songs
(the Alice in Chains-like “A Dead Man’s
Words”; the P.O.D.-like “The Killer”).
Though a lot heavier and more Iron Maidensounding than Operation: Mindcrime and
whatnot, it nevertheless does have plenty of
Thunderheist, Thunderheist
Big Dada Records, March 31
The guidelines for
pigeonholing bands
into genres are a
fricking old mess
now, with a few
know-it-all writers
and PR guys still
laboring under the belief that flipping their
average-Joe readers half-cocked epithets
explains volumes and frees them up to fill
their spaces with random hype practice.
A Canadian electro duo — chick MC/
singer and computer dude — Thunderheist
labels themselves electrohop probably for
convenience’s sake; actually they’re about
as oldschool west coast as Felix Da Housecat is Giorgio Moroder. But just like that,
the pair have hit on something pretty near
foolproof by taking cues from Felix’s reupholstering of closeout-sale junk, applying
whiz-bang electronics to porn-princess-wannabe snap-dance, old NWA and disco. Like a
lot of recent music, it calls to an earlier, inarguably better time, with “Little Booty Girl”
stealing its lazy humid beat from 3 Wize
Men’s 1988 underground IED “Urban Hell.”
“Nothing 2 Step 2” is a Detroit-house disco
drag that pointlessly retro system-clogs like
Tommie Sunshine would dig; “Sweet 16”
throws Foxy Brown into the mud-wrestling
ring with Miss Kittin. With their live show
already receiving crazed reviews, this could
be huge. A- — EWS
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• Little White Lies, by Fastball
(Red Distribution)
• The Future Will Come, by
Juan Maclean (Dfa Records)
• Asleep in the Bread Isle, by
Asher Roth (SRC / Universal
Motown)
• Fortress Round My Heart, by
Ida Maria (Mercury Records)
the boo-boo-face minor-chord arpeggios that
comprised Queensryche’s bread and butter
in their heyday. The band visits Hampton’s
Club Casino on Wednesday, July 29. B+ —
Eric W. Saeger
Playlist
CdS
• Silversun Pickups’ new LP Swoon, out next
week, is their second for indie flophouse Dangerbird
Records, but from the all-pro sound of its kickoff
single (harmlessly poppy Hendrix-inflected skronkthrasher “Panic Switch”) they’re ready to move on
to real record labels that don’t put out albums from
bands like Dappled Cities Fly just to be jerks.
• The troubling thing about Canadian accountantindie nostril-scrapers like Emily Haines from Metric
isn’t just that they’ve all been in Broken Social Scene
at one point or another (although it does present a
good excuse to toss them into Guantanamo’s Totally Crazy Mujahideen tank), it’s the fact that they’re
constantly puffing their concave chests about how
daddy paid for this-or-that year-long Bohemian squatting adventure, like you’re supposed to be
impressed that some farty-wine-swilling holder of
a BA in Unusable Metrics can’t settle on a country
to live in. That said, whether she’s currently boring
the locals to tears in Argentina, India, the States or
Canada, her band has at least one good tune coming
out of Fantasies, their upcoming fourth album, that
being “Help I’m Alive,” even if the song can’t stay
focused on ripping off KT Tunstall, Collide or Goldfrapp from one measure to the next, but whatever,
one of her hobbies is pretending she really doesn’t
care if you buy her CDs anyway, so don’t.
• My best childhood buddy Dave, who could kick
a 65-yard field goal when he was 8 years old, thinks
The Who is God, which is so stupid, right, so what
I’m going to do is buy him their new Maximum
R&B Live DVD, right, and switch it with the new
Barney’s Super Singing Circus DVD, and then
keep feeding him Jello shots until he catches on that
he’s really watching a plush purple dinosaur and not
a plush purple-nosed Pete Townshend, who actually
hates Dave’s guts a lot more than Barney does.
• Let’s see, what other atrocious, disgusting, overrated bit of corporate pandering can we talk about...
ah! Death Cab For Cutie has an EP coming out!
Titled The Open Door, it features the song “Little
Bribes”, which, as usual, tries with all its might to
sound like Napoleon Dynamite trying to imitate
Mungo Jerry at a state fair. Puttin’ the “alternative”
in rock: yur doin’ it well! — Eric W. Saeger
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POP CuLTurE
MuSIC, BOOKS,
GAMES, COMICS,
MOVIES, dVdS,
TV And MOrE
POP CuLTurE:
BOOKS
Jennifer Scanlon (Oxford University Press)
• This Is Water: Some Thoughts,
Delivered on a Significant
Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, by David Foster
Wallace
• Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were
Born With, by Gaylon Ferguson
Nonfiction
• Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The (Shambhala Publications)
Life of Helen Gurley Brown, by • The Horse Boy: A Father’s
In stores this week
Fiction
• The Geometry of Sisters, by
Luanne Rice (Bantam Books)
• Look Again, by Lisa Scottoline
(St. Martin’s Press)
• The Bascombe Novels, by
Richard Ford (Knopf)
they seem contradictory.
One of the rules is “never, ever slide into
the infielder with your spikes high” — you
might hurt someone. Yet it is perfectly acceptable, even required for the sake of honor, for a
pitcher to hit a batter with a fastball in certain
circumstances, as when that batter is perceived
to have wronged the pitcher’s team by playing dirty — by violating some unwritten rules,
maybe. Dickson highlights a 2006 California
Supreme Court case involving community college teams in which the majority concluded
that having the pitcher intentionally throw at
the batter’s head is an inherent risk of the game
even though the official rules prohibit it.
In general, “getting an edge” is all good —
in fact if you don’t go all out to win, you’re
violating unwritten codes — but showing up
your opponent is bad.
There are cute rules like “no crying in baseball” and “hugging is tolerated in baseball, but
only recently.” There are rules about not jinxing a winning streak — these even extend to
announcers. And there are a lot of rules about
leaving the pitcher the hell alone — sometimes
out of respect, more often out of fear of jinxing him, fear of catching his losing cooties, or
some similar fear. It’s clear pitching is a lonely
job. There are times no one talks to the guy.
The book covers etiquette for umpires, scorers and fans, and concludes with quotes from
baseball lore. It offers thoughts on why unwritten codes developed. As Dickson notes, baseball
teams have clubhouses —not locker rooms, but
clubhouses, and everyone knows clubhouses are
all about rules and codes of honor, usually unwritten. Dickson quotes columnist Peter Schmuck as
observing that the codes exist because in baseball “many forms of ‘cheating’ must be detected
by the opponent instead of the umpire.’” So the
players are policing themselves.
Food for thought while you watch those big
kids throwing the ball around the stadium this
season. This little book will enhance any baseball fan’s experience of the game. A
—Lisa Parsons
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the change.
• That it’s OK to try to hit people with a ball
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Marriage, by Edith Gelles (William Morrow)
• Just When I Thought I’d
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Other Calamities, by Kathie Lee
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& Noble, 1741 S. Willow St. in
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& Noble in Manchester, and at
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Milford,
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673-1734.
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• GOFFSTOWN LIBRARY
afternoon book group meets
Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m., open to
any interested teen or adult. April
22: Jazz, by Toni Morrison.
• THE GREAT GATSBY is the
book featured this spring for
Southern New Hampshire Reads,
a program of The Big Read. See
www.northeastculturalcoop.org
and www.neabigread.org. Discussions, concerts and related events
are being held at area libraries and
other venues through April 25.
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LIBRARY evening book discussion group meets on the second
Thursday of the month at 7 p.m.
April 9: The Great Gatsby, by F.
Scott Fitzgerald.
Poetry
• POETRY SLAM Sat., April
11, from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at
Derry Public Library, with hosts
Victor Infante, reading from City
of Insomnia, and Jeff DeRego.
Each poet gets three minutes to
perform an original work. Sign up
in advance (call the library) or at
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• MAXINE KUMIN Pulitzer
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discussion Mon., April 13, from
4 to 5 p.m. at Susan Colgate
Cleveland Library at Colby-Sawyer College. Free and open to the
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• POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP “Sea Glass, Sand Piper,
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or 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Johnson
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What are you reading?
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Wolves professional
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“The last book I read was
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
… and It’s All Small Stuff, by
Richard Carlson. I enjoy reading it because I think life can
really be that simple —and do
not overlook things that happen
in your life.” —Kim Laurendi,
account executive. Stephanie Bike, general manager, is reading I Love You,
Good Night, by Jon Buller
and Susan Schade, to her children
ages 5 and 3, as a bedtime story: “We
love the book because, in very simple terms, it reminds us of the ways
that we love each other.”
Lynne Snierson, communications director, is reading Barack
Obama’s The Audacity of Hope, a
copy signed by the author when he
visited her home during the state primary campaign: “I
was embarrassed that I hadn’t read it before the President was inaugurated, but am actually glad now. This
way, I can explore his political philosophy in a different
context since he is now in the position to implement those
ideas into public policy.”
Sharon Olds and Philip Schultz
read on April 17 at 7 p.m. at Concord City Auditorium (attached
to City Hall at Green and Prince
streets). $10; proceeds beyond
expenses benefit local homelessness programs. Tickets available
at Gibson’s Bookstore.
• JAZZMOUTH music and poetry festival in Portsmouth, April
23-26, includes workshops, book
discussions and readings, www.
jazzmouth.org.
• MARIE HARRIS is interviewed by author and humorist
Rebecca Rule at UNH’s Dimond
Library’s fifth-floor reading room
in Durham on Sun., April 26, at
2 p.m. The event is free and open
to the public, but seating is limited; register at www.library.unh.
edu/friends/.
The Book
Report
• It’s still National Poetry Month:
And, taking off on the idea of National
Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo,
in November, the Academy of American
Poets declares April to be not just National Poetry Month but also National Poetry
Writing Month. This is the fifth annual
NaPoWriMo, in which participants are
challenged to write and post a poem each
day. This year there’s also a pledge drive.
Because poets are the first (or the last) to
go in a down economy. See www.poets.
org.
• And it’s National Library Week:
April 12 through April 18 has been designated National Library Week 2009 by the
American Library Association. Check your
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Writers’ groups
• WRITERS’ DAY hosted by NH
Writers’ Project brings together
300+ writers and publishing professionals for a full day of networking, workshops and more,
on April 18 at Derryfield School
in Manchester. Keynote speaker
will be Meredith Hall, author of
Without a Map. Events include
NH Literary Idol. To register, visit
www.nhwritersproject.org.
Other
• 7TH ANNUAL SPRING
FUNDRAISER for Manchester
City Library (405 Pine St., 6246550) features author Jane Cleland (launching Killer Keepsakes)
interviewed by Rebecca Rule,
Wed., April 15. Call to sign up;
cost is $50 per person.
local library for special events, and maybe give your favorite librarian a flower on
National Library Workers Day, Tuesday,
April 14. If you want to nominate a great
library worker (school libraries count too)
for the ALA’s Gallery of Stars, go to www.
ala-apa.org/about/nlwd.html.
• Librarians on film! In honor of
National Library Week, Red River Theatres (11 South Main St., Concord,
224-4600, www.redrivertheatres.org) will
show The Hollywood Librarian: A Look
at Librarians through Film (96 minutes,
Canada, 2007) — which it says is “the first
full-length documentary film to focus on
the work and lives of librarians.” The Concord Public Library Foundation will host
a librarian-and-audience discussion panel
following a 6:30 p.m. viewing of the film
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In theaters Friday, April 10
• Dragonball Evolution (PG, wide release)
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REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
• Hannah Montana The Movie (G, wide
release)
• Observe and Report (R, wide release)
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil (limited release)
two wheels, like an angry rearing
nitrous-fueled horse.)
Fast & Furious could have done
with a little less yakkity yak and a
little more vroom vroom (my cut of
the movie would probably be something like 40 minutes long, most of
it cars racing or crashing). But as
it is, it provides all the campy fun
you’d expect and just enough speed
to keep it interesting. C+
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual
content, language and drug references. Directed by Justin Lin and written
by Chris Morgan (from characters by
Gary Scott Thompson), Fast & Furious is an hour and 39 minutes long and
distributed in wide release by Universal Pictures.
Sunshine Cleaning (R)
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The whole fast-cardriving, tight-shirt-wearing
gang reunites for Fast &
Furious, the Vin Dieselhelmed Part Four in the
pretty-cars-go-fast saga.
If you’ll remember from the end
of Tokyo Drift, speed racer Dom
Toretto (Diesel) is still out there
challenging people to illegal races
and augmenting his well-developed
upper body with sweet muscle
cars. We catch up with him in the
Dominican Republic, where he and
assorted crew members — including longtime tough-chick girlfriend
Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) — are
stealing fuel from a tanker truck
barreling down a giant mountain.
It’s a fun, mostly pointless scene
that serves primarily to remind you
what you liked about the first movie: specifically, badasses driving
fast and crashing stuff.
Then there’s some talking. Ang-
sty arguey fugitive-from-justice
blah blah and Dom leaves Letty For
Her Own Good.
Meanwhile, FBI agent Brian
O’Connor (Paul Walker) conducts
an awesome foot chase in southern
California (culminating in one of
those great jump-through-the-window-pane-to-catch-a-guy moves)
in pursuit of some drug-running
gang. Then, blabbity talky, we fast
forward through a bunch of scenes
setting up the Dom/Brian reunion:
Dom is back in L.A. to catch someone who done him wrong, Brian is
trying to catch major drug dealers.
While the boys are on opposite sides
of the law, they both like speedy
cars and their separate goals involve
hunting down the same gang members so rev the engines and shine the
spoiler, it’s racin’ time.
There are scenes where Brian tries
to revive a friendship with Dom’s
sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who
still harbors resentments toward him
for the bad ending to their romance
back in the first movie, and scenes
where Brian’s FBI superiors chastise him for not following protocol.
You and I could probably write
these scenes ourselves. Even if you
haven’t seen the movie, I’ll bet you
could correctly guess a significant
part of the dialogue. Some of these
scenes are boring and some have
moments of comedy (some of which
might even be intentional — though
the two times a sultry woman says
“vaya con Dios” are hilarious and
probably not intentionally so) but
they all kinda just kill time between
what we’re paying for, which is
the bad-ass cars and the improbable races. (And, really, the bad-ass
American muscle cars — the foreign cars look sporty but they just
don’t have the eat-my-dust overthe-top aggressive testosterone-ness
of the supped up American beauties. Particularly when Diesel makes
his car charge forward on its back
Amy Adams and Emily
Blunt play two different
flavors of women with
problems in Sunshine
Cleaning, a sweet if a bit
slight dramady.
Rose (Amy Adams) is a woman
in need of a little spine-stiffening.
She works cleaning houses while
she very half-heartedly considers
a career in real estate. But mostly,
she pines for Mac (Steve Zahn), her
high school boyfriend who is now
a police officer and is married to
another woman. Married married —
married, with kids and a nicer house
than Rose lives in and another kid
on the way. Though Rose never says
it, we get the sense that she is clinging desperately to the hope that Mac
will eventually leave his wife for
her. The insinuation is that she’s had
this relationship with him for a long
while; after all, Rose’s son Oscar
(Jason Spevack), whose father is
unidentified, is eight years old.
Eight years old and a bit of a
Reviewlets: Snack-sized movie reviews
* Indicates a movie worth
seeking out. Previously
reviewed movies have
grades. For full reviews of
most movies here or movies
previously released, go to
www.hippopress.com.
Adventureland (R)
Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg.
A lit major discovers that fancy
book learning is no match for
the soul-crushing nature of
actual life in this darling, funny
and wonderfully soundtracked
movie about post-college life
circa 1987. AThe Class (PG-13)
Francois Begaudeau,
A teacher bangs his head
against the wall that is teaching
literature to a bunch of teenagers
in this entertaining and
insightful foreign import. A
Dragonball Evolution (PG)
Chow Yun Fat, Emmy Rossum.
So, there are these balls and
these kids and there’s a danger
threatening the Earth and, well,
beyond that ask your child (and
if you don’t have a child, don’t
worry; you don’t have to go).
Opens wide on Friday, April 10.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
(G)
Cyruses, Miley and Billy Ray.
Not to be confused with the
concert film from a while
back, this movie is about the
Hannah Montana/Miley Stewart
character from the TV show.
Oh, and about making lots of
money. Opens wide on Friday,
April 10.
The Haunting in Connecticut
(PG-13)
Virginia Madsen, Elias Koteas.
Let’s all pause for a moment to
Duplicity (PG-13)
reflect on the talented Virginia
Julia Roberts, Clive Owen.
Madsen before we plunge into
The sexily gruff Owen and the
this horror story where she is the
comebacky Julia Roberts play
former spies working together to mom to a family tormented by
make a big score. And to flirt. B spookiness in their new house. C-
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I Love You, Man (R)
Paul Rudd, Jason Segel.
Bromance, Paul Rudd — who
can say no? Like any good romcom (brom-com?), I Love You,
Man has Rudd searching for the
heterosexual man of his equally
heterosexual dreams when
he realizes that he’s been so
concentrated on girlfriends that
he’s never had any time to make
dude friends. B+
Knowing (PG-13)
Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne.
Nicolas Cage and his hairstyle
of doom predict assorted natural
disasters (though not the man
made disaster of this movie)
based on numbers fished out of
a time capsule. D
troublemaker. After Oscar gets in
trouble at school for licking things
— the result of a horror story told
to him by Rose’s irresponsible sister Norah (Blunt) — Rose is stuck
trying to figure out how to raise
the money to send Oscar to private
school. Mac doesn’t offer cash but
he does offer advice — he’s noticed
that the guys who come in after
crimes and clean up the blood, guts
and other evidence make a lot of
money. He suggests Rose give it a
try. Rose asks Norah, who recently,
dramatically quit her job, to lend a
hand and the women set out to build
their business, Sunshine Cleaning.
As this week’s cover story suggests, starting a business is never
easy, and Rose has to learn the rules
of her trade. But this entrepreneurship gives her a sense of her own
worth that she’s never had before. It’s
heartbreaking and joyful at the same
time to watch a person who starts
the movie sadly reciting self-affirmations into a mirror find internal
strength. (The movie doesn’t dwell
on matters of money and class but
it does touch on them just enough
to make you wish it wanted to say
more things about Rose and Norah’s
socioeconomic status.)
Sunshine Cleaning is directed by
the same woman who directed Little Miss Sunshine and shares not
only a word in the title but a supporting cast member in Alan Arkin,
who plays Rose and Norah’s father.
It has a similar blend of personal
tragedy, dry humor and quirky grittiness, but Sunshine Cleaning isn’t
quite as boisterous or as loveable as
Little Miss Sunshine. It feels thin
and not quite fully realized. It’s as
though it needs one more revision
to really bring it to life (or one less
to keep in some much needed tartness and sharp edges).
Though the movie feels a bit
Monsters vs. Aliens (PG)
Reese Witherspoon, Hugh
Laurie.
Perhaps you’ve heard from one
of the 90 jillion commercials
or stunty promotional pieces
but this movie is in 3-D (and,
if you’ve got some extra cash,
IMAX 3-D). Earth-native
monsters (including a woman
who grows to giant size on
her wedding day) are called
in by the government to fight
conquer-happy aliens. C+
to praise from last summer), this
comedy focuses on Seth Rogen,
security guard, and his attempt
to find love and a sense of pride
at the mall. Opens wide on
Friday, April 10.
Observe And Report (R)
Seth Rogen, Anna Faris.
Written and directed by Jody
Hill (of The Foot Fist Way, a
movie lots of people who are
not me fell all over themselves
*Watchmen (R)
Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup.
Stylishly scored, beautiful
looking, this comic-bookadaptation is dark and lovely.
B+
12 Rounds (PG-13)
John Cena, Steve Harris.
WWE’s John Cena races around a
city blowing stuff up and crashing
into stuff in order to save his
girlfriend. Just right if you need
that kind of thing. C
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Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
“ ” (1974)
Sun 4:30pm - free admission - donations accepted
underbaked, it doesn’t get in the way of Blunt
and Adams bringing strong, winning performances (complete with some very nice sister
chemistry). They both give layers to the
characters, adding moments of childishness
and maturity and self-awareness with just a
look or a gesture that help make them seem
like fully dimensional flawed people.
Arkin is, roughly, the same character he
was in Little Miss Sunshine with the pursuit of the absurd business deal replacing
that grandpa’s lust for heroin. His effect on
the movie is ultimately neutral — he’s neither as off-puttingly quirky or as winningly
charming as you’d fear/hope. But he is an
example of how the movie uses a kind of
shorthand to get through some parts of the
story without fully building the layers of a
character or a scene.
Sunshine Cleaning won’t be chasing the
big belly-laughing boy-comedies out of the
theater any time soon but it is a welcome
ray of lightness. BRated R for language, disturbing images,
some sexuality and drug use. Directed by Christine Jeffs and written by Megan Holley, Sunshine
Cleaning is an hour and 42 minutes long and is
distributed in limited release by Overture Films.
Locally, it is currently playing at Red River Theatres in Concord and the AMC at the Loop in
Methuen, Mass.
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Red River Theatres, 11 S. Main St. in Concord,
224-4600, www.redrivertheatres.org, offers a look
at a rougher and racier Hollywood, the Hollywood
of the pre-code era, in a double feature playing Friday, April 10, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 11, at 2 and 7
p.m., and Sunday, April 12, at 2 p.m.
Midnight Mary is a one-hour-and-14-minute film
from 1933, and Wild Boys of the Road is a one-hourand-eight-minute film also from 1933. Both films feature the violence, gangsters, sex,
women in various stages of undress and incidents of questionable morality that would
get scrubbed away when studios started adhering to the Hays Code in 1934. While these
films aren’t particularly shocking by today’s standards, the surprise is that they seem a little closer to the kind of storytelling we’d recognize today.
In Midnight Mary, Loretta Young plays Mary, a woman we’d recognize (if in a rougher
form) in a modern movie. She’s poor, she makes bad decisions to attempt to get out of poverty and she finds herself in difficult situations in large part because of the shady man she
is living with on and off through the movie. That she’s sort of staying with and not married
to this man is enough to keep this kind of story off the screen for the next 30-plus years.
In Wild Boys of the Road, a partially disrobed girl is attacked, a boy is horribly
injured and teens break assorted laws as they ride the rails in search of a better life.
High schoolers and best friends played by Frankie Darro and Edwin Philips are the
focus and they take to the road to ease the financial burden on their respective families, which are having a hard time making ends meet during the Depression. Though
their intention is to get jobs and send home money, they eventually find themselves
fighting the police and fighting for their lives along with other kids who poverty
pushed on the road.
Though full of the kind of old-fashioned slang and gee whiz cleverness that you’d
expect in a 1930s movie, both of these films have a surprising amount of still-relevant
observations about class, money and how the lack of money puts you at an immediate disadvantage, no matter how good your intentions. A speech at the end of one movie where a
character mentions how the government helps out all the banks so why not us would be as
at home as a commentary on 24-hour cable today as it is in this 76-year-old film.
If you’ve never delved this deep into American film history, these movies represent
a great place to start. They’re accessible and fun. In addition to screening at Red River
Theatres (which provided screeners for review for this article) this weekend, the movies
are available in a recently released four-DVD set called Forbidden Hollywood Volume 3,
which features six pre-code films. Tickets to the double feature cost $8 ($6 for members).
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POP CULTURE:
FILM Continued
Movies outside the cineplex
978-551-0055, www.nationalamusements.com
• BEER WARS Beer connoisseurs
can buy tickets now for Beer Wars
LIVE, a one-night documentary and
discussion event with Ben Stein taking you to the boardrooms and back
rooms of the American beer industry.
After the Beer Wars documentary
(which will air in HD), the movie
event will include a broadcast of a
MANCHESTER CITY
live discussion with Ben Stein and
LIBRARY
brewers and beer experts on Thurs405 Pine St., Manchester, 624- day, April 16, at 8 p.m.
6550, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
• Ocean’s Eleven (1960) Wed., THE MUSIC HALL
April 15, at 1 p.m.
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436• Erin Brokovich (R, 200) Wed., 2400, www.themusichall.org
April 22, at 1 p.m.
• Two Lovers (R, 2008) Thurs.,
April 9, at 7 p.m.
WEST BRANCH
• Frost/Nixon (R, 2008) Fri.,
COMMUNITY LIBRARY
April 10, and Sat., April 11, at
76 N. Main St.., Manchester, 624- 7 p.m.; Sun., April 12, at 4 & 7
6560, www.manchester.lib.nh.us p.m.; Mon., April 13, at 7 p.m.;
• Bedtime Stories (PG, 2008) Fri., Wed., April 15, at 7 p.m.
April 10, at 3 p.m.
• The Class (PG-13, 2008) Fri.,
• Tale of Despereaux (G, 2008) April 17, and Tues., April 21, and
Fri., April 17, at 3 p.m.
Wed., April 22, at 7 p.m.
UNH MANCHESTER
400 Commercial St., Manchester,
641-4101, www.unhm.unh.edu.
Thursdays in the third-floor auditorium at 6 p.m.
• Under Our Skin (2008) Documentary about the medical system
and Lyme disease. Thurs., April
16, at 6 p.m. Followed by Q&A
with David Hunter. NHTI Sweeney Auditorium, 31 College
Drive, Concord, 271-7185, www.
nhti.edu
• Timecrimes (R, 2007, Spanish
with English subtitles ) on Fri.,
April 10, 7 p.m. A thriller by
director Nacho Vigalondo.
NASHUA LIBRARY
NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua,
589-4600, www.nashualibrary.org.
Call 589-4646 for the library’s film
line, a schedule of upcoming movies.
Films subject to change.
• Doubt (PG-13, 2008) Fri., April
10, at 7 p.m.
• Tale of Despereaux (G, 2008)
Sat., April 11, at 2 p.m.
• Marley & Me (PG, 2008) Fri.,
April 17, at 7 p.m.
WILTON TOWN HALL
Main Street in Wilton. Tickets cost $6 • Bedtime Stories (PG, 2008) Sat.,
($4 for seniors and children) unless April 18, at 2 p.m.
otherwise stated. wiltontownhalltheSHOWCASE CINEMAS
atre.com or call 654-FILM.
• Frost/Nixon (R, 2008) Thurs., LOWELL
32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass.,
April 9, at 7:30 p.m.
PETERBOROUGH
COMMUNITY THEATRE
6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, www.thepct.com. Schedule
subject to change, call ahead.
• Theme night Tuesdays — Starting in March, it’s TNT at PCT. A
different theme each Tuesday —
first Tuesday of the month, classic
movie; second Tuesday, comedy/
class; third Tuesday, action/sci-fi;
fourth Tuesday, chick flick. Movies start at 7:30 p.m. Admission is
free; donations accepted.
• Knowing (PG-13, 2009) Thurs.,
April 9, at 7:30 p.m.
• Duplicity (PG-13, 2009) Fri.,
April 10, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April
11, & Sun., April 12, at 3 & 7:30
p.m.; Wed., April 15 & Thurs.,
April 16, at 7:30 p.m.
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a documentary about a Massachusetts couple, will screen on Wed.,
April 15, at 7 p.m. at Christ Church
United, 180 E. Merrimack St. in
Lowell, Mass., with parking available
at Saints Medical Center. Admission
is $5 donation and organizers are
providing childcare, according to a
press release. RSVP by April 10 to
Suzzanne Cromwell at lowellfilmcollaborative@live.com. See www.
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• Revolutionary Road (R, 2008)
Fri., April 10, through Thurs.,
April 16, at 7:30 p.m.
• Duplicity (PG-13, 2009) Fri.,
April 10, through Thurs., April
16, at 7:30 p.m.
• The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
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11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, www.redrivertheatres.org
• Sunshine Cleaning (R, 2009)
Thurs., April 9, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Fri.,
April 10, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Sat., April
11, at 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Sun.,
April 12, at 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Mon., April 13, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Tues., April 14, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Wed., April 15, and Thurs., April 16,
at 5:30 & 8 p.m.
• Documentary series by John
Gfroerer: Sherman Adams (1990,
55 minutes), about Adams who was
governor of NH from 1949 to 1953
and a White House staffer for Dwight
Eisenhower, followed by a talk with
Gov. John Sununu on Thurs., April
16, at 7 p.m.; and Powerful As Truth
(2001, 59 minutes) a documentary
about William Loeb, on Thurs., April
23, at 7:30 p.m.
• One Step Further Multimedia
presentation and lecture by snowboarder Stephen Koch on Thurs.,
April 9, at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Tickets cost $10 ($8 for members).
• The Class (PG-13, 2008) Fri.,
April 10, at 5:35 & 8:15 p.m.;
Sat., April 11, and Sun., April 12,
at 12:35, 3:05, 5:35 & 8:15 p.m.;
Mon., April 13, at 5:35 & 8:15
p.m.; Tues., April 14, at 2:15,
5:35 & 8:15 p.m.; Wed., April 15,
at 5:35 & 8:15 p.m.
• Pre-code films — Midnight
Mary (NR,1933) and Wild Boys
of the Road (NR, 1933). Tickets
cost $8. Friday, April 10, at 7
p.m.; Sat., April 11, at 2 & 7 p.m.;
Sun., April 12, at 2 p.m.
• The Hollywood Librarian: A
Look at Librarians Through
Film
(2007) a documentary
screening Sun., April 12, through
Sat., April 18, at 6:30 p.m. (plus
a 2 p.m. screening on Tues., April
14) The Concord Public Library
Foundation will host a panel of
librarians for a discussion after
the 6:30 p.m. viewing on Thurs.,
April 16.
• Clothesline (NR, 1983) Sun.,
April 19, at 6:30 p.m. Followed
by a community discussion with
Alex Lee, executive director of
Project Laundry List.
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• Twice the Ani: Folk-punk songstress
Ani DiFranco will make two New Hampshire appearances in the month of April.
She’ll appear at the Music Hall (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth) on Tuesday, April 14,
at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the show cost $32
to $40 and can be purchased at 436-2400
or www.themusichall.org. Then on Wednesday, April 15, DiFranco will perform at the
Colonial Theatre at 95 Main St., Keene, at
7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $37 and can be purchased at 352-2033 or www.thecolonial.
org.
• Duty calls: Flagship Cinemas (10 Ashleigh Drive in Derry) will hold a Call of Duty
4 video game tournament on Saturday, April
11. This two-on-two World War II tournament will be played on the Xbox 360 in a
theater featuring digital sound and a large
movie-sized screen. Registration begins at
noon, and the tournament starts at 1 p.m.
The player fee is $10 per person in advance,
and there is a minimum grand prize of $100.
Space is limited. Call 437-8800.
• Concerts for the cause: Tickets are now
on sale for NH Child and Family Services’ 24th season of Concerts for the Cause.
This year’s lineup includes Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes with opening act
deSol, on Friday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m. at
the Lebanon Opera House; Foghat on Sunday, June 14, at 7 p.m. at the Palace Theatre
in Manchester, and Don McLean on Friday,
June 19, at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Center in
Concord. Ticket and show information can
be found on the individual theaters’ Web
sites, and all proceeds from the performances will benefit CFSNH’s local child abuse
prevention and treatment services.
• Return performance: Alli Beaudry
(Hippo’s Best of 2009 Best Local Performer
Playing Originals) will play Bo’s Riverside (500 Commercial St. in Manchester,
on the backside of Milly’s) on Friday, April
10. The show is 21 and over and there is
a $5 cover. The show will include Geoffro,
a longtime bandmate of Beaudry’s who has
been out in Los Angeles, Beaudry said in an
e-mail. Music begins at 9:30 p.m. For more
on the performers, see www.allibeaudry.
com and myspace.com/geoffro.
• Totally jazzed: UNH will conclude its
2008-2009 Traditional Jazz Series with a
performance by Bria and Jim’s Borderline
Band on Monday, April 13, at 8 p.m., at the
Johnson Theatre of the Paul Creative Arts
Center in Durham. The concert features the
young Canadian trumpeter Bria Skonberg
with trombonist Jim Fryer and the Borderline Jazz Band. They’ll also be joined by
banjoist Jimmy Mazzy, pianist Jeff Barnhart, bassist Ed Wise and drummer Kevin
Dorn. Tickets cost $6 to $8 and can be purchased at 862-2290 or at www.unhmub.
com/tickets.
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HIPPO NITE
Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
10 years of brews and blues
Strange Brew celebrates its history, plans for the future
By Katie Beth Ryan
news@hippopress.com
The scenes-within-a-scene at the 10thanniversary celebration at Strange Brew
Tavern in downtown Manchester last Saturday mostly proved that the more things
change, the more they stay the same.
There were the early 20-somethings, who
were in junior high when owner Mitch Sawaya established the tavern in March 1999,
taking shots in the basement as the UNC men
ate Villanova for breakfast on the flat-screen
TV. There were their parents, who stayed
upstairs and nursed their Smuttynose IPAs,
while listening to the Strange Brew All-Star
trio of Howard Randall, Rick Rousseau and
Jon Ross perform their repertoire of blues
and rock. There were the brewery representatives hawking snowboards and beer coolers
to the first people to step forward with a Miller Light bottle, or who could name Strange
Brew’s predecessor at 88 Market St. (Rancho
Loco). Of course there were the musicians
— the All-Stars shared a bill with the New
Hampshire Police Association Pipes and
Drums Band and a cameo appearance by
Commander Cody of “Hot Rod Lincoln”
fame.
Last Saturday night, April 4, at the Strange
Brew was much as it has been for the last
decade. Not that anyone was complaining.
“I think the attraction to me is that it’s
stayed the same. It’s that whole comfort-zone
thing,” said bassist Ross of Portsmouth, who
has played at the bar “since the Dead Sea was
merely sick.”
That’s not to say that Strange Brew is stuck
in the past. Named as one of the nation’s
best places to drink a beer by Esquire magazine, it has broadened its appeal beyond the
neighborhood watering hole crowd, drawing in more families for dinner. And it has
managed to thrive in a
market where a barrel
of micro-brewed beer
averages $150.
“We’ve gone from
18 draughts and a
horseshoe bar to 72
[draughts],” said Jim
Dugan, who has tended bar at Strange
Brew for the last seven years. “There’s just
tons of different setups. People come and
go, musicians come
and go.”
Rick
Rousseau, Howard Randall and Rick Rousseau of the Strange Brew All-Stars at
drummer for the All- Strange Brew Tavern’s 10th Anniversary celebration Saturday night.
Stars, said that new Katie Beth Ryan photo.
music venues aren’t
was good, solid competition. That’s why
popping up every day, and Strange Brew is
they’re still here,” Sawaya said. “What made
one of the few that doesn’t charge a cover.
it work was that we were all doing something
The set list autonomy that Sawaya allows
different. If you didn’t like what was going
musicians is even more difficult to find.
on here one night, you could go somewhere
“It’s great to come into a place and he
else.”
doesn’t tell us what to play,” he said. “I feel
The most immediate change Strange Brew
at home here. He doesn’t care what we do, as
patrons can expect is an expanded top floor
long as we’re entertaining people. He doesn’t
to be used for meetings and functions. The
care what we’re playing, as long as we’re
bar is also looking forward to the city’s eased
playing.”
restrictions on outdoor seating that will enable
The downtown bar scene had many of
it to offer lunch on the weekends, and to an
the same players — Milly’s, Jillian’s — a
ever-expanding beer selection. But the $2.50
decade ago, though the landscape was inherdraughts that draw in the weekend crowds
ently different. The Verizon Center was still
aren’t going anywhere. Nor do the All-Stars
in the planning stages, and the much-balplan to abandon their Tuesday night jam seslyhooed restaurant and bar smoking ban
sion, and Howard Randall wouldn’t dream of
had not yet been conceived. Sawaya, who
playing anywhere else in the Granite State on
worked in high-tech manufacturing before
a Sunday night.
opening a bar in Haverhill, Mass., and then
“Most of the bands I’ve had play here,
Strange Brew, said that there was, and still
I’ve known for 10 to 15 years,” Sawaya said.
is, a natural camaraderie amongst the differ“There’s a lot of loyalty on their part and my
ent venues.
part.”
“The competition that we had back then
Video game dreams
MCAM creates televised Rock Band contest
By Dana Unger
dunger@hippopress.com
Fans of the Harmonix video game Rock
Band have long been relegated to living out
their rock star dreams in their living rooms,
or at the occasional game night at the local
bar. But now MCAM-TV 23 in Manchester
is holding a live Rock Band competition, hoping to match the success that the Manchester
Superstar talent show created for the station
in the fall.
“With Manchester Superstar we found out
that it was mostly a lot of young girls competing,” said MCAM operations director Lauren
Horton. “After that we thought, ‘What about
something geared more for young boys?’ There
aren’t a lot of opportunities for young kids to
go and compete like this and we thought this
would be a great chance for them to build their
confidence and show what they can do.”
The contest will feature several rounds of bat-
tle, leading up to a band-on-band face-off finale,
with proceeds going to the Theatre Knights of
Manchester. The young theater company incorporates students from the Manchester School
District in grades 8 through 12. The company
is trying to raise funds to attend the prestigious
Edinburgh International Fringe Festival in Scotland, which will be held in August this year (see
a story about the group on page 20).
However, there are prizes for competition
winners, including GameStop gift certificates
as well as a $1,000 cash prize to the winner.
Each band will be made up of four members
— a singer, drummer, bassist and lead guitarist — and all the equipment will be supplied
for the competitors (the game is being played
on the Xbox 360 system).
At registration, groups need to pick a
band name, as well as songs from MCAM’s
approved list, with tunes from artists like The
Rolling Stones, Blondie, Sonic Youth, Red
Hot Chili Peppers, and Panic at the Disco.
However, if bands have a rare song they’d like
to use, they are permitted to bring their own
Xbox hard drive. Participants may even play
in more than one band in the competition, and
don’t even have to have a band with them at
registration to enter.
“We can certainly put bands together if people aren’t able to get one together on their own,”
Horton said. “And there’s no age limit. Even
though this is a game obviously geared towards
young people, we want it to be for anyone who
wants to have fun. It’s an escape, a chance to be
a rock star, if only for a little while.”
The audition and battle rounds are taped
on Wednesday nights at MCAM studios, and
episodes run on Mondays at 7 p.m. The first
round of battles will be held April 22, May
6 and May 20. Up to 15 bands will compete
each night, with the top five each night moving onto the live semi-finals on June 8.
The live finale will be held June 15, where
two remaining bands will go head to head.
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“One band will pick a song for the other band to play, and then they get to choose
a song the other one will play,” Horton said.
“So it gives the groups a chance to try and
trip each other up.”
Voting for the competition will work in
much the same way as Superstar did, through
online, in-studio, and judges’ votes.
“When you play the game you get a score
as to how accurate your keystrokes, guitar-playing and notes are, but we’ll also be
judging on your look and stage presence,”
Horton said.
Though they are still working on finalizing the panel of judges, Randy Curtis from
GameStop has been confirmed, and the
show will be hosted by Nick Campenelli,
who currently co-hosts PFG-TV with Scorch
on Monday nights.
“We really think this will be his place to
shine,” Horton said. “We’re excited to have
him join us — it should be a lot of fun.”
Bands or individuals who want to apply
need to visit the official competition Web site
at www.mcam.org/rockbattle.htm to download the registration form. Registration costs
$40, and entrants who are under 18 will need
signed permission from a parent or guardian
to participate. Application materials can be
mailed to MCAM TV-23, 540 Commerical
St., Manchester, 03101, or delivered in person the studio.
“We’re really hoping to replicate the success we had with Superstar,” Horton said.
“That was kind of the start of it — it really
kind of pulled viewers in. Even though this
is a game, it’s still a talent competition. They
have to dress, sing and play the part, and it’s
always so rewarding when you see people
[who] improve week to week and are really
invested in going after their dreams.”
Next Rock Band audition
When: Wednesday, April 15, 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Where: MCAM-TV Studio, 540 Commercial St., Manchester.
Stark Mill Bldg.
400 Bedford St., Manchester NH
Entrance @ the Mill Girl Statue on Commercial St.
www.manchestermusicmill.com
623-8022
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80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588
Rochester Opera House
31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 3351992
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
15, at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• Disturbed, Wed., April 15, at 7
p.m., Tsongas Arena
• Ani DiFranco, Wed., April 15, at
7:30 p.m., Colonial Theatre
• Charlie Musselwhite, Thurs.,
April 16, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Strafford Wind Symphony,
Fri., April 17, at 7 p.m., Rochester
Opera House
• The Fools, Fri., April 17, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Jonathan Edwards, Sat., April
18 at 7 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Static-X & Saliva, Sat., April 18
at 7:15 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• The Mantini Sisters, Sat., April
18, at 7:30 p.m., Concord City
Auditorium
• Mary Gauthier & Anais Mitchell, Sat., April 18, at 7:30 p.m.,
Lebanon Opera House
• Philip Glass, Sat., April 18, at 8
p.m., The Hop
• Women Spirit Song, Sun., April
19, at 3 p.m., Stockbridge Theatre
• Andre Rieu, Tues., April 21, at
7:30 p.m., Verizon
• Tom Rush, Wed., April 22, at
7:30 p.m., Concord City Auditorium
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Come see why we are voted Best Bar for Live Music 9 years straight by Hippo readers!
Located in downtown Manchester: 1087 Elm St. (Parking on Lowell St.)
• Colin Hay , Thurs., April 9, and
Fri., April 10, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Black Label Society, Thurs.,
April 9, at 7 p.m., Verizon
• Indigo Girls, Sat., April 11, at
7:30 p.m., Lebanon Opera House
• John Pizzarelli, Sat., April 11, at
8 p.m., Stockbridge Theater
• US Army Jazz Ambassadors,
Mon., April 13, at 7:30 p.m., Colonial Theatre
• Ani DiFranco, Tues., April 14, at
7:30 p.m., Music Hall
• DJ Spooky, Wed., April 15, at 7
p.m., The Hop
• Rickie Lee Jones, Wed., April
lege, Hanover, 646-2422
Lebanon Opera House
51 North Park St., Lebanon, 4480400
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
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Venues
Capitol Center for the
Performing Arts
44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111
The Colonial Theatre
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033
Dana Humanities Center at Saint
Anselm College
100 Saint Anselm Dr.,
Manchester, 641-7700
Hampton Beach
Casino Ballroom
169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach,
929-4100
Hopkins Center for the Arts (The
Hop)
6041 Wilson Hall, Dartmouth Col-
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BEST OF 2009
Hippo Press Readers Poll
Best Ribs
KC’s Rib Shack
Best Menu Item
Pulled Pork BBQ
KC’s Rib Shack
Nightlife
DJs
• 603 LOUNGE 14 West Hollis St.
in Nashua, 821-5260, Mon. & Thurs.
• AMBER ROOM 53 High St. in
Nashua,881-9060, Thurs., Fri. & Sat.
• AUBURN PITTS 167 Rockingham Road in Nashua, 622-6564,
Saturday.
• BREEZEWAY 14 Pearl St. in
Manchester, 621-9111, Fri. & Sat.
• BREWERY LANE TAVERN 95
Brewery Ln., in Portsmouth, 4337007, Friday, and Saturday.
• BRICK HOUSE 2 Orchard St.,
in Dover, 749-3838, Thursday (no
DJ the 1st Thursday of the month).
• CATTLEMAN’S SPORTS
BAR 14 Railroad Sq. in Nashua,
880-6001, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Saturday.
• CLUB 313 93 S. Maple St. in
Manchester, 628-6813, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, www.
club313.net.
• CLUB LIQUID 23 Amherst St. in
Manchester, 645-7600, Thursday.
• CONCORD GRILLE 1 Eagle Sq.
in Concord, 228-6608, Fri. & Sat.
• GAS LIGHT 64 Market St. in
Portsmouth,430-9122, Fri. & Sat.
• JIMMY’s 15 Mechanic St. in
Dover, 742-9818, Friday & Saturday.
• MILLY’S TAVERN 500 Commercial St. in Manchester, 625-4444,
Monday,Wednesday, Sunday.
• PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER
48 Main St. in Nashua, 821-7535,
Wednesday.
• RED DOOR 107 State St. in
Portsmouth, 373-6827, Tuesday.
• RJ’s 83 Washington St. in Dover,
617-2940. Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat.
• WB’s 20 Old Granite St. in Manchester, 641-2583 Tues.y, Wed.,
Thurs., Fri., and Sat.
Karaoke
• 603 LOUNGE 14 West Hollis St.
in Nashua, 821-5260, Monday and
Thursday.
• ALAN’S North Main St. in
Boscawen, 753-6631, Wednesday.
• AUBURN PITTS 167 Rockingham Road in Nashua, 622-6564,
Saturday.
• BOOMERANGS 37 Henniker
St. in Hillsborough, 464-3912,
Wednesday.
• CANAL STREET PUB 25 Canal
St. in Nashua, 889-3374, Saturday.
• CONCORD GRILLE 1 Eagle
Sq. in Concord, 228-6608, Tuesday
through Thursday and Sunday.
• CATTLEMAN’S SPORTS
BAR 14 Railroad Sq. in Nashua,
880-6001, Wed., Thur. and Sat.
Go Indigo
The pop-folk twosome the Indigo Girls will perform at the Lebanon
Opera House (51 North Park St., Lebanon) on Saturday, April 11, at 7:30
p.m. Amy Ray and Emily Saliers
have recorded more than 16 albums
over their 20-year career, creating hits
like “Closer to Fine,” “Least Complicated” and “Galileo” that
have helped earn them several Grammy nominations. They are
currently touring in support of their new release, Poseidon and
the Bitter Bug. Tickets ($40) can be purchased at 448-0400 or
www.lebanonoperahouse.org. Courtesy photo.
Hip to be
square
Tickets are now
on sale for popular ’80s pop-rockers
Huey Lewis and The
News, who will perform at the Hampton
Beach Casino Ballroom (169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton) on Sunday, June 21, at 7
p.m. The band has sold more than 20 million records thanks to
their string of top 10 hits, including “Heart of Rock & Roll,”
“I Want a New Drug,” and the Back To The Future hit “The
Power of Love,” which earned an Academy Award nomination. Tickets cost $41 to $76, and can be purchased at 929-4100
or www.casinoballroom.com. Courtesy photo.
• CHEN YANG LI 520 South St.
in Bow, 228-8508, Thurs. & Sat.
• CLUB 313 93 S. Maple St. in
Manchester, 628-6813, Friday,
www.club313.net.
• ELEMENT LOUNGE 1055
Elm St. in Manchester, 627-2922,
every Sunday at 5 p.m. w/ DJ Sharon Mulrennan.
• FLAMBEAUX 1181 Elm St., in
Manchester, 626-0304, Tuesday.
• FODY’S GREAT AMERICAN
TAVERN 9 Clinton St. in Nashua,
577-9015. Tuesday w/ Mark Allen
• GRANDSTANDS LOUNGE 216
Maple St. in Manchester, 625-9656.
Thursday through Saturday, 8:30
p.m. to 1 a.m. w/ Brian Labrie.
• JADE DRAGON LOUNGE 515
DW Highway, Merrimack Commons, 424-2280, Thurs. through Sat.
• JOHNNY BAD’S 542 Elm St.,
Manchester, 222-9191, Wednesday
w/ Captain Chris.
• JOHNNY’S PIZZERIA 35
Lowell Road in Hudson, 880-7087,
Thursday w/ Tony ZZZ.
• MCGARVEY’S 1097 Elm St.,
627-2721, Friday, Saturday and
Monday w/ DJ Squidd.
• ROCKO’S 253 Wilson Ave. in
Manchester, 626-5866, Thursday
through Saturday.
• SHENANIGAN’S 586 Nashua
St. in Milford, 672-2060, Mon. &
Wed., Thurs., Sat. w/ DJ Trinity.
• SLADE’S 4 W. Hollis St. in
Nashua, 886-1334, Wednesday
through Friday, Sunday.
• SLAMMERS 547 Donald St. in
Bedford, 668-2120, every Tuesday
at 8:30 p.m. w/ Shadow Rose.
• STEVE-N-JAMES TAVERN
187 Rockingham Road in Derry,
every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. w/ DJ
Sharon Mulrennan
• WHIPPERSNAPPERS 44
Nashua Road, Londonderry, 4342660, every Wednesday at 8:30
p.m. w/ DJ Sharon Mulrennan.
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from Boston!
Boston & New York’s Best Comedians
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MUSIC THIS WEEK
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Allenstown
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown
Rd.
Amherst
Club Comedy At Amherst
Country Club
72 Ponemah
Road,673-9908
Auburn
Auburn Pitts
167 Rockingham
Road, 622-6564
Bedford
C.R. Sparks
18 Kilton Road,
647-7275
Mark’s
Showplace
Route 3,
668-7444
Shorty’s of
Bedford
230 Rte. 101,
637-1050
Slammers
547 Donald St.,
668-2120
Quackers Lounge
121 S. River Road; 622-3766
Belmont
The Lodge at Belmont
Route 106, 877-872-2501
Boscawen
Alan’s
133 N. Main St., 753-6631
Bow
Chen Yang Li
520 South St., 228-8508
Mama Clara’s
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
Thursday, April 9 Jimmy’s: DJ J-Jigga
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Bedford
C.R. Sparks: live jazz
Durham
Acorns: jazz students
Concord
Green Martini: open
Hampstead
mike
Hermanos: Soca Y Son Pasta Loft: Matt Turner
2 Orchard St., 749-3838
Dover Soul
364 Central Ave., 834-6965
Kelley’s Row
421 Central Ave., 750-7081
RJ’s
83 Washington St.
Top of the Chop
One Orchard St., 740-0006
Hudson
Johnny’s Pizzeria
Lowell Road, 880-7087
Linda’s Sport Bar
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792
Tim Therriault Band
Tupelo: Colin Hay
Meet Skeletons feat.
Clint Lowery, Morgan
Rose of Sevendust and
Manchester
Corey Lowery of Dark
Breezeway: Goth night New Day.
Club 313: DJ Biggie, Strange Brew: Mike
DJ Susan Esthera
Fioretti
Club Liquid: DJ
WB’s: DJ Bob
Danjah
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Laconia
Flambeaux: Bam
Derry
Margera
Milford
Burgundy’s: DJ Steve Cactus Jack’s: Paul
Warnick
Johnny Bad’s: blues jam Pasta Loft: Jimmy D
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder w/ Wan-tu blues band
Dover
Milly’s: Into Apathy,
Nashua
Barley Pub: bluegrass
Dogfight, Streamline, 603 Lounge: DJ Misty
Brick House: Jim Tyr- Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
and Hello Demons
Cattleman’s: DJ Berrell, Johnny Doogan
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 Highway,
888-9300
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.
595-2121
Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square,
880-6001
Club Social
nie D
Fody’s: Charlie Chronopolis Experience
Peddler’s Daughter:
Mindseye
Slade’s: Chris Lovett
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Country Tavern
452 Amherst St., 889-5871
Fody’s Tavern
9 Clinton St., 577-9015
Gate City Pub
56 Canal St., 598-8256
Haluwa Lounge
Nashua Mall, Exit 6
883-6662
Killarney’s Irish Pub
Holiday Inn, Exit 4
888-1551
Laureano Nightclub
245 Main St.
Manhattan on Pearl
70 E. Pearl St., 578-5557
Martha’s Exchange
185 Main St., 883-8781
Michael Timothy’s
212 Main St., 595-9334
Nashua Garden
121 Main St., 886-7363
The Peddler’s Daughter
48 Main St., 880-8686
Penuche’s Ale House
16 Bicentennial Sq.,
595-9831
Pine Street Eatery
136 Pine St., 886-3501
Shorty’s Mexican Roadhouse
Nashua Mall, 882-4070
Simple Gifts Coffee
House
58 Lowell St.
The Sky Lounge
522 Amherst St., 882-6026
Slade’s Food & Spirits
4 W. Hollis St., 886-1334
Villa Banca
194 Main St., 598-0500
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
Press Room
77 Daniel St.,431-5186
The Red Door
107 State St., 373-6827
Red Hook Brewery
35 Corporate Dr.,
430-8600
The Wet Bar
172 Hanover St.
New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Tilton
Old Friends Tavern
& Restaurant
927 Laconia Rd, 524-1777
Plaistow
The Sad Café
148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893
Hot tunes, cool shows
Portsmouth
Brewery Lane: Greg
Luttrell
Dolphin Striker: Dan
Stevens
Press Room: Northern The Muddy: Raising
Roots
Scarlet w/ Shagbark
Red Door: J.J. King &
Mello with Shade
Have upcoming shows you want listed
in the music this week? Send information about the coming week — Thursday
through Wednesday — music@hippopress.com or by fax at 625-2422 no later
than noon on Monday. (E-mailed links to
regularly updated Web sites would also
be appreciated.)
Friday, April 10
Allenstown
Ground Zero: Battle
of the Bands
Bedford
Slammers: Radio Edit
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Brookline
Big Bear Lodge
106 Route 13, 672-7675
Village Gate Folk Stage
12 Main St., 315-9423
City Sports Grille
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Chateau Restaurant
201 Hanover St., 627-2677
Club 313
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
Concord
Laconia
Club Liquid
Annicchiarico Theatre
Black Cat Café
Amherst St., 645-7600
1 Thompson St.
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233 Commercial St. Fishery
The Barley House
Fratello’s
33 S. Commercial St.
132 N. Main St., 228-6363 East Hampstead
799 Union Ave., 528-2022 296-0706
Borders
The Pasta Loft
Margate Resort
Derryfield Country Club
76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255 220 E. Main St., 378-0092 76 Lake St., 524-5210
625 Mammoth Road,
Concord Grille
Naswa Resort
623-2880
1 Eagle Square
Epsom
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341 Don Quijote
Green Martini
Circle 9 Ranch
Paradise Beach Club
333 Valley St., 792-1110
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
Windymere Dr., 736-9656 322 Lakeside Ave.,
East Side Club
Hermanos
366-2665
786 Massebesic St.,
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Epping
Weirs Beach Smoke House 669-1802
Loudon Road
American Legion
Route 3, 366-2400
Element Lounge
Restaurant and
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Pit Road Lounge
Holy Grail Food & Spirits Londonderry
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533 64 Main St., 679-9559
The Homestead
1111 Elm St., 222-2304
Makris
Restaurant
The Flambeaux Sports Bar
354 Sheep Davis Road,
Exeter
Rte 102 and Mammoth
1181 Elm St., 626-0304
225-7665
Shooter’s Pub
Road, 437-2022
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
Penuche’s Ale House
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856 Mayflower Grange
Brazilian Steak House
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
535 Mammoth Road,
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
The Red Blazer
Goffstown
867-3077
Grandstands
72 Manchester St., 224-4101 Village Trestle
Tupelo Hall
216 Maple St., 625-9656
25 Main St., 497-8230
2 Young Road, 437-5100
The Hilton Garden Inn
Deerfield
Whippersnappers
101 S. Commercial St.,
Lazy Lion Café
Hampstead
Route 102, 434-2660
669-2222
4 North Road, 463-7374
Route 111 Village Square
Jewell & The Beanstalk
472 State St., 329-6879
Manchester
793 Somerville St.,
Derry
Alpine Club
624-3709
Adams Opera House
Henniker
175 Putnam St., 623-8202 Jillian’s Billiard Club
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102 Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
American Legion Wm H 50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
Brookstone Grille and
24 Flander’s Road,
Jutras & Post No 43
626-7636
Event Center
888-728-7732
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467 Johnny Bad’s
14 Route 11 E., 328-9250 The Henniker Junction
American Legion
542 Elm St., 222-9191
Burgundy’s Billiards
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
Post #79
J.W. Hill’s
35 Manchester St., 437-6600
35 W. Brook St.
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Steve-N-James Tavern
Hillsborough
American Legion
Mad Bob’s Saloon
187 Rockingham Road
Boomerang’s
Sweeney Post
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
434-0600
Restaurant & Bar
251 Maple St., 623-9145
McGarvey’s
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 Begy’s Lounge
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Dover
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
333 Valley St., 669-0062
Milly’s Tavern
Barley Pub
W. Main St. 464-6766
Black Brimmer
500 Commercial St.,
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
625-4444
Dover Elks Lodge
Hollis
Bo’s Riverside
Murphy’s Taproom
282 Durham Road
Alpine Grove
500 Commercial St.,
494 Elm St., 644-3535
Biddy Mulligan’s
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051 625-4444
New England Revival
1 Washington St., 749-1100 The Dream Farm
Breezeway Pub
Coffee House (NERCH)
Dover Brick House
64 Dow Road
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
Candia
Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001
Pasquales Ristorante
145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005
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Alan’s: Doug Mitchell, J. Pratt
Brookline
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Dolmadakia
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Heavy metal heavyweights Disturbed will headline the Music as
a Weapon 4 tour, which will come
to the Tsongas Arena (300 Martin
Luther King Jr. Way, in Lowell,
Mass.) on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. Also appearing on
the bill will be Killswitch Engage, Lacuna Coil and Chimaira. Disturbed hit the music charts in 2000 with their debut,
The Sickness, going on to play the main stage at the 2001
Ozzfest tour. Tickets cost $38.25 and can be purchased at
868-7300 or www.paultsongasarena.com. Courtesy photo.
Concord
Barley House:
Amorphous Band
Concord Grille: DJ
Franky & Pro Sound
Entertainment
Green Martini:
Duane D’Agnese
Way Band
Penuche’s: Rockspring
Music as a weapon
Concord
Concord Grille: DJ
Nashua
Derry
603 Lounge: Felix
Franky & Pro Sound
Burgundy’s: DJ Steve
Brown
Entertainment
Amber Room: DJ
Green Martini:
Dover
Jonny C, DJ Danny D Randy Adams
Biddy Mulligan’s:
Black Orchid: Billy
Tim Theriault
Glynn
Derry
Brick House:
Cattleman’s: DJ
Burgundy’s BilSwamp Yankee
Bernie D
liards: Category 3
Jimmy’s: DJ Bounce
Country Tavern:
Kelley’s Row: Rough
Jimmy D
Dover
RJ’s: Monkey Bar
Fody’s: Friday Mystics Barley Pub: Los
Gate City Pub: DJ
Sugar Kings
Hampstead
Blacky
Biddy Mulligan’s:
Pasta Loft: RockPeddler’s Daughter: Syndicate 19
spring
Pop Farmers
Brick House: RelSlade’s: DJ Big Don evation, Elephant
Hudson
House
Linda’s: Hooda Thunk
Plaistow
Jimmy’s: DJ Whiz
Sad Café: Permanent Kid and DJ J-Jigga
Londonderry
Holiday, Chainsaw
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Whippersnappers:
Mascara, The Wake
Last Kid Picked
Up Call, Cherry S/T, Goffstown
East is East
Village Trestle: Lisa
Manchester
Marie and All Shook
Bo’s Riverside: Alli
Portsmouth
Up
Beaudry, Geoffro
Blue Mermaid: Bill
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Foley
Hampstead
City Sports Grille:
Dolphin Striker:
Pasta Loft: Two by
Not Dead Yet
The Groove Cats
Two
Club 313: DJ Susan
Gas Light: DJ Biggie
Esthera
Press Room: BHudson
Club Liquid: RenStreet Blues Band
Linda’s: 80 mph
egade Soundstation
Red Door: Press ProjDerryfield: Triple
ect, MC Face of Fate
Londonderry
Tantrum
w/ Ryan Obermiller
Whippersnappers: 5
Element Lounge: DJ
The Muddy: StiffFlavor Discount
Daddy Dave
water Jct.
Flambeaux: Nimbus
Manchester
Nine
Salem
Breezeway: DJ McKay
Fratello’s: Charlie
Blackwater Grill:
City Sports Grille:
Chronopoulos
Rob Breton
The Groove Cats
Milly’s: Debris,
Maggie May’s: La
Club 313: DJ Bob
Prospect Hill, Of
Soule Fontaine
Club Liquid: DJ
Hope and Glory, One
Varsity Club: DJ
Danjah
Bullet Solution
Danny R
Derryfield: Mirage
Murphy’s: Mirage
Element: DJ Took
Rocko’s: Silence in
Saturday, April 11 Flambeaux: DJ
Shadows, onlybloodAllenstown
Midas, DJ Vicious
willtell
Ground Zero: Pira
Fratello’s: Charlie
Strange Brew: FatReis, Your Favorite Ex, Chronopoulos
wall Jack
My Last Flight, The
Murphy’s Taproom:
UnWined: Craig
Red Light Radicals,
Free Radicals
Fahey Jazz Ensemble
The Truth About North Penuche’s: Lichen
WB’s: Bobby G and
Rocko’s: Where the
DJ Bob
Bedford
Shadow’s Cross
The Yard: Gary Lopez
Slammer’s: Stray Dog Strange Brew: Soul
Shakers
Merrimack
Boscawen
WB’s: DJ Bobby G
Slapshots: Mama
Alan’s: Those Guys
Unwined: Craig
Kicks
Fahey Jazz Ensemble
Brookline
The Yard: Bill Foley
Milford
Country Corral:
Merrimack
Pasta Loft: Mike
Aces and Eights
Slapshots: The Shotz
Band
Milford
Pasta Loft: Baker
Street Band
Nashua
603 Lounge: DJ
Danjah, Kojak &
4Eign
Amber Room: DJ
Rick Naples, DJ
Danny D
Black Orchid: Mike
Armand
Cattleman’s: DJ
Bernie D
Country Tavern:
Steve Wark
Fody’s: Saturday
Blind Billy and the
Spectacles
Gate City Pub:
Akustik Kid
Peddler’s Daughter:
Swinging Johnsons
Saffron Bistro: Brad
Smith, Mark Pucci
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Hi8us
Brewery Lane: Dollhouse DJs
Dolphin Striker:
Truffle
Gas Light: DJ B
Money
Press Room: Combo
Sabrosa
Red Door: Mike Swells
The Muddy: Yarn
Salem
Blackwater Grill:
Mike Moore
Maggie May’s:
Acoustic Cocktails
Varsity Club: Free
Ballin
Sunday, April 12
Barrington
Chip and Run: 2nd
Wind Bluegrass Band
Dover
Barley Pub: open
acoustic jam, f-tet
Brick House: Tiny
Giant Presents
Goffstown
Village Trestle:
open-mike blues jam
Hampstead
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Village Square:
Blues Jam
Manchester
900 Degrees: openmike blues jam
Element: DJ Sharon
Shaskeen: The Spain
Brothers and Friends,
trad. Irish session
Strange Brew: Howard Randall Blues Jam
Nashua
Michael Timothy’s:
jazz pianist
Slade: Chris Lovett
Monday, April 13
Concord
Barley House: jazz
w/Dave Tonkin
Hermanos: John
Franzosa
Dover
Kelley’s Row: Irish
session
RJ’s: DJ E-Ness
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
open-mike jam w/
Gardner Berry
Nashua
603 Lounge: local
artists night
Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee
Jones will perform at Tupelo Music
Hall (2 Young Road, Londonderry)
on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m.
Known for her folk, jazz and Beatinfluenced songwriting, her 1979
debut, self-titled album spawned
the hit song “Chuck E’s in Love”
and was soon earning comparisons
to Joni Mitchell. She has released 14 albums over her musical
career, including her latest, The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard
in 2007. Tickets cost $75 and can be purchased at 437-5100 or
www.tupelohall.com. Courtesy photo.
Jazz for Jayme’s Fund
Jazz guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli will perform at a special concert
to benefit Jayme’s Fund for Social Justice on Saturday, April 11, at 8 p.m., at
the Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St.,
in Derry. Also appearing will be Boston
comedian Jimmy Dunn, and the event
will be hosted by WZID’s Mike Morin.
Pizzarelli has made appearances on The
Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, as well as
in spots for Foxwoods Casino, singing “The Wonder of it All.”
Tickets cost $20 to $30 and can be purchased at 437-5210 or at
www.stockbridgetheatre.com. Courtesy photo.
East Side Club:
open mike
Penuche’s: open mike
Shaskeen: Manchuka
Strange Brew:
Hipology
WB’s: DJs
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike
Hermanos: Mike
Alberici
Dover
Barley Pub: When
Portsmouth
Merrimack
Geeks Unite w/nsi
Press Room: ZumSlapshots: open mike Brick House: Ignobao Tres
rance, Brick Fight,
Nashua
Word for Word
Tuesday, April 14 603 Lounge: open
RJ’s: DJ B-Money
Concord
mike, Akustik Kid
Barley House: Celtic Haluwa: Jimmy Z
Laconia
acoustic jam
Piano Bar
Cactus Jack’s: Eric
Hermanos: Lex & Joe
Grant
Portsmouth
Fratello’s: Neil
Dover
Dolphin Striker:
Martin
RJ’s: Whiz Kid
Tom Yoder
Press Room: Larry
Londonderry
Laconia
Garland, Hoot w/
Tupelo: Rickie Lee
Fratello’s: Duke
Jerry Short
Jones
Snyder
Red Door: Scissor Test
Manchester
Wed., April 15
Flambeaux: DJ
Manchester
Bow
Vicious
Black Brimmer: DJ Chen Yang Li: DJ
Strange Brew: HowIgnite
Brian B
ard Randall
Comedy
Saturday, April 11
Amherst
Country Club: Bob
Gautreau, Greg Boggis,
Tim Hoffman
Londonderry
Tupelo: Kenny Rogerson, Jon Fisch
Wed., April 15
Manchester
Shaskeen: open-mike
comedy
UnWined: Craig
Fahey Jazz Ensemble
Wild Rover: Marty
Quirk
Milford
Pasta Loft: open
mike
Nashua
Fody’s: Joe Macdonald
Peddler’s Daughter:
DJ St. Julian
Slade’s: DJ Paul Roy
Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker:
Don Severance
Press Room: Todd
Cushing & Fred
Shepard
Red Door: ’90s hiphop with PB Kidd
The Muddy: Maganahan’s Revival April
Residency
Saturday,
May 9
:00 p.m.
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Saturday,
April 25
Saturday, April 25
Concord
Capitol Center: Frank
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AL KOOPER
ROCKABILLY TRIO
Saturday,
May 30
:00 p.m.
Manchester
Headliner’s: Larry
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Palace Theatre: Bob
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Wed., April 29
Manchester
Shaskeen: open-mike
comedy
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THIS WEEK and beyond
Saturday, April 18 Portsmouth
Amherst
Music Hall: Tomas
Country Club: Bill
Kubinek
Campbell, Rich Gustus,
Krissy Kelleher
Tuesday, April 21
Manchester
Londonderry
Mad Bob’s Saloon:
Tupelo: Gallagher
Queen City Comedy
Showcase
Manchester
Headliner’s: Bob GoutWed., April 22
reau
Manchester
Palace Theatre: Loretta Shaskeen: open-mike
LaRoche
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Hippo Crossword
“Go Digital”— turning over a new page in technology. By Matt Jones
Across
1 It’s made before blowing
5 Esteem
10 Pirate’s mugful
14 Jai ___ (ball game)
15 “Hello, ___ Be Going!” (Phil
Collins album)
16 Charlie Chaplin’s wife O’Neill
17 With 52-across, song for long
road trips, after the digital conversion?
20 Get rid of, after the digital conversion?
21 Satan’s equivalent, in Islam
22 He interviewed Obama
23 Waters, in Oaxaca
24 Labor relations class?
27 Airplane speed numbers
29 Auction site that owns Skype
30 With 35-across, Nick Lachey’s
former boy band, after the digital
conversion?
34 ___ Diego Chicken
35 See 30-across
37 Prefix meaning “height”
38 Do a basic surfing move, after
the digital conversion?
40 Actress de Matteo of “Sons of
Anarchy”
41 2008 documentary about the
national debt
42 Full of spunk
44 Department that creates products, for short
46 Titmouse, e.g.
47 “Grey’s Anatomy” actress
Katherine
48 Cat food brand, after the digital
conversion?
52 See 17-across
55 Fashion house that released the
perfume J’adore
56 Name of fine violin makers
57 Spot in the water
58 “___ McGee” (2006 animated
series about a detective with no
head, torso or arms)
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59 Mascot of Kellogg’s Honey
Smacks
60 Financial aid criterion
Down
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1 Letter presets used in place of
arrows in keyboard-based computer games
2 Tennis Hall-of-Famer Nastase
3 ___-Coburg and Gotha (royal
house of Europe)
4 Get the CD started, say
5 Brand that “gets the red out”
6 Acid in proteins
7 Sumptuousness
8 Type of computer port
9 D.D.E.’s command in WWII
10 Started in on lovemaking
11 Rockn___ (2008 U.K. movie)
12 “___ the loneliest number...”
13 Tenacious D bandmate Kyle
18 California’s Santa ___ Valley
19 Hose
23 Twinge
24 Grateful Dead
bass guitarist Phil
25 Four-line
rhyme scheme
26 Singer-songwriter Aimee
27 Charla’s taller
racing partner, on
“The Amazing
Race: All-Stars”
28 “A Death
in the Family”
writer James
30 They give
people big heads
31 Respiratory
disease in 2002
news
32 Rapper who appeared in “Johnny Mnemonic”
33 Look deeper inside?
35 Draw idly
36 Exiting Israeli prime minister
Olmert
39 How some Christmas cookies
taste
40 Question from an unsure competitor
42 “The Broken American Male:
And How to ___” (2008 book)
43 Perry Mason creator ___ Stanley Gardner
44 Reconfigures a mortgage loan,
slangily
45 Sony robotic pets
46 Word that partners with “danke”
47 “Today” cohost Kotb
48 Get caught on
49 Florist’s holder
50 Dakota Fanning’s younger sister
51 It goes downhill pretty quickly
53 Like, totally bitchin’
54 “___ To Fu” (part of the 2008
Damon Albarn project “Monkey:
Journey to the West”)
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SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from Vince Gill, born April 12, 1957.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “Have I gone crazy? / Is there
someone new? / Something strange is going on / Between me
and you.” —“I’ve Been Hearing Things About You” Don’t
rely on rumors; confront the accused person directly and hear
his or her side of the story.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “You better turn me loose /
Turn me loose you know that I can’t stay / You better turn me
loose / Well turn me loose you know I’ll make it anyway.”
—“Turn Me Loose” Actually, you have the power to turn
yourself loose anytime you want. It’s been in those ruby slippers all along.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “All those nights away from
home / Caused my lonely heart to roam / Now I’ve got to stop
living the way I do.” —“Livin’ the Way I Do” Old habits die
hard but you can do it and it will be worth the effort.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “Midnight train, make your
engine whine / Midnight train get me home on time.” —“Midnight Train” Ask a friend to meet you at the station.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “When I told my baby / Do what
you wanna do / Well I had no idea / Just what she’d put me
through.” —“Everybody’s Sweetheart” Suck it up, pal.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “The street looks different
tonight / Something has changed / I had this picture in mind
/ But it’s just not the same.” —“Something’s Missing” You’ll
find a once-familiar landscape is different. Spend some time
getting re-acquainted with your surroundings. Some changes
4/2
might be disappointing but some will be for the better.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “In this crowd of old friends /
Why do I feel alone? / I thought I’d fall back in step / This is
where I belong.” —“Something’s Missing” Beware the pressure to conform. Your individuality is sure to bust out sooner
or later.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “It’s colder than winter / I’m
freezing inside / And my tears won’t be bitter / Even though
our love died.” —“Colder Than Winter” Warm your heart
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “You are my rock and the
strength I need / To keep me sane in this life that I lead / Now
I’m not with you and my broken heart bleeds / I never knew
lonely ’til you.” —“I Never Knew Lonely” Now you know
lonely; join a lonely hearts club and work on exercising your
independence. Muscles long unused have atrophied, but you
will be able to build a new life for yourself if you try.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “Man I’ve chased some
crazy dreams / Reaching for that big brass ring / Bitter memories I’ve put behind me / I found out it’s the little things.”
—“These Days” Breakfast, work, lunch, work, dinner, rest,
sleep. Repeat. Focus on doing the small things right and your
life will get organized from the bottom up.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “The years come and go /
I’ve sure realized / There ain’t nothin’ like your best friend.” —
2009 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
By Dave Green
any way you can, before you turn all Grinchy.
“Little Brother” A sibling relationship will have a big impact
on your life right now. Not necessarily yours, but someone’s.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “Oh here I sit with my first
glass of whiskey / Wondering where I went wrong / How I
wish she was still right here with me / I long to hear all those
old country songs.” —“This New Heartache” Now is an ideal time to write your own new country songs. Take the lessons
you’ve learned and recast them in your own perspective.
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
Movie News
Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence said recently that he would install a prosthetic eye with
a camera and wireless transmitter (of the size
now used for colonoscopies) into the socket
from which one of his eyes had been removed
as the result of a childhood accident. He hopes
to control the prosthetic eye in the same way
that his muscles control his good eye, to record
what his eyes see, and his first project will be a
documentary on people’s attitudes about privacy in an “Orwellian society.” “(T)he best way
to make a connection (with an interviewee)
is through eye contact,” he said. “When you
bring in a camera, people change.”
Government in Action
Police Blotter
-- Police were called to the Aliso (Calif.)
Town Center on March 15 after a woman telephoned 911 to report being attacked near the
center’s fountain by another woman, who had
flung her dog’s feces at her and her infant. The
flinger was said to be upset about complaints
from passersby about the enema she was giving her dog in public.
-- Names in the News: Charged in Albuquerque in February with giving her daughter
marijuana: Ms. Jodi Weed. The victim of a January beating by her middle school classmates
in Tampa (for the obvious reason): Miss Special Harris. Charged with arson and destruction
of property in Charleston, W.Va., in March:
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover.
Fine Points of the Law
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal agreed in February to hear the charge
brought by Roxanne Stevenson that she was
turned down illegally for a clerk’s job by the
city of Kelowna because she smokes. “Smoking,” itself, is not covered by the law, and a
city official said Stevenson frequently used
sick leave at a previous job and that, during her
interview, she “reeked” of smoke and coughed
constantly. Lawyers interviewed by the Vancouver Sun said, however, that employers
cannot discriminate on account of health status
or addiction without offering to accommodate
the worker’s condition.
The Miracle Drug
Alcohol Was Involved: (1) A 19-year-old University of Colorado student required emergency
assistance in March after spending all evening
badgering fellow partygoers to hit him in the
face. Finally, at 2 a.m., someone complied, resulting in a broken nose and massive bleeding. (2) A
National City Bank in downtown Pittsburgh was
broken into on March 7, inadvertently, when an
intoxicated man accidentally tripped and crashed
through the front window (narrowly avoiding
decapitation). (3) According to sheriff’s reports,
a man reported to Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital on
Feb. 18 after having passed out drunk with an exgirlfriend and waking up with a sewing needle in
his urethra.
Recurring Themes
That Sacred Institution (as practiced in
villages in India): (1) To prevent mysterious illnesses in the village, two 7-year-old girls were
married, separately, to frogs (Pallipudupet,
Tamil Nadu state; January). (2) To bring prosperity to the village, an elder married off two
trees to each other (Subhasnagar, West Bengal state; February). (3) To overcome the effect
of a baby’s odd-looking tooth, which is said to
portend death by a tiger unless remedied, the
18-month-old boy was married off to a female
dog (Jaipur District, Orissa state; February).
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exhibit, “Seats of Power,” to encourage citizens to greater activism in local affairs around
Brisbane, Calif. (just south of San Francisco
Bay). The “Seats” are upholstered cushions
individually tailored with the buttprints of each
of the 10 city council members, who allowed
Grossman to photograph them from behind,
clothed, through a sheet of Plexiglas pressed
against their posteriors to simulate being seated. All 10 co-operated, including Mayor Sepi
Richardson, who said she had been considering her “legacy” lately, “but I never thought it
would be my butt.”
• Small-Town Politics: (1) Resident Tony
Randall of Ashland, N.H. (pop., 2,000), a surveyor by trade who was elected chief of the
town’s 12-member police force in March,
promised he would know more about his job
by September, when he will finish police academy training. (2) The Cleveland Plain Dealer
reported that a March meeting of the Medina,
Ohio, City Council required a recess when all
members engaged in serial giggling over one
person’s flatulence. (3) Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer of Snellville, Ga., involved in a recent
feud with an aggressive city council member, called on police chief Roy Whitehead to
escort him to the men’s room at City Hall for
his safety.
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with the impossible task of “regulating”
18,000 makers of drug devices (and thousands
of other companies and enforcing 123 new
federal laws since 1988), has had virtually no
increase in staff in 15 years. It’s little wonder,
then, that the AM2PAT company of Angier, N.C., was not caught before bacteria in its
pre-filled syringes were linked to five deaths
and hundreds of illnesses in December 2007.
Subsequently inspected, AM2PAT’s saline
and heparin syringes were found to contain
“debris” and “sediment” and to be “muddy”
and “dingy brown” in color. Furthermore,
according to a February report in the Raleigh
News & Observer, the required “clean (air)
room” was found to be just a room with a fan,
and the company’s “chief microbiologist” was
revealed to be a teenager who had dropped out
of high school. The company’s owner has fled
to his native India to avoid prosecution.
tumes at the Hugh Moore Historical Park in
Easton, Pa. The park’s lone mule-pulled boat
is operated in a 2-mile-long canal that is near
nothing of strategic significance, said the park
director.
• In addition to addressing the usual state
homeland-security concerns, Kentucky’s statute requires anyone licensed as a first responder
to disasters to take an oath against dueling (“I,
being a citizen of this state, have not fought a
duel with deadly weapons ... nor have I sent or
accepted a challenge (to duel), nor have I acted as second in carrying a challenge (to duel),
so help me God”). Another provision requires
the state Homeland Security Office’s executive
director to “publicize” a legislative finding that
“reliance upon Almighty God” is necessary to
homeland security.
Undignified Deaths
(1) A motorist survived a crash on Feb. 4
near Los Banos, Calif., though his car fell
down a 200-foot cliff. After he climbed back
to the highway and sought help, he was accidentally hit and killed by another driver. (2)
A 60-year-old man, celebrating his retirement
from a transportation company in Ritto, Japan,
in December, was killed when three co-workers tossed him playfully into the air and then
apparently miscommunicated as to who would
catch him.
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• The U.S. Transportation Security Administration ruled in January that a post-9-11 federal
maritime law, which requires comprehensive
background credentials for mariners holding
U.S. Coast Guard authorization on U.S. waters,
applies even to the two “mule skinners” who
work, in tourist season, dressed in colonial cos-
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