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Hippo | May 28 - June 3, 2009 | Page When are taxes too
high?
That seems like a good
question to ask amid the
budget talks at the state
level and in many New
Hampshire communities,
including Manchester and Nashua.
Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, who is
running for Congress, and Fred Tausch, the
leader of the anti-stimulus group Steward,
both are arguing that the federal government
is spending too much to stimulate the
economy. In Manchester, Guinta is pushing
to keep property taxes flat. Governor John
Lynch says he will veto a 15-centers-pergallon increase in the gas tax.
It seems reasonable for Guinta, Tausch
and Lynch to want to keep taxes down. Like
everyone else, I too want to pay less for my
government services. I’d also like to pay less
for my groceries and cable. And I could, if
I wanted the basic cable package and to eat
ramen noodles every day. Of course, that’s
the big issue: finding a balance between
what we, as a city, state and country, feel we
should spend for our government services
and what those services are worth. Is it
worth it to pay $40 million for a jet fighter?
Is it worth it to spend to support free lunch
programs at public schools or prop up the
price of corn? These are tough questions to
answer. But they get to heart of what we talk
about around every budget season. Where’s
the balance between taxing us citizens and
the cost of our government?
This question has been particularly acute
in the education funding debate. A few weeks
ago, Hippo did a cover story asking whether
spending more money get towns betterquality schools. There’s no easy answer
there, but clearly more money doesn’t hurt.
So are taxes too high? Each community
decides that by who they elect. In
Manchester, the answer has been “sort of”
for the last few years as the aldermen and
mayor have tussled over small changes in
the tax bills.
But what if we changed the question and
asked instead if we are getting our money’s
worth. In other words, forget how much
we’re paying and ask, are you satisfied
with the schools, the policing, the roads
or the parks? I think then the debate really
changes from one of “I don’t want my taxes
to increase” to “what value do I place on
our roads, school and police.”
Unfortunately for government, the
answer isn’t always a good one. It may
be that the issue is that voters don’t feel
they are getting good value for their tax
dollars. That’s where issues of civil servant
pay, retirement and health benefits and
efficiencies can come into play. Is our
money well spent?
In these tough times, voters are going to
be asking that question and if government
can’t answer that question with a resounding
yes and here’s why, then how can voters
be blamed for supporting candidates who
want to reduce spending?
Government is like any other service we
bargain for. If we feel we’re not getting
value, then we won’t keep buying.
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Dean Kamen at home;
CMC and DartmouthHitchcock getting closer;
public health offiicials at
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River; Shiloh faith in action; more news in brief
12 Dream jobs
Not everyone starts out doing what they love
for a living. But for everyone who has ever
“always wanted” to be a chef, see their play
on Broadway or make their own wine, a few
people actually make those dreams happen.
Heidi Masek talked to Granite Staters who fulfilled their dreams.
On the cover: Candia Vineyard owner Bob Dabrowski with his Noiret grapes. Photo courtesy Bob
Dabrowski.
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4. If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation.
Recent studies have suggested that modest alcohol
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5. Know your cholesterol. High cholesterol can
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6. If you are diabetic, follow you doctor’s
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Gov. John Lynch said in published reports last
week he would veto the state’s $11.5 billion budget if it contains a gas tax increase. Earlier this
year, the state House of Representatives passed
a budget with a 15-cent increase in the state’s gas
tax. The Senate is currently working on the budget. The state’s gas tax is currently 19.6 cents per
gallon. The increase would reportedly help cover
costs associated with repairing the state’s highways and bridges. Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, who
is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,
said his committee could finish up with the budget this week, potentially paving the way for the
budget to hit the Senate floor June 3. The budget
must be balanced by June 30.
Proponents of same-sex marriage in New
Hampshire took a hit last week when the House
rejected Senate-approved amendments to a
bill legalizing same-sex marriage. The bill had
passed both bodies of the legislature, but Lynch
called for further language protecting religious
institutions and vendors who may not want to
cater to same-sex couples. The Senate quickly
adopted Lynch’s language, but the House balked,
voting 186-188 to defeat the measure. Officials
say the bill isn’t dead, as the House and Senate
will look to iron out a compromise in committee.
Both bodies must approve the same bill before it
goes to Lynch, who has said he would veto the
bill if it does not include the language he called
for. If it does accommodate his concerns, he said,
he’ll sign it into law, even though he has publicly
said he believes marriage is solely between a man
and a woman. Connecticut, Maine, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont currently allow same-sex
marriage.
Senators approved a bill last week that would
ban text messaging while driving. It would
include an exception for drivers entering numbers to make a call. Those caught text messaging
behind the wheel would face a $100 fine. The
House already passed the bill earlier this session.
The measure is now in Lynch’s hands.
U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes last week sent a letter
calling for an investigation by United States Postal Service Inspector General David Williams into
whether the postal service altered letter carriers’ hours during the past six years. According to
Hodes’s letter, the New Hampshire branch of the
National Association of Letter Carriers filed
grievances at post offices in Milford and Man-
chester. The grievances include more than 800
instances of adjustments, which has deducted
nearly $12,000 from paychecks.
New Boston native Suzanne Hulick was
awarded a J. William Fulbright Fellowship
to teach English in Germany for the 2009-2010
school year. Hulick, a senior at Amherst College,
is a German studies and music major.
Landfill gas-to-energy project
The University of New Hampshire is powering up with landfill gas. EcoLine is a gas-to-energy
project that uses purified methane gas from a
nearby landfill to power the five-million-squarefoot campus. UNH will draw up to 85 percent of
its electricity from purified natural gas. UNH is
the first university in the nation to use landfill gas
as its primary fuel source, according to a UNH
press release. The project took four years to complete and cost $49 million. Waste Management’s
Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise in Rochester uses extraction wells to collect
the naturally occurring gas, which is a byproduct
of landfill decomposition. The facility purifies the
methane before it travels along a 12.7-mile pipeline to UNH’s co-generation plant. The university
will sell the renewable energy certificates generated from using the landfill gas through 2012 to
help finance the project.
Kaleidoscope moving
Citing issues with rent, zoning, space and
code requirements, the Kaleidoscope Children’s Museum is moving from Main Street in
Concord to the Millyard in Manchester. The
three-year-old museum, owned and operated by
Michelle Carignan, will move into Waumbec
Mill, 250 Commercial St. Suite 1011B, in June.
The museum’s new space is almost twice as large
as its Concord location, at 8 South Main St. The
museum will use the additional space to offer
food, more exhibits and a private party room, a
museum press release said. The new location will
also benefit from on-site parking. The museum is
expected to open in its new location July 8, with a
grand opening July 25. The museum will remain
open in Concord through Sunday, May 31. Visit
www.nhchildrensmuseum.net. Call 229-4526.
Dream vacation NH-style
In an effort to get people to explore the Granite
State, the state Division of Travel and Tourism
Development last week launched its New Hampshire Dream Vacation Promotion. The campaign
features an online photo contest with the winner
receiving a custom-designed New Hampshire
dream vacation, priced at $2,500, a state press
release said. To play, people must go to www.
nhdreamvacation.com and download the “I Love
it Here” sign. Participants must take three photos
with the sign at locations listed on the Web site —
the list includes specific locations, such as Mount
Washington and Manchester-Boston Regional
Airport, and general ideas such as “a winery” or
“a drive-in movie theater.” The top 25 entries will
be selected by popular vote and the final winner
will be selected by a panel of judges.
Selling yourself
The floundering economy and its subsequent
job losses have been lamented to no end, but the
University of New Hampshire is taking a pro-
active approach with its students. The school is
offering a new marketing class to help people
dealing with job loss, called Selling Yourself in
a Tough Economy. The class launched Tuesday,
May 26, and will cover time management, presentation skills, leadership, negotiations and best
practices. Visit www.unh.edu.
In Manchester, MCAM-TV is taking the job
search process into its own hands. The local television channel is inviting job-seekers take part in
a new weekly show devoted to video résumés.
People can present 90-second elevator speeches at the MCAM station using studio equipment.
There is no cost to participate. Interviews can
be scheduled during business hours. Call Ryan
Plaisted at 622-3023 or send an e-mail to ryan@
mcam.org. Visit www.mcam.org.
Lifestyles of the rich and nerdy
Dean Kamen shows off his home
By Jeff Mucciarone
jmucciarone@hippopress.com
Part residency, part function hall, part
museum and all parts a marvel, the Bedford
home of renowned inventor Dean Kamen was
recently opened to members of the region’s
high-tech firms and businessmen for a fundraising dinner to benefit the SEE Science
Center in Manchester.
Officials of the SEE Science Center, which
Kamen founded, are trying to stimulate interest in science, not just among children but also
among adults. The Science Center, 200 Bedford St., likely has no bigger advocate than
Kamen, who may best be known for inventing
the Segway PT, a two-wheeled electric selfbalancing scooter-like mobile.
“Science doesn’t have to be dull and boring,” said Douglas Heuser, executive director
of the SEE Science Center, which opened in
1986.
There’s nothing dull or boring about
Kamen’s home, called Westwind, which,
aside from displaying countless inventions
and panoramic views of the surrounding area,
features an elaborate and maze-like design.
A spiral staircase built into a massive fireplace takes visitors to the observation tower,
offering views of the Manchester airport,
downtown Manchester, Kamen’s fully-lighted
baseball field, tennis courts and his perfect-
ly landscaped acreage. Dinner guests took in
Kamen’s workroom, complete with hundreds
of intricate drill bits, chisels and vises; his
inventions, such as a mechanical chess player, a coin mint and a stirling engine; and other
novel items, such as his helicopter, a massive wind turbine, and an indoor pool; along
with simpler items, such as a foosball table
and an extensive personal library. Throughout the evening guests meandered through the
home’s seemingly endless supply of twisting
hallways and staircases.
If the SEE Science Center is looking for
scientific inspiration, Kamen’s home would
appear to be the perfect place to start. The
Center is also finding inspiration in its own
admission numbers, especially in a tough
economy. Heuser said 73,000 people checked
out the museum in 2008 and he expects more
than 80,000 visitors this year. In 2010, when
the museum will once again have its dinosaur
exhibit, Heuser figures more than 150,000
people will take in the museum.
The museum features a display of the Manchester Millyard made entirely from Legos
— three million Legos. Heuser said the
Science Center is beginning to see its demographics shift, as more adults make the trip
themselves unaccompanied by children.
Visit www.see-sciencecenter.org. Call
669-0400.
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Dominican star of baseball movie Sugar is on tour
Algenis Perez Soto, 25, had a dream he’d one day come to
the United States to make a name for himself on the baseball
diamond. The dream didn’t play out exactly as Soto planned, but
he is in the U.S. and he did have to bring his glove with him. The
native of the Dominican Republic is the star of the film Sugar,
which debuts in New Hampshire at Red River Theatres on Friday,
May 29. It’s the story of a Dominican pitcher dealing with the
adjustment of moving to the U.S. and working his way up the
professional baseball ranks. Soto will be at Red River following
the two evening screenings on Saturday, May 30; showtimes are
5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Tickets to screenings with the discussion
cost $10 ($8 for Red River members).
one would have told me two years before, I
wouldn’t have believed I would come here
as an actor. But I’m here now thanks to the
movie, thank God.
What do you think about acting in
general?
I really like it. I remember during the film,
when we were shooting, we were working so
much. Sometimes, it’s like “Oh my God, I
don’t want to be here.” Sometimes, it’s hard,
15-hour days. But I really like it. I would like
to keep doing this.
Q:
Tell us about Sugar. What’s the
movie all about?
It’s a movie about a young
Dominican who wants to come to
the U.S. to be a baseball player. His dream is
to be a major leaguer and he wants to get his
family out of poverty. It’s a very nice story.
I think that people will like to see the movie. It’s not only about baseball, it’s also about
immigration and many other things.
Growing up you were an infielder, so for
the movie you had to learn to play pitcher.
What was that like?
When I used to play baseball, I always
played shortstop and second base. I had to do
training to be a pitcher. It was my first time
acting and my first time pitching. The trainer had to teach me how to do the mechanics,
how to throw a curve and everything.
So this was your first time acting.
It is true, it is my first time. How it all ended up was crazy. The way they approached
me, asked me to come to the auditions. It was
supposed to be 2 p.m. in the afternoon, and I
was only going to go because my brother told
me to. But I had a softball game, so I didn’t
go to the casting. I was thinking if I go to the
casting, I’ll be wasting my time, so I went
to play ball. So after they went to the place I
was playing, because I wasn’t too far away.
So they invited me with some friends and we
did some auditions.
Did you ever think it would play out like
this?
I never thought, when I was a kid, I always
thought if I go to the U.S. someday, I’ll go
because of baseball, to be a baseball player.
That’s all I have in my mind, baseball player.
I would come here for that reason. If some-
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Who are some of your favorite baseball
players?
Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Alfonso
Soriano, but my favorite has always been
Manny Ramirez.
Growing up, were you thinking you could
make it to the major leagues?
When you play baseball you always think
that you have the chance, that you have the
skills. I think that everyone who plays thinks
about it. I wasn’t bad and I felt — I didn’t
get signed to play in the pros, but I thought
I would. People around me who used to see
me play, they thought it was possible, but it
didn’t happen. Maybe because my role in all
this was to represent all these guys in this
movie. I thought I would be a baseball player and I worked really hard to go through the
major leagues and get to the elite someday.
What’s your experience been in the United States so far?
Coming to the U.S. for me was something
that was really unbelievable. It’s great coming
for the first time …. The movie-making was
unbelievable. It was crazy. It was really nice to
be here and to get paid. I went to Iowa. It’s kind
of boring, some people were saying, but for me,
Iowa was cool. It was my first time here, so I
was like just enjoying everything. I just wanted to see everything. It was something new so I
was enjoying everything.
What’s next for you?
Right now I’m pretty busy with the promotional stuff, traveling all around the U.S. and
some of Canada, festivals, premieres. And
now I’m a little bit busy with that. Hopefully,
the new career is to have some other movies.
That would be pretty nice right now. I haven’t
done any other auditions. I’ve been dedicated to the promo and traveling almost every
week. I’m waiting to see what’s going to happen with this movie, to see what people think
about the movie and about my performance.
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Still ironing out details, Catholic Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester may
have an agreement for an affiliation ready for public and legal evaluation by late June or early July.
“We’re still in the period of drafting the definitive agreement,” said Gail Winslow-Pine,
spokeswoman for Catholic Medical Center.
Officials hope to have a formal affiliation
agreement in place by the end of the year.
The two health care providers made it known
about three months ago they were looking to
formalize an affiliation with a letter of intent.
The terms of the affiliation are still unclear, but
officials from both institutions have steadfastly
maintained the two will stay true to their respective identities. Officials said the community
isn’t likely to see much change at either facility in the near term, but in the future the two will
probably offer an expansion of services. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester is a division of
the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, which also has
locations in Concord, Nashua and Keene. The
affiliation would only pertain to the Manchester
division of Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
“The ultimate goal really aligns with our
missions, to create a medical home for the uninsured and the under-insured, potentially
reaching a larger segment of the community,”
Winslow-Pine said, adding the affiliation would
also likely consolidate existing services.
Winslow-Pine said CMC is duty-bound by
the religious teachings and ethics of the Roman
Catholic Church. She said under any formal
affiliation between the two, CMC would maintain its religious principles.
The two medical centers have collaborated
for more than five years. Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s
Norris Cotton Cancer Center at CMC opened in
February 2008 and provides expanded chemotherapy and specialty cancer care. The two have
also paired up on maternity services, cardiology,
pulmonology and primary care, Winslow-Pine
said when the proposal was announced.
In one proposal outlined in the letter of intent,
CMC President and CEO Alyson Pitman Giles
would serve in that same role for a parent company
overseeing both institutions. The parent company
would remain a non-profit organization.
Several entities, including Roman Catholic Bishop John McCormack, of the Diocese
of Manchester, who signed off on the letter of
intent, must approve any agreement between
the two health care providers. That prospective
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Hampshire Charitable Trust, along with any
federal or regulatory agency, the Federal Trade
Commission and both institutions’ boards of
directors.
Winslow-Pine said legal issues still need to be
worked out.
“It has to go through a series of steps,” Winslow-Pine said.
CMC has further meetings planned with
groups concerned about abortion practices.
“As part of the process right now, we continue to solicit input and feedback and we’re ...
incorporating it into the definitive agreement,
whatever the full context of the agreement is, so
we can alleviate any concerns moving forward,”
Winslow-Pine said.
Some have expressed concern over the religious component and how that would play out
between the two entities. Some have been particularly interested with the new West Side
Neighborhood Health Center, which is on CMC
property and is run by CMC but includes Dartmouth-Hitchcock staff. The center includes
maternity care, a refugee care center, and now a
new adult health care component.
“The West Side Neighborhood Health Center,
as a department of CMC, ... abides by the ethical
and religious direction of the Roman Catholic
Church ... and that is not changing,” WinslowPine said, adding that the building consolidates
previously offered services under one roof. “It’s
important to understand that, particularly when
it comes to the West Side Neighborhood Health
Center, we’re providing a community benefit in
terms of providing care to those persons who
otherwise might not be seen....”
“One very important piece of it is that Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester and the Catholic
Medical Center will retain their separate identities
and operating characteristics,” said David Evancich, vice president of public affairs and marketing
at Dartmouth Hitchcock, earlier this year. “Retaining our separate identities ... is important to both
institutions, and that could be accomplished with
a holding company that oversees operation of
the two, but not with forced integration on issues
where one does better or differently than the other. There are no services that will be denied or
curtailed, nor should either be forced to provide
anything differently than they would.”
Shortly after the letter of intent was announced,
Winslow-Pine said that unlike the failed merger
between Eliot Hospital and CMC in the 1990s,
there will be no relocation or elimination of clinical services.
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prepared.
“It’s really about intervention and then protection,” said Kathy Mandeville, senior public
health specialist in Manchester.
Public health workers in Manchester, of
which there are about 70, could be performing
traditional public health roles, such as testing
water quality or monitoring restaurants for
sanitation. They could also be advocating for
immunizations. But they might be performing
dental screenings, checking a home for lead
paint, administering HIV testing and education or conducting surveys and studies to see
what groups of Manchester residents are most
at risk, by age, neighborhood or socioeconomic status.
It doesn’t end there. Workers are trapping
mosquitoes and testing them for Triple E.
They’re monitoring city neighborhoods for
chronic disease. Officials are refining emergency plans, which include the ability to set
up a 100-bed acute care center. School nurses,
who are employed through the Health Department, are monitoring students at all levels.
Workers are also immunizing new residents, particularly ones from overseas who
might have picked something up on the trip
here. Since July, Manchester has seen 229 refugees move into the city, mostly of Bhutanese
descent. Those folks aren’t released from their
country if they are infected with any disease,
but it is possible they could pick something up
during the trip over. That’s why the immunizations are made right away, Mandeville said.
The Health Department, which has been
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and controlling the health of the entire Manchester population. Its overarching goal is to
ensure the entire population is safe. Primary
care doctors work individually; public health
departments operate for the greater good, officials said.
Part of prevention is pointing people toward
available resources. The Health Department
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Public health departments in New Hampshire can be overlooked sometimes — until
there’s an ice storm that causes power outages, or an outbreak of swine flu dominates
headlines. Then people want to hear from
public health officials.
News of the swine flu caused at least a
minor panic initially. Reports last week indicated New Hampshire had 23 confirmed
swine flu cases. In Manchester, the Health
Department had a plan in place and staff ready
to implement it.
“It’s been on our radar for quite a while,”
said Timothy Soucy, public health director
in Manchester. “History tells us we’re due.”
Soucy said flu pandemics occur usually about
every 80 years, with 1918 the last major outbreak. “The concern is, the pandemic may
come tomorrow, it may come in 10 years,”
Soucy said.
Pandemic simply means that the virus is
infecting people worldwide. The avian flu
caused concern a few years ago, but the swine
flu was different: people were catching it from
other people.
“Suddenly this new virus in the swine flu
family was spreading person-to-person,”
Soucy said. “That is a tremendous concern to
public health folks.... You truly have the makings for a pandemic now.”
Things have calmed considerably. Cases
are still popping up in New Hampshire, but
Soucy expects that to peter out over the next
couple months. The virus has been found to
be relatively mild. The health community’s
concern is what the virus will do next. Will it
mutate to a more virulent strain or into an even
milder strain? If it gets stronger and it remains
novel, health officials will be very concerned,
especially in Manchester, which has the state’s
largest population and likely the most people from other New Hampshire communities
coming in and out of it.
When news broke of the swine flu, the
department kicked off a multi-faceted plan,
which incorporates surrounding communities that don’t have nearly the public health
capacity of Manchester. Public health staff
keep tabs on infected individuals and who
they were in contact with. They also provided training to police and fire personnel. The
department had considerable contact with the
airport, which has a slew of other issues, such
as what to do with sick passengers flying in
or out of the area. (The department obtains
the names of passengers on the same flight
and keeps them informed if the sick person is
found to be carrying a particularly dangerous
infectious disease.)
“There are systems in place that enable us
to kind of keep a pulse on what’s going on,”
Soucy said. “If we start to see a spike, we start
to scratch our heads and say, ‘Why?’”
With students heading back to school after
spring vacation right after the swine flu hit,
the public health department surveyed 3,100
“high-risk” kids that Monday. At that time,
people traveling to Mexico, California, New
York City or Texas were considered high risk.
“It was a good exercise to do,” Soucy said.
(He said the next day the guidelines changed
and it turned out screening students wasn’t
necessary.)
“The guidelines literally change every day,”
Soucy said. “Because we had plans in place,
we were much better prepared than we would
have been five to 10 years ago.”
“We’re very lucky; we’re lucky it’s the end
of the flu season and we’re lucky it’s not a
virulent strain,” Soucy said. “Right now, it’s
more about geography than numbers.”
Looking ahead, it’s all about what the swine
flu strain does in terms of mutation. It might
not change much. It could come back next
season even more mild. But it could also come
back in a year or two or however long, a stronger, more virulent strain, Soucy said.
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Manchester Health Department is made up
of four sections: community health; school
health; environmental health and emergency
response, and chronic disease prevention and
neighborhood health — the last of which is a
fairly new and evolving target area.
Thomas said the department’s role is futuristic in many ways: “We’re trying to get ahead
of the curve.” Chronic disease is taxing the
nation’s health care system. People are living
longer, and in turn, they’re living longer with
chronic disease, she said.
Thomas said workers are monitoring the
Queen City by neighborhood and by age and
other categories to see where the at-risk areas
are. When they find a problem spot, they seek
an explanation. The department, which Thomas said may be one of the first community
health departments nationwide to be nationally
accredited (there will be a national evaluation
in 2011 to determine accreditation), is doing
things like looking at heart disease among
residents in certain neighborhoods. With obesity a problem nationwide, Manchester health
officials are keeping tabs on it. They’ll look at
elementary school students and devise a strategic plan to address any obesity issues.
“It’s amazing how we evolve,” said Philip
Alexakos, chief of environmental health and
emergency preparedness. “It’s a culture of
constant learning.”
Alexakos is in charge of food establishment
monitoring, water quality testing and making
plans for the next ice storm that causes thousands of power outages.
The department is extremely data-driven, while still maintaining a focus on mental
health and mental well-being, Soucy said.
“We have a more holistic view,” Soucy said.
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ulation is safer. When people do come in for
immunizations, the department points folks to
primary care physicians. They are looking to
be that link, they say.
“We’re trying to create public-private partnerships,” Soucy said. The department will
do things like provide free “no-touch” dental
screenings to elementary school children. For
those who don’t have a dentist, they’ll point
them toward one.
The department operates on a total budget of about $5 million, which is made up of
general fund dollars, school reimbursements
and outside funding — about one third each,
Soucy said.
Given that Manchester is northern New
England’s largest city, it would seem to make
sense that it has a rather large public health
department. It also puts the department in a
bit of a unique situation, as it must deal with
many of the city-related health issues that surrounding communities and certainly New
Hampshire’s more rural towns don’t have to
deal with, officials said, especially considering the economic downturn. Anna Thomas,
deputy health director, said 16 percent of the
state’s Medicaid patients are in Manchester.
Not to mention that up to 20 percent of the
state’s health burden is in the Queen City.
“We’re very concerned with how the economy is changing,” Thomas said, adding the city
is seeing more people on the edge of poverty
who have never been there before. Mandeville
added that many of the folks on the edge are
people who don’t have the “survival skills” of
people who have been there before.
Officials know with more people jobless
and with the downward spiraling economy,
the burden on public health is only going
to grow — at a time when the city is looking to save about $3.6 million by requiring all
union employees to take seven-day furloughs
in Fiscal Year 2010. Public health could be
The Shiloh Community Church is telling
people on Sunday, May 31, rather than go to
church, they should “be the church.”
Leaders of the church, at 55 Edmund St.
in Manchester, are canceling its Sunday
services that day and organizing up to 250
volunteers for a variety of community service projects instead.
“The idea just hit us really well,” said Pastor Edward Heirs. “It’s a great opportunity
for us as a church.”
Endorsed by churches all over the world,
Faith in Action’s “Be the Church” initiative
will not only build a sense of community,
but will also help Manchester and Goffstown
get to many of the cleanup and maintenance
projects they haven’t been able to due to tight
budget constraints, Heirs said. The church
organized the event with the City of Manchester and many community groups.
“Due to resources, lack of funding, they
can’t get to all the stuff they’d like to,” Heirs
said.
The Faith in Action campaign was put
together by World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization serving more than 100
countries, Outreach, Inc., a leading provider of church communication resources, and
Zondervan, a Christian publisher (www.
putyourfaithinaction.org).
On May 31, volunteers will meet as early as 9:30 a.m. at Shiloh Community Church
to begin work on potentially 15 different
projects at several locations, including Easter Seals, the women’s prison, local parks
and ball fields and campgrounds. Some projects are less intensive and will start later in
the day. They’ll paint. They’ll clear brush.
They’ll weed gardens. They’ll pick up trash.
At a local campground, volunteers will stain
log cabins. Some projects will require larger
teams of 20 to 30 people, while other projects
may need teams of five to seven people.
“We’re hopeful it will be a very successful day,” Heirs said. The projects will be
followed by a cookout and stories from participants beginning at 1:30 p.m.
“I have no doubt that through their efforts,
the city, organizations and communities will
enjoy a wonderful day of service and learning,” Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta said
in a letter.
Reaching out to publications, Heirs is hoping other churches catch on and decide to join
in this year or in the future: “It’s an opportunity to reach out to the community and really
give back.”
It’s not just for Shiloh Community Church
members. Heirs said anyone interested can
participate. Call Shiloh Community Church
at 627-7729 and ask for Annette. Visit www.
shilohmanchester.com.
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A proposal by the Merrimack Town Council would phase
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plan would cut the Merrimack Youth Association’s budget from
$131,000 to $110,000 this year and would chop another 25 percent off that each of the next four years, according to an article
in the Telegraph. The article said the MYA’s overall budget is
$485,000 with the town currently contributing about 22 percent.
Officials did say in the article the MYA phase-out plan was far
from set in stone.
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substantially, the article said.
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year, has been picked up by a distributer. Derrick Comedy’s
first feature was chosen to screen at the Sundance Film Festival
in January but Derrick came home with praise and lots of free
stuff, but no theatrical distribution deal until recently. Roadside
Attractions acquired all U.S. rights to Mystery Team according
to a May 18 release. They launch with a unique late summer college tour — Derrick will do a live comedy show at a college,
then open the film in surrounding cinemas that week, according
to director Dan Eckman. (He’s a Manchester native, although
Derrick is New York-based). It will be released nationally in the
fall. See a trailer at mysteryteam-movie.com or visit derrickcomedy.com.
QOL score: +1
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QOL score: +1
Comments: Manchester outdoor entertainment lovers owe a
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Dave Long’s Hippo Sports
LONGSHOTS
First-place Sox are making
the grade
Not that it matters,
but I’m probably not
like most baseball fans
around here. Baseball’s a warm-weather thing to me. Thus I’m
not into the renewal-of-life thing that many
rhapsodize about as opening day approaches,
which I barely even notice.
That’s been especially true the past couple
of years as the Bruins and Celtics have become
viable again. Following their playoff battles
is much more interesting than watching coldweather or dome baseball that is only going on
in the first week of April because the owners are
trying to squeeze every last cent out of the game
even when the product suffers. Plus seeing a
manager like Joe Maddon and his players wearing baseball hats with earmuffs sewn into them
as they did at Fenway Park in the season opener
and the World Series just doesn’t compute.
That doesn’t mean I don’t know the collective ERA of the Sox starters is higher than
Timothy Leary in his prime or that David
Ortiz leads Wily Mo Pena in their personal
2009 homer battle. It just means I don’t enjoy
watching until it’s warm — which I’d like
to blame on Bud Selig, but this started long
before he took the job.
The good news is after the first gloriousweather week of the spring, the baseball season
has arrived for me. And it happened to coincide
with the conclusion of the season’s first quarter. So as I was catching up with those who’ve
been with it since opening day here’s what I
found:
The Good: Given they’re in first place as
this is being written, there are many things that
fit here. At the top of the list is the sensational
job by the bullpen, which has five regulars and
seven guys overall (counting Michael Bowden
and Jonathan Van Every) with ERAs below
3.00. Ramon Ramirez has been dazzling in
going 4-1 with a 0.79 earned run average. Also
in this category is Jason Bay, who reminds
me of a latter-day Tony Conigliaro. The lanky
righty’s stroke is perfectly suited for Fenway, as Tony C’s was back in the day. His 13
homers and 44 RBI at the turn project to a better-than-Manny-ever-did 52 and 176. Wow!
The Bad: The starting pitching. Thank goodness for ageless Tim Wakefield or this would
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be in the ugly category. While he may not stay
that way all year, in going 6-2 he’s been the
only consistent starter and that has been big.
Shortstop defense goes here too. The combined
12 errors by Nick Green and Julio Lugo project to 48 and that’s only acceptable if it’s 1929
and they’re replacing Joe Cronin the year the
Hall of Famer made an astonishing 62 errors in
143 games with the Senators.
The Ugly: I hate to say it, but it’s the 800pound gorilla in the room — the struggles of
David Ortiz. As I write this he’s hitting .195
with one homer and 18 RBI. Ugh.
Questions answered: The two biggest coming in were what Jason Varitek would do at
the plate and how Mike Lowell would respond
after hip surgery. So far so good, although Varitek’s .248 average, surprising eight homers and
20 RBI are close to the .281, 3 and 16 he had
on May 24 during his 2008 train wreck, so he’s
not out of the woods yet. As for Lowell, his
8/32 power numbers aren’t too far off from the
9/37 he had on the same date during his 2007
career year. I’m convinced on Lowell.
Taken for Granted: There’s been little chatter over Dustin Pedroia hitting .329 and being
on pace to score 140 runs and hit 56 doubles.
Guess that happens if you’re rookie of the year
and MVP in back-to-back years. Though he
did have 28 RBI at this time last year to 2009’s
15 and he’s got just one homer after hitting
17 last year. And then there is Kevin Youkilis, who has turned out to be much better than
I ever thought he would be. Billy Beane got it
right about him.
Improvements needed: Getting Ramirez
from KC justified trading Coco Crisp (hitting
.234, 3 HRs and 14 RBI). However, Jacoby
Ellsbury’s improvement makes it even better.
He’s hit better to start, as evidenced by his .297
average and 19-game hitting streak. And he’s
had some exciting moments like scoring from
second on a wild pitch and stealing home in the
same series sweep of the Yanks. Still his .322
on base percentage is 110 points lower than AL
leader Victor Martinez and his 23 runs scored
in the lead-off spot lags behind Pedroia’s 34.
Biggest on-field issue: What to do about
Ortiz and the three hole. How long before you
move him out? And if it comes to this, how
long before you say we need a new DH?
Biggest off-field issue: Hey, Theo — Jason
Bay’s become what you expected J.D. Drew
to be — right? And with the Ortiz struggles
possibly permanent shouldn’t you get the freeagent-to-be left fielder signed NOW!!
Injured list: Given the injury history and age
of several key guys, this is what I thought could
derail the season. And with Kevin Youkilis,
Dice-K, John Smoltz, Julio Lugo, Jed Lowrie and Mark Kotsay having already been on
the DL, they’re ahead of my over-under. But
their depth (and the minor league system’s as
well) is admirable. Especially the pitching,
which is further enhanced by the versatility of
Justin Masterson, who my friend Charley
Cannon accurately likened to the 1978 Bob
Stanley for his ability to start, spot start, long
relieve and be an eight-inning guy.
Good Stuff Still to Come: Most interesting is probably Smoltz being on the horizon.
A healthy, productive Smoltz deepens the rotation and provides a proven clutch performer
for when the games count most.
Trade bait: A healthy Smoltz probably
makes Brad Penny expendable, especially
with Clay Buchholz blowing people away in
AAA. And thanks to the economy, this will be
the biggest salary dump year ever. Thus there
could be some very interesting names popping
up as the deadline looms. Penny won’t bring a
three hitter or a shortstop, but along with the
young talent in the minors he could figure in a
blockbuster to get either if Theo is of a mind
to do that.
Prayer that won’t be answered: A deal with
cash-strapped Florida that would send Penny,
Lowrie, Bowden and one more good young
player, not named Buchholz, Daniel Bard or
Lars Anderson, for Hanley Ramirez to play
short and bat third.
First-quarter grade: A balancing act. On
the downside the starting pitching gets a D, the
shortstop an F, as does Ortiz. But the relief
pitching has been tremendous and despite
Papi’s struggles they’re scoring 5.5 runs, on
pace to hit close to 200 homers and project to
win 98-100 games. So B+.
Dave Long can be reached at dlong@hippopress.com. He hosts Dave Long and Company
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F-Cats and C-Dogs met at
the dot
The Numbers:
0 – runs allowed by Central’s Siara Doucet and
Pinkerton’s Brendan Bell
in solid pitching efforts on
Wednesday. In earning the
win in a 5-0 decision over
Nashua South Doucet gave
up just three hits while Bell
struck out seven and allowed
seven hits as the Astros were
2-0 winners over Memorial.
3 – runs that scored on Alie
Thomas’ third-inning homer
that sent Trinity on its way
to an 11-1 win over Keene
in Class L softball on a day
where she was 2-3 with a
whopping five runs batted in.
shadow of baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Warren made himself the winner
with his second homer of the week, a ninthinning walk-off to give the Green a dramatic 2-1
win over Pinkerton at Gill.
Turnabout is Fair Play Award: As that Central-Pinkerton nail-biter was going on down in
Derry, their softball counterparts were also doing
battle in a nine-inning tilt won by an Astros walkoff when Katie (bar the door) Miller knocked
in Kasey Marraffa in the ninth for a 7-6 win
over Central. It was Miller’s third hit in five at
bats while Cara Choolijan picked up the win
with a 12- strikeout effort in going the distance.
Number of the Week: It figured in all sorts
of fine performances last week. It starts with
Samantha Ayotte allowing five hits in leading
West to a 5-1 win over Timberlane in softball
action. Lax players Tom Auger of Pinkerton,
Marc (pepper) Perroni of Central and Steve
Delahanty each scored five goals in winning
efforts for Pinkerton, Central and Memorial.
Trinity hurler Dylan Clark moved to 5-0 with
a three-hitter against Memorial as he struck out
eight in a 7-0 win when the Crusaders made five
errors. And as you probably guessed, it all happened on Thursday — the fifth day of the week.
Sports 101 Answer: Tony Conigliaro holds
the homers-by-a-teenager record with 24, followed by Mel Ott with 19 and Junior Griffey
with 16.
4 – hits allowed by the
pitching combo of James
O’Brien and Nate Harrington as Bedford beat
Souhegan 3-2 in the clash
of neighbors when Mike
Laflamme’s double was the
key blow in the three-run
third.
5 – goals scored by Trevor Morrisette in leading
Bedford to a 14-6 win over
ConVal in Class M lacrosse
action at the start of the
week.
7 – TD passes by exciting
Wolves QB James Pinkney
in a 56-42 win over the
Mahoning Valley Thunder on
THE SITE OF
Friday at the Verizon Wireless (plug, plug) Arena when
he had 282 passing yards and
Steven Savoy caught four
TD passes.
12 – goals to go along with
three assists by Londonderry’s Kayla Green (peace) as
the Lancers were 19-2 and 172 winners over Nashua South
and Salem in lacrosse action
on Thursday and Friday.
14 – matches won without a loss for the girls’ tennis
team at Central after a 7-2
win over 12-2 Pinkerton on
Friday to close the regular
season undefeated.
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Hampshire Place
72 South River Rd. Suite 202
Across from the Bedford Mall
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The Big Story: Coming on the heels of Monday’s 7,057 largest crowd of the season in a
7-0 loss to Trenton, the scheduled appearance
of John Smoltz was great for the business side
for F-Cats. But if it did happen it wasn’t quite
as good for me as it happened in the dead zone
between my Tuesday deadline and when we hit
the streets Wednesday. So let’s have some fun
and make a prediction for the rehabbing Smoltz:
52 pitches, two hits and three whiffs. If it didn’t
happen, it still led to a bigger crowd than mentioned in the first line of this story when they met
the struggling C-Dogs at home for the first time
this year.
Sports 101: Who holds the record for most
major league home runs by a teenager?
Coming and Going: After a search lasting
longer than the demise of General Francisco
Franco, a welcome is in order for the new women’s basketball coach at Saint Anselm. She’s
DeAnn Craft, who comes north after six years
at U-Texas-Pan American. During her 19-year
career she’s also been an assistant at Wichita
State and San Diego State and she played her
college ball at Central Florida.
Pitching in Award: It goes to the pitcher who
did the most to help their own cause. We’ll give
you the vote, but the nominees are Derryfield’s
Matt McCormick and Cole Warren of Central.
The former knocked in three as he picked up the
win in a 13-5 clubbing of Moultonborough in the
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Sports Glossary
Tony Conigliaro: Legendary local slugger struck down in his prime in the heat of
the 1967 pennant. Came to the majors in
1964 at 19 and proceeded to be the second-youngest to reach 100 homers. Got
there so quick thanks to a Fenway perfect
swing that let him start his career with seasons of 24-32-28-20. Won the homer title
in year two at 20 with those 32 in 1965.
Despite returning to hit 20 homers a year
and a half later and 36 the next season, he
never was the same after that Jack Hamilton slider, some say spitter, crashed into
his eye on Aug. 18, 1967.
Joe Cronin: All-around baseball
threat of likes unseen in the annals of the
game as during a career in baseball that
stretched through six decades he was a
Hall of Fame shortstop, a player-manager over 13 seasons with the Senators and
Red Sox starting at 27, Red Sox GM and
late AL President. Was the last manager
to lead the moribund Senators to a pennant in 1933 when he hit .309 and drove
in 118 despite hitting a meager five homers. Overall hit .301 lifetime and drove in
more eight times. Elected to the Hall of
Fame in 1956.
Wily Mo Pena: Behemoth slugger who
never lived up to the promise of hitting 26
homers for the Reds at age 22. Slid to 19
the next year and 11 the year he was traded to the Red Sox for Bronson Arroyo,
who won 14 and 15 games in separate
years since being traded to the perpetually
struggling Reds. Originally property of the
Yankees, who sent him west for two-sport
washout Drew Henson and overhyped
one-time Red Sox minor-leaguer sage/
washout Michael Coleman. Was dumped
by the Sox in a deal with Washington for
Chris Carter. Did not make it out of Florida in ’09 after being released in spring
training by the Nats.
Timothy Leary: High priest of LSD
use in the far-out 1960s. Got 30 years in
the slammer for bringing less than a half
ounce of pot into the country from Mexico in 1965. The conviction went all the
way to the Supreme Court, where it was
overturned. The day he beat the rap he
announced he was running for governor
of California, a campaign that was interrupted by another conviction that sent him
to the pen for 10 years.
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Sports team owner
“It was definitely one of the things I dreamed
about as a kid,” Jason Briggs said about owning a sports team. The Manchester Millrats
finished their second year winning 16 out of 20
regular-season games. They won 28 games and
had 12 losses overall in their first year. They are
part of the Premier Basketball League and their
home venue is at Southern New Hampshire
University.
Briggs says you can’t come into minor-league
ownership with the idea that you’ll be making a
lot of money. You have to be drawn to the sport,
build a base, and hope that in time it becomes
profitable.
But for details, Briggs points to his friend of
35 years, Ian McCarthy: “Basketball is his life,”
Briggs said. Briggs first invested on a small
scale and then on a much larger one in McCarthy’s efforts.
“Basically, I’ve always had a passion for
basketball,” McCarthy said. He played at Champlain College in Vermont in 1991, then took the
“secular route” with a non-sports job, got married, had kids, and about 2003 started pondering
how to get back into basketball. The American
Basketball Association offered franchising for
about $10,000 to $20,000. McCarthy took over
a Boston team in 2005 and moved it to Cape
Cod; however, there were only high school
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But for everyone who has
ever “always wanted” to
be a chef, produce a play
on Broadway or make their
own wine, a few people
actually make those
dreams happen. I talked to
Granite Staters who discovered their passions fairly
early in life but took years
to fulfill their dreams. Most
won’t get rich, but they are
enjoying their lives.
Mark Schoenfeld’s advice
for breaking into the entertainment industry is apt
for many dream jobs: you
need talent, passion and
fearlessness. So what’s
your dream job?
gyms for the Frenzy to play in.
David Cooper, who had played basketball at
Central High, and Steve Yankopolous of Londonderry contacted McCarthy about interning
and about Manchester. A Frenzy player who
had also played at UNH mentioned the city to
McCarthy and he started visiting it in 2007.
The number of road signs pointing to the
baseball stadium and arena was the first thing
McCarthy noticed. He took that to mean Man-
sense
Pay: McCarthy has seen minorleague executives make anywhere from
zero to $100,000 per year. It can depend
on the league and ticket sales.
Getting started: McCarthy said early
on he reached out to folks from existing
Manchester minor teams and they gave
him some great advice. He also contacted the Greater Manchester Chamber
of Commerce and Intown Manchester.
Talk to civic groups and professional sponsors, McCarthy said. Or take a
page from the Millrats’ rival team, the
Vermont Frost Heaves. Sports Illustrator writer Alexander Wolff founded
the team with his wife and spent a year
“building up the appetite” for the sport,
McCarthy said, by putting booths at
trade shows, parades, etc., and working
to generate buzz.
Photographers Jeff and Carolle Dachowski. Keith and Holly Howe photo.
chester really appreciates minor-league sports,
he said. When he reached out to SNHU, they
immediately responded that they would love to
have the Millrats use their venue.
McCarthy is the Millrats’ general manager. Cooper and Yankopolous are now
minority investors and Briggs bought the majority of shares.
McCarthy has known Briggs since he was
about 5 years old. Briggs worked for about a
decade on Wall Street and then retired. Being
a descendant of the Merck pharmaceuticals
founder also “helps,” McCarthy said of Briggs.
Briggs said there’s an adrenaline rush after a
win, and after a loss — well, you get invested
in the players, he said. No one’s in the minors
for the money. The players are there to get their
stats and hopefully move to a European league
where they can make a few hundred thousand
per year, or to the NBA, where they can make a
lot more. Coaches and front office staff also see
it as a proving ground, McCarthy said.
As for pointers, McCarthy said, make sure
you are well-capitalized. You’ll probably operate at a loss for the first couple of years, he said.
His second piece of advice is to be in the right
community with the right venue. SNHU has
been great to the team, but McCarthy and Briggs
think they need to be at Verizon Wireless Arena
to raise their profile.
Briggs feels they’ve succeeded on the court
but failed off the court.
“It’s frustrating,” Briggs said. They are probably the “winningest” team in Manchester but are
falling far short of the 2,000 fans they want to
attract to games, Briggs said. Briggs thinks playing in Hooksett is part of the issue.
“On court, we still need to win a championship obviously. But I feel like we put a great
product on the floor,” Briggs said.
Professional photographer
“I knew I was supposed to do this when I was
eight years old,” Jeff Dachowski said.
He remembers photographing Crystal Cascade on a family trip to Crawford Notch in New
Hampshire and thinking, “This is cool, I want
to do this.”
He signed up for photography class as soon
as he could, in eighth grade. He took all the photo classes he could at Memorial High School,
and also graphic arts, thinking it might be useful. Dachowski attended the Hallmark Institute
of Photography in Massachusetts in 1990 and
had assumed he’d work for someone else’s studio, but never has.
Dachowski and his wife Carolle moved to
Montana the day after they got married and
lived there for about five years. When they
returned, New England was in a bit of a recession. Dachowski worked in construction, and
Carolle is a nurse. They continued to photograph weddings together on the side.
When they sent out their Christmas card in
2003 featuring a photo they took of their girls,
many recipients said they hadn’t realized the
Dachowskis were photographers and asked
them to do their Christmas cards next year.
That was the encouragement the Dachowskis
needed, and they opened Dachowski Photography in Langer Place in Manchester in June 2003
with zero clients.
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Not everyone starts out
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Pay: The first year is almost always
a loss. Camera equipment can cost anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000. The
Professional Photographers of America did a benchmark financial study that
showed most earn between $28,000 and
$51,000 per year, Dachowski said.
First steps: Learn about the industry.
Join New Hampshire Professional Photographers Association (nhppa.com).
Many photographers don’t take into
account their true costs, which include
workman’s comp, taxes, rent and paying yourself, so take some business and
marketing classes and learn the business
side. “We teach photography all over the
country” and commonly find that people
forget to pay themselves, so they are just
breaking even, Dachowski said.
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Pay: Your take when starting a wine
business in New Hampshire can range
from losing $10,000 per year to making
$50,000. It depends on factors like the size
of the business and materials cost. Some
winemakers give themselves a salary, but
they can only do that if the business has a
good amount of cash to start.
“I would say that when starting out,
two thirds of the businesses would not
be able to pay out anything for at least a
year or two,” Dabrowski said.
First steps: Dabrowski thinks the best
winemakers have an “innate love of wine
and the ability to distinguish what fine
wines are.”
He recommends reading Winemaker magazine. More information can be
found at “major grape breeding stations
such as Cornell University and University of Minnesota.” Growers should be
“physically fit and enjoy the outdoors
because it’s still farming and that’s
always hard work.” Dabrowski often
advises “budding winemakers [that]
there’s nothing like getting technical help from somebody that’s already
doing it,” he said.
The Ash Street Inn in Manchester. Heidi Masek photo.
Innkeepers
Eric Johnston traveled for business for
years. He knew all the things he didn’t like
about hotels.
Johnston was a CEO for a direct mail company in Milford in 1999, and at 49 was getting
ready to have his midlife crisis, he said. He
left the corporate world and he and his wife
Darlene pondered what to do next — they
couldn’t retire at 50. They like to be together,
love old homes and like to meet people.
“Sounds like a bed and breakfast,” Johnston said.
They opened Ash Street Inn in December
2000 with a somewhat unlikely angle. Most
bed and breakfasts are seasonal destinations;
this one is located in downtown Manchester
and caters to business travelers. They hoped it
could make for a year-round income.
As a CEO, Johnston reported to the chairman
of the board. When the board of directors wanted a change, Johnston had to tell 600 employees
that they had been doing the right things but
now would be doing something different — and
make sense of it even if it didn’t make sense.
Now, his only worry when he wakes up in
the morning is how to bring in more guests,
and that goal doesn’t change. Plus there’s
instant gratification. The Johnstons don’t
have staff, so “if people say they love it, it’s
because of things that we did,” Johnston said.
And if they need something done differently,
the Johnstons can deal with that right away.
“The good news about being the only one
around is there’s no competition,” Johnston said.
The bad news is it’s hard to get people to think
about a bed and breakfast for business travel.
People know what to expect from a Holiday Inn
Express no matter which town it’s in. With a bed
and breakfast, travelers wonder, “Is it going to
be dogs and kids at breakfast ... or am I going to
be able to conduct business?” Johnston said.
The Johnstons found a Victorian a half mile
from Elm Street. They have five guest rooms
on the first two floors, all with queen-size
beds and private baths. They don’t allow pets
or children younger than 12.
“For us, business guests make up 60 percent of our guests,” Johnston said. They offer
corporate rates, and each room has a desk and
there’s Internet access.
If you want to start an inn, especially in an
urban environment, be careful how much you
spend at the start. Renovations are expensive,
so choose them carefully. Darlene figured out
how to fit a bathroom into each guest room.
These only have showers, not whirlpool baths
or even regular tubs — the Johnstons didn’t
waste money on something their target market wouldn’t seek out.
While Johnston said few Mancunians seem to
know the Ash Street Inn exists, it was discovered by places like the Currier (barely a block
away), Derryfield School, Southern New Hampshire University and New Hampshire Institute
of Art early on, and those places refer their visitors. The inn also gets business through its Web
site and by word of mouth.
Johnston said the growth of the airport has
brought more guests. Some with business in
the Boston area now fly into and stay in Manchester. It’s a habit they got into during the
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Owning a winery “absolutely is” a dream job,
said Robert Dabrowski of Candia Vineyards,
702 High St. in Candia.
“For me, it’s everything. It’s the wine-making and the growing and the agriculture. All of
that,” Dabrowski said. He made his first wine in
1981. There was no Internet back then. He educated himself with library books.
Candia Vineyards is part of a 1760s farm
property. Dabrowski, a Manchester native, started planting in 1999. It has “taken hard work and
experimentation,” he said.
He did test plantings in 1997 and 1998. The
vines are started with 10-inch cuttings and take
five years to get into full production — “That’s
assuming that you don’t rip the vine out to begin
with because you change your mind and want to
try another variety,” which he did, Dabrowski
said. Now he has 600 vines in full production.
“I brought a lot of new varieties to the state
that had been developed out west but didn’t exist
here,” Dabrowski said. He’s mainly a “one-man
show,” although he gets help with some tasks.
“I was a financial analyst for many years ...
as that industry deteriorated, I was continuing to
build my vineyard,” Dabrowski said. He started
selling wines in 2005.
Dabrowski said his previous career is a “huge
asset in wine-making, ironically.” As an analyst, all you should be doing is planning. Wine
involves a lot of planning, foresight and making
decisions that will affect the wine months down
the road. People think he must have gone to
UNH to study agriculture, but he has not, which
is true of many winemakers, he said.
How do you become a winemaker in a poor
economy?
“Don’t give up your dream, but don’t give
up your day job either,” Dabrowski said. It’s
very capital-intensive and a very competitive
industry. For most people, it takes hard work,
perseverance, and a lot of experimentation.
Dabrowski said he has a slight advantage
since he’s been enjoying wine since college —
he would drink a glass of wine while friends
were at the keg. He also knows wine — he’s
been asked to judge a few competitions.
There’s an agricultural aspect to winemaking,
but the business component is also important
— “Business is business,” Dabrowski said.
Dabrowski doesn’t sell outside the state — in
part because there are different legal requirements for each state, and as a small producer he
sells everything in state anyway.
Family, loyal customers and supporters —
in particular Jeff Raymond of Amherst — are
important to Candia Vineyards’ success, Dabrowski wrote later in an e-mail.
If you want to visit Candia Vineyards, just
call ahead, 867-9751.
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To build a client base, they worked with
friends and marketing partners in the area. For
example, they partner with salons to get their
work in front of potential clients, he said.
Jeff Dachowski originally shot landscapes. It
was portrait photographer Carolle who told him
if he wanted to make money he’d have to start
photographing people.
Dachowski goes to Montana, Wyoming and
other Western locales for a week each year to
photograph just for himself. He thinks his clients appreciate that his profession is also his
hobby.
While it’s an extremely competitive business,
photographers see each other as colleagues,
Dachowski said. He’s on the board of the New
Hampshire Professional Photographers.
And if you want to be a professional photographer? “I usually say, learn your craft. And I mean
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You also need to understand the business end.
Too often, people charge too little for what their
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Pay: Innkeeping is a dream job in that
it’s a “wonderful way of life,” Johnston
explained. They live on the third floor
— their beautiful surroundings (it’s quite
nice inside the inn) and lack of commute
are among the benefits. But it takes two
to three years to get “situated” financially, and you won’t get rich. “Your
retirement is going to be your property,” Johnston said. There are times when
they start to make a little money and
“then the economy goes in the tank and
one of us will get a day job for a while,”
Johnston said.
First steps: Talk to a banker; banks
usually have a staff member with
expertise in bed and breakfasts, Johnston said.
Also, have a sense of what you want
to focus on, whether it’s business travel or weddings, and whether you’ll
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Concerts at Verizon Wireless Arena bring
in guests. Development in the Millyard also
helps, as has the Currier’s expansion. Parents
with high school kids looking at SNHU or
NHIA stay. All of this has gone on in the past
nine years. When the Ash Street Inn opened,
Southwest was not yet using the Manchester
airport. Elm Street was just starting to take off.
The Currier Museum of Art was still a gallery.
However, “the economy kicked our butts just
like anybody else’s,” Johnston said. They’ve
rolled back their prices to their 2004 levels.
Their target market can be a problem in
a down economy — “It’s easy to cut travel
and entertainment” from corporate budgets,
Johnston said. Companies are making staff
fly back on the redeye after meetings.
On the flip side, people see a benefit to
lower-cost events at Verizon Wireless Arena
or the Palace Theatre compared to the cost of
heading to big cities. Guests from Massachusetts or Rhode Island who want to get away
for a day or two have commented on the
“lovely downtown” and “fantastic dining.”
Johnston said there’s enough demand in
Manchester for other bed and breakfasts —
the real issue is finding the right building,
close to downtown with onsite parking.
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New Hampshire author Jessica ConantPark writes the Gourmet Girl mystery series
with her mother, Susan Conant.
“Writing for me is a dream job. For me
there’s an obvious advantage to being able to
work from home. I can’t imagine going back to
a nine-to-five,” Conant-Park said. It provides
flexibility for her to take care of her son and
spend time with her husband on his days off —
as a chef, he has an unusual work schedule.
“Once you sort of get sucked in to the
industry, you really have a need to write.
Someone telling me I couldn’t would be like
someone telling me not to eat or breathe,”
Conant-Park said.
“I fell into this business in a very different
way than most people. My mother had been
writing her Dog Lovers’ Mystery series for
years,” Conant-Park said.
Conant-Park was always a “food nut.”
Then, her husband told her crazy restaurant
stories, which Conant-Park relayed to her
mother, who told her she should write them
down. After Conant-Park had a baby, they
started working together on a book.
Conant already had an agent and publisher.
“I really had an advantage,” Conant-Park
said.
Conant-Park has handed in her fifth Gourmet
Girl book, Cook the Books, and believes it’s
scheduled to be out next February. She’s also
put together a young adult book. She doesn’t
know if there will be a sixth Gourmet Girl.
“Things have slowed down,” ConantPark said. Her husband’s current employer,
Legal Seafoods, “is a really fantastic company” with a well-run environment — it’s good
for her husband, but he doesn’t come home
with the entertaining tales independent restaurants were prone to.
“The truth is that it’s very hard to make a
career out of being a writer in terms of financial stability. You’ve got to be aware of that.
The old motto ‘Don’t quit your day job’ is
very true,” Conant-Park said.
“You’ve got to let people read what you
write,” she advises. The more you show work
to people and get feedback, the better you
become, she said. You need a thick skin, and
you need to be persistent. If you send your manuscript to 20 agents, you might hear back from
three, and those might all be “no,” Conant-Park
said. “But that’s par for the course.... It doesn’t
necessarily mean you shouldn’t be a writer,”
she said. Search “famous rejection letters” on
the Internet and take comfort, she said.
“You’ve got to remember that it’s a business ... criticism of your work is not a
personal attack,” Conant-Park said. It’s about
what they can sell.
Still, it’s a fun business and Conant-Park
has met a wonderful group of people, mainly online. She can’t imagine another industry
where people are as supportive as the writers
she talks with.
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Pay: Conant-Park said if a publisher likes your concept, a first-time writer
might get a three-book series, with maybe a $5,000 advance on each book. But
most places pay in thirds: you get the
first up front, the second when the manuscript is accepted, and the third when
it’s published. Then twice a year you’ll
get royalty checks, after you “earn out”
your advance money.
Everything in the publishing industry is slow, including payment, she said.
Taxes are not taken out — you’ll have to
pay them. And 15 percent goes to your
agent.
“And you do need an agent, by the
way ... my recommendation is you do
everything through an agent; it’s like
having a lawyer,” Conant-Park said. The
agent goes through the publishing contract, makes sure you are protected and
negotiates for you.
As for royalties, there’s no guarantee what will sell, so there’s not really an
average take. The standard contract is
something like 10 to 15 percent of sales
for certain numbers of copies of hardcovers sold, and less for paperbacks.
If Conant-Park is earning 65 cents a
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the day before to do some
prep work. They arrived
at 4 p.m. Monday to start
cooking.
“I was really surprised
with the responsibility Tom
gave us,” Skelton said.
Puskarich told them guest
chefs can choose their level
of involvement.
The Skeltons’ “marquee appetizer” in their
four-course menu was a
grilled-cheese slider (like
a mini-sandwich) with a
shooter of tomato soup
— “That was something
that we had come up with
that we thought was really
cool,” Skelton said. They
offered entrée choices of
sesame-encrusted tuna, a
split roasted chicken or
steak au poivre.
Skelton said the first part
of the meal was easy —
prep work had been done
for salads and there was
plenty of help. But when it
got to serving dinner, with
three entrée choices, to 35
people at once, there was
more pressure.
“Tom had us on the line,
plating meals ... he treated
us exactly like normal staff
members,” Skelton said.
Things were fast-paced and
had to be precise.
“He’s an intense guy ...
but when you’re back there,
you have to be,” Skelton
said. It was Skelton’s first
time in a restaurant kitchen
while it was in service.
“I was surprised at the
level of coordination it
takes to execute a meal for
that many people,” Skelton
said.
Amateur guest chef night
“exceeded my expectations
as an experience, totally,”
Skelton said. The Skeltons,
who have been married for
10 months, have talked
about how cool it could be
to run a diner or restaurant
— and are big fans of the
Food Network.
“Do we have the chops
to pull it off? I’m not so
sure,” Skelton said. He
thinks they would have a
long way to go in education
and skill-building — and
are content to just eat at Z
for now.
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It took Tom Puskarich 18 years to open his
own restaurant. He majored in math education
in college but fell in love with the culinary life
while working at restaurants. Everything he’s
done in his career has been a step toward owning his own place. Puskarich opened Z Food
and Drink at 860 Elm St. in Manchester two
years ago.
Puskarich worked as a sous chef (“number two in the kitchen”) and as an executive
chef, and then started taking manager positions
because owning a restaurant is more than food,
he said. Before opening Z, he was a general
manager for a small restaurant group in central California. He worked in new restaurants
to experience the process of opening one.
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Z Food and Drink in Manchester preparing
their amateur chef night menu with guidance
from Z chef Tom Puskarich and support from
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al restaurant with a fine setting at Z.
“I’m kind of a postmodernist ... I believe lots
of things have already been done,” Puskarich
said (“Kind of like a Hollandaise is a Hollandaise is a Hollandaise — the recipe is 150 years
old”). He doesn’t think his dishes are unique
because no one’s done them before, but “I
think the point of view that I bring to it might
be unique,” he said.
But it’s not just about food.
“I love providing the space for people to
enjoy themselves and to get away from things,”
he said.
How does he stay successful? “Innovate,”
he said. He reads a lot, stays current, and tries
to understand what the dining public is looking for — “which really isn’t different than any
other industry per se except that we do it at a
much faster pace.”
If you want to own a restaurant, be prepared
to commit your life to it, Puskarich said. There
are loads of details in start-up and operation.
“Hire well” and find key employees you trust,
“because you cannot be everywhere all the
time,” he said.
An owner of a place the size of Z should be
able to make a comfortable living but you won’t
get rich, Puskarich said. Also, realize there’s
more to this gig than cooking. Puskarich said
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Broadway musical creator and
talent scout
Mark Schoenfeld. Heidi Masek photo.
your passion controls you.... I literally went to
homelessness to pursue what I had to pursue.”
“And you have to have fearlessness,” Schoenfeld said.
The story goes that McPherson met Schoenfeld again when he was homeless in New York
and the two partnered again and wrote Brooklyn based on his life and a little of hers. “But we
didn’t know what it was. We thought it was a
movie,” Schoenfeld said.
They sold it to Orion Pictures in one day, but
Orion went bankrupt and getting their project
back became a legal issue.
“Through our depression we wrote a whole
new thing called Music Boy,” Schoenfeld said.
Herek bought it, and Brooklyn came back
through lawyers — that’s when Herek put it on
stage.
Hugh Jackman is currently attached as the
producer and star of Music Boy as an animated musical, Schoenfeld said. But that project
could take a decade, so Schoenfeld is also doing
Music Boy theatrically and expects it to be on
Broadway within two years. He’s back to raising money.
Networking is key for this industry.
“If every day you’re not trying to meet new
people, then you’re not doing your job,” Schoenfeld said. “I probably make 150 phone calls a
day,” he said.
“Most people don’t realize everything is a
business. They only see the ‘show’ in show
business.... Someone has to figure out a way of
monetizing what you have, what your talent is,”
Schoenfeld said.
Schoenfeld is managing Jodi Katz, a young
Manchester singer who has moved to L.A. and
New York to pursue her career. Her credits so far
include lead singer in the Kidz Bop world tour.
Schoenfeld retreats to Manchester when he’s
creating something and also lives in Beverly
Hills and New York. McPherson still writes with
him. He lives in Wall Street Towers in Manchester, the “closest thing to sophisticated New York
living for me.” (It has a doorman.) He always
eats at either C.R. Sparks or Bridge Street Cafe
when he’s in town, he said.
Schoenfeld also visits Manchester to see his
one-year-old twin grandchildren. He raised his
children in Manchester.
“My children were very supportive,” Schoenfeld said.
Schoenfeld has become good friends with
Paul Boynton, CEO of the Moore Center, and
now helps to bring Broadway performers here
for Moore Center fundraisers.
“You have to give back, you know,” he
said.
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“I had no idea I was going to Broadway. I
was just a creative person from the time I was
very young,” said Mark Schoenfeld. One of his
current roles is producing and marketing consultant for Rock of Ages, which has five Tony
nominations.
Schoenfeld wrote stories, songs and poetry,
eventually focusing on songwriting. He liked
discovering talented people and putting together rock and R & B groups. Irwin Levine, who
wrote “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak
Tree,” hired him.
Years later, Schoenfeld sold a script with
music to Hollywood. Director Stephen Herek
(Mr. Holland’s Opus) saw Schoenfeld present
Brooklyn as a one-man show. Schoenfeld sold
all his scripts by performing them, not just trying to get them read, he said. Herek put it on
stage in Los Angeles to see what it looked like
before making a film and that’s when Schoenfeld “got hooked” on the idea of using Brooklyn
as a stage musical. He found director Jeff Calhoun and, with a few others, raised $7 million to
get the show to Broadway, where it ran for 284
performances.
There’s much more to how Schoenfeld eventually made it. Harvey Pekar created a color
comic about it which ran in the New York
Times Sept. 19, 2004 (www.nytimes.com/images/2004/09/16/arts/pekar.slidelastfull.jpg). Mark
Dagostino, who has written for People, made a
documentary about Schoenfeld called Matza
Boy.
Schoenfeld grew up in New York, which
meant he had geographical access to the entertainment industry.
“I would go to Manhattan with my guitar,
and I would sing in front of the record company
buildings” where famous songwriters had offices, Schoenfeld said. That’s how Irwin Levine
noticed him. But then Schoenfeld ended up in
New Hampshire raising two kids on his own and
taking jobs he couldn’t handle. He discovered
Barri McPherson of Boston, who “sang like an
angel.” They partnered on writing songs for her.
“The key to any of this — assuming that you
have talent, and who knows if you do or you
don’t — is you have to have overwhelming passion — where you don’t control your passion,
business blues
“The record industry is a
dinosaur right now,” Mark
Schoenfeld said. When
records were big, music
became “corporate rock”
developed in the boardroom.
“A lot of people saw that
and they still aspire to that,”
Schoenfeld said. But that’s
not really where it’s at.
He says he discovered rap
— “It didn’t sound like anything else, because it didn’t
come from the boardroom,
it came from the streets”
— in the Bronx before it
was on the radio and tried
to bring it to record company executives, but they said
“it was never going to happen.” He said he put together
the rap group United Streets
of America, and helped
write for and produce them.
Their music was used in the
film Armed and Dangerous
(1986).
Film and television are
not paying much for music
either anymore, other than
“bragging rights and exposure,” he said.
“They know they can get
it free because there’s no
access for all these talented
people out there to get their
music exposed. It’s no different than being on YouTube....
No one’s really making any
money,” Schoenfeld said.
Which brings him back to
the stage.
“At one time, Broadway
was corny... well, it’s not
corny anymore,” he said. U2
is writing a Spiderman show,
for example. (And there are
various ways to make money with a show — like using
the script for a film.)
Pay: A Broadway musical creator
takes in about 6 percent of the profit. It
breaks down into 2 percent if you wrote
the lyrics, 2 if you wrote the music and
2 if you wrote the book (script). For
international runs, you get a licensing
fee, usually $75,000 to $200,000. Once
producers recoup that, you go back
to making a percentage on the profit.
(Brooklyn ran in Asia, including Japan
and Korea.)
First steps: This goes for any creative
aspect of entertainment, Schoenfeld
said: start networking, and “find somebody who believes in you who’s in the
game.” You need to “go into belly of
the beast.” Broadway is in New York,
country music is produced in Nashville,
and movies and television are mainly made in Hollywood (New York to a
lesser extent).
dream job
Your
Pay: Villeneuve’s average take-home
pay is $3,000 per year.
“It’s a part-time seasonal dream job
(no such thing as salary for seasonal jobs) and is not my only stream of
income,” she wrote in an e-mail. The
first year’s take went to start-up costs,
including a computer.
First steps: Get educated in your
activity of interest and in business
skills, “whether through a university, outdoor education centers, schools,
clubs, the library, and small business
resource centers, as well as getting firsthand experiences from other experts in
the field. A business plan implemented
with a good marketing plan is essential to the success of the business,” she
wrote.
(Plymouth State University now
offers a Bachelor of Science in Adventure Education, by the way.)
“We spend a lot of time planning each trip
carefully,” Villeneuve said.
Some individuals come because they want to
try an outdoor adventure but their friends aren’t
into it. Entire families come, including grandparents. Villeneuve gets many requests from
empty-nester women in their 50s.
When people ask what she does for a vacation, Villeneuve says, “More of the same thing
but somewhere else.”
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Her goal is to help people experience the wilderness “so that they’ll come to love it and help
take care of it,” Villeneuve said.
And, no, it’s not true that Villeneuve led
a whitewater rafting trip while eight months
pregnant. “We don’t have anything to do with
rafting,” Villeneuve said. It was a kayak trip.
Named for explorers, their son Jacques is six
months old and will join trips this summer with
participant permission.
So how do you get into this gig? “I actually get this question a lot from college students,”
Villeneuve said. You need official training for
guide skills and wilderness medicine. You need
to know the area you’ll be guiding well. Then
you need to learn the business aspect. “That list
could go on and on,” Villeneuve said.
Villeneuve grew up in Meredith in the Lakes
Region, where she felt like she was “always on
vacation” and loved playing tour guide for visiting friends and relatives. She studied education
and recreation at Plymouth State University, and
worked as a staff naturalist at the Balsams and
as a cross-country ski instructor before founding
Outdoor Escapes.
She’d always been into hiking, was on her
high school cross-country ski team, started
canoeing at 17, and her husband got her into
mountain biking. She’s a 4H shooting sports
leader and offers archery lessons.
Villeneuve completed courses with the
National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).
Extended wilderness trip experience (like a 32day canoe trip in Canada) helped her prepare.
She doesn’t take people places she’s never been
before. She completed a program in entrepreneurship at Hesser College, and Microcredit NH
proved a good “hands-on” resource for starting
a business.
Villeneuve spent the first couple years networking with other tourism businesses. Outdoor
Escapes rents some equipment, but logistically it’s often easier to work with other outfitters.
She partners with bed and breakfasts since not
everyone wants to camp.
Villeneuve’s Web site, www.outdoorescapesnewhampshire.com, which she built
herself, is her main marketing tool. Participants
find her Web site from countries including India,
England, Switzerland, Panama, Guatemala and
Mexico.
This year, Villeneuve said, “I’m finding I’m
busier with people from the U.S. and Canada than ever before.” She thinks the economic
slump is perhaps making it tougher for North
Americans to travel overseas.
Outdoor Escapes caters to all abilities and ages.
Christine Davis of the Women’s
Business Center (www.womenbiz.
org) said owning your own business is
not easy, so it always makes sense to
go with something you are passionate
about. Do the research and make sure
there’s a market for it, but do something
you love.
For details on how to find guidance
on starting a business, read “Congratulations, you’re fired! How to go from
laid off to entrepreneur,” by Jeff Mucciarone, in April 9, 2009, issue of The
Hippo, available at hippopress.com.
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Hot List
What’s hot now in...
CdS
According to Newbury
Comics top sellers
1. Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown
2. Eminem, Relapse
3. Tori Amos, Abnormally
Attracted To Sin
4. Method Man/Redman,
Blackout! 2
5. Passion Pit, Manners
6. Cam’ron, Crime Pays
7. Conor Oberst & The
Mystic Valley Band, Outer
South Silversun Pickups,
Swoon
8. Kings Of Leon, Only
By The Night
9. Iron & Wine, Around
The Well
10. Silversun Pickups,
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According to Amazon’s
best sellers
1. Cook Yourself Thin:
Skinny Meals You Can
Make in Minutes, by Lifetime Television (Voice,
2009)
2. Breaking Dawn (The
Twilight Saga, Book 4), by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
3. The Shack, by William
P. Young (Windblown
Media, 2007)
4. Liberty and Tyranny:
A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin
(Threshold Editions, 2009)
5. Eclipse (The Twilight
Saga, Book 3), by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown,
2007)
6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society (Random House
Reader’s Circle), by Mary
Ann Shaffer and Annie
Barrows (Dial Press,
2009)
7. Horse Soldiers: The
Extraordinary Story of
a Band of US Soldiers
Who Rode to Victory in
Afghanistan
by Doug Stanton (Scrib-
ner, 2009)
8. The Last Olympian
(Percy Jackson & the
Olympians, Book 5), by
Rick Riordan (Disney
Hyperion, 2009)
9. New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2), by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
10. The Lost Symbol, by
Dan Brown (Doubleday
Books, Sept. 15, 2009)
dvd
According to Hollywood
Video
1. Taken (PG-13, 2008)
2. The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button (PG-13,
2008)
3. Underworld: Rise of the
Lycans (R, 2009)
4. Bride Wars (PG, 2009)
5. Passengers (PG-13,
2008)
6. Last Chance Harvey
(PG-13, 2008)
7. The Uninvited (PG-13,
2009)
8. Yes Man (PG-13, 2008)
9. The Day the Earth
Stood Still (PG-13, 2008)
10. Personal Effects (R,
2009)
FILM
Top movies at the box
office May 22-25 (weekend/cumulative)
1. Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian,
20th Century Fox ($70
million/$70 million)
2. Terminator Salvation,
Warner Bros. ($53.8 million/$67 million)
3. Star Trek, Paramount
Pictures ($29 million/$191
million)
4. Angels & Demons,
Sony ($27.7 million/$87.8
million)
5. Dance Flick, MTV
Films ($13 million/$13
million)
6. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 20th Century Fox
($10 million/$165 million)
Saturday, May 30
The Gate plays Peddler’s Daughter, 48 Main St. in Nashua, tonight at 9:30 p.m. The
band covers Stevie Wonder and various tunes that make you want to dance from the
1960s on. Musicians include jazz composer Ben Geyer, recently returned to his native
Gate City from New York, Gregory Reinauer and Eric Levine, who have ties to Berklee, Julie Albert and Whit Love. (Whitney Tranchemontagne photo.) Cover costs $3. For
more about live music, see page 46. Photo by Whitney Tranchemontagne.
Friday, May 29
Sam Raimi gives us horror
and curses and bugs in people’s
mouths in Drag Me to Hell,
starring Alison Lohman and
Justin Long and opening today.
For more about film, see page
42.
Sunday, May 31
Celebrate Israeli Independence
Day today from 4 to 7 p.m. at the
Taste of Israel at the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire, 698
Beech St. in Manchester. Besides
falafel, hummus and a pastry called
borekas, find Israeli folk music
and dancing, a talent show, activities for kids and more . Visit www.
jewishnh.org or call 627-7679. For
more about food, see page 32.
Friday, May 29
Comedian Jimmy Dunn’s
“Comedy All Stars” show features stand-up comics Kevin
Knox, Ken Rogerson and Kelly MacFarland at the Palace
Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in
Manchester, tonight at 8 p.m.
(668-5588, www.palacetheatre.
org). Tickets cost $23.50. For
more about nightlife, see page
46.
Wednesday, June 3
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of
York, discusses “The Road to
Authentic Life” at the Middlesex Community College Celebrity
Forum tonight at 8 p.m. at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 East
Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass.
Tickets cost $37 and $47; order
through Ticketmaster (800-7453000, www.ticketmaster.com). For
more lectures, see page 39.
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This one time at theater camp...
ARTS
Find summer programs for your performer or artist
If you have a budding thespian in your midst,
there are lots of theater camps around the area
to consider this summer. For the most part, they
conclude with a performance for friends and
family. Some camps include a visit or ticket to a
performance at that venue.
Usually, kids are able to try behind-the-scenes
work, as well as
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This summer you can find a few camps at
community music schools for your youngster,
and plenty of ways to continue lessons, take a
workshop, or try something new — even as an
adult.
• The Manchester Community Music
School is still accepting registration for programs including the “Joy of Music” camp
running from July 20 through July 24, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. ($190). Kids entering grades two
through five learn about music and instruments
and also enjoy outdoor play.
Many MCMS music classes or workshops are
concentrated into a few consecutive days. Jazz
camp runs from July 6 through July 10, from 9
a.m. to noon, for students entering sixth through
10th grade ($150).
“The biggest addition for this summer is
the music technology lab,” said CEO Suzanne
Barr. Students can learn about recording and
mixing music, and use the lab for music composition. There are class opportunities for those
serious about music engineering and for casual
interest — such as using Apple’s GarageBand
program. Summer programs are available for all
ages, including adults. The catalog is at www.
mcmusicschool.org; visit them at 2291 Elm St.
in Manchester or call 644-4548.
• Nashua Community Music School’s
one-week sessions this summer include “Band
Camp & Chamber Music Festival,” from July
20 through July 24. It’s for flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, trumpet, French horn, trombone
and tuba students aged 10 to 15. “Hansel & Gretel: From the Studio to the Stage,” for ages 5 to
10, is from July 27 through July 31. Piano students aged 10 to 15 can join “Piano Festival,”
which runs Aug. 3 through Aug. 7. “Flute Festival” for flutists in sixth through 12th grade
includes tips on auditioning for all-state competitions. The camp fee is $275 before June 1, $300
after, and days run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Aftercare is available until 6 p.m. for $5 per
day. See www.nashuacms.org for details. Nashua Community Music School is at 5 Pine St.
Extension in Nashua (881-7030).
• “Creative Arts Camp” teaches about “world
culture, geography and history through singing,
dancing and art-making” at the Concord Community Music School. For campers entering
first through sixth grade, it runs from July 13
through July 24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ($495).
Extended care is available from 8 to 9 a.m. and
from 4 to 5 p.m., for an extra $50 per week, or
$15 per day. Teens and adults can participate in
jazz camp from July 6 through July 10, from
9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with David Tonkin, John
Faggiano, Richard Gardzina and Don Williams.
Other CCMS summer offerings include
“Community Sings” on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. from
June 30 through July 28, and steel drum band
classes for teens and adults. Visit www.ccmusicschool.org, call 228-1196 or visit 23 Wall St. in
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dancing — or they can hone those skills. Most
offer plenty to keep campers busy inside the theater and lots of ways to have fun — but there
aren’t many that include that traditional outdoor
aspect that can be synonymous with the idea of
summer camp. Check for discounts for siblings,
or registering for multiple sessions. Contact the
organization for details, updates and registration
deadlines.
• The Acting Loft is offering three two-week
sessions for age 5 to 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
at 516 Pine St., Manchester ($300). The Tales
of Hans Christian Anderson, which focuses on
acting, runs from July 6 to July 17. The Secret
Garden session is sold out. The Velveteen Rabbit, with a dance focus, runs from Aug. 3 through
Aug. 14. It looks like a good deal for working
parents — there are family and multi-session discounts, the Acting Loft provides receipts to deduct
the camps as childcare expenses from your taxes,
there are extended care options, and financial aid
is available for
Performing artists
• Bedford Youth Performing Company has
a lot more than camp going on. “We’re a performing arts school so we offer programs in
music, dance and theater,” said director Ann
Davison. Each division has summer camps and
classes. There’s also a licensed preschool with a
summer session. BYPC offers extended care for
camps for the first time this year. Spaces are still
available for almost all camps, Davison said.
Some offerings are “Rock Band” camp, Preschool Music Camp, Dance Camp, Voice Camp,
“Camp Rock Camp,” and “High School Musical 2.” For all of the options, visit www.bypc.
org, call 472-3894, or visit BYPC at 155 Route
101 in Bedford. Fees range up to about $250,
and discounts are available.
• Space is available in the various camps at
MusicalArts Academy of Music & Dance, 30
Linden St. in Exeter and 66 3rd St. Dover (7784862, www.musicalarts.org). They offer a popular
“Rock Band Summer School” for ages 6 through
18 from 9 a.m. to noon from July 13 through July
17 in Exeter, and from July 27 through July 31
in Dover ($200). Kids are put in groups of five
in band settings, and sometimes write and record.
“It’s pretty awesome what they can accomplish
just in a week,” said director Katherine Roberts.
“Willy Wonka” theater camp is from July 20
through Aug. 7 in Exeter and “Through the Looking Glass” from June 29 through July 10 in Dover
for ages 8 to 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ($400$575). Extended care is available. You can also
find dance camps for young children, and dance
and music classes at MusicalArts this summer.
• Petit Papillon School of Ballet holds summer dance intensives from July 6 through July 17
for ages 9 through 18, at the Green Street Community Center, 39 Green St. in Concord, from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. Students will study ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, folk, theater, improvisation,
yoga and pilates. Call 224-6463, 746-2990 or see
www.petitpapillon.org. Fees are $200 per week.
• Londonderry Dance Academy is offering
“Triple Threat Camp” for age 6 through 17, from
July 6 through July 24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
($295-$595) at Londonderry Dance Academy,
21 Buttrick Road in Londonderry (432–0032,
londonderrydance.com). After care is available.
Students work on acting, theater dance and voice
— and enjoy daily open swim.
Manchester residents through a Manchester City
Improvement Project Grant. See www.actingloft.
org or call 666-5999 to register.
The Acting Loft’s seven-week “Storytime
Theatre” educational performance intensive
is modeled on college internship programs.
Twelve performers (age 13 to 19) are selected
for a repertory group that performs and produces six children’s theater pieces. Call 666-5999 or
e-mail chris@actingloft.org for Storytime Theatre details. • For a good value, check out programs from
professional company Yellow Taxi Productions. Founding artistic director Suzanne Delle
said she partners with Nashua Parks and Recreation to keep fees low. Growing up with a single
mom, Delle knew there was no way her mother could pay for pricey theater camp programs.
A week costs $90 for Nashua residents, $130 for
nonresidents. The two-week session costs $150
for Nashua residents and $190 for nonresidents.
YTP camp instructors are professionals with
theater degrees, including Delle.
Camps are held at Nashua High School South,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. YTP can’t offer extended
care, although they understand the challenge to
working parents. “We have grandparents picking up kids,” Delle said.
“Improv by the Book,” for ages 10 to 12, runs
from July 6 through July 10 and explores improvisation techniques using a popular children’s
book. “Beginning Musical
College prep
There are some selective summer programs
for teens around including Peacock Players’
Young Company and Andy’s Summer Playhouse in Wilton, but many finished auditions a
while ago. However, there are options available
for those serious about a career in performing or
visual arts.
• You can still earn college credit through a
one-week overnight Palace Theatre “Professional Theatre Camp” at Chester College of
New England. Acting, voice, dance and audition techniques are taught with access to industry
professionals. Students watch professional theater and rehearsals in the evenings. It’s Aug. 2
through Aug. 8, at Chester’s campus in Chester ($1,200). Visit www.palacetheatre.org or call
668-5588.
• BYPC offered a somewhat similar intensive last summer, but is trying a more flexible
approach this year. From June 29 through Aug.
17, the “Summer BYPC Company Program”
includes six two-hour acting/performance classes, an unlimited dance class pass, five 30-minute
private voice lessons and more for $350. It’s by
audition or invitation.
• High school students can build their portfolios and earn college credit through the New
Hampshire Institute of Art Pre-College Summer Program, an overnight program held at the
Manchester BFA-granting institute from July 5
through July 17 ($1,950). Students choose three
classes in fine and liberal arts, go on field trips
and hear artist lectures, and have open studio
time in the evenings. Courses available include
printmaking, digital illustration, ceramics and
portfolio drawing. Scholarships are available.
Download information and a registration form
at nhia.edu or call 623-0313.
Theatre” for ages 6 to 9 is July 13 through July 17
and helps kids “focus that creative energy.” “Acting I for Girls,” for ages 11 through 15, runs from
July 13 through July 24, and “Acting for Everybody,” for ages 9 to 12, runs from Aug. 3 through
Aug. 7. Their “Musical Theatre Workshop” for
ages 13 through 17 runs from Aug. 10 through
Aug. 14. Visit www.yellowtaxiproductions.org
for descriptions and instructor bios. Call City of
Nashua Parks and Recreation at 589-3370, or see
www.gonashua.com for camp registration.
• Camp Sargent on Lake Naticook in Merrimack is offering two four-week sessions of
“Performing Arts Camp,” as a specialty program at this YMCA camp. Space is available
and this isn’t a musical theater camp, said Tiffany Joslin, who directs the sessions. Drama
games, theater history, acting techniques and
field trips are involved. Campers work on performing arts from about 9 a.m. to noon, then join
outdoor camp activities after lunch.
A session for first- through third-graders runs
from June 29 through July 24. The second session, for fourth- through seventh-graders, is July
27 through Aug. 21 ($600 per session for members, $900 for nonmembers). Camp runs from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m., but campers can be dropped off as
early as 7 a.m., and as late as 6 p.m. for extended
care. A family barbecue and performance close
each session. Visit www.campsargent.org, or
call 689-2433.
• Riverbend School of Theater Arts, a program of the Boys & Girls Club of Souhegan Valley
in Milford, offers a summer theater intensive for
ages 10 through 14 from July 6 through July 17,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ($330). Extended care is
available starting at 7 a.m., and ending at 6 p.m.
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Young visual artists
• The Currier Center of Art at 180 Pearl St.
in Manchester (near the Currier Museum of Art)
has six one-week sessions of art camps for kids
with themes like “Forces of Nature!” from July
6 through July 10 ($126-$250).
“ArtVentures! for Pre-Teens” are one-week
half-day programs, like “Frank Lloyd Wright
in Fused Glass” from July 13 through July 17,
from 1 to 4 p.m. ($207-$230). Week-long workshops for teens and adults are also available.
Call 669-6144 ext. 122 or visit currier.org/ac/
programs.aspx.
• Kimball-Jenkins School of Art at 266
North Main St. in Concord, offers one-week art
camps for $200. Fairy tale-themed “Knights and
Princesses” runs from July 6 through July 10.
“Ancient Civilizations” starts July 13. “World
Cultures” runs from July 20 through July 24;
“Earth Week” from July 27 through July 31;
“Travel Safari” from Aug. 3 through Aug. 7;
“Picasso and the Greats” from Aug. 10 through
Aug. 14; and “Superstars and Superheroes”
Aug. 17 through Aug. 21. Camp is from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m., but extended care is available until
6:30 p.m., with early drop-off starting at 8 a.m.,
said Ryan Linehan. There are lots of breaks for
things like outdoor games. Class sizes are limited to 10 students per teacher separated by age
group. Usually, there are about 40 campers per
week. Call 225-3932 for details, or visit www.
kimballjenkins.com.
Students “write, cast, direct, rehearse and perform
their play. No acting experience required.” Riverbend is led by Canadian actress and producer
Toby Tarnow. Call 672-1002 or visit svbgc.org.
• Peacock Players’ popular summer camp
sessions are July 6 through July 24, and July 27
through Aug. 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Rivier
College, 450 South Main St. in Nashua. Sessions
close with a show at the 14 Court. St. theater.
Sessions cost $475 per session, with discounts
available. Visit www.peacockplayers.org for
details, and contact Dalisa Childs at 889-2330 ext.
93 or dalisac@peacockplayers.org to register.
• Majestic Academy of Dramatic Arts at
281Cartier St. in Manchester is splitting its first
session, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
running from July 6 through July 17, into a halfday camp for ages 4 to 7 ($175), and a full day,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., for ages 8 to 17 ($275).
Their other camps are full day for ages 8 to 17
($275). “Majestic Making of the Band 2” is July
20 through July 31, and “The Enchantment of
Beauty and the Beast” runs from Aug. 3 through
Aug. 14. Scholarships are available. Visit www.
majestictheatre.net or call 669-7469.
• Camps are still taking registration at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in Manchester,
for second- through sixth-graders, and fourththrough eighth-graders, which run from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. “Wild West Camp” runs from June
29 through July 10; “Camp Rock!” from July
13 through July 24; “Witchcraft and Wizardry
Camp” from July 27 through Aug. 7; and “Surf’s
Up! Beach Camp” from Aug. 10 through Aug.
21 ($375-$425). Financial aid is available. Visit
www.palacetheatre.org or call 668-5588.
• The new community group S.P.A.T.S.,
specializing in the Performing Arts, Theatre
and Stagecraft, holds its first camps with How
to Eat Like a Child from June 22 through July
3, A Midsummer Night’s Dream from July
6 through July 17, and Prince Street Players
Classic: Pinocchio from July 20 through July
31 ($300). Camp is held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at Church of The Transfiguration in Derry, with
Fridays at Adams Memorial Opera House for
tech rehearsal and a final performance. E-mail
Jude Bascom at judedirect@gmail.com. Scholarships are available.
• The Derryfield School, a private day
school in Manchester, holds theater camps
for ages 8 to 16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in two
sessions: July 6 through July 17, and July 27
through Aug. 7 ($450). Call 669-4524 or visit
www.derryfield.org.
• Kids Coop Theatre summer camp “Hollywood on Broadway,” (as in: the camp venue
of Adams Memorial Opera House is at 29 West
Broadway in Derry) is sold out, according to
www.kids-coop-theatre.org. There’s space
in “Magic to Do,” which runs from Aug. 10
through Aug. 14, from 9 a.m., to 4 p.m., with
early drop-off and late pick-up available ($180).
Visit www.kids-coop-theatre.org
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• New World: Youth education group
Peacock Players presents a one-night-only
performance of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs
For a New World on Monday, June 8, at 8
p.m., at the 14 Court St. theater in Nashua. It’s
a revival of their 2006 cast including Alexandra Socha and Keith Weirich. It benefits the
Jared Nathan Scholarship Fund.
Peacock alum and Julliard student Nathan, of
Nashua, died at age 21 in 2006 after a car accident in Hollis. He was on the cast of WGBH’s
Zoom. Socha joined the cast of Spring Awakening at age 17 and held the lead role when
it closed on Broadway in January. Weirich,
Peacock’s artistic director, also has Broadway
credits. Aaron Chilelli directs. Musical direction is by Andrew Morrissey. Tickets cost $20
for adults and $15 for students. Visit www.peacockplayers.org or call 886-7000.
• Free reading: Paul, a young black man,
involves himself in the lives of wealthy New
Yorkers by claiming he knows their children
from college. He also claims to be the son of
Sidney Poitier in Six Degrees of Separation.
The Milford Area Players present a free staged
reading of the John Guare play Sunday, May
31, at 7 p.m., at the Performing Arts Center, 56
Mont Vernon St. in Milford. Actors Kennedy
Riley-Pugh, Deborah Shaw and Len Deming
are directed by Kevin Riley. It’s not appropriate
for children. Visit www.MilfordAreaPlayers.
org for details. Milford uses plays they could
not otherwise fully produce in their “Off the
MAP” staged reading series.
• Youngsters: The Wheeler Players presents Disney’s Beauty and Beast Jr. Friday,
May 29, and Saturday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m.,
and Sunday, May 31, at 1 p.m., at the St. Mary
Magdalen Parish Center, 93 Lakeview Ave.,
in Tynsgboro, Mass. Ticket costs range from
$5 to $10. Call 978-957-3430. Tom Anastasi
is the artistic director.
• Kitchen style: The Palace Theatre is getting ready to hold its fifth “Kitchen Tour”
fundraiser with self-guided tours of Bedford and Manchester kitchens. The $45 ticket
($50 day of) includes a lunch catered by O
Steaks & Seafood Restaurant at Baron’s Major
Brands. Tickets include a chance to win a Mercedes Benz C-300 donated by Holloway Motor
Cars of Manchester. Registration for the tour
starts at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 3, at Granite State Cabinetry, 384 Route 101 in Bedford.
Visit www.palacetheatre.org or call 668-5588.
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Meet your neighbor, the Palace
The Palace Theatre closed out their professional season with Sweet Charity, which I
got a chance to see May 22 with three empty-nesters — one visiting from out of town,
and two who live locally but originally came
from New York.
They sounded wary while waiting for the
curtain, expecting a community performance
or something of amateur caliber.
It’s a regional professional company. The
lead has been on Broadway, I told them.
By intermission, the Palace seemed to
have changed my companions’ minds.
The New Yorkers were fans of Andrea
McCormick’s comic timing as Charity, and
said her New York accent for the role was
quite accurate. (Though a Haverhill, Mass.,
native, McCormick has lived in New York
and is an alum of NYU’s Tisch School of the
Arts).
They liked the Palace’s size. (It seats about
840.) It offered better viewing than the Wang
in Boston, which required binoculars.
The three seemed pleasantly surprised
overall. They enjoyed that the Palace’s
choice of a Neil Simon musical comedy was
all about entertainment — no need for someTHEATER 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,
thing too heavy on their Friday night out,
although there was some sadness about the
unfortunate ending.
I thought the Palace definitely had the
entertainment down with a focus on quality execution of that entertainment in Sweet
Charity. McCormick and other leads like
Phillip Pineno as Oscar made what was probably a lot of hard work, with much energy
required for physical comedy and dance, look
easy and polished. The company produced
some impressive dance numbers, especially “Rich Man’s Frug,” which showcased the
play’s roots — Bob Fosse choreographed
and directed the original 1966 show.
The Palace (80 Hanover St. in Manchester, 668-5588) is selling season tickets for its
2009-2010 “Broadway in New Hampshire”
series, which so far looks like it includes
Forever Plaid, Cats, Swing Fever, Rent and
The Full Monty, along with their traditional A Christmas Carol. Palace members can
buy a six-show subscription for $165, a pretty good deal, since single tickets usually cost
about $39 per adult.
—Heidi Masek
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
• ALTAR BOYZ presented by StageCoach Productions Fri., June 26, at 8
p.m.; Sat., June 27, at 2 & 8 p.m.; and
Sun., June 28, at 2 p.m., at 14 Court
St. Theater, Nashua, 320-3780, www.
stagecoachproductions.org, $15-$18.
• DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND BEAST
JR. presented by the Wheeler Players
Fri., May 29, and Sat., May 30, at 7:30
p.m., and Sun., May 31, at 1 p.m., at
the St. Mary Magdalen Parish Center,
93 Lakeview Ave., Tynsgboro, Mass.,
$5-$10, 978-957-3430.
• FIREFLIES, new play by David J.
Mauriello through May 31, Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays
at 7 p.m., at the Players’ Ring, 105
Marcy St., Portsmouth, 436-8123,
www.playersring.org, $10-$12.
• FOREVER PLAID presented by
the Summer Theatre in Meredith Village, Fri., June 19, at 7:30 p.m., and
Sat., June 20, at 2 & 7:30 p.m., at
the Concord City Auditorium, $15.
Benefits Audi Fly Space project.
• GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL
Thurs., June 25, and Fri., June 26, at
8 p.m.; and Sat., June 27, at 3 p.m.,
at the Capitol Center for the Arts,
$29.50-$49.50.
• HENRY AND RAMONA through
May 31, Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m., at Seacoast Repertory,
125 Bow St. in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org, 433-4472, $8-$10.
• LOOKING GLASS LAND - The
Misadventures of a Girl Named
Alice presented by Riverband Youth
Company of the Boys & Girls Club
of Souhegan Valley Fri., June 12, at
7 p.m.; Sat., June 13, at 2 & 7 p.m.;
and Sun., June 14, at 2 p.m., at the
Amato Center, $5-$10.
• THE NERD, a comedy, presented
by the Majestic Theatre Fridays and
Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., June 12-June
20, and Sun., June 21, at 2 p.m.
• PALACE THEATRE KITCHEN
TOUR of kitchens in Bedford and
Manchester, Wed., June 3, at 9:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m., includes luncheon at
Baron’s Major Brands, catered by “O”
Restaurant. Pick up maps at Granite
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Monastery and Concord Arts Market return
“Cough 2,” an installation by Jere Williams, who
is exhibiting at Mill Brook Gallery with fellow St.
Paul’s School faculty. Courtesy photo.
State Cabinetry between 9 and 11 a.m. Tickets cost $45 ($50
day of).
• PALACE YOUTH THEATRE “Night of a 1000 Stars”
Tues., June 9, at 7 p.m., at the Palace Theatre, $8-$12.
• PANCAKE BREAKFAST “All You Can Eat” Sat., June
6, 8-10 a.m., at Applebee’s Restaurant, Steeplegate Mall in
Concord, $5. Benefits the Concord City Auditorium Flyspace Project. Call 225-7474 to reserve, walk-ins welcome.
• SARAH SILVERMAN and Laura Silverman perform
with Lizz Winstead July 19, at 7 p.m., at the Palace Theatre,
$55-$150. Not recommended for those under 18. Benefits
New Thalian Players’ Theatre in the Park (TiP) program. • SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, by Jason Robert
Brown, presented by Peacock Players to benefit the Jared
Nathan Scholarship Fund Mon., June 8, at 8 p.m., at 14
Court St. Theater in Nashua, $15-$20, 886-7000. It’s a
one-night revival with Peacock’s 2006 cast, including
Broadway actors Alexandra Socha and Keith Weirich,
• STAGED READING of Six Degrees of Separation,
by John Guare, free, presented by Milford Area Players,
Sun., May 31, at 7 p.m., at the Amato Center.
• STRANGER THAN FICTION improv troupe Tuesdays at 8 p.m., June 9-Aug. 25, at the Players Ring Theatre, 436-8123, $12. “Pacsmouth” live action Pacman
game Sat., June 6 in Portsmouth’s Market Square during
Seacoast Local Fest.
• STRAW HAT REVUE, 52nd annual, at New London
Barn Playhouse, June 11-14, 84 Main St., New London,
526-6710, www.nlbarn.org.
• TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, Peacock Players’
Improv Troupe performs Sat., June 6, at 7 p.m., at 14
Court St. Theater, Nashua, $8-$10.
• URINETOWN through May 31 at the Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow St. in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org,
433-4472, $24-$28.
Auditions/workshops
• MY FAIR LADY audition for the Riverbend Youth
Art Listings
Gallery Events
• ANNE BEHRSING jewelry, “Marriage of Metals,”
featured in June at the League of NH Craftsmen Gallery,
279 D.W. Hwy, Meredith, 279-7920.
• ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION through June 29
at New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Amherst and French
Building galleries (77 Amherst St. and 148 Concord St.,
Manchester), 836-2573, nhia.edu.
• ABSTRACTIONS, COULEURS – MES HISTOIRES, The Abstract Paintings of Dominique Boutaud
at the Beliveau Gallery in the Franco-American Centre, 52 Concord St., Manchester, 669-4045, www.francoamericancentrenh.com.
• BUILDING BOOKS – The Art of David Macaulay
through June 14 at the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash
St. in Manchester, 669-6144, features more than 100
works from the author and illustrator of The Way We
Work, and other titles.
• CAROL RODRIGUES paintings in June at the Wine
Studio, 27 Buttrick Rd., Londonderry, 432-9463., www.
thewinestudionh.com.
• CHARLES GRAY oil painter featured in May at the
Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries in Depot Square, Peterborough, www.sharonarts.org, 924-2787. • CONCORD ART EDUCATORS AND STUDENT
SHOW through May 29 at Kimball-Jenkins School of
Art, 266 N. Main St. in Concord, 255-3932.
• CONCORD ARTS MARKET Saturdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.,
May 30-July 25 (closed July 4), at 33 Capitol St., Concord.
Also runs during Concord’s Market Days, July 16-July 18.
Visit concordartsmarket.com or call 229-2157.
• DAVE DODGE oil paintings through July 31 in the Tower
Gallery at New Hampshire Antique Co-op, 323 Elm St./
Route 101A, Milford, 673-8499.
• DIVERSIONS through June 12 at Art 3 Gallery, 44 W.
Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650.
• EAST COLONY FINE ART seventh anniversary open
house Sat., June 13, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., at 55 S. Commercial St.
in Manchester, 621-7400.
• ELEMENTS group show through June 27 at the MAA
Gallery, 1528 Elm St., Manchester, 785-6437.
• FAMILY DAY TO PLAY at the Currier Art Center Sat.,
May 30, 1-5 p.m., art-making, demonstration from David
Macaulay, “Toe Jam Puppet Band” performance, silent auction, and more, $15 for adults; $5 for children. Extra $2 for
Macaulay presentation. Ticket proceeds fund Currier Art
Center programs. Reserve at www.currier.org or call 6696144 ext. 108.
• FINE ARTS FAIR Sat., June 6-Sun., June 7, 10 a.m.-3
p.m., at Kimball-Jenkins Estate, 266 North Main St. in
Concord, 255-393, www.kimballjenkins.com.
• FIRST THURSDAYS The Currier Museum is open
late from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. first Thursdays each month
with special programs including live music, lectures and
film. “Meet the Artists” reception June 4, 6-7:30 p.m. Artists Gary Haven Smith and Gerald Auten, whose work
is featured in the current Spotlight New England special
exhibition, speak in the auditorium at 6 p.m., and answer
questions in the gallery at 6:30 p.m.
• THE FRAMERS MARKET exhibits work by artists
represented by Island International Artists of Washington
state through July, at 1301 Elm St., Manchester, 668-6989.
• FRIENDS FINDING FRIENDS annual Charity Art
Auction, functional painted items will be displayed at
downtown businesses until the live auction, Fri., May 29,
at 5 p.m., at the Grappone Conference Center. Call 2281193 or see www.Friendsprogram.org.
• GAIL SMUDA in May at Red River Theatres Community Gallery, 11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600.
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Monastery and Concord Arts Market return
• Sound art: Visit the third-floor “Monastery
Artists Collective hallway” at 21 West Auburn
St. in Manchester, Saturday, May 30, for an art
show running from 8 p.m. to midnight. The evening includes sound art-themed performances
from Birdorgan, Offset Needle Radius, Shag
and Andy Fordyce. Donations are accepted.
• Outside: The Concord Arts Market opens
for its summer season Saturday, May 30, and
continues Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
through July 25 (it’s closed July 4), at 33 Capitol St., Concord (229-2157). It will also run
during Concord’s Market Days (see www.
mainstreetconcord.com about that festival),
from July 16 through July 18. Find lots of jewelry and glass art, among other crafts. Artists
and musicians participating are listed at concordartsmarket.com. Katy Brown, of muchacha K
handbags and Verdigris Artisans at 88 N. Main
St. in Concord, pushed to open an outdoor arts
market in Concord last year.
• What’s opening: Early risers get coffee and
homemade pastries at the “Early Bird Opening” Saturday, May 30, from 9 to 11 a.m., for
the St. Paul’s School Art Faculty Exhibit at Mill
Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Road in Concord (226-2046). It features
a range of work from artists who teach at the
private boarding school in Concord (www.sps.
edu), including an installation by New Hampshire Furniture Master Jere Williams, through
June 14.
Learn about Jewish art and ritual objects
— Tallit, Hanukiah and Microcalligraphy at
“Traditions and Visions of the Changing Role
of Art in a Jewish Community.” The exhibit
runs Friday, May 29, from 6 to 9 p.m.; Saturday,
May 30, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, May
31, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Etz Hayim Synagogue, 1½ Hood St. in Derry (etzhayim.org).
Meet artists Gary Haven Smith and Gerald
Auten at the Currier Museum of Art during
the Currier’s monthly “First Thursday” evening event, June 4, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Smith
and Auten’s work is the focus of the Currier’s
second exhibit in the Spotlight New England
series. It’s free with museum admission, which
costs $10 for adults, and is free for those under
18. The Currier is at 150 Ash St. in Manchester
(www.currier.org, 669-6144 ext. 108).
• Funding: New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation gave a $5,000 grant to the Nashua
International Sculpture Symposium “to support
the fabrication and installation of sculptures to
be installed in the City of Nashua.”
“The arts are important to the health and
vibrancy of any community, and this Symposium has become an important part of the
many and varied arts and cultural offerings in
the Nashua region,” Charitable Foundation
senior program officer Anne Phillips stated in a
release.
Nashua’s second symposium, “Footprints:
Future,” is going on now, led by sculptor John
Weidman of Andres Institute in Brookline and
Nashua arts patron Meri Goyette.
Michele Golia (Italy), Luben Boykov (Bulgaria), Sarah Mae Wasserstrum (Israel) and
Weidman are creating sculptures to donate
to the city for public areas. Watch them work
through Wednesday, June 3, at Ultima NIMCO,
1 Pine St. Extension in the Nashua millyard.
Call Andres Institute at 673-8441 or visit www.
andresinstitute.org or www.CityArtsNashua.org
for more.
• Scholars: Nashua South High School
senior Nathan Terrin was awarded Nashua Area
Artists’ Association’s annual $1,000 scholarship; see his work at the NAAA Greeley Park
Art Show Aug. 16.
Souhegan High School senior Melissa Cooper was awarded the $1,000 Calvin Libby
Memorial Art Scholarship from the Unitarian
Universalist Church in Nashua and her work
will be exhibited there.
In the fall Terrin will go to California State
University in Los Angeles and Cooper will
attend Massachusetts College of Art and Design
in Boston.
Company (Amato Center) Wed., May 27, and Thurs.,
May 28, 6:30–9 p.m. Rehearsals are in September and
shows are in November. For ages 12-18. E-mail TobyTarnow@Yahoo.com or call 465-3456 for an appointment.
• AUDITION for the Palace Community Repertory
Summer Theatre Fri., May 29, at 6 p.m. Prepare 16 bars
of a song and be ready to dance. Auditions are for ages
13 and older. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream
Coat, High School Musical 2, and Baby are the proposed
shows. Call 668-5588 for an appointment. Children ages
8-12 can audition for the Joseph children’s choir Sat.,
June 27, at 10 a.m.
• AUDITIONS for the Players’ Ring’s 2009-2010 season Sat., May 30, and Sun., May 31, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m., at
105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. Call 436-8123 to schedule
an appointment.
• STEEL MAGNOLIAS auditions for the Nashua Theatre Guild Sat., June 6, 3-5:30 p.m. and Mon., June 8,
6:30-9 p.m. at the Nashua Library, 2 Court St. Dan Barth
directs. Shows in September. E-mail Patriotdtb@comcast.net or call 438-9859.
• NUNSENSATIONS! audition for Majestic Productions, ages 15 through adult, Sun., June 7, and Wed., June
10, 6-9 p.m., at the Majestic. Shows in August.
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trating Picture Books,” with work
by Gina Perry, Laura Rankin and
Nathan Walker through June 1, at the
Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington St., Dover, 7422002, www.childrens-museum.org.
• GALLERY AT NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE hosts “Kevin
J. Cahill: New Paintings” in their
Main Gallery and “The Here &
Now: Recent Mixed Media Works
by David Fleming in their Balcony
Gallery June 5-July 17 on Main
Street in Henniker, 428-2329, www.
nec.edu. Reception with the artists
Fri., June 5, 5-7 p.m.
• GIFTS OF GRACE miniature oil
paintings by Roger Croteau at Hatfield Gallery, 55 S. Commercial St.,
Manchester, www.syncrecity.com.
• GLENNA EVANS photography,
“Florals: Sensuous Views,” in May
at the Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett Rd.,
Manchester, 622-9463, www.thewinestudionh.com.
• HOLLIS ARTS SOCIETY member work exhibited at “The Collaboration,” which includes entertainment, Sat., June 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at
the Lawrence Barn, 163 Depot Rd.,
Hollis, free. • THE GLORY OF WATERCOLOR, work by Diane Statkum and Pat
Hurd in June at Canal Art and Framing, 1 Water St., Nashua, 886-1459.
•
KATHY
TANGNEY
watercolors, “Birds of a Feather” in
June at the Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett
Rd., Manchester, 622-9463, www.
thewinestudionh.com.
Reception
Thurs., June 4, 6-8 p.m.
• JENNIFER PLATT HOPKINS
photography, “Color, Power, and
Light” through June 11 at the Conservation Center Gallery, 54 Portsmouth St., Concord, 224-9945,
www.forestsociety.org.
• KIMBALL-JENKINS School of
Art present Michael Garlington, photography “Portraits from the Belly of
the Whale,” and abstract paintings by
Roger Goldenberg in June and July
at the galleries at 266 N. Main St. in
Concord, 255-3932. Reception Thurs.,
June 25, 5:30 -7:30 p.m.
• LAWRENCE DONOVAN exhibit, “Simplicity,” through June 27
at East Colony Fine Art, 55 South
Commercial St., Manchester, 6248833, www.eastcolony.com. Reception Sun., June 14, 1-4 p.m.
• LENKA FLAHRETY photography exhibit “Sled Dogs on the Trail,”
through June 30 at The Darkroom
Gallery at Hunt’s Photo and Video, 4A
Vinton St., Manchester, 606-3322.
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD EXHIBITION of work
by potters Vivika & Otto Heino and
Mary & Edwin Scheier through Aug.
12 at the League of NH Craftsmen’s
Gallery 205, 205 N. Main St., Concord, 224-3375, www.nhcrafts.org.
• LOONS OF MASSABESIC
exhibit from nature photographers
Peter Broom, Jamie Pringle, John
Rockwood and Bob Ross through
June 14 at the Massabessic Audubon
Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
668-2045.
• MELISSA A. MILLER “Recent
Works” through June 12, at
McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave.,
Concord, 225-2515.
• MONTY WHITFIELD watercolors and acrylics through June
at the Nashua Library, 2 Court St.,
589-4610.
• 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,
sponsor or assist, call 882-1613.
Meet David Macaulay
The Currier Museum of Art has
been hosting the special exhibit
“Building Books: The Art of David
Macaulay.” Macaulay is the illustrator and author behind The Way
Things Work and more recently The
Way We Work. There’s still a few
weeks to see it — “Building Books”
closes June 14.
He’ll give a talk and demonstration during the Currier Art Center’s “Family Day to Play” on Saturday, May
30, from 1 to 5 p.m., which celebrates the center’s 70th
anniversary. The day includes performances from the Toe
Jam Puppet Band, a silent auction and hands-on art-making activities in the Art Center and the Museum. Pottery,
T-shirt silk-screening, and cartooning with Boston Herald
editorial cartoonist Jerry Holbert are a few of the planned
activities. Tickets cost $15 for adults, $5 for kids, plus an
extra $2 for Macaulay’s talk. Ticket proceeds benefit Currier Art Center programs.
Macaulay returns to the Currier Museum on Sunday,
May 31, at 2 p.m., for “ARTalk – The Way David Macaulay Works.” He’ll discuss his “techniques for explaining
complex concepts through illustration,” according to the
Currier, and sign books afterward. This talk is included with museum admission cost, but reserving a seat is
required for either of his talks. Visit www.currier.org or
call 669-6144 ext. 108 to save a seat. The Currier is at
150 Ash St. and the Currier Art Center is at 180 Pearl St.
in Manchester. (Portrait of David Macaulay. ©Julie Brigidi- Bristol Workshops. Courtesy Norman Rockwell
Museum.)
Watch the sculptors at NIMCO
May 23-June 3, Monday-Friday,
noon-2 p.m.; Thursdays 4-6 p.m.,
Saturdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (www.
CityArtsNashua.org). Photographs
by Albert Wilkinson of the 2008
Symposium, “First Footprints,”
through June 12 at Hampshire First
Bank, 221 Main St., Nashua.
• OPEN STUDIO NIGHTS third
Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. at Verdigris
Artisans, 88 N. Main St., Suite
205, Concord, www.verdigrisartisans.com. • PALETTE TO PALATE II
Edible Sculpture Competition
and food-themed art exhibit. Gala
fundraiser to benefit Sharon Arts
Center, Sat., May 30, 5-7 p.m., at
their Downtown Galleries, 20-40
Depot Square, Peterborough, 9247256, $25.
• PAULINE DALEY pastels in
May at Canal Art and Framing, 1
Water St., Nashua, 886-1459.
• ROBERT CHILDRESS, illustrator of the Dick and Jane books
from 1958 to 1968, print sales of
his college series partially benefit
the New Hampshire Food Bank. Email nance@metrocast.net.
• SHIRLEY WAKEFIELD and
Pamela Erickson “Life, Color on Canvas” in May at the Wine Studio, 27
Buttrick Rd., Londonderry, 432-9463.,
www.thewinestudionh.com.
• SPECIAL EXHIBIT “Traditions
and Visions of the Changing Role of
Art in a Jewish Community,” Fri.,
May 29, 6-9 p.m.; Sat., May 30, 9
a.m.-9 p.m.; and Sun., May 31, 9 a.m.2 p.m., at Etz Hayim, at 1 1/2 Hood
St., Derry, etzhayim.org, 432-0004.
• SPOTLIGHT NEW ENGLAND
series at the Currier Museum of
Art features sculpture, paintings
and drawings by New Hampshire
based artists Gary Haven Smith
and Gerald Auten through Sept.
13, at 150 Ash St. in Manchester,
www.currier.org, 669-6144.
• SPRING FLING photography
exhibit through May at Gallery
One, 5 Pine St. Extension, Nashua,
883-0603.
• ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL ART
FACULTY Exhibit: Colin Callahan, Charles Lemay, Susan Reider,
Brian Schroyer, Ian Torney and
Jere Williams through June 14 at
Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture
Garden, 236 Hopkinton Rd., Concord, 226-2046. “Early Bird Opening” Sat., May 30, 9-11 a.m. with
coffee and homemade pastries.
Classical Listings
• GRANITE STATE RINGERS
handbell choir performs Sat., May
30, at 7 p.m., at Pembroke Academy, 209 Academy Road, Pembroke.
Free. Call 524-7682 or see www.
granitestateringers.org.
• MERRIMACK CONCERT
ASSOCIATION and chorus Variety Show: Hits from the ‘60s and
‘70s, with dessert buffet, Sat., May
30, at 8 p.m., at Merrimack High
School, $14-$16, 424-0558, www.
merrimackconcert.org.
• PIPE ORGAN RECITAL by
George Bozeman Sun., May 31, at 4
p.m., at St. Paul’s Church, 21 Centre
St., Concord, 424-4743, free.
• CHRIS BOTTI Tues., June 2, at
7:30 p.m., at The Music Hall, 28
Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400,
www.themusichall.org, $50-$65.
• BACH’S LUNCH LECTURES
Thursdays, 12:10–12:50 p.m., free,
at the Concord Community Music
School, 23 Wall St., Concord, 2281196, www.ccmusicschool.org: “The
Thrill of a Premiere: A Performer’s
Perspective” with Peggy Senter June
4; “American Inspirations: Music of
Fletcher, Foss and Copland” with
Jean Benson, flute, and Gregg Pauley, piano, June 11.
• WOMEN SINGING OUT!
10th anniversary concert series
Sat., June 6, at 7:30 p.m., and
Sun., June 7, at 2 p.m., at Christ
Episcopal Church, 1035 Lafayette
Rd., Portsmouth, $10, www.womensingingout.org, 498-2749.
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Gardening Stop and smell
Guy Planting bare-root roses
Bud union. Henry Homeyer photo.
By Henry Homeyer
letters@hippopress.com
Children & Teens
Events
• ROCKETEERS at the McAuliffeShepard Discovery Center (starhop.
com) in Concord on Sat., May 30, and
Sat., June 27, at 9 a.m. on each day. Phil
Chouinard, a firefighter by trade, has
been helping kids of all ages build and
fire off rockets at the Planetarium for
years. Learn how rockets work, and how
they explore new worlds. The Rocketeers
workshop is fun for kids 8 years old and
up. Cost is $25 per person.
• FAMILY DAY TO PLAY at the Currier
Museum (www.currier.org), Sat., May 30,
from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Activities include a
book-signing with David Macaulay, pottery wheel throwing, T-shirt silk-screening, community weaving, mural painting,
a drawing table with cartoonist Jerry Holbert, face painting and a silent auction.
Admission is $15 for adults and $5 for
children.
• SPRING FARM FAIR at Educational
Farm at Joppa Hill, 174 Joppa Hill Road
in Bedford, 472-4724, theeducationalfarm.org, on Sun., May 31, from 2 to
6 p.m. Event includes visit with animals,
pony rides, hay rides, crafts, ice cream
and more.
• PINE HILL WALDORF SCHOOL
OPEN HOUSE Pine Hill offers two
programs: Summer Garden (for ages 3
bud union needs to be buried at planting time so
that if the above-ground portion of the rose gets
killed by a cold winter, there is still some viable
plant material beneath the ground to sprout new
shoots of the rose you bought (not the root stock)
come spring.
Whether planting a bare-root rose or one in a
pot, start by selecting a spot that gets plenty of
sunshine. The more sun, the more blossoms —
it’s as simple as that. Six hours is fine. Four is
minimal. Full shade? Forget about it. Avoid areas
near trees, as the roots of trees will compete for
moisture and nutrients.
Plan on digging a hole 24 to 30 inches wide
and a little deeper than the roots of your rose. Put
the soil into a wheelbarrow, and mix in five gallons of composted manure with the soil. Add a
cup of organic fertilizer and half a cup of rock
phosphate if you have it, and the same quantity of agricultural limestone. Stir well. Then toss
a couple of shovels of compost in the hole, and
stir it in. An old-time rosarian told me to put an 8penny nail or two into the bottom of the hole for
added iron, though I fail to see that a nail will do
much. But I do it anyway, just for good luck.
From your wheelbarrow add soil to the bottom of the hole, creating a mound for your rose
roots to sit on. Place the rose on the mound and
spread out the roots; jiggle it a little to help it settle it in. Then re-fill the hole with your improved
soil, firming the soil around the rose with your
hands. When you are done planting, the bud
union should be two to four inches below the surface of the soil.
Your bare-root rose has been kept refrigerated and is dormant. You want the roots to wake
up and start growing before the top part sends
out shoots and develops leaves. The roots need
to be able to deliver water and nutrients to the
growing top. To keep the top dormant, cover the
stems with bark chips or mulch. This will keep
to 6) and Summer Adventure (ages 7 to
10). Weeklong sessions feature outdoor
and artistic activities. Open house is
Tues., June 2, from 9 to 11 a.m. Summer
programs run June 29 through Aug. 7.
School is at Abbot Hill Road in Wilton.
Call 654-6003 or www.pinehill.org.
• LAMPREY APPRECIATION DAY,
the 11th annual, at Amoskeag Fishways,
6 Fletcher St. in Manchester, 626-FISH,
www.amoskeagfishways.org, on Sat.,
June 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Presentations featuring live sea lamprey every
half hour (including the chance to hold
one). Cost is $2 per person or $5 per family. No registration required.
• AMHERST LIBRARY TALENT
SHOW (amherst.lib.nh.us) on Sat., June
6 at 3:30 p.m. All talents are welcome.
Call 673-2288 and sign up with Miss
Jackie.
• FREE ADMISSION FOR DADS and
grandfathers at the Children’s Museum of
NH (childrens-museum.org) in Dover on
Father’s Day, Sun., June 21, from noon to
5 p.m. Kids can make an art project gift
for dads in the project area.
• FATHER’S DAY AT THE CURRIER
at the Currier Museum (www.currier.org)
in Manchester, Sun., June 21 from 1 p.m.
to 3 p.m. Featuring tours, art activities
and a special menu at the cafe. Event free
with museum admission.
the stems cool and in the dark. After a week or
10 days begin removing the wood chips, a little
every day. The top will then wake up and start to
send out shoots and leaves.
I planted two varieties of English roses that I
got from David Austin Roses (www.davidaustinroses.com): a double pink one called Mayflower,
an Old Rose Hybrid; and a yellow double named
Charlotte, an English Musk Rose. Both are fragrant and should re-bloom all summer if I cut
back the stems after each flush of blooms. Roses,
given good soil, moisture and sunshine, are tremendously vigorous and can produce numerous
blossoms from a bare-root plant the first season.
English roses are not generally hardy in this climate, so I have grown them as annuals in the past.
But I met Michael Marriott, Technical manager of
David Austin roses, when I was at a garden writers’ conference in Oregon last fall, and he believed
these two should winter over here, particularly if I
cover the bases with mulch after the ground freezes. It is certainly worth a try.
Many organic gardeners avoid roses, thinking
that they are too finicky and that they need to be
sprayed with toxic chemicals to prevent fungal
diseases and to keep insect pests from decimating them. That is not my experience. If roses are
planted in soil rich in organic matter, they will
do well. I believe that chemical fertilizers force
fast weak growth, which attracts insects and diseases. Although Japanese beetles are attracted to
the scent of fragrant roses, hand-picking every
morning will generally keep damage to a minimum. And picking beetles encourages you to get
out in the garden every day — and to take time
to smell the roses.
Henry Homeyer is a gardening coach and garden designer, the author of three gardening books,
and a UNH Extension Master Gardener. Contact
him at henry.homeyer@comcast.net.
Listings
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25 Dance
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28 Misc.
Fairs, antiques
28 Nature & Gardens
Animal events, garden clubs
30 Sports & Rec.
Races, spectator sports
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 Sandwiches!
New places in Concord and Nashua to
grab a tasty meal between two pieces of
Baby rides, mom
works out
Stroller Strides, www.strollerstrides.net/newhampshire, is a total
fitness program for new moms that
they can do with their baby and it
includes power walking, cardio
and body toning. Classes last an hour and meet at Alexander Carr Park
in Derry on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; Lincoln Park in
Nashua on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9:15 a.m.; Livingston Park in
Manchester on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:15 a.m.; Griffin Park in
Windham on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:15 a.m., and the NH Sportsplex Building #2 in Bedford on Fridays at 9:15 p.m. For prices, call
300-8669 or e-mail heathermerrill@strollerstrides.net.
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.
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• Kathy Blake Dance Studios
3 Northern Blvd. in Amherst,
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Roses have a certain mystique. Guys proposing marriage or trying to get out of the dog house
traditionally buy roses. For me, long-stem roses, which are expensive and generally devoid
of fragrance, are not as nice as those I can grow
myself. Recently I planted some bare-root roses,
and I can’t wait until summer, when the plants
will begin to flaunt their floral charms.
I would hazard a guess that 90 percent of all
roses sold to the general public are sold as plants
in pots. That’s the easy way to get a rose. But if
you want to save money, or find roses of particular specifications, you might want to try buying
bare-root roses. Some garden centers sell them,
and there are hundreds of options on the World
Wide Web. Now is the time to do so as most
companies stop shipping by the end of May.
There is nothing tricky about planting bareroot roses. The only thing you have to figure
out is where the bud union is — which is to say
where the roots and the special rose you ordered
were grafted together. That’s easy: it’s where you
see the stems branching out from the root and
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In this section:
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,
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• The Educational Farm
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having its Spring Fair on
Sunday, May 31, from 2 to
6 p.m. Visitors can check out
the Farm’s animals, tour the
farm, take pony and hay rides,
make crafts, and enjoy a little
ice cream. Admission to the
Sping Fair is free. See theeducationalfarm.org.
• The Milford High School
(100 West St. in Milford) will
hold a Family Wellness Fair
on Saturday, May 30, from
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The fair
will feature a number of running races broken down into
age categories and distances
including a 400-meter, relay,
and 100-meter. Registration
costs $2. For a downloadable
registration form, go to www.
jaidensangel.org.
• The Charmingfare Farm
in Candia is having Guided
Horseback Trail Rides on
Friday, May 29, Saturday,
May 30, and Sunday, May
31. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
discover all the riding trails
at the Farm. All riders are
welcome, from beginner to
advanced. All trail rides will
be accompanied by a trails
guide. Tickets cost $60 for
this 90-minute hour ride. See
visitthefarm.com.
Schedule Your Complimentary
Consultation Today.
603.598.0795
• Funspot in Weirs Beach
(579 Endicott St.) will be hosting the International Classic
Video & Pinball Tournament on Thursday, May 29,
www.FourWaterStreet.com
Visit us at our new location,
4 Water Street, Downtown Nashua.
Parking is available to our patrons
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 dances — by day
Sunday
• BALLROOM DANCE PARTIES
every Sunday at Queen City Ballroom,
from 6 to 9 p.m. Cost is $8 per person.
Come at 5:15 p.m. for a pre-dance lesson for $8.50 per person, both dance
and lesson cost $12 per person. Singles
and couples welcome. Free admission
for first-timers.
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Saturday, May 30, and Sunday, May 31. Beginning at 10
a.m., this tournament will feature players from around the
world as they compete in classic video games like Donkey
King, Galaga and Pac-Man.
The overall winner receives
$500. Admission is free for
spectators, $30 for players,
which includes 175 tokens to
use over the tournament period. See www.funspotnh.com.
• The Granite State Comicon is Sunday, May 31, at
the Radisson Hotel and Center of New Hampshire, 700
Elm St. in Manchester, from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. See the Star
Wars re-enactors of the 501st
Legion (and bring canned
goods for their nonperishable
food drive), meet locally and
nationally known comic book
artists, participate in one of
several video game tournaments and browse the comics,
action figures and other collectables for sale. Tickets cost
$5 (children under 10 get in
for free with an adult admission). See www.granitecon.
com.
• The 2009 fish migration
season is under way at the
Amoskeag Fishways in Manchester, now through June
20. Hours for the fishways
are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week. Walk-ins are
welcome and guided tours
can be scheduled by calling
626-FISH.
• It’s Super Stellar Friday at
the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord on May
29, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. with
“Spectroscopy: The Ultimate
Starry Messenger.” Explore
some of the ways astronomers
gather and use distant stars and
their starlight to gather information about our galaxy and
universe. Admission costs $9
for adults, $6 for children 3
to 12, and $8 for student and
seniors. Free for members. Visit www.starhop.com.
• Come to the Triple Truck
Tug at the Everett Arena (15
Loudon Road in Concord) on
Saturday, May 30, and see
teams competing to pull heavy
vehicles including a fire engine,
a short distance in the quickest time. Admission is free for
spectators. There will also be
live music, exhibitors, family
activities and food. The event
runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Musician Steve Blunt
will be holding a concert on
the Dunbarton Town Common in the new gazebo on
Sunday, May 31, starting at
4 p.m. The concert will be the
kick-off for the celebrations
for the 100th birthday of the
Dunbarton Town Hall.
Purrs like a kitten
The Animal Rescue League of New
Hampshire and the Hooksett Kiwanis will be holding the Shakedown,
Shine and Show 2009 antique and
classic car show on Saturday, May
30, at Legends Golf Course in Hooksett (rain date Sunday, May 31). The
event is open to attendees from 10
to 2 p.m. Also enjoy face painting and vendors and meet
some of the ARL’s animals. Free. Contact Robin McCune
at 472-5714 or e-mail robin@rescueleague.org.
Wednesday
• WEST COAST SWING will be
featured every Wednesday night at
the Queen City Ballroom. Dance lesson are from 7:15 to 8 p.m. Dances
Monday
are from 8 to 10 p.m. $9 per person.
• FREE BALLROOM AND Singles and couples welcome. BeginLATIN DANCE every Monday, ner friendly. No alcohol.
at 6 p.m., at Arthur Murray Dance
Studio. Learn Salsa, Waltz, Tango, Thursday
Swing and more. Call 624-6857.
• BEGINNER BALLROOM AND
TOP 40 MUSIC every Thursday
night at Queen City Ballroom. Start
any week. No partner required and
no pre-registration required. 7:15 to
8 p.m. $9 per person per class. Free
for new students.
• FREE WEEKLY DANCES hosted by Let’s Dance Studio in Concord. Every Thursday from 8 to 10
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
Her hubby is right, but still a knucklehead
TOM: And when he does, that’ll give you
your opportunity for revenge, Lois. When the
other guy gets out of his car and comes back to
angrily ask your husband what he was doing
tailgating like that, you can pipe up and say,
“Tell him about the studies, Frank.”
RAY: He’s technically right, but you need
to emphasize that this is not a problem that’s
within his power to solve. So, tell him he’s
right in order to soothe his ego, but plead with
him to stop his silly and dangerous behavior
before somebody gets hurt. Or gets Ex-Lax in
his chocolate pudding.
If your shocks are worn out and the tires are
literally bouncing up and down as you drive
down the road, every time they come down,
they get scuffed, and that leads to cupping.
TOM: So you might not like the idea of
spending money on new tires, Susan. But you
might need new tires AND new shocks.
RAY: The other cause of cupping, in our
experience, is real cheap tires. For some reason, they seem to get cupped more often than
better-quality rubber.
TOM: Unfortunately, it’s really not safe to
drive on cupped tires. They have indentations
in them. So every time the tire rotates, there
are high spots that aren’t touching the road.
That means you have less traction, and less
ability to stop and turn.
RAY: If these are your original tires, it’s
probably time to replace them with a goodquality set (original tires on all but high-end
cars are notoriously cheap). But have your
mechanic check out your shocks first. They
may be fine. But if they’re not, you want to
replace them too, before you cup another set
of tires. Good luck.
Dear Tom and Ray:
I have a 2004 Hyundai Santa Fe with
47,000 miles on it. Recently it developed an
unpleasant rumbling noise. After taking it to
the service department, I was told that my tires
are “cupped” and should be replaced. For a
temporary fix, they rotated the front tires to the
back. I still have the noise, but it’s not as bad.
And given a choice between living with the
noise and paying for new tires, I’m thinking of
living with the noise. The tires have plenty of
tread. Are “cupped” tires safe to be traveling
on? Also, what causes tires to cup? — Susan
TOM: Well, first of all, cupped tires are tires
that appear to have little scoops taken out of
them. They’re also called “scalloped” tires —
like scalloped potatoes.
RAY: There are two main causes of cupping. One is an inadequate suspension system.
Get more Click and Clack in their new
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Car Talk.” Got a question about cars? E-mail
Click and Clack by visiting the Car Talk Web
site at www.cartalk.com. 2009 by Tom and Ray
Magliozzi and Doug Berman
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Dear Tom and Ray:
I need help. I am married to a bonehead.
My husband insists on pulling practically
into the trunk of cars in front of him. Moving,
stopped — it doesn’t matter. At stoplights, not
only does he pull to within inches of the car
in front, but he insists on starting to move forward the nanosecond the light turns green.
Whether there’s one or four cars in front of
him, it doesn’t matter. His excuse is that he
is overcoming “inertia” and that it makes no
sense to wait until everyone has started moving before he starts moving. He claims “study
after study has proven this.” I have yet to figure out what is supposedly proven and where
these so-called studies have been published.
I have tried time and again to point out that
this tailgating is dangerous and that he is not
allowing for the fact that the person in front
of him might be an even bigger knucklehead
than he is. What is this “overcoming inertia”
thing? What possible purpose does it serve?
And can I politely (or otherwise) tell him he is
full of bovine scatology? — Lois
TOM: Lois, you have our utmost sympathy.
RAY: Unfortunately, your husband is technically correct about the whole “inertia” thing.
But the way he’s trying to address the problem
is reminiscent of the way Don Quixote goes
after his windmills.
TOM: Traffic studies have shown that when
traffic stops and starts, it moves slower than
if it never stops. Think about it. Each driver
(at least, each non-knucklehead driver) has
to wait for the driver in front of him to start
moving again before HE can start moving.
Multiply those delays by the number of cars,
and you get slow-moving traffic.
RAY: Some engineers have tried to address
the issue by limiting the number of cars on a
roadway. You may have seen highway entrances where you wait at the end of the ramp for
a green light. That’s an attempt to keep traffic
on that roadway from becoming so dense that
it stops and starts.
TOM: But your husband has no way of
addressing this problem by himself. He’s one
drop of water, and he’s trying to stop Niagara Falls.
RAY: By being so impatient and trying to
“keep the traffic moving” himself, he’s only
going to bang into another driver’s bumper. In
fact, by the time you read this, he may already
have rung up a few thousand dollars in body
work.
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mass-produced
and don’t seem
to hold a strong
market value.
The damage
on your piece
doesn’t help it
either. If it was
a
better-done
piece it might
be worth having
it repaired, but I
only feel that a
piece should be
repaired if has a
really substantial
value or has a
sentimental val-
An antiques expert helps you
search for buried treasure
Dear Donna,
My father was given this vase from a job site around
Boston, Mass. We know nothing of its origin. Have you
ever come across a vase like this?It has been sitting in
their home for approximately 20 years now. They are
in the process of downsizing and have asked me to
look into it, to see if I can identify it. Needless to say I
have had no luck. Can you help? Even if you give me
a little information it would be appreciated. My dad’s
main purpose is to see if there is any value in it.
The vase on the top left is cracked off in one solid piece and miscellaneous small chunks. They are all
inside the vase.
Shelly in Pelham
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Dear Shelly,
Satsuma pottery (porcelain) has been around for a
couple of centuries. It is from Japan but was actually
developed by Korean potters.
It is always easy to identify because of its crackle finish (that’s the tiny cracking-like lines you see all
over the vase). And the more mass-produced pieces
have a lot of the vibrant colors and the details are very
large and clear to see. One of the most common colors that is almost a trademark is cobalt and then gold
as well.
The earlier Satsuma was done with a cream base
and much finer detail than the later pieces. These pieces are very sought-after by collectors. The pieces like
the one you have sent me a picture of were done later in the 1800s and turn of the century. These were
ue. Repairing can get very costly.
Shelly, I am sorry that I didn’t have better news
for you, but if you can live with the damage, you or
your dad should continue to enjoy it. When a piece is
damaged it doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy it. They
don’t have a value but can look very nice in a bookcase or on a shelf.
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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p.m. Dances include ballroom, Latin, swing and Derry. Multiple sellers with toys, clothes, furnitango and are open to the public.
ture, housewares and more.
• RED, WHITE & BLUE YARD & BAKE
Friday
SALE by the Milford Democrats on Sat., May
• LATIN FRIDAY DANCE PARTIES every 30, from 9 a.m. to noon at 80 Beech St. in MilFriday night at the Royal Palace Dance Studio. ford (June 6 is rain date). Free coffee.
Open to the public from 7:45 to 9:30 p.m. Sin- • TOWN-WIDE YARD SALE by the Weare
gles & couples are welcome. Call to add your Historical Society on Sat., June 6, from 8 a.m. to
name to the guest list.
noon, at the Stone Building in Weare Center.
• SOCIAL DANCING From 8 to 11 p.m.
on Fridays and one Saturday per month at the Expos/festivals/fairs
Paper Moon Dance Center. Walk-ins encour- • PEACE FESTIVAL at the Center of Yoga,
aged, singles and couples, ages 12 and up. $10; Dance & Wellness at the Harris Pond studio,
$5 if attending any classes or lessons during the 32 DW Highway in Merrimack on Sat., May
prior week. Light refreshments.
30, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The day’s events
include entertainment, live music, yoga and
Saturday
dance demonstrations, sample classes, crafts,
• OPEN BALLROOM DANCING at Let’s face painting, drumming for peace, sustainDance Studio the last Saturday of each month able living tips and more. Call 886-7308 or see
from 8 to 10 p.m. This open practice dance ses- www.movingspirityogadance.com.
sion is free.
nATurE
• SOCIAL DANCING From 8 to 11 p.m.
& GArdEnInG
on Fridays and one Saturday per month at the
Paper Moon Dance Center. Walk-ins encour- • Amoskeag Fishways
aged, singles and couples ages 12 and up. $10; 6 Fletcher St., Manchester,
$5 if attending any classes or lessons during the 626-FISH, amoskeagfishways.org
prior week. Light refreshments.
• Beaver Brook Association
• SNEAK PREVIEW FOR BEGINNER 117 Ridge Road, Hollis, 465-7787,
DANCERS on the third Saturday of every month beaverbrook.org,
at the Queen City Ballroom. From 4 to 5 p.m. $5 • Charmingfare Farm
per person. Singles and couples welcome.
Route 27, Candia, 483-5623,
visitthefarm.com
MISCELLAnEOuS
• McAuliffe-Shepard
Antiques
Discovery Center
• APPRAISAL DAY on Sat., May 30, 10 a.m. to 2 Institute Drive, Concord,
3 p.m. at Candia Congregational Church, 1 South 271-STAR, starhop.com
Road in Candia. The cost is $10 per item, $25 • Educational Farm
for three items (limits of three items). No coins, at Joppa Hill
stamps, jewelry or musical instruments. Verbal 174 Joppa Hill Road, Bedford,
estimates provided by Skinner Inc. Light lunch of 472-4724, theeducationalfarm.org
coffee, soda and baked goods. See www.candia- • Friends of Stark Park
congregational.com or call Liz Claver 483-0587.
North River Road, Manchester,
645-6700, friendsofstarkpark.org
Bake/yard sales
• Londonderry Trailways
• 2nd ANNUAL YARD SALE to support the PO Box 389, Londonderry,
Queen City Mothers of Twins Club on Sun.,
May 31, from 8 a.m. to noon at 13 Birch St. in
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AUTO, AC, #9245
MSRP
$17,690
AC, PWR EQUIP
#9320
MSRP
$19,345
13,780
STARTING$
AT ONLY
14,420
STARTING$
AT ONLY
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SYNC, MR, RAILS,
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$29,490
21,437
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PKG., LTHR,
#9415
SYNC, LTHR,
REVERSE,
#9158
MR, 3RD ROW,
AUX CLIMATE
CTRL, #8055
MSRP
$24,840
MSRP
$28,075
MSRP
$31,675
22,805
MSRP
$18,405
23,676
13,594
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AUTO, V8, DUMP
TRUCK
#8823
AUTO, AC,
#9178
AUTO, V8, XL,
DECOR, #9325
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2005 Ford Taurus SEL
$3,999
2006 Saturn Ion
#9426A ............................................................................. $6,999
2004 Dodge Stratus RT
#P16563 ........................................................................... $6,999
2006 Chevrolet Impala SS
#9033A ............................................................................. $7,999
2008 Ford Focus SE Sedan
#P16469 ........................................................................... $8,999
2008 Pontiac G6 GT
#P16611 ........................................................................... $8,999
2005 Dodge Durango SLT
#P16562 ........................................................................... $9,999
2008 Ford Fusion SEL
#P16518 ....................................................................... $10,999
#P16452A .........................................................................
2006 Chevrolet Malibu Maxx LTZ
$11,999
2006 Chevrolet G3500
14 ft box, #P16574 ........................................................ $11,999
2008 Ford E250 Cargo
#P16579 ....................................................................... $11,999
2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse
#P16477A ..................................................................... $12,999
2008 Mazda 6
#P16603 ....................................................................... $12,999
2009 Pontiac Vibe AWD
#9421A ......................................................................... $13,999
2006 Ford Ranger S/C 4x4
#P16605 ....................................................................... $13,999
2008 Honda Civic SI Sedan
#P16593A ..................................................................... $14,999
#9420A .........................................................................
2006 Ford Mustang GT
$15,999
#9097A ......................................................................... $15,999
2006 Dodge Ram 1500 Crew Cab
#P16609 ....................................................................... $17,999
2002 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe
#9100............................................................................ $19,999
2008 Lincoln MKZ
#9274A ......................................................................... $22,999
2008 Ford F150 S/C 4x4
#P16616 ....................................................................... $22,999
2007 Ford Mustang GT 500
#P16620 ....................................................................... $36,999
2008 Ford F250 Crew Cab King Ranch
#P16601 ....................................................................... $39,999
#0005A .........................................................................
2005 Toyota Tacoma S/C w/ Plow
ALL NEW CAR PRICES INCLUDE ALL FORD FACTORY REBATES & COLLEGE GRAD REBATES TO DEALER. MUST FINANCE THRU FMCC, & INCLUDES $1,000 COMPETITIVE TRADE IN REBATE. RANGER, F150, F250, F350 & E250 INCLUDE COMMERCIAL UPFIT REBATE.
ALL USED CAR PRICES REFLECT $3000 CASH DOWN OR TRADE. PICTURES ARE FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY. SALE ENDS 5/31/09
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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
19,813
AUTO, AC,
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londonderrytrails.org
• Manchester Historic
Association
129 Amherst St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• Massabesic Audubon Center
26 Audubon Way, Auburn,
668-2045, nhudubon.org
• McLane Center
84 Silk Farm Road, Concord,
224-9909, nhudubon.org
• Peabody Mill
Environmental Center 66 Brook
Rd, Amherst, 673-1141, pmec.org
• Seacoast Science Center
570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 436-8043,
seacoastsciencecenter.org
• Society for the Protection
of NH Forests
224-9945, spnhf.org
Animals/insects/plants
• 2009 FISH SEASON with The
Amoskeag Fishways to Sat., June
20. The Fishways will be open
seven days a week from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Walk-in visitors are
welcome and guided fish season
tours are offered to groups of 1030 participants. For information
about the fish season or to schedule a tour call 626-FISH.
• BACKYARD BIRDING AND
BIRD ID at the Massabesic
Audubon Center on Sundays at 1
p.m. The basics of backyard birding and spring bird identification.
Cost is $5 (free for members).
• NH’s COMMON LOON a
presentation on the loon by Harry
Vogel, executive director of the
Loon Preservation Committee, at
Massabesic Audubon Center in
Auburn on Sun., May 31, from 2
to 4 p.m. The loon, a threatened
species, returns to Massabesic
Lake and other NH lakes each
spring after wintering on the
ocean. Find out how to become
involved in a loon survey in July.
Program is suitable for teens and
adults and is free for members,
$5 for non-members. See www.
nhaudubon.org.
• ODIORNE’S ANIMALS at the
Seacoast Science Center, open
seven days a week, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Ages 13 to adult, $3; ages
3 to 12, $1; under 3, free. Call
436-8043 or visit www.seacoastsciencecenter.org.
SPORTS
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• 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
Buy plants
Try out your green thumb at the
Manchester Animal Shelter’s third
annual Plant Sale on Saturday,
June 6, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the
grounds of the shelter at 490 Dunbarton Road in Manchester. Plants
will include annuals, perennials and
houseplants, and the shelter will also
be open for tours. Contact Maria at
catpeople04@comcast.net or call 628-3544.
The state’s best
rail trail
The 2009 Flat ’n’ Fast
5K through the Windham Rail Trail Alliance
will take place on Sunday,
June 7. The race starts at
the Roulston Road entrance at 8:30 a.m., with a fun walk
starting immediately after the last runner. Parking and sameday registration from 7 to 8 a.m. at Taylor’s Bingo Hall (122
North Lowell Road, Windham). For registration forms, visit
www.windhamrailtrail.org or www.coolrunning.com.
Spectator sports
• American Defenders of NH
at Holman Stadium, Amherst St.,
883-2255, americandefenders.us
• Manchester Freedom Football
9 Notre Dame Ave., 627-7270,
manchesterfreedom.com
• Manchester Monarchs Hockey
Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
St., monarchshockey.com,
626-7825
• Manchester Wolves Football
Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
St., manchesterwolves.com
• NH Fisher Cats Baseball
1 Line Drive, Manchester,
641-2005, nhfishercats.com
• Verizon Wireless Arena
555 Elm St., Manchester, 8687300, verizonwirelessarena.com
Golf
• CARE CENTER ANNUAL
GOLF TOURNAMENT will
take place Mon., June 1, at the
Nashua Country Club. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m.
shotgun start, 2 p.m. BBQ lunch
and awards. Format is scramble,
based on the Buick Handicap System. Cost is $175 per person/$700
per team. Registration is on a first
come basis. Contact Jackie Clancy
886-2866 ext 18 to register or for
sponsorship opportunities.
• SPRING CLASSIC GOLF
TOURNAMENT through the
Wild Rover in Manchester, takes
place on Wed., June 10, at Plausawa Valley Golf Course in Pembroke. The shotgun start begins at
8:30 a.m. Cost is $85 per person
and includes breakfast, a buffet luncheon at the Wild Rover, entrance
into raffles and coupons. Contact
the Wild Rover at 669-7722.
Runs/running/ walks
BLIND AWARENESS WALKA-THON, 6th annual event for
the NH Association for the Blind
(McGreal Sight Center, 25 Walker
St. in Concord), on Sat., May 30.
3K Walk begins at 11 a.m., registration begins at 10 a.m. Register
online at nhab09walk.kintera.org
or call Mary Chase at 224-4039.
Registration costs $15 for adults,
$5 for children 12 and under
and includes a t-shirt, lunch, live
entertainment and door prizes.
• RELAY FOR LIFE OF
GREATER
MANCHESTER
This annual event brings communities from Manchester, Bedford,
Goffstown and Hooksett together
to celebrate those who have faced
cancer and fight back against the
disease. This year’s event takes
place on Fri., June 5 and Sat.,
June 6, from 6 p.m. to 10 a.m. at
Livingston Park. Call 1-800-ACS2345 or visit www.relayforlife.
org/manchesternh.
• SALVATION ARMY 5K RACE
& FITNESS WALK is Sat., June
6, at 10 a.m. All proceeds benefit
the Nashua Salvation Army Summer Camp Program. Visit www.
craceproductions.com for all race
details.
Spectator
• AMERICAN DEFENDERS
OF NH, Can-Am League Baseball, 883-2255, www.americandefenders.us, plays at Holman
Stadium in Nashua. First home
game is Next run — Thurs., May
28, through Sun., May 31, at 6:35
p.m. on Thursday through Saturday and 5:05 p.m. on Sunday.
• 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. The next
home games are Sat., May 30, vs.
Erie Illusion and Sat., June 13,
vs. Southern Maine Rebels. Visit
www.manchesterfreedom.com.
• MANCHESTER WOLVES (Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm St.,
Manchester, 644-5000). Professional
Arena football team. Visit www.
manchesterwolves.com.
Upcoming games include Fri., June 5, vs.
Albany Firebirds at 7:30 p.m.; Fri.,
June 11, vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Pioneers at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., July 17,
vs. Mahoning Valley Thunder at 7:30
p.m.; Fri., July 24, vs. Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton Pioneers at 7:30 p.m.
• NH FISHER CATS (Merchantsauto.com Stadium, 1 Line Drive,
Manchester, 641-2005) is the AA
minor-league affiliate of the Toronto
Blue Jays baseball team. Visit www.
nhfishercats.com. Upcoming games
include Thurs., May 28, at 11:05 a.m.
vs. Portland Sea Dogs.
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FOOD
Weekly Dish A south end tradition continues in Concord
Notes from the local food scene
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
food@hippopress.com
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• Get juiced: All Juiced Up is open at 790
Elm St. in Manchester. This juice bar also
serves sandwiches, salads and gluten-free items
from Heavenly Fodder. The hours for now are
Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but those hours may
change as the summer progresses.
• New eats in Concord: Gamil’s Egyptian
restaurant is open at 26 Pleasant St. in Concord.
The menu features fresh traditional Egyptian fare — falafel, hommous, baba ghanouji,
koufta, keebee and more — in sandwiches,
salads, platters and dinners. There are also pizzas and pasta dishes, plus traditional breakfast
fare on the weekends. The hours are Monday
through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, 11
a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and
Sunday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• New eats in space: The Countdown Café
has opened as part of the new McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord. The Café is
run by Tidewater Catering Group, which also
operates the Winter Garden Café at the Currier Museum of Art. Menu selections include
seasonal local vegetables, unusual soups, salads, sandwiches and hot entrees. See the whole
menu at www.starhop.com/library/pdf/menu.
pdf. Hours are Saturday through Thursday
from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Friday from
9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
• New eats coming soon: The Mint Bistro at
1105 Elm St. in Manchester is slated to open in
the next few weeks. Owner Roy Shpindler, who
is also owner of the nearby Bridge Café, said the
restaurant will feature high-end offerings from
different world cuisines — Italian, Asian and
American as well as tapas at the bar. It will be
open for lunch, dinner and brunch. Bridge Cafe
executive chef George Bezanson will also serve
as executive chef at the Mint Bistro.
• More food on air: Viewers of Concord
TV (Channel 22) can now tune in to Menu
Makeover. The show gives a healthy and
weight-conscious makeover to favorite recipes
and meals. See www.menumakeover.com for
show times and their breakfast show.
• Dessert with your tacos: Fans of the taco
truck in Manchester, Taco Nayarit, parked in
the lot at the corner of Lake and Union streets
should bring extra cash when they go to pick
up tacos and burritos. La Mexicana Bakery, 92
W. Pearl St. in Nashua, has a table set up near
the truck on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. and on Sundays from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. They offer a variety of fresh
Mexican-style pastries.
• Another eats week: Restaurant week in
Dover will be Monday, June 1, through Sunday, June 7. A two-course prix fix lunch is
$12.95 and three-course prix fix dinners are
$21.95. Reservations are recommended —
mention Dover Dines when you call — and
a complete list of restaurants can be found at
www.weshopdover.com/dines09.html.
• Sweet and red: Jewell Towne Vineyards
(183 Whitehall Road in South Hampton, www.
jewelltownevineyards.com) has introduced
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Cimo’s is born in former Ordway’s spot
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
food@hippopress.com
For more than 80 years there was a small
market in Concord’s south end residential neighborhood. That tradition seemed in
jeopardy when Ordway’s market closed in
December. Instead it will continue with the
new Cimo’s South End Deli, thanks to new
owner John Cimikoski.
A Concord native, Cimikoski has lived
in the south end most of his adult life, just
around the corner from the market. He
owned a hardwood flooring business, but
always had his eye on the possibility of one
day owning the market. He was a regular
Ordway’s coffee and lunch customer.
“I always wanted to do this. Every time
this market would change owners I would
check on the price. I was sick of breathing
the dust and being on my knees all day,”
Cimikoski said.
The market gets its name from Cimikoski’s childhood nickname. It is a combination
of convenience store, deli, sub shop, take-out
and ice cream stand. Glass-fronted refrigerator cases contain beer, wine, soda, milk and
other cold items. There are a few shelves of
chips, snacks, breads and other groceries.
Another refrigerated case holds ready-made
salads and sandwiches. Cimikoski hopes to
add fresh produce from the public garden
down the street this summer.
A hot case features breakfast pizza (made
with egg, cheese, sausage and bacon) and
breakfast sandwiches in the mornings, and
then makes the switch to traditional pizzas and sandwiches toward lunch time.
For customers with more time to spare, the
sandwiches can be made fresh to order at
the counter. One popular item is the Western breakfast sub, which is a Western omelet
(onions, peppers, ham and cheese) on a roll.
There are also hamburgers, hot dogs and
soups available, and there is an ice cream
counter with Gifford’s Ice Cream from
Maine and a slushy machine.
The former Ordway’s Market has been reborn as Cimo’s South End Deli. Linda A. Thompson-Odum
photo.
“If someone’s looking for a quick snack
or lunch, they don’t have to wait,” Cimikoski said. “But, if they have time, we can make
everything to their specifications.”
The salads, soups and other ready-made
items come from recipes created by Cimikoski
and his staff. In the future, he wants to involve
the public with recipe contests for items such
as cole slaw, potato salad, soups, etc. with the
winner’s recipe featured in the market.
The deli accepts fax orders so business
and groups can have lunch ready when needed. There is even a box lunch available for
groups of five or more. School groups or
businesses can fill out a special fax form
that lists everyone’s sandwich preference.
Cimikoski and his staff will then make up
the boxed lunches with the sandwiches,
chips, soda or water, and a cookie, and have
them packed in a cooler and ready for pickup. The cost is $6 per lunch.
Kids and families are a big part of Cimo’s
business. Many stop in on their way to a Little League or softball game at the nearby ball
fields. The market sponsors one of the Little
League teams.
“I grew up with the Boys & Girls club.
You don’t realize where the money comes
from when you are going to camp or playing ball. It’s all about giving back to the kid
in the community,” he said.
Cimikoski wants the market to be a comfortable place for everyone from the businessman
in a suit to the guys covered in sawdust or off
the back of a garbage truck. Customer service
is his top priority, both in the market’s attitude
and in convenience. “We don’t want anybody
to pass this store and head to a supermarket. If
you need onion powder and we don’t have it
on the shelf, well we use it in the back so I’ll
sell you some. We want to know everybody’s
name and hear everyone’s suggestions and
comments,” Cimikoski said.
Cimo’s South End Deli
250 South St., Concord, 856-8020
Hours: Daily, 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Express Café debuts
Sandwiches and coffee in downtown Nashua
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
food@hippopress.com
If a person can be born to make sandwiches, then Raidah Alawamleh is such a person.
The owner of the new Express Café in Nashua was given the nickname “Sandwich” by
family and friends when she was 10 years
old.
“When I was in school, I always liked to
make my own sandwiches. When we had
visitors, they would see the sandwiches I had
and want them,” she said.
Alawamleh, a Jordanian immigrant who
has lived here for almost nine years, opened
the café a few weeks ago. She offers coffee
from Java Tree plus all the traditional espresso-based drinks — lattes and cappuccinos.
There is also Turkish coffee, a selection of
black, herbal and green teas, bottled bever-
ages, and fruit smoothies made with green
tea, cane sugar (no high-fructose corn syrup)
and a large cup-full of frozen fruit.
The sandwiches are made with Boar’s
Head gluten-free meats or all-natural chicken that she roasts herself with just a light
coating of olive oil.
“Every sandwich I like to eat myself or I
know my customers like,” Alawamleh said.
There is a large selection of paninis and
wraps. Customers gravitate toward the Big
City Roast Beef panini (cracked pepper and
parmesan roast beef with American cheese,
caramelized onions, pickles, lettuce and a
creamy horseradish sauce) and the Roma
panini (Roma tomatoes, mozzarella, baby
lettuce, and a house-made herb dressing).
The paninis are made with either ciabatta or
focaccia bread, or customers may choose a
bagel that is both kosher and halal certified.
The most popular wrap is the cranberry-walnut chicken salad made with a white, wheat,
tomato or spinach 12-inch tortilla.
“I created the Smoked Stacker Club for
customers who like BLTs,” Alawamleh said.
This sandwich has turkey, provolone, lettuce, bacon and red onion.
Alawamleh and her husband owned a dollar-style store before she opened the café.
She knew it would be a risk in this economy, but she also saw a need in the downtown
for what she had to offer: “I knew the restaurant market would drop. People don’t have
the money to spend. They go drink to forget the economy at places with lots of loud
music. I wanted to give them a quick, fresh
meal not over $7. And on Main Street there
are not a lot of family places open after 4 or
5 p.m. where you can get an ice cream, dessert or a coffee drink.”
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Besides the sandwiches, Express Café
has a selection of homemade soups, and salads made to order. The Express salad is the
most requested — a shredded salad made
with tomato, cucumber, herbs, green pepper
and olives served on a bed of crisp greens
and topped with a homemade dressing of
oil, lemon juice, and a variety of herbs. Alawamleh buys the vegetables every day and
chooses them herself — “You save money
and get the freshest products,” she said. She
plans to by most of her vegetables at the
local farm stand when it’s available to support the local farmers.
For a little something sweet, the café
offers Hershey’s ice cream and an assortment of muffins, Danish, scones, cakes,
pies and cookies. She gets the baked goods
from local bakeries. There is also a large
snack bar with a variety of candy, chips and
gum.
Alawamleh would like people to think of
Express Café as a family-friendly place to
get an inexpensive lunch or dinner, an ice
cream cone or a cup of great coffee. So far,
all is well.
“I’m doing really good,” she said. “I’m
paying my rent!”
It’s Here. It’s Now. It’s Cotton!
Want to get a taste of great food made fresh?
Nothing tastes like COTTON.
Lunch 11:30 to 2:30 Monday - Friday
Dinner served nightly from 5pm
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The new Express Café in Nashua. Linda A.
Thompson-Odum photo.
Express Café
182 Main St., Nashua, 821-9936
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Boston Globe has honored The BVI’s Chocolate Bag
as one of the Top Ten Desserts in New England! February 2009
OpenTable.com has named The BVI as one of the
Top Ten Most Romantic Restaurants in New England! March 2009
LuxuryLinks.com has selected The BVI to join its collection of
luxury destinations throughout the world. Log on to LuxuryLinks.com and check it out!
That and a lot more at The BVI!
Weekly Dish
new red ice wine made from frozen Chancellor grapes. It is similar to South Hampton
Red (sweet, red and delicious) but more delicate. This wine is a limited-edition wine
with fewer than 300 bottles made.
• Eat pancakes, help the food bank:
CADVantages Inc. of Windham is holding a pancake breakfast at Applebee’s, 1273
Hooksett Road in Hooksett, on Saturday,
June 20, from 8 to 10 a.m. The cost is $5 and
proceeds will benefit the New Hampshire
Food Bank. Bring canned vegetables to get
raffle tickets for items raffled off every hour
on the hour. See www.nhfoodbank.org.
• Eat pancakes, help the Audi: Friends of
the Audi (the Concord City Auditorium; see
www.concordcityauditorium.org) will hold
an “all you can eat” pancake breakfast at the
Applegate Restaurant at Steeplegate Mall in
Concord on Saturday, June 6. The cost is $5.
• Eat pizza, help the Audi: The Friends will
also hold a “Dough Raiser” at UNO’s Chicago
Grill on Fort Eddy Road in Concord on Monday, June 15, from 11 a.m. to midnight. The
cast will be at the restaurant from 11:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Wear something plaid for the chance to win show tickets
and tell the server you’re there for the Dough
Raiser so the Audi gets 20 percent of the check.
See www.concordcityauditorium.org.
• Awards and accolades: Grape Time
Winery (a division of IncrediBREW in
Nashua) won five silver medals and one
bronze medal at two different international wine competitions, according to a press
release. At the ninth annual Finger Lakes
International Wine Competition in Rochester, N.Y., the winery’s chocolate raspberry
port, gruner veltliner and merlot each won a
silver medal and the pinotage won a bronze.
At the 2009 Riverside International Wine
Competition in Riverside, Calif., that same
port and the winery’s Granny Smith Riesling
each won silver medals. See incredibrew.
com for more on the winery. Meanwhile,
the Wicked Good Deli, 999 Elm St. in Manchester, took first place in the 2009 Southern
New Hampshire Pizza Wars held in Londonderry, according to a Wicked Good Deli
release. The Deli finished first in the Best
Specialty Pizza category and second in the
Best Cheese Pizza category. See www.wickedgoodelionelm.net.
• Sushi Smackdown: The 119 Gallery,
119 Chelmsford St. in Lowell, Mass., 978452-8782, 119gallery.org, will hold its third
Sushi Smackdown on Sunday, June 7, from
1 to 4 p.m. at the ALL Gallery, 246 Market
St. in Lowell. Chefs Mitch, Talia, Rick and
Mira will participate in a sushi competition
with the Skate Free or Die Roller Derby Girls delivering sushi. Tickets cost $30
in advance, $35 at the door. Call or e-mail
mira@119gallery.org for tickets.
• Wine dinner with Niner: Commercial
Street Fishery, 33 S. Commercial St. in Manchester, 296-0706, www.csfishery.com, will
hold a wine dinner with Amanda Cramer,
winemaker at Niner Vineyards (ninerwine.
com), on Monday, June 1. The price is $75
per person; call for reservations (which are
required). The five-course dinner will be
accompanied by different wines. Go online
for the complete menu.
• And by the way, seafood fans: Get your
weekend seafood fix at the Commercial Street
Fishery on Saturdays because the Fishery will
be closed on Sundays until the fall.
• Open winery: The Vintner’s Cellar of
Bedford, Sebbins Brook Market Place on 410
S. River Road, www.vintnerscellarnh.com,
will hold a two-day open house and birthday
celebration on Friday, June 12, from 4 to 7
p.m., and Saturday, June 13, from 4 to 7 p.m.
Sample wines and receive discounts on purchases and a chance to win raffle prizes.
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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 NOFANH 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.
• NASHUA — MAIN STREET
BRIDGE The Main Street Bridge
Market (which runs on the side of
Main Street, on the bridge near Peddler’s Daughter in downtown Nashua) will run Sundays, 10 a.m. to 3
p.m., and ends the season on Oct. 25.
See www.greatamericandowntown.
org or call 883-5700 for more.
• NASHUA — SCHOOL STREET
The School Street Market will run
Fridays from 2 to 6 p.m. and will start
on June 5 (ending on Oct. 30 for the
season). See www.greatamericandowntown.org or call 883-5700.
• NH ONLINE FARMERS’ MARKET www.nhfarms.com offers links
to New Hampshire farms selling
fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy, maple
and honey products, flowers, baked
goods and more.
Paula Deen’s The Deen Family Cookbook, By Paula Deen with
Melissa Clark (2009, Simon &
Schuster, 269 pages)
More butter.
If you could sum up Paula Deen’s cooking philosophy, it
might boil down to something like
“more butter.” Or possibly “and
then fry it.” In this book’s very first
recipe, Paula Deen adds more cheese to store-bought cheese
straws.
God bless you, Paula Deen.
“Cousin Johnnie’s Red Velvet Whoopee Pies,” “Caramel
Pecan-Topped Chocolate Layer Cake,” “Bourbon-Bathed
Brown Sugar Pound Cake” — I mean, with recipes like
that, why are you still reading this review? Why aren’t you
headed first to the bookstore and then to the supermarket for
ingredients? (OK, and then to the gym, to work off the guilt;
but still, it’s worth it.)
In addition to such Paula Deen now-I-can-die-happy dessert creations, The Deen Family Cookbook is full of dishes
that either make delightful whole-family-eating-together
comfort food meals or excellent dishes to take to a friend’s
house to wow a pot-luck crowd. The picture alone of Sweet
Surprise Cheddar-Olive Bites made me want to host a party
and the Aunt Peggy’s Old-Fashioned Meat Loaf is not only
Sunday night’s everybody-wants-seconds dinner but Monday’s can’t-wait-for-lunch sandwich.
If your mom, your grandmother or your great-aunt didn’t
send you out into the world with a collection of favorite family recipes, let your Aunt Paula teach you to make
“Bubba’s Beer and Onion Biscuits” or to feed your overnight guests with “Easy Blueberry Skilled Coffee Cake.”
So she’s not your blood relation — butter, that great uniter,
is thicker. — Amy Diaz
Hummus, falafel and more!
The Jewish Federation of New Hampshire, 698 Beech
St. in Manchester, will hold a Taste of Israel on Sunday,
May 31, from 4 to 7 p.m. to celebrate Israeli Independence Day. The event is open to the public and will
include Israeli folk music and dancing, a talent show,
activities for kids, and an exhibit of arts & crafts. Food
concessions will include Middle Eastern dishes such as
falafel, hummus, borekas (a stuffed pastry) and more.
For more information go to www.jewishnh.org or call
627-7679.
steam wand. A& E Coffee Roastery
and Bonhoeffer’s Café are holding
the First NH Barista Jam on Friday, May 29, from 7 to 10 p.m. at
Bonhoeffer’s Café, 8 Franklin St in
Nashua. Call 883-6879 to RSCP.
For $5, baristas can show their stuff
at the Latte Art Throwdown. Sign
up begins at 7 p.m. and the competition runs from 7:30 to 9 p.m. At
9 p.m., there will be a competition
of signature drinks (one per café).
There will be prizes handed out for
both competitions as well as live
music, appetizers, ice cream and,
of course, espresso. Call for more
information.
• CELEBRATE WILTON The
Wilton Main Street Association
will hold its annual Celebrate
Wilton festival on Saturday, June
6, with events from 8 a.m. to 6
p.m. Activities will include a pancake breakfast at the Masons and
a chicken barbecue dinner at the
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
American Legion. Call 654-3020
parties/book events
or see www.mainstreet.wilton.
• BARISTA JAM Foam artists and nh.us for more information.
espresso badasses, time to work the • CHILI FIESTA The Alvirne
Friends of Music are sponsoring
their 7th annual Bronco “Belly
Bustin” Chili Fiesta on Saturday,
June 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The event will feature live music,
including from the Alvirne High
School Jazz Band, as well as a
chili cookoff, with the winner
qualified for the World Championship Chili Cookoff. The event
will take place at the Hills House
Field on Route 102 in Hudson,
rain or shine, across from Alvirne
High School. Admission costs $5
and children under 9 are free. See
www.ahsmusic.org for more on
the Friends of Music.
• KITCHEN TOUR The Palace
Theatre will hold its fifth annual
Kitchen Tour on Wed., June 3.
Admission, which costs $45 in
advance and $50 at the door,
includes a chance to tour the kitchens of Manchester and Bedford and
a catered lunch. Registration begins
at 9 a.m. at Granite State Cabinetry,
384 Route 101 in Bedford, where
brochures will be given out for the
homes, which will be open from
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17 West Main St.
Hillsborough, NH
603.464.6766
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will once again team up with the
local charity Fred’s Fund to raise
money for Children’s Hospital at
Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD.)
• NINER WINE DINNER Commercial Street Fishery, 33 S.
Commercial St. in Manchester,
www.csfishery.com, 296-0706,
will hold a dinner with winemaker
Amanda Cramer from Niner VineChef events/special meals yards on Monday, June 1. Reser• BURGERFEST The Bar- vations will be required; call or
ley House, 132 N. Main St. in check with the Web site for more
Concord, will hold their annual information.
Burgerfest from Fri., June 12
to Sat., June 20. The restaurant
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172 North Main St.
(in the Holiday Inn)
Concord, NH
603.224.0400
www.nonnisitalianeatery.com
An Affordable Taste of Italy
in downtown Nashua…since 1997
Discover budget-friendly
Italian cuisine:
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Everybody Mangia!
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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
for the 15th annual Taste of Downtown Nashua which will be held
Wed., June 3, at 6 p.m. Tickets cost
$30 through May 15 and are available
online at www.downtownnashua.org/
taste. Tickets will go on sale at downtown retail locations the first week in
May. See the Web site or call Great
American Downtown at 883-5700.
255 Newport Road
New London, NH
603.526.2265
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Quiche
For an authentic French quiche, I suggest stopping by
Madeleines at 124 N. Main St. in Concord. The following
I was noshing quiche the recipe, which I acquired in the decidedly non-French city
other day at Madeleines, of Atlanta, is quick, easy and infinitely adaptable. Other
one of my favorite Concord than the eggs and dairy, feel free to replace virtually any
haunts, when I got to talking of the ingredients with whatever you have on hand.
about ingredients with Paul, You can easily use a store-bought pie shell for this recthe shop’s owner and pâtissier. ipe, but a traditional crust will be much better. To make
Paul is an extroverted guy who the crust, place 1¾ cups of unbleached all-purpose flour,
loves what he does and loves one stick of unsalted butter cut into small cubes, and ½
to talk about it. “Nutmeg,” he teaspoon of salt in a food processor, and pulse a briefly
proclaimed. “I can make it a few times. Add one egg and a teaspoon of sour cream,
sweet or I can make it savory, and pulse until the dough just begins to form curd-shaped
but I can make you love it. It’s grains. Form into two equal-size balls, wrap each tightly
in the flavored croissants and in plastic, and refrigerate. After an hour, let one ball warm
it makes the quiche. Nutmeg up a bit, roll it out, and use it to line a tart shell. Place the
is one of the most underused other in the freezer for a future quiche.
spices.” Why nutmeg and not, Bake the pie shell at 425ºF until light brown, about 10
say, cumin or allspice? “Well, minutes. Let cool. Meanwhile, whisk three eggs togethspices tell you different sto- er with 1½ cups of half-and-half. (For a lighter quiche,
ries of different foods. Nutmeg replace the half-and-half with milk; for a richer quiche,
tells you of the roots, the ori- replace it with one cup milk and ½ cup cream). Whisk
in a pinch of nutmeg, a good sprinkle of salt and some
gins of food.”
The roots and origins of nut- coarsely ground pepper. Now, add a cup of diced saumeg are the Banda Islands in sage, a cup of shredded semi-firm cheese, and a cup
Indonesia. Arab merchants of chopped onion. Or perhaps a cup of julienned ham, a
brought the spice to Constan- cup of shredded fresh cheddar, and cup of chopped red
tinople, making it a valuable onion. Or perhaps rich blue cheese and julienned leeks.
part of the spice trade. Very You get the idea. Bake in a preheated oven at 350ºF until
valuable. Half a kilo of nutmeg set and light brown, about a half hour.
cost as much as three sheep or a cow. In 18th-century England, a few nutmeg seeds could buy
you financial independence for life. In 1621, the Dutch massacred the entire population of the
Banda Islands in order to maintain control of the lucrative nutmeg trade, a monopoly that wasn’t
broken until World War II. Most nutmeg still comes from Indonesia, though Grenada and the
Caribbean are also major exporters.
Paul’s right, of course. Nutmeg is both extremely versatile and underused. Spiced cookies,
spiced tea, chocolate desserts, cocoa, sweet potatoes, soups, curries. Nutmeg is generally used
to add depth and fragrance to dishes. But beware — a little goes a long way. It’s best to purchase
whole seeds, since ground nutmeg loses flavor very quickly. Make sure to grate the seed at the
very last minute with a nutmeg grater or a Microplane so none of the aromatic oils are lost.
Pick the reruns! Do you have a favorite Ingredients column of Rich’s that you’d like to see run
again while he’s away? Send your request to food@hippopress.com.
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For tickets
see www.palacetheatre.org or call
668-5588.
• LAMB BARBECUE St. Nicholas
Orthodox Church, 1160 Bridge St. in
Manchester, www.stnicholas-mannh.org, 625-6115, will hold its annual
lamb barbecue on Saturday, June 20.
The event, which usually runs from
late morning to early evening, featured marinated lamb, barbecued, as
well as Greek dishes such as pastitsio,
souvlaki, dolmathes, spanakopeta and
sweet Greek pastries.
• TASTE OF DOWNTOWN
NASHUA Tickets are now on sale
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Nutmeg
Note from Rich: Gentle
Readers, I’m away for a few
weeks investigating foods,
flavors and ingredients in a
far-off land. I’ll share my findings when I return, or if wi-fi
connections are plentiful, from
“on the ground.” You can also
follow my adventures as they
happen (if wi-fi connections are
plentiful) on my Twitter feed at
http://twitter.com/loveofchocolate. Meanwhile, I present you
with that late-night bit of guilty
pleasure, the rerun. Ciao!
Classic
Italian-American
Cuisine with
Brick Oven Pizza
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A pinot is still a pinot
drink
Even in a new vineyard, some grapes stay the same
By Tim Protzman
food@hippopress.com
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10 K Shimmer
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If chardonnay is the gateway drug of wine
then pinot noir must be the crystal meth.
At some point all wine drinkers reach
pinot.
There are exceptions, like Carol, who
only drinks chardonnay and knows every
nuance of every premium chard that ever
came out to the Carneros. However, she’s
the exception to the rule. Her everyday
favorite is Macrostie Carneros Chardonnay,
which at $42.99 is pricey. I found it very
old-school Californian, some butter, some
oak, some vanillin, but subdued. Like what
they were doing in 1988. Before it became
a mass-market fad. And, while the wine is
delicious, I’m approaching it a little differently because of my extensive tasting of
Chablis, White Burgundy, Loire, sauvignon
blanc and Southern Hemisphere chardonnays. The knowledge of these wines puts
American chardonnay in perspective. It
helps one understand the tragedy of excessive oaking. The shame of over-buttering
to the point where you could dip lobster
meat in it and the need for a vineyard to sell
wine. Lots of wine. Napa vineyards often
sell for over $100,000 per acre! And that’s
just the unimproved land. So we can understand why a vineyard would want make a
$15 bottle of wine that costs $7 to make and
sells 100,000 cases a year, as opposed to a
$120 bottle that costs $80 to make but only
sells 6,000 cases a year.
Now, not every long-time wine drinker
ends up at pinot noir. Personally, I’d choose
Barolo as my final stop, but there’s just not
enough selection available. Cabernet sauvignon is also a choice destination, especially
Bordeaux. And even though there’s much
more cabernet available to the public, some
is just so-so. The best ones are expensive
and take a long time to age. So we have
pinot noir. It’s plentiful, trendy and mostly
good. Yes, there are some really bad pinots
available, but even the most yucky and
disgusting have easily identifiable pinot
characteristics.
The thing I like the best about pinot noir
is the thing I like best about merlot. It’s reliable. It tastes nice and it’s hard to grow, but
harder to ruin in the vintner processes.
Keep your eye on Australia, New Zealand
and Chile and Argentina. They all make
pinot. It’s not Richebourg, yet, but the quality’s getting better. And here’s a nice little
surprise for Carol. Chardonnay is coming
Drink Listings
Brewerys/Distillerys/Cider
• ANHEUSER-BUSCH 221 DW
Hwy in Merrimack. Complimentary tours include a visit to the
Clydesdale Hamlet, home to the
world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales. Open daily 10 to 5 p.m. Call
595-1202.
• FARNUM HILL CIDERS 98
Poverty Lane, Lebanon, 448-1511,
www.farnumhillciders.com
• ELM CITY BREWING COMPANY Colony Mill Marketplace,
222 West St., Keene, 355-3335,
on strong in Oz. The Margaret River, Yarra
Valley and Adelaide Hills regions all have
excellent weather and soil for chardonnay.
Seppelt, Devil’s Lair, Cape Mentelle and
De Bortoli all make superior products.
Maybe it’s because in the heart of
France’s oldest, most cultivated wine
region, Burgundy, they grow two predominant grapes — pinot noir and chardonnay.
Linked together like Ahab and the whale.
One of the best tastings I ever attended was an informal little thing with pinots
from all over the world. I could tell the Burgundies. I could sense the little extra edge,
the earthiness of an Oregonian from the
Willamette. But from there it was tough
going. The New Zealand blended into the
Finger Lakes. Chile was nearly identical
with Veneto. Santa Barbara and Russian
River were side by side. One taster gave
up. He answered Antarctica when the host
asked where the wine was from. There
was an Israeli, a Canadian, a Croatian and
a Pennsylvanian. (I may have a friend in
Pennsylvania, but it’s not pinot.)
All had the violet, the strawberry, the
earth and ammonium, the dried almost faded grape fruit notes. All were delicate and
humble. Because pinot’s a subtle grape. No
flash and bang. The taste comes on slowly.
It’s not up front. It evolves and expands and
fades like a morning glory in the sun.
My musings come from a single bottle
of Hungarian pinot noir I tried last week.
The first sip confirmed its pinotness. It
could have been Argentinean, Australian or
Canadian. It was unmistakably pinot. And
that clarity, that sense of self, that truthfulness is the reason we love that little black
grape. It was a 2006 Pannonhalmi Apatsagi Pinceszet for $24.99. This wine’s from
a vineyard that dates back to 996 AD. Previous vineyards were burned by the Goths,
Huns, Mongols and Turks. The wine was
big and robust with cream tones and chocolate rose flavors. The vineyard is in western
Hungary about 120 miles from Vienna,
Austria.
I theorize we’ll hear more about obscure
and formerly productive wine regions,
especially in Europe. Most countries have
a long wine-making tradition (except the
Scots, thank God) and we’ll soon have the
chance to taste wines from obscure places
like Apulia and Sardinia and Moldavia and
Romania and Uruguay and Tasmania. And
some will be Pinot Noir and it will taste the
same.
www.elmcitybrewing.com. Restaurant, brewery and pub, open Mon.Thurs., 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday
and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Happy hour
Monday through Friday, 4 to 6 p.m.
• REDHOOK BREWERY 35
Corporate Dr., Pease Tradeport,
Portsmouth, www.redhook.com,
produces Redhook ales and features
the Cataqua Public House offering
brew and a pub menu. Tours offered
Monday and Tuesday at 2 p.m.;
Wednesday and Thursday at noon,
1, 3 and 4 p.m.; Friday and Satur-
day every hour on the hour from
noon to 4 p.m.; Sunday every hour
on the hour from 1 to 4 p.m. For private tours, call 430-8600 ext. 327.
• TUCKERMAN BREWING
COMPANY 64 Hobbs St. in Conway, 447-5400, www.tuckermanbrewing.com, offers tours every
Saturday at 3 p.m.
Classes/workshops on wine/
beer making
• BEER & PIZZA NIGHT IncrediBREW, 112 DW Hwy, Nashua,
891-2477, incredibrew.com, will
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drink
Wine with dinner
What to drink when you’re eating
Spaghetti Carbonara
food@hippopress.com
hold its beer and pizza night on Fri.,
May 29, at 6 p.m. (bottles and pizza
included). Make lagers and pilsners
for $30 per variety case and return
in two weeks for bottling. For all
events, space is limited and fills up
fast so call for a reservation. You
can also e-mail dave@incredibrew.
com with questions.
• PILSNER PARTY On Tuesday,
June 16, at 6 p.m. IncrediBREW,
112 DW Highway, Nashua, 8912477, will hold a Pilsner Party.
Pay $30 for a variety case (bottles
included) and brew a variety of pilsners (Czech Pilsner, Budapest Pils,
Imperial Pilsner, Golden Eagle Pils
and German Oom-pah Pilsner) and
return in two weeks for bottling.
Space is limited for all events so
call or e-mail dave@incredibrew.
com to reserve a spot for an event.
See www.incredibrew.com.
• SUMMER WINEFEST On
Friday, June 12, at 7 p.m., IncrediBREW, 112 DW Highway, Nashua,
891-2477, will hold the Taste of
Summer Winefest. The cost is $50
for six different bottles of wine.
Make wine and take home wines
that you’ve helped bottle and label
(Beaujolais, green apple riesling,
rosso grande, white zinfandel, German riesling and pomegranate zinfandel). The evening will include
light snacks, a wine tasting and sangrias. Space is limited for all events
so call or e-mail dave@incredibrew.
com to reserve a spot for an event.
See www.incredibrew.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
• WINE SOCIETY (18 Pondview
Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978-6498993; 650 Amherst St. #9 in Nashua,
883-4114;
www.winesociety.us)
offers classes for wine lovers of all
levels. New sessions start every few
months. Call for upcoming schedule.
Cocktail events
• COCKTAIL COMPETITION
The third annual Portsmouth Signature Cocktail Competition will be
held Sunday, June 7, from 4 to 8 p.m.
For $20 (tickets cost $30 at the door)
walk around downtown Portsmouth
trying several restaurants’ signature
cocktails paired with food. Tommy
Grella of The Next Food Network
Star will judge the best paired cocktail. Participants include Riverwatch
at the Sheraton Harborside, Blue
Mermaid Island Grill, the Hilton
Garden Inn, McMenemy’s, Brazo,
Popovers on the Square, Rudi’s Portsmouth and the Ri Ra Irish pub, which
will be the final stop and the scene of
the wrap party, where attendees will
enjoy live music, goodie bags and a
chance to vote for their favorite cocktail. For tickets and more information,
see www.portsmouthcocktail.com.
Special dinners
• NINER WINE DINNER Commercial Street Fishery, 33 S.
Commercial St. in Manchester,
www.csfishery.com, 296-0706,
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Special tastings
• WINE TASTING On Thursday,
May 28, at 7 p.m., IncrediBREW,
112 DW Highway, Nashua, 8912477, will hold the Grape Time
Winery’s 5th Anniversary Wine
Tasting. Learn how to taste like a
pro and explore the different varietals Grape Time produces (the
event is free but space is limited;
reserve a spot). Space is limited
for all events so call or e-mail
dave@incredibrew.com to reserve
a spot for an event. See www.
incredibrew.com.
• WINE TASTINGS A new
round of reserve wine tastings
will start soon on Thursdays at
a Meat House location near you:
May 28 in Portsmouth, the focus
will be on Washington state
wines; June 4 in Salem it will be
French wines; June 11 in Bedford it’s South American wines;
and June 18 in Pembroke it will
be Italian. The Meat House wine
expert, Tom Brock, will discuss
the regions, soil types, and vinification, plus give tips on how
to pair the wines with food. The
tastings run from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Go to www.themeathouse.com for
locations and directions.
• WINE & CHEESE TASTING
La Belle Winery in Amherst will
hold an open house wine and
cheese tasting on Sat., May 30,
from noon to 3 p.m. Try all of the
wineries available wines paired
with New Hampshire cheeses.
Registration is required, go to
www.labellewinerynh.com
to
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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Carbonara is an Italian pasta dish with a
sauce made of cream, eggs, Parmesan cheese
and bacon bits. Three wine experts decided to
stick with Italian for their selections, while the
other chose a wine from Chile.
2004 Tramonti Innocento
— $22.99 (Recommended
by Kristin Ryall from Butter’s Fine Food and Wine,
70 N. Main St. in Concord,
225-5995) A blend of sangiovese and canaiolo grapes,
this medium-bodied wine
offers what Ryall described as loads of ripe,
red fruit. It’s hearty enough to balance out
the flavors of the carbonara.
2007 Casa Viva Pinot Noir
— $14.99 (Recommended
by Marissa Bontatibus from
The Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett Road in Manchester,
622-WINE (9463), and 27
Buttrick Road #3 in Londonderry,
432-WINE
We Deliver —
The Cat’s MEOW!!!!
(9463), www.thewinestudionh.com) This
Chilean wine has a hint of smoke and a
touch of oak that will accent the bacon in
this dish, but it is also light enough to go
with the creaminess of the pasta.
2007 Scagliola Frem Barbera D’Asti — $19.99
(Recommended by Paula
Doucette of Bella Vino, 2
Young Road in Londonderry,
426-5212,
www.
bellavinonh.com) Doucette
described this Italian wine
as having lots of fruit and supple acidity
that makes it a good match to a variety of
foods.
Villa Sparina Gavi di
Gavi — $20.99 (Recommended by Amber
Lorden of Wine Society,
650 Amherst St. in Nashua, 883-4114, and
18C Pond View Place in Tyngsboro, Mass.,
978-649-8993, www.winesociety.us) A
bright, fresh and floral white that Lorden
said is a great match for this rich and creamy
pasta dish.
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POP CuLTurE
Index
CdS
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• IAMX, Kingdom of Welcome Addiction, A
• Gliss, Devotion Implosion, B+
BOOKS
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Includes listings for lectures, author events, book
clubs, writers’ workshops and other literary events.
To let us know about your book or event, e-mail Lisa
Parsons at lparsons@hippopress.com. To get your
author events, library events and more listed, send
information to listings@hippopress.com.
FILM
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• Up, A
• Terminator Salvation, C-
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
• Dance Flick, C-
• Easy Virtue, B-
• Girlfriend Experience, B-
POP CuLTurE:
On store shelves
Tuesday, June 2
• Let the Dominoes Fall, box
set by Rancid (Epitaph)
• Grace-Around The World, by
Jeff Buckley (Sony Legacy)
• Big Whiskey and the
GrooGrux King, by Dave Matthews Band (RCA)
• Roadhouse Sun, by Ryan
Bingham (Lost Highway)
• Secret, Profane and Sugarcane, by Elvis Costello (Hear
Music)
• Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1:
1963-1972, box set by Neil
Young (Reprise Records)
• West Side Story-The New
IAMX, Kingdom of Welcome
Addiction
Metropolis Records, May 19
From the Metropolis imprint you
expect a lot of
Depeche Mode and
Trent Reznor cookie-cutting, a point
of fact which, as it
turns out, is the only strike, depending
on your snobbery, against this album.
IAMX bandleader Chris Corner (exSneaker Pimps) affects a geometrically
perfect fusion between the two influences cited above in roll-out track
“Nature of Inviting,” tortured angst
washing over the bullhorn-shouted,
Reznor-freaky lyrics raged/whined
over its rubber-band honky-funk/hardrock underpinnings.
What happens next, though, on the
title track and for the duration of the
album, is bombastic, uncompromising, instantly ear-gluey melodramatic
balladry suggesting a Paisley Underground/dream-pop/70s-rock chimera,
sharing genes with Scissor Sisters,
modern pop-radio and the soft parts of
“Bohemian Rhapsody” (all this along
with a constant stream of Depeche,
keep in mind). Further setting the bar
far out of your average goth-wannabe’s
reach is Corner’s duet with Imogen
Heap on the dreamy, mist-shrouded
“My Secret Friend,” possessed of just
enough buzz-killing electro cheese to
make it relevant — no, imperative —
to our era; this tune alone would have
given Siouxsie’s management night
sweats. A — Eric W. Saeger
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Broadway Cast Recording
(Sony Classics)
• Demos, by Crosby Stills &
Nash (Rhino Records)
• Sunny Side Up, by Paolo
Nutini (Atlantic)
A seriously abridged
compendium of recent
and future CD releases
• For the three or so mummies who’ve actually checked their MySpace in the last nine months
to clean out all the spam, the fake-virgin Jonas
Brothers just released a new video to serve as
visual accompaniment to the mewling whines they
whined mewlingly in “Paranoid,” which should
have been titled “Not The Sabbath Song” because
frankly no one knew they had actual song titles to
begin with. In their exclusive MySpace interview
about the video, one of the boys, Shemp or Larry, I forget, fumbles for smart-sounding words in
response to the question “What makes you paranoid?” His actual answer: “When I don’t get all my
stuff done for the day!”
• “Funny the Way It Is,” the first single from
Dave Matthews’s imminent new album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, is so great, because,
just from their using a slippery stuttery drumbeat
and vocals that sound like a cross between totally
obscure bands Coldplay and Maroon 5, it makes
people think they’re listening to intense genius
jazz that will help them break out of their earthly
shells, living forever in a Walmart that has a Starbucks. And expensive Brie cheese.
• Not sure if anyone is still alive who’s old
enough to have been a pinko druggie Caligula
during the ’60s, but if that’s you, heaven descends
on Tuesday with the release of the Last Days of
the Fillmore DVD. It’s a capsulization of the
wacky scary four days before the Fillmore West
closed its doors forever to clean up the mess,
which they’re still doing, because Neil Young and
Santana were playing, which turned all the people
in the audience into grainy-looking psychedelic
spastics who spilled their LSD-flavored popcorn
all over the floor and the janitor quit.
• 311 brand their totally brilliant formula once
and for all in “Hey You,” a tune from their incoming LP Uplifter, viz: reggae part, then brainy
egghead prog-rock part, then boring chorus, all of
which evokes thoughts of cruising in a ’64 Impala
smoking “ganja mon” and trying to remember the
names of all the Secretary of States since Benedict Arnold was president, with Cliff Richard
booming from the speakers. — Eric W. Saeger
Gliss, Devotion Implosion
Cordless Recordings, April 7
Some dreary wonk,
I
forget
who,
recently wrote that
“shoegaze” is a
passé term, thus
I’ll try to use the
word 50 times here
to describe Gliss’s latest, a marked
improvement over their 2006 debut
Love the Virgins.
I mean, forget Hyacinth Bucket, you
want uptight, it’s alt-rockers. Gliss
will probably get all sorts of guff for
sounding too fanboyish, ripping off
such-and-so and not accomplishing
much else past that with this album.
But they really are fans of skronky
psychedelica, and nice peeps too if
that counts for anything.
Much of Love the Virgins was wasted in their kid-like idolization of
BRMC’s more recent stoner-droning,
but there was also an experimental,
finding-their-footing feel to it (which
made it a bit of a failure as a cohesive
album, I cannot tell a lie). Here, however, it’s a skronky fuzz party soaked
in shoegaze (drink!) the way Raveonettes taught Glasvegas to do it. Sure,
heavy-lidded BMRC-like skag-drone
makes its mandatory appearances, and
no, there’s no outright attempt to take
away Raveonettes’ contract with the
ghosts of the Everley Brothers, but if
you’re experiencing pain as you await
the next Warlocks record, or feeling
particularly lonely for Jesus and Mary
Chain, this is the over-the-counter fixer you’re needing. B+ — EWS
THE HEALTHY BUFFALO
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listings
Libraries
• Bedford Public Library
3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford
472-3023, bedford.lib.nh.us
• Concord Public Library
45 Green St., 225-8670,
onconcord.com/library
• Goffstown Public Library
2 High St., Goffstown,
497-2102, goffstown.lib.nh.us
• Hollis Social Library
2 Monument Sq., Hollis,
465-7721, hollis.nh.us
• Hooksett Public Library
1701B Hooksett Rd., Hooksett,
485-6092, hooksettlibrary.org
• Manchester City Library
405 Pine St. (main branch)
and 76 N. Main St.
(West branch), 624-6550,
manchester.lib.nh.us
• Nashua Public Library
2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4610,
nashualibrary.org
Other
• Manchester Historic
Association
200 Bedford St., 622-7531,
manchesterhistoric.org
• New Hampshire
Writers’ Project
SNHU, 2521 N. River Rd.,
Manchester, 314-7980,
nhwritersproject.org
• Rivier College
420 Main St., Nashua,
888-1311, rivier.edu.
• UNH Manchester
400 Commercial St., Manchester,
641-4101, unhm.unh.edu
Author events
• RALPH BEGLEITER former
CNN correspondent presents “The
U.S. Image Abroad: A Love-Hate
Relationship” on May 28 from 7 to
8:30 p.m. at the annual George P.
Mayer Foundation Great Decisions
2009 Forum at Walker Auditorium
at SNHU in Manchester, presented
by the World Affairs Council of NH
(wacnh.org). Tickets $35 (members
$25; students with ID free), e-mail
rsvp@wacnh.org or call 314-7970.
Nonfiction
• Green Guide for Artists: Nontoxic Recipes, Green Art Ideas,
& Resources for the Eco-Conscious Artist, by Karen Michel
(Rockport)
• Fossils: The History of Life
(revised and updated), by Richard Fortey (Sterling Publishing)
• Moon 3-D: The Lunar Surface
Comes to Life, by Jim Bell (Sterling Publishing)
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of
Work, by Alain de Botton (Knopf
Doubleday)
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Show off your Guitar
Hero chops
Or kick butt at Gears of War,
Halo or Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Holodek Gaming of
Nashua and Kittery, Maine, will
run video game tournaments at
the Granite State Comicon this Sunday, May 31, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel and Center of New
Hampshire, 700 Elm St. in Manchester.
The Star Wars re-enactors of the 501st Legion, including
R2-D2 and Darth Vader, are schedule to attend. The Granitecon will also feature a lineup of local and national comic
book artists. Scheduled artists this year include Jamal Igle of
Supergirl, Keith Champagne of The Mighty, Scott Wegener of Atomic Robo, Pop Mhan of Spyboy, Norman Lee of
Marvel Adventures Spider-man and the Fillbach Brothers
of Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures, according to the Double Midnight Comics Web site (see www.dmcomics.com).
Contribute a panel to the comic wall with the help of Marek
Bennett. And, of course, browse the comics, action figures
and other collectibles for sale at the Con.
Tickets cost $5 (children under 10 get in free with an
adult admission; fans in costume also get in free). See www.
granitecon.com.
• CASEY SHERMAN co-author
of The Finest Hours, the tale of a
Coast Guard operation to rescue
two ships off Cape Cod during a
Nor’easter in 1952, visits Gibson’s
Bookstoer on Thurs., May 28, at 7
p.m.
• REBECCA RULE author of Live
Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s
Guide to New Hampshire will tell
stories on Fri., June 5, at 7 p.m. at
Dunbarton Gazebo in Dunbarton,
and Sat., June 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the
town hall in Temple.
• GLORIA STEINEM is keynote
speaker at SNHU’s Women’s Leadership Summit on Fri., June 12.
Business coach Dr. Lois Frankel and
stress management humorist Loretta
LaRoche will also deliver keynote
addresses. More than 50 speakers
and presenters will participate in the
all-day event, which includes a luncheon, workshops and panel discussions. See details and purchase tickets
at www.snhu.edu/wls.
• ED TURNER co-author of Antique
Sports Uniforms & Equipment 18401940, Baseball-Football-Basketball,
signs books and appraises sportsrelated items on June 21 from 10 a.m.
to noon at New Hampshire Antique
Co-op, 323 Elm St./Route 101A,
Milford, 673-8499, nhantiquecoop.
com. Part of the Co-op’s fifth annual
Father’s Day Fest. Bring items in for
a history and free verbal estimate of
their worth.
• LUCIE THERRIEN reads and
performs from her book-and-CD
set Dual Citizen on July 16 at 7 p.m.
at Gibson’s Bookstore.
• WRITERS ON A NEW ENGLAND STAGE series at The
Music Hall in Portsmouth begins
its 2009-2010 season with a visit
from E.L. Doctorow on Wed., Sept.
30, at 7:30 p.m. ($13). Subsequent
shows are Tracy Kidder on Mon.,
Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. ($13), Barbara
Kingsolver on Tues., Nov. 3, at
7:30 p.m. ($13), and Jodi Picoult on
Wed., March 31, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
($13). The series is sponsored by
New Hampshire Public Radio and
The Music Hall and features artists
interviewed on stage by an NHPR
host, with an audience q&a session
following. Tickets for the season go
on sale to Music Hall members Sat.,
May 30, and to the general public
at noon June 27. Purchase tickets
at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St.,
Portsmouth, by phone at 436-2400,
or online at www.themusichall.org.
Lectures and discussions
• SARAH FERGUSON, DUCHESS OF YORK presents “The
Road to Authentic Life” on Wed.,
June 3, at 8 p.m. at Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Cost is $47 for premier seating, $37 for other seating;
buy tickets at box office (50 East
Merrimack St., Lowell) or through
Ticketmaster (800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com). For details, see www.
middlesex.mass.edu.
• THE MAJESTY AND MYSTERY OF CROP CIRCLES with
naturalist John Root on Wed., June
10, at 7 p.m. at Merrimack Public
Library (470 DW Hwy., Merrimack). Seating is limited; reservations are recommended — call
424-5021 or e-mail mmkpl@merrimack.lib.nh.us to save a seat. Visit
www.merrimack.lib.nh.us.
Book discussions
• ANIME CLUB at Nashua Public
Library for grades 8 to 12 meets on
the first Tuesday of the month at 4
p.m.
• BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
book discussion group at Barnes
& Noble in Manchester focuses on
current literature on Buddhist topics,
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Maria Noel Groves
Clinical herbalist at Wintergreen
Botanicals in Allenstown
I’m reading Medicinal Plants of
the Pacific West by the late, great
herbalist Michael Moore to get me
jazzed up for the Green Season. The
book is surprisingly good at teaching
us how to use lesser-known Northeast
wild plants like bunchberries, blueberry leaves, and false Solomon’s seal for medicine. It’s
also a blast to read — one of the few herbals that will
make you laugh out loud as you turn the page.
Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an
American Wine Dynasty by Julia
Flynn Siler; Oct. 8, Romancing the
Vine: Life, Love and Transformation
in the Vineyards of Barolo by Alan
Tardi; Nov. 12, Wine & War: The
French, the Nazis, and the Battle for
France’s Greatest Treasures by Donald Kladstrup & Petie Kladstrup.
Poetry
• WALTER BUTTS & PATRICIA FARGNOLI the new and
previous state poets laureate will
read on June 20 at 3 p.m. under
the NH State Library dome at 20
Park St. in Concord. The public is
invited to bring a favorite poem
by any of the NH poets laurate
to share, time permitting. Light
refreshments will follow. Free and
open to the public. For more info,
call 332-0732 or e-mail poetrysocietyofnh@gmail.com.
• POETRY READING open
mike, fourth Tuesdays from 7
to 9 p.m. at The Lion Café on
Route 107 (North Road) in Deerfield. Info: 463-7226 or lindseycoombs@gmail.com.
• SLAM FREE OR DIE openmike poetry slam Friday nights at
Bridge Café, 1117 Elm St., Manchester, 647-9991. Signup begins
at 7 p.m. $3 cover charge. For
exact dates visit myspace.com/
bridgepoetryopenmic.
• POETS UNBOUND meets for
weekly critique sessions in Manchester and in Nashua. Manchester meetings are at 10 a.m. Sundays at Barnes & Noble in Manchester. Nashua meetings are at
7 p.m. at Nashua Public Library.
Call Martha Deborah Hall at 6720106 for details.
The Book
Report
• Summer fun: “Summertime…and
the Reading is Easy” is the theme of the
2009 summer reading program devised by
The Chidloren’s Librarians of New Hampshire, a division of the New Hampshire
Library Association. Kids will be invited
to register at their local library, keep track
of books read or time spent reading over
the summer (there’s no set reading list)
and earn prizes for reading. Some libraries
will host related special events or guests.
See www.nh.gov/nhsl.
• Make noise in the library: The Wilton Public & Gregg Free Library (7
Forest Road in Wilton, 654-2581, wiltonlibrarynh.org) makes an open stage of its
rotunda on Wednesdays from 2 to 6 p.m.
from May through July. “Sing a song, play
Writers’ groups
•
WRITE A WINNING
SCREENPLAY workshop with
screenwriter Susan Kouguell,
Saturdays, May 30 through June
6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at SNHU
in Manchester, cost $200, or $175
for NHWP members. Register at
NHWP online or by phone.
• ADVANCED WRITERS’
INTENSIVE WORK SESSION
led by local author and painter
eQuanimiti joy from Tues., June
2, through Fri., June 5, from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m., at Wilton Public
Library (7 Forest Road, Wilton,
654-2581). Open and free to
adults who are writing for pleasure or professionally. Attend the
first day to see if the process is
right for you. No registration necessary.
• PUTTING THE “I” INTO
THE “EYE” OF CREATIVE
NONFICTION workshop with
Sandell Morse, Saturday, June 6,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at SNHU in
Manchester, cost $150, or $125
for NHWP members. Register at
NHWP online or by phone.
• BUSINESS OF WRITING
workshops Saturday, June 13,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at SNHU
in Manchester. Morning session
features Martha Carlson-Bradley
on writing grant and fellowship
applications; afternoon workshop
has Random House district sales
manager Ann Kingman on social
media for writers. Cost is $80
per session or $150 for both sessions (NHWP members: $65 and
$125). Register at NHWP online
or by phone.
an instrument, tell a story, read a poem,
or be an audience!” says a library press
release. Call the library for info.
• Concord will read: The Concord
Reads committee has chosen a novel Pay
It Forward, by Catherine Ryan Hyde, and
a nonfiction book, The Soloist, by Steve
Lopez, to support its theme of “Can one
person make a difference?” for this year’s
program. The committee will meet on
Tuesday, June 2, from noon to 1 p.m.
at the Concord Public Library (in the
Shakespeare Room) to plan for fall programming, and interested community
members are welcome, according to a post
at onconcord.com. For information or to
share your ideas, contact Shawn LaFrance
at 224-7754 or SLaFrance@healthynh.
com.
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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
meets the second Monday of each
month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the
bookstore’s café. Pre-registration is
appreciated; anyone with an interest
in Buddhist philosophy is invited to
join. E-mail dharmastudy@aol.com.
• MAINSTREET BOOKENDS
book group meets last Sundays at
3 p.m. Call Jen at 456-3021 to sign
up. Sunday, May 31: Lady’s Hands,
Lion’s Heart: A Midwife’s Saga, by
Carol Leonard, who will be at the
store at 4 p.m. for a talk and booksigning.
• RODGERS LIBRARY in Hudson
offers an afternoon and an evening
book discussion group. On June 16 at
1 p.m. and on June 23 at 7 p.m. the
book groups will discuss Skeletons at
the Feast by Chris Bohjalian. Books
are available at the library; for more
info or to add your name to the group
mailing list, call 886-6030, e-mail
askus@rodgerslibrary.org or visit
www.rodgerslibrary.org.
• SENIOR BOOK CLUB at
Wadleigh Memorial Library meets
occasionally; copies of the current
book are available at the front desk.
New participants always welcome.
Thurs., June 11: Dewey: The SmallTown Library Cat Who Touched the
World, by Vicki Myron.
• TRI-TOWN BOOK CLUB meets
once a month during the summer and
travels to three different libraries for
discussions led by NH Humanities
Council facilitators. Attend one or
all of the sessions; you need not be
a member of an existing group to
participate. Call any of the libraries to
sign up. June 23: Milford/Wadleigh
Memorial Library, Gaudy Night, by
Dorothy Sayers. July 21: Mont Vernon/Daland library, Unsuitable Job
for a Woman. Aug. 19, Wilton/Gregg
Free Library, Death in a Tenured
Position.
• WINE SOCIETY BOOK CLUB
with wine tasting, monthly, hosted by
Paulette Eschrich at the Wine Society,
18C Pond View Place in Tyngsboro,
Mass., 978-649-8993. Cost is $25
per participant for each event. The
number and type of wines served will
depend on the number of attendees.
Registration closes one week prior to
each meeting; advance registration
with payment is required, and cancellations after the registration deadline
will not be refunded. All Book Club
tastings are held Thursdays from 6:30
to 8 p.m. Scheduled tastings-readings
for 2009 are Sept. 17, The House of
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FILM
In theaters Friday, May 29
• Up (PG-13, wide release)
• Drag Me to Hell (wide release)
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REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
• Departures (PG-13, limited release)
• Pontypool (limited release)
• Pressure Cooker (limited)
• What Goes Up What Goes Up (R, limited release)
Up
Up (PG)
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
An old man and a little
camper go on a South
American adventure in
Up, the enchanting new
animated movie from Pixar.
In some ways, Up is actually the
story of two little boys — Russell
(voiced by Jordan Nagai), a Wilderness Explorer who shows up at the
door of an old man, and Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner), that old man
who, as a little boy, thrilled to the
tales of the explorer Charles Muntz
(Christopher Plummer) and his
Spirit of Adventure dirigible. Little
Carl (Jeremy Leary) wore a flight
helmet and goggles as he zoomed
around his neighborhood pretending to be heroic-looking Muntz.
It was on one such outing that he
ran in to another little adventurer,
Ellie (Ellie Docter). Ellie, like Carl,
wanted to follow Muntz to South
America and the mysterious jungle
featuring Paradise Falls. Chatterbox to Carl’s shyness, Ellie gets
him to promise to go with her on
the adventure.
As we see in a beautifully scored,
essentially wordless montage, Ellie
and Carl do take an adventure
together — though it’s not to South
America. They get married and
set up house and eventually start
to save for a South American trip.
Life, of course, has a way of changing plans — a blown tire, a crushed
roof and the South American trip
always gets put off. Put off until
it’s too late for Ellie and seemingly
too late for Carl, who, as a grumpy
old widower, spends his days complaining to himself from his porch
about the construction going on
around his house and trying to think
up ways to get rid of Russell, the
eager little scout looking to earn an
“assisting the elderly” badge.
When it looks like Carl might
have to leave the house he shared
with Ellie and head to a retirement
home, this former balloon salesman
decides instead to fill his leftover
inventory with helium, tie it to his
house and take off. “So long, boys”
he says merrily to the orderlies who
had shown up to take him to Shady
Whereever. He sighs happily as he
settles in his chair and enjoys the
peaceful ride south — peaceful until
there’s a knock at the door and he
finds a scared Russell on the porch.
Russell is something of a modern kid (though thankfully not in
that snarky, slangy Dreamworks
sense). He’s a bit chubby, he’s a bit
lonely. He’s working hard to get the
elderly-helping badge because it
will complete his requirements to
move up to the next level of Wilderness Explorers — and because
the dad he seldom sees will be at
the ceremony. He’s a city kid — a
bit freaked out and tired when they
finally land in the actual wilderness
but quick to turn every animal he
meets into a pet. He complains “my
knee hurts” after hours of walking
but is quick to take up the banner
of adventure, particularly when
friends are in danger.
He is, surprisingly, delightfully,
a real-seeming kid and his relationship with Carl is really winning. It
starts out with annoyance on Carl’s
side but deepens in a nice, non-sitcomy way. While Up isn’t a nearly
dialogue-free affair like WALL-E, it
does have a relatively pared down
number of characters and gives us
time to get to know them all and to
watch their interactions.
I feel like I could paste this next
bit of commentary into any of review
of the recent Pixar movies but Up is
a true delight, a treat, for the way
it entertains on all levels — offering emotional depth and richness
for adults and an understandable
story and fun characters for kids.
It doesn’t exclude one group in an
effort to entertain the other (like so
many poop-joke-laced or pop culture-referencing cartoons do). Pixar
movies and this movie in particular succeed by being fully realized
stories — not a moment or a note
in the score (and the score here is
a sweet, fantasy-filled, charming
thing) or a visual is wasted. (The
movie is being released in 3-D, and
while the 3-D doesn’t necessarily
add anything it doesn’t take away
from the truly beautiful animation and the expressive characters.)
These movies enchant because they
are about dreamers — dreamers
whose dreams change and mature
and end up more wonderful than
when they started dreaming. And
the movies unironically and wholeheartedly touch that same impulse
in the audience. It is so rare that
you get to enjoy a piece of entertainment (of any media) where the
standard is so clearly perfection.
And, quibble about this or that
if you want, but I think Up basically meets this standard. I think it
will be even better the next time I
see it. When I reviewed WALL-E a
year ago, I gave it an A- because it
didn’t quite leave me with the same
sublime feeling as Ratatouille did.
In retrospect, I should have given
Ratatouille an A+ and WALL-E the
A — it ages that well and keeps you
thinking about it and rediscovering
things you liked about it long after
you’ve seen it. Up is in that category for me. It is that rare movie
that can have you fighting back a
lump in your throat even as you’re
laughing. And even rarer — in this
movie full of genuinely cute and
clever plot points, one involving a
pack of dogs and its leader, a stern
and dangerous-looking villainous
dog named Alpha, had me absolutely guffawing out loud, completely
without realizing that I was doing
it. Moments like these are a delight
Reviewlets: Snack-sized movie reviews
*I Love You, Man (R)
Paul Rudd, Jason Segel.
Bromance, Paul Rudd
— who can say no? Like any
Drag Me to Hell (PG-13)
Alison Lohman, Justin Long. good rom-com (brom-com?),
I Love You, Man has Rudd
A girl is cursed by an old
searching for the heterowoman, Sam Raimi style, in
*Angels & Demons (PG-13)
sexual man of his equally
Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor. this horror movie that looks
heterosexual dreams when
Dan Brown’s first Robert Lang- like it might actually contain
don book is a zippier, more vio- “sequences of horror violence, he realizes that he’s been so
concentrated on girlfriends
lent take on the scavenger-hunt- terror, disturbing images and
that he’s never had any time
language.” Opens wide on
ing of the National Treasure
to make dude friends. B+
movies for the grown-ups who Friday, May 29.
* 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.
want the beach-read experience
in the movie theater. B
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (PG)
Ben Stiller, Robin Williams.
You can absolutely do worse
than this too snarky but otherwise decent enough family
adventure that puts the exhibits
from New York’s natural history museum inside the equally
alive Smithsonian. C+
*Star Trek (PG-13)
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto.
and help to remind me of why I
like going to the movies in the first
placec — at their best, movies can
be so completely transporting.
Up might be a sweeter, more
emotional movie than WALL-E but
it pulls that off without sappiness,
without leaving you feeling like
you’re being used so the movie can
score points. In any other movie, it
might be way too much to have Russell, when he’s explaining to Carl
about his dad and the one badge he
needs to have the all-important ceremony, point to the empty space on
his sash, the hole where this badge
and his dad’s attention will go,
seemingly very near his heart. In
Up it seems just right. A
Rated PG for some peril and action.
Directed by Pete Docter and Bob
Peterson and written by Peterson, Up
is an hour and 44 minutes long and is
distributed by Buena Vista Pictures. It
will open in wide release on Friday,
May 29.
Terminator Salvation
(PG-13)
Christian Bale leads the
surviving humans in the
fight against the robots
and Skynet in Terminator
Salvation, a surprisingly
ponderous and unfun
fourth installment in the
Terminator franchise.
Finally John Connor (Christian
Bale) is becoming the leader of the
human resistance that three previous movies and one TV show have
been telling us he’s going to be In
the Future. Well, that future is now
— 2018 to be specific — and clearly getting blown up by a sentient
computer network has not made
humanity very fun-loving. Instead,
most of the able-bodied adults are
grumpily fighting the red-eyed terminators sent out by Skynet to
destroy the remains of the human
race and the rest of the people are
hiding in dirty hiding places.
John Connor is not yet the official leader of the resistance but he
is its public face (or, rather, voice
with his Churchillian speeches peo-
The gang — Kirk, Spock,
Sulu, Uhura, et al. — unite
for this reboot of the franchise from one Mr. J.J.
Abrams. It’s fun to see the
original Trek characters
again but it’s even more fun
to live through the adventure. A
State of Play (PG-13)
Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck.
It’s another one of those
movies where reporters
look like Russell Crowe
(we don’t, not on his most
rumpled out-of-shape day
do we, as a profession, look
that together) and run around
uncovering government
conspiracy. It’s also the kind
of movie where congressmen look like Ben Affleck,
which, if they did, would
make C-SPAN a lot more
popular. C+
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Dance Flick (PG-13)
A flock of Wayans (or is the
correct term “gaggle” or “pride”)
construct Dance Flick, a thin leanto of dance movie parody directed
by Damien Dante Wayans.
Not to be confused with Damon Wayans — Damien Dante is a Wayans brothers
nephew. Damon Wayans Jr., son of the original Damon, is the movie’s male lead, and
assorted other Wayans fill the supporting
cast. Jr. plays, more or less, the Sean Patrick
Thomas character (kid looking to escape a
tough neighborhood and become a doctor)
from Save the Last Dance while Shoshana
Bush plays the Julia Stiles character (ballet dancer who learns to dance hip-hop).
They are vaguely the center of what story
this movie has, though look-alikes for Zac
Efron, Ray Charles a la Ray and Tracy from
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SUGAR (R/2008/120 min.) Fri. May 29 - 5:30, 8:00, Sat. May 30 - 2:00, 5:30, 8:30,
Sun. May 31 - 2:00, 5:30, 8:00, Mon. June 1 - 5:30, 8:00, Tue. June 2 - 2:00, 5:30,
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Night at the
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- 5:40, 7:45, Sun. May 31 - 5:40, 7:45, Mon. June 1 - 5:40, 7:45, Tue. June 2 - 5:40,
7:45, Wed. June 3 - No Performance, Thu. June 4 - 5:40, 7:45
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there’s an exposition-heavy scene between
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ple hear via radio) and he is respected and
beloved by his troops. Perhaps this is why
John Connor is number two on the Skynet
to-do list of humans that need killing. Who
is number one, he asks? A teenager by the
name of Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin), who
some 10 years from now (or 25 years ago,
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As John Connor searches for his
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Wright (Sam Worthington), who is himself
something of a blast from the past. Back
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who willed his body — post-execution —
to science. He wakes up realizing that he
was dead but not sure what he is now and
wants to go to San Francisco and what is
now Skynet to find answers. And because
every movie needs scrappy supporting
characters, Marcus teams up with Kyle.
And because a group of scrappy supporting
characters needs a kid to put in peril, Kyle
is protecting the sad-eyed little girl named
Star (Jadagrace). And because anti-heroes
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Not that I gave a damn about them in this
movie. John Connor is by far the least interesting character in this movie (if you don’t
include his wife, who gets all of maybe six
lines). Perhaps the only interesting scenes
with him in them are ones where he’s listening to a cassette tape of life lessons left
by his mother, Sarah. Bale sits there looking
dirty and concerned and all the emotional
heft comes from the tape deck. It’s a good
arrangement; it’s too bad the movie couldn’t
have had the disembodied voice of Hamilton act out more of the story.
The Marcus character is the one to watch
here. He gets all the existential angst and
most of the cool action. In the scenes with
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movie really could have been. They are a
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Hairspray also populate the cast along with
one-jokers like Amy Sedaris’ tight-pantswearing dance instructor Ms. Cameltoe
(pronounced “Cameltwa”).
There is so much cheese and there are so
many opportunities for delicious satire in the
dance movie genre. When dance isn’t bringing together the geeky girl and the handsome
boy or the kid from the streets and the girl
from the upper crust, it’s saving lives or academic careers or marriages. Sometimes,
illegal street dances are helping to pay for
something and sometimes the dance-off
is someone’s Big Shot. Disappointingly,
Dance Flick misses almost all of these parody-ready clichés in favor of weak blind jokes
about Ray (it’s been how long since that movie came out?), lame riffs on Save the Last
Dance and Step Up and not nearly enough
pokes at High School Musical. I actually
found myself wishing for the metacommentary of the Scream variety. I mean, nothing
about Take the Lead? No Baz Luhrmann
moments? Is a Fame song knock-off really
the best it gets? CRated PG-13 for crude and sexual content
throughout, and language. Directed by Damien
Dante Wayans and written by Wayans Keenan
Ivory, Shawn, Marlon and Craig as well as the
aforementioned Damien Dante, Dance Flick is
an hour and 23 minutes long and is distributed
in wide release by MTV Films and Paramount
Pictures.
Easy Virtue (PG-13)
Colin Firth and Jessica Biel try
on a little Noel Coward in Easy
Virtue, a little-bit-goes-a-verylong-way comedy of manners set
on an English estate in the later
part of the era between the wars.
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The Whittakers — Mr. (Colin Firth) and
Mrs. (Kristin Scott Thomas) — are unhappily married (but in the polite British sense of
“unhappy”) and living in a sprawling English country estate with their two unmarried
daughters. Mrs. Whittaker eagerly awaits the
return of her son John (Ben Barnes), who will,
she hopes, marry the daughter from the family at a neighboring estate and live Britishly
ever after. But when John comes home he has
a surprise — he’s already married to Larita
(Biel), an American race car driver with movie star blonde hair, a smoking habit and an
utter disinterest in English country life.
Even if you’ve never seen a 1930s mov-
ie or read a P.G. Wodehouse novel, you can
probably guess the course of things. Mrs.
Whittaker doesn’t like Larita but Mr. Whittaker (still in a funk from his service in World
War I) does. The neighboring twentysomethings think Larita is exotic and great but
John occasionally wonders if her Americanness and her distaste for fox hunting make
her a little too exotic.
At various points in the movie we see
comic montages set to “Sex Bomb” and “Car
Wash,” played with jaunty Cole Porter-ish
Charleston aplomb. It’s a little bit clever and
a little bit annoying — just like the movie
itself. Sure, this kind of highball humor can
be cool, cigarette-holder-and-slinky-dress
fun but it can also be extremely self-conscious and very “too much” very fast. There’s
a fine line between refreshing dash of mint
and horrible overpowering herb, and this
movie crosses that line a lot with its arched
eyebrows and its many entendres.
Surprisingly, none of the “yeesh, enough”
moments are caused by Biel. She fits the
role of the sassy bombshell just fine and the
strange chemistry that the role causes her to
have with Firth works as well. Firth, who is
simply born to play roles like this, is excellent, as is Thomas, who is a delightful viper.
What pulls you out of all the mannered fun,
though, is the way the movie seems to step
outside itself so frequently to say “my, but
aren’t we clever.” I didn’t hate Easy Virtue
for this but I can’t love it either. BRated PG-13 for sexual content, brief partial nudity and smoking throughout. Directed by
Stephan Elliott and written by Elliot and Sheridan Jobbins (from the play by Noel Coward),
Easy Virtue is an hour and 36 minutes long and
is distributed in limited release by Sony Pictures
Classics.
The Girlfriend Experience
(R)
An expensive call girl and her
personal trainer boyfriend navigate
the difficult faux friendships with
their clients and their strange
relationship with each other in The
Girlfriend Experience, a chilly but
darkly wry movie from director
Steven Soderbergh.
Chelsea (Sasha Grey) isn’t just a quick
roll in the hay — she is truly a girlfriend for
hire. We first see her discussing the movie she just saw — the documentary Man on
Wire — with her male companion over dinner. Later, they sip wine and wind up in bed.
It is, seemingly, the organic progression of
an actual date between people who like each
genuinely other. But in the morning we realize that this date comes with an envelope full
of cash for Chelsea. She is not a girlfriend;
she is providing a girlfriend experience but,
of course, without the hassle of an actual
long-term relationship.
Chelsea, we come to learn, does in fact
experience some of those hassles herself in
her relationship with Chris (Chris Santos),
her live-in boyfriend. He is a personal trainer
and, like Chelsea, he spends his days simulating something like friendship with his clients
who pay handsomely (though not as handsomely as Chelsea’s clients) for his time.
Sasha Grey has thus far spent most of
her career in porn but those looking for sex
or even nudity will be disappointed. She is
maybe visibly naked in one scene (and if you
see the movie on TV, as I did, any naughty
parts that might be visible on a movie screen
are completely obscured by shadow). The
nudity here is saved for the naked commerce
that is the basis for almost every encounter
in the movie.
One of the running jokes in the movie is
that all almost everyone can talk about is the
economy. The movie is set right before the
November elections in 2008 and at several
points her clients offer advice on what she
should do with her money (gold, not stocks).
They are also telling her (in ways both direct
and subtle) that this arrangement may change
as their fortunes change.
When the global economy isn’t at issue,
some kind of personal one is. There are Chelsea’s relationships with her clients (some of
which become more personal than others).
There are her relationships with a financial
manger and a Web site builder. There’s the
“erotic critic” who offers to help raise her
online profile and ranking if she gives him a
freebie. There’s Chris’ varying business relationships with those who can help him grow
his training business or kick start an athletic
apparel business. We see him going to Vegas
with one of his training clients, laughing it
up while awkwardly navigating that strange
position between “friend” and “staff.”
And then there is Chris and Chelsea’s
“real” relationship — all full of rules and
deals and compromises.
There isn’t a tsk-tsk message here so much
as a “this is how it is and don’t fool yourself that life is anything different” message.
Grey is a flat actress but that actually makes
for an interesting performance. Just as the
men project onto her character whatever
they want, we could see in Chelsea whatever we believe she is underneath the couture
and the blank expression — amoral addict
of stuff, calculating businesswoman, naïve
girl. Whoever you see, the movie gives us an
engrossing little window on her life. BRated R for sexual content, nudity and language. Directed by Steven Soderbergh and
written by David Levien and Brian Koppelman,
The Girlfriend Experience is an hour and 17 minutes long and is distributed in limited release by
Magnolia Pictures. It is available at least through
Thursday, May 28, via cable on demand (see the
“Magnolia Pictures”) option.
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Celebrate
with
Cinema locator
423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com
Flagship Cinemas Derry
10 Ashleigh Dr., Derry, 437-8800
Entertainment Cinemas 6
192 Loudon Road, Concord,
224-3600
AMC at The Loop
90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen,
Mass., 978-738-8942
O’Neil Cinema 12
Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry,
434-8633
Movies outside the cineplex
Wed., July 8, at 1 p.m.
• Dick Tracy (PG, 1990) Wed.,
July 15, at 1 p.m.
• 50 First Dates (PG-13, 2004)
Wed., July 22, at 1 p.m.
• Bang the Drum Slowly (PG,
1973) Wed., July 29, at 1 p.m.
• Waking Ned Devine (PG, 1998)
Wed., Aug. 5, at 1 p.m.
• The Sixth Sense (PG-13, 1999)
Wed., Aug. 12, at 1 p.m.
• Fiddler on the Roof (G, 1971)
Wed., Aug. 19, at 1 p.m.
• The Pianist (R, 2002) Wed.,
Aug. 26, at 1 p.m.
WILTON TOWN HALL
Main Street in Wilton. Tickets
cost $6 ($4 for seniors and children) unless otherwise stated.
wiltontownhalltheatre.com or call
654-FILM.
• Gomorra (NR, 2009) Thurs.,
May 28, at 7:30 p.m.
• The Soloist (PG-13, 2009)
Thurs., May 28, through Thurs.,
June 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Plus Sun.,
May 31, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.
• Star Trek (PG-13, 2009) Fri.,
May 29, through Thurs., June 4,
at 7:30 p.m. Plus Sun., May 31,
at 2 p.m.
• She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sat., May 30, at 4:30 p.m. Free;
donations to charity accepted.
• Show People (1928) Starring
Marion Davies. Sun., May 31, at
4:30 p.m. Live music by Jeff Rapsis. Free.
MILFORD DRIVE-IN
101A in Milford, 673-4090, www.
milforddrivein.com. Check Web
site for changes related to weather
or screenings. Open Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays; drive-in
opens at 6:15 p.m.; movies begin
at dusk. Admission is $20 per car
(up to 6 occupants).
• Screen 1:
• Screen 2:
MANCHESTER CITY
LIBRARY
405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
• Slumdog Millionaire (R, 2008)
Wed., June 3, at 1 p.m.
• Mamma Mia! (PG-13, 2008)
Wed., June 10, at 1 p.m.
• O Brother, Where Art
Thou? (PG-13, 2000) Wed., June
17, at 1p.m.
• Medicine Man (PG-13, 1992)
Wed., June 24, at 1 p.m.
• Sweet Liberty (PG, 1986) Wed.,
July 1, at 1 p.m.
• Seven Pounds (PG-13, 2008)
PEMBROKE LIBRARY
313 Pembroke St. in Route 3,
Pembroke (behind town hall),
485-7851. French films hosted by
Gens Unis du Richelieu.
• French film night, Wed., June
24, at 6:30 p.m.
NASHUA PUBLIC
LIBRARY
NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua,
589-4600,
www.nashualibrary.
org. Call 589-4646 for the library’s
film line, a schedule of upcoming
movies. Films subject to change.
Seating is limited. Food and drink
are not permitted in the theater.
• Mamma Mia! (PG-13) Fri.,
May 29, at 7 p.m.
• Underdog (PG, 2007) Sat., May
30, at 2 & 4 p.m.
WEST BRANCH
COMMUNITY LIBRARY
76 N. Main St., Manchester, 6246560, www.manchester.lib.nh.us
• Valkyrie (PG, 2008) Fri., May
29, at 3 p.m.
POLLARD MEMORIAL
LIBRARY
401 Merrimack St., Lowell,
Mass., 978-970-4120, www.pollardml.org
• Independent film night The
library screens an independent,
unrated film on the second Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m.
Films are announced a week in
advance.
THE MUSIC HALL
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 4362400, www.themusichall.org
• Sunshine Cleaning Fri., May 29,
and Sat., May 30, at 7:30 p.m.
• Goodbye Solo (NR, 2008) Sun.,
May 31, at 4 & 7:30 p.m.; Mon., June
1, at 7:30 p.m. Discussion to follow.
• King Kong (1933) Wed., June 3,
at 7:30 p.m.
• Duplicity (PG-13, 2009) Thurs.,
June 4, and Fri., June 5, at 7:30
p.m.
• Hunger (NR, 2009) Sun., June
7, through Tues., June 9, at 7:30
p.m.
• West Side Story (1961) Wed.,
June 10, at 7 p.m.
• Sin Nombre (R, 2009) Fri., June
12, and Sat., June 13, at 7:30 p.m.
PETERBOROUGH
COMMUNITY THEATRE
6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, www.thepct.com. Schedule
subject to change, call ahead.
• Night at the Museum: Battle
of the Smithsonian (PG, 2009)
Thurs., May 28, at 7:30 p.m.
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THE COLONIAL THEATRE
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033,
www.thecolonial.org
• Paris 36 (PG-13, 2009) Thurs.,
May 28, at 7 p.m.
• Is Anybody There? (PG-13,
2008) Sat., May 30, and Sun.,
May 31, at 2 & 7 p.m.; Mon.,
June 1, through Thurs., June 4, at
7 p.m.
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
Sat., July 4, through Mon, July 6,
at 2 p.m.
• The Muppet Movie (1979) Sat.,
July 11, through Mon., July 13, at
2 p.m.
• Ghostbusters (1984) Sat., July 18,
through Mon., July 20, at 2 p.m.
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RED RIVER THEATRES
11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, www.redrivertheatres.org
• Management (R, 2009) Thurs.,
May 28, at 5:35 p.m.
• State of Play (PG-13, 2009)
Thurs., May 28, at 7:45 p.m.
• Is Anybody There? (PG-13,
2009) Thurs., May 28, at 5:30
& 8 p.m.; Fri., May 29, through
Tues., June 2, at 5:40 & 7:45
p.m.; Thurs., June 4, at 5:40 &
7:45 p.m.
• Sugar (R, 2009) Fri., May. 29, at
5:30 & 8 p.m.; Sat., May 30, and
Sun., May 31, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Mon., June 1, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Tues., June 2, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.;
Thurs., June 4, at 5:30 & 8 p.m.
• Earth (G, 2009) Sat., May 30,
and Sun., May 31, at 2:15 p.m.;
Tues., June 2, at 2:15 p.m.
Regal Concord
282 Loudon Road, Concord, 2263800
Regal Hooksett 8
100 Technology Dr., Hooksett,
641-3456
Regal Manchester 9
1279 S. Willow St., Manchester,
641-3456
Showcase Cinemas Lowell
32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass.,
978-551-0055
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AMC Tyngsborough
440 Middlesex St., Tyngsborough,
Mass., 978-649-3980.
Chunky’s Cinema & Pub Nashua
151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua,
chunkys.com
Chunky’s Pelham Cinema & Pub
150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499
Cinemagic Hooksett
1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett,
644-4629, cinemagicmovies.com
Cinemagic Merrimack 12
11 Executive Place Dr., Merrimack,
A&E DIAMOND&GOLD,INC.
FILM Continued
Pennichuck Square 707 Old Milford Rd, Merrimack
(603)889-8182 w w w. a e d i a m o n d . c o m
POP CULTURE:
(2 Miles North of
Downtown Meredith)
NEWBURYPORT
SCREENING ROOM
82 State St.., Newburyport, Mass.,
978-462-3456, www.newburyportmovies.com
• The Silence Before Bach (www.
shadowdistribution.com, Spanish
& German with subtitles) Thurs.,
May 28, at 7:30 p.m.
• Shall We Kiss (NR, 2009, French
with subtitles) Fri., May 29, at 6:30 &
8:45 p.m.; Sat., May 30, at 3:45, 6:30
& 8:45 p.m.; Sun., May 31, at 5:15
& 7:30 p.m.; Mon., June 1, through
Thurs., June 4, at 7:30 p.m.
OTHER • BRIDGE CRUSADER A screening of the feature film filmed in
Pepperell, Mass., and throughout
New England will be held on Fri.,
June 5, at 7 p.m. for free at the Nissitissit Middle School Auditorium,
33 Chace Ave. in Pepperell, Mass.
See www.bridgecrusader.com.
• 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT
New Hampshire will host its own
48-Hour Film Project competition
this year. Competitors will meet on
Friday, June 12, and get a character, prop, line of dialogue and genre
to include in their movie. By Sunday, June 14, they need to have a
completed movie. A week later, the
movies will be screened and a panel
of judges will choose a top entry to
go to an international competition,
the release said. The registration fee
for each team is $125. Teams are
admitted on a first come, first served
basis and a limited number of teams
will be allowed to participate. See
www.48hourfilm.com/newhampshire or contact Chris Proulx at
newhampshire@48hourfilm.com
or 540-2381.
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Nite Roundup
Local music
& nightlife news
By Katie Beth Ryan
music@hippopress.com
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• They’ve got Willie: Tickets for Willie Nelson’s performance at Meadowbrook
(www.meadowbrook.net) on Sunday, May
31, at 7 p.m., are still available. Tickets cost
between $25 and $64. Buy them online or
by calling 293-4700.
• Nightlife outdoors: Jillian’s, 50 Phillippe Cote St. in Manchester, 626-7636,
www.jilliansbilliards.com, will celebrate
the grand opening of its deck this weekend. On Friday, May 29, look for the band
First Shot starting at 6 p.m. On Saturday,
May 30, look for The Monkey Fist Incident
(playing 6 to 8 p.m.) and The Slakas, starting at 9 p.m.
• Night of a jillion DJs: WB’s, a.k.a.
Wally & Bernies, 20 Old Granite St. in
Manchester, www.wallyandbernies.com,
will feature a multitude of DJs on Thursday
nights starting Thursday, June 4. In the main
room, look for DJ Bob and Spivak playing
top 40 and club hits. In the outdoor playground, look for DJ Midas spinning house,
retro, breaks, funk, disco and more, according to a press release.
• At last: Tickets go on sale May 30
for the Wednesday, Aug. 5, performance
of R&B legend Etta James, who will perform with the Roots Band at The Music
Hall, 28 Chestnut St. in Portsmouth. Named
“the undisputed Earth Mother” by Atlantic Records’ producer Jerry Wexler, James
will perform selections from her CD All The
Way. Tickets cost $60 and $75 and can be
purchased in person at The Music Hall box
office, by phone at 436-2400, or online at
www.themusichall.org.
• Community concert: The all-female
Nashua Music Exchange will hold a
community benefit concert for the Community Hospice House on Sunday, June 7,
at the First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester St. in Nashua. The group will perform
standards by well-known singers and composers. Admission is free, but donations
will be accepted for the Community Hospice House.
• Lookin’ Sharpe: The Kevin Sharpe
Group will bring its blend of contemporary Christian music fused with gospel,
rock, jazz and R&B to the New England
Revival Coffee House (NERCH) at the Calvary Fellowship Church, 60 Bailey Road in
Manchester, on Friday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free, though donations are
accepted. Visit www.nerch.org to check out
the rest of the series’ schedule.
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HIPPO NITE
Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
A jamming space
Studio 99 is an artistic new music venue
By Katie Beth Ryan
music@hippopress.com
If you can locate Studio 99 in Nashua’s
vast brick-and-smokestack millyard, director
Elise MacDonald promises an evening worth
your while.
Located up four floors of creaking stairs in
the Picker building at 99 Factory St., Studio
99 is a large room overlooking the Nashua
River and downtown that’s become a second home of sorts for a small but faithful
and growing group of local musicians, looking to hone their skills in music lessons or
in one of the weekly open jam sessions the
studio sponsors. But in recent months, it’s
also begun to book headlining acts like The
Wiyos, Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade,
and Ian Ethan Case, a move that MacDonald,
a longtime music teacher and community arts
organizer, hadn’t originally planned.
“Nashua has a lot of really beautiful, large
venues that are just gorgeous,” MacDonald
said. “If you’re a musician who’s just making a name for yourself and starting to tour,
it’s very difficult to hire out a hall like that
because, (a), you don’t have the fan base yet,
and (b), because it’s wildly expensive. I think
what Nashua has been missing is a smaller,
more accessible venue that’s just more nimble and flexible.”
Studio 99 had its genesis via local photographer Sid Ceaser, who informed MacDonald
about the available space on the fourth floor.
With the support of Marjorie Hogan and City
Arts Nashua, Studio 99 started out in July
of last year as an educational organization,
holding lessons and jam sessions for blues,
jazz, folk and bluegrass musicians.
“Fairly rapidly, I saw that there was a big
demand for the jam sessions and for the open
mikes,” she said. “That’s definitely educational, there’s no question,
but it’s on a much less formal level
… I think there’s a huge demand for
that right now, for people to get out,
have a great evening and spend time
with other people socially while
they play music.”
Though intended as a music performance space, Studio 99 has come
to incorporate spoken word performances. Journalist and poet Ethan
Gilsdorf, a lifelong friend of MacDonald’s, read poems “with a love,
Guitarist Maurice Cahen and violinist Ricardo Frota
heartbreak theme to them” at the
perform a set of Brazilian music at the grand opening
studio, and walked away with an celebration of Studio 99 last October. Courtesy photo.
appreciation for the building’s past.
better than we expected.”
“There are a lot of places where
And best of all, MacDonald said, the stuyou read where you don’t get a sense of the
history,” Gilsdorf said. “What I like about her dio manages to bring in a different type of
studio is that you get a sense of the history crowd than the one you’ll find in your averthere. As a writer and someone who’s inter- age sports bar.
“Yeah, they might be going out with their
ested in history, it’s very hard to not imagine
friends
to socialize, but they’ll have dinner
who’s been in there and what’s taken place
first
and
then come see a concert, and go out
there.”
with
their
friends later. They’re not there to
Studio 99 is open to all types of performance artists, and will hold a fine arts sale talk, drink and sort of have the music in the
from June 19 through June 21 that will bene- background. They’re there for the music.”
Upcoming performances at Studio 99
fit Nashua’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
include
an evening with Spider John Koerner
Still, it’s a specific type of artist who thrives
at
8
p.m.
on Tuesday, June 2; Jesse Peters at 8
in a converted studio in an old mill, one who
p.m.
on
Sunday,
June 7; and Sit Down Baby
doesn’t require large crowds — Studio 99
at
8
p.m.
on
Friday,
June 26. Studio 99 also
can hold up to 75 patrons — or a large performance space. That’s fine by Miss Tess, who holds open jams for jazz musicians on the
performed with the Bon Ton Parade and was first Wednesday of each month, a bluegrass
one of the first traveling artists to stop at the jam on the third Wednesday, and a blues jam
on the fourth Wednesday of each month. For
burgeoning venue.
“It was intimate and the acoustics are more information about upcoming shows and
good. We like that,” she said. “The people detailed directions to Studio 99, visit www.
in attendance were nice and seem to have a studio99nashua.com.
good sense of community…. Honestly, it was
Thirsty for rock and roll
Rocko’s is the place for underage performers
By Katie Beth Ryan
music@hippopress.com
It’s a blazing hot Tuesday afternoon in late
May, and by 5 p.m. the parking lot at Rocko’s
on Wilson Street is full.
Members of an assortment of heavy metal groups, their managers and an occasional
friend of the band are either moving equipment into the bar or lingering around the
front steps, waiting for the first wave of fans
to show up. Some are puffing on cigarettes,
but there’s no alcohol in sight in the parking lot, and none at the juice-and-soda bar
inside. The kegs have been turned off and
the drink specials taken down for tonight’s
show, organized by Dave Southward’s I’m
Thirsty Entertainment and featuring a lineup
of seven bands — all of which have underage members.
The absence of booze at tonight’s all-ages
show doesn’t really bother Chris “Pogo” Aguiar, 20, of the group Forever the Fallen. In
the year that he’s worked under
Southward’s aegis, Aguiar say,
his group has routinely made
the commute from Lowell to
Manchester on a monthly basis
just to play in an I’m Thirsty
show.
“I just think he puts on the
best shows in New Hampshire,” he says of Southward.
“The talent he’s been able to
get, the lessons he’s taught me
have made me appreciate him
Boston-based Bear Fight rocks out at Rocko’s in Manchester.
even more.”
adults.
With I’m Thirsty managing
“The difference here,” he says, “is that
all-ages shows on Friday and Saturday nights
you
don’t have a lot of older people getting
at Rocko’s throughout the summer, Aguiar’s
group will probably make several appear- drunk. Kids get more of an enjoyment listenances in some of Southward’s shows over ing to music than an older person as well….
the next three months. After attending his They sweat and they dance and they have a
fair share of shows with full bars and rowdy good time.”
Managing artists under the age of 21 was
fans, Southward can appreciate the beauty of
a
gradual
move for Southward. After being
organizing a night of music for sober young
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fit into the heavy metal aura that dominates
the area. Southward says it’s also been difficult to convince bar owners that an all-ages
show is worth their while.
“This was basically a miracle,” he says.
“I’ve built a good, lasting relationship with
Rocko’s. It’s a really competitive market
up here for our scene. This is basically the
only place in Manchester to see an all-ages
show.”
His efforts are not going unnoticed. Matt
Drago, 19, of Derry’s The Wakeup Call
says that while it remains difficult to make
a name for his band, it’s nice to have someone like Southward in their corner.
“He puts on a great show,” Drago said.
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Are you thirsty?
Upcoming all-ages shows at Rocko’s managed
by I’m Thirsty Entertainment include these:
• A Friday, May 29, lineup that includes Settle
The Sky, From The Pawn, Silence In Shadows, Unforgivable, When Girls Kiss Girls and
Beneath Dying Embers; tickets cost $10.
• A Saturday, May 30, show with Only
Blood Will Tell, Pirates, Black Bear, Letter In
Hand, Enemy, Jive, Pangea and Prize Fighter; tickets cost $10.
• a Thursday, June 11, show headlined by
Bury The Dead and featuring Shatter This
World, Shot Heard, Around The World, Letter In Hand, and Elyson; tickets cost $15.
Doors open at 5 p.m. for all three shows at 5
p.m. To learn more or purchase tickets, visit
www.myspace.com/imthirstyentertainment.
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laid off from the restaurant industry, he
spent time at home raising his two daughters. Trolling through different Web sites,
he listened to a great number of bands,
making mental notes of what sounded good
and what didn’t.
“I would surf the Internet, like any unemployed person. I got really involved in
listening to music online, and I felt [I] could
contribute something to it.
“I have kids,” he continues, “and when
they turn 15, 16, I want them to go to a
place where they can be safe and listen to
a local band.”
I’m Thirsty Entertainment — named
for the young groups on the southern New
Hampshire music scene thirsty for a big
break — began in March 2007 with a show
at the American Legion hall in Manchester. Having deemed the night “successful
enough to where we didn’t lose any money,” Southward went on to manage close to
300 shows, drawing acts from beyond the
immediate area and fans from as far away
as New Jersey and Canada. He actively promotes the multi-band shows around town,
but most groups usually have their own
entourage that accompanies them to most
of their gigs.
“That way, I can almost guarantee that
we’ll have 140 kids out here on a Tuesday
night,” he says.
The Manchester-area music scene can be
difficult to penetrate for a new band, especially for groups that are underage and don’t
CONCERTS
• Dennis DeYoung and the
music of Styx, Thurs., May 28,
at 8 p.m., Palace
• Steve Earle, Thurs., May 28, at
8 p.m., Music Hall
• John Hammond, Fri., May 29,
at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Chuck Wicks, Fri., May 29, at
8 p.m., Colonial Theatre
• Al Kooper Rockabilly Trio,
Sat., May 30, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Abbamania (songs from the
movie Mamma Mia!), Sun., May
31, at 7 p.m., Palace
• Willie Nelson, Sun., May 31, at
7 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Chris Botti, Tues., June 2, at
7:30 p.m., Music Hall
• Jeff Pitchell, Fri., June 5, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• The Mystix, Sat., June 6, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• The Psychedelic Furs, Mon.,
June 8, at 7 p.m., Tupelo
• Vince Gill, Wed., June 10, at 8
p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Orleans, Thurs., June 11, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Rain: The Beatles Experience,
Thurs., June 11, at 7:30 p.m.,
Music Hall
Leddy Center
38c Ladd’s Lane, Epping, 6792781,leddycenter.org
Lowell Auditorium
East Merrimack Street, Lowell,
Mass., 978-454-2299
Meadowbrook Musical
Arts Center
72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford,
293-4700
The Music Hall
28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth,
436-2400
The Old Meeting House,
1 New Boston Rd., Francestown
Palace Theatre
80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588
Tsongas Arena
300 M.L.K Jr. Way, Lowell,
Mass., (978) 848-6900
Tupelo Music Hall
2 Young Road, Londonderry,
603-437-5100
Verizon Wireless Arena
555 Elm St., Manchester,
644-5000
Whittemore Center Arena at
UNH
128 Main St., Durham, 862-4000
• Manchester Jazz & Blues Festival, Fri., June 12, at 8 p.m., Palace
• Beatlemania Now, Sat., June
13, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Capitol
Center
• Dark Star Orchestra performing the Grateful Dead’s music,
Fri., June 12, and Sat., June 13,
at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Foghat, Sun., June 14, at 7 p.m.
and 8 p.m., Palace Theatre
• Brad Paisley with Dierks
Bentley and Jimmy Wayne,
Sun., June 14, at 7:30 p.m.,
Meadowbrook
• Poco, Sun., June 14, at 5:30
p.m. and 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Fleetwood Mac, Tues., June
16, at 8 p.m., Verizon
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited with The Outlaws, Wed.,
June 17, at 8 p.m., Meadowbrook
• The Black Crowes, Thurs.,
June 18, & Fri., June 19, at 8
p.m. at Casino Ballroom
• John Brown’s Body, Thurs.,
June 18, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Blake Shelton and Craig
Morgan, Thurs., June 18, at 8
p.m., Meadowbrook
• Keith Emerson, Fri., June 19,
at 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., Tupelo
• Live with Candlebox, Fri., June
19, at 7:30 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Don McLean, Fri., June 19, at
8 p.m., Capitol Center
• 3rd Annual Concert — Peacemakers & Diplomats, Sat., June
20, at 8 p.m., Music Hall
• Huey Lewis & The News,
Sun., June 21, at 7 p.m., Casino
Ballroom
• Bombino, Wed., June 24, at 5
p.m., Music Hall
• Susan Tedeschi & Shemekia
Copeland, Thurs., June 25, at 8
p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Spanish Harlem Orchestra,
Fri., June 26, at 8 p.m., Music Hall
• Taking Back Sunday, Fri., June
26, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom
• Truffle, Fri., June 26, at 8 p.m.,
Tupelo
• Los Lobos, Sat., June 27, at
7:30 p.m., Lowell Summer
• Styx, REO Speedwagon and
.38 Special, Sat., June 27, at 7
p.m., Meadowbrook
• Savoy Brown, Sat., June 27, at
8 p.m., Tupelo
• Boz Scaggs, Sat., June 27 at 8
p.m., Casino Ballroom
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Milly’s Tavern, 500 N. Commercial
St. in Manchester, will host “Flush:
Funk and Fashion” on Saturday, June
6, at 9 p.m.
An event familiar to the Seacoast
scene, Flush features models walking
a runway wearing fashions from local
designers and boutiques (Ablaze,
Top Drawer, Kye Power and La
Cage Boutique, according to a press
release) to the music of the ban The
Head. Following the fashion — a DJ
and dancing, the release said. Tickets
cost $10 and are available at the door or at the participating shops. See www.myspace.com/tvprecords. (Photos courtesy
of Mark Delorenzo.)
Doors open at 9 p.m.
• GARY HOEY, a surfer-rock
musician from Lowell, Mass., will
appear in-store at Strings & Things,
113 S. Main St. in Concord, on
Tues., June 2, at 7 p.m. to demonstrate Fender Road Worn guitars
and Vintage Modified amps. The
event is free and open to the public. Hoey’s appearance is sponsored
by Fender. Hoey will explain how
to get better tone onstage and in
the studio and offer songwriting
tips, technique-improving exercises
and advice on the music business,
according to a press release. Hoey
will also perform songs and answer
questions. See www.strings-things.
com or call 228-1971 for more on
the event. For more on Hoey, see
garyhoey.com.
• SPIDER JOHN KOERNER,
bluesman and roots musician, at
Studio 99, the Picker Building at
99 Factory St. in Nashua, on Tues.,
June 2, at 8 p.m. Admission costs
$15 at the door. See www.studio99nashua.com.
June 25, at 7:30 p.m., Lowell Auditorium, 50 East Merrimack St., Lowell,
Mass. $45.50 to $75.40.
Chess
• CHESS CLUB open to players
of all levels, 7 to 9 p.m. Fridays at
Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St.,
Nashua. Call 589-4600.
Scrabble
•
DECORATIVE
IMAGE
SCRABBLE NIGHT Every
second Wednesday, 7 to 9 p.m.,
Richmond Room, Bedford Public
Library, 2 Meetinghouse Road,
Bedford. 472-2300.
Foosball
• FOOSBALL TOURNAMENT
every Friday at Slammers Sports
Bar & Grill, 547 Donald St., Bedford. Signs-ups start at 8 p.m., tournament starts by 9 p.m. $10.
Poker
• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAMENTS Amoskeag Bingo Center/
Sharky’s Poker Room in Manchester.
Proceeds for charity. Ages 18 and up.
606-4456, playnhpoker.com.
• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAMENTS Every Sunday at 1 p.m.,
Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial
St. Manchester. Proceeds to benefit Vietnam Veterans of American
Central NH Chapter 41.
• TEXAS HOLD-’EM TOURNAMENTS River Card Room at
185 Elm St., Milford. Thursday
through Sunday. 249-5548, www.
nhcardroom.com.
Beirut
• SLAPSHOTS, 515 DW Highway
in Merrimack, www.myspace.com/ Singles events
slapshotssportsbar Thursdays.
• BYOB SINGLES DANCE
every Friday, 8 p.m. to midnight at
Bowling
Daniels Hall, Rte. 4 in Nottingham.
• BOUTWELL’S BOWLING Casual dress, free buffet and drink
CENTER 152 N. State St., Con- setups, smoking outside on patio.
cord, 224-0941.
$11, 942-8525, www.singlesdan• LAKESIDE LANES 2171 Can- ceparties.com.
dia Road, Manchester, 627-7722, • SINGLE DANCE PARTY on Fri.,
www.lakesidelanes.com.
May 29, at the The Castleton, exit 3
• LEDA LIGHTHOUSE 340 off Interstate 93 in Windham. Hosted
Amherst St., Nashua, 889-4884, by Together of NH. Dances run from
www.ledalanes.com.
8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Admission costs $10
• KING BOWLING LANES 751 before 9 p.m.; $12 after 9 p.m. ComMast Road, Manchester, 623-9215, plimentary hors d’oeuvres until 8:30
www.kinglanes.com
p.m. Dress is business casual. Profes• MERRIMACK TEN PIN sional DJ; non-smoking; cash bar.
CENTER 698 DW Highway, Mer- Email togethernh@msn.com
rimack, 429-0989, 8:30 a.m. to
Trivia Nights
midnight.
• STADIUM TEN PIN Maple • BARLEY HOUSE 132 North
Street, Manchester, 625-9656, Main St. in Concord, 228-6363,
www.stadiumtenpin.net.
Wednesday.
• TONY’S LANES 244 Elm St., • CENTRAL WAVE 368 Central
Milford, 673-6673.
Ave. in Dover, 742-9283, Tuesday.
• KELLEY’S ROW 421 Central
Entertainment
Ave., Dover, 750-7081, Wednesday.
• THE 3 MEDIUMS: LISA WIL- • PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER
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COLETTE BARON-REID Thurs., Tuesday.
A pub that captures the
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Sing Session w/Spain Brothers
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Music & parties
• JAZZ CABARET The Central
High School’s music department
will hold its annual Jazz Cabaret on
Friday, May 29, at 6:30 p.m. at the
Hellenic Community Center of St.
George Greek Orthodox Cathedral,
650 Hanover St. in Manchester.
The event will feature the band, the
chamber choir and more. Admission
costs $5 per person; light appetizers
and beverages will be served.
• LEO KOTTKE, acoustic guitar
virtuso, at South Church, 292 State
St. in Portsmouth, on Friday, May
29, at 8 p.m. Find out more about
him at www.leokottke.com. Tickets
cost $35. Also playing Sat., May 30,
at 8 p.m. at the Peterborough Town
House (Upper Room at Town Hall),
One Grove St. in Peterborough;
tickets cost $32. Go to www.mktix.
com/heptunes (there is a $4 fee to
purchase tickets online) or call 978462-9630 for tickets to either show.
• MURKADEE, pop rock band,
final show, at the Portsmouth Pearl,
Fri., May 29, at 7 p.m. $5 for admission. See www.murkadee.com.
• NEWPOLI, an Italian folk music
group, will play at a celebration
of Italian music, culture, food and
wine at the former Blooms Variety
Story on Main Street in Laconia on
Friday, May 29. The evening will
begin at 5:30 p.m. with Italian antipasti and wine and 5:45 p.m., Grace
Distefano Grady (a native of Sicily)
will offer a presentation about Italian culture. Newpoli will begin its
concert at 6:30 p.m. with dessert
and coffee served during intermission. Tickets, which include the
food and the show, cost $38 and
are for sale at the Mill, 25 Beacon
Street East, Laconia, or by phone
with a credit card at 524-8813. • CONCORD COACHMEN, a
barbershop chorus, will host “For
Our Children/Singing for Life”
blood drive at the Radisson Inn &
Expo Center, 700 Elm St. in Manchester, on Sat., May 30. Set up an
appointment to donate by calling
the American Red Cross at 6251951. The Concord Coachmen Barbershop chorus will sing 20 minutes
of music on each half hour between
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. as donors are
giving blood. See www.redcross.
org, www.compasionatefriends.org,
www.harmonize.com/coachmen or
www.deltadental.com for more.
• BANDING TOGETHER FOR
THE CURE The Granite Angels
will present “Banding Together for
the Cure,” five hours of live entertainment to raise money for breast
cancer research, on Sat., May 30,
at the Holiday Inn, 9 Northeastern
Blvd. in Nashua, at 7 p.m. The
event will feature acoustic musician Jim “Jimmy D” Dillavou, The
Skinny Ties (playing early MTVera artists; pictured) and Captured
(with the music of Journey). The
event is 21+. For tickets, e-mail
bandingtogether@comcast.net or
call Kelly Sewell at 881-7718. The
Granite Angels (www.the3day.
org/goto/GraniteAngels) is a walking team that will participate in the
Breast Cancer 3-Day in July.
• SUMMER KICK OFF BASH at
Milly’s Tavern, 500 N. Commercial
St. in Manchester, 625-4444, www.
millystavern.com, on Sat., May 30.
Red Zone Records presents hiphop, reggae, reggaeton and R&B
with a performance by Iceman. 18+
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The Barley House
132 N. Main St., 228-6363
Borders
76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255
Amherst
Concord Grille
Club Comedy at Amherst 1 Eagle Square
Country Club
Green Martini
72 Ponemah Road,673-9908 6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
Hermanos
Auburn
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Auburn Pitts
Loudon Road
167 Rockingham Rd,
Restaurant and
622-6564
Pit Road Lounge
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533
Bedford
Makris
C.R. Sparks
354 Sheep Davis Road,
18 Kilton Road, 647-7275 225-7665
Mark’s Showplace
Penuche’s Ale House
Route 3, 668-7444
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
Slammers
The Red Blazer
547 Donald St., 668-2120 72 Manchester St., 224-4101
Quackers Lounge
121 S. River Road; 622-3766 Deerfield
Lazy Lion Café
Belmont
4 North Road, 463-7374
The Lodge at Belmont
Route 106, 877-872-2501 Derry
Adams Opera House
Boscawen
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102
Alan’s
Brookstone Grille
133 N. Main St., 753-6631 14 Route 11 E., 328-9250
Burgundy’s Billiards
Brookline
35 Manchester St., 437-6600
Big Bear Lodge
Steve-N-James Tavern
106 Route 13, 672-7675
187 Rockingham Road
Village Gate Folk Stage
434-0600
12 Main St., 315-9423
Dover
Bow
Barley Pub
Chen Yang Li
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
520 South St., 228-8508
Dover Elks Lodge
Mama Clara’s
282 Durham Road
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
Biddy Mulligan’s
1 Washington St., 749-1100
Candia
Dover Brick House
Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor 2 Orchard St., 749-3838
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001 Dover Soul
Pasquales Ristorante
364 Central Ave., 834-6965
145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005 Kelley’s Row
421 Central Ave., 750-7081
Concord
RJ’s
Annicchiarico Theatre
83 Washington St.
1 Thompson St.
Top of the Chop
Allenstown
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown Rd.
50
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
jam with The Wan-tu
Blues Band
McGarvey’s: DJ Squid
Milly’s: Traces David,
The Sworn In, Uncle
Dad and the Family
Secret
Concord
Rocko’s: Settle The Sky,
Capitol Grille: DJ
Green Martini: open mike From The Pawn, Silence
In Shadows, Unforgivable,
w/ Steve Naylor
Hermano’s: Mike Morris When Girls Kiss Girls,
Beneath Dying Embers
Strange Brew: Paramounts
Dover
Barley Pub: bluegrass jam WBs: DJ Bob
Brick House: Brian Sweet Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Jimmy’s: DJ J Jigga
Kelley’s Row: DJ Coach Milford
Pasta Loft: Mike and Tom
Hampstead
Nashua
One Eleven Village
603 Lounge: DJ Misty
Square: Double Shot
Pasta Loft: Matt Turner Fody’s: Charlie Chronopoulos
Peddler’s Daughter:
Laconia
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder Mindseye
Thursday, May 28
Bedford
C.R. Sparks: Zumba Tres
Slammers: jam night
with Barr None
One Orchard St., 740-0006 Laconia
Black Cat Café
East Hampstead
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233
The Pasta Loft
Fratello’s
220 E. Main St., 378-0092 799 Union Ave., 528-2022
Margate Resort
Epsom
76 Lake St., 524-5210
Circle 9 Ranch
Naswa Resort
Windymere Dr., 736-9656 1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341
Paradise Beach Club
Epping
322 Lakeside Ave., 366-2665
American Legion
Weirs Beach Smoke House
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
Route 3, 366-2400
Holy Grail Food & Spirits
64 Main St., 679-9559
Londonderry
The Homestead
Exeter
Restaurant
Shooter’s Pub
Rte 102 and Mammoth
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856 Road, 437-2022
Mayflower Grange
Goffstown
535 Mammoth Road,
Village Trestle
867-3077
25 Main St., 497-8230
Tupelo Hall
2 Young Road, 437-5100
Hampstead
Whippersnappers
Route 111 Village Square Route 102, 434-2660
472 State St., 329-6879
Manchester
Henniker
Alpine Club
Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
175 Putnam St., 623-8202
24 Flander’s Road,
American Legion Wm H
888-728-7732
Jutras & Post No 43
The Henniker Junction
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
American Legion
Post #79
Hillsborough
35 W. Brook St.
Boomerang’s
American Legion
Restaurant & Bar
Sweeney Post
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 251 Maple St., 623-9145
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
Begy’s Lounge
W. Main St. 464-6766
333 Valley St., 669-0062
Black Brimmer
Hollis
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
Alpine Grove
Bo’s Riverside
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051 500 Commercial St.,
The Dream Farm
625-4444
64 Dow Road
Breezeway Pub
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
Hudson
City Sports Grille
Johnny’s Pizzeria
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Lowell Road, 880-7087
Chateau Restaurant
Linda’s Sport Bar
201 Hanover St., 627-2677
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792 Club 313
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
Club Liquid
Amherst St., 645-7600
Commercial St. Fishery
33 S. Commercial St.
296-0706
Derryfield Country Club
625 Mammoth Road,
623-2880
Don Quijote
333 Valley St., 792-1110
East Side Club
786 Massebesic St.,
669-1802
Element Lounge
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
1111 Elm St., 222-2304
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
Brazilian Steak House
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
Grandstands
216 Maple St., 625-9656
The Hilton Garden Inn
101 S. Commercial St.,
669-2222
Jewell & The Beanstalk
793 Somerville St.,
624-3709
Jillian’s Billiard Club
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
626-7636
Johnny Bad’s
542 Elm St., 222-9191
J.W. Hill’s
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Mad Bob’s Saloon
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
McGarvey’s
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
Milly’s Tavern
500 Commercial St.,
625-4444
Murphy’s Taproom
494 Elm St., 644-3535
New England Revival
Coffee House (NERCH)
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
Olympic Lounge
506 Valley St., 644-5559
Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge
815 Elm St.
Penuche's Grill
Salem
Hudson
Varsity Club: DJ Danny R Kings Court: DJ
NuStyl and DJ T-Roy
Friday, May 29
Linda’s: Fuzz Boxx
Allenstown
Ground Zero: MayLaconia
thorns, Obruo, Thanks
Paradise Beach Club:
Alaska, Brikked
Tripwire
The Tragedy, The Yueh
Betrayal, xWidowmakerx, Absence Of Despair,
From Here It’s War
Shaskeen: Rockspring
Strange Brew: Paws Up
WBs: DJ Bobby G
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Bedford
Londonderry
Slammers: The Skinny Tupelo: John Hammond
Ties
Whippersnappers:
Vegas Temper
Boscawen
Alan’s: Doug Mitchell Manchester
Bad
Black Brimmer: Never
In Vegas
Brookline
Breezeway: DJ Sean
Country Corral: Camp- McKay
fire Boogie
City Sports Grille:
Undercover Operative
Concord
Club 313: DJ Susan
Barley House: Kid Pinkie Esthera, Karaoke with CJ
and His Restless Knight
Club Liquid: Renegade
Capitol Grille: DJ
Soundstation
Green Martini: The
Derryfield: Chafed,
Peterborough
Londonderry
Shady Rill Band
Kieran McNally Duo
Harlow’s Pub: 603
Whippersnappers:
Pit Road Lounge:
Element: DJ Daddy Dave
sound system
Chris Fitz Band
Raven X
Fratello’s: Charlie
Chronopoulos
Portsmouth
Dover
Manchester
Jillian’s: First Shot
Black Brimmer: John Brewery Lane: Greg
Biddy Mulligan’s:
Jimmy’s: DJ Bounce
Luttrell
Ridlon
Audio Kickstand
Mad Bob’s: Rusty
Muddy River: WXGR Brick House: Josh
Breezeway: DJ John
Cadillacs
Portsmouth UnderMcKay
Logan, Mary’s Ghost
McGarvey’s: DJ Squid
City Sports Grille: open ground Dance Party
Kelley’s Row: Soul Mate Milly’s: The Movement
mike jam with Josh Logan Portsmouth Gas Light:
Boyz, T. Dollas, PreminiPat Foley Duo
Club 313: DJ Biggie,
Hampstead
tion, Uncrowned Royalty
The Press Room: Bob
karaoke with CJ
One Eleven Village
Murphy’s: The Voice
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah Dylan Appreciation Night Square: River City
Rocko’s: Hell Within,
Derryfield: Josh Logan Red Door: Riddles
Pasta Loft: Two By
She Rides, Halhearted
Johnny Bad’s: blues
Two
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Milford
Pasta Loft: Fatback
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ Johnny
C, DJ Danny D, DJ Bob
Black Orchid Grille:
Christopher James
Fody’s: Joe Veluchi
Peddler’s Daughter:
Fat Tuesday
Sky Lounge: DJ
96 Hanover St., 626-9830
Rocko’s Bar & Grill
253 Wilson St., 626-5866
The Shaskeen
909 Elm St., 625-0246
Strange Brew Tavern
88 Market St., 666-4292
Unwine’d
865 Second St., 625-9463
Wally and Bernie’s
20 Old Granite St., 641-2583
The Wild Rover
21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722
Workmen’s Club
183 Douglas St.
The Yard
1211 S. Mammoth Road,
623-3545
Merrimack
Buckley’s Great Steaks
438 DW Hwy, 424-0995
Slapshot’s
515 DW Hwy, 262-9335
Silo’s Steakhouse
641 DW Hwy, 429-2210
Milford
The Pasta Loft
241 Union Sq., 672-2270
Santos-Dumont
770 Elm St., 672-5464
Shenanigans
586 Nashua St., 672-2060
Nashua
The Amber Room
53 High St., 881-9060
Black Orchid Grille
8 Temple St., 577-8910
Borders
281 DW Hwy, 888-9300
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.
595-2121
Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square,
880-6001
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Country Tavern
452 Amherst St., 889-5871
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
Portsmouth Pearl
45 Pearl St., 431-0148,
portsmouthpearl.com
Press Room
77 Daniel St.,431-5186
The Red Door
107 State St., 373-6827
Red Hook Brewery
35 Corporate Dr., 430-8600
The Wet Bar
172 Hanover St.
New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Plaistow
The Sad Café
Tilton
148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893 Old Friends Tavern
& Restaurant
927 Laconia Rd, 524-1777
Hot tunes, cool shows
Have upcoming shows you want listed
in the music this week? Send information about the coming week — Thursday
through Wednesday — 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.)
Amorphous Band
Lukasiak
Red Door: Face of Fate, Pit Road Lounge: The
BCap with Ryan Ober- Grind
miller
Dover
Salem
Barley Pub: Elsa Cross
Black Water Grill: Rob Biddy Mulligan’s: The
Breton
Digbees
Varsity Club: DJ Oseven Brick House: CamaPeterborough
rojuana
Harlow’s Pub: The Grift
Saturday, May 30 Kelley’s Row: Gazpacho
Allenstown
Plaistow
Ground Zero: Ink Lasts Hampstead
Sad Café: Carson, Garth Longer, Abbott Hayes
One Eleven Village
The Girl, Man Down, One Band, Static Cycle, This Square: 3 Way
Thrown Stone, Renegade Last Dance, Where Are Pasta Loft: Vicious Cycle
The Nine, Slateface
Portsmouth
Hudson
Blue Mermaid: Elijah Bedford
Linda’s: Mad Lincoln
Clark
Slammers: Uproot
Hilton Garden Inn:
Laconia
Curt Bessette and Kath- Boscawen
Paradise Beach Club:
leen Soldati
Alan’s: George Lodge
Resonant Soul
Muddy River: Todo
Bien, The Speed of Film Brookline
Londonderry
Portsmouth Gas Light:
Country Corral: Crisis Tupelo Music Hall: Al
The Grumps, The Hot Club
Kooper Rockabilly Trio
of Portland, DJ Biggie
Concord
Whippersnappers: 5
The Press Room:
Green Martini: Rob
Flavor Discount
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Vegas
Temper
Breezeway: DJ Sean
McKay
City Sports Grille:
Soundtrack to Monday
Club 313: DJ Dave G,
Karaoke with CJ
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Derryfield: 10K Skimmer, Endangered Species
Element: 3rd Annual
White Party with DJ Took
Fratello’s: Charlie
Chronopoulos
Jillian’s: The Monkey
Fist Incident, The Slakas
Jimmy’s: DJ J Jigga
Johnny Bad’s: The
Complex Kind
Mad Bob’s: Favorite Sons
McGarvey’s: DJ Squid
Milly’s: The Summer Kick
Off Bash featuring Iceman
Murphy’s: Grayspot
Penuches: Instant Vintage
Shaskeen: Tom Deniston
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Strange Brew:
Rhythm Mechanics
WBs: DJ Bobby G
The Yard: Doug Mitchell
Milford
Pasta Loft: The Transistors
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ
Rick Naples, DJ
Danny D, DJ Bob
Black Orchid Grille:
Gary Lopez
Fody’s: Skip Fisher
Gate City Pub: Dave
Bundza
Peddler’s Daughter:
The Gate
Sky Lounge: Mama
Kicks
Plaistow
Sad Café: Acacius, Ballast, Forever The Fallen,
Rescue Endeavor, The
Yueh Betrayal
Salem
Black Water Grille:
Mike Gacek
Varsity Club: Over 6
Sunday, May 31
Concord
Penuches: open mike
Dover
Barley Pub: Rhombus
Biddy Mulligan’s:
acoustic night
Brick House: Conforza, Heisai Yasokawa’s
Empty Orchestra,
Hope Lane is a Dead
End, Nothing to Gain,
Vails Gate, Where The
Shadows Cross
Jimmy’s: DJ Bounce
Goffstown
Village Trestle: Blues
open mike with The
Wan-tu Blues Band
Steve Earle and Townes
It’s no secret to longtime Steve Earle fans
that the folksman/outlaw country-rocker
was heavily influenced by the late legendary Texan singer-songwriter Townes Van
Zandt. Prodded for a quote upon the release
of a Van Zandt album, Earle famously
declared his mentor as the best songwriter in the world.
Earle will play the Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St. in Portsmouth, on Thursday, May 28, at 8 p.m. Tickets cost
$19.50 to $35 and are available at www.themusichall.org or by calling 436-2400.
More than 35 years after meeting the talented but troubled songwriter, Earle has released Townes, a CD containing covers of songs
from Van Zandt’s multi-faceted career. Earle will make a stop at
The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St. in Portsmouth, on Thursday, May
28, in support of the album. Always eager to promote the work of
his underrated friend, Earle says that his estimation of Van Zandt’s
legacy has evolved over time. “Do I believe that Townes was, and
did I believe that Townes was, a better songwriter than Bob Dylan?
No, but I believe that [they] deserved to be mentioned in the same
breath,” Earle said. “And Bob didn’t have any trouble promoting
himself, and Townes did sometimes.”
Van Zandt was found dead on New Year’s Day of 1997. Earle
said his new album is mostly a tribute to an influential career cut
abruptly short. “I knew that Townes was a big part of who I was as
a performer and a guitar player, but I didn’t realize how much until
I recorded this record,” he said.
Hampstead
One Eleven Village
Square: Blues jam
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Jam for Cam II
Manchester
Breezeway: piano
night with Robert D.
Derryfield: Lisa Guyer
Shaskeen: Scalawag
Tuesday, June 2
Concord
Barley House: Irish
acoustic session
Manchester
Derryfield: Hot Tamales
Element: karaoke with
DJ Sharon
Dover
Biddy Mulligan’s:
Shaskeen: The Spain
Tim Theriault
Brothers & Friends
Brick House: acoustic
Sing-Along, traditional open mike with AnthoIrish music
ny Vio Fiandaca
Strange Brew: HowKelley’s Row: Karaard Randall Blues Jam oke with DJ Coach
Nashua
Laconia
Fody’s: Joe MacDonald Fratello’s: Duke Snyder
Portsmouth
The Press Room:
UNH Jazz Faculty
Monday, June 1
Dover
Kelley’s Row: Traditional Irish sessions
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
Chris and G’s Jam Night
Manchester
Derryfield: Gary Lopez
Shaskeen: Manchuka
Strange Brew:
Strange Brew All-Stars
The Press Room:
Larry Garland’s Jazz
Jam and open mike
JOHN HAMMOND
Friday,
May 29
8:00 p.m.
SAVOY BROWN
$25
GA
Saturday, June 26
8:00 p.m. • $30 • GA
JEFF PITCHELL & Texas Flood
THE CHURCH
With Special Guest Joe Bouchard
Friday, July 3
Friday, June 5
8:00 p.m. • $35/$40 • RS-Theater
8:00 p.m. • $25 • GA
JOHN EDDIE’S
Birthday Show
Friday,
July 10
THE MYSTIX
8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. • $17 • RS-Tables
$25
GA
Saturday, June 6
Wednesday, June 3
Concord
Green Martini: open
mike
Dover
Biddy Mulligan’s:
open mike
Laconia
Fratello’s: Neil Martin
Manchester
Strange Brew: Lex
Romane
Milford
Pasta Loft: Joe Birch
and Chris O’Neil
ALBERT CUMMINGS
Saturday,
July 11
ORLEANS
8:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 11
$20
GA
8:00 p.m. • $45 • RS-Theater
POCO

Sunday,
June 14
5:30 & 8 p.m.
$45
RS-Theater
Comedy
THIS WEEK and beyond
Friday, May 29
Wednesday, June 3 Thursday, June 11 Comedy Showcase
Manchester
Manchester
Palace Theatre: Jimmy Shaskeen: open mike
Dunn’s Comedy Allstars comedy night
Concord
Capitol Center: Brian
Regan
Tuesday, June 2
Friday, June 5
Manchester
Rochester
Mad Bob’s: Queen City Opera House: Geist
Comedy Showcase
(visual comedian)
Friday, June 12
Saturday, June 20
Londonderry
Tupelo: Mark Riccadonna Hampton Beach
Casino Ballroom: Tracy
Tuesday, June 16 Morgan
Manchester
Mad Bob’s: Queen City
Friday, June 19
Manchester
Palace: Karen Morgan
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ASIA featuring JOHN PAYNE
Sunday, July 12
7:00 p.m. • $40 & $45 • RS-Theater
Nashua
Fody’s: Dave Ortiz
Studio 99: open jazz
jam
Peterborough
Nashua
Harlow’s Pub: acousFody’s: Karaoke
Studio 99: Spider John tic open mike
Koerner
Portsmouth
Muddy River: MerPortsmouth
Brewery Lane: karaoke cury Hat
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Portsmouth
Blue Mermaid: Dreamosiac
Brewery Lane: Dollhouse DJs
Hilton Garden Inn:
Avocado Lounge
Muddy River: Alchemystics
Portsmouth Gas
Light: Grinning Lizards, Aaron Seibert, DJ
B Money
The Press Room:
Rock Spring
Red Door: KC Hallett
NITE
JOHN BROWN’S BODY
CARBON LEAF
8:00 p.m. • $25 • GA
8:00 p.m. • $25 • RS-Theater
JIMMY TINGLE
EDGAR WINTER
Thursday, June 18
Thursday, July 16
Saturday,
June 20
Friday,
July 17
8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
$25
RS-Theater
$50
RS-Theater
Full Schedule and Tickets:
TupeloHall.com
2 Young Rd. • Londonderry
• 603-437-5100
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Across
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4 Springsteen title starter
8 What software may be stored
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14 Burlesque routine
16 Campfire snack
17 Green side
18 Crone, disparagingly
19 Wile E. Coyote’s supplier
20 Back off
21 NASCAR ___
23 Premium used in exchange
rates
26 Size of some garages
27 Actress Smart
28 Unable to choose
29 Ark man
30 Spare bit?
31 “___ a Hammer”
33 Fish in a 2003 film
36 Thursday daydreamer’s
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38 National auto body chain
39 Poetry competition
40 Bangalore wrap
41 Get the sleeping bag ready
43 What rock fans may dig
44 “Consarn it!”
46 Shag carpet feature
47 Tractor-trailer
48 Wretched, as poverty
50 Jet-black rock
51 Irish, e.g.
52 Be a sponge
53 Mr. ___ (Coke’s answer to
Dr Pepper)
55 Reverberating
57 It may be caused by stress
61 Grouped together
62 Diverts traffic
63 Say with confidence
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64 Memo header, for short
65 Pinnacle
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25 Where you’ll find blond,
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26 Where to show where the
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32 Flip ___
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34 Callender in the frozen food
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42 Dictionary
4 Rice variety
5 Where a flea might hang out? 45 More needing a bath,
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6 Victrola maker
48 Single-celled organism: var.
7 Brand-spanking ___
49 Mouths, in Mazatlan
8 Naval tech. specialist
54 A/C stat
9 It preceded Roosevelt
56 Summer hrs. in Minneapolis
10 Rice partner
57 Title for Italian monks
11 Where you’re likely to find
58 Emeritus: abbr.
three-day-old undies?
59 ___ Speedwagon
12 Mazda roadster
13 Silver Bullet 60 Sense tested with Zener
cards
Band leader
Bob
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21 Game with a 99 cents per minute. Must be
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2009 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
By Dave Green
SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from Walt Whitman, born May 31,
1819.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “No one can acquire for
another — not one! / Not one can grow for another — not
one!” —“Carol of Words” You have no choice but to live
your own life, so get to it.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “Why, what have you
thought of yourself? / Is it you then that thought yourself less? / Is it you that thought the President greater
than you? / Or the rich better off than you? or the
educated wiser than you?” Don’t define yourself by others’ measures. Your self-esteem may hang in the balance.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “Because you are greasy or pimpled,
or that you were once drunk, or a thief, / Or diseas’d, or rheumatic, or a prostitute — or are so now; / Or from frivolity or
impotence, or that you are no scholar, and never / saw your
name in print, / Do you give in that you are any less immortal?” —“Carol of Occupations” Ignore attempts to shame
you. Go on about your business with grace and dignity.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “When I undertake to tell the
best, I find I cannot, / My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots,
/ My breath will not be obedient to its organs, / I become a
dumb man.” —“Carol of Words” Before setting out to deliver
an important speech, take deep breaths and calm yourself.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “Sauntering the pavement, thus,
or crossing the ceaseless ferry, / faces, and faces, and faces:
/ I see them, and complain not, and am content with all.” —
“Faces” Love thy neighbors.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “Full of life, now, compact,
visible, / I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States,
/ To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence,
/ To you, yet unborn, these, seeking you. // When you read
these, I, that was visible, am become invisible; / Now it is you,
compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me; / Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become
your comrade; / Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain
but I am now with you.)” You are, deliberately or not, leaving a legacy.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “Long I thought that
knowledge alone would suffice me — O if I could / but obtain
knowledge!” There are many kinds of knowledge and the key
for you right now is pursuing the right one.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “Expression of speech! in
what is written or said, forget not that / Silence is also expressive, / That anguish as hot as the hottest, and contempt as cold
as the / coldest, may be without words.” You will need to read
carefully between the lines.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “Great is Youth — equally great is Old Age — great are the Day and / Night; / Great
is Wealth — great is Poverty — great is Expression — great
is / Silence.” The greatness within you and others will make
itself apparent.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “A child said, What is the
grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer
the child? … I do not know what it is any more than he.” Ponder the big imponderables.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “Any thing is as good as
established, when that is established that will produce it and
continue it.” Pick your goal and start making it happen. It’s a
good time for beginnings.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “The song is to the singer,
and comes back most to him; / The teaching is to the teacher,
and comes back most to him; / The murder is to the murderer, and comes back most to him; / The theft is to the thief, and
comes back most to him; / The love is to the lover, and comes
back most to him; / The gift is to the giver, and comes back
most to him — it cannot fail; / The oration is to the orator,
the acting is to the actor and actress, / not to the audience; /
And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his
own, or the / indication of his own.” —“Carol of Words” The
choices you make will reveal more about you than about the
other guy.
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A cheerful and fun loving woman
with developmental disabilities who
lives in a quiet Nashua neighborhood
is looking for a non-smoking couple
without children in which to either
share her home or who would be
willing to open their home to her.
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and from social activities and work. Patience along with a desire to help her develop
independent living skills is a must. In exchange for helping with transportation, budgeting,
healthy cooking and grocery shopping you will receive a bi-weekly stipend.
A high school diploma or the equivalent along with a valid New Hampshire drivers license,
a good driving record and an insured vehicle will be required. If interested, please call
Brenda Merrill at
Our Mission
- the reason we exist…what we are meant to do Our mission is to empower individuals with disabilities
by providing support and services that maximize their independence.
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



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
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
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

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
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FINE PRINT
  
     
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
The New Waterboarding
In April, the district attorney in Vilas County,
Wis., said he was seeking volunteers for a forensic test to help his case against Douglas Plude, 42,
who is scheduled to stand trial soon for the second time in the death of his wife. The volunteers
must be female, about 5-feet-8 and 140 pounds,
and will have to stick their heads into a toilet
bowl and flush. Plude is charged with drowning
his wife in a commode, but his version (which the
prosecutor will try to show is improbable) is that
his wife committed suicide by flushing herself.
Compelling Explanations
Ironies
• On April 8, the New Hampshire House of
Representatives debated a controversial bill
to outlaw discrimination against “transgenders” (those born of one sex but who identify
as the other), and the legislation passed by one
vote. Coincidentally, April 8 was the state’s
Tartan Day, and by tradition, male lawmakers
of Scottish ancestry wore kilts to work. Thus,
some opponents of giving greater protection to
“men” who wear skirts were men who were
that day wearing “skirts.” (In any event, the
state Senate subsequently rejected the bill.)
• Environmental activists Raoul Surcouf and
Richard Spink set sail from Bristol, England, in
May on a 40-foot boat outfitted with solar panels
and a wind turbine to attempt the first carbonneutral crossing of Greenland’s polar ice cap (a
journey being monitored eagerly online in Bristol by 25,000 schoolchildren). However, 400
Why Government Workers Get
a Reputation
In April, accounting clerk James Kauchis made a formal complaint to the personnel
office of the county Department of Social Services in Binghamton, N.Y., demanding that he
be compensated for a recent interrupted lunch
hour. Kauchis had missed lunch when DSS
offices were locked down as police secured the
neighborhood surrounding the site of the April
3 massacre in which a gunman killed 13 people
and then himself. Although DSS had pizza and
beverages brought in during the siege, Kauchis
felt that wasn’t as good as a regular lunch hour.
Fetishes on Parade
Perverts Giving 110 Percent Effort: (1) Allan
Mailloux, 45, was arrested for flashing motorists as he walked among rush-hour traffic in
Madison, Wis., in January, on a day when the
high temperature was minus-2 (F). (2) Police in
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, investigated reports in
February from “several” people that a man was
driving up alongside motorists on Highway 78,
and if the motorist was a lone female, he would
speed on ahead, pull over to the shoulder, get
out, and flash the motorist as she drove by.
Least Competent Criminals
Questionable Judgments: (1) In April in
Arnold, Mo., police arrested a suspected shoplifter trying to leave a Schnucks store with
unpaid-for merchandise. She aroused suspicion
from security personnel only because she was
attempting to exit through an automatic “enter”
door and was slow to figure out the problem and
loud in expressing her frustration. (2) Nathaniel Johnson, 19, was arrested in March in Tampa
on burglary charges when police produced solid evidence of his presence in a neighborhood
that had reported several break-ins. Johnson was
revealed to be at each crime scene because he
was traced by the ankle monitor he was wearing
from a previous court appearance.
Recurring Themes
Public urination continues to be dangerous, as
News of the Weird has reported periodically. In
April, a 23-year-old man tumbled off a bridge
over the Minnesota River in Bloomington,
Minn., just before 5 a.m. while attempting to urinate. He fell 30 feet but survived. And in March,
tugboat captain Kevin McGonigle fell off his
boat into the Campbell River near Victoria, British Columbia, while attempting to urinate. He
was rescued after 70 minutes, clad only in Tshirt and pajama bottoms, and could not have
survived much longer in the frigid waters.
Classic Middle Name (All-New!)
Arrested recently and awaiting trial for
murder: Codey Wayne Miller, Johnson City,
Tenn. (May). Darcy Wayne Banaszek, Skamania County, Wash. (May). Dale Wayne
Baylis, Denver (May). Benjamin Wayne Shorter, Catonsville, Md. (April). Timothy Wayne
Fletcher, Welaka, Fla. (April). Paul Wayne
Stark, Pueblo, Colo. (March). Abrey Wayne
Fortner, Blountsville, Tenn. (January). On trial
for murder at press time: Geoffrey Wayne Freeman, Brisbane, Australia. Arrested in Nevada,
at press time fighting extradition to Roseberg,
Ore., to face a murder charge: Dale Wayne Hill
(April). Committed suicide after (according to
police) murdering his wife: Terry Wayne Scott,
Dade City, Fla. (May).
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• Neal Horsley, running for governor of
Georgia in the 2010 election on a platform
encouraging the quaint Peach State legal theory of “nullification” (i.e., that the state can
override the U.S. Constitution in certain
instances), is principally known as a staunch
foe of abortion who once posted a “hit list” of
doctors. However, Horsley is also celebrated
for a 2005 television interview with Fox News’
Alan Colmes, in which Horsley described his
childhood: “When you grow up on a farm in
Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.” To a
skeptical Colmes, Horsley added, “(Y)ou (city)
people are so far removed from reality. ... Welcome to domestic life on the farm.”
• A month after her client was accused of a
March attempted murder, attorney Frances Hartman spoke up for him to a reporter. “(My client)
is an exemplary young man,” said Hartman,
describing fourth-year Camden, N.J., medical
student Brett Picciotti, 26, who was charged
with shoving his girlfriend off a second-story balcony, but who denied that he pushed her.
“This is an aberrational charge,” Hartman said.
“I think there’s an explanation. I’m just not prepared to give it to you right now.”
• Rammed for a Good Reason: (1) Lorena
Alvarez was charged with aggravated battery in
April in Lake Worth, Fla., after allegedly, angrily crashing her car into her boyfriend’s pickup
truck, thus endangering her two kids, ages 7 and
1, who were with her. She explained to police
that her boyfriend was about to drive off drunk
and hitting him was the best way to prevent danger to other motorists. (2) John Angeline was
charged with fatally running over gas station
attendant Haeng Soon Yang in Mossy Rock,
Wash., in April after she tried to stop him from
leaving without paying for $34 in fuel. Angeline, captured nearby, explained to police that he
had run over the woman because she looked like
she was about to “cast a spell” on him.
miles off the coast of Ireland, hurricane-force
winds destroyed the boat, and the crew was
lucky to be rescued by a nearby ship, which was
a tanker carrying 680,000 barrels of crude oil.
• Almost No Longer Weird: (1) In Los Angeles on March 29, hit-and-run drivers killed two
pedestrians: an 18-year-old female college
student and, hours later, a 55-year-old Guatemalan-American construction worker. As is not
unusual, according to the Los Angeles Times,
the LAPD went into massive “overdrive” to
find the woman’s killer but handed the other
homicide off to “a lone detective.” (2) On April
25, in Washington, D.C., the murder of a black
teenager was reported in two sentences of that
day’s Washington Post while nearly 10 times
the space was devoted to the colonoscopy of a
panda at the city’s National Zoo.
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