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Hippo | April 30 - May 6, 2009 | Page You have about two
weeks to help save one of
southern New Hampshire’s
cultural treasures from
being lost forever.
The cultural treasure is
Exeter’s Ioka Theatre. Built
in 1915, it survived as a single-screen movie theater for nearly a century. Anchoring the
town’s downtown area, the Ioka showed films
of all types. Over the years, it also functioned
as a club, a music venue and a community
magnet.
That is, until this past December. That’s
when current owner Roger Detzler, faced with
the huge cost of installing a modern fire suppression system, had no choice but to shut
the theater down. The marquee went dark on
Christmas Eve. Since then, the Ioka has lain
in limbo. Detzler, who did his best to keep the
place going for the past decade, hoped to sell it
to someone — a community group, a non-profit, anyone — who could continue to keep the
place open as a theater.
But winter turned to spring, and in a bleak
economy, no one stepped forward. So Detzler
went ahead with plans to market the property
to buyers for any purpose — perhaps even as
a parking lot. Equipment began to be removed
from the Ioka to prep it for sale.
Faced with the theater’s imminent demise,
a community effort to preserve and reopen
the Ioka has finally emerged. It’s led by Marc
Michael Murai, a local video producer and arts
supporter who last week signed a preliminary
intent to purchase the property, which he hopes
to turn into a community cultural center. Based
on that agreement, the theater remains intact.
All demolition of the interior has ceased — for
now.
Murai has until Thursday, May 6, to raise a
good-faith deposit of $10,000, which he says
will buy enough time to develop a business plan
and proceed with saving the theater. Is the effort
worth supporting? Visit www.savetheioka.com,
a Web site Murai recently set up to coordinate
efforts and spread the word. Can it succeed? I
hope so, for several reasons.
Restored and brought up to code, theaters
such as the Ioka can function as invaluable
assets to a community and region. They mean
economic activity today, in the form of bringing people to town, and also in the long run, in
terms of being a quality-of-life asset that makes
a community unique and attractive to future
entrepreneurs and businesses looking to grow
or relocate.
Need proof? Look at Manchester’s Palace
Theatre or Concord’s Capitol Center for the
Arts. Both were big theaters left for dead at one
point, but were restored by community leaders who saw the potential long-term value they
offered. Today, both are major players in each
city’s cultural scene.
Contrast that with, say, Nashua, where no
one bothered to save or restore any of the city’s
downtown theaters. Though the city has many
good qualities, it’s worse off for not having
a large venue to serve as a focal point for the
city’s arts scene.
Exeter is close enough to the Merrimack
Valley for the Ioka to count as an important
cultural asset. So check out www.savetheioka.
com, and consider helping out before the property becomes yet another parking lot.
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Getting the neighborhood out and gardening;
Women in charge; more
news in brief
12 Ink
Comics, tattoos and pens — all ink-related and
all collectable. In honor of Free Comic Book Day
(Saturday, May 2), we look at how to collect comics, how to pick a tattoo that’s right for you and
the collectors of those pre-Blackberry communication devices — pens.
Cover photo of Kyle Schwotzer (Manchester resident
and Marvel comics fan) at Double Midnight Comics, 245
Maple St. in Manchester (www.dmcomics.com) by Gil
Talbot (Gil Talbot Photography, www.giltalbotphoto.com)
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Former Congressman and now state Senator Jeb Bradley was
sworn in Monday, April 27, after besting Democrat Bud Martin
in a Special Election for the District 3 seat on Tuesday, April 21.
Current U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter beat Bradley, a Republican,
in November in her bid for reelection. She beat Bradley in 2006 as
well, when he was the incumbent. Bill Denley resigned his Senate
seat after a drunk driving incident earlier this year, opening the door
for Bradley, who is also a former state Representative.
The state Senate was expected to vote Wednesday, April 29, on a
bill that would make seat belts mandatory for adults. The bill would
also allow police to stop drivers solely for not wearing seat belts.
According to the Concord Monitor, the Senate Transportation
Committee is proposing an amendment that would make a violation
a secondary offense — a move that would still allow officers to ticket
offenders, but only after they were pulled over for another offense.
A bill that would repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire
is also scheduled to hit the Senate floor soon, but proponents for
repeal may have to hold up. A Senate committee recommended
studying capital punishment rather than repealing it. Gov. John
Lynch has said he’ll veto any bill that repeals the death penalty
if it gets to his desk. The state House of Representatives voted
193-174 for repeal last month. The state hasn’t executed anyone
in 70 years, but this past fall a jury sentenced Michael Addison to
death for shooting and killing a Manchester police officer. He is
currently the only inmate on death row in the Granite State.
Citing the passage of civil unions last year, the Senate Judiciary
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A Senate committee voted 4-1 last week to recommend passing
a bill that would legalize medicinal marijuana for seriously and
terminally ill patients. The bill passed the House 234-138.
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The Environmental Protection Agency recognized Southern
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school in the Northeast-10 Conference. Twenty-two conferences and
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release. The EPA estimated 12 million kilowatt-hours was enough
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The Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester is going through
some changes. Regina Pizzeria will open in the Mall’s food
court. The Mall of New Hampshire will now also feature remodeled Aeropostale and GameStop stores, a mall press release said.
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Hippo | April 30 - May 6, 2009 | Page Women in power
Michaeline Della Fera looks at NH’s female politicos
Michaeline Della Fera takes on women in politics in her new
book, Women at the Table: 40 Intimate Profiles of Political
Women of the Northeast. Of the 40 profiled, 17 are from
New Hampshire, including New Hampshire Senate Majority
Leader Maggie Hassan, current state Senate President Sylvia
Larsen, Political Chowder talk show host Arnie Arnesen,
Attorney General Kelly Ayotte and Executive Councilor
Debora Pignatelli. Della Fera, a former classroom teacher, is
online at www.mdellafera.com.
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When did you start working on it?
About two years ago. It took about a year to
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It’s been exceptional. Way beyond anything
in my wildest dreams that I could have thought
of…. The response has been phenomenal.
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That’s quite a mix of people you
talked to.
I can’t believe how accessible
these women were to me. Not one of
them knew me. They were so gracious and so
willing to open up.
What is the underlying message of the
book?
On some level, I wanted it to be an inspirational book for young girls. When I’m old,
these are the women that are going to be the
backbone of the country. … Sylvia Larsen
became interested in politics in high school,
though it didn’t come to fruition until much later. You need that germ of interest when you’re
young in order for it to materialize. …
How did you build up your base of
subjects?
When I was finished, I got referrals from the
first three or four. … Debora Pignatelli referred
me to a few people. Then I decided to go off on
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What were some things that struck you
about the women you interviewed?
Well, there were some commonalities. These
women sort of don’t get up in the morning and
all of a sudden decide to run for Congress, or
state [Representative], really anything beyond
school committee. Usually they go for more
local or town positions, if they’re going to run
at all. Usually it’s with the PTA to help make
education better for their kids. Someone in the
party will see them or knows of them. Women need lots of support and encouragement.
A man will wake up in the morning and say
“I’m going to run for whatever,” and they just
go ahead and do it. …. Once they make that
decision, they are very determined and they
really do go at it strategically. And that’s been
repeated over and over again. And their leadership styles are different than men. They’re not
as authoritarian, not as direct. They’re very collaborative. They want to include everyone. It’s
almost like they’re afraid of hurting everyone’s
feelings. They try to get all the input and suggestions and take the best of them and go on
from there. I found it all so interesting. Fascinating book, fascinating people.
Were there any politicians you didn’t get to
talk to that you wish you had?
Just as I was finishing, Lisa Wong, the mayor of Fitchburg. She’s 27 and it was her first time
running. Originally I was only going to do 25
women, but I got to 25 and I said, “I’m having
way too much fun.” Then I got to 30, 35 and I got
to 40, and I figured this has to stop or I’ll need a
wheelbarrow to carry the book around. There are
many, many more women. I’m thinking of doing
a second volume. I am working on another book.
I’m so hooked on politics now it’s unbelievable.
We have a female majority in the state Senate. So
I’m doing a book just on the Senate. ... I think all
13 [senators] are going to take part.
When did the women you talked to first
start thinking about politics?
There is a pattern with that. Once they were
out of college, they’d typically work a year or two
and then settle down and get married, have kids.
They would typically wait … at least until children were of independent age, or out of the house,
before they really run. Women, obligations are
first to their family and kids. That’s different. Men
don’t need to make the same considerations.
What are some obstacles women politicians
face?
Their party, the backing of their party.
Most of the time they’re more willing to back
males than females, still to this day. A woman
will even write a bigger check to a male than
a woman. The other issue is still the press in
some ways, the way they carry a woman’s message. Women have to deliver it in a different
way. The media and the press is still hung up
on clothes and hair and shoes.
I guess nobody asked McCain or Obama
about their clothes.
Right, nobody asked where Barack got
his clothes. They were all hung up on Sarah
[Palin]’s clothes.
Do you think the environment in the Northeast is getting better for women politicians?
New Hampshire, on some level, is one of the
easiest states. It has one of the biggest Houses, one of the biggest bodies, 424 people. That
makes for a lot of openings. Maine has term
limits so every year there are empty seats. But
it’s still difficult to run against an incumbent,
and the odds are already stacked against you.
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Green thumbs needed
Gardening efforts grow in southern New Hampshire
New Hampshire.
By Heidi Masek
Julia Steed-Mawson could use your expertise this growing season.
Mawson is an extension educator in 4H
youth development for the UNH Cooperative
Extension. The Extension’s Common Ground
Garden Project includes the 4H Green Thumb
Team, in which between 150 and 300 inner
city kids visit Massabesic Audubon Center
weekly in the summer to learn gardening.
The Green Thumb Team garden started
in 1998 at the Goffstown County Complex,
Mawson said, but then “they needed the land
for an agricultural program for the inmates. So
we moved to the Massabesic Audubon Center” about three years ago.
“In exchange, we’re providing the educational component” and all of the labor at
Massabesic in Auburn, Mawson said.
Common Ground partners with after-school
programs; children come from the Manchester
Housing Authority, Salvation Army in Nashua, the Merrimack and Nashua Boys & Girls
Grow your own
The New Hampshire Food Bank started
growing some of its own food last year. It cultivated a quarter acre on the grounds of the
Division of Juvenile Justice Services on North
River Road, and will expand to a half-acre this
year, Helen Costello of the Food Bank said.
The garden was started to bring in more
nutritious food and because food donations
are down, Costello said.
“In season, we always get some fresh food
donations from local gardeners and local farmers, but we wanted to try and expand that,”
Costello said.
Last year the Food Bank harvested about
2,700 pounds of vegetables, including tomatoes, squash, cabbage and green beans.
The garden comes under the umbrella of
Recipe for Success, which started last year
and includes a culinary training program and
Operation Frontline nutrition education. Those
programs usually take about 10 or 15 percent
of the garden’s harvest, and the rest goes to the
Food Bank’s distribution floor.
The Bank has funding for a part-time gardener, who is supported by volunteers. About
80 will help with the May 13 planting. Youth
leadership groups and the New Hampshire
Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers
programs help.
The Division of Juvenile Justice is a “great
community partner,” Costello said. Its workers
provide water and are turning up the ground this
year, and some of their youth built a tool shed.
The Extension “gave us tremendous technical
support to help us get started,” Costello said. Its
workers even grow seedlings for the Food Bank.
“So we don’t do it alone,” Costello said.
“There seems to be a lot of interest from gardeners to plant an extra row or donate excess
from their gardens,” Costello said. However, it doesn’t make sense for someone who is
not near the Food Bank in Manchester (6699725) to donate there. Instead, they can look
for a local agency that accepts fresh produce
(the Food Bank keeps a long list of agencies
it serves at www.nhfoodbank.org), and call
ahead when bringing produce, Costello said.
Return to the land
Common Ground used to operate five community gardens throughout Manchester but had
to “pull back” when it moved from Goffstown
to Massabesic, Mawson said. Now in its fourth
season with Audubon, there’s a “lot more to do”
but Common Ground is better situated.
“Eventually, we’d like to be able to be back
working at other sites throughout the city,”
Mawson said.
A lot of it has to do with dollars and the
availability of volunteers, Mawson said. One
year a grant allowed her to hire seasonal staff
to run an evening gardening program for kids;
without the dollars, that doesn’t happen.
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The Extension is beginning to work with
others on the need for more community garden space. Pine Street has a five-year waiting
list, for example.
Calling themselves the “Neighborhood
Garden Coalition and Network,” they aim to
find more space and help community gardens
acquire the necessary infrastructure “so that
people can be successful,” Mawson said.
“It all sounds so simple,” Mawson said, but
“gardening is hard. You can get overwhelmed
and end up with weedy, discouraging places.”
A good garden relies on nearby water supplies, shade and a place to park. Bathroom
access is something to consider. The gardens
need an element of security and “some understanding among people who [use the garden] of
how they should be together,” Mawson said.
One coalition member is Teena Hayden,
Refugee Agriculture Specialist at the International Institute of New Hampshire in
Manchester
(www.iiboston.org/iiNH.htm,
647-1500).
The Institute is a refugee resettlement agency, Hayden said. An agriculture component
was added because so many clients come from
agrarian backgrounds. The Institute has found
many clients don’t want to farm for a living
here — it’s difficult to do in New Hampshire
anyway — but they do want kitchen gardens,
which for apartment dwellers usually means
community gardens.
The Institute worked with Extension on a
garden at the Brookside Church in Manchester, “but that can only accommodate about a
dozen families and we bring in about 200 people per year,” Hayden said.
With a network, resources (tools, seeds and
information) could be shared, Hayden said,
“so everyone isn’t reinventing the wheel.”
About a dozen people met in February, including private business owners, the
U.S.D.A. Natural Resources Conservation
Service and the Extension, Hayden said.
Later, close to 50 interested people met at
Massabesic including people from apartment
complexes and churches, and individuals with
land available near urban areas, she said.
A good community garden is one where the
gardeners are learning from each other, Mawson said.
Hayden is asking people (even those who
don’t plan to garden) to fill out a survey at
tinyurl.com/nhgardens. It’s short but will
provide an idea of where people would like
community gardens, Hayden said.
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Clubs, Girls, Inc., in Manchester and Massabesic’s Camp WildSide, to participate.
“All of these children are 4H-ers,” Mawson
said. 4H is the youth development arm of the
UNH Cooperative Extension, she said.
For the coming season, Common Ground
is seeking volunteers for four areas. For volunteer garden teaching docents, they need
“people that love gardening and love children,” Mawson said.
Volunteers on the garden crew work on
issues like irrigation, garden design, and tending and harvesting.
Action committee volunteers help with
brochure design, public relations, volunteer
recruitment, fundraising and Web site efforts.
Common Ground also needs volunteers for
two “special projects.”
“We would love a compost master or team
of them,” Mawson said, and “We’d love to ...
have a teen entrepreneurship project tied to
it.” Adult mentors could help teens coordinate
compost sales to benefit the garden.
The other special project would be a horticultural science team, which would set up
experimental science plant beds with the kids.
Common Ground also coordinates “Elders on
the Grow” at the Hillsborough County Nursing
Home. There a master gardener works with the
elders, and families sometimes join in. “Rooting
for Families” includes the Pine Street community garden in Manchester. “Shared Harvest” is
an effort to encourage people to plant and grow
for the hungry. At Massabesic, produce goes to
the kids and excess to the New Hampshire Food
Bank. Last year they sent about 1,000 pounds,
Mawson said.
Common Ground has developed practices
for youth gardening over the years.
“I’m now state coordinator for the Junior Master Gardener program,” Mawson said. She uses
a curriculum from Texas A&M University augmented by Common Ground’s field experience.
Mawson is advising four or five communities
that want to create youth gardens.
To volunteer or inquire, contact Mawson at
660-6373 or Julia.Mawson@unh.edu.
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Yanked from the headlines, the
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What a weekend for sports. I
suppose it depends
on your particular
interest — but the Yanks and Sox was just
the third most compelling match-up going
in and it turned out a series with great drama and results for the Nation. Anyway,
here’s my take on some things that stood out.
News item: Weirdest box score ever?
Aside from the major daily newspapers
under siege, one of the biggest casualties of the
Internet is the box score. I have loved looking
at box scores since as a kid I read them in the
Sporting News, two weeks old by the time they
arrived. Things are a bit quicker these days, but
not in reading them on the Web — which takes
a lot longer with having to click from one to
the next. It takes out the glance factor, which is
big for a box score reader like me. So instead
of reading them all, now it’s just the Sox and
maybe to see if anything bad happened to the
Yankees.
But I did see the one for Saturday’s 16-11 win
— which may be the weirdest I’ve ever seen.
First can anyone explain how the Sox could get
13 hits and 16 runs while leaving 16 on base
and still have just six official at bats over the
minimum 27? The Yankees, who scored five
fewer runs, while stranding an astonishing 27
runners, had 42 official at bats? Then there was
lead-off man Jacoby Ellsbury, who played
the entire game and did not have a walk or a
sacrifice, batting four times when Jason Varitek, who hit eight, somehow had five at bats.
How is that possible? And how about Mark
Teixeira going 0-1 with three runs scored —
thanks to being given a whopping five walks!
Of course why you’d walk anyone five times
when he’s hitting .233 is another story. And
there was Mike Lowell on his way to a horrible day knocking in six in his last two at bats to
take over the AL lead in RBI.
On the mound, where Josh Beckett is looking more like the 2006 version of himself by
the day, he threw 116 pitches in five innings
as he gave up 10 hits and eight earned runs to
leave with a 6.00 ERA. Ditto for A.J. Burnett’s five innings when he also gave up eight
runs in sending his ERA to 5.47. And those
numbers were low compared to the really
ugly ones coming out of the bullpen, like José
Veras’ 6.30, Hideki Okajima’s 7.00, Edwar
Ramirez’s 7.30 and Friday’s loser Damaso
Marte’s 15.19 — which, believe it or not, is
not even the worst on the team! That belongs to
Chen Ming Wang, who is at 34.50.
A final thought from that game may explain
why Ellsbury stole home with the bases loaded
on Sunday. With JD Drew leaving six on base
Saturday and 13 over two days, maybe he figured he’d die on the vine if he didn’t go. My
conclusion — a nutty game even for YankeesRed Sox standards.
News item: Patriots wheel and deal on
Draft Weekend
While they still need a linebacker to replace
Mike Vrabel, in theory I like what Coach B
did on draft day. First was the wheeling and
dealing that saw him wind up with 12 picks
and add two more second-rounders for 2010.
And given the money going to first-round
guys, it appears second-round picks are now
like the new first-rounders in terms of salary
cap value. And he finally realized, conceded or
just gave in on the notion that the secondary
needs to be completely rebuilt. It actually started in free agency with the signing of Shawn
Springs and Leigh Bodden and concluded
with trading Ellis Hobbs to Philly for two lateround picks. In addition to hearing him talk
a lot, he leaves me with the image of Plaxico Burress shooting the Patriots’ dream season
down with that TD over Hobbs, and the notion
that while he played hard and hurt, he was
kick-returner, nickel back and not the number one corner he was last year. In between,
they may have gotten the big hitter at safety to replace Rodney Harrison in Oregon’s
Patrick Chung and in Darius Butler a highly rated corner to go along with the young’ns
drafted last year. And pieces taken along the
lines to provide depth for an aging team. The
only thing missing is the dynamic pass rusher
at LB — which could come in a trade with all
those extra picks on hand.
News item: The Bruins sweep Montreal
out of the playoffs
Think about it: the local nine and local six
each swept their historic tormentors in a series
in the same week! And while the Bruins’ feat
was certainly more significant, because it happened in the playoffs, the uniqueness of it
certainly is cool — that can’t have ever happened before, can it? Beyond that, since I’ve
been on sabbatical from hockey since Mark
Messier led the Rangers to the Cup in 1994,
I’m not really in position to dissect and analyze just how the Bruins have gotten to where
they are. But I will say three things without
embarrassing myself. They have me watching again, which is a feat akin to hitting 756
without steroids. They can score, as a look at
the stats reveals seven guys with 20 or more
goals. Not sure what the record is, but that’s a
lot. And finally GM Peter Chiarelli has done
a job on par with what Danny Ainge did last
year — with more pieces to put in place. The
only question left is who’s the best GM in town
— him, Danny, Coach B or Theo?
News item: The Cs and Bs battle for the A
The crucial Game Five will have been played
by the time you read this, so I’m not sure who’s
leading the series. But I’ll tell you one thing. This
Chicago team is better than the Hawks team that
gave the Kevin Garnett-led Celtics such problems last year. While they don’t have anyone as
good as Joe Johnson, I’ll take their back court
of Derek Rose, Andrew Toney play-a-like Ben
Gordon and the versatile Kirk Hinrich over
Johnson, Mike Bibby and who? And up front
— while leaping Tyrus Thomas looks to have
a little Dennis Rodman in him and isn’t quite
as explosive getting off the ground, he’s going
to be a better player than Josh Smith. And even
though Al Horford’s very good, the Bulls’ twoheaded monster at center is better, as Brad
Miller is physical and can score and Joaquim
Noah is a defensive force with the best ability to
chase sideline to sideline for double teams and
still back to the paint to block shots and rebound
since, I think, Dave Cowens! The Cs had better
watch out, because this team is trouble and will
be in the future.
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Wolves on prowl in starting
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The Big Story: You’ve got to like that start
for your Manchester Wolves who, in contrast to the past few years, have gotten out of
the box in a hurry. After losing their opener
they roared back to win three straight including Friday’s 69-33 thumping of the Tri-Cities
Fever at the V. What would an arena game
be without a QB putting up big numbers as
James Pinckey did in throwing for eight TDs
on the night — with five going to newcomer
James Messing (around) on seven catches
for 97 yards.
Sports 101: Wilt Chamberlain and Bill
Russell are first and second on the all-time pro
basketball rebounding list. Who is third?
Below-the-Tarrier Line e-mailer of the
Week: It goes to Ray from Lowell, who wrote
to say the Knicks-Celtics game I spoke of a
few weeks back where I bought tickets 20
minutes before the game was in 1973, not
’74. He was wrong; it was 1974. But his thorough recall pointed out three things. It was
actually the elimination game of a series
which ended with the Cs on top four games
to one. He’s still ticked over the legendarily bad officiating in the famous 1973 Easter
Sunday game at MSG when John Havlicek
somehow still scored 17 or 18 points after
playing with a separated right shoulder. And
finally, the detail shows he is a serious NBA
scholar of the period.
The Bonner Update: With San Antonio on
the brink as I write this, it seems appropriate to
The numbers:
1 – even minute it took
Central’s Meggie Donovan
to cover the distance in taking first-place honors in the
400-meter dash.
5 – consecutive wins to
start the season for the Trinity baseball team after the
Pioneers downed Spaulding
11-3 behind winning pitcher Garrett Cole, who struck
out 12.
6 – goals scored by Kayla Green to go along with
four assists as she led Londonderry to a 16-0 win over
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12 – blown saves the great
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Out-of-Town Score of the Week: The
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not only for the outrageous score but because
Jeff Perkins out of Goffstown was 5 for 6
with a homer and four runs batted in for the
Owls and Kyle Morrill (of the story) who
played at Memorial, had a grand slam and
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Thumbs Up: To New England Sports Network for its history of the Bruins that aired last
week. It’s one of those evergreen shows, so
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high flying Orr-Espo era and the O’ReillyRick Middleton one that followed, you have
to see it. The footage, the story it tells, the writing and even the voice-over guy are superb.
Sports 101 Answer: Third on the rebound
list is another semi-Celtics enemy, old fo,
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Andrew Toney: Cold-blooded Celticskiller from days gone by when the Sixers
and not the Lakers were Enemy Number
One in these parts. It wasn’t the points per
game, which peaked at 20.4; it was how he
got them — in bunches and generally coming down the stretch with guys hanging on
him, like with Ben Gordon vs. the Cs this
year. He’s the reason the Celtics traded for
Dennis Johnson — they needed someone
who could slow him down. A Celtics Villain maybe, but people respected what he
was. Sadly was done by 30 after a series of
foot problems led to an early retirement.
Celtics Villains: While Toney may be
one, he’s way down the list of Garden bad
guys from that era. On the Sixers there were
World B. Free, lefty hacker Steve Mix and
man-child Darryl Dawkins. A little later
was the dirtiest player in NBA history, Bill
Laimbeer, and rugged Ricky Mahorn,
who earlier in his career in Washington
along with Jeff Ruland was part of the duo
dubbed by the less than restrained Johnny
Most as Mcfilthy and McNasty.
Dave Cowens: Deranged in a basketball
sense Celtics destroyer who played with the
same abandon Pete Rose did in baseball.
Roamed sideline to sideline and as the trailer on the Celtics fast break. Best part of his
game was his ferocious rebounding. Greatest
play ever was the strip of Oscar Robertson
and zero-to-60 chase with him sliding out
of bounds after diving headlong for it. Best
battles were with Bob McAdoo — though
nobody played Kareem any better. Was corookie of the year in 1971, league MVP two
years later, played in seven straight All-Star
games and was elected to the Hall of Fame
in 1991. My favorite player ever.
Wilt Chamberlain: The most amazing
statistically dominant player in history. High
marks were averaging NBA records 50.4
points in 1961-’62, 27.2 rebounds a year earlier, shooting 72.7 percent from the field in
1971-72 and 8.6 assists a game in 1967-’68,
though his 7.6 won the assist crown a year
earlier. Individual highs were scoring 100
points vs. New York in 1962 and pulling in
55 rebounds against Bill Russell in 1960.
Greatest feat was not missing even ONE
second in 1961-62 while averaging 48.5
minutes — .5 minutes more than there actually are in a game! Although never fouling
out in 1,045 NBA games ain’t bad either.
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For wearing, reading and writing
Into ink?
To celebrate Free Comic
Book Day (a national
celebration of comics
that happens this year
on Saturday, May 2), we
decided to look at collectors
of all things inked — from
comic books to tattoos
to those old-fashioned
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Is that comic book worth something?
Everyone’s heard the story about the baby
boomer who had years of Superman comics
or the very first Spider-Man comic, but then
left home and learned their mother threw
them away. But if you start collecting now,
are you making and investment or just creating an action-filled but not terribly valuable
library?
Depending on the condition the comic
book is in, issues that have the most collector
value are typically ones published between
1938 and 1979, particularly the superhero
ones. Brett Parker, owner of Double Midnight Comics in Manchester, says certain
factors make certain comics more valuable
than others.
“First and foremost, ones that have any
type of event that’s considered a milestone,”
Parker said. “A death, or the first appearance
of a new character. Even when a new writer
or artist takes over who’s not known for comic book work. Take Joss Whedon — he did
shows like Firefly and Buffy and then did a
stint writing for some X-Men comics that was
beyond-belief hot.”
“Spiderman, X-Men, Batman — they stick
around for a reason,” said Paul Lofaso of
Chris’s Cards & Comics in Salem. “It’s all
about supply and demand. If there’s a short
supply, the demand is going to be high, but
even that’s not going to ensure that down
the road that comic is going to significantly
increase in value. People would buy limited
editions by the case in the ’80s, on the hopes
that they would be worth something down
the line, but then they find that the value for
them hasn’t really increased much. Most people who buy comics now buy them to read, to
enjoy.”
“I get literally thousands of comic books
coming in every week from people wanting to sell,” said Ralph Gibernardo, owner
of Jetpack Comics in Rochester. “The common misconception is that comic books are
worth a lot of money. I’ll have someone bring
in 300 comic books, and I’ll tell them that I
suggest selling 85 percent of those at a yard
sale for 50 cents apiece. There is only a select
amount that have real value.”
It’s important to know the grading method
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Photo on cover, above and on page 14 of Kyle Schwotzer of Manchester, who describes his comic
book tastes thusly: “I’m pretty much a Marvel guy.” His tattoos (including the Indiana Jones on his
left arm) are by Chris Flanagan at 603 Tattoo Company in Salem. Photos were taken at Double Midnight Comics in Manchester by Gil Talbot (Gil Talbot Photography; www.giltalbotphoto.com).
“There’s a relatively new box breakthrough that’s just come out called the drawer
box,” Parker said. “It’s like a regular comic
book box, but since it has a pull-out drawer in front, you don’t have to unstack them to
get at the comics you want, plus its extremely
strong. It’s about three times more expensive,
but it’s just too good not to invest in. We’ve
all kind of smacked ourselves in the head for
not thinking of that sooner.”
Additionally, it’s important to have clean
hands when working with comics (old
comics in particular are susceptible to deterioration because of the paper and inks used
in the past). But if you still want to read those
comics without contributing to their wear
and tear, there are ways.
Free Comic Book Day!
“DC Comics has something called Showcase and Marvel has Essential,” Parker said.
“These are anthologies that allow collectors
to re-read a comic that’s 30 years old without
having to crack open their own. Also, sometimes people will buy junky editions of ones
they already own, so they can read them and
not worry about damaging them. But there are
some people that take reading their comics to
a crazy degree — putting on gloves, stuff like
that.”
While it’s up to the collector how condition-conscious they want to get, experts
agree that even the basic steps of care will
help preserve a comic book’s condition and
will ensure a higher comic book grade on a
universal scale used to determine value. The
scale has levels of Mint, Near Mint, Very
Fine, Fine, Very Good, Good, Fair, and Poor.
For comic lovers, the first Saturday in May is now a national holiday — Free Comic Book Day,
held this year on Saturday, May 2. Many area comic book stores will offer specials and hold special
events. Double Midnight Comics in Manchester, for example, will feature local comic book artists on
the day who will do free sketches for fans, and the store will host a Magic the Gathering tournament
(see www.dmcomics.com for all their Free Comic Book Day plans). Some of the comics that will be
free include a reprint of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book (by Peter Laird and Kevin
Eastman, who were living in Dover at the time), Blackest Night (featuring the Green Lantern and other DC characters), The Avengers from Marvel, a book featuring Dark Horse Comics characters and
comics featuring The Simpsons, Sonic, Cars and Transformers. A full list of the Free Comic Book
Day events and a list of the scheduled free comic books are at www.freecomicbookday.com.
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tion, since that’s a key factor in its worth.
There are several resources to help you determine the value of what you have.
“There’s the Overstreet Comic Book Price
Guide that comes out in April each year,”
Parker said. “It’s huge, probably the size of
a dictionary, and it’s got everything. It gives
you cool comic info about the Golden Age
and Silver Age of comics, and how the grading system breaks down.”
If you don’t want to consult a book, consult an expert. Many comic book stores will
do appraisals or point you to a professional
appraiser.
“We try and find out first if that person wants us to appraise them for their own
knowledge or if it’s so they can turn around
and ask us to buy it from them,” Parker said.
He recommends bringing in a list and setting
up an appointment in order to get an accurate appraisal.
Comic book experts agree that getting the
most out of your collection’s value lies in
careful storage of it. The three keys to ensuring a comic’s value are bags, boards and
boxes. Moisture, dirt and oils can all cause
excess wear and damage and can also lead to
serious deterioration.
“It’s all about condition,” Lofaso said.
“Take care of your books, especially if where
you keep them is prone to moisture or flooding. You also want to make sure to keep them
out of prolonged sunlight as well.”
Experts recommend storing your comics in polyethylene, Mylar or polypropylene
bags, as well as using acid-free, archival-safe
boards to provide extra support.
“Everyone has their own degree for how
serious they want to do it, but if they want
to be active in their collections, each comic
should be bagged and boarded,” Parker said.
Storage is also an important element, so
purchasing storage boxes is an important
measure for serious comic collectors to take.
Though they come in a variety of materials,
including cardboard, plastic and metal, most
collectors opt to use traditional acid-free
cardboard boxes since they are inexpensive
and easy to stack. Even how you lay your
comics in those boxes will affect their value.
“You want to stand comics up in boxes,”
Lofaso said. “Laying them flat will cause the
spines to bulge and roll, but standing them up
preserves the edges.”
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“There’s a big spread in Mint condition or
Near Mint versus Good,” Lofaso said. “In the
past if you have a comic that’s worth $100
Mint, Fine would be about half that value,
then Good would be half of that again. The
spread now is more like five to ten percent
between Fine and Good.”
If you are new to buying or selling comics,
what can you do to avoid getting ripped off?
“Do your homework,” Parker said. “Make
sure you know what you have. A lot of times
there can be issues that had a tiny print
run, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but
they’ve reprinted that issue 40 times. We’ve
had people bring in something they thought
was a valuable issue but find out it’s a 37th
printing. Always know what you have and be
prepared to learn that it may not be what you
think it is.”
“If you’re buying comics strictly for
investment purposes, go before the 1970s,”
Lofaso said. “But do your homework. It’s
like buying antiques — you need to know
the value. Buy the magazines and read up on
what they’re worth.”
There are several genres of comics that are
popular for collectors right now.
“I would say that the movie-based titles
with successful followings are becoming big
for people who are new to collecting comics,” Parker said. “But that’s just one side of
the coin. Anything goes, really. Heroes, the
big ones, are always popular. Some people
only collect what’s hot, and what’s hot is different to each person.”
“Watchmen is getting pretty popular these
days,” Gibernardo said. “Those are selling in
the $15-to-$25 range, but with those kinds of
comics, it’s like the housing bubble — it’s
only going to have value as long as the movie hype lasts.”
As for future trends in collectible comics,
there are a few that stand out.
“Well, right off the bat, there’s something
out now called Kick-Ass,” Parker said. “It has
an amazing artist and an amazing writer, it’s
already been optioned for a movie, been cast,
and is filming, and it’s only up to issue five.
That was a whirlwind thing I haven’t seen in
a while, and I don’t think I’m going to see
again. The Wolverine comics are going to
get popular, because there’s a lot of renewed
interest with the movie coming out.”
“Unfortunately with comics, it’s a crapshoot as to what will be of value down the
line,” said J.R. of Shadowgear Comics in
Bedford. “Brian Michael Bendis is sort of
the current go-to guy. He’s permeating a lot
of the Marvel comics right now, and his stuff
has been pretty big. Obviously Frank Miller’s
stuff — anything he touches has been turning to gold lately. Alternate or variant covers
are getting big, because they’ll print one in
25 or one in 50 of them, so they’re the ones
that seem to be jumping up in value lately.”
“Comics nowadays don’t hold their value as
much,” Gibernardo said. “It’s so few and far
between. Even the first printing of the Spiderman Obama comic, which was huge, will
probably only be worth about $20 by this
time next year. I tell people that speculating
in new comics isn’t worth it. I’d recommend
buying ones from the 1950s.”
Wayne Harrison from the Comic Store in
Nashua concurred.
“It’s impossible to guess what’s going to
be of value in the future,” he said. “If I knew,
I’d buy them all. The Obama cover of Spiderman has been popular, but if he does a bad
job, no one will care in four years. Really, it’s
the comics before 1980 that are going to hold
their value.”
Comic book stores
You can find comics at
places like Barnes & Noble,
Borders and (not surprisingly) Newbury Comics. But
there are also several local
stores specifically devoted to serving the comic
book-lover.
• Chris’s Cards & Comics,
341 S. Broadway in Salem,
898-4151; 919 Lafayette
Road in Seabrook, 474-2283;
www.chriscardscomics.com
When comic collecting, experts agree
that knowledge is your best asset, but keep
in mind there’s still the element of chance
involved.
“As popular as X-Men and Iron Man are,
doesn’t mean that they’ll be worth a ton of
money down the line,” Lofaso said. “There
was a company called Valiant that showed
up in the ’90s, printing small runs that everyone wanted to buy — a lot of their titles were
selling for $50 or $100 each, which is quite
a bit for comics. But then they went out of
business in 2000, and though there is still a
little bit of interest for those, the value isn’t
what it used to be because there’s virtually
no demand.”
“Like anything you do in life, collecting is
a gamble,” Parker said.
• Collectibles Unlimited, 25 South St. in Concord,
228-3712, www.collectiblesunlimited.biz
• The Comic Store,
300 Main St. in Nashua,
881-4855
•
Double
Midnight
Comics, 245 Maple St. in
Manchester, 669-9636, www.
dmcomics.com
• Jetpack Comics, 112
Portland St. in Rochester,
330-9636, www.jetpackcomics.com
• Larry’s Comics, 68
Lakeview Ave. in Lowell,
Mass., 978-459-5323, larryscomics.net
• Neo Tokyo, 168 Amherst
St. in Manchester, 666-0214,
www.neotokyo.biz
• Shadowgear Comics,
39 S. River Road in Bedford,
935-9211,
www.shadowgearcomics.com
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What to know before you go
By Dana Unger
dunger@hippopress.com
Tattooing wasn’t always as widely accepted as it is now.
Now tattoos have become a million-dollar industry, with studios in almost every
city, national conventions (New Hampshire’s Live Free or Die Tattoo Expo will
take place July 10 through July 12 this
year at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester)
and even reality TV shows like Miami Ink
and L.A. Ink. If you are dying to get that “I
(heart) Mom” tattoo, here’s what you need
to know before getting inked.
Cleanliness is next to
godliness
Hygiene and safety should be key factors in your decision. Hygienic conditions
are mandatory for licensed tattoo studios.
In New Hampshire, those conditions are
strictly regulated by the Board of Health.
All tattoo artists should use fresh needles
and ink for their tattoo guns, should clean
the area they are going to tattoo with a sterilizing agent, use latex gloves, and have a
proper disposal unit for used needles.
Tattoo-goers need to make sure to check
for the studio’s sterilization certifications,
and the artists need to be vaccinated for
Hepatitis B.
“We need to have a license, a doctor’s
note, everything,” said Kat, also an artist at
Spider-Bite. “You have to be healthy.”
Tattoo artists are also not obligated to ink
you if you show any signs of being intoxicated or using drugs, or have any open
sores, wounds or other skin conditions. If
you see any of these signs on the artist himself, leave.
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Customers “need to look at the artists’
stations — make sure everything is clean.
Cleanliness and artwork are the key things,”
Poch said. “There are butchers out there
who will tear you up. Look into everything
before you get it — at the studio, how long
they’ve been open, who they tattoo. Ask
questions, a lot of questions.”
Patience is rewarded
You are really hot to trot to get that tattoo,
but before you do, put some research in.
“I say plan,” said Poch, a tattoo artist at
Spider-Bite Tattoo Studio in Manchester.
“Know the tat you want, placement, how
much it means to you. That’s key.”
Having seen his fair share of tattoo
impulse buyers, Poch says they often end up
with buyer’s remorse.
“We have people who come in off the
street and get that done and then two months
later come back in and want it changed,”
Poch said. “I suggest you plan for it.”
The pain of removal is worth
considering.
“Laser removal is more painful than a tattoo, so that is a factor that people need to
consider,” said Donald Rainone, owner of
Smoothskin Cosmetic Laser Center in Londonderry. “We use topical cream and cold
ice compresses to offset the pain, so we can
do things to see to the person’s comfort, but
among other cosmetic procedures, it’s one
of the most painful ones because you’re not
asleep.”
This is going to take a
while
Enthusiasts looking to do a large-scale
tattoo design should be prepared to spend a
lot of dough and a lot of time.
And on Kyle Schwotzer’s right arm... Photo by Gil Talbot
“How long a tattoo can take to do depends
on the amount of design,” said Linda Florin
from Gothic Tattoo in Concord. “A wholebody piece can take years. If you just want
a sleeve done, it can’t all be done at once
— most artists will do the outline, have that
heal up and then color it in.”
“The intricate nature of the design dictates how long it will take,” said tattoo artist
Gary LaRoche from Good Times Tattoo in
Manchester. “Celtic designs are the longest
because of all the detailed knot work.”
“An average-size tattoo can take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a
half,” said Becky Benson, owner of Radical Ink in Barrington. “If it’s one that takes
up the entire back, we set up an appointment
with them — if they can sit for four to five
hours, we’ll do that and get as much done as
we can at once. The tattoo on my back took
about 12 trips and 64 hours to do.”
It’s art
Every tattoo artist is different, and so is
their handiwork. Artists suggest looking for
someone whose work is going to best serve
the design you desire.
“People mostly want custom work nowadays,” Florin said. “They’re not going in and
just picking something out of the portfolios.
They want the tattoo to mean something to
them.”
Different artists specialize in different
types of art.
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Skulls and roses in the
workplace
Though the rules on having visible tattoos in the workplace have relaxed in recent
years, and though about a third of 18- to 25year-olds say they have at least one tattoo
(according to a Jan. 7, 2007, Pew Research
Center survey), many employers maintain strict guidelines about visible body art.
Before getting inked, make sure to check
your employee handbook.
Rainone says most of the removals he sees
are on people looking to join the military
where visible inking is not permitted.
“Different military branches disqualify for
tattoos, so with the Iraq War, military recruits
for branches like the Air Force are being disqualified for having visible tattoos.”
If you already have tattoos and are concerned that your body art may hinder future
employment opportunities, there is hope.
The Web site ModifiedMind.com provides a
database of the body modification policies of
businesses around the world.
Try on a tattoo
If you are not sure about taking the plunge
into permanent inking, there are plenty of
My melancholy ink
You weighed the pros and cons, chose a
design, researched the artists, learned the
risks, maybe tried a temporary, and finally got inked. There’s just one problem: you
don’t like your tattoo.
Dissatisfaction is the most common reason for tattoo removal, and reasons for
dissatisfaction can range from poor artwork by the artist, to discoloration or
distortion of the tattoo, to outgrowing your
personal like for it.
“The most common reason is a ‘responsibility’ factor,” Rainone said. “We get that
word a lot — ‘I have children now, I have a
professional job, I’m going to law school,
my child keeps asking, ‘What’s that, daddy?’ So it’s a life phase transition where
they feel that the tattoo is no longer a part
of who they are, what their life is now, as
opposed to when they first put it on.”
Names are also a popular reason for
removal, but perhaps not as much as people tend to think.
“A very small percent are the people getting names removed,” Rainone said. “A lot
of people think that’s the majority, but it’s
not. I’ve had some people come in and the
name was misspelled by the tattoo artist or
one person had the memorial date of their
friend done and it was the wrong date. The
consequences of a mistake like that are
horrific.”
“We do get a lot of people covering
up girlfriends’ names, husbands’ names,”
LaRoche said. “With kids’ names it’s different — people will always keep those.”
If “Jane and Joe Forever” really meant
“Jane and Joe, Four Months,” there are
several tattoo removal solutions available.
• Laser removal: One of the most effective and popular methods, laser tattoo
removal is available at clinics throughout
the state. The procedure involves using
intense light emissions and the treatments
last from 10 to 20 minutes. Though it is
effective at removing tattoos, laser specialists warn that your skin will still never
look exactly the same as it did before the
tattoo.
“The procedure itself in the office is
anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, and it’s
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“I get all portrait work,” Poch said. “I get
other stuff, but my thing is portraits. Family
members, people getting their kids, celebrities — all types of stuff.”
Most artists have portfolios of their previous work; if you don’t see one on display,
ask to see it. Tattoo parlors that don’t provide a portfolio of their artists’ work should
be avoided.
Donald Rainone, whose Smoothskin
Cosmetic Laser Center in Londonderry specializes in laser tattoo removal, said many of
his clients got tattoos with poor artwork that
they never liked right off the bat.
“They told the artist what they wanted but
it didn’t come out, or it didn’t sit right on
their body compared with the picture,” Rainone said. “It was bad art, and there is that out
there. Not everybody’s a great tattoo artist.”
Tattoo artists recommend taking several
factors into consideration before settling on
the final design.
Rainone advises care in choosing colors.
“Aquamarine blues, vibrant greens like
Kelly greens — bright greens and blues are
meant to be very stable, so they’re very resistant to the laser,” Rainone said. “You need
special wavelengths to attack them. Black is
the easiest color to remove, so a straight-up
black tattoo is no problem. Browns and purples are easy too.”
“Since they’re going to be married to this
thing, my advice is to take your time and
pick something that you can live with forever,” Florin said. “There’s no divorce court
for tattoos.”
Designs that continue to be popular include
tribal symbols, stars, wings, flowers, crosses,
animals, and cultural symbols and characters (including Celtic, Tibetan and Chinese
designs).
“Women are getting a lot of butterflies,
roses, dolphins and stars,” Benson said.
“Tribal stuff is very much out,” Florin
said. “It was popular 10 years ago, but we’re
not doing as much of those anymore. Honestly, now it’s a lot of stars — I do at least one
star tattoo a week. Another thing that’s been
popular is trees as well. The way things are
going in the world right now, people seem to
be looking towards nature.”
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someone with a full sleeve or with a lot of
dark ink and colors,” Rainone said. “It’s a
process. It’s not instantaneous.”
• Intense Pulsed Light Therapy:
Intense Pulsed Light Therapy, or IPL,
is one of the newest methods of tattoo removal and one of the least painful.
The treatment involves a special wand
that emits intense light pulses to remove
the ink. Though it requires fewer treatments than laser tattoo removal, it is more
expensive, running from $300 to $600 per
treatment (four to six treatments are needed for best results, according to Derma
Network.com).
• Removal creams: The effectiveness
of topical tattoo removal products is heavily debated, and many promise results that
tattoo professionals deem too good to be
true. One of the most popular is Doc Wilson’s Wrecking Balm, which touts itself
as an effective method of tattoo faderemoval. The product’s Web site says
“this unique system safely combines three
technologies and two simple methods of
skin exfoliation and removal,” utilizing a
gel, cream and a “DemoMatic” wand. The
product can be more expensive than the
actual tattoo, with 24 applications of the
Balm running about $150.
When used over a long period of time,
some creams may fade the tattoo but will
not likely remove it permanently.
• Cover-ups: Many are opting to use
cover-ups instead of removal methods
to alter their tattoos. Most tattoo artists
offer tattoo
Why I got my tattoo alterations,
Sometimes a mom’s
advice is best
When you tell people you want
to get a tattoo, you tend to get a lot
of advice, from the tattooed and
non-tattooed alike.
“Make sure they wear gloves,”
one inked friend said to me.
“It should smell like a dentist’s
office,” another remarked.
But when I was finally ready
to get my tattoo, perhaps the best
piece of advice came from my
steadfastly non-inked Lutheran
mother: “Whatever you get,” she
said, “make sure it’s something
you won’t be embarrassed to have
when you’re 80 years old and in
a nursing home.” As a nurse for
more than 40 years, she had seen
her share of saggy Tweety Birds
and paunched and wrinkled hiss-
for those who still want ink but want to
change the artwork. A cover-up tattoo
is less painful and less expensive than
most removal options and usually doesn’t
require a lengthy time commitment. Cover-ups are limited — dark inks can only be
covered with dark inks, and they can only
really be done once or twice per tattoo.
ing scorpions.
Most people who get tattoos
think about it for a long time
before they take the plunge. I had
been thinking about it since I was
a teenager. I approached the prospect with the mindset of someone
contemplating having children
or getting married. This was not
something I would rush into. I had
to make sure that I was ready and
that it was the right tattoo for me.
I finally settled on the Triple Goddess Symbol, often attributed to the
Celtic goddess Bridget. The simple
design incorporates a waxing moon,
a full moon and a waning moon,
each representing a stage of a woman’s life — maiden, mother and
crone. Yes, to most people it sounds
“witchy” or “New Agey,” but that’s
the thing about tattoos. The only
“I can tell you if someone has tried to
cover a tattoo that they didn’t like or recolor it in some way,” Rainone said. “Tattoo
artists tend to be very heavy-handed when
you go back to get something re-colored
or re-covered — those can be very difficult to remove.”
thing that matters is what it means
to you. All of my life, I’ve been
surrounded by incredibly strong,
beautiful and accomplished women — my mother, my aunt, friends,
professors, bosses, even myself
— each of whom have taught me
invaluable lessons, and I wanted to
honor all of them and all women in
a tangible way.
I had done all the research,
checked out the studios and artists, and finally got my tattoo
done at Midnight Moon Tattoo
in Chichester. I had a great experience. Perhaps the question I get
asked the most is “Did it hurt?” As
someone who has been afraid of
needles all her life, I think I was
probably the last person I thought
would actually get a tattoo (my
mom thought so — and I’m sure
was counting on that). Most people will tell you that the level of
pain depends on the location of the
tattoo — I got mine on my ankle,
and it wasn’t so much pain as discomfort. But ultimately, the minor
pain was nothing compared to getting something that was a symbol
of deep resonance for me.
My design was nothing remarkable in the artistic or creative
sense, it didn’t have any intricate
detailing or impressive coloring,
but it was something that held
deep meaning for me — a piece of
my personality and history made
visual. And, thanks to the advice
of my mother, it is something I
know I won’t be embarrassed to
have when I’m 80 and in that nursing home.
—Dana Unger
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Pen collectors serious about ink
By Dana Unger
dunger@hippopress.com
Pen collecting is a huge industry.
Vintage pens fetch big bucks depending
on their condition, and even modern pens go
for serious dough, sometimes costing several hundred dollars each. Though most of
us may relegate buying that non-click pen
to Father’s Day or someone’s high school
graduation, there are plenty of buyers out
there keeping the nostalgic appeal of pens
alive.
“Obviously at Christmas there is a
bigger push on pens,” said Steve Larochelle, manager of Pearson’s Jewelers in
Manchester. The Elm Street store specializes in the high-end Montblanc brand.
“Each year [Montblanc] comes out with a
Writer’s Edition in the fall, which they started in 1994 or 1995, and it’s now become a
collectible market. I have people that come
in for each one, saying, ‘I want the next
series’ — people won’t even open them
either, because they are worth more that
way. Just look at places like eBay — there’s
a huge market for this.”
“Pen collectors buy anytime,” said Richard Binder, a repairer and restorer of fountain
pens in Nashua. Binder is also a collector of
vintage pens and runs the on-line store Richard Binder Fountain Pens. “Non-collectors
buying for gift-giving do make a bump in
sales around special occasions.”
Like stamps, comic books, or even tea
cups, pens are personal to the collector, who
is likely to focus on characteristics like color, brand, materials, time period or country
of origin. The value of a pen depends on
several factors, notably “condition, rarity
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and cachet,” Binder
said. “Unlike other
antiques, a fountain
pen should be in the
best possible condition consistent with
its age and the material of which it’s made.
Wear and other signs
of age reduce the value, sometimes by an
amazing
amount.
Obviously a rare pen
is more desirable
than one that’s dirt
common, but rarity
needs to be coupled
with cachet.”
When all of those conditions are met,
pens can command serious money.
“Pens at the very top end can go for prices well into five figures,” Binder said. “A
red hard-rubber Waterman 420 in collectible
condition, for example, can easily command
$25,000 or more.”
But a high price of a pen doesn’t necessarily indicate good quality, and vice versa.
“You can buy a Lamy Safari for about
$30,” Binder said. “It’s not fancy, but the
Safari writes well and is virtually bulletproof
— you can carry it with you everywhere.
For less than $100, you can get a really nice
pen like the Bexley Simplicity.”
Though many pens remain affordable,
people are taking a stand on some high prices, particularly in this economy.
“Montblanc have overpriced themselves
out of the marketplace,” Larochelle said.
“They just kept raising the price. When we
first started carrying their classic pen, they
went for $90 — now it’s $375. Some come
in looking for the same pen they bought 15
years ago, only to find out how much it costs
now. People are saying enough is enough.”
What is it about pens that makes them
appealing to collectors?
“A lot of people are collecting to make
money,” Larochelle said. “Ultimately they
are just finding a different way to invest
money, rather than putting it into an IRA or
the stock market. It’s a way of diversifying.
There are others that are just passionate pen
lovers, but you don’t run across too many
of those.”
“You probably don’t know very many
people who have no collection of something,” Binder said. “Whether it be comic
books, hats, Pez dispensers or whatever.
Pens are small and easy to collect. There’s
no particular age range, social stratum, profession or geographical area that has a lock
on the hobby. Some collect vintage pens
that have never been — and will never be
— used, some collect vintage pens and
use them daily, some collect modern limited-edition pens and don’t use them, some
collect modern pens and use them.”
With many people now working and
playing in an increasingly paperless world,
Binder says there are many who prefer to
stay low-tech (himself included).
“Part of why people are buying good pens
in increasing numbers is a reaction against
the growing isolation and depersonalization
that people feel,” Binder said. “Computers are turning us into captive automatons,
chained to our keyboards and monitors.
Handwriting, with a tool as pleasing to use
and as intimate as a fountain pen, helps to
counteract this.”
So what would be his pen of choice?
“The Parker ‘51’ was a technological
marvel at its 1941 introduction and is still,
in my opinion, the best fountain pen ever
designed,” Binder said.
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3. Jadakiss, Last Kiss
4. Kings Of Leon, Only
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5. Josh Ritter, Golden
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6. Seventh Void, Heaven
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2. Marley & Me (PG, 2008)
3. Bedtime Stories (PG,
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4. The Spirit (PG-13, 2008)
5. Seven Pounds (PG-13,
2008)
6. Slumdog Millionaire
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7. Yes Man (PG-13, 2008)
8. Quantum of Solace
(PG-13, 2008)
9. The Tale of Despereaux (G, 2008)
10. Role Models (R,
2008)
Friday, May 1
Hugh Jackman is back as
comic book hero Wolverine for
a fourth time. X-Men Origins:
Wolverine opens today, focusing
on how Wolverine came to be a
mutant warrior. For more about
film, see page 42.
Saturday, May 2
Today is National Astronomy
Day. To celebrate, see the Wright
Flyer, watch rocket launching and
take a helicopter ride at Spacetacular Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, 2 Institute Drive
in Concord. Admission costs
range from $6 to $9. Visit www.
starhop.com or call 271-STAR.
For more ideas for family activities, see page 26.
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Wednesday, May 6
National Public Radio’s Only a
Game host Bill Littlefield is coming to the Amherst Town Library.
Hear him tonight at 7 p.m., at
14 Main St. in Amherst (www.
amherst.lib.nh.us). The Yale
graduate is a humanities professor and writer-in-residence at
Curry College in Milton, Mass.
It’s free, but call 673-2288 to register. For more about libraries, see
page 40.
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Sunday, May 3
Craig Howard and Lisa Owen
perform as Max Bialystock and
Ulla in the Actorsingers production of Mel Brooks’ The Producers.
The community company stages it
today at 2 p.m. at the Keefe Auditorium at Elm Street Middle School
(Elm and Lake streets) in Nashua. Tickets cost $15 and $18; visit
www.actorsingers.org or call 3201870. (Courtesy photo.) For more
about theater, see page 20.
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Top movies at the box
office April 24-26 (weekend/cumulative)
1. Obsessed, Sony ($28.5
million/$28.5 million)
2. 17 Again, Warner
Bros. ($11.7 million/$40
million)
3. Fighting, Universal
($11.4 million/$11.4
million)
4. The Soloist, Paramount ($9.7 million/$9.7
million)
5. Earth, Disneynature
($8.5 million/$14 million)
6. Monsters vs. Aliens,
Paramount ($8.5 million/$174 million)
7. State of Play, Universal ($6.9 million/$25
million)
8. Hannah Montana The
Movie, Buena Vista ($6.4
million/$65 million)
9. Fast & Furious, Universal ($6 million/$145
million)
Friday, May 1
Pretend you are at a Led Zeppelin concert when Get the Led Out comes to the Capitol Center for the Arts tonight at 8 p.m., at 44 South Main St. in Concord (225-1111). Ticket-holders
of age can pre-party at The Draft in Concord with free apps starting at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $35
and $45. Get a ticket for half price if you become a Capitol Center Facebook fan (according
to ccanh.com April 27). For more about music, see page 46.
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BOOKS
According to Amazon’s
best sellers
1. The Lost Symbol, by
Dan Brown (Doubleday,
Sept. 15, 2009)
2. Liberty and Tyranny:
A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin
(Threshold Editions, 2009)
3. Breaking Dawn (The
Twilight Saga, Book 4),
by Stephenie Meyer
(Little, Brown, 2008)
4. Eclipse (The Twilight
Saga, Book 3), by Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2007)
5. New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2), by
Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2008)
6. The Engine 2 Diet:
The Texas Firefighter’s
28-Day Save-Your-Life
Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the
Pounds, by Rip Esselstyn
(Wellness Central, 2009)
7. Twilight (The Twilight
Saga, Book 1), by Stephenie Meyer (Little,
Brown, 2006)
8. The Shack, by William
P. Young (Windblown
Media, 2007)
9. Outliers: The Story
of Success, by Malcolm
Gladwell (Little, Brown
and Company, 2008)
10. Dead and Gone
(Sookie Stackhouse, Book
9), by Charlaine Harris
(Ace, May 5, 2009)
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Journey to and through motherhood
ARTS
Marisa Roberge stages Musical Mom in Goffstown
By Heidi Masek
hmasek@hippopress.com
After graduating from Cornell University
with a degree in theater, Marisa Roberge spent
five years in New York, where she and her husband, Kevin, acted professionally. Eventually
they landed in New Hampshire, after living “all
over.”
She hadn’t done much theater after their second child was born, and about three years ago,
“Kevin really encouraged me to put together a
one-woman show about motherhood,” Roberge
said.
They started listening to Broadway songs,
and found ones that could apply to motherhood
when taken out of their original context.
Roberge started working with director Wayland Bunnell of Community Players of Concord,
who gave her musical revue a
storyline. “He really helped me
If you go
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What: Musical Mom, a musical revue of motherhood, performed by Marisa Roberge
Benefits: In His Steps Learning Center
When: Saturdays, May 9 and May 16, at 8 p.m.
Where: Goffstown Christian Fellowship, 67 Henry Bridge Road, Goffstown
Tickets: $10 reserved, $12 at the door
Contact: 497-4508
fine-tune it,” Roberge said.
Musical Mom takes you through motherhood
from the moment you learn you are pregnant
through letting go. It has been staged about five
different times, including in Concord and Louisville, Ky., but never in the Manchester area until
now.
Roberge performs it as a fundraiser for In
His Steps Learning Center in Goffstown in time
for Mother’s Day. (Her son Beckett attends the
preschool.)
A fellow mom said after a show, “I feel like
you’ve taken my journal and put it on stage,”
Roberge said. Musical Mom is general enough
that you can interpret it in the way that touches
you, Roberge said.
Roberge said it’s hard to market an original
one-woman show, but it won best original musical revue in the 2007 New Hampshire Music
Awards, the same year she won best actress in
a community musical for performing in Hot
Mikado with New Thalian Players.
It’s been about two years since Musical Mom
has been staged. Her children are seven years
old and three and a half, and Roberge said the
time has given her a little more insight for the
show: “definitely the child-rearing part ... I have
much more experience with that now,” Roberge
said.
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Marisa Roberge in Musical Mom. Courtesy photo by Brett Mallard.
Kevin Roberge co-produces. Jed Holland
helped develop the show as their original music
director, and Joel Mercier is the current musical
director; both are well-known in the area.
“Jed is fantastic — he really helped us link all
the songs together... there’s really no dialogue,”
Roberge said.
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Songs that are used include pieces from contemporary shows as well as some obscure ones,
like “Where is Me?” from New Faces of 1968.
Bunnell has an antique sheet music business,
Roberge explained.
“Some are very clearly related [to motherhood] ... some are totally not,” Roberge said.
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THEATER Listings
• The Acting Loft
516 Pine St., Manchester
666-5999, actingloft.org
• Actorsingers
219 Lake St., Nashua, 889-9691,
actorsingers.org
• Adams Memorial
Opera House
29 W. Broadway, Derry,
437-0505, derryarts.org
• Amato Family Center for the
Performing Arts at Souhegan
Valley Boys & Girls Club
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 2, svbgc.com
• Andy’s Summer Playhouse
Wilton, 654-2613,
andyssummerplayhouse.org
• Anselmian Abbey Players
Dana Center, 641-7700
• Bedford Off Broadway
Meetinghouse Road, Bedford,
557-1805, bedfordoffbroadway.com
• Bedford Town Hall
70 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford
• Belle Voci
bellevoci.org, 848-7986
• Capitol Center for the Arts
44 Main St., Concord, 225-1111,
ccanh.com
• Concord Chorale
224-0770,
concordchorale.org
• Concord City Auditorium
2 Prince St., Concord, 228-2793,
concordcityauditorium.org
• Concord Community Players
224-4905, communityplayersof
concord.org
• The Dana Center
100 Saint Anselm Drive,
Manchester, 641-7700,
anselm.edu
• The Majestic Theatre
281 Cartier St., Manchester,
669-7469, majestictheatre.net
• Manchester Community
Music School
2291 Elm St., 644-4548,
mcmusicschool.org
• Manchester Community
Theatre and Second Stage
Professional Co.
698 Beech St., Manchester,
627-8787
• Milford Area Players
673-2258, milfordareaplayers.org
• Music and Drama
Company (MADCo.)
Londonderry, madco.org
• My Act
myact.org, 429-3950
• Nashua Theatre Guild
PO Box 137, Nashua,
03061, 320-2530
nashuatheatreguild.org
• New Thalian Players
newthalianplayers.org, 666-6466
• Nashua Community
College Performing
Arts Club (PAC)
505 Amherst St., Nashua,
428-3544
• 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
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profilechorus.org
• School of Theater Arts
at The Amato Center for
Performing Arts
56 Mont Vernon St., Milford,
672-1002 ext. 20
• Seacoast Repertory Theatre
125 Bow St., Portsmouth,
433-4472
• SNHU Drama Club
2500 North River Rd., Hooksett
• Yellow Taxi Productions
yellowtaxiproductions.org
• THE ALTOS ... Like the Sopranos
Only Lower, Murder & Mayhem dinner theater production Sat., May, 2, 6
p.m., to benefit the Nashua YMCA’s
Strong Kids Campaign, at the YMCA,
17 Prospect St., Nashua, 577-9530,
www.nmymca.org, $35.
• ARTSFEST Showcase 2009 includes
hip-hop, reggae, Broadway, African
drumming, visual arts, modern dance,
comedy sketches and more Fri., May 8,
at 7 p.m., at the Rochester Opera House,
31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 335-1992,
rochesteroperahouse.com, artsfest.us. • THE BOY FRIEND presented by
Riverbend Youth Company, Fri., May
8, Sat., May 9, and Fri., May 15, at
7:30 p.m.; and Sun., May 10, Sat.,
May 16, and Sun., May 17, at 2 p.m.,
at the Amato Center.
• BURN THIS, by Lanford Wilson,
presented by Yellow Taxi Productions
May 7-May 16 at YTP, 5 Pine St.,
Extension, Nashua, $10-$25, www.
theatermania.com, 791-4558.
• CORDIALLY COLE PORTER A
Tribute to a Great American Composer dinner or dessert theater May
1-May 3, at the Majestic Theatre,
$20-$32. Reservations required.
• DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN
Sat., May 9, at 8 p.m., at the Capitol
Center for the Arts, $37.50-$42.50.
• DUNNET LANDING STORIES
presented through puppetry by Pontine Theatre through May 10 at West
End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St.,
Portsmouth, www.pontine.org, 4366660, $20-$25. Original stage adaptation of Sarah Orne Jewett’s series.
• FULL MONTY presented by Concord Community Players, Thurs.,
April 30-Sat., May 2, at 8 p.m., and
Sun., May 3, at 2 p.m., at the Concord
City Auditorium, $12-$15.
• HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE,
by Paula Vogel, presented by Theatre KAPOW, directed by Matthew
Cahoon Fri., May 8, at 7:30 p.m.;
and Sat., May 9, at 2 & 7:30 p.m., at
the Stockbridge Theatre at Pinkerton
Academy, Bypass 28 in Derry, 4375210, www.tkapow.com, $12-$15.
• JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING
TECHNICOLOR
DREAMCOAT
presented by Peacock Players May 8May 17 at the 14 Court St. Theater in
Nashua.
• LOWELL FIVE Performing Arts
Series at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium: Movin’ Out, May 7, at 8 p.m.
• LUNA NEGRA DANCE THEATER of Chicago Wed., April 29, at
7 p.m., at the Dana Center, $5-$25.
• MURDER AT THE CAFE NOIR
mystery dinner theater presented by
Mayhem & Murder Productions, Sat.,
May 9, at 7 p.m., at Milly’s Tavern in
Manchester, $35, to benefit Manchester
West Theatre Knights’ performance at
the Edinburgh International Fringe Fes-
Classic
O’Neill
Gordon
Joseph
Weiss, as Phil Hogan,
and Kate Udall, as
Josie Hogan, appear in
Eugene O’Neill’s last
finished play, A Moon
for the Misbegotten.
(Meghan Moore photo). Merrimack Repertory Theatre produces
it in conjunction with Norfolk Virginia Stage Company. “Set on a
Connecticut farm in the 1920s, it is a stark look at humanity in its
basest and loveliest form,” according to MRT. See it Wednesday
through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 4:30 or 8:30 p.m., or Sundays at 2 or 7 p.m. through May 17. There’s a post-show forum
April 30, at 50 E. Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass. (978-654-4MRT,
www.merrimackrep.org). Ticket costs range from $26 to $56 with
discounts available.
tival, theatreknights.com, 582-1253.
• MUSICAL MOM Saturdays May
9 and May 16, at 8 p.m., at Goffstown Christian Fellowship, 67 Henry
Bridge Rd., Goffstown, 497-4508,
$10-$12. Musical revue of motherhood, featuring Marisa Roberge benefits “In His Steps Learning Center.”
• PLAY BALL! A Celebration Of Our
National Pastime in Song and Story
conceived, produced and directed by
Gary Locke through May 3 at the Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth,
436-8123, playersring.org, $10-$12.
• THE PRODUCERS Mel Brooks
musical presented by the Actorsingers
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., May
1-May 9, and Sun., May 3, at 2 p.m.,
at the Keefe Auditorium, Elm Street
Middle School, 117 Elm St. in Nashua, www.actorsingers.org, $15-$18.
• SLEEPING BEAUTY through April
26, Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m.
at Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow St. in
Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org, 4334472, www.seacoastrep.org, $8-$10.
• SWEET CHARITY May 8-May 23
at the Palace Theatre, $25-$40.
• URINETOWN May 8 – May 31 at
the Seacoast Repertory, 125 Bow St.
in Portsmouth, www.seacoastrep.org,
433-4472, $24-$28.
• WHAT A WAY TO GO, first public
reading of a new play by Jay MacNa-
sek
Casey Preston portrays “Pale” in Burn This.
Courtesy photo.
TION through June 29 at New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Amherst and
French Building galleries (77 Amherst
St. and 148 Concord St., Manchester),
836-2573, nhia.edu. Reception Tues.,
May 17, at 3:30 p.m.
• ABSTRACTIONS, COULEURS
– MES HISTOIRES, The Abstract
Paintings of Dominique Boutaud at
the Beliveau Gallery in the FrancoArT LISTInGS
American Centre, 52 Concord St.,
Manchester, 669-4045, www.franGallery Events
• ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBI- coamericancentrenh.com.
mee, Sun., May 3, at 5 p.m. at the
Portsmouth Pearl, $10 donation to
Seacoast Hospice, info@WhatAWayToGo-ThePlay.com, 918-0764, www.
WhatAWayToGo-ThePlay.com.
• YOLANDA FARINA, one-woman
cabaret Fri., May 1, & Sat., May 2, at 8
p.m., at Yellow Taxi Productions, $12
at the door or at cityartsnashua.com.
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Arts Council, free, Sat., May 2-Sun.,
May 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Grange
Hall No. 44, 260 Mammoth Rd.;
Higgins Barn, 87 Pillsbury Rd.; and
White Birch Fine Art, 8 Mohawk Dr.
Nutfield Sessions musicians perform
at the Grange Hall 1-3 p.m., both
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artistic director, Suzanne Delle, plays Anna in
Lanford Wilson’s Burn This for YTP. Anna’s
promising dance partner has just died when
his brother, Pale, shows up at Anna’s New
York apartment. The 1987 play “is an exploration of grief, friendship and lust,” according
to YTP. Casey Preston plays Pale, YTP regular Doug Chilson plays Anna’s boyfriend,
and Shawn Crapo plays Anna’s roommate.
Burn This runs Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., from May 7 through May 16,
with a matinee on Sunday, May 10, at 2 p.m.
Ticket costs range from $10 to $25 (www.
yellowtaxiproductions.org, 791-4558).
• The End: Rye’s Jay MacNamee says of
his new play, “There may be a couple of lumpin-the-throat moments, but it’s primarily a
comedy,” according to a press release. What a
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at 5 p.m., at the Portsmouth Pearl, 45 Pearl St.
in Portsmouth. Admission is a $10 donation for
Seacoast Hospice. MacNamee is a Dartmouth
College alum, with an MFA in Playwriting from
Catholic University. See www.WhatAWayToGo-ThePlay.com or call 918-0764.
• Male-female relations: One-man comedy Defending the Caveman, written by Rob
Becker, comes to the Capitol Center for the
Arts, 44 South Main St. in Concord (ccanh.
com, 225-1111), Saturday, May 9, at 8 p.m.
Tickets cost $37.50 and $42.50.
• Big spender: The Neil Simon musical
(originally directed and choreographed by Bob
Fosse) Sweet Charity closes the Palace Theatre’s professional 2008-2009 season “Citizens
Bank Performing Arts Series.” Sweet Charity
starts Friday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. and runs mostly Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. through
May 23 at the Palace, 80 Hanover St. in Manchester. There are matinées at 2 p.m. Sundays,
May 10 and May 17, and Saturday, May 23.
Ticket costs range from $25 to $40 (www.palacetheatre.org, 668-5588).
• More causes: Help out the Nashua YMCA’s
Annual Strong Kids Campaign. They host Murder & Mayhem Productions’ The Altos… Like
the Sopranos Only Lower, for a dinner theater
benefit and silent auction Saturday, May 2, at 6
p.m., at the YMCA, 17 Prospect St. in Nashua.
The show is a comedy spoof of a mob boss’s
wake. Tickets cost $35 and include dinner;
call 577-9530 or visit www.nmymca.org. The
Strong Kids Campaign helps provide financial
assistance for children, adults and families to
use YMCA services.
Murder and Mayhem can be seen at another fundraiser the following weekend when
they perform their Murder at the Café Noir.
That mystery dinner theater show is Saturday,
May 9, at 7 p.m., at Milly’s Tavern in Manchester and benefits Manchester West Theatre
Knights’ performance at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival (www.theatreknights.
com, 582-1253). Tickets also cost $35.
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Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive,
which won a 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
involves a woman telling the story of how she
learned to drive with her uncle — but it isn’t at
all that simple.
“It’s a very, very thought-provoking piece.
And it’s presented very minimally. We like
that,” said Matthew Cahoon. He’s directing it
for Theatre KAPOW in May.
“[People] will tell you it’s a play about pedophilia ... which I really object to. ... It’s probably
about trust and power and control,” Cahoon
said. The relationship between the two main
characters does not develop in a way that would
be thought of as typically abusive, Cahoon said.
The uncle character is both “very sympathetic and also very despicable,” Cahoon said. The
tragic is juxtaposed with some dark humor.
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Fridays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. artstream,
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Main Street and Ben Franklin Gallery,
Granite State Art and Timeless Framing on Wakefield Street participate,
artstreamstudios.com, 335-3577.
• BUSINESS IN THE ARTS
AWARDS Gala, Mon., May 11, at
6 p.m., at the Center of New Hampshire - Radisson Hotel in Manchester,
$75, 224-8300, arts@nhbca.com.
• CHARLES GRAY oil painter
featured in May at the Sharon Arts
Downtown Galleries in Depot
Square, Peterborough, www.sharonarts.org, 924-2787. tionship,” Cahoon said. The play talks about
the depth of that relationship and “the ways that
it’s affected her life,” Cahoon said.
One thing some people take issue with is the
forgiveness that factors in, Cahoon said. “[Peck’s]
not vilified in a way one would expect,” which
goes back to the “thought-provoking nature of
the piece,” Cahoon said. (Vogel told the Boston Phoenix in their May 14-21, 1998, issue that
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was indeed on her
mind while developing this play.)
“You get to meet the rest of her family,”
Cahoon said. While they aren’t physically abusive, it’s clear that they shaped her character,
and not in the best way. Rachel Follien and Brian Kennedy play Li’l Bit and Peck. Joel Breen,
Carey Cahoon and Jane Hogan play the rest of
the characters. The play is written for two characters and a “Greek chorus.”
The “male Greek chorus” plays teenage
boys, a grandfather and a waiter, among other
things. The “female Greek chorus” plays Li’l
Bit’s mother and Peck’s wife, “a ridiculously
difficult part,” Cahoon said.
The “teenage Greek chorus” plays Li’l Bit
at 11 as well as a grandmother and other roles.
The range is immense, Cahoon said.
They perform at the Stockbridge Theatre,
but Theatre KAPOW isn’t using the 881-seat
auditorium. As with most of their other shows,
the audience will be seated on the stage. This
production will seat about 44 in an “L” or “V”
format, Cahoon said. That’s one reason that
Theatre KAPOW is letting people know this is
for mature audiences.
“This show honestly and truly has nothing
you couldn’t see on primetime television,”
Cahoon said. However, he thinks what could
make people uncomfortable is the proximity to
the actors, subject matter and scenes intended
for older audiences.
Theatre KAPOW started last summer, a
project of Brian and Rachel Kennedy and Carey and Matt Cahoon. They knew each other at
Saint Anselm College, then worked together at
the Palace Theatre.
If you go
What: How I Learned to Drive, by Paula
Vogel, presented by Theatre KAPOW
When: Friday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, May 9, at 2 & 7:30 p.m.
Where: Stockbridge Theatre at Pinkerton
Academy, Bypass 28 in Derry
Tickets: $12 to $15
Contact: 437-5210, www.tkapow.com
Note: For mature audiences.
• COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE
senior student art exhibition at the
through May 9 at the Marian Graves
Mugar Art Gallery at the Sawyer
Fine Arts Center, 541 Main St., New
London, 526-3000, www.colby-sawyer.edu/academic/art.
• CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
EXHIBIT through May 10 at Mill
Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Rd., Concord,
226-2046. Features work by Megan
Bogonovich, Marsha Hewitt, William McLane and James Rappa.
• DAN BROWN photography series,
“Frost,” thru mid-May at DesignWares,
206 Main St., Nashua, 882-5535.
• DIVERSIONS through June 12 at
Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St., Man-
chester, 668-6650.
• FRIENDS FINDING FRIENDS
annual Charity Art Auction 10th
Anniversary–Kick Off with a proclamation by Mayor Jim Bouley in
front of the State Capitol, Thurs., April
30, at 9 a.m. A sampling of previous
work, plus some of this year’s functional work will be shown, and then
displayed at downtown businesses
through the auction, Fri., May 29, at
5 p.m., at the Grappone Conference
Center. Call 228-1193 or see www.
Friendsprogram.org.
• FREE CURRIER MUSEUM
admission for all during spring
school vacation, April 27-May 1
(museum is closed Tuesdays). • GIFTS OF GRACE miniature oil
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paintings by Roger Croteau at Hatfield Gallery, 55 S. Commercial St.,
Manchester, www.syncrecity.com.
• INTERPRETATIONS 3 features
work by Dale Begley, Susanna Ries,
and Sally Gordon Shea through May
23 at East Colony Fine Art, 55 South
Commercial St., Manchester, 6248833, www.eastcolony.com. Reception Sat., May 2, 2-5 p.m.
• JERRY MACMICHAEL “LakesRegion ArtWork” through May 7 at
OSSIAN’s Loft, 118 Beck Rd., Loudon, 783-4383, info@ossianusa.com.
• JORDANA KORSEN sculptural
glass in May at Sharon Arts Fine Craft
Gallery, Depot Square, Peterborough,
www.sharonarts.org, 924-2787.
• JURIED ‘09 Fine Arts Student Exhibition through May 2, at the the Chapel
Art Center, Saint Anselm College, 100
Saint Anselm Dr., Manchester, 6417470, www.anselm.edu/chapelart.
• KATHY TANGNEY exhibit of
watercolors through May 16 at the
Framers Market, 1301 Elm St., Manchester, 668-6989.
• MILL TOWN MEMORIES:
Views of the New England Landscape, drawings and watercolors by
Marian Cannon Schlesinger at the
Museum of New Hampshire History through May 3, 6 Eagle Square,
Concord, nhhistory.org, 228-6688.
• MONIQUE SAKELLARIOS oil
painting demonstration Wed., May
6, 7-9 p.m., at Gallery One, 5 Pine
St. Extension, Nashua, 883-0603,
www.naaasite.org, free. • MONTY WHITFIELD watercolors and acrylics thru June, Nashua
Library, 2 Court St., 589-4610. Reception Sun., May 17, 3-4:30 p.m. • NASHUA SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM “Future,” the second
“Footprints: International Sculpture
Symposium” to create public artwork
for Nashua May 17-June 7 at Ultima
NIMCO, 1 Pine St., Extension, Nashua. Call 882-1613.
• NEST paintings, drawings, and
mixed media art from Cassandra
Warren, Kay Kelley & Leah Creates
through June 1 at ellO gallery & shop,
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• Art working: Artists will be demonstrating
as well as showing and selling their work during
“Art in Action,” Saturday, May 2, and Sunday,
May 3, presented by the Londonderry Arts Council. Venues include the Grange Hall No. 44 at 260
Mammoth Road, Higgins Barn at 87 Pillsbury
Road and White Birch Fine Art at 8 Mohawk
Dr. in Londonderry. Nutfield Sessions musicians
perform at the Grange Hall both days from 1 to
3 p.m. The artists are from Londonderry, Derry,
Windham, Pelham and Salem. Visit www.LondonderryCulture.org or call 432-2447.
• Helping out: The first SOPHA Members’
Photography Show is Thursday, April 30, from
7 to 10 p.m. Local businesses are donating
samples for the event. Some are also sending
canned tuna — which SOPHA is collecting
from visitors that evening for the New Hampshire Food Bank (it’s their canned tuna month).
Part of the proceeds from photo sales will also
go to the Food Bank. The Studio of Photographic Arts is at 941 Elm St. in Manchester
(584-1492, www.thesopha.com).
• Latest at East Colony: Artwork by Dale
Begley, Susanna Ries and Sally Gordon Shea,
including stained glass and landscapes, is featured in “Interpretations 3” through May 23 at
East Colony Fine Art, 55 South Commercial
St., Manchester (624-8833, www.eastcolony.
com). Meet them at a reception Saturday, May
2, from 2 to 5 p.m. • Demo: See Monique Sakellarios demonstrate her unique oil painting technique
Wednesday, May 6, at 7 p.m., at Gallery One, 5
Pine St. Extension in Nashua (883-0603, www.
naaasite.org). She’s a signature member of Oil
Painters of America and of the National Oil &
Acrylic Painters Society. Her gallery, Maison
de l’Art, is at 57 East Pearl St., in Nashua, and
she’s represented at 15 others.
• Student work: E.W. Poore holds its annual students’ exhibit between May 5 and May 23,
with a reception Thursday, May 7, from 5 to 7:30
p.m. The E.W. Poore Art Studio is at 531 Front St.
in Manchester (622-3802, www.ewpoore.com).
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• Beer at the museum: Learn “The Way
Beer Works” with an expert from New Hampshire’s Smuttynose Brewing Co. after a tour of
the exhibit “The Way Things Work: The Art
of David Macaulay.” The Currier Museum of
Art is open late one evening per month, with
themed “First Thursday” events. “The Way
Beer Works” is May 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.,
and yes, there’s beer tasting. Tickets cost $12
for Currier members, $22 for non-members,
and are available to those 21 and older. Reservations are required; visit www.currier.org or
call 669-6144 ext. 108. The Currier is at 150
Ash St. in Manchester.
By the way, you can still make use of free
admission for spring school vacation at the Currier April 30 and May 1 (underwritten by the
Citizens Bank Foundation). This helps out adults
— youth under 18 always enter for free. There’s a
special family performance from musician Mike
Morris on Friday, May 1, at 1 p.m.
There’s more – visit Sunday, May 3, at 2
p.m. (admission is no longer free, though) for
a public lecture, “ARTalk - The Way Painting
Works,” from Currier Art Center director Bruce
McColl and associate curator Kurt Sundstrom.
The May theme is “The Art of Architecture”
for the “Family Studio” art activities Wednesdays from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Currier.
Hear live music at the Frank Lloyd Wrightdesigned Zimmerman House and tour the home,
and enjoy wine and cheese at the Currier on
Thursday, May 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. “The Four
Seasons” event costs $17 for members, $27 for
nonmembers, and reservations are needed.
Finally, check out the Currier if you are
searching for Mother’s Day ideas. They
have tours, family activities and a concert
from the Manchester Choral Society going
on. Check their Web site or call for details.
Also, the Currier Art Center at 180 Pearl St. is
offering a session between May 11 and June 15
of art courses for children and adults.
• Teach art: The New Hampshire Institute of
Art has been approved by the New Hampshire
State Board of Education to offer a five-year
program to prepare art teachers, according to a
release from the school. Students in the program
will pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts along with a
teaching certification. “What makes us unique is
that we offer an art education certification to supplement their Bachelor’s degree in any offered
concentration. This gives them the confidence to
enter the classroom with a strong foundation in
studio practice along with the traditional theory of
education,” NHIA Art Education chair Suzanne
Canali stated in the release. The students will also
have to take classes in the other concentrations to
ensure they are versatile. Call 866-241-4918.
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Town (www.artroundtown.org). • PRINTS, PAINTING, & PHOTOGRAPHY, first exhibition in
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Ave., Derry, 432-6006, thru May 5.
• SENIOR STUDENT Art Exhibition through May 8, at Rivier College Art Gallery, 435 South Main
St., Nashua, 897-8276.
• SPRING FLING photography
exhibit thru May, Gallery One, 5 Pine
St. Extension, Nashua, 883-0603.
• STUDENT ART SHOW May 5May 23 at E. W. Poore, 531 Front
St., Manchester, www.ewpoore.
com, 622-3802. Reception Thurs.,
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“Speaking in Marks,” through May
8 at McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills
Ave., Concord, 225-2515.
• TYPOGRAPHICA III: Annual
Student Exhibition from the Southern New Hampshire University
graphic design program through
May 3 at the McIninch Art Gallery, SNHU, 2500 North River Rd.,
Manchester, 629-4622.
Classical Listings
• NEW HAMPSHIRE PHILHARMONIC “Spring Pops” Sat.,
May 2, at 8 p.m., at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester,
668-5588, www.nhphil.org, $25$50. Featuring Broadway works
by Rodgers and Hammerstein and
19th century pops.
• A WORLD OF MUSIC Nashua
Flute Choir Spring Concert Sat.,
May 2, at 7:30 p.m., featuring
Norm Dobson, harmonica soloist,
in the world premiere of “Music
Taking it off
A father will lose any
custody of his son if he
can’t come up with child
support, and his friends
have been laid off from
the steel mills in Buffalo,
yet wives are working. The guys think they’ve found an answer
when the women pay top dollar for a Chippendales show. Actors
Jerry Smith, Ron Bourque, Michael McCarthy, Kevin Roberge
and Shawn Leach rehearse The Full Monty with music director
Joel Mercier (seen here). The Community Players of Concord
produce the Broadway musical version of The Full Monty Thursday, April 30, through Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m., and Sunday,
May 3, at 2 p.m., at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St.
in Concord. Ticket costs range from $12 to $15 (www.communityplayersofconcord.org, 224-4905). This is recommended for
mature audiences. (Courtesy photo.)
for Harmonica and Flute Choir,”
at First Church of Nashua, 1 Concord St., Nashua, nashuaflutechoir.com, 888-1741.
• MONADNOCK CHORUS
spring concert, Verdi “Requiem”
with chorus and orchestra, Sat.,
May 2, at 7:30 p.m., at Keene State
College, and Sun., May 3, at 3 p.m.,
at the Peterborough Town House,
532-7914. Tickets $17 at Steele’s,
Toadstool Bookshops or www.
monadnock-chorus.org; $20 at the
door; $10 for those under 18.
• SUNDAY CONCERTS at
the Bedford Library, 3 Meetinghouse Road: Soulhouse presents
“Rhythm and Blues Review”
May 3, www.bedford.lib.nh.us,
472-2300.
• BACH’S LUNCH LECTURES Thursdays, 12:10–12:50
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p.m., free, at the Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall
St., Concord, 228-1196, www.
ccmusicschool.org: “From Scotland to America: Barbara Allen’s
Travels,” lecture from Daniel
Beller-McKenna May 7.
• SOUHEGAN VALLEY CHORUS spring concert, “Singing The
‘Suite’ Life”, Sat., May 9, at 7:30
p.m., at Souhegan High School,
412 Boston Post Rd., Amherst,
www.wolaver.org/SVC or
call
672-0025, $10-$15.
• HARLEM GOSPEL CHOIR
Mon., May 11, at 7:30 p.m., at
the Capitol Center for the Arts,
44 South Main St., Concord.
Free performance of the William H. Gile Series, 225-1111,
www.ccanh.com. First come, first
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Gardening Early spring treats
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Sorrel. Henry Homeyer photo.
By Henry Homeyer
letters@hippopress.com
Clubs
Hobby
• GATE CITY CORVETTE CLUB
meets on the second Friday of the month
at 7 p.m. at MacMulkin Chevrolet in Nashua. See www.gatecitycorvetteclub.com.
They will be sponsoring a car show at the
Anheuser-Busch brewing plant in Merrimack on Sun., May 24, (rain date June 21).
The event will feature music, food, tours
of the brewery and the Budweiser Clydesdales. A $10 donation is being accepted.
Call Carol Whittier at 437-3803 or Dean
Gagne at 472-3524.
to harvest in early May. They are “ephemerals,”
meaning that the leaves disappear and the plants
go dormant when the leaves of the forest appear.
Another spring tonic that I harvest but do
not plant are fiddleheads. These are the early,
unfurled shoots of ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris). Ostrich fern tends to grow in wet,
shady places — often along streambeds. The
fern gets to be three to four feet tall when mature.
It will grow anywhere with slightly moist, rich
soil — even if full sun.
I sauté fiddleheads in olive oil with a little garlic and slivered almonds, though the almonds are
optional. I had read that one needed to boil them
first to remove bitterness, but found that boiling
ruins the flavor.
A few words of caution: do not eat anything
you pick in the wild unless you have had it identified by a qualified person. Reading up on the
Internet is fine as a start, but go out with someone
who has been eating wild foods for years and is
sure what is edible. And always start with small
portions.
By the way, if you are planning your vegetable garden now, you may wish to have a look at a
vegetable encyclopedia I wrote that tells how to
grow and use 32 common vegetables. You may
see it at www.gardeners.com — click on Kitchen
Garden Planner on the top left side of the home
page, and then click on Vegetable Encyclopedia.
It doesn’t cover parsnips and the lesser-known
things, but offers helpful tips for growing most
standard veggies.
Spring is an exciting time for gardeners. It
makes me happy to plan and to plant. And it’s
nice to eat a few spring treats before even my
earliest spinach is ready to eat.
Henry Homeyer is a gardening coach and the
author of three gardening books. You may reach
him at P.O. Box 364, or henry.homeyer@comcast.
net; his Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
• MANCHESTER STAMP CLUB meets
on the fourth Monday of the month at 7:30
p.m. at the Villa Crest Nursing Home (1276
Hanover St., Manchester). Call Bob Dion
at 625-5082.
• MYSTERY CLUB at Pollard Memorial Library (401 Merrimack Street,
Lowell, Mass., 978-970-4118) Learn
how to examine a crime scene, techniques to analyze handwriting and read
great mystery stories. The club meets
from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Library’s
ground floor meeting room. Visit pollardml.org for a schedule of meeting dates.
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28 Nature & Gardens
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30 Sports & Rec
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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.
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My rhubarb is awake, and showing its colors.
Starting in early April when it first showed little
red nubs pushing through half-frozen soil, rhubarb has become more active as the spring’s sun
gains strength. It comes back every year without
much help from me — I just top dress it with a
little composted manure each fall or spring. But
it’s not ready to eat yet — although there are edibles that I am harvesting in April and May.
Fresh parsnips are my first spring treat most
years. They are not perennials, but a root crop
planted nearly a year ago. I plant them by seed
each year in May and resist the urge to pull them
in the fall. Parsnips are not daunted by our cold
winters and improve in flavor over the winter.
I plant parsnip seeds half an inch deep in rich
soil well amended with compost and a little
bagged organic fertilizer. Parsnip seeds are large
enough for easy handling and seem to germinate
well, so I space them two to three inches apart
and don’t bother to thin them later. Like carrots and other root crops, they do best in soil that
stays lightly moist and is free of large rocks that
might inhibit their growth.
If you haven’t grown parsnips before, you can
eat them in salads raw like carrots, or cook them
in stews, or bake them with a maple glaze. Most
old-timers I know (myself included) consider
them a healthy spring tonic, and worth growing.
I grow two types of perennial early spring
greens: sorrel and Good King Henry. Sorrel is
a lemon-flavored leafy green that, like spinach,
cooks down to almost nothing, so I prefer to use
it in salads. It really is early, and has a lovely
tangy flavor. If you can find them, buy plants at
a garden center; I recommend doing so as I had a
hard time getting seed to germinate.
I grow anything/everything with Henry in the
name, so I had to try Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus). Related to the edible
weed lamb’s quarters (Chenopodium alba), the
leaves can be used raw in salads, or steamed.
Once established, it produces reliably without
any work on your part. Like sorrel, it tends to
bolt and flower quickly, but if you cut either one
back right to the ground they will re-grow and
produce tender new leaves.
If you have a hardwood forest of maples, beeches
or ash, you have the potential for growing another
spring treat: ramps, or wild leeks. For me they are
the best and tastiest of all the spring perennials; they
are in the onion family with a mild garlic-onion flavor. Both the leaves and the bulbs have a strong
leek or onion scent and are very tasty.
In the wild, ramps tend to develop huge colonies, often with plants numbering in the thousands
— or millions. But those large colonies are easily depleted if commercial pickers find them to sell
to restaurants because they are slow to reproduce.
Each year I harvest and re-plant in my woods a
few dozen plants. It is only now, after five years
of planting without harvesting my own, that I am
thinking of picking from my woods. I estimate
that it will be another five or 10 years before I am
self-sufficient in ramps because one needs to pull
the entire plant to harvest it.
I sauté ramps in olive oil as a side dish, or
mix them into a stir fry. For me they are ready
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• Magician and New Hampshire native Steve Thomas
will be hosting a family fun
night at the Palace Theatre,
80 Hanover St. in Manchester, on Friday, May 1, starting
at 7 p.m. Thomas will perform magic and comedy with
audience participation. Robb
Preskins from the Big Apple
Circus will provide comedy juggling. Tickets cost $8
per person, with a family
four-pack of tickets available
by calling the box office at
668-5588 or visiting www.
palacetheatre.org.
• On Saturday, May 2,
Double Midnight Comics
(245 Maple St., Manchester)
is participating in the Eighth
Annual Free Comic Book
Day (www.freecomicbookday.com) from 11 a.m. to 7
p.m. Pick up select comic
books for free, and check out
local artists who will be present working on free sketches.
Nature
• GRANITE STATE AFRICAN
VIOLET SOCIETY (GSAVS)
meets first Thursday of the montth at
6:30 p.m. (except January and July)
at the Marion Gerrish Community
Center in Derry. Group holds regular
workshops, plant and leaf sales and
swaps. New members and visitors
welcome. Call 887-3154.
• THE NASHUA GARDEN CLUB
will hold its May meeting “Planting
a Recession Garden” with Connie
Campbell, on Wed., May 7, from 7
to 9 p.m. at the First Baptist Church
(121 Manchester St., Nashua). Free.
• NASHUA GARDEN CLUB
ANNUAL PLANT SALE at the
at the Peabody Mill Environmental Center in Amherst this
Saturday, May 2, from 2 to 3
p.m. Tickets cost $1 per person. Enjoy this program that
features a different animal
every month and offers the
opportunity to see live animals up close and personal.
Visit www.pmec.org or call
673-1141 to register.
• Wolves: Beyond the Myth
is a family program taking
place at the Hopkinton Town
Library community room (61
Houston Drive, Contoocook,
746-3663) on Saturday, May
2, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Join
Myrtle Clapp from the Loki
Clan Wolf Refuge in Conway,
who will present a program
on wolves including how they
live and how the community
can help support them. Myrtle has worked at the Refuge
for 10 years and has studied
wildlife behavior for nearly
40 years. The program is free,
but donations will be accepted
at the door.
• Friday Frolics at the Beaver Brook Association in
Hollis take place every Friday morning from 9:30 to
11:30 a.m. Each week will
have a different theme, and be
sure to bring rain gear, insect
repellent, walking footwear
and other weather-appropriate
clothing as you check out the
Association and the environment around it. The cost is $5
per person. Call 465-7787 to
register; see beaverbrook.org.
• Astronomy Day at the
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive
in Concord, www.starhop.
com) is Saturday, May 2,
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visitors
can participate in solar observing, lunar observing, viewing
of Venus, telescope displays,
slide shows and more. All the
exhibits and activities are free
and open to the public. At 7:30
p.m., the NH Astronomical
Society will bring telescopes
in for a public skywatch.
• The Londonderry Fish &
Game Club (626-5835, londonderryfishandgameclub.
com) will be holding a free
youth fishing derby on Sunday, May 3, at its location on
Albuquerque Road in Londonderry. From 9 a.m. to
noon, children ages 14 and
under can fish in the Club’s
pond, which will be freshly stocked by the Club and
the State of New Hampshire
with various types of fish.
There will be prizes awarded
in several different categories.
Refreshments will be available. Bring your own worms
and tackle.
• The Seacoast Cat Club
Cat Show will be at the Everett Arena (15 Loudon Road,
Concord) all this weekend on
Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Cats from all over the
Northeast will be competing at the show for a panel of
eight judges. There will be a
range of vendors with catrelated products. Tickets to
the show cost $6 for adults, $4
for children and seniors. Call
228-2784 or visit www.seacoastcatclub.org.
Mother’s
Day cruise
The
M/S
Mount Washington will be running for cruises on Mother’s Day, Sunday,
May 10. As part of the cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee, the
Mount Washington will also be having a Champagne Brunch
and live entertainment onboard the boat. The cruise leaves at
10 a.m. from the harbor at Weirs Beach and will last for two
and a half hours. Cost for the cruise is $38 for adults, $19 for
children ages 5 through 12, and children four and under ride
free. Call 888-843-6686 and visit www.cruisenh.com for discounted advance cruise sign-ups and more information.
Nashua Historical Society (5 Abbott
St., Nashua). From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
on Sat., May 16. Raffle tickets for
items donated by Wild Birds Unlimited & BJ’s. Gardening items will
also be for sale. Visit www.nashuagardenclub.org.
• NH ORCHID SOCIETY meets
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on second Saturday
of each month at the Bedford Town
Hall, located at the intersection of
Meeting House Road and Bedford
Center Road. Refreshments are
available and visitors are welcome.
• PAREI ENERGY EXCHANGE
meets monthly to discuss renewable
energy. Visit plymouthenergy.org or
call 536-5030.
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CAR TALK By tom and Ray Magliozzi
Loose spark plug might have cheaper fix
the insert is secure enough that they can tighten
the spark plug to the required torque, the head
will be as good as new. So, find another mechanic who specializes in VWs, and get a second
opinion, Micah. Ask him if an insert might work
for you. Good luck.
Dear Tom and Ray:
If a mechanic is not wearing a wedding ring,
is that a true indication of his marital status? I
think my mechanic is HOT, but I’m wondering if
he doesn’t wear a ring because working on cars
would destroy it. Depending on your response to
the ring issue, I’m also concerned that if he took
me up on a date offer, but found he didn’t really
like me, I’d be out an awesome mechanic. What
do you think? Should I go out on a limb and risk
losing both my pride and my great mechanic?
— Rachel
TOM: Absolutely! You can’t pass up the possibility of a lifetime of happiness just because
you might have to find a new mechanic!
RAY: How about an evening of happiness?
TOM: That would be a tossup.
RAY: You’re right about the ring, though.
Most mechanics don’t wear wedding rings when
they work. Mostly because it’s unsafe.
TOM: A ring can get caught on things under
the hood. And then, when you need to yank your
hand away quickly to avoid getting your fingers
chopped off by a moving fan blade, you can be
in big trouble, like the guy at our shop we call
“Ocho.”
RAY: The other reason mechanics don’t wear
rings is because they get all scuffed and banged
up from working on cars. Most of us take them
off when we get to work, and put them in a safe
place in our toolboxes.
TOM: I’ve got a whole drawer full of wedding
rings in my toolbox.
RAY: So, you need a different way to determine whether your HOT mechanic is available,
Rachel. Here’s what I’d do ...
TOM: Does it involve deception?
RAY: Of course! Tell him you’ve been hearing
a little creaking noise when you go over speed
bumps. Tell him it’s been worrying you. And
when he reassures you that it’s nothing serious,
just a creaky bushing or something, you say, “So,
you’d feel safe letting your wife drive this car?”
TOM: And if he says, “Well, I don’t have a
wife,” then you say, “OK, would you feel safe
letting your girlfriend drive this car?”
RAY: And if he says, “I don’t have a girlfriend,” you say, “Want one?”
Keep your car on the road and out of the
repair shop by ordering Tom and Ray’s pamphlet “Ten Ways You May Be Ruining Your Car
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Dear Tom and Ray:
Last night, my car, a 2001 Volkswagen Jetta,
was in perfect working order when I parked it
at the movie theater. When I came out two hours
later and started the car, I heard a “pop” sound,
and the engine sounded like a really loud lawnmower. It was also shaking violently. I had it
towed to the Volkswagen dealership. They called
me back with a quote of more than $2,000, saying that one of the spark plugs is loose and the
entire head needs to be replaced. What do you
think happened? Does this sound right to you?
— Micah
TOM: It sounded like a lawnmower, and was
shaking violently? And what alerted you that
something was wrong, Micah?
RAY: It sure sounds like one of your spark
plugs popped out. The loud bang you heard was
the spark plug launching itself into the underside
of the hood. And then, because that spark plug
was missing, the engine shook violently, because
it was running on only three cylinders.
TOM: When you remove a spark plug, you
hear the unmuffled noise of the combustion
chamber. That was the lawnmower sound.
RAY: So the diagnosis sounds correct. The
treatment, however, is another matter.
TOM: Sometimes, spark plugs just work their
way out over time. If a plug wasn’t tightened
properly when it was replaced, it could have just
loosened up over time until it finally popped out.
If that’s what happened, all you need to do is
screw it back in. That’s two bucks, not 2,000.
RAY: More likely, when someone installed
that spark plug, he stripped the threads in the head
that hold it in. It held for a while, but because
it’s under extremely high pressure, eventually it
gave way.
TOM: That’s why the dealer wants to replace
your head. We’ve wanted to replace my brother’s
head for years, but every time we try it, he wakes
up and makes us stop.
RAY: Replacing the head might not be necessary in your case, Micah. There’s a thing called
an “insert” that’s designed for exactly your situation — when the threads in a cylinder head are
stripped but the head is otherwise fine.
TOM: The insert is basically a new set of
threads that screw into the head. If you can fix
this with an insert, that’ll cost you more like
$100.
RAY: Now, if the head is badly damaged for
some reason, they may have no choice but to
replace the whole thing.
TOM: But inserts often work just fine, and if
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An antiques expert helps you
search for buried treasure
Dear Donna,
I have been collecting Salmon Falls Pottery for several years now. I have over 65 pieces. Can you tell
me, is it in demand? Would you know anywhere that
I could find older pieces? I am looking for covers to
jars that I have broken in particular.
Thanks.
Carol in Milford
Dear Carol,
The Salmon Falls Pottery Co. has been around since
the 1980s right here in Dover, N.H. The company is
still producing a traditional salt glaze pottery today.
Salt glaze is a process that creates the shine on the
finished product (by throwing salt into the kiln). This
process is done today as it was done in past centuries.
The pottery isn’t old enough to fall into the antique
category, but I would say it has a collectible secondary market. I think that to find the older pieces would
be a hunt. Try going to flea markets, yard sales, and,
as a last choice, the Internet.
I think the search is half the fun, and I also like to
touch what I am buying before purchasing it. I would
also bet that you could contact the company directly
for some kind of a wish list directory. There must be
collectors like yourself who are looking for just certain pieces.
I don’t even know where to begin on a value for
these pieces. I would say that I would want to find older pieces myself, because I would think they would
have a higher value. But if you are collecting mod-
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ern collectibles or antiques, you should try to acquire
the best. Remember rarity and condition is where the
value is.
While I was researching, I was so pleased to see that
the Salmon Falls Pottery is still being made for everyday use. There’s something nice about a warm loaf
of bread coming right out of the oven in a traditional
piece of salt glaze pottery.
Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in the
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570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 436-8043,
seacoastsciencecenter.org
• Society for the Protection
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224-9945, spnhf.org
• Squam Lakes Science Center
Holderness, 968-7194, nhnature.org
Hikes & walks
• EARLY MORNING BIRDING
WALKS Sat., May 2, from 8 to 11
a.m.; Wed., May 6, from 7 to 9 a.m.;
Wed., May 13, from 7 to 9 a.m., all
through the Massabesic Audubon
Center. Open to adults and families.
Cost is $5 (free to NH Audubon
members).
• GUIDED HIKE on the Tudor
Richards Natural History Trail on
Wed., May 6, through the Beaver
Brook Association in Hollis. Participants will meet at Brown Lane
Barn parking lot at 10 a.m. The event
is free but you must call to register.
465-7787. Each attendee will receive
a guidebook for the trail. Learn to
identify trees and shrubs.
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established trails. Follow Hackett Hill
Road to Countryside Boulevard and
watch for the trailhead.
SPORTS
& RECREATION
• Bow Recreation Department
2 Knox Road, Bow, 228-2222,
bowparksandrecreation.com
• Candia Woods Golf Links
313 South Rd., Candia, 483-2307,
candiawoods.com
• Concord Recreation Dept.
onconcord.com/recreation
• Granite State Senior Games
11 Stagecoach Way, Manchester,
622-9041,nhseniorgames.org
• Granite State Wheelmen
215 S. Broadway, Salem, 8985479, granitestatewheelmen.org
• McIntyre Ski Area
Kennard Road in Manchester,
622-6159, mcintyreskiarea.com
• Mine Falls Park
Whipple Street in Nashua, Nashua
Parks & Recreation, 589-3370
• White Park Pond
Washington and White streets in
Concord, onconcord.com/recreation
• YMCA
30 Mechanic St., Manchester,
623-3558, gmfymca.org
6 Henry Clay Dr., Merrimack,
881-7778, nmymca.org
17 Prospect St., Nashua, 882-2011,
nmymca.org
15 North State St., Concord,
228-9622, concordymca.org
Bike tour
Breathe
New
Hampshire’s Annual Seacoast Bike
Tour is taking place
this year on Saturday, May 16,
and Sunday, May
17. The Tour begins in Portsmouth and ends in Ogunquit,
Maine. Riders can choose from four different routes that
cater to different ability levels. There is a family-friendly 25mile route and there’s a 100-mile “century ride.” Riders can
complete their routes in one or two days. Visit www.breathenh.org/biketour or call Kelly Sicard at 800-835-8647.
at 9 a.m., and a 5K race at 11 a.m.
Roughly 1000 runners are expected
to compete. Both courses start and
end at the new Bedford High School.
Awards will be presented to all top
runners. E-mail the Race Director at
BRMRRaces@gmail.com. Register
at www.rotarybedfordnh.com.
• MARCEL’S WAY MILES
FOR MITO 5K RACE/WALK
takes place on Sat., May 9, at Arms
Park in Manchester. Registration
is $20 per person. Register on-line
at www.marcelsway.org or www.
active.com. Raise $100 and have
your registration fee waived. Arrive
at registration no later than 9:15
a.m., race begins at 9:30 a.m.
• MEDICAL CENTER 6K race
Sun., May 10, at 9:30 a.m. at the
Southern New Hampshire Medical
Center (8 Prospect St., Nashua).
Online registration available at
www.medicalcenter6k.com. Proceeds will benefit the Patient Transportation Fund at Southern New
Hampshire Medical Center for local
cancer patients.
• THE BOBCAT BOLT 5K and
10K run walk and the Oyster River
Festival is Sat., May 9, around Durham. The 5K and 10K races are
USA Track & Field sanctioned and
certified. Registration is $35 and
can be completed online at www.
bobcatbolt.com.
Spectator
• MANCHESTER FREEDOM
Womens tackle football team and
is part of the Independent Women’s
Football League. Home games are
played at the West High School
football field. The next home game
is Sat., May 9, vs. New England
Intensity. Visit www.manchesterfreedom.com.
• MANCHESTER WOLVES
(Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm
St., Manchester, 644-5000). Professional Arena football team. The
next home game is Sat., May 9, at
7:30 p.m. against the Quad City
Steamwheelers. Visit www.manchesterwolves.com.
• NH FISHER CATS (Merchantsauto.com Stadium, 1 Line Drive,
Manchester, 641-2005) is the AA
minor-league affiliate of the Toronto
Blue Jays baseball team. The next
home game is Thurs., April 30,
at 11:05 a.m.. Then, Fri., May 8,
through Sun., May 10, they play the
Defenders (6:35 p.m. on Friday; 1:05
p.m. on weekends) and they play the
Mets Mon., May 11, through Wed.,
May 13, at 6:35 p.m. each day. Visit
www.nhfishercats.com.
Spectator sports
• Manchester Freedom Football
9 Notre Dame Ave., 627-7270,
manchesterfreedom.com
• Manchester Wolves,
www.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
• AMERICAN RED CROSS
GOLF TOURNAMENTS There
are two tournaments this summer.
Tues., May 19, at Owl’s Nest Golf
Club in Campton; and Tues., June
9, at the Country Club of NH in
North Sutton. To register or become Team sports
a sponsor call 800-464-6692.
•
BASKETBALL Concord
Recreation Department (www.
Runs/running
ci.concord.nh.us/recreation) offers
• BEDFORD ROTARY MEMO- pick-up basketball for ages 18+ at
RIAL ROAD RACES is Sat. Green Street Community Center
May 16, with 12K race beginning
on Tuesdays and Thursdays year
round from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
and from 8 to 10 p.m. The cost is $4
per person per session or $65 for a
25-visit pass.
• BASKETBALL New Boston
Recreation Department (487-5504,
www.new-boston.nh.us)
offers
men’s and women’s basketball and
adult softball.
• DODGEBALL league at Greater
Manchester Family YMCA for ages
18+. See www.gmfymca.org, call
Chris Webster at 232-8632.
• NH ROLLER DERBY (www.
nhrollerderby.com)
competitive
team for women 21+. See rules and
game footage online. The team holds
an open skate at Roller Kingdom at
Skate 3 in Tyngsborough, Mass.
• NH SPORTS & SOCIAL
CLUB (www.nhssc.com, 4136632) offers kickball, dodgeball,
volleyball, softball, football, basketball, hockey and darts at locations
across the southern section of the
state to men and women 21+. After
games, members usually meet at a
nearby pub. Call to join.
• SOCCER CO-ED ADULT
LEAGUE Concord
Recreation
Department’s Adult Co-Ed Soccer
League is looking for additional
women to sign up. Cost to join
is $42 for residents, $52 for nonresidents. League games are held at
Keach Field on Sundays starting at 1
p.m. Contact Karen Billings at 2258690 or kbillings@onconcord.com. • SOFTBALL New Boston Recreation Department (487-5504, www.
new-boston.nh.us) offers men’s and
women’s softball.
• VOLLEYBALL Bow Parks and
Recreation (2 Knox Road, Bow, 2282222, www.bowparksandrecreation.
com) offers adults a weekly chance
to prove themselves on the volleyball
court on Wednesdays, 8 to 11 p.m.
throughout the year at Bow Elementary School. The program is free but
you must fill out a waiver to participate. Call Pete at 228-5227.
Other
• ARCHERY LESSONS offered
by Concord Recreation Department (www.ci.concord.nh.us/recreation) for adults.
• BADMINTON Wednesdays
8-10 p.m. at the Racquet Club of
Concord, 224-7787.
•
COMMUNITY TENNIS
LEAGUE AND LESSONS
greater Manchester area, www.
tstennis.com.
• CONCORD FENCING CLUB
Hall Street, Concord, 224-3560,
five levels of classes.
• NASHUA SWIM & TENNIS CLUB (140 Lock St., Nashua, 883-0153, www.nashuaswimandtennis.com) offers lessons
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FOOD
Weekly Dish A Taste of old favorites, new dishes
Notes from the local food scene
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
food@hippopress.com
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• Latin flavor: Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre will perform their Latin rhythms
in the Spotlight Café at the Capitol Center
for the Arts in Concord on Thursday, May
7. Before the concert, enjoy a Latin-inspired
dinner buffet catered by the Common Man.
Menu items include a Cuban salad of pickled onion and tomato over greens with sliced
avocado and cumin garlic vinaigrette; red
beans and rice; chicken paella with red pepper, tomato, garlic, yellow rice and peas; and
banana rum custard pie. Dinner tickets cost
$21 and include one free bar drink. Tickets
can be purchased on the Capitol Center’s
Web site, ccanh.com.
• J’s Specials: J’s Tavern, 63 Union Square
in Milford, has specials for both Red Sox fans
and hospitality employees. During Red Sox
games, the tavern offers 16-ounce draft beers
for $2. And on Mondays, customers who are
employed in the hospitality industry will get
a 25-percent discount. Just show your badge,
shirt, pay stub or apron.
• Pesce di Mayo: In Italy, Pesce d’aprile
is the equivalent of April Fool’s Day, but
instead of making a fool of someone, fish
is involved. Since April is almost over,
Pasquale’s Ristorante Italia, 145 Raymond Road in Candia, will host a Pesche di
Mayo instead on Monday, May 4, at 7 p.m.
Attendees will be treated to a four-course
Italian meal accompanied by a professionally matched wine. Prior to the meal, there will
be a reception in the lounge, where guests
will taste two additional wines from the restaurant’s wine list. The dinner costs $55 per
person and reservations are required. Call
483-5005 for reservations and visit www.
pasqualeincandia.com to learn more.
• New menu alert: It’s that time of year
— when restaurants debut new menus for
the warmer weather. The Saffron Bistro, 80
Main St. in Nashua, 883-2100, has released
new bar and dinner menus. Some of the dinner highlights include rosemary and sea salt
crusted lamb rack; cast iron seared duck
breast, and caramelized New Bedford sea
scallops. The bar menu features a lobster salad club sandwich and chick pea frites. View
both complete menus at www.thesaffronbistro.com.
• A taste of France: Unums, 47 E. Pearl
St., Nashua, 821-6500, www.unums.com
will host a wine dinner on May 20 featuring
a tour of France. The menu will be available
on the Web site shortly. Reservations are
recommended. • A taste of spring: Butter’s Fine Food
& Wine, 70 N. Main St., Concord, will hold
a spring wine and food tasting on Thursday, May 7, with Otto Sheridan of F & F
Wines, and Nancy Gilman of Provisions
International.
• Culinary demonstrations: WilliamsSonoma (Mall at Rockingham Park, Salem,
890-3506) will hold three cooking demonstration classes in May. The first is Frittatas,
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20th anniversary benefit for Share Our Strength allows chefs to show off
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
food@hippopress.com
The 20th anniversary of Manchester’s Taste
of the Nation will take place Wednesday, May
6, at the Radisson Center of New Hampshire
(700 Elm St.).
This event will benefit Share our Strength,
whose goal is to end childhood hunger. The
proceeds go to three local organizations —
The NH Food Bank, Children’s Alliance of
New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire
Farm to School Program — and the funds are
perhaps more important this year than in any
previous year, because the need is so great.
“Share our Strength’s mission is to provide
healthy, nutritious food to children,” event
co-chair and Commercial Street Fishery coowner Quentin Keefe said. “One hundred
percent of the ticket sales go to the local beneficiaries. All the overhead and costs are
covered by the sponsors. I have to be honest:
we lost some key sponsorships this year and
did not raise as much money as we did last
year. However, we have a much larger venue,
so we hope to sell more tickets to make up for
the lost sponsorships.”
A ticket will allow a guest to enjoy food
from approximately 50 of the state’s bestknown restaurants. Along with the culinary
delights, local sponsor Martignetti Companies of New Hampshire will bring in wines
from more than 25 of California’s best-known
wineries, such as the Hess Collection, Grateful Palate, and Don Sebastiani & Sons. Beer
lovers can enjoy selections from Woodstock
Brewing Company, Magic Hat, Guinness,
Sam Adams and Budweiser. And a silent auction will showcase such items as a chef’s table
for six at Commercial Street Fishery, a Tourneau watch valued at $750, and lots of New
England sports memorabilia.
Restaurants such as the Barley House
in Concord use the event to showcase new
dishes.
“We’re introducing our house-cured applewood bacon with honey-mustard glaze,
molasses-whiskey smoked salmon, and homemade sage banger sausage with mash. We’re
doing more in-house curing and smoking,”
said Barley House owner Brian Shea.
Pam Kelley, the other owner of Commercial
Street Fishery, said her restaurant will serve a
popular dish from their specials board: white
cheddar cheese and chorizo grits topped with
grilled American shrimp and garnished with
Matt Lee, chef at the Granite Restaurant in Concord, will participate in Taste of the Nation
for the first time this year. Gil Talbot photo.
a tomatillo salsa verde. She noted that it can
be difficult for a restaurant to choose which
event to be involved with from the wide selection that takes place each year.
“This is absolutely a cause we support
wholeheartedly to help support the needy in
our own region. Taste has always been such a
fun event. We get to be out with people, and
see people in our industry that you don’t get to
see all of the time,” Kelley said.
Ben Mercuri of the Saffron Bistro noted,
“Last year was our first year at the event. We
like this it because not only is it a highly trafficked event for the state, but also the proceeds
benefit the state on a local and state level.”
First-timer Chef Matt Lee from the Granite
Restaurant in Concord will serve tuna tartare tossed with house-made chili oil, chervil,
cilantro, mint and fresh lime juice and served
on a crispy wonton with pickled cucumber
and ginger-hoisin sauce.
“I’m very excited about this event because
it represents a great cause. It’s recognized
by great chefs across the U.S. and in New
Hampshire. It’s also significant because it’s
specifically about food and chefs supporting
a great cause,” Lee said.
A complete list of participating restaurants can be found at www.strength.
org/manchester.
For an organization such as the Children’s
Alliance, the evening means being able to
continue the fight against poverty in the state.
“Poverty is linked to adverse educational,
health and other outcomes for children that
limit future productivity,” Children’s Alliance
President Ellen Fineberg said. “According
to recently released census bureau data, in
2007, 8.3 percent of New Hampshire’s children live in poverty. Another measure of the
need is the free and reduced lunch program
offered in schools to children whose families
have incomes below 120 percent of the federal poverty level. From 2005 to 2006, 18.2
percent of the state’s children were enrolled
in the lunch program. In 26 New Hampshire
schools more than 50 percent of the children
were enrolled in the program, with Manchester and Nashua school systems earning the
highest enrollment numbers.”
Manchester’s Taste of the Nation is typically
a sell-out each year. General admission
tickets, good from 6:30 to 10 p.m., cost $50
for advance purchase and $65 at the door.
There are also VIP tickets available, which
entitle guests to a 5:30 p.m. early admission,
exclusive access to seating in the VIP lounge,
a free piece of Riedel stemware ($12 value),
exclusive admission to cooking demonstrations by premiere local chefs, a martini tasting
compliments of Martignetti Companies of
NH, a goodie bag and more. VIP tickets cost
$75 in advance, $100 at the door. To purchase
tickets, call 877-26-Taste (82783) or go to
www.strength.org/manchester.
Tea in the Sahara
New market offers halal food and more
By Linda A. Thompson-Odum
food@hippopress.com
Adventurous food lovers will enjoy the
new Sahara International Market in Manchester. Situated in the former Cheapo Depot
location, on Massabesic Street, the new market offers the unique ingredients necessary
for curries, hummus, baba ghanouj, tabbouleh and other exotic dishes that are often
hard to find in regular supermarkets. And
area immigrants will find the foods of their
homelands.
Owner Omar Abouzaid opened the store
a few weeks ago to meet the food needs of
the city’s growing Middle Eastern and African populations.
“We have the international groceries that
people use on a regular basis. People like
it because it’s from their home country at
reasonable prices. Cheaper than in the supermarkets,” Abouzaid said.
Sahara is a large, bright, wide-open market. Flags hang from the rafters to signify
the places represented — Pakistan, India,
and countries in Africa, the Middle East and
Europe. Long aisles have shelves filled with
cans, bottles, boxes and bags of flours, nuts,
grains, legumes, olives, rice, teas, candies
and other foodstuffs. There is a large freezer
section filled with frozen vegetables and prepared foods, a dairy section with a variety of
cheeses, eggs and other dairy products, and
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a selection of fresh fruits
and vegetables. A meat
counter displays fresh beef,
veal, lamb, goat and organic chicken prepared to halal
standards. Much like kosher
standards to the Jewish
faith, halal means that the
meat is handled and butchered by rules set in Islamic
law. “Muslims must use this
meat,” Abouzaid noted.
Abouzaid works full-time
as an accountant and then
works in the market in the
evenings. He came from
Morocco nine years ago
because of the opportunities this country could offer
him. His wife, Ibtisam Azri,
is the store’s manager. She is
also from Morrocco, though
they didn’t meet until three
Manager Ibtisam Azri helps customers at Sahara International
years ago while they were Market. Linda A. Thompson-Odum photo.
both students at Southern
hold items the store also sells. Azri said she
New Hampshire University. Abouzaid has an MBA and a master of will soon offer take-out prepared foods, and
science degree in finance, and Azri has a she is happy to answer any questions a cusbachelor’s degree in international business. tomer may have, or point out where to find
Azri walked through the market and a specific product in the store.
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gelatin mixes and packaged nuts. She noted
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techniques will be featured on Sunday,
May 17, and summer drinks will take center stage on Sunday, May 31. The classes
are free and begin at 11 a.m.
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— Bold Horizons. “Brewed similar in
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has a crisp, tart flavor that is layered with
an essence of fruit and a hint of spices,”
according to a Milly’s press release.
• Wine dinner: The Epoch Restaurant
at the Exeter Inn, 90 Front St. in Exeter,
800-782-8444, will hold a wine dinner
with Bill and Betsy Nachbaur of Acorn
Winery on Thursday, April 30. A tasting
seminar featuring six Acorn wines begins
at 6 p.m. and a three-course dinner begins
at 7 p.m. The cost is $69 per person. Call
for a reservation.
• New old eats: The Concord Monitor reported Monday, April 27, that a new
Veano’s will open at Pembroke Crossing
on Route 106. The old Veano’s (located
in Concord on Loudon Road) closed in
December 2007, the article said. The new
restaurant will be opened by one of the
owners of the former Veano’s (who were
a group of four brothers), according to the
article.
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Our 16 week Summer Share runs from July into October. Members pick up weekly shares
at our farm in New Boston on Wednesdays or Saturdays or at a satellite distribution site
in Manchester, South Manchester, or Derry.
Weekly shares contain herbs, salad & cooking greens, bunched veggies (turnips, beets,
carrots, etc) and other seasonally available produce such as tomatoes, eggplant,
potatoes, peppers, melons, garlic, onions, shallots, broccoli, cauliflower, summer &
winter squash and much more. Over an acre has been set aside for pick-yourown peas, green beans, edamame, herbs and cut flowers (included in share price).
Members can also purchase our naturally raised grassfed beef, pastured
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FOOD
Sun. 4-10
Mon.- Wed. 11-10
Thurs. - Sat. 11-11
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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!
Sea Scallops
The scallop gets around. Unlike Seared Scallops
oysters and clams, which burrow Carefully rinse the scallops, pat them dry and
into the sand or anchor themselves sprinkle them with salt and pepper. Heat a sauto some larger object, the scallop is té pan over medium-high heat until hot, then
a mobile creature. It gets around by add just enough olive or vegetable oil to lightly
opening and closing its shell, which coat the pan’s surface. When the oil is hot but
works pretty well for the scallop. It is not quite smoking, place the scallops in the pan,
also probably the reason that renais- making sure they sit flat and do not touch. After a
sance artist Sandro Botticelli chose minute or when the scallop bottoms are caramel
the scallop as the means for trans- brown, carefully turn each over with a thin spatuporting the goddess Venus from her la and cook until the flesh is just opaque, taking
birth in the sea foam to the shores of care not to overcook them. Remove the scallops
the island of Cyprus.
to plates and drizzle with the barest hint of good
The scallop gets around. Hence local honey that has been warmed slightly in the
the large white tasty muscle that microwave until liquid.
makes the bivalve the topic of this I like to serve this dish with a simple salad
column. The muscle, or “nut,” of the of watercress, julienned raw beets and walnut
sea scallop is often an inch or more halves tossed with a bit of sherry or riesling
in diameter — the perfect size for vinegar, a drizzle of vegetable or nut oil, and a
a perfect mouthful. Three scallops sprinkle of sea salt and freshly crushed black
make an appetizer, five or six are a pepper. Enjoy!
meal. Fish mongers often sell both
“wet” and “dry” scallops. The wet ones have been treated with sodium tripolyphosphate to help
them remain moist and improve shelf life. Dry scallops contain only their own natural water,
making them sear better and taste better. Give all scallops a sniff before you leave the fish counter; if they don’t smell clean and sweet, don’t take them home.
The best thing you can do to make a scallop taste good is almost nothing. I prefer a bit of salt,
a bit of pepper, a hot sauté pan, and the faintest drizzle of a fragrant local honey. Serve them
with something bright and fresh to contrast with the rich sweet creaminess of the tender meat.
The above seared scallops recipe is one of my favorites. With a little practice, you can go from
clean kitchen to elegant finished dinner (and messy kitchen) in less than 10 minutes.
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.
Food Listings
Festivals/cook-offs/expos/
parties/book events
• CHOCOLATE LOVERS The
Caregivers, Inc. will present their
7th annual Chocolate Lovers Fantasy fundraising event on Sun.,
May 17, from noon to 4 p.m. at
the Radisson Hotel in Manchester.
Tickets cost $17 in advance, $19 at
the door. The event will feature a
variety of chocolate eats — sweet
and savory Go to www.caregiversnh.org for the link to buy tickets.
Contact The CareGivers at 19 Harvey Road in Bedford, 622-4948.
• KITCHEN TOUR The Music
Hall (104 Congress St. in Portsmouth, 433-3100, themusichall.
org) will hold its 18th Annual
Kitchen Tour on Sat., May 2, from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets cost $20
in advance, $25 on the day. Take the
self-guided of the homes of Rye and
North Hampton — modern, historic
and waterfront.
•RUTH REICHL Ruth Reichl
— author, former New York Times
food critic, current editor of Gourmet magazine and star of Diary of a
Foodie on PBS — will participate in
the Portsmouth Music Hall’s Writers
on a New England Stage series on
Friday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. She will
discuss her new book Not Becoming My Mother & Other Things She
Taught Me Along the Way. Tickets are
still available and can be purchased
on the Music Hall’s Web site, www.
themusichall.org. The cost is $17.
• TASTE OF DOWNTOWN
NASHUA Tickets are now on
sale for the 15th annual Taste of
Downtown Nashua which will be
held Wednesday, June 3, at 6 p.m.
Tickets cost $30 through May 15
and are available online at www.
downtownnashua.org/taste. Tickets
will go on sale at downtown retail
locations the first week in May. See
the Web site or call Great American
Downtown at 883-5700.
Chef events/special meals
• PANCAKE BREAKFAST The
Nashua Breakfast Exchange Club
will host a pancake breakfast at the
Nashua Senior Activity Center, 70
Temple St. in Nashua, on Saturday,
May 16, from 7:30 to 11 a.m. Tickets
cost $5; children under 3 eat free with
the purchase of a full priced ticket. To
buy tickets in advance and for more
information, call Diane at 240-7800
or Lisa at 882-3000.
Cooking classes/
workshops
• BREAD MAKING Liz Barbour
will hold a hands-on artisan bread
and pie dough class on Wed., May 20,
from 6 to 8 p.m. in Derry at 16 Manning St. The cost is $40. Required
materials include two large mixing
bowls, large cutting board, chef’s
knife and a large baking sheet pan.
Registration is required. See thecreativefeast.com, e-mail lizb@thecreativefeast.com or call 465-6929.
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Classes at Hannaford
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Friday May 1 10:30am - 12:00pm
or
Thursday May 21 6:30pm - 8:00pm
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Call to register (603) 626-4567
Thursday May 14 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Tuesday May 5 10:30am - 11:45am
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Food Label Overload:
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Thursday May 7 6:30pm - 8:00pm
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Friday May 8 10:30am - 12:00pm
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Thursday May 14 5:30pm - 6:45pm
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Fridays, May 8 - June 12
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FREE samples given out at every class.
All classes are taught by a Registered Dietitian.
For more information on our classes, go to www.hannaford.com
Nutrition classes sponsored by Kashi, Fresh Express and Dannon
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hold a Cinco De Mayo margarita
tasting and four-course dinner on
Friday, May 1, from 6:30 to 9
p.m. The evening will feature a
tasting of four different types of
Margaritas — two classic and two
creative — paired with a fourcourse Mexican meal. Cocktail
and cheese hour will start at 6:30
p.m. and the dinner will begin at
7:30 p.m. sharp. The cost is $50
per person, plus tax and gratuity.
Classes/workshops on
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beer/wine tasting
the complete menu and make res• WINE APPRECIATOIN 101 ervations, which are required.
IncrediBREW, 112 DW Hwy,
Nashua, 891-2477, incredibrew. Special tastings
com, will hold Wine Apprecia- • DOGFISH HEAD BEERS
tion 101 with a free wine tasting, TASTING The Wine Society
Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m.. For (18 Pondview Place in Tyngsall events, space is limited and boro, Mass., 978-649-8993; 650
fills up fast so call for a reserva- Amherst St. #9 in Nashua, 883tion. You can also e-mail dave@ 4114; www.winesociety.us) on
incredibrew.com with questions.
May 1 is holding is a tasting of
• WINE SOCIETY (18 Pond- Dogfish Head craft beers. The
view Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., cost for that tasting is $10; call to
978-649-8993; 650 Amherst St. RSVP.
#9 in Nashua, 883-4114; www. • SOUTH AFRICAN WINE
winesociety.us) offers classes for TASTING The Wine Society
wine lovers of all levels. New ses- (18 Pondview Place in Tyngssions start every few months. Call boro, Mass., 978-649-8993; 650
for upcoming schedule.
Amherst St. #9 in Nashua, 8834114; www.winesociety.us). On
Special dinners
Friday, May 1, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
• FROG’S LEAP WINE DIN- there will be a tasting of South
NER The Bedford Village Inn, African wines (sauvignon blanc,
(2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford) chenin blanc, shiraz, pinotage and
will hold a Frog’s Leap wine din- cabernet sauvignon) at the Tyngsner with winery owner Todd Wil- borough store. The cost is $10.
liams on Wednesday, May 6. A • WINE TASTING Milly’s Tavfive-course dinner will be paired ern, 500 Commercial St. in Manwith wines. The event will start chester, will hold a wine tasting
at 6 p.m. and the cost is $85 per on Thursday, May 7, from 7 to 9
person. Call 472-2001 to make p.m. to benefit the breast cancer
a reservation, and go to www. three-day walk. Tickets cost $20
bedfordvillageinn.com to see the and include wine tastings and
evening’s menu, which will be wine discussions with Horizon
posted soon.
Beverages, cheese and crackers,
• MARGARITA TASTING & a chocolate fountain, raffles and
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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 email dave@incredibrew.com with
questions.
• BEER/WINE-MAKING classes and demonstrations on making
beer, wine and soda at IncrediBREW, 112 DW Hwy, Nashua,
891-2477, incredibrew.com. Shop
features fest-nights that focus on
making a particular kind of beer.
• SCOTTISH BREWFEST IncrediBREW, 112 DW Hwy, Nashua,
891-2477, incredibrew.com, will
hold its the Scottish Highlander
Brewfest, on Thurs., May 7, at 6
p.m. The cost is $50 for two variety cases (bottles not included) for
beers like Scotch Ale, 60 Shillings
Scotch Ale, Beam Me Up Scottish
and Heather Ale. Return in two
weeks for bottling. For all events,
space is limited and fills up fast so
call for a reservation. You can also
e-mail dave@incredibrew.com with
questions.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR CUSTOM WINERY — BEDFORD
Vintner’s Cellar at Sebbins Brook
Marketplace, 410 South River
Road Route 3 in Bedford, offers
a chance to taste and create custom wines. Call 627-9463 or go to
www.vintnerscellarnh.com.
• VINTNER’S CELLAR WINERY 133 Loudon Road in Concord, allows customers can make
custom wines in batches of 24 to
28 bottles.
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Pan-seared scallops are a quick, easy, and
healthy meal. Two of Hippo’s wine experts
chose sauvignon blanc to go with this dish,
but the other two each offered a different
selection.
• 2007 Chateau Valcombe
Rosé — $14.99 (Recommended by Kristin Ryall
from Butter’s Fine Food and
Wine, 70 N. Main St. in
Concord, 225-5995) Ryall
said this rosé’s “fresh notes
of tangerine and candied
lemon offer a refreshing contrast to the
fishy scallops. This wine is easy to sip and
even easier to drink.”
• 2007 Scagliola Casot
dan Vian Chardonnay
— $21.99 (Recommended by Marissa
Bontatibus from The
Wine Studio, 53 Hooksett Road in Manchester,
622-WINE (9463), and
27 Buttrick Road #3 in Londonderry, 432WINE (9463) Bontatibus said this Italian
wine has a nice, wide floral bouquet, as well
as being supple and well-balanced.
• 2006 White Oak Sauvignon Blanc — $21.99
(Recommended by Paula
Doucette of Bella Vino, 2
Young Road in Londonderry,
426-5212,
www.
bellavinonh.com) This sauvignon blanc has a lot of
wonderful flavors of fruit, lemongrass, a
slightly nutty quality, with a round mouth
feel and a fresh, crisp finish.
• 2007 ETC Sauvignon
Blanc — $14.99 (Recommended
by
Marilyn
McGuire from the Cracker
Barrel, 377 Main St. in Hopkinton, 746-7777) This
California white wine has
aromas of pineapple, lime
and lemon — a citrus palate with lingering
mineral notes that complement the scallops’
seared sweetness.
Available now through May 10th
OR
Wine with dinner
Uncanoonuc Mt.
Perennials
IT
drink
2175 Candia Road, Manchester
www.eatatmoejoe.com
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POP CuLTurE
Index
CdS
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• Hot Day at the Zoo, Long Way
MuSIC, BOOKS,
GAMES, COMICS,
MOvIES, dvdS,
Tv And MOrE
dork vs. dork: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Summer begins with the season’s first big potential blockbuster
Home EP, A
• DJ Hell, Teufelswerk, 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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X-Men Origins: Wolverine is set to usher in a great summer of popcorn gluttony by pushing aside blue Kelsey
Grammars and frail old men in capes and zooming in on
the only mutant that ever really mattered. And what better
actor to star and produce than Hugh Jackman, who brought
the feral badassery of Logan on screen not once, not twice
but THRICE already? Pair him with actor’s actor Liev
Schreiber as rival Sabertooth (a marked improvement in
casting over X-Men’s pro-wrestler Tyler Mane).
Some may call this a vanity project for Jackman, but was it vanity that
put Orson Welles in both the starring and producing roles of Citizen Kane?
Was it vanity that made Jackman out-song-and-dance Beyoncé at the
Academy Awards? Was it vanity that saw Hugh shoot David Bowie down
in cold blood on the set of The Prestige? I say NAY!
Sure, they’ve tucked a will.i.am in here for some mind-boggling reason
and, yes, a Snakes on a Plane alum is yukking it up as Gambit. Frankly, if
you start arguing about comic book canon and staying true to the source
material, you don’t really understand how comics work. There is no honor
among comic scribes, whose bread and butter is flippant ressurection and
remixing. No one stays dead, everybody secretly colluded with everyone
else in some alternate universe and expectations of sense are a fool’s hope.
Enjoy the pew-pew-pew bonk punch stab for an hour and a half.
• The Informers, F
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• Fighting, B-
• Obsessed, C-
• The Great Buck Howard, B
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GLEnn rESPOndS
And here I foolishly hoped the long cold winter would frost-bite some of
your fan-boy irrational hero worship. Jeez, why don’t you marry Hugh Jackman already and be done with it? Listen, retract your adamantium “claw” long
enough to take a shot from your inhaler and consider this clunker-to-be rationally. Orson Welles? Seriously? Buddy, I knew Charles Foster Kane, Charles
Foster Kane was a friend of mine. Wolverine is no Charles Foster Kane.
Oh boo hoo, Amalgamated Dynamics is doing the primary special effects.
Spare me the hot air, Szczesny, your mountain-hiking, slam poetry-disdaining schweppervessence wouldn’t know an ILM from a Digital Domain.
Unknown directors are no less likely to craft good cinema than all but the
most seasoned vets and Kickboxer 5 was awesome.
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• TURTLE
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• HEATH BAR
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• PINEAPPLE
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The opening few weeks of any summer movie season
are like the opening few weeks of the baseball season:
the teams are still getting the bugs out, still testing untried
players. In other words, stay home. The first amateur
“blockbuster” to test the waters this time is X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Wolverine. Let’s put the bastardization of the canon
aside for the moment. Let’s also just forget the ridiculous
progression of Wolverine in the three previous movies
that essentially turned him into Superman.
Instead consider the pedigree of this Hugh Jackman vanity vehicle
— actually, there is no pedigree. The virtually unknown director, Gavin
Hood, has no major motion picture experience and as best as I can tell
is most famous for playing the German champion in Kickboxer 5. And
writers David Benioff and Skip Woods have written the horrible screenplays for The Kite Runner and Swordfish, respectively. This is B movie
stuff. These guys must provide Jackman with his cigars or something to
have landed this project.
Finally, Amalgamated Dynamics is the primary special effects company. If you enjoyed the Santa Clause series, the Alien vs. Predator movies
or Elektra, well order yourself an extra large helping of popcorn and enjoy
the grease. Trust me, folks, there are real, adult special effects companies
whose work you’ll be enjoying in just a few weeks.
On store shelves May 5
• Passione, by Paul Potts (Sony)
• Star Trek, by Michael Giacchino (Varese Sarabande)
• Roadsinger (To Warm You
Through The Night), by Yusuf/
Cat Stevens (Virgin Records)
• White Lies For Dark Times, by
Ben & Relentless7 Harper and
Ben Harper (Virgin Records)
• Epiphany, by Chrisette
CdS
Michele (Def Jam)
• Live at the Meadowlands,
by Frank Sinatra (Concord
Records)
• Fantasy Ride, by Ciara (La
Face)
• In the Hands of God, by
Newsboys (Inpop)
• Fight for Love, by Elliott
Yamin (Hickory Records)
• Wavering Radiant, by Isis
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(Ipecac Recordings)
• Outer South, by Conor Oberst
(Merge Records)
• ‘Cause I Sez So, by New York
Dolls (Atco)
• Sunrise in the Land of Milk
and Honey, by Cracker (429
Records)
• Family Time, by Ziggy Marley
(Tuff Gong Worldwide)
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Why should you hate this stuff, aside
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acoustic folkie-alkie- be sure a few too many of its players take
country
jam-band seriously? Well, any bug-eyed head-fake at
HDATZ is from Low- the bouncers guarding the velvet ropes is
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that’s be you shouldn’t, really.
Wouldn’t matter to Hell, anyway, content
now affectionately
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and future CD releases
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• Borderline-no-wave hipster-distraction Matt and
imagined by Edgar Allen Poe
(apparently they’re unfamil- Kim, whose sophomore album Grand probably has a
iar with Lovecraft, a more couple of beret-wearing neo-beatniks whispering “Sonic Youth!” excitedly in some burned-down coffee shack
apropos craftsman).
Moving right along, “Lost” in Brooklyn, just released a video where they walk
hits up Hank Williams III, and around Times Square taking their clothes off while nice
“Outside Lookin In” rolls out old tourist ladies look away. Gotta admit, though, that’s
the old-time Bob Dylan beer- one sure-fire way to boost sales in a depressed economy:
goggles singalongs. For now, make Edith Bunker throw up on her way to see Regis.
• Ben Harper, who tried unsuccessfully to get the
the New Hampshire legs of
their tour put them at Dover’s 20something hophead demographic to vote out the
Barley House on May 2 and insanely violent Cheney junta in 2004, releases White
Penuches in Manchester on Lies for Dark Times on Tuesday. As you’d expect from
June 20. A — Eric W. Saeger someone who does a lot of Dave Matthews theft and
dishwasher-safe folk, the first single, “Shimmer and
Shine” sounds like Bad Brains and Molly Hatchet jamDJ Hell, Teufelswerk
International Dee Jay ming in hell. No, seriously, Twitter on over to their
Gigolo Records [import], MySpace interwebs and see for yourself.
• Now that your generation’s poised to destroy Star
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• Weird-toothed asexual folkie chick Jewel, rememcould pooh-pooh electroclash
— the genre DJ Hell pio- ber her? For the last few years, her stock’s been sliding
neered — as an oafish faster than a greased Freddie Mac, and her new release
fumbling in the back seat Lullaby finishes off her cred in a blaze of purple-dinoinvolving disco, Devo, ‘80s saur glory, as she sings “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
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punk music for technoids. It her heart but because the corporate war-bots at Fishhad its time, certainly; there er Price seriously couldn’t think of any crazier way to
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Book & Lecture
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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
• Hills Memorial Library
18 Library St., Hudson,
886-6030, hillsml.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
Bookstores
• Barnes & Noble
1741 South Willow St.,
Manchester, 668-5557;
235 DW Hwy, Nashua,
888-5961; bn.com
• Borders
76 Fort Eddy Road, Concord,
224-1255;
281 DW Hwy, Nashua,
888-9300; borders.com
• Gibson’s Bookstore
27 South Main St., Concord,
224-0562,
gibsonsbookstore.com
• MainStreet Bookends
16 E. Main St., Warner,
456-2700,
mainstreetbookends.com
• River Run Books
20 Congress St., Portsmouth,
431-2100, riverrunbookstore.com
• Toadstool Bookshop
586 Nashua St., Milford,
673-1734, toadbooks.com.
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
• RUTH REICHL discusses her
BOOKS
• Faith and Will: Weathering the
Storms in Our Spiritual Lives,
by Julia Cameron (Tarcher)
• Franklin’s Thrift: The History
of a Lost American Virtue, by
David Blankenhorn, Barbara
Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha
Brophy-Warren (Templeton
Foundation Press)
• Worst Instincts: Cowardice,
Conformity, and the ACLU, by
Wendy Kaminer (Beacon Press)
• The Years of Talking Dangerously, by Geoffrey Nunberg
(PublicAffairs)
• Red and Me: My Coach, My
Lifelong Friend, by Bill Russell,
Alan Steinberg (HarperCollins)
• The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s
Most Glorious—and Perplexing—City, by David Lebovitz
(Broadway)
• Prophecies: 4,000 Years of
Prophets, Visionaries and Predictions, by Tony Allan (Duncan
Baird Publishers)
• War of Necessity, War of
Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq
Wars, by Richard N. Haass
(Simon & Schuster)
What are you reading?
Karina Giordano,
marketing assistant
Concord Cooperative Market, 24
South Main St., Concord
I am currently reading Dali on
Modern Art, written by Salvador Dali
himself. My opinion of it is that it
is actually very humorous to me, he
basically rips apart (now) well known
artists, the prime example being
Picasso. It has published letters, articles, essays etc. that
Dali has written about how terrible he thinks modern art
in general is. In many cases he actually sent and published these in reference to specific contemporary artists.
I think it’s interesting to see his unadulterated opinion of
modern art, and to see how strong those opinions were.
Now in art history artists like Picasso are identified as
progressive and innovative but Dali saw them as just an
abomination of art in general.
new book, Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught
Me Along the Way, on Fri., May 1,
at 7:30 p.m. at The Music Hall (28
Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400,
www.themusichall.org) as part of
the Writers on a New England Stage
series. $13, or $11 for members of
The Music Hall or NHPR.
• MARIANNE O’CONNOR
discusses Haunted Hikes of New
Hampshire on Sat., May 2, from 1
to 3 p.m. at MainStreet BookEnds.
• SEAN CONWAY brings a multimedia book tour of Cultivating Life
to Keefe Auditorium in Nashua on
Sat., May 23, at 10 a.m. General seating tickets cost $10 and all proceeds
will be used to beautify the school’s
interior courtyards. A book signing
and reception will follow. For tickets call 883-7435 or visit the Keefe
Auditorium box office between 3
and 5 p.m. May 18 through May 22
or after 9 a.m. May 23.
• 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.
Lectures and discussions
• IS THERE VALUE IN YOUR
OLD AND RARE BOOKS? Free
and open talk by Kenneth Gloss,
proprietor of the nationally known
Brattle Book Shop in Boston, on
Tues., May 5, at 7 p.m. at Chichester Public Library, 15 Main St.,
Chichester. Following the lecture
and Q&A session he will give free
verbal appraisals of those books
that attendees bring with them. See
www.brattlebookshops.com.
• JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS
impersonated by Chuck Annal and
Janet Hertzberg on May 5 at 7 p.m. in
the library living room at NHTI, free
and open to the public, part of the
Wings of Knowledge lecture series.
• BILL LITTLEFIELD nationally
known author and veteran sports
commentator, host of NPR’s Only a
Game weekly sports magazine, will
speak on Wed., May 6, at 7 p.m. at
Amherst Town Library. The event
is free and open to the public; all
ages are welcome. Please register
by calling or e-mailing the library
or via its online calendar.
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.
• BOOK GROUPS at Borders in
Nashua include Armchair Globetrotters, mystery book group, science fiction book club and more.
• BOOK GROUPS at Barnes &
Noble in Nashua include kid lit for
adults, sci-fi and more. See bn.com
or call 888-0533 for times. Group
for fiction readers meets third
Thursdays at 7 p.m.; new members
always welcome.
• BOOK GROUPS at Barnes &
Noble in Manchester include fiction book club; gay & lesbian readers; metaphysical book group and
more. See bn.com or
call 668-5557 for times.
• BOOKS IN THE MILL discussion series at UNH Manchester is
free and open to the public. Spring
2009 theme is time travel. Monthly
discussions held first Thursdays in
library mezzanine conference room
at 6:30 p.m. May 7: The Plot to Save
Socrates, by Paul Levinson.
• BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
book discussion group at Barnes
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& Noble in Manchester focuses on
current literature on Buddhist topics, 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.
•
MANCHESTER
CITY
LIBRARY evening book discussion
group meets on the second Thursday
of the month at 7 p.m. May 14: Water
for Elephants, by Sara Gruen.
•
MANCHESTER
CITY
LIBRARY Brown Bag Book Club
meets on the last Tuesday of the
month from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. May
26: Water for Elephants, by Sara
Gruen.
• NOW OR NEVER READING
GROUP at the Learning Institute at
New England College in Henniker
offers spring classes April 23 through
May 14 with exploration of Russian
writers—short stories and plays of
Chekhov and more. Open to all adult
lifelong learners at a minimal fee.
Visit www.nec.edu and follow links
to LINEC to enroll or call the registrar at 746-6212.
Writers’ groups
• SPRING WRITERS CONFERENCE of the Seacoast Writers Association is Sat., May 16, at
Chester College of New England,
beginning with registration and
continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m.
in the college’s Wadleigh Library.
Your Spiritual Self-Worth
A free talk open to the public.
Summer school
The New Hampshire Writers’
Project has scheduled its summer 2009 workshop series and you
can register now, at nhwritersproject.org or by calling 314-7980.
Membership in NHWP costs $55
(students/seniors $25) and gets you discounts on the
workshops. Here are the offerings — all take place at
Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester:
• “Crafting the Modern Whodunnit,” for all levels,
four Wednesdays starting May 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. Cost is
$200 ($175 for members). Taught by Tom Eslick, author
of Mountain Peril, Snow Kill and other mysteries.
• “Write a Winning Screenplay: What Film Executives Really Look For,” for all levels, two-week
intensive, Saturdays, May 30 and June 6, from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. Cost is $200 ($175 for members). Taught by Susan
Kouguell, a Tufts University instructor who has worked
with major film studios.
• “Putting the ‘I’ into the Eye of Creative Nonfiction,” one-day workshop for all levels, Saturday, June 6,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $150 ($125 for members).
Taught by Sandell Morse, author of many short stories
and nonfiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
• “Making the Match: Writing Successful Grant
and Fellowship Applications,” for intermediate and
advanced writers, Saturday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Cost is $80 ($65 for members). Taught by poet Martha
Carlson-Bradley.
• “Social Media and the Writer,” for all levels, Saturday, June 13, from 1 to 4 p.m. Cost is $80 ($65 for
members). Taught by Ann Kingman, a district sales
manager for Random House, blogger of “Books on the
Nightstand.”
Keynote speaker is Marie Harris,
former state poet laureate. Afternoon session offers a choice of
one of four workshops: “Writing
for Kids Who Won’t Read,” with
Michael Sullivan, “Contents Under
Pressure,” with Kimberly Cloutier
Green, “How Disastrous is Your
Adventure?” with Vicki Stiefel, and
“Ear Whacks: Writing and Producing the Short Film,” with Alfred
Thomas Catalfo. Costs vary from
$40 to $70 depending on how early
you register and whether you are a
member of SWA. To register, visit
seacoastwritersassociation.org or
call 778-8182.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
The Book
Report
• New store for old textbooks: The
Book Cellar is opening a textbook store in
Manchester, next to Daddy’s Junky Music
on South Willow Street. The Book Cellar
already has a general bookstore in Nashua (34 Northwest Blvd., in Westside Plaza
on Route 101A) and online operations
connected with a warehouse in downtown Nashua; they buy and sell textbooks,
even older editions, and donate unsellable
books to teachers and schools around the
world. The new store will offer used and
new textbooks and professional books
(reference books, technical manuals, etc.)
at 10 to 40 percent off current-edition prices, and will buy all types of books from
customers, according to a Book Cellar
notice. The grand opening is scheduled for
May 2. The Book Cellar is at www.book-
WRITING WORKSHOP six
weeks, Thursdays, May 21 through
June 25, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the
Shapley Townhouse at 454 Court
St. at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth. Cost is $25; scholarships are
available. To register, call 433-0868
or e-mail janetcmarx@mac.com.
Explore how prayer can open your thought
to the wealth of God’s goodness.
International speaker,
Michael Pabst, is a
practitioner and teacher
of Christian Science
healing and a member
of the Christian Science
board of Lectureship.
Sunday, May 3rd at 3:00 p.m.
The Radisson Hotel
700 Elm Street, Manchester
Dartmouth Room
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Other
• BOOK SALE at Blaisdell
Memorial Library, 129 Stage
Road in Nottingham, 679-8484,
on Sat., May 9, from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. Donations of books and digital material in good condition are
welcome starting Mon., May 4
— no textbooks.
cellaronline.com.
• NASCAR + library: The Whipple
Free Library Foundation of New Boston is
auctioning off tickets to a NASCAR Sprint
Cup Series Race to benefit its new library
campaign. Four reserved race tickets and
four pre-race pit passes will be auctioned,
for the winner’s choice of a June 28 race
or a Sept. 20 race. New Hampshire Motor
Speedway (which donated the tickets) values the prize package at $750. Minimum
bid is $450. Sealed bids will be accepted
at the Whipple Free Library from Friday,
May 1, through Friday, May 15, at 5 p.m.;
bidgs must be submitted in writing in a
sealed envelope with the bidder’s name,
address, phone number and bid amount.
Bids will be opened publicly at the Community Church of New Boston at 5:15
p.m. May 15.
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Poetry
• NH SLAM POETRY FINALS
on Sat., May 2, in the French Building at NH Institute of Art in Manchester (next door to the Manchester
Public Library). All ages, $5 cover
charge. Doors open at 7 p.m., competition begins at 8 p.m. This will
determine which of 10 poets will
represent NH at the National Poetry
Slam. For more info, contact Mark
Palos at mark.palos@gmail.com
or 858-3286 or see www.myspace.
com/bridgepoetryopenmic.
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FILM
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REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
• Battle for Terra (PG, wide release)
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (PG-13,
wide release)
In theaters Friday, May 1
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine (PG-13,
wide release)
• The Limits of Control (R, limited
release)
Fighting
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Fighting (PG-13)
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Guys fight in Fighting, a
movie so self-explanatory
a review almost feels
redundant.
Not that that’s going to stop me.
Much like scrappy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum, campaigning
hard for the position as his generation’s Sylvester Stallone), I’m not
going to let anything stop me. Not
even nonsensical plot points, like the
fact that we meet him when he’s selling counterfeit Harry Potter books
(Harry Potter and the Hippopotamus — there’s a market? Really?),
will stop this triumphant tale of a kid
on the streets, trying to make his way
via underground fights. It’s when
he’s on the streets trying to sell such
a box full of nonsense that he comes
across Harvey (Terrence Howard), a
self-identified two-bit hustler who
likes the way this hunk of chiseled
abs and “huh” expression fights.
He eventually convinces Shawn to
take part in fights organized by men
like Jack Dancing (Roger Guenveur Smith) and Martinez (Luis
Guzman), underworld bigwigs who
think that Harvey is small potatoes. These men bet on the fighters
and place bets for wealthy uptown
types who like the danger of these
games. For Shawn, though, none of
that matters — he’s in it for the mon-
ey that he hopes will get him off the
streets. Particularly when he meets
Zulay (Zulay Henao), a sweet single
mom who works nights at a club frequented by these men, he wants to
prove his worth and make the money that makes a better life possible.
The movie also contains an only
half-developed plot about a rivalry
with another fighter, Evan Hailey
(Brian White). Evan and Shawn
used to be on the same wrestling
team in college and there was some
kafuffle between Evan and Shawn
and Shawn’s dad (the coach) and …
well, and whatever. Their past and
Shawn’s reason for leaving his Alabama home aren’t particularly well
Reviewlets: Snack-sized movie reviews
* Indicates a movie worth
seeking out. Previously reviewed
movies have grades. For full
reviews of most movies here or
movies previously released, go to
www.hippopress.com.
Adventureland (R)
Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg.
A lit major discovers that
fancy book learning is no
match for the soul-crushing
nature of actual life in this
darling, funny and wonderfully
soundtracked movie about
post-college life circa 1987. A-
hour to live or something (this
time, his heart has been replaced
with a battery-operated version
that needs constant recharging
— for the record, this is not
the exaggerate-y part of the
reviewlett). C+
true meaning of blah-blahwhatever after being visited,
A Christmas Carol-style, by
girlfriends past. Opens wide
on Friday, May 1.
Hannah Montana: The
Movie (G)
Cyruses, Miley and Billy
Ray.
Not to be confused with the
concert film from a while
back, this movie is about
the Hannah Montana/Miley
Stewart character from the
TV show. Oh, and about
making lots of money. C
defined and eventually the whole
mess is just sort of dropped. The
point seems to be to set up a reason for Evan and Shawn to dislike
each other and to add a little extra
tension to their Big Fight. This,
like some of the uneven character development, makes the movie
a bit shaggy, like somebody at the
last minute decided it needed more.
But if anything, Fighting is at its
best when it’s doing less — scenes
where the scrappy Shawn is trying
to figure out how to beat a more
skilled opponent or when Shawn
and Zulay are engaging in the
world’s aw-shucks-iest romance.
Fighting is fun — it has a charming B-movie feel (Terrence Howard
probably represents the biggest
“star” in the movie) and it delights in
its use of grimy New York City settings that could have come straight
from a mid-1970s movie. BRated PG-13 for intense fight
sequences, some sexuality and brief
strong language. Directed by Dito
Montiel and written by Montiel and
Robert Munic, Fighting is an hour and
45 minutes long and is distributed in
wide release by Universal Pictures.
Obsessed (PG-13)
Ali Larter flirts Fatal
Attraction-style with Idris
Elba in Obsessed, a giddily
exploitative movie that
really gets going in its final
half-hour or so.
SPOILER ALERT — (though
all of this is pretty heavily suggested in the movie’s trailers) but after
I Love You, Man (R)
Paul Rudd, Jason Segel.
Bromance, Paul Rudd — who
can say no? Like any good
rom-com (brom-com?), I Love
You, Man has Rudd searching
for the heterosexual man of his
equally heterosexual dreams
when he realizes that he’s been
so concentrated on girlfriends
that he’s never had any time to
make dude friends. B+
spending an hour and something
building up the creepy relationship between faithful family man
Derek (Elba, the recently deposed
branch manager on The Office)
and attack-seducer Lisa (Larter),
a temp who latches on to the idea
that a relationship between Derek
and herself is inevitable, the actual movie begins with a segment I
think of as Beyoncé Kicks Ass. It
starts with the scene you may have
seen in the trailers when Sharon
(Beyoncé Knowles), Derek’s wife,
calls Lisa and leaves a message to
the effect that “you think you’re
crazy; I’ll show you crazy.” Lisa
later shows up at their house for a
romantic liaison with Derek, and
Sharon proceeds to give Lisa a tour
of the home — giving Lisa a really good look at the floor, the wall,
some railings on their stairs. I know
you can’t yell “fire” in a crowded
theater but are you allowed to yell
“girlfight” in one with a handful of
other movie-goers?
The pre-”Beyonce Kicks Ass”
part of the movie isn’t bad. Derek
does do a bit of casual flirting with
Lisa when they first meet and then
fails to see the warning signs of her
being a little too interested (or sees
them but thinks nothing will come
of it and enjoys it a bit). When she
finally does make a move, he’s firm
about not being interested but she
ignores his rejection, eventually giving him roofies and sneaking in to
his hotel room on a business trip.
Parts of how Derek and others
handle the situation are improbable, though for this kind of movie
Matthew Perry wishes to a
carnival arcade fortune teller
to be small (or something
like that) and goes from a
sad-sack 40something to
Zac Efron, 17 and in high
school with his kids. Sitcomy
entertainment is improved by
Efron’s weird charm and the
talent of supporting characters
(including Leslie Mann). B-
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+
Street Fighter: The Legend of
Chun-Li (PG-13)
Kristin Kreuk, Neal
McDonough.
Kristin Kreuk, a.k.a. Lana
The Soloist (PG-13)
Lang on the latest TV
Observe and Report (R)
Robert Downey Jr., Jamie
Superman series (who was
Seth Rogen, Anna Faris.
Fast & Furious (PG-13)
Foxx
only good when she was evil),
Written and directed by Jody
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.
A newspaper reporter writes a
brings her crap acting and her
Hill (of The Foot Fist Way, a
As the ad says, new model,
column about and then starts up unconvincing stunts to the
Battle for Terra (PG)
movie lots of people who are
original parts. Zoom, kera friendship with a schizophrenic streets of Bangkok. D
Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet.
not me fell all over themselves
blam! C+
The Haunting in
man who once had the potential
Surviving earthlings travel for
to praise from last summer), this to be a great musician. B
Connecticut (PG-13)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
space in search of a new home Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
comedy focuses on Seth Rogen,
Virginia Madsen, Elias
(PG-13)
in this animated sci-fi. Opens
security guard, and his attempt
(PG-13)
Koteas.
State of Play (PG-13)
Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber.
wide on Friday, May 1.
Jennifer Garner, Matthew
Let’s all pause for a moment to to find love and a sense of pride Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck.
How did Wolverine become
at the mall. Equal parts “ha ha
McConaughey.
reflect on the talented Virginia
It’s another one of those movies such an awesome combination
Crank: High Voltage (R)
heh” and “yikes, what’s wrong
Apparently, the powers that
Madsen before we plunge into
where reporters look like Russell of razor-sharp claws and
Jason Statham, Amy Smart.
be thought we needed another this horror story where she is the with him.” C
Crowe (we don’t, not on his
attitude? Here’s how. Opens
The bullet-headed, chest-baring Matthew McConaughey rom- mom to a family tormented by
most rumpled out-of-shape
wide (for reals, this time) on
Statham is back as Chev Chelios com. In this one, a love-’em- spookiness in their new house.
17 Again (PG-13)
day do we, as a profession,
Friday, May 1, and thus the
and yet again he has only an
Zac Efron, Matthew Perry.
and-leave-’em type learns the Clook that together) and run
summer begins.
Earth (B)
Baby animals occasionally get
eaten, occasionally have fun
romps in the snow in this view
of our wild planet. B
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A law school dropout gets
his first taste of show biz as an
assistant to a B-list legend in The
Great Buck Howard, a sweet little
movie starring Colin Hanks.
That would be Colin, son of Tom, who
also makes an appearance in this movie that
reminds me of one of several Swingers-era
movies about finding yourself, professionally and otherwise, in Hollywood.
Troy (Colin Hanks) is in law school as
the movie begins but he hates it. During the
middle of a class, he decides he’s not happy and leaves — leaves all the way to Los
Angeles, where he decides to become a writer. But, to pay for his chosen profession, he
decides to take a job as the assistant to the
Great Buck Howard (John Malkovich).
Who, you might ask?
Troy doesn’t especially know either. But
it turns out Buck was a regular guest on
the Tonight Show back during the Johnny
Carson years. He is a mentalist (he scoffs
at the term “magician”) and performs feats
involving hypnotism and guessing numbers
picked by members of the audience. His big
finish is figuring out where the audience
has hidden his money. It’s a very Ed Sullivan Show-ish act but it has appeal to small
audiences in Bakersfield, Akron and other
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cities on the B-list enterainment circuit.
Troy’s job is to travel to these places and
attend to Buck’s slightly diva-ish desires,
helping him keep up the illusion that he
is still a Tonight Show-level star. (Not that
he’s been on the current Tonight Show and
in one particularly wonderful scene he calls
Jay Leno “Satan.”)
Buck attempts to regain some past glory with a secret new stunt that he plans to
unveil in Cincinnati. To help spread the
word about this new trick he calls on an old
friend in public relations. Naturally, that guy
is busy but he sends Valerie Brennan (Emily
Blunt), a publicist whom Buck immediately dislikes. Troy, however, likes her quite a
bit and together they try to endure Buck’s
attempt to make a comeback.
One of the running jokes of Being John
Malkovich is that the actor is regularly recognized but nobody can seem to remember
any movies he’s been in. His performance
in The Great Buck Howard suggests why —
he melts into character studies like this. He
vanishes beneath a game-show-host hairdo and facial express that (when Buck is
off stage) suggest a man just barely holding back the words “don’t you know who
I am?!” But Malkovich doesn’t let Buck
become a caricature or a one-note character.
While Troy is sort of a blank slate character who allows us entry into Buck’s world,
Malkovich makes Buck a complex mystery
of a guy who shows us only a part of his
character while suggesting that there are all
these other sides to him.
The Great Buck Howard is a light, fun
Hollywood story that isn’t about the fame
and glamour of Hollywood but more about
the show business part — specifically, the
business part. Specifically, the grind of the
business. Buck may preen and complain
but he works it, showing up in small cities
at half-full auditoriums to give unglamorous middle-aged audiences an evening of
amazement. His story may not be legendary
but it is delightful. B
Rated PG for some language including suggestive remarks and a drug reference. Written
and directed by Sean McGinly, The Great Buck
Howard is an hour and 31 minutes long and is
distributed in limited release by Magnolia Pictures. The movie is playing at least through
Thursday, April 30, at Red River Theatres and
is available on Comcast On Demand (under the
“Magnolia” category) for $4.99.
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improbability isn’t a killer. What does make
this movie less of a junk-food-ish guilty
pleasure is that it doesn’t really have the
kind of crazy energy and maniacal cheesiness you’d expect until it fully unleashes
Beyoncé, and by then we’re already entering the last lap. Once Ms. Knowles is
in control of the screen time, the movie is goofy silly fun — this isn’t a movie
for showing off one’s acting chops; it’s all
about chewing the scenery. But the movie
doesn’t get us there soon enough. We spend
too long plodding through Derek’s fumblings with whether or not he should go to
human resources.
If movie theaters allowed you to fast forward straight to the Beyonce ass-kicking,
Obsessed might be worth heading to the
cinema for. But, since you can’t, there’s
always Netflix. CRated PG-13 for sexual material including
some suggestive dialogue, some violence and
thematic content. Directed by Steve Shill and
written by David Loughery, Obsessed is an hour
and 45 minutes long and is distributed in wide
release by Sony Pictures.
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Hollywood executive William (Billy Bob
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who is always seen just about to or just having had sex with groupies who are probably
criminally young. And then there’s Tim Price
(Lou Taylor Pucci), a friend of Graham’s who
goes to Hawaii for a vacation with his boozy,
inappropriate father Les Price (a wonderfully
sleazy Chris Isaak).
At the edge of this pool of wealthy pathetic juvenile adults and their self-important
depressed offspring is the poor, twitchy
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Seldom do movies this bad yet this flamboyantly convinced of their own greatness
actually make it to movie screens. Think
of the most pretentious, gag-worthy movie you’ve ever seen and I’m willing to bet
this movie is worse. It is in love with how
“artsy” it is, how important. It clearly thinks
it’s offering up some brilliant social commentary. It is, in fact, offering a tour far up
the recesses of its own intestinal cavity. The
movie seems to want to examine in detail the
motivations, morality and personalities of
its trite, one-dimensional characters but as
hopelessly self-involved as these characters
are we actually get nothing about their inner
lives (quite the feat for a movie that seems
to be about inner life). The Informers also
seems to be in love with the sound of its own
archly self-conscious dialogue, and seems to
revel in its 1980s badness as though there is
some brilliant meta commentary in all the
stupid hair and embarrassing fashion.
There isn’t, though — there isn’t anything
redeemable, enjoyable, entertaining or even
darkly humorous about this movie. There is
only a bog of self-absorption and self-importance slowly sucking in all characters and plot
like dinosaurs sinking into tar. F
Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity,
drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images. Directed by Gregor Jordan and
written by Nicholas Jarecki and Bret Easton
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• Folking you up: Folk-and-roots group
The Wiyos will make a stop at Studio 99,
99 Factory St. in Nashua, on May 16 at 8
p.m., on the eve of the release of their new
CD this summer. Originally street performers in New York and New Orleans, the
group combines traditional folk music with
various stage antics, and has been featured
in the BBC documentary “Folk America
- Hollerers, Stompers, and Old-time Ramblers. Tickets cost $15 at the door.
• Spanking the tambourine: Local
favorites The Buskers will hold a concert
in celebration of their newest CD, Spank
That Tambourine!, on May 2 at the Franklin
Opera House, 316 Central St. in Franklin.
The trio of Kathy Sommer, Paul Hubert
and Craig Jaster will join guest drummer
Tim Gilmore for an amped-up evening of
fused folk, rock and jazz. Tickets cost $12
for adults, $8 for students, and can be purchased by phone at 934-1901 or online at
www.franklinoperahouse.org/eventsschedule.htm.
• Wine tasting at Millys: Normally the
home to local and touring rock groups,
Milly’s Tavern (500 Commercial St. in
Manchester) will set aside May 7 as a winetasting fundraiser to benefit the Breast
Cancer 3-Day. Tickets for the tasting are
$20 and include cheese, crackers and a
chocolate fountain, a wine discussion with
Horizon Beverage, and raffles and prizes. Purchase tickets in person or by calling
(603) 625-4444.
• Look out Miley: Tween rocker Demi
Lovato will roll into town Aug. 24 for a
show at the Verizon Wireless Arena, with
special guest David Archuleta. The star of
the Disney Channel series Sonny With a
Chance released her first CD, Don’t Forget,
last September and opened for the Jonas
Brothers last summer. Tickets are available
by phone at 800-745-3000 or at ticketmaster.com.
• Look who’s back: After a two-year
hiatus, the band Secondface will play Shenanigan’s, 586 Nashua St. in the Shaw
Plaza in Milford, at 9 p.m. May 9. The band
is also one of the many local groups vying
for the chance to open for Korn at the Rock
On Festival at Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular
Pavillion on May 23. Tickets for that show
can be purchased at meadowbrook.net or by
calling 293-4700.
• Comedy for the ladies: Bedford Foursquare Church, 12 Station Road in Bedford,
will host a Women’s Comedy Night on Saturday, May 2, at 6:30 p.m. (doors open at
6 p.m.). Tickets cost $8 in advance (and
can be purchased at www.hopecommunity.
info) and $10 at the door. The Skitzy Chicks
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Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements
The original Streamline
On life on the road and their new CD
By Katie Beth Ryan
music@hippopress.com
Enter the term “Streamline” into the search
fields at the iTunes Music Store, and you’ll
stumble across a New Age group, evidently inspired by those CDs of waves crashing
into the ocean and birds chirping that retail
at Target for $9.99. There’s also a group from
Louisiana that played a show in Boston at
the same venue where the members of Manchester’s Streamline played just two weeks
earlier. The mild-mannered members of the
local Streamline tend not to mind that they
share a fairly common band name, though it
does cause confusion at times.
“I’ve had people say to me… ‘Oh I
can’t wait ’til you play this song,’ and I go
‘What?’” says Casey Myers, bassist of Manchester’s Streamline. As its members like
to stress, theirs was the first band with the
name “Streamline” to engage in interstate
commerce, though their lawyer has told
them that the name can’t be trademarked.
Name mix-ups have been just one of the
challenges surmounted by Streamline, currently recording a five-song EP scheduled
for release in July. They’re also encouraging
their friends, families and fans to purchase
tickets for their set at the Rock On Festival
headlined by Korn at Meadowbrook Farms
on May 23, with the hope of receiving top
billing next to Korn. Formed by then-16year-old Myers and drummer Nick Drouin
seven years ago, and joined by lead vocalist Kevin Laurencelle and guitarist JT (who
doesn’t give out his last name) in 2005, the
band has invested thousands of hours and
dollars into recording their first CD, Full
Circle, and into touring. All the while, they
have weathered the music business and the
closure of music venues in Manchester and
across New England.
“People just think that we have fun and
just write music and play, and they think
that we’re living some kind of a special
life,” Laurencelle said. The reality?
“We’re driving six hours to New York
and pulling a trailer, spending tons of money, stopping millions of times for gas,
hoping we break even by the time the trip’s
done, and looking at our wallet, and being
like, ‘OK, we’ve gotta record next week’…
We’re constantly throwing figures around.”
The struggles of constant touring caught
up with the band as they prepared to record
Full Circle with producer Alex Hatziyannis
of Boston, better known as “Alex the Greek.”
Streamline entered the studio with a vague
idea of how they wanted the record to sound,
but lacking cohesion as a group.
“This writing process compared to the
first album has not been hard,” Drouin
said. “On the first album we stressed out. I
remember fighting, and a lot ... went wrong,
and it was because of stress. Now since we
have that out, the release of the first album
is gone, the pressure of it.”
Over the past three years, the band has
also seen its influences broaden, and they’re
not afraid to declare their admiration for
groups as wide-ranging as Jewel, Rascal
Flatts and Boyz II Men.
“That’s probably the most known fact,
and we don’t hide it either,” JT said. “We’re
not, like, closet pop fans. We’ll tell everyone, and I think that is the little-known fact
about us is that we take a lot of that type
of music into our writing. I think that’s why
we’ve been called the Backstreet Boys of
this scene.”
Although Laurencelle admits that he
Streamline. Courtesy photo.
wouldn’t mind seeing some of the cash that
trademarked boy bands draw in, he said
Streamline prides itself on the sound it has
produced for its next release: “When you
hear Nickelback, you know it’s Nickelback.
You hear the guy’s voice. When you hear
Breaking Benjamin, you know it’s Breaking
Benjamin. When you hear it, you know it’s
still Streamline, but you can see that we’ve
grown musically.”
Streamline
Hear songs from the band at www.myspace.
com/streamlineband.
Upcoming shows include:
• Friday, May 15, at Jillian’s in Manchester at
8 p.m. (with Prospect Hill)
• Saturday, May 23, at Meadowbrook in Gilford at 1 p.m. (opening for Korn)
Music as medicine
Concord Hospital brings healing harmonies to patients
By Katie Beth Ryan
music@hippopress.com
The certified music practitioners in Concord
Hospital’s Music for Healing and Comfort program want to be very clear about one thing:
they are not music therapists.
“The difference is that with music therapy
you have a goal to change a patient’s behavior. They have goals the client needs to meet,”
said Emily Mills, a CMP who plays piano to
patients several times a week.
“What we do as practitioners is focus on
changing the environment to be more therapeutic. The only thing the patient has to do is be
there and give permission.”
Mills travels an hour from her home in Spofford to play for patients as part of the program,
which began in April of last year at the hospital under the umbrella of its Arts in Healing
program. Armed with a grant from the New
Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Alice
Kinsler, director of the Therapeutic Arts and
Activity Service at the hospital, set out to bring
a therapeutic music
program to patients.
“We’d had volunteer musicians for
quite a few years, having some extraordinary
visits with patients that
really made a huge difference,” she said. “I
felt that the next level
was being able to bring
them something that
was really meaningful
and also very specifically designed for a
Beverly Rush in the ICU. Photo by Katie Beth Ryan.
clinical setting.”
Mills, harpist Anne
become a CMP through a training program at
Bewley and guitarist Beverly Rush together Elliot Hospital in Manchester, followed by an
bring a range of experiences to the program. internship in a medical setting.
Mills is a retired special education teachKinsler said that patients are referred to
er, Bewley a retired professor of psychology CMPs by doctors, nurses, case workers and cliat Colby-Sawyer College, and Rush is a pro- nicians in situations where it is believed that a
fessional musician with several CDs for sale. therapeutic music session may be soothing. SesEach had to go through 90 hours of training to sions at Concord Hospital last for a minimum
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of 20 minutes to allow patients to receive the
full healing nature that time with a CMP can
bring. The music that is played depends on the
patient’s needs, but is typically soft and simple, and can be adjusted based on a patient’s
heart pattern or respiratory rate.
“They play in patients’ rooms, and they
really start the dialogue, the patient,” Kinsler
said. “Very much they play on request. Those
volunteers have a pretty large repertoire of
music. …While it feels like a one-on-one performance, there’s absolutely a therapeutic
benefit.”
And the benefits don’t stop with the patient.
The Music for Healing and Comfort Program
has been used to ease the pains associated with
childbirth, and to facilitate the dying process
as well. Because music is a shared experience,
Mills says, it can bring a family together during an emotional time.
“Very often, when you begin to play, family
members will begin to cry,” she said. “I’ve had
people say to me, ‘Thank you. I wasn’t able to
cry before.’ It’s just a great, great feeling to
help people through the grieving process.”
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Capitol Center for the
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44 S. Main St., Concord, 2251111
The Colonial Theatre
95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033
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Hampton Beach
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169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton
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80 Hanover St., Manchester,
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300 M.L.K Jr. Way, Lowell,
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555 Elm St., Manchester,
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• John Hammond, Fri., May 29, at
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• Willie Nelson, Sun., May 31, at 7
p.m., Meadowbrook
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• Jeff Pitchell, Fri., June 5, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• The Mystix, Sat., June 6, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Vince Gill, Wed., June 10, at 8
p.m., Lowell Auditorium
• Orleans, Thurs., June 11, at 8
p.m., Tupelo
• Dark Star Orchestra, Fri., June
12 and Sat., June 13, at 8 p.m.,
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• Beatlemania Now, Sat., June 13,
at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Capitol Center
• Poco, Sun., June 14, at 5:30 p.m.
and 8 p.m., Tupelo
• Foghat, Sun., June 14, at 7 p.m.
and 8 p.m., Palace Theatre
• Brad Paisley, Sun., June 14, at 8
p.m., Meadowbrook
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Wed., June 17, at 8 p.m., Meadowbrook
• The Black Crows, Thurs., June
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18, at 8 p.m., Tupelo
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8 p.m., Meadowbrook
• Keith Emerson, Fri., June 19, at
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• Don McLean, Fri., June 19, at 8
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NITE
Russian Roulette Productions will hold the third annual
NH Poetry Slam Finals on Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m. (doors
open at 7 p.m.).
The slam battle, hosted in
association with the Student
Council of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, will take
place in the auditorium of the
French Building of the Institute of Art (near the corner
of Concord and Pine streets, next door to the Manchester
Public Library) in Manchester. The event is open to all
ages and has a $5 cover charge.
Ten poets will compete for five spots to represent New
Hampshire at the National Poetry Slam, which will be
held this year in West Palm Beach, Fla. Defenders of the
Cause 2: Rockstars Against the Forces of Darkness, the
second compilation CD from open-mike poetry nights
at the Bridge Café, will be for sale with proceeds going
toward travel expenses for this year’s NH Slam Poetry
Team (motto: “Slam Free or Die”). The finalists this year
are Cara “Rollergirl” Losier, Summer Whitmore, Matt
Biondi, Ari Cameron, Christopher Johnson, Matt Gallant, Ryan McLellan, Heidi Therrien, Beau Williams and
Mark “The Colonel” Palos.
Slam Free or Die, the open-mike poetry series, is held
every other Friday at the Bridge Café, 1117 Elm St. in
Manchester, 647-9991. On Friday, May 1, the open-mike
night at Bridge will feature 15 slots for those who want to
read (sign-up starts at 6 p.m.) and performance poet Tony
Brown, named Legend of Slam at the 2006 National Poetry
Slam in Austin, Texas. See www.myspace.com/bridgepoetryopenmic or e-mail bridgepoetry@gmail.com for more.
Saturday.
• JIMMY’s 15 Mechanic St. in
Dover, 742-9818, Friday & Saturday.
• KELLY’S ROW 421 Central
Ave. in Dover, 750-7081, Thurs.
• MILLY’S TAVERN 500 Commercial St. in Manchester, 625-4444,
Monday ,Wednesday, Sunday.
• PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER
48 Main St. in Nashua, 821-7535,
Wednesday.
• RED DOOR 107 State St. in
Portsmouth, 373-6827, Tuesday.
• RJ’s 83 Washington St. in Dover,
617-2940. Tues., Thurs. thru Sat.
DJs
• WB’s 20 Old Granite St. in Man• 603 LOUNGE 14 West Hollis St. chester, 641-2583 Tuesday through
in Nashua, 821-5260, Mon. & Thurs. Saturday.
• AMBER ROOM 53 High St. in
Nashua, 881-9060, Thursday, Fri- Karaoke
day, and Saturday.
• 603 LOUNGE 14 West Hollis St.
• AUBURN PITTS 167 Rocking- in Nashua, 821-5260, Mon. & Thurs.
ham Road in Nashua, 622-6564, • ALAN’S North Main St. in
Saturday.
Boscawen, 753-6631, Wednesday.
• BREEZEWAY 14 Pearl St. in • AUBURN PITTS 167 RockingManchester, 621-9111, Fri. & Sat. ham Rd, Nashua, 622-6564, Sat.
• BREWERY LANE TAVERN 95 • BIDDY MULLIGAN’S 1 WashBrewery Ln., in Portsmouth, 433- ington St., Dover, 749-1100, Sunday.
7007, Friday, and Saturday.
• BOOMERANGS 37 Henniker St.,
• BRICK HOUSE 2 Orchard St., Hillsborough, 464-3912, Wednesday.
in Dover, 749-3838, Thursday (no • CANAL STREET PUB 25 Canal
DJ the 1st Thursday of the month). St. in Nashua, 889-3374, Saturday.
• CATTLEMAN’S SPORTS • CONCORD GRILLE 1 Eagle
BAR 14 Railroad Sq. in Nashua, Sq. in Concord, 228-6608, Tuesday
880-6001, Wednesday, Thursday, thru Thursday and Sunday.
and Saturday.
• CATTLEMAN’S SPORTS
• CLUB 313 93 S. Maple St. in BAR 14 Railroad Sq. in Nashua,
Manchester, 628-6813, Thurs- 880-6001, Wed., Thurs. & Sat.
day, Friday, and Saturday, www. • CHEN YANG LI 520 South St.,
club313.net.
Bow, 228-8508, Thurs. & Sat.
• CLUB LIQUID 23 Amherst St. in • CLUB 313 93 S. Maple St. in
Manchester, 645-7600, Thursday.
Manchester, 628-6813, Friday,
• CONCORD GRILLE 1 Eagle Sq. www.club313.net.
in Concord, 228-6608, Fri. & Sat.
• ELEMENT LOUNGE 1055
• GAS LIGHT 64 Market St. in Elm St. in Manchester, 627-2922,
Portsmouth,430-9122, Friday and every Sunday at 5 p.m. w/ DJ Sha-
ron Mulrennan.
• FLAMBEAUX 1181 Elm St., in
Manchester, 626-0304, Tuesday.
• FODY’S GREAT AMERICAN
TAVERN 9 Clinton St. in Nashua,
577-9015. Tuesday w/ Mark Allen
• GRANDSTANDS LOUNGE
216 Maple St. in Manchester, 6259656. Thursday thru Saturday, 8:30
p.m. to 1 a.m. w/ Brian Labrie.
• JADE DRAGON LOUNGE 515
DW Highway, Merrimack Commons, 424-2280, Thurs. thru Sat.
• JIMMY’s 15 Mechanic St. in
Dover, 742-9818, Thursday.
• JOHNNY BAD’S 542 Elm St.,
Manchester, 222-9191, Wednesday
w/ Captain Chris.
• JOHNNY’S PIZZERIA 35
Lowell Road in Hudson, 880-7087,
Thursday w/ Tony ZZZ.
• KELLY’S ROW 421 Central Ave.
in Dover, 750-7081, Thurs., w./ DJ
• MCGARVEY’S 1097 Elm St.,
627-2721, Friday, Saturday and
Monday w/ DJ Squidd.
• ROCKO’S 253 Wilson Ave. in
Manchester, 626-5866, Thursday
through Saturday.
• SHENANIGAN’S 586 Nashua
St. in Milford, 672-2060, Monday
and Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday w/ DJ Trinity.
• SLADE’S 4 W. Hollis St. in Nashua, 886-1334, Wed. thru Fri. & Sun.
• SLAMMERS 547 Donald St. in
Bedford, 668-2120, every Tuesday
at 8:30 p.m. w/ Shadow Rose.
• STEVE-N-JAMES TAVERN
187 Rockingham Road in Derry,
every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. w/ DJ
Sharon Mulrennan
• WHIPPERSNAPPERS 44
Nashua Road, Londonderry, 4342660, every Wednesday at 8:30
p.m. w/ DJ Sharon Mulrennan.
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Manchester’s
Only
Alternative
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for our famous
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Sun, May 10, 7:30am - 1pm
BILLY’S PROMOS!
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Prizes &
Giveaways
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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Bowling
• BOUTWELL’S BOWLING
CENTER 152 N. State St., Concord, 224-0941.
• LAKESIDE LANES 2171 Candia Road, Manchester, 627-7722,
www.lakesidelanes.com.
• LEDA LIGHTHOUSE 340
Amherst St., Nashua, 889-4884,
www.ledalanes.com.
• KING BOWLING LANES 751
Mast Road, Manchester, 623-9215,
www.kinglanes.com
• MERRIMACK TEN PIN
CENTER 698 DW Highway, Merrimack, 429-0989, 8:30 a.m. to
midnight.
• STADIUM TEN PIN Maple
Street, Manchester, 625-9656,
www.stadiumtenpin.net.
• TONY’S LANES 244 Elm St.,
Milford, 673-6673.
Battle of the poets
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NIGHTLIFE LISTINGS
Music
• BRADFORD BOG PEOPLE,
Woody Pringle & Beth Eldridge
playing American roots music, on
Fri., May 1, at 7 p.m. at the Sunapee Coffee House (sunapeecoffeehouse.org) at the Sunapee Methodist Church (17 Lower Main St. in
Sunapee).
• KATHLEEN FOWLE, Christian recording artist, on Fri., May
1, at 7:30 p.m. at New England
Revival Coffeehouse, 60 Bailey
Ave. in Manchester, www.nerch.
org. Free; donations accepted. See
www.kathleenfowle.com.
• SOULHOUSE 7, seven member soul and blues show, on Sun.,
May 3, at 2:30 p.m. at the Bedford
Library. Free.
• ANTENNAS UP, house music,
on Sat., May 16, at 7 p.m. (doors
open at 6 p.m.) at Sad Café, 148
Plaistow Road, Route 125, Plaistow. All ages. Call 382-8893.
• THE WIYOS, a Brooklyn-based
roots quartet, on Sat., May 16, at 8
p.m., at Studio 99 (Picker Building
in downtown Nashua, www.studio99nashua.com For more on Wiyos
see www.thewiyos.com.
• MURKADEE, pop rock band,
final show, at the Portsmouth Pearl,
Fri., May 29, at 7 p.m. $5 for admission. See www.murkadee.com.
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MUSIC THIS WEEK
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Allenstown
Ground Zero
48 Allenstown
Rd.
Amherst
Club Comedy At Amherst
Country Club
72 Ponemah
Road,673-9908
Auburn
Auburn Pitts
167 Rockingham
Road, 622-6564
Bedford
C.R. Sparks
18 Kilton Road,
647-7275
Mark’s
Showplace
Route 3,
668-7444
Shorty’s of
Bedford
230 Rte. 101,
637-1050
Slammers
547 Donald St.,
668-2120
Quackers Lounge
121 S. River Road; 622-3766
Belmont
The Lodge at Belmont
Route 106, 877-872-2501
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Boscawen
Alan’s
133 N. Main St., 753-6631
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Brookline
Big Bear Lodge
106 Route 13, 672-7675
Village Gate Folk Stage
12 Main St., 315-9423
Bow
Chen Yang Li
520 South St., 228-8508
Mama Clara’s
728 Route 3A, 227-0221
Thursday, April 30
Bedford
C.R. Sparks: Siroteau
Slammers: jam night
w/Barr None
Concord
Concord Grille: Gardner from Mama Kicks
Green Martini: open
mike
Hermanos: Joe Gattuso
Derry
Burgundy’s Billiards:
Karaoke/DJ Steve
Dover Brick House
2 Orchard St., 749-3838
Dover Soul
364 Central Ave., 834-6965
Kelley’s Row
421 Central Ave., 750-7081
RJ’s
83 Washington St.
Top of the Chop
One Orchard St., 740-0006
14 Pearl St., 621-9111
City Sports Grille
216 Maple St., 625-9656
Chateau Restaurant
201 Hanover St., 627-2677
Club 313
93 S. Maple St., 628-6813
Concord
Laconia
Club Liquid
Annicchiarico Theatre
Black Cat Café
Amherst St., 645-7600
1 Thompson St.
17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233 Commercial St. Fishery
The Barley House
Fratello’s
33 S. Commercial St.
132 N. Main St., 228-6363 East Hampstead
799 Union Ave., 528-2022 296-0706
Borders
The Pasta Loft
Margate Resort
Derryfield Country Club
76 Fort Eddy Rd, 224-1255 220 E. Main St., 378-0092 76 Lake St., 524-5210
625 Mammoth Road,
Concord Grille
Naswa Resort
623-2880
1 Eagle Square
Epsom
1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341 Don Quijote
Green Martini
Circle 9 Ranch
Paradise Beach Club
333 Valley St., 792-1110
6 Pleasant St., 223-6672
Windymere Dr., 736-9656 322 Lakeside Ave.,
East Side Club
Hermanos
366-2665
786 Massebesic St.,
11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 Epping
Weirs Beach Smoke House 669-1802
Loudon Road
American Legion
Route 3, 366-2400
Element Lounge
Restaurant and
232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125)
1055 Elm St., 627-2922
Pit Road Lounge
Holy Grail Food & Spirits Londonderry
Eleven Eleven Nightclub
388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533 64 Main St., 679-9559
The Homestead
1111 Elm St., 222-2304
Makris
Restaurant
Gaucho’s Churrascaria
354 Sheep Davis Road,
Exeter
Rte 102 and Mammoth
Brazilian Steak House
225-7665
Shooter’s Pub
Road, 437-2022
62 Lowell St., 669-9460
Penuche’s Ale House
10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856 Mayflower Grange
Grandstands
6 Pleasant St., 228-9833
535 Mammoth Road,
216 Maple St., 625-9656
The Red Blazer
Goffstown
867-3077
The Hilton Garden Inn
72 Manchester St., 224-4101 Village Trestle
Tupelo Hall
101 S. Commercial St.,
25 Main St., 497-8230
2 Young Road, 437-5100
669-2222
Deerfield
Whippersnappers
Jewell & The Beanstalk
Lazy Lion Café
Hampstead
Route 102, 434-2660
793 Somerville St.,
4 North Road, 463-7374
Route 111 Village Square
624-3709
472 State St., 329-6879
Manchester
Jillian’s Billiard Club
Derry
Alpine Club
50 Philippe Cote Dr.,
Adams Opera House
Henniker
175 Putnam St., 623-8202 626-7636
29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102 Pat’s Peak Sled Pub
American Legion Wm H Johnny Bad’s
Brookstone Grille and
24 Flander’s Road,
Jutras & Post No 43
542 Elm St., 222-9191
Event Center
888-728-7732
56 Boutwell St., 623-9467 J.W. Hill’s
14 Route 11 E., 328-9250 The Henniker Junction
American Legion
795 Elm St., 645-7422
Burgundy’s Billiards
24 Weare Rd., 428-8511
Post #79
Mad Bob’s Saloon
35 Manchester St., 437-6600
35 W. Brook St.
342 Lincoln St., 669-3049
Steve-N-James Tavern
Hillsborough
American Legion
McGarvey’s
187 Rockingham Road
Boomerang’s
Sweeney Post
1097 Elm St., 627-2721
434-0600
Restaurant & Bar
251 Maple St., 623-9145
Milly’s Tavern
37 Henniker St., 464-3912 Begy’s Lounge
500 Commercial St.,
Dover
Nonni’s Italian Eatery
333 Valley St., 669-0062
625-4444
Barley Pub
W. Main St. 464-6766
Black Brimmer
Murphy’s Taproom
328 Central Ave.,742-4226
1087 Elm St., 669-5523
494 Elm St., 644-3535
Dover Elks Lodge
Hollis
Bo’s Riverside
New England Revival
282 Durham Road
Alpine Grove
500 Commercial St.,
Coffee House (NERCH)
Biddy Mulligan’s
19 S. Depot Road, 882-9051 625-4444
60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550
1 Washington St., 749-1100 The Dream Farm
Breezeway Pub
Olympic Lounge
Candia
Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor
179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001
Pasquales Ristorante
145 Raymond Rd, 483-5005
John Paul & Train
Wreck
Tupelo: The Alternate
Routes
Manchester
Breezeway: Kamikaze
Drag
Club 313: DJ Biggie
Club Liquid: DJ Danjah
Johnny Bad’s: blues jam
w/ Wan-tu blues band
McGarvey’s: DJ Squid
Strange Brew: Howard
Randall
WB’s: DJ Bob
Wild Rover: Marty Quirk
Dover
Barley Pub: bluegrass
Brick House: Nicki
Farr, Tim Cahill and the
Baby Makers
Jimmy’s: DJ J Jigga
RJ’s: DJ Pez
Friday, May 1
Allenstown
Ground Zero: Highfire
Skyline, Crossover, Centerlink, XWidowMakerX
and guests
Bedford
Slammers: One Fine Mess
Concord
Green Martini: Knuckle Cocks
Pit Road: Larry Walker
Band
Derry
Burgundy’s Billiards:
Karaoke/DJ Steve
Milford
Pasta Loft: Morgan and
Pete
Dover
Barley Pub: Dan Walker
Nashua
Biddy Mulligan’s:
603 Lounge: DJ Misty Audio Kickstand
Peddler’s Daughter:
Brick House: Cambiata,
Mindseye
Durham
Permanent Holiday, The
Acorns: Chris Way
Honors
Portsmouth
Jimmy’s: DJ Bounce,
Blue Mermaid: DaniEpping
DJ Whiz Kid, DJ J-Jigga
Holy Grail: Matt Howard elle Miraglia, Amy Petty Kelley’s Row: Chafed
Brewery Lane: Greg
Luttrell
Hampstead
Hampstead
Pasta Loft: Lisa & Lisa Dolphin Striker: Bob
Pasta Loft: Groove
Halperin
Authority
Press Room: Rick
Laconia
Village Square: Revolver
Cactus Jack’s: Mantra Watson
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder The Muddy: DJ
Hudson
Linda’s: Rivercity Willco
Salem
Londonderry
Varisty Club: DJ Danny R
Whippersnappers:
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64 Dow Road
Hudson
Johnny’s Pizzeria
Lowell Road, 880-7087
Linda’s Sport Bar
2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792
Londonderry
Whippersnappers:
She’s On Top
Tupelo: Marc Cohn
Manchester
Black Brimmer: Jimmy’s Down
Breezeway: DJ McKay
City Sports Grille:
Morse Code
Club 313: DJ Susan
Esthera
Derryfield: Grinning
Lizards
East Side Club: Common Knowledge
Fratello’s: Paul Luff
Mad Bob’s: Mad Lincoln
McGarvey’s: DJ Squid
Milly’s: KRUMBSNATCHA, Sons of
Kalal, Problemaddicts,
Burnt MD, DjD
Murphy’s: Dollhouse DJs
Rocko’s: God’s Failed
Creation, Conflagration,
Blood of a Cynic, Last
Regret, Deny the Crown,
Last Run, Banned by
Right, Breakdown NH,
Nuclear Decay
Shaskeen: The Stink
Strange Brew: Boston
Horns
UnWined: Craig Fahey
Jazz Ensemble
WB’s: Bobby G and
DJ Bob
The Yard: Doug Mitchell
506 Valley St., 644-5559
Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge
815 Elm St.
Penuche's Grill
96 Hanover St., 626-9830
Rocko’s Bar & Grill
253 Wilson St., 626-5866
The Shaskeen
909 Elm St., 625-0246
Strange Brew Tavern
88 Market St., 666-4292
Unwine’d
865 Second St., 625-9463
Wally and Bernie’s
20 Old Granite St., 641-2583
The Wild Rover
21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722
Workmen’s Club
183 Douglas St.
The Yard
1211 S. Mammoth Road,
623-3545
Merrimack
Buckley’s Great Steaks
438 DW Hwy, 424-0995
Slapshot’s
515 DW Hwy, 262-9335
Silo’s Steakhouse
641 DW Hwy, 429-2210
Milford
The Pasta Loft
241 Union Sq., 672-2270
Santos-Dumont
770 Elm St., 672-5464
Shenanigans
586 Nashua St., 672-2060
Nashua
The Amber Room
53 High St., 881-9060
Black Orchid Grille
8 Temple St., 577-8910
Borders
281 DW Highway,
888-9300
Boston Billiard Club
55 Northeastern Blvd.
595-2121
Cattleman’s Sports Bar
14 Railroad Square,
880-6001
Club Social
45 Pine St., 889-9838
Merrimack
Slapshots: DJ Big
Daddy Scott
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
AK’s Bar and Bistro
111 State St.
Blue Mermaid
Island Grill
The hill at Hanover and
High streets, 427-2583
Brewery Lane Tavern
96 Brewery Lane,
433-7007
Chestnuts at the Nest
3548 Lafayette Road,
373-6515
Daniel Street Tavern
111 Daniel St.
Dolphin Striker
15 Bow St., 431-5222
Gas Light Co.
64 Market St., 431-9122
The Hilton Garden Inn
100 High St., 431-1499
Muddy River
Smokehouse
21 Congress St., 430-9582
Paddy’s American Grill
27 International Dr.,
430-9450
Press Room
77 Daniel St.,431-5186
The Red Door
107 State St., 373-6827
Red Hook Brewery
35 Corporate Dr.,
430-8600
The Wet Bar
172 Hanover St.
New Boston
Mad Matty’s
35 Mont Vernon Road,
487-3008
Sandown
The Crossing
328 Main St.
Peterborough
Harlow’s Pub
3 School St., 924-6365
Salem
Blackwater Grill
43 Pelham Road, 328-9013
The Varsity Club
67 Main St., 898-4344
Tilton
Old Friends Tavern
& Restaurant
927 Laconia Rd, 524-1777
Plaistow
The Sad Café
148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893
Portsmouth
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.)
Nashua
Amber Room: DJ
Jonny C, DJ Nelski
Country Tavern:
Jimmy D
Peddler’s Daughter:
Emergency Broadcast
System
Pasta Loft: Matt Turner Penuche’s: Rockspring
Village Square: Project Rocko’s: Anger Rising,
Deceiving Judgment, Prize
Brookline
Mess
Fighter, Letter in Hand,
Country Corral: Gale
Brutality Remains, Pirates,
County
Hudson
Linda’s: Johnathan Scott The Rented, From Here
It’s War
Concord
and the Blazing Hearts
Peterborough:
Shaskeen: Scallawag,
Green Martini: Matt
Harlow: Dave & The
Sam Kiri
Porier
Londonderry
Daddy-O’s
Strange Brew: Paws Up
Pit Road: Stomping
Whippersnappers:
WB’s: DJ Bobby G
Melvin
Mama Kicks
Portsmouth
Unwined: Craig Fahey
Tupelo: Patty Larkin
Dolphin Striker: The
Jazz Ensemble
Dover
Ken Clark Organ Trio
The Yard: Groove AlliBarley Pub: Hot Day at Manchester
Gas Light: Gary
the Zoo
Black Brimmer: Chad ance
Lopez, DJ Biggie
The Muddy: Rockspring Biddy Mulligans: Mer- LaMarsh Band
cury Hat
Breezeway: DJ McKay Merrimack
w/ Jesse Dee Band
Slapshots: Stone Ground
City Sports Grille:
Red Door: Randy Deshaies Brick House: Hannaford and the HeartThirty 3rds
stoppers, Razor’s Edge, Club 313: DJ Bob, DJ Nashua
Salem
Amber Room: DJ Rick
Dave G
Blackwater: Mike Moore Vagiant
Naples and guests
Varsity Club: DJ 0Seven Jimmy’s: DJ Whiz Kid Derryfield: Last Kid
Club Social: Social
and DJ J-Jigga
Picked
Groove
Fratello’s: Paul Luff
Saturday, May 2 Kelley’s Row: The
Country Tavern: Doug
Modulators
Mad Bob’s: Fericide
Allenstown
RJ’s: DJ Pez
McGarvey’s: DJ Squid Mitchell
Ground Zero: Pira
Murphy’s: Josh Logan Gate City Pub: Dave
Reis, Forever the Fallen, Hampstead
Plaistow
Sad Cafe: Traces David,
The Series, Jessica
Prouty, Beautiful Noise,
Matt Lindstrom
Acerose and guests
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NITE
Bundza
Peddler’s Daughter:
Thirdstone
Saffron Bistro: Brad
Smith, Mark Pucci
Peterborough
Harlow’s: Ameranouche
Plaistow
Sad Cafe: Boss Tweed,
The Sophomore Beat,
Stop Is The New Go,
The Parker Street Band,
Cantonese Traffic
Portsmouth
Brewery Lane: Dollhouse DJs
Dolphin Striker: The
Porch Rockers
Gas Light: DJ B
Money, Pat Foley
Red Door: Press Project MC Face of Fate
w/ Ryan Obermiller
Salem
Blackwater Grill: Jim
Zaroulis
Varsity Club: Crash Girl
PATTY LARKIN
Saturday,
May 2
Just try not to dance to Tiempo Libre
Mixing traditional Cuban music, Latin jazz and even a bit of Bach,
Tiempo Libre will play the Capitol Center for the Arts, 144 S. Main St.
in Concord, on Thursday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m.
Their infectious Cuban beats, horns and pretty melodies, as showed
off on their last album Arroz Con Mango, dare you not to move your
hips. “There hasn’t been a concert year where people haven’t gotten
out of their seats to dance,” said a press release for the group whose
members were classically trained at Cuba’s conservatory La ENA.
Their forthcoming album, Bach in Havana, puts a Latin spin on Bach,
turning the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, for example, into a bolero. In “Gavotte,” Latin-style brass and a rumba beat give French Suite
No. 2 in C Minor a sunny new life.
For more on the band, go to www.tiempolibremusic.com or www.
myspace.com/tiempolibremusic, where yoy can hear five of their songs.
Tickets to the show cost $34.50 ($29.50 for students and seniors) and
can be purchased at tickets.ccanh.com or by calling 225-1111.
Comedy
THIS WEEK and beyond
Saturday, May 2 Queen City Comedy
Saturday, May 9
Saturday, May 16
Tuesday, May 5
Manchester
Mad Bob’s Saloon:
Showcase
Friday, May 8
Londonderry
Tupelo: Dave Russo,
Robbie Printz
Manchester
Headliner’s: Robbie
Printz
Sunday, May 10
Manchester
Verizon: Dane Cook
Manchester
Headliner’s: Steve Scarfo
Tuesday, May 19
Manchester
Mad Bob’s Saloon:
Queen City Comedy
8:00 p.m.
Wednesday,
May 27
8:00 p.m.
$25
RS-Tables
$35
GA
CHRIS TRAPPER
JOHN HAMMOND
Sunday,
May 3
Friday,
May 29
7:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
$20
GA
$25
GA
MICHELLE SHOCKED
Saturday,
May 9
AL KOOPER
ROCKABILLY TRIO
Saturday,
May 30
8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
$30
GA
LITTLE RIVER BAND
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Sunday, May 10
6 & 8:30 p.m. • $35 • RS-Theater
LIVINGSTON TAYLOR
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$35
RS-Theater
ORLEANS
Thursday, June 11
8:00 p.m. • $45 • RS-Theater
POCO
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Sunday,
June 14
Fri & Sat,
May 15 & 16
8:00 p.m.
$45
RS-Theater
JIMMY TINGLE
Saturday,
June 20
Sunday,
May 17
8:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
$25
RS-Theater
$25
RS-Tables
THE RADIATORS
SAVOY BROWN
8:00 p.m. • $32 • GA
8:00 p.m. • $30 • GA
Friday, May 22
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5:30 & 8 p.m.
$35
RS-Theatre
STEVE FORBERT
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Sunday, May 3
Allenstown
In courtesy photo: Hilario Bell, Ddrums; Luis Beltran Castillo, saxophone & flute; Joaquin (El
Ground Zero: New
Kid) Díaz, lead vocal; Cristobal Ferrer Garcia, trumpet; Jorge Gomez, piano & musical direcFable February, Eugene
tor; Tebelio (Tony) Fonte, bass and Leandro González, congas.
Christopher, Curse the
featuring Everton Blend- Dover
Wednesday, May 6
Chorus, Ryan Gibeau,
Night of Our Lives, Zack er, Mark Wonder, Zema, Brick House: Anthony Bow
Ras Indio, Trinity ChilVito Fiandaca
Chen Yang Li: DJ
Howland
dren of Man, Diamond
Jimmy’s: Koko-P
Brian B
Plus, Livalect, Freestyle
Kelly’s Row: DJ Coach
Concord
RJ’s: Whiz Kid
Concord
Penuche’s: Open mic & Natural Vybz.
Shaskeen: The Spain
Green Martini: open
Brothers and Friends,
Laconia
mike
Dover
trad. Irish session
Fratello’s: Duke Snyder
Barley Pub: open
Strange Brew: HowDover
acoustic jam, Jared
ard Randall Blues Jam Manchester
Barley Pub: MacTough
Steer Group
Black Brimmer: DJ
RJ’s: DJ B-Money
Brick House: Arms of
Ignite
Betrayal, Chasing Dying Nashua
Michael Timothy’s:
East Side Club: open Laconia
Dreams, Enough Said,
mike
Cactus Jack’s: Aaron
Scare Don’t Fear, under- jazz brunch
Penuche’s: Open mike Rocko’s: Psyopus,
Seibert
brightlights
Studio 99: Stephaniesid Rose Funeral, Molotov
Fratello’s: Neil Martin
Solution, Hivesmasher,
Hampstead
The Holwell Account,
Manchester
Village Square: blues Portsmouth
Dolphin Striker: Cor- Dismantle the Cyborg,
Black Brimmer:
mac McCarthy
Legions
Brick Park Duo
Hudson
Shaskeen: Manchuka Strange Brew: SEV
Linda’s: Tim LaRoche
Monday, May 4
Strange Brew:
UnWined: Craig
Dover
Strange Brew All Stars Fahey Jazz Ensemble
Londonderry
Kelley’s Row: Irish
WB’s: DJs
Wild Rover: Marty
Whippersnappers:
RJ’s: DJ E-Ness
Quirk
Endangered Species
Merrimack
Tupelo: Chris Trapper
Manchester
Slapshots: open mike Nashua
Shaskeen: Scalawag
Peddler’s Daughter:
Manchester
Nashua
DJ St. Julian
900 Degrees: openNashua
603 Lounge: Akustik
mike blues jam
603 Lounge: Local
Kid, open mic night
Portsmouth
Element: DJ Sharon
Haluwa: Jimmy Z
Dolphin Striker:
Milly’s: Beautiful Noise, artist’s night
Piano Bar
David Grier
Adam Frye, Twisted
Tuesday, May 5
The Muddy: State Your
Animation, Lets Go
Portsmouth
Mind, May Residency
Streaking, Tyrannosaurs Concord
Barley House: Celtic Red Door: Scissor
Red Door: 90s Hip
Dinosaurs, Dis-n-Dat
acoustic jam
Test Tuesdays
Hop with Evaredy
Productions presents
Spring Reggae Fest 2009
Manchester
Headliner’s: Johnny
Joice
JD SOUTHER
Saturday, June 27
Full Schedule and Tickets:
TupeloHall.com
2 Young Rd. • Londonderry • 603-437-5100
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31 Poultry dish with broccoli and
cheese
36 Popeye’s love Olive
37 Bullfighting cheer
38 “So that’s where the ___ to this
old pen went!”
39 Ballpark figure
42 Ongoing NYC tribute project
where musicians cover the works
of other musicians
45 You, in olden days
48 “Entourage” agent
49 “I’m rich! No, just kidding. It’s
only a ___.”
50 “Amazing” magician famous
for debunking
52 Briny bath additives
56 Rule that ended when Turkey
became a republic
59 “Ew...all I found were the stale
remnants of a ___.”
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60 “The Wapshot Chronicle”
author John
63 Part of mph
64 “Much ___ About Nothing”
65 Brain scan, for short
66 Record label with a “Manhattan” offshoot
67 “___ to Billie Joe”
68 TV chef Martin
69 Runnable computer file suffix
70 Ointment
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
22 Went into a personal online
chat, for short
23 Folded food
24 Stiff and sore
28 Karaoke bar eqpt.
29 Roundish
32 “Rock and Roll, Hoochie ___”
(1974 hit)
33 Literary lioness
34 ___-do-well
35 G.I.’s address
39 Parent company of Popsicle
Down
and Skippy
1 Laurence Fishburne TV show
40 They’re in charge of the bldg.
2 Physics unit
41 Tends to priority number one?
3 Item used to fasten planks, in old 42 ___ a wild goose chase
shipbuilding
43 Greet the judge
4 1966 Gold Glove Award winner 44 If ___ (Kenneth Cole shoe)
Tony
45 Allegro non ___ (lively, but not
5 “Singin’ in the Rain” codirector too lively, in music)
Stanley
46 It’s far from love
6 Go on a buying spree
47 Unabridged
7 With the bow,
51 Lance Bass headline, on a 2006
in music
cover of People
8 Former
53 Pageant host
“S.N.L.” actor
54 ___ Twin (alias of electronic
Jay
musician Richard D. James)
9 Actress Holly
55 It may force a city to surrender
Robinson ___
57 Alan of “M*A*S*H”
10 Doughnut58 Brightly colored
shaped
61 It’ll never get off the ground
11 “The ___
62 Messy morsel at a barbecue
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12 French legis- ©2009 Jonesin’ Crosswords (edilative bodies
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4 Takes in too much
7 Band box
10 QB’s scores
13 ___-male
14 Cut branches (off)
15 Wade’s opponent
16 Miner’s find
17 Dream up
19 Gas station with a blue and red
logo
21 Quad City that’s home to the
Mississippi Valley Blues Festival
23 “I found a ___, which blended
into the beige. No way am I going
to eat it.”
25 Be
26 Palm whose berries are now
used in fruit juices
27 Punk offshoot
30 Dreyer’s ice cream, in the East-
SIGNS OF LIFE
All quotes are from Willie Nelson, born April 30, 1933.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “You give the appearance /
of one widely traveled / I’ll bet you’ve seen / Things in your
time / So sit down beside me / And tell me your story / If
you think you’ll like yesterday’s wine.” — “Yesterday’s Wine”
An acquaintance will be interested in hearing about your life.
Spend some time sharing stories.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “It’s not supposed to be that
way, you’re supposed to know I love you.” —“It’s Not Supposed to be That Way” All you can do is love someone; you
can’t force them to get it. Do what you can and move on.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “As you sit there in your
loneliness / Confused as you must be / I’m sure a dozen questions come to mind.” —“Blame it on the Times” There is no
shortage of advice coming your way, mostly from good-intentioned people offering solutions to your problems. But you’ll
have to decide what’s the best solution for you.
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “It’s been so long now but it seems
now it was only yesterday / Gee ain’t it funny how time slips
away.” —“Funny How Time Slips Away” Resist the pull to
live in the past. Try new activities to keep yourself up to date.
Spend some time with younger friends.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “So slow down, slow down,
old world / There’s no hurry ’cause / My life ain’t mine anymore.” —“Slow Down Old World” Sharing your life may feel
like a burden and an opportunity. Savor the happy moments.
Bring snacks.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “And though I may not always
be the way you’d have me be / And though my faults may grow
in number day by day / Let no one ever say that I’ve ever been
untrue / I’ll always love you in my own peculiar way.” —“My
Own Peculiar Way” Your loyalty is unquestioned but it would
still be worthwhile to try some self-improvement.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “I don’t know just when my
feelings changed / I just know I could never feel the same /
And though I still love you as before / I’m just one step beyond
caring anymore.” —“One Step Beyond.” They say if you
can go two weeks without your particular vice, you’re in the
clear.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “I’ve cried so much lately that I’ve made out of list / Of things to remember, things to
forget / But my mind can’t separate all the joy from regret / I’ll
always remember the things to forget.” —“Things to Remember” Designate a place for your car keys and always put them
there as soon as you get home. Listen to new music to help
fade troublesome memories.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “On the road again / Goin’
places that I’ve never been / Seein’ things that I may never
see again / And I can’t wait to get on the road again.” —“On
the Road Again” Travel light, enjoy the scenery, explore new
venues, find excitement in the small overlooked corners of
old familiar places. Bring friends.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “Like the other little children you’re gonna dream a dream or two / But be careful
what you’re dreaming or soon your dreams’ll be dreaming
you.” —“It’s Not Supposed to be That Way” Talking about
your dreams with a trusted compatriot will help ease the
stranglehold they have on you.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “Miracles appear / In the
strangest of places / Fancy meeting you here / The last time I
saw you / Was just out of Houston / Sit down let me buy you a
beer.” — “Yesterday’s Wine” Prepare to run into old friends,
enemies, acquaintances or just people who look vaguely
familiar but whose identity you aren’t sure of.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) “Worry, why do I let myself
worry? / Wond’ring what in the world did I do?” —“Crazy”
Stop torturing yourself and find productive work to do. You
can’t change the past.
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News of The Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
Elves in the News
When Alcoa Inc. prepared to build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland in 2004, the
government forced it to hire an expert to assure
that none of the country’s legendary “hidden
people” lived underneath the property. The
elf-like goblins provoke genuine apprehensiveness in many of the country’s 300,000 natives
(who are all, reputedly, related by blood).
An Alcoa spokesman told Vanity Fair writer
Michael Lewis (for an April 2009 report) that
the inspection (which delayed construction for
six months) was costly but necessary: “(W)e
couldn’t be in the position of acknowledging
the existence of hidden people.” (Lewis offered
several explanations for the country’s spectacular financial implosion in 2008, including
Icelanders’ incomprehensible superiority complex that convinced many lifelong fishermen
that they were gifted investment bankers.)
Cultural Diversity
Latest Religious Messages
• Buddhist monks continue to add to their
20-structure compound near the Cambodian border using empty beer bottles, according
to a February feature in London’s Daily Telegraph. Their building program, begun in 1984,
already uses 1.5 million bottles, mostly green
Heinekens and brown, locally brewed Chang,
both of which are praised for letting in light
and permitting easy cleaning.
• A group of an estimated 10,000 believers is
attempting to reverse American Christianity’s
declining birthrate by shunning all contraception, in obedience to Psalm 127, which likens
the advantage of big families to having a “quiver” full of “arrows” (and which calls itself the
QuiverFull movement). “God opens and closes the womb,” explained one advocate, to
National Public Radio in March, noting that
in her own church in Shelby, Mich., the mothers average 8.5 children. “The womb is such
Questionable Judgments
• Australian Marcus Einfeld (a lawyer, former
federal judge and prominent Jewish community leader) was once decorated as a national
“living treasure,” but he suffered a total downfall in 2006 by choosing to fight a (Aus.)$77
speeding ticket. By March 2009, he had been
sentenced to two years in prison for perjury
and obstructing justice because he had created
four detailed schemes to “prove” that he was
not driving that day. His original defense (that
he had loaned the car to a friend who had since
conveniently passed away) was accepted by the
judge, but dogged reporting by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph revealed that lie, plus subsequent
elaborate lies to cover each successive explanation. Encouraged by those revelations, the
press later uncovered Einfeld’s bogus college
degrees and awards and an incident of doublebilling the government.
• A high school student in Oakton, Va., was
suspended for two weeks in March when she
inadvertently brought to school her birth-control
pill (her prescription for which was approved by
her mother). It was only then (with two weeks off
to research it) that the girl discovered that, in comparison, county rules required only one week’s
suspension for bringing heroin to school. Officials told the Washington Post that birth-control
pills are particularly objectionable because they
countermand the school system’s “abstinenceonly” sex education classes.
• Bad Decisions: (1) Chrysler Corp. may be
on its last legs as a stand-alone company, but
that did not stop its representatives from disrupting a funeral proceeding in Cranbury, N.J., in
March to subpoena the corpse (which the company said is relevant to a pending lawsuit over
mesothelioma). (2) Joseph Milano, owner of
Goomba’s Pizza in Palm Coast, Fla., was in the
federal witness protection program for squealing on Bonanno crime family members in New
York but lost his anonymity in January when he
was arrested for allegedly pistol-whipping a customer who had dared to criticize his calzone.
Feral Americans
Recent Human Biting: (1) Sheila Bolar, 49,
was arrested after biting a transit driver because
she wanted to ride only a “hybrid” bus (New York
City, January). (2) Aleyda Uceta, 30, was arrested
for biting her son’s principal during a parent-principal conference (Providence, R.I., March). (3)
Curtis Cross was arrested for allegedly biting
off another motorist’s ear in a road rage incident
(New Castle, Ind., April). (4) Lyndel Toppin, 50,
bit down on his fiancee’s arm, resulting in nerve
damage, because she had arranged the cheese
incorrectly on his meatball sandwich (Philadelphia, April). (5) Blaine Milam, 19, and Jessica
Carson, 18, were arrested for performing an exorcism on their baby daughter that resulted in 20
bite marks (Rusk County, Texas, December).
Least Competent People
Our Elected Leaders: During an April Texas
House committee hearing (according to a Houston Chronicle report), state Rep. Betty Brown
suggested a solution to the voter-registration confusion caused by Chinese-Americans’
Anglicizing their names (which yields nonstandard spellings): “Do you think that it would
behoove you and your citizens,” she asked a
Chinese-American activist, “to adopt (names)
that we (lawmakers) could deal with more
readily here?”
Recurring Themes
News of the Weird has noted two previous
instances of “Weekend at Bernie’s”-like attempts
by a relative or friend of a newly deceased person to dress up the corpse and bring it to a bank
to convince officials that the dead man is merely
frail and to request funds from his account. Both
of those attempts failed, but in Witbank, South
Africa, in March, the Afrikaans-language daily
Beeld reported success: A post office supervisor
released a government check to two women who
had brought in a dead pensioner but only after the
women promised that the money would only be
used for the man’s burial expenses.
Read News of the Weird daily at www.weirduniverse.net. Send items to weirdnews@
earthlink.net.
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• Among the lingering sex-based customs in
Saudi Arabia is the restriction on women’s working outside the home, which forces lingerie shops
to be staffed only with males, who must awkwardly make recommendations on women’s bra
styles and sizes. The campaign for change, led
by a Jeddah college lecturer, has enlisted even
some clerks, who are just as embarrassed about
the confrontation as the customers, according to a
February BBC News dispatch.
• Only in Japan/Only in Sweden: (1) Sega
Toys Co. reported in January that, in just three
months, it had sold 50,000 units of the Pekoppa,
a “plant” consisting of leaves and branches that
flutter when “spoken to,” the success of which
the company attributes to the epic loneliness of
many Japanese. (2) Advocates for children complained in April that Sweden’s national library,
acting on a standing order to archive copies
of all domestic publications, has been gathering books and magazines of child pornography
from the years 1971-1980, when it was legal,
and, as libraries do, lending them out.
• The Natural Resources Defense Council and
Greenpeace commenced campaigns in February
critical of the peculiar preference of Americans
for ultra-soft or quilted toilet paper. In less-picky
Europe and Latin America, 40 percent of toilet
paper is produced by recycling, but Americans’
demand for multi-ply tissue requires virgin wood
for 98 percent of the product. The activists claim
that U.S. toilet paper imposes more costs on the
planet than do gas-guzzling cars.
a powerful weapon ... against the enemy,” she
said. “The more children I have, the more ability I have to impact the world for God.”
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