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GRANITE VIEWS FRED BRAMANTE

Rockingham Park memories It was announced last week that a New Hampshire landmark, Rockingham Park in Salem, will be put up for sale. For Salem folks who knew the horse racing venue in its heyday (the 1960s), it’s a sad time.

I grew up in Salem. My brothers and I worked at the track. My brother Joe still works with horses all over the East Coast as a horse dentist. My brother Lou was an exercise boy, giving thoroughbreds workouts on days that the horses weren’t racing. I worked for the food caterer, Harry M Stevens. It was a job that gave me the opportunity to witness New Hampshire history.

Most New Hampshire residents don’t know that our state lottery, the first in the nation, started as a horse race, the Rockingham Sweepstakes. With a purse larger than the Kentucky Derby, Rockingham attracted some of the greatest race horses in the world, including Dr. Fager (whose only career losses were to other legendary horses, Buckpasser and Damascus). When someone purchased a New Hampshire sweepstakes ticket, that ticket had the name of a horse on it. If that horse were to win the Sweepstakes race, you were a winner.

A week before the Sweepstakes race in 1965, I witnessed the Sweepstakes Prep in which Knightly Prince, rounding the turn for the home stretch, fell down, got up, resumed running and won in a photo finish.

On Aug. 25, 1965, I was at the Ole Rock Drive-In Theater across from the track’s barn area. I looked out our car’s back window and saw the barns in flames. As we ran toward the fire, we saw horses running wildly across Route 28, one with its mane smoldering. Eighteen horses died that night.

Another devastating fire hit Rockingham in 1980, leaving the park’s future in question. I remember that Delaware North, owners of the Boston Bruins and the Boston Garden, was negotiating to buy the track to bring the Celtics and Bruins to Rockingham.

Since casino gambling bills have been failing year after year in the New Hampshire legislature, it’s clear that the track’s owners are giving up their hopes of transforming the park to another form of gambling.

So what will happen to Rockingham Park?

Will it become condos? Another shopping center? It’s unlikely to return to being the historic site it once was, and that’s a loss for New Hampshire.

Fred Bramante is the past chairman and member of the NH State Board of Education.

He speaks and consults on education redesign to regional, state, and national organizations.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 Managing Medicaid; the state of cinema; PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 18 THE ARTS: 20 THEATER Hatbox Theatre opens in Concord.

23 CLASSICAL Meet Tom Lewry.

23 ART Listings for events around town.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: 27 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend.

28 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors.

32 TREASURE HUNT There’s gold in your attic.

34 CAR TALK Automotive advice.

CAREERS: 36 ON THE JOB What it’s like to be a...

FOOD: 38 CRAFT BEER WEEK Fiddleheads; Restaurant Week on the Seacoast; In the Kitchen; Weekly Dish; Wine; From the Pantry.

POP CULTURE: 45 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz at least appreciates that the sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 was an hour shorter than the sequel Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

NITE: 52 BANDS, CLUBS, NIGHTLIFE Little Feat; Nightlife, music & comedy listings and more.

54 ROCK AND ROLL CROSSWORD A puzzle for the music-lover.

55 MUSIC THIS WEEK Live music at your favorite bars and restaurants.

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NEWS & NOTES Drug crisis funds

After weeks of wrangling, state senators have agreed to spend $4.5 million on treatment and prevention services to battle New Hampshire’s opioid epidemic. NHPR reported the final vote was unanimous despite moments of contention between party leaders over how much to spend. The money, which goes to the Governor’s Commission on Drugs and Alcohol, includes funding for peer recovery services and supportive housing. Given the state’s $60 million surplus, Democrats wanted to spend more money on fighting the drug crisis, but Republicans argued it would be irresponsible to spend it all at once.

Water issues

In the wake of the detection of PFOAs — industrial chemicals with unknown health effects — in Merrimack’s drinking supply, officials with the state Department of Environmental Services have begun testing nearly 200 private wells, and health officials are offering blood tests to a small group of residents. The Union Leader reported most of the wells being tested are in Litchfield, near the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant that is suspected to have been the origin of the contaminant. Officials are testing 188 wells in Litchfield and 14 wells in Merrimack. So far, two families whose wells have high levels of PFOAs are receiving bottled water from the state. Some neighborhoods in Bedford have detected the chemicals in their water as well, and the city of Dover decided to close a major well after finding low levels of PFOAs and two other compounds in the same family, expecting the EPA to release stricter standards soon. NHPR reported some Merrimack residents will get blood tests, according to health officials who spoke at a recent information session attended by nearly 500 people.

Dan Innis out

In a surprise move, Dan Innis, the first Republican candidate to challenge incumbent Congressman Frank Guinta, has decided to suspend his campaign. In a press release, Innis said he didn’t have the time to run a campaign with all his prior obligations to his family and career. Innis, a businessman and

Republican insider, started a couple of hotels and is a professor and former dean at the UNH business school. Innis lost to Guinta in 2014 by just about 5,000 votes. State Rep. Pam Tucker, a right-wing conservative, is the only other challenger on the ballot so far but Rich Ashooh, the director of the UNH School of Law’s Rudman Center, is widely expected to join the race. Ashooh ran against Guinta in 2010.

Narcan in schools

The Executive Council has approved a plan to put the antioverdose drug Narcan in public high schools. NHPR reported that the plan would allow two doses of nasal spray be distributed to any school that asks for it. It will be made available at no cost to the schools as drug company Adapt Pharma is working with the Clinton Foundation. If every high school in the state gets two doses, it would cost about $13,000. So far, Nashua high schools stock the drug already and it’s been approved in Berlin.

Manchester is expected to vote on it soon.

Prescribing rules

tion with law enforcement while Republicans argued law enforcement’s job is not to assess people’s mental health. The bill passed on a partisan 14-10 vote.

Sunapee plans

It was a small victory for environmental groups looking to delay a major development at the Mount Sunapee Ski Resort when the Executive Council voted unanimously to table the expansion proposal and lease extension so they could have more time to review plans.

The Union Leader reported that the most recent proposal approved by the Department of Resources and Economic Development came with a number of changes to the development, and environmental groups argued it warranted further investigation before a vote. Still, a number of councilors signaled their likely support.

Nashua last call

Aldermen in Nashua voted recently to keep last call at the time it’s currently at: 1 a.m. The Union Leader reported Alderman Ben Clemons had proposed the city extend last call to 2 a.m. in order to help local businesses compete with Massachusetts, where last call is at the later hour. Opponents argued it would strain the police force and pointed to other New Hampshire communities like Manchester where last call has remained unchanged.

There may soon be a new chief in town as Canterbury looks to replace its former chief, who now faces sexual assault charges. The Concord Monitor reported the town is advertising for a new chief, likely a retiree who would continue to collect a pension while working up to 32 hours a week for a $50,000 salary.

CONCORD

Work on the Statehouse dome in Concord is expected to cause some minor traffic and parking issues downtown between now and November because of a crane that will be parked on Capitol Street. The Union Leader reported crews will be repairing and repainting the dome’s base and cupola as well as re-gilding the eagle and dome.

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The mayor of Nashua, Jim Donchess, expressed disapBedford proval of a plan by the school board that would privatize school custodial staff, leavAmherst custodians ing 101 unionized out of the job. The Union Leader reported Milford the custodial union filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the state’s Public Employee Labor Relations Board.

Kindergarten in Derry sees its numbers increase while in Londonderry there is only a small increase.

The Union Leader reported part-time and full-day MANCHESTER programs are already full at the East Derry Memorial Elementary School.

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Concealed carry

A bill passed by the Senate would widen the availability of concealed firearms by tweaking the language governing the issuance of concealed carry permits. The Union Leader reported the bill would remove local discretion from law enforcement by eliminating the phrase “suitable person” from the criteria required.

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the Federal Aviation Administration from using its drones for commercial use. The Union Leader reported the company was awarded a commercial license by the FAA, making it one of 10 or fewer with that distinction in the state so far. The FAA had prohibited commercial use of drones until last year, after Congress ordered the FAA come up with rules to allow it. Once a license is acquired, companies like SI Drones can charge for services obtained through the use of drones.

SI Drones plans on doing mostly aerial photography and videography for real estate agents, developers, media companies and more.

jail. The Union Leader reported Michael Gill, the owner of The Mortgage Specialists, was charged with contempt of court by a judge during a divorce proceeding after an outburst by Gill. Gill owns signs in Manchester, Nashua, Plaistow and Somersworth and has used them to express his displeasure with state officials for years. Lately, he’s taken to calling them “s---heads.”

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Uninsured hospital services on the decline

NH Health Protection Program showing early signs of success after enrolling thousands of low-income state residents.

New Hampshire’s expanded Medicaid program, which the state has dubbed the New Hampshire Health Protection Plan, got a new lease on life when House lawmakers voted to renew it for two more years. But come Dec. 31, 2018, the program is again at risk of sunsetting unless the legislature goes through this process all over again.

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“It’s a short-term solution for a long-term problem,” said Rep. Joseph Lachance, the Republican sponsor of the reauthorization bill.

Lachance, of Manchester, has taken a more moderate position on expanded Medicaid than some of his more conservative colleagues who would rather see the program discontinued.

“We’re compassionate people. I wanted nothing to do with throwing 48,000 people off the rolls and having the taxpayer pick up the uncompensated tab,” Lachance said.

Since the program was first implemented in 2014, health officials say 48,575 Granite Staters who had no health insurance before are now on the program as of March 18, so lawmakers on both sides of the aisle don’t hesitate to call it a success.

The greatest figure that proponents point to as evidence of the program’s success is $142 million reduction in uncompensated care in 2015, according to the New Hampshire Hospital Association.

Some lawmakers, like Republican Sen. Andy Sanborn of Bedford, think the number is closer to $22 million.

Sanborn is part of a vocal contingent of Republicans who don’t want to see expanded Medicaid continue. And that divide in the party is one reason why any effort to reauthorize the program had to be written with an end date.

“I would not have authored a bill without an expiration date,” said Lachance. “On a two-year-young program, I think it’s only responsible to put that sunset on there and to take a look at where we stand two years from now.”

Lachance says he’s not against indefinite reauthorization himself. He drafted the bill as a compromise, knowing the sunset would make it easier to pass.

Still, he says, it’s probably smart to play it safe since the evidence he believes supports the narrative that this program is successful is only about two years’ worth of data. And Lachance raises the spectre of

Source: New Hampshire Hospital Association

the federal government possibly drawing him saying they have substance abuse treatback its funding more than the 10 percent ment now they wouldn’t have otherwise — and because the Manchester welfare planned over the next four years. office saved nearly $1 million on prescription drugs now being paid for by Medicaid.

Uncertainty If Democrats had it their way, it would have been reauthorized indefinitely, New Medicaid Getting the program through the Stateaccording to House Minority Leader Stehouse in the first place was no small task. phen Shurtleff.

“I think they would just so we don’t keep After years of wrangling between Repubgoing through this every two years,” Shur- licans who wanted nothing to do with the tleff said. “In the original bill, when we Affordable Care Act and Democrats who passed it, we said if the federal money ever wanted to push the program through, a stopped coming to New Hampshire, then compromise was crafted. New Hampthat would be justification for stopping the shire is now one of a few states that offer expanded Medicaid coverage through priprogram.”

But Shurtleff says doing it this way vate insurers with a model Arkansas piloted causes uncertainty in the healthcare indus- known as premium assistance. It helped get the Republican votes needed to pass the law try and with patients on the program.

“It’s a problem. I’m sure to the insur- because it is seen to encourage competition ance companies it’s a concern, to hospitals in the marketplace.

This year, the debate has been around also and most importantly to those who are receiving the benefits to have to won- how to fund the program after the federal der every two years is this program going government starts pulling back its funding to stay in existence,” Shurtleff said. “I think gradually from 100 percent through the end there are a lot of people that are unfortunate- of 2016 to 90 percent by 2020.

The bill that passed the House would fund ly negatively impacted by waiting for this the difference with contributions from the every two years, for the reauthorization.”

Lachance, for his part, says the two-year hospitals and insurance companies who see renewal is not ideal, but at least it creates it as a way to save money in the long run.

The Senate Finance Committee held its two years of certainty.

Lachance said he took what many might first hearing on the bill on March 22. The see as a risky position in a party that has Senate is expected to pass reauthorization placed the repeal of Obamacare in its plat- and Gov. Maggie Hassan has expressed her form because of the constituents who call support.

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first-run movies were back in the lineup, but this time the old creaky seats were replaced with high-end luxury recliners How do you do the movies? In a com- and assigned seating. fy reclining chair? At a table eating a full meal? While wearing 3-D glasses?

Bedford bidding You can buy a ticket to experience The luxury movie-going experience anything short of smellovision here in might be catching on. southern New Hampshire, where movie As developers seek to build up the theaters are offering uncommon cinemat- multi-use space where the Macy’s in ic experiences to lure in new customers Bedford was recently torn down, cinema and keep their regular customers happy. companies are vying to provide what’s And the options are only expanding. proposed to be a high-end theater on the

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Redefining cinemas

Long one of the most unique movie chains in the area, Chunky’s Cinema Pub recently announced it will be moving into the old Lowe’s Home Improvement space on Huse Road in Manchester. It already has locations in Nashua and Pelham and another in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Chunky’s CEO Al Coburn says offering food and beverage table service during a movie has helped position the business to better compete against other more traditional cinemas.

“Everybody wants to differentiate themselves a little,” Coburn said. “We’ve been doing this for a long time, so this isn’t new to us. We’ve always offered dinner and a movie together with table service so most of the things we’re doing haven’t really changed. … For most of these others, they’re experimenting with other ideas trying to bring customers in.”

Lately, local cinemas have tried to compete by redefining their business model, something Coburn says is a pattern that can be seen across the country.

One example in recent years is the vibrating, rocking-and-swaying system called D-Box seating at the O’Neil’s cinema in Epping and the former O’Neil’s location in Londonderry, now under new ownership.

Regal Cinemas in Hooksett has transformed itself — twice — in the years following the arrival of the massive Cinemagic movieplex in Hooksett. It boasts IMAX, 3-D and digital projectors. Regal clung to business by changing the movies it offers to second-run films that most other cinemas had stopped showing and lowered its ticket prices from the market rate to about $3. This appealed to the budget-conscious and those who might have been too busy to catch that Seth Rogen comedy when it first came out.

Last year, Regal in Hooksett reinvented itself again. Ticket prices went back up (a little over the market rate) and

second floor of a nice restaurant.

Mike Nelson, the vice president of Encore Realty, which owns the land, says that since the initial news came out about their plans to have a cinema move into the development, it’s become something of a bidding war.

Initially, Nelson told the Hippo back in September that they were in talks with iPic and Mexico-based Cinemex.

Since then, they’ve received active interest from Regal, Cinemagic and O’Neil Cinemas. And since Cinemagic’s parent company Zyacorp is based in Bedford and O’Neil’s is also a New Hampshirebased company, Nelson says they are taking those offers very seriously. As a matter of policy, Encore (which is based in Texas) often prefers to work with local companies for their developments across the country, according to Nelson.

Other changes

O’Neil’s currently runs a single cinema in Epping after selling its Londonderry cinema to Carmike Cinemas in 2014. The entire Carmike chain, in turn, brokered a deal to be bought out by AMC for about $1.1 billion. AMC is the second-largest cinema chain after Regal. Carmike is the fourth-largest.

For Coburn, cinemas have always adapted to the times.

“It used to be, maybe 40 years ago, 50 years ago, there used to be a cinema downtown that would run maybe one or two theaters. … And that migrated into multiplexes that would have five or six different movies and then they went to huge multiplexes that played 15 to 20 and had stadium seating. Then we went from that to doing digital projection and highgrade sound to also offering drinks and food and everything else,” Coburn said.

But he says they aren’t doing this because business is bad. On the contrary, Coburn says, cinemas have been seeing growth in their sales over the past few years.

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I was New Hampshire state director for Gov. Christie’s presidential camHow does it feel paign, and given the fact that Gov. Christie when a candidate made New Hampshire an integral part of you’ve been pouring his national strategy, it involved him spendall your energy into ing a significant amount of time in the state. and pinning all your So [I was] organizing town hall meetings, Courtesy photo. hopes on suspends overseeing our political operation and our their campaign? communication strategy all for New HampIn my case, I worked for Gov. Christie in shire and doing so with a great team.

New Jersey. [I’ve had] a long-standing relationship, and you’re obviously disappointed.

What was a typical day like?

There’s someone you believe in, not only When Gov. Christie was in the state, there their values but also their leadership abiliwas a lot of travel involved, both between ty and ability to do the job and especially in events and meetings, some campaign events, a crowded primary certainly you can find other political events, meetings. When he someone who you can truly believe in and was out of state, it was often preparing for the get behind and support ... and you put your next meeting, the next trip that he had, includ- heart and soul in it. So it’s disappointing to ing securing town hall venues, conversations say the least, but on the same token you’ve with local political leaders and building out got to just to trust the voters and trust that you and holding volunteer meetings as well and did everything in your control to try to sucalso trying to keep them engaged and ener- ceed. And as long as you can confidently say gized about the campaign and fall into the that at the end of an election, you hold your campaign strategy. head up high and you’re just focused on the next adventure.

What do political campaign staffers like yourself do when they find themselves out Do you hang out with other campaign staffers whose candidates have bowed out of the job?

You usually take your first vacation to and commiserate together?

I do, yeah. I get along very well [with] somewhere warm that you’ve taken in a number of years, and then you start having folks who were on Jeb Bush’s staff ... Lindsey conversations with people you know about Graham’s staff, Scott Walker’s staff ... even future employment. … I went to Guadalupe those who have stuck around New Hampfor a week. … It’s pretty typical that after an shire whose candidate has moved on and is extensive and intensive campaign that you still campaigning. It’s a very small pool of take a little bit of time and think about what political operatives … especially in a smaller the next steps are. Someone once taught me state like New Hampshire, but if you remem... “Never make an important life decision ber at the end of the day that you were friends without a suntan.” I’ve taken that to heart and before the primary, you’re professionals durmade sure it was part of the recuperation and ing the primary, then you’ll remain friends after it’s all over. Because the person you’re restoration strategy after an election. competing against one year might be on your Had your candidate performed better in team the following year.

New Hampshire and kept campaigning, Former candidates backing other candiwhat would you be likely doing now?

I’d likely be in one of the states that is vot- dates still in the running is nothing new, but ing. … Most of our team was ready to be few are as controversial as Christie endorsing Donald Trump. Has that shaken your loyalties at all?

Five favorites I voted for my candidate, [and] my candiFavorite Book: The Bible date lost inside the race. So, my vote’s been Favorite Movie: Patton cast.

I haven’t taken stock of the current field.

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX

Ski industry slump

The unseasonably warm winter New Hampshire experienced this year has left every local ski area reporting bad news. The Union Leader reported the McIntyre Ski Area in Manchester saw ticket sales for skiing and snowtubing drop by 40 percent and Mount Sunapee measured one-third of its normal snow depth (32 inches) this past winter. McIntyre closed 11 days early this year and its general manager said financial losses were close to significant. The marketing manager for Sunapee’s Newbury ski area also said losses were expected to be significant. Jessyca Keeler, the executive director of Ski NH, says she’d be surprised if this past winter made the top 10 list for ticket sales.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Ten of the past 15 years have been the highest attendance years on record. Last year’s snowfall was so significant, the ski season lasted well into April.

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Lead in water?

The Derry School District is working with state and federal environmental officials to reduce the amount of lead detected in the water produced from faucets at East Derry Memorial Elementary School. The Union Leader reported that faucets were replaced at the school over vacation and an orthophosphate water treatment system, which is used to reduce lead levels in drinking water, was installed. But recent testing after the work found that lead levels are still above the level recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. School officials say they are still working on the problem, calling this the “optimization phase” of the work.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: On the bright side, recent tests of large New Hampshire towns’ and cities’ drinking water found that lead levels were far below “alert level,” which is when communities must alert the public and take corrective action.

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This year’s mild winter means earlier open-water fishing, with an April 1 start on lakes managed for landlocked salmon, lake trout and rainbow trout, according to the Union Leader. The spring-like weather also means fish culturists at New Hampshire’s state hatcheries are stocking earlier than usual, with close to one million catchable-size trout to be distributed in various water bodies across the state, according to the Associated Press. Some of the state’s southern ponds have already received their fish, but most of the stocking happens in April.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The state’s designated trout ponds open April 23.

Month for literature lovers

We are heading into one of the most literary months there is -- April is National Poetry Month, and local libraries and bookstores are celebrating with all kinds of events, from poetry readings to poetry book events.

National Library Week happens April 10 through April 16, which this year happens under the theme “Libraries Transform,” according to the American Library Association website. The observance began in 1958 to celebrate national libraries, librarians and to promote library use and support.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Check out your local bookstores and libraries to see what’s going on near you.

QOL score: 61 Net change: 0 QOL this week: 61

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In a jam-packed week of news here are my thoughts in 1,000 words.

LaRoche Quits: From the Much Ado About Nothing department comes the story of Adam LaRoche walking away from $13 million because the big bad White Sox asked their DH to dial it back a bit in bringing his 14-year-old son to work every day. The obvious question is, what other company lets someone bring their kid to work every day? Answer: None.

Almost as obvious is, why would anyone want their 14-year-old hanging in a locker room where crude language, guy grownup talk, etc. are the norm? Plus intimating he’s a better parent than others for doing this says to me that LaRoche is a bit full of his own virtue. Personally, I think Chicago lucked out by getting out from under having to pay $13 million to a 35-year-old DH who hit .213 in 2015.

The Final Four Set: Nice all-convict match-up in the semifinal at the Final Four between Syracuse and North Carolina. The Orangeman survived whiney coach Jim Boeheim’s nine-game suspension following last year’s post-season ban for program irregularities and North Carolina comes in with an investigation still in progress for alleged academic fraud, involving fake classes between 1993 and 2012. Mercy. In the other game, what’s not to like about Villanova vs. Oklahoma and red hot Buddy Hield? That’s the side of the bracket I’m rooting for.

Rising NBA Draft Stock: Speaking of Hield, with 37 against Oregon to get to the Final Four to go along with 36- and 27-point efforts in two others I’m guessing his draft stock has gone up the most in the tournament. Here are two nice to know but don’t need to know facts to dazzle them at parties for Buddy: (1) While he went to (was stashed) high school in Kansas, his “hometown” is Freeport in the Bahamas;

(2) The real first name is Chavano.

1986 Celtics vs. 2016 Warriors: Maybe it’s me, but I thought Bob Ryan sounded a little like Oscar Robertson in Sunday’s This Is What Would Happen column in the Boston Globe forecasting a winner between the vaunted 67-15 Celtics of 1985-86 vs. the rampaging toward the best regular season record ever small-ball Golden State Warriors. The upshot was with Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish and Bill Walton on arguably the greatest frontline ever, the Cs would overwhelm them with size in a winner-take-all game.

I can’t say I’m in love with the today’s three-ball mania and still find it surreal that teams with a 3-on-1 advantage on a fast break generally fling it to the corner for a three instead of taking the lay-up. But having said that, there’s a reason the three-ball has become such a factor throughout basketball. It’s the basic math where making threes at a lower percentage translates to 2-ball teams having to make a much higher shooting percentage to yield the same number of points on the same number of shots.

So the math doesn’t stand up for Ryan’s forecast. The Warriors are on pace to shoot an astonishing 2,100 more threes than the 393 the Celtics shot in 1985-86. While the Cs shot an impressive 50.8 percent from the field overall, the Warriors are shooting 41.6 percent on threes, thus those Celtics would have to shoot 64 percent from the field on those 2,100 shots to match the points yielded on Golden State’s threes. That would be quite a feat because that’s 10 points over the all-time record 54.5 percent set by the fast-break-dominated 198485 Showtime Lakers.

Thus the Celtics’ size advantage is mostly irrelevant because they’d be trading easy inside twos for a barrage of Golden State threes. In my opinion the three ways to beat Golden State are to pray they have a cold night, out-shoot them on threes, which isn’t very likely, or take the three away by forcing Steph Curry and company to put it on

the floor to take it inside the line while preventing the kick-out to weak side three-ball shooters at the same time. But, while Dennis Johnson was a great defender, because of Curry’s quickness advantage, ability to shake people off the dribble while getting his shot off faster (and with less daylight) than anyone I’ve ever seen to go along with his incredible range and accuracy, I doubt DJ could make Curry do that. And while that’s up for debate, I do remember Michael Jordan going for 49 and 63 on DJ in back-to-back games in the 86 playoffs with Chicago. And Curry has a lot more help than MJ had. Long story short: The Warriors win that match-up.

Amazing 3-Ball Stat of the Week: ESPN.com’s J.A. Adande recently pointed out that with 339 Curry already has more three-pointers this year than the 325 Magic Johnson had in his entire career!

Celtics in Final Playoff Push: The Celtics are in a tight four-way battle for playoff position where they can finish as high as three or as low as six. With 10 games left they were the four seed with Miami and Charlotte just behind and Atlanta a half game ahead.

At stake is home court when they face one of these three in Round 1. Miami has the easiest remaining slate and the still without Jae Crowder C’s the toughest. But they do finish with Atlanta on the road and at home vs.

Charlotte, then Miami, so where they finish is in their hands.

Future Free Agent Watch: Another reason to keep an eye on Miami is seven-foot center Hassan Whiteside. He’s a free agent to be they likely can’t re-sign for cap-related rules who’s averaging 14 points, 12 rebounds and nearly four blocks off the bench. There’s a knucklehead factor to look into, but his eight blocks against them last month showed he’s the kind of shutdown inside defender to take the Cs’ already excellent team defense up another notch. He’s on my watch list.

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5 – teams currently over .500 who won’t make the NHL playoffs, which could include the Bruins, who, despite having 39 wins and just 28 losses, are in an intense battle for the final spot with Philly and Detroit.

6 – innings pitched by 14th-ranked-nationally SNHU’s Justin Valsespina when he allowed three

College. While I nominate Saint Anselm’s Keith Dickson, check the website for specific info about the job.

What a Stupid I Yam Award: To me for identifying 1988 USSR gold medal-winning big Arvydas Sabonis as “Russian” last week. Lithuanian reader Mark Isaksa correctly took me to task for saying that as he’s actually Lithuanian and, Isaksa pointed out, was only playing for the USSR because his country was being occupied by Russian forces at the time.

Sports 101 Answer: Oddly four of the five NCAA players to average 20 points and 20 rebounds per game in their entire college career are former Celtics. They five are Julius Erving (26.3, 20.2), Kermit Washington (20.1, 20.2), Artis Gilmore (24.3, 22.7), Paul Silas (20.5, 21.6) and Bill Russell (20.3 and 20.7).

On This Date – March 31: 1931 – Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne dies in a plane crash at 43. 1973 – Ken Norton breaks Muhammad Ali’s jaw mid-way through their 12-round bout, which he wins on a split decision. 1975 – The great John Wooden coaches his final game as UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55 to make it eight NCAA basketball titles in 10 years

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83 – East Divisionleading point total for the Manchester Monarchs, who despite some stumbles have a comfortable margin over second-place Adirondack as they roll into the final month of the regular season.

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Magic Johnson: Lakers point guard with the most accurately descriptive nickname of all time. Behind Jordan and Bill Russell he’s third on my all-time list of the NBA’s greatest and LeBron’s got his work cut out for him to get past him. True, he had Top 10’er Kareem to play with, but the big fella didn’t win in L.A. until Magic got to town, and Magic was the man when they repeated in ’86-’87 and ’87-’88 and were back in the Finals the year after he retired. To paraphrase Reggie Jackson, Magic was the straw that stirred L.A.’s drink.

1985-86 Boston Celtics: Overpowering team and 1986 NBA champs producing these memorable stats: They went 40-1 at home; Sam Vincent (92.9), Jerry Sichting (92.4) and Danny Ainge (90.4) all shot over 90 percent on free throws, while Larry Bird shot a paltry 89.6; Vincent (70) somehow shot more FT’s than Schiting (66), who was their FG percentage leader at 57 percent; Kevin McHale played 800 more minutes than Bill Walton and only had seven more rebounds; Walton played 1,000 minutes less than Robert Parish and still had 20 more assists, Bird led in every statistical category except blocks, while Sly Williams lasted six games on the roster.

Sly Williams: Crafty, talented scorer out of URI who bounced around and out of the NBA for his Marvin Barnes-like knuckleheaded ways.

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Thumbs Up: Since we were jammed for space last week we couldn’t properly recognize the work of UL photographer Mark Bolton that so vividly illustrated that referee Adam Hicks made the correct call that the last shot by Noah Beygelman that went down was a split second late to give Central the 1-point win over Merrimack in the Division 1 basketball final. Outstanding work by both Bolton and Hicks.

Sports 101: Name the only five NCAA players to average 20 points and 20 rebounds per game in their entire college career.

Hot Ticket: The annual Fire vs. Cops hockey game to benefit CHaD will be held at the world famous Verizon Arena on Saturday, April 2. Tickets are $10, kids under 5 are free, game time is 5 p.m. and the doors open at 3:30 p.m.

Stat of the Week: From PPO stat savant Tommy Ameen, who sent along that Jon Makori had the bucket that put Central ahead to stay in all four of its wins in their run to the 2016 state basketball title.

Help Wanted: With the dismissal of former Concord HS coach Paul Cormier ending his second tenure, there is an opening for head basketball coach at Dartmouth

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With tax season comes mixed emotions. There’s the dread of actually having to do them and the fear that this year, somehow, you might owe money. But, assuming you don’t, there’s also the anticipation of finding out how much the IRS owes you — and the excitement of figuring out how to spend that bonus check.

The average tax return in New Hampshire in 2011 (the most recent data available from the IRS, according to governing.com) is $2,600. Sure, you could put all that money into savings or toward paying off a credit card. But what fun would that be? If you’d rather use that check to fund a oncein-a-lifetime experience, the Hippo has some over-the-top, high-flying ideas for you.

— Self-indulgent fun research compiled by Allie Ginwala, Ryan Lessard, Kelly Sennott and Angie Sykeny

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Try: A 15-minute Star Wars outdoors battle scene.

The experience: According to local filmmaker Bill Millios, the owner of Backlot Films, technology has become so inexpensive in recent years that a very high production value can be obtained at a never-beforeseen price tag. Digital cameras get better and cheaper every year and new drone technology can provide stability for tracking shots that would have required elaborate tracks or cranes in the past. For a fan film based on the Star Wars universe, it will be even easier to get screen-ready costumes and props because of the pre-existing base of fans who spend their own money and time building extremely detailed costume sets. The best example of this is the 501st Legion fan club. To be a member, one must first build a 100-percent screen-accurate costume based on the big baddies, the Galactic Empire. The most common costume is the Stormtrooper, which

generally costs about $800 to make. You can reach out to the 501st New England Garrison to put out a casting call and see who would be interested in participating in your film. It’s probably best to set your story in the outdoors given the cost required to build screen-ready sets. Also try to get volunteers to save money, but make sure you feed them on filming days.

Cost: Assuming about three days of shooting, volunteer work and a month’s subscription to editing software, the total should run about $2,243. Here’s how it breaks down: Millios says a decent short film can be shot with a $600 Canon DSLR. Audio recorders can go for as low as $168 and you’ll need a shotgun mic and boom pole, which runs for about $150. Don’t forget headphones for $50. Lights and stands will cost about $300 and a DJI Phantom 3 drone costs about $600.

If you need video editing software, he says Adobe Premiere can be used through a cloud subscription of about $30 to $50 a month.

You should also set aside about $75 for food for your cast and crew.

Leftover cash? Give your cast and crew some money.

Try: Skydive Pepperell (165 Nashua Road, Pepperell, Mass., 978-433-9222, skyjump.com) or Skydive Barnstable (1000 Race Lane, Marstons Mills, Mass., 855-9885548, skydivenewhampshire.com).

The experience: If you want to use your tax return on yourself entirely, the best return on your investment would be to take an Accelerated Free Fall Course. Skydive Pepperell offers such a course, which begins on the ground and proceeds with a number of jumps with trained professionals falling beside you giving pointers. As the training progresses, the trainers give you more space. Certification for solo jumping can be

obtained after 25 jumps and a license evaluation jump. If you jump from 12,000 feet, you fall at a rate of 120 miles per hour for one minute. You can also spend your money on a large group of tandem jumpers, where you’re attached to a professional skydiver.

Cost: For a group of 11 tandem jumpers, it costs $2,420 at Pepperell. About 10 tandem jumpers can be accommodated for about $2,600 at Barnstable. It costs $1,765 to do the first phase of AFF training at Pepperell. Once you get to Phase 2, it costs $145 to jump with a coach or $75 to jump solo. The evaluation jump costs $190.

Leftover cash? Record your jumps with a professional equipped with digital cameras on his head for an extra $135 at Pepperell.

Try: Members of The New Hampshire Winery Association (nhwineryassociation.com) The experience: 21 of the state’s 31 wineries are members of the association reaching from The Vineyard at Seven Birches in North Haverhill to Jewell Towne Vineyards in South Hampton. Lewis Eaton, owner of Sweet Baby Vineyard in Hampstead, said the Seacoast has the tightest winery concentration, making it easy to visit four or five in one afternoon, but one can easily cover the state in a weekend. To make it a real adventure, hire a limo and driver to take you through your own self-guided winery tour, stopping for tours and tastings at each spot. Eaton said most wineries offer tours of the grounds and winemaking facility, but you may also be invited to a barrel tasting, offered a cheese plate or even given options for cooking class-

es, dinners or other events at larger locations like LaBelle Winery and Flag Hill Winery & Distillery.

Cost: Most tours and tastings range from $3 to $10 and the average bottle price is $12.

Take this opportunity to start your own wine cellar (or wine cabinet) by taking home a bottle at every stop. Driver rates vary depending on the business and type of vehicle and allow for safe sampling.

Leftover cash? Take a tour of the state’s distilleries (nhcraftspirits.org) or hit the New Hampshire Beer Trail (granitestatebrewersassociation.org) for more locally made beverage fun.

Try: Hiring a personal trainer from FitWise Personal Training (1750 Elm St., Manchester, 626-3978, fitwisefj.com) The experience: Mary Wiseman, founder of FitWise Personal Training, said the company offers lots of programs for whatever you want to get out of personal training sessions. There are programs for seniors and new moms, and for those who want to lose weight for weddings, vacations or health reasons.

Coaches can also help people whose training is to improve at certain sports or occupations. Sessions include fitness and progress

measurement, plus workouts that focus on strength and cardiovascular fitness. Many zoom in on full-body movement — burpees, mountain climbers, jumping rope — but clients also participate in workouts that utilize treadmills, rowing machines, arc trainers, bikes, free weights, kettlebells and medicine balls. “Our approach is to make sure people are living the healthiest and happiest lifestyle they can,” Wiseman said via phone.

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Try: A well-rounded trip with lodging, dining, live music and sightseeing The experience: Caitlin Thayer, visitor services coordinator for Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, recommends Wentworth by the Sea for someone looking to splurge in Portsmouth. For a downtown stay, try Sheraton Portsmouth Harbourside Hotel or The Hotel Portsmouth, a 32-room boutique hotel. Explore the culinary aspects of the city with Granite State Growler Tours featuring local breweries and distilleries or walking tasting tours with Portsmouth Eats.

For a nice dinner, check out restaurants with James Beard nominated chefs like Moxy and Black Trumpet Bistro. Venues like The Press Room, 3S Artspace and The Music Hall have plenty of live entertainment in the summer along with local theater at the Seacoast Rep and The Players’ Ring.

Cost: Thayer said folks can definitely stay within a $2,600 budget while filling a weekend with fine dining, live performances and activities like a growler tour.

Leftover cash? Pack a bit more into your weekend by shopping in Market Square, visiting the USS Albacore or taking a cruise with Isles of Shoals Steamship Co., Portsmouth Harbor Cruises or Gundalow Co.

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New Hampshire organizer Lorraine Falcone said professional organizers generally offer a wide range of services, including kitchen organizing, closet organizing, paper

organizing, computer organizing — the list goes on. Falcone said she’s worked with some clients once a month for eight or nine years, helping run businesses, move or pack up for vacations and coaching people to be more organized and thus more efficient in everyday life.

Cost: For a long-term commitment, hiring someone for three hours a month for 12 months will cost $1,800 to $3,200, though this will vary depending on an organizer’s experience; certified organizers usually charge $50 to $90 per hour in New Hampshire.

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Lately, Rzaca has seen folks hosting a party for the kids during the day and then using the

same items for the adults at night.

Cost: Equipment is priced per day, so depending on the type of party you’re going for, many combinations are available to fill a $2,600 budget. The popcorn, sno-kone, cotton candy, hot dog and nacho machines are $45 each and giant Jenga and giant Connect Four are $100 each. Over 50 bounce houses and combo bounces range from $185 to $495, or get a dunk tank ($445) and water slide (from $295 to $795). Higher-end items like the mechanical bull, 25-foot rock climbing wall (each $499 for one hour) and photo booth and trackless train ($499 each) include a staffer to run them and are typically priced per hour.

Leftover cash? Just add on another cool feature like inflatable twister ($195) or sumo suits ($275). The sky’s the limit for what kind of carnival you want to host.

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Try: Gabi’s Smoke Shack (459-8446, gabismokeshack.com) The experience: Throw a party for your friends, family or coworkers catered by Gabi’s barbecue trailer. Owner Anthony Martino said they’ll bring the trailer to someone’s house or office parking lot for a group of at least 50 to 75 people. The host will customize the meal from set catering menus like the BBQ combo (two meats and two sides for $14.99 per person), backyard trio (two meats plus smoked chicken and two sides for

$16.99 per person) and big backyard BBQ (two meats plus chicken and sausage and three sides for $21.99 per person).

Cost: Martino recently catered a birthday party for $1,200 and said the total price varies based on headcount and menu selections.

Along with the combos, you can substitute a meat for ribs for $3, add ribs for $4, add a side or a drink for $2 or dessert for $2.50, each per person. A nine-percent meals tax and 18-percent service charge are added on, as well as a destination charge for anything over 50 miles out of Hudson.

Leftover cash? Make it a food festival by adding on another truck like Clyde’s Cupcakes or Kona Ice.

Try: Spending it at the Omni Mount Washington Resort (310 Mount Washington Road, Bretton Woods, 278-1000, omnihotels.com) The experience: Located between New Hampshire’s tallest mountains, the Mount Washington Hotel was built from 1900 to 1902 by 250 Italian craftsmen, according to the website. The inside boasts old-fashioned grandeur, the outside mountainous views.

Stay Friday and Saturday night with a package that includes breakfast and dinner, and spend your day primping and relaxing. There are many packages and options, but with

$2,600 to spend, you can go for them all — a signature manicure, pedicure, shampoo, cut and blow dry, 75-minute deep tissue massage and 75-minute Mount Washington customized facial.

Cost: $1,305 ($370 for two nights with dinner and breakfast, $140 for manicure and pedicure, $65 for hair, $190 for massage, $170 for facial). There are different packages available at different times of the year; this is what it might cost the second weekend in April. If you want to stretch your tax return dollar, prices are less during weekdays.

Leftover cash? In the spring and summer, you can spend money on golf or nearby ziplining tours, or treat yourself at the outlets down the street.

Try: University of New Hampshire at Manchester (88 Commercial St., Manchester, 641-4101, manchester.unh.edu). The Summer 2016 term begins Monday, May 23.

On-campus and online classes are available.

The experience: As a non-degree student at UNH, you can take up to 11 credits’ worth of classes per term as long as the classes don’t have prerequisites. You can pay to receive credits for the class, which can be put toward starting or completing a degree and are transferable to other colleges, or you can audit the class, meaning you just sit in and learn with-

out receiving a grade or credit. Some of the classes open to non-degree students this summer are Philosophy and the Arts, Nutrition in Health and Wellbeing, Propaganda and Persuasion, First Year Writing and Elements of Weather.

Cost: Most classes offer four credits.

For-credit classes for New Hampshire residents cost $426 per credit (a four-credit class would be $1,704). Auditing a class costs $100 per credit. You’ll also need textbooks, which vary in price depending on what class they’re for and whether you rent them or buy them new or used.

Leftover cash: Continue your study in the Fall 2016 term, which begins the week of Aug. 29. See the website for a list of classes.

Try: Buying a season’s pass for the 20162017 ski season The experience: Okay, so it’s hard to guess whether a ski pass will really be worth it, but if next winter ends up being like the 2014-2015 season, you can more than get your money’s worth. With the passes, you can skip the ticket lines and zoom in and out of the ski resort.

If conditions aren’t great, you can go back the next day or the next weekend. Be sure to look at what’s included with each pass; some have black-out dates, which makes certain high-

peak times unavailable (during most school vacations and popular weekends).

Cost: Visit skinh.com for information on ski pass deals and see which ones cater best to what you want.

Depending on the mountain, they range from $300 to $1,000. Some passes, like the New England pass or the Superpass, include direct-to-lift access to multiple mountains (New England includes Loon Mountain, Sunday River and Sugarloaf; the Superpass includes Waterville Valley, Bretton Woods, Cannon and Cranmore.)

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Try: The New Hampshire Boat Museum’s Adult/Family Boat Building classes (399 Center St., Wolfeboro Falls, 569-4554, nhbm.org) or make a backyard play boat.

The experience: At the museum, the boat building classes are an opportunity for the older and younger generations to work together on a project and leave with an actual wooden boat. Classes are every weekend from Saturday, July 9, through Sunday, July 17, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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Cost: For a Bevin’s Skiff or a paddleboard, it costs $1,195 to build. Less expensive options include an optimist sailboat dinghy for $1,395, a one-person kayak for $995 or a plywood canoe for $695. It also costs $60 for those who are not museum members to register ($30 for members). With the help of building materials expert Bobby Ellis at Manchester’s Home Depot, we figured the basic building supplies would cost about $962.90 for 32 sheets of plywood and about 30 2x4s for support beams needed to build a 24-foot-long ship with a wheel cabin.

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This year’s dates are Fridays and Saturdays, June 3 and June 4, and Aug. 19 and Aug. 20.

Book online at nascarracingexperience.com.

The experience: After training and instruction, you’ll get to drive an authentic NASCAR race car on the speedway by yourself in a timed racing session, with oneon-one feedback from a spotter via in-car radio communications. There is no pace car to follow and you can pass other drivers just like in a real race. Eight different packages are available, including ones with five, eight, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 48 minutes of solo driving time and a three-lap passenger ride with a professional racing instructor for those who want the experience without driving. Drivers will receive a graduate certificate with their

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best convey your vision,” she said. “Do your research. You won’t be sorry for doing a little extra leg work.”

Consultations, she said, are a good idea; some tattoos take multiple sessions, and some artists specialize in certain kinds of art. Maillet said one of her many tattoos required four sessions, four hours per session.

Her tattoos tell stories, provide identity and remind her of memories.

“I believe that some stories or chapters aren’t meant to be dictated but illustrated,” she said.

Cost: In Maillet’s experience, some tattoo artists charge by the hour (usually around $150), some by the piece. It all depends on the size, difficulty and time involved.

Leftover cash? Attend the 10th Annual Live Free or Die Tattoo Expo at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester July 22 through July 24 this summer. Day passes cost $15. Visit livefreeordietattoo.com.

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Try: Outsourcing through sites like Fiverr. com and Domystuff.com or just hire a person you know.

The experience: Paying someone to do your job is not always permitted. There’s a story of a high-level programmer named Bob (not his real name) who earned six figures working at Verizon until executives grew wise to his scheme of outsourcing his job to a Chinese firm for a fifth of his salary. Each day, the Chinese programmer would log in and do his work while Bob watched cat videos and browsed eBay. Needless to say, he was fired.

But there are some jobs that you might get away with outsourcing, mainly if you own your own business. If yours is not that kind

of job, you can still outsource extra work that would make yours better, like proofreading a report or doing chores that would otherwise cut into your work time. Domystuff is better for the local work like cleaning windows, while Fiverr is virtually all digital work.

Cost: Based on the median household income of the United States, you could spend roughly the whole $2,600 tax return for about a month of full-time work. Most work outsourced through Fiverr costs between $5 (hence the name) and $15, though some jobs can get as high as $995. Members of Fiverr can do more creative work like making songs, writing press releases, creating graphic designs or marketing strategies, editing videos and much more, according to spokesman Sam Katzen. If all you do is buy $5 jobs, you can get about 520 jobs done for you.

Leftover cash? Tip a little extra.

Try: NH Tunes (250 Commercial St., Suite 2017, Manchester, 660-2208, nhtunes. biz), an 1,800+-square-foot recording studio.

The experience: Take your showersinging to the next level at the NH Tunes recording studio, where you can record your own album. You’ll have access to high-quality equipment as well as two vocal/acoustic rooms, a baby grand piano, a drum kit and other instruments to use while you’re there.

An audio engineer will coach you through the recording process and mix and master the

songs to create a professional-sounding CD. Cost: Packages range from $90 to $300 and include two-, three- and four-hour recording sessions and packages specifically for recording voice, audition tapes and five-song band EPs. Online mixing is an additional $40 to $50 per song, and online mastering is an additional $35 per song.

Leftover cash: Advance your musical skills with some lessons. NH Tunes offers private 30-minute lessons for $25 per lesson in piano, guitar, voice, ukulele, saxophone, flute and trumpet, plus a group ukulele club for $40 per month. A four-week voiceover course costs $199; audio engineering and mixing essentials courses are $175 each.

Try: A membership at Capitol Center for the Arts (44 S. Main St., Concord, 2251111, ccanh.com).

The experience: For 12 months, you’ll never have to squint or crane your neck to see what’s going on onstage at the Capitol Center for the Arts’ music, theater, comedy, dance and opera shows. The venue offers six levels of membership that come with all kinds of V.I.P.-status perks, such as exclusive access to the best seats; a members-only 24-hour presale for tickets to newly announced shows; invitation to private special events, including meet-the-artist events

and receptions; vouchers for complimentary drinks (non-alcoholic) at the venue concessions; and personal ticketing assistance.

Cost: Ranges from $50 to $4,999, depending on the membership level Leftover cash: Purchase a membership at another entertainment venue you frequent.

Memberships featuring ticket pre-sales, artist meet-and-greets, complimentary drinks and more are offered at Tupelo Music Hall (2 Young Road, Londonderry, tupelohalllondonderry.com; $250), Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester, palacetheatre.org; $40 to $4,000+), The Music Hall (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, themusichall.org; $50 to $5,000+) and The Colonial Theatre (95 Main St., Keene, thecolonial.org; $50 to $10,000+).

Try: Buying Lego bricks and thinking big.

The experience: Lego artist Nathan Sawaya proved to the world that Lego building can be an art form. He’s best known for his large statues of the human figure, including a recent project called Hugman, a life-size Lego man hugging a tree in a public park. Wired magazine reports the average Lego brick sold in sets costs about 10 cents. Sawaya’s human

statues range in size from about 10,000 individual bricks to about 30,000 bricks. One of his largest works, a Tyrannosaurus rex, has more than 80,000 bricks. For $2,600, you can buy 26,000 bricks, in theory. If you’re new to Lego sculpting — and I don’t think you’re alone there — we suggest downloading Lego’s Digital Designer software to come up with a plan before you start the painstaking work of attaching tiny brick to tiny brick. The software is free to download at ldd.lego.com.

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The experience: You’ll be the envy of all your friends when you own an official NASA Kennedy Space Center launch viewing pass for Apollo 11, the first space mission to land humans on the moon. The blue 5x3 card granted someone V.I.P. access to an area where they could watch the 1969 launch. It features the mission insignia and is signed

on the front by each member of the Apollo 11 crew: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

Cost: The estimated value is $2,000 to $3,000. After 16 bids, the item is at $1,685.

Leftover cash: Build your collection. The Apollo 11 launch viewing pass is one of 837 items currently up for bid in RR Auction’s Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction, which is held monthly. Other items include signed memorabilia by U.S. presidents and other famous historical figures, authors and artists, film actors and musicians. RR Auction also has more specialized auctions; up next are Space and Aviation, which opens Thursday, April 14 (preview currently available online), and Marvels of Modern Music, which opens Thursday, May 12.

Try: Anastasia’s Table Personal Chef Service, based in Londonderry (818-9991, anastasiastable.com) The experience: If making meals during the week stresses you out, chef Patti Anastasia will pick up groceries, come to your house and make dinner for you. She does weekly, bi-weekly and monthly visits for fresh meals or ones to keep in the freezer. She’ll even come to a client’s house and cook hot dinners for them seven days a week

if they want. Each menu is customized, taking into account preferences and diet requirements, plus packaging and labeling and heating instructions.

Cost: Pricing is based on number of meals plus cost of groceries. Five full-service meals (includes entrees and sides, six servings each) costs $315 plus grocery and packaging costs and five entrees (six servings each) costs $285 plus grocery and packaging costs.

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The 35th annual Milford and Company Indoor Motorcycle Flea Market will be at the Everett Arena (15 Loudon Road, Concord) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Check out a variety of parts, leather, jewelry and clothing for sale. Admission costs $10, free for youth age 17 and under with an adult. Call 682-6251 or 4872051 for more information.

Drink: Different brews Hop Head United is hosting a craft brew event, Hop Talks, at the Tupelo Music Hall (2 Young Road, Londonderry) on Sunday, April 3, from 4 to 8 p.m. Sample two beers from six different breweries, which include Kelsen, 603 Brewery, Henniker Brewing, From the Barrel, Able Ebenezer and Great North Aleworks. Each brewer will have a 20-minute presentation plus a Q&A time.

Tickets cost $41 to $68. Visit hopheadunited.com.

Symphony New Hampshire’s last big concert of the season, The Essential Ring, Part 1, starts at 3 p.m. at the Keefe Center for the Arts (117 Elm St., Nashua). The concert features Symphony New Hampshire, the Lexington Symphony and world-class soloists, including Metropolitan Opera headliner Thomas Studebaker.

Music includes favorites from the first two operas in Richard Wagner’s epic Ring cycle: “Das Rheingold” and “Die Walküre.”

Tickets cost $15 to $62. Visit symphonynh.org.

Be Merry: With stamps The Manchester Stamp Club presents QPEX, its 56th Annual Stamp Show, on Sunday, April 3, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall (5 Riverside St., Hooksett).

There will be multiple dealers, exhibits, the U.S. Postal Service, a chance board and door prizes. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Admission is free. For more information, call Judy at 486-5750.

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Pinard is maybe best-known in New Hampshire for his “Discovering Magic” show, which he tours around the world. He has a strong foundation in theater, having taught the subject at Pembroke Academy and performed and directed lots of regional shows. He also has a theater-building background. He helped build the current Pittsfield Players stage and pulled out seats from old Burlesque houses for the North Country Center for the Arts’s original theater. Most recently, he was acting clerk of the works in the reconstruction of the Kearsarge Regional High School auditorium, where his daughter now rehearses.

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2 Across: Produced by Lend Me A Theater, $15, featuring Mo Demers and Dan Scheys, Friday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, April 3, at 2 p.m.; Friday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, April 10, at 2 p.m.

Discovering Magic: $15, Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m.

Mavara: $15, Progressive rock concert, Saturday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m.

Greg Boggis Presents: Stand-up comedy, $15, Friday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m.

3rd Degree: Progressive rock concert, $15, Saturday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m.

Andrew Pinard in the Hatbox Theatre. Kelly Sennott photo.

lot of different places.”

Community void

Pinard, who’s funding the majority of the project himself, admits he’s seen a fair share of skepticism since the news went public weeks back.

“People have been saying, ‘You’re doing what? You’re doing where?’ And I get that,” Pinard said. “I’m not a wealthy man. I’m a performer by trade.”

But, in his opinion, the state capital has been in need of something like this since its Annicchiarico Theatre, which opened in 1966, closed back in 2007.

“It was a wonderful little venue,” Pinard said. “And it made for a more dynamic arts community. … This has been absent from Concord for 10 years. And I think there’s a deep need for it.”

People from the New Hampshire arts and theater scene have been inquiring about and stopping in to check out the space for weeks — he named off Stagecoach Productions, the Majestic Theatre, the Community Players of Concord, Not Your Mom’s Musical Theatre, theatre KAPOW. A collection of companies have already promised shows, like Lend Me A Theater and New World Theatre.

He said Matt Newton from the New Hampshire Film Office wants to produce a podcast with a live audience, and so does Dan Pelletier.

In fact, Pinard said the company is booked till June and is looking for summer performers.

Hatbox

The term Hatbox sounds like black box — one of Pinard’s favorite kinds of theaters.

Constructing a black box theater has been Hatbox Theatre Address: Steeplegate Mall, 270 Loudon Road, Concord, in the former Coldwater Creek storefront Contact: hatboxnh.com Indiegogo: indiegogo.com/projects/ hatbox-theatre#

on Pinard’s mind about five years, he said, but didn’t start scouring the city with Barrett and former student Matt Potter until a year ago.

“One day, we said, why don’t we just look at the mall. It has parking, it has sprinklers — it has everything I needed. I probably considered 15 or 18 venues before this,” Pinard said.

The space, formerly a boutique, has fitting rooms that will become actor dressing rooms.

Out back are two restrooms, a water bubbler and library of more than 2,000 scripts from Pinard’s collection. What was a checkout counter is now a ticket box office and refreshments stand. They still needed to install drywall, build two more platforms, put down carpet, hang curtains and install seats — 54 in the middle, 19 on either side — and a lighting grid.

Right now, the theater is for-profit, but Pinard wants to build a nonprofit arm and eventually turn it nonprofit entirely. He’s holding off because it’s faster to start up this way.

“Sometimes nonprofits can take two to three years to get up and running, and I didn’t want to wait those two to three years,” he said.

The business plan will be modeled after the Players’ Ring, a Portsmouth black box theater, which is small and flexible, not unlike the Annicchiarico.

It hosts producers’ nights every year where people can come pitch performance ideas.

“If selected, you split the gate,” he said.

“You get the lion’s percentage and the house takes a certain percentage as well. We’re stealing liberally from them, with their permission.”

He admits, Portsmouth is an entirely different beast than Concord.

“But we’ve seen an explosion of groups who want to do things and yet don’t have a home to do them in,” Pinard said. “My hope is we’re going to be able to take some of the productions that are being done on the Seacoast and maybe remount some of them here, as well, so Concord audiences can have the opportunity to experience some of the excitement in Portsmouth.”

Pinard plans to perform “Discovering Magic” there once a month and hopes for monthly comedy nights, progressive rock concerts, chamber and jazz concerts, plus original plays.

He said he’s doing this not to make money — he’ll continue working as a full-time performer regardless of how this new project goes — but because nobody else is.

“I’m not religious, but I see the theater as a type of church. It’s a place for people to come together and explore concepts and topics, and give them a place to grow and change and support each other,” he said.

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actually — this weekend with “Essential Ring,” a distillation of Wagner’s 17-hourlong, four-opera series about the quest for a golden ring of power, focusing especially on excerpts from Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. Conducted by Symphony New Hampshire Music Director Jonathan McPhee, the show features world-class soloists, including Metropolitan Opera headliner Thomas Studebaker, and is produced with the Lexington Symphony in cooperation with the Boston Wagner Society. The concert is Sunday, April 3, at 3 p.m., at the Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. Tickets are $20 to $62.

Visit symphonynh.org or call 595-9156.

• How to find The Music Hall: The Music Hall and the City of Portsmouth are launching an $800,000 project to upgrade the Chestnut Street streetscape around the historic theater, according to the Seacoast Media Group. Music Hall Executive Director Patricia Lynch said in the story the project will address unsafe sidewalks around the building, awkward access for pedestrians plus some needed visibility, including a way-finding arch that will connect the African Burial Ground and Vaughan Mall to the Northern Tier.

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• Fairy tale retelling: Nashua High School South’s spring musical is Once Upon a Mattress, a comedic retelling of The Princess and the Pea, and it shows this weekend at the high school auditorium, 36 Riverside St., Nashua, on Friday, April 1, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 2, at 2 and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, April 3, at 2 p.m. The cast is made up of 70 kids — more than any other show in Nashua High School South history, Director Joel Iwaskiewicz said via email — 30 of whom are seniors. Tickets are $10. Email dehners@nashua.edu or call 589-8957.

• Well-behaved women: The New Hampshire Theatre Project’s Junior Youth Repertory Company is taking on the women’s rights movement with Well-Behaved Women by NHTP Youth Rep alum Jes Marbacher. Shows occur at the West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth, on Friday, April 1, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 2, at 2 and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, April 3, at 2 p.m. The play has two acts, the first focusing on Susan B. Anthony’s attempt to vote and subsequent arrest in 1872, the second on Alice Paul and the suffragettes of the early 1900s. “Every rehearsal turns into a history lesson. We start to tackle a scene and think that it’s relatively straightforward but in reality it has so many layers,” Director Meghann Beauchamp said in a press release. “Susan B. Anthony was fighting for equal pay 150 years ago and women are still fighting for it today. The historical figures portrayed in Well-Behaved Women broached issues that no one wanted to talk about, shaped policy, and changed our nation.” Tickets are $10. Call 431-6644, ext. 5, or email reservations@nhtheatreproject.org.

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April 7, at 6 p.m., at the Nesmith Library, 8 Fellows Road, Windham, to talk about the meaning and symbolism behind primary and secondary colors and how they affect us. Listeners will learn why they tend to prefer certain colors, and why logos, products, advertising and other cultural elements are composed of the colors they are. The event is free and open to the public. Call 432-7154.

• Calling UNH photography alum: In conjunction with University of New Hampshire’s sesquicentennial celebration, the school’s museum of art invites UNH alumni photographers working in all media and styles to submit entries for the 2016 Alumni Photography exhibit. Guest juror Kristen Gresh, ‘97, and Yousuf Karsh, assistant curator of photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will make selections via digital submissions, which must be sent between April 1 and May 11. There’s no fee to enter but participation is limited to graduates of UNH. The show is on view Aug. 31 through October. An online application is available starting April 1 at unh.edu/moa.

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• Outdoor-themed art shows: The spring buds have inspired local artists and art galleries. One nature-themed show opening this weekend is “If Trees Could Talk: As Heard by the NH Women’s Caucus for Art” at Twiggs Gallery (254 King St., Boscawen, 796-2899, twiggsgallery.wordpress.com), from April 2 through May 1. The exhibition is juried by Dr. Cynthia Vascak, founding dean of Plymouth State’s University’s College of Arts and Sciences, who is also a working artist. There’s a reception Thursday, April 7, from 5 to 7 p.m. Visit wcanh.org.

The Abbott Library (11 Soonipi Circle, Sunapee, 763-5513, abbottlibrary.org) features New Hampshire artist Jean Cronin Connolly — who is also chairperson of the Center for the Arts in the Lake Sunapee Region — in a show, “Water, Waves, and Woods,” on view through April with an opening reception Thursday, March 31, from 5 to 7 p.m. Connolly studied art at the University of Massachusetts and Boston University and has photographed and painted on location all over the world. The show consists of oil landscapes that reflect nature in a variety of settings, according to the press release.

• Color psychology: Ever wonder what your favorite color says about you? Interior decorator Kelly Murphy presents “The Psychology of Color” on Wednesday, April 6, at 7 p.m., at the Hollis Social Library, 2 Monument Square, Hollis, and on Thursday,

Art Events • NH OPEN DOORS Weekendlong touring and shopping event among artisan shops and studios for food, fine art, products, etc.

Sat., April 9, and Sun., April 10.

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• SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GRAND OPENING Raffle of "Great Bay in Winter"

by Annick Bouvron-Gromek, refreshments, proceeds go to renovations. Sat., April 9, at 5 p.m.

Seacoast Artist Association Gallery, 130 Water St., Exeter. $20.

Call 778-8856.

• PAWS AND CLAWS FUNDRAISER/ART SHOW Featuring 100 6-inch by 6-inch pieces of artwork from professional artists.

Thurs., April 14, 6-9 p.m. Sullivan Framing and Fine Art Gallery, 15 N. Amherst Road, Bedford. Call 471-1888.

Openings • "WATER, WAVES AND WOODS" Art show featuring work by Jean Cronin Connolly.

On view through April. Reception Thurs., March 31, 5-7 p.m.

Abbott Library, 11 Soonipi Circle, Sunapee.

• "FRESH" Wild Salamander Group Art Show. Highlighting pieces inspired by beauty found outside. On view April 1 through May 4. Reception Fri., April 1, 6-8 p.m. Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center, 30 Ash St., Hollis. Visit wildsalamander.com.

• LEE DUNHOLTER Art show.

On view April 2 through May 12.

Reception Sun., April 3, 1-3 p.m.

Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St., Hancock. Call 525-4411.

• HOWARD DENTON Black and white photography show.

April 3 through April 29. Reception Sun., April 3, 2-4 p.m. Hol-

lis Social Library, 2 Monument Square, Hollis. Call 465-7721.

• "IF TREES COULD TALK: AS HEARD BY NH WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART" Art show investigating where the environment has a voice. Variety of media. On view April 2 through May 1. Opening Thurs., April 7, 5-7 p.m. Twiggs Gallery, 254 King St., Boscawen. wcanh.org.

Classical Music Events • SYMPHONY NH CONCERT TALK: THE ESSENTIAL RING, PART 1 Featuring Robert Hoffman. Thurs., March 31, at 5:30 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Free. Visit nashualibrary.org/visit/directions.

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• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS NH Philharmonic concert. Sat., April 2, at 7:30 p.m.

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Music steward MCMS honors Tom Lewry

Tom Lewry. Courtesy photo.

By Kelly Sennott

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Tom Lewry was flattered but a little embarrassed when announced as the first recipient of Manchester Community Music School’s Leadership Award, which he’ll receive at its 11th annual Share the Music Gala Thursday, March 31.

But after MCMS Executive Director Judy Teehan delivered the news via phone over a month ago, Lewry decided there was a bright side — he could use this opportunity to better get the word out about MCMS’s growth and the good it does for the community and its 1,200 students.

“It’s an organization that’s kind of sleeping in the North End. People often don’t know of it because it used to be on Hanover Street, right downtown,” said Lewry, whose office at Curbstone Financial Management Corporation is a few blocks from the school.

Lewry became heavily involved with MCMS 10 years ago when, at age 60, he walked into its front doors to take piano Deborah and Elliott Markow MCMS is also awarding the inaugural MCMS Impact Award to husband-wife team Elliott and Debbie Markow, who’ve been teaching violin at the school for 20 years. The school’s only 32 years old.

Deborah Markow is a Suzuki teacher who works with young children, while Elliott Markow instructs more advanced players who might be preparing to audition for conservatory, Teehan said.

But the pair, in addition to teaching, have acted as mentors to aspiring musicians and advocates for music education and financial assistance, sometimes plucking students from the community they see a “special spark in.”

Teehan said that, through their work, they’ve impacted hundreds, maybe even thousands of families in the community.

lessons. He comes from a musical family; his sister was a professional viola player who performed with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania until age 75. His mom sang and his aunt sang, but Lewry hadn’t had the patience to sit and practice music as a kid. He took maybe six months of piano back then before switching to sports.

But he always loved music and had each of his four kids take mandatory piano lessons until ninth grade.

“I think if there were one sense I couldn’t do without, it would be my sense of hearing. It’s not only music. It’s sound. I find I’m very hypersensitive to sound. And relationships of sound, and the creation of music,” Lewry said. “I wanted my kids to appreciate the kind of work that goes into the scholarship of music.”

Lewry had a feeling that, as president of a local finance company, he might get roped into something besides lessons at the community music school, so he set his intentions straight early on.

“I told Suzanne [Barr], the CEO at the time, ‘I don’t want anything to do with your board or committees, or any of that. In the years I have left, I want to learn something about how music is put together,’” he said. “At any rate, what happens when you go into the school — or what I found, if you wander the halls in the afternoon — you walk into these rooms where you see 8-year-olds playing Chopin on the piano from memory. Or you see senior citizens taking voice lessons. It’s a very inspiring place. … Within six months, I was asked to join the board and I agreed.”

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Lewry helped reorganize the nonprofit’s financial structure by advising the school to consolidate lines of credit and mortgage accounts. Teehan said he also offered guidance and leadership in terms of setting up good business practices and enforcing accountability and communication with constituents.

The board is made up of about 20 people with various backgrounds — legal, accounting, marketing, financial, fundraising, musical — and Lewry was part of it for eight years. Its existence is crucial for the school’s survival, Teehan said, with its meager budget and barebones staff.

“It’s important for us to have mentors in the community,” Teehan said. “Without them we’d be nowhere.”

Even though Lewry’s only official involvement with the school today is through weekly piano lessons with Craig Vahey, he still talks about it with a fatherly pride.

“In terms of musical development, we have the largest music therapy program in the state,” he said. “And some of the success stories of the music therapy program are great. We’re not only [here] for students who come to the school, but [we’re] out in various healthcare facilities and performing music therapy services.”

He said he’s especially proud of its scholarship program, particularly as arts programs get cut in school budgets.

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• THE ESSENTIAL RING: PART 1 Symphony NH concert, joined by Lexington Symphony.

Sun., April 3, at 3 p.m. Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. $20-$62. Visit symphonynh. org. Call 595-9156.

• LAKES SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT Featuring performance by Moultonborough Central School Select Chorus, high school violinist Jonathan Lee. Sun., April 3, at 3 p.m.

Inter-Lakes High School, 1 Laker Lane, Meredith. $5. Visit lrso.org.

• SO GLAD I'M HERE Songweavers Women's Chorus celebrates 25 years with gala concerts.

Sun., April 3, at 4 p.m. First Parish Congregational Church, 47 E. Derry Road, Concord. $20. Call 434-0628.

• NORTH MAIN MUSIC ROCK SHOW Tribute to Green Day. Sun., April 3, at 1 p.m. Dolly Shaker's, 38 E. Hollis St., Nashua. $5 suggested. Call 505-4282. Visit northmainmusic.com.

• HEALTH AND WELLNESS DRUM CIRCLE Learn about rhythms, drumming, benefits and applications of music. No prior training necessary. Thursdays, Jan. 28-April 7. 5:15-6

ships over a period of about 10 years. Those are need-based, and have allowed many families to have their kids pursue high-quality music education while being underwritten by the scholarship program,” he said. (This year alone, the school has awarded more than $100,000 to more than 255 students.)

The morning of his interview, Lewry had stopped into the music school for his lessons and to say hi. He commented on Teehan’s posture, the hunched way she sat at her computer, and sent a computer monitor stand the next day.

“He comes in for his lessons weekly, but he stops in the office and always has a watchful eye out for the school, and what the word is in the community. He’s just a guiding force. Even though he’s no longer on the board, he still carries our banner, and we thought it was time to honor Tom,” Teehan said.

11th Annual Share the Music Gala Where: Southern New Hampshire University Banquet Hall When: Thursday, March 31 What: Dancing and music featuring the New Hampshire Youth Jazz Ensemble, and an awards ceremony honoring Tom Lewry with the Leadership Award and Deborah and Elliott Markow with the Impact Award Admission: $100 for VIP reserved seating at 5:30 p.m., $75 for general seating at 6 p.m.

Contact: mcmusicschool.org

p.m., except Feb. 11, Feb. 25 and March 31. Manchester Community Music School, 2291 Elm St., Manchester. $100 per semester, $15 drop-in. Call 644-4548.

• NH FIDDLE ENSEMBLE Concert. Sat., April 9, at 7 p.m.

Grappone Toyota Dealership, 594 NH-3A, Bow. $12. Proceeds to NH Children's Trust. Visit nhchildrenstrust.org/fiddleconcord.

• UKULELE WORKSHOP Presented by Victoria Vox. Sat., April 9, 2:30-4 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua.

Free, registration required. Visit tinyurl.com/nplconcert.

Theater Productions • SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK, JR. Palace Youth Theatre production.

Fri., April 1, at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wed., April 6, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., April 7, at 7 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $14. palacetheatre.org. 668-5588.

• HAPENNY MAGICK Based on Jennifer Carson's award-winning children's fantasy by same name. Fri., April 1, at 7 p.m.; Sat., April 2, at 2 p.m.; Sun., April 3, at 2 p.m. Warner Town Hall, 5 E. Main St., Warner. $15. 526-2910.

• INTO THE WOODS Winnisquam Regional High School production. Fri., April 1, at 7 p.m.;

Sat., April 2, at 7 p.m.; Sun., April 3, at 2 p.m. Winnisquam Regional High School, 435 W. Main St., Tilton. $10. Call 848-7979.

• SNOW WHITE Southern NH Youth Ballet production. Sat., April 2, at 1:30 & 4:30 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $20. palacetheatre.org.

• BRIDGMAN/PACKER DANCE Fri., April 8, at 7 p.m., at Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. $25. Visit stockbridgetheatre.com.

• CHICAGO Saint Anselm Abbey Players production. Directed by Joel Mercier. Fri., April 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April 9, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 10, at 2 p.m.; Fri., April 15, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April 16, at 7:30 p.m. Dana Center, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. $14. anselmianabbeyplayers.com.

• FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Windham Actor's Guild production. Fri., April 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April 9, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 10, at 2 p.m. Windham High School, 64 London Bridge Road, Windham. $18. Visit windhamactorsguild.com.

• FROST HEAVES Final show.

Fri., April 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April 9, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Peterborough Players Theatre, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. $20. Visit frostheaves.com. Call 525-3391.

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE No more tech troubles

Computer Clinic offers free help with computers and more

By Angie Sykeny

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Whether you have a slow-running computer, don’t understand social media or can’t decide which new mobile device to buy, you can bring all your technology woes to the free Computer Clinic put on by the Michael LoVerme Memorial Foundation on Saturday, April 2, at the Merrimack Public Library. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., volunteers will be offering personalized assistance, Q&A sessions and a photo scanning station.

The Computer Clinic is a tribute to Michael LoVerme, a young man from Merrimack who had a passion for technology and was halfway to earning his master’s degree in computer science when he died in a motorcycle accident in 2012.

“Mike was the guy everyone went to when they had a computer problem. … He would help out anyone who asked,” said Jeff Christensen, MLMF vice president and chairmen of the Computer Clinic committee.

“So, to carry on his legacy, [we] decided to host a free Computer Clinic for the public and say, ‘If you have problems or questions about technology, we’ll have a stockpile of MLMF Computer Clinic Where: Merrimack Public Library, 470 Daniel Webster Hwy. When: Saturday, April 2, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cost: Admission and all services are free, but donations are appreciated Visit: mlmf.org/computerclinic

A previous MLMF Computer Clinic. Courtesy photo.

nerds who can help you out.’”

Around 20 volunteers will be at the clinic, some who work in the technology field and others who are just tech-savvy and want to lend a hand.

Most of the clinic space will be dedicated to one-on-one consultations where people can sit down with volunteers and get assistance with their computers or devices.

Some of the computer services volunteers can provide include installing or updating antivirus software, removing spyware, optimizing performance by doing a system cleanup and removing excess programs, and defragmenting disk drives if necessary. The volunteers can’t update your computer’s operating system or repair any hardware issues, but they can give advice about what software to use, how to update your hardware and when you should consider purchasing a new computer. To receive service on your computer, make sure you bring a charger if it’s a laptop,

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and if it’s a desktop, only bring the tower (the clinic will have monitors and keyboards to hook it up to).

“A lot of people come because they can’t afford to bring their computer to a regular shop … which may charge $50 an hour to fix it, so we can help them out,” Christensen said. “Sometimes people come just to watch and learn new skills like how to repair computers or remove viruses, and we’re always happy to have someone sit in and learn.”

Assistance with computer problems isn’t the only service the volunteers offer. They can also teach you how to navigate certain computer programs, set up an email account and use a smartphone or tablet.

Media professionals will be operating a photo scanning station where people can create digital copies of their hard copy photographs and learn how to touch them up.

“A lot of people come in with family photos from 50 years ago that they want to put on the computer but don’t know how,” Christensen

said. “[The professionals] will show you how to scan your old photos and how to revitalize a photo by touching it up or fixing that wrinkle in it or any other kinds of media editing that technology enables nowadays.”

Starting at 9:30 a.m., Q&A sessions will be held every half hour.

Each session beginning on the hour will be a general Q&A where people can ask any technology questions they have. Sessions beginning at half past the hour will be based on specialized topics, which include Microsoft Office and Google Docs at 9:30 a.m., social media at 10:30 a.m., website and blog development at 11:30 a.m., smartphones and mobile devices at 12:30 p.m., and photo and video editing at 1:30 p.m.

The Q&As are a new feature of the Computer Clinic this year.

Before, there were various presentations held throughout the day, but since MLMF has started hosting monthly technology presentations at the Merrimack Public Library, they decided to replace them at the Computer Clinic with Q&As, to give people a more discussion-based format where they can get advice and answers to their questions.

Christensen said that, to his knowledge, the Computer Clinic is an “entirely unique” event.

“There’s others who hold technology classes … but I haven’t seen anyone doing anything like [the Computer Clinic],” he said. “That was actually one of the hurdles we had to overcome. People didn’t know what it was. Now that we’ve introduced the idea … there’s people lined up at the door before we open.”

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The Southern New Hampshire Youth Ballet presents Snow White at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester) on Saturday, April 2, at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m.

See the tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs come to life on stage in the form of a ballet performance. General admission tickets cost $20, and for an additional $15, you can join Snow White and her friends for a special tea time 45 minutes before the show starts (space is limited). Visit palacetheatre.org.

Amoskeag Fishways (4 Fletcher St., Manchester) will host a Build a Birdhouse family fun night on Friday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m. Learn how to build a birdhouse by helping the Fishways create a new nest box for tree swallows and other birds that raise their young along the river each spring. The cost is $8 per family, and registration is required. Visit amoskeagfishways.org.

On Saturday, April 2, at 11 a.m., and 1 p.m., the Predators of the Sky: Live Birds Clubs Events •QPEX ANNUAL STAMP SHOW Features multiple dealers, exhibits, U.S. Postal Service, chance board, door prizes and refreshments for purchase.

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St., Manchester) on Saturday, April 2, at noon, for a family pottery workshop. Kids All dolled up Russian artist and storyteller Marican learn how to throw on a pottery wheel na Forbes will be at Rodgers Memorial alongside their parents. Pottery throwing Library (194 Derry Road, Hudson) on Sunis an activity best suited for ages 9 and up, but children as young as 6 with the required day, April 3, from 1 to 4 p.m., to teach a focus and dexterity are welcome to attend. workshop on Russian wooden nesting The cost is $60, and there is a limit of one dolls, also known as matryoshkas. First, learn the history and tradition of matryoshchild per parent.

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Bounce around, play fun games, take part in a free craft and get your picture taken with Ryder. Admission is $10 for kids and free for adults and babies. Visit mycowabungas.com.

HAMPSHIRE Nashua Garden Club event. Presentation by author and wooden boat builder Kevin Martin brings you through the woods and into some cities all over New Hampshire to find these impressive living parts of our landscape.

Wed., April 6, 7 to 9 p.m. First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester St., Nashua. Members of the public are welcome to attend

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Last fall in my weekly newspaper column I commented that, if I’d been a good boy all year, I hoped Santa would bring me lemon or lime tree, one that would bear fruit indoors.

Santa did not do so, though I can’t imagine why. But many kind readers emailed me saying, “Go to Logee’s Greenhouse (logees.com) in Danielson, Connecticut. They will have just what you want.” So after presenting at the Rhode Island Flower Show in February, I went to Logee’s. I got what I wanted. and more.

I met Byron Martin, whose grandfather started Logee’s in 1892. He showed me plants that had been alive longer than he had. By now the business has 14 greenhouses, including the original greenhouse.

Byron grew up in the greenhouses and is a vast reservoir of knowledge. He also has a good sense of humor. In one greenhouse he showed us the Miracle Berry plant and invited us to taste the fruit. “Just chew it a little,” he said. “Spit out the seed.” It was nothing remarkable, pleasant, but nothing special.

Later, in a different greenhouse, Byron picked a lemon, cut it open and offered me a piece. “Try this,” he said. “It’s nothing like any lemon you’ve ever tasted.” Wow. It was sweet, sweeter than an orange. He grinned and explained that the Miracle Berry changes the way your taste buds perceive flavors.

The regular lemon he offered tasted sweet and delicious.

In addition to running a fabulous tropical greenhouse, Byron is also the co-author with Laurelynn Martin of Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere (Storey Publishing, 2010). This book really does tell you everything you need to know about growing tropical fruits. I wish I’d gotten it years ago.

The book explains not only how to do things, but why. I like that. So, for example, I knew that one shouldn’t transplant a small plant into a big pot, just go to the next size. It’s fine to move a plant from a 4-inch pot to a 6-inch pot, not a 12-inch pot. But I never knew why.

The book explains that a small plant in a big pot may develop root rot. Its small root system will not suck out the water from the far reaches of the pot, so the potting soil will remain cool and wet, and that can easily promote root rot. Makes sense.

Growing Tasty Tropical Plants has tips for success, plant by plant, and best bets for beginners. It tells you how to grow coffee, tea and bananas. Cinnamon? Sure, you can do it.

And what about those avocadoes from the pits we all have started? No, the book explains, those will never produce fruit, but there are kinds of avocado that will give you fruit.

Byron Martin’s greenhouse.

As an organic gardener I appreciate that the Martins’ book explains easy, safe ways to control pests and diseases. Neem oil is produced by a tropical tree and offers pest control for many insects without resorting to synthetic chemicals. And a sharp blast of cold water can greatly reduce the population of aphids or spider mites. (I’ve been known to shower with my house plants.)

So what am I growing now? I started with a key lime. This will produce fruit on a 2-foot-tall plant, blooming in late winter or early spring and producing fruit in the fall into winter. The book explains that it needs temperatures of 60 degrees or more, as much sun as possible, and well-drained potting mix. It will not do well in consistently wet soil mix.

Then I got a Meyer lemon. With proper pruning it will produce fruit when just three feet tall, and it is on the “Best Bets for Beginners” list. Like the lime, this plant will go outside in full sun for the summer, and can tolerate temperatures down to 50 degrees.

At Logee’s, most of their lemons grow in 12-inch baskets high in the greenhouse as they love heat. Each of those plants produces about 30 lemons a year!

And of course I had to get a Miracle Berry (Synsepalum dulcificum). According to the book, if kept in full sun and fertilized monthly, it fruits heavily twice a year. And, according to some, chewing on a mature fruit will change the taste of lousy red wine into something a wine aficionado dreams of.

Byron gave me a bay plant so I can have leaves for use in the kitchen, and a neem tree just for fun. I knew the neem tree from my years in Africa, its native home. Interestingly, Bambara farmers in Mali called it the equivalent of the “manure tree,” having figured out that it improves the soil (by fixing nitrogen).

According to Byron’s book, neem oil will smoother and eradicate white flies, mealybugs, thrips and more. I bought a small bottle of it.

In a year or two I should be harvesting lemons and limes. I have a good sunny window for the winter, and they will go out in the summer. And if you want to try some of these things, think about a road trip to Logee’s.

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•FREELANCE WRITING WORKSHOP Instructor Beth LaMontagne Hall will explore how to target publications that use freelance work regularly, how to approach editors successfully, how to structure writing pieces to meet the publication's needs and how to advance to bigger and better publications.

Balancing multiple assignments, determining how much to charge and ensuring you are paid will also be discussed. Sat., April 9, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications, 749 E. Industrial Park Drive, Manchester. $50. Visit loebschool. org or call 627-0005.

Crafts Fairs •SPRING CRAFT FAIR 60 craftsmen from throughout New England will display a wide variety handmade crafts and gourmet food, including gold/silver and beaded jewelry, unique lawn art and figurines, fine art and photography, gourd gnomes, ceramics, fossils and crystals, shaker boxes, fabric arts, doll clothes and gourmet foods. Sat., April 2, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Windham High School, 64 London Bridge Road, Windham. Visit womansserviceclubofwindham.org.

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Sat., April 9, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Merrimack High School, 38 McElwain St., Merrimack. $10.

•SPRINGFEST Features a Kids Carnival with bounce houses, slides, jousting, laser tag, face painting and more; food prepared by local restaurants and bakeries; and a business and vendor exposition with over 70 booths offering product demonstrations, free samples and discount coupons. Sat., April 9, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Goffstown High School , 27 Wallace Road, Goffstown. Admission is $3 for adults, free for children 12 and under. Visit goffstownlions.org.

•ASTROLOGY & PSYCHIC FAIR Sun., April 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Roundabout Diner Conference Room, 580 Portsmouth Traffic Circle, Portsmouth. Visit seacoastastrologicalassociation. blogspot.com.

•EARTH DAY FESTIVAL Celebrate Earth Day with demonstrations, live animals, prizes, games, crafts, live music, a campfire, a mural painting and booths from a variety of earthfriendly businesses and organizations. Sat., April 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. $7M/$10NM per person, $20M/$30NM per family.

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Health & Wellness Childbirth & parenting •WONDERLAND PRESCHOOL OPEN HOUSE Tues., April 5, 6:15 to 7:30 p.m.

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HOUSE Tour the classroom, learn about their teaching philosophy and meet the staff. Thurs., April 14, 3 to 4 p.m., Sat., May 14, 10 a.m. to noon, and Mon., June 6, noon to 1 p.m. Prescott Farm, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia . Visit prescottfarm.org.

Disease-focused workshops & seminars •GOING GLUTEN FREE, HEALTHFULLY Registered dietitian Laura Halupowski will address mistakes, pitfalls and ways to avoid cross-contamination when switching to a gluten-free diet. Includes tour of Hannaford supermarket.

Thurs., April 7, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. St. Joseph Hospital, 172 Kinsley St., Nashua. Free. See stjosephhospital.com or call 595-3168.

Events •WOMEN'S HEALTH CONFERENCE: LIVING FROM THE INSIDE OUT A day of lectures and workshops for women. Sat., April 2, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. YogaLife Institute, 6 Chestnut St., Exeter. Registration required. See website. Visit diginrealfood.com.

•NATIONAL HEALTHCARE DECISION DAY Watch Nine to Ninety, by Alicia Dwyer and Juli Vizza. This 30 minute documentary will be followed by a discussion led by Jennifer Brechtel, CHES, of the Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association. Mon., April 11, 4 to 6 p.m. Concord Public Library , 45 Green St. , Concord. Call 225-8670.

Exercise & fitness •SPRING WALKING PROGRAM Meeting places are the Whipple Street Entrance to Mine Falls on Mondays, the Lincoln Park Entrance to Mine Falls on Wednesdays, and the Gilson Road Parking Lot to the Nashua River Rail Trail on Fridays. Mon., Wed., and Fri., at 9 a.m., from Mon., April 4, through Fri., July 29. Nashua, NH, 03060 Nashua., Call Tom at the Recreation Department at 589-3370 with any questions.

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Take a day to focus on your health and wellbeing at the 21st annual NHTI Wellness Fair on Tuesday, April 5, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The theme is “Don’t Froget Your Health This Leap Year.” Over 35 exhibitors representing health-related community organizations and NHTI’s health programs will be stationed inside the Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center on the NHTI campus in Concord.

Visitors can receive information about health issues and organizations, discover what products and services are available locally, see demonstrations and take part in free health screenings.

“There are various things the exhibitors do. It just depends on how each one wants to display whatever topic they’re presenting,” said Sue Dal Pra of NHTI’s Health Services department, which is organizing the fair. “A lot of exhibitors will do demonstrations and incorporate that into their educational exhibits, and some will just provide information.”

Some of the health topics covered at the Wellness Fair include weight management, fitness and exercise, nutrition and nutritional diseases; mental health, stress relief and counselling services; oral hygiene and vision health; melanoma, sun damage and sun protection; wigs and mastectomy products; radiology, acupuncture and more.

NHTI nursing students will be providing health screenings like blood pressure checks, fat analysis, cholesterol and glucose tests.

They’ll also be demonstrating some casting and splinting techniques used for treating injuries.

There will be exhibitors offering free massages, interactive posture evaluations, smoothie samples and personal color analysis to help people dress their best. “[The exhibitor] will tell you what colors go with your skin and will give you tips on what colors to wear,” Dal Pra said. “It’s useful for something like an interview, and it helps with self-esteem because you’ll look and feel good.”

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Dal Pra said the Wellness Fair gives people a chance to refocus on their SUE DAL PRA health and wellbeing and get up-to-date information about what’s going on in the variable world of health.

“Things change over the years. Look at immunizations. Immunizations are changing all the time,” she said. “[At the fair], the public gets to learn about different services that are out there that they don’t know about, and learn about all the new and upcoming things in health.”

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[Bob brought the marbles to Donna for her to see in person and then research, and to mix them in an assortment of real antique she shares her findings below.] marbles for a total cost to the buyer (you) for $60 — why? I can’t figure it out.

Dear Bob, Why does anyone reproduce anything that has its own history? I would assume for I have to say that it was an education for financial profit. But not in this case. This to myself as well. Wow, is there anything that me is just silly and even mean to a collecisn’t reproduced these days? tor thinking all along they were real. If you First let’s do a little history on clay mar- had just thrown them in a jar you might not bles. They have been around since the late have even noticed the lightness of the fake 1800s. Most were handmade by factory ones. So I guess it always stands — buyworkers who worked in companies making er beware! tiles and other clay products. After that time The fake marbles have no value but the they became factory-produced and were information is priceless.

Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years made in mass quantity. When factory-made they were worth about a penny each. Now in the antiques and collectibles field and owns they are about 50 cents each unless they are From Out Of The Woods Antique Center in an unusual size or color and great condition. Goffstown (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com).

So now let’s figure out why anyone She is an antiques appraiser and instructor. would take the time to roll, bake and paint To find out about your antique or collectible, these fake marbles. I want to say by crack- send a clear photo of the object and information about it to Donna Welch, From Out Of The ing a couple open that they were made with Woods Antique Center, 465 Mast Road, Goffsa polymer-type clay (which isn’t cheap). town, N.H., 03045. Or email her at footwdw@ They would have been baked to get the aol.com. Or drop by the shop (call first, 624hard but light consistency, painted and even 8668). made to look dirty for an aged look. Then One-time screenings •MEN'S HEALTH SCREENING Rivier University Nurse Practitioner students supervised by advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) will perform the exams. Screenings will include a PSA (blood work) and a rectal exam. Thurs., March 31, 5 to 8 p.m. St. Joseph Hospital, 172 Kinsley St., Nashua. Free.

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The lone advantage of manual transmissions is fun

By Ray Magliozzi

Dear Car Talk: My wife and I have been driving Japanese cars with manual transmissions for decades. They’re fun to drive, more fuel-efficient, and they never break. Plus, the once-in-a-lifetime clutch repair is a fraction of the cost of repairing an automatic transmission, if the horror stories I’ve read are any indication. My wife has started to look for another vehicle to replace her aging Subaru Forester, and we both are stunned to find that: (1) It’s hard to find cars with manual transmissions now.

(2) They’re more expensive.

(3) They aren’t as fuel-efficient as modern automatic continuously variable

transmissions.

So, our big question is this: If we go with an automatic transmission this time, what regular maintenance will we have to do in order to avoid those very expensive transmission repairs? Thanks for your help. — Mike Nothing. You might need to do a fluid change at 100,000 miles. And the best thing you can do is drive your car gently.

Automatic transmissions have improved so much that transmission rebuilds now are far less common than clutch jobs. Sure, it happens. There are automatic-transmission failures. But it’s once in a blue moon that we see an automatic transmission go bad in a car with fewer than 100,000, or even 150,000, miles.

Thirty years ago, problems were more widespread. Plus, back then you’d pay an extra $1,000 to buy a car with an automatic transmission.

These days, automatic transmissions come standard in most cars. And you have to request or special-order a car with a stick shift. Hey, maybe it’s time to start calling automatics “standard” transmissions.

I haven’t seen cases where they charge

more for a stick, but they certainly won’t give you a $1,000 discount anymore either (most manufacturers, if they offer one, call a stick shift a “no-cost option”).

Plus, as you say, gas mileage actually is better on modern automatics than on manuals. That’s because they’re more efficient than ever, and modern six-, seven-, eight- and nine-speed automatics have a greater variety of gear ratios. Not to mention the infinite number of ratios in the CVTs that companies like Subaru offer.

So the only legitimate reason for driving a stick shift these days is that you find it fun — which is an acceptable reason. But there’s no longer a financial or environmental reason for doing so.

So, your wife may want to get with the times and make her next car an automatic, Mike. Good luck.

Dear Car Talk: Lithium-ion batteries are now smaller and more efficient than ever. Would it be possible for a front-drive, fully electric car to use a generator where the differential normally would be on a rear-drive car, and have that generator be powerful enough to use the rear-wheel rotation to

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recharge the battery, giving us an electric car that needed no fuel or recharging at all? — Tony Only if you added a main sail and a consistent, 50-mph tailwind, Tony.

What you’re proposing is called a perpetual motion machine. Your fellow tinkerers and wackos have been trying to invent one since the Middle Ages.

But no machine can produce as much energy as it consumes from a finite source and run indefinitely.

The primary problem is that some energy always is lost to friction. You can reduce the losses to friction, but you can never eliminate them.

And on a theoretical level, the problem is that a perpetual-motion machine violates both the first and second laws of thermodynamics, which are fairly well-established.

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Local unemployment rates: • Concord.....................2.9% • Dover......................... 2.9% • Laconia..................... 3.2% • Manchester...............3.5% • Nashua......................4.1% • Portsmouth...............2.4% • Rochester..................3.2% • Statewide.................. 3.6% Source: N.H. Department of Employment Security statistics for August 2015.

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in May. (Page 34) • A.J. LeBlanc Heating, Plumbing, and Air Conditioning has openings for Maintenance Techs, Service Techs, HVAC Installation Techs, and other positions as well. (Page 35) • E & R Cleaners is looking for people to work in their Manchester facility for an early morning shift that starts at 4 a.m. It’s a great chance to join this family-owned and growing local business. (Page 35)

• Northwest Counseling is looking for a Family Support Specialist. This Vermont-based organization is a private, nonprofit, human services agency serving Franklin and Grand Isle Counties. (Page 36)

• Wal-Mart is hiring a wide variety of employees for its expanded new store on Gold Street in Manchester, due to open in April 2016. It’s a great chance to join a great company. (Page 37)

• Pitco Friolater is now hiring welders and assemblers for its busy manufacturing plant on the Bow/Concord line. It’s a great chance to put your trade skills to work at this highlyregarded company. (Page 36)

• The Bedford School District, ranked as one of the best in the nation, has immediate openings in several areas, and is also recruiting professional staff for the 2016-17 school year. (Page 37)

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CAREERS

if you love to do it then it have to take. As I menwon’t feel like work. tioned, I have an MBA already and then I went What do you wish you’d on to get my — after known at the beginning starting in the career — I of your career? went on to get my certiI knew it would be hard fied financial planner, to start my own business CFP, designation and but I didn’t know just also a chartered financial how hard and I’m probaconsultant designation, bly glad I didn’t know … which are advanced desbecause I may not have ignations in our career Courtesy photo. done it. There’s ups and that show a commitment downs in owning your own to the career and ethics in Bob Bonfiglio of Bedford is managing director and private wealth advisor at Rise the career and ongoing continuing educa- business, and you really gotta stick to it.

Private Wealth Management. He was recently recognized as one of “America’s tion to make sure you’re up on the latest.

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MBA and wanted to get more into busiWhat was the first job you ever had? practice as a ... franchise of Ameriprise I do financial planning for ness. I actually read a book called What I was a paperboy. … It was actually in Financial, which is based in Minneapolis. clients and help them prepare Color Is Your Parachute? And the book [I found the firm] just through research the Midwest, the Milwaukee Journal. for retirement, educating their kids, grow- took you through a number of exercis— Ryan Lessard that I did back 26 years ago, looking into ing their business and then I also manage es to figure out what you might want to the business. What drew me to Ameriprise a team of advisors and staff that help us do and what you would like to do, what was their focus on financial planning, provide services to our clients. you’re good at, what your strengths are, Five favorites making sure that you talk to clients and etc. It led me to seeking out this career. understand their goals and objectives Favorite Book: The Da Vinci Code by How long have you worked there? before putting together and suggesting Dan Brown I’ve been in this career for 26 years.

What kind of education or training Favorite Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life products that they might want to buy. did you need for this job?

Favorite Musician: Bruce Springsteen How did you get interested in this There’s a number of licenses that one What’s the best piece of work-related Favorite Food: Breakfast burrito field? needs to get — securities licenses, state Favorite Thing About NH: It’s a great advice anyone’s ever given you? place to raise a family I came out of college as an engineer, licenses. There’s a few exams that you Find something that you love to do and

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EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Wilson Employment Networks is seeking an Equipment Maintenance Tech in Bow,NH. Responsibilities include the maintenance, repair and safe upkeep of manufacturing equipment, vehicles, buildings and grounds. Strong candidates will have ample knowledge in general maintenance functions with a background in electrical, plumbing, carpentry and mechanical operations. Experience repairing, moving, and doing preventative maintenance on production machinery including saws, CNC machinery, and other fabrication equipment is required. First shift from 6:00AM to 2:30PM. Pay DOE. Email resume to careers@ wilsonemployment.com or call 603-225-7300.

BAKER Tues. through Sat. 6:30 to 2:00 (12:30 on Sat.) Mixing from scratch, multi-tasking a must, creative, able to lift 40 lbs., customer service skills, cake frosting a plus. Please apply in person at Michelle’s Gourmet Pastries, Manchester BAKERY ASSOCIATE part time, two weekdays and every Sat. morning. Customer

service skills, finish pastries, some scratch mixing and baking, sandwich making. Please apply in person at Michelle’s Gourmet Pastries, Manchester DELI ASSOCIATE Monday through Friday 11:00 to 2:00. Seasonal for May and June, could lead to permanent.

Making sandwiches to order, stock and maintain the deli.

Please apply in person at Michelle’s Gourmet Pastries, Manchester HEAD COARCH/ ASSISTANT COACH NEEDED The Derryfield School, an independent college preparatory day school in Manchester, NH, seeks: Soccer – Girls Vasity Head Coach (Fall season) Soccer – Girls Varsity Assistant Coach (Fall season) TO APPLY: Coaching experience and excellent driver’s record required.

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Interested candidates should send a resume and three references to Lenny McCaigue, Director of Athletics, at lmccaigue@derryfield.org. EOE HIRING AT COWORX STAFFING SERVICE exciting and new opportunities! *Assembly *Machine Operations Entry Level

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ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERK The Derryfield School, n Manchester, NH, seeks an Accounts Payable Clerk.

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CASHIERS, DISHWASHER, PRODUCE AND ACCOUNTING CLERK Concord Food Co-op is hiring for part time positions.

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HABA Buyer Apply in person or online.

Email: hr@concordfoodcoop. com EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The non-profit organization, Partnership for a Drug-Free NH, is searching for a fulltime dynamic Executive Director. More information at drugfreeNH.org or email info@ drugfreenh.org MACHINE OPERATORS, INSPECTORS AND FINISHERS Axcess Staffing is seeking machine operators, inspectors and finishers. All shifts. Tempto-hire/Full time. Experience is helpful. Commutable from Seacoast/ Manchester.

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• All permanent part time and full time associates begin accruing Paid Time Off (PTO) from date of hire. Accrued PTO is available to use immediately.

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• Meet the chef: Celebrity Israeli-American chef Michael Solomonov, special guest of this year’s NH Jewish Film Festival for his documentary In Search of Israeli Cuisine, will hold a cookbook sale and signing event for Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking on Friday, April 1, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Toadstool Bookshop (Lorden Plaza, Milford). Filmmaker Roger Sherman will also attend and The Toadstool Cafe will have recipes from the cookbook on the day’s menu.

• Bring on the burgers: Burgerfest season is back at Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, 472-2001, bedfordvillageinn.com) featuring daily specials and unique burgers in the Tavern and Corks. From Sunday, April 3, to Sunday, April 10, enjoy endless fries, slider specials and unique burgers like the breakfast “burger omelet” (three-egg omelet with ground prime beef, Vermont cheddar, tomato, onions and North Country bacon) and beer & burger flight (three mini burgers on herb brioche buns paired with three beers with herb Parmesan fries).

• Silly chili: Get your fill of delicious chili and plenty of comedy on Saturday, April 2, as the Auburn Volunteer Firemens Association and the Auburn Police Benevolent Association go head to head during the Silly Chili Cook-Off and Comedy Night. The friendly competition costs $20 per person and includes dinner and beer or wine.

Doors open at 6:45 p.m. for the dinner followed by comedic performances starting at 8 p.m. The 21+ event is held at Auburn Village School (11 Eaton Hill Road, Auburn).

• Wedding accolades: For the fifth year, Frederick’s Pastries (109 Route 101A, Amherst, pastry.net) was selected as a winner in The Knot Best of Weddings awards, according to a press release. The annual Best of Weddings awards recognizes wedding vendors and professionals across the country based on reviews from couples, families and guests. “We are so honored to be voted The Knot’s Best of Weddings again this year,” proprietor Susan Lozier Robert said in the press release. “Being a part of the happy couple’s most important day is truly exciting for us. Creating their own unique dream cake is the most rewarding part of what we do.”

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“Beer from here” is the theme for this year’s NH Craft Beer Week, a nine-day celebration of the many ways locally made beer is integrated into the state, from breweries and distributors to restaurants and retailers.

“It definitely encompasses … everybody from the brewery who might start the beer all the way through the different channels,” said Tamsin Hewes, marketing coordinator of 603 Brewery and volunteer marketing coordinator for the Granite State Brewers Association.

“We’re trying to use this week to bring awareness of the cycle of beer … acknowledging everything that goes into making New Hampshire beer.”

Partners in beer

This year’s craft beer week is put on by Brew NH and the Granite State Brewers Association, a partnership that formed to bring back the event following last year’s hiatus.

“In the past it was really focused up north in the White Mountains and it was very focused on that particular brewfest,” said Renee Vannata, social media maven for Brew NH. “This year we decided we wanted to cover all ... places around the state.”

Another key change is the timing of the event. It was moved from the busy summer season to the quieter spring, a much better time for the brewers and businesses.

“We chose mud season on purpose because many of the local economies could use a boost of tourism ... during mud season,” Vannata said.

“It’s kind of a time when brewers have a minute to relax and enjoy the customers that will come into their brewery because it’s not a time that’s so overrun with outdoor events and brewfests and outside-of-the-brewery activities,” Hewes said.

A turn from brewfests

One thing that’s not on the agenda in the beer week lineup is a brewfest that gets lots of people together to try lots of small samples.

Though exceedingly popular in recent years, there’s a reason you won’t find one during NH Craft Beer Week.

“They are not always the best representation because there is so much beer all at once to be able to truly appreciate a single beer or brewery,” Hewes said.

As a way to focus more on the local industry, this year will feature Hop Talks presented

by Hop Head United at Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry on Sunday, April 3.

Hop Head United offers branding, promotion, education and unique infrastructure to the craft beer industry in northern New England and one of the biggest ways it accomplishes that is through the Hop Talks series.

“There’s very limited resources for brewers to find success and get their name out there other than the normal craft beer fest,” said Hop Head United founder and president Seth Simonian. “It’s more of a social event, and from a brewer’s [perspective] they’re getting access to 3,000 people, but the reality is less than 1 percent … of all individuals that [go to] a beer fest become a customer at some point.”

So he set out to create the perfect environment for a craft beer fan — a place to sit and taste the beer while hearing from the brewer with an audience of only 200 people.

The way it works is six brewers — this Hop Talk features Kelsen Brewing, 603 Brewery, From the Barrel Brewing, Great North Aleworks, Able Ebenezer and Henniker Brewing — will each serve two 6-ounce samples and give a 15-minute TED-style presentation about what they do and why they do it.

“I tried to put a range in the mix so you get a full spectrum story in the industry,” Simonian said. “Not only do you get the story and

Pint glasses lined up for NH Craft Beer Week. Courtesy photo.

perspective, but guys who are brewing on very different size systems to some of the pioneers in New Hampshire and all are known for making very unique and different beers,” he said.

Hop Head United was formed just under two years ago and held its first Hop Talk last August in Nashua. Now presenting the third Hop Talk, Simonian said he’s focused on putting the unique event in a fitting venue, such as Tupelo.

“Sitting in a hotel conference room isn’t always the right fit, especially for the industry and experience and ambiance we’re trying to unveil,” he said. “We’re trying to create a more interesting and inviting atmosphere that pushes the envelope of building a connection between the brewer and consumer, but also brings the group together.”

Dan Lagueux of New England’s Tap House Grille and Andy Day of Cask and Vine and The Drinkery will also share their stories of who they are, how they got into the industry and the trends they’ve noticed lately.

“What we’re trying to do is pair the brewers with the beer, but really dive into the story behind that beer,” Simonian said. “That’s what drives craft beer.”

NH Craft Beer Week Highlights When: Saturday, April 2, to Sunday, April 10 Visit: nhbeer.org/nhcbw • Check out beer samplings at brewery tasting rooms and bottle shops like Lazy Dog Beer Shoppe, The Beer Store, Craft Beer Cellar and Bert’s Better Beers, plus beer releases at 7th Settlement, Oddball Brewing, Out.Haus and more held various nights throughout the week.

• Thirsty Moose Taphouse in Manchester (795 Elm St., Manchester, thirstymoosetaphouse.com) is looking to highlight the state’s craft beer scene by pouring 50 to 60 different brews throughout the week. “I have reached out and driven out to every small time craft brewery in the state to see if we can carry their

incredible brews for the week,” general manager John Edwards said in a press release. Thirsty Moose will also pour rarer beers from some of the state’s larger breweries.

• There are two chances to try yoga and a beer tasting in one: 603 Brewery (12 Liberty Drive, Londonderry, 603brewery.com) hosts Asana & Ales Brewery Yoga on Saturday, April 2, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Yoga in the Brew House will be at Throwback Brewery (7 Hobbs Road, North Hampton, throwbackbrewery. com) Sunday, April 3, at 11 a.m.

• Enjoy a five-course beer dinner with Stark Brewing Co. and Milly’s Tavern (500 N. Commerical St., Manchester, millystavern.com) on

Tuesday, April 5, from 7 to 9 p.m. Beer pairings will be served with each course, plus beer specials all week and a new beer release.

• Test your beer knowledge on Wednesday, April 6, from 7 to 9 p.m. at a New Hampshire beer and brewery trivia night at The Barley House Seacoast (43 Lafayette Road, North Hampton, thebarleyhouse.com/seacoast).

• IncrediBREW (112 D.W. Hwy., Nashua, incredibrew.com) will host a brew-your-own Belgian Brewfest Thursday, April 7, at 6 p.m.

• Canterbury Aleworks (305 Baptist Hill Road, Canterbury, canterburyaleworks.com) will host a Beer 101 Tour and Tasting on Friday, April 8, from 6 to 8 p.m.

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Next, check out the crozier (the furled top) for brown, papery scales or bracts that flake off to the touch. Finally, look for fertile fronds that may not be in every clump but will be in the patch. They’ll be tall, packed with spores and will also have U-shaped grooves on the stem.

Once you identify them, make sure you’re harvesting in a respectful way.

Douglas Gralenski of White Mountain Forager pays farmers and landowners with river bottom land for commercial rights to pick on their property.

If you find a patch you want to pick, he said, you may get a week or week and a half out of it since it doesn’t all ripen at once.

“When you get into a problem is if you go through and two days later somebody else comes through. If you harvest the same frond two or three times you can kill that plant,” Gralenski said. “You have to leave enough on so it can photosynthesize.”

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“It’s probably about 10 days to two weeks from when they first pop out of the ground to when they get too old to eat,” said author, expert forager and wild foods enthusiast Russ Cohen.

He said ostrich ferns (the type with the fiddleheads you want to eat) prefer alluvial floodplain soil as a habitat, very silty soil along riverbanks and lowlands of large rivers like the Merrimack, though they can surface elsewhere.

“They do look like the top of a violin handle and it is actually the new growth of a fern,” said Liz Barbour, chef and owner of The Creative Feast. “It’s got this tight little curl and as the plant develops during the growing season it’s going to stand up and unfurl ... so you want to get it while it’s young.”

Not just any fern’s fiddlehead will do; you have to make sure to pick the right one so you don’t end up with a bad taste in your mouth. Cohen said there are easy ways to distinguish the ostrich fern. To start, go to a location along the banks of a river, under tree cover where there’s plenty of shade.

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“I do a lot of restaurant trade with your high-end restaurants and I have 30 different chefs,” he said.

The Foundry, Wentworth by the Sea and the Concord Food Coop are among his customers.

“It’s the next step from farm to market.

Wild foods are in incredibly high demand,” he said. “There is a curiosity factor, and chefs that specialize in serving those kinds of foods can do amazing things with them.”

Barbour gets her fiddleheads from Lull Farm in Hollis but noted that plenty of local farms and even stores like Market Basket and Whole Foods may have them.

Cohen suggested buying a native plant from a local nursery to grow your own ostrich fern in a home garden.

“Besides being tasty, they are very attractive plants,” he said. “Once the fronds are fully unrolled, they look like ostrich feathers — hence the name.”

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Twice a year, Seacoast area restaurants open their doors for Restaurant Week, offering locals and visitors the chance to get out and enjoy specially curated menus.

This season, the bi-annual event held each April and November finally reached its goal of featuring 50 restaurants.

“We have 51 restaurants involved. We’ve never hit that 50-restaurant mark,” Amanda Beaulieu, Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce event coordinator, said in a phone interview.

Beaulieu said this season’s record-breaking participation is the result of newly opened eateries joining the mix, as well as some that are only open during the warmer season and some that have been around but never taken part.

“I think they [restaurants] have seen how much it has grown over the last couple years and [it] has become an event,” she said. “Not only is there really good turnout for restaurants, but people [are] coming to town staying in hotels and shopping and making a weekend of it.”

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“We always have Restaurant Week when people typically aren’t out and about, so November as well as April,” Beaulieu said.

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boiling salted water and then cook for three to five minutes.

“You’ll notice that it almost looks like dirt … brown particles will surface and it’s not dirt, it’s part of the plant, so you’re getting rid of that,” she said.

To finish, rinse them with cold water and submerge them in ice water to stop the cooking process.

“It’s important to cook them through before you eat them,” Cohen said. “[They] contain an enzyme called thiaminase.”

Thiaminase breaks down the body’s vitamin B1 so eating too many uncooked fiddleheads can lead to a deficiency.

“You can eat a few in the raw, but if you do that in large amount that will upset your stomach,” Gralenski added.

The blanching also helps make them tender for whatever recipe you choose, like sauteed with butter and garlic or tossed in a garden salad. You can treat fiddleheads like you would asparagus (add them to sauteed pancetta or prosciutto), broccoli (add them to a pasta dish or stir fry), green beans (try them pan-fried with almonds) or as an addition to a soup, casserole or an omelet.

“The nice thing about the fiddleheads is that they don’t fall apart when you’re cooking them so they can go into a lot of different dishes,” Barbour said. “But make sure you do that blanching first.”

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One thing that makes Restaurant Week unique for diners is the chance to sample from special menus as each participating restaurant will serve either a prix fixe lunch menu for $16.95, a prix fixe dinner menu for $29.95 or both.

“We really want the chefs to put their own spin on it,” Beaulieu said. “[Some] restaurants say they are trying a whole new recipe for Restaurant Week because it’s a time you can play around with ideas you’ve been thinking of and you get a really good audience. People are coming because they want to see something new and exciting.”

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I don’t know what made me search recipes using canned tuna at 3 a.m., but nonetheless the results were interesting. The usual results showed up, ranging from tuna noodle casserole to tuna cakes, but there were some results for more intriguing recipes. Some looked questionable, like this tuna and mushroom potato top pie.

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My husband and I usually have a can or two of tuna in the pantry. It serves as a quick-fix lunch or a solo dinner. And while I don’t like seafood, I have oddly always loved tuna noodle casserole and tuna melts. I think this recipe works because it at times reminds me of tuna noodle casserole but happens to be topped with fluffy and buttery mashed potatoes.

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I try really hard to eat well and get enough exercise and enough sleep. Often, I only have a glass of wine here and there during the week, saving most of my wine consumption for the weekend. But there are times when I make exceptions on the eating part (and wine drinking part) and have takeout food. Typically it happens on a weekend night when I am too lazy to cook. If you like to have takeout and wine together like me, you may be wondering what will pair well together. Thanks to Vinepair, I have some answers for you.

Chinese food is a very common takeout meal and one I am a big sucker for, especially crab rangoon and lo mein. An ideal accompaniment is riesling, as Chinese food can have some dominating flavors, but the sweetness from the wine will cut through it and can help offset the saltiness. Riesling pairs well with Indian food for similar reasons.

Red wine drinkers having Indian food can try pairing it with syrah, as it will stand up to the spices and creaminess often found in this kind of cuisine.

If you are having burgers, either at home or at a restaurant, you can pair them with cabernet (for red wine drinkers) or chardonnay (for white wine drinkers). Cabernet is a natural pairing for red meat, as well as chardonnay. Both have enough structure to be a good match. I’m not a huge fan of chardonnay, but I will reach for an Italian version that is unoaked and aged in stainless steel instead.

This type of wine will not have the buttery characteristics of those from California but will bring out other flavors from the grape.

Thai food is one of my favorites and, like Chinese food, it can be spicy, salty and have several flavors involved. A perfect pairing is gewurztraminer, which is light, fruity and sweet. This wine can help offset the heat of the food.

Barbecue fans should reach for pinot noir or rosé. The smoky flavors and tanginess of the sauce will go well with these wines. Rosé will add a little fizziness to your meal as well.

I like pinot noirs that are fruity and lighterbodied, but for this meal you could reach for something with a bit more body and depth.

Pinot noir is an ideal pairing for sushi as well as it will not overwhelm the flavors.

Chenin blanc is another suggested pairing for sushi as it will complement the sushi’s delicate flavors. I may also try riesling with sushi, choosing one that isn’t too sweet.

If you’re being healthy and having a salad, pair it with sauvignon blanc. This is another one of my go-to wines, as it is crisp, acidic and herbaceous. But if you are a red wine fan, try it with Gamay, also known as Beaujolais.

What I’m currently tasting

I opened the second bottle of wine from my Lot 18/Tasting Room shipment this week.

It is 2012 Reverchon Filzener Herrenberg Mosel Riseling Kabinett from Germany, and yes, it has the longest name ever.

Germany is known for its riesling so I had high hopes for this one. I really like this grape but sometimes the result is a wine that is too sweet. I did not find that here and was pleasantly surprised. The tasting notes suggest “very mild sweetness” and I would agree. Its acidity and minerality balance it out nicely, complemented by notes of pineapple, lemon and some very light herbaceous flavors.

I discovered that Kabinett identifies the wine as only slightly sweet, and the Filzener Herrenberg in the title is the name of the vineyard where the grapes are grown. This wine is made completely of estate-grown Reverchon grapes. Lot 18 suggests drinking it now on its own as an aperitif, with salads, Thai or Japanese cuisine or even stashing a couple bottles and letting it get better with time. Lucky me to receive this bottle in my shipment. I was not disappointed!

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1980s-synthpop grooves abound, but singer Gretta Rochelle’s Kesha-like oh-oh-ohs in “Insomnia” and Gweninspired bee-stung apathy everywhere else helps set this apart from the legions of bored 20something bands working to emulate Siouxsie just because they’ve run out of interesting binge shows on Netflix. And unlike Golden Filter, they don’t sparsely spread the good stuff around; they’ve got plenty of good ideas that came up during off-mike jams (which is how bands used to write stuff – there oughtta be a law), and thus we not only get a bunch of great, logically constructed songs but also an occasional flash of nonglitch-dependent subtlety, for instance the midpoint of “Battles.” Very strong album here. A+ — Eric W. Saeger

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• Wow, four awesome records to talk about, so let’s get going before I change my mind and start snarking like a maniac. First, Shonen Knife, the Japanese all-girl trio, carries forth the oldschool punk-rock flame with Adventure, its eleventy-billionth album. These ladies may be the Japanese girl version of the Ramones, but they’re really good sports, participating in things like the “Kids Interview Bands” video series. Did you know that people don’t tip at restaurants in Japan, and they just pay at the register? I think that’s awesome. But you want to know what this new album sounds like, because you’re curious as to whether or not they just decided to abandon their ’80s punk and start imitating Destiny’s Child, am I right? OK, they have not. Any other questions?

• Pet Shop Boys are, of course, awesome, maybe the most awesome thing that happened during the ’80s. And no, I’m not saying that because of “West End Girls,” because I didn’t like that song that much; I’m saying it because they’re awesome now, in a time when computer algorithms programmed by corporate jerks actually write most Top 10 songs (it’s true, look it up). Super, their new full-length, features the single “Inner Sanctum,” which chugs along goth-house style before giving way to one of their patented big-wide-sky hooks. Why would they do this? Because they’re awesome, that’s why. Buy buy buy.

• We haven’t discussed Cheap Trick in these pages for years, even though they too are awesome. The reason for that is they haven’t put out an album since 2009’s The Latest. That’s how this thing works, this “writer” stuff, when you have a column, and people don’t put out albums; I have no control over it. Whatever, they are one of the greatest songwriting outfits in rock history, and their new album, Bang Zoom Crazy … Hello, is almost here, which is awesome news. “No Direction Home,” the single, is, of course, awesome, sort of like if Rush’s “Fly by Night” had been a decent song, which it wasn’t, but this is, even though it rips off Rush.

• And finally, I have no interest in talking about the new Weezer album, titled The White Album (the remaining fans of Weezer must have found jobs by now, am I right?), so it’s time to play “Bands I’ve Never Heard Of Roulette.” Our lucky winner, Three Trapped Tigers, is a noise-instrumental trio from Merrie Olde England, hawking their second album, Silent Earthling. I got into the title track, which is like a cross between That F***ing Tank hard-noise and ELP-style prog-rock, splitting its time between synth-driven stuff and industrial chaos. This will not be played on any bubblegum-disco stations, I can almost guarantee you.

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If you’re a writer looking to better your craft on a budget, the Derry Public Library’s the place to be this weekend.

The theme for the library’s second, nowannual Derry Author Fest is “The Writer’s Toolbox,” and all its events Saturday, April 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., are geared toward helping participants maneuver their way toward more developed, thoughtful writing and step into the publishing world.

Derry librarian Erin Robinson — who, under the pseudonym Erin E. Moulton, has written children’s books like Chasing

Schedule Participants can come for one or all events.

Most are followed by book signings that last 15 minutes. Water Street Bookstore will sell books all day.

10 to 11 a.m.: World Building in Romance workshop with D.L. Jackson, followed by book signing 11 a.m. to noon: Your Hero Within: Memoir Writing Made Easy with Denise M. Simpson, followed by book signing Noon to 1 p.m.: Lunch break, with themed moderator tables 1 to 2 p.m.: Industry Insiders Panel, moderated by Kirsten Cappy (publicist), featuring Rebecca Podos (agent), AmmiJoan Paquette (agent) 2 to 3 p.m.: Historical fiction panel, moderated by Padma Venkatraman, with Mackenzi Lee, Erin Bowman, Page Morgan 3 to 4 p.m.: Art of the Picture Book panel, moderated by Erin E. Moulton, with Marty Kelley, Russ Cox, David Biedrzycki

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The Derry Author Fest is kind of like Writers’ Day (occurring later this month and organized by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project), except it’s free. Throughout the day, there are workshops, panel discussions and book-signing meet-and-greets with 18 local authors. Topics range from writing — romance, picture books, memoir, historical fiction — to finding an agent.

Programming was designed based on feedback from last year’s surveys and which literary people were available locally.

“We had a great year last year, but we read the surveys and responded. People mentioned they wanted lunch. They wanted to do moderated tables. … Last year we tried incorporating something for children, but really, our audience was full of writers. They weren’t interested in listening to storytelling or hearing a children’s program. It ended up being a group of people interested in learning about writing,” Robinson said via phone.

The structure’s different, too — more streamlined, one thing after the other. Lots of people wanted to attend everything and stay for the entire event last year, an average of 25 attendants at each session.

“I thought they’d come in and out for our programs. But it seemed that, from the feedback, they wanted it to be like a conference,” Robinson said.

Between programs, lunch will have moderated tables focused on topics like finding markets and submitting short form writing with Nancy Antonietti; mystery writing with Amy Ray; middle-grade fiction with Moulton; YA fantasy with Adi Rule; and narrative nonfiction with Dan Szczesny (who is also a Hippo associate publisher).

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“Sometimes, with a panel, you have to take more general questions, but at a lunch with table moderators, you can get down to specifics in particular genres,” Robinson said.

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• Got your ticket to Writers’ Day? Attention all writers — Writers’ Day is Saturday, April 23, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester. Tickets are $230, which includes membership to the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and an entire day of workshops presented by some of the state’s most prolific writers.

Keynote speaker is Mitchell S. Jackson, bestselling author of The Residue Years. Workshops cover memoir, short story, middle school and magazine writing, plus tidbits on fleshing out scenes, promoting your work, interviewing, creating places and writing essays, among other topics. Presenters include Andre Dubus III, Kevin Flynn, Howard Axelrod, Odds Bodkin, Adrian Miller, Emma Findlin LeBlanc, Phil Sands, David Yoo, Pratima Cranse, Sanderia Faye, Pam Bernard, Benjamin Nugent, Richard Adams Carey, Lisa Janicki, Dr. DaMaris B. Hill, Diane Les Becquets, Elaine Isaak, Tim Horvath and David Lovelace. Visit nhwritersproject.org for more information.

• Three-minute slam finals: The other big event for the New Hampshire Writers’ Project this season is the Three Minute Fiction Slam, the finale of which happens Tuesday, April 5, at 7 p.m., at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, 148 Concord St., Manchester. Winners from semi-final events across the state will come to compete for the title and a free trip to New Hampshire Writers’ Day. Visit nhia.edu. — Kelly Sennott

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• POET SHOWCASE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE POETS Collection of poets present work in new anthology, published by Hobblebush Books. Thurs., April 7, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson's Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com. Call 2240562.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13)

Hey, it’s Batman’s origin story again in slo-mo, just like nobody wanted, in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a dull, sad attempt by DC at capturing some of that Marvel multiverse magic.

The story begins by shoving a little Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) action into the end of Man of Steel. Just like many in the audience, Wayne is highly critical of the massive destruction and loss of life caused by Superman’s boring CGI fight with one dude, especially when it causes death and destruction at Wayne Financial. Wayne pulls one employee, Wallace (Scoot McNairy), out from under a beam that has crushed his legs.

He also comforts a little girl who has lost her mother — who was on some top floor of the building while the little girl was outside on the street, er, having a smoke? how does this moment even come together? — while looking up at Superman and shaking his fist and yelling “Khaaaaaan!” You know, on the inside.

Some 18 months later, Superman (Henry Cavill) saves intrepid, not terribly bright reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams) from terrorist bad guys in some country that might as well be called Randomistan. The event coincides with some kind of terrorist bad guy double cross and a resulting pile of bodies, both at the terrorist compound and in a neighboring village, leads to congressional hearings about Superman. Should an all-powerful god-man really be allowed to act without any check, leaving others to deal with (and suffer from) the blowback? Because Congress seems to be leaning toward “no” on that question, nutcase inventor Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) inserts himself into the conversation, looking to get a government contract for a Superman-killing weapon.

In exchange, he asks for and gets the dead body of General Zod and the wreckage of Zod’s ship.

Superman agrees to go to the hearings, but things go very bad very fast and Superman is left trying to explain why he couldn’t prevent massive loss of life. Actually, loss of life seems to be his thing, so I’m not sure why it would surprise anyone.

Meanwhile, Wayne has been working on his own plan to go after Superman. He is convinced Superman is a danger to humanity, just as Superman/Clark Kent is convinced Batman is an illegitimate vigilante who needs to be stopped. Superman tells Batman as much about an hour into the movie, when they finally meet.

Later — way too later in my opinion — Lex Luthor maneuvers both heroes into a position where they must fight each other. Perhaps he hopes that somehow, with each man having the means of killing the other, they will both be left dead and he will have free rein in a world that is devoid of superheroes.

I guess.

I don’t really know what he wants. Eisenberg’s Lex feels like his Mark Zuckerberg doing Heath Ledger’s Joker. He seems like

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he is interested in chaos both for its own sake and to get everybody signed up for LexCorp’s social network. He feels cheaply looney and not like a terribly formidable villain.

The movie’s real rivalry is the not tremendously well-explained Batman-vs.-Superman fight. Even as Eisenberg’s Lex lames up the duo’s rare moments on screen together, there is a spark of something that happens when Superman and Batman share a scene.

Just a spark, mind you — there is nothing the like rounded, personality-rich relationship between Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man and Chris Evans’ Captain America. Though I don’t have the highest hopes for May’s Captain America: Civil War, it means something for those two characters to face off in a way it doesn’t with Superman and Batman because the actors haven’t made those characters distinct people.

This movie’s attempt to build that is, I guess, by boring us with constant Wayne flashbacks to Martha Wayne’s pearls falling as she is shot during the crime that set a rich boy on the path to becoming a secret vigilante. We see this a lot, in the slowest of mo, along with a few other highlights from canonical boy-to-bat incidents.

And then there’s Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), whose role in this movie is so minor I forgot that she was even in it. When all three supers are finally together, we see a hint at what could have been, a hint of the “ah, here’s something new” energy of having these three iconic characters together. Their teaming up is so brief, however, that we barely get to enjoy it.

Every superhero movie doesn’t have to be Joss Whedon-y and quip-filled, but some lightness helps to give movies like this energy. I found myself thinking of Disney’s live-action Cinderella when I watched this movie. Cinderella, like Superman, feels like a throwback character — full of a kind of optimism and lack of shadowy parts that doesn’t completely fit with modern storytelling. That movie handled this by heading straight at it, by making kindness one of Cinderella’s, in effect, superpowers. This movie goes in the opposite direction, shoving the Superman character into some allegory about drones or something. Instead of using the lightness of

Superman to contrast with darkness in other characters, director Zack Snyder seems to have chosen just making everything a murky gray. (Which I mean both metaphorically and literally, as there seems to be some kind of dinge filter on every scene.)

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had spectacular potential, both as a bit of storytelling and as a way to set up a new franchise.

But it feels like a letdown on both counts. CRated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action throughout, and some sensuality. Directed by Zach Snyder with a screenplay by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a totally unnecessary two and a half hours long and distributed by Warner Bros.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13)

Nia Vardalos reanimates her 2002 tale of Toula, the Chicago gal with a big Greek family, in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, a nostalgia-based cash grab that is short on charm.

Toula (Nia Vardalos) had her big fat Greek wedding to Ian (John Corbett) and now, some 18 or so years later in movie time, their teenage daughter Paris (Elena Kampouris) is, like her mother before her, itching to be away from her big loud family including her grandpa Gus (Michael Constantine), who tells her that she needs to marry a nice Greek boy already.

Paris, already in a constant state of teenage embarrassed horror over the fact that her dad is the school principal, is, like any normal teen girl, also in a constant state of annoyance at her mother, who forever says the wrong thing.

Toula, meanwhile, is desperate to figure out what the right thing to say is and to figure out how to let her daughter go when all she wants to do is cling tighter. Perhaps the clinging is why Paris is considering local school Northwestern for college but would rather head to New York City. And Ian also wants Toula to step back, in part so they can reconnect as a couple now that they’ll be empty-nesters.

Meanwhile in wider family business, Toula’s clan still owns their restaurant and she still works there as well as spending time tending

to her aging parents. Though her father Gus doesn’t spend as much time running the restaurant as he used to, he’s found a new hobby — charting his ancestry. His attempt to prove that he’s related to Alexander the Great leads to his digging through old documents and discovering that his marriage license to Maria (Lainie Kazan) was never signed. When Maria demands a little romance to accompany the fixing of this paperwork issue, the family has to come together to get the couple remarried in grand style.

Give me 30 minutes of Aunt Voula (Andrea Martin) and her weird sex stories, marital advice and discussions of her moles and I think I’d have preferred that to this movie’s actual contents. The My Big Fat Greek Weddings are not movies that require finely drawn, nuanced characters and yet Martin seems the best at blending big, accented zaniness and actual humanity. This movie could have used more of her.

There are two major problems with My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. The first is that this movie did not need to be made — the first movie was a complete, self-contained tale. The second is that to make up for cracking into the original story, this movie piles on the plot. We’ve got Toula’s changing role as a mom, Toula and Ian’s couple stuff, Paris’s leaving the nest (which a little bit echos Toula’s story from the first movie) — all of which you could say is one plot line but which the movie handles as singular things so that we end up with a lot of repetition. Then there’s Toula’s parents and their whole remarriage meshugas, a thing about Toula’s dad needing physical therapy, some vagueness about a “bad economy” and the closing of her family’s dry cleaners and travel agency, a tacked-on bit about one of Toula’s cousins and his coming out to his family (which, aren’t all of these “children” in their 40s?

Could a serious romantic partner really be a secret in a family where everybody is all up in everybody else’s business?), and somehow Toula’s grandmother is still running around.

This movie seems like it was trying to capture the screwball charm of the first movie and so decided simply to add more screwballness. All of the things! More “issues”! More “moments”! Chocolate chips! Put in everything! Sprinkle cherries on top!

The only thing saving this movie from utter drudgery is the fact that all of the characters are pretty likeable. A well-organized movie that put any one of them at the center and built a streamlined story would probably be an enjoyable little cupcake of a movie.

Instead, we’re left with a hastily constructed dessert buffet that leaves you feeling queasy and somehow also unsatisfied. C Rated PG-13 for some suggestive material. Directed by Kirk Jones and written by Nia Vardalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is an hour and 34 minutes long and distributed by Universal Pictures.

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The New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival hits the state again this spring, with 18 screenings of nine films in six cities and 11 days.

The eighth annual film festival has a contemporary theme this year but continues its diverse range of genres, including comedies, dramas, documentaries and foreign flicks.

This year’s movies are Apples from the Desert, Dough, Frank vs. God, In Search of Israeli Cuisine, Is That You?, Once in a Lifetime, Raise the Roof, Rock in the Red Zone and Soft Vengeance. Screening cities are Bedford, Concord, Keene, Manchester, Merrimack and Portsmouth.

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Southern New Hampshire University: Webster Hall, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester; In Search of Israeli Cuisine Thursday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m., with special guest Chef Michael Solomonov and filmmaker Roger Sherman SERESC: 29 Commerce Drive, Bedford; Dough Sat., April 2, at 8 p.m., gala night on the town and reception Cinemagic Stadium Theatres: 11 Executive Park Drive, Merrimack; Apples from the Desert Sun., April 3, at 1 p.m.; Soft Vengeance Sun., April 3, at 3:30 p.m.

Redfern Arts Center, Putnam Arts Lecture Hall: Keene State College, 229 Main St., Keene; Frank vs. God Sun., April 3, at 1 p.m.; Once in a Lifetime Sun., April 3, at 3:30 p.m.

The Music Hall Loft: 131 Congress St., Portsmouth; Rock in the Red Zone Sun., April 3, at 1 p.m.; Once in a Lifetime Sun., April 3, at 3:30 p.m.

Red River Theatres: 11 S. Main St., Concord; Once in a Lifetime Thurs., April 7, at 7 p.m.; Frank vs. God Sat., April 9, at 8 p.m.; Raise the Roof Sun., April 10, at 12:30 p.m., with special guests artists Rick and Laura Brown, filmmakers Cary and Yari Wolinsky; Is That You? Sun., April 10, at 3 p.m.; Rock in the Red Zone Sun., April 10, at 5 p.m., followed by festival and wrap party Admission: $10 for individual screenings, $55 for the Gala Night on the Town reception in Bedford April 2, $15 for the Film and Festival Wrap Party in Concord April 10 Contact: 627-7679, nhjewishfilmfestival.org

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cuisine and community — came about naturally, as it always does when the committee sits down to decipher which flicks will best connect with New Hampshire audiences.

“We’re always trying to raise the bar on what we’re doing. ... Personally, I’m really enthusiastic. I think the lineup is just stellar this year, and really interesting,” Gerson said.

One of her favorite flicks of the year is Raise the Roof, a New Hampshire premiere, about a couple of Massachusetts College of Art and Design professors, Rick and Laura Brown, and 300 volunteers from around the world who spent 10 years hand-building a reconstruction of the 18th-century art-filled Gwozdziec Synagogue in Poland, which was destroyed during World War II. Three of those volunteers were from New Hampshire: Krista Lima, a Loon Mountain snowboard instructor, Kingston native Jason Loik and Alstead native Joel McCarty.

“I think it’s a wonderful film, and it’s engaging and interesting and incredible what they did — they rebuilt this part of this synagogue the way they did it in the 1700s,” Gerson said. “They had very limited reference to what it looked like [originally]. They don’t have anyone alive to tell you, either.

It’s a pretty incredible project.”

Both Rick and Laura Brown and filmmakers Cary and Yari Wolinsky host a post-film discussion and Q&A after the screening at Red River Theatres April 10.

Another standout to Gerson is Once in a Lifetime, a French flick based on a true story about teaching the Holocaust at an inner city, multicultural high school. For Rock in the Red Zone, a documentary that portrays the lives of the rock musicians of Sderot, a city on the Gaza border, the film committee asked the filmmaker to do a Skype interview after the Red River Theatres screening, also April 10.

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• Hello, My Name is Doris (R, 2016) Thurs., March 31, at 2, 5:35 & 7:55 p.m.

• Anomalisa (R, 2015) Thurs., March 31, at 2:05 & 7:40 p.m.

• Youth (R, 2015) Thurs., March 31, at 7 p.m.

• Eye in the Sky (R, 2016) Fri., April 1, at 1:15, 3:30, 5:45 & 8 p.m.; Sat., April 2, at 1:15, 3:30, 5:45 & 8 p.m.; Sun., April 3, at 1:15, 3:30 & 5:45 p.m.; Mon., April 4, at 2, 5:45 & 8 p.m.; Tues., April 5, at 2, 5:45 & 8 p.m.; Wed., April 6, at 2, 5:45 & 8 p.m.; & Thurs., April 7, at 2, 5:45 & 8 p.m.

• Hello, My Name is Doris (R, 2016) Fri., April 1, at 1, 3:15, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Sat., April 2, at 1, at 1, 3:15, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Sun., April 3, at 1, 3:15 & 5:30 p.m.; Mon., April 4, at 2:05, 5:35 & 7:55 p.m.; Tues., April 5, at 2:05 & 8:05 p.m.; Wed., April 6, at 2:05 & 8:05 p.m.; & Thurs., April 7, at 2:05 p.m.

• Creed (PG-13, 2015) Fri., April 1, at 2, 5 & 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April 2, at 2, 5 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 3, at 2 & 5 p.m.; Mon., April 4, at 2:10, 5:25 & 7:45 p.m.; Tues., April 5, at 2:10, 5:25 & 7:45 p.m.; Wed., April 6, at 2:10, 5:25 & 7:45 p.m.; & Thurs., April 7, at 2:10, 5:25 & 7:45 p.m.

• Jackie Robinson (R, 2016) Tues., April 5, at 6 p.m.

• Once in a Lifetime (NR, 2014) Thurs., April 7, at 7 p.m., part of NH Jewish Film Festival WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • The Lady in the Van (PG-13, 2015) Thurs., March 31, at 7:30 p.m.

• Where to Invade Next (R, 2016) Thurs., March 31, through Thurs., April 7, at 7:30 p.m.

Additional screenings Sun., April 3, at 2 and 4:30 p.m.

• The Big Short (R, 2015) Fri., April 1, through Thurs., April 7, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screening Sun., April 3, at 2 p.m.

• Comrade X (1940) Sat., April 2, at 4:30 p.m.

CAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS 44 S. Main St., Concord, 2251111, ccanh.com • Madama Butterfly (Met Live in HD) Sat., April 2, at 1 p.m.

• Hangmen (National Theatre) Sun., April 3, at 6 p.m.

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY 405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, manchester.lib.nh.us • Spare Parts (PG-13, 2015) Fri., April 1, at 3 p.m.

• Forbidden Planet (1956) Sat., April 2, at 11 a.m.

• Old San Francisco (1927) Tues., April 5, at 6 p.m., silent film with musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis • Hamlet Wed., April 6, at 1 p.m.

• Max (PG, 2015) Fri., April 8, at 3 p.m.

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY 2500 N. River Road, Manchester, nhjewishfilmfestival.org • In Search of Israeli Cuisine (2016) Thurs., March 31, at 7:30 p.m., part of NH Jewish Film Festival SERESC 29 Commerce Drive, Bedford • Dough (2015) Sat., April 2, at 8 p.m., part of NH Jewish Film Festival NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary.org.

• Alice in Wonderland (PG, 2010) Sat., April 2, at 2 p.m.

• Carol (R, 2015) Tues., April 5, at 7 p.m.

• Pete’s Dragon (PG, 2016) Sat., April 9, at 2 p.m.

• Le Cinema Francais: Entre Les Murs (The Class) Tues., April 12, at 3 p.m.

• Star Wars VIII: The Force Awakens (PG-13, 2015) Tues., April 12, at 6 p.m.

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• Laughter: Local funny man Greg Boggis, host of Access Nashua TV show The Boggis Hour, is the new ringmaster at The Last Thursday Comedy Showcase, featuring established comics and rising stars. This month’s lineup includes Mike Holmes, Kayla Avery, Samantha Hemmingson, Tyler Morrow and other guests on Thursday, March 31, at 8 p.m. at Fody’s Tavern, 9 Clinton St. (Railroad Square), Nashua. Cover charge is $5. For information and reservations, call 577-9015.

• Gypsies: Hot swing/gypsy jazz trio Ameranouche performs in a Lakes Region listening room. Guitarist Pat Martino described the acoustic trio as “a capture of joyfulness itself … truly gifted.” They begin with music popularized by Django Reinhardt, weaving in soul, flamenco, bop and other modern elements. See Ameranouche on Friday, April 1, at 8 p.m. at Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem St., Laconia. Tickets are $15 ($12 for seniors). See pitmansfreightroom.com.

• Birthday: High-energy blues band Lisa Marie & the All Shook Up help a longtime friend to the local music scene celebrate 17 years in business. Strange Brew Tavern hosts live performances nearly every night of the week — a lot of blues, but plenty of rock, soul and honky-tonk too. There’s a popular Sunday blues jam, and recently Frank-FM began hosting a monthly original show. Go Saturday, April 2, at 9 p.m. at Strange Brew Tavern, 88 Market St., Manchester. More at strangebrewtavern.net.

• Two’s-day: A special video and recording event features veteran rockers The Voice performing with The Boneshakers. The sevenpiece band’s selection of classic rock covers, including Rolling Stones, The Who and Pink Floyd, should fit well in the British-themed pub — though with two female vocalists, they’re known to break out an Adele or Kelly Clarkson tune on occasion. Go Tuesday, April 5, at 8 p.m. at Queen’s Pub & Grille, 641 Elm St., Manchester. More at thequeenspub.com.

The absence of Little Feat from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a glaring omission for many music fans, but Paul Barrere takes it in stride.

Speaking from his home in Southern California, Barrere, who wrote “All That You Dream” and played signature slide guitar on hits like “Dixie Chicken” and “Oh Atlanta,” recalled a years-ago golf course conversation.

“It was a tournament for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and people from the board were there,” Barrere said. “I told them, ‘You guys obviously know that I bet on baseball — that’s why you don’t put us in, right?’”

He laughed at his Pete Rose joke, and then continued. “Some guys in the band said they don’t care, but I would love to be in,” he said.

“It’s not something that will make or break a career, though — our music has stood the test of time. Obviously, politics are involved; I’m not sure who we pissed off.”

Is he surprised that Little Feat still excites fans after four-plus decades?

“I’m just happy I survived the ’60s and ’70s,” Barrere said. “The mere fact of playing music has always been the hook for me. …

When you’re onstage playing well, the band is tight and you’re just rippin’ it, two hours goes by like it’s five minutes. If it turns you on, you hope it turns the audience on, but it’s all in just playing.”

Barrere and fellow Feat mate Fred Tackett perform as an acoustic duo; in 2013, they began doing shows with New Orleans SusPaul Barrere & Fred Tackett / New Orleans Suspects When: Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.

Where: Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth More: $35 & $5 at flyingmonkeynh.com

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pects, an all-star band that includes members of the Radiators, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the Neville Brothers, among others. The ensemble returns on Saturday, April 9, to Plymouth’s Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center.

The long-term pairing was a fortunate accident.

“In Fort Lauderdale, some booking agent asked if we’d like to sit in and we said sure,” Barrere said. “They had this great funk thing going on and it fit perfect with us. The only thing that was bad is that we were playing acoustic guitars and they were playing electric. From then on out when we were doing gigs with them, we’d do our sets on electric guitars turned down; then when we played with them, we’d crank it up and get it going.”

Due to health issues, Barrere limits his touring these days. He took a year off in 2013 to successfully battle hepatitis C, then last fall he was diagnosed with liver cancer.

He keeps fans up on his treatment progress via his Facebook page. Little Feat became an early adopter of the Internet after first being alarmed by tape trading in the 1990s, and then realizing it was really free advertising for the band’s shows.

“We started getting into computers and

social media to expand the base, and that started a whole grass roots of teams,” Barrere said. “It was a very useful tool, though little did we know that it was also going to be the death of actual record sales.”

Barrere reports cancer treatments are going well.

“They did a heavy metal sort of radioactivity procedure … they put it right into the liver and then boost it with a pill that’s chemo but not where you’re sick all the time; it’s more a fatigue factor,” he said. “We used to do a month on the road; I can’t physically do that anymore, but for the most part I feel good. Naps are good; I dream about my next baseball bet.”

It’s true. Barrere is a rabid baseball fan, and he’s the kind most New Englanders will appreciate. Like his New York-born and -raised father, Barrere is a lifetime Giants supporter.

“Try living in L.A. and doing that,” he said with a laugh. “In the ’50s, I’m watching the World Series on a black and white TV, rooting for the Yankees because I hated the Dodgers.

My dad says, ‘You can’t root for either one of those teams; you’re a Giants fan.’”

The father-son lesson endures to this day.

Red Sox fans will be pleased to know that Barrere still can’t stand the Yankees.

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Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Most playAries (March 21 – April 19) If you sent ers ... were happy just to get paid to play a BeeHive Corn Syrup label to the compa- hockey, which doesn’t exactly put you in a ny, they’d send back a picture of the hockey position of strength at contract time. You player of your choice. … My collection can be happy and get paid! of BeeHive photos was a source of much Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Most hockey pride. Take pride in what you’ve got. fans, if they think about it, probably see me Taurus (April 20 – May 20) I think that coming down the right wing. That’s where I five was the most teams I ever played for played in Detroit, but it didn’t start out that at one time. I attended King George School way. Way back when, I actually began playand played on our school team. Then there ing in net. In fact, I was in net for the first was a mercantile league that local busi- truly big game I ever played. You may be nesspeople put together. I played with my up for a new role. local Peewee team and then Bantam hockSagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) The ey as I got older. I played on a church team owners, with their business savvy, knew and also on one for pick-up games. I’d just how to hang on to a dollar. Keep track of change sweaters and go from one game to your expenses.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) What I the next. Just change sweaters.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) I didn’t learned early on was that you had to be a have to beat the goalie after all. That’s the little crazy to survive in the NHL. And if you puck’s job. Let the puck do its job. weren’t crazy naturally, you needed to fake Cancer (June 21 – July 22) We trea- it a bit so your opponents thought you were. sured our sticks, as well. … We’d use glue, There may be too many levels of reverse tape, tack a little metal onto them, what- psychology operating between you and ever we could do to keep them together. your opponents.

Eventually, though, they’d wear down from Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) When I playing in the street. You’d be playing with was a kid we would play ball hockey on the a toothpick, just hoping it would make it road or in driveways all the time. With a through the day. You’ll succeed if you treat tennis ball, you’re basically playing with your equipment well. a bouncing puck. You can’t force a tennis Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) These days they ball: you need to be light of hand to control call it cross-training, or at least they used it, so playing with one really helps to develto. There might be another name for it now. op your touch. Be light of hand.

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Sessions made no link of magic to resolving other congressional business (such as, for instance, ending the string of 64 consecutive failed votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act).

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0101 a brew created, it said, by social media messages. The company, “finding” that the generation appeared “optimistic,” analyzed “thousands” of the generation’s messages against 24 human emotions, which it translated to 38 particular emotional states, which were fed into the IBM Watson computer, which selected 10 existing beers, whose recipes were then cribbed to create 0101 (a “cream ale” with honey and two specific kinds of hops, tasting of “optimism, love, imagination, and gentle overtones of excitement”).

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Following a simplistic hack at the Internal Revenue Service that permitted several thousand tax returns to be illegally accessed and refunds commandeered, the agency created an equally porous “fix” merely copied from failed security elsewhere on the IRS website. According to a March Washington Post report, the fix admirably added one level of security (a personal PIN), but nonetheless allowed anyone to change another’s PIN using publicly available information.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the Post that “only a handful” of taxpayers were victimized by the faulty fix (but later defined “handful” as “fewer than 200”).

People With Too Much Money: Residents on London’s swankiest street (Kensington Palace Gardens), stymied in efforts to build upward on their relatively small lots, instead plan elaborate “basements” extending as far as five stories down, with elevators, swimming pools, gyms, climbing walls, and one even with a “Ferris wheel” for dialing up the resident’s daily choice among his several cars. However, embassies are located on the street and have challenged the construction chaos as offending their sovereignty under international law. Recent restrictions limit the basements to one story down, but billionaire entrepreneur Jon Hunt’s five stories are Things people believe grandfathered in (though his “Ferris wheel” Murders are being committed over hair appears to have been shelved). weaves, reported WMC-TV (Memphis, Tennessee) in March, with one likely explanation being a belief that a person who New World order • Mystery fiction has always been a pop- acquires tufts of human hair surely acquires ular genre, but now, readers who prefer that the fortunes good or bad of the person who their crimes be solved by cats have sever- grew the hair. That is especially true of “viral series of brilliant felines to choose from. gin” hair from India, shorn for religious As The Wall Street Journal reported in February, the major controversy swirling at “cat fiction” conventions is whether the clever kitties should advance the plot by speaking.

“We all talk to our pets,” noted one best- selling author, “and most of us imagine the other side of the dialogue.” (Among the sets boasting more than a million copies are the “Joe Greys,” the “Klepto Cats,” the “Cat Shout for Joy” suite, and the recently concluded, 29-volume run of “Cat Who” books, e.g., “The Cat Who Could Read Backwards.”)

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Infrastructure Blues: (1) A 5-year-old, slow-moving underground fire (beneath a Superfund cleanup site) is within 1,200 feet of a waste site for nuclear weapons near St. Louis, according to a December Associated Press report. The Environmental Protection Agency, of course, said not to worry, that the heat from the fire was not enough to ignite chemicals or trigger an explosion. (2) While America was outraged about the water in Flint, Michigan, the tap water in Crystal City, Texas (100 miles southwest of San Antonio) was suddenly as black and thick “as oil” and “stank,” according to a resident.

The city’s water superintendent said the town had decided to clean residue from the system for the first time in “20 to 30 years.”

People with issues

(1) Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., disclosed in March that in 2015 it received 8,670 noise complaints but that 6,500 came from the same person (thus averaging 18 per day, every day). (2) Buddhist monk Julian Glew, 45, was arrested in September in Humberside, England, and later sentenced to 11 weeks in prison after he slashed (by his count) 162 tires in his neighborhood because, he said, he was angry that he had stepped on an insect and needed to be jailed.

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