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While President Donald Trump and Gov. Chris Sununu may not get much credit for their restraint, they have both been restrained in their approach to making big changes during their first month in office. While Sununu backed legislation in the state to stop unions from collecting fees for bargaining on behalf of non-members (called right to work by supporters), he didn’t really push it. He let the House of Representatives do its thing — which was to kill the bill, as they like to do. Maybe his thinking was, “Why rile up unions too much?” He’ll be running again in a few years, and while he doesn’t expect their support, he doesn’t want them motivated to get rid of him. This is sort of the John Lynch model of governing: govern and take it easy. Now, no one could, for better or worse, accuse Trump of taking it easy. But that’s just what I’m saying he’s done on some issues. Trump has backed away from calls to repeal Obamacare and taken a more moderate approach of studying what it could be replaced with. He’s said that process could take a year or two. I’m sure he’s hoping it’ll take five years. He’s learned from presidents before him that ramming new legislation through early in an administration rarely works out well for the president. Making big bold moves has its advantages, but not in times when unemployment is low and we’re not really engaged in any large overseas conflicts. In times like these, it’s more important to not knock things over or own a new problem. Trump could easily be blamed for whatever comes after Obamacare. Getting credit is harder. While this will drive many folks crazy, Trump’s temporary ban on people coming in from seven majority Muslim countries was mild in comparison to his campaign promise of banning all Muslims. To me it was a way for him to tick that box with his supporters. And that’s not to say that the ban he did try and impose was good or right (it was neither). Now there is talk that the wall will become a fence and for good reason — you can see through a fence, and border enforcement always wants to know what’s going on behind that fence. While Trump critics might say he’s not fulfilling his promises, that’s really a question for his supporters to answer, and they seem fine with his progress. It seems that both Sununu and Trump in their own ways (Trump louder) realize that restraint in action can be helpful politically. After all, when times are good, it’s best to just take credit.
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Despite a Republican majority in the New Hampshire House and a Republican governor, a key GOP agenda item died in the House by 23 votes. According to a press release, after the 200to-177 vote against the so-called Right-to-Work bill, the House voted to indefinitely postpone the measure, which means no similar legislation can come before lawmakers for two years. While Democrats oppose such legislation, which would do away with required union fees for union workers, Republicans were divided on the issue. Prior to the full House vote, a committee with a GOP majority recommended the bill not pass. The bill was the No. 1 agenda item for the right-wing advocacy group Americans For Prosperity New Hampshire, which expressed disappointment in a statement following the vote, calling it a “setback to worker freedom.” Gov. Chris Sununu said in a statement that he’s “deeply disappointed” the bill failed to pass. While Sununu made Right-to-Work a priority, not all Republicans agreed it was the right move. In an editorial published by the Conway Daily Sun, former Republican state Sen. Mark Hounsell gave voice to the Republican opposition, calling the bill more akin to “right to steal.” Senate Democrats had their own name for it: “Right to Work for Less.” In a statement, praising the vote that killed the bill, they said it would make it harder for people to earn a living.
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Binnie Media sold the local television station WBIN-TV to the Federal Communications Commission and walked away with an estimated $100 million, according to a press release from the company owned by local businessman and developer Bill Binnie. The channel has been home to the recently launched NH1 News network, set up to compete with WMUR. The FCC bought the station in auction for $68.1 million and Binnie Media entered into a channel shar-
ing sale of its remaining license with an unnamed “major” television group for an additional $10 million to $30 million. The proceeds will be used to invest in other media assets in digital, outdoor and radio, according to the release. Five years ago, WBIN was purchased for just $9 million. The buy-back was part of an effort to free up airspace for faster 5G wireless internet service. According to multiple news outlets, the company is laying off a majority of its staff. The Boston Globe reported an estimated 20 to 30 people are likely out of a job. The company’s website, NH1.com, and 19 radio stations are going to continue operating, according to NH1 News.
Buckley bows out
In a joint statement, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley announced he is stepping down from the race to head the national party and supporting Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison for the job. Buckley said in the statement that Ellison’s plan for winning more elections shares many of the same elements as his own, such as a focus on all 50 states. He also praised Ellison’s track record of winning elections. Ellison is reportedly a frontrunner in the race to run the party. Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez is also a frontrunner.
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Republican state Sen. Sharon Carson of Londonderry introduced a bill that would make the Division for Children Youth and Families an independent state agency, according to a press release. Right now, DCYF is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Carson said making it an independent agency would allow for more focused leadership and strengthen the support it can offer families and children. “We need to make dramatic changes to ensure that our at-risk children are being protected,” Carson said. Significant DCYF reform has been recommended by independent auditors and child protection advocates following a number of high-profile child deaths in recent years. Most recently, a lawsuit by a former DCYF employee claims she was repeatedly disciplined for trying to protect at-risk children when she was otherwise held back by red tape, NH1 News reported.
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A fundraising effort to buy 56.8 acres of farmland in Dunbarton for a refugee farming program reached its $20,000 fundraising goal in two months. The Concord Monitor reported the Our Story Hill effort launched on Nov. 15 last year and raised $23,253 by Jan. 20. MANCHESTER
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ease and ticks, the cap on moose hunting licenses is poised to drop lower again this year. The Concord Monitor reported only 51 people will get moose licenses this year. That’s down from 71 permits last year and 105 the year before that. This year’s moose permits are 7 percent of the numMoose hunt As New Hampshire moose ber of permits given 10 years continue to struggle with dis- ago, which was 678.
The latest Granite State Poll by the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy shows that nearly three-quarters of New Hampshire residents believe environmental regulations should Frank Edelblut stay as they are or be strengthFormer state rep and Repub- ened, according to a press release. lican primary candidate for Only 20 percent of those surveyed governor Frank Edelblut was con- agreed with President Donald firmed by the Executive Council to become the next Department of Education commissioner. In a statement, Gov. Chris Sununu SMALL BUSINESSES said he is “thrilled” by the conThe House passed a bill that would be good firmation and said Edelblut will news for many of the state’s smallest business“work tirelessly to improve our es if it becomes law. New Hampshire Business state system by implementing a Review reported the bill would change the income threshold for businesses that have to file a 21st-century education.” DemBusiness Profits Tax from $50,000 gross busiocratic Executive Councilor ness income to $75,000. The threshold has reChris Pappas voted against Edelmained unchanged since 1993. Lawmakers who blut and said in a statement that proposed the bill originally wanted to raise the Edelblut “lacks both experience threshold to $100,000 but the Ways and Means with and support for our state’s Committee voted on a compromise that would public schools.” Edelblut homehave a less significant impact on tax revenues. As written now, it would cost the state less than schooled his seven children and $1 million. The bill must be passed by the Senhas supported school choice and ate and signed by the governor to become law. It spoken critically of the Comwould take effect in 2018. mon Core state standards. Senate
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Following four snow days and five two-hour delays in Concord schools, administrators will tally up the hours over February break and push out the last day of school, the Concord Monitor reported. Right now, the last day is listed as June 14 on the district’s website.
Democrats expressed concern that Edelblut may be too ideological and unqualified for the job.
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According to a report by the Union Leader, New Hampshire Democratic state rep and Manchester Alderman Thomas Katsiantonis owes more than $427,000 in state taxes, most of which is unpaid meals & rentals tax, dating back to 2012. On Valentine’s Day, investigators searched Katsiantonis’ home and two Manchester businesses, Grand Slam Pizza and Tommy K’s Sports Bar and Restaurant. The search follows a months-long financial investigation and no charges have been filed yet. Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas told the Union Leader that he’s concerned but monitoring the situation for now. State GOP Chair Jeanie Forrester called for House Democratic leadership to suspend Katsiantonis.
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College satellite closes in Manchester Professors say goodbye to urban campus Are You Ready to Make This The Year of You?
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Earlier this month, the last of the furniture from Springfield College’s Manchester facility was removed. The college, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, had quietly closed the satellite location on Commercial Street in December.
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Dennis Martino, a longtime state employee and adjunct professor at what was formerly called Springfield College’s School of Human Services, was its last director. In July 2016 the college renamed the satellite program, which focuses on social services fields, the School of Professional and Continuing Studies. It operates nine similar satellites around the country. Martino estimates there were about 300 students enrolled at the Millyard campus at its height in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many of whom commuted north from Massachusetts for weekend classes. But the college was looking to consolidate and hired consultants to study the viability of the satellite. “Southern New Hampshire University, which is really a juggernaut these days, was a big competitor and right down the road,” Martino said. He said the school was also struggling to compete with the least expensive state college, Granite State College, which offered some similar programs. Plus, while the other satellite locations are rentals, Springfield owns the suite on Commercial Street. As a result of closing the site, Martino thinks the college stands to earn between $1.5 million and $1.75 million for selling the property. “They’ll get a good price for it,” Martino said. “I’m sure that was a factor.” Springfield College spokesperson Elizabeth Belle Isle said the official reason for the campus’ closing was declining enrollment. By January 2016, when the decision to close the school was made, there were 26 full-time undergraduate students. The school was also up against diminishing demand for higher education in the Northeast, where many people already have degrees, and an increased interest in online programs.
for working adults,” Levy said. He said the school started in Franconia in the early 1970s but was bankrupt by 1978. What lived on was its hugely popular human services program, ahead of its time for catering to working adults and racial minorities. The program started out with just the bachelor degree program and continued after Franconia College closed under the auspices of New Hampshire College — the former name of SNHU. By the late 1980s, Levy said, New Hampshire College jettisoned the human services program, and the School of Human Services found its permanent home with Springfield College. As Levy tells it, Springfield College, a 130-year old private nonprofit college whose claim to fame is the invention of basketball, wanted to bolster its declining enrollment by offering an adult learner program to nontraditional students, and the School of Human Services was ready-made to do just that. From the very start, Levy said, the program was exploring innovative modes of educating that have since become more mainstream, such as interdisciplinary studies, giving cred-
its for experiential learning and offering seminar-style classes where students would sit in a circle and discuss a topic. Eventually, the school added a couple of master’s programs for organizational leadership and mental health counseling, as well as criminal justice bachelor programs.
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new nomination for secretary of labor, Alexander Acosta, Hassan released a statement saying she looks forward to meeting with him and reviewing him throughout the hearing process. On Feb. 15, Hassan joined senators introducing the STOP Act, designed to prevent dangerous synthetic drugs like fentanyl from being shipped into the U.S. through the postal service.
A look at what New Hampshire’s representatives in the U.S. House and Senate, all Democrats, have been up to in Washington.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
Sen. Shaheen joined the Congressional delegation to the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 18 and Feb. 19 in Munich, Germany. Prior to that, Shaheen spoke on the Senate floor against the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt. She also spoke against Trump’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney. She later voted against confirming both Pruitt and Mulvaney. Shaheen met with Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, on Feb. 15, the same day she introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act alongside Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Human services Ohio. The bill would create 200,000 new jobs Manchester’s satellite, the school’s only and reduce energy costs by $16.2 billion annuNew Hampshire location, was the original ally by 2030, according to a press release. school to have a flagship human services program geared toward nontraditional students. Sen. Maggie Hassan Sen. Hassan also votFormer professor Paul Levy traces the ed against confirming Scott history of the Manchester campus and the Pruitt’s nomination as adminSchool of Human Services back to an experiistrator of the EPA and Mick mental school called Franconia College. Mulvaney as OMB director. “It was a residential college for young peoAfter Trump announced his ple, but it set up a new ... weekend program
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Students and staff move on
The announcement of the Manchester school’s closure last year led many part-time faculty and full-time staff members to leave for other employment opportunities. Some were offered jobs at the Boston campus. The school once had about eight administrative staff members and between 20 and 30 adjunct professors, according to Martino. That number dwindled to single digits in the waning months of the school. Belle Isle said no full-time faculty or staff were laid off. The campus stopped accepting students last May. Students who didn’t finish by December were given tuition discounts to continue in Boston or at the St. Johnsbury, Vermont, satellite campus. Others were offered the option to transfer via articulation agreements with SNHU and Granite State College.
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter
Rep. Shea-Porter voted no in a House vote to overturn a rule that prevents states from withholding federal Title X grants to Planned Parenthood clinics for ideological reasons, according to a press release. She also joined a group of northern border reps in writing a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly cautioning against implementing a proposed biometric security screening measure at border crossings. On Feb. 14, Shea-Porter called for an investigation of Trump and his administration’s ties to Russia.
Rep. Ann Kuster
Rep. Kuster introduced legislation to improve access to voluntary farm conservation programs, according to a press release. On Feb. 15, Kuster hosted her first telephone town hall of 2017; more than 9,000 Granite Staters participated.
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Nancy Kyle of Pembroke is the president and CEO of the New Hampshire Retail Association. She talked about what’s happening in retail these days and legislation that could harm or help. How is the retail industry doing in New Hampshire right now? Well, it’s all over the place. Some of our larger members are not doing as well. It’s really a challenge [for] them with online retailing. The good, competitive retailers are putting money into their online presence; that’s where the real growth is lately and it’s hard to compete against companies that don’t charge shipping and that type of thing. So some of our larger members are struggling a little. From what I hear, my small to medium-size members are doing really well. What really helps New Hampshire is our lack of a sales tax. People are coming over the border to shop. … If you take the per capita retail sales in the state of New Hampshire, those are at $19,276 per person. … The U.S. average is $13,036, Maine is $15,521, Massachusetts is $13,657. So it’s not that New Hampshire people are shopping more than other people. It’s the influx of cross-border shoppers. … We’re doing pretty well. I think right now, in this economy, the biggest problem for our retailers is getting help because our unemployment rate is so low. … So just about everybody who wants to work is working. It’s very hard to get help, it’s very hard to get trained help.
like Portsmouth tried to do it last year — then you’re opening up the door. Maybe [then] some town decides to make a sales tax just to make their numbers. … A hodgepodge of environmental laws on a Courtesy photo. town-by-town basis would be ineffective, confusing and costly. Another priority was about electronics recycling. What’s your concern there? The [electronics recycling] bill we have this year is modeled after a Vermont program. Basically, a lot of our retailers are doing a lot on their own anyway and we want to make sure they’re allowed to do it as they see fit. So it’s not an issue that needs to be legislated. … If you make it a mandate, somebody’s going to have to pay for it and it’s going to come down to the consumer. There’s going to be a fee at collection.
How did the Retail Association identify its priorities? Were these based on legislative conversations happening in New Hampshire or in other states across the country? This is based on [upcoming bills]. … We You’ve set a number of legislative priorities that range from topics like plastic bags look at what’s actually going to be affecting to paid leave. What’s the common theme New Hampshire in the coming legislative session. throughout all of these? We basically advocate policies and laws What would be an acceptable paid famthat maintain and advance New Hampshire’s strong retail climate and we oppose legislation ily and medical leave bill that represents a that would limit or restrict a retailer’s way of good compromise between the interests of doing business or would put an unfair bur- our retail businesses and its employees? den on retailers. Those are sort of our guiding The way that the bill was written it had a lines, our guiding philosophies when we look section in there that [says] you have to hold a at where we’re going to stand on an issue. job for somebody if they go out on this paid leave and there’s no consideration for a small Can you discuss these priorities and why employer. So one of my … board members said, “You know, I have four employees. they matter to the retail industry? For example, the plastic bag ban. … We sup- If I have somebody go out on a paid mediport our members and others who engage in cal leave, I can’t hold the position. I have to voluntary efforts. The problem with the whole hire.” So there needs to be consideration in plastic bag issue this year is they’re trying to there, maybe of employers of a certain size. … do it on a town-by-town basis. And our Maybe it [only should affect] businesses with state is set up where towns cannot do that. So 20 or more people. … We’d have to wait you’re really opening up the door, if you allow and see what comes out. … I don’t have the a town to put a ban on plastic bags — which is answer for what the better format would be. I just know there’s problems with the way that WHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTO? it’s written now. I believe that they’re going to be working on this and we’ll be tracking I have a quarter horse and I ride. It’s it and we’ll be listening and offering input all something I’m very passionate about. I’ve along the steps in the process. ridden since I was 3 years old. — Ryan Lessard
NEWS & NOTES
QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Lots of fresh veggies at the Food Bank
The New Hampshire Food Bank had a good year for produce in 2016. The AP reported the Food Bank produced more than 11,200 pounds of fresh vegetables, a record. The carrots, broccoli and other veggies were distributed among the 13 million pounds of food provided to needy families last year. The one-acre production area was aided by a $30,000 grant from the Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Foundation, which was used to increase production capacity and extend the growing season into the colder months using tunnels. QOL Score: +1 Comment: The Food Bank grew 3,000 more pounds of veggies than it did in 2015.
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The Queen City may soon be embracing more of its artsy side. An effort is underway to establish a six-block cultural district in downtown Manchester. The Union Leader reported a group called the Manchester Cultural District Coalition wants to establish the boundary lines from Elm Street east to Union Street and Lowell Street southward to Hanover in order to qualify the area for state, federal and private foundation funds set aside for cultural districts. The goal is to attract more businesses and tourists to the area centered on Victory Park. The Palace Theatre, city library, Historic Association building and a soon-to-beopened music hall will fall within the boundaries. QOL Score: +1 Comment: The coalition first convened two years ago and includes prominent community members, including Mike Skelton, the president of the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce; John Clayton, the executive director of the Manchester Historic Association; Peter Ramsay, the president of the Palace Theatre; Alderman Pat Long; and Jon Sparkman, the president of the Devine, Millimet and Branch law firm.
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A class of Windham second-graders surprised their teacher, Eileen Lingley, on Valentine’s Day by presenting her with $275, which they collected to help her reach her $12,000 Boston Marathon fundraising goal. Lingley is training to run the race on the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s team with her brother, Tim Morris, who was in a car accident 10 years ago that left him paralyzed from the chest down, according to a story in The Eagle Tribune. QOL Score: +1 Comment: It’s the second Boston Marathon race for Morris, a Windham native, but the first for Lingley.
Looking good
New Hampshire high schoolers with small wallets can still look good at this spring’s formals; UsTrendy, an independent fashion e-commerce company, is hosting an event at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua (1 Positive Place, Nashua) Thursday, March 9, at 3:30 p.m., offering brand-new designer dresses for girls whose budgets don’t always allow shopping trips for school dances. The event is part of the Believe in Yourself Project, a broader initiative that reaches out to metropolitan cities all over the country, with other upcoming events in Chicago and Boston. QOL Score: +1 Comment: Looking good is always a confidence-booster for QOL. QOL score: 65 Net change: +4 QOL this week: 69 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.
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Like anyone living in America I find it hard to miss the assault being made on the national press corps by the president of the United States, an incredible effort to discredit the press, which I’m watching with a mix of disbelief, horror and hilarity because in some ways it’s so off-the-charts weird it’s funny. It’s more accurately an effort to discredit stories he doesn’t like, with a bogus claim of “media bias,” which means anything from Fake News, er, I mean Fox News, is OK. And given the unprecedented level of chaos down there there’s been an avalanche of bad ones to choose from. So, he calls true stories “fake news” to make it appear the press is out to get him with lies, even as he makes other excuses (“I inherited a mess”) for everything by telling one whopper after another to refute it. God knows how a guy with the weirdest mix of bravado and insecurity I’ve ever seen will be psychoanalyzed in coming generations. But right now, the best explanation is the president can’t, as Colonel Nathan Jessup likes to say, handle the truth. A sports equivalent would have Trump as owner of the Atlanta Falcons. To follow the script playing out now: after seeing his team blow the largest lead in SB history, he’d do damage control by calling headlines saying The Patriots Win the Super Bowl With Greatest Comeback Ever “fake news.” But since it happened in full view of 100 million people worldwide that probably wouldn’t work. So, after trying that for a while, he’d give the cult that follows the Falcons an impressive list of excuses in to say his (and their) team would have won, but … the Patriots cheated, the refs screwed up, the groundskeepers were incompetent, Joe Buck is such a nasty person, and the NFL is against us! All to not let the embarrassing loss tarnish his ego, which appears to be the chief concern.
He’d have a harder time actually pulling that off in sports, though. Teams do have their rabid followers like Trump has the Trumpetts. Folks who hate the other guy just because they are the other guy, like in the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry where otherwise rational people said Jeter “sucked” (those who love No-maaar) and vice-versa. However, unlike Washington, because of the scoreboard sports is black and white. That said, it’s not like Trump-like acts are new to sports. Going back to the early days of Ban Johnson and John McGraw in baseball and George Halas and Preston Marshall in football, strong personalities have used their self-confidence and celebrity to get what they want. Here are four who come to mind. Bobby Knight: Cantankerous, arrogant, self-important, condescending and media-hating. His nasty war with the media included belittling its basketball intellect, then its questions and eventually its right to ask them of him. Sound familiar? He won a lot, until media attention had parents unwilling to let their kid play for him, or a new breed of recruits saying I’m not playing for that lunatic. And, if you need a reminder on his impulse control issues, 31 years ago he chucked a chair across the court over a call he didn’t like. Then there’s his breathtaking hypocrisy in joining the media. That’s reminiscent of a guy now calling news “fake” after spending six years lying about where the president was born to get attention. Pete Rose: Not many are more boorish than Pete in pursuit of what he wanted, be it third base on a single to right, extracting every last nickel from Philly in free agency, or in the battle with Bart Giamatti over his gambling. Pete’s insatiable need to win made him the all-time hit leader. It also was his undoing, and you have to wonder if it will be the same for the president as well. Al Davis: “Just win, baby.” If you weren’t for him, you were against him. And like Trump he was at war with those who
were against him. Trump even followed Al’s playbook in court once. But while Davis got a mammoth financial windfall from his anti-trust win over the NFL, all the owner of the NJ Generals got for the USFL in his was $3 after his $1 award from the NFL was tripled. George Steinbrenner: An authoritarian New Yorker run amok. Publicity-addicted and vengeful toward reporters whose stories didn’t satisfy his ego. My friends in NY still say he was a good owner because he was willing to spend. But, despite gigantic payroll advantages, he also went from 1979 to 1995 without a title thanks to a legendary lack of patience with young players that led to impulsive decisions that turned out to be stupid or worse. Only his being suspended for life (for a second time) saved the Core 4 and Bernie and the five World Series wins they delivered from that fate. The suspension happened because he hired convicted felon Howard Spira to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield after losing the PR battle to him on the back pages of the tabloids. This is who most reminds me of Trump. One would like to think all the turmoil comes from Trump’s being a presidential version of the blood-and-guts manager hired to shake up a lethargic baseball team that needs it, as DC certainly does. But sadly he seems headed for the same sad fate as the four just mentioned. And here’s why this all matters, should be followed and swatted back as the lies keep coming. It’s just bad behavior, and regardless of who’s side you’re on we shouldn’t look past it. Otherwise, lying becomes no big deal, and then accepted by far too many. Which is why the media of a democracy must call him on it every single time. Because like orange is the new black, it will become the new normal, and does anyone really want that? I know I don’t. Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.
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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S PEOPLE, PLACES & OTHER STUFF
Hot spring for basketball The Big Story: In case you ain’t been paying attention, there could be some interesting post-season collegiate basketball coming your way in the next few weeks. After two wins last week, SNHU will have home court throughout the Northeast 10 playoffs and has a chance to host the NCAA regional. At UNH ball games, the women’s basketball team finished first in any conference (in this case American East) it has played in for first time in 32 years and the 14-11 men (17 wins if you count their Division III wins) has a real chance to win the AE tournament, which would take them to the dance! Who’d have thunk that? And over at Saint Anselm the 17-9 win and 16-8 men have similar shots in the NE-10 to get to the tournament as well. Sports 101: With (the good) Isaiah Thomas (29.7) surging to just a point behind Russell Westbrook (30.7) for the top spot in the NBA scoring race, it seems fitting to ask who was the last Celtics player to lead the NBA in scoring. The Young Shall Lead Award: To the Manchester Central sophomore duo of Daniel Infante (12) and Eric Curijo
The Numbers
2 – goals each from Max Lajeunesse, Noah Charron, and Mickey Bridgeman for Goffstown as they rolled over Alvirne 9-2 in NHIAA hockey action. 3 – more points scored by players off the bench for Bishop Guertin than the Memorial team when they put up 57 in a 73-54 win over the Crusaders when Erin Carney had a team-
(14), who combined for 26 points in leading the Green to a 59-44 upset of Exeter. Nick of Tyme Award: To Saint Anselm’s Tim Guers, who punctuated a 37-point night with the free throws that turned out to be the game-winners in an 85-84 win over Stonehill with two seconds left. Condolences: To Memorial basketball coach Jack Quirk for the loss of his wife Gail. The couple had been married 48 years. Sports 101 Answer: If Thomas catches Westbrook, it will make him the first Celtics player ever to lead the NBA in scoring. On This Date – Feb. 23: 1934 – Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, where he never finishes better than fifth place and goes 208-251 before getting the axe. 1980 – speed skater Eric Heiden wins gold in his five events to be the second biggest story at the winter Olympics games in Lake Placid behind the Miracle on Ice hockey team. 1985 – All-time Canadian Patrick Roy makes his NHL debut in goal for Montreal.
high 16 off the bench. 25 – game-high points scored by Kelly Walsh to lead a 43-39 comeback win over West where 18 came in the second half. 21 – saves by Goffstown goalie Kyle LaSella as G-town took down Belmont-Gilford 5-3 in NHIAA hockey action behind a pair of goals from Noah Charron. 55 – percentage of Pinker-
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ton’s overall points when Jay Reynolds (22) and Joey Merrill (21) combined for 43 points in leading the Astros past Dover 79-60 in NHIAA basketball action. 100 – record-setting consecutive wins for the UConn women’s basketball team after a 66-55 win over South Carolina, made more amazing by the fact the record they passed was their own of a few years back at 93.
Bogus Media Bias Claim: Columnists like me who went to bed on election night hoping they’d wake up to find out it was all a bad dream and two better candidates had been running for president. Plus, I’ve known Trump’s act was bad news since the USFL days, which is a long time before the political thing. Bart Giamatti: Ill-fated baseball commissioner who died in office of a heart attack not long after throwing Pete Rose out of baseball for life on a gambling charge. That he succumbed after being in the eye of the intense crush of media attention that followed the Rose scandal is still an open question. Either way, it was a bad ending for the former Yale president who took the job because of his love for baseball. And who out there knows actor Paul Giamatti is his son? Paul Giamatti: Behind Stanley Tucci probably the most active character actor in Hollywood dating back to the ’90s. During that time he was Howard Stern’s arch-enemy Pig Vomit in Private Parts, a police snitch taken hostage by Samuel L. Jackson in The Negotiator, the boxing promoter in Cinderella Man, the undercover detective in The Hangover Part II and former President John Adams in HBO’s John Adams. Colonel Nathan Jessup: Tom Cruise’s antagonist in the military justice Hollywood epic A Few Good Men, played by Lakers fan Jack Nicholson. The film essentially comes down to one final question, “Did he order the code red?,” and the answer [spoiler alert], “You’re damn right he did!”
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Hiking, running and skijoring with your pup By Kelly Sennott
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Dogs love the outdoors, but if you live in a more urban southern New Hampshire neighborhood, it can be hard to think of ways to get fresh air with your pup besides your traditional walk around the block. But local dog experts have plenty of ideas on how to take your afternoon or weekend jaunt a step further by hiking, running or even skijoring with your canine pal.
Go hiking
In southern New Hampshire, there are a variety of trails to hike with your dog. Val Jesson, trainer at The Barking Dog, said she most enjoys the state’s abandoned railroad beds, particularly the Derry and Windham Easy southern NH hiking routes Beaver Brook trails: Park at Beaver Brook Association, 117 Ridge Road, Hollis Benson Park: Access via 19 Kimball Hill Road, Hudson Derry Rail Trail: Park downtown and access at Sabatino’s (the old Derry Depot) at 1 E. Broadway, Derry Nashua River Rail Trail: Park on Gilson Road, Nashua Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail: Accessible via the Lake Massabesic parking lot, 16 Londonderry Turnpike, Auburn Sewalls Falls Park trail: Access from the end of Second Street, Concord Winant Park trails: Access off Fisk Road, Concord Windham Rail Trail: Park on Roulston Road, Windham HIPPO | FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 1, 2017 | PAGE 12
rail trails. She also recommends the trails weaving through Benson Park in Hudson and the trails by Lake Massabesic in Auburn. But if you and your dog have kept a low profile this winter, it’s important to start slow. “If you’re not used to it, you might not want to do a two-mile hike. You want to cut it to a mile or a half-mile hike,” Jesson said via phone. “If dogs have been kept in condition, that’s great. I have lots of dogs in the offseason doing agility activities that keep them in shape.” Most trails allow dogs, but some don’t — for example, Mount Monadnock — and many have strict leash and clean-up rules. During cooler months or longer hikes, it’s a good idea to use harnesses and day packs for your dog, in addition to packing extra water, treats, tape (in case of a paw cut) and paw wax, which can protect against salty streets and trails. Lisa Caputo, director of operations at the Manchester Animal Shelter, said one of her favorite spots is the Andrew Brook Trail in Newbury. When the weather’s warmer, she likes to take her dogs along trails closer to water — a lake, pond, stream, river — for the pups to take a drink or cool down (though be certain it’s not standing water, which could made a dog sick).
Go running
Some dogs will be happy to go out for a run — but it might take practice to get to that point. “First you need to teach them how to heel, how to walk on a leash. … It takes practice for dogs. A lot of dogs won’t get the concept of running down a straight line. I would introduce them with short running bursts,” Jesson said. “With positive reinforcement, they can catch on.”
better during warm-weather runs. During this period, choose routes with more shade, as hot concrete also bothers dogs’ paws, and it’s harder for them to keep cool, as they can only release heat by panting and through the pads on their feet. Heavy panting for more than 20 minutes is a sign of overheating. For these kinds of days, Jesson suggested packing an ice pack. Once you’ve mastered the trot, you can enter your dog in a race. Every year, the Manchester Animal Shelter organizes the Mutt Strutt, a dog-friendly 5K that Caputo said is planned for September 2017.
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It’s important to note running’s not for every dog. It can damage the joints and burn out overweight dogs. Some breeds (usually ones with longer snouts) can handle it, but some can’t. “I think the most important thing is to make sure your dog is having fun doing what they’re doing. I don’t like the idea of forcing a dog to take a run who doesn’t want to do a run,” Jesson said. “Large breeds like Great Danes and St. Bernards don’t have a bunch of energy, to be quite honest. Definitely don’t plan on going very far with them.” Jesson recommended starting with short, non-retractable leashes between four and six feet. Larger dogs with thick fur might stand low temperatures, but smaller breeds will likely need coats to keep warm. On the other end, smaller dogs might fare
Go skijoring
Skijoring with your dog is kind of like dogsledding, except instead of riding a sled, you’re wearing skis. Try it on your own, or take lessons at Gunstock Mountain Resort’s program, which skijoring instructor Jane Carpenter started more than 25 years ago. The equipment includes a lightweight sled dog harness attached to a 25-foot bungee. Carpenter said the sport is suitable for all breeds; she recently saw a Jack Russell who took right to it. “He was very small but very active. He hated the deep snow, but here it’s groomed,” Carpenter said via phone. “You’re never dead weight; you’re always working with your dog.” Gunstock has 15 kilometers of wide, groomed dog-friendly trails for this purpose. If skiing attached to your dog sounds scary, you can start slowly by first snowshoeing attached to the harness. Carpenter offers lessons for beginners, but she said most dogs learn quickly, particularly the well-trained ones. “Once it clicks for them, they’re like OK, let’s do this!” Carpenter said.
Where to let your dog run free
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By Matt Ingersoll
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If you are looking for a fenced, open area for your dog to roam free, there are several parks available across the state built to do just that. Some dog parks are found within a town’s own public park, while others have been converted specifically to accommodate man’s best friend to play and get some exercise. Formerly known as Peanut Park, the Manchester Dog Park opened in August 2011 as a 10,000-square-foot fenced area with a double-gated entrance. The park is continually operated and maintained by the executive board of the Manchester Dog Park Association, as well as by membership fees and donations. “A lot of people are always looking for good dog parks to take their dog, and some don’t necessarily know that there’s this one right here in Manchester,” association vice president Kolea Tyler said.
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Saturday, MARCH 4th 12-5pm, Cost: $65 For pet owners and pet professionals This class will buy your pet valuable, life saving time by teaching you over 50 different skill sets that you can use prior to veterinary care. It combines lecture, demonstration and hands on skills practice. Each participant will receive a 2 year certification in CPR and First Aid for Pets.
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The cost to use the park is $15 per year for the first dog and $10 for each additional dog. If you have more than two dogs, the membership fees are capped at 16
PARKS JUST FOR DOGS Check out these off-leash dog parks in south- Longhill Dog Park ern New Hampshire; some are free while Where: Longhill Memorial Park, Longhill others require memberships to join. Road, Dover Hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. through March 31; 7 American K-9 Country’s Dog Park a.m. to 9:30 p.m. from April 1 through Sept. 30 Where: 336 Route 101, Amherst Cost: Free Hours: Sunrise to sunset, year round Visit: dovernh.gov Cost: Free Visit: americank9country.com/free-dog-park Manchester Dog Park Where: 344 Second St. (between West HanDerry Dog Park cock and Cleveland streets), Manchester Where: Fordway and Transfer Lane, Derry Hours: Sunrise to sunset, year round Hours: Sunrise to sunset, year round Cost: $15/year for one dog, $10 for each addiCost: Free tional dog, or $30/year maximum per owner of Visit: derrynh.org more than two dogs Visit: manchesternhdogpark.org Friendly Pets Dog Park Where: Behind the Friendly Pets pet store, 40 Merrimack Dog Park Concord Road, Lee Where: Wasserman Park, 116 Naticook Road, Hours: Sunrise to sunset, year round Merrimack Cost: Free, with signup to Friendly Pets Hours: Sunrise to sunset, year round rewards program Cost: Free Visit: friendlypets.com Visit: merrimackparksandrec.org/dogpark.html Hooksett Dog Park Where: 101 Merrimack St., Hooksett Hours: 6 a.m. to dusk, year round Cost: Free Visit: hooksett.org
Terrill Park Dog Park Where: Terrill Park, 7 Manchester St., Concord Hours: Sunrise to sunset, year round Cost: Free Visit: concordnh.gov
Hudson Dog Park Where: Benson Park, 21 Kimball Hill Road, Hudson Hours: 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Feb. 28; 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. from March 1 through April 30; and 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. from May 1 through Aug. 31 Cost: Free Visit: hudsonnh.gov
Yudicky Farm Dog Park Where: 1 Groton Road, Route 111A, Nashua Hours: 6 a.m. to sunset, year round (extended winter hours from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the winter) Cost: $125/year for up to two dogs; rate gets slightly higher with each additional dog Visit: nashuadog.org
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Clubs, classes and playgroups for you and your pet ple to get out there and try things. There are so many dog sports and different things people can do to interact with their dog.”
By Angie Sykeny
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From dog sports and skill classes to puppy play groups and cat shows, New Hampshire has all kinds of clubs and group activities where you can bond with your pet and connect with fellow pet owners in your area.
In the ring
New tricks
If your pooch has the “sit” and “stay” routine down pat, you can take it to the next level with a group class on a specialized skill such as agility, tricks or nose work, which some dog trainers and pet centers offer in addition to their standard training services. One place with unique group classes for dogs is Good Mojo Dog Center in Milford, which just opened a new training center last month called Good Mojo University. The 7,200-square-foot facility features agility obstacles like tunnels, ramps and jumps, as well as Fitpaws dog fitness equipment and a canine treadmill. There are a variety of programs, including rally and agility classes, a Fitness for Fido dog fitness class, a Do More With Your Dog attention and tricks class, Wagit Games, special workshops and more. “We wanted to offer more things for people to do with their dog that aren’t just in the competitive realm,” Good Mojo owner Deniece Johnson said. “There’s this intimidation factor when you go to a place where everyone’s dog is well-behaved and yours doesn’t have leash manners, so we want this to be a place that’s accepting of everyone and that’s geared more towards relationship building and having fun.”
Drop-in fun
If you’re looking for an activity without the commitment of a full class series, some pet centers offer drop-in classes and weekly play groups designed just for puppies or just
for small dogs. The play groups allow people to socialize their dogs with other dogs and people in a nonthreatening environment, and they provide an opportunity to connect with other dog owners who have the same kind of dog. Most drop-ins charge a $10 to $20 fee and are often supervised by a professional dog trainer who keeps things running smoothly and is available to answer people’s questions and offer guidance. Good Mojo also offers a weekly drop-in night when people can come with their dog and have free use of the equipment, socialize with other dogs and dog owners and talk with trainers. “Many people don’t even know they enjoy something — they don’t know that they would love agility or that the tricks would be so fun — until they try it on a drop-in night,” Johnson said. “That’s why I encourage peo-
Another way to engage more with your pet and the pet community is through shows and competitions. New Hampshire is home to over a dozen American Kennel Club-affiliated dog clubs that organize and facilitate local AKCsanctioned events. At a conformation show, purebred dogs are judged based on how well they adhere to their breed’s written standard. Companion events test the teamwork and coordination between the dog and the handler through physical challenges like agility and rally trials. Lastly, there are performance events, during which purebred dogs demonstrate certain skills that are unique to their breed. Dogs aren’t the only pets in the show ring. New Hampshire also has two Cat Fanciers’ Association-affiliated cat clubs that each host an annual cat show. While a big part of the cat shows revolves around pedigreed cats and how well they conform to their breed’s written standard, there are also opportunities for people with mixed-breed household cats to participate. Instead of being compared to a breed standard, household pets are judged for their unique qualities and appearance as well as their health and how they are groomed. “It isn’t like if you have a pedigreed cat you’re better than the household cats. It isn’t a tiered thing,” Marilyn Conde, secretary for the Seacoast Cat Club, said. “We’re all just cat lovers. Whether you have a pedigreed Siamese cat or a household pet cat, they each have their own things which distinguish them.” If you’re looking for something more active to do with you cat, you can take part in the agility portion of the show, where cats are led through weave poles, tunnels, hoops and other obstacles. Most cats can easily be
JOIN A CLUB American Kennel Club NH dog clubs • Agility Club of New Hampshire (acnh-agility.org) • Cheshire Kennel Club (cheshirekennelclub@gmail.com) • Claremont Beagle Club (ctruellnewport@ aol.com) • Collie Club of New Hampshire (lizk@ worldpath.net) • German Sheepdog Club of Southern New Hampshire (gsdcsnh.org) • Granite State Shetland Sheepdog Club of Southeast New Hampshire (gssscnh.com) • Lakes Region Kennel Club (lakesregionkennelclub.org) • Merrimack Valley Kennel Club (mvkc.org) • Monadnock Sportsmen’s Association (facebook.com/NewHampshireMSA) • New Hampshire Beagle Club (nhbeagleclub.webs.com) • Northern New England Brittany Club (nnebc.org) • Souhegan Kennel Club (souhegankennelclub.org) • Spacetown Beagle Club (raymondsportsmansclub.org) American Cat Fanciers Association NH cat clubs • New Hampshire Feline Fanciers (nhff.org) • Seacoast Cat Club (seacoastcatclub.org)
trained to do this with some practice and the help of a lure. While the focus of the cat clubs is on the shows, the clubs also provide a social network for New Hampshire cat owners to find and connect with each other. “There are members who aren’t bigtime breeders and just do the show for fun,” Conde said, “but what they enjoy most is being able to talk to other people with cats who share their same interests.”
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shops and a Drop-in Night every Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m., when dog owners and dogs can use the equipment and socialize with other dogs and people. • Granite State Disc Dogs (granitestatediscdogs.com) is a club that hosts seminars, clinics, practice times and competitions dedicated to the sport of Disc Dog. All are welcome to join. • The Humane Society of Greater Nashua (24 Ferry Road, Nashua, 889-2275, hsfn. org) offers a free Puppy Social Time a couple weekend days a month, open to vaccinated puppies age six months or younger. RSVP is required by emailing Kerry Hildebrand at kerry@hsfn.org. • New Hampshire SPCA (104 Portsmouth
Ave., Stratham, 772-2921, nhspca.org) offers several drop-in programs including a Small Dog Play Group every Monday at 10 a.m., and Friday at 3 p.m., open to dogs age 10 weeks and older and weighing 25 pounds or less, $10; Just Fur Fun Class every Wednesday at 3 p.m., open to dogs age four months and up, $25; and Puppy Play every Saturday at 9 a.m., open to puppies two months through eight months of age, $10. There are also a variety of group classes and classes on dog sports like Treibball, Nose Work, Agility, Agility Jumpers, Rally, Weaves and Tricks. • No Monkey Business Dog Training (141 Old Turnpike Road, Concord, 735-5543, nomonkeybusinessdogtraining.com) offers a Puppy Kindergarten program focused
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someone to come in and do snow removal during the winter and also a summertime landscaper. The board meets seven times a year and we sometimes hold fundraising events for the maintenance as well.” Vasta said that a lab program designed to control the amount of dog waste left behind at the park is another feature that makes Yudicky Farm Dog Park unique. All members who register to use the park get DNA profiles created for them that serve as markers. It’s all part of PooPrints, an ecofriendly waste management program. “Obviously the biggest problem with any dog park is that people don’t always pick up, and so as a result, most of them are a mess,” he said. “We’re not actively trying to fine people or make money. We just want to give people an incentive to be paying attention to what their dogs are doing at the park and to help keep it clean for everyone.” Vasta added that the growing sense of community among local dog owners has been another feature of Yudicky. “People really get to know each other and get to know each other’s dogs at the park, so it’s been a pleasant surprise to see that transpire,” he said. A dog park at Wasserman Park in Merrimack just opened in December and is free to use. It is about three quarters of an acre and separated into two areas for bigger and for smaller dogs. “It’s open for both residents and nonresidents,” said Matt Casparius, director of Merrimack’s Parks and Recreation Department. “Right now it’s basically a fenced in dog park, but we’re looking toward the next stage to add other resources to it.”
Bring your mutt to a pet-friendly restaurant By Ryan Lessard
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While the state’s health code rarely allows pets inside a restaurant unless they are service animals, many establishments have designated outdoor areas friendly to terriers and retrievers alike. In some cases, dog-friendliness is woven into the cultural fabric of a place largely because its owners are dog-lovers themselves. At Bre’s Ice Creamery in East Hampstead, owner Deb Rogers-Thornton brings her dogs with her everywhere and they often accompany her at the ice cream shop, which she opened in 2013. “They are a very important part of my life and we’re together almost always,” Rogers-Thornton said. “I have been home with Casey ever since she was a puppy, so I didn’t think it was fair to all of a sudden
start a business and leave her home.” Casey is her chocolate lab. RogersThornton created a menu item for dogs named after Casey called Casey’s Canine Cup, which is a cup of vanilla soft-serve ice cream with kibbles and a dog bone. Another item, for humans, called the Diva’s Dog Dish Challenge (10 scoops of ice cream, whipped cream, nuts and cherries) is named after her black lab, Diva. People love to bring their dogs to the shop, Rogers-Thornton said, and customers often ask to see her dogs. “I think I have some customers who come more for the dogs than the ice cream. But our ice cream’s really good too,” she said. One of the pioneers of dog menus in the state is Tom Boucher, owner and CEO of T-Bones. The Bedford location has long had a dog menu with items for dogs to enjoy at the outdoor terrace area that’s open in the spring, summer and fall.
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Boucher said he first came up with the idea when he saw a pet menu at a place while traveling through Washington, D.C., with his wife. “We just thought it was a great idea,” Boucher said. The restaurant makes its own doggie treats in the form of biscuits in the shape of a big T. Each dog gets a free bowl of water, and the food items are named after the dogs of the owners and employees. Perhaps one of the more popular menu items, Moe’s Bowl, a bowl of ground beef,
whole-grain rotini, cheese and bacon, is named after Boucher’s bulldog Moe, who died last November. Other menu items include Zoe’s Tasty Tips and Boo’s Bacon Wrap Bites. There is also a vanilla ice cream dessert with dog biscuit sprinkles. Boucher said he’s going to be changing the dog menu, dubbed Tails on the Terrace, later this year, though he’s not yet sure what the changes will entail. “I’ll leave that up to my dog chefs,” Boucher said.
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• Cheers Grille & Bar (17 Depot St., Concord, 228-0180, cheersnh.com) offers a pet-friendly patio during the summer where • Anheuser-Busch Biergarten (221 pets are given a bowl of water. Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 595- • Firefly American Bistro & Bar (22 1202, budweisertours.com) hosts Yappy Concord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflyHour events in the outdoor section, where nh.com) allows all pets in the outdoor patio every pup gets a bowl of water. This year, section and service animals indoors. Yappy Hour takes place on May 9, June 13, • Goldenrod Restaurant Drive-In (1681 July 11, Aug. 8 and Sept. 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. Candia Road, Manchester, 623-9469, goldand on Oct. 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. Yappy Hour- enrodrestaurant.com) allows pets in the themed shirts, dog collars and outside dining area and service other merchandise can be puranimals inside. They’ll often chased in the gift shop. field requests for vanilla soft• Beefside (106 Manchester serve for dogs to eat. St., Concord, 228-0208, beef• Murphy’s Taproom (494 siderestaurant.net) serves pets Elm St., Manchester, 644on the patio, as it has for the 3535, murphystaproom.com) past five or six years. Dogs can allows pets in the outdoor chow down on hamburgers, hot Moe, whose master is the patio area during the summer. dogs, roast beef, eggs and toast. CEO of T-Bones • Republic (1069 Elm St., • Bre’s Ice Creamery (259 Manchester, 666-3723, republicE. Main St., East Hampstead, 974-2708, cafe.com) allows pets in its small outside bresicecreamery.com) allows leashed, well- area in front of the restaurant during the behaved dogs in the inside lobby area, where warmer months and makes organic dog they can eat Casey’s Canine Cup, made from bones in-house. vanilla soft-serve, kibbles and a dog bone. • T-Bones (25 S. River Road, Bedford, • Bruster’s Ice Cream (621 Amherst St., 641-6100, t-bones.com) has a full menu Nashua, 881-9595, brusters.com) offers free of pet foods chock full of beef, bacon and doggie sundaes made with a small scoop of cheese and ranging in price from $2.99 to vanilla and a dog bone inside. Leashed dogs $5.99 (ice cream is $1.99). The pet-friendly on their best behavior can enter the inside area is at the outside terrace, which is closed lobby area. in the winter.
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Saturday, Feb. 25
Learn about invasive upland plant species of New Hampshire at a presentation at the Hopkinton Town Library (61 Houston Drive, Contoocook) from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Douglas Cygan of the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture will give an indepth look at different species in the state, including characteristics, identifying features and control measures. Admission is free and donations will be accepted. Visit hopkintonlibrary.org or call 746-6121.
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Join the Manchester Monarchs for their annual American Pride Game at 6 p.m. at the SNHU Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester) against the Alaska Aces. A special ceremony just before the game will honor our nation’s armed forces, police, fire and EMT personnel, and the team will will wear camo jerseys that will be raffled off after the game. Tickets start at $8. Visit manchestermonarchs.com or call 626-7825.
DRINK: hot chocolate The Henniker Hot Chocolate 5K returns to the Henniker Community School (51 Western Ave.) on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 10 a.m. Run and walk through town and sample delicious hot chocolate and gingerbread cookies. Registration is $20 per person. Visit 3craceproductions.com or call 429-8879 for more details.
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Author Diane Les Becquets will present her novel Breaking Wild, just released in paperback, at MainStreet BookEnds of Warner (16 E. Main St.) at 2 p.m. The story follows shifting points of view between a woman who goes missing in the Colorado wilderness and a mountain ranger trying to discover the woman’s whereabouts. Admission is free. Visit mainstreetbookends.com or call 456-2700.
BE MERRY: with games The Manchester City Library (405 Pine St.) will host its next family game night in the children’s room on Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Admission is free. Visit manchester.lib.nh.us or call 624-6550.
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ARTS Dragons and bullying
NH Theatre Factory interprets The Reluctant Dragon By Kelly Sennott
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When adapting a story to the stage, the first step for NH Theatre Factory Artistic Director Joel Mercier is determining its message — or, at least, his interpretation of its message. Lost in Wonderland, which went up last spring and was adapted from Lewis Carroll’s books, was about growing up. A Dragon’s Tail, which hits the stage in early March and is adapted from Kenneth Grahame’s The Reluctant Dragon, is about bullying. “Sometimes [my interpretation] isn’t exactly the same thing the author intended. But to me, The Reluctant Dragon is about not judging a book by its cover … and not picking on someone just because they’re different,” Mercier said via phone. “To me, this story is just a really great way to remind children and adults alike that it’s OK to be different, and that we really should love that about each other, rather than be uncomfortable or nervous about it.” The show, with book and music by Mercier, will be performed March 3 and March 4 at the Derry Opera House by kids ages 8 to 16 from the company’s Stage Setters Youth Program. Grahame’s story follows a boy who befriends a poetry-reading, tea-drinking dragon living in a small cave on a village hilltop. The town’s residents, fearful of A Dragon’s Tail Where: Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry When: Friday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 4, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Admission: $16 Contact: nhtheatrefactory.org
“It’s definitely a challenge. You want to stay true to the heart of the original story, but you want to give it a spin that makes it worth this new medium,” Mercier said. Kid actors hail from Manchester, Derry, Londonderry, Amherst,Merrimack, Hooksett, Concord, Boscawen and Barrington. They’ve worked with Amanda Pawlik, who taught a master class on pantomime movement, and fight choreographer Alex Jacobs, originally from Aylesbury, England, who taught safe stage combat — both very pop-
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ular rehearsals for the kids. “I really liked the stage combat a lot. It was fun to learn how to fake fight, though it looks realistic when you do it,” said 16-year-old Colleen Joy Paquette, who’s performing as the evil villain, Lady Darkwood, a new character to the story. Tina Cassidy choreographed, Lorraine Louie and Janet Dare created costumes and the company’s producing director, Wallace J. Pineault, designed lighting and scenery, which Mercier said is simplistic, with a 3-D village and larger pieces that move on and off stage. Between straight theater rehearsals, Mercier has been leading discussions on the story, which the kids find relatable; 9-yearold Reya Rivera, who plays a villager and a dragonfly, said it reminded her of an experience she had in first grade when she got glasses. “I think it’s easier to perform something when you can relate to it. And so it’s nice when people open up and tell their own stories,” Paquette said. “The message is not to exclude anybody who’s different. I think that’s a really good message — to accept everyone for who they are, because in reality, everyone’s different.” Mercier said he thought it was great that the kids were sharing their experiences too. JOEL MERCIER “Not only [does open dialogue] made for better productions, it also makes theater a tool for these kids to learn these kinds of things, and to me, that’s way more important,” Mercier said.
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• Brahms and Tchaikovsky: Symphony NH presents a concert with music by Brahms and Tchaikovsky Saturday, March 4, at 8 p.m., at the Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua, featuring conductor Jonathan McPhee and cellist Sergey Antonov. On the menu are “Dreamtime Ancestors” by Theofanidis (a New Hampshire premiere), “Variations on a Rococo Theme” by Tchaikovsky and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. Tickets are $18 to $49 for adults, $10 for students and free for youth. If you want a little background on the music, the Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua, hosts “Words on Music: A Symphony NH Concert Talk” presented by orchestra bassist Robert Hoffman Thursday, March 2, at 5:30 p.m., at which time he’ll talk of the history, context and special musical movements of the piece and play recorded excerpts. Visit symphonynh.org. • Playwriting pros: The Prescott Park Arts Festival announced finalists of its first-ever playwriting challenge, 30 Pages in 30 Days, last week: Catherine Stewart, Susan Sinnott and Sharleigh Watson, who are slated to present staged readings of their one-acts at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth, Friday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m., in front of a live audience and judging panel. Following talkback sessions with playwrights, a winner will be selected and presented a $500 grand prize. There’s a suggested $5 donation per person. Call 436-2848 or email hello@prescottpark.org.
Theater Auditions/open calls • AUDITIONS: ANNIE Leddy Center Production. Sat., Feb. 25. Looking for men, women kids. Leddy Center, 38C Ladd’s Lane, Epping. Call 679-2781. Visit leddycenter.org. Productions • RAY OF LIGHT Original onewoman show by G. Matthew Gaskell. Feb. 24-Feb. 26, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $16.50. Visit hatboxnh.com. Call 715-2315. • EXIT THE KING Theatre KAPOW production. Fri., March 3, at 7:3 p.m.; Sat., March 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 5, at 2 p.m. Stockbridge Theatre, Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. $20. Visit tkapow.com.
On March 4, Symphony NH presents a concert featuring music by Brahms and Tchaikovsky. Courtesy photo.
For a bit more playwriting, the Granite State Playwrights Workshop seeks fall 2017 workshop playwrights, directors and stage managers. Plays should be one-act, full-length scripts. Selected playwrights will receive a stipend plus a portion of ticket sales. The submission deadline is April 5. The workshop’s plays will be rehearsed and performed over the course of one weekend, dates and location to be announced. For more information, visit workingtitleproductionsnh.wordpress.com. • For sale: The Peterborough Community Theatre is for sale, according to a story in the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. The theater is more than a century old and was purchased two years ago by Carol Nelson, who hopes to pass it on to another local dedicated to keeping the tradition of a community movie theater alive, as she’s working on other projects that need more of her time, according to the story. Local residents have supported the theater for years, having come together to help fund a $3,000 descriptive video service for blind or vision-impaired moviegoers under Nelson’s leadership and a $45,000 digital projector under previous owners Roy and Judy Mills. Visit pctmovies.com. — Kelly Sennott
• HAIRSPRAY Palace Theatre mainstage production. March 3-March 26. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets $25-$45. Call 668-5588. • THE CAPITOL STEPS Satire of American politics. Fri., March 3, at 8 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. $13-$39. Visit ccanh.com, call 225-1111. • THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY Majestic Theatre production. Fri., March 3, at 7 p.m.; Sat., March 4, at 7 p.m.; Sun., March 5, at 1:30 p.m. Executive Court Banquet Facility, 1199 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester. $38-$42. Includes dinner. Visit majestictheatre. net. • A DRAGON’S TAIL NH Theatre Factory Stage Setters Youth program production. Based on The Reluctant Dragon by Ken-
neth Grahame. Fri., March 3, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., March 4, at 2 & 7:30 p.m. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. $16. Visit nhtheatrefactory.org. • THE LEARNING MAN Dramatic tale about brain injury and recovery. Written and performed by Alan Wilbar. March 3-March 19, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $16.50. Visit hatboxnh.com. Art Events • “THERE IS MORE TO COLOR THAN MEETS THE EYE” Presentation by color scientist Harold Boll. Tues., Feb. 28, at 6 p.m. NHIA, French Hall , 148 Concord St., Manchester. Free. Visit nhia.edu. Email saraceaser@nhia.edu.
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Ken Field and Debra Weisberg installing “Cannot Be Determined in Advance” at Southern New Hampshire University. Kelly Sennott photo.
listen to music?” At this point, Weisberg, a Boston-based artist who teaches at the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University and Boston College, was in the beginning stages of installing her sculpture and anticipated it would take all week. Field was adjusting his contribution to the space, which he described as a composition made up of layered sounds, from saxophone notes to abstract noises, like DEBRA WEISBERG air blowing through the instrument. “It has two separate loops of music that are different lengths, and throughout the course of the day, they’ll shift in respect to each other,” Field said. “They reflect on the artwork and the discussions I had with Debra about her thoughts on the work.” Weisberg has shown artwork around the world, and Facebook Boston recently commissioned her to create an 18-foot-long tape installation for its corporate Cambridge office. She has twice attended the MacDowell Colony. This is her third iteration of this installation. Gallery Director Debbie Disston said it’s the fifth year she’s opened the gallery to established artists to use the space as a platform to install site-specific work. “It’s a great opportunity to give an established artist the opportunity to take risks, to do something new or maybe build upon an idea that’s been percolating for awhile,” Disston said.
With music, you don’t always have to use language. Visual art is always embedded in words.
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Randy Garber, I’ve Just Begun to Tell You: Diminuendo, 2013, player piano scroll boxes, spindles, scrolls (with monoprint and intaglio) and multi-plate intaglio with relief prints and sound, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist, © Randy Garber.
The name of Debra Weisberg’s installation at Southern New Hampshire University’s McIninch Art Gallery is “Cannot Be Determined in Advance.” With a name like this, it’s arguably impossible to describe the show before experiencing it in person. But here’s an attempt. It looks like dark, organic matter, seeping through the floor and walls of the tiny gallery, a blend of chaos and order, but with no real shape or form. It’s made from a variety of materials, like rice paper, tape, camping foam mats, twigs, acrylic paint, cheesecloth and wire dipped in pulp and then coated in sand. Her work is rooted in abstractionism, and even though the sculpture is twisted and layered and textured, there’s a fluidity about it. Each detail is deliberate. Weisberg’s goal is to get viewers to experience her art, not think about it. It’s why she recruited saxophonist, flautist and composer Ken Field to create a sound component to accompany the artwork, coating the SNHU gallery Feb. 23 through April 2. “With music, you don’t always have to use language. Visual art is always embedded in words,” Weisberg said during an interview at the gallery, just over a week before the opening reception. “The first thing people say [at a gallery] is ‘What does this mean?’ And people don’t do that with music. They just allow it to enter them.” Another reason to incorporate music was to promote active looking. “I noticed that whenever there’s a more performance-based environment, people quiet down,” she said. “Sound … holds people’s attention in all the senses but not through language. And that’s always been of interest to me. How do I allow my artwork to [offer] an experience, like that people have when they
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• Contemporary openings: This weekend, two big shows open at the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. One is “Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting,” which is on view Feb. 25 through May 21 and showcases work by contemporary artists who’ve reconsidered or redefined the centuries-old practice of paper cutting, with deep personal or social themes, from cultural and economic to environmental. There’s an after-hours event celebrating the exhibition Thursday, March 2, from 6 to 9 p.m., “Deep Cuts Explored,” which will include a talk by exhibiting artist Randy Garber and performance by Bostonbased singer-songwriter Julie Rhodes, live in the cafe. There will be an art-making station, plus a full menu and cash bar; general admission rates apply ($15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $10 for students, $5 for youth ages 13 to 17). Also opening this weekend is “Soo Sunny Park: BioLath,” a site-specific work by New Hampshire artist Soo Sunny Park on view Feb. 25 through Aug. 6, which will transform the museum’s windowed Putnam Gallery into an immersive sculptural environment exploring the effect of light on visual perception, as described on the website. The exhibition is the latest project of the museum’s Contemporary Connections Series. The artist talks about her piece Monday, March 6, at 11:45 a.m.,
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at the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s French Hall, 148 Concord St., Manchester, which is free to attend. Visit currier.org or call 669-6144, ext. 108, about the museum event, or visit nhia.edu about the NHIA event. • Visual story: On view at NHIA’s Roger Williams Gallery, 77 Amherst St., Manchester, Feb. 24 through April 1, is “There’s No Place Like Time: A Novel You Can Walk Through” by Andi and Lance Olsen, a blending of visual art and the written word. The show uses a series of installations to explore the work of fictional filmmaker Alana Olsen, bringing the character to life via texts, objects and videos. Andi Olsen’s videos and art have been exhibited in museums and at film festivals around the country and abroad. Lance Olsen is the author of 11 novels and four short story collections. The show is free and open to the public. Email exhibitions@nhia.edu. There’s an opening reception Friday, Feb. 24, from 5 to 7 p.m. — Kelly Sennott
lery, 77 Amherst St., Manchester. Email exhibitions@nhia.edu. Visit nhia.edu. • “HOW DID A WHITE GIRL GET HERE: LIVING WITH THE NOMADS OF THE EAST” Featuring work by Valerie Hird. On view Feb. 21-March 24. Reception Sat., March 4, 11 a.m.-noon. McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord. Visit mcgowanfineart.com. Classical Music Events • NORTH COUNTRY CHORDSMEN Sat., Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. Whipple Hall, Main St., New London. $12. Visit centerfortheartsnh.org. • LA TRAVIATA By Verdi. Opera NH. Sat., Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. Stockbridge Theatre. 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. Tickets $15$75. Visit operanh.org. • NASHUA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Concert, “Mozart and Tchaikovsky.” Sat., Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m. Nashua Community College, Judd Gregg Hall, 505 Amherst St., Nashua.
$18. Visit nco-music.org. Second concert Sun., Feb. 26, at 3 p.m. Milford Town Hall, 1 Union Square, Milford. $18. Visit ncomusic.org. • FROM BACH TO BRAZIL Concert featuring cellist Rebecca Hartka and guitarist Jose Lezcano. Sun., Feb. 26, 3-4:30 p.m. Mariposa Museum, 26 Main St., Peterborough. $10. Visit mariposamuseum.org. • BRING IT AND SWING IT Concert part of Walker Lecture series. High-energy sextet playing mix of ‘40s jive, ‘40s melodrama, ‘60s to ‘80s Motown. Wed., March 1, at 7:30 p.m. Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. Free. Visit theaudi.org. • WORDS ON MUSIC: A SYMPHONY NH CONCERT TALK Presentation by Robert Hoffman, about history, context and special musical moments of pieces featured in upcoming March 4 Symphony NH concert. Thurs., March 2, at 5:30 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Visit nashualibrary.org, call 589-4610.
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Being active outside is what the annual Merrimack Winter Carnival is all about, an afternoon full of free, family-friendly activities like snowmobile rides, roasting s’mores over a campfire, ice fishing demonstrations and more. The 25th annual event returns to Wasserman Park on Saturday, Feb. 25, from noon to 3 p.m. and is open to the public. “The idea is to get people to be kind of out and about during the winter months, and to also give them a chance to do things that they haven’t before,” said Matt Casparius, director of the Merrimack Parks and Recreation Department. “We try a little bit of everything to stay active during this time of year.” Several local community organi25th annual Merrimack Winter Carnival When: Saturday, Feb. 25, noon to 3 p.m. Where: Wasserman Park, 116 Naticook Road, Merrimack Cost: Free admission and activities; small fee for food and drinks Visit: merrimackparksandrec.org
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and Model T cars into snowmobiles, so that riding piece is kind of new.” Other activities will include an environmental education workshop from the Naticook Day Camp in Merrimack, which will focus on how to identify different kinds of trees in New Hampshire. Several information booths will also be set up, for local organizations like the Merrimack Town Center Committee, the Merrimack Conservation Commission, and the new dog park at Wasserman that opened in December. The cardboard box sledding contest is also returning, in which participants are invited to design their own sleds. Prizes will be awarded for fastest sled, best use of cardboard and most creative design, and all are welcome to watch the competition. Casparius added that the Merrimack Friends & Families organization will run a concession stand selling hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, hot chocolate and water for a small fee. Roasting marshmallows and s’mores over a campfire is free. “We usually get anywhere from 600 to 800 people come out each year, so it’s a pretty good-sizedevent, and especially great for families,” he said.
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zations will be at the park during the carnival for free demonstrations and workshops, including a youth ice fishing derby from the Merrimack Lions Club and free snowshoeing opportunities courtesy of Eastern Mountain Sports in Nashua. “A lot of [the community organizations] do it as a way to promote themselves,” Casparius said. “We’ve had people who have discovered organizations here at the carnival that they said they never knew existed, like the Southern New Hampshire Flying Eagles, which is a
model airplane club.” New to this year’s carnival will be the return of ice carving demonstrations by Icebreakers NH in Manchester, a feature Casparius said has been absent from the event in recent years. There will also be free snowmobile rides of a unique variety, with snowmobiles converted from 1920s-era cars. “We used to have a local snowmobile club that did free rides that disbanded last year,” he said, “but we found this group called New Hampshire Snocar that converts Model A
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The Douglas N. Everett Arena (15 Loudon Road, Concord) will host its last Saturday public ice skating session of the season Saturday, Feb. 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Public skating will still be available on other days of the week; the last Sunday session will be on March 5, and the last Friday session on March 10, before the ice is removed to prepare for dry floor events held at the arena during the spring and summer. Admission is $5 per person and free for kids ages 3 and under. Skate rentals are also available in the pro shop for an additional $5. Visit concordnh.gov/skating or call 228-2784.
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Visit the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road, Londonderry) during your school vacation week, as it will be open for special hours Monday, Feb. 27, through Saturday, March 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Regular museum admission applies, but on Friday, March 3, the museum will hold a free admission day for all visitors. The reg-
ular cost is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors over 60, $2.50 for kids ages 12 to 16, and free for members and children under 12. Visit aviationmuseumofnh.org or call 669-4820. The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive, Concord) will also have extended hours now through Saturday, March 4, offering several planetarium shows from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The cost is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors ages 62 and up and students, $7 for kids ages 3 to 12, and free for members and kids ages 2 and under. Visit starhop.com or call 271-7827.
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Join the Wadleigh Memorial Library (49 Nashua St., Milford) for Maple Day Saturday, Feb. 25, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Kick off the sugar season by tapping one of the library’s own maple trees, and enjoy maple crafts, games and pancakes. Free; no registration necessary. Visit wadleighlibrary.org.
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Spring arrives every year, but never soon enough for most of us gardeners. The first real sign of spring for me is always the arrival of my snowdrops: those tiny white bulb flowers that come up, no matter what, by early March. At the same time come the spring flower shows. These extravaganzas offer the blossoms and fragrances of spring, but months early. Intrepid nursery-people force trees to bloom, along with hundreds of tulips and daffodils. Seed companies are there, showing their wares, and garden experts spout knowledge to interested gardeners in dozens of workshops over the weekend-long events. The Providence Flower Show was, for the last 20 years, one of the first each year. It was a great show, and I attended often. Unfortunately, it saw declining revenues and has given up. Apparently the competition with the Connecticut Flower Show in Hartford and bad winter weather did it in. The Rhode Island Home Show, produced by the Rhode Island Builders Association, will have a flower component in their annual show March 30 to April 2. So this year the first weekend of flower shows is Feb. 23 to Feb. 26 at the Hartford Convention Center – and the Connecticut Flower Show reigns by itself. The Hartford Show’s theme this year is “Woodland Enchantment.” There will be over 50 workshops over the course of the weekend, so there is much to learn from their speakers. And of course, there are flowers galore and much to buy if so inclined. Next comes the Vermont Flower Show on March 3 and March 4 at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds. This is a nice small show. Instead of many small displays of flowers, members of the Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association work together to create one larger area that includes many blooming trees and forced bulbs that is always nice. There is a large model train area that appeals to kids, along with children’s craft opportunities to keep the little ones busy. The vendors of garden-related stuff are numerous. The “grande dame” of American flower shows, the Philadelphia Flower Show, comes next and lasts from March 11 to March 19. It is truly huge, and worth visiting at least once. Held in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, it covers about six city blocks and will be attended by over a quarter of a million people over a nine-day period. The displays range from the grandiose and outrageously expensive to entries of African violets by little old ladies. It is best to go on a weekday when the crowds are smaller. This show has been annual since 1829!
Portland Flower Show. Henry Homeyer photo.
Then comes the Boston Flower Show, another extravaganza. It will be held March 22 to March 26 at the Seaport World Trade Center on the waterfront of Boston. Like the Philly show, it is a good idea to visit on a weekday. This year’s theme is “Superheroes of the Garden.” Want smaller crowds? Go to the Bangor, Maine, Flower Show which will be held that same weekend, March 24 to March 26. It will be held in the Cross Insurance Center and will include flower displays, speakers, food and more. The Maine Flower Show at Thompson’s Point in Portland will be held March 29 to April 2. This is a new venue to me and will certainly be an improvement over the old warehouse that housed it when I last visited this show. According to their promotion, it will feature 16 display gardens and “will have 100 exhibits of plants, hardscape, arbor and garden supplies, and all things relative to outdoor yardscaping and living.” That same weekend is the New Hampshire Seacoast Home and Garden Show in Durham, held in the Whittemore Center Arena on April 1 and April 2. As the show name indicates, this is not just about flowers, but includes displays and workshops on a variety of home improvement topics. But for me, the flower show season will wrap up with the biggest and the best, from all I have heard: the Chelsea Flower Show in London, held this year May 23 to May 27. The show is run by the Royal Horticultural Society, and the first two days of the show admission is restricted to members only. Membership costs $55 and a ticket for the first day costs $90. The second day the price drops a bit and by the Thursday, the first day open to the public, tickets are a mere $61. Prices go up after April 10. But airfare to London is down this year, which helps. Unlike American flower shows, the Chelsea flower show includes much that is planted outdoors, which allows garden displays to be even more spectacular. I was told by a friend to take my umbrella! For me, this show is one more item to check off my “bucket list.” You may reach Henry at henry.homeyer@ comcast.net. Visit gardening-guy.com.
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Dear Donna, We have several pieces of Heisey Glass from my family. We are wondering if there is still a market for the glassware today. All of what we have is clear with no damage. Thanks for any information you could share with us. Hal & Laura from Manchester Dear Hal and Laura, There is always a market for everything these days, it’s just that you have to find the right one. The story of Heisey Glass is a very interesting one. You can look on the internet or pick up a book at a local bookstore. To make it brief, Heisey (out of Newark, Ohio) has been around since the late 1800s and made until the factory closed in 1957. It was considered a high-quality glass. They made not only dishware but other items as well, in an array of colors and patterns that today can be found in most older homes. Most are easily identifiable by the H in a triangle on each piece. The market value is for the oddities though. Rare colors and patterns in certain pieces can still bring a lot. The more common and mass-produced patterns are not as desirable. Condition is the key; collectors will want the pieces free from scratches or damage. With all that said, I think having some-
one look at your pieces directly would be your next step. To identify the patterns and quality for an approximate value in today’s market, I would be guessing without seeing all the pieces. As I said, you could get a book identifying Heisey Glass. It would show patterns and colors and also has a general price guide. Good luck on your hunt for more information.
Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in the antiques and collectibles field and owns From Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com). She is an antiques appraiser and instructor. To find out about your antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the object and information about it to Donna Welch, From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465 Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or email her at footwdw@ aol.com. Or drop by the shop (call first, 6248668). 113131
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IN/OUT CAR TALK
Letting up on gas while on incline does nothing but anger drivers store. This behavior tends to annoy the drivers stuck behind Priuses. Especially the guys in Porsches, who just spent 80 grand so they could speed from stoplight to stoplight. I’m actually OK with you ticking off those guys. The problem is that you’re not doing yourself or your car any good by lifting off the gas pedal on a hill. You’re giving up whatever momentum you had, and since it takes more energy to get a car up to speed than it does to keep a car at speed, you’re wasting gasoline by slowing down and then speeding up. While lifting off the gas pedal on a flat surface may kick the Prius into electric mode, that won’t happen when you’re going up a hill. You have a continually variable transmission (CVT) in the Prius. The way a CVT works is that it uses belts that travel up and down a set of cones to create an infinite number of gear ratios. Traditional automatics, like the ones on the cars you used to drive, have a fixed number of set gear ratios. So theoretically, with a traditional automatic, the ideal ratio for your car at a certain moment could be in
between two of the fixed ratios. And in that case, by lifting off the gas pedal, you might be able to force it to upshift — at least temporarily. This was a trick used by cheapskates the world over, including my late brother. And in all his years of driving, it might have saved him a 50th of a mile per gallon. A CVT, on the other hand, will instantly, and constantly, find the ideal ratio for whatever your car needs at any moment. So there’s no need for — and no benefit to — trying to manipulate it while it’s operating with gasoline. So drive gently, and try not to cause any more road rage than necessary, Paul. Dear Car Talk: I have a 1999 S-10 Chevy Blazer with four-wheel drive. I wish I had found one without the 4WD. I never use the 4WD, and it simply uses up gasoline due to the added weight and the added friction. How difficult and expensive would it be to remove all of that weight-and-resistance-generating stuff from a Blazer, and turn it into a rear-wheel-drive-only Blazer? (I know you’re gonna tell me to go buy a new frontwheel-drive something instead ... please don’t!) Thanks. — Bob
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With live entertainment, local food competitions, free ice skating and other indoor and outdoor activities, there is plenty to do at the Lowell WinterFest to embrace the season. The event returns to downtown Lowell, Mass., for its 17th year on Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25. While some activities require a small fee, almost everything to do at the festival is entirely free, including admission. “The idea to have an outdoor winter festival first came about when we wanted to create an activity as part of Lowell Kids Week,” said Tobi Marx, temporary executive director of the Lowell Cultural Affairs/Special Events Office. “It was especially a great event for families to go to at the end of [Massachusetts’] February school vacation, but over the years it’s sort of evolved into the multi-generational event that it is today.” Festivities officially begin on Friday at 5:30 p.m. and will include food trucks, ice skating, a carousel and a 30-foot inflatable Snowzilla Slide at Lucy Larcom Park. This year’s festival will be the first year ice skating will be available at the JFK Plaza. “In past years, we’d send people to the Tsongas Arena nearby to go ice skating, but then we thought, why don’t we keep them right here, where everything else is going on?” Marx said. From 6 to 9 p.m., the sixth annual MicroBrew Showcase will kick off at the Lodge on the Plaza, featuring more than two dozen local brews. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 on the day of the event. “The cabin area [at the park] is going to be all about local artisans and local food,” Marx said. “We’ve been working with local restaurants to provide food and beverages at the festival to show off all that Lowell
has to offer.” Another highlight for Friday night will be a free performance at JFK Plaza by the Joshua Tree Band, a U2 cover band, in addition to other local music groups like Western Education, who will play both Friday and Saturday. Several events are also planned spanning throughout the day on Saturday and include an all-you-can-eat chocolate festival at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church (8 Kirk St.) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $7 and will include opportunities to win raffle prizes. Also on Saturday is the North Bowl Soup Competition, at the Masonic Center (50 Arcand Drive) from noon to 3 p.m. Marx said the competition has become a highlight of WinterFest in recent years, showcasing homemade soups and chowders from several local restaurants and cafes. Participants pay $5 at the door and try the soups before voting on their favorite. There will be a Family Fun Zone set up at Lowell High School (50 Father Morissette Blvd.) from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, which will include a craft area, games, a model railroad train display, drawing tables, and performances from children’s musicians Tricia Boscho & Friends. “One of the main goals behind WinterFest is to create a fun event so that people don’t have to feel like they are cooped up inside the entire time during winter,” Marx said. “So we try to underline it as one of the coolest winter events happening in the region in February, and we want everybody to have fun.” 17th annual Lowell WinterFest When: Friday, Feb. 24, 5:30 to 11 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 25, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Where: Various locations across downtown Lowell, Mass. Cost: Free admission; parking and some activities and food may require a small fee Visit: lowellwinterfest.com
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What do you wish you’d known at the beginning of your career? I wished I had paid more attention to the advice of the older people. When you’re young, you think you know it all.
sand trees. Once you get it in your blood and you really like to do it, you look forward to doing it every year.
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Jim Fadden of Woodstock is the current president of the New Hampshire Maple Producers Association and has been a maple producer for nearly his entire life. He owns Fadden’s General Store and Sugar House. Explain what your current job is. I guess my real job is I run a general store that’s been in my family since 1896. I’m generation … four to be in the store. And then I have many other hats that I wear. … The maple sugaring, I’m the sixth generation of my family to do that. … I really can’t remember a time I wasn’t involved in the production of maple syrup. My ancestors before had been right at it since the early 1800s and right here in Woodstock.
was there when I was a boy. … About 15 years ago, my grandfather passed away. ... My father ran it for a while. And then my wife and I bought out the rest of my family’s interest in the store and we’ve been running it ever since.
What kind of education or training did you need for this job? A lot of the education I got, I guess, I got from my folks, plus doing it. When I was a boy we used to collect the sap from the trees with buckets — very old-fashioned — and then gather the sap with the aid of a horse and a sled and a tank, and haul that sap Courtesy photo. back to the sugar house to be processed.
What is your typical at-work uniform? Dickie pants, a Lands End shirt and … I always usually have a vest on — a Johnson Woolen Mills.
What was the first job you ever had? I never worked for anybody. Always How did you find your current job? myself. I worked in the store, worked in I fell into it. … When I first took it over, the sugar orchard. … I’ve never worked for we were collecting and processing the anybody other than family. How did you get interested in this field? product the same way as my ancestors. But — Ryan Lessard Well, maple sugaring is kind of an addic… today we’ve upgraded with an awful lot tion, I guess is the easy way to explain it. of technology. Once you get doing it, it makes you feel What’s something you’re really interested in right now? good to take raw sap or a product and turn What’s the best piece of work-related it into something else that’s very usable. I’m a grandfather. That’s the other thing advice anyone’s ever given you? You start generally, you tap a few trees, and You should … do what you like and like that’s neat about my life. … Being a before you know it, a few trees become a How long have you worked there? what you do. … It’s not much of a job if grandfather is probably the best job I Grew up there as a kid. My grandfather few hundred trees and then several thouever had. you really enjoy what you’re doing.
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A new tapas restaurant in Hooksett is paying tribute to New Hampshire and its cultural diversity. Granite Tapas & Cocktail Lounge, expected to open the first week of March, will offer small plates, craft cocktails and entree specials spanning a variety of cuisine styles in a setting inspired by the 19th- and early-20th-century granite industry. “It’s an ode to the people of New Hampshire and to the melting pot of different cultures and ethnicities the granite industry brought to the region,” said Matt Jordan, who co-owns the restaurant with his wife, Jamie Jordan, and mother-in-law, Louise McCann. The menu will be broken down into four sections, each representing a different kind of cuisine. “Taste of the Orient” will include dishes inspired by Asian cuisines, such as bulgogi (a Korean beef dish), build-your-own rice wraps served with romaine leaves and, as a variation of crab rangoon, lobster meat rangoon served with a sweet chili dipping sauce. Items in the “Down South” section will feature Latin American and southern U.S. flavors, like a country raspberry iced tea cocktail and Cajun rub steak tips served with a potato chip saute made of caramel-
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there will be two different full-plate entree specials each day that will keep with the menu theme, plus bottled beers and a small selection of draft beers. The restaurant will be able to accommodate up to 80 people between the dining tables, bar and a lounge area. The decor is thoroughly rustic with natural barnstyle wood, whiskey barrels, exposed light bulbs, masonry tools and New Hampshire symbols like antique state flag prints and artwork of the Old Man of the Mountain. Jordan said he believes a restaurant like Granite Tapas & Cocktail Lounge is something Hooksett needed. “There are a lot of great places to get a beer and burger in town, but if you want a signature martini or craft cocktail, you usually have to head into downtown Manchester or Concord or Portsmouth,” he said, “so we wanted to bring that experience to Hooksett and give the people of Hooksett a more intimate gathering place where they can enjoy a nice drink and some shareable tapas.”
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Class sizes are kept small to ensure that each participant gets personalized instruction. However, if space allows, there will be the option of taking classes individually, giving people who are only interested in select techniques or topics a chance to sit in on those classes without committing to the whole series. Manning said she hopes that for their next birthday party or special occasion her cake class alumni will skip the supermarket cakes and make their own cake instead, using the skills they learned in her class. “If people take the class and can leave with the knowledge and the recipes and the confidence to make their own cake at home with quality ingredients, it will be so much better for them,” she said. Love+Flour adult cake classes Where: Love+Flour Bakery, 184 N. Broadway, Salem When: Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Feb. 28 through April 4 Cost: $260 for the full series; individual classes range from $30 to $50 Contact: 560-4349, loveandflourbakery.com Class schedule: Feb. 28: Making and flavoring buttercream March 7: Making chocolate and vanilla sponge cake March 14: Making ganache, fondant and gum paste March 21: Frosting cakes and making buttercream flowers March 28: Making fondant and gum paste flowers April 4: Making drip cakes Call for availability on taking individual classes
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came together in under 5 minutes, making total cook time for this dish less than 15 minutes. There’s nothing I love more than meals in minutes, especially ones that give off the appearance of taking hours to prepare. I chose to add some garlic to the Champagne butter sauce, and it was a subtle flavor addition to the finished product. My husband was impressed with, one, the fact I made scallops; and two, the Champagne butter sauce. I don’t have a great track record when it comes to cooking with booze, but this sauce was so simple, and reduced so quickly, the Champagne left just a simple, sweet flavor without an alcoholic aftertaste. This dish is definitely one I’ll be making again, particularly for a special occasion where I can cook with the Champagne and then have an excuse to drink a glass as well. And while the pictures don’t do the dish justice, in my opinion, it was absolutely decadent and delicious. — Lauren Mifsud cast iron or nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add steaks, and cook approximately 3 minutes on each side (for medium-rare) or until desired degree of doneness (for thinner steaks, reduce cook time). Transfer to a platter; cover and keep warm. Add remaining oil to skillet; add scallops, and cook approximately 2 minutes on each side or until done. Transfer to platter; cover and keep warm. For the sauce, add Champagne, lemon juice and shallots to the pan used to cook the steak and scallops; bring to a boil. Cook 3 minutes or until reduced to 2 tablespoons. Remove from heat and add butter, a piece at a time, whisking constantly until butter is thoroughly incorporated. Season sauce to taste with salt and black pepper. Top steak and scallops with sauce.
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Nerds who pick up Modern Drummer for the articles and not the hot pix of Neil Peart are well aware of Erskine, who’s topped that magazine’s poll as Best Drummer 10 or so times. He’s been on more than 600 records and helped out on a bunch of soundtracks, including all three Austin Powers movies. Sad that someone who’s so famous in certain circles needs that kind of introduction, but there you are — jazz heads are just happy for any written press, believe me. John Beasley on keys and Bob Shepperd on sax and flute front Erskine and bassist Benjamin Shepherd — it’s a package that sounds small, but the sounds are surprisingly large, starting with opener “Hipnotherapy,” which finds Erskine keeping simple time for a lazy hot-summer-midnight groove whose urbanity is pure Yellowjackets. Shepherd puts on a bass clinic in “Eleven Eleven,” bubbling away and barely coming up for air in this 1970s-funk-injected exercise, heavily reminiscent of vintage Ramsey Lewis owing to Beasley’s simple but busy electric piano (Shepperd’s sax is wide-screen in that one also). This one is a go-to for laid-back soundscaping; even the hotter tracks are sublime and friendly. I’ll be pulling this one out often. A+ — Eric W. Seager Ex Deo, The Immortal Wars (Napalm Records)
Feels like it’s been long enough between reviews of those Napalm Records epic metal releases, and this one comes to us as a side project from Canadian dudes Kataklysm, who were once heralded as extreme-metal’s great white hope before “descending” into power-metal “fluff.” The Ex Deo premise is absolutely adorable, pomp-power-metal based on tales of ancient Rome and its wars and vomitoriums or whatever those guys used to do. Oh, the really adorable part is that the singer is Italian (get it? Rome?) and he’s surrounded by his “Gaul brethren” (get it? Canada?). This is so hopeless but cool I couldn’t turn it down, although I was a bit taken aback by the recipe, which indeed calls for some symphonic guitar parts, but the rest of this is comprised of old Mastodon sounds, from the riffs to the vocals. Just to remind us we’re supposed to be thinking about Flavius and not mud monsters, there are rumbly breaks with hammed up oaths straight out of 300, like “On this day I promise never to be a friend of Rome!” The big question is, do their groupies know who Caesar was? Will it matter? Sometimes I wish I could become a bug on the wall at will. B- — Eric W. Seager
PLAYLIST A seriously abridged compendium of recent and future CD releases • We’ll start the festivities with two hipster bands I haven’t heard from in a while, both of whom have records coming out. I didn’t really dig either of them all that much when I first dealt with them during the Aughts, and I’m sure things won’t be changed much by the time this quick overview is done and I can just forget about both of them forever again. First it’s Philadelphia indie poppers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, with their new album, The Tourist. Someone got sick of maintaining their Wikipedia entry a couple of years ago, so there is very little info on this album; all I know for sure is that they’ve sortof broken up here and there and that I don’t have any of their songs on any of my personal party tapes, which means I’ve forgotten anything I may have liked about them. Thus you and I shall discover them together again; let’s go watch the YouTubes. (Their most popular song was “The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth,” which had a horrible Postal Service keyboard line, some similarities to the Cure — hard to see why they were beloved by hipsters, but that’s their clever little game, isn’t it?) The single from this new LP is “Tourist,” a peppy little number that sounds like Yo La Tengo and then the vocals get goofy. Who cares? • Continuing with “hey, is it 2004 again already?” news, Los Campesinos! is releasing Sick Scenes. As with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, this band has also been largely forgotten for a few years now. Remember when their song “You Me Dancing” was the backgrounding for the absolute worst Budweiser commercial ever? Maybe they still use xylophone. That’s right, millennials, none of us will ever forgive you for all that xylophone in your hipster music. Even your great-grandmother thought it was lame. Barf barf, let’s go see what these quirky dingbats are up to now. Here’s their new song, “I Broke Up In Amarant.” The guitar line is like Joy Division, but then the whole thing turns into a raw version of Taking Back Sunday but stupider. It’s my expert opinion that this band should just break up, is what I say. • You all know Old 97’s, I’m sure of it. You know, with Rhett Miller. Here, go, just Google it and come back. Hi, welcome back. Graveyard Whistling is the new album, due Feb. 24, and the single is called “Good With God.” Brandi Carlile guests on this song, so I have no idea what level of stupid we’re dealing w… wait a minute, this is awesome, like punkabilly almost, but more like Charlie Daniels. I didn’t know Old 97’s were ever awesome, but they are. • Lastly, let’s continue the tradition of mentioning that there’s a new King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard record, mainly because it’s fun to say. Their new album Flying Microtonal Banana is coming out within minutes, and I love the single “Nuclear Fusion.” It’s awesome. It starts out sloppy and un-pro and then they make a wacky Death Grips sound, and then it’s like this trippy 1960s psychedelic mid-tempo thing, not boring and slow, like T-Rex crossed with Phish. I do not remember signing any document allowing any band to be this awesome. An immediate investigation is wholly warranted. — Eric W. Seager
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Nashua writer Melanie Brooks’ Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art From Trauma started with a personal memoir she was unable to write. Brooks, who also teaches at Northeastern University, Merrimack College and Nashua Community College, had enrolled in the University of Southern Maine’s MFA program in 2013 seeking structure to write a family story she’d been carrying for years, about her father’s death from a secret AIDS infection that he’d acquired from contaminated blood during open heart surgery. But when she finally went to write about it almost 20 years later, she couldn’t. “I wasn’t ready for the emotional toll of going back, re-examining and, in many ways, reliving that time in my life. And I was not quite prepared for what was required of me to tell this memoir honestly,” Brooks said via phone. Her first year in the MFA program, she attended a panel at an Association of Writers & Writing Programs workshop in Boston that featured Kim Stafford, who talked about his memoir, 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do, which is about losing his brother to suicide. He explained to the audience that the writing set him free, in a way — that his story transformed from a stone harnessed to his heart to a book in his hand. “It really resonated with me in the sense that, that’s what I wanted from the experience of writing my memoir. But I didn’t have any real idea of how to get that,” Brooks said. After the panel, she waited in line to ask him how he wrote the book, psychologically, but she misworded her question, and he mistook her meaning. “He thought I was asking him about craft, which is one of the worst questions to ask a writer, because there is no more elusive question,” she said. “I went home from the conference that same day feeling, if only I had been able to ask the right question!” But then, she thought, it wasn’t too late to get an answer. She could still email him and hope he might respond. Actually, she could do that with many memoirists whose work she admired. So that’s what she did. “I thought I would reach out to a bunch of them, and that maybe one or two would
respond,” Brooks said. To her surprise, the writers she contacted were more than willing to talk with her. She visited them at home and in public places, from restaurants to dog parks, and learned most battled the same uncertainty she did. Some tried to write their tales as fiction before realizing it wasn’t working. All were happy they put forth the effort. “For all the authors, I asked how it felt to be finished, and they all talked about this sense of relief, freedom — this weight that came off their shoulders in some way,” she said. Initially, she assumed these interviews were simply to help with writing her own story. But it seemed a shame to waste their thoughtful words and insight. She decided to use the stories for a critical analysis paper her third semester. “But even after my first interview, I recognized I couldn’t turn the words of these writers into little sound bites,” she said. Many authors said they’d never been asked about the psychological toll of writing a memoir. Her mentor felt she was writing a book, not a paper. “I said, ‘This isn’t my book. I’ve got another book I’m writing.’ … It was probably at the end of that semester I realized that here I did have something I could turn into a book,” Brooks said. “When I graduated with my MFA, I had this project, and I had my creative thesis. I had two books in hand. The debate was which we should try to go with first.” The winner was Writing Hard Stories, published Feb. 7 by Beacon Press. Each chapter profiles a memoirist she interviewed, including Andre Dubus III, Joan Wickersham, Mark Doty, Marianne Leone, Richard Hoffman, Edwidge Danticat, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Richard Blanco, Abigail Thomas, Sue Silverman, Kate Bornstein, Jerald Walker and Kyoko Mori, among others. As for her own hard story, her agent has the proposal and she’s almost finished with the writing. “I think what was guiding my paralysis around my memoir was a real sense of fear to expose my vulnerability. … But I wasn’t afraid after talking with these writers. They helped me move past this fear and move into understanding what I needed to say and how I needed to say it,” she said. Melanie Brooks Contact: melaniebrooks.com GrubStreet: 162 Boylston St., Boston, Mass., event with Alysia Abbott Thurs., March 9, time TBA Nashua Community College Lecture Series: 505 Amherst St., Nashua, speaking event Thursday, March 23, time TBA
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pearance. Why did her mother sleepwalk only when her father was gone? Why does the detective know so much about her? And if Annalee really did die that night, where is her body? At one point she confronts her mother’s doctor. “Is there any chance my mom killed herself?” “You mean on purpose?”
“Yes.” The doctor gazed at the UVM commons for a long movement. Then she turned to back to me and said “No. I can’t say that definitively or categorically. Like I said, I’m not a therapist. We’ll probably never know. But speaking as a mother myself and speaking from my conversations with your mother while we were treating her for parasomnia, I would say no. I understand she was taking anti-depressants. But there is a chasm between taking anti-depressants and taking your life. Okay?” As usual Bohjalian manages to teach us about a subject while he tells his story. Not only do we get to hear and see the unraveling of the family, but we also learn about parasomnia defined as a place somewhere between dreaming and wakefulness. Although many of us either sleepwalked as kids or knew someone who did, wasn’t that something you outgrew? Who knew? Bohjalian knew. Chris Bohjalian remains one of my favorite authors. His writing is crisp, his dialogue true, and I appreciate the research he does to make his stories not only enjoyable but also realistic. If you’re looking for a fast-paced action/ thriller murder mystery, then this isn’t the book for you. But if you’re looking for an intelligent read, a book that slowly unfolds, bringing you to its graceful and yet surprising ending — if you’re looking for a book that fully develops each character and that explains a topic you may have known nothing about — then The Sleepwalker is definitely for you. A — Wendy E.N. Thomas
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La La Land wins! Wins what? Whatever! If you don’t have the energy to put effort into your Oscar guesses this year, assume that La La Land will win the 13 categories in which it has nominations and you’ll probably be right at least half the time. Though this juggernaut romance-musical set in dreamy Hollywood is getting much of the attention, there are other solid films nominated for the 89th Academy Awards. After a season of regular Entertainment Weekly La La Land and Vulture readership, consulting GoldDerby.com and FiveThirtyEight, occasionally listening to podcasts for Vulture and Vanity Fair and scanning assorted other internety things, here are my best guesses for who will win, my grumpy two cents about who should win, suggestions for movies that should have made the cut and movies worth watching in these final days of award season. See if I can continue my streak of getting about two-thirds of my predictions correct on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 8:30 p.m. on ABC. • Best picture Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight Will win: La La Land. I get it, but at this point I’m more exhausted than charmed by this romance. I have yet to read or listen to anything that doesn’t give La La Land a lock on the big prize. (Of course, by the laws of 2016-2017, that might mean the winner is, like, Hacksaw Ridge.) Should win: Arrival. A smart sci-fi with a strong female performance at its center, Arrival was a pleasant surprise.
Missing: Deadpool? Honestly, I didn’t think it was great cinema but nor was I impressed by the first half of Hacksaw Ridge so why not a swearing comic book character who is doing something new with the genre? Also, I’d add Eye in the Sky, a smart movie about modern warfare (featuring Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren), and The Shallows, a strong suspense movie. What to watch: All of this year’s best picture nominees are well worth your time. See Arrival and Hell or High Water now (both available for home viewing). Hidden Figures is a solid movie (and, with a PG rating, suitable for older-kids family movie night); it’s still in theaters and worth the price of admission. Hacksaw Ridge (available for home viewing now) and Lion (available on March 7, according to iTunes) are both movies with true stories more interesting than the movies based on them but I’d still recommend a home viewing when you’re up for a war movie or a drama, respectively. Put Fences on your must-watch list as soon as it becomes available for home viewing (for purchase Feb. 24 on iTunes); it is a solid, well-acted drama that is heavy but not too bleak. Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight, both available now for home viewing, are well worth a watch but are definitely movies to watch when you have time (and the emotional energy) for wellcrafted but downbeat stories. La La Land is also still in theaters but I’m going to suggest you wait. Don’t see it in theaters, don’t see it when it is first available for home-viewing. Wait until, maybe, next January, when you need an infusion of joy and sun and maybe you’ll be able to view it the way people who saw it at film festivals in early fall viewed the movie — as a delightful surprise.
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• Best director Denis Villeneuve for • Best actor Casey Affleck in ManchesArrival, Mel Gibson for Hacksaw Ridge, ter by the Sea, Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Damien Chazelle for La La Land, Kenneth Ridge, Ryan Gosling in La La Land, VigLonergan for Manchester by the Sea, Barry go Mortensen in Captain Fantastic, Denzel Jenkins for Moonlight. Washington in Fences. Will win: Damien Chazelle. Will win: Denzel WashingThe movie feels inevitable at ton. As one of the podcasts I this point. Maybe Lonergan or listen to (Little Gold Men, perJenkins could sneak in there, haps?) pointed out, Washington, but I doubt it. who didn’t win a Golden Globe Should win: Kenneth Lonerbut did win the SAG award, is gan. A look at real people and both a blockbuster-type movmessy lives, Manchester by the ie star and a serious actor — in Sea is all the more devastating other words, living the dream. because of Lonergan’s underShould win: Casey Affleck stated style. in a photo finish with Washing• Best actress Isabelle Hupton. Washington is a thisclose Hell or High Water pert in Elle, Ruth Negga in second only because his perforLoving, Emma Stone in La La mance, though excellent, feels Land, Natalie Portman in Jackie, Meryl performance-y. Affleck meanwhile feels Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins. like a guy who is two heartbeats away from Will win: Emma Stone. Everybody being crushed to death by his own grief everywhere seems to agree it’s Stone, even but has managed to keep a shell of himself though, to me, the character feels thin com- active in the world. pared to competitors. Missing: Chris Pine or Ben Foster for Should win: Ruth Negga. Actual- Hell or High Water. Parker Sawyers also ly for me it’s a toss-up between Negga’s did a standout job of playing a young law strong, understated Mildred Loving and student on a first date wrestling with issues Natalie Portman’s crazypants Jackie Ken- about career and race — without letting his nedy. (Note: I did not see Elle, which will character, one Barack Obama in Southside be available for home viewing March 14, with You, feel like a Saturday Night Live according to iTunes.) impersonation. Missing: Emily Blunt. Granted, most of What to watch: Captain FantasThe Girl on the Train is fancy silliness, but tic (available for home viewing now) is a Blunt is doing serious work. I would also strange but sweet movie about a strange accept Hailee Steinfeld for getting the hor- but sweet family. Mortensen is solid as the rors of teenage life right in The Edge of loving but flawed father trying to keep his Seventeen and Taraji P. Henson for Hidden family together after the death of his wife. Figures because seriously how did Meryl • Best animated film Kubo and the Two Streep get a nod for the just-OK Florence Strings, Moana, My Life as a Zucchini, The Foster Jenkins and Henson not get a Red Turtle, Zootopia nomination? Will win: Kubo and the Two Strings. This What to watch: Jackie and Loving are lovely story, told with origami-style visuavailable for home viewing and both are inter- als, benefits from the fact that there are two esting movies about their moment in history. strong Disney competitors, Zootopia and
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Moana. Zootopia won the Golden Globe; Moana has the delightful music. I feel like this is one of those categories where a bunch of good choices creates an opening for a slightly lesser-known competitor. Should win: Moana. I really liked Kubo and the Two Strings and Zootopia (and I haven’t seen My Life as a Zucchini or The Red Turtle, both of which are slated to open at Boston-area theaters as soon as this weekend). But Moana made me feel good about the world we live in, in addition to having beautiful visuals, well-crafted songs and a fun story. What to watch: Moana probably is good for ages 6 or so and up with Kubo and Zootopia (both of which have dark moments) better for later-elementary-aged viewers. These three are all available at a sofaplex near you. Other categories (with likely winners bolded and my pick underlined): • Best supporting actress: Viola Davis in Fences, Naomie Harris in Moonlight, Nicole Kidman in Lion, Octavia Spencer in Hidden Figures, Michelle Williams in Manchester by the Sea. Davis seems like the clear favorite and her performance is by far the standout. • Best supporting actor: Mahershala Ali for Moonlight, Jeff Bridges for Hell or High Water, Lucas Hedges for Manchester by the Sea, Dev Patel for Lion, Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals. I haven’t seen Nocturnal Animals but of the other four I think Ali probably gave the top performance and has the best shot at the Oscar, possibly one of the few categories where Moonlight is really competitive. • Best original screenplay: Taylor Sheridan for Hell or High Water, Damien Chazelle for La La Land, Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou for The Lobster, Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea, Mike Mills for 20th Century Women. Though Golden Derby is predicting a win for Manchester by the Sea, I feel like La La Land could load up on awards. While I really like Manchester by the Sea (and haven’t seen 20th Century Women), I’d like to see the gritty modern Western with a wry sense of humor get something. • Best adapted screenplay: Eric Heisserer for Arrival, August Wilson for Fences, Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi for Hidden Figures, Luke Davies for Lion, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Moonlight. This is where Moonlight will get its recognition. And while a win for Moonlight here would be deserved, I think I’d throw my vote to Arrival for doing something different and thought-provoking with the genre. Wilson’s Fences also has a strong case. • Best documentary: Fire at Sea, I Am
Not Your Negro, Life, Animated, O.J.: Made in America, 13th. A five-part ESPN production, O.J.: Made in America weaves the history of Los Angeles, the African-American community in L.A., the history of the L.A. police department and the relationship between the African-American community and the LAPD around the story of O.J.’s life. By the time we get to his trial and the resulting acquittal, we have a good sense of the context in which it all played out. I have not yet seen Fire at Sea (available on iTunes now) or I Am Not Your Negro (which is currently screening in Boston-area theaters and is scheduled to come to Red River Theatres in Concord on March 3). O.J.: Made in America, Life, Animated (the story of journalist Ron Suskind’s now adult son Owen, who has autism, and the way Disney animated movies helped him to connect with his family and the world) and 13th (by Selma director Ava DuVernay, this documentary is about race and mass incarceration) are all available now for home viewing. • Best original song: “Audition,” La La Land; “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Trolls; “City of Stars,” La La Land; “The Empty Chair,” Jim: The James Foley Story; “How Far I’ll Go,” Moana. The predictors seem to be giving the edge to “City of Stars,” but “Audition” is the emotional climax of the movie. Personally, I’m all about the Moana songs, my favorite of which is probably “You’re Welcome.” • Best documentary short: 4.1 Miles; Extremis; Joe’s Violin; Watani: My Homeland; The White Helmets. All really strong entries but I’d put Watani just a little ahead of the pack for looking at Syria and the refugee crisis through the story of a woman and her children who, in addition to the war, have standard child/teen concerns. I’d give the awards edge to Joe’s Violin because Watani, The White Helmets and 4.1 Miles are similar enough in subject that they might split the vote and Joe’s Violin is probably the most uplifting of the movies. • Best animated short: Blind Vaysha, Borrowed Time, Pear Cider and Cigarettes, Pearl, Piper. Maybe it’s cliché for Pixar to always win but the story is sweet and the visuals are amazing. • Best live action short: Ennemis Interieurs, La Femme et le TGV, Silent Nights, Sing, Time Code. If charming dance and romance is what you like, Timecode has it (and perhaps Silent Nights and Ennemis Interieurs will split the vote of the politicsminded). Personally, I like the resistance to injustice funnily demonstrated by kids in a choir in Sing. (Live-action and animation shorts, at least, appear to be available for home viewing as of Feb. 21. See shorts.tv/ theoscarshorts.)
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William (Matt Damon doing an Irish, maybe, accent? Or something accenty?) and Tovar (Pedro Pascal, who was beloved as Game of Thrones’ Oberyn Martell and should be able to get a better gig) are the final two goofuses out of a larger group of European/Western goofuses goofusing around China in ye olden times in search of “black powder.” The semi-finalists in this endeavor are mysteriously killed by something that William cuts the hand off of, a hand that suggests a giant reptile. When the army of the Nameless Order picks the pair up, it is this hand that keeps the army from immediately killing them. The hand belongs to a Tao Tei, one of a group of raptor-like things that appear every 60 years. As it happens, the Nameless Order, which guards the Great Wall that keeps the Tao Tei out of the kingdom, is preparing for one of their 60-year skirmishes. A massive army is waiting for these lizard things, but even its leader, General Shao (Hanyu Zhang), doesn’t seem confident his archers, catapult-bombs and lady-spear-fighters (the Crane fighters, who bungee into the hordes of raptors to stab at them) will be enough to hold the Tao Tei. Though Commander Lin (Jing Tian), leader of the Cranes, seems happy to kill William and Tovar right away so they can concentrate on the lizards, strategist Wang (Andy Lau), who is surprised to hear that Tao Tei are so close to the wall, suggests they keep the duo around. A magnet William was carrying in his pocket might hold the key to a Tao Tei weakness. Later, during a Tao Tei attack, the duo prove themselves as fighters and William, in particular, wants to help the Nameless Order. Tovar would prefer to listen to Ballard (Willem Dafoe), another westerner at the Wall, and steal the black power while everybody’s distracted.
The Cranes wear armor and capes of an eye-catching blue and look pretty cool as they dive off the wall to fight, spears in hand. Other troops are red or gold and also look pretty awesome as they work in unison to hold back the Tao Tei. The various weaponry the Nameless Order employs on the Tao Tei is also spiffy, even if some of the explosions look a bit iffy and the lizard-things they unleash heck on are not the greatest, graphically speaking. And, that’s about it, when it comes to things this movie has to offer. Jing Tian’s Lin is a pretty badass warrior but off the battlefield I got the sense the movie wasn’t sure what to do with her or whether to make her and William love interests. Tovar and William’s relationship feels very paint-bynumbers buddy, to the degree that a lot of their “joking” with each other feels like it belongs in some other movie, in some other time. Damon’s overall performance is also pretty strange — whatever accent he’s trying to do is clearly taking, like, 90 percent of his concentration. Scheduling dictated that I had to see this movie in 3-D, and though the battle set pieces look pretty cool, I didn’t get anything extra by having some of it come just a little closer to me. And, while zillions of color-coded warriors in position on a wall while drums are played looks pretty neat, the second any of them “interacted” with any of the Tao Tei any tension the scene had built was gone. Lizard stickers physically adhered to frames of film would have felt as real as the Tao Tei did. The Great Wall has all the trappings of a fun, visually exciting action movie; it just feels like somebody forgot to write a story to go along with it. CRated PG-13 for sequences of fantasy action violence. Directed by Yimou Zhang with a screenplay by Carlo Bernard & Doug Miro and Tony Gilroy, The Great Wall is an hour and 43 minutes long and distributed by Universal Pictures, Le Vision Pictures and China Film Group Corporation.
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MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX • Oscar-nominated Shorts: Documentary (NR, 2016) Sat., Feb. 25, at 12:45 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 27, at 5:45 p.m. WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • Hacksaw Ridge (R, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m. • Oscar-nominated Shorts: Live Action, Animated and Documentary (NR, 2016) Thurs., Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m. • 20th Century Women (R, 2017) Fri., Feb. 24, through Thurs., March 2, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., Feb. 26, at 2 & 4:30 p.m. • Lion (PG-13, 2016) Fri., Feb. 24, through Thurs., March 2, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., Feb. 26, at 2 & 4:30 p.m. • In Which We Serve (1942) Sat., Feb. 25, at 4:30 p.m., free admission, donations to charity CAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS 44 S. Main St., Concord, 2251111, ccanh.com • Rusalka (The Met in HD) Sat., Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. • Stoneland Sun., Feb. 26, at 3 p.m.; after film, meet Scotland’s real stone lifters • Amadeus (National Theatre) Tues., Feb. 28, at 6 p.m. • Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet) Wed., March 1, at 6 p.m. AVIATION MUSEUM OF NH 27 Navigator Road, Londonder-
ry, 669-4820, aviationmuseumofnh.org • The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club (documentary, 2009) Fri., Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY 405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, manchester.lib.nh.us; some films at the West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 6246560 • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Wed., March 1, at 1 p.m. NEW HAMPSHIRE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE 31 College Drive, Sweeney Auditorium, 03301, 271-6484, ext. 4115, nhti.edu, nhstudentfilm.com • Kayaking the Aleutians (NR, 2015) Fri., March 3, at 7 p.m.
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• Living wage: The loose-knit organization Bands Against Pay-to-Play Shows hosts a downtown triple bill with American Burn, Hey Zeus and Bigfoot. The headliner has a new lead singer as of last autumn, and the same menacing heavy blues rock sound. It’s all about a good idea: fans supporting bands the oldfashioned way and keeping it local. Go Thursday, Feb. 23, at 9 p.m. at Shaskeen Pub, 909 Elm St., Manchester. Tickets are $5. See bit.ly/2ldkuY9. • Laugh it up: A big night dubbed Best of Boston Comedy welcomes Brad Mastrangelo, Paul Nardizzi, Steve Guilmette and Drew Dunn. Mastrangelo is a 26-year veteran who’s worked with Kevin James, Ray Romano and others. The comics rounding out the show have headlining experience; Nardizzi, a past winner of the Boston Comedy Festival, has appeared on Conan and Comedy Central. Go Friday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. at Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. Tickets are $19 to $23 at ccanh.com. • Southern accent: Mill District music resumes with Cecilia Zabala, a Buenos Aires guitarist, singer and songwriter whose music bridges Argentinian folklore, modern jazz, tango, Brazilian and, in the words of one writer, “the contemporary language of the twentieth century.” Zabala is backed by local favorites Don Davis and Joe Deleault. Go Saturday, Feb. 25, at 8 p.m. at Amoskeag Studio, 250 Commercial St., Suite 2007, Manchester. Tickets $15 (students $7) at brownpapertickets.com.
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In May 2015, Scott Weiland played at Manchester’s Jewel nightclub; in December of the same year, the former Stone Temple Pilots lead singer was dead of a drug overdose. Via tribute acts like Stone Temple Posers, though, STP’s music carries on. The Plaistow-based homage band will appear, fittingly, at the rechristened Jewel Music Venue on Friday, Feb. 24. They plan to perform STP’s first two albums, Core and Purple, as part of a ’90s Alt Rock Tribute Night. A dress code of flannel shirts, ripped jeans and shaggy hair will be in force at a show that includes Nirvana doppelgänger Priceless Advice and Undertow, recreating the music of Tool. It’s a good time for a revival of the grunge area, with 2017 marking the 25th anniversary of the year Nirvana replaced Michael Jackson at the top of the Billboard charts, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam broke through as mainstream acts and Stone Temple Pilots released its first album. Olaf Westphalen is Stone Temple Posers’ bass player; however, he came to STP’s music after the decade they dominated. “I grew up in the ’70s and ’80s, so it was actually my stepkids that got me into bands like Nirvana, Creed and Sublime,” he said in a recent phone interview. “My stepson John is the drummer in the band.” The two have played together in bands ’90s Alt Rock Night When: Friday, Feb 24, 8 p.m. Where: Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester Tickets: $10 at jewelnh.com
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including Wretched Von Krank, The Nerve and, most recently, Cold Comfort. Stone Temple Posers played its first show in early 2015. “Robert DeLeo’s bass playing spoke to me,” Westphalen said when asked what drew him to STP’s music. “I really enjoyed watching them live, Scott’s antics when he was singing and how he used the megaphone.” Poser’s front man, ex-Marine Hal White, frequently employs Weiland’s prop. “We use it on stage at all times.,” Westphalen said “Whatever song calls for it, he throws it in there.” Westphalen and Posers guitarist Paul Ouellette are no strangers to STP trib-
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ute acts. The two were together briefly in Crown of Apathy, and Westphalen played in Stone Temple Aviators and SiN after that. Ouellette was also a member of The Nerve during its run in the mid-oughts. With a rich well of the decade’s acts to pick from, Stone Temple Pilots kept rising to the top. “We’ve all been in cover bands,” said Westphalen, who’s been a working musician since the early 1980s. “When I was thinking about what kind of tribute band would make sense for us, STP was one that came to mind because you’ve got a lead singer that sings the lead vocal and then the backup is the bass player. I usually do backups, so it fit.” Westphalen saw Weiland perform in the years before his death. Like many fans, he worried that the singer’s reckless life could end tragically. “I was always wondering if he could go at any time. … You could tell in his performances that he was not a hundred percent,” he said. “We’d seen him a year or two before at Meadowbrook and he just wasn’t himself.” The two bands rounding out the bill and Stone Temple Posers have done 1990s nostalgia shows together in the recent past. Lowell-based Nirvana tribute band Priceless Advice is, said Westphalen, “a great bunch of young guys, very talented.” He added that the group’s front man looks quite a bit like the late Kurt Cobain. “He’s in a bunch of other cover and original bands; this is one of his projects,” he said. Playing a much heavier brand of alternative rock, Undertow is a bit of a wild card, but the three groups worked together before and found it a good fit. “We played with them for the first time last fall; we met through mutual connections with other bands,” Westphalen said. “Hopefully, people that like Nirvana and STP will also like Tool, and vice versa.”
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River Casino 53 High St. 881-9060 Boston Billiard Club 55 Northeastern Blvd. 943-5630 Burton’s Grill 310 Daniel Webster Highway 888-4880 Country Tavern 452 Amherst St. 889-5871 Dolly Shakers 38 East Hollis St. 577-1718 Fody’s Tavern 9 Clinton St. 577-9015 Fratello’s Italian Grille Mason 194 Main St. Marty’s Driving Range 889-2022 96 Old Turnpike Rd Haluwa Lounge 878-1324 Nashua Mall 883-6662 Killarney’s Irish Pub Meredith 9 Northeastern Blvd. Giuseppe’s Ristorante 888-1551 312 DW Hwy 279-3313 O’Shea’s 449 Amherst St. 943-7089 Merrimack Peddler’s Daughter Homestead 48 Main St. 821-7535 641 DW Hwy 429-2022 Portland Pie Company Jade Dragon 14 Railroad Sq 882-7437 515 DW Hwy 424-2280 Riverwalk Pacific Fusion 35 Railroad Sq 578-0200 356 DW Hwy 424-6320 Shorty’s Tortilla Flat 48 Gusabel Ave. 882-4070 594 Daniel Webster Stella Blu Hwy 262-1693 70 E. Pearl St. 578-5557 Thirsty Turtle Milford 8 Temple St. 402-4136 J’s Tavern 63 Union Square 554-1433 New Boston Lefty’s Lanes Molly’s Tavern 244 Elm St. 554-8300 35 Mont Vernon Rd Pasta Loft 487-2011 241 Union Square 672-2270 Newbury Shaka’s Bar & Grill Goosefeathers Pub 11 Wilton Rd 554-1224 Mt. Sunapee 763-3500 Tiebreakers at Salt Hill Pub Hampshire Hills 1407 Rt 103 763-2667 50 Emerson Rd 673-7123 Union Coffee Co. New Castle 42 South St. 554-8879 Wentworth By The Sea 588 Wentworth Rd Moultonborough 422-7322 Castle in the Clouds 455 Old Mountain Road New London 478-5900 Flying Goose 40 Andover Road Nashua 526-6899 110 Grill 27 Trafalgar Sq. 943-7443 Newington 5 Dragons Paddy’s 29 Railroad Sq. 578-0702 27 International Drive 430-9450
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Rochester Gary’s 38 Milton Rd 335-4279 Governor’s Inn 78 Wakefield St. 332-0107 Lilac City Grille 103 N. Main St. 332-3984 Revolution Tap Room 61 N Main St. 244-3022 Radloff’s 38 N. Main St. 948-1073 Smokey’s Tavern 11 Farmington 330-3100 Salem Black Water Grill 43 Pelham Rd 328-9013 Jocelyn’s Lounge 355 S Broadway 870-0045 Sayde’s Restaurant 136 Cluff Crossing 890-1032 Seabrook Castaways 209 Ocean Blvd 760-7500 Chop Shop 920 Lafayette Rd 760-7706
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Fratello’s Italian Grille: Ryan Friday, Feb. 24 Williamson Auburn Riverwalk Cafe: Damn Tall Auburn Pitts: Jay Frigoletto and Buildings/Honeysuckle the Diplomats of Funk Shorty’s: Steve Sibulkin Auburn Tavern: Becker and Wymann Band Newmarket Stone Church: Irish Music w/ Barrington Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki & Jim Onset Pub: Studio Two Prendergast Belmont Peterborough Lakes Region Casino: DJ Mark Harlow’s: Bluegrass Night La Mia Casa: Soul Repair Boscawen Alan’s: Center of Gravity Plaistow Racks: Rock Jam w/ Dave Claremont Thompson Taverne on the Square: Brian Warren Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Tim Theriault Concord and Jamie Decato Makris: Allan Roux - Mardi Fat Belly’s: DJ Flex Gras Portsmouth Book & Bar: Pit Road Lounge: Shameless Coronis Sibling Duo Red Blazer: No music for 2017 Press Room: Rose Cousins Tandy’s: DJ Iceman Streetz (105.5 JYY) Seabrook Chop Shop: Spent Fuel Contoocook Covered Bridge: Don Bartenstein Weare Stark House Tavern: Lisa Derry Guyer Solo Coffee Factory: Dave LaCroix
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Windham Common Man 88 Range Rd 898-0088 Jonathon’s Lounge Park Place Lanes, Route 28 800-892-0568 Red’s Tavern 22 Haverhill Dr. 437-7251
Fury’s: Rebel Alliance Top of the Chop: Funkadelic Fridays Epping Holy Grail: Side Car Popovers: Andy Happel Telly’s: Austin Pratt Francestown Toll Booth Tavern: Boogie Men Gilford Patrick’s: Jim Tyrrell & Gardner Berry Schuster’s: Kevin Hackett Goffstown Village Trestle: Arthur & Erik Hampton CR’s: Judith Murray Logan’s Run: Mike O’Neil The Goat: TBD Wally’s Pub: The Zoo Hanover Canoe Club: Jonathan Kaplan Jesse’s: Linda Boudreault & Ted Mortimer Salt Hill Pub: Chris Powers Henniker Sled Pub: Matt Poirer
Windham Dover Common Man: Julie Dougherty Cara: Club Night DJ Shawnny O Hillsborough Duo Dover Brickhouse: Kyoty/Gozu/ Mama McDonough’s: Malcolm Salls Tar
NITE MUSIC THIS WEEK Hooksett Asian Breeze: DJ Albin Laconia Whiskey Barrel: Walkin’ the Line
New Boston Molly’s: Beth and Jim/Dan Murphy Newbury Salt Hill Pub: Chad Gibbs Newmarket Riverworks: Pete Peterson
Lebanon Salt Hill Pub: Funky Crustaceans (Mardi Gras) Londonderry Coach Stop: Corey Brackett Pipe Dream Brewing: Joe Sambo Manchester British Beer: Andrew Merzi Cafe La Reine: Java Jams w/ Alli Beaudry City Sports Grille: DJ Dave Derryfield: Never In Vegas Foundry: Charlie Chronopoulos Fratello’s: Joe Young Jewel: 90s Alt Rock Tribute Night Karma: Hallorans ManchVegas: Fox on the Run Murphy’s Taproom: Without Paris Penuche’s: Lichen Shaskeen: Second Hand Smoke Strange Brew: Howard Randall Whiskey’s 20: DJs Jason Spivak & Sammy Smoove Wild Rover: Mugsy Duo Meredith Giuseppe’s: Michael Bourgeois Merrimack Homestead: Brad Bosse Merrimack Biergarten: Mark Huzar Milford J’s Tavern: Vynal Legion Band Pasta Loft: Last Kid Picked Nashua Country Tavern: Kim Riley Fody’s: TDB Fratello’s Italian Grille: Kieran McNally Haluwa: Double Take Killarney’s: Karen Grenier O’Shea’s: Avila Trio Peddler’s Daughter: Pop Farmers Riverwalk Cafe: Dwight & Nicole Stella Blu: Wood, Wind, and Whiskey Thirsty Turtle: Farenheit Friday - DJ D-Original
Newport Salt hill Pub: About Gladys Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Sharon Jones and the Downtown Express Grill 28: Ryan Williamson Martingale Wharf: Jumpstreet Portsmouth Book & Bar: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Trio ($5) + Dupont Brothers ($5) Portsmouth Gaslight: DJ Koko /Sev /Chris White Press Room: Lonesome Lunch w/Dave Talmage Red Door: Yung Abner Ri Ra: David Cee Rudi’s: Dimitri Thirsty Moose: Queen City Soul Rochester Radloff’s: Dancing Backwards Duo
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COMEDY THIS WEEK AND BEYOND Friday, Feb. 24 Concord Cap Center: Brad Mastrangelo, Paul Nardizi, Steve Guilmette, Drew Dunn Newmarket Rockingham Ballroom:
Bristol Purple Pit: Geoff Countryman Concord Area 23: Michael Graham Hermanos: Tim & Dave Show Makris: Allan Roux - Mardi Gras Penuche’s Ale House: Bangkok Disco Pit Road Lounge: Borderstone Tandy’s: DJ Iceman Streetz (105.5 JYY) Contoocook Covered Bridge: Eugene Durkee Dover Cara: Club Night DJ Shawnny O Dover Brickhouse: CHaD Battle of the Badges Chili Cook-off Fury’s: Fighting Friday Epping Holy Grail: Karen Grenier Telly’s: Rob & Jody Gourlay Epsom Circle 9: Classic 5 Gilford Patrick’s: Jim Tyrrell’s Tribute to Elton John Schuster’s: Dan Carter Goffstown Village Trestle: Red Sky Mary Hampton The Goat: Ellis Falls Hampton Wally’s Pub: Stefanie Jasmine Hanover Canoe Club: Randall Mullen Salt Hill Pub: Club Soda Henniker Sled Pub: The McMurphy’s Hudson River’s Pub: Shuvel Hed Laconia Pitman’s Freight Room: Joe Moss Whiskey Barrel: Martin & Kelly Lebanon Salt Hill Pub: Dave Bundza Londonderry Coach Stop: Steve Tolley
Jim Lauletta, Chris Pen- Rochester nie, Jeff Koen Rochester Opera House: Frank Santos Jr. Portsmouth Redhook Brewery: Saturday, Feb. 25 April Macie (also 2 Manchester shows Feb. 25) Headliners: Larry Norton
Sunday, Feb. 26 Lebanon Salt hill Pub: Comedy Open Mic Wed., March 1 Manchester Murphy’s: Laugh Free Or Die Open Mic
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The man with the golden mop tional distress.” (Doctors in all states are would survive on the surface of Venus for San Francisco’s best-paid janitor earned more than a quarter-million dollars cleaning stations for Bay Area Rapid Transit in 2015, according to a recent investigation by Oakland’s KTVU. Liang Zhao Zhang cleared almost $58,000 in base pay and $162,000 in overtime, and other benefits ran his total income to $271,243. He worked at San Francisco’s Powell Street station, a hangout for the homeless, who notoriously sullied the station 24/7, necessitating overtime hours that apparently only Zhang was interested in working. In one stretch during July 2015, he pulled 17-hour days for two and a half straight weeks.
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German art collector Rik Reinking paid the equivalent of about $138,000 in 2008 for a resplendent, complex drawing by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, but it was one created in ink on the skin of (the stillalive) tattoo parlor manager Tim Steiner to be delivered only upon Steiner’s death, when his skin will be displayed in Reinking’s collection. (The deal also requires that, in the meantime, Steiner personally showcase his back at galleries three times a year.)
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Higher Math: The first robots to have survived journeys close to the “core” of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan (which melted down in a 2011 earthquake) returned a reading of 530 “sieverts” per hour. (Some scientists label just 4 Sieverts an hour fatal to half the people exposed to it.) Since the robots stopped short of the actual nuclear fuel, and since they only visited one of the three cores, the true danger of Fukushima Everyday hazards • In Portland, Oregon, in January, remains unknown. (On a more optimisAshley Glawe, 17, a committed “goth” tic note, scientists in February said they character with tattoos, piercings and have developed a computer chip that earlobe holes (“gauges”) was, she said, “hanging out” with Bart, her pet python, when he climbed into one of the lobes. She couldn’t get him out, nor could firefighters, but with lubrication, hospital emergency workers did (thus avoiding an inevitable split lobe if Bart had kept squeezing his way through). • Iraqi forces taking over an ISIS base in Mosul in January reported finding papers from at least 14 Islamic State “fighters” who had tried to claim “health” problems, asking commanders to please excuse them from real combat (and martyrdom). One (a Belgian man) actually brought a note from a doctor back home attesting to his “back pain.” Five of the 14 were initiated by volunteers from France, a country that endures a perhaps-deserved national reputation for battle-avoidance.
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An Abbotsford, British Columbia, burglar was successful in his Feb. 7 break-in at a home, but his getaway was thwarted by a snowfall that blocked him in on a roadway. He eventually decided to ask a passerby for help and inadvertently picked out a man (of the city’s 140,000 residents) whose house he had just broken into (and who recognized him from reviewing his home’s security camera footage). The victim called police, who arrested the man (and reported that it was the second residential break-in that night in which the snowfall had foiled a burglar’s getaway.)
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In January, a New York City judge dismissed the original indictment of John Kennedy O’Hara, 55, who had been convicted in 1996 of the crime of “felony voting” the only person convicted under that state law since Susan B. Anthony, who cast a ballot in 1872 even though females were barred from the polls. O’Hara was indicted for voting in 1992 and 1993 after registering in Brooklyn elections from a “bogus” address a basement apartment that was considered uninhabitable. (A judge in 2017 determined that the apartment “could” have been habitable.) O’Hara paid $15,000 in fines and did 1,500 hours of community service.
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