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One of the reasons I have committed to staying and engaging in issues in New Hampshire is the intimacy of our political landscape. With our massive “volunteer” legislature and small size, there is a real opportunity to truly effect change. Our elected officials are often our neighbors, if not our friends, and we have come to trust that it’s the citizen’s voice in Concord. A few weeks ago our House of Representatives muted the voice of many in favor of the minority. A bill passed, almost unanimously, out of committee with the recommendation to add gender identity as a protection under our state’s anti-discrimination statute. This bill was initially proposed as a bipartisan effort with support from Republicans, Democrats, religious institutions, law enforcement, and human rights groups. Given the strong support, many were confident that the local voice would prevail on the House floor and our transgender citizens would finally obtain this protection under the law. After committee but before the full vote, out-of-state lobbyists intervened and persuaded some of our elected officials that this was more about bathrooms and less about protections. They worked to tie this effort to an unnecessary and unwarranted fear of sharing restrooms with transgender individuals. Their investment worked; after two votes on the House floor, the bill was tabled. As we sit back and scratch our heads, wondering why we can’t attract a workforce to sustain economic growth, it’s important that we reflect on what really matters to those looking to move here. I would venture to say factors such as good schools, well-paying jobs and a sense of community top the list. By denying basic human rights to our citizens, we send a message that we are welcoming to and accepting of some but not all. This says to those looking to move here that the child you want to raise in New Hampshire had best not question their gender identity or feel safe living authentically if they do. It says we are a state of us and them, not a collective whole, and that our promise for you to live free is only accessible to those who fit a set of social norms set forth by those in power. I hope these trends subside and that we can continue to have a true citizen legislature — one that is elected by the people, for the people. I hope we can work on attracting and retaining professionals by sending a message of community and inclusivity. Most importantly, I hope everyone gets to experience our great state regardless of skin color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or disability. Allyson Ryder serves as the Associate Director at Leadership NH and sits on several statewide nonprofit boards and committees.
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ON THE COVER 12 TELL YOUR STORY Stories can be so much fun to tell — and to listen to — that some people in New Hampshire are actually making a living doing it. Find out where to see them, as well as other not-so-professional storytellers — or discover your own path to the storytelling stage. ALSO ON THE COVER, there are all kinds of Easter egg hunts and activities for the whole family this weekend and next, p. 26. For Easter fare, lots of local restaurants are serving up special meals, p. 34. And find live music for your night out in Music This Week, starting on p. 55.
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INSIDE/OUTSIDE: 27 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend. 28 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors. 29 TREASURE HUNT There’s gold in your attic. 30 CAR TALK Automotive advice. CAREERS: 32 ON THE JOB What it’s like to be a... FOOD: 34 WHERE TO EAT YOUR EASTER MEAL Just a Taste; Paradise North; In the Kitchen; Weekly Dish; Wine; From the Pantry. POP CULTURE: 44 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz needed more coffee for Ghost in the Shell but had the right amount of peanut M&Ms for The Boss Baby. NITE: 52 BANDS, CLUBS, NIGHTLIFE Def Leppard and Tesla; John Brown’s Body; Nightlife, music & comedy listings and more. 54 ROCK AND ROLL CROSSWORD A puzzle for the music-lover. 55 MUSIC THIS WEEK Live music at your favorite bars and restaurants.
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from Dartmouth. Broderick, also the former dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, was set to begin his new job on April 3. He will be responsible for “outreach to business and community leaders and policy makers” and will work closely with Vice President of Communications and Marketing Josh McElveen, a veteran WMUR journalist who will start on the same day. Redistricting bill A Senate bill that would create an independent redistricting commission, wresting the power of drawing district lines away from the legislature, was defeated on a party-line vote with Republicans rejecting the proposal. NHPR reported Republicans have controlled the redistricting process for decades and the majority party has the power to craft districts that benefit that party most.
Trader Joe’s Trader Joe’s is opening a third location in the state at the site of the now-demolished Macy’s in Bedford, according to a press release from the company. Trader Joe’s signed a lease for the new location inside the Market and Main mixed-use development on South River Road. The store will be about 13,000 square feet and is scheduled to open in the second half of 2018. New AG Gov. Chris Sununu named Gordon MacDonald his pick to take over the state justice department as attorney general, succeeding Joseph Foster. While MacDonald has received bipartisan praise ahead of his Executive Council confirmation vote, some expressed concern that he has been on the opposing side of some legal battles fought by the state, most notably when he recently worked on the defense team of Purdue Pharma while Foster tried to subpoena documents that might help in his investigation into possible marketing malpractice for OxyContin, NHPR reported. After years of appeals, the state Supreme Court could rule soon requiring the company release its documents. MacDonald told the Executive Council at a hear-
ing that he would recuse himself from any ongoing cases in which he was previously involved. The Union Leader reported state Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley questioned the rationale of Sununu’s nominee given his involvement in the Purdue case. Youth center House budget writers proposed a new plan to address the empty beds at the Sununu Youth Center, the state’s juvenile detention center. NHPR reported the plan would reduce the center’s capacity from 144 beds to 36 and only serious violent offenders would be sent there. Other juveniles would be treated in less restrictive facilities. The plan is estimated to save the state $1.4 million over the next biennium. About 45 jobs would be eliminated and those individuals would be offered early retirement and priority for other job openings. Currently, only half of the 144 beds are being used. Stonyfield for sale Londonderry-based Stonyfield Yogurt is up for sale, according to multiple news reports. In the announcement made by parent company Danone, it said it must sell Stonyfield if it wants to move ahead with the $10.4 billion purchase of WhiteWave Foods as part of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. The WhiteWave acquisition is a move that would increase Danone’s organic dairy segment; doing so without divesting in Stonyfield would result in a virtual monopoly.
The cold weather homeless shelter in Concord closed for the season just as the state was hit with a fresh layer of snow. The Concord Monitor reported 40 people received tents.
A wounded and starved bobcat found in Dunbarton accidentally died while Fish and Game officials tried to catch it with a snare pull around its neck, the Concord Monitor reported. The animal was found with porcupine quills in its gums and jaw. Wildlife biologists said it would have likely been deemed too injured to live and shot.
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A group of child trauma experts from Wales visited the Manchester Police Department to learn more about its first-in-the-nation Adverse Childhood Experience Response Team program. NHPR reported the delegation consisted of law enforcement and public health officials. Chief Nick Willard started the program in 2015 to link families and children who are victims of domestic violence or other traumatic experiences that intersect with police work with resources and treatment. It’s of a small team of specially trained juvenile detectives and social workers who are on call during the hours when domestic cases tend to spike each week. So far, 212 children have been referred to mental health services since the program started, according to the story.
ability to “convincingly articulate” his positions and Rep. Neal Kurk said his speeches kept the chamber “spellbound and amused,” in statements before legislators, according to NHPR. Vaillancourt reportedly had been suffering from heart problems. He was serving his 10th term and, according to the Boston Globe, was the only New Hampshire House rep elected as a Democrat, Libertarian and Republican.
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Department of Health and Human Services,” Carons said. “So you’ve got this smaller division over here and they’re kind of pushed off to the side because all the attention is on the bigger part of the agency. And I think that was a big, big part of the problem.” According to Carson, every budgetary need in DCYF was being funnelled up the chain of command at DHHS, the state’s largest agency, and by the time DHHS submitted its budget requests to the legislature, many of SHARON CARSON those needs might not have had a full hearing. “While they didn’t have all these employees [DCYF needed], they didn’t come to the legislature to tell us that they were having a problem. We didn’t know, and if we don’t know we can’t address the problem,” Carson said. DHHS Commissioner Jeffrey Meyers didn’t agree with the plan to break off DCYF from the health department, and further review of the plan showed it was going to be an expensive proposition. Ultimately, with the help of Sen. Jeb Bradley and others in the health committee, Carson’s bill was amended. Instead of becoming a new department, DCYF would be headed by a new position titled “associate commissioner,” which would be appointed by the governor. The bill was sent to the Senate Finance Committee, which approved and tabled it to be included in the state budget on March 23. In an email from Leon, Meyers expressed his support of the amended bill.
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A statewide project has expanded access to mental health care for veterans by having a military liaison in each of the state’s 10 community mental health centers. The liaisons, which can be anyone from a counselor to a human resources person, train staff who work directly with active and former military personnel to make sure they’re getting the help they need, create systems for tracking veterans and make sure their health center covers military veterans. When the Military Liaison Initiative launched in August 2015, each community mental health center, like Riverbend in Concord and the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester, selected one of its staffers to be identified as a military liaison. Jessica Bitetto is a counselor at Riverbend and a military liaison. While she is not a veteran herself, helping veterans is important to her personally because her father is a Vietnam War veteran. Bitetto said a large part of her work is training other counselors and frontline staff on how to interact with military-connected clientele. She partners with Susan Brown, the statewide military liaison, to provide webinars and other training sessions on military cultural competence. Jo Moncher, the bureau chief of Military Programs at the state Department of Health and Human Services, said the initiative trained 1,600 staff over 2,600 training hours. Moncher said the Military Liaison Initiative is the first of its kind in the nation, and it has three key approaches to expanding access and quality of mental health care. The first approach is collecting more data on veteran interaction with healthcare providers by getting more facilities to keep track during intake. The second part is military culture training, and the third is creating
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Where did you grow up and go to school? My hometown is a place called Brockton, Massachusetts. It is the home of the boxer. If you follow boxing in any way, it’s the home of Rocky Marciano, Marvin Hagler and it is a hometown I’m very, very proud of. I graduated from the wonderful Brockton public schools. I attribute many of my successes because of the Brockton public schools. My twin brother is a police officer there, in the Brockton community. My mom still lives in Brockton. ... One of the things that I think has influenced my education and my family and all of my attributes as an administrator is my time at what I call the beautiful, lovely University of Massachusetts in Amherst. ... I graduated with a psychology degree and an African-American studies major. … From there, I was interested in teaching … and learning. The social, emotional pieces of teaching and learning. So I attended Wheelock College [to study] … teaching students with special needs — TSSN was the program. I graduated with a master’s degree with special education and elementary education. So I got my first teaching, I would say start, working in private, special education schools. ... That’s where I did my internship, that’s where I … honed my skills as a special education teacher.
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As you see it, what are some of the challenges you expect in the Gate City? The first thing that I’m going to do as superintendent is actually go out and listen to people’s concerns, listen to what people have What were your favorite subjects in to share with me in terms of the challenges school, either in K-12 or college? and what they’d like to see in the district. … It’s been a while since I thought about I’ll have a better sense after doing some listhat. … I enjoyed my psychology courses. I tening tours. loved learning about the history of psychology. … One of the things that I’m proud of at What’s something about you that’s not on UMass is when you major in something like your resume that you think best defines your psychology, in addition to taking psychology approach to leadership? courses they also require you to take enrichPart of what I am is that I, it sounds cliche ment courses to complement that experience but … I don’t believe in me, I believe in we. in psychology. One of the courses that always … Part of that has to do with having a twin stood out to me … was a course called music brother. I’ve always approached something appreciation and art appreciation. … It had where I always know I have to collaborate. such a profound effect on me. … It really It’s just something that’s ingrained in me. kind of opened my mind up to the arts. What’s the biggest lesson you learned from your experience as assistant WHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTO superintendent? RIGHT NOW? There are a variety of things that you learn I have a multi-racial family so This is Us as you go. I’ve always said that the lessons really resonates with me. … We tape it on that I welcome [are] always hearing and lisDVR. … Saturday nights, I actually enjoy tening to feedback, don’t be afraid to ask watching with my family. … I can’t get questions particularly when you’re doing enough of it. … When I have a chance, I budget design and development. … There’s will go out in my backyard and do a little no such thing as overly communicating. bit of fishing. — Ryan Lessard
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According to a recent study by Bankrate.com, New Hampshire is the best place to retire in the U.S. The study graded things like cost of living and health care quality as well as weather, tax climate and crime. While weather and cost of living earned rankings in the 40s, other categories like crime, taxes, senior well-being and cultural vitality all scored in the top 10. QOL Score: +1 Comment: Just goes to show that winter weather in April isn’t a huge deterrent for some people, as long as we have so many other things going for us.
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A new WalletHub study finds that Granite Staters are among the least stressed-out people in the country — among the bottom 10 states as the 45th most stressful state. The study scored work-related stress by weighing things like hours worked, commute time, job security and the average leisure time spent per day. Other forms of stress measured included money-related stress, family-related stress and health-andsafety-related stress. QOL Score: +1 Comment: Surely QOL isn’t alone in thinking this doesn’t seem to apply to us.
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Bad news for gas guzzlers
Gas prices are going up in New Hampshire, with the latest GasBuddy.com survey showing the average price rising 3 cents last week to $2.21 per gallon. That’s nearly 20 cents more per gallon than it was a year ago, according to the Associated Press. QOL Score: -1 Comment: It’s still less expensive than it is nationally, which is $2.32 per gallon, rising 4.3 cents since last week.
Extended ski season
At least nine of New Hampshire’s 37 ski areas plan to stay open in April, according to WMUR. Jessyca Keeler, executive director of Ski NH (which represents 34 of the state’s Alpine and Nordic ski areas), said in the story spring skiing conditions right now are much better than they typically are in April. Many resorts received at least a foot of snow on April Fool’s Day, adding base depths as great as 46 inches. QOL Score: +1 Comment: Even without the April 1 storm, it was a solid ski season, with some mountains receiving more than 200 inches of snow this winter.
Writers’ Day cancelled
Due to weather and safety concerns, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project had to cancel its biggest event of the year, Writers’ Day, originally scheduled for Saturday, April 1, at Southern New Hampshire University. Would-be participants are getting refunded, according to the organization’s Facebook post, with no plans to reschedule in 2017. QOL Score: -1 Comment: Not a funny April Fools’s Day joke, Mother Nature. QOL score: 71 Net change: +1 QOL this week: 72 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.
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What I’d Do Differently: Bat Jackie Bradley ninth. It puts another good hitter up in front of the lumber the second time around the line-up and not wanting to walk him because of that means more fastball. That’s red meat for Jackie. The AL East: (1) Sox. (2) Orioles — they can really hit and have a very good, if whiny, manager, but do they have enough pitching? (3) Blue Jays — a very good rotation, but losing Edwin Encarnacion is the equivalent of losing Ortiz. (4) Yanks — with young talent and waiting for bad contracts to end they’re in the building stage. (5) Rays — time to trade Evan Longoria for prospects. Expectations: Around the country it’s winning the AL East. Here, it’s World Series or bust with Cleveland and Houston the two biggest obstacles. But they’d better get used to it because the expectations aren’t going away. And with what they’ve got, they shouldn’t. Prediction 1: At 24 Mookie Betts takes another step up from 2016 when Roger Goodell screwed him out of the MVP. Er, ah, sorry, it was stat geek data that did it, not the Dodger. I’m just used to blaming him for pretty much everything. At 23, he had comparable stats to Willie Mays when he was 23. Willie hit 51 homers at 24. Prediction 2: Bounce-back by Xander Bogaerts from a less than stellar second half where the homers reach 25, RBI 110 and back over .300 in the average. That puts him back in the A-Rod-Nomar-Jeter like debate with Carlos Correa, Francisco Lindor and Corey Seager for best young shortstop in baseball. Prediction 3: Porcello shows he’s the real deal with an 18-win season. Ditto for Sale, who also wins 18. Prediction 4: With or without a huge contribution from Price they win 95 and the AL East. As for the playoffs, injuries will play a big role in that, so see me when they roll around on Oct. 1. Enjoy! Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com
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guy (especially a pitcher) will be back, like Eduardo Rodriguez in 2016. They said he’s back from his knee by late March, but he wasn’t until late May. So I’m expecting Price back on May 30. Sooner is a bonus. Playoff performance – like Roger Clemens back in the day, it won’t get solved until he stops thinking too much and just pitches. Not sure if that happens, but if it doesn’t I suggest opting out when he can after 2017, because Fenway in 2018 won’t be a comfortable place. Most Interesting Stories to Follow: (1) Can Benintendi live up to the hype? If he does, it’ll be their best outfield since the days of EvansRice-Lynn and that will be fun to watch. (2) How the ultra-competitive Sale will do in Year 1. (3) What’s the over-under for when the “I Hate John Farrell” whiners will start calling for JF’s head? I had March 21. Biggest Question Marks: (1) With Tyler Thornburg the latest pitching import with arm trouble, there are questions in the bullpen, the biggest being can Joe Kelly be the main eighth-inning guy until Thornburg gets back? (2) Was Rick Porcello’s tremendous year a one-year wonder? (3) After stealing $38 million during Panda’s excellent adventure through Prince Fielder’s calorie factory, can Pablo Sandoval deliver anything close to what he did for the Giants? (4) What will Rodriguez do in his make-or-break year — become the rising star he can be, or a colossal, inconsistent tease? Who’s in Charge of the Medicals: Three trades for pitchers with warning signs and three guys — Carson Smith, Drew Pomeranz and now Thornburgh — who came up with arm injuries after getting to Boston. Not a good trend. Hopefully Sale won’t be No. 4. The Andrew Benintendi Hype: Raise your hand if you’ve heard of Clint Hurdle, Gregg Jefferies or Clint Hartung. Each was once labeled a can’t-miss springtime phenom but never lived up to the hype. Not saying it’ll happen to Benintendi, just to pump the brakes to let him develop at his pace.
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After the quietest camp in history, the Red Sox are back at Fenway this week to start with high expectations for the 2017 season, one which had better not end in the same tepid way 2016 did with a three and out way to Tito Francona’s Cleveland Indians. Few want to hear this, but that version of the Sox was in the same getting-there phase the Celtics were in last spring: young players, spreading their wings, in some cases prolifically, while gaining experience for what should lie ahead for several years to come. I’m not willing to give David Price a pass for what happened to him (again) in the playoffs last fall, but I am with the young team. But that was then and this is now, where Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, Jackie Bradley and company have the training wheels fully off and are at the next phase of their promising careers. The bottom line is not only to get to the playoffs, but with the addition of Chris Sale, to do damage when they get there. So here are the big stories to follow as the year unfolds. How to Replace David Ortiz: The leaderships mantle falls to Dustin Pedroia with little problem. Papi’s massive 2016 production will be spread around a potent lineup with better production expected in left field from Andrew Benintendi and perhaps at third base if Pablo Sandoval is able to replicate leading the grapefruit league in RBI. My guess is they’ll cover the Ortiz loss over 162, but who will fill the void in crunch time if they get to the playoffs? The David Price Situation: This has three categories. Production – I keep hearing how terrible his 2016 was. Yes, the ERA was high, but since his 17 wins were the most since Jon Lester won 19 in 2010, that seems nuts to me. If he matches that, I’ll take it. Injuries – I’ve learned never to trust team projections as to when a
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Monarchs are playoff-bound The Big Story: It’s playoff time and the Manchester Monarchs punched their ticket to the Kelly Cup playoffs with a 4-2 win over the Elmira Jackals Sunday before 6,000-plus fans at SNHU. If left the Ms at 36-22 7-4 and still jockeying for position when the playoffs arrive next Friday and Saturday at SNHU. Sports 101: Only four players in NBA history have won both a scoring title and an NBA championship in the same season. Name them. Hot Ticket: While it’s not imminent, fans of Walpole, N.H., historian-filmmaker Ken Burns will be seeing a new sports-related documentary on a PBS station near them. After taking on the entirety of baseball history in his great 1992 Baseball series, and Jackie Robinson more recently, up next is a four-hour documentary on the iconic heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali in a scheduled 2021 release. Honors: The pre-season All-American rankings are out and those who followed high school baseball won’t be surprised to see Bedford slugger Grant Lavigne and Souhegan’s Bryce Regan on the Rawlings/Perfect Game Underclass as 2017 picks. They were also named the No. 1 and No. 3 prospects in New England by Prep Baseball Report. Rest in Peace: Much was made of last
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week’s death of quirky State Rep. Steve Vaillancourt. But few probably know he was also a card-carrying member of the Plymouth State Athletic Hall of Fame for prolific play-by-play work in just about every sport on the campus radio station. That included being the only one besides me to see every one of the school record basketball games this reporter played at PSU. Sports 101 Answer: The four same-season NBA scoring title and championship winners are Michael Jordan, who did it six times, followed by George Mikan (1948-49, 49-50), Kareem Abdul Jabbar (1970-71) and Shaquille O’Neal (1999-2000). On This Date – April 6: 1958 – Despite shooting a one-over-par 73, Arnold Palmer hangs on to beat Doug Ford to win his first of four Masters titles. 1973 – the Pittsburgh Pirates retire Roberto Clemente’s famed number 21, after his death in a plane crash headed to help earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua. 1987 – One-time roommate of Jackie Robinson and current L.A. Dodgers GM Al Campanis washes away a lifetime in baseball by telling Ted Koppel on ABC’s Nightline, “they may not have the necessities” as the reason why there are so few black managers in baseball. A flabbergasted Koppel gave him a chance to re-state his answer and he dug the hole deeper. He was fired the next day.
week as part of the re-structured contract the Patriots gave him to avoid a huge financial hit during his bogus four-game suspension last fall. 111 – game winning streak of the UConn women stopped by Mississippi State in a monumental 66-64 upset in overtime at the women’s Final Four on Friday.
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Where to hear true and tall tales and how to tell your own
By Kelly Sennott
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The Concord City Auditorium was packed on a recent Wednesday night, bustling with chatter as the crowd waited for Northwood storyteller Rebecca Rule to step onstage. For those who don’t know about Rule’s strong local following, the size of her audience might come as a surprise. Sure, the event was free, part of the Walker Lecture series, but the auditorium seats more than 800. The event was two hours. It was a Wednesday. When she finally did step under the light and behind the microphone, Rule told stories about a selectman at a town dump, a supervisor with a glass eyeball and a moose she chased down for its “rack.” Listeners laughed and cheered at particularly funny tales. There’s nothing like telling stories aloud to a group of strangers, said Rule, who got HIPPO | APRIL 6 - 12, 2017 | PAGE 12
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into the medium while promoting a short story collection about 20 years ago. “It’s a little bit addictive. If you’re able
to make somebody laugh, you want to do it again,” Rule said via phone. “My early work was pretty serious, but as I’ve gotten
more and more into storytelling, I’m looking for the laughs. I want the whole room to be laughing.” Rule is one of New Hampshire’s bestknown tellers, but she’s just one of many sharing stories the old-fashioned way — in front of people. Some, like Rule, do it professionally, while others muscle up the courage to tell personal anecdotes onstage to connect with people and feel less alone in the world. “My stories of motherhood have connected me to other mothers in a way that made me feel like, OK, I’m not alone now,” said Erin Laplante, who recently told a story part of Long Story Short in Portsmouth. “What happens to me is that once I tell the stories out loud, I can let them go. I can forgive myself for a lot of things I have gone through.” New Hampshirites have a multitude of avenues in which to hear and share stories. Here, a variety of tellers talk about what makes a good one and why the art form is so important.
Elements of a story
Of all narrative media, oral storytelling requires its users to be the most vulnerable. There’s no director to tell you what to do, no other actors to rely on. Screw up, and you can’t press the delete button. It requires you to not only see your audience but to interact with them, feed off them. “Actors can be on stage in the light and do their thing, and they’re aware of the audience but they’re not feeding off the audience,” Rule said. “I need to see the audience, to have eye contact with them to do a good job.” In that respect it’s kind of like comedy, but with one major difference — the relationship between the speaker and audience. Rule’s listeners are forgiving, and they talk to her from their seats all the time. In comedy this is heckling, but in storytelling it’s engagement. “Comedians talk about bombing, but I’ve never really felt that experience,” Rule said. “I think with stand-up comedy, there’s a kind of adversarial relationship between the comic and the audience. The audience is kind of saying, ‘OK, funny guy, let’s see what you can do.’… But with a storyteller, it’s like we’re all in this together.” Laughter is, of course, Rule’s favorite reaction, but silence works too. “If people are really engaged, the room gets very quiet. There’s no fidgeting. It’s like how when little kids listen to stories,” Rule said. Oral stories can take many shapes. They can be true. They can be fictional. They can be somebody else’s. They can be based on a true story but altered slightly for a more entertaining ending. But all have the same four elements, said New Hampshire storyteller Papa Joe Gaudet (who has a seven-minute narrative about how he got his name). “There’s the storyteller — the person telling the story. There’s the story itself. The people listening to the story. And the environment in which you’re telling the story,” Gaudet said. As such, the experience is different every time. “The storyteller can adapt [the story] to the audience, whereas a movie can’t, and that’s the difference. It’s organic, and it’s alive,” he said. Lots of storytellers, like Rule, are writers. Rule just released a children’s book, N is for New Hampshire, and New Hampshire Storytelling Alliance co-founder Lauretta Phillips is expecting to publish her latest project, Sarah’s Quilt, next year. Beth LaMontagne Hall, founder of Long Story Short, a regular Portsmouth event inspired by The Moth (which invites people to tell true tales in five minutes or less, and has become popular because of The Moth Radio Hour) is a professional journalist. But being a writer isn’t a necessity by any means.
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“If you think about it, we’ve all been to a party or barbecue or something where there’s somebody who has the most amazing story to tell, and they tell it in such an entertaining way. I think it’s a skill that doesn’t really rely on how well you can write. I think about my dad, who tells great stories, but he’s not a writer by trade by any means. I’m constantly looking for those people,” Hall said.
Career storytellers
Some New Hampshire storytellers get paid to tell. Gaudet is one of them; he’s been telling professionally at festivals, schools, workshops, libraries, farmers markets, senior centers, even prisons — all common venues for professional New Hampshire storytellers — for 30 years. He estimates the state is home to about 50 professionals. Of them, 12 to 15 make a (modest) living this way. Gaudet got into storytelling as a single parent making wooden toys at Renaissance Fairs. That first year he booked 300 gigs, and today he has 200 tales in his repertoire, Annual New Hampshire storytelling events Granite State Story Swap: Saturday, May 6, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Seacoast Science Center, 570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, featuring Judith Black White Mountain Storytelling Festival: Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, in the town square of Waterville Valley, featuring Sharon Kennedy Tellabration! Saturday, Nov. 18 (from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the New Hampshire Technical Institute Library, 31 College Drive, Concord, produced by the Central NH Storytellers; and from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Stone Church 5 Granite St., Newmarket, produced by the Seacoast Storytellers) Dawnland Storyfest: 2018 date TBA
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many of which are old tales his mother told him growing up. Phillips, who recently won the Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award at the Northeast Storytelling Conference, fell into the form 30 years ago. She was vacationing in Colorado when, on a whim, she decided to tag along with her sister, Cora Jo Ciampi, who was attending a storytelling conference there. She loved it. Five years later, a friend asked her to entertain with stories at a seniors’ dinner. “I said, I’m not a storyteller. I’m a writer. ‘Nah,’ they said, ‘You’re a storyteller. We’ll pay you $50.’ And I said, ‘OK,’” Phillips said. Most of the state’s professional storytellers are involved in the New Hampshire Storytelling Alliance, a statewide organization comprising several regional guilds. It organizes a handful of big events (the next is the Granite State Story Swap on May 6) and ongoing programs each year. Several interviewed attended the 2017 Northeast Storytelling Conference, “Sharing the Fire,” in Plymouth, Mass., the last weekend in March, organized by the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling, or had participated in the National Storytelling Festival, which was established in 1973 and is held every fall in Tennessee.
Collecting tales
Today, Phillips writes most of the stories she tells. Some are personal, and some have a vein of truth, but most are fictionalized. Other tellers, like Gaudet and Simon Brooks, retell folk and fairy tales and fables. Other organizations New Hampshire Storytelling Alliance, nhstorytelling.org League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling, lanes.org National Storytelling Festival, storynet.org
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“Many people seem to think if the story’s not true, then it’s probably not worth knowing — that fiction and fantasies are escapism. But I think they’re metaphors, and that they’re important ways of presenting ideas and concepts,” Gaudet said. Brooks, who first started telling stories while working at youth hostels overseas, said his narratives come from researching old texts and at libraries. It’s easier to uncover these old cultural tales than it used to be. He dreams of someday spending hours in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Until then, there’s the internet. “A lot of books now are being scanned and put online, which makes it a lot easier to find certain books,” Brooks said. “Before there might have only been one copy in the whole country, and I’d have to go to New York City to get it.” Rule says her stories are like poems, free of unnecessary words. Most have plot twists at the end and are infused with Yankee humor. She collects them through observation, research and talking with locals. Generally, they’re unscripted, but she pays close attention to word choice and timing in punch lines. “If you move one word to the wrong place or flip words, then you can lose the whole rhythm of the story. It’s not like I memorize them, but the key lines have to be told in just the right way, with the right inflection and in the right order,” Rule said.
Inspired by The Moth
Gaudet says most adult programming today is in The Moth style of storytelling, inviting people to tell true tales in five minutes or less, no notes allowed. The Moth was launched in New York in 1997 but blew up when it established The Moth Radio Hour in 2009. The event travels the country, and its most recent Granite State pit stop was at The Music Hall on March 25.
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The latest Long Story Short on March 22 saw an especially large crowd, perhaps because the previous one had been cancelled due to weather, but more likely because this style is aimed at normal people sharing personal experiences. “It’s been so long!” Hall said, stepping onstage that night, explaining the format and introducing the first speaker, Debbie Kane. Kane, an Exeter writer who talked about being a soccer mom, used to hate public speaking but found this format attractive. “There was something about this that seemed safe and fun,” said Kane, who has told live stories several times now. “Some people are professionals, but there are a couple of people who come in here and haven’t ever told stories on stage before.” Kane told her first tale, about joining a cult in her 20s, a year ago. She practiced her story beforehand — in the shower, in the car, to her cat Chloe — before taking it to an audience. It was exhilarating. “I was on a complete high. What’s great is that the audiences were really receptive,” she said. “I think people see themselves in the people onstage.”
Inspired by The Moth Tales Told: The event occurs the first Tuesday of the month at Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord, in which audience members’ names will be drawn from the hat and called up at random to tell a true, original story onstage; the next two occur Tuesday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m., and Tuesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m., talestoldproductions.com Long Story Short: It occurs every other month at 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth; about four or five speakers are scheduled to go up each night, and one name is drawn from a hat; the next is Wednesday, May 10, at 7 p.m., 3sarts.org, facebook.com/LSSat3S This weekend The New Hampshire Institute of Art presents its inaugural Storytelling Festival Saturday, April 8, at 2 p.m., at the school’s French Building, 148 Concord St., Manchester, which will be emceed by NHPR’s Virginia Prescott and feature about 10 storytellers, with participants ranging from students to refugees, in the style of The Moth. Admission is free. One of the speakers is Wayne Burton, a state legislator and vet whose story centers on his time in Vietnam in the late ‘60s, which he began writing several years ago. He was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War and the letters he wrote to his wife at the time, which she saved. Burton has spoken on the floor of the New Hampshire House and made speeches as president of North Shore Community College, but this is different than anything he’s done before. Telling his story will involve reliving one of the toughest times in his life, but he hopes to send an important message to listeners. “I want people to know, especially the next generation, about Vietnam,” he said. “It’s a war people would like to forget, but the truth is, Americans fought and died there, just as they did in other wars.”
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Another speaker that night talked about an accidental kidnapping that turned into a therapy session, and another tapped into her experience traveling to a foreign country and ziplining for the first time. Past storytellers include bartenders, executives, newspaper reporters, marketing professionals, bloggers and city councilors. The anecdotes tend to be personal, and that’s why people connect with them. “When you have somebody who’s not a professional radio journalist, like on This American Life or something like that, you’re going to have a story that’s a little rougher around the edges. It’s going to be more conversational, and they’re going to put in those real-life observations that I feel add so much more depth and color to the story,” Hall said. The last speaker of the night was Laplante from Kittery, Maine, who talked about having her daughter as a single mom, and the kinds of things she struggled with in the beginning, like staying in, pregnant, when her friends went out Friday night; breastfeeding; and “constantly feeling like a failure.” After she finished, a woman she didn’t know walked up to her and expressed similar feelings and experiences — a common occurrence at these events. “It’s just motherhood. It’s hard,” Laplante said. “I think there’s always something 113673
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Ongoing meet-ups Storytelling guilds Souhegan Storytelling Guild, first Tuesday of each month from 6:50 to 8:30 p.m. at the Amherst Town Library, 14 Main St., Amherst, amherstlibrary.org Seacoast Storytelling Guild, first Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, seacoaststorytellersnh.com Central NH Storytelling Guild, second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m., at the Horseshoe Pond Place Senior Center, 26 Commercial St., Concord, cnhsg.net Southern NH Storytelling Guild, third Tuesday of each month from 7 to 8:50 p.m., at the Nashua Public Library’s media center, 2 Court St., Nashua, nashualibrary.org Monadnock Storytelling Circle, third Wednesday of each month from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., Peterborough, peterboroughtownlibrary.org Mountain Storytellers Guild, fourth Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Conway Public Library, 15 Greenwood Ave., Conway, conwaypubliclibrary.org Tea & Tales, last Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m., Franklin Public Library, 310 Central St., Franklin; the next is April 25 and features Ruth Niven, cnhsg.net Mariposa Museum, 26 Main St., Peterborough, features regular storytelling events on various topics, visit mariposamuseum.org for upcoming events
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that you’re experiencing that someone else is experiencing. That’s why the event is so much fun.”
The effects of a good story
Entertainment and enlightenment are two reasons people tell and listen to stories, but the art form can also have an enormous impact outside of storytelling events, which you can see when you look at some of the most successful business leaders and politicians, Gaudet said. It’s a good skill to have when pitching ideas and marketing products. “For them to be able to get their story across, it will make it easier to get the project they want to do done, and sell it once it’s created,” said Brooks, who teaches the craft in public schools, universities, community centers and business workshops. “And that can happen with any business structure.” Phillips said one of her most rewarding storytelling encounters happened at a preschool. One of her listeners, a 4-year-old with autism, struggled to sit still during her presentation, so she let him stand nearby and play with a puzzle as she spoke. Afterward, as she was readying to leave, he grabbed her pant leg. He loved her story, he told her, and he recounted the entire narrative from start to finish. “The teacher said it was the first time he had ever spoken in class,” Phillips said. With the best stories, the teller vanishes, and the audience is transported; Brooks said it’s like falling down the rabbit hole, and you’re with the storyteller, seeing what he sees, smelling what he smells. In an age of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, it’s still the most effective form of human communication, said Wayne Burton, who performs at the Storytelling Festival in Manchester this weekend. “It’s important we never lose sight of the emotional impact of face-to-face storytelling. That’s why I’m interested in doing this — so I can see the reactions on people’s faces, and they can see mine,” he said.
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EAT: a five-course feast Join The Foundry Restaurant (50 Commercial St., Manchester) for a special chef’s dinner to benefit the New Hampshire Food Bank, which will feature five courses from chefs all across the state. Taste world-class food and pairings with local beer and wine. It’s all happening on Thursday, April 6, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $75. Visit foundrynh.com or call 836-1925.
Run or walk with your fourlegged friend for a good cause at the fourth annual Bagels & Biscuits 5K at Derryfield Park (100-190 Highland St., Manchester) at 9 a.m., sponsored by Temple Adath Yeshurun in Manchester. Ten percent of the proceeds will benefit the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire. Registration by April 7 is $25 for ages 20 and up, $20 for ages 11 to 19 and free for kids 11 and under; prices increase by $5 after that. Visit bagelsandbiscuits5k.com.
DRINK: wine Compare different types of wines at an Old World Versus New World wine class at WineNot Boutique (170 Main St., Nashua) on Thursday, April 6, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Learn about the art of blending different wines and how to differentiate between “Old World” and “New World” styles. The cost is $30 per person. Visit winenotboutique.com or call 204-5569.
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Andrea Veal is pulling out all the stops for her upcoming concert at the Concord Community Music School, “Love, War & (Black) Magic,” Friday, April 7. The program is like an abbreviated version of Handel’s opera Rinaldo, with seven fullystaged and costumed arias from the piece. Performing are music school faculty members, including Veal (voice), Steven Lundahl (recorder), Bozena O’Brien (violin), Kate Jensik (cello) and Kathryn Southworth (harpsichord and piano), who will tell the story with the help of props and scenery, from large dragon set pieces to a mobile of paper cranes suspended across the stage. Veal began hatching the idea two years ago when music school President Peggy Senter called out for event proposals to coincide with its Musicians of Wall Street series. Handel is one of Veal’s favorite composers, and she wanted audiences to get a good feel of a baroque opera. It’s not all about the music. “The orchestra plays on period instruments, so the idea is that it will sound like what Handel would have heard in his time,” Veal said via phone. “Opera is a visual medium as well as an auditory one. … If you’re doing a familiar opera aria, something by Rossini or Mozart, that music is Love, War & (Black) Magic Where: Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord When: Friday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $15 Contact: ccmusicschool.org, 228-1196
Andrea Veal, who performs in “Love, War & (Black) Magic” this Friday. Courtesy photo.
more familiar, and maybe it’s easier to just do it in a concert setting and not stage it and costume it. But I feel like the music of Handel is a little less familiar to audience members, and I wanted it to come to life in the way it’s meant to come to life.” The story within Rinaldo involves a king desperate to retain control of his kingdom, a commander on a quest to conquer, a knight confident in love’s power and a witch searching to belong. They live in a world of dragons, sirens, flying spirits, war and black magic. The opera is three hours long, but this one is cut to span an hour and
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a half with intermission. The dramatic pieces omitted will be explained in program notes so audiences can still follow along. “We do have some small opera companies in New Hampshire, and it’s great to have them. This is a nice opportunity to not only see some opera but to hear some baroque arias,” Southworth said. “It’s hard to see opera in New Hampshire, but it’s even harder to see baroque operas because they require certain specialized singing techniques.” The concert required a great deal of practice and planning. Veal sent scores and performance videos to the musicians in
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December and has been rehearsing with them for the past five weeks. Veal studied early music from the baroque period and sang in chamber choirs and music groups like the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. It’s important to her that audiences feel the same vitality these ideas, themes and characters had in the 1700s, when Handel wrote them. “I want people to see how alive and important this music can be when it’s done with imagination and personality. So many of my students love musical theater, and this is just the precursor to that,” Veal said.
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Looking for more art, theater and classical music? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store or Google Play. Theater Productions • CHILL Merrimack Repertory Theatre production. 50 E. Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass. March 22-April 16. Tickets $26-$70. Visit mrt.org. Call 978-654-4678. • YOURS, ANNE Manchester Community Theatre Players production. March 31-April 9. Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. North End Montessori School, 698 Beech St., Manchester. $10-$20. Visit mctp.info or call 800-838-3006. • THE SECRET OF COMEDY The Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St.,
Portsmouth. March 31-April 16. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets $15. Visit playersring.org, call 4368123. • ROSSUM’S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS Produced by Late Bloomer Productions. March 31-April 16, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $16.50. Visit hatboxnh.com. • THE STORY OF A BAD BOY Pontine Theatre production, play by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock
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St. Portsmouth. Sat., April 8, at 4 p.m.; Sun., April 9, at 2 p.m. Tickets $24. Visit pontine.org. • YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN Thurs., April 6, at 7 p.m.; Fri., April 7, at 7 p.m.; Sat., April 8, at 7 p.m. Rundlett Middle School, 144 S. Main St., Concord. Tickets $8. Directed by Karen Braz, featuring Rundlett Middle School students. • NEW ART THEATRE:THE TEMPEST Thurs., April 6, at 7:30 p.m. The Dana Center for the Humanities, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. $21.75. • 12 ANGRY JURORS Rochester
Opera House production. April 6-April 23. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. $14. Visit rochesteroperahouse.com. • THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Londonderry High School Drama Club production. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. Tickets $15. Thurs., April 6, at 7 p.m.; Fri., April 7, at 7 p.m.; Sat., April 8, at 1 & 7 p.m. • CHESS Windham Actors’ Guild production. Fri., April 7, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 9, at 2 p.m. Windham High School, 64 London Bridge
Road, Windham. $18. Visit windhamactorsguild.com. • THE JUNGLE BOOK NH Theatre Project Youth Rep Company production. West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. Fri., April 7, at 7 p.m.; Sat., April 8, at 2 & 7 p.m.; Sun., April 9, at 2 p.m. Tickets $10. Visit nhtheatreproject.org. • VANITIES Manchester West Theatre Knights production. Wed., April 12, at 3 p.m.; Thurs., April 13, at 7 p.m.; Fri., April 14, at 7 p.m.; Sat., April 15, at 7 p.m. Robert Baines auditorium. Manchester West High School,
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Chess hasn’t been produced in New Hampshire for nearly 20 years, likely because it’s a difficult musical to pull off — but difficult is what the Windham Actors Guild was looking for this spring. The 25-member cast takes Chess on this weekend at Windham High School. “Last year we played it safe; our main show was Fiddler on the Roof. It was a wonderful production, and it looked great and was well-attended, but this year we wanted to do something more challenging and less well-known,” said Keith Strang, the show’s producer, via phone. Chess opened in London’s West End in 1984 and hit Broadway in 1988. It involves a Cold War-era chess tournament between an American grandmaster and a Soviet grandmaster. As the show goes on, it becomes clear the chess match isn’t just a chess match but a metaphor for what’s going on outside the game, from politics to love triangles. “It’s not about chess, as in the actual physical game, with pawns and bishops. It’s about the games people play,” said Vicky Sandin, the play’s director. Though the show itself isn’t wellknown, the music is. Music credits go to Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (from ABBA), lyrics to Ulvaeus and Tim Rice. Singers often use “One Night in Bangkok” and “Anthem” as audition or recital songs, Strang said. In the past, companies have performed the music in concert, but Strang wanted to go with the full production and emphasize story and character, which is why the community theater company hired Sandin to take the director’s role. “The orchestration is unbelievable,” Strang said. “But rather than it being a concert, we hired Vicky Sandin, because she does mostly straight plays and her focus is on character work. And we felt character work was just as important as the music.” Sandin, who saw the production in London’s West End in the late ’80s, thinks the characters could easily be played twoWhere: Windham High School, 64 London Bridge Road, Windham When: Friday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. Admission: $18 Contact: windhamactorsguild.com
This weekend, the Windham Actors Guild produces Chess. Courtesy photo.
dimensionally, but she believes they’re complex and flawed. She sat down with each actor at the beginning of rehearsals to figure out, What’s the character’s history? His hopes, dreams? And why would he be singing this particular song? “The music is the star of the show, but in order for the music to be working effectively, there has to be some acting behind it,” Sandin said. “For some musicals, you see people talk. And then they sing. And then they talk. And then they sing. I wanted fluid dialogue from song into scene.” Challenges go beyond the fact that Chess is obscure and thus harder to sell tickets for. The show contains many moving parts; a giant 12-foot by 12-foot chess board needs to move on and off stage seamlessly, and scenes change frequently. Two sets will be on stage at any given time, with lights switching from stage right to stage left to amp up the pace, Sandin said. But challenging is kind of the theme of the 2016-2017 season. After Chess, the company will get ready for the American Association of Community Theatres National Festival June 26 through July 1 in Rochester, Minn., where four actresses — Shawna Ciampa, Laurie Torosian, Amy Winkle Agostino, and Hannah Heckman-Mckenna — will perform in The Most Massive Woman Wins by Madeleine George. The company won the statewide competition this past fall and was the first New Hampshire group in 28 years to win the New England competition in February.
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Park St., Lebanon. The concert, conducted by Jonathan McPhee and featuring Cheryl Bishkoff on oboe, contains Eastern European music by Smetana (“The Moldau”), Dvořák (Symphony No. 7) and Martinů (Concerto for the Oboe). Tickets are $10 to $49, free for youth. Visit symphonynh.org. Call 595-9156. • Honoring Anne Frank: Portsmouth Pro Musica presents a spring concert featuring a major new choral work, “Annelies,” by British composer James Whitbourn, Sunday, April 9, at 3 p.m. at Portsmouth Middle School, 155 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth. The piece focuses on her life during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. The concert will be preceded by a 2 p.m. talk by Dr. Diane Freedman, who is a core faculty member at the University of New Hampshire. Tickets are $15 at the door, $12 in advance. — Kelly Sennott
Miller, henna tattoos by ShrenikahennaArt. Cash bar. Visit currier. org, call 669-6144, ext. 108. • EMPTY BOWLS THROWDOWN Sat., April 8, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Studio 550, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Make bowls to fight hunger. Clay provided. Email info@550arts.com to reserve a wheel; space limited. • FREE NEW HAMPSHIRE SECOND SATURDAY Sat., April 8, 10 a.m.-noon. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. NH residents receive free general museum admission. Visit currier.org. Call 669-6144, ext. 122. • CREATIVE STUDIO SATURDAY: BOOK ARTS Sat., April 8, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Visit currier.org. Call 669-6144, ext. 122. • ART, CONVERSATION & COFFEE Slow art day at the Lamont Gallery, Frederick R.
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Mayer Art Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, 20 Main St., Exeter. Call 777-3461. Sat., April 8, 10-11 a.m. • ART SHOW FOR ALZHEIMER’S Arbors of Bedford residents host silent auction of artwork. Sat., April 8, 1-3 p.m. Arbors of Bedford, 70 Hawthorne Road, Bedford. Entertainment, light refreshments. Call 647-9300. • CURRIER FOCUS TOURS “Deep Cuts” and “BioLath.” Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Sun., April 9, at 11:30 a.m. Visit currier.org, email jazzbrunch@currier.org. “History and Mysteries at the Museum” tour Sat., April 15, at 11:30 a.m. • STYLES & SMILES CHARITY FASHION SHOW Sat., April 15, at 6:30 p.m. Windham High School, 64 London Bridge Road, Windham. Tickets $10. Visit teambelladonna.weebly. com. 113916
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• Representational impressionism: Wild Salamander’s Whitty Gallery, 30 Ash St., Hollis, hosts “Dueling Landscapes: Traditional vs. Industrial” April 1 through April 22, with a reception this Friday, April 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show contains artwork by oil painter Stephen Previte, including traditional landscapes and new paintings on paper with urban and industrial themes. His work has been exhibited throughout New England and New York, from the Currier Museum of Art to the Whistler House Museum of Art. He describes his style as representational impressionism.“We’re excited to host this show. Steve is well-known locally, and this exhibition will allow the community to see a whole new direction in his work, alongside his more traditional landscapes,” said gallery owner KC Morgan in the press release. Call 465-9453 or visit wildsalamander.com. • Another mural: There’s another mural in the works in downtown Concord, according to a story in the Concord Monitor, to be led by a group of high school artists. The plan is to install a 36-foot-tall mural that will hang on the tower of the Ralph Pill Building. The students will create the mural at the Kimball Jenkins School of Art. The mural will be subject to approval from the city and building owners. It’s the second studentcreated mural facilitated by the art school;
Openings • “A LITTLE ABSTRACTED” Abstract art show featuring work by Marcia Santore, Kate Higley, Ethel Hills, Lotus Lien. On view through May 13. Opening reception Thurs., April 6, 5-7 p.m. Twiggs Gallery, 254 King St., Boscawen. Visit twiggsgallery. wordpress.com. Call 975-0015. • “DUELING LANDSCAPES: TRADITIONAL VS. INDUSTRIAL” Show featuring work by Hollis oil painter Stephen Previte. On view thru April 22. Reception Fri., April 7, 6-8 p.m. Wild Salamander Arts Center, 30 Ash St., Hollis. Visit wildsalamander.com. • 11th ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBIT Featuring work by SNHU graphic design students. April 6-May 6. Southern NH University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester. Visit snhu.edu. Reception Thurs., April 6, 5-7 p.m. • “CARBON BASED LIFE FORMS” Art show by Kris Ebbeson at Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 N. Main St., Rochester, 812-1488. Reception Thurs., April 6, 5-7 p.m. On view through April.
“The Ice House” by Stephen Previte, on view at the Whitty Gallery this month. Courtesy image.
the first was installed last year on the CVS on Main Street, inspired by the life of Haley Rae Martin, who died as a teen due to an overdose. They’re still in the planning process but hope to be finished by the end of May. • Arts funding legal battle: The Nashua Center for the Arts filed a petition in court this month to dissolve the organization, with the aim of sending the money left in its trust (more than $1 million) to the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, but Nashua officials are trying to keep that money in the city. The organization has been around since 1961, but was dormant in the 1990s before starting up again in 2003. The move took many by surprise because a lot of people didn’t even know the organization existed and that this money was there, according to the Nashua Telegraph. Officials would rather see the Nashua Center for the Arts form again, with a new board dedicated to funding arts in the Gate City. — Kelly Sennott
• “AT HOME IN THE VILLAGE” Colorful expressions of New England coastal life, art exhibition by Ann Trainor Domingue. On view through April 30. Opening reception Fri., April 7, 5-8 p.m. Kennedy Gallery, 41 Market St., Portsmouth. Visit kennedygalleryandframing.com. • MICHAEL W. LEMIRE Art exhibition. NHTI Library, 31 College Drive, Concord. On view through April 30. Opening reception Thurs., April 13, 5-7 p.m. • “ART OF GREAT BAY” Art exhibition celebrating New England coastline. On view Fri., April 7, 5:30-8 p.m.; Sat., April 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun., April 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Great Bay Discovery Center, 89 Depot Road, Greenland. Visit greatbaystewards.org or call 778-0015. Classical Music Events • BACH’S LUNCH LECTURE “Journey of the Drum: The African Diaspora” lecture by faculty member Lindsey Schust and Grace Schust. Thurs., April 6, 12:10-12:50 p.m. Concord Com-
munity Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord. Call 228-1196, visit ccmusicschool.org. Free. • NEW HAMPSHIRE FIDDLE ORCHESTRA Concert. Sat., April 8, at 7 p.m. Exeter Town Hall, Exeter; and Sun., April 9, at 2 p.m. Franklin Opera House, 316 Central St., Franklin. $12. Visit fiddleheadscamp.com. • SMETANA AND DVORAK Symphony NH concert. Fri., April 7, at 8 p.m., Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord; Sat., April 8, at 8 p.m., at Keefe Auditorium, 117 Elm St., Nashua. Tickets $18-$49. Visit symphonynh.org. • LOVE, WAR & BLACK MAGIC Musicians of Wall Street present operatic journey. Fri., April 7, at 7:30 p.m. Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord. Call 228-1196. Visit ccmusicschool.org. Tickets $15. • AN EVENING WITH THE SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE CHOIR Concert. Sat., April 8, at 7:30 p.m. Dana Center for the Humanities, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. Free. Visit anselm.edu.
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From egg hunting to meeting with the Easter Bunny, there are plenty of fun family-friendly festivities in the Granite State to celebrate Easter this year.
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• Bow – Saturday, April 8, at Bow Elementary School (22 Bow Center Road). Hunts begin at 10 a.m. Other festivities will include face-painting, Easter crafts, and a breakfast buffet in the school’s cafeteria from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. courtesy of the Bow Men’s Club (admission is $6 for adults and $3 for kids 12 and under). Visit bownh.gov. • Exeter – Friday, April 14, at Swasey Parkway. Hunts start at 4:30 p.m., and the event will include light refreshments and an appearance by the Easter Bunny. • Hooksett – Saturday, April 15, at the Hooksett Public Library (31 Mount St. Mary’s Way). Hunts start at 9:30 a.m. for babies and toddlers, 10 a.m. for preschoolers and 10:30 a.m. for ages 6 and up. There will be games, crafts, visits with the Easter Bunny and more from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Visit hooksettlibrary.org. • Hopkinton – Saturday, April 8, at Hopkinton Middle High School (297 Park Ave., Contoocook). Hunt starts at 10 a.m. and is open to grade 3 and under. BYO basket. Photos with the Easter Bunny offered 9:30 to 10 a.m. Visit hopkintonrec.com. • Hudson – Saturday, April 8, at Dr. H.O. Smith School (33 School St.). Hunts start at 11:30 a.m. for age 4 and under, noon for K through
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grade 2 and 12:30 p.m. for grades 3 through 5. BYO basket. Visit hudsonrec.com. • Manchester – The Spring Celebration takes place on Saturday, April 8, from 11 a.m. to noon at the Manchester City Library (405 Pine St.). It features stories, crafts and an egg hunt for kids ages 2 through 7. Registration is recommended. Visit manchester.lib.nh.us. The Friends of Stark Park’s Easter Egg Hunt will be held on Saturday, April 15, from 11 a.m. to noon, at Stark Park (River Road, Manchester), and is open to age 8 and under. Visit starkpark.com. • Merrimack – Saturday, April 8, at Wasserman Park (116 Naticook Road). Hunts start at 10:10 a.m. for ages 1 through 3, 10:30 a.m. for ages 4 and 5, 10:50 a.m. for ages 6 and 7 and 11:10 a.m. for ages 8 through 10, and are open to residents only. BYO basket and camera for photos with the Easter Bunny. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Visit merrimackparksandrec.org. • Milford – Saturday, April 15, at Keyes Park (Elm Street). Hunts start
at 11:15 a.m. for toddlers, 11:45 a.m. for pre-K to Grade 1, and 12:15 p.m. for grades 2 through 4, and are open to residents only. BYO basket. There will be a bake sale, raffles, photos with the Easter Bunny ($3) and field games from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visit milford.nh.gov. • New Boston – Saturday, April 8, at 10 a.m. on the town common (7 Meetinghouse Hill Road). The Easter Bunny will lead kids in an Easter bonnet parade. An egg hunt will follow. BYO basket. Prizes will be awarded for the most creative bonnets and for finding special eggs. Visit newbostonnh.gov. • Pelham – Saturday, April 8, on the Village Green (in front of the Town Hall). Hunt begins at noon and is open to age 8 and under. There will be visits with the Easter Bunny, fun activities and prizes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The inclement weather date is April 15. Visit pelhamweb.com. • Salem – Saturday, April 15, at Soule Elementary School (173 S. Policy St.). Hunts start at 11:30 a.m. for age 5 and under and 1 p.m. for ages 6 through 10. There will be a bounce
• Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road, Londonderry, 669-4820, aviationmuseumofnh.org) will hold its Easter Egg Hunt at the Museum on Saturday, April 15. Hunts begin for ages 4 and under at 10 a.m., and for ages 5 and up at 10:30 a.m. There will be crafts and treats until 1 p.m. BYO basket. It’s free with regular museum admission, which is $5 for adults, $4 for veterans and seniors 60+, $2.50 for ages 12 through 16, free for ages 11 and under and $15 maximum for a family. • Beaver Brook Association (117 Ridge Road, Hollis, 465-7787, beaverbrook.org) has its Easter Egg Trail Hunt on Saturday, April 8, from 10 a.m. to noon. Eggs will be hidden along the decorated trails and replenished throughout the day. It’s free and open to all ages. Refreshments will be available for purchase. • Charmingfare Farm (774 High St., Candia, 483-5623, visitthefarm. com) presents the Egg-Citing Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 8, Sunday, April 9, and Saturday, April 15, with check-in times from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. There will be visits with the Easter Bunny and live animals, horsedrawn wagon and tractor train rides, and an egg hunt for ages 2 through
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The New Hampshire Fisher Cats play their first weekend series at home on Saturday, April 8, at 5:35 p.m., and on Sunday, April 9, at 1:35 p.m. Both games are at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium (1 Line Drive, Manchester) against the Binghamton Mets. An Atlas Fireworks show is planned following the game on Saturday, and after the game on Sunday, kids attending the game will get to run the bases on the field. Tickets to each game start at $12. Visit nhfishercats.com or call the box office 641-2005.
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The Nashua Public Library (2 Court St.) will hold an early childhood fair on Sunday, April 9, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. for families with children under 5. Visit tables for local child care centers and preschools, and join other family activities, demos and giveaways. The City of Nashua’s Division of Public Health will be at the fair to offer immunizations for $10 and free lead screenings. Outside the library, volunteers from Let’s Put People on Bikes will provide free bicycle repairs, adjusting brakes and shifters and pumping up tires. These services will be first come, first served, between 1 and 4 p.m. Admission to the fair is free. Visit nashualibrary.org or call 589-4610.
10. BYO empty dozen egg carton. Tickets cost $19, free for babies under age 1. • Concord Community TV will hold its second annual Easter Eggstravaganza on Friday, April 7, from 3 to 8 p.m., Saturday, April 8, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 9, from noon to 5 p.m. at Bektash Shrine Center (189 Pembroke Road, Concord). The fundraiser will feature more than 200 Easter gift baskets to win, in addition to kids’ activities, raffles, live entertainment and more. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and free for kids under 12. Visit yourconcordtv.org or call 226-8872 to buy tickets. • Kimball Jenkins Estate (266 N. Main St., 225-3932, Concord, kimballjenkins. com) throws an Eggstravaganza on Saturday, April
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Join the Canvas Roadshow (25 S. River Road, Bedford) for an owl painting workshop on Sunday, April 9, from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Paintings are suitable for all ages and will be done on a 12x12 canvas. The cost is $22 per child and all materials and aprons will be provided. Visit thecanvasroadshow. com or call 943-2103 for details.
Spring in your step
Celebrate the arrival of spring at the Manchester City Library’s Main Branch (405 Pine St.) on Saturday, April 8, from 11 a.m. to noon. Read spring stories, make simple crafts or go on a small egg hunt on the library’s lawn. Admission is free, but registration is encouraged. Visit manchester.lib.nh.us or call 624-6550, ext. 3328.
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Show off your Lego building skills at the next Bricksters lego club meeting at the Sandown Public Library (305 Main St., Sandown) on Saturday, April 8, from 1 to 2 p.m. Light snacks will also be provided. Admission is free and no registration is required. Visit sandownlibrary.us or call 887-3428 for more details.
15. The hunt begins at 10:15 a.m. and is open to ages 1 through 11. There will be a bounce house, face-painting and photos with the Easter Bunny from 10 to 11 a.m. Admission is free. • Next Level Church presents the Helicopter Egg Drop on Sunday, April 16, in Concord, Epping, Portsmouth and Somersworth. Thousands of eggs will be dropped from a helicopter onto a grass field for kids to collect. Drops are held at 9 and 10:30 a.m., and the exact locations will be announced that weekend. To participate, register online at 2017eggdrop.com and attend an NLC service during Easter weekend. NLC in Concord meets at the Mill Brook School (53 S. Curtisville Road). • Our Promise to Nicholas Foundation (NH
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I’m a fairly simple person. I like dogs and flowers and good food. Having friends is important. I like to grow vegetables from seed, and I revere trees that have survived longer than I have. And when it comes to poetry, I like it simple and direct, poetry that evokes images of nature and emotions I can understand. So it was a great pleasure when my friend the garden writer Sydney Eddison sent me her new book of poetry, Fragments of Time: Poems of gratitude for everyday miracles (Pomperaug Valley Press, 2016). Fragments of Time is a lovely book of poems. Many focus on Ms. Eddison’s gardens and her love for the outdoors. But a few are love poems about her late husband, and one is a sad reminder of the Newtown School shooting, which occurred in her town. Others are happy memories of children, dogs, squirrels and seasons changing. These are poems I have enjoyed reading out loud to loved ones. You might relate to this fragment of a poem: Dandelions, bold and unapologetic, seize empty spaces between perennials and drive down taproots. The lines are drawn. Let the battle begin! I know Sydney Eddison best as a gardener and garden writer. I first visited her in 2000 after I read her book The Self-Taught Gardener: Lessons from a Country Garden (Viking/ Penguin, 1997) and knew she was someone I wanted to meet. The book taught me much — even though I was at the time already writing a gardening column and considered myself a fairly accomplished gardener. Thumbing through it now, I see I can learn from it even now and should re-read it. For example, she points out that most silver-leafed plants do best in dry soil. I never thought of it that way. When I first visited Sydney in her garden in Connecticut it was in the middle of a ferocious drought. There was a ban on watering plants and washing cars, and had been for six weeks. Yet the soil in her flower beds was fluffy and lightly moist. Oaks in the woods were showing signs of stress, but her gardens were not. Had she been cheating, I asked? “Not a bit,” she replied. She explained that for decades her husband, Martin, had been chopping up fall leaves with the lawn mower and storing them in the barn in bags until spring, when she used them as mulch. The three-inch layer held in moisture and protected the soil from the summer sun. Earthworms love them, too, she said. Like all her advice, this was given out in the spirit of a friendly
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auntie who wanted the best for you. I’ve been mulching with chopped leaves ever since. Her book The Gardener’s Palette (Contemporary Books, 2003) taught me the basics of color theory. Among other things, it explains the importance of the color wheel and understanding the principles of contrast and harmony. It has color photos on nearly every page to illustrate her points. I agree with her final synopsis: “With nature providing an abundance of soft, neutral tones and peace-keeping green leaves, no gardener with keen eyes can go that far wrong. And at the risk of oversimplifying a complex subject, I still maintain that color for gardeners isn’t so complicated after all.” Then in 2005 Sydney came out with Gardens to Go: Creating and Designing a Container Garden (Bulfinch Press, 2005). As she explained in the beginning, “In terms of design, a container garden should have boundaries, bone structure, and geometry, just like any other garden.” She added, “As you will soon see, a container garden is the real thing, a living three-dimensional picture, rich in plant material every bit as exciting as an in-the-ground garden.” Sydney’s most recent gardening book, Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older (Viking Press, 2010) is, perhaps, her final gardening book. Writing it as she approached the age of 80, she recognized that she was no longer strong as on ox and able to wrestle boulders out of the ground; that a paid helper in the garden is good, if you can afford one; that it is all right to accept imperfections and to use lower-maintenance plants even if it means giving up some old favorites. I feel honored that I have been included in Sydney Eddison’s group of gardening friends. Her books, some of which are (or should be) in your library, are all worth reading. What a delight to see a friend develop a new skill, publishing poetry now, in her ninth decade of living joyfully on this earth, with fabulous gardens and always with a Jack Russell terrier at her side, or zooming ahead. Read Henry’s twice-weekly blog at dailyUV.com/gardeningguy.
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sale of pottery and other homemade goods created by students and staff. Items will be priced between $5 and $20. The selection will vary from artist to artist, but there may be cups, bowls, mugs, vases, plates, boxes and more. Fri., April 7, 3 to 9 p.m., and Sat., April 8, 1 to 9 p.m. Studio 550 Community Art Center, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Free. Visit 550arts.com or call 232-5597. Nature & Gardening Animals/insects • WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS This live animal presentation will feature a diverse selection of ambassador animals as they take audience members on an imaginary safari around the world. Sat., April 8, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Hooksett Public Library, 31 Mount St. Mary’s Way, Hooksett. Free. Visit wildlifeencountersnh.com. Gardening • A GARDEN FOR WILDLIFE: NATURAL LANDSCAPING FOR A BETTER BACKYARD Learn how to help wildlife by altering your landscaping and gardening practices. Discuss choosing plants, gardening techniques, wildlife and habitats, use of native plants, and issues such as invasive plants. Wed., April 12, 6:30 p.m. Pelham Public Library, 24 Village Green, Pelham. Free. Visit pelhampubliclibrary.org or call 635-7581.
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Do check engine lights ever turn off by themselves? Dear Tom and Ray: I’m the original owner of a 2002 Toyota RAV4. It has about 135,000 miles on it. It’s the best car I’ve ever owned. A few months ago, By Ray Magliozzi my check engine light went on. The car was running fine, but after two weeks of staring at the light, I took it to a mechanic. He told me the sensor for the catalytic converter is bad (about $400), and the catalytic converter also might be bad (another $600). He told me converters usually last about 130,000 miles. It was not my fault; they just need to be replaced after around 130,000, give or take. The car was running fine, 20 mpg as always. So I decided to wait till I got my income tax refund. Three weeks later, after I changed my oil, I noticed that the check engine light was off. Did the light burn out? No, because when I turn the key to start the car, I see it light up. Is my catalytic converter sensor still bad? Do check engine lights turn off after a while? Or was the mechanic just looking for a $1,000
job? What do you think? — Russell I wouldn’t go blowing that income tax refund on the director’s cut of “Bikini Car Wash II” just yet, Russell. I don’t think the oil change had anything to do with it. I think what’s happening is that your oxygen sensor or the catalytic converter itself is on the verge of failing. A check engine light will shut itself off if the condition that caused it is remedied. So, if your converter is marginal, and you did a lot of stop-and-go driving, which creates high demand for the converter, that may have turned on the check engine light. If you then did a bunch of highway driving before changing the oil, the specs may have dropped back into the normal range, causing the light to go off. My prediction is that the light is going to come back on again, if it hasn’t already by the time you’re reading this. And, at some point soon, it’ll stay on — and then you won’t be able to pass inspection. So when the light comes back on, take the car, and the tax refund, back to your mechanic and have him try an oxygen sensor. At 135,000 miles, it’s very likely that you need one. And if you’re lucky,
you won’t need to replace the converter itself until after next tax season. Dear Car Talk: When it is extremely hot outside, the windows of my ‘97 Pontiac Bonneville will not go down. They always work in the morning, but not in the afternoon heat. Anything and everything associated with the windows has been replaced. This affects all windows. My mechanic is at a loss. It appears to be an electrical issue. Where do we start in an attempt to fix it before the summer? Thanks. — Robin I was going to suggest that you try cooling off the master window switch with a bag of ice, Robin. That way, even if it doesn’t get the windows to open, you can put the ice bag in your lap and stay cool that way. My real suggestion is that you make sure your mechanic has the car in his shop when it’s actually misbehaving. So on the next really hot day, take it to him and park it in the sun with the windows up, and tell him not to look at it until after lunch. Once he has the car and the windows are not working, he’ll be able to do a bunch of very useful tests and narrow
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Earth Day may be a couple of weeks away, but visitors to the Massabesic Audubon Center’s 10th annual Earth Day Festival can get a head start on helping to improve the environment, by connecting with nature through live animal presentations, meeting with local exhibitors, participating in crafts and more. The festival, which has become the Center’s signature annual event with a partnership from the Student Conservation Association, will be held on Saturday, April 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The theme for the event in previous years has been “tread lightly,” with New Hampshire Audubon members encouraging the public to think about how to lessen their actions that negatively impact the environment. But program director Angie Krysiak said the new theme this year is “protect and connect.” “This year we’re really trying to get people to be more proactive,” she said. “So, besides thinking about what they are doing negatively, we want them to be active and thinking about the positive things, and how they can be stewards to do more [for the environment]. … We want people to feel like every little thing they can do can make a difference … and make them feel empowered.” One of the new features of this year’s festival to help do just that, Krysiak said, will be the release of a red-tailed hawk that was recently found near the center. This will take place at 2:30 p.m. by wildlife rehabilitator Maria Colby. Live animal presentations will be held throughout the day that will include raptors, turtles and other various species at the Center. “I think [seeing] the hawk release will be really cool,” Krysiak said. “I think it’s an emotional release for people. Seeing actual wildlife and having that experience sorts
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Richard Cohen of Londonderry is head pharmacist at the Colonial Village Supermarket and Pharmacy in Contoocook. Explain what your current job is. Colonial Village Pharmacy is an independent retail pharmacy located in Contoocook, New Hampshire. We service the town of Contoocook and surrounding towns of Hopkinton and Warner and adjoining towns. We process prescription orders provided by practitioners or by the patients directly. … My role, specifically, is I am the pharmacist in charge. The State of New Hampshire requires one pharmacist in each pharmacy to be the pharmacist in charge according to state law. Our responsibilities not only encompass management of the employees that we work with but also to make sure
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What kind of education or Rule 1. And Rule 2 was if you can’t keep the customer happy training did you need for this? refer to rule one. I decided to go two routes. I obtained my education from, first, the City College of New What do you wish you’d York, where I obtained a fiveknown at the beginning of year degree in mathematics your career? and computer sciences. After I wish I had known how difobtaining that five-year degree, ficult the field of pharmacy I decided to continue on to a would be 50 years later with second degree and I attended regard to insurance regulations the Brooklyn College of Phar- Courtesy photo. and appropriate management macy, which is now a division of of the pharmacy to maintain Long Island University. And I … received profitability. … That’s a high learning a bachelor of pharmacy in 1977. At that curve and that comes with experience. time, in graduation, I was also awarded the Jacob J. Goldberg Award in Pharmacy What is your typical at-work uniform? Management. We have no standard uniform. It’s just dress professionally, look clean, look proHow did you find your current job? fessional. We have a white jacket that we Interesting enough, in this age of com- wear. puters and electronic transmissions of data records and CVs and resumes, I found this What was the first job you ever had? job in a three-line ad in the Union LeadThe first job that I ever had was at my er, in the Help Wanted section of the Union uncle’s pharmacy and he did pay me. I was Leader. Old-fashioned, but it was effective. a stock boy. — Ryan Lessard
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Get a big brunch or a hearty dinner without doing the cooking this Easter. Here are some of the local restaurants offering a special meal on Sunday, April 16. Make reservations now for your Easter eats (and write food@hippopress.com if there’s a restaurant whose big meal didn’t make it on this week’s list).
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• Last call for German John’s: On Saturday, April 15, after 23 years of business, German John’s Bakery (5 W. Main St., Hillsborough, 464-5079, germanjohnsbakery.com) will permanently close its doors. The bakery is offering sales on its German imported items and fulfilling final orders for imported items in bulk. Hours of operation are Thursday, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check the website for updates leading up to the closing. • Dine out on the Seacoast: The 2017 Spring Restaurant Week Portsmouth & the Seacoast is going on now through Saturday, April 8, with more than 40 Seacoast-area restaurants offering three-course prix fixe meals at $16.95 for lunch and $16.95 or $29.95 for dinner per person, as well as exclusive menu items and drinks. The meals typically consist of an appetizer, main dish and dessert, with several choices for each course, and optional add-ons may be available. Reservations at participating restaurants are recommended. For more information and to see the restaurants’ special menus, visit goportsmouthnh. com/where-to-eat/restaurant-week. • Grown close to home: LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst, 672-9898, labellewinerynh.com) has released its first two wines produced entirely from grapes grown onsite at its vineyard. The vines were planted in 2012 at two years old and harvested in 2015. Amherst Vineyard White is made from white varietals cayuga, petite amie and seyval blanc, while Amherst Vineyard Red is made from red varietals noiret, chancellor and petite pearl and aged in French oak barrels. Last month the red wine was named Best Red in New England, Double Gold and Best in New Hampshire at the 2017 Best of New England Wine Competition. The first bottling for the red wine is sold out, but the 2016 vintage batch will be bottled this summer. The white wine is available for purchase at the winery for $19.99 per bottle and is being served at The Bistro. • A week of beer and film: The third annual New Hampshire Craft Beer Week is going on now through Saturday, April 8, with more than 70 beer events hosted by craft breweries, restaurants and bars, home brewers, distributors, taprooms and bottle shops statewide. Events include tastings, brew nights and tap takeovers at bars and 36
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• Airport Diner (2280 Brown Ave., Manchester, 623-5040, thecman.com) will serve Easter specials from 5 a.m. to midnight. • Alan’s of Boscawen (133 N. Main St., Boscawen, 753-6631, alansofboscawen.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring an omelet station and various breakfast items; fruit, cheese, crackers and other hors d’oeuvres; vegetables, salads, mashed potatoes, shrimp, mushroom tortellini alfredo, chicken Marsala, crabmeat-stuffed haddock, carving stations and desserts. It will also serve menu specials from noon to 9 p.m., including baked ham, lamb dinner, prime rib and more. • Alpine Grove (19 S. Depot Road, Hollis, 882-9051, alpinegrove.com) will serve a brunch buffet with seatings at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m., featuring French toast, assorted pastries, quiches and other breakfast items; salads, vegetables, ham, chicken pot pie, salmon, mac and cheese, desserts, drinks and a cash bar. The cost is $26 for adults and $10 for children age 12 and under. Reservations are required. • Atkinson Resort and Country Club (85 Country Club Drive, Atkinson, 362-8700, atkinsonresort.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with prime rib and ham carving stations, maple bourbon chicken, baked haddock, pasta pomodoro, omelet and waffle stations and other breakfast items, salads and vegetables, desserts and more. The cost is $47 for adults and $20 for children ages 3 to 10. Reservations are required. • Auburn Tavern (346 Hooksett Road, Auburn, 587-2057, auburntavernnh.com) will serve brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with assorted breakfast pastries, quiches, salads, potatoes, spinach pies, vegetables, haddock, baked lamb, ham, turkey with stuffing and gravy, mac and cheese and desserts. The cost is $25 for adults and $10 for children. • Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, 472-2001, bedfordvillageinn. com) will serve a brunch buffet in the great hall from 9:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., featuring salads and appetizers, a carving station, omelets, waffles, desserts and drinks. The cost is $49.
A four-course prix fixe Easter dinner will be served in the dining room with seatings from noon to 5:30 p.m., featuring appetizers, salads, entrees like grilled filet of beef, scallops and shrimp, leg of lamb, mushroom bolognese and more; and desserts like carrot cake, hazelnut fudge tart and more. The cost is $65. • Birch Wood Vineyards (199 Rockingham Road, Derry, 965-7359, birchwoodvineyards.com) will serve a brunch buffet with seatings at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., featuring made-to-order omelets and traditional breakfast items; a carving station with lamb, porchetta and beef filet; entrees including baked haddock, chicken saltimbocca, pastas, vegetables and chicken fingers and fries for kids; salads, drinks and cash bar. The cost is $42 for adults and $18 for children ages 4 to 12. Reservations are required. • Brookstone Park (14 Route 111, Derry, 328-9255, brookstone-park.com) will serve a brunch buffet between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., featuring prime rib, chicken Marsala, carved ham, haddock, mac and cheese, smoked salmon, salads, traditional breakfast items, quiche, baked brie en croute and desserts. The cost is $39 for adults and $19 for children ages 3 to 12. Reservations are required. • Cafe on the Park (Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester, 206-4140, radissonmanchesternh.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring assorted breads, pastries, smoked salmon, cinnamon French toast and other breakfast items, and coffee-encrusted sirloin. The cost is $17. • The Coach Stop Restaurant & Tavern (176 Mammoth Road, Londonderry, 4372022, coachstopnh.com) will serve a special dinner menu with seatings from noon to 2
p.m., 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., and 5 to 7 p.m., featuring starters like shrimp cocktail, French onion soup, bruschetta and more, and entrees including chicken Marsala, seafood linguini alfredo, baked lamb, prime rib, lobster mac and cheese and more. • Colby Hill Inn (33 The Oaks, Henniker, 428-3281, colbyhillinn.com) will serve a three-course Easter supper with seatings from noon to 5 p.m., featuring starters like smoked shrimp bisque, crispy pierogi, deviled eggs and more; entree options including leg of lamb, glazed ham, prime rib, scallops and carrot spatzle; and dessert options including a chocolate trio, carrot cheesecake, lemonraspberry tart and Polish poppy seed roll. The cost is $49.95 for adults and $19.95 for kids. • The Common Man (25 Water St., Concord, 228-3463; 304 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 429-3463; 88 Range Road, Windham, 898-0088; 10 Pollard Road, Lincoln, 745-3463; 60 Main St., Ashland, 968-7030; 21 Water St., Claremont, 542-6171; thecman.com) will serve a special dinner menu from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at its Merrimack, Lincoln and Ashland locations, and an Easter buffet from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at its Concord, Windham and Claremont locations. • Copper Door (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford, 488-2677, copperdoorrestaurant.com) will serve brunch specials from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., like triple berry pancakes, vegetable frittata, coffee-crusted pork loin, and more; and kids’ brunch selections. Chef specials will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., including ham dinner, leg of lamb and cod. • Cotton Restaurant (75 Arms St., Manchester, 622-5488, cottonfood.com) will serve Easter specials from noon to 5 p.m. • Country Tavern (452 Amherst St., Nash-
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ua, 889-5871, countrytavern.org) will serve brunch from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring an omelet station, a carving station, breakfast and lunch items and desserts. The cost is $26.95 for adults and $15 for kids under age 12. • The Derryfield (625 Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-2880, thederryfield.com) will serve a buffet brunch with seatings starting at 10 a.m., featuring an omelet or pasta station, carving station, bread station, salad station and dessert station, plus a main buffet line with French toast, eggs Benedict, quiches and other breakfast items; grilled sirloin, chicken dishes, seafood dishes and more. The cost is $24.95 for adults, $22.95 for seniors 65+, $16.95 for children under age 12. • Firefly American Bistro & Bar (22 Concord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflynh.com) will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and its regular dinner menu from 4 to 10 p.m., with specials including baked ham, roasted lamb and a seafood entree. • The Foundry Restaurant (50 Commercial St., Manchester, 836-1925, foundrynh. com) will serve Easter brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., for $25 per person. • Gauchos Churrascaria Brazilian Steak House (62 Lowell St., Manchester, 6699460, gauchosbraziliansteakhouse.com) will have an Easter brunch buffet with live jazz music from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with last seating at 1:30 p.m., and Easter dinner starting at 3 p.m. The cost for the brunch is $17.95 for adults and $19.95 for kids age 6 through 12, and the cost for dinner is $31.95 per person. • Giorgio’s Ristorante (524 Nashua St., Milford, 673-3939; 270 Granite St., Manchester, 232-3323, giorgios.com) will serve brunch featuring a carving station, omelet station, breakfast items, pastries and breads, entrees, a dessert station and a bloody mary bar. • Granite Restaurant & Bar (The Centennial Hotel, 96 Pleasant St., Concord, 227-9000, graniterestaurant.com) will have a brunch with seatings at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., featuring breakfast selections like cof-
fee cake, brioche French toast, smoked salmon and more; dinner selections including rolls, salad, soup, vegetables, vegetarian paella, cheese tortellini and baked haddock; a carving station and a dessert and coffee station. The cost is $33 for adults, $30 for seniors 65+ and $20 for kids under age 15. • The Homestead Restaurant & Tavern (641 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 429-2022; 1567 Summer St., Bristol, 7442022, homesteadnh.com) will serve a special Easter menu featuring starters like crab cakes, escargot, seafood chowder and more; and entrees including roasted lamb shank, broiled salmon, New York sirloin, chicken and broccoli alfredo and more. • Killarney’s Irish Pub (Holiday Inn Nashua, 9 Northeastern Boulevard, Nashua, 888-1551, killarneysirishpub.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring salads, fruits, antipasto displays, bread, omelets and other breakfast items, a seafood station, a carving station, hot entrees with beef, poultry and seafood, and desserts. The cost is $24.95 for adults, $14.95 for children under age 12. • LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst, 672-9898, labellewinerynh.com) will serve brunch buffet in the great room from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring waffles and crepes, an omelet station and other breakfast items, a carving station, pasta, chicken, haddock, vegetables, salads, desserts and more. The cost is $49 for adults and $19 for children ages 4 to 12. The Bistro will serve an a la carte Easter menu from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with specials like eggs Benedict, smoked salmon, frittata, veal porterhouse, seared turbot, lamb chops and kids’ plates. • Mile Away Restaurant (52 Federal Hill Road, Milford, 673-3904, mileawayrestaurant.com) will serve a prix fixe Easter dinner that includes one appetizer, such as a fresh fruit with sorbet or Swedish meatballs; a salad; an entree, with options like leg of lamb, veal Marsala, maple-glazed salmon and more; and one dessert, such as chocolate spec mousse cake, strawberry cheesecake or 36
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Continued from page 34 restaurants, beer dinners and food pairings, brewery tours and demonstrations, workshops, discussions with brewers and more. Some breweries are having special beer releases and anniversary parties. Coinciding with NHCBW now through Saturday, April 8, is Draft Fest, a new festival with events in Derry and Londonderry combining local craft beer and independent film. For more information and the schedule of events, visit nhbeer.org/nhcbw and draftfestnh.com. To read the full story about New Hampshire Craft Beer Week and Draft Fest that ran in the Hippo, visit hippopress.com and click on “past issues,” then click on the March 30 pdf and look for the story on p. 46. 35 ice cream puff. The cost is $28.95 for adults and $18.95 for kids under age 12. • MT’s Local Kitchen & Wine Bar (212 Main St., Nashua, 595-9334, mtslocal.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring salads, ham, roast beef, chicken Marsala, omelets to order, breakfast items, assorted breads and pastries, desserts and more. The cost is $26 for adults and $18 for children age 10 and under. Reservations are required. • O Steaks & Seafood (11 S. Main St., Concord, 856-7925, magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com/osteaks) will serve a brunch buffet. More details TBA; see website for updates. • The Peddler’s Daughter (48 Main St., Nashua, 821-7535, thepeddlersdaughter.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. More details TBA. • The Red Blazer Restaurant and Pub (72 Manchester St., Concord, 224-4101, theredblazer.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring leg of lamb, baked ham, baked haddock, cheese cannelloni, salads, vegetables, breakfast items and dessert. The cost is $27.99 for adults, $12.99 for children ages 6 through 12 and $6.99 for children ages 3 through 5. • Restaurant Tek-Nique (170 Route 101, Bedford, 488-5629, restaurantteknique.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring an omelet and carving station, dessert table and drink specials. The cost is $30 for adults and $14 for kids ages 3 through 12. • Roots Cafe (at Robie’s Country Store, 9 Riverside St., Hooksett, 485-7761, rootsatrobies.com) will serve a brunch buffet with seatings at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., noon and 1:15 p.m., featuring pancakes, French toast, veggie skillet, benny’s, corned beef and pulled pork hash, eggs to order, ham, turkey, pastries and more. The cost is $18.95 for adults and $7.95 for children under age 8. • Stonebridge Country Club (161 Gor-
• Tucker’s expands: Tucker’s restaurant will soon open a new location at 238 Indian Brook Road in Dover, in the building formerly occupied by Uno Pizzeria & Grill. This will be the local chain’s fourth location, joining Tucker’s restaurants in Hooksett (1328 Hooksett Road), Concord (80 South St.) and New London (207 Main St.). “We wouldn’t be where we are today without the tremendous support of our dedicated team,” owner Hale ColeTucker said in a press release. “Their hard work, loyalty, commitment, and incredible talent have given us the confidence needed to continue growing Tucker’s.” An opening date has not been announced but is estimated to be sometime in June. Visit tuckersnh.com.
ham Pond Road, Goffstown, 497-8633, golfstonebridgecc.com) will serve a brunch buffet with seatings at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., featuring ham, roast beef, glazed chicken, breakfast strata, brioche French toast, a dessert table with mini pastries and more. The cost is $26.99 for adults, $22.99 for seniors and $12.99 for children. • The Tuckaway Tavern & Butchery (58 Route 27, Raymond, 244-2431, thetuckaway.com) will serve a brunch buffet from noon to 3 p.m., with haddock, mini burgers, honey ham, prime rib and more. The cost is $28.95 for adults and $14.95 for kids age 12 and under. • Tuscan Kitchen (67 Main St., Salem, 952-4875, tuscanbrands.com) will serve Easter specials with its regular dinner menu all day. • Veranda Martini Bar & Grille (201 Hanover St., Manchester, 627-2677, verandagrille.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., with various breakfast and lunch items. The cost is $14.95 for adults and $9.95 for children age 12 and under. • The Yard (1211 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-3545, theyardrestaurant. com) will serve a brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring breakfast items, seafood Newburg, rosemary chicken, barbecue kielbasa, chicken Romana, Swedish meatballs, sweet and sour pork, meat lasagna, rice and vegetables, a carving station and desserts. The cost is $24.95 for adults and $12.95 for kids under age 10. • Zorvino Vineyards (226 Main St., Sandown, 887-8463, zorvino.com) will serve a brunch buffet with seatings at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., featuring an omelet station, crepes, pancakes, French toast, eggs, breakfast pastries, fruit, baked haddock, chicken fingers and fries for kids, salad, a carving station, drinks and a cash bar. The cost is $40 for adults and $20 for kids ages 5 to 12. Reservations are required.
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When Andrea Younie of Derry discovered Healthy Hands Cooking, a nutrition-focused cooking class curriculum for kids, she knew it was something she wanted to provide for kids living in southern New Hampshire. “What really drew me to it is that it’s not just a ‘let’s cook something and eat it’ class,” she said. “There’s the nutrition piece to it, and it also teaches safety in the kitchen, so it gives kids a good base of information for what they can do in the kitchen, now and in their future.” Younie became a certified Healthy Hands instructor last year and is starting classes at The Marion Gerrish Community Center in Derry this month and through the Milford and Merrimack recreation departments in May. The first class, happening Monday, April 10, from 4 to 6 p.m., is “Have a Souper Day” for kids ages 8 through 13. It starts with a game to teach the kids about different kinds of healthy ingredients they can use in homemade soups. Then, they’ll receive stepby-step instruction to make a few easy soup recipes, going through the whole process from chopping up the ingredients to cooking the soups on the stove. Recipes may include things like tomato soup, egg drop soup, garden veggie soup, creamy cheese soup or a strawberry cold soup. “It’s about increasing kids’ awareness of nutritional eating and what [healthy ingredients are] out there, so when they go home, they’ll have some ideas of what to look for
or what to ask their parents for,” Younie said. The “Yummy Munchies” class on Monday, April 17, from 4 to 6 p.m., teaches kids ages 5 through 13 about healthy snacking. There will be a game to help them learn about what constitutes a healthy snack, followed by a time to make two to four recipes for fun and nutritious snacks such as ants on a log, funny fruity faces, insideout sandwiches and chocolate bananaraspberry smoothies. “That class doesn’t involve cooking as much as it does just preparing things,” Younie said. “These [recipes] would be a great activity for kids to do when they get home after school.” ANDREA YOUNIE All ingredients and materials for the classes will be provided, and the kids will have a chance to eat their snacks afterward. They’ll also be sent home with the recipes so they can try making them on their own. Younie said she plans on continuing the classes in Derry a couple times a month. “I feel like, if we’re going to have healthy adults, we have to start when they’re kids,” she said. “We have to teach them what they need to know to become healthy adults.”
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What is your must-have kitchen item? used to come here all the time when he was We make everything from scratch, mix- governor, so I would say him. ing the flour with the ingredients, so I’d say our dough mixer. That’s where it all begins. What is your favorite thing on your menu? What would you choose for your last The Fiesta Pizza. meal? The [Foodee’s] Fiesta Pizza. That’s What is the biggest food trend in New my favorite thing. It has jalapenos, black Hampshire right now? olives, tomatoes, bacon, cheese and our Organic. Our crust has been organic for special dressing that we make, all on a sour- 22 years, since the beginning. We’re seedough crust. ing more and more people recognizing the importance of that. What is your favorite local restaurant? The Bedford Village Inn. I like the atmoWhat is your favorite meal to cook at sphere, and the quality is consistent. home? Shish kebabs on the grille with steak What celebrity would you like to see eat- tips, green peppers, onions, tomatoes and ing at your restaurant? mushrooms. One of my best friends is John Lynch. He — Angie Sykeny
Beer, wine & liquor festivals & special events • NH BEER CLUB Monthly meetings feature a Granite State brewer, plus a limited edition or unique brew. Mon., April 17 at 6:30 p.m. New England’s Tap House Grille, 1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett. Cost is $30 per event. See nhbeerclub.com. Classes/workshops • HEARTH-COOKING Twohour, hands-on workshops teach participants open-hearth cooking skills as they make and enjoy a traditional menu, served in the
dining room Sat., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., April 8 and April 22. Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth. $65. Advance registration required. Visit strawberybanke.org. • GLOBAL COOKING WITH LOCAL INGREDIENTS Classes include hands-on cooking instruction, monogrammed apron, take-home recipes and a threecourse dinner party with wine pairings. Mon., 5:30 p.m., April 10, 3 p.m. Colby Hill Inn , 33 The Oaks St., Henniker. $115 for first class, $95 for additional classes. Registration is required. Call 4283281 or visit colbyhillinn.com/ cooking-classes.htm. • COOKING WITH THE COURVILLE CHEFS Interactive cooking class taught by award winning chefs, Chef Rejean Sheehy and Dennis Hickey. Mon., April 10, and May 8, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Sessions cover different material. Nashua Senior Activity Center, 70 Temple St. , Nashua. This seminar is free for members and $10 for non-members. Registration is required. Call 889-6155. • EASTER AND SPECIAL OCCASION BRUNCH SPECIALTIES Part of the Winemaker’s Kitchen Cooking Class Series. Learn to prepare a meal
with dishes paired or prepared with LaBelle wines. The menu includes Champagne cocktails, easy sweet and savory crepes (paired with riesling), Gewurztraminer cherry glazed ham, and chef’s choice quiche (paired with Granite State Red). Wed., April 12, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst. $25. Call 672-9898 or visit labellewineryevents.com. • EASTER CAKE CLASS Make your own speckled Easter vanilla or chocolate cake. Learn how to color your cake in light pink, light yellow or mint colored buttercream and how to create buttercream roses to top your cake. Thurs., April 13, 6 to 8 p.m. Jump N Joy, 477 Province Road, Laconia. $35. Call 527-8020 or visit ooolalacreativecakes.com. Kids cooking classes • PARENT/CHILD DINNER DATE: BRUNCH Teams will work together on their meal and dessert under the guidance of the chef, then sit and dine together. Open to ages 5 through 12. Menu features breakfast strata and scones. Sat., April 8, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Culinary Playground, 16 Manning Street, Suite 105, Derry. $40. Visit culinary-playground.com.
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A regular night-out becomes an island getaway at Paradise North, a new tropicalthemed tapas restaurant opened last week in Merrimack. The restaurant offers upscale small plates inspired by a variety of cuisine styles, a raw bar, signature cocktails and more in a casual, social atmosphere with regular live music. “I became interested in the tapas-style meals in southern Europe and Spain when I was travelling,” owner Steve Mastrangelo said. “I wanted to take the concept and put together an Americanized version of it, with some of the different world cuisines mixed in.” Mastrangelo previously worked in the high-tech software business but always dreamed of opening a restaurant. He’s been developing the idea for Paradise North and experimenting with different recipes for the last 20 years and decided that this year it was finally time to make his dream a reality. He recruited his brother-in-law Al Wilsey from Tennessee to be his executive chef, and together they launched the restaurant with a soft opening late last month. The menu features house-made breads, fresh salads and soups, rotisserie cooking and a seafood raw bar with shrimp cocktail and oysters on the half shell. Its large selection of tapas includes different kinds of empanadas, such as salami and cheese and prime rib and veggies; hand-sized pizzas like onion-and-black olive, chicken-baconranch and pulled pork pizzas; sliders with rotisserie meats, including prime rib, chicken and lamb; and salmon frites, Italian toast with maple syrup, lamb ravioli and cheese boards. “People seem to be more and more interested in the small courses and eating lighter,” Mastrangelo said. “It’s a great way to put a meal together if you’re hungry, or to have just as appetizers with some drinks.” There’s also a small selection of full-plate entrees which includes rotisserie-roasted prime rib, braised short ribs, chicken Paradise North Where: 583 Daniel Webster Highway, Unit 3, Merrimack Hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 4 to 9 p.m.; Friday, 4 to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 8 p.m. Call: 262-5886 Visit: paradisenorthnh.com
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francaise and rotisserie-roasted lamb. For dessert, there’s chocolate mousse, yogurt and fruit, Italian cookies and key lime pie in a glass. The drink menu features signature cocktails like the Paradise Rum Runner, made with three rums and a secret blend of liqueurs and juices, and the Paradise North Sangria, also made with a secret recipe; and signature martinis and Manhattans like the Paradise Pom, make with Stoli Blueberi Vodka, pomegranate juice and fresh squeezed lemon juice, topped with club soda and a lemon twist. It has a variety of wines, bottled beers and hard ciders and six taps with New Hampshire and New England craft brews. There’s also a selection of coffees and hot drinks with liquor, including the Green Mountain by the Fire, made with coffee, Vermont Ice Maple Cream Liqueur and Stoli Vodka; and the Rumplemint Paddy, made with hot chocolate, Rumple Minze Peppermint Liqueur and creme de cacao. Paradise North seats about 50 people and is adorned with tropical decor and local artwork for sale. Thursday through Saturday, there is live acoustic music by local musicians, including Mastrangelo, who is a musician himself. “I’ve always liked the tropics and the Caribbean, so I wanted to bring an atmosphere like that here,” he said. “People say it has a good feel to it and that it’s a fresh and relaxing atmosphere, and that was the whole point.” Moving forward, Mastrangelo said he’s looking to add Sunday brunch service, and to host wine and beer tastings and paint nights. Eventually, he’d like to open a second location of Paradise North. “I feel like it’s a franchisable concept,” he said. “The combination of the tapas with the signature drinks, the atmosphere and the entertainment — a restaurant with all those elements is pretty unique around here.”
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en broth) made it so I never had to leave home to gather ingredients for this meal. Although the recipe calls for the noodles to be cooked without the seasoning packets, I added them and used the chicken-flavored broth in place of the chicken broth the recipe called for. I only used two packets of noodles instead of three, and we had leftovers. With its simple directions but complex flavors, this recipe is perfect for novice cooks and would have really impressed college-aged me with the alternative use of ramen noodles. The combination of soy sauce and brown sugar adds just enough saltiness and sweetness, while the underlying smokiness of the sesame oil remains noticeable. The crunch of the carrots and bursts of flavor from the sauce trapped in the tops of the broccoli make each bite worth savoring. A pinch of red pepper flakes adds just enough heat, while green onions bring a burst of freshness to prevent the sauce from seeming too cloying. Ultimately, this recipe is simple, delicious and pantry-friendly. I’ll be adding it to my rotation as a family-pleasing meal. — Lauren Mifsud Cook ramen noodles according to package instructions. Drain and set aside. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, heat vegetable oil. Toss beef with cornstarch and cook until crispy, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer the steak to a plate and reduce heat to medium-low. Add sesame oil to skillet and stir in garlic and ginger. Cook until fragrant, approximately 1 minute, then add soy sauce, brown sugar and chicken broth. Bring mixture to a boil before reducing heat and simmering until the sauce is thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. Add broccoli and carrots, and then cover the skillet and cook until the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes. Return steak to skillet and stir until coated in sauce. Add cooked ramen noodles and green onions. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds, if desired.
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This is one Pitchfork.com got wrong way back in 2004, when their writer dismissed this Long Beach indie-rock band’s debut album Robbers & Cowards as an example of bad songwriting. Not only wrong, but the writer’s insults became like some old hag’s curse, with many reviewers still dissing CWK as bad songwriters while allowing Franz Ferdinand to get away with a lot worse. Fine, the band was a poor-man’s Spoon/Strokes hybrid in the beginning, but at least they seemed like they were trying, even last time out, in 2014’s Hold My Home, where they did try a few different angles, throwing Nathan Willett’s INXS-clone vocals over material that ranged from New Order bass-bump to (let’s just say it) Mars Volta-like lunkheadedness. But they’re a Capitol Records product as of now, and the only thing indie about this record is the unnecessary wooziness of “L.A. River,” which would have just been a regular tune if the engineer hadn’t done some amateur scratching with the tape. Past that it’s all arena-soul-tinged stuff, very much like INXS with fewer backbeats but yes, with gospel-girl-crew backups to emphasize their direction (“So Tied Up”). I have no idea why these guys aren’t bigger, but that surely can’t go on forever. A — Eric W. Saeger Aimee Mann, Mental Illness (SuperEgo Records)
“Great songwriters” are defined by people in different ways, going by heart-tug appeal, dance appeal, hooks, technical wizardry, whatever. Boston’s own Aimee Mann, an oft-lauded songwriter, did write some cool stuff when she was with til Tuesday, but I have to admit that’s when she fell off my radar, leaving a decent-enough taste in my mouth owing to her GradeA punk attitude. After that, she became a sort of Billboard “It” girl, dogged by sexy photos of her draped over then-boyfriend Jules Shear, the wunderkind songwriter — remember those days? Anyway, her last full-length, 2014’s Charmer, found her indulging in a Pretenders-like mid-tempo barrock recipe, magically dressing up the tunes with subtle hooks in the manner of a chef who knows that apricots would work spectacularly in such-and-so place as an improvement over tangerines. This, though, is mostly unplugged MOR-folk, a re-emergence of the throaty, guitar-pickin’ Anne Murray character she can summon at will, a tack she thought would be funny. All the disillusionment and quiet despair you’ve heard about, though, go out the window upon the whimsical, Nilsson-ish “Stuck in the Past” and a few other songs. Naw, it’s not a bummer album, just a good one. She’ll perform at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 24. A — Eric W. Saeger
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• Las Vegas quintet Falling in Reverse represents the posthardcore scene this week, with their new album Coming Home, due out April 7. The fun part here is finding out if these guys are able to avoid what I like to call “Good Charlotte Syndrome,” which manifested itself with these guys on their last album, 2015’s Just Like You, a record even Kerrang found mediocre, which can tend to happen when half the songs were texted in while the singer was on the potty and there was only one good song; in other words, there’s clear indication that this band ran out of ideas some time ago and is just in it for whatever three girls accidentally show up at Vans Warped Tour shows, just like Good Charlotte (what was with the Motley Crue style album cover on JLY, anyway?). Whatever, the task at hand is to suffer through their latest cafeteria slop, let’s go. Here’s the title track, and it has arena-rawk bombast similar to 30 Seconds to Mars, except the singer sounds like the Smiths, or as one YouTuber said, this is “falling 30 seconds in reverse to mars with angels and airwaves.” It’s great if you have no aesthetic sense whatsoever, certainly. • Bubblegum princess Michelle Branch is responsible for the song “All You Wanted,” also known as the National Anthem of Hannaford Supermarket, since it plays on the overheads every hour on the hour, unless they’re punking me. Hopeless Romantic is her upcoming new album, and since I’m impressed by her musical angst-o-grams (and the fact that she reworked her song “Goodbye to You” into “Goodbye Ted Cruz” on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee), I can deal with listening to whatever box of Mike & Ikes she’s disguised as a song this time. Turns out the title track is a slow chill sexytime ballad, kind of like Kate Bush, not immediately grabby but OK overall. • Canadian hayloft-indie way-too-many-bandmembers-gasm The New Pornographers became famous for the video for their song “Moves,” the one that had every comedian from Paul Rudd to Stephen Colbert in it. Oh, and Neko Case is in the band too. And plus, they don’t suck. Their forthcoming album is Whiteout Conditions, featuring the single “High Ticket Attractions,” a disco-rock-ish thing that reminds me of Scissor Sisters and ELO at the same time. It’s cool, I can handle it. • And last we have August by Cake, the new LP from Guided by Voices, one of the dozens of bands led by Robert Pollard, the Dayton, Ohio, songwriter who can’t shut up with his songwriting, like he has 2,000 songs registered at BMI, probably none of which you’ve ever heard of. In fact, this is Pollard’s 100th album since the first Guided by Voices album in 1986. I’m sure the quality will be super-high, let’s go listen to the single “Hiking Skin.” Oh, this isn’t bad, it’s Britrock-infused New York Dolls-ish punk and, as usual, it’s only two minutes long. He sings wicked offkey, it kind of rules actually. — Eric W. Saeger
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One of Vermont writer Joni B. Cole’s pet peeves is the legend of the tortured artist. Please. “The truth is, if your creative process is a happier one — and I use the term ‘happier’ pretty broadly — but if you do have a creative life that is more positive, you’ll actually write more and write better,” Cole said during a recent interview, just before teaching a workshop at the Writer’s Center of White River Junction. “We cling to the myth of the suffering artist, and I don’t know why, because it just doesn’t service!” She addresses this idea more fully in her latest book, Good Naked: Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better & Be Happier, published April 4 by the University Press of New England, which she talks about at a variety of upcoming events. Many of them — including the two at 3S Artspace this weekend and at Gibson’s Bookstore May 6 — are accompanied by writing prompts or workshops. Good Naked is divvied up into essays infused with advice and real-life stories from her career as a writer and writing teacher. The goal: to help writers let go of their fears and move forward in their creative process, and to enjoy doing it. “Writing is really hard. I never say it isn’t,” Cole said. “But there’s no such thing as a good or a bad day. If you’re writing, it’s always a good day.” Cole is on the New Hampshire Institute of Art faculty and teaches in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College. She’s written several books, including one about writing (Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive) and one she recently re-released, Another Bad-Dog Book: Essays on Life, Love and Neurotic Human Behavior. In addition, Cole has been teaching at the Writer’s Center of White River Junction, Vermont, for 20 years. Her students include writers of all levels. Over the years, she’s come to learn and has strong opinions about what writers need. Past participants have called her a cheerleader, a description Cole is happy with. Yes, she offers constructive criticism, but it’s often sandwiched between points on what is working. “A lot of people come in and say, ‘Just tell me what’s wrong.’ And they are both fearful of brutal feedback, and yet they ascribe to it. ‘I don’t want you to just be nice’ — I get that
a lot. But at this stage in the game, it’s not about being nice or being brutal. It’s about giving a writer what he or she needs to move the work forward, and often, the best teaching method is to show what’s working in the piece already. You could call that being nice or you could call that good teaching,” Cole said. “There’s already an assumption there’s a lot to appreciate because it’s not a blank page.” One of her essays, “Planet Writer,” looks at common behaviors among writers, like the strange rituals they take up in order to write (lighting candles, drinking ginger peach tea, using that one certain mug) and common tendencies like letting a “Great Idea” sit and wait, not knowing where to start. Years go by, Cole said, and by the time these writers finally get to their once beautiful Great Idea, they see it now “bears the features of a feral pig.” Their mistake, Cole said, is believing they should know where their story should start in the first place. Start in a middle scene. Start at an end scene. Start anywhere. You’ll figure it out as you work. “Don’t try to write your book from beginning to end in a linear order. I can guarantee you’re going to get stuck. And when you get stuck, there go those 60 pages or so in a drawer somewhere. I’ve seen it thousands of times,” Cole said. These writers also often hold fear of showing their less-than-perfect drafts to other readers. This happens at every workshop — in fact, it happened at one just the day before her interview, when a student started to read the first draft of a short story. “Before she started reading, she said, ‘This is really silly,’ and, ‘This is a first draft. I apologize.’ Everybody does that. But what happened was, nobody hung themselves! Nobody started throwing things at her!” Cole said. “She got real insight into what was already working and why. … And she got practical advice, and appreciation for how much that draft is already accomplishing. So the exposure of our drafts at any phase, even those really rough drafts, is ‘good naked.’”
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau, by Kevin Dann (TarcherPerigee, 351 pages) On the cusp of Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday, “historian, naturalist and troubadour” Kevin Dann proposes to give us a new vision of America’s most beloved observer of nature. Instead, in Expect Great Things, he gives us something of a loon. The book aspires to repackage Thoreau, stripping him of the plain brown paper of Walden Pond and the Concord woods and wrapping him in what the author believes is a necessary context: the gaudy fabric of superstition, cults and mysticism that permeated 19th-century New England. It’s not an unreasonable thing to do, and Dann, having obsessively pored over Thoreau’s journals with the passion of a reporter newly possessed of Donald Trump’s tax returns, is well-qualified to do it. Unfortunately for the casual reader, the book recalls the remark of an editor who once rejected one of Thoreau’s essays with the acidic dismissal “I cannot read it through without pain.” This is a pity because Dann appears to be an interesting person – how do you not love a man who identifies himself as a troubadour in this age? – whose interests, in many ways, parallel that of his subject. Like Thoreau, he takes pleasure in long solitary walks; in 2009, he walked from Montreal to Manhattan, and as part of the promotion of Expect Great Things, he walked from New York City to Concord, stopping along the way to recite Thoreau poems and sing songs. “A roving huckleberry party,” he called it, a nod to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s eulogy in which Emerson celebrated Thoreau as “captain of a huckleberry-party.” Unfortunately, as is often the case, an author’s encyclopedic knowledge of a subject results in a book that reads like an encyclopedia, the old printed kind, sans the charm and the wit. Worse, in his investigation of how Greek myths, astrology and fairies influenced Thoreau and his contemporaries, Dann diminishes the man he seeks to explain, making Thoreau seem less a wise and grounded visionary, more a crazy loner in the woods. Moreover, Dann often meanders deep in the weeds of events that occurred during Thoreau’s lifetime, but while offering no evidence that these events had any meaningful effect on Thoreau or his outlook. Example: Like most thinking men, Dann raises a skeptical eyebrow to the strange, secret practices of Freemasonry, and he spends some time exploring, with eyeglazing detail, its history in Concord. But
the reader can have no other response than “why are you telling me this?” when Dann follows this up by admitting that Thoreau never mentioned Freemasonry in his writing. He offers only the thin, strained connection that “like all young boys in Concord, he surely was aware of the secret society in their midst.” In the vernacular of pirates, argh. Dann does make his case that Thoreau, who read Darwin intently, went about his walking, wood-chopping and adventuring down the Merrimack with a fair amount of fairy dust on his shoulders. Like many of his contemporaries (and, for that matter, ours) he believed in divine favor, and Nature’s, too, and accepted that everyone has their daimons, spirit guides that accompany humans from cradle to the grave. What of it? Strip Thoreau of his mysticism, and you have a Boy Scout guide, or Audubon’s Birds of America. If Thoreau believed, as Dann observes somewhat incredulously, that a bluebird nesting by his door “opened wide his slender mouth” to sing specifically for him, who are we – who were not there – to question? Stranger things have happened, and not only in Disney movies. As Thoreau wrote, “We think the gods reveal themselves only to sedate and musing gentlemen. But not so; the buffoon in the midst of his antics catches unobserved glimpses, which he treasures for the lonely hour.” That said, if you’re willing to invest the time, there are many quarriable tidbits of interest here. They include Thoreau’s professional struggles (rejections, and how he once set out to walk 19 miles to hear Emerson speak because he didn’t have enough money for a stagecoach); titles he checked out of the Harvard library when he matriculated there (among them: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott); that Thoreau threw a “melon party” each year to show off his gardening bounty; that he once professionally surveyed the cemetery where he would ultimately be buried; and that even before the killing machine that is the automobile took to the road, turtles were being run over on Cape Cod by carriages. (Every generation finds a new way to flatten them, it seems, and Thoreau had a “nearly maternal sympathy with turtles”). But Dann, like any author quoting another, assumed a risk when he peppered his manuscript with quotations from Emerson and Thoreau, the risk that one will set this book aside and go searching for the source of the quotation. Expect Great Things, though earnest and scholarly, will send you searching for Walden. C — Jennifer Graham
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Thurs., April 13, 5:30 Society of New Hampshire, in partnership with the New p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Hampshire Council of Teachers of English, is holding its Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562. annual poetry contest this spring. It’s open to all young • MARIA KAY SIMMS Author writers in grades 1 through 12. The winning poems will talks about Astrology and the be published in The Poets’ Touchstone, the nonprofit Power of Eight. Sat., April 15, organization’s quarterly literary journal. Entrants may at 10 a.m. Astro Computing Sersubmit up to three typed poems by April 30. For a full vices Bookstore, 68a Fogg Road, Epping. Call 734-4300. list of guidelines, visit poetrysocietyofnewhampshire. • RANDY SUSAN MEYERS org/contest.html. — Kelly Sennott Author talks about The Widow of Wall Street. Mon., April 17, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s, 45 S. Main • MIKE LUPICA Author talks Books about Point Guard. Fri., April 7, at St., Concord. 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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ
The Boss Baby (PG)
Alec Baldwin is more Jack Donaghy than Donald Trump in the surprisingly fun animated movie The Boss Baby from DreamWorks Animation.
Tim (Miles Bakshi in his kid voice, Tobey Maguire in his adult narrator voice) is horrified by the arrival of the Boss Baby, the Baldwin-voiced suit-wearing adorable tyrant who takes over the house and soaks up all of his parents’ — Dad’s (Jimmy Kimmel) and Mom’s (Lisa Kudrow) — time and, Tim fears, love. But the Boss Baby is just on assignment from Baby Corp. to attempt to infiltrate Puppy Co., the company where Tim’s parents work. Babies are apparently losing ground in the “love” metric to puppies, and Baby Corp. fears that a new product launch by Puppy Co. could knock them out of the market permanently. Boss Baby must stop that product launch to save his beloved company and earn a muchlonged-for promotion to a corner office with a glass-tabled high chair and a golden potty of his very own. Eventually, Boss Baby and Tim decide to work together, as Boss Baby’s promotion (and therefore departure from the household) is the only way to ensure that Tim will get his parents’ attention entirely back on him. Or, to put it another way, Tim is scared and sad at losing his only-child status and is at odds with the natural tyrant that is any newborn baby, but slowly he learns how to live with this new housemate. Perhaps this is because I expected this movie to be a chore or perhaps because I’ve been worn down by the tiny bosses who demand my constant attention, I was unexpectedly charmed by The Boss Baby. The movie delivers in its introduction the basic premise that Tim is a kid with a lively imagination — both during play and, we suspect, in how he deals with the world. The movie does a surprisingly good job of balancing these elements — this fanciful story of a baby corporation with baby executive-level management and the emotional reality behind Tim’s adventure. This isn’t quite Pixar-level development and exe-
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cution of a theme, but it is solid throughout and the movie really holds together the different parts of what it’s doing. My one quibble with The Boss Baby is that I can’t really figure out who this is for. I feel like much of it would sail well over the head of my young-elementary-aged movie-watcher but might approach tooyoung-for by late elementary. What I most enjoyed about it was Baldwin’s character, specifically his 30 Rock-CEO-like blend of Successories affirmations-style optimism and, well, baby-like selfishness. I’m not sure what aged kid will be all about that but perhaps the colorful scenes of imagined adventures and the baby-based goofy humor could be enough to entertain the intended audience. B Rated PG for some mild rude humor. Directed by Tom McGrath with a screenplay by Michael McCullers (from the book by Marla Frazee), The Boss Baby is an hour and 37 minutes long and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Ghost in the Shell (PG-13)
Scarlett Johansson plays a joyless action hero in Ghost in the Shell, a pretty but boring action movie based on the manga/anime universe.
I’m not familiar with Ghost in the Shell’s source material but even I can tell that this movie probably doesn’t do it justice. In what seems like future Japan, Major
(Johansson) represents a technological breakthrough for the Hanka corporation. Though many humans have bionic implants, she is the first whose human brain has been put in a machine body. She is, as Dr. Oulet (Juliette Binoche) explains, a ghost (or soul) in a cyber shell. Major works for a governmental (or government-connected or something) security force, run by Aramaki (Beat Takeshi Kitano), that fights terrorists or something vague like that. Its principal aim, as far as I can see, is to give Major a reason to survey the city from a rooftop, Batman-style, and then jump off the building and swoop into a scene where, for example, hacked geisha robots are killing Hanka scientists. She wears a cloaking-device-style suit that is mostly flesh-colored, which makes it seem like Johansson is kinda naked when she’s fighting. Her fighting buddies include Batou (Pilou Asbaek), a soldier who is eventually injured and has his human eyes replaced with digital binoculars. After that geisha-robot-naked-armor fight scene, Major encounters the digital presence of Kuze (Michael Pitt), a hooded baddie hunting Hanka’s scientists. Major and her team are tasked with finding him, a job that becomes all the more urgent as his presence seems to increase Major’s“glitches,” images that might be leftover memories from her past. Though Major was told that her inju-
ries were sustained in a terrorist attack, she has no memory of the event or of anything from her all-human life. She begins to wonder if Kuze has a connection to these flashes that she’s seeing. Ghost in the Shell is the exact mix of overproduced visuals, meaningless fight scenes, eye-roll plot and nothing performances that is a white noise machine/warm blankie/gentle lullaby combo for me. I didn’t fall asleep during this movie but I had to work at it. This movie is not exciting or engaging in any positive way nor is it bad in any interesting way. Johansson’s performance — everybody’s performance — is earnest and fun-free but not actively wrong in the way that has you pay attention to its weirdness. Scrape out all the shiny but shallow universe-specific details and the plot doesn’t feel all that different from any other big-corporation-builds-robot-hybrid plot (the Robocop update, for example). Watching her fight is just as uninteresting as watching any other unkillable thing fight in any other action movie. If you are familiar with the Ghost in the Shell stories, this movie might mean more to you (though probably not much more, based on coverage I’ve read). But if you have no experience with this world, it all feels glossy but meaningless. What a movie like this could have done is pose and then explore a what if — what if this, this world of human enhancement, were the new reality? How would it shift human relationships or our thinking about ourselves? (The movie may think it’s doing this but it isn’t.) A story with these elements (in addition to the Ghost in the Shell-specific story points) could bring in everyone, newbies and fans alike. Ghost in the Shell doesn’t bother to put anything thinky or wonderous or even mildly amusing behind its CGI facade. CRated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, suggestive content and some disturbing images. Directed by Rupert Sanders with a screenplay by Jamie Moss and William Wheeler and Ehren Kruger, Ghost in the Shell is an hour and 47 minutes long and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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• Take flight: Bird-friendly coffee is served as Harvey Reid and Joyce Andersen entertain at a New Hampshire Audubon event. Reid is a versatile multi-instrumentalist; few musicians can speak with a guitar quite as fluently. Andersen is a skilled violinist and brilliant vocalist; the married couple have dazzled audiences together for decades. Go Thursday, April 6, 7 p.m., McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord. Tickets $15$18. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 224-9909. • Albion bound: After her sold-out album release show last month, Anna Madsen has her sights set on a spring tour of Great Britain. Unfortunately, “conflicting ideas” about her music video for the song “Black Dress” caused a major backer to pull funding. A popup benefit in Concord (and an indiegogo campaign) will help get her show on the road. Support free expression, and go Friday, April 7, 8 p.m., Area 23, 254 N. State St., Concord. See bit.ly/2nPDEo9. • Local legends: The Nashua Community Music School’s annual Pay It Forward benefit stars The Jivekats and former members of Aces & Eights, one of whom is flying up from Florida for the show. The house band features NCMS students, and opening act Trash Talk Percussion Ensemble promises to be rousing. Enjoy the next generation of rock ’n’ roll heroes at this fun event. Go Saturday, April 8, 7 p.m., Alpine Grove, 19 S. Depot Road, Hollis. Tickets $18 in advance at nashuacms.org. • Ukraine thing: If the B-52s came from the other Georgia, they might sound a bit like DakhaBrakha, the wildly percussive quartet from Kiev. In 2014, they won over Bonnaroo, winning “Best Breakout” honors from Rolling Stone. Tiny Desk Concert curator Bob Boilen said of their 2015 set, “I want the world to see this … more than any other right now. Go Sunday, April 9, p.m., Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth. Tickets are $30 at themusichall.org. For more, see dakhabrakha.com.ua. • Horror core: Southern Juggalo Boondox stops in the Lakes Region in support of his new CD The Murder. The Georgia rapper was first noticed by Insane Clown Posse, who signed him in 2006, releasing The Harvest later that year. The show also features fellow horrorcore purveyors Blaze Ya Dead Homie and Lex the Hex Master. Go Wednesday, April 12, 6 p.m., Whiskey Barrel, 546 N. Main St., Laconia. Tickets $18 at whiskeybarrelnh.com. Want more ideas for a fun night out? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store, Google Play and online at hipposcout.com. HIPPO | APRIL 6 - 12, 2017 | PAGE 50
Def Leppard and Tesla share more than an era By Michael Witthaus
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Throwback package shows are the music industry’s bread and butter. Gather a few acts, put a decade on the ticket and call it a tour. On the surface, an upcoming triple bill at SNHU Arena has all the signs of this classic rock calculus. Three bands sharing a late ’80s/early ’90s heyday and an active rock sound are hitting the road for a show that seems to be the sum of its Headbanger’s Ball parts. Two of the acts have more in common than an ability to coax soccer moms (and dads) in to the minivan and out to revisit their youth. Tesla opened for Def Leppard on tour in 1987, the moment they began winning a national audience. At one raucous club show, Leppard members Phil Collen and Steve Clark jumped on stage to jam with the group. The connection goes back further, guitarist and cofounder Frank Hannon recalled in a recent phone interview. “Even before Tesla, we were really huge fans,” Hannon said. “Our first band, City Kidd, would play all those songs in the bars — ‘Let It Go,’ ‘Saturday Night,’ ‘High ‘n Dry.’ Once we started writing our own songs, it became a big part of our sound.” After they met, the two groups became close friends, and they have toured together several times over the years. In particular, Collen took a strong interest in Tesla. During a tour last year celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1986 debut, Mechanical Resonance, he stopped by the band’s dressing room and offered his services. “Phil has always loved Tesla, and that night he just started throwing all these great ideas at us,” Hannon said. Collen wrote and produced a song, Def Leppard, Poison & Tesla Where: SNHU Arena, 555 Elm St., Manchester When: Saturday, April 8, 7 p.m. Tickets: $29.50 - $129.50 at snhuarena.com
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“Save the Goodness,” which ended up as a bonus track on a live disc of the show. “He thought it sounded a lot like Tesla, and he was right,” Hannon said. “Ronnie Montrose did that with us at the very beginning. ‘Little Suzi’ is one our biggest hits, and he brought that to us.” Working with the Leppard guitarist was so inspiring that he returned to the helm for a new studio album, currently in development. “It was really energizing for the band,” Hannon said. “It’s kind of like in sports — when a coach comes in from the outside, the team always plays better.” The hard-rocking band, named after pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, is often misunderstood. Because they had feather cuts in the days of Mötley Crüe, some critics call them hair metal. “We came out of the same era,” Hannon said with a wry laugh. “But we were always kind of good old rock ’n’ roll guys.” To be sure, the first music Hannon ever loved was the Rolling Stones — as a toddler, no less. “I remember the first time I heard ‘Satisfaction’ on my mom’s radio in her Chevy Impala; it scared the heck out of me,” he said. “Man, that sound Keith Richards made was just mesmerizing,” he said. In grade school, he’d sneak into neighborhood keg parties to hear local cover
of the Waxahatchee live band and self-released the Lean In To It EP, but 2017 will see the release of her first proper full-length. • ROCK CONCERT FUNDRAISER at Alpine Grove Ballroom (19 S Depot Road, Hollis 305-7889) on Saturday, April 8, 7 p.m. $18 – The Jivekats and Aces & Eights perform to support the non-profit Nashua Community Music School. Featur-
bands play, and decided to take up guitar after watching the documentary film Monterey Pop: “Seeing Jimi Hendrix light his guitar on fire drew me even more to rock ’n’ roll.” Tesla blends hard rock elements with a variety of rock influences, and was one of the first bands to have a breakout hit with an “unplugged” album, 1990’s Five Man Acoustical Jam. Apart from a six-year hiatus from 1994 to 2000, they’ve been been at it for three decades. “One of the reasons for our longevity is we’re very diverse. We didn’t just have a bland image of playing just metal,” Hannon said. “We weren’t a typical ’80s band; there are a lot of acoustic elements in our music, bluesy rock ’n’ roll, country … and we have tons of songs. I’m very diverse, and to balance it out, Jeff Keith has a really consistent voice and approach to songwriting.” Staying power wasn’t a goal when Hannon and his mates were knocking around the bars in Sacramento, California, mixing Def Leppard covers with originals and dreaming of rock stardom. “I always wanted to play until the day I die, but 30 years later? I never thought of that,” Hannon said. “But I will say that we always did try to write quality songs. It’s great to play something I wrote when I was 18 years old and still have it sound good.”
ing raffles, prizes, good friends making music for old friends, and lots of dancing. • AMERANOUCHE at Simple Gifts Coffeehouse (UU Church 58 Lowell St., Nashua 320-7751) on Saturday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. $12 The rip-roaring ensemble is a super force of hot acoustic Gypsy inspired music mixing Flamenco, Bebop and Jazz swing influences. Played on
traditional French jazz guitars, the music is rhythmic, vigorous, and elegant. • FREE JAZZ CONCERT at Amoskeag Presbyterian Church (95 Brook St., Manchester 668-3069) on Sunday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. “Heaven In A Nightclub” - Jazz Pianist Bill Edgar will offer a jazz concert along with a lecture entitled “The Gospel Impact on Jazz Music.”
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Three Chimneys 17 Newmarket Rd. 868-7800 Newport Salt Hill Pub 58 Main St. 863-7774 Peterborough Harlow’s Pub 3 School St. 924-6365 Pelham Shooters 116 Bridge St. 635-3577 Pittsfield Molly’s Tavern 32 Main St. 487-2011 Plaistow Crow’s Nest 181 Plaistow Road 974-1686 Racks Bar & Grill 20 Plaistow Road 974-2406 Portsmouth Blue Mermaid Island 409 The Hill 427-2583 British Beer Company 103 Hanover St. 501-0515 Cafe Nostimo 72 Mirona Rd. 436-3100 Demeters Steakhouse 3612 Lafayette Rd. 766-0001 Dolphin Striker 15 Bow St. 431-5222
Fat Belly’s 2 Bow St. 610-4227 Grill 28 200 Grafton Road 433-1331 Hilton Garden Inn 100 High St. 431-1499 Lazy Jacks 58 Ceres St. 294-0111 Martingale Wharf 99 Bow St. 431-0901 Oar House 55 Ceres St. 436-4025 Portsmouth Book & Bar 40 Pleasant St. 427-9197 Portsmouth Gas Light 64 Market St. 430-9122 Press Room 77 Daniel St. 431-5186 Red Door 107 State St. 373-6827 Redhook Brewery 1 Redhook Way 430-8600 Ri Ra Irish Pub 22 Market Sq 319-1680 Rudi’s 20 High St. 430-7834 Rusty Hammer 49 Pleasant St. 319-6981 Thirsty Moose 21 Congress St. 427-8645 Raymond Cork n’ Keg 4 Essex Drive 244-1573 Rochester Gary’s 38 Milton Rd 335-4279
Peterborough Harlow’s: Bluegrass Night La Mia Casa: Soul Repair Plaistow Racks: Rock Jam Dave Thompson Portsmouth British Beer: Austin Pratt Fat Belly’s: DJ Flex Press Room: Soggy Po’ Boys Salem Black Water Xpressions
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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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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
Jesse’s: Jim Hollis Salt Hill Pub: Ted Mortimer Hillsborough Mama McDonough’s: Double Take Hooksett Asian Breeze: DJ Albin
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NITE MUSIC THIS WEEK Press Room: Lonesome Lunch w/Dave Talmage + Stop Tito Ri Ra: David Cee Rudi’s: Duke Thirsty Moose: Emergency Broadcast System
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Merrimack Homestead: Marc Apostolides Merrimack Biergarten: Wooden Soul Milford J’s Tavern: The Peter Fogarty Duo Pasta Loft: Moon Boot Lover
Seabrook Chop Shop: Inner Child Sunapee Sunapee Coffeehouse: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki
Moultonborough Buckey’s: Rob & Jody
Tilton Winni Grille: Don Bartenstein
Nashua Country Tavern: Tom Rousseau Fody’s: Pilfering Pachyderm Fratello’s Italian Grille: Rick Watson Haluwa: Rock City Riverwalk Cafe: Julie Rhodes w. These Wild Plains Stella Blu: Chris Gardener Thirsty Turtle: Farenheit Friday - DJ D-Original
Weare Stark House: Bob Rutherford
New Boston Molly’s: Justin Cohn/Dan Murphy
Saturday, April 8 Ashland Common Man: Holly Furlone Auburn Auburn Tavern: Barry Brealy Bedford Shorty’s: Joe Sambo Belmont Lakes Region Casino: Eric Grant Band
Newbury Salt Hill Pub: GrooveSum
Bristol Purple Pit: Clyde Bisbee
Newmarket Riverworks: Michael Troy
Pittsfield Main Street Grill: Nicole Knox Murphy
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Portsmouth Blue Mermaid: Dennis Coraccio Grill 28: Jake Davis Martingale Wharf: Tim Theriault & Jamie DeCato Portsmouth Book & Bar: Ben Baldwin and the Big Note, featuring Kent Allyn and Marty Ballou
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Seabrook Chop Shop: Higher Ground Weare Stark House Tavern: Charlie Chronopoulos Sunday, April 9 Ashland Common Man: Chris White Solo Acoustic Barrington Nippo Lake Restaurant: Cedar Mountain Bedford Copper Door: Chad Lamarsh Concord Hermanos: State Street Combo Dover Cara: Irish Session w/ Carol Coronis & Ramona Connelly Dover Brickhouse: Jazz Brunch Sonny’s: Sonny’s Jazz Goffstown Village Trestle: Wan-tu Blues Band & Jam Hanover Canoe Club: Rowley Hazard Hudson River’s Pub: Acoustic Jam Manchester Bungalow: At the Heart of It/ Ana Sapphira/Dive Team/Dim The Lights/Sparrows/Barbarian Penuche’s Music Hall: Reggae Sunday - Brett Wilson Shaskeen: Rap night, Industry night Strange Brew: Jam Meredith Giuseppe’s: Open Stage with Lou Porrazzo Milford Union Coffee: Phil & Will Nashua Agave Azul: DJ Rich - Smokin’ Sunday Dolly Shakers: Main Street Music Pig Tale: Chris Guy Riverwalk Cafe: Fugue Mill
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Wednesday, April 12 Concord Hermanos: Paul Heckel
Manchester Fratello’s: Brad Bosse Penuche’s Music Hall: Lisa Guyer Wednesday Muse Strange Brew: Open Jam - Tom Ballerini Blues Band
Dover Fury’s: People Like You
Meredith Giuseppe’s: Paul Warnick
Dublin DelRossi’s: Celtic and Old Timey Jam Session
Merrimack Homestead: Triana Wilson
Seabrook Chop Shop: Bare Bones
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• Babies born on the Indonesian island of Bali are still today treated regally under an obscure Hindu tradition, according to a February New York Times report, and must not be allowed to touch the earth for 105 days (in some areas, 210). (Carrying the infant in a bucket and setting that on the ground is apparently acceptable.) Each birth is actually a re-birth, they say, with ancestors returning as their own descendants. (Accidentally touching the ground does not condemn the baby, but may leave questions about negative influences.) • Catholic priest Juan Carlos Martinez, 40, apologized shortly after realizing, as he said, he had gone “too far” in celebrating March’s Carnival in a town in the Galicia area of Spain that he acted inappropriately in dressing as Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, reclining on a red satin sheet on a parade float carrying men dressed as classic Playboy “Bunnies.” Despite apparent public support for Father Martinez, his Archbishop asked him to attend a “spiritual retreat” to reflect on his behavior.
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The U.S. House of Representatives, demonstrating particular concern for military veterans, enhanced vets’ civil rights in March by removing a source of delay in gun purchases. A 2007 law had required all federal agencies to enter any mentally-ill clients into the National Instant Criminal Background Check database for gun purchases, but the new bill exempts veterans (including, per VA estimates, 19,000 schizophrenics and 15,000 with “severe” post-traumatic stress syndrome). (An average of a dozen veterans a day in recent times have committed suicide with guns.)
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Hey, How About a Little “Remorse”: (1) Royce Atkins, 23, told the judge in Northampton County (Pennsylvania) in March that he was so sorry he did not stop his car in 2015 and help that 9-year-old boy he had just hit and killed. However, Atkins had earlier been jailhouse-recorded viciously trash-talking the boy’s family for “reacting like they’re the victims. What about my family? My family is the victim, too.” (Atkins got a four-year sentence.) (2) In February, in a Wayne County (Michigan) court during sentencing for a DUI driver who had killed a man and severely injured his fiancee, Judge Qiana Lillard kicked the driver’s mother out of the courtroom for laughing at the victim’s sister who was tearfully addressing the judge. (Lillard sentenced the mother to 93 days for contempt, but later reduced it to one day).
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Among the facts revealed in the ongoing criminal proceedings against U.S. Navy officials and defense contractor Leonard (“Fat Leonard”) Francis, who is charged with arranging kickbacks: In 2007, Francis staged a party for the officials at the
Shangri-La Hotel in the Philippines during which (according to an indictment unsealed in March) “historical memorabilia related to General Douglas MacArthur were used by the participants in sexual acts.”
The passing parade
(1) A 23-year-old Albuquerque woman performed cartwheels instead of a standard field sobriety test at a DUI stop in February, but she did poorly and was charged anyway. On the other hand, student Blayk Puckett, stopped by University of Central Arkansas police, helped shield himself from a DUI by juggling for the officer. (2) Oreos fans sampling the limited-edition Peeps Oreos in February expressed alarm that not only their tongues and saliva turned pink, but also their stools (and leaving a pink ring in the bowl). A gastroenterologist told Live Science it was nothing to worry about.
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Yasuomi Hirai, 26, was arrested in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in June (2013) after being identified in news reports as the man who had crawled “dozens of meters” in an underground gutter solely to gain access to a particular sidewalk grate near Konan Women’s University so that he could look up at skirt-wearers passing over the grate. After one pedestrian, noting the pair of eyes below, summoned a police officer, Hirai scurried down the gutter and escaped, but since he had been detained several months earlier on a similar complaint, police soon arrested him. Visit weirduniverse.net.
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