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As have countless pilgrims before me, I have visited Rome, St. Peter’s Basilica, and stood reverently in front of Michelangelo’s masterpiece, La Pieta. The profound sorrow of Mary as she holds the body of her dead son, Jesus, has moved thousands of visitors, many of them parents, as they — as did I — paused to reflect on what deep grief one would feel to cradle the body of one’s child.

And while that experience of contemplating Michaelangelo’s archetypal depiction of parental grief has stayed with me, it was not until opening this morning’s New York Times and seeing a contemporary Pieta in the form of a photograph of a father holding the corpse of his dead teenage son that the reality of such sadness touched me. And that on Easter Sunday, a festival given to hope.

Whatever interpretation a Christian — or any other person — ascribes to the story of the resurrection of Jesus, it stops us all “dead in our tracks” to consider how to bring consolation to that father in his time of grief. I doubt seriously that anyone who lingered over the Times photograph could not empathize with that sorrowing father, and, by extension, the mother and family as well.

The truly cruel irony of our time is that global communication can bring such immediate images of profound suffering and sorrow into the comfort of our homes as we sip our morning coffee. Yet however deeply these pictures may move us, we are seemingly helpless to respond however much we would wish to bring comfort to that parent or to bring a halt to the warfare that brings such devastation to families and countries. These are the experiences of our fellow human beings, regardless of their nationality or circumstances.

Quite frankly, there are no simple recourses. Almost all of us, as much as we would wish to change the geopolitical landscape, are helpless. We do not have access to the levers of such change.

Yet each of us — and perhaps for me this is the Easter message — can effect change where we are, in the circumstances of the neighborhoods, communities, in which we live. We are who we are where we are. What we need to do is recognize the needs around us and move beyond the comfort of our morning coffee and newspaper to bring comfort, help and encouragement to those in need.

There is actually great truth in that old bumper sticker “Think globally, but act locally.”

Stephen Reno is the executive director of Leadership New Hampshire and former chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire. His email is stepreno@gmail. com.

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ON THE COVER 12 MARGARITAS! The tequila-based beverage is the perfect drink to celebrate Cinco de Mayo — and the impending arrival of summer. Local restaurants have all kinds of flavors to satisfy whatever taste you’re craving; find out where to go for traditional margaritas or more creative kinds.

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ALSO ON THE COVER, it’s time for the annual Hippo de Mayo Taco Challenge! Try all kinds of unique tacos in downtown Manchester on Thursday, May 4. See pages 36 and 37 for a handy pull-out map that shows you where to go and what tacos you’ll find at participating restaurants. Also, Free Comic Book Day returns this weekend; find out what it’s all about and which stores are participating on p. 54.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 Naming the falcons; new SNHU school to focus on STEM; PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 18 THE ARTS: 22 ARTS, THEATER AND CLASSICAL Capital Arts Fest; Spring Open Doors; PLUS listings for events around town.

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FOOD: 40 MOTHER’S DAY How to eat dandelions; Gale Motor Pit Stop; Weekly Dish; Drinks; From the Pantry.

POP CULTURE: 52 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz finishes off the first chunk of 2017 with The Circle and contemplates movie’s summer season, which starts Friday.

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NEWS & NOTES Carfentanil

The opioid crisis in New Hampshire continues with the emergence of an ultra-powerful opioid known as carfentanil.

According to an announcement from the governor’s office, three deaths have been linked to the drug so far. The deaths occurred in March and their test results came to the Chief Medical Examiner’s office hours before a press conference on April 25.

Carfentanil is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine.

Only 20 micrograms of carfentanil — the size of a tiny snowflake — can be deadly. It is a drug originally formulated by pharmaceutical companies and used predominantly as an elephant tranquilizer. Tim Pifer, the head of the state police forensic lab, said during the press conference that the carfentanil seen in New Hampshire was manufactured illicitly.

Pifer also said New Hampshire is the first New England state to confirm the drug’s presence.

Gov. Chris Sununu said the announcement was made in part to make sure first responders were aware to take the necessary precautions when responding to overdose cases. Even exposure to the skin can prove fatal, and it will require several more doses of naloxone to revive someone who is overdosing on carfentanil. Jeffrey Meyers, the commissioner of the state Department of Health and Human Services, said he is working to make sure the state has an adequate supply of naloxone for emergency responders.

Joe Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden was in New Hampshire on Sunday, April 30, speaking at the McIntyre-Shaheen dinner at the Radisson Hotel. According to WMUR, he said he isn’t running for president in 2020. His presence in the first-in-the-nation primary state fueled speculation that he was getting an early start on the campaign trail. Biden delivered a 55-minute speech outlining his vision for the future of the Democratic party to a crowd of about 800 Democrats. The dinner is a major annual fundraiser for state Dems.

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Kasich and O’Malley

Biden wasn’t the only former presidential candidate to appear in New Hampshire last week.

On Thursday, April 27, Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich returned to the Granite State ostensibly for an early stop on a tour promoting his new book, Two Paths: America Divided or United. NHPR reported Kasich is not officially running for president in 2020 yet, but he also didn’t dismiss such a possibility. Kasich finished second in the New Hampshire GOP primary.

Another former presidential candidate, former Democratic Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, hosted house parties and a town hall in the state, WMUR reported. A 2020 campaign is not his focus right now, but the 54-yearold said he might run again.

scheduled for 1 to 8 p.m. According to NHPR, mental health issues including substance abuse treatment are expected to get the most attention.

Firecrackers

Economic development projects for facade work and building maintenance in Franklin have been fully funded. The Concord Monitor reported Franklin Savings Bank bought $400,000 in tax credits from the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority and the Bank of New Hampshire and Eversource bought the remaining $300,000.

CONCORD A House bill to legalize firecrackers passed the Senate and was sent to the governor’s desk The mysterious contents of a locked vault in the Stateto be signed. Republican Sen. house in Concord may soon Kevin Avard of Nashua released come to light. The Concord an emailed statement praising the Monitor reported Speaker Hooksett Planning officials in Pembill’s passage. “I am pleased the Shawn Jasper wants to pay broke are considering a Senate and House could agree $475 to a locksmith who proposal to add 110 units will attempt to crack the that in the live free or die state of single-family housing over Goffstown combination lock, which is its citizens should be allowed to the next 10 years, the Consaid to have been locked purchase firecrackers, a relativecord Monitor reported. The for about a century. Some housing start proposed by ly low-grade form of fireworks,” say it may contain works of MANCHESTER DHB Homes would be called Avard said. He also said legalart or historical government Pembroke Meadows and records, while others suspect izing firecrackers would help would see about 22 homes it’s empty. businesses that sell fireworks. built each year.

Bedford Firecrackers have been illegal The Historic District Commissince 2004. State Fire Marshal Derry sion in Nashua agreed to Merrimack Amherst Bill Degnan told the Hippo last modify its plan to expand the year that firecrackers, bottle Department vacancy historic district so it doesn’t Londonderry Milfordand Swart Commissioner Vicki Quiram rockets and reloadable mortars cover Chester streets and Swart Terrace. of the state Department of top the list of injury-causing The Telegraph of Nashua pyrotechnics nationwide.

Administrative Services is stepreported there was strong NASHUA ping down from her position on opposition from the residents May 12, the AP reported. Quiram Benson portrait of Swart Terrace, but Greeley said she is taking another job The official portrait of former Park will still be brought into the proposed district. out of state. That leaves another Republican Gov. Craig Benvacancy for Gov. Chris Sununu son was unveiled at an event at to fill. He recently named com- the Statehouse, where the porcreated by former Gov. Maggie missioners to head the education trait will be on display from now Cancer cluster Hassan that expired at the end of The state Senate approved a and labor departments as well on, the AP reported. Benson was as a new attorney general. The governor from 2003 to 2005 bill to authorize continued inves- her term. Given the rarity of the department of administrative and the former CEO of Cable- tigation into a cluster of cancer diseases and the density of the services provides accounting, tron. He was the first governor cases on the Seacoast, NHPR cases, investigators are charged facilities, human resources, IT of New Hampshire in 78 years reported. The cluster of a rare with uncovering any possiand other support services for to not be reelected for a second pediatric cancer was discovered ble environmental causes, such state government. term. Gov. Chris Sununu was the in early 2016 in an area span- as chemical waste in drinking first Republican governor to be ning five towns. The bill creates water. a commission similar to the one elected since Benson.

Budget priorities As state Senate budget writers work on crafting their version of the state’s two-year operating budget, agencies and citizens weigh in. NHPR reported the MAIN STREET PROJECT DCYF BACKLOG Senate Finance Committee met The recent redesign of Concord’s downtown Despite pressure from the public, the legisfirst with department heads drew national attention when it earned the top lature and governor to improve child proteclike DHHS Commissioner Jefprize in its category for transportation projtive services at the state Division of Children, ects from the American Public Works AssociaYouth and Families, the division is still lagging frey Meyers. Meyers asked the tion, the Concord Monitor reported. The project behind. According to multiple reports, DCYF committee for more funding for ranked No. 1 nationwide among cities with popis behind schedule on nearly 3,000 open child developmental disabilities serulations of less than 75,000. According to City abuse and neglect cases that are under investivices and a new mobile crisis Engineer Ed Roberge, one of the criteria for the gation. The case backlogs are partly due to an team for mental health care in the award was “transferability” of strategies to othongoing staffing issue. Many caseworker posicommunity, and officials with the er places, and he thinks that’s one of the areas tions remain unfilled, but DCYF officials anstate’s mental hospital asked for where Concord’s project outshined the competinounced a plan to address the growing backlog tion. It’s not the first accolade given to the projwith more overtime spending. Since the susadditional funding to pay for nine ect. It won a “gold level” award for engineering pension of former director Lorraine Bartlett, nursing positions. On Tuesday, excellence in a statewide contest from the New the agency has been under the leadership of an May 2, the committee was set to Hampshire chapter of the American Council for interim director. hear from members of the broadEngineering Companies. er public during a public hearing

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The College of Engineering, Technology and Aeronautics, or CETA, will be fully up and running by 2020, according to SNHU President Paul LeBlanc. There will be a new building on campus that’s estimated to cost about $40 million to construct plus another $7 million to refit a former C.B. Sullivan building acquired from a recent purchase of property adjacent to the campus.

The C.B. Sullivan building will serve as an ancillary building to the college and house a new Challenger Learning Center for local K-12 students to expose youngsters to the useful sciences in fun and engaging ways. The learning center will be created by the Challenger Center for Space Education, which was founded by family members of those who died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

“They wanted something that would inspire kids the way their family members had been inspired to do STEM,” LeBlanc said.

All of this is made possible by SNHU’s deal to “teach-out” students at Daniel Webster College that allows current students to finish the 2016-2017 school year amid the closure of ITT Educational Services campuses nationwide. ITT bought DWC in 2009.

LeBlanc said when ITT’s impending closure was announced, due in part to a crackdown by the U.S. Department of Education on alleged predatory practices by for-profit colleges, SNHU was asked by the DOE to do the teach-out.

“They were hoping to treat Daniel Webster College differently,” LeBlanc said.

“They saw Daniel Webster as sort of a good player, trying to do good work, had been a not-for-profit, was acquired by ITT, and asked if we would be interested in helping out.”

Now, as they near graduation, LeBlanc said SNHU will absorb an estimated 200 students from DWC, as well as 17 faculty and staff and about five key programs such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering and more.

continue their studies at the SNHU campus, the school enters Phase 2.

Ultimately, Phase 3 will be the full buildout in 2020. In addition to the physical construction, SNHU is currently making hires to lead the college and will figure out ways to alter the programs with some of the modern twists SNHU is known for.

“We hope, in September of 2020, to launch the same programs but in new sort of innovative models, models that use much more project-based learning that have much more direct links to industry, much more extensive use of workplace learning, online components, competency-based education, etc.,” LeBlanc said.

Right now, the school is looking into ways to incorporate augmented reality for online engineering courses as well as a program that allows students to remotely control physical lab equipment.

The construction will be paid for partly by the enrollment of existing and incoming students in the CETA programs, SNHU’s financial reserves and loans, according to LeBlanc.

Access mission

LeBlanc has long wanted to offer engineering programs at SNHU. Daniel Webster has proven his way into that and aeronautical sciences as well. LeBlanc said he’s currently in talks to try to keep a portion of the DWC campus, which has an airfield, hangar and airplane used for studies.

It’s his hope that CETA will expand on the the Daniel Webster programs to include things like robotics and drones.

“We’re looking at the world of unmanned aviation, obviously with both the mechanical engineering program and the aeronautical engineering program,” LeBlanc said.

Central to this move is an effort to bolster the workforce pipeline in the much-needed STEM fields and also to ensure more access to women and minorities, who currently are underrepresented. According to LeBlanc, 13 percent of all engineering degrees are awarded to women and 25 percent to minorities. Meanwhile, there are more than 1,200 engineering jobs open in New Hampshire alone, according to Engineerjobs.com.

And to make sure more low-income folks have access, LeBlanc said, they’re thinking about offering more than just bachelor’s degrees. He’s planning to offer associate programs well as micro-credentials that people can earn with little expense. The thinking Three phases LeBlanc characterizes the teach-out as goes that with those micro-credentials, they “Phase 1” of CETA’s creation. Post-grad- can then obtain a better-paying job and uation, as students and teachers pivot to afford a higher level of education.

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A new peregrine falcon family has taken up residence in the nest on the Brady Sullivan Tower in Manchester, where high-def webcams provide audio and video of the couple as they await the hatching of their eggs.

A fourth-grade class at Hooksett Memorial School became so enamored of the falcons, their teacher and others following the birds online conspired to work them into the kids’ lesson plan.

Teacher Donna Amato knew the class was invested in the falcons when they watched as the eggs were being laid.

“First there was one egg and then there were two eggs. Actually, the day she laid her third egg, we saw it live. It was so cute because they all stood up and started clapping, applauding,” Amato said.

With the help of Anne Pardo, an administrative assitant at a local law firm, and Wendy Langelier, a special educator at Campbell High School in Litchfield, Amato came up with a way to involve her students in the current lessons about rivers, erosion and dams by devising a naming scheme for the baby falcons, called eyasses. Both Pardo and Langelier are active members of a Manchester falcon fan club on Facebook and chatters on the YouTube video feed.

First they came up with 11 rivers that had names that could be shortened into nicknames; Baboo for Baboosic or Andi for Androscoggin and so on.

Then, the 22 students paired off with the names and rivers to which they were assigned.

“The time was so short, but it was amazing to see what they pulled together,” Amato said. “They made up a slogan, and then they did research on the river. Some of them included research on the falcons.”

Some of the slogans included “You should vote for Penny, that’s our two cents,” and “Sensible Swifty would be so nifty!”

Amato said the principal came to watch the presentations. One team wrote and performed a song and interpretive dance as part of their celebration. Some made clever rhymes and others took their presentation very seriously. “[One girl] took this job so seriously that she dressed up like a little business woman that day to the point where she insisted on wearing these wedge shoes,” Amato said.

After each team presented, the students

voted on which names they liked best. The top four winners were Amos for Amoskeag, Penny for Penacook, Sunny for Suncook and Winni for Winnipesaukee. The plan is for the eyasses to be given those names alphabetically in the order of their birth.

If the firstborn is female, they’ll tweak Amos to be more feminine, like Amosa.

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Amato said the project had the desired effect. The students were so excited about the idea of picking names that they absorbed much of what they were being taught at the time.

“They learned — well, most of them did — where the river starts, where the river ends, how long the river is, what it runs through, what it connects to,” Amato said.

The students were able to touch on a bunch of different skills all at once.

“Part of Common Core is they have to do persuasive arguments,” Langelier said.

“They’re learning about New Hampshire, they’re learning how to do a presentation, they’re learning about research.”

Langelier said students could also learn how to have empathy for animals and a greater appreciation and interest in nature.

“Once the babies have fledged, [the students] will probably have their eyes to the sky a lot more,” Langelier said.

Amato said it was so successful she thinks other classrooms might be interested in doing something similar in future springs.

“It was a great experience and hopefully other classes and kids will want to participate,” Amato said.

Background

According to the New Hampshire Audubon, the falcon couple living in the Brady Sullivan Tower nest is not the same couple that was seen there last year.

Audubon biologist Chris Martin said in an email that both birds are around 4 years old. The male arrived in the area in 2014 and the female came one year later. They are both unbanded so they are not among the many young falcons to have fledged at that nest. Each eyas hatched there (47 over the past 16 seasons) is tagged by the Audubon.

Martin said the first egg is due to hatch on or around May 4.

The live feed on YouTube can be found under the name “Single Digits Live Peregrine Falcon Feed 1.”

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Yes, I’ve lived in Nashua for 27 years. … Actually, I came to New Hampshire … on a duty assignment at Fort Devens, my last duty assignment before I retired from the Army. … I did 22 years in the Army. … I’ve been all over the world, literally. I’ve been to 32 countries, and I’m a Persian Gulf veteran and I’m a disabled vet.

What got you interested in being an active member or leader of the NAACP? I was always an activist, even when I was in the military. ... I wanted to make sure that everybody got equal treatment for equal everything. After I retired from the military, I co-founded the NAACP with several people who came to me because they knew I was an activist, to see if I would start an NAACP in Nashua. There was already one in Manchester and Portsmouth. So with that group of people, we started the Greater Nashua NAACP and I was the president for four years during that time, while I was employed for the State of New Hampshire.

So this current iteration of the NAACP is not the first time Nashua has had a chapter.

What happened there?

What happened is we had a new president.

I don’t know what transpired in between but they went below their membership level and they became inactive. … That was like 10 years ago.

What are some problems in the community now that you hope to address?

After this rhetoric with the current administration, I was approached again by members of the community about Black Lives Matter and other issues such as being involved in these things that were happening all across the country. And I agreed to do that but not under the Black Lives Matter. I decided with another group of people to get with the Nashua police, which really was helpful. With the Nashua police, we started a conversation. … So we’re now the Nashua Community Conversation on Race and Justice, which is a form of Black Lives Matter but not Black Lives Matter. But it addresses situations in the WHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTO RIGHT NOW?

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We had several summits and we’re getting ready to have another summit [June 15].

Were there any cases of racially charged violence or other forms of discrimination that people were seeing in their communities?

Yes ... all over New Hampshire, as a matter of fact. They thought that they were being profiled [by police]. … Or on the job they were discriminated. They didn’t get promotions, they didn’t get hired. All those sorts of things where the [NCCRJ] could not handle but the NAACP, being a national organization, can address.

What do you see as some of the largest roadblocks moving forward?

I think listening and understanding is really key to forming a cohesive relationship between people of privilege versus people that do not have privilege. White privilege is a real thing, it really is. I know that for a fact.

So, when you’re white, you may not understand the obstacles that black people … have to endure just to get housing. … We need to talk more, we need to understand, we need to listen and have empathy.

The Nashua area is home to a vibrant community of people who are of Indian descent, the largest in the state. How do you plan to involve them?

Actually, the state representative here, Latha [Mangipudi], I know her very well.

So I’m planning to get with her to discuss the issues they have. Now, they have some serious issues themselves and they’re really afraid of deportation. ... They’ve been targeted a lot on just being Indian.

As demographically very white states go, what do you think is New Hampshire’s greatest strength in battling racism?

Their biggest strength is that they are a welcoming state, a welcoming city. They really are. We try to incorporate immigrants that come into this country. We have a large [segment] of Africans, not just Indians. …

We have over 167 languages. That should tell you that it’s a very welcoming state. We want to keep it that way. — Ryan Lessard

NEWS & NOTES

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Rent still climbing

A new report by ApartmentList.com shows median rents for twobedroom apartments in Manchester rose by 3.6 percent in the past year.

The national increase was 2.7 percent. The median price in April was $1,280, according to the report. Last year, the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority listed the median gross rent (including utilities) to be $1,275 in Manchester, $1,415 in Nashua and $1,145 in Concord.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: The NHHFA’s annual report on rent prices across the state is due out in June.

New children’s wing at mental hospital

State health department officials are proposing a major expansion of the state’s psychiatric hospital in the form of a children’s wing. The Concord Monitor reported the Department of Health and Human Services is asking for $3 million to draw up designs for a children’s wing at New Hampshire Hospital. A similar plan was suggested in 2000 that would have cost $12 million at the time.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: New Hampshire has about 12 psychiatric beds per 100,000 population, while health professional recommend states have 40 to 50 beds per 100,000.

McGowan Fine Art to close

Last Friday, staff at McGowan Fine Art in Concord announced they would be closing the gallery’s doors this summer after 37 years. Mary McGowan started the business in her barn in 1980, and it grew beyond its corporate consulting roots to include a frame shop and gallery; today, it’s housed in a contemporary space designed by her husband, Duncan McGowan, and run by Sarah Chaffee, who’s been working there for 20 years. The gallery showcases work by more than 75 regional artists and offers custom framing for clients all around New England. McGowan Fine Art will continue to conduct business through July 7, and Amy Lacasse, corporate art consultant with McGowan since 2007, intends to continue to offer corporate art consulting services as a private consultant.

QOL Score: -3 Comment: QOL will miss Chaffee, and her dog Henry, who have been heavily involved with the downtown Concord cultural scene. Final events include a reception for “Color Play” featuring work by Natalie Blake, Cathy Chin and Amy Goodwin on Saturday, May 6, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a reception for the next show, “Color of Seasons,” featuring work by Bruce McColl on Friday, June 9, from 5 to 7 p.m.

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The Granite State now has a New Hampshire Youth Poet Laureate program, created by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire with New Hampshire Poet Laureate Alice Fogel and NHYPL organizer Andrew Fersch. They named Ella McGrail, a senior at Portsmouth High School, to take the position first; she will hold it until Aug. 1. Future laureates will serve longer terms, Sept. 1 to Aug. 31, and have the support of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, according to a story by the Seacoast Media Group.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: A call for entries for the next youth poet laureate will go out in August, for teens attending high school. Requirements include teacher and fellow student recommendations, five poems, bio, resume and letter of intent.

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S LONGSHOTS

Handing out grades after big sports events With the NFL draft taking place last weekend, giving report cards on how teams did is in vogue. But with the draft, the Celtics involved in a big week in the NBA playoffs, Theo back in town with the Cubs and a host of other things on the docket, we’ll take it a step further and hand out grades for how things went for players, coaches, executives and even fans.

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Steph Curry sneakers – F I know I’m a relic who still remembers that he thought his first pair of Chuck Taylor All Stars were real boss, man. But, how could anyone be surprised that Under Armour sales for Steph’s garish turquoise and yellow pumps would tank? I wouldn’t wear those things if you pointed a gun at me and said, “lace Paul Pierce – A+ Yes, he hung on a bit too them up pal.”

LaVar Ball – F- Speaking of sneaks, long. But he was a great Celtic and earns a strike one, two and three for the mouth that standing O upon playing his final game.

Fred Hoiberg – F Cumulative grade for roared (non-sense) after Nike, Adidas and two disastrous years since leaving Iowa Reebok said “nyet” to demands they license State, culminating with whining about Isaiah his Big Baller brand because he has three Thomas carrying the ball after their Game 4 hoop-playing sons of some notoriety. That loss. A bold statement for anyone in Chicago, delusion of their worth cost Lonzo a major where Michael Jordan did it on every pos- shoe deal and may get the NCAA snooping session. If he weren’t still owed $15 million, around since last time I checked the other two are still amateurs. he’d be back in Iowa City by sundown. that time. But it goes to A+ if he signs the 20-point-per scorer this summer I said was worth waiting for free agent to be Gordon Hayward. Who, oh by the way, had 40- and 31-point games, while averaging 27.1 per in the six full games he played as Utah sent Doc, Chris Paul and company back to LA-LA land empty once again.

Philly football fans – A+ For once, their vast propensity to boo anything that moves from Donovan McNabb to Santa Claus came in handy as they let the lungs loose to boo Roger the Dodger lustily when he came up to get the draft party rolling on Thursday. However, Roger, that nice effort Theo Epstein – A But Chicago does have won’t compare to what you get in Foxboro Theo and it’s nice to see him back in town on opening night. doing so well. The local revisionism on why The Patriots draft – B+ Sports Illustrated he left after 2012 aside, ending baseball’s two gave it a C, but when you have a 40-year-old greatest World Series draughts is a Hall-earnQB and a team ready to win now — actual- ing bit of GM-ing, and it’s nice to see a guy ly, again — and you use your picks at the with his class be the one to do it. top of the draft to fill holes with trades for a Sports fans in Buffalo – F Who fires their ready-on-Day 1 speed-burning wide-out and D-lineman, to go with a few young guys, that GM the day after the draft? Answer: the Buffalo Bills. It took me till the third sentence of seems pretty productive to me. his first in-game interview after buying the Boston’s sports radio yakkers – D- After Bills to see Terry Pegula was going to be Avery Bradley outplayed the vaunted Jim- a meddling, know-nothing nightmare of an my Butler during the Cs’ four straight wins owner. Three coaches and two GMs in two over Chicago, I’m reminded why I always years later, that’s the case. Oh, and he just say, “Why would you listen to these dopes?,” fired the GM of his last-place hockey team who in this case vilified Danny A for not too. So this grade is for the sports migraine meeting Chicago’s ridiculous asking price he’s giving Buffalo fans. Double yikes!

– Bradley, Jae Crowder and the Brooklyn Cleveland Browns – A Time will tell if before you even know if it will be first overthe picks work out, so this grade is for the all. Yikes! draft approach to resist reaching for a QB, Danny Ainge – B+ For resisting said calls as Chicago and maybe KC and Houston did, from the peanut gallery to pay a king’s ran- instead using draft capital to do what’s most som for first-round playoff casualties Butler needed, build infrastructure. That the fourthand Paul George. Though it would’ve been rated QB DeShone Kizer fell to them in higher if he had gotten rebounding help at Round II is a bonus.

Mitch Trubisky – C A mixed bag for the ex-North Carolina QB. You get major points for being a surprise No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, especially after what da (an appropriate word) Bears paid to move up one slot for a guy with 13 starts on the resume. But when you get booed out of the gym for that on your first day in town as he was at Bulls-Celtic Game 5, that’s not a good sign.

Rajon Rondo – B+ He only did it in a Jimmy G-like two-game glimpse. But I’d say the big game rep and the notion he can still play was restored. Or as Steve Rosenbloom said in his scathing (to Butler) Rosenblog in the Chicago Tribune on April 27, “I think what we’ve learned from the last three losses is that the Bulls shouldn’t build around Butler as much as Rondo.”

Isaiah Thomas – A He’s not the first to play through unspeakable family tragedy. But how he’s overcome the searing emotion and exhaustive travel shows his mental toughness and physical toughness. Leaders aren’t picked, they emerge, and this guy has the “it” all great leaders have.

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Two Wildcats head to NFL The Big Story: Despite the rumors, no UNH football player was taken in last week’s NFL draft. But the good news is offensive lineman Andrew Lauderdale of Concord and running back Dalton Crossan were signed as undrafted free agents with New Orleans and Indianapolis respectively.

Sports 101: Eric Thames and Ryan Zimmerman finished April with 11 homers each. That was three short of the record for homers in April held by which two players?

Hot Ticket Hopefully You Didn’t Miss: After surviving the prospect of playing five straight playoff games on the road in their 4-2 Round I series win with Adirondack, the Monarchs were home this week with three games with the Brampton Beast at SNHU Arena that started after my deadline and ended before we hit the streets on Thursday. So it’s hard to tell where they stand by the time you read this after splitting the first two games to the north over the weekend, where they lost 3-2 in OT on Friday before coming back to win 3-1 in the getaway game on Saturday.

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The Numbers

1 – hit allowed in consecutive shutouts pitched by Bedford hurler Katie Martin, with the first coming in a 15-strikeout 1-0 win over Central on Thursday and the second in a 3-0 whitewash of Winnacunnet the next day.

2 – number of hits by five different players — Emily Moll, Brooke Nolan, Taylor Santosuosso, Erika Wentz and Anna Welch — for Derryfield School in a 7-1 win over Epping.

down after a 19-10 season and going 61-49 over four years. The proverbial “national search” is underway, which is what a lot of small schools call it to make themselves seem bigger than they are. Check the website for more info.

Business: The latest SNHU foray into professional sports was announced last week. It’s a partnership with the Boston Breakers of the National Women’s Soccer League, a team featuring Milford’s Morgan Andrews, who was the third overall pick in the NWSL 2017 daft after a stellar career at USC. Sports 101 Answer: Alex Rodriguez and Albert Pujols hold the record for most homers in April with 14.

On This Date – May 4: 1963 – Mets hurler Bob Shaw incredibly balks five times in one game to set an all-time baseball record. 1965 – A day before his 34th birthday Willie Mays passes New York Giants slugger Mel Ott’s NL home run record with his 512th career homer. 2010 – beloved Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell, whom fans demanded return after Bo (don’t know baseball) Schembechler fired him in 1990, dies at 92.

3 – hits and RBIs for Carolyn St. Peter, hits and runs scored by Alyssa DiMarco and hits allowed by Kerrie St. Peter over five innings of shutout ball in leading Pinkerton to a 12-0 softball win over Central.

4 – goals each from Londonderry’s Catie Derhak and Emily Holland and the Derryfield duo of Eric Mayer and Connor Glossner as the Lancers and Cougars laxsters pounded Nashua North and John Stark 16-4 and 14-3 respectively.

5 – goals scored by freshman Emma Dudley in leading Central to a 12-10 lacrosse win over Keene when Emily Ahearn (3) and Olivia McCambly (2) chipped in with five more scores.

11 – combined lacrosse goals from Maddie Kochanek (7) and O’Neill Galinson (4) as Derryfield rolled over Plymouth 16-3 and from Pinkerton’s Avery Drouin (6) and Lilly Auger (5) in a 20-0 clubbing of Dover.

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Chuck Taylor Converse All-Stars: Coolest sneakers in the universe in the days when TV wasn’t the only thing that only came in black and white. Their 1970s TV ads weren’t bad either, with the best line being, “They are limousines for the feet.”

Real Boss Man: Popular late ’60s-70s saying often used by Kramer in Seinfeld to show off how “mod” you were. Instead of saying “That’s cool, daddy-o,” you’d go, “Wow, man!

Your Nehru jacket, bell bottoms and white shoes are real boss, man.”

The Brooklyn Picks: Three top-of-the-draft picks acquired in an incredible 2014 heist of Brooklyn that doofus media types and fans were willing (heck – screaming) to give up before they knew if either would be first overall for supposed game-changers Jimmy Butler and Paul George. Fast-forward to May and both went one-and-done in the playoffs again.

Plus, George’s goo-goo eyes for L.A. led Larry Bird to quit in Indy.

The Brooklyn Heist: A contender for the worst trade in NBA history, where Brooklyn gave Boston three top three overall picks for the deep on the back nine trio of Paul Pierce (lasted a year), Kevin Garnett (a year and a half) and Jason Terry (awful before the trade).

Today, Brooklyn’s a disaster and being coached by the kid brother of two guys I played basketball with in high school and the C’s are top seed in the East even before making the last two Brooklyn picks.

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The makings of a quintessential summer drink

By Angie Sykeny

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Whether you’re on vacation or wishing you were, few things feel more like summer than sitting outside on a sunny day sipping an ice cold margarita.

The margarita’s reputation as a refreshing, summertime drink may be attributed to its origins in Mexico, where the weather is warm, limes grow in abundance and tequila is produced from the native blue agave plant.

“Its Mexican heritage makes people think of vacations and the sun and the South,” said Rachael Jones, manager and bartender at Firefly American Bistro & Bar in Manchester. “It makes you feel like you want to be sitting on a beach somewhere, or at least on a deck or patio or backyard Want a taco with your margarita?

Margaritas are the mixed drink stars of the Hippo de Mayo Taco Challenge, happening Thursday, May 4, from 4 to 9 p.m. in downtown Manchester. Check out the map on pages 36 and 37 to see which restaurants are serving up drink specials during the taco tour. For more information about the taco tour, go to hippodemayo. com, or read the story in the April 27 edition of the Hippo at hippopress.com (click on “past issues” and then click on the April 27 paper; the story starts on p. 40).

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— anywhere in the sun.”

With just three ingredients — tequila, lime juice and orange-flavored liqueur — a margarita has the ability to transport, especially for those living in New England, where warm weather is a commodity for most of the year.

“A lot of it is definitely nostalgic,” said Brandon Laws, co-owner and bartender of In the MIX Beverage Catering, based in Nashua. “It’s a vacation drink. People may have tried a margarita while they were on vacation, and while they can’t bring their vacation and that weather back with them to New Hampshire, they can at least have the drink that reminds them of it.”

Fun with flavors

A true margarita is made with a tequila base, lime juice and a splash of triple sec or other orange-flavored liqueur, but the simplicity of the recipe leaves room for all kinds of variations using different types of tequila, flavored liqueurs and fruit juices.

Some restaurants, like Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant (which has locations in Concord, Dover, Exeter, Keene, Lebanon, Manchester, Nashua, Portsmouth and Salem), feature whole menus of flavored margaritas.

“The variety is pretty expansive,” said Margarita’s Director of Training Jill Kuntz, who also manages Margarita’s beverage program. “Going a little extreme with dif-

Various margaritas from Firefly. Courtesy photo.

ferent flavors and fresh fruits and herbs has become really trendy, and many [restaurants] have been getting more adventurous with their libations. Being called Margarita’s, we’re really at the forefront of that with our creative and unique margaritas.”

Along with its Original Margarita, the restaurant features margaritas with a variety of added flavors such as strawberry, raspberry, ginger-peach, melon, pomegranate, coconut, pineapple, mango and acai; and margaritas made with flavored tequilas, such as The Naked Jalape-

no, made with jalapeno tequila, and The Naked Coconut, made with coconut tequila. It also has specialty margaritas like the Pepino, made with muddled mint, cucumber and lime; the Heavens to Margatroid, made with an exclusive blend of seven liqueurs; the Prickly Cactus, made with prickly pear and habanero lime; and the popular Russelrita, made with cream tequila and raspberry and strawberry flavors.

“There is a margarita for everyone, from the really unique ones you’d never think to try like the Prickly Cactus, to spicy ones

A world of tequila

Flavored liqueurs and juices aren’t the only ways to switch up a margarita. The type of tequila used can also play a big part in the drink’s flavor.

According to Kuntz, there are four main types of tequilas used in margaritas. Blanco, or silver, tequila is aged for less than 60 days, usually in steel barrels, and has a “clean-

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The añejos are generally used in spicy and savory margarita variations.

Some restaurants, like Hermanos Cocina Mexicana in Concord, make tequila styles and brands the focus of their margaritas rather than added flavors. Hermanos’ margarita list highlights a variety of tequilas including Cuervo Gold Especial, El Charro Reposado, Patron Silver and Platinum, 1800 and Sauza Extra Gold, Conmemorativo and Hornitos; which are paired with several different 1 ounce agave nectar 1 tablespoon orange marmalade

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like the Naked Jalapeno, to the Russelrita, which is like an adult smoothie for people who don’t really like the flavor of tequila,” Kuntz said.

To achieve a simple flavored tequila, fruit juices or flavored liqueurs can be added in with the standard three ingredients or, most commonly, used in lieu of the orange liqueur.

“Fundamentally, if you want it to remain a margarita, you have to have the tequila and lime juice,” Laws said. “The triple sec is usually the thing that you can swap out because it’s the ingredient with the lowest quantity. It’s just a splash.”

Firefly also has a wide selection of margaritas, including the cucumber-jalapeno, made with cucumber puree, fresh jalapenos and agave nectar; the blood orange, made with blood orange liqueur and blood orange juice; the Harvest Margarita, made with elderflower liqueur, apple cider, lemon juice and cinnamon; and the ginger-pear, made with ginger liqueur, key lime juice, pear nectar and Sprite. It has also featured margarita specials like Aztec chocolate, peach habanero, pina colada and even a margarita with maple syrup.

“Lime is ubiquitous in cocktails because it’s so blendable, and tequila itself has a sweet, earthy flavor and is pretty fruitfriendly and mixable with almost anything, so that means margaritas can be really versatile,” Jones said. “It’s fun to take liberties with it. We like to play around and push the limits with our margaritas.”

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A margarita can be served with ice, also known as “on the rocks;” frozen, meaning it was put in a blender with ice; or “straight up,” in which the margarita was chilled and shaken with ice but is served with no ice.

With the margarita being by nature a refreshing, warm-weather drink, it’s no wonder that having it frozen is a popular choice.

“It’s a huge thing,” Laws said. “People like having a frozen drink because it’s like having a milkshake or a snow cone or ice cream cone, but for adults.”

While there are glasses designed specifically for margaritas, the type of glassware used does not affect the margarita’s taste, aroma or practicality as it does for many non-mixed drinks like wine or whiskey.

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Go infused

A growing number of restaurants are also introducing margaritas with infused tequilas, such as the Strawberry Señorita at Firefly, made with house-infused strawberry blanco tequila and served on the rocks with a chili sugar rim. Fresh strawberries are left to sit in the tequila for a couple days before they are drained out and the tequila is ready to serve.

“It leaves a light pink color and a natural fruit flavor that isn’t that syrupy kind of sweet but has a real fresh strawberry taste to it. It’s been very popular,” Jones said, adding that tequila could be infused with a variety of fruits including pineapple, raspberry, blueberry and watermelon.

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kinds of orange liqueurs and amaretto, raspberry and elderflower liqueurs.

“If I had to give a rough estimate, I’d say only 20 percent of our customers come in to get a flavored margarita,” Hermanos General Manager Melissa Thompson said.

“We have about 30 types of tequila, so most people are looking at margaritas with different kinds of tequila, and if they don’t know what kind of tequila they want, they go with a staff recommendation.”

Though not as common as margaritas with a tequila base, there are some variations that blend another kind of hard liquor, such as vodka or rum, with the tequila, or replace the tequila with another liquor entirely.

Hermanos has margaritas like this on its menu, including the Citrata and the Aligarita, both made with Skyy Citrus Vodka; the Limonrita, made with Bacardi Limon Rum; and the Key Lime margarita, made with Stoli Vanil Vodka.

“Tequila has a very specific flavor to it, and a lot of people don’t love it, but you can play on the basic margarita recipe and usually achieve a similar product with a neutral spirit like vodka,” Jones said. “It’s not really a margarita anymore at that point, but it’s like an homage to a margarita.”

Blending the tequila with wine or beer has been a growing trend in the margarita world. For example, Margarita’s features a Coronarita, an original margarita topped with a Corona beer; and a Proseccorita, a margarita mixed with Prosecco sparkling wine, available in coconut, mango and raspberry flavors.

“I’ve been seeing more of those around recently,” Kuntz said. “I’ve seen people do it with sangrias, too.”

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* For the strawberry-infused tequila, simply hull one pint of strawberries per 750-mL bottle of silver tequila, and combine tequila and berries in a container with a tight-fitting lid. Let berries infuse for 24 to 72 hours, tasting intermittently to check the infusion’s progress. Strain the berries out when you like what you taste, and you’ll be left with a pale pink tequila with bright strawberry flavor.

Margarita eats

Since margaritas come in all kinds of flavors, they can also be paired with a variety of foods. The natural tendency is to pair them with Mexican cuisine, which also spans a wide range of flavors, making for endless margarita-food pairing possibilities.

“There are a lot of bold, vibrant flavors in Mexican [cuisine], which is why [margaritas and Mexican cuisine] go so well together,” Kuntz said. “It gives you a nice balance on your taste buds.”

When it comes to pairing food to the type of tequila used in the margarita, Kuntz said blanco tequila should be paired with lighter fare, such as a summer salad, fish tacos or a chicken dish, and the full-bodied, smoky añejo tequila should be paired with a richer food, like a dessert.

Jones said a traditional margarita can go with just about anything, but for flavored margaritas the key is to contrast flavors.

“If you’re changing the formula of the

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margarita to something sweeter or spicier, you need to balance that out. You don’t want to have a spicy margarita with spicy food,” she said. “If you’re having a sweet margarita, pair it with something salty or a spicy Mexican dish. If it’s a spicy margarita, pair it with something sweet and light.”

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First, choose a tequila that suits your taste, not necessarily based on the cost. An aged tequila will almost always be more expensive than a blanco, but you may not want that full-bodied smoky flavor in your margarita. As for quality, you may taste a difference between bottom-shelf and midrange tequilas, but you probably won’t taste a difference between mid-range and top-shelf, at least when it’s mixed into a margarita.

“You don’t have to get a top-notch tequila to make a good margarita,” Bernat said.

“Tequila is one of those things where it’s possible to get a good one while still staying within your budget.”

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“The traditional way to drink it is in the heavy top margarita glass, but that can be really awkward to drink out of,” said Jillian Bernat, a bartender at Bar One. “It’s really your preference. You can drink it out of a pint glass if you want. It can be a casual drink or a fancy drink or whatever you feel.”

Margaritas can be served with or without coarse salt or sugar on the rim — usually sugar for the sweeter, fruity margaritas and salt for the more sour or bitter ones — and a garnish, which could be a lime for a standard margarita or another kind of fruit to complement a flavored margarita. “[The rim] is certainly not necessary. In fact, a lot of people prefer it without, or they’ll get it but only have it on the first sip, then they keep sipping from that same spot,” Laws said. “I think many times it’s more of a tactile thing. People just like to see it and feel it, and it acts more as a garnish.”

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Most bartenders agree that if you’re going to splurge on any ingredient, it should be the lime juice or sour mix, and that the buckets of powdered sour mix you can find at the grocery store are a big no-no if you want to make a quality margarita. Lime juice in a bottle will taste better than a cheap mix, but for the best possible taste, you should squeeze the fresh lime juice by hand, or get a mix that has freshly squeezed juice.

Restaurants like Hermanos and Margarita’s have their own signature margarita mixes made with fresh lime juice, lemon juice and sugar, which you can buy for making margaritas at home.

“It’s definitely worth your time to squeeze the fruit or to get a mix that you know has been freshly squeezed,” Thompson said. “You can taste the difference between a mix like ours, which is homemade and has everything fresh, and the pre-made mixes in a bucket. That powdered mix is just gross.”

No matter what kind of tequila, liqueur and juice you use for your margaritas, the most important thing, Jones said, is to put some thought into the ingredients and get creative.

“For a while, when you thought of a margarita you thought of this big bowl of lime green slushy, but we’re headed back into this craft cocktail age where there’s a lot more focus on ingredients and how they’re all put together,” she said. “When it comes to a simple drink like a margarita, you can

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Both Jones and Thompson agree that the key to a good margarita is that the ingredients are blended properly. Since the lime and tequila each have a strong, distinct flavor, it doesn’t take much to make the margarita too strong, too sweet or too sour.

“You really want a nice balance between the flavor of the mix and the flavor of the tequila,” Thompson said. “You want it to be strong enough so that you know there’s alcohol in it, but you don’t want to be wincing with every sip.”

That’s why it’s also crucial to mix the ingredients thoroughly before serving.

Pouring the ingredients into a glass and stirring does not cut it; the only way to ensure that the drink is completely mixed is to pour the ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake vigorously.

“Shaking it is really important,” Laws said. “I shake a margarita more than I shake any other drink.”

Finally, don’t expect to get a margarita perfect the first time. It may be a trial-anderror process, Laws said, but the nice thing about making drinks is that you can add more of a certain ingredient to balance it out and make it taste better. Worst-case scenario, you still get a drink out of the deal, and you can always try again for the next round.

“If you’ve ever wondered how to make a margarita, find an excuse to make one and do it,” he said. “It’s supposed to be something that’s fun and social, so just have fun making it and enjoy it.” .5 ounce agave nectar 1 ounce fresh cucumber puree 1 tablespoon chopped fresh jalapeños, seeds removed Shake all ingredients with ice and serve on the rocks.

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• Children and adolescents (3 to 18)

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Saturday, May 6

The Seacoast Cat Club’s annual cat show will be held at the Everett Arena (15 Loudon Road, Concord) on Saturday, May 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Watch cats, with the help of their owners, navigate through various obstacles, jumps, hurdles and more. The show will also include a “pet me cats” area, as well as raffles, face painting, a kids’ table and more. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for seniors and kids ages 5 to 12. Visit seacoastcatclub.org.

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Saturday, May 6 Thursday, May 4

Manchester Community College (1066 Front St.) will hold its next open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Visitors can get their $20 application fee waived if they drop off their application here. Meet with admissions counselors, faculty and students, and learn about financial aid, transfer options and more. Visit mccnh.edu or call the admissions office at 206-8100.

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Massachusetts-based blues rock singer-songwriter Quinn Sullivan performs at the Tupelo Music Hall (10 A St., Derry) at 8 p.m. Sullivan is just 18 years old and has already released three studio albums and toured with rock greats like Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and B.B. King. Tickets start at $25. Visit tupelohalllondonderry.com or call 437-5100 to buy tickets.

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EAT: ham and beans Join Main Street United Methodist Church (154 Main St., Nashua) for its next ham and bean dinner on Saturday, May 6, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The dinner features a menu of ham, two kinds of beans, potato salad, coleslaw, bread and pie. The cost to attend the dinner is $9 for adults, $8 for seniors over 60, $4 for kids ages 6 to 12, and free for kids under 6. Visit mainstreet-umc.org or call 882-3361.

Saturday, May 6

Join the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Nashua Fine Crafts Gallery (98 Main St.) for a rug hooking workshop from noon to 3:30 p.m. Participants will learn basic hooking techniques and choose their patterns, wool and hook to make their own rugs. Tuition is $38 plus a $40 materials fee payable to the instructor at the start of class. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

DRINK: wine with your dinner Birch Wood Vineyards (199 Rockingham Road, Derry) will hold a five-course wine dinner on Thursday, May 4, from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring selections from the Napa Valleybased Prisoner Wine Company. Tickets are $75. Visit birchwoodvineyards.com or call 965-4359 for a full menu.

Don’t miss the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series at the SNHU Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester) as it performs three shows on Saturday, May 6, at 1 & 7 p.m., and Sunday, May 7, at 1 p.m. Each of the Monster Jam trucks generate more than 1,500 horsepower and can reach speeds up to more than 100 miles per hour, flying up to 35 feet in the air and longer than 125 feet in distance. Tickets start at $16. Visit snhuarena. com or call 644-5000.

BE MERRY: at a craft fair Nearly 50 local crafters selling a variety of art, food and more will be at the third annual Spring Fling craft fair on the Milford Community House Lawn (6 Union St.) on Saturday, May 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit milford.nh.gov or call 249-0625.

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ARTS Cultural destination

Concord works on rebranding itself with Capital Arts Fest

By Kelly Sennott

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When Concord’s Main Street Project was officially completed in November, the city celebrated with small festivities, like street music, speeches and a reception at the Capitol Center for the Arts.

But CCA Executive Director Nicolette Clarke felt it was a little underwhelming, especially when you look at what the new streetscape means for the capital city.

Mostly, the mood wasn’t right; the weather was cold, the days were short. People were more concerned with the upcoming holiday season.

“I felt that the refurbishing of Main Street here in Concord was a major undertaking,” Clarke said via phone. “I thought we should invite everybody back in town in the spring, when the flowers would be blooming.”

Clarke brought the idea to Creative Concord, a standing committee in the Concord Chamber of Commerce focused on advancing the creative economy, which is made up of community leaders and cultural organization representatives. Everyone liked the idea.

“One thing that I think has been true about Concord for a long time is that we are rich in cultural organizations, but we’ve never really packaged the community in that way,” Tim Sink, president of the Chamber, said via phone. “The redevelopment of downtown Concord has been a game-changing image improvement for the city.”

In January, they hatched the idea of the Capital Arts Fest Where: Downtown Concord When: Saturday, May 6 Contact: concordnhchamber.com; contact each individual venue or organization for details or prices

Squonk Opera performs “Cycle Sonic” outside in downtown Concord part of Capital Arts Fest. Courtesy photo.

Capital Arts Fest, which occurs this Saturday, May 6.

Almost every cultural organization in Concord is participating — including the Community Players of Concord (who presents Other Desert Cities at the Audi), McGowan Fine Art (who hosts the opening reception for “Color Play” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.), Hatbox Theatre (who hosts a performance lab and show later that night, The Truth Will Spring Yuh), the New Hampshire Historical Society (who hosts guided tours from 2 to 5 p.m.), the Concord Chorale (who sings Brahms’ Requiem at 7 p.m.), and others.

Clarke said the Cap Center is offering tours and helped hire Squonk Opera to perform “Cycle Sonic” on the Statehouse plaza (which is basically a concert played

on stages powered by bicycles in the street).

Later that night, it produces a comedy show featuring Juston McKinney.

Some organizations were already planning concerts or art receptions that day.

Others messed with their calendars in order to participate, like the Concord Community Music School, which celebrates Capital Arts Fest with a performathon and instrument petting zoo.

“We scheduled our performance to coincide with it on purpose because it seemed so appropriate. Being a community music school, we’re so integrated with the community, it’s hard to imagine not being part of this festival, which I hope continues from year to year,” said Kathryn Southworth, dean of students and faculty at the

Concord Community Music School; she estimated that, of the 1,000-plus students, 100 are performing.

It’s not the kind of festival where streets are lined with booths, Clarke said; the goal is for people to walk the new sidewalks, and to see local shops, shows and concerts.

“I think what was really gratifying was the way all these different organizations came together and, enthusiastically, said, ‘Yeah, we’ll be a part of this!’” Sink said. “We are branding Concord as a cultural destination, and the only way that’s going to happen is if all these cultural organizations work together to that end. If we achieve that, everyone benefits, not just the cultural organizations, but the community at large.”

Schedule of events 8:30 a.m. to noon: Farmers market, Capital Street 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Guided tours at the New Hampshire Statehouse, 107 N. Main St. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Gallery opening at McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., with reception from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Public tours of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 21 Centre St. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Performathon at Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., and on Main Street in front of The Works Cafe, plus an instrument petting zoo at the school from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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quarters, 49 S. Main St., Suite 100, including current exhibition, permanent collection, plus fine craft demonstrations 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.: Free Comic Book Day at Double Midnight Comics, 67 S. Main St. 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.: Historic downtown Concord walking tour, 30 minutes, meet at 49 S. Main St., Suite 104 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Planetarium and main stage shows, plus AerospaceFest, at McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, 2 Institute Drive 11 a.m.: Tour of Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Suncook Valley Chorale

performs classical, pop, Broadway and folk music, Main Street 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Exhibition at Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Road 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.: Squonk Opera 30-minute performances, Statehouse plaza 1 to 4 p.m.: Live music at Bicentennial Square 2 to 3:30 p.m.: Reading of Good Naked plus free writing workshop with Joni B. Cole at Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St. 2 to 4 p.m.: Performance Lab at Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road 2 to 5 p.m.: Guided tours every 30 minutes at New Hampshire Historical Society, 30 Park St. 4 p.m.: Songweavers Women’s Chorus and

Songweaver Drummers perform at City Plaza 5 to 7 p.m.: Gallery reception at League of NH Craftsmen 5 to 7 p.m.: The Hardtacks in Concert at New England College, 62 N. Main St. 7 p.m.: Concord Chorale presents Brahms’ Requiem at South Congregational Church, 27 Pleasant St. 7:30 p.m.: Other Desert Cities by Community Players of Concord at Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St. 7:30 p.m.: The Truth Will Spring Yuh at Hatbox Theatre 8 p.m.: Comedy show featuring Juston McKinney at Capitol Center for the Arts

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Pam Bartlett and 82 others participate in Spring NH Open Doors

By Kelly Sennott

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Mother’s Day is coming up and Grasshoppers Garden Center and Gift Shop has everything you need to celebrate Mom & the coming season!

Fresh locally smoked Hams from Canterbury, wines, cheeses, and other locally made gourmet foods and gifts.

Pam Bartlett opened The Woolen Pear & Red Horse Rugs three years ago because the studio above her garage kept shrinking — her words — and she needed more room to hook, dye wool and teach rug hooking, which she’s been practicing 30 years.

Bartlett’s specialty shop is a rug hooker’s dream. Hand-dyed wool sits neatly in shelves, arranged by hue and shade, and hangs on racks throughout the middle of the store. Her own rugs decorate the walls.

When the door jingles and a customer steps inside, she greets them.

“I’m the hooker!” she said during a recent visit, laughing before cutting up a green swatch of wool for one of her students. (“Hey, it gets people’s attention!” she said afterward.)

Bartlett, who was juried into the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen about 15 years ago, is readying to open her doors to a bigger crowd this weekend during Spring NH Open Doors When: Saturday, May 6, and Sunday, May 7 Where: Statewide Who: More than 82 individuals are participating. Some of the southern New Hampshire galleries that will showcase work by local artists include Craftworkers’ Guild (5 Meetinghouse, Bedford), Art 3 Gallery (44 Brook St., Manchester), Creative Ventures Gallery (28 NH-101A, Amherst), Nashua Area Artists Association (30 Temple St., Nashua), Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center (30 Ash St., Hollis), the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen (all storefronts, visit nhcrafts.org), Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden (236 Hopkinton Road, Concord), Cornerstone Design at Twiggs Gallery (254 King St., Boscawen), among others. Visit nhopendoors.com for the full list of galleries, art studios, farms and businesses.

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Art Events • CURRIER AFTER HOURS: HIPPO DE MAYO TACO CHALLENGE Thurs., May 4. Featuring tacos, Veronica Robles and her mariachi band, specialty cocktail, collection highlight tours, art-making activity.

Free general admission from 4 to 9 p.m. Tacos at 4 p.m., entertainment starts at 6:30 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

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NH Open Doors Saturday, May 6, and Sunday, May 7.

The event, organized by League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, is a self-led tour to local art studios, galleries, farmsteads and retail shops, which all feature locally made goods and artwork. In addition to selling recently made merchandise, many venues feature demonstrations, food samplings, live music and special sales.

League Interim Executive Director Miriam Carter said this spring sees more than 80 participants, who are listed at nhopendoors. com (where you can also find addresses and tour options). It’s a great chance for visitors to see where artists work and their latest ventures. It’s also great for artists, who otherwise typically have to lug their stuff to fairs and expos in order to sell it.

“Instead of going out to the people, people come to you,” said Carter, a fiber artist of 30 years. “It’s within the nature of most artists to create new products and develop new processes. That’s part of being a creative spirit.”

Bartlett’s goal in participating in NH Open Doors is to sell work and get more people interested in rug hooking, which isn’t practiced a great deal in New Hampshire. She first learned it in the early ’80s via a magazine, and while she was intrigued, she wasn’t sure how to get started.

During a 1982 vacation in Nova Scotia, where rug hooking is a prominent craft, she became re-inspired, and when she returned home, she sought a teacher in earnest — only to find that one of the best in the country, Hallie Hall, lived a few towns over in Contoocook.

Rug hooking is relaxing, meditative and steeped in tradition, according to Bartlett.

She uses wool, sliced into varying sizes to create depth in each piece, though it used to be that crafters used whatever they could get their hands on — old clothes cut into strips and burlap from grain bags.

“They didn’t waste anything,” Bartlett said, as she began a new project — a rug

of NH’s state capital. More than 20 art, film, music, festival events around downtown Concord. Sat., May 6, from dawn to dusk. Concord, NH Concord. Visit concordnhchamber.com.

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Pam Bartlett at The Woolen Pear & Red Horse Rugs, one of the participants in NH Open Doors. Kelly Sennott photo.

with a flower design pattern. “They made things out of everything. When it was done with one life, it went on to another.”

Rug hooking is kind of like painting, incorporating drawing, colors and shading, but it’s more forgiving — any mistake, and you can pull the thread out. You can make anything, from wall hangings to coasters.

Bartlett’s developed a small following in this new spot, located a couple miles from her home. She’s seen crafters spend hours looking through her baskets of wool. Customers also include quilters and braiders, who buy her rainbow bundles for their rich colors, which seem to “vibrate” more when you dye them yourself.

“I like the challenge of it,” she said.

“Some people find it frustrating because they expect perfection. It took me a long time to just relax and let it go. When you let it go, it flows.”

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• SIXTH ANNUAL ART SHOW AND SILENT AUCTION Sat., May 6, 9 a.m.-noon. NHTI Library, 31 College Drive, Concord. Featuring exhibits celebrating artist endeavors of infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten kids. Proceeds used to purchase center-wide play-

ground equipment for Child and Family Development Center. Free.

• BUSINESS IN THE ARTS AWARDS GALA Mon., May 8, at 5:30 p.m. Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester. $100 each. Call 224-8300. Visit nhbca.com.

• ALZHEIMER’S CAFE Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Wed., May 10, 2-4 p.m. People with Alzheimer’s and dementia and their caregivers can enjoy art in good company and in a safe space.

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• NASHUA INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM Three international sculptors visit Nashua and create large granite or metal outdoor sculpture to give to the city. Theme is “Together.”

Opening reception Thurs., May 11, 6-8 p.m. Nashua Airport, Hanger 81, 81 Perimeter Road, Nashua. Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org.

Fairs • GREAT NEW ENGLAND SPRING CRAFT FAIR Sat., May 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun., May 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $4. Hampshire Hills, 50 Emerson Road, Milford.

Openings • PATTERNS INSPIRED BY NATURE” Featuring pottery

by Lori Rollason. On view April 27-May 16. Studio 550, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Reception Thurs., May 4, 7-8:30 p.m. Visit lorirollason.com, 550arts.com, call 232-5597.

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and meet-and-greets with the sculptors, and for sale are vintage paperweights and perfumes, courtesy of an anonymous donor, with proceeds going toward the sculptures.

The public is welcome to visit the artists as they work at Nimco in the Millyard, Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., May 15 through June 1. There’s a closing ceremony Saturday, June 3, at 1 p.m., which starts at City Hall with trolleys taking participants to the three new installations. Visit cityartsnashua.org or email nashua.sculpture@gmail.com.

• More sculpture: In conjunction with Freedom’s Way’s “Hidden Treasures 2017” — an initiative of the National Park Services — the Andres Institute of Art hosts “Brookline’s Best Kept Secret Revealed” Saturday, May 6, from 1 to 3 p.m., with presentations, tours and meet-and-greets with the artists at the institute’s Big Bear Lodge, 106 Route 13, Brookline. If you can’t make it to Brookline this weekend, there are also guided tours offered every Saturday and Sunday at 10 a.m. during the month of May at the sculpture park, 98 Route 13, Brookline. Visit andresinstitute.org.

— Kelly Sennott

• “SPRING INTO SUMMER” Collection of watercolor paintings by Susan Peterson. On view May 2-June 29. Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, 49 S. Main St., Concord.

• “200 YEARS OF PORTSMOUTH ATHENAEUM: COLLECT, PRESERVE, SHARE” On view May 5-Sept.

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• “LANGUAGE OF IMAGINATION” Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St., Manchester. Sat., May 6, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Visit art3gallery.com.

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• One frame at a time: The Wild Salamander Creative Art Center’s Whitty Gallery, 30 Ash St., Hollis, hosts the show “Life: One Frame at a Time,” which is on view May 5 through May 26, with an opening reception Friday, May 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. For this show, local artists were asked to create or capture life moments, from triumph to challenges to dreams. Participants range from seasoned professionals to teens just starting out. For more information, call 465-9453 or visit wildsalamander.com.

• Nashua International Sculpture Symposium kick-off: Nashua kicks off its 10th annual International Sculpture Symposium this month with an opening Thursday, May 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Nashua Airport, 81 Perimeter Road, Nashua (admission is $15 for adults, free for kids 12 and younger). Every year, about three international sculptors spend three weeks in the Gate City creating sculptures from metal or granite to be installed in outdoor public places. Community members welcome the sculptors, host them in their homes, provide meals, visit the artists while they work and learn about their cultures. The 2017 symposium theme is “Together.” The sculptors — who this year include Mai Thu Van from Vietnam, Tom Huff from upstate New York and Tony Jimenez from Costa Rica — will be directed by John Weidman, a sculptor and co-founder and director of the Andres Institute of Art in Brookline. At the opening will be locally prepared food, beverages

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• “COLOR PLAY: NEW WORKS BY NATALIE BLAKE, CATHY CHIN & AMY GOODWIN” May 2-June 2. Opening Sat., May 6, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord. Visit mcgowanfineart.com. Call 225-2515.

Theater Productions • SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Palace Theatre production. April 14 through May 6. The Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $25-$45. Visit palacetheatre.org. Call 668-5588.

• MELANCHOLY PLAY: A CHAMBER MUSICAL theatre KAPOW production. Fri., May 5, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 6, at 7:30 p.m. Collaboration with NH Philharmonic. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. Tickets $20.

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• 82 onstage: The Riverbend Youth Company presents Seussical: The Musical at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford, Friday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 6, at 2:30 p.m.; and Sunday, May 7, at 2:30 p.m. The show features classic Dr. Seuss characters from books like Horton Hears a Who, Horton Hatches the Egg, The Butter Battle Book, McElligot’s Pool, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat, among others. The cast comprises 82 kids in grades 1 through 12 from Milford, Amherst, Pepperell, HollisBrookline, Lyndeborough, and Merrimack.

“The books by Dr. Seuss remind us that being creative, unique and different is to be celebrated,” Director Robin LaCroix said in the press release. “Seussical reinforces these points through some pretty catchy tunes, creative choreography and vibrant costuming. It’s truly a feel-good musical with so much heart.” Tickets are $12. Visit amatocenter.org.

• Broadway bests: Majestic Theatre Artistic Director Robert Dionne performs his first cabaret appearance in more than three years with a concert Saturday, May 6, at 7 p.m., at The Majestic Studios, 880 Page St., Manchester. Audience members can sing along, make requests or just listen to this “Broadway Edition” event. Proceeds support The Majestic Theatre and Ted Herbert Music School’s Studio HVAC Fund.

Tickets are $10. Call 669-7469 or visit majestictheatre.net.

• 33rd Anniversary Weekend: The Concord Community Music School hosts an evening of jazz and classical music Friday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m., at the school’s recital hall, 23 Wall St., Concord. The concert and reception features music school alumni Elizabeth Blood (piano), Courtney Bonifant (viola), Peter Lehmann (piano), Chris Veil• THE TRUTH WILL SPRING YUH World premiere of fulllength play by Donald Tongue.

April 28-May 14, Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m. Tickets $16.50. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Visit hatboxnh.com or call 715-2315.

• SEUSSICAL Riverbend Youth Company. Thurs., May 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., May 5, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 6, at 2:30 p.m.; Sun., May 7, at 2:30 p.m. Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. Visit svbgc.org.

• OTHER DESERT CITIES Community Players of Concord

This weekend, the Riverbend Youth Company presents Seussical: The Musical. Courtesy photo.

leux (saxophones) and Phil Sargent (guitar), who will present music by Bach, Schumann, Ravel and Bill Evans plus jazz standards and originals. Tickets are $20. Call 228-1196 or visit ccmusicschool.org.

• Symphony NH activity: Symphony NH and Massachusetts Eye and Ear recently announced a collaboration between the two organizations, bringing medicinebased music therapy programs to patients.

The collaboration commences with a day of seminars and music performances May 4 at the Boston hospital. Symphony NH Executive Director Mark Thayer and Dr. Mark Varvares of Massachusetts Eye and Ear have worked together through similar collaborations between the St. Louis Symphony and St. Louis University, according to a release. The symphony also performs at a concert, “A Requiem Tribute,” Sunday, May 7, at 4 p.m., at The First Church, 1 Concord St., Nashua, featuring Joseph R. Olefirowicz (organ), Mark Andrew Cleveland (bass), Nicole Plummer (treble), the Chancel Choir and the Symphony NH Chamber Players. Tickets are $20. Call 882-4861 or visit symphonynh.org.

• Women playwrights: The Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen St., Lowell, Mass., hosts Fem Noire: The Festival of Women Playwrights Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6, at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.). Audience members are invited to arrive early to partake in a wine and cheese reception and a meet-and-greet with the playwrights. Seats are $25; visit imagetheater.com or call 978-441-0102.

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production. Fri., May 5, at7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 6, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 7, at 2 p.m. Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. Visit communityplayersofconcord.org.

• CHARLOTTE’S WEB Theatreworks production for kids. Fri., May 5, at 10 a.m. and noon. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. $7. Visit ccanh.com.

• BROADWAY WITH ROBERT DIONNE Piano cabaret and sing-a-long. Sat., May 6, at 7 p.m.

The Majestic Studios, 880 Page St., Manchester. $10. Visit majestictheatre.net.

Classical Music Events • WILD WORLDS OF JAZZ Presentation by faculty member Matt Langley. Part of Bach’s Lunch Lectures. Thurs., May 4, 12:10-12:50 p.m. Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord. Call 228-1196. Free.

• CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL GALA PERFORMANCE Evening of classical and jazz music, featuring alumni musicians. Fri., May 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the music school, 23 Wall St., Concord. $20. Call 2281196 or visit ccmusicschool.org.

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The beginning of May means the reopening of the Canterbury Shaker Village and the return of several special events and workshops to celebrate its history.

The historic community site will hold its annual Heifer Parade on Saturday, May 6, at 11 a.m., with other Opening Day festivities to be held on the grounds from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission to the village will be free for the day, and guided tours of the exhibits will be available for $10 at hourly intervals.

Nicole Laurin, special events and adult programs manager for the Village, said the first parade was in 2013 following a partnership development with the nearby Brookford Farm.

“It’s a great way of welcoming spring to the village,” she said. “[The farm] takes the cows out to their first spring grass usually around the end of April.”

Festivities will include fiddlers, crafts, lawn games and more. The village is also participating in this year’s NH Open Doors, happening Opening Day When: Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Canterbury Shaker Village, 288 Shaker Road, Canterbury Cost: Free admission and selfguided tours; guided tours of the buildings are available for $10 per person at 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m.

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the same weekend.

“People will be able to make flower wreaths, cards and other things like that,” she said, “and we’ll also have Maypole dancing and old-fashioned butter-churning demonstrations. … Hopefully it will be a great day to be outside, because there will be a lot going on and all the buildings will be open to the public as well, so you’ll be able to walk around both inside and out for free.”

The parade is the first of several new and returning events and workshops happening at the village now through mid-December, when the buildings will close for the season.

The 10th annual cross-country 5K will be held on the grounds on May 13, at 8:30 a.m. Registration is $25 and free for kids 10 and under, and all proceeds will benefit educational programs at the Village.

The annual plant sale will be held the following weekend, on May 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Also planned is the annual dinner and auction on June 21, at 5 p.m.

A new event will be held on Aug. 5 that Laurin said is a reworking of a previous Shaker-themed dance performance held last year.

“It’s going to be a much larger day of performances rather than just having the exhibition component,” she said. “There will be some dance performances and some music lectures about Shaker music as well.”

Other returning events to the village include the Canterbury Artisan Festival on Sept. 16, the vintage car show on Oct. 14, the “Ghost Encounters” Halloween-themed event for families on Oct. 28, and the annual “Christmas at Canterbury” event for two days on Dec. 9 and Dec. 16.

For workshops, Laurin said, the village is bringing back Shaker chair-making demonstrations for the first year since 2011, with dates scattered throughout the next several months. The first workshops will be June 3 and June 10, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will be led by woodworker and museum interpreter Dick Bennett.

In January, the Village announced Susan Bennett as its interim executive director.

“Susan is actually not from New Hampshire, but she’s been getting out and meeting new people and learning about their relationships with the village,” Laurin said.

“We’re always trying to connect more with our community and [see] what ideas can come from Canterbury itself and also the Concord area, so we’re looking forward to this year.”

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I’m already eating a few of my own fresh vegetables: ramps, dandelion greens and sorrel are ready, and soon will come those perennial delicacies, asparagus and rhubarb.

It took me nearly 10 years, but I now have a patch of ramps that produces enough of these wild members of the onion family that I don’t have to go hiking to dig up the ramps I need.

I sauté both the bulb and the leaves, and find them a great spring treat in eggs or a stir-fry.

Ramps are often found in areas with moist soil and filtered sun and shade. They are slowgrowing, but I have added 50 or so plants most years for 10 years and the older clumps are ready for harvesting.

Ramps often are found in patches of a million or more, but that does not mean you can be careless about harvesting them – a patch that size takes a lifetime or more to develop.

Dig a few in one spot, move to another, and never take all from any one location. If I dig out 25 from one spot, I am sure to leave half a dozen in the ground.

If you want to start your own patch, first learn to identify the plant. They have leaves that are 6 to 12 inches long and 1 to 3 inches wide with a pointy end. There is a groove down the middle of the leaf, and the lower stem may have some maroon coloring. And the scent is distinct, similar to garlic and leeks.

The bulbs are half an inch wide or so, and two inches long or less, depending on when you pull them. There is an outer sheath over the bulb, which you should slide off when you cut off the roots.

To grow your own, carefully observe where you find them in the wild. Look at the trees: often maples and beech, sometimes ash or poplar form the canopy. Wildflowers that grow along with ramps include spring beauty, Dutchman’s breeches and trout lily.

The soil for growing ramps should be rich and dark. If you want some near the house and kitchen, dig some up and try to match the environment where you find them in the wild.

Be sure to ask the landowner if you want to take some from a neighbor. These are spring ephemerals, so the leaves will die and disappear before mid-summer.

I know that many gardeners think of dandelions as pests, and they can be. But they are also tasty if you dig some before they bloom; after blooming they tend to get bitter.

To harvest dandelions, bring a table knife with you to a patch of lawn or garden that has not been treated with chemicals – no herbicides, no chemical fertilizers, no pesticides.

Slice the roots an inch beneath the soil surface and lift the dandelion carefully as you don’t

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want to sprinkle any soil onto the greens. The white portion just beneath the soil is delicious, but you can toss the brown-skinned tap root.

I wash the dandelions with the sprayer in my kitchen sink, and then leave the roots in a bowl of water to loosen any more soil. Then I return and rinse them after soaking. I like to steam them lightly, then serve with cider vinegar or a little butter. Although I eat them the same day I pick them, my late friend Rev Wightman used to freeze them and eat them throughout the year.

Sorrel is a great favorite of French cooks who make a soup with it. Although I grow it, I am not wild about it. It is a bright leafy green that comes back year after year. It has a sharp lemony flavor, a bit like wood sorrel. My problem with it is that when you cook it, it practically disappears. It has little substance.

But it’s easy to grow and adds a unique flavor if added to a salad or even a sandwich.

Plants are often sold at garden centers in the herb section.

My rhubarb is up! I love rhubarb for its sharp flavor, one that I have been told is among the last to disappear for the elderly when they lose their ability to sense flavors.

Rhubarb is easy to grow. It does best in full sun with rich moist soil. I have grown it in dry soil and although it grows in dry places, it is not as vigorous. It has a deep fleshy root. If you have a friend with a rhubarb patch, it is easy to dig some out and bring it home. Just plunge a spade into the middle of a plant, and then around it, and lift out a section of root.

Add plenty of compost and organic fertilizer to the soil when you plant it.

Rhubarb comes in green-stemmed and redstemmed varieties. I like the red, though I doubt there is a difference in taste. The leaves are a little toxic – they contain oxalic acid – but are not going to kill you if you eat some.

For a spring drink, chop a pound of stems, add water, and boil until soft. Drain off the mush, then add some sugar and more water for a tasty pink drink that has got to be healthier for you than soda!

Eating seasonally is good for you, and I like having treats now that I only get once a year.

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Hi Donna, I have a lovely tea service for eight that I received as a shower gift. The bottom is stamped “Tuscan Fine English Bone China.” I am looking to downsize some items I haven’t used in years and was wondering if there was a value to the service.

Thank you for your time.

Darlene

Pretty tea set for eight. I’m trying to picture today in this fast-paced world sitting down with family or friends to have tea.

How nice that would be, right?

Tuscan bone china was manufactured in England from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

They made lots of patterns and colors of bone china. The mark on your set shows that it was made during the 1940s.

Because there is still lots of it out there to be found, the collectible market for it is low.

If it was a brighter-colored pattern or included harder to find pieces it might be worth more.

If I got one for my wedding, I would want it to be white so it matched with everything. But you and I don’t set the trends today.

The value for an eight-piece set like yours would be under $100 out in the market. I would find someone to pass it to in the family just for the fact it was from your shower. I wish you luck and hope this was helpful.

Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in the antiques and collectibles field and owns From Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com).

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Clubs Garden • CANDIA GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE There will be a large variety of annuals, vegetables, herbs, hanging baskets and more, as well as many hardy perennials dug from members’ gardens that will flourish in your own garden. A raffle table will be available with many garden and non-garden related items offered. Sat., May 20, 9 a.m. to noon. Masonic Hall, 12 South Road, Candia. Free admission.

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Crafts Craft events • MOTHER’S DAY ZENTANGLE Personalize your card or gift to Mom. This class is open to everyone beginner or not; learn new Tangles and a great way to play with them. Sat., May 13, 2 to 4 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $22 tuition, plus a $10 materials fee. Visit nashua.nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

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Don’t miss the annual May Day Festival at High Mowing School (222 Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton) on Saturday, May 6, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The event is a celebration of spring and will feature Maypole and Morris dancing, live music, games, hayrides, refreshments and more.

This year’s festival includes a performance by the Flying Gravity Circus and free interactive circus arts instruction for kids. A burrito bar will be available from noon to 1:30 p.m. for you to make your own burritos for $8. Admission to the festival is free.

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Join the Philbrick-James Library and the New Hampshire Humanities Council for the Music in My Pockets family fun folk concert on Sunday, May 7, at 2 p.m., at the Deerfield Community Church (15 Church St.). Discover “pocket instruments” like spoons and a dancing puppet, listen to tall tales and funny songs and get a historical glimpse of how America amused itself before the advent of electricity. Admission The places you’ll go The final two productions of Seussical is free. Call 463-7076 for more details. the Musical will be at The Amato Center for the Performing Arts (56 Mont Vernon Fun on the farm Gelinas Farm (471 4th Range Road, PemSt., Milford) on Saturday, May 6, and Sunbroke) will host an open house on Sunday, day, May 7, at 2:30 p.m. The show brings to life many of Dr. Seuss’s beloved characters, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can like The Cat in the Hat and Horton the Ele- meet some of the farm’s horses and watch phant. Two additional shows are planned horse riding demonstrations. The farm will for Thursday, May 4, and Friday, May 5, also be holding a used horse tack sale durat 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and ing the open house. Admission is free. Visit $8 for students and seniors. Visit svbgc.org/ gelinasfarm.com or call 225-7025 for more information. amato-center or call 672-1002.

Join Charmingfare Farm (774 High St., Candia) for Shearing Day on Saturday, Fairy fun A final fairy tea party will be held at May 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., when sheep Kimball Jenkins Estate (266 N. Main St., shearer Jeff Jordon will provide demonConcord) on Sunday, May 7, from 2 to 4 strations for how the wool from sheep p.m, with opportunities to sample from is harvested. Other special events for an assortment of flavored tea and other the day will include craft projects using refreshments. The event will also feature sheep’s wool, spinning demonstrations, a storytimes, crafts, photo opportunities and presentation by the local 4-H club Canmore. Admission is $10 and pre-registration dia Clovers and more. Admission is $19 is required. Children must be accompanied per person and free for children ages 23 by a participating adult. Visit kimballjen- months and under. Go to visitthefarm.com or call 483-5623. kins.com or call 225-3932.

Yard sales/fundraisers • GIRL SCOUT SWIFT WATER PADDLERS YARD SALE AND SPAGHETTI DINNER Benefits the Girl Scout Swift Water Paddlers canoe racing team. Sat., May 6, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the yard sale, 6 to 8 p.m. for the spaghetti dinner. St. James United Methodist Church, 646 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack. Tickets to the dinner are $8, free for kids under 8.

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May 7, 7:30 to 9 a.m. The Fells Historic Estate & Gardens, 456 NH-103A, Newbury. $8. Visit thefells.org or call 763-4789.

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Meet a local astronaut, launch your own paper airplanes and, if it’s sunny, get a close-up view of sunspots and solar flares at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center’s annual Aerospacefest.

The one-day festival is a celebration of all things aviation and space and is happening Saturday, May 6, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Center.

“It’s a really fun event for families and a great way to get people interested in science and engineering,” Executive Director Jeanne Gerulskis said. “We’ve been doing it since 1990 and the New Hampshire Astronomical Society has been our partner each time.”

For the duration of the day, the museum will be filled with science and engineering-themed stations that will have special appearances from local organizations like Raytheon, the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University’s meteorology department, the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, the New Hampshire Department of Aeronautics and more.

Gerulskis said each organization is planning something unique to keep you engaged during the festival.

“With each of the folks that we invite, they don’t just have a station where they stand there and talk to people; they’ll have fun things for people to do,” she said. “The Project Management Group’s New Hampshire Chapter, for example, will have a tinkering table where you try building different things … and the Aviation Museum is going to have a big runway set up in a room for paper airplane launches.”

Other activities will include aviation simulators courtesy of the state Bureau of Aeronautics and skywatches with telescopes provided by the Astronomical Society. If it’s sunny out, the society will bring solar filters that go over the telescope lenses so you can see sunspots and solar Aerospacefest 2017 When: Saturday, May 6, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Gerulskis said this year’s Aerospacefest will feature the unveiling of a new planetarium show at the center called “Take Flight.” The aviation-themed show is being funded by NASA and will continue to be exhibited at the discovery center following the festival.

Visitors will get to meet Will Broussard, outreach coordinator of the Mount Washington Observatory, during a live video stream straight from the mountain. Gerulskis said Broussard will be talking about the work the observatory does and what will be going on that day atop the mountain.

Astronaut Rick Searfoss, a Portsmouth native who served as a test pilot in the Air Force and as a space shuttle commander, will be a featured speaker at this year’s Aerospacefest, Gerulskis said. Searfoss will also be handing out the three winners of this year’s Alex Higgins Memorial Space Camp Scholarships. For each year since 2001, three New Hampshire kids from the ages of 9 to 18 have been awarded the scholarships to attend Space Camp in Alabama. Applications for next year’s scholarships are currently being accepted on the discovery center website.

“He’s very personable and able to talk to people at all different levels,” Gerulskis said, “so his talk should be a lot of fun.”

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Windshield wipers seem to have no ‘off’ switch Dear Car Talk: I have a 2006 Chrysler Town & Country with an interesting problem. A few weeks ago, I was driving in the rain with my wipers on. When I parked and

By Ray Magliozzi turned off the car, the wipers kept going. At first I thought I had the key in accessory mode, but the ignition was off. I then turned the car back on and off again; the wipers still kept going.

Then I took the key out of the ignition. The wipers kept going. I had to take out the windshield wiper fuse in order to get them to stop. When I put the fuse back in, they start right up again, even with the car off and the key in my hand. So now I can drive the car only if it is not raining, or put the fuse back in if I have to drive in the rain.

The wipers will go from normal to fast if I change the setting, but will not operate in the intermittent mode. Any help with this one is appreciated. Thanks. — Steve Well, look on the bright side, Steve: Now you have a perfect excuse to say “no” when anyone asks to borrow your car.

I have a couple of ideas for you. One is to find the windshield-wiper relay. You’ll

find that in the fuse box; it’s even labeled!

There should be at least one other relay in there that looks identical. Try swapping those two relays.

If your relay is stuck in the “on” position, that could explain why power is continually going to your wiper motor, even after you remove the key and leave for two weeks to Honolulu.

When swapping the relays doesn’t make a difference, my second guess would be the wiper motor. That’s also pretty easy to test.

The windshield-wiper motor is right up against the firewall. With the wipers on, you’ll be able to hear and identify it pretty easily. It actually just plugs right into a socket on the firewall.

Come to think of it, maybe you can just buy a Clapper, plug it into that outlet, and control the wipers that way.

Actually, what you’ll want to do is go to a local automotive recycling center (aka junkyard), and buy a used windshield-wiper motor for $20 or $30. But don’t install it.

Just plug it in, and test the wiper switch to see if the new motor stops when you turn off the wiper switch. If you can turn off the new motor with the switch, then you know the problem is your old motor, and you can replace it.

If it’s not the relay or the motor, then you’re getting into poltergeist territory, Steve. That could require an actual mechanic, a wiring diagram, a voltmeter and maybe a couple of hemlock roots and an eye of newt. So I’ll hope one of my two ideas fixes it.

Dear Car Talk: I recently replaced the inner and outer tie rod ends, ball joints, axles, CV joints, front tension strut bushings, and control arms (with bushings and ball joints) on both sides of my 1993 Ford Taurus GL. I also did a rough alignment afterward. The shock/strut assemblies were done earlier this year. I’ve since had the nagging feeling that I may have mixed up the left and right control arms before I installed them. I don’t think they’re interchangeable, because they have different part numbers (K8425 and K8427). How can I figure out now whether I switched them by mistake? — Laura This reminds me of the old adage about the criminal always returning to the scene of the crime, Laura. Like said criminal, I’d advise you not to go back there.

Actually, if you’re lucky, there’s still a decal on one or both of the control arms.

Or maybe there’s a part number stamped

into the metal. You might be able to get under there and find a part number and confirm it that way.

But it’s not easy to put them in on the wrong sides, Laura. I suppose if you really force it, you might be able to do it, but then the car would be almost impossible to drive. So if the car is driving more or less normally (or whatever counts as normal on a 1993 Taurus), you probably got it right.

If you want to be sure, take the car to an alignment shop. You definitely need an alignment anyway. A rough alignment -- where you look at the wheels and say, “Hmm, they’re both pointing more or less in the same direction” — isn’t worth squat.

If the alignment shop is able to align the car, then you can rest easy, because there’s no way they’ll be able to align it if the control arms are on the wrong sides.

The only downside, I guess, is that you may expose yourself to potential ridicule.

If you did somehow reverse everything, the guys at the shop may laugh at you. But at that point, you can either confess and take your lumps, or you can tell them you had it done at my shop, mumble something about “those morons,” and throw us under the bus. Good luck, Laura.

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Richard Roy of Concord is the wood fuel manager at Schiller Station, the biomass energy plant in Portsmouth owned by Eversource.

Explain your current job.

Eversource has a 50-megawatt power station in Portsmouth that runs on wood chips as opposed to other traditional fuels like coal or oil or natural gas. And my job is to manage the flow of wood chips coming to us so that the unit never runs out of fuel. … We have contracts with 50 or so wood harvesting companies and I coordinate with them to deliver fuel to us. We use about half a million tons of fuel every year.

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enjoyed the outdoors, particularly hiking in the White Mountains, that kind of thing. It was sort of natural to get a job that would keep me in the outdoors as opposed to behind a desk. So forestry seemed to fit right into that and that’s what I chose to study in college. … The requirements for this job was [to be] a licensed forester, which I am. … If you’re going to practice forestry in New Hampshire, you’re going to have to have a valid forester’s license and there are steps that you have to take to maintain that license.

degree there — bachelor’s and master’s. … Saw mills have procurement foresters to buy logs, pulp mills have procurement foresters to buy pulp. I just happen to be a procurement forester that buys fuel chips.

ers community. All of them. The timber harvesters. They’re great people to work with. I don’t think I’d change much at all. …

No matter what you do, there’s a learning curve. But when you have the 30 years experience and you’re looking backward, if How did you find this job? there’s satisfaction in your career, Out of college I ended up work- Courtesy photo. it’s hard to go back and nitpick ing for a very large saw mill. And what might have made it better then, from there, [I] ended up working for a because you’re still speculating, even looklarge timber harvesting company, which pro- ing backward. duced biomass at the time, a lot of it. From there, I landed a job purchasing chips for a What is your typical at-work uniform? power plant up in Tamworth almost 30 years That’s easy. Boots, jeans or canvas pants, ago now. It was a natural fit, more or less, and comfortable shirts, wool or fleece, and a ball I’ve been working as a procurement forest- cap or a hardhat depending on where I’m er … in the biomass industry for the last 30 standing at that minute. years or so.

What was the first job you ever had?

What’s the best piece of work-related The first paying job that I ever had was as a advice anyone’s ever given you? stock boy in a department store at age 15. …

Listen first, think and then communicate It was a Rich’s department store, long since very clearly. It’s short, brief and it works. … gone. — Ryan Lessard I think that works well in any field. ... You’re What’s something you’re really not going to learn much by talking first.

What do you wish you’d known at the What kind of education or training did beginning of your career? you need for this?

I don’t think I would change much. I’ve I attended the University of New HampHow did you get interested in this field? enjoyed working with the people in this I grew up in the North Country and always shire in forestry and received a master’s field. The forestry community, the landown-

interested in right now?

I have a few favorite things to do. My favorite place is Mount Desert Island in Maine. … And I guess you could say I’m an avid woodworker — woodcarving, woodturning.

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$13+ an hour, plus 401(k), benefits, dental, paid time off and a generous discount for you and your family.

Come join our fun work environment!

About Us • At Villa Crest Nursing and Retirement Center, our aim is to provide the level of service that meets the residents needs.

Whether a short stay for rehabilitation therapy is appropriate or a new place to call home, Villa Crest has the appropriate services.

• Villa Crest staff members are addressed as partners and are trained to provide professional and compassionate care to all residents. In short, we take time to hire the right people to make Villa Crest a great place for our residents and employees alike!

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NOW HIRING!

Join a Winning Team

Let our success be your success!

• Saturday, May 20 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Wednesday, May 24 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Full-time Jobs, Great Benefits at Manchester Manufacturer

• Seeking LPNs, LNAs, Direct Care Professionals.

• Full- and Part-Time schedules available.

• Summer positions also available!

Rose Meadow Acres 539 Old Coach Road New Boston, N.H.

Come to work at the country’s largest aerosol valve producer. Summit Packaging Systems located in Manchester, NH is looking for talented and energetic Manufacturing Professionals to contribute to our growing success. No college degree required to apply, we will train on site.

We have several full-time positions that are available immediately.

Highly competitive pay, outstanding benefits.

Generous signing bonuses if hired before 6/15/17: $2,000 for full-time LPN; $1,000 for part-time LPN; $500 for full-time LNA/Direct Care Professionals and $250 for part-time LNA/Direct Care Professionals.

Rose Meadow Group operates three supported residential health care programs in New Boston, N.H. for adults with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries or neurological disorders.

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Superior candidates will have 3+ years’ experience, proven mechanical skills, capable of setting-up, processing and troubleshooting injection molding machines.

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Superior candidates will have proven mechanical skills, capable of setting up, processing and troubleshooting injection molding machines.

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To Get In On The Trades Plumbers & Steamfitters Apprenticeship UA Local Union 131 Join Apprenticeship & Training Committee is now accepting applications for our plumbing & steamfitting apprenticeship program. Applicants must have a valid driver’s license, birth certificate, high school diploma, or GED equivalent certificate and a social security card. All applicants must be willing to travel throughout our state of NH and attend classes two nights a week during the school year.

The successful candidate will possess attention to detail, ability to test parts using gauges, and ability to process paperwork related to inspection processes.

JUNIOR DRAFTS PERSON – 1ST SHIFT

The right person will be responsible for processing and documentation support of products, molds, and assembly equipment, as well as providing drafting support for all departments. Solidworks is required.

JUNIOR MECHANICAL DRAFTS PERSON – 1ST SHIFT

The right person will be responsible for processing and documentation support of products, molds, and assembly equipment, as well as providing drafting support for all departments. Solidworks is required.

MOLD HANGER/SETTLER - 1ST SHIFT

Hangs molds in plastic injection machines. Must be mechanically inclined.

Previous fork truck experience a plus.

We offer:

• A competitive benefits package • Medical, dental and life insurance • Employee referral program • 401(k) • Generous profit sharing bonuses twice a year

Located close to Manchester transit bus route. No phone calls please.

Applications can be obtained online at www.UALU131.org or pick one up at the office located at 161 Londonderry Turnpike, Hooksett, NH

Application deadline is: May 5th, 2017

UA Local Union 131 Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are actively seeking female applicants. Please refer any questions to our training coordinator Jesse Torosian at 603.315.2269

Apply within at the address listed below: www.summitpackagingsystems.com/careers 400 Gay Street, Manchester NH 03103 114177

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FOOD Menus for moms Where to go for Mother’s Day eats

By Angie Sykeny

News from the local food scene

food@hippopress.com

By Angie Sykeny

Give mom a break from the cooking and celebrate her special day at one of these local restaurants serving brunch buffets, prix fixe meals and special menus. Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 14, so make your reservations now.

food@hippopress.com

• Time for tacos: Don’t miss the Hippo de Mayo Taco Challenge happening Thursday, May 4, from 4 to 9 p.m. in downtown Manchester. Around 50 downtown restaurants will be selling unique tacos for $2 each, including cafes and delis, pubs and diners, farm-to-table and vegan eateries, candy and ice cream shops, steakhouses and seafood restaurants and a variety of ethnic restaurants including Greek, Italian, Mexican, Brazilian, Indian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese. Restaurants will be vying for a Judges’ Choice award as well as a People’s Choice Award (vote through the HippoScout app), and both winners will receive $1,000 to benefit the charities of their choice. For more information and a full list of participating restaurants and their tacos, visit hippodemayo.com. To read the full story about the taco tour that ran in the Hippo, visit hippopress.com and click on “past issues,” then click on the April 27 issue pdf and look for the story on p. 40.

• Welcome, farmers market: The Concord Farmers Market opens Saturday, May 6, from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Capitol Street next to the Statehouse. The market will feature around 40 vendors selling a wide selection of baked goods, meat, eggs, dairy, fruit, vegetables, fish, honey, maple products and more. For more information, visit concordfarmersmarket.com.

• Seacoast happy hours: Dining on the Seacoast just got easier with a new website that displays daily updated listings of happy hours and industry deals offered at sea- 48 Looking for more food and drink fun? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store, Google Play and hipposcout.com.

• 110 Grill (27 Trafalgar Square, Nashua, 943-7443, 110grill.com) will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The menu will include crab and egg flatbread, yogurt parfait, the 110 Frittata, fried shrimp and grits, chicken ’n’ waffles, steak and eggs Benedict, banana bread French toast, the Cure Burger and brunch cocktails. Reservations are recommended.

• Alan’s of Boscawen (133 N. Main St., Boscawen, 753-6631, alansofboscawen. com) will serve brunch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring a variety of breakfast items, an omelet station, salads, carving stations and more, as well as traditional plated meals including honey-baked ham, roast leg of lamb, prime rib and baked stuffed haddock.

Dinner specials will run from noon to close.

Call for reservations.

• Alpine Grove Banquet Facility (19 S. Depot Road, Route 111A, Hollis, 882-9051, alpinegrove.com) will serve brunch with seatings on the hour from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The menu will include various breakfast items, roast top round of beef with demi-glace, Mediterranean chicken, mac and cheese, a pastry and dessert buffet and more. The cost is $26 for adults, $10 for children ages 5 through 12 (free for children under age 5. Reservations are required.

• Ashworth by the Sea (295 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 926-6762, ashworthhotel.com) will host a Mother’s Day Brunch by the Sea from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $37.95 for adults and $18.95 for children ages 5

through 12 (free for children under age 5).

• Atkinson Resort and Country Club (85 Country Club Drive, Atkinson, 362-8700, atkinsonresort.com) will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring breakfast items, a carving station, entrees like baked haddock and chicken Milanese, a dessert table and more. The cost is $47 for adults and $20 for kids ages 3 through 10 (free for children under age 3). Reservations are required.

• Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, 472-2001, bedfordvillageinn. com) will serve brunch from 9:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., featuring soups and salads, omelet and waffle stations, various breakfast items, a carving station, lunch entrees, seafood dishes, a dessert station and a European chocolate fountain. The cost is $49 per person. A four-course prix fixe dinner will be served from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., featuring appetizers like chilled duck breast and roasted carrot bisque, and salads; entrees including stuffed peppers, bronzed scallops, smoked ham and more; and desserts like blackberry lemon torte and chocolate cheesecake. The cost is $65 per person. Reser-

vations are required for brunch and dinner.

• Belmont Hall Restaurant (718 Grove St., Manchester, 625-8540, belmontrestaurant.com) will serve a breakfast buffet with seatings at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Reservations are available for parties of five or more; for smaller parties, it’s first come, first served. The cost is $10.99 for children and $13.99 for adults.

• Birch Wood Vineyards (199 Rockingham Road, Derry, 965-7359, birchwoodvineyards.com) will serve brunch with seatings at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. The menu will include a breakfast station, salad station, live carving station, entree station with dishes like chicken toscana, orecchiette pasta primavera and prosciutto-wrapped haddock; desserts and a cash bar with mimosas, bellinis and bloody marys. The cost is $42 for adults and $18 for children (free for age 4 and under). Reservations are required.

• Black Forest Cafe (212 Route 101, Amherst, 672-0500, theblackforestcafe. com) will serve its regular brunch menu with specials from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Seat-

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salads and breads, a carving station, entrees like chicken Parmesan and tavern mac and cheese, and desserts. The cost is $24.95 for adults and $14.95 for kids under age 12.

• The Derryfield (625 Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-2880, thederryfield.com) will serve brunch starting at 9:30 a.m., featuring an omelet or pasta station, carving station, bread station, salad station, dessert station and main buffet line with various breakfast items and entrees including chicken, turkey, seafood and more. The cost is $25.95 for adults, $23.95 for seniors 65+ and $17.95 for children under age 12. Call for reservations.

• Epoch Restaurant & Bar (The Exeter Inn, 90 Front St., Exeter, 778-3762, epochrestaurant.com) will serve a brunch buffet starting at 10 a.m., with last seatings at 3:30 p.m. The cost is $50 for adults and $14.99 for children age 12 and under. Reservations are required.

• Firefly (22 Concord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflynh.com) will serve Mother’s Day brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and dinner from 4 to 10 p.m. Reservations are recommended.

• The Foundry Restaurant (50 Commercial St., Manchester, 836-1925, foundrynh. com) will serve Mother’s Day brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., for $35 per person.

• Fratello’s Italian Grille (155 Dow St., Manchester, 624-2022; 194 Main St., Nashua, 889-2022; 799 Union Ave., Laconia, 528-2022, fratellos.com) will serve brunch at its Manchester location with seatings at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and a special menu at all locations with reservations available at noon, 2:30 and 5 p.m., and walk-ins accepted until 7 p.m. as space allows.

• Fulchino Vineyard (187 Pine Hill Road, Hollis, 438-5984, fulchinovineyard.com) will host a luncheon and wine tasting at 12:30 p.m., featuring Italian food like grilled focaccia, lobster and crabmeat ravioli, chicken rollatini, cannolis and more. The cost is $39, and tickets are required.

• Gauchos Churrascaria Brazilian Steak House (62 Lowell St., Manchester, 6699460, gauchosbraziliansteakhouse.com) will serve brunch with live jazz music from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call for reservations.

• Giorgio’s (524 Nashua St., Milford, 673-3939; 270 Granite St., Manchester, 2323323, giorgios.com) will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring salads, breads, appetizers, entrees, a carving station, omelet station, dessert station and more. The cost is $32.99 for adults and $12.99 for children.

• Granite Restaurant (The Centennial Hotel, 96 Pleasant St., Concord, 227-9000, graniterestaurant.com) will serve brunch with seatings at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., featuring various breakfast items, a Belgian waffle station, a carving station; dinner selections including rolls, salad, soup, vegetables, cheese tortellini and baked haddock; and desserts. The cost is $33 for adults, $30 for seniors 65+ and 42

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• Brookstone Park (14 Route 111, Derry, 328-9255, brookstone-park.com) will serve brunch with reservations available from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The menu features a variety of breakfast items, a salad station, entrees including Atlantic haddock, chicken Marsala, slow-roasted prime rib and mac and cheese; and desserts. The cost is $39 for adults and $19 for children ages 3 through 12 (free for children under age 3).

• Cafe on the Park (Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester, 206-4140, radissonmanchesternh.com) will serve a breakfast buffet from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring hot and cold breakfast selections, an omelet station, umami seared tenderloin and a bloody mary and mimosa bar. The cost is $17.95 (an additional $9 for the cocktail bar). Reservations are recommended.

• The Coach Stop (176 Mammoth Road, Londonderry, 437-2022, coachstopnh.com) will serve its holiday dinner menu, with reservations available for 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 5:30 p.m.

• Colby Hill Inn (33 The Oaks, Henniker, 428-3281, colbyhillinn.com) will serve a three-course brunch with seatings from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The menu will feature starters like saffron lobster bisque and mini potato cakes; entrees including shrimp and scallop moqueca crepes, organic beet risotto, citrus-glazed ham and more; and desserts like strawberry rhubarb pie and cherry cheesecake.

A separate three-course menu will be available for children. The cost is $49.95 for adults and $19.95 for children age 12 and under.

• The Common Man (25 Water St., Concord, 228-3463; 10 Pollard Road, Lincoln, 745-3463; 60 Main St., Ashland, 968-7030; 88 Range Road, Windham, 898-0088; 304 DW Highway, Merrimack, 429-3463; 21 Water St., Claremont, 542-6171, thecman. com) will serve a dinner buffet at its Concord and Claremont locations from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., for $26.95 for adults and $12.95 for children age 12 and under. Other locations will serve their regular dinner menus and specials from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

• Copper Door (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford, 488-2677, copperdoorrestaurant.com) will serve an a la carte brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring selections like raspberry white chocolate pancakes, garlic-basil rubbed pork chop and more. A special prix fixe menu featuring small plates, soups and salads, entrees and desserts will be served from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The cost is $59 for two courses, $69 for three courses and $79 for four courses.

• Cotton Restaurant (75 Arms St., Manchester, 622-5488, cottonfood.com) will serve its full dinner menu and specials from noon to 6 p.m.

• Country Tavern (452 Amherst St., Nashua, 889-5871, countrytavern.org) will serve brunch from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring various breakfast items, an omelet station,

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• Hanover Street Chophouse (149 Hanover St., Manchester, 644-2467, hanoverstreetchophouse.com) will serve its regular dinner menu from 2 to 6 p.m.

Space is limited; call for reservations.

• Killarney’s (at Holiday Inn Nashua, 9 Northeastern Blvd., Nashua, 888-1551, killarneysirishpub.com) will serve brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring breakfast items, dinner entrees, a seafood buffet, a salad bar, desserts and more. The cost is $27.95 per person. Reservations are recommended.

• LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst, 672-9898, labellewinerynh.com) will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring an omelet station, French toast bread pudding and other breakfast items, a salad station, carving station; entrees including spinach tortellini, chicken and haddock; a dessert station and more. The cost is $49 for adults and $19 for children ages 4 through 12 (free for children under age 4). Reservations are required. There will also be Mother’s Day specials offered in the Bistro from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Mile Away Restaurant (52 Federal Hill Road, Milford, 673-3904, mileawayrestaurant.com) will serve a prix fixe dinner that includes one appetizer, such as a fresh fruit with sorbet or Swedish meatballs; a salad; an entree, with options like pork tenderloin, veal Marsala, maple-glazed salmon and more; and one dessert, such as chocolate mousse cake, strawberry cheesecake or peach melba.

The cost is $28.95 for adults and $18.95 for children under age 12.

• Mint Bistro (1105 Elm St., Manchester, 625-6468, mintbistronh.com) will serve its regular dinner menu and specials from 4 to 10 p.m.

• MT’s Local Kitchen & Wine Bar (212 Main St., Nashua, 595-9334, mtslocal. com) will serve a brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., for $26 for adults and $18 for children age 10 and under. Seating is first come, first served. Dinner specials will be served from 4 to 8 p.m.

• New England’s Tap House Grille (1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 782-5137, taphousenh.com) will serve brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring a meat carving station, make-your-own bloody mary bar, fresh fruit, homemade pastries and an omelet station.

• The Peddler’s Daughter (48 Main St., Nashua, 821-7535, thepeddlersdaughter.com) will serve a special menu from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., including Irish breakfast, French toast bread pudding and other breakfast selections; soups, small plates; entrees including herb-encrusted cod, chicken cordon bleu, brown sugar bourbon-glazed baked ham and grilled bistro steak; and desserts.

• Portofino Italian Restaurant (456 D.W. Hwy, No. 12, Merrimack, 424-4010, portofinonh.com) will serve its regular

menu and specials from noon to 9 p.m. Call for reservations.

• The Red Blazer (72 Manchester St., Concord, 224-4101, theredblazer.com) will serve brunch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring various breakfast items, a carving station, salads, entrees including baked stuffed sole and smoked maple-rubbed grilled chicken, and desserts. The cost is $27.99 for adults, $12.99 for children ages 6 through 12 and $6.99 for children ages 3 through 5.

• Roots Cafe (at Robie’s Country Store, 9 Riverside St., Hooksett, 485-7761, rootsatrobies.com) will serve brunch from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., with complimentary sangria for the ladies.

• Tek-Nique (170 Route 101, Bedford, 488-5629, restaurantteknique.com) will serve brunch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring an omelet station, carving station, dessert table and drink specials. The cost is $30 for adults and $14 for children ages 3 through 12 (free for children under age 3).

Call for reservations.

• Tuscan Kitchen (67 Main St., Salem, 952-4875, tuscanbrands.com) will serve a brunch from 8 a.m. to noon, as well as its regular breakfast menu and full dinner menu with specials.

• Veranda Martini Bar & Grille (201 Hanover St., Manchester, 627-2677, verandagrille.com) will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring an omelet station and various breakfast items, baked panko barbecue chicken, Swedish meatballs and more. The cost is $14.95 for adults and $9.95 for children under age 12.

• The Winter Garden Cafe (at the Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, 669-6144, currier.org) will host a Mother’s Day jazz brunch featuring its regular menu plus specials including carved beef and turkey and a pasta station. The cost is $24.95 for adults, $8.95 for children age 10 and younger and $8.95 for continental only. Email jazzbrunch@currier.org for reservations.

• The Yard (1211 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-3545, theyardrestaurant. com) will serve a buffet featuring various breakfast items, lunch and dinner entrees like seafood Newburg, rosemary chicken, Swedish meatballs and more; a carving station and desserts. The cost is $24.95 for adults and $12.95 for children. Reservations are required.

• Zorvino Vineyards (226 Main St., Sandown, 887-8463, zorvino.com) will serve brunch starting at 11 a.m., featuring breakfast items like strawberry crepes, eggs Benedict, sweet potato hash and more; an omelet station, a carving station, entrees including chicken picatta, butternut squash ravioli, baked lemon pepper haddock and more; chicken fingers and fries for kids and a dessert station. The cost is $40 for adults and $18 for kids ages 5 through 12. Reservations are required.

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While we love Cedar’s Wraps, no one will miss a thing with all the flavor these Black Bean Lettuce Wraps bring! Easy and fresh as fresh can be.

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Ingredients: 3/4 cup jasmine rice, cooked 10 oz. Cedar’s® Black Bean Salad 3 Tbsp. Cedar’s® Mild Salsa, drained Juice from 1/3 of a lime Fresh Express® Romaine Hearts, rinsed Fresh cilantro leaves, chopped Sliced Avocado from Mexico

Serving Brunch & Dinner Brunch 10-3pm | Dinner 4-10pm

Reservations Recommended

Directions: 1.) Mix together black bean salad and drained salsa.

2.) Chop the fresh cilantro leaves. Reserve a few pinches for garnish (if desired), then add the cilantro to the cooked rice along with the lime juice. Stir to combine.

3.)To put a wrap together, begin with a romaine leaf. Add a scoop of cilantro lime rice, followed by a scoop of the black beans, and salsa. Sprinkle with reserved cilantro leaves, sliced avocado. Fold into a taco-like shape and serve.

Recipe adapted from cedarsfoods.com

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Many people think of dandelions as a pesky weed, but Beaver Brook Association instructor Rivka Schwartz and Education Director Celeste Barr are hoping to change that with their first Dandelion Delights workshop, hap9 9 1$Brook – nerdlihC | pening Thursday, May 11,.at2 the Beaver Nature Center y in Hollis. will learn lnParticipants O s n oitacoL retse how to harvest dandelions and how to use Cooking with dandelion blossoms. Courtesy of Rivka them in a variety of drinks and food dishes.

“A lot of people pull [dandelions] out or put Schwartz. pesticides on their lawn to get rid of them, and of a taste. It kind of tastes like if you were to they aren’t aware that they can actually eat batter and fry mushrooms.” them,” Schwartz said. “They’re usually surThe dandelion roots can be chopped up, prised and a little wary when they hear that, dried and roasted to create a “dandy blend” but once they try a dandelion sauteed with a coffee alternative. The leaves can be sauteed little olive oil and garlic, they really like it.” in a stir fry-style dish, or used in a tea, pesto, The workshop will begin with a brief intro- frittata or salad. duction about how to identify dandelions “Dandelions work really well with a vinaioutside and how to harvest their roots, leaves grette dressing,” Schwartz said. “They have a and blossoms. Then, the group will head out bitter taste to it, like arugula and those kinds to the grassy areas around the nature center of bitter greens. … The leaves become proto practice what they learned and pick some gressively more bitter the older they are.” dandelions to cook with.

After making a few dandelion recipes, Anyone can harvest dandelions grow- there will be time for participants to sit down ing in their yard, so long as the yard hasn’t and enjoy the finished products. They’ll also been treated with pesticides, and there’s even be given some recipes to take home. a growing number of grocery stores carrying Finally, the workshop will also cover infordandelions in their produce sections. mation about the nutritional and medicinal The best time of year to get them is ear- benefits of dandelions; Schwartz said dandely spring. If you’re harvesting them on your lions are high in vitamins and minerals and own, simply collect the parts you want to help to detoxify the body, promote healthy use and keep them in the freezer until you’re digestion and support the liver. ready to cook with them.

“They’re very nutritious and good for After harvesting, workshop participants you,” she said. “Something that you’d norwill bring their dandelions to the Beaver mally [weed] out of your garden actually has Brook kitchen, where Schwartz and Barr more nutrition than a lot of the things you’re will walk them through how to make differ- trying to grow.” ent drinks and food dishes utilizing dandelion Dandelion Delights parts. The blossoms can be used to make soda or wine, or they can be battered and fried to Where: Beaver Brook Nature Center, enjoy like a snack or appetizer.

117 Ridge Road, Hollis “They’re really good as a fried food,” When: Thursday, May 11, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Cost: $20 ($18 for BBA members) Schwartz said. “It’s not too chewy because Contact: beaverbrook.org, 465-7787 the petals are very light, and it’s not too strong

Pick dandelion blossoms by removing it from the stem (don’t worry about the green part directly under the blossom).

In a quart measuring cup, add the dandelions blossoms, sugar and lemon juice.

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Let ferment at room temperature until the bottle hardens. It should have the hardness of a soda bottle when squeezed, but should not be rock hard.

Refrigerate for two days.

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craft cocktails, wine and draft beer as the Manchester restaurant, plus the addition of bottled beers. The Pitstop is also in the process of building a tiki bar, which Murphy expects to be up and running later this month.

“That way, it’s an experience for the whole family, and there’s something to entertain everyone,” she said.

“Parents can come enjoy an afternoon [at the tiki bar] and have a good time themselves, STACEY MURPHY for too, instead of just watching their kids run through the park.”

Murphy said it’s always been the plan to open more Gale Motor Co. restaurants — ideally, as many as five — and that the space at Mel’s “just fit” what she and Spagnuolo envisioned for their second location. Their plan, she said, is to open a third restaurant by next year, but for now, they’re focused on settling in at the Pitstop.

There are no set hours of operation as of yet; you can call and ask or check the Gale Motor Co. Eatery Facebook page for the current hours. This summer, once the park is open full-time and the Pitstop has had some time to get established, the restaurant will serve lunch and dinner seven days a week.

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One year after opening in downtown Manchester, tapas restaurant Gale Motor Co. Eatery celebrated the opening of its second location, the Gale Motor Co. Pitstop, in Litchfield last month.

The new restaurant is located inside Mel’s Funway Park, a family-friendly fun park with activities like minigolf, laser tag, batting cages and arcade games.

The space had been vacant for some time and has a history of fleeting businesses, but Stacey Murphy, who owns the restaurants with her husband David Spagnuolo, said she believes the Pitstop will change that trend.

“So far, so good,” she said. “It’s been really busy with the locals. Before, there was nowhere to take your family to get good food in that area. Now, people have a place to go without having to drive for miles. It’s nice for them to have that.”

The Pitstop has adopted the original Gale Motor Co.’s “culinary fusion” concept, drawing from a variety of cuisine styles, primarily in the form of small plates.

Much of the menu is the same, but the new location features expanded options for elevated fair-style foods including burgers and sliders, pizza, tacos, fried potatoes and various snacks. Hot dog sliders, a sweet and spicy burger, Sriracha garlic fried potatoes and a pulled pork pizza are a few of the things you’ll find on the menu.

“We’ve taken our brand and made it more family-friendly, but still adult-worthy,” Murphy said. “It’s fun food, and ‘culinary fusion’ means we can play with cool flavors and do new, unique twists on old things.”

The drink menu has the same kind of

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• PELHAM COOKBOOK EXPLORERS Group explores a new type of cuisine or diet each month. Share your cooking successes and challenges and leave with new recipes.

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Beer & wine making classes • EUREKA Thurs., May 4, 6 p.m. Incredibrew, 112 Daniel Webster Highway South , Nashua. $30 per variety case (bottles not included); $40 per variety case (bottles and cap stickers included). Call 891-2477. Visit incredibrew.com.

• LEMONDROP Fri., May 5, 6 p.m. Incredibrew, 112 Daniel Webster Highway South , Nashua. $30 per variety case (bottles not included); $40 per variety case (bottles and cap stickers included). Call 891-2477. Visit incredibrew.com.

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• May sips at A&E: A&E Coffee & Tea (135 Route 101A, Amherst; 1000 Elm St, Manchester, 578-3338, aeroastery.com) will feature three new drinks for the month of May, including the rose almond latte (espresso, house-made almond simple syrup, steamed milk and rose water mist), the peach tea with thyme honey (organic black tea with peaches, sweetened with thymeinfused honey) and the Maple Mumbler.

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• Mexican hot bar: Get your Cinco de Mayo eats at the Concord Food Co-op (24 S. Main St., Concord, 225-6840, concordfoodcoop.coop). On Friday, May 5, from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., the Co-op’s Celery Stick Cafe will serve an all-natural Mexican-inspired hot bar with things like pulled chicken, grilled flap meat, taco bake, Spanish rice, enchiladas, salt and lime tortilla chips and more.

Kitchen Cooking Class Series.

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Beer, wine & liquor dinners • PRISONER WINE DINNER Five-course wine dinner featuring Prisoner Wine Company from Napa Valley. Thurs., May 4, 6 to 9 p.m. Birch Wood Vineyards, 199 Rockingham Road, Derry. $75. Reservations required. Visit birchwoodvineyards.com.

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• WINES OF THE WORLD TOUR Each dinner party focuses on a different wine region of the world. Top-picked wines will be paired with five regional-influenced tasting courses.

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Beer, wine & liquor festivals & special events • SOUR DE MAYO Over a dozen tap lines of sour beers.

Fri., May 5, starting at 1 p.m.

Cask & Vine, 1 E. Broadway, Derry. Call 965-3454.

• NH BEER CLUB Monthly meetings feature a Granite State brewer, plus a limited edition or unique brew. Mon.,May 15, at 6:30 p.m. New England’s Tap House Grille, 1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett. Cost is $30 per event. See nhbeerclub.com.

Chef events/special meals • FARM-TO-TABLE DINNER CLUB Monthly fourcourse dinners prepared with local food and paired with wine or beer samplings from local wineries and breweries. Monthly, last Thursday, 6 p.m. Roots Cafe at Robie’s Country Store , 9 Riverside St., Hooksett. $40.

Call 485-7761, or visit rootsatrobies.com.

Church & charity suppers/bake sales • SPAGHETTI DINNER Thurs., May 11, 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Holy Cross Family Learning Center, 357 Island Pond Road, Manchester. Visit hcflcspaghettisupper2017.eventbrite.com.

Classes/workshops • MOTHER’S DAY CAKE CLASS Surprise Mom with a cake or bring her along and make a cake together. Start with a 6” vanilla or chocolate cake creating butter cream piped stems and various butter cream flowers. Sun., May 7, 6 to 8 p.m.

528 Meadow Pond Road, Gilmanton. $45 per person or $75 per pair. Visit ooolalacreativecakes.com.

• COOKING WITH THE COURVILLE CHEFS Interactive cooking class taught by award winning chefs, Chef Rejean Sheehy and Dennis Hickey. May 8, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

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.

• DANDELION DELIGHTS Learn how to make dandelion wine, soda, salad, tea, a coffee alternative, and fritters. Look in depth at the medicinal properties of this common weed. Thurs., May 11, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Beaver Brook Association, 117 Ridge Road, Hollis. $20. Visit beaverbrook.org.

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• MOTHER’S DAY CAKE CLASS Surprise Mom with a cake or bring her along and make one together. Start with a vanilla cake learning the umbre technique with butter cream with white roses. Sat., May 13, 6 to 8 p.m. Jump N Joy, 477 Province Road, Laconia. $45 per person or $75 per pair. Call 527-8020 or visit ooolalacreativecakes.com.

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what I had available, and took no thought at all to substitute and omit various veggies.

While I typically wouldn’t consider an egg-based dish pantry-friendly, I almost always have at least a couple of eggs in my fridge. Plus, I can throw nearly any ingredient into the mix, meaning I’m not stressing about grocery shopping either.

This dish took all of five minutes to compose, and another 20 to 22 minutes to bake.

The finished frittata muffins were light, fluffy and delicious. The simplicity of the recipe is what really made these great. You can certainly add nearly any spice to it that you’d like, but simple salt and pepper are all you need to start. And even just with peppers and a sprinkle of cheese in each, the frittatas were filling; I was full and satisfied after eating two. Adding in ham or breakfast sausage, or more veggies like onions, broccoli and spinach, would make these frittata muffins even more filling and flavorful.

The final aspect of these mini frittatas that I love: They’re perfect to make ahead of time and reheat for breakfast on the go.

You can make 12 in one muffin pan and have breakfast for every day of the week.

Since the basic egg mixture is the same, you could easily make variations of the frittatas so you don’t get bored with your new favorite breakfast.

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2 tablespoons chopped red onion Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, beat eggs and milk, then add the salt and pepper. Add cheese and veggies and mix well. Spoon evenly into 12 well-greased muffin cups, about ¼ cup each. Bake until eggs are just set, about 20 to 22 minutes.

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SINE Learn to prepare a meal with dishes paired or prepared with LaBelle wines. The menu includes empanadas with aji (paired with Granite State Red), mini Cuban sandwiches (with riesling) with fried plantains, savory with aji, and beans and rice. Wed., May 17, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst. $25. Call 672-9898 or visit labellewineryevents.com.

Fairs/festivals/expos • TOAST TO THE COAST Sample a variety of local wines, beers and spirits, and food from the Seacoast’s best restaurants. It’s happening Thursday, May 11, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Ashworth by the Sea, 295 Ocean Blvd., Hampton. $40 in advance, $50 at the door. Visit hamptonchamber. com.

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I’ve been home for three of the past 14 days. Between traveling to see family and traveling in conjunction with my husband’s job, my family is constantly on the go. It grows more difficult every day to stay motivated to feed my family healthy and at least semi-homemade fare.

Breakfast is quickly becoming my favorite meal of the day. It seems no matter where we are, I can always find fruit, yogurt or cereal for a quick breakfast. But lately that’s just not cutting it. I need something with a bit more substance that’s just as quick. That’s why these frittata muffins are fantastic.

I’ve made frittatas before, typically for holiday breakfasts or weekend guests, but had never really thought to shrink down the recipe into individual portions. These petite bites are jam-packed with flavor, and all the breakfast ingredients you could possibly want. Plus, they are quick, simple and easy to make ahead of time. In less than 30 minutes, you can easily make breakfast for the entire week.

I’ve seen variations of this recipe in several places, and they all seem to have the same basic components: eggs, milk, salt and pepper. The rest is up to you and what you have on hand. For my frittatas, I went simple: peppers and cheese. While this varies from what the recipe calls for, it was

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I love India pale ales. I love the hoppy, fresh, sometimes fruity bitterness this style is known for. I’m not alone. India pale ales, or IPAs, are astonishingly popular, making up about 25 percent of craft beer volume nationally, according to the Brewers Association.

Double IPAs, in particular, have taken the craft beer movement by storm. Hop enthusiasts, affectionately (I think) referred to as “hop heads,” stand in lines waiting for the latest releases of supremely hoppy double IPAs. I was concerned we were reaching a hops breaking point, moving too far in the direction of hop heads and potentially leaving the average craft beer drinker behind. Are brewers amping up bitterness to please hop heads in an unsustainable spiral of hops?

Based on conversations with several New Hampshire brewers, the answer was no.

Let’s back up. IPAs are associated with hops — lots of hops — and beer drinkers typically associate hoppiness with bitterness: the hoppier the beer, the more bitter. But that’s not really accurate, at least not anymore.

“Hoppiness usually implies bitterness, but that could be citrusy, floral, piney, earthy, spicy, fruity,” said Brian Parda of Great North Aleworks in Manchester.

There is an incredible variety of hops accessible to brewers, and many more hops strains in development. Further, brewers have many ways to utilize hops in the brewing process to impact flavor and bitterness, Parda said.

You’ll find fresh-hopped IPAs, and double and triple dry-hopped brews. Brewers add hops at different stages of brewing, generating sometimes drastically different results.

Then you have West Coast IPAs, East Coast IPAs, American IPAs and now “New England” IPAs. Each brewer has his own take on each of those styles and sub-styles, relying on different hop mixes to pull it together. Further, brewers are blending styles and experimenting to produce unique offerings, such as rye IPAs, white IPAs or black IPAs. In New Hampshire, pretty much every brewery offers at least one IPA, and most offer multiple. Great North Aleworks has four IPAs, including its flagship “IPA,” and three others: “Tie Dyed,” technically a dry-hopped pale ale, but generally speaking within the hop standards of IPAs; “Tragically Hopped,” What’s in My Fridge Smuttynose Finestkind IPA: I’ve loved this IPA since it first came out. Fresh, crisp hop flavor but definitely not too bitter or overwhelming. Really well-balanced — an excellent example of an American IPA.

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a double IPA; and “Moose Juice,” a collaboration IPA blending East Coast and West Coast styles.

Henniker Brewing offers its flagship IPA, “Mudslinger,” and two others: “Miles and Miles,” another dry-hopped pale ale, and its take on a double IPA, “Damn Sure.”

Henniker Brewing produces 30 barrels of Damn Sure each month and sells out within a week or two, said Ryan Maiola of Henniker Brewing. Maiola said Damn Sure is big and juicy, with “a ton of pineapple,” but “surprisingly clean and well-balanced.”

If a double IPA is a bit much, Tie Dyed at Great North “has great hop aroma and flavor … but it is a little easier going,” Parda said.

Hops aren’t everything.

“I typically like the malt to shine through,” said Ken Unsworth of Millyard Brewery in Nashua. “We’re really trying to find that balance. … I don’t want the hops to be the only part of the beer to shine through.”

To that end, Millyard Brewery produces “Jackson India Pale Ale,” which is brewed exclusively with New Zealand hops, resulting in earthy flavors and a reddish, amber hue.

Kelsen Brewing Co. in Derry has four IPAs it offers at different points of the year.

Stoneface Brewing in Newington offers six.

Any given New Hampshire bar might have upwards of 10 or 15 IPAs on tap.

Most importantly, these are all markedly different beers. Try a few back-to-back and the differences are stark.

So yes, some IPAs pack bitterness that can be overwhelming. But breweries aren’t focused on bitterness; they are focused on expanding and refining flavor to please hop heads and casual craft beer drinkers alike.

“There is so much variation now,” Maiola said. “If you try one, and you don’t like it, I’d encourage you to try others.”

Jeff is a senior account executive with the Manchester-based Montagne Communications, where he provides communications support to the New Hampshire Liquor Commission, which regulates the sale of all alcohol in the state.

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As you know, this Atlanta garagerock juggernaut totally rules, not just because they barf and get naked on stage like New Hampshire’s own dear departed punk god GG Allin (whom they idolize), or because they’re on Vice Records (yes, the same Vice organization that operates the best news show on TV) but because they know the responsibility a band takes on when they call themselves a garage band.

They don’t rip off the Rolling Stones from the get-go the way they did on their last record, 2014’s Underneath The Rainbow, but they do rip off Screaming Lord Sutch (“Occidental Front”), The Association (“Can’t Hold On”), JayZ (the munchkin voices on the otherwise shagadelic “Crystal Night”) and Flaming Lips (look at the album cover, come on, it’s worse than ever). All of this is delivered with Sledge-o-matic levels of distortion and un-pro-ness, off-key interludes, the usual. They have achieved perfection at last. Again. A+ — Eric W. Saeger

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The reason today’s kids make fun of ’90s grunge bands the way Aughts kids made fun of ’80s hair-metal band is that they’re essentially the same thing. If you had to pick your poison, would it be lyrics pandering to girls and beating up stuff (the ’80s) or word-salads revolving around girls and half-baked existentialism (the ’90s)? This Santa Barbara five-piece band singlehandedly typefied the grungepop zeitgeist with one 1996 hit that had it all. It sounded like a po-faced, deadbang cross between Live and Pearl Jam, and there was the counterfeit monotheistic indulgence, but more importantly its title was “Counting Blue Cars” even though everyone on Earth figured it was called “Tell Me All Your Thoughts on God,” since that was the hook line. 1990s bands loved that trick, making people walk around saying “But I thought the title was such-and-so” — it was the only real punk thing about grunge. And thus, catching up with these guys now, 10 years after their last proper full-length LP and with a new singer aboard, they’re a DIY thing, which has actually done them some good. Opener “Sirens” combines woozy mud-rock and early Cult into a stoner-rock joint evoking a commercial-minded Trail of Dead; “Give Me a Sign” is a workable, pretty nice ballad that gives the drummer some exercise. Good on these guys for not trying to revive an expired idea. A- — Eric W. Saeger

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• Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. At the Drive-In is the punk band run by Mars Volta’s Omar Rodríguez-López.

Actually it’s one of three bands he owns and operates, and this is supposed to be the punk-rock one. As you know, Mars Volta is one of a small handful of tackling dummies for music critics, and (as I crack my knuckles) to infer that At the Drive-In is “just one release for this man’s musical talents” would be like saying “Carrot Top should do more Shakespeare.” No, seriously, I’ve got a million of ’em, but only room for that one, so let’s go listen to this dingbat try to pass off some Dashboard Confessional microwaving as “punk rock,” let’s do this. In·ter a·li·a is the album title, spelled out in that way so Omar will remember to read his dictionary at night, and the single is “Incurably Innocent.” OK, it’s not microwaved Dashboard Confessional, it’s a poor man’s Panic at the Disco. This doesn’t make it awesome, but it didn’t make me barf. That’s a good thing.

• Cincinnati’s The Afghan Whigs were a cooler-than-grunge alt-rock band on Sub Pop Records, but they were ruined by major record companies, so who could blame them for breaking up, which they did, in 2001. Like any band that’s cool would do, they swore they’d never get back together, but then they did, in 2011, just in time to notice that rock ’n’ roll had been destroyed by nerds, emo and twerkers. In just a couple of days, In Spades, their second album of this millennium, will attempt to save rock ’n’ roll, which of course is impossible, but you should at least check out the new single, “Demon in Profile,” a slow-rawk thing that steals from 1970s-era Chicago and Starz and Billy Joel, but it’s still disaffected enough for indie nerds to get into. That makes two good ones in a row; let’s see if that’ll change with a nice fail.

• England’s Gnarwolves are considered a “melodic hardcore band,” which could definitely spell trouble, but at least they have a cool name. Sounds like a SyFy movie about werewolves who gnaw on wood or something, y’know? Their new LP, due out any minute, is titled Outsiders, let’s go listen to the single “Wires” and see how hardcore this melodic whatever is. Hmph, it starts out like Boris mixed with Low, like slow, slammy guitars, and then it turns into mall-punk, like All Time Low or whatever. Boring, next.

• It’s widely thought that veteran Detroit techno guy Carl Craig helped invent drum-and-bass in 1992, when he released the track “Bug in the Bassbin.” His new LP Versus is due out imminently, and appears to be a set of reworked tunes that feature help from the Les Siècles Orchestra. Trippy, powerful stuff on the rerub of “Sandstorms” (no, not the Darude song), with blasts of full-on orchestra clanging away in syncopation, like John Williams gone rave. Not sure what good this does the world, but it’s pretty cool. — Eric W. Saeger

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A past Double Midnight Comics Free Comic Book Day event. Courtesy of Double Midnight Comics.

By Kelly Sennott

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Last year, the first person in line for the Double Midnight Comics Free Comic Book Day spectacular began waiting at noon the day before — which isn’t out of the ordinary for FCBD, particularly in the Queen City. People drive from all over to attend.

“The first two people in line drove up from Virginia. They’ve been doing that for the past three years,” said Chris

Proulx, co-owner of Double Midnight Comics, who describes their event as a “comic book convention in a parking lot.”

“We get people from all over the place.”

The national event, which occurs Saturday, May 6, turns 16 this year. It’s organized by the North American comic book industry. The goal is to bring new readers to indie comic book stores by offering free, one-day-only merchandise. New Hampshire boasts a variety of different participating shops; visitors can stop at each during a self-guided tour or

camp out at the state’s biggest parties. (If you get lost, look for the cosplayers, who will be dressed as superheroes and pop culture icons.)

In addition to free comics, the DMC event will house 16 visiting artists, including three headliners — Sara Richard (My Little Pony, Jem), Babs Tarr (Motor Crush, Batgirl) and Joe Quinones (Howard the Duck, America).

Its FCBD is very popular because of the scope of the party and prizes; best costume awards include $200 cash and $100 in store gift certificates, plus weekend passes to New England comic conventions.

It also offers runner-up cash awards and prizes you can win by being one of the first 100 in line or just being present at the Manchester store. (The Concord location’s party will be smaller, but it also happens in the midst of the Capital Arts Fest.)

At the end of the day, there’s an enormous costume contest photo shoot at 3 p.m., followed by an after party at Spare Time at 7:30 p.m.

In Rochester, Jetpack Comics has made FCBD a city-wide event. The storefront is the epicenter, and on this day it will hold 60,000 free comics to give away (a mixture of new and old titles). Eighteen businesses will also hold titles in the comic scavenger hunt. Visitors can catch

live music at The Garage at the Governor’s Inn all day long, and inside the inn is a comic book convention comprising 50 tables filled by guest artists and vendors. At this costume contest, the grand prize is $250.

“In the past, we’ve only had [music] in the evening at our after party, but I figured we’d bring all the local bands we could,” the store’s owner, Ralph DiBernardo, said via phone.

According to him, the only Rochester event seeing more visitors is the Rochester Fair. Residents get excited to participate, with some business owners emailing him as early as January, inquiring about the spring extravaganza. Revolution Taproom & Grill gets so into it, its wait staff dresses in costume to celebrate.

“The city is completely on board for it.

It’s such a family-friendly event,” DiBernardo said.

It’s a lot of work putting it all together, and all the comic book stores pay for the comics themselves. But they keep at it because they love comics, and they love seeing how happy it makes customers.

“It’s our signature event of the year.

It’s always a big party. We love putting it on and seeing people come to the shop.

It’s a lot of work, and a lot of money, but we just love doing it. As long as people keep showing up, we’ll keep throwing the party,” Proulx said.

Participating Free Comic Book Day shops • Chris’s Cards & Comics, 341 S. Broadway, Route 28, Salem, 898-4151, chriscardscomics.com, hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday • Collectibles Unlimited, 25 South St., Concord, 228-3712 collectiblesunlimited. biz, hours 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday • Double Midnight Comics, 245 Maple St., Manchester, 669-9636; and 67 S. Main St., Concord, 669-9636, dmcomics.com; Manchester location features artists, giveaways, plus vehicles like the Bumblebee, the Joker Car and Smokey and the Bandit 2, sponsored by graphicsignalworks.com, followed by after party at Spare Time, which starts at 7:30 p.m., with bowling and karaoke; many Double Midnighters will also be attending the night time screening at O’Neil Cinemas Thursday night, hours 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday HIPPO | MAY 4 - 10, 2017 | PAGE 54

• Jetpack Comics, 37 N. Main St., Rochester, 330-9636, jetpackcomics.com, town-wide scavenger hunt all over town from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (though Jetpack Comics is open until 5 p.m.), plus after party from 6 to 11 p.m. at The Garage at Governor’s Inn, 78 Wakefield St., Rochester. Governor’s Inn venue hosts a convention during active hours with 50 tables of vendors and artists. Map of participants available at website, plus an app at the Apple app store, which allows visitors to receive special news, sales information, details how to get extra comics. VIP early entry passes cost $25 to $50 for two people and allow you to get into the venues at 9 a.m.

• Merrymac Games and Comics, 550 DW Highway, Merrimack, 420-8161, featuring various artists including Image

Comics artist/creator Andrew McLean, Chris Campana, Christopher Uminga, Chrissie Zullo, Sean Gordon Murphy and Corin Howell, hours 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday • Midgard Comics and Games, 55 Crystal Ave., No. 21, Derry, 260-6180, midgardcomicsandgames.com, 50 percent off sale, plus the opportunity to donate comics to the Boston Children’s Hospital, hours 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday • NeonBomb, 260 Mammoth Road, Manchester, 505-8098, neonbomb.com, will be giving out free Magic the Gathering decks while supplies last and teaching new players how the game works throughout the day, in addition to feeding visitors popcorn, candy and copies of Atari’s Swordquest comic (not on the FCBD list), hours noon to 8 p.m. Saturday

• Newbury Comics, 777 S. Willow Plaza, Manchester, 624-2842, and 310 DW Highway, Nashua, 888-0720, newburycomics.com, hours 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in Manchester, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in Nashua on Saturday • Nex-Gen Comics, 122 Bridge St., Unit 3, Pelham, 751-8195, nexgencomics.wordpress. com, will also be selling a comic by Pelham native Cody Andrew Smith called Croak for $1.50, hours 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday • Pop Culture NH, 66 Route 27, Unit B, Raymond, 244-1850, facebook.com/popculturenh, 50 percent off back issues and 50 percent off DVDs, 25 percent off pop figures, hours 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday • The Comic Store, 115 Northeastern Blvd., Nashua, 881-4855, 50 percent off back issues, store-wide sale, hours 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday

What comic are you excited for?

There are so many comics available for Free Comic Book Day. You can check out the full list at freecomicbookday.com; if there’s one you want, call your local comic book store to see if they’ll be carrying it that day. Here are some titles local comic book people are excited for.

• Avatar and Doctor Who Recommended by Tim Pendergast at Chris’s Cards and Comics.

• Bongo Free-For-All (The Simpsons) Recommended by Ralph DiBernardo and Zach Denoncour of Collectibles Unlimited. “The art is classic and familiar, and the writing is in a back-tobasics ‘funnybook’ style,” Denoncour said.

• Dragonball Super Recommended by Christian Porter of NeonBomb.

• Guardians of the Galaxy “This comes out the day after the film. People can go and enjoy the movie, then come in and try

the comic for free,” said Chris Proulx of Double Midnight Comics.

• Marvel HeroClix Exclusive Figure “Free Comic Book Day is mostly about the comic books, but there are also games; we plan to give away some HeroClix, four-inch-tall 3-D renderings that you play with on a board,” said Erik Oparowski of Pop Culture NH. • Spongebob Freestyle Funnies Recommended

by Ralph DiBernardo of Jetpack Comics.

• Superhero Girls “Characters like Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Bumblebee, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Katana and Supergirl are attending Super Hero High School,” said Megan Kilar of Collectibles Unlimited.

• Wonder Woman “[These comics] are immensely popular right now, with the Wonder Woman movie coming out,” Proulx said.

(The Wonder Woman film comes out June 2.)

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“Lots of people can’t believe they’re going to make him a Hydra agent — it’s like he’s been brainwashed since the beginning and been a spy the whole time,” said Stephen Hinkle, owner and manager of Nex-Gen Comics. “Lots of people think it’s Marvel trying to pull one on its readership. Everyone wants to find out the truth.”

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Andrea Bern lays down the challenge.

She’s a single New Yorker, Jewish, mostly on the cusp of 40 (“mostly” because the narrative wings back and forth through her teens, 20s and 30s), and despite the promise of the title Andrea is anything but grown up.

We meet her living in Brooklyn in a sad apartment with two redeeming attributes: its affordability, and a window that frames a glimpse of the Empire State Building.

That view is what keeps Andrea going. At night, when she gets home from her souldeadening job, she sits by the window and sketches the building: “There’s no challenge to it, no message, just your view on repeat. But this is all you can do, this is all you have to offer, and it is just enough to make you feel special.”

But then that bulldozer of dreams called life intervenes, and a construction permit shows up across the street, enabling a 10-story condo that will, in a year, brick out the view. Contemplating this the day the view is finally erased, Andrea thinks, “The thing that made you special is gone.

You will never have that view back, nor that time.”

It’s a catchy vignette, roiling with pathos and ambition and little nuggets of Andrea’s life — a nice work of flash fiction all by itself, starving artist edition.

But the story continues for another 189 pages, and unfortunately so do Andrea’s alternately sardonic and self-pitying monologues, as she navigates the advance of middle age, a complicated relationship with her distant mother and brother, and the conflicted emotions she has about the occasional baby thrust upon her by family and friends (never a “her” or “him,” only an “it”). Her feelings about marriage, however, are not complicated at all. No thanks.

Her own personal catalog of men includes a father who died of a heroin overdose, friends of her mother who aggressively groped her while the mother wasn’t looking, and a revolving parade of social companions that includes a struggling artist on food stamps, a black neighbor who won’t date her because

she’s white, and a newly divorced jerk who’s mostly interested in carnal aerobics. “If you add them all up they equal a boyfriend,” Andrea tells her therapist. The therapist is not amused, but it’s a line that is vintage Attenberg: fresh, funny, sharp as cheddar.

In fact, it’s Attenberg’s voice that redeems Andrea, because Andrea herself is a mess, and the growth we are rooting for — surely it will come this chapter? the next? — amounts to the limp, yellow sprouts of bulbs that were planted too late or emerged in a blizzard. Andrea’s a thirtysomething who still reeks of adolescence, missing her niece’s birth because she’s having sex and doing drugs with a stranger, leaving her brother’s house in a huff before anyone wakes because she had a toxic conversation with her mother.

The brother’s house, incidentally, is in New Hampshire. The town is not identified except that it’s 45 minutes from a movie theater and is a “small town where there are no Jews.” (When Andrea points this out to her mother, her mother shrugs and says, memorably, “Grandchild trumps Jews.”)

The Granite State doesn’t fare particularly well: “Gun racks, Trump lawn signs, and no bookstores,” according to Andrea’s sister-in-law. Pretty much everyone in this family, in-laws included, is churlish.

They do, of course, have their reasons.

Andrea’s mother allowed groping men in the house because she was trying to keep the lights on after her husband died and left her broke; the men were there because she offered vegetarian meals and wine for $10 every other weekend. Andrea’s brother and sister-in-law have a baby that is seriously ill and only expected to live for a couple of years. And Andrea herself seems to have some dark, terrible secret — darker than the lecherous men — that will ultimately be revealed and explain away all her bad behavior.

The reason, when it comes, seems more like an excuse; for all this angst and selfharming behavior, is that all you’ve got?

But the end is punchy and perfect and wise, and every now and then Andrea lets go a zinger, like: “Oh. I don’t need to jump off cliffs into oceans to die, because every day there is a little death waiting for me.

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One is on Monday, May 8, at 6:30 p.m., hosted by the Toadstool Bookshop but held at the Wadleigh Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St., Milford. Another is hosted by Water Street Bookstore on Tuesday, May 9, at 7 p.m. but will be held at the Exeter Town Hall, 10 Front St., Exeter. The book is about the adventure the author experienced adopting Will, a frightened, deaf and mostly blind elderly dog left at a kill shelter in New Jersey. Ryan’s intention was to give Will a place to die with dignity — in the beauty of the White Mountains — but he soon realized he had a bigger challenge than he’d anticipated. Ryan served as publisher and editor of the Newburyport newspaper The Undertoad for more than a decade before moving to the White Mountains in 2007 with miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, who climbed more than 450 4,000foot peaks with him. Visit tomandatticus.blogspot.com.

• Workshop! The New Hampshire Writers’ Project is offering a workshop (free for NHWP members, $25 for nonmembers) on political writing Saturday, May 13, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the Ford House on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester. It’s presented by Tracy Hahn-Burkett, a writer and former D.C. public policy advocate.

Visit tracyhahnburkett.com or nhwritersproject.org.

• Stories live: The next Long Story Short event — in which people tell personal stories on stage behind a mike — is Wednesday, May 10, at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) at 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth.

If you’ve got a good story, come — it’s the first openthemed, open-mike Long Story Short since its start a year and a half ago. Arrive early, get your name on the list or just listen. Tickets are $5. Visit 3sarts.org.

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Pope Memorial SPCA’s Paws for Compassion Brunch Sun., May 7, at Grappone Conference Center, 70 Constitution Ave., Concord.

• JOHN SPLAINE Author talks about Mr. M’s Notebook. Sun., May 7, at 5 p.m. RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St., Portsmouth.

Visit riverrunbookstore.com.

• TOM RYAN Author talks about Will’s Red Coat: The Story of One Old Dog Who Chose to Live Again. Mon., May 8, at 6:30 p.m., at Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford; Tues., May 9, at 7 p.m., Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter.

• ROBERT HIRSCHFELD Author talks about Without Shame or Fear: From Adam to Christ. Mon., May 8, at 5:30 p.m.

Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• DEBORAH KNOWLTON Author talks about Color Me Included. Tues., May 9, at 6:30 p.m. Exeter Public Library, 4 Chestnut St., Exeter. Call 7723101.

• LEAH DECESARE Author talks about Forks, Knives and Spoons. RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St., Portsmouth. Thurs., May 11, at 6:30 p.m. Visit riverrunbookstore.com.

• MATTHEW REID Author presents new picture book, Reid.

Sat., May 13, at 11 a.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

• J COURTNEY SULLIVAN Author talks about Saints for All Occasions. Tues., May 16, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

• TOMMY CALDWELL Author talks about his new book, The Push. Fri., May 19, at 7 p.m. The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth. $41, includes reserved seat, book, bar beverage, author presentation, Q&A. Visit themusichall.org.

• VIRGINIA MACGREGOR Launch party for new YA book, Wishbones. Tues., May 23, at 7 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com. Call 224-0562.

• JENNIFER MILLER FIELD Author talks about From Blue Ribbon to Code Blue: A Girl’s Courage, Her Mother’s Love, A Miracle Recovery. Wed., May 24, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Free.

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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

The Circle (PG-13)

The internet is evil and social media is a mechanism for oppression in The Circle.

And also in real life? Discuss!

When Mae (Emma Watson) goes to work for The Circle, a Apple-y/Facebookish mashup with a lush campus in Northern California, it seems like a dream job. Higher paycheck! On-campus salon! Dental benefits! The fact that from the first moment of her first day The Circle seems like a creepy yet super-upbeat cult doesn’t seem to bother her all that much, perhaps because she is Emma Watson-aged and I am old.

Specifically, I would probably throw my ID badge and run during the conversation in which two employees upbeatedly scold her for not attending “non-mandatory” fun weekend events (“pieces of flair” by another name) and show a creepy amount of knowledge about her dad’s health problems.

But the company also helps her dad (Bill Paxton) by setting him and her mom (Glenne Headly) up on the Circle’s health care plan. Perhaps her gratitude is why Mae doesn’t question SeeChange, a new tiny-camera-thing that The Circle is selling and gluing everywhere. After a SeeChange ball stuck to a buoy leads Mae to be rescued during an ill-fated (and comically ill-timed) kayaking trip, she agrees to the idea of company heads Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks, perfect as a mild-mannered villain) and Tom Stenton (Patton Oswalt) to live totally “transparent.” That is, she agrees to wear a small camera and broadcast everything she does (with only occasional

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three-minute bathroom breaks), including her entire work day, phone calls to her parents and brushing her teeth.

Mae’s high-profile stunt brings her into the founders’ inner circle, where she learns about new crowd-sourced surveillance applications and a push to get the government to use them for a mandatory voting program. And, since the Circle’s corporate logo is in red, that will make it easier for them to issue red handmaid robes and white bonnets when they give up the pretense of being a company and just become a fullon theocracy with some bullnonsense about “connectivity” as their god.

Perhaps because Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is much buzzed about lately, I found myself thinking a lot about that and other dystopian stories while watching this movie. (With catchphrases

hand at Arthurian legend with Charlie Hunnam in the title role and Jude Law as villain (at least as the trailer paints him).

Coming soon (a short Snatched (R) Amy Schumer early summer movies preview edition) and Goldie Hawn star in this Opening Friday, May 5: movie written by Katie DipGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. pold, who wrote on Parks and Recreation and also wrote 2 (PG-13) And thus summer begins! Marvel owns this first The Heat, which I loved. This comedy about a mother and weekend of movie-summer with the sequel to the delight- daughter who are kidnapped ful 2014 Guardians of the while on vacation has had trailers playing for a while ― Galaxy. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel (baby Groot), maybe too long a while.

Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan and Bradley Cooper return and Friday, May 19: Alien: Covare joined by the likes of Kurt enant (R) Yep, Ridley Scott Russell and Sylvester Stalmade another Alien prequel. This time a small group lone. By avoiding any early reviews, I remain cautiously of humans attempts to colonize a new planet. Somehow, optimistic.

Michael Fassbender also Friday, May 12: King Arthur: returns.

Legend of the Sword (PG-13) One Mr. Guy Ritchie is in the Friday, May 26: Pirates of director’s chair and trying his the Caribbean: Dead Men * Indicates movies worth seeing. Find more reviews at hippopress.com.

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Tell No Tales (PG-13) Johnny Depp returns in the fifth of the Pirates movies, which mixes in some new characters (played by Kaya Scodelario and Brenton Thwaites) with old (Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, according to Wikipedia and IMDB). This movie apparently clocks in at just over two hours but I’m not going to let that get me down because Baywatch (R) I can’t help it; I am genuinely looking forward to this movie adaptation of the 1990s TV show. Perhaps the words “starring Dwayne Johnson” explain some of that.

Also on board is Zac Efron, never better than when he’s goofing on his handsomeness.

A cautionary note: IMDB lists a lot of writers (four for story and two different guys for screenplay) and the collective credits of this group, well, yikes.

like “secrets are lies” and the observation that an undocumented private experience is stealing from the knowledge of humanity, this movie also 1984s all over the place.)

This movie actually solves one of my general problems with dystopia films, which is that they usually involve people getting weird outfits (the sad shlumpy knits of Abnegation, the glam-rock clown costumes of the Capitol) and agreeing not to read books from “before” and a bunch of other lockstep behaviors. Here, people choose the Circle because it offers simplicity and cool-looking electronics. This feels like a more likely and thus more terrifying kind of dystopia, one where a single company is within sight of controlling the government because it’s easier than thinking up another password.

In much the same way that I enjoyed the June 2: Wonder Woman (PG13) Yes, I know, DC movies have been a hard letdown of late, but I can’t help being excited. Gal Gadot and Wonder Woman was the best part of Batman v Superman.

June 9: The Mummy I can’t help but getting flashbacks to the Enchantress and Suicide Squad when I see the trailers for this serious-looking (gah) remake of the Mummy stories starring Tom Cruise.

June 16: Cars 3 (G) Oh, Pixar, please don’t disappoint. I wasn’t a fan of the first or second Cars movies but I hold out some hope that the G rating might at least mean this is something a young-elementary-school-aged moviegoer might like.

Rough Night The trailers for this comedy about a bachelorette weekend gone very bad

ridiculous nature of the recent Unforgettable, a thriller about a woman fending off her fiance’s lunatic ex, I kind of enjoyed the over-the-top anti-social media hysteria of The Circle. Tom Hanks with his innate decency is great as the jeans-wearing head of The Circle, giving dippy, jargon-filled, slightly con-artist-y talks to an auditorium full of his rapturous employees every Friday.

Also nice touches: Mercer (Ellar Coltrane, the boy of Boyhood fame) is Mae’s tech-eschewing friend who gets internethectored after she posts a picture of the deer-antler chandeliers he makes. There are so many Silicon Valley-like moments that seem played for menace here where they are usually played for laughs on that HBO show.

I’m not sure if it’s purposefully supposed to be funny, but there’s something daffy in how Mae’s friend Annie (Karen Gillan), a fellow Circle employee, is suffering a slow-motion nervous breakdown essentially because she doesn’t go home to sleep.

Like that lightly lined windbreaker that is really only useful for about three weeks a year, The Circle is silly and lightweight but it fills its purpose until summer comes along. C Rated PG-13 for a sexual situation, brief strong language and some thematic elements including drug use. Directed by James Ponsoldt with a screenplay by James Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers (who also wrote the novel on which the movie is based), The Circle is an hour and 50 minutes long and distributed by Europa Corp and STX Entertainment.

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MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY 405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, manchester.lib.nh.us; some films at the West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 6246560 • Champion (1949) Wed., May 10, at 1 p.m.

• Florence Foster Jenkins (PG13, 2016) Wed., May 17, at 1 p.m.

• A Dog’s Purpose (PG, 2017) Thurs., May 18, at 3 p.m.

• Sully (PG-13, 2016) Wed., May 24, at 1 p.m.

CONCORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 45 Green St., Concord, onconcord.com/library, 225-9670, call 230-3682 for titles • Inside Out (PG, 2015) Sat., May 6, 1-3:30 p.m., recommended for kids ages 6 to 10, followed by discussion with Riverbend Community Mental Health, RSVP required NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary. org. Call 589-4646 for a movie schedule.

• A Dog’s Purpose (PG, 2017) Sat., May 6, at 2 p.m.

• Hacksaw Ridge (R, 2016) Tues., May 9, at 7 p.m.

• The Hilleman (documentary, 2016) Wed., May 10, at 7 p.m.

• The Book of Life (PG, 2014) Sat., May 13, at 2 p.m.

• Hidden Figures (PG, 2016) Tues., May 16, at 7 p.m.

• The Parent Trap (PG, 1998) Sat., May 20, at 2 p.m.

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• 1971 (documentary, 2014) Mon., May 8, at 6:30 p.m.

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• Neruda (R, 2016) Thurs., May 4, at 7 p.m.

• The Sense of an Ending (PG13, 2017) Fri., May 5, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May 6, at 7 p.m.; Sun., May 7, at 4 p.m.; Tues., May 9, at 7 p.m.; Wed., May 10, at 7 p.m.

• I Called Him Morgan (documentary, 2016) Fri., May 5, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May 6, at 7 p.m.; Tues., May 9, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., May 11, at 7 p.m.

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NITE Alt al fresco

Nu Muse Festival brings cutting edge to Nashua

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The main stage at the first of three outdoor music events scheduled for downtown Nashua this year has an eclectic array of talent ranging from kinetic to frenetic. The NuMuse Festival has an alternative focus; jazz fusion trio Consider the Source will close out the day, following regional favorites Slambovian Circus of Dreams. The lineup includes Bella’s Bartok, Arc Iris, Billy Wylder, I/O and Mammal Dap. A second stage offers contemporary rock from Them Clones, Buster, Towns, Kooked Out, The Trichomes, Voyagers and Frank Alcaraz, while the gazebo in Railroad Square has an afternoon slate featuring Fain Music Studio, Brandon O’Grady, DoubleNecks Guitar Duo and New Englanders.

Riverwalk Cafe owner Ben Ruddock is curating the NuMuse stage; many of the acts are veterans of the Depot Street restaurant and bar that’s become a hub for original music since it opened three years ago. Ruddock got involved when Paul Shea of Great American Downtown reached out expanding on the Holiday Stroll, which Shea runs every year.

Ruddock readily agreed.

“Riverwalk is intimate with 85 seats, and we bumped up against the capacity of that space a lot,” he said. “So I had a desire to do larger events for a long time.”

The seed money for the event concept is supported by the Downtown Improvement Committee and the City of Nashua. Along with live music at three locations, there will be performances by Nashua Community Music School, an unveiling of street pianos and other public art projects.

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“It was slapdash … we had like two weeks to plan it,” he said. “This will be the same event, but with a proper amount of planning and thought going into it.”

Riverwalk Cafe has grown from a small coffee shop with weekly original open mike nights and infrequent shows into a magnet for regional talent. Festival promotion seems a logical step for Ruddock.

“Primarily, I’m most excited about having outdoor art happening in Nashua again,” he said. “I think that there has been a little bit of a die-off in this type of event. ... Lately, it’s just been the Holiday Stroll, which is a fantastic event, but I’m hoping this will be the impetus for a lot more stuff like this. I certainly don’t want to be the only team doing it.”

As to the success of Riverwalk, Ruddock said, “It feels fantastic. ... It kind of started as a passion project to hear bands I wanted to hear, and it’s cool to see other folks that want to hear those bands. It’s an immensely gratifying project, and we couldn’t do it without our amazing audience. We have twenty-plus regulars that I see at shows twice a week.

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• Southeastern: Nashville acoustic roots trio Locust Honey was among 10 “Must See Fresh Faces” at this year’s Merlefest.

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• Think Cinco: It’s the anniversary of Mexico’s greatest military victory, and the country’s bemusement at the holiday’s Americanization mirrors Ireland’s attitude about St. Patrick’s Day in the U.S.A. Why not add to the confusion by heading to an Irish bar where Wellfleet will play blues rock at an event dubbed Cinco de Mayo Irish Style? The Cape Cod quartet is a bit of Geils wrapped in The Band, with a pop sheen. Go Friday, May 5, 8 p.m., Ri Ra, 27 Market Square, Portsmouth. More at rira. com/portsmouth.

• Horse around: All eyes are on Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby.

The most venerable event in horse racing has run every year since 1875, and local taverns that will only care about the sport until chances of a Triple Crown winner are gone will offer up mint juleps and bigscreen coverage. Everett Pendleton plays and sings at a Nashua casino and pool hall.

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Riverwalk books everything from esoteric jazz to readings from storyteller Odds Bodkins. Against the odds, it’s worked.

“I tried to poke holes in the whole thing ... trying to figure out the actual formula for all this,” Ruddock said. “The conclusion I have come to is that it’s a lot of luck and circumstance.”

If there’s a specific element, it’s constant refinement, always striving.

“I never say good enough, and unfortunately that is where a lot of live production has gone,” Ruddock said. “The acts have really responded to that, and it’s allowed me to build up relationships with these bands. Frankly, I’ve been able to pull down some bands that don’t really make a lot of sense for an 85 seat room, mostly because of what we are doing in there.”

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753-4450 1328 Hooksett Rd Hungry Buffalo Portland Pie Company Fury’s Publick House Cheers 926-6762 621-9298 58 Rte 129 798-3737 786 Elm St. 622-7437 1 Washington St. 17 Depot St. 228-0180 Bernie’s Beach Bar Salona Bar & Grill 617-3633 Granite 73 Ocean Blvd 926-5050 Hudson Manchester 128 Maple St. 96 Pleasant St. 227-9000 Sonny’s Tavern Boardwalk Inn & Cafe AJ’s Sports Bar 624-4020 83 Washington St. Hermanos 139 Ocean Blvd. 929-7400 11 Tracy Lane 718-1102 A&E Cafe 1000 Elm St. 578-3338 Shaskeen 742-4226 11 Hills Ave. 224-5669 Breakers at Ashworth River’s Pub Amoskeag Studio 250 909 Elm St. 625-0246 Top of the Chop Makris 295 Ocean Blvd. 926-6762 76 Derry St 880-8676 Commercial St. Shorty’s 1 Orchard St. 740-0006 Breakers By the Sea 354 Sheep Davis Road JD Chaser’s 1050 Bicentennial Drive 225-7665 409 Ocean Blvd 926-7702 2B Burnham Rd 886-0792 315-9320 625-1730 Thursday, May 4 Claremont Ashland Taverne on the Square: Charlie Common Man: Jim McHugh & Christos Steve McBrian (Open) Concord Auburn Granite: CJ Poole Duo Auburn Pitts: Open Jam w/ Hermanos: David Ross Gordy and Diane Pettipas True Brew: Dusty Gray Open Original Bedford Copper Door: Marc Apostolides Dover Fury’s: Erin’s Guild Boscawen Alan’s: John Pratte Exeter Station 19: Thursday Night Live HIPPO | MAY 4 - 10, 2017 | PAGE 62

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Sunday, May 7 Ashland Common Man: Chris White Solo Acoustic Barrington Nippo Lake: Taylor River

Rochester Lilac City Grille: Brunch Music Seabrook Chop Shop: Kim & Mike/ Donny plays Johnny Cash

Bedford Copper Door: Chad Lamarsh

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Hanover Canoe Club: Marko The Magician Tableside Salt hill Pub: Hootenanny

Dover Cara: Irish Session w/ Carol Coronis & Ramona Connelly Dover Brickhouse: Jazz Brunch Sonny’s: Sonny’s Jazz

Manchester Central Ale House: Jonny Friday Duo Fratello’s: Rob Wolfe or Phil Jacques Murphy’s Taproom: Clint Lapointe

Goffstown Village Trestle: Wan-tu Blues Band & Jam Hudson River’s Pub: Acoustic Jam Manchester Bungalow: Sharptooth, Hollow Point, Dismissed & Attacking The Vision Murphy’s Taproom: Kevin White/Justin Bethune Penuche’s Music Hall: Reggae Sunday Shaskeen: Rap night, Industry night Strange Brew: Granite State Blues Society Blues Challenge Wild Rover: DJ Dance Night Meredith Giuseppe’s: Open Stage with Lou Porrazzo Milford Union Coffee: Brad Bosse and Justin Cohn Moultonborough Buckey’s: Paul Luff - Sunday Matinee Nashua Agave Azul: DJ Rich - Smokin’ Sunday Riverwalk: Elias Alexander and The Bywater Band North Hampton Barley House Seacoast: Great Bay Sailor Peterborough Harlow’s: Folksoul Duo Portsmouth Ri Ra: Irish Session Rudi’s: Jazz Brunch With John Franzosa

Merrimack Homestead: Doug Thompson Nashua Dolly Shakers: Monday’s Muse w Lisa Guyer Fratello’s Italian Grille: Sean Coleman Newmarket Stone Church: Blues Jam w/ Wild Eagles Blues Band

North Hampton Barley House Seacoast: Traditional Irish Session Peterborough Harlow’s: Celtic Music Jam Portsmouth Press Room: Jazz Jam w/ Larry Garland & Friends Seabrook Chop Shop: Bare Bones Wednesday, May 10 Concord Hermanos: Craig Jester Dover Fury’s Publick House: Back On The Train Dublin DelRossi’s Trattoria: Celtic and Old Timey Jam Session Gilford Patrick’s: Cody James - Ladies Night Hampton CR’s: Judith Murray Hanover Canoe Club: Joseph Stallsmith

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Hillsborough Turismo: Blues Jam w Jerry Paquette & the Runaway Bluesmen

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Londonderry Coach Stop: Corey Brackett

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Manchester Bungalow: Encrypted & Bottomfeeders Fratello’s: Clint Lapointe Penuche’s Music Hall: Lisa Guyer Wednesday Muse Merrimack Homestead: Chris Lester Nashua Country Tavern: Jay Sargent Fratello’s Italian Grille: Ryan Williamson Plaistow Racks: DJ Sensations

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NITE CONCERTS Capitol Center for the Performing Arts & Spotlight Cafe 44 S. Main St., Concord 225-1111, ccanh.com The Colonial Theatre 95 Main St., Keene 352-2033, thecolonial.org Dana Humanities Center 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester 641-7700, anselm.edu/dana The Flying Monkey 39 S. Main St., Plymouth Robben Ford Thursday, May 4, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Quinn Sullivan Friday, May 5, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Wailin’ Jennys Friday, May 5, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre Vic DiBitetto Saturday, May 6, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Everly Brothers Experience Sunday, May 7, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry NeedToBreathe Sunday, May 7, 7 p.m. Casino Ballroom The Tenors Wednesday, May 10, 8 p.m. Stockbridge Theatre Jim Breuer (rescheduled) Friday, May 12, 7:30 p.m. Palace Theatre Jonathan Edwards Friday, May 12, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche Friday, May 12, 8 p.m. Music Hall Loft

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JONESIN’ CROSSWORDS BY MATT JONES

“Hmm...” — I think it’s stuck in the middle Across 1 “Listen up,” long ago 5 Allude (to) 10 1/8 of a fluid ounce 14 Perennial succulent 15 “I’d Be Surprisingly Good For

You” musical 16 Certain mortgage, informally 17 Extinct New Zealand birds 18 Current host of “Late Night” 20 Far from optimal 22 Basic PC environment

23 Like lycanthropes 24 Jeté, for one 26 Grand Coulee or Aswan, e.g.

28 “Kilroy Was Here” rock group 30 Anthony of the Red Hot Chili Peppers 34 Go off to get hitched 36 Mr. Burns’s word 38 This and that 39 Ceilings, informally 40 Past time 41 Emo band behind 2003’s “The Saddest Song” 43 “Ad ___ per aspera” 44 They may use tomatoes or mangoes 45 “Am ___ Only One” (Dierks Bentley song) 47 Jan. 1, e.g.

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67 Sorts Down 1 “Mad Men” star Jon 2 1966 N.L. batting champ Matty 3 Trap on the floor, slangily 4 “Tik Tok” singer 5 Vacation spot 6 Annually 7 Needs no tailoring 8 “I Love Lucy” neighbor 9 Zodiac creature 10 Times to use irrigation 11 Sax player’s item 12 “The Mod Squad” coif 13 Battleship call 19 It may be sent in a blast

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52 Sound from an exam cheater 53 Frenchman’s female friend 54 Decomposes 56 “Bonanza” son 57 Kroll of “Kroll Show” 58 Admonishing sounds 60 Abbr. after Shaker or Cleveland ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

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SIGNS OF LIFE Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) A Henry Cavendish is rare. But many a man is famous on account of his less important contributions to knowledge. I often wonder what work such men would prefer to be known for. There’s what you know, and then there’s what you’re known for.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) My newfound interest in botany led me to begin to amass a herbarium, collecting and drying the plants that I found on my holiday walks. …

I began to keep careful records of my finds, both drawings and dissections. I did not realize at the time what a valuable discipline I was developing. You are developing skills you might not even notice.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) After a few years I bought a car — a daring step, for I had never learned to drive. You might need to do things out of order.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) When I won a coveted prize at the end of the year I was asked what book I would choose to receive.

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Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Miss Edwards wrote me a letter of farewell and advice. ‘You will always be hampered,’ she said, ‘by your quick power of apprehension.’ She was one of the wisest people I have ever known. I cannot count how often those words have served as a warning against hastily jumping to conclusions. You can go ahead and jump, but you might have to jump back.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) All motion, I had learned, was relative. Suddenly, as I was walking down a London street, I asked myself: ‘relative to what?’. It’s time for a bigger perspective.

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Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) On examination, different bus lines proved to have stops in common, such as Oxford Circus, Marble Arch and Piccadilly Circus. It occurred to me that I had the material for the reconstruction of the map of London. I set to work to solve this problem in topology, and produced an intricate network of routes; but the map was a failure: it presented the impossibility of Liverpool Street in two opposite corners. What seems like a failure could be the start of a new understanding.

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• Chutzpah! Henry Wachtel, 24, continues in legal limbo after being found “not criminally responsible” for the death of his mother in 2014, despite having beaten her in the head and elsewhere up to 100 times because he was having an epileptic seizure at that moment and has no memory of the attack. A judge must still decide the terms of Wachtel’s psychiatric hospitalization, but Wachtel’s mind is clear enough now that, in March, he demanded, as sole heir, payoff on his mother’s life insurance policy (which, under New York law, is still technically feasible).

• Epic Smugglers: In February, federal customs agents seized 22 pounds of illegal animal meat (in a wide array) at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Among the tasty items were raw chicken, pig and cow meat, brains, hearts, heads, tongues and feet in addition to (wrote a reporter) “other body parts” (if there even are any other edible parts). In a typical day nationwide, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizes about 4,600 smuggled plant or animal products.

• Over the years, News of the Weird has covered the long-standing campaign by animal-rights activists to bestow “human” rights upon animals (begun, of course, with intelligent orangutans and gorillas). In March, the New Zealand parliament gave human rights to a river the Whanganui, long revered by the country’s indigenous Maori. (One Maori and one civil servant were appointed as the river’s representatives.) Within a week, activists in India, scouring court rulings, found two of that country’s waterways deserved similar status the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, which were then so designated by judges in Uttarakhand state.

(The Ganges’ “rights” seem hollow since an estimated one billion gallons of waste still enters it every day despite its being a holy bathing spot for Hindus.)

• Yet another intimate accessory with weak security drew attention when hackers broke down a $249 Svakom Siime Eye personal vibrator in April, revealing a lazily created default password (“88888888”) and Wi-Fi network name (“Siime Eye”). Since the Eye’s camera and internet access facilitate livestream video of a user’s most personal body parts, anyone within Wi-Fi range can break in (and be entertained) by just driving around a city looking for the Siime Eye network.

• Ewwww! Luu Cong Huyen, 58, in Yen Giao, Vietnam, is the most recent to attract reporters’ attention with disturbingly long fingernails. A March OddityCentral.com report, with cringeinducing photos, failed to disclose their

precise length, but Huyen said he has not clipped them since a 2013 report on VietnamNet revealed that each measured up to 19.7 inches. Huyen explained (inadequately) that his nail obsession started merely as a hobby and that he is not yet over it. (The Guinness Book record is not exactly within fingertip reach: 73.5 inches per nail, by Shridhar Chillal of India.)

• And a Partridge in a Pear Tree: In February, a pet welfare organization complained of a raid on a home near Lockhart, Texas, that housed more than 400 animals (and, of course, reeked “overpowering(ly)” of urine). The inventory: 86 snakes, 56 guinea pigs, 28 dogs, 26 rabbits, 15 goats, 9 doves, 8 skinks, 7 pigs, 6 pigeons, 4 gerbils, 3 bearded dragons, 2 ducks and 1 tarantula plus about 150 rats and mice (to feed the menagerie) and 20 other animals whose numbers did not fit the above lyric pattern.

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• For more than a decade, an “editor” has been roaming the streets at night in Bristol, England, “correcting” violations of standard grammar, lately being described as “The Apostrophiser” since much of his work involves adjusting (or often obliterating) that punctuation mark.

On April 3, the BBC at last portrayed the vigilante in action, in a “ride-along” documentary that featured him using the special marking and climbing tools that facilitate his work. His first mission, in 2003, involved a government sign “Monday’s to Friday’s” (“ridiculous,” he said), and he recalled an even more cloying

store sign “Amys Nail’s” as “so loud and in your face.”)

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Eight state legislatures are presently considering overriding Deere’s contract to create a “right to repair.”

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