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NEWS & NOTES 4 Special election candidates; new virtual reality game; PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 18 THE ARTS: 20 ART Monet at the Currier.

22 THEATER The Amazing Adventures of Arianna Astronaut.

24 CLASSICAL Listings for events around town.

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30 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend.

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FOOD: 36 BURGER TIME NH Brewers Festival; Salem Farmers Market wine tasting; In the Kitchen; Weekly Dish; Wine; Perishables.

POP CULTURE: 46 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz has a remarkably good week at the theater with War for the Planet of the Apes and The Big Sick.

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

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

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

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NEWS & NOTES Bills signed

Gov. Chris Sununu signed multiple bills into law over the past week. On July 10 he signed 18 bills, including SB 3, which defines “domicile” for voting purposes to be a resident for 30 days before an election and requires additional documentation to prove residency. Sununu also passed a bill that will appropriate $4.5 million for law enforcement to establish a cross-border drug interdiction program. He also passed a bill that will supply the Department of Environmental Services with the funds and authority to lend money to a local company to help with a wastewater cleanup project in Amherst.

He issued his first veto on HB 86, which would have set statewide standards on votes for zoning variances. NHPR reported the bill received strong bipartisan support but was opposed by the New Hampshire Association of Realtors, which argued the bill would make it harder to obtain variances.

On July 11, Gov. Sununu signed SB 38, which sends $38.6 million in funds for infrastructure projects to towns and cities. According to a press release from Senate Republicans, Derry is slated to receive as much as $600,000 of surplus funds to help repair its roads and bridges.

Sununu also signed the state capital budget into law, which includes a new courthouse to be built for the Milford Circuit Court, new IT programs and educational opportunities for the workforce, according to a press release.

At a signing ceremony at Penacook Elementary School on July 12, Sununu signed a bill that provides funding for full-day kindergarten programs. In a statement, he said the programs will “close the opportunity gap and provide students, regardless of their economic status, an extra step up as they enter the first grade.”

its patients. The whistleblower agency, the U.S. Office of Special Council, has found a “substantial likelihood” of legal violations and gross mismanagement, according to the story. VA Secretary David Shulkin announced a review of the hospital and removed the top two officials, who will be reassigned other duties within the VA, according to followup reporting.

Hospital Director Danielle Ocker was replaced by Alfred Montoya, the current director at the White River Junction VA in Vermont. In a statement, Gov. Chris Sununu said he spoke with Shulkin and was encouraged by his willingness to act swiftly and transparently.

“Despite previous administrations who swept issues under the rug, Secretary Shulkin has proven that he is willing to take immediate action so that we can restore confidence in the system,” Sununu said.

Chief of Staff James Schlosser was also removed. The hospital treats about 25,000 veterans with outpatient care and day surgeries each year.

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state has made significant progress toward compliance, the AP reported, and credits mobile crisis teams in Manchester and Concord for providing people with more community-centered care instead of emergency room visits. The report also cites strong investments in mental health care in the latest budget approved by the governor for fiscal years 2018 to 2019. The settlement was reached in 2013 over inadequate community mental health services and previous reports by the monitor have been less favorable.

AG investigating

On July 13, state Attorney General Gordon MacDonald announced his office is launching a criminal investigation into St. Paul’s School in Concord. According to the press release, the AG began the investigation in response to a recent report of allegations that teachers at the school have sexually abused their students and other reports regarding student rituals of sexual conquest. Investigators will work with the Merrimack County Attorney’s Office, the Concord Police Department and New Hampshire State Police to determine whether the school endangered the welfare of a child, or obstructed government operations concerning the criminal code. Gov. Chris Sununu applauded the move, saying, “I commend the Attorney General’s office for taking aggressive action to fully investigate this matter.”

Reforestation plans for Rollins Park in Concord are set to begin this fall after a recent culling of pines infested with invasive insects, the Concord Monitor reported.

The first steps include stump removal and construction of walking paths.

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Conservative anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist visited Manchester to speak at the headquarters of Americans for Prosperity New HampHooksett shire, NHPR reported. He talked about the need for federal tax reform and pointed to Goffstown the country’s high corporate tax rate.

Authorities in Rochester are investigating the illegal dumping of oil into the city’s wastewater system. According to a press release, oil was first detected in November and was detected again each month since February.

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So far this year, 143 people have died from drug overdoses, most of which were related to fentanoppose his own bill to create a porters such as the Marijuana yl, according to a press release study commission to review mar- Policy Project or the American from the New Hampshire Chief ijuana legalization and regulation Civil Liberties Union of New Medical Examiner’s office. In in the state. The Marijuana Poli- Hampshire, as the original bill addition to that, 10 people have cy Project and state Rep. Renny envisioned. Matt Simon with the died of the uber-drug carfentanil, Cushing, the bill’s original spon- Marijuana Policy Project said in a which is 100 times more powsor, are calling on Gov. Chris statement that such a commission erful than fentanyl and was first Sununu to veto the bill because would have no credibility. “New formulated as an elephant tranthe bill includes many vocal Hampshire should absolutely quilizer. According to Attorney Marijuana study opponents such as the Associ- study marijuana legalization, but General Gordon MacDonald, there A marijuana advocacy group ation of Chiefs of Police but this isn’t the way to go about it,” are 39 cases involving carfentanil has joined a bill’s sponsor to does not include any known sup- Simon said. being reviewed by his office and 18 individuals have been indicted for carfentanil-related crimes within the last month. There are VAN MCLEOD BUILDING RUNDLETT MIDDLE SCHOOL an additional 71 cases still pendThe Department of Cultural Resources buildPolice are investigating two break-ins at Runing toxicology for 2017. The final ing at 19 Pillsbury Street in Concord was deddlett Middle School in Concord that occurred overdose death count for 2016 icated as the “Van McLeod Building” on July on the night of Wednesday, July 12. The Conwas 486, of which 200 involved 18 with a ceremonial signing of the legislacord Monitor reported the break-ins resulted fentanyl alone and 127 involved tion by Gov. Chris Sununu at the building. in $8,600 in damage. Two minors were taken Veterans Affairs McLeod was the longest serving commissionfentanyl and other drugs. The preinto custody by police, who say alcohol may problems er of the department and died a year ago to be a contributing factor. Two more minors are vious record for overdose fatalities Thousands of patients are strugthe day. According to a press release, McLeod believed to be involved. A wall was damaged was 439 in 2015. gling to get care at the Manchester was also born in that same building which when a wheelchair was thrown against it, proVA Medical Center, according to now bears his name. It used to be the materfanities were written in paint in the hallways a Boston Globe Spotlight report. Mental health nity annex of the Margaret Pillsbury Generand some school equipment was damaged.

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What the race for senate district 16 is all about

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On July 25, voters will decide who will fill the seat left vacant by the death of Democrat Scott McGilvray in March.

Their choices are Democrat Kevin Cavanaugh, Republican David Boutin and Libertarian Jason Dubrow.

The return

Boutin held the seat from 2010 to 2016 and decided not to run in the last election, citing family reasons.

“My daughter, who lives in Goffstown, was David Boutin.

Courtesy photo. pregnant. She said, ‘Dad, I’m going to need your help.’ So I put family above politics and didn’t run,” Boutin said.

“Fast forward a year later, my granddaughter now will be a year old just a couple days after the election. I spoke with my daughter and my family and my daughter said, ‘I’m fine, Dad, go ahead and run.’ And my wife said she was good with that as well.”

As a longtime state senator and a House rep before that, Boutin said there will be no learning curve if he’s elected back into office.

He said he would like to continue working on issues that were important to him during his time in office, such as expanding mental health and addiction services, reforming the child protection services of the Division of Children, Youth and Families, investing in the state’s infrastructure and helping businesses thrive and grow.

Boutin said he’s against gun regulations and has supported the stand-your-ground

law and the so-called “constitutional carry” law that recently eliminated the concealed carry license requirements.

Many of these issues have already seen some movement, like the new office of the child advocate at DCYF, which Boutin said should make the agency more transparent.

Boutin previously chaired the commission to study child abuse fatalities, which has recommended a number of reforms including the child advocate.

But he said there’s still work to be done.

“When we as the legislature do these things, it’s not the end. … We have to be vigilant about these issues and make sure that things are getting done … in the best interests of the citizens of our state,” Boutin said.

He’s also been a supporter of drug courts and the Granite Hammer initiative that provides local police with state grants that are to be used for taking drug dealers off the streets.

The union guy

Cavanaugh is serving in his first term as alderman of Ward 1 in Manchester. He’s the assistant business manager at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Kevin Cavanaugh.

Workers Local 2320 Courtesy photo. and said he has been a “blue-collar worker” in the telecommunications field for 32 years.

He defeated lawyer James Normand in a primary for the state senate seat.

Cavanaugh is cut from the same cloth as McGilvray, though less well-known.

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Jason Dubrow is an engineer who lives with his wife and two kids at a small farm in Dunbarton.

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Receipt and expenditure filings through July 5 show nothing from Dubrow’s campaign or independent committees on his behalf.

He says that’s because he hasn’t broken the $500 minimum threshold yet, but he expects to soon.

“I’m trying to run as lean a campaign as I can,” Dubrow said.

He said the amount of money spent in this race so far is “obscene” and he wants to see less money in politics, generally.

He said he’s been campaigning with

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“It brings a new perspective in the race. We know what the Republicans say. We know what the Democrats say, and it’s really like a pendulum.

We keep swinging to the left and right, Jason Dubrow. but what we really Courtesy photo. need are new ideas brought to Concord,” Dubrow said.

Among the issues Dubrow prioritizes is education quality and school choice, whether it’s through school vouchers, charter schools or sending kids to private schools with taxpayer dollars (now allowed thanks to the so-called Croydon bill passed this year).

“Education is very important for the future of our children and I support every opportunity for people to find the best possible education that fits their needs,” Dubrow said.

He also said he’s pro-gun and would address the drug crisis by treating it as a medical issue, funding treatment, diverting funds away from law enforcement and decriminalizing drugs.

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“The funds coming from the state to the schools is very frustrating to me,” Cavanaugh said.

He knew McGilvray through coaching football, he said.

“I know his wife Patti well. We grew up together and went to high school together,” Cavanaugh said.

He said he wants to continue what McGilvray started by supporting a state minimum wage (the state currently defaults to the federal minimum) and addressing the addiction epidemic by providing more state funds for treatment, prevention and recovery services and facilitating the adoption of programs like Safe Stations, which started in Manchester as a way to connect people to treatment through an open door policy at fire stations.

Cavanaugh admits he’s new to politics and doesn’t consider himself a politician.

Rather, he emphasizes his working-class roots.

“I’ve worked my whole life,” Cavanaugh said. “It means a lot to me and I’ve been talking to a lot of people about that.

I don’t think anyone is going to bring that voice to Concord, as a worker, that I can.”

He said he would have supported past efforts to expand casino gambling championed by Manchester state Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, but will consider any future proposals on a case-by-case basis.

He is against any new broad-based tax.

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A new game called Schlocks — think Dance, Dance Revolution or Wii Sports, but in a virtual reality environment — is being developed at a Manchester video game incubator.

Patrick Ryan, the main developer in the small New Hampshire-based video game studio Fancy Bear Games, made Schlocks to expose people to virtual reality technology by making it a more social experience.

“The idea is that each player will play a batch of nine minigames and once they are done … they will take the headset off and hand it to the next player in the turn order,” Ryan said.

Each game is timed for 10 seconds and they come in batches of five per theme or locale. So there’s a batch of games set at a beach; another is fantasy-themed and one is set at a farm.

Some games will involve catching pigs and putting them in a basket, throwing bales of hay into a barn or picking apples.

They’re each basic tasks and the graphics tend to be simple and low-quality to favor

mechanics and smooth movements.

“It will be both fun to play as well as fun to watch,” Ryan said.

It’s been available for download since April as an early release on the Steam online distribution platform for $15. Early releases help developers release a partially complete game and use the money from the early sales to help finish it. Right now, it’s only available for PCs using VR equipment such as Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive, but Ryan hopes to expand the player base.

“We are looking to get it on the Sony Playstation VR, hopefully by the end of the year,” Patrick said.

Modern VR equipment generally includes a headset, controls for each hand and a camera to track the headset’s motion.

The cost barrier is lower with Playstation VR so it tends to be the more popular choice, Ryan said.

So far, there are only a handful of similar VR games in this class, but Ryan said none of them have the diversity and number of games that Schlocks has.

“There’s not too many of these minigame products in the virtual reality space right now,” Ryan said.

sign waving, radio talk show appearances, talking to friends, leaving flyers on mailboxes and going door-to-door.

After Cavanaugh won the primary, he received the endorsements of Sens.

Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.

And on July 13, he released an online video ad. Boutin has no video ads but has been playing two radio ads on multiple stations, according to his campaign.

As of the July 5 filings, Boutin has raised more than $103,000 and spent more than $41,000. The New Hampshire

Republican State Committee spent about $13,900 on mailed advertisements and the NH Priorities State PAC spent about $1,740 on mailers.

Cavanaugh’s campaign raised more than $93,000 and spent more than $55,000. A Washington, D.C.-based committee called LMP New Hampshire has spent more than $28,800 on polling, direct mailings and brochures (in four separately filed transactions through July 14) and Let America Vote New Hampshire spent about $970 on Facebook and Google ads.

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NEWS & NOTES Q&A

Space camp

Local teacher returns from STEM program Ashley Meehan of Manchester is a fifth grade teacher at James Mastricola Upper Elementary School in Merrimack. She and two other local teachers recently took part in the Honeywell Educators at Space Academy program in Huntsville, Alabama, which is designed to re-ignite teachers’ passion for science and, in turn, inspire students to pursue careers in STEM fields.

Can you give me a little bit of background about yourself?

I have lived in New Hampshire most of my life. Most recently, I bought a condo, about a year and a half ago, in Manchester. … I’ve been teaching for, going into my 12th year. I have bounced between grade 5 and grade 6, but my heart is definitely in the fifth grade. … If you asked me in elementary school what I wanted to be, I would have hands down said astronaut or meteorologist. … When I went to Keene State, I did a general sciences second major where I did a little bit of everything, which I feel benefits me greatly in the classroom because I’m not afraid to try out new stuff.

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lum Revision Committee for a few years now, and it was brought to my attention by the superintendent that this existed. And it was within the grade level, the ages that they were looking for. … I said I would What are some of the things you did in love to apply and [my administrators] the HESA program? hands down said, ‘Go for it.’ A few months It was a life-changing experience, actu- later I got an email saying I received it. I ally. … Day 1 was kind of an introduction. was over the moon.

We got to listen to one of my favorite authors and people in general, Homer Hickam, who [Women are frequently underreprewrote Rocket Boys. They made a movie years sented in science and technology fields]; later called October Sky, but it was about … did you come away with any new ideas his childhood. And he came and spoke to us. [about] how to get girls interested in these You would have thought I was a little child concepts?

I think as a society in general, we have to again. I was in awe. And we had ambassadors come and they shared different kinds present the idea that it’s OK to take risks. of STEM-integrated activities that we could And I think people in general and children do within our own classroom. … We were particularly are afraid of failing at somedivided into teams. I was a part of Team Uni- thing. And I know that in my classroom, ty, and I was a member of one of six teams I strive to let them know that the greatwith members from all across the world. We est things come from the failures we have. had seven different countries represented on You have to try and it’s OK [to fail]. You my team alone. And from there we worked learn each time. … I’ve seen just a general collaboratively to go on simulated missions. fear in both genders. … I’m hoping, just by We did a mission to Mars, where I was part offering a more hands-on approach in the of general command control, and then we did classroom, and even outside the classroom, a mission to the International Space Station, that they will truly fall in love with science where I was actually out putting it together. as I did as a kid because we dived right in … I got to get into a full-on white spacesuit and worked with it. and sit in a machine that makes you feel like Is there anything else you would like you’re floating. … It’s inspired me to actually start with my fellow teacher ... a club at my to add about your experience in the school to bring more hands-on science after program?

I got to become a kid again for that week. school for the children.

I think everyone, when they’re little, wants How did you get connected with the to go to space camp, at least for my generation. I begged my parents to but they didn’t program in the first place?

I have been on the Merrimack Curricu- have the money growing up. … The blue flight suit was probably one of my favorWHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTO ite items. You wear it and everyone thinks RIGHT NOW? you’re pretty important. So, I can’t wait to bring that into my class next year. … We do I’m really into art. I like to draw. I’ve get to keep it. been trying to get back into it to relax.

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NEWS & NOTES

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Winning posters A contest for youngsters in the Granite State age 5 through 21 to produce a winning poster has culminated with a display at the Statehouse, according to a press release from the state Department of Education.

Young people were asked to create a poster on the theme of “The New Hampshire State House and its Meaning Today.” Regional judges chose nine winners per region and then narrowed the pool down to nine statewide winners. The posters will be on display through Aug. 17.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: It’s always good to see kids expressing their love for their home state of New Hampshire.

Goodbye to 115-year-old The world’s fifth-oldest person — 115-year-old Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette of Manchester — died last week in a convent in Rome, where she’d lived since 1958, according to a story in the Union Leader. She was part of the first graduating class at Villa Augustina School in Goffstown and was known by the other sisters as Mother Cecilia. She became famous in 2008 when she cast her absentee ballot in Manchester for Barack Obama, her first since 1952, when she voted for Dwight Eisenhower.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Though sad to see her go, her great-niece said in the story her great-aunt was ready to “meet her maker.”

State to receive water quality funding The U.S. Department of Interior is distributing $32 million nationwide through the Clean Vessel Act and New Hampshire is set to receive $160,000, NHPR reported. The funds are meant to help keep wastewater from boats out of the state’s lakes and shores. Discharging wastewater from boat holding tanks into any inland water bodies or within three miles of the coast is illegal in New Hampshire. With the additional funds, the state Department of Environmental Services is planning to invest in more pump-out stations and mobile pump-out boats QOL Score: +1 Comment: The money will also help finance the continued operation of The Royal Flush, a pump-out boat that serves ships off the Seacoast.

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New Hampshire’s coastal communities received grants totaling more than $1 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to help pay for further study into coastal resiliency — i.e., how fast a coastline can bounce back from a major weather event. According to NHPR, the grants will also help fund the removal of two dams on the Bellamy River rated as “high hazard” by the state, thus allowing fish to return to spawning areas farther upstream and restoring 21 acres of wetlands.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Because you never know what’s going to happen with New England weather …

QOL score: 78 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 80 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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Major stories dot sports calendar this week News Item: Baseball’s Most Incredible Feat of Season’s First Half I know folks loved all those bombs in the Home Run Derby. But in a season marked by an onslaught of home runs, the most incredible feat of the first half may be in the eye of the beholder. But in New York, where legendary sluggers Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle made considerable history, particularly in the power department for the Yankees, it is rather significant that Aaron Judge just passed Joe D’s record for most home runs by a Yankees rookie. Given the team’s legendary history, that is amazing itself, but since he passed DiMaggio’s 29 before the All-Star break, it’s astonishing! Now comes the second half, where as I pointed out two weeks ago if he can maintain his current pace he has a shot at winning the Triple Crown — another unprecedented feat for a rookie. All of which could mean he could be Rookie of the Year, MVP and the Triple Crown winner in his first full year in the majors. The good news for Red Sox fans whose glass is half empty: That probably means he has nowhere to go but down!

News Item: Is Baseball in Decline?

With NESN Red Sox ratings down 20 percent and national baseball ratings basically in free fall, there has been much recent discussion on talk radio about the decline of baseball. From new competition, to games that never seem to end, to exorbitant prices like $45 to park outside Fenway, to new entertainment options, the issue is more complex than most seem to think. But I will point out MLB sold 90 million tickets in 2016, so it’s got a long way to go. However, in the first half of the 20th century the three biggest sports by far were horse racing, boxing and baseball. Today, with the horses no longer part of everyday life and auto racing expo-

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contract was shipped to Detroit for power forward Marcus Morris, who doesn’t rebound (4.4 per to Bradley’s 6.4). So you tell me, after getting Hayward, Morris and center Aron Baynes for the departed Bradley, Kelly Olynyk, Amir Johnson, Jonas Jerebko and Tyler Zeller, if they are better now than last year. But the real kicker is if Hayward had fit under, they could have used Bradley’s $8.8 million with Zeller’s $8 nonguaranteed contract along with a first-round pick in a deal for someone like Orlando center Nikola Vucevic, who could have vastly improved a rebounding challenged team.

Bottom line: They are better, but not as good as they could have been if the cap had been at $104 million. Bottom line to the bottom line: Danny still has more work to do to fortify the rebounding.

News Item: Did Paul George Deal Kill Two Franchises?

I give Oak City GM Sam Presti points for being gutsy for his absolute steal of Paul George from Indiana. But with Russell Westbrook having a player option after 2017, you can also make a case he had no choice. Because if he doesn’t get Russ real help, he likely heads home to L.A., to take one of the two max deals Magic Johnson has to offer next summer. As for Indiana, GM Kevin Pritchard’s passing on the Celtics’ far superior offer for George because he didn’t want to keep him in the same division (where they won’t contend for five years anyway) is right behind Brooklyn’s sending the C’s all those high picks for KG, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry as the dumbest NBA move of the 21st century. And if George leaves Oak City and brings Westbrook with him to L.A., the PG-13 deal could kill two franchises for a decade at once. Though, if he and Westbrook stay because of that, it could be the best move of the 21st century. Well, behind the Brooklyn deal of course.

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nentially faster, horse racing is on life support.

Ditto for boxing — which once was on TV weekly with the Friday Night Fights — aside from a few major pay-per-view fights like the upcoming Mayweather-McGregor bout.

Thus, could the answer be that the nation’s sporting culture is just moving on, though more gradually? Maybe, but to bring a little perspective: In the so-called golden age of baseball in the 1950s, the magic attendance number teams wanted to hit was one million tickets sold. Today, if you don’t hit 3 million it’s a bad year. And with Forbes just pegging the Yankees’ worth at $3.5 billion with a b and millions around the country watching on TV each week, to paraphrase Mark Twain, it seems the rumors of baseball’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

News Item: Mayweather Fight Could Be Richest of All Time Can anyone tell me why anyone would lay down their hard-earned cash to make a dirtbag boxer with five arrests, convictions or other domestic assaults on the rap sheet richer than he already is? Would you do it for Ray Rice, Greg Hardy or Adrian Peterson? But that is what the sporting public, Vegas and the pay-per-view folks are about to do for Floyd Mayweather with his upcoming fight with Conor McGregor, which is expected to be the richest fight ever. Check out the rap sheet on Wikipedia.

News Item: Are The Celtics Really Better After Hayward Signing?

The careful financial planning by Danny Ainge to be able to take on another max free agent contract this summer got thrown a curveball by the salary cap police. Thanks to a weird playoff season with several short, and thus less lucrative, series, the expected $104 million cap fell to $99 million instead.

That prevented sliding Gordon Hayward’s $31.5 million comfortably under the cap.

Instead Danny had to clear cap space, which meant Hayward’s addition came with an unexpected subtraction, making it more like a trade. Thus, Avery Bradley’s $8.8 million

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East takes West The Big Story: Not much of a contest after the first fireworks went off at the Eastern League All-Star Game at Northeast Delta Dental. With 6,102 on hand, the East drubbed the West 7-1. East pitching, led by winner Drew Anderson of the Reading Fightin Phils, and the strike-out-the-side eighth inning by F-Cats hurler Dusty Issac limited the West to just a run on five hits while striking out 11. Sandwiched between Anderson and Isaac’s efforts was the seven-run, 12-batter sixth-inning explosion that put the game away with the biggest hit being a two-run double by Yankees prospect Zack Zehner.

Sports 101 – What a Stupid I Yam Award: I ran this question two weeks ago, and left out the answer. So I’ll ask again.

Ten pitchers in Red Sox history have gotten the start on opening day three times or more. How many can you name?

Why Can’t We Get Guys Like That Award: Yes, Fisher Cats fans, that was old friend Ryan Schimpf (scampi) with 14 homers at the All-Star break after hitting 20 in just his first 83 big major-league games playing for the Padres in 2016. Though he’s managed to knock in just 25 runs while hit-

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2 and 1 – the final tally for Mike Martel of Nashua CC when he held off a late rally by Hooksett’s Matt Paradis to win the NH State Amateur Golf Championship at Bretwood CC in Keene on Saturday.

3.9 – estimated miles traveled of the 47 balls Aaron Judge hit out of the park during the Home Run Derby at baseball’s All-Star game festivities in Miami.

ting .153 with his 153 at-bats this year.

We Got Guys Like This Award: Bedford Little League baseball team who put away Derry in a 10-0 mercy-rule All-Star win behind no-hit ball from Jake Oster and two-run homers from Dominic Tagliaferro and Owen Richmond.

Line of the Week: From Patriots receiver Julian Edelman in complimenting Peyton Manning while hosting the ESPYs concluding with, “Of course, it is indoors.”

Sports 101 Answer: The 10 pitchers to get three or more opening-day starts are Babe Ruth, Tex Hughson, Wes Ferrell, Luis Tiant (3 starts each); Jon Lester, Mel Parnell, Bill Monbouquette (4); Dennis Eckersley (5), Pedro Martinez (7) and Roger Clemens (8).

On This Date – July 20: 1911 – famed Red Sox hurler Smokey Joe Wood no-hits the St. Louis Browns in a 5-0 win. 1973 – Knuckleballer Wilbur Woods starts and loses (12-2 & 7-0) both games of a doubleheader with the Yankees. 1976 – Hank Aaron hits his record 755th and final home run before failing to hit one in his final 23 games before retiring at season’s end.

11 – consecutive wins for the 11-0 Junior American Legion Jutras Post Baseball team after a 9-2 win over Lebanon when Connor Hall and Gavin Ferry each had 2-run singles in a 7 run 7th inning explosion.

50 – insane money in the millions given to ex-Celtics softy “stretch 4” free agent Kelly Olynyk by the Miami Heat.

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Nashua CC in medalist play at the New Hampshire State Amateur Golf Tournament at Bretwood in Keene.

137 – two-day score carded by Matt Paradis of Concord CC and the Hooksett Paradis’ and John Devito of Passaconaway CC after shooting 66 and 65 respectively on Day 2 at Bret Wood CC in Keene to win medalist honors at the NH State Amateur Golf Tournament.

Aron Baynes: Bulky Aussie center acquired by the Celtics to add a little heft under the boards. The overall stats — 4.7 points and 4.4 rebounds a game — aren’t much to write home about. But when his 15 minutes of PT is adjusted to 30, it’s more like 9.4 and 8.8.

He may want to rethink the scraggly red beard and weird bald-on-the-side haircut, though, as it makes him a dead ringer for the monster Sloth in the 1985 treasure hunt kid flick The Goonies.

The Goonies: 1985 romp starring a host of kid actors who went on to be now familiar grown-up stars — Josh Brolin (W.), Sean Astin (Rudy) and Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos) — as well as grizzly former first overall 1973 NFL pick John Matuszak, who played the monster Sloth.

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How paintball got its start in NH, plus how and where to play

there’s a business here, and it started turning into the more family-friendly kind of play that we see now,” he said.

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A combat sport played on a battlefield by millions around the world, paintball originated right here in the Granite State in 1981 — and it all started as a bet.

“You basically had a New Hampshire faction of people and a New York City faction of people, and the bet was that people who lived in the city lost their survival instinct as humans,” said Alex Koppelkam, owner of AG Paintball in Weare, one of the longest continuously run paintball parks in the state. “Obviously you can talk a lot about that, but you can’t really prove it. So for years they talked about it, and they finally found this paintball marker that said, hey we can actually go do this.”

In paintball, players shoot at each other with balls of gelatinous paint projected via compressed air at more than 250 feet per second. The first organized game took place on June 27, 1981, a document from the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources shows. It was dubbed “The Survival Game” and involved 12 players trying to capture flags of four different colors without being hit.

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the players’ property in Henniker. Richie White, one of the New Hampshire residents involved in the game, was declared the winner, according to the document.

Robert Gurnsey, another player in the original game, would less than a year later establish the first commercial paintball field in Sutton, followed by the first manufacturing company in New London.

“Back then, the goal of the game was to be the guy that ‘survived,’ but it wasn’t teams, it was more like an ‘every man for

himself’ sort of thing,” Koppelkam said.

“As it … grew [in popularity] across the country, it stayed in that same format for a while, where some guys would just go out and have their own equipment and do it.”

It was not until the late 1980s, according to Koppelkam, that more organized paintball fields began to break ground. One of them was the now closed Canobie Paintball Games in Windham.

“That was really the first time that you started to see people say, hey, I think

As paintball got more popular, safety quickly became a priority.

“From a safety standpoint, one of the first things that happened as the industry was being created was that paintball masks came out, which cover your whole face, your ears, your forehead and your eyes,” Koppelkam said. “Initially there was no safety equipment other than, like, wearing a pair of logging glasses.”

Even the paint used for the sport started to be manufactured in a specific new way.

“It used to be that it was an oil-based paint with no real standardized manufacturing,” Koppelkam said. “Nowadays, the manufacturing is such that it’s a paintball with a really brittle shell, so it just breaks on impact instead of hitting you and bouncing off, so it doesn’t hurt as bad.”

Despite the combative nature of the sport, paintball is statistically safer than soccer, football and even golf when played in an organized, professional facility, according to Koppelkam. Every game is always overseen by referees making sure the game is played safely.

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There are two main types of paintball often found at many of these parks: woodsball and speedball. Woodsball is any sort of game involving large man-made structures to represent a natural combat zone, using anything from old makeshift buildings to wood, tires, hoses and other props players can hide in or behind.

Speedball, which is primarily used for competitive tournaments but is also available recreationally at some local parks, is played on a much flatter and softer course using artificial blow-up bunkers.

Fiore said close to 90 percent of his players are either first-time or relatively new to the game, and most have to be talked into trying speedball for the first time before 14 they end up finding they enjoy it.

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Almost all of the parks in the state offer a specialized type of play called low-impact paintball, commonly played by both kids and adults.

The guns used in low-impact paintball are as little as half the weight of normal markers, and the speed with which they are shot is significantly reduced as well, thus minimizing the effect you would feel from getting hit, according to Alex Koppelkam of AG Paintball in Weare.

“The biggest difference is weight,” he said. “Because it’s a smaller tank of paint [in the gun], it doesn’t need as much air to fire.”

Brenten “Cowboy” Cupp of CS Paintball in Allenstown said that a player’s safety is always improved dramatically as long as they keep their mask on — even if they have been eliminated from a game and have not yet exited the playing field.

“I would describe getting hit by a paintball as a bee sting that goes away in about 10 seconds,” he said. “There definitely are some places on the body where it may hurt a little more than others, especially the more sensitive regions … but your face is always the most vulnerable.”

Koppelkam added that low-impact paintball is especially great for beginner players to get their feet wet in the sport.

“A great majority of our players are first, second-time or rental type players,” he said. “Most people might see someone wear a lot of camouflage clothing or something, and they don’t realize like hey, that guy just played for the first time last weekend. He’s just as new as you are, but he just happens to not look the part.”

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Paintball fields across the state come in varying sizes and layouts, with dozens of different gameplay options available.

Local park owners say it’s easy to try; in fact, new and first-time players are the bread and butter of most of their business.

All of them offer several standard rental packages for guns — which are usually called “markers” — paintballs and required safety masks. Some even have their own onsite pro shops for players to enhance their equipment. Most do allow you to bring your own equipment, as long as it meets that park’s safety standards, but prohibit the use of outside paintballs.

“Paintballs are typically stored between 50 and 80 degrees and if you’re not storing it correctly, it will usually deform and shoot poorly … and could potentially get harder, so [getting hit] may hurt more,” said Tony Fiore, owner of Merrimack Valley Paintball in Candia. “So we don’t allow outside paintballs, because we don’t know the manufacturer, we don’t know how old the paint is, that sort of thing.”

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13 “One of the things that’s interesting about speedball is that a lot of our players who come … have already decided that they are going to like woodsball better, but once they try speedball, they end up wanting to do it again,” he said. “The reason is that [a speedball field] is much easier on your body than playing in the woods. There are no hills to navigate, there are no rocks or stumps or anything to worry about, it’s nice and flat. … A lot of times there’s this perception that a bigger field is better too, and that’s not always the case, because it could get a little out of control sometimes.”

But woodsball has advantages of its own. At OSG Paintball in Center Barnstead, the largest paintball park in the Granite State, each of the 12 playing fields has its own theme. You could be playing on a Star Wars-themed field with seven

elevated platforms and an authentic twostory AT-ST walker replica to shoot out of.

Or you can be playing in the Pirate Cove, which contains a full-sized pirate ship replica, six boats and a lighthouse, and the Empire Castle, a 25,000-square-foot castle field with five stairways, six entrances and an underground passageway. And the fastpaced games often allow you to experience several different fields in one day.

Sometimes costumes will be provided to add to the games, like Peter Griffin from Family Guy versus Homer Simpson from The Simpsons, or even characters from Call of Duty, Revenge of the Nerds, The Goonies and other iconic pop culture figures.

“We tend to get very creative [with the games],” OSG Paintball owner Dave Preston said. “I actually have a back- 16

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Most people play paintball for fun, but there are also leagues and tournaments players can be a part of, playing games in teams and competing for different prizes, depending on the division.

Adam Zippin is a captain of the New England Crusade, a competitive paintball team that meets every Sunday at AG Paintball in Weare to run drills and practices and to mentor new and upcoming players. On Sunday, July 23, members of the New England Crusade and also of the New England X-Ball League will participate in AG’s next three-man tournament, offering professional insight and playing strategies. The cost to register is $95 per person or a $100 entry per team and registration is available through July 21.

“X-Ball is a competitive format of paintball with a field that standardizes the length and width [of the game] … kind of like a football field,” Zippin said. “The three man series events are more for beginners to grab a couple of friends and put together a tournament.”

The New England Crusade is a Division 3 paintball team, which is one of more than

five divisions that are ranked, according to Zippin.

“A lot is based on experience of the players, and that tends to be the way the divisions sort themselves out,” he said. “It starts at professional, and then under that is Division 2, then 3, 4, 5 and 6, which is kind of like the entrylevel division. … Each series has five events that are dispersed throughout the year.”

Games are played on speedball fields, with prizes as much as $1,000 or more, depending on the divisions of teams involved.

“In the most raw sense of it, you’ll have five guys on each team play, but the amount of time you’re playing will vary,” Zippin said. “Typically the higher the division, the longer the games will be.”

Organized paintball teams, according to Zippin, have a larger presence in southern New England states like Massachusetts and Connecticut. But he added that three-man tournament events like the one on July 23 are great opportunities for players to learn about the competitive side of the sport.

“Some people just like to play for fun, but others really thrive on something to compete for,” he said.

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• AG Paintball (158 Deering Center Road, Weare, 529-3524, agpaintball.com) opened in 1988 and today is one of the longest-running paintball parks in the Granite State. The park encompasses 30 acres with nine woodsball fields and one speedball field, and also offers an onsite pro shop with guns, masks and other accessories for sale. Walk-ins are accepted every Saturday and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Wednesdays during the summer. Reservations for private games and parties can be made seven days a week. Rates range from $25 to $78 per person and include rental equipment and pricing for paintballs. You can bring your own equipment but paintballs must be purchased onsite. Additional paintballs can be bought, with prices ranging from $20 for 500 to $300 for 10,000.

• BOLP Paintball (114 Mast Road, Lee, 765-9852, bolppaintball.com) is a 5-acre park with three woodsball fields and one speedball field. Open play is offered on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for both speedball and woodsball, on Monday from 5 to 9 p.m. for speedball only, and on Fridays from 5 to 9 p.m. for woodsball only.

In addition, reservations for private parties are accepted Monday through Friday, 5 to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Registration ranges from $5 to $15 depending on the day of the week. Rental equipment is $10 and includes a gun, a safety mask and CO2 pod packs. Paintballs range from $15 to $45 depending on the quality, but bringing your own equipment and paint is permitted.

• Laconia Paintball (492 Endicott St. North Laconia, 366-0999, laconiapaintball. com) opened in 2015 and has three different woodsball fields, each encompassing a couple of acres, with the biggest one spanning about four. It’s open from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day except Wednesday for both walk-ins and private parties and often accommodates both together. Rates range

from $45 to $75 and include a gun, a safety mask, and between 300 and 2,000 paintballs. Additional paintballs and gear can also be purchased, ranging from $5 to $70 for paintballs and from $2 to $15, depending on the type of extra gear, which may include gloves or an upgraded gun. Bringing your own outside paint is not allowed.

• Merrimack Valley Paintball (274 Old Candia Road, Candia, 370-7459, mvppaintball.net) opened in 2014 as an 11-acre park with three woodsball fields and one speedball field. Walk-ins are available on Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Fridays from 4 to 8 p.m. for speedball only. Private reservations for birthday parties, bachelor parties, corporate events and more can be made seven days a week by calling in advance, with a minimum of eight players per game. Rental packages range from $45 to $70 and include a gun, an air tank, a safety mask and between 500 and 2,000 paintballs. You may bring your own equipment, but bringing outside paint is not allowed.

• OSG Paintball (1053 N. Barnstead Road, Center Barnstead, 1-800-707-7529, osgpaintball.com) is the largest paintball park in the Granite State, at 44 acres and 12 playing fields. Every field is themed, including Star Wars, Pirate Cove, Empire Castle, Hamburger Hill and more, and games can also have themes of their own, like Westerns, Call of Duty, The Simpsons, Family Guy and The Goonies. Walk-ins are available every Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and private games can be reserved seven days a week for a minimum of 10 participants. Rates range from $15 to $35, depending on whether it’s a half day or full day of play, and rental packages include a gun, a safety mask and 100 paintballs. Additional paintballs can be purchased for between $5 for 100 and $70 for 2,000. Bringing your own paint is not allowed.

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14 ground in theater, so that helps to bring a lot of drama and action to the game. … It’s a wonderful sport and we’re always looking to push the boundaries.”

A standard elimination game, in which members of two teams attempt to hit the other until there is one remaining player, is actually one of potentially dozens of ways to play the game of paintball, according to Koppelkam.

“We certainly do a total elimination game … but then we will do Capture the Flag in different types,” he said. “So whether that would be a flag in the center [of the field] and both teams are trying to grab it and take it back to their base … or maybe the flag is hidden in a castle or something like that, where one team is attacking and one team is defending. We’ll also do flag football, where each team starts with a flag and they have to get it to the other team’s base. … And then we’ve done like a D-Day field scenario where you’re attacking the other

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team up a hill, and if you get shot at, you have to go back to your starting point at the bottom, so that can be a lot of fun.”

Popular games at Merrimack Valley Paintball, according to Fiore, include “Protect the President,” in which teams must move one designated member of their team from one base on one side of the field to the other without getting hit, and “Move It Or Lose It,” in which players only have a limited amount of time to remain at their bunker or post before everybody must move to a different one.

Koppelkam said the games are much more fast-paced than most first-time players might think; they may last anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes or more than 20, depending on the number of players involved and the type of game.

“You wouldn’t play on one field all day,” he said. “You’ll rotate around all the different fields … so, you might come to one field, play one game there, then head back to the staging area and then to a different field, so it’s kind of a rotating thing.”

Most paintball parks in the state are popular venues to host all kinds of group events, like birthday parties, bachelor parties, corporate gatherings, military personnel team-building exercises and much more, often integrating creative games to match the occasion the park is serving.

But even if you come to a park during its open play hours and are not a part of a large enough group to form your own team, you will still fit right in.

“The biggest misconception about paintball is not understanding what a great bonding and teamwork [building] type of sport that it is,” Preston said. “When you put, say, five to 10 people together who don’t know each other, it’s amazing to see how they start to work together instantly.”

Fiore said he has observed over time how much of a bonding experience it can also be between parents and children,

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whether it’s mothers and fathers or sons and daughters.

“Typically for most mainstream sports, you know, the parents are watching from the sidelines, and the kids have their own friends, so it’s always separating in that way,” he said, “so that’s why [paintball] can be a good family sport.”

DIY paintball

Several department and sporting goods stores like Dick’s, Modell’s and even WalMart sell the necessary equipment and tools to create a makeshift paintball field in your own backyard, as long as you are not playing on state-owned or someone else’s private property, according to local players and park owners. Onsite pro shops are also available at several parks.

One of the newest stores is CS Paintball in Allenstown, which opened last February as the only retail shop in the Granite State devoted solely to the sport and independent of any park. The store carries more than 140 worldwide brands of paintball markers, masks, paints, equipment and more for both new and experienced players.

Epsom firefighter Brenten “Cowboy” Cupp, a seasoned paintball player of 18 years that included three years on a professional team from 2007 to 2009, said he opened the Allenstown store to operate seven days a week at a location within convenient driving distance of all of the state’s paintball parks. The business also offers a repair service for all of its products.

“The most important thing to have in a game of paintball … is a mask,” Cupp said. “You only get one set of eyes, so you must make sure the mask is comfortable on your face. … The more breathability you have for the mask the better, because you don’t want it fogging up. … So, the better ones have a lot of ventilation.”

Cupp said that beyond the mask, “about 95 percent” of the sport is based on a

player’s own personal preference. Other equipment you can add includes chest protectors, elbow pads and knee pads.

Nate Miner, owner of BOLP Paintball in Lee, said backyard paintball players benefit greatly from using a chronograph, a device used to measure how fast paintballs are shot.

“Most guns can easily shoot over 350 to 360 feet per second … but we usually keep ours around or below 270, and that’s a pretty safe speed,” he said.

Paintballs are designed to wash out of clothing, but Fiore said he still recommends wearing clothes you wouldn’t mind getting dirty, and to cover as much exposed skin as possible without getting too hot.

“Even if you don’t get hit by paint, you still might get dirt and mud into the knees of your pants or socks, depending on where you’re playing, and you’re probably going to get all sweaty if you do any crawling or running or anything like that,” he said.

For paintballs, Cupp said they are best used when stored properly and rotated in stock. Paintballs are biodegradable and are usually made out of non-toxic materials like corn starch, gelatin and food coloring.

“The average life expectancy for the paint is about six months,” he said, “and it’s important to make sure it’s fresh and not sitting around for longer than that.”

Depending on the layout of your property, if it includes woods or fencing or even other private homes nearby, Fiore said having netting set up is also an important thing if you are starting your own backyard paintball game.

“There’s a lot to it,” he said. “You need to ask yourself, is there netting, and if not, then you have to tape off an area and it has to be a distance away from your neighbor’s property so you don’t have to worry about missing a shot and having it go into somebody else’s yard or hitting somebody’s car.”

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Acoustic-folk group The Stray Birds perform at the Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar (35 Railroad Square, Nashua) at 8 p.m. Their 2016 album Magic Fire was produced by Grammy Award-winner Larry Campbell and was released to critical acclaim for its songwriting and folk harmonies. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door.

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NHTI (31 College Drive, Concord) will hold its summer open house from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in its Student Center. Visitors will get a chance to tour the campus, learn about the more than 90 academic programs that are available, and meet with current and former students, and representatives from admissions and financial aid.

Admission is free. If you can’t make the open house, NHTI also holds “Drop-In Tuesdays” weekly from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Visit nhti.edu or call 230-4011.

Wednesday, July 26 Sunday, July 23

Grab your best Hawaiian attire for the 14th annual Hula Hustle, which kicks off at the Executive Health & Sports Center (1 Highlander Way, Manchester) at 9 a.m. The 5K and 10K races will be followed by a post-race luau at the Center, featuring a tiki bar, food, music and more. Registration is $30 for the 5K and $35 for the 10K. Visit hulahustle.org or call 668-1877.

EAT: a farm-to-table dinner Join Elevage De Volailles (1155 Route 129, Loudon) on Sunday, July 23, from 4 to 8:30 p.m. for a farmer’s dinner featuring seven highly acclaimed chefs who will prepare meals over an open fire. The cost is $95. Visit thefarmersdinner.com.

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Thursday, July 20

Tuesday, July 25

Author Pamela Rotner Sakamoto will visit Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) at 5:30 p.m. to present her book Midnight in Broad Daylight: A JapaneseAmerican Family Caught Between Two Worlds, which tells the true story of the experiences of the Fukuhara family in the era of Pearl Harbor and World War II. Admission is free. Visit gibsonsbookstore. com or call 224-0562.

DRINK: blended wine Join IncrediBREW (112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua) for its Christmas in July Wine Split-a-Batch on Thursday, July 20, at 6 p.m., a wine-mixing event that will offer opportunities to blend several types of wines, including Australian chardonnay, Spanish tempranillo and more. Participants will get to have their own custom-made labels as well.

The cost is $60 per six bottles and no prior wine-making experience is necessary. Visit incredibrew.com or call 891-2477.

Join the Derry Public Library for the first of two birdwatching programs featuring amateur naturalist T.J. Cullinane at 6:30 p.m. He will share his observations regarding different types of songbirds found in the state, most commonly the chickadee and the titmouse. Part 2 of the series is on Aug. 16 at 6:30 p.m. and will cover predatory birds like hawks and owls.

Admission to both programs is free. Visit derrypl.org or call 432-6140 for more details.

BE MERRY: at a Summer Bash The Manchester Motorcycle Club will hold its annual Summer Bash at Auburn Pitts (167 Rockingham Road, Auburn) on Saturday, July 22, at 1 p.m., featuring a barbecue, live music, raffles, games and more. Tickets are $15 per person and free for kids under 12.

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Learn about impressionism through Monet paintings at the Currier

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The latest Currier Museum of Art show features a quick art history lesson on impressionism, illustrated by the guy who started it all.

“Monet: Pathways to Impressionism,” on view July 1 through Nov. 13, showcases the museum’s own “The Bridge at Bougival” (1869), plus three other major paintings by Claude Monet borrowed from the Kimball Art Museum in Texas and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: “La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide” (1865), “Cap Martin” (1884) and “Charing Cross Bridge” (1900). In another room are American paintings from the Currier’s collection inspired by Monet.

Monet inadvertently created the term with his 1874 painting, “Impressionism, Sunrise,” which critics attacked at the time because it seemed hazy and without form and structure. Monet insisted that’s what he was going for; it was his “impression” of that “Monet: Pathways to Impressionism” Where: Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester When: On view July 1 through Nov. 13 Admission: $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $10 for students, $5 for youth ages 13 to 17, free for children younger than 13 Contact: 669-6144, currier.org Related events Both are free with museum admission.

• Storytime in the Gallery Monday, July 24, at 11:30 a.m., reading of Philippe in Monet’s Garden by Lisa Jobe Carmack, followed by craft where listeners can create their own garden inspired by a work of art, for ages 2 to 5 • Focus Tour of “Monet: Pathways to Impressionism” Saturday, Aug. 26, at 11:30 a.m., led by a museum docent educator

“Cap Martin, near Menton,” 1884, Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

particular place. He and other artists of the period adapted the term for their movement.

“At the time, you [had] realism, and this is a direct response against realism,” said curator Kurt Sundstrom during a gallery walk-through. “People change so slowly.

It’s like when Picasso [introduced] cubism.

People said, ‘What the heck is that?’ It’s just too much of a change.”

The 19th-century movement is characterized by small but visible brush strokes, unusual visual angles and emphasis on accurate depiction of light, all of which help shape the artist’s perception. Each of the paintings on view in the show represents a period in the artist’s career and his movement toward this style.

The oldest, “La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide,” was Monet’s first in the Salon, an important Parisian art exhibition. It depicts

a rocky, coastal scene on a cloudy day.

Monet was just 24 when he painted it.

“This caused a sensation,” Sundstrom said. “It’s still realist in the same way that you paint what you see.

But what he did is he came out to this beach, sketched … and then took the sketches back to his studio, put the best elements together and constructed a scene.”

Monet painted the museum’s own “The Bridge at Bougival” four years before he painted with full-blown impressionist style,

but you can see him moving toward that idea. Rough brush strokes suggest rippling water, and a dash becomes a chimney in this picturesque village scene.

“The teeny, tiny definitions done up, characteristic of realism, are gone,” Sundstrom said. “It was about capturing the moment. He’s using his artistic license to move things around. You can see his brush strokes are getting heavy and thick here to capture that sense of reflection of light. But what he’s also doing is using it as a way to suggest depth into space.”

In the last two images, buildings and figures disappear. “Cap Martin,” another seashore scene, contains swirling trees, suggesting a seabreeze, and “Charing Cross Bridge” depicts a London train scene on a smoggy, foggy day.

“You don’t see the trains at all, but you see the smoke coming off and the light passing through that smoke and turning purple,” Sundstrom said. “It’s not just impressionism.

He’s trying to capture an emotional response.”

It wasn’t easy getting all these Monet paintings in place, but Sundstrom hopes the result helps better tell the story of impressionism and why the museum’s piece is so significant.

“People don’t want to lend out their Monets,” Sundstrom said. “We only have one here, and it’s a really important Monet because it’s transitional.

Ours [was painted] four years before the term ‘impressionism’ was coined.

KURT SUNDSTROM And at the same time, our Monet is probably one that bridges the gap more clearly than any other Monet, from his early realist style to fullblown impressionism.”

At the time, you [had] realism, and this is a direct response against realism.

Twilight at the Currier: Summer Block Party The inaugural Summer Block Party is at the Currier Museum of Art Saturday, July 22, from 5 to 9 p.m. Admission is free.

There will be photo booths, live music, henna tattoo artists, a live band and local art organizations sharing their art. Dimensions in Dance performs a piece inspired by the Currier’s outdoor Mark di Suvero sculpture, and Positive Street Art conducts a community mural project visitors are welcome to participate in and organizes a live art competition (four artists create art within 90 minutes). In addition, there will be HIPPO | JULY 20 - 26, 2017 | PAGE 20

food trucks, a beer and wine tent, chalk art, a performance by Dream City Dance in Vermont, plus a puppet performance courtesy of Art Center students. “We really want people to come to the event and see everything the Currier has to offer, for its wonderful art collection and exhibitions, and as a fun place to come to,” said Lynn Thomson, who’s organizing the event. “The last couple of years [we’ve been] reaching out more to the community and making sure people are aware of us being here. … We see this as another step in that direction.”

Dimensions in Dance performs at the Summer Block Party. Courtesy photo.

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• Caldecott winner in Warner: The Tory Hill Authors Series continues its eighth season at the Warner Town Hall, 5 E. Main St., Warner, this Saturday, July 22, at 7 p.m. Featured is Vermont woodcut artist Mary Azarian, who began making woodcut prints in 1968 in a small room of her home with the goal of depicting the landscape surrounding her hillside farm. She’s since illustrated more than 50 books, including Snowflake Bentley, which won the 1999 Caldecott Award for best illustrated picture book of the year. The event is the second of four presentations hosted by the Warner Historical Society. Admission is $10. Visit toryhillauthorsseries.com.

• Pop-up in the park: You might see some interesting additions to the Prescott Park landscape if you’re around Portsmouth this weekend. New Hampshire Art Association member Liz Sibley Fletcher brings a selection of her stoneware clay sculptures to the park this Saturday, July 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. near the Sheafe Warehouse.

Fletcher has been creating sculptures in the woods of her Mason home for more than 40 years, plus more functional work through the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen.

These ones she calls “Strange Beasts.” Visit nhartassociation.org.

• Arts Lab in motion: The New Hampshire Institute of Art received a $75,000 grant from Boston-based Jane’s Trust to

Art Events • MANCHESTER TROLLEY NIGHT Queen City cultural institutions open their doors, two trolleys take participation to and from each destination. Thurs., July 20, 5-8 p.m. Manchester, NH Manchester., Visit manchestertrolley.com.

• TWILIGHT AT THE CURRIER Summer block party focusing on family-friendly activities, including art-making, art battle with Positive Street Art, food trucks, live music, beer and wine tent, etc. Sat., July 22, 5-9 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

Indoor and outdoor activities.

Free admission for all. Food and drink available for purchase.

Visit currier.org.

• STUDIO GALLERY OPEN HOUSE Sat., July 22, noon-4 p.m.; Sun., July 23, noon-4 p.m.

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• PROJECT GREENWAY

Snoflake Bentley by Mary Azarian.

bolster the school’s new Youth Arts Lab, which will assist the school in completing the $750,000 renovation of the former St. Anne’s church located in downtown Manchester. The goal is for the Youth Arts Lab to be completed this summer and fully operational by the fall. It will allow the NHIA to offer middle school and high school students throughout Greater Manchester access to instruction year-round, including afterschool programming in art, design and writing, plus a diverse array of one- and two-week summer arts day camps. “Today, we believe more passionately than ever that the college’s mission — ‘to educate, engage, and empower through the arts’ — calls on us to actively connect with our community to create a more vibrant, creative, and economically sustainable Manchester,” Kent Devereaux, president of NHIA, said in a press release. “We are extremely pleased and grateful that Jane’s Trust has joined with us to help make this vision a reality.” Visit nhia. edu/youtharts. — Kelly Sennott

DESIGN CONTEST & FASHION SHOW Using recycled and/or repurposed materials.

Anyone can enter by July 24.

Wed., July 26, at 7 p.m. The Little Church Theatre, Route 113, Holderness. $30 for reserved seat, $10 general admission. Call 968-2250. Email littlechurchtheater.com.

• MEREDITH ARTS WALK Musicians from the NH Music Festival occur within the park, which are decorated with art courtesy of the Meredith Sculpture Walk. Fri., Aug. 4, 9:3010:30 a.m. Hesky and Scenic Parks, Meredith. Visit greatermeredithprogram.com. Call 279-9015.

• MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE Studio 550 releases 100 little clay monsters in downtown Manchester. Find a monster and get entered into contest to win workshops, classes or pottery by showing monster at Studio 550, plus artful and edible chocolate coin at Dancing Lion Choco-

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Openings • “FRIENDS OF THE ARTS” Curated by Jetpack Comics.

Opening reception Thurs., July 20, 5-7 p.m. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. Visit rochesteroperahouse. com.

• “FROM DINERS TO DETECTIVES: AMERICAN ANTIQUE & VINTAGE SIGNS” Exhibit. On view July 8 through Sept. 30. Reception Sun., July 30, 1-3 p.m. NH Antique Coop, 323 Elm St., Milford. Visit nhantiquecoop. com. Call 673-8499.

• “CONTEMPORARY ART QUILTS” Juried exhibition.

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“Adversity” is the theme for the Andy’s Summer Playhouse 2017 season, played out in all summer programming including The Amazing Adventures of Arianna Astronaut, which tours New Hampshire July 27 through Aug. 14.

Written and directed by Wyckham Avery, the new piece is about a girl with autism named Arianna who loves the stars, Neal deGrasse Tyson and astronauts. Whenever she wants to escape her noisy city or crazy classroom, filled with voices and colors, she pops on her space helmet and “travels” to different planets. Inspiration stemmed from Avery’s day job working as a paraprofessional in D.C. with kids who have learning or developmental disabilities.

“At Andy’s, we have kids that are not neurotypical. They still really enjoy and get a lot out of being at Andy’s, and I think kids that are neurotypical gain a lot from working with people who are different from themselves,” Avery said via phone. “My idea was to give neurotypical kids a chance to … kind of try to experience a little bit of what their world is like, and why they might have particular behaviors, and for someone on the spectrum to see themselves represented onstage.”

Avery devoured anything and everything she could on the topic while she wrote, including Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism by Ron Suskind and Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine. She also put out social media calls to other educator friends requesting material.

“I didn’t want to misrepresent anything but share some of the insight I’ve [learned] by The Amazing Adventures of Arianna Astronaut

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Nashua Public Library: 2 Court St., Nashua, Thursday, July 27, at 2 p.m.

Cedarcrest Center for Children with Disabilities: 91 Maple Ave., Keene, Tuesday, Aug. 1, at 1:30 p.m.

Crotched Mountain: 615 Francestown Road, Bennington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, at 1:30 p.m.

Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church: 25 Main St., Peterborough, Friday, Aug. 4, time TBD Milford Town Hall: 1 Union Square, Milford, Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 11:30 a.m.

Temple Town Hall: 423 Route 45, Temple, Saturday, Aug. 12, time TBD Cathedral of the Pines: 10 Hale Hill Road, Rindge, Sunday, Aug. 13, at 5 p.m.

Andy’s Summer Playhouse: 582 Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton, Monday, Aug. 14, at 5 p.m.

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working with these students,” Avery said.

Seven kids ages 9 to 14 bring The Amazing Adventures of Arianna Astronaut to life with the help of a two-foot handmade puppet, space jumpsuits courtesy of costume designer Ivania Stack and lots of props by visual artist Heather Stockwell. Because the kids are touring the play, there are no fancy lights or special effects, which also means it’s sensory-friendly for all viewers — i.e., free of loud sounds and lights that might bother viewers on the spectrum.

“It’s a very audience-participatory show … and we’ll be in some really unconventional touring spaces, like town halls, nursing homes and libraries. We’re working on how to transform these spaces with just our bodies, voices and a few props,” Avery said. “It’s intense. Their arms get tired. Their brains get tired because they’re trying to remember lines and move the puppet at the same time. … But they always rise to the occasion.”

Avery said 60 to 80 kids typically visit Wilton every year to take part in Andy’s programming, either for original plays tackling tough subjects or workshops on playwriting, directing or filmmaking. Other mainstage productions this summer include George/ Melissa, So Far July 20 through July 29, written by Alex Gino, adapted by Jess Barbagallo and directed by Brooke O’Harra, about a transgender kid afraid to audition for a school play, and Posted!, with a book

by Owen O’Reilly, music by Duncan Pelletier and direction by Andy’s Artistic Director Jared Mezzocchi. That show spans Aug. 10 through Aug. 19 and is about bullying.

Mezzocchi said he and the board have planned themes for all seasons leading up to the company’s 50th anniversary in 2010.

“Identity” was the theme for 2016, “legacy” is for 2018, “rebellion” is for 2019 and “2020” (referring to vision) is for 2020. These themes

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are helpful in devising plays and workshops but also prompt important dialogue.

“I think these [themes] offer opportunities to have pretty sophisticated conversations with our children without an agenda,” said Mezzocchi, adding that there are also more workshops this summer than in years past.

“Some families have a hard time committing to four to five weeks of rehearsals. We’re trying to make it more available. Our constant mission is to make sure everybody in the community feels the door is open. …

And this gives us a chance to have more kids come through our doors.”

Mezzocchi, who just completed a residency at the MacDowell Colony working on a separate project, sees Andy’s as a mini-MacDowell for young and emerging artists in the field.

Last summer, he helped establish the Greenhouse Initiative, a short residency program that featured Orange Grove Dance this summer. This way, kids can learn and be inspired by working artists, but usually, these visitors are inspired by the Andy’s kids as well.

“The kids at Andy’s are sort of extraordi-

This week the Peterborough Players present Arsenic and Old Lace. Courtesy photo.

22, at 2 p.m., and Thursday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $16.50. Visit hatboxnh.com.

• Starz in the summer: The Manchester Community Music School hosts a Mid-Summer Starz Free Concert Wednesday, July 26, at 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) at the school, 2291 Elm St., Manchester. The event will feature Boston artist Chad LaMarsh, the MCMS Summer Band and Chamber Ensembles, plus festive food, libations and a reverse raffle with a $2,500 grand prize. Only 100 tickets will be sold and every fifth ticket drawn will receive $100 in cash or a prize valued at $100. For more information, call 644-4548 or visit mcmusicschool.org.

• City support: Concord’s city councilors have agreed to write a letter of support for the Concord Theatre, a theater restoration project proposed by developer Steve Duprey and the Capitol Center for the Arts. The city’s support will help the multi-million dollar project a great deal, bettering the chance that it qualifies for tax credits, grants and other funding, such as the state’s Land and Community Heritage Investment Program. Duprey said in a Concord Monitor story he hopes to have money in place next summer to begin construction later that fall. — Kelly Sennott

nary. We tackle some big issues with them, especially this season. They’re very empathetic and very thoughtful,” Avery said.

Andy’s Summer Playhouse 2017 season Where: Andy’s Summer Playhouse, 582 Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton Contact: 654-2613, andyssummerplayhouse.org Admission: $16 for adults, $8 for kids 18 and younger George/Melissa, So Far: Thursday, July 20, Friday, July 21, and Saturday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 23, at 2 p.m.; Wednesday, July 26, at 2 p.m.; Thursday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, July 29, at 5 p.m.

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• Poisonous play: The Peterborough Players Theatre presents Arsenic and Old Lace July 19 through July 30 at the theater, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. The play, written by Joseph Kesselring, follows spinster sisters Abby and Martha Brewster, who are devoted to charity and family but have taken on another project, which involves befriending lonely older gentlemen and offering tastings of their homemade elderberry wine. Cast members include Joyce Cohen, Dale Hodges, Tom Frey and Kraig Swartz, plus direction by Charles Morgan. Performances are Wednesdays through Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m., plus an additional matinee performance on Tuesday, July 25, at 2 p.m. There’s a talkback with the cast following the first Friday and Sunday performances, plus a cabaret following Saturday performances. Tickets are $39. Visit peterboroughplayers. org or call 924-7585.

• Miss the circus? Though Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed its last official show in New Hampshire last fall, you can get a taste of that world in an upcoming production of Barnum (music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Michael Stewart, book by Mark Bramble) at the Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord, July 21 through July 30. The play is a portrait of the 19th century’s “Greatest Show on Earth.” Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., plus special performances on Saturday, July

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Theater Productions • ANNIE Leddy Center production. July 7-July 23. Leddy Center for the Performing Arts, 38c Ladd’s Lane, Epping. $20. Visit leddycenter.org.

• THE WIZARD OF OZ Palace Summer Children’s Series.

Thurs., July 20, at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets $9. Visit palacetheatre.org or call 668-5588.

• PORTSMOUTH UNDERBELLY TOUR Join accused spy Silas Deane and tavern wench Olive Madbury as they take attendees on a tour through history and tell the stories the city would like to forget. Every Monday and Saturday at 6 p.m., July 1. Starts at the corner of State and Pleasant St. The Rusty Hammer, 49 Pleasant St., Portsmouth. $15.

Call 978-683-7745.

• SPAMALOT Seacoast Repertory Theatre production. June 23-July 30. Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth. $20-$50. Visit seacoastrep.org.

• [TITLE OF SHOW] Production by Hunter Bell. About two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical. July 20-23. Little Church Theater, 40 Route 113, Holderness. $20-$30.

• ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY Performed by Peterborough Players Second Company. June 24-July 22. Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Peterborough Players Theatre, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. $10. Visit peterboroughplayers.org. Call 924-7585.

• GEORGE/MELISSA, SO FAR Andy’s Summer Playhouse production. July 19-July 29. 582 Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton.

Visit andyssummerplayhouse. org. Call 654-2613. Tickets $16.

• A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Nashua Theatre Guild production. Sat., July 22; Sun., July 23; Sat., July 29; and Sun., July 30, at 2 p.m. Greeley Park, 100 Concord St., Nashua. Free.

• SISTER ACT Kids Coop Theatre production. Fri., July 21, at 7 p.m.; Sat., July 22, at 1 and 7 p.m.; Derry Opera House, 29 W.

Broadway, Derry. Tickets $16.

Visit kids-coop-theatre.org.

• ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Peterborough Players production.

Wed., July 19, through Sun., July 30. Peterborough Players Theater, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. Tickets $39. Call 924-7585 or visit peterboroughplayers.org.

• BARNUM Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Fri., July 21, through Sun., July 30. Showtimes Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

Tickets $16.50. Visit hatboxnh. com.

• JUNIOR’S SPORTING A MOHAWK Smirking Heron Productions. Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. July 21 through July 30. Fridays and Saturdays at 10 p.m., Sundays at 9 p.m. Tickets $12. Visit playersring.org.

• THE GHOST TRAIN Barnstormers Theatre production. On view July 13-22. Barnstormers Theatre, 104 Main St., Tamworth. $13.50-$36.50. Call 986-7827 or visit barnstormerstheatre.org.

• MARY POPPINS Prescott Park production. June 23-Aug. 20. Thursdays through Sundays.

Prescott Park, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. Suggested donation.

Visit prescottpark.org.

• THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES July 19-July 29. Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 50 Reservoir Road, Meredith. $20-$34. Call 279-0333 or visit winnipesaukeeplayhouse.org.

• A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Nashua Theatre Guild production. Sat., July 22; Sun., July 23; Sat., July 29; and Sun., July 30, at 2 p.m. Greeley Park, 100 Concord St., Nashua. Free.

• CINDERELLA Palace Theatre Children’s Summer Series. 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tues., July 25; Wed., July 26; Thurs., July 27, at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. $9. Call 668-5588 or visit palacetheatre.org.

• SNOW WHITE Impact Children’s Theatre. Tues., July 25, at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. Tickets $7.50. Call 225-1111 or visit ccanh.com.

• JUDY PANCOAST & THE JUDY CREW Wed., July 26, at 10 a.m. The Majestic Studios,

880 Page St., Manchester. $6.

Visit majestictheatre.net.

• MY THREE ANGELS Barnstormers Theatre production. July 27-Aug. 5. Barnstormers Theatre, 104 Main St., Tamworth. $13.50$36.50. Visit barnstormerstheatre.org. Call 986-7827.

• WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT Award-winning play by Nassim Soleimanpour. Different actor reads the script cold for the first time at each performance. July 27-29 at 7:30 p.m.

Little Church Theater, 40 Route 113, Holderness. $30. Visit littlechurchtheater.com or call 9682250.

• THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES Windham Actors’ Guild youth production. Fri., July 28, at 7 p.m.; Sat., July 29, at 2 and 7 p.m.; Sun., July 30, at 7 p.m.

Visit windhamactorsguild.com.

• SISTER ACT Franklin Footlight Theatre. Fri., July 28, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., July 29, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 30, at 7:30 p.m.; Thurs., Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m. Franklin Opera House, 316 Central St., Franklin. $14-$16. Call 934-1901. Visit franklinoperahouse.org.

Classical Music Events • HOPKINTON TOWN BAND Every Wednesday, 7 p.m., June 21-Aug. 9, rain or shine, Jane Lewellen Band Stand, Contoocook.

• STEEL DRUM ORCHESTRA Part of outdoor concert series.

Performance by Branches Steel Orchestra. Thurs., July 20, at 7 p.m.

Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Visit nashualibrary.org.

• SYMPHONY NH SEXTET Symphony NH Chamber Players concert, part of Bach’s Lunch Concert series. Wed., July 26, at noon. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua.

• MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL MIDSUMMER STARZ Wed., July 26, at 6:30 p.m., at the Manchester Community Music School, 2291 Elm St., Manchester. The variety show features summer band, chamber groups and a special guest. Free. Raffles, food and drinks. Visit mcmusicschool.org or call 644-4548.

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Spinster sisters Abby and Martha Brewster are devoted to charity and family. But they have taken on another project as well - befriending lonely older gentlemen and offering an unusual form of “hospitality” involving their special homemade elderberry wine. Their nephew Mortimer, paying them a visit on the eve of his engagement, finds himself in the midst of mayhem as he tries to keep his aunt’s endeavors at bay. A classic comedy that has delighted audiences for decades.

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The Stratham Fair, one of the oldest and largest country fairs in New England, is returning for a landmark anniversary this year, adding two more stages of entertainment and more rides to the traditional favorites to make it bigger than ever before.

The fair, which has grown over the years to attract more than 20,000 people, will celebrate its 50th anniversary from Thursday, July 20, through Sunday, July 23, at Stratham Hill Park.

What started as a simple chicken barbecue and lobster bake to commemorate the town’s 250th anniversary in 1966 today includes 4-H agricultural exhibits, fireworks, live entertainment, food and more.

The families of the original fair founders even remain involved half a century later. Today, it remains a 50th annual Stratham Fair When: Thursday, July 20, through Sunday, July 23. Fairgrounds are open from 3 to 10 p.m. on Thursday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

Where: Stratham Hill Park, 270 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham Cost: $10 for adults, $5 for kids ages 6 to 12 and seniors 65 and up, free for kids under 6 Visit: strathamfair.com Dogs are not allowed on the fairgrounds unless they are service dogs.

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major fundraiser for the Stratham Volunteer Fire Department and other local community organizations.

“One of the biggest things that we are doing to change it up a bit for the 50th is that we’re going to start with the fireworks on Thursday night,” said Vicky Poland, the fair’s entertainment coordinator.

“We usually wait until the very end to do the fireworks on Sunday, but this year they will be a part of the opening ceremony.”

If you have attended the fair in the past, other notable changes you may notice this year will include an expanded Center Stage, with a full schedule of live performances that include New England-based rock, blues and country acts.

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“We have an unbelievably fun lineup this year on the Center Stage,” Poland said. “The Jimmy Lehoux Band will perform on Friday night, and on Saturday night we’ll also have a Heart tribute band called Crazy On You.” Other local acts to perform on the Center Stage will include the Portsmouth Music and Arts Funk Band on Thursday at 5:30 p.m., the Crab Shack Band at 7:30 p.m., 16-yearold Stratham resident and singer Lydia Barnes on Friday at 3 p.m., Granite Planet at 4:30 p.m., Sound Decision on Saturday at noon, and several others.

Poland said two new stages with full entertainment schedules of their own are being introduced to the

fair, including an acoustic-themed stage inside the fair’s common dining and beer tent. Kicking off the events at that stage on Thursday at 4 p.m. is the Mike Dunbar Duo. Dunbar is a Hampton native who has performed at the fair in the past with his rock band Black Agnes, she said.

“There’s also going to be a Family Fun Stage … dedicated to magic shows, storytelling and other kidand family-friendly activities,” Poland said.

Local favorites like magician B.J. Hickman and puppeteer Diane Kordas will be on the Family Fun Stage at various times throughout the days on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Dozens of local vendors are expected to set up shop for the duration of the fair, offering food, arts, crafts, home improvement products and more.

Many old favorites are returning to this year’s fair as well, like the 4-H exhibits, which include animal parades, shows and more, plus all of the midway carnival rides courtesy of Fiesta Shows. Kids can play in the pig scramble, in which they put their names in a lottery and get put in a pen with baby pigs. If they can catch a pig, they get to take it home.

“The 4-H part of the fair has a tremendous amount of things going on … like cow shows, dog shows and sheep shows,” Poland said. “It’s kind of the nucleus of what we do.”

Schedule of events Midway carnival rides: Thursday, 4 to 10 p.m., and Friday through Sunday, noon to 10 p.m.

Fair opening ceremony: Thursday, 6:30 to 7 p.m.

Fireworks: Thursday, 9:30 p.m.

4-H action exhibits: Thursday, 3 to 6 p.m., Friday, 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, noon to 3 p.m., Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.

Pie-eating contests: Friday and Saturday, 1:30 to 2 p.m.

to 2:30 p.m.

Lydia Barnes: Friday, 3 to 4 p.m.

Granite Planet: Friday, 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Jimmy Lehoux Band: Friday, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

The Groove Tones: Saturday, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Sound Decision: Saturday, noon to 1 p.m.

Anna Madsen Band: Saturday, 3 to 4 p.m.

Bad Prom Date: Saturday, 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Crazy On You (Heart tribute band): Saturday, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

The EXP Band: Sunday, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Center Stage schedule Exeter Musical Arts: Thursday, 4 to 5 p.m.

Mammoth Steppe: Sunday, noon to 1 p.m.

New Englanders Band: Sunday, 1:30 to 2:30 Portsmouth Music and Arts Funk Band: Thursday, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. p.m.

The Crab Shack Band: Thursday, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Dance Innovations: Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m.

Stray Dogs: Sunday, 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Felicia Berry: Friday, noon to 1 p.m.

Cedar Mountain Bluegrass Band: Friday, 1:30

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Beer Tent Stage schedule Mike Dunbar Duo: Thursday, 4 to 7 p.m.

Joel Glenn Wixson: Friday, noon to 2 p.m.

Tom Pirozzoli: Friday, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Muddy Ruckus: Friday, 5 to 7 p.m.

Kacie Grenon: Saturday, noon to 2 p.m.

Jerry Short: Saturday, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Nick and Sherry Pangaro: Saturday, 5 to 7 p.m.

Joel Cage: Sunday, noon to 2 p.m.

RC Thomas: Sunday, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Double Take: Sunday, 5 to 7 p.m.

Family Fun Stage schedule Magician BJ Hickman: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m., 2 and 5 p.m.

Puppeteer Diane Kordas: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 12:30 and 3:30 p.m.

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I want colorful flowers growing alongside my front walkway every day from May to November, and generally have them. I do so by growing annual flowers.

All plants have a strong need and desire to maintain their genetic lineage. Their “goal” in life is to pass on their DNA to a new generation. Perennial plants and trees can assume that if they don’t have any descendants this year, they can next year. So to get continual blooms from your annual flowers, all you have to do is pluck off the flower heads once they start to look bedraggled. That is known as “deadheading.” The flowers seem to ”know” that if the flowers are gone, so are the potential seeds, and they keep on blooming.

Here are some of my favorite annuals.

1. Pansies. These are my early bloomers.

I buy field grown pansies and plant them in the walkway or in a whiskey barrel in April or May for early color. By now they are lanky and fading, so I will either cut them back hard for fall blooms, or just yank them.

2. Senorita Rosalita cleome. This is a Proven Winner trademarked variety, so it cannot be purchased as seed or in six-packs. It is generally sold in 4-inch pots or larger and costs more than common annuals. Unlike ordinary cleome, ‘Senorita Rosalita’ stays short and compact, has no thorny protuberances on the stems, and does not have a strong noxious scent. And it blooms continuously all summer. It likes full sun and does well in hot, dry locations. ‘Senorita blanca’ is a similar white variety.

3. Gomphrena. I grow this each year, often starting plants from seed, though they need at least 12 weeks to get to the size needed to plant outside. Like all the plants on my walkway, these like plenty of direct sunshine. The flowers are cute little round balls of colormagenta, pink, white. The stems dry well, and I often keep their bright blossoms in a dry vase all winter. I hang them upside down until the stems are dry enough to support the flowers.

4. Brazilian verbena (Verbena bonariensis). This is one of my favorites, and adds height to the display. It has thin stems up to 5 feet tall, but rarely needs staking because the purple blossoms are quite small. If you cut it back as it grows, it will branch nicely, providing more blossoms. The blossoms keep on looking good even after light frost.

5. Licorice plant. This is a foliage plant with no flowers that I’ve ever seen. It stays low and branches nicely with silver-gray or yellow-green foliage. I mainly use it in my window box by the front door, but it also works in the ground. Cut stems are fabulous in a vase, too.

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6. Annual poppies. These are blooming for me right now in various colors: orange, purple, yellow (California poppy) and polka dots.

Some are doubles, meaning they have extra petals. Annual poppies are an exception to the rule that annuals keep on blooming all summer, but I don’t care. I love these beauties with their gray or silver foliage and delicate blossoms. Many annual poppies scatter their seeds and will start up next spring on their own.

7. Scaveola. This plant takes abuse, so I put it in my window box with licorice plant — where drying out is more of a problem than in the ground. It can look dead from dehydration, but a watering brings it right back. Its stems are generally 6 to 12 inches loaded with small purplish-blue flowers.

8. Verbena. This comes in purples, magenta, white, pink and more. It creates a cascading mass of bright flowers that bloom all summer.

9. Fabulous flowers. They come from short (Profusion series are under a foot tall) to tall (Benary’s Giant, 4 feet tall). Keep picking them for vases, and they will branch and produce more flowers. A wide variety of colors, including lime green. I plant these by seed in a bed in my vegetable garden, just scattering last year’s dried flowers over and raking them in.

10. Wild carrot. (Daucus carota Dara). One of my new favorites. This looks like Queen Anne’s lace, which is a biennial wild flower, but this is an annual that comes in a variety of colors — white, pink and burgundy. I bought some started plants and they are blooming nicely.

11. Salvias. There are hundreds of kinds of salvias, both annual and perennial. I grow annual salvias mainly for their vertical form (8 to 24 inches tall spikes) and their intense blue and purple. They also come in fire engine red (which I tend to avoid), white and bi-color. All are tough as nails in hot sun.

12. I planted this once, and it comes back by seed every year. Mine are bright yellow with light green leaves. I weed out many of them each spring, but love them.

I realize it’s hard to find nice annuals now; many nurseries have sold all the good ones.

But many can be started by seed, even now.

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Children & Teens Music • JUDY PANCOAST AND THE JUDY CREW DANCERS Grammy-nominated children’s artist Judy Pancoast and her Judy Crew Dancers will once again bring fun to the Smyth Summer Music Series with their interactive concerts. Fri., July 21, 10 a.m.

UNH Manchester, 88 Commercial St., Manchester. Free. Visit manchester.unh.edu or call 641-4348.

Nature • SOFIA’S TRAVELING ZOO Are you interested in exotic animals? Learn more, see a few creatures in person and have a great time! For ages 5 and up. Tues., July 25, 7 to 8 p.m. Hollis Social Library, 2 Monument Square, Hollis. Free. Visit hollislibrary.org or call 465-7721.

Clubs Craft • KNIT & CROCHET CLUB All knitters and crocheters are welcome, all levels of experience.

Tues., July 25, 6:30 p.m. Goffstown Public Library, 2 High St., Goffstown. Free. Visit goffstownlibrary.com or call 497-2102.

Culture • BEDFORD ITALIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY MEETING Dr. Gary Devore, archaeologist and author, will present “Lifestyles of the Rich and Roman,” exploring the lives of ancient Roman generals, kings, senators, emperors and aristocrats. Thurs., July 20, 6 p.m. Bedford Public Library, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford. Free. Visit bics-nh.org or call 487-5212.

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To find out about your antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the object and information about it to Donna Welch, From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465 Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or email her at footwdw@ aol.com. Or drop by the shop (call first, 6248668).

Garden • MERRIMACK GARDEN CLUB MEETING This month’s topic is on fermentation and a demonstration on pickling will be presented by Rivka Schwartz. Tues., July 25, 6:30 p.m. St. James Church, 646 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack. Free. Visit merrimackgardenclub.org Women’s • SHARING OUR LIVES Each meeting will be guided by a theme for that session and set of questions designed to use as a springboard for sharing.

Thurs., July 27, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Women Supporting Women Center, 111 Water St., Exeter. $10 for members or $15 for non-members. Visit wswcenter. wordpress.com/register or call 772-0799.

Continuing Education Professional development • TED NIGHTS AT THE DERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY The Derry Public Library will be hosting TED Nights this summer.

TED Talks are short, powerful talks on a wide variety of topics.

Attendees will view TED Talks and discuss them afterwards.

Each night will have a different theme. Come for one night or come to them all. Mondays, July 24, Aug. 14, and Aug. 28., 6:30 to 8 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Free. Visit derrypl.org or call 432-6140.

Crafts Events • FAERIE HOUSE WORKSHOP $10 for adults and free

for kids under 18. Attendees can also purchase a faerie house kit for $25 each. Sun., July 23, 1 to 3 p.m. Church of Spiritual Life, 58 E. Broadway and Marlboro St., Derry. Visit churchspirituallifenh.org.

Festivals & Fairs Events • MILFORD FAMILY FUN DAY This event coincides with the annual MSBL 3 on 3 basketball tournament. Features live music, a professional slippery slide, a dunk tank, a bouncy house, face painting, free food and more. Keyes Memorial Field, 45 Elm St., Milford. Free.

Sat., July 29, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Health & Wellness Support groups • IN OUR OWN VOICE: LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS Presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Hear a firsthand account of what it’s like to live with mental illness and see how it’s possible - and common - to live well with it.

Tues., July 25, 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Free. Visit nashualibrary.org or call 589-4610.

Wellness • EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND MENTALITY Emotions are like ocean waves - they ebb and flow. Learn how and why to use essential oils for releasing emotional patterns. All guests will leave with a natural gift.

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Join the Goffstown Historical Society for its annual Road Race and Berry Festival on Saturday, July 22. The race kicks off at 7 a.m. at the society’s museum (18 Parker Station Road, Goffstown) before traveling down Routes 13 and 77 in Goffstown and returning back there at the finish line. Held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Berry Festival will feature crafts, food, a bounce house, music, family-friendly activities and more, all while ongoing tours of the Historical Steve Corning. Courtesy photo.

Society’s museum will be offered. The cost is $5 for adults and $2 for kids. Visit goffsFlying fairies townhistoricalsociety.com.

Join the Church of Spiritual Life (58 E. Broadway, Derry) for a faerie house workStealing the show Offbeat comedian and stuntman Steve shop on Sunday, July 23, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Corning will appear at the Hooksett Pub- The cost to participate is $10 for adults and lic Library (31 Mount St. Mary’s Way, free for kids 18 and under. Faerie house kits Hooksett) on Saturday, July 22, at 11 a.m. are available for purchase at $25 each. Prior Corning’s show is enjoyed by audience to the workshop will be a church service and members of all ages and includes various coffee hour. Visit churchofspirituallife.org. juggling routines, escape artistry, comedic magic, contortion, balancing, LED light Free family fun The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., manipulation, different types of stunts and much more. Admission is free. Visit hook- Manchester) will host its first Twilight at the Currier, a summer block party, on Satursettlibrary.org or call 485-6092. day, July 22, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event will focus on family-friendly activities like artThe circus is in town Circus Smirkus makes a stop in Mil- making, food trucks, live music, a beer and ford on Sunday, July 23, as part of its 30th wine tent and a special performance from anniversary Big Top Tour. The theme of Dream City Dance. Admission is free, and the shows is “Midnight At the Museum.” food and drinks are available for purchase.

Features include aerialists, clowns, wire Visit currier.org/event/twilight-currier. walkers and more. Two shows will be held on Sunday at 1 and 6 p.m. at Keyes Memo- Free flicks The Rodgers Memorial Library (194 rial Field (45 Elm St., Milford). Additional shows are planned for Monday, July 24, at Derry Road, Hudson) is hosting a screenthose same times. The circus visits several ing of the film Trolls on Saturday, July other locations in New Hampshire as part 22, at 10 a.m. as part of its free family film of its schedule (visit smirkus.org). Tickets series. The series is held on the fourth Satare $25 for teens and adults, $20 for kids urday of each month and always features a ages 2 to 12 and for seniors 65 and older, family-friendly or children’s film. Admission is free and snacks will be provided. and free for kids 2 and under.

Visit rodgerslibrary.org or call 886-6030.

• THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS In this illustrated talk, NH Humanities presenter Maria Sanders explores how ideas of happiness have changed in Western civilization through the ages, while comparing and contrasting major concepts of well-being throughout the world. Tues., July 25, 6:30 p.m.

Goffstown Public Library, 2 High St., Goffstown. Free. Visit goffstownlibrary.com or call 497-2102

Miscellaneous Pop culture • NASHUA LIBRARY COMICFEST Play Minecraft, board games, video games, a cosplay dating game, two escape rooms and more. Sat., July 22, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Free. Visit nashualibrary.org/comicfest.

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Suggestions for topics to teach in automotive history class sion. And then there was a long period of time with very little meaningful innovation.

Then in the past few decades, spurred by the EPA and by higher gas prices, computerization and fuel injection have transformed fuel economy, emissions and reliability.

From there you can lecture on safety innovations over the years, which also have been revolutionized by computers. Tucker and Volvo had some early safety advances, which were mostly ignored. Then, in the 1960s, Ralph Nader started complaining about all the people getting killed in cars. That started a push for some amazing safety improvements, from mandatory 3-point seat belts to crumple zones, air bags, ABS, electronic stability control and, most recently, today’s pre-autonomous driving technologies.

Another lecture could be on our most popular cars. You could spend one session on big hits: the Model A, the late-’50s Chevy sedans, the Mustang, the VW Bug, the Honda Civic, the Toyota Camry. You can try to figure out why (styling? design? competitive advantages?) those cars were so popular — and why some, like the ’60s Mustangs, are still popular, even though they’re horrible cars compared with even a modern Kia Rio. You also could lecture on big flops, like the Edsel, the Pacer and the Aztek. You could talk

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about what the manufacturers thought they were improving, and why they were wrong.

And then your last lecture could be a look to the future, with fully autonomous cars and vehicle-to-vehicle communication to prevent accidents. And by the way, if all that autonomous driving stuff works, it could put you auto-body guys out of business. So it’s good you’re branching out into academia.

Dear Car Talk: My 1997 Mercedes E420 leads a very leisurely life, sitting in the garage for months before being called on for the occasional road trip. Lately, I’ve been experiencing a rough idle condition, where the engine rpm varies between 550 and 700, like a bad engine miss. Acceleration, driving around town or driving on the highway doesn’t create a miss, with the car performing as normal. No check engine light has ever appeared, although it does illuminate at startup, so I know it works.

When I had an OBD scan, two codes came up. One code is an oxygen sensor, and the other a secondary air-system code. Can you provide any insight about how to get my baby running well again? — Martin I had to take a wild stab at it, I’d say you need an oxygen sensor and some work on your secondary air system, Martin.

Actually, even though the scan identified those two problems, they may not be responsible for your rough idle. Of the two, a rough idle is more likely to be related to the secondary air system, which is responsible for maintaining the right fuel-to-air mixture when the engine is cold.

But the rough idle could be caused by something else entirely. And since you drive the car so infrequently, it could be that your injectors are just gummed up. That can come from not driving it enough, and having the same tank of gas in there for six to eight years at a time.

So I’d start by trying a fuel-system cleaner. We use a product in the shop called 44K, which is made by BG. But if you can’t find that, try Chevron Techron, which is widely available. Use it for a few tanks of gas in a row and see what happens. If that helps, then try driving the car more often and not filling the tank before you store it — so you can add fresh gasoline 11 months later, when you fire it up for the Fourth of July parade.

You’ll still have to take care of those emissions codes that came up during the scan if you want to pass inspection. And without an inspection sticker, you won’t be able to drive the car, and your injectors will gum up again.

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Dear Car Talk: I have been an automotive instructor for 24 years, and recently the college I teach at approached me to teach a course on the “history of the automobile in

By Ray Magliozzi America.” I’ve always taught the vocational side of cars (auto-body repair) and maintenance courses for beginners, but this course intrigues me. The good news is that the topic is huge, with almost 2 billion sites and pages on the internet.

The bad news is that the topic is huge, with almost 2 billion sites and pages on the internet! How would you lecture on a topic this big, covering it in about six to eight talks? By the way, I love your column. — Russ As you might guess, there are 2 billion ways to approach this topic. So I’ll just give you one way you could potentially organize the lectures.

Your first lecture or two could be about automotive technology. Keep in mind that the most interesting stuff happened in the early days of cars and in the past 30 or 40 years. Early on, you had the internal-combustion engine, the production assembly line, hydraulic brakes and the automatic transmis-

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Custom tattooing, contests and more at annual expo

By Matt Ingersoll

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Jon Thomas, owner of Spider-Bite Tattoo & Body Piercing in Manchester, decided to introduce a tattoo expo to the Queen City after traveling to several other expos across the Northeast — but he wanted to take it up a notch.

“I visited expos in Boston, New York and Philadelphia … and realized that, you know, that person is the same person as me, they just happen to live in a bigger city, and we’re just little old New Hampshire,” Thomas said. “So I wanted to bring something bigger here.”

Thus the Live Free or Die Tattoo Expo was born. Now in its 11th year, the event is held over three days at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester and brings together more than 100 local tattoo artists, body piercers, vendors and more.

Some artists come from across the country to offer their services just for the expo.

This year’s event is happening on Friday, July 21, from 5 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, July 22, from 10 a.m. to midnight and Sunday, July 23, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The expo is more than just an opportunity to get an onsite tattoo or piercing.

Thomas said there will be live entertainment performances, vendors, contests, sideshows and more scheduled throughout the three days of the event.

It was just a year before the first expo when tattooing became legal in Manchester, according to Thomas.

“The first year we did it, it was only a two-day event and we had 93 booths,” he said. “Now 11 years later, we have 128 booths … and people are definitely from all over the place. … We have a fair amount from the New England area, of course, but also people from California, the Washing11th annual Live Free or Die Tattoo Expo When: Friday, July 21, 5 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, July 22, 10 a.m. to midnight, and Sunday, July 23, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester Cost: $15 for a one-day pass, $20 for a two-day pass or $25 for a three-day pass.

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ton, D.C., area and Florida as well.”

Members of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow will be at the expo performing shows on all three days, at 8 p.m. on Friday, 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

“They’ll do a lot of stuff normal people wouldn’t do, like sword-swallowing, the old nail through the nose trick and stuff like that, so it’s a lot of fun to watch,” Thomas said.

Tattoo contests featuring all kinds of categories are also planned, including Best Cover Up, Best Portrait, Best Lettering, and Tattoo of the Day and Piercing of the Day for each of the three expo days.

Also planned will be a beard and mustache competition on Saturday at 7 p.m., with registration ending at 6 p.m.

Thomas said winners will receive either cash prizes or trophies, depending on the contest. Each has a $5 entry fee per person.

The pin-up pageant, a recent addition to the expo, kicks off at 9 p.m. Thomas said this year’s participants will be sporting a Western theme; previous pageants have covered a variety of themes like military, retro and classic.

A tattoo contest of a different sort will take place on Sunday at 3 p.m.

The Worst Tattoo Contest is being sponsored by Tatt2Away in Manchester and Inkfree Tattoo Removal Parlor in Portsmouth and the winner will receive one free non-laser tattoo removal, Thomas said.

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CAREERS

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Swimming and lifeguard instructor Tyler Gray of Concord is the co-owner of Swim NH, a lifeguard instructor training program licensed with the American Red Cross. She is also the co-owner of the NH Swim School, which offers indoor swimming lessons in Manchester and Concord year round as well as seasonal lessons in July and August at several other locations.

Explain your current job.

Both companies run year round, but summer is our busiest time of the year. … For Swim NH, we travel all over New Hampshire training lifeguards. We’ll go to camps in the summer, and in the winter, they will come to us for training. … For our indoor swimming program, students come once a week on a designated day for 30 minutes. … They can do it as long as they’d like.

There is a monthly membership, and that spot is yours until you decide you want to stop swimming. … There is no age

What kind of education or training did you need for this job?

There are different levels of training to go through [with the American Red Cross]. … You have to be certified as a lifeguard and as a water safety instructor. … A water safety instructor teaches others basic skills on how to swim. … As a lifeguard, you are considered a professional Courtesy photo. rescuer, so you learn first aid and how to perform CPR.

What do you wish you’d known at the beginning of your career?

I think this goes with any kind of teaching, but you have to learn how to adapt to new generations and how they learn.

What is your typical at-work uniform?

I’ll wear a swimsuit and a wetsuit top. …

When I’m training lifeguards, I get to wear workout attire, so gym shorts, a tank top or T-shirt, and a swimsuit.

How did you find your current job? range. We’ve had students as young as six What was the first job you ever had?

My stepmother was working for the months old with their parents, as well as American Red Cross for some time … and I was a lifeguard at the Racquet Club of adults and the elderly. they pushed her to start her own business. Concord. Now it’s called the Health Club … She saw the potential in me to be a of Concord.

How long have you been in your good instructor, and that’s sort of how we — Matt Ingersoll career? were able to grow the business. … So we We’ve been doing the NH Swim School built relationships with our camps, trained for about five or six years, and Swim NH our staff, and we’ve grown each year.

What’s something you’re really has been going on 13 years now.

What’s the best piece of work-related How did you get interested in this field? advice anyone’s ever given you?

I swam all the time growing up and I To have fun working with your stuwas a competitive swimmer for some time dents … because it just makes everyone’s as well. day better.

into right now?

When I have a day off, usually I like to just read a book by the pool, but in the summertime I also try to go kayaking and paddleboarding as much as I can.

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FOOD Not your average burger

Gourmet burgers offer creative options, quality ingredients

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From taco burgers to burgers with apples and peanut butter, a growing number of restaurants are taking their burgers beyond beef and a bun.

Jeannette Zaza, who owns Vibes Gourmet Burgers in Concord with her husband Jim, says the gourmet burger concept starting taking off a few years ago, and it doesn’t show signs of stopping.

“People seem to want something better, not the regular burger they’re used to,” she said. “The term ‘gourmet burger’ is important to people now. … They want to move it up a level with burgers that are better quality.”

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• Seven chefs, one dinner: The Farmers Dinner will hold a special dinner at Élevage de Volailles (1155 Route 129, Loudon) on Sunday, July 23, from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Seven chefs — Nikki Nocella, Evan Hennessey, Ilma Lopez, Derrick Bissonnette, Jake Rojas, Lee Frank and Joel Vieland — will cook over a historic open fire and prepare a multicourse meal to be served family style in the field. This is a BYOB event. The cost is $95 per person. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit thefarmersdinner.com/event/ elevage-de-volailles.

• LaBelle recognized: LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst, 672-9898, labellewineryevents.com) recently received TripAdvisor’s 2017 Certificate of Excellence Award. The award recognizes hospitality businesses that have earned positive traveler reviews on TripAdvisor over the past year. “We are thrilled to have won TripAdvisor’s Certificate of Excellence Award for both our bistro restaurant and event center,” owner Amy LaBelle said in a press release. “More visitors to LaBelle are happily discovering all we have to offer. Both our bistro restaurant and event center have the distinction of Certified Local status which is a testament to our commitment to quality.”

• Breakfast date: Enjoy family fun in the kitchen during the parent-and-child dinner date at The Culinary Playground (16 Manning St., Derry) on Monday, July 24, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Kids ages 5 through 12 and their parents can work together under the guidance of a chef instructor to make a meal of breakfast strata and scones. Once they’re done cooking, families can dine together in the class kitchen. The cost for the class is $40 per pair. For more information and to register, call 339-1664 or visit culinaryplayground.com.

• Queen City brews: The fourth annual Manchester Brewfest takes place on Saturday, July 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Arms Park in Manchester. There will be more than 100 unique local and regional craft beers as well as local food and nonalcoholic beverages. General admission costs $40. Visit manchesterbrewfest.com.

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Eat burgers, win prizes There’s still time to participate in the Hippo’s Granite State Burger Challenge.

During the month of July, order a burger at a participating restaurant and you’ll have a chance to win a grand prize of $2,000 in restaurant gift certificates. Just pick up a Burger Challenge passport at any of the restaurants, get it stamped each time you order a burger and turn it in at the restaurant or the Hippo office (49 Hollis St., Manchester), or mail it in to the Hippo by Aug. 4. Additionally, there will be smaller gift certificates and other prizes awarded for daily contests announced on Facebook and Instagram (search “Granite State Burger Challenge”). For more information and the list of participating restaurants, visit granitestateburgerchallenge.com.

arugula leaves and fresh herbed goat cheese), the Godfather (topped with sweet Italian sausage, grilled peppers and onions, spicy Sriracha drizzle and provolone cheese) and the Unusual (topped with sliced apple, cheddar, applewood smoked bacon, fresh lettuce, pickled jalapenos and whipped creamy peanut butter).

The simple structure and versatility of the burger allows chefs to get creative with different ingredients, flavor combinations and cooking styles.

“There are so many ways to change it up: You can infuse the meat with cheese or put the cheese on top. You can use a spicy sauce or a sauce with some sweetness. And, of course, there is a huge variety of toppings you can use,” Zaza said. “It’s endless, what you can do with it.”

Travis Oneail, who co-owns Papa Joe’s Humble Kitchen in Milford with his parents Joe and Marcelle, also said that the gourmet burger trend is undeniable.

“The competition has become fierce,” he said. “The craft burger movement almost compares with the craft beer craze, with customers loyal to their regional and local creators.”

The Papa Joe’s menu features 11 specialty burgers, including the Spartan (topped with barbecue sauce, a hot dog, onion rings, bacon, lettuce and cheese), the Oriental Cowboy (seasoned with teriyaki and topped with wasabi ranch dressing, cole slaw and crunchy Chinese noodles) and V’s Taco Burger (topped with taco seasoning, sour cream, salsa and cheddar).

Oneail said he believes it’s the wide range of options and the ability to customize burgers that makes them so popular with diners. “[There’s] the flexibility to have the

The Cardiac burger at Papa Joe’s Humble Kitchen in Milford. Courtesy photo.

customer put input into their own burger choice,” he said, “[with] the variations of the meat itself like grass-fed, Angus … the different cooking styles like flat top, grill, charbroiled … and the flavor combinations.”

“People are really into the fusion of flavors now,” Joe Oneail added.

But gourmet burgers aren’t just about options. Zaza and the Oneails agree that the key to a gourmet burger is quality ingredients.

“A good quality meat that’s cooked right and a quality bread is very important,” Zaza said. “They’re basic things, but that’s what makes a better burger.”

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Forty-five breweries and more than 100 craft brews will be featured at the fourth annual New Hampshire Brewers Festival, happening Saturday, July 22, at Kiwanis Waterfront Park in Concord.

The brewfest, hosted by the New Hampshire Brewers Association, spotlights New Hampshire brewers exclusively and has the largest collection of New Hampshire breweries at a single event this year.

It’s a true celebration of New Hampshire craft beer and brewers and the industry in the state.

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“The whole festival is put together by actual brewers for true craft beer lovers,” NHBA Executive Director CJ White said.

“It’s a true celebration of New Hampshire craft beer and brewers and the industry in the state.”

The lineup includes brewers from all over the state, many of them returning, but there will be some newcomers. For recently opened breweries such as Rek’-Lis Brewing Co. of Bethlehem, Sublime Brewing Co. of Plymouth and Backyard Brewery of Manchester, this will be their first ever brewfest.

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Most of the booths will be manned by the breweries’ own brewers and staff.

“These aren’t just volunteers pouring,” White said. “This is a chance to meet and talk with the New Hampshire brewers themselves. Everyone who is pouring can tell you more about the beer in depth.”

Additionally, there will be brewers from some soon-to-open breweries including Empty Pint of Dover, Long Blue Cat Brewing Co. of Londonderry, Monadnock Brewing Co. of Keene and Post and Beam Brewing Co. of Peterborough, who won’t be pouring at the fest, but will be in attendance to meet with tasters and talk about their coming brews. There will also be an educational area with booths for home brewing and brewing-related programs offered at local colleges.

“It’s interactive,” White said. “There’s the tasting, but you also have the ability to become more educated and learn about beer as a whole.”

Brewer booths will be lined up under a large event tent. Upon admission, tasters will receive a souvenir tasting glass to use for unlimited sampling.

Each brewery will bring between two and six beers, which may include special

releases, collaborations, seasonals or flagship varieties. More than a dozen breweries have collaborated on a project in which they each created a different brew derived from the same base recipe to feature exclusively at the Brewers Festival.

White said she expects to see a number of trending styles represented at the fest as well.

“A lot of sours have emerged, and there’s been a resurgence of some of the lighter beers like kölsch and pilsner,” she said. “And, of course, there will be tons of IPAs for people to try.”

In addition to the beer, the event will feature around 10 different food trucks, brewpubs and other food vendors; music by 92.5/102.3FM The River; a dunk-abrewer challenge and other activities.

New Hampshire Brewers Festival Where: Kiwanis Waterfront Park, 15 Loudon Road, Concord When: Saturday, July 22, 1 to 4 p.m.

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Appolo, a regular vendor at the market, will host the tasting outside on its crush pad, and guests will be able to tour the vineyards as well.

“At the market, it’s about sales. People are there to shop,” said Molly Cartier, marketing coordinator for the Salem Farmers Market. “At this [event], the vendors can have people try their items in a context that’s more about networking than sales.

People can meet the vendors, interact and try their products in a more casual setting.”

The cocktail party-style event will feature multiple tables set up with various hors d’oeuvres, and servers from the winery will be making the rounds with samples of Appolo wines.

The food selection will include Alpine cheese, goat cheese and other cheeses from Temple-Wilton Community Farm and Brookford Farm of Canterbury; Tuscan herb and garlic olive oils and Sicilian lemon and honey-ginger white balsamic vinegars from Celeste Oliva of Concord; autumn honey from Tewksbury Honey; and French-style baguette bread from Chantenay Patissiere Bakery of Fremont.

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would typically find at a grocery store,” Cartier said, “and it’s a very different experience than you’d get at a store, because you can learn different things about the food that you wouldn’t otherwise know unless you talked to the people who make the food and know these items well.”

Guests will have a choice of wine flight with five or so Appolo wines to complement the food offerings. A variety of red and white wines will be featured, including the newly released Bridesmaid 2016, which won a bronze medal at the 2017 Big E Wine Competition last month. Bridesmaid is made with 100-percent New Hampshire grapes and is described by Appolo as “a light, sweet white with floral and honey notes on the nose followed by citrus, honey, and apricot.”

Proceeds from the event’s ticket sales will go toward a special prize to be raffled off to one of the market’s vendors; the winner will have his or her vendor fee waived for a full market season.

“It’s something we really wanted to do,” Cartier said. “It’s a way for us honor our vendors and celebrate them.”

selections. Sat., July 29, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Arms Park, Arms Street , Manchester. $40 for general admission, $50 for VIP, $11 for designated driver. Visit manchesterbrewfest.com.

Special meals • ELEVAGE DE VOLAILLES Seven highly acclaimed chefs will cook over a historic open fire and prepare a multicourse meal served family style in the field. BYOB event. Sun., July 23, 4 to 8:30 p.m. Élevage de Volailles, 1155 Route 129 , Loudon. $95. Visit thefarmersdinner.com.

Classes/workshops • FARMERS MARKET FRESH COUPLES COOKING CLASS With instruction from a cooking expert, couples will make their own meal from start to finish that will include bruschetta on garlic crostini with balsamic reduction, seared salmon with a corn and cherry tomato salsa and a rustic berry crumble. BYOB is welcome.

Bring plastic containers for leftovers. Fri., Sat., July 22, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Culinary Playground, 16 Manning St., Derry. $155 per couple. Call 339-1664 or visit culinary-playground.com.

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I would say mac and cheese. Simple A lot of people are saying it’s farm-tocomfort food. table and fresh ingredients. We do that ourselves. We go to the farmers markets What is your favorite local restaurant? and buy fresh lettuce and tomatoes, and When I take my wife out, it’s to Cotton in we use local honey in our salsas instead Manchester. They have an original take on of sugar whenever we can get it. food, and they switch up the menu seasonally, which is nice. And I know they use fresh What is your favorite meal to cook at ingredients, because the food is always real- home? ly fresh tasting. Firefly would be my No. 2.

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Monthly. Pelham Public Library, 24 Village Green, Pelham. Free and open to the public. Email wflint@pelhamweb.com.

Kids cooking classes & workshops • PETITE PEACH COBBLER Kids will use fresh peaches and pantry staples to create a sweet summer treat. Part of the mini chefs series for kids ages 3 to 6.

Classes are one hour. Fri., July 21, and Sat., July 22, 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Culinary Playground, 16 Manning Street, Suite 105, Derry. $16.

Visit culinary-playground.com.

Summer farmers markets • BELMONT FARMERS MARKET Market also features live music and demonstrations.

Sun., July 30, Aug. 27 and Sept.

17, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Belmont Park & Ride, 798 Laconia Road, Belmont. Visit belmontnh.org/belmontfarm.asp, call 998-3525 or email events@ belmontnh.org.

• LAMPREY FARMERS MARKET Market coincides with a summer concert series from June to August. Thurs., 3 to 6 p.m., through Aug. 31.

Raymond Town Common, Church Street, Raymond. Visit facebook.com/lampreyfarmersmarket.

• LEE FARMERS MARKET Thurs., 3 to 6 p.m., June 1 through Sept. 21. Lee Public Works, corner of Mast and Recycling Center roads, Lee. Visit facebook.com/leefarmersmarket.

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NITY MARKET Market features free kids’ activities, chef demonstrations, samples and live music and is home to The Uglies, a series of interactive cooking demonstrations using blemished or misshapen produce. Thurs., 3 to 6:30 p.m., June 15 through Oct. 12. Victory Park, 105 Concord St., Manchester. Visit manchestercommunitymarket.org, call 860-5248 or email manchmarket@gmail.com.

• WEARE FARMERS MARKET Fri., 3 to 6 p.m., June 2 through Oct. 13. Center Park gazebo, 1 East Road, Weare.

Visit harvesttomarket.com/ farmers-market/Weare-FarmersMarket-NH, call 491-4203 or email farmersmarketweare@ gmail.com.

• LACONIA FARMERS MARKET Sat., 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., June 24 through Sept. 30. Laconia City Hall parking lot, Beacon Street East, Laconia. Visit laconiafarmersmarket.com or email laconiafarmersmarket@yahoo.com.

• CONCORD FARMERS MARKET Sat., 8:30 a.m. to noon, through Oct. 28. State House lawn, Capitol Street, Concord. Visit concordfarmersmarket.com or email president@ concordfarmersmarket.com.

• CONTOOCOOK FARMERS MARKET Often features live music and special events.

Sat., 9 a.m. to noon, June 3 through Oct. 28. Contoocook Railway Depot, 896 Main St. , Contoocook. Visit facebook. com/contoocookfarmersmarket, call 746-3749 or email tookymarket@live.com.

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• HANDS-ON TRUFFLE CLASS Learn the art of truffle making from chocolatier Jack Michael Pisciotta and leave with take-home supplies. Every third Sat., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Van Otis Chocolates, 341 Elm St., Manchester. $95. Reservations are required. Class runs with a minimum of four participants. Call 627-1611 or visit vanotischocolates.com.

Cookbook clubs • DERRY COOKBOOK GROUP Group will choose a new cookbook for each meeting and make something from the book, then bring it in to share.

Discuss tips, tricks and troubles and eat. Cookbooks will be available to borrow at the front desk. First Fri., 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Contact Jessica at jessicad@derrypl.org or call 432-6140.

• 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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One of the easiest and most miraculous vegetables to grow is the sugar snap pea.

For one, they are hardy and can handle the unpredictable New Hampshire spring.

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• BARNSTEAD FARMERS MARKET New market. Special events and activities are often scheduled. Sat., 9 a.m. to noon, June 10 through Oct. 7. Maple Street Church, 96 Maple St. , Barnstead. Visit barnsteadfarmersmarket.club, call 269-2329 or email lorimahar@tds.net.

• GILFORD FARMERS MARKET Sat., 9 a.m. to noon, June through Sept. The Benjamin Rowe House, 88 Belknap Road, Gilford. Visit facebook. com/GilfordFarmersMarket.

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ripe peas off the vines. Even they can see how cool it is that there is something edible where there used to be just dirt.

I’m grateful my daughters love these peas because they are so good for them.

The crunch is so satisfying, even kids can get behind this vegetable. They are high in fiber, low in calories and even have some protein. According to LiveStrong.com, a ½-cup serving of cooked sugar snap peas contains 2 grams of protein. Particularly for my little ones who don’t eat much meat, this is wonderful news.

While we consume most of our sugar snap peas raw right off the vine, we most recently had a surplus. Going away for a few days meant coming back to weigheddown vines filled with ripe snap peas. We harvested them and now enjoy our bounty.

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3rd Way 1 pound sugar snap peas, trimmed 1 tablespoon sesame oil Sea salt, to taste Preheat oven to 450 degrees and prepare a baking sheet (I like to cover with parchment paper for ease of cleanup and lack of sticking). Mix sugar snap peas in oil and seasoning. Lay over baking sheet and roast 12 to 17 minutes, flipping halfway through.

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• WARNER AREA FARMERS MARKET Market features weekly live music. Sat., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., through Oct. Town Hall lawn, 5 E. Main St., Warner. Visit facebook.com/warnerareafarmersmarket.

• MILFORD FARMERS MARKET The market also features weekly live music. Sat., 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., June 17 through Oct. 14. Tractor Supply parking lot, Granite Town Plaza, 191 Elm St., Milford. Visit milfordnhfarmersmarket.com, call 3450860 or email awcolsia@gmail. com.

• NEW BOSTON FARMERS MARKET Market also features weekly live music. Sat., 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., June 10 through Oct. 21. Town Common, corner of Route 13 and Meetinghouse Road, New Boston. Visit newbostonfarmersmarket.webs.com or email jx243@aol.com.

• NASHUA FARMERS MARKET Market features beer and wine sampling, yoga demonstrations, honeybee demonstrations, live music and more. Sun., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., June 18 through mid-Oct.; Wed., 4 to 7 p.m., June 21 through mid-Oct. Main Street Bridge, Nashua. Renaissance Park, Water Street, Nashua. Visit nashuafarmersmarket.

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It seems like things have been very busy lately for Granite State winemakers. At least two have recently added some new wines to their already impressive lists of offerings. Here are two winery updates with more to come in future columns.

Copper Beech Winery

Lin over at Copper Beech Winery in Hooksett has been very busy making some new wines, now offering a jalapeno wine and a wine made from grapes! Copper Beech’s previous wine list only included wines made from fruits like blueberries, strawberries and peaches. I also hear that she is working on a rhubarb wine for next year; stay tuned for that one.

Lin just released Regatta Red, a red table wine made from cabernet grapes and named after Lake Massabesic. It is described as deep dark red in color with notes of dark fruit and black cherries. It is dry, mediumbodied and has smooth tannins, with subtle hints of vanilla and oak.

Caliente is Copper Beech’s jalapeno wine that can be used in grilling recipes, in a marinade or wine vinaigrette salad dressing or as part of a margarita or bloody Mary. Enjoy some now, and if you have any leftover this fall, use it in your chili!

It has been far too long since I visited Lin and Copper Beech so I am hoping to get there soon and check out these new wines.

The winery is open on weekends (except Sept. 2 and Sept. 3) through December from noon to 4 p.m.

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Hermit Woods Winery in Meredith recently released three rosé wines perfect for summer sipping. This is the first time all of these wines have been available at the same time. If you’re interested in these wines, make sure you get to the tasting room and pick some up before they are all gone, as they are tasting at least two of them all summer long or until they are sold out.

The first wine is the 2016 Winnipesaukee Rosé, which is made with a blend of apples, cranberries and cider. Recommended pairings for this wine include roast turkey, smoked cheese or vinaigrette salad. Be sure to enjoy it well-chilled. Also, 10 percent of the sales from this wine will be donated to the Lake Winnipesaukee Association.

The second rosé is the 2016 Strawberry Rhubarb wine made from whole strawberries, lowbush blueberries and a touch of whole rhubarb. This wine is described as

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light and refreshing, with a nice tang and a lingering dryness. This wine is a great complement to salads and other lighter dishes.

The third wine is one of my favorites: 2016 Heirloom Crabapple wine. This wine is considered to be the Hermit Woods Winery signature wine and for good reason — it is delicious. Made from whole heirloom crabapples, this wine had medium sweetness, some pleasant tang on the palate and is perfect for summer. Enjoy it with spicy foods, lighter meals or roast turkey or on its own well-chilled. If you haven’t tried this one yet, head to the winery and give it a try.

If it isn’t on the day’s tasting list, pick up a bottle and bring it home. You will not be disappointed.

Hermit Woods Winery is currently open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tours are also available. This is another winery that is on my list for another visit, as it has been a little while since I have been there and I always enjoy it.

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I always like to peruse the wine bins at Hannaford for finds like this: Seaside Cellars Vinho Verde. This is an excellent choice for summer because it is light and refreshing with fruity and tropical notes.

Hailing from the northern coast of Portugal, it is a great choice for lighter dishes, salads and spicy Asian cuisine. It is also very reasonably priced at around $10. In fact, most vinho verde wines are, and while maybe not the first wine you think of for summer, should be. My only complaint is that we have limited choices when it comes to Portuguese wines, which is why I am always excited for a find like this one.

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In a reminder that I really need to read my PR notes, my hipster-indie provider in New Yawk City dropped this into my feed, and upon seeing that it was indie-folk, I almost dumped it, expecting a cowboy-prostrated Tom Waits with some glitch or whatever.

But this guy’s from Bedford, N.H., and the LP was recorded at Studio 101A in Amherst — by George, I’ve stumbled onto a local guy with an album Pitchfork might even write about at fiction-novella length. It’s very good stuff for what it is, mostly acoustic guitars, occasional harmonica/slide guitar/fiddle and some techie interludes, but the most notable thing is the overall effect, which is different from your Steve Gunns and people like that. This is like Layne Staley from Alice in Chains on a mellow tip, doing a songwriter/busker thing, Getto’s well-maintained, drawly baritone wrapping itself lazily around some pretty presentable hooks. There’s some clangy Tom Waits-ish rattling that goes on (“Same Old World”), but mainly it’s about next-level, almost Las Vegas-ish back-porch bliss. It wouldn’t be out of the question to see this guy doing things like outdoor hay-fests (hip ones I mean — or is that stupid to say?). B+ — Eric W. Saeger

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This is his first solo record in 15 years, a chance to bust out of his own mold, peg the lo-fi and just cook. “The One” rips the metaphoric cover off this aural Dodge Viper and peels out at Ramones speed with stripped-down punkabilly guitar and Big Black aggression, his Kurt Cobain karaoke vocal still in fine shape if a bit refined for the redneck resonance he wants to project, not that good singing is a bad thing or anything. Then you have the Pixies-on-angel-dust cacophony of “Navigate” before you’ve had a chance to sit, as if Redd Kross was back and relevant. Clear some drive space for this, absolutely. A+ — Eric W. Saeger

• Feels like we just went over some band that was just one guy, but he has many projects, so basically his main band (or solo act, whatever, who’s counting or caring) sits on the shelf as whole years go by. I forget who that was, but California dude John Feldmann is the same thing, with his Goldfinger project, which will see its first album in nine years when The Knife comes out. I know the last thing we were talking about that was this sort of deal was pretty good, maybe this will be too. Uh oh, it’s emo, though. The beginning sounds like punk rock, but then it turns into Panic at the Disco with an extra helping of Lit, but kind of fast. The song itself is actually pretty good, like people with brains might actually dig it, which is all wrong.

• Fine, yes, I know trip-hop/gauze-folk princess Lana Del Rey is awesome, everyone knows that, but some of you are getting weird about it. To wit: stalking her agent, the Harry Fox Agency, just to find out what song titles are being sent off for publishing.

Yes, it’s so fulfilling and life-affirming to know that one of the songs of her new Lust For Life album is titled “Young In Love,” so you celebrated your hacking victory, but then it got renamed “Love,” ho ho ho, you have been owned by Harry Fox Agency.

The record is due out July 21; guests include Stevie Nicks and The Weeknd. The whole thing will be awesome — or am I trolling you? No. I’m not. Even The Weeknd’s song is cool, like a clean version of Raveonettes, ’60s shoop-be-doo girl-bop, mist and weirdness. It’s awesome.

• Avey Tare is the stage name of David Portner, co-founder of Animal Collective, the fractal-experimental indie guys who brought you — OK, quick, name one Animal Collective song, I triple-dog dare ya. You’ll have an even harder time remembering stuff about this new solo album, Eucalyptus, but it will probably be fun, because that’s what those guys in Animal Collective do, give you a fun time you forget forever after 10 minutes, like eating a particularly acceptable sausage croissant. The lead single, “Ocean,” is full of fish noises and beach sounds, and then Portner, I mean Tare, cranks the echo all the way, and then there are random redneck talks. Someone will love this … someone who’s crazy, you know?!

• The overturned clown car that is my relationship with Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s PR people continues, as they have another album coming out, called Barefoot in the Head! Right, I forgot to review the band’s recent live album, or is this it? No, this is a studio record of new songs. I think I found one of these new songs, called “Behold the Seer.” It’s like super-old Grateful Dead, that’s all, and then it rips off the Black Crowes song “Hard to Handle” or whatever it was, you know the one. I’m glad I forgot to check out the live album and accidentally avoided being a fake hippie. I certainly don’t need this boring, wimpy hippie song in my life and am closing the video right now, sorry.

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by George R. R. Martin. To date, it boasts 32 episodes and about 20,000 to 25,000 subscribers. For Wilson, it was a no-brainer to make the trek to Nashua after Walker reached out to her.

“I worked in a bookstore for 15 years, and as such I worked with a lot of libraries,” Wilson said via phone. “I’m a big believer in the public library and the place [it plays] in the community.”

Superhero comic nerds will be most interested in the visit by the 1964 Spider-Man costume owned by Roy Thomas, who was Stan Lee’s first successor as editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics. Its stop in Nashua is courtesy of Thomas’s friend and agent John Cimino,

Nashua Public Library ComicFest Where: Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua When: Saturday, July 22, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Contact: nashualibrary.org/comicfest; no preregistration required, all welcome Schedule 10 a.m.-1 p.m.: Anime screening 10 a.m.-4 p.m.: Super Smash Bros. Video Game Tournament 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Minecraft Open Play 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.: Board Games 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.: World-building using Legos and Duplos 10 a.m.-6 p.m.: Escape rooms set up by Key to Escape of Nashua with CSI and Harry Potter themes; use hints, clues to unlock the room and escape 10:30-11:30 a.m.: The Cosplay Dating Game, hosted by Doughrito Cosplay 11-11:30 a.m.: Comics Q&A, hosted by Alterna Comics founder/publisher Peter Simeti, who will talk about the comic book industry 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: ComicFest Accordion entertainment by Melody Burrows and Madi-

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“The fact that we have this new Chandler Wing with all the new meeting rooms [makes it] the perfect place to do something like this now,” said Linda Walker, a library page and festival coordinator.

She said the space features seven new rooms and a large middle space for concerts and large events.

The NPL held a ComicFest in 2015 to kick off that year’s summer reading initiative, themed “Heroes,” but held off in 2016 due to construction. It returns to complement the 2017 summer reading initiative: “Build a better world.” Activities are designed for kids and adults, ranging from cosplay contests and video game tournaments to escape rooms and presentations by pop culture podcasters.

“Part of it is about making everybody aware of everything the library has to offer,” Walker said. “The great thing about conventions is they’re really by fans for fans. …

Basically we just put out an appeal asking anybody interested to come do a panel, and people volunteered.”

Walker was particularly excited for a presentation on world-building by Jen Wilson, a.k.a. Lady Gwynhyfvar, who co-hosts Radio

son Ricard Noon-12:30 p.m.: Future of Star Wars discussion hosted by Robin Vogt and Sean Michaud from Brick City Blockade podcast Noon-1:30 p.m.: Project Cosplay; Project Runway for cosplayers; create a cosplay costume from unconventional materials 12:30-2 p.m.: Green Screen Photo Shoot; choose a background and snap a photo or video of you and a friend 12:30-2 p.m.: Spider-Man Homecoming, hosted by John Cimino, see rare valuable Spider-Man suit; viewing from 2 to 5 p.m.

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who will talk about the suit and its significance at 12:30 p.m.

“It was Marvel’s very first in-house promotional costume ever made,” Cimino said via phone. “It was originally made to be in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade back in 1964, but the actor that was supposed to wear it got drunk the night before and never ended up wearing it. … When Roy started working [for Marvel] in 1965, the costume was taking up room in his office and he asked Stan Lee [about it].”

Lee told Thomas he could have it, and Thomas gave the costume lots of love, wearing it at all kinds of comic events. It never left his side for 40 years. Cimino said it’s still in “impeccable” condition, steam cleaned and displayed on a mannequin. In addition, Cimino is bringing limited-edition kids’ Spider-Man costumes from the ’50s and ’60s.

Visitors can check out two “escape rooms,” powered by Key to Escape in Nashua, and a green screen that will facilitate out-of-this-world photoshoots. Twenty-four artists display their work in the Image Gallery and outside under tents, and local DJs and musicians will perform music outside.

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Other programming includes Project Cosplay, a spin on Project Runway for cosplayers, in which teams create costumes from unconventional materials within an hour, and The Cosplay Dating Game, inspired by the old TV show, except all bachelorettes will answer questions in character. There are also workshops, panels, a video game tournament and anime screenings, plus a costume contest at the end of the day.

“For people who think a library is only about books, they will be surprised,” Walker said. “I think this will help show all the things libraries have to offer and all the programming we do here.”

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“Sweeping” novels aim to thrust readers across generations and realms; they may do so, but in the process they also often invite a more literal interpretation of the adjective: that the editor lacked a broom, or the courage to use one, to whisk unnecessary passages away.

The latest from J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions, shoots up this “sweeping” warning flame, aside a couple of lesser concerns: The author majored in Victorian literature at Smith yet wrote a book called Dating Up: Dump the Shlump and Find a Quality Man. Her later offerings, which include the commercially successful Maine and The Engagements, seem penitent about that. And the first few chapters of Saints duly wear sackcloth. Clipped, unadorned sentences beg for a dab of lipstick or a string of fake pearls.

The dialogue is sparse; the pace, lethargic.

Not until our heroes — or anti-heroes, as the case may be — bid farewell to their father and grandmother in Ireland and reluctantly take up residence in Boston do any parades of remarkable sentences show up. When they do — as in a couple of paragraphs describing an incessant rain at an abbey — it’s as if Publishers Clearing House arrived with balloons, or a dormant cluster of cells in a test tube moved for the first time. It lives!

Here is the story: Nora and Theresa are the sisters, 21 and 17, who sailed from Ireland to America in 1957. Their stay in the States was supposed to be temporary. Nora was betrothed to an Irishman working there; Theresa was the sister she couldn’t live without.

In Boston, where everything but the Catholicism was strange, “Her sister was so familiar, the one familiar thing” in Nora’s new life.

After settling in, Theresa, who is both vivacious and naïve (a dangerous combination) finds herself pregnant by a dashing Bostonian who thereafter becomes unavailable.

Nora, congenitally bridled by duty, concocts a plan wherein she gets married quickly, pretends to be pregnant, and then adopts the child (born shockingly early) and raises him herself. Nora justifies it by saying that Theresa can still be part of the boy’s life, and he’s better off with family than with strangers, even good Catholic strangers hand-selected by money-grubbing nuns.

This is a scheme that even a janitor filling in for an advice columnist on vacation would pronounce sketchy. But all of Theresa’s options were bad, and she agrees to her sister’s plan.

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that we cannot start at the beginning, but 50 years later, when that baby, now a mustachioed bar owner, smashes his car into an overpass wall in south Boston.

Sullivan then bats the story around like a tennis ball between time zones, gracefully connecting the complicated dots that led up to Patrick’s death, and the fresh complications that his funeral presents.

For reasons not yet disclosed, the sisters are estranged, and Theresa, now living in a Vermont abbey where she is called Mother Cecilia, hasn’t talked to Nora in decades.

When Nora calls the monastery and leaves a message that Patrick is dead, she’s expecting to hurt her sister, not summon her to the funeral. But Theresa, of course, decides to come.

It’s complicated, yes, and sweeping with all of the baggage, but also surprisingly engrossing. Surprising because this is a cast of people broken in different ways, and it’s hard to know whom to like, or if you’re supposed to like any of the characters at all. (Except the cute lesbian couple that rescues abandoned animals.)

Like them or not, you know these people, from Nora, a literal mother superior, whose sense of self-worth is linked to the number of homemade dishes she can put out for a funeral, to John, now the eldest surviving son, who lives in a six-bedroom McMansion in the suburbs of Boston and wonders if he’s a fraud because he’s a Democratic strategist who got a Mormon Republican elected governor. (Knopf claims this is fiction, but well, who knows?)

Also, you might know someone like Nora’s grown children. Nora never sees them without phones in their hand, but they are mysteriously never able to pick up when it’s Nora who’s calling. In her deft skewering of assorted cultural failings, Sullivan is spot-on.

Sullivan borrowed from her own family’s experience when crafting the story. Her own grandmother emigrated from Ireland to Boston, alone, at age 17 (the same age that Theresa is when the fictional sisters arrive).

As part of her research, she visited her grandmother’s hometown, Miltown Malbay, County Clare, and interviewed women there.

She also spent time at the Abbey of Regina Laudis (not in Vermont, but in Connecticut) to learn about what cloistered life would have been like for Theresa.

Saints for All Occasions is exhaustive and occasionally exhausting; don’t believe the Amazon reviewer who said she read it all in one sitting. Sullivan is an accomplished storyteller; her readers finish each chapter wanting to know what happens next. But a perplexingly clipped ending and too many characters with more flaws than virtues make this a book mostly beloved of lapsed Catholics in Southie. B- — Jennifer Graham

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He’ll talk about his latest novel, Less, which follows a failed novelist named Arthur Less who goes on escapades through Paris, Morocco, Southern India and the Arabian Sea to escape the reality of turning 50. Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli, and he’ll discuss his character’s misadventures with guest moderator Michelle Aldredge, founding editor of the online arts and culture journal Gwarlingo. Tickets are $40 and include a reserved seat, book copy, bar beverage and book-signing meet-and-greet. Call 436-2400 or visit themusichall.org.

• For poets and poetry-lovers: The newly formed Halcyon Poetry Guild — an informal group of Andover poets — now meets the third Tuesday of the month at the Andover Public Library in the Town Office building on Main Street. Meetings are open to the public at no charge. Attendees are invited to read one or more of their own poems or just listen to others read aloud.

Email tsmith@kearsarge.org.

• Sci fi slam: Visit Barnes & Noble, 1741 S. Willow St., Manchester, Wednesday, July 26, from 6 to 8 p.m., for a Fantasy and Science Fiction Slam featuring 16 writers reading original short stories, each five minutes long or less. All authors are graduates of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, a six-week summer program for writers of fantasy, science fiction and horror at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. Admission is free. Visit odysseyworkshop.org for more on the program.

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Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Visit derrypl. org.

• JS GRAUSTEIN Presentation about publishing bo Graustein, who runs Folded Word Press from her home in Meredith.

Wed., Aug. 2, at noon. Griffin Free Library, 22 Hooksett Road, Auburn. Call 483-5374 or visit griffinfree.com.

• MIKE DICKERMAN Author talks about Mount Washington: Narratives and Perspectives.

Wed., Aug. 2, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• MEGHAN KENNY Author talks about Love is No Small Thing: Stories. Thurs., Aug. 3, at 6:30 p.m. Toadstool Bookshop, Lorden Plaza, 614 Nashua St., Milford. Visit toadbooks. com.

• ADI RULE Author presentation part of the library’s author series. Author of The Hidden Twin and Strange Sweet Song.

Wed., Aug. 9, at 6:30 p.m. Griffin Free Library, 22 Hooksett Road, Auburn. Call 483-5374 or visit griffinfree.com.

• LAURA PIAZZI Author talks about Recipes for Repair: A 10-Week Program to Combat Chronic Inflammation and Identify Food Sensivities. Wed., Aug. 23, at 6:30 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Visit derrypl.org.

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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

War for the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)

Veteran ape-leader Caesar faces off against humans in War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter in the smart Planet of the Apes reboot series.

Chimpanzee Caesar (motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis) has led the apes through a long war with the humans.

(Previously on Apes: Caesar and other apes were given drugs that allowed for human-like intellectual advancement and, for some apes, speech. The same lab also unintentionally let loose a virus that wiped out most of humanity. An uneasy detente between remaining humans and the advanced apes eventually turned into open war.)

Both apes and humans believes the other side aims to wipe them out. Humans, led by a man called the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), are aided in their efforts by apes they call “donkeys,” many of whom were one-time followers of Koba, the ape who escalated the human-ape conflict in the second movie.

The apes capture a group of human soldiers after one skirmish. Caesar decides, instead of killing them, to send them back to the Colonel. He hopes to prove that he and the apes aren’t “savages,” and to forge a truce: leave the apes alone in the woods and the violence can end.

The Colonel, of course, does not do this. Instead, he attacks the apes’ home base (the location provided by an ape turncoat). The attack has devastating consequences for Caesar, who must now decide what to do with both the remaining apes in his community and his own growing hate toward the Colonel. Eventually, he sets out with old friends the orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval), the gorilla Luca (Michael Adamthwaite) and fellow chimpanzee Rocket (Terry Notary) to find the Colonel. Along the way, they make surprising discoveries including the existence of an ape outside their group, a zoo chimpanzee who calls himself Bad Ape (Steve Zahn), who can also talk, and a human girl, eventually called Nova (Amiah Miller), who can’t talk.

They find other humans who can’t vocalize, suggesting that the human-ape war might not be the only threat to people.

When your society, perhaps even your species, faces an existential threat, what do you do — make war or make peace?

Which one will get you to your goal of survival? And, deep down, is survival always as motivating as revenge?

These are the questions this movie asks. This might be a sci-fi action movie where more than half the core cast are motion-capture creations but this is not a frivolous movie. Its characters — human

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and ape — are mired in grief and fear and staring at the possible end of their world.

These are big thoughts and emotions and the movie is able to match the weight of this while still having moments of lightness and humor. And it gives characters space to think without feeling draggy or padded. It is pretty to look at and it uses its cinematography to tell the story, not just pretty it up.

I’ve seen other reviews describe this movie as a Western, a prison movie and a quest movie. I’d also add biblical epic (though less campy than that genre usually is). This movie has elements of all of these genres and some solid action and manages to be at times fun, serious, emotional and light, all without ever being silly. And I think you have to credit the performances for this — not just Serkis, who is great as always. But also Harrelson, who tempers his craziness, and Karin Konoval’s Maurice, who communicates primarily in sign and with Maurice’s expressive eyes and plays the moral center of Caesar’s world beautifully, allowing for some real wrestling with the nature of humanity and morality.

War for the Planet of the Apes is a very strong entry in what has always been a strong series, one that has far more impact than you expect from a movie with so much genuinely exciting action, a nice thinky sci-fi concept and just the right dashes of humor. A Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, thematic elements and some disturbing images. Directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback & Matt Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes is two hours and 20 minutes long and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The Big Sick (R)

Comedian Kumail falls for grad student Emily but is conflicted about how his strict Pakistani family will react in The Big Sick, a semi-autobiographical movie by Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, writer Emily V. Gordon.

So, spoiler alert, I guess?

Kumail (Nanjiani) is trying to make it as a comedian in Chicago, setting up chairs in exchange for five minutes on stage and hoping that the booker for a comedy festival pays attention to his act.

For money, he’s an Uber driver.

Emily (Zoe Kazan) is a grad student working to become a therapist and sees Kumail during his set. His half-baked attempt to pick her up succeeds and they spend the night together. She tells him she’s not really looking for a relationship and he agrees. She reiterates her lack of interest in a relationship after their third date but quickly they become a cute, very couple-y couple.

Meanwhile, Kumail’s regular visits to his parents, Azmat (Anupam Kher) and Sharmeen (Zenobia Shroff), include an inevitable “drop by” of a string of single Pakistani girls that his parents want to set him up with. They want him to follow in the footsteps of his brother Naveed (Adeel Akhtar) and make an arranged marriage to a Muslim woman.

When Emily finds out about Kumail’s family’s insistence that he marry within their culture, she is furious and hurt, especially about the fact that, despite their time together, he doesn’t really see a future for them. She leaves, telling him not to call her.

But then, late one night, one of Emily’s friends calls. Emily is in the hospital and Kumail is the only one available to go and sit with her. What he’s initially told is a bad flu is clearly something

much worse and Emily is put in a medically induced coma while doctors figure out the cause of a fast-moving infection.

Kumail calls Emily’s parents, Beth (Holly Hunter) and Terry (Ray Romano).

At first, Beth and Terry, who know all about Kumail and Emily’s relationship and how it ended, tell Kumail to go. But he can’t stay away and soon Kumail is spending huge stretches of time, anxiously waiting with her parents and realizing how much he regrets the breakup.

It is hard, in 2017, to come up with a believable reason why two people can’t be together. But The Big Sick presents Kumail’s problem realistically. It’s believable, as shown here, that Kumail’s parents can be both open to change enough to immigrate to America and set in their ways enough to resist his break with the culture. And it makes sense that a young man this close to his family would struggle with the possibility of losing them.

Nanjiani, as actor and as co-writer, does a good job making the characters and their emotions feel genuine. It can be tough to find the comedy in these difficult situations but not turn the actors into cartoons. Even Kumail’s parents, the characters we get to know the least, are never one-dimensional. The writing and the acting allows us to understand their viewpoint even if we don’t agree with it.

The romance — another easy thing for movies to get wrong — is also done just right. While still obviously young people, with nascent careers and a still-fluid sense of what will matter in their lives, Emily and Kumail feel an appropriate degree of grown-up. And that level of maturity gives their relationship a heft, even if we only get a shorthand version of it before Emily’s illness.

This movie’s one flaw is that it doesn’t quite seem to know how to end. I knew, going in, how the story ended, this story about a Kumail and Emily written by a married Kumail and Emily. But the movie itself doesn’t seem to know where it wants to stop. The way it handles this problem isn’t bad, per se, and doesn’t do anything to harm the very well-plotted movie that came before it but is a weakness.

Overall, The Big Sick is a charming movie that is able to squeeze in not just one but several perspectives on romance and marriage and do so with not just heart and smarts but an intensely funny sense of humor. ARated R for language including some sexual references. Directed by Michael Showalter and written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick is two hours long and distributed by Amazon Studios and Lionsgate.

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MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX RED RIVER THEATRES 11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, redrivertheatres.org • Beatriz at Dinner (R, 2017) Thurs., July 20, at 2:05 & 5:35 p.m.

• The Big Sick (R, 2017) Thurs., July 20, at 2, 5:25, 7:30 & 8 p.m.; Fri., July 21, at 12:40, 3:15, 5:50 & 8:15 p.m.; Sat., July 22, at 12:40, 3:15, 5:50 & 8:15 p.m.; Sun., July 23, at 12:40, 3:15 & 5:50 p.m.; Mon., July 24, at 2, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Tues., July 25, at 2, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Wed., July 26, at 2, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Thurs., July 27, at 2, 5:25 & 8 p.m.

• The Hero (R, 2017) Thurs., July 20, at 2:10 p.m.; Fri., July 21, at 1, 3 & 7:30 p.m.; Sat., July 22, at 1, 3 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 23, at 1 & 3 p.m.; Mon., July 24, at 2:10 & 5:35 p.m.; Tues., July 25, at 2:10 & 5:35 p.m.; Wed., July 26, at 2:10 & 5:35 p.m.; & Thurs., July 27, at 2:10 p.m.

• Maudie (PG-13, 2017) Fri., July 21, at 12:50, 3:25, 6 & 8:25 p.m.; Sat., July 22, at 12:50, 3:25, 6 & 8:25 p.m.; Sun., July 23, at 12:50, 3:25 & 6 p.m.; Mon., July 24, at 2:05, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.; Tues., July 25, at 2:05, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.; Wed., July 26, at 2:05, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.; Thurs., July 27, at 2:05, 5:30 & 8:05 p.m.

• The Wedding Plan (PG, 2017) Fri., July 21, at 5:15 p.m.; Sat., July 22, at 5:15 p.m.; Sun., July 23, at 5:15 p.m.; Mon., July 24, at 7:35 p.m.; Tues., July 25, at 7:35 p.m.; Wed., July 26, at 7:35 p.m.

WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • Beatriz at Dinner (R, 2017) Thurs., July 20, at 7:30 p.m.

• Maudie (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., July 20, through Thurs., July 27, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., July 23, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.

• The Hero (R, 2017) Fri., July 21, through Thurs., July 27, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., July 23, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.

• 36 Hours (1964) Sat., July 22, at 4:30 p.m.

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY 405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, manchester.lib.nh.us; some films at the West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 6246560 • The Secret Life of Pets (PG, 2016) Wed., July 26, at 1 p.m.

O’NEIL CINEMAS 24 Calef Highway, Epping, oneilcinemas.com, 679-3529 • Summer Kids Series Every Monday & Wednesday at 10 a.m., for kids 11 and younger admission is $1, for all others, $2; Sing (PG, 2016) is July 24 & 26 CARMIKE CINEMAS 16 Orchard View Drive, Londonderry • Artists Den Presents Lady Antebellum Tues., July 25, at 7:30 p.m.

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• Ocean’s Eleven (PG-13, 2001) Tues., Aug. 1 RODGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY 194 Derry Road, Route 102, Hudson, rodgerslibrary.org. 8866030 • Cinema Celebration second Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

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Films begin at dusk. Admission is a suggested donation.

• Ghostbusters (PG-13, 2016) Mon., July 24 THE MUSIC HALL 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org, Some films are screened at Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth • Tomorrow (2015) Thurs., July 13, at 7 p.m.

• Their Finest (R, 2016) Thurs., July 20, at 7 p.m.

• Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (documentary, 2015) Thurs., July 20, at 7 p.m.; Fri., July 21, at 7 p.m.

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• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (National Theatre London) Sun., July 23, at 1 p.m.

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• Democracy Through the Looking Glass (documentary, 2016) Wed., July 26, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., July 27, at 7 p.m.

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• Missionary man: Led by front man Jahriffe, reggae band Jah-N-I Roots Movement aims to tap into the divine in performance; its name means “the creator in you.” The smiling front man often works as a motivational speaker on the metaphysical healing power of music. He plays solo acoustic Thursday, July 20, 7 p.m., Stumble Inn, 20 Rockingham Road, Londonderry. See @JAHNIRoots.

• Classic act: Drawing from the Allman Brothers Band’s early catalog, Live at the Fillmore pays tribute to ABB’s late ’60s and early ’70s sweet spot. The seven-piece group headlines a benefit show for The Center for Life Management, preceded by a silent auction. Go Friday, July 21, 7 p.m. (auction 5:30 p.m.), New Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry. Tickets $30-$45 at tupelohall.com.

• Guitar man: Bruce Marshall took a break from leading his own band in the late 1980s to play with Toy Caldwell of the Marshall Tucker Band, who recorded one of Marshall’s original songs for the album Son of the South. The ace guitarist frequently pairs up with pal James Montgomery for an all-star blues revue. Go Saturday, July 22, 9 p.m., Strange Brew Tavern, 88 Market St., Manchester. Follow @brucemarshallmusic.

• Beach party: The Hampton Beach Comedy Festival’s final night has Lenny Clarke atop a five comic bill, with host and festival organizer Jimmy Dunn. Running four days, the event includes Kerri Louise and Will Noonan (July 20), Graig Murphy and Dan Crohn (July 21), Matty Blake and Lamont Price (July 22).

Dunn and Dave Rattigan appear nightly. Go Sunday, July 23, 8 p.m., Ashworth by the Sea, 295 Ocean Boulevard, Hampton. Tickets $20 at brownpapertickets.com.

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After making three guitar-forward blues rock albums, Samantha Fish switched gears for her latest. Chills & Fever jumps out of the gate with a cover of the Ronettes’ “He Did It,” revved up with rapid-fire guitar bursts. Then the lights dim, and Fish’s soulful voice is the focus of a record that borrows from the genre’s finest — Betty LaVette, Irma Thomas, Nina Simone and girl group gems, all given a modern sheen.

Her take on the title cut, previously done

by Tom Jones and Ronnie Love, among others, sounds like a musical hookup between Amy Winehouse and Morphine, with Travis Blotsky’s saxophone moaning. Skip James’ “Crow Jane” has a Black Keys vibe, with Fish on her trademark four-string cigar box slide guitar.

Echoes of the latter have been with her for a while, Fish said in a recent interview.

“I started at Fat Possum when I got into blues,” she said, referring to the Oxford, Mississippi, record label that gave the world RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and other roots players. “That’s where the Black Keys got their start. You got these guys that are modernizing even the North Mississippi music. … It’s really cool to mix up these genres.”

Fish picked up the guitar at age 13, after a brief flirtation with drums that mainly helped her rhythmic sense.

“I was a kid so my discipline ... was kind of lacking, but I like to go back and forth with it every once in a while,” she said, Samantha Fish When: Saturday, July 29, 8 p.m.

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“just to keep my skills up.”

Chills & Fever was born from talks with producer Bobby Harlow (White Fang, the Go).

“When we met, he was taken by my vocals, and he said we really need an album that showcases that,” Fish said. “Playing on the trio, we focused more in another direction; this was just a good opportunity to show people another side of my musical personality.”

The lure for Fish was an opportunity to add horns, keyboard and pedal steel guitar to the three-piece configuration she’d used for a decade.

“Top to bottom, the concept was the size of the band,” she said, sweeping away concerns that it might worry fans of her guitar slinger side.

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The rest is personality.”

She’s got that in spades. Fish began performing almost by accident, but she’s never looked back.

“I got kind of thrown onto a stage with a guitar at a backyard party; probably that was the only way it could ever happen to me, because I was such a shy kid,” she said.

“It was the worst feeling in the world, but it was also exhilarating. There was an adrenaline rush, and I realized I wanted to do that.

The moment changed my trajectory in life.”

After making a self-produced EP, in 2011 she joined Girls With Guitars, a young supergroup with Cassie Taylor and Dani Wilde. Her first solo album, Runaway, came later the same year, followed

by Black Wind Howlin’ (2013) and Wild Heart (2015), the first two made with producer and mentor Mike Zito.

Gender emphasis is “a double-edged sword; it sucks for the same reason it helps me,” she said. “A female instrumentalist is still viewed as a novelty to people … but I think the more we do it, it will become less of an interesting thing.”

For now, she’s exploring every artistic avenue she can. Fish’s next project is even more stripped down than her power trio, an Americana collection due in the fall made in Mississippi with Wild Heart producer Luther Dickinson.

“Jimbo Mathis and Lightnin’ Malcolm are on it, Lili Mae from Nashville played and sang — I recorded one of her songs,” she said. “We’re going to have this juxtaposition of a really polished soulful record and a semi-acoustic songwriter album …

I’m really excited for people to hear it.

There is so much to pick from, if they don’t like Chills and Fever because it was too much soul, they’ll love this.”

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nings and Merle Haggard 22 German magazine, with “Der” 23 Restaurant reviewer’s website 26 “___ la vie” 27 2000 World Series MVP 32 Pianist Rubenstein 34 Gillette razor brand 35 “That can’t be right!”

36 Exhibitions seen through a small hole 40 “Washboard” muscles 43 Conspire 44 Daytime programming, once 48 Gene Chandler doo-wop hit that starts with a solo bass voice 52 Ball of thread (whose name lent itself to a word meaning “hint”) 53 Cookbook instruction 54 “The House at Pooh Corner” author

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67 Coldplay’s label 68 Rally feature 69 Santa ___, Calif.

70 Barbie’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Down 1 Sardou drama on which a Puccini opera is based 2 Another word for sea bass 3 Self-absorbed person 4 Sank your teeth into 5 Divine counselor 6 Company that’s built brick by brick?

7 Jeff Bridges’s brother 8 “Life of Pi” author Martel 9 “Treasure Island” illustrator, 1911 10 Flamboyant scarf 11 Gear tooth 13 “Hamlet” genre, for short 14 Clock setting in most of AZ 20 Abate 21 Swirly bread variety 24 Spider-Man co-creator Stan 25 Get leverage, in a way

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) On her unexpected return home there were many questions asked, and sulky answers given. An answer is an answer, no matter how sulky.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) April had got into the way of reading Jane Austen less for pleasure than as a counteraction to those French books and Chinese and Egyptian prints and pictures which Barry liked her to study before he tried to follow out their instructions and illustrations in bed. A wide variety of reading material will be useful.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) For years May had been President of the Flower Arrangers’ Guild. … She was faithful in her attendance at meetings of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association…. Another quality of hers — disapproval — generated in her an unselfish interest and a compulsion to help, and, if possible, improve, what she saw wrong or mistaken in her friends’ lives or behaviour.

For their problems, skills, failures, gardens, children, or husbands she had an endless fund of unreliable information and advice.

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Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Unimpressed by other people’s lifestyles, and filled with kind thoughts, they enjoyed agreeing with each other along every mile of their homeward roads.

It’s good to be agreeable but a little clash of perspectives won’t hurt anything.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) Jasper liked teasing everybody. Even Baby June — at times more especially Baby June. She was vulnerable, and her provincial way of speaking annoyed him. Teasing is not nice.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Little as she liked him, May, with her artist’s eye, recognised and admitted Jasper’s undeniable chic and style. Take what you can use and leave the rest.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) One of the pleasant things about Ulick was his supply of really good China tea. It’s tea time!

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Cancer (June 21 – July 22) In every beginning there is a certain tense excitement, a brief time of discovery before all is familiar, to be accepted or discarded. It was like this in the first days of Leda’s return to Durraghglass. It’s a time of discovery.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Jasper Swift, owner although not sole possessor of Durraghglass, was back in the kitchen where he belonged. He had been on his weekly shopping expedition. Today he had forgotten his shopping list — something that could happen to the most efficiently equipped person, even to his sister May. Don’t forget your shopping list.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) April had grown accustomed to her tolerant disgust with most things in life except herself. That’s the spirit.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Jasper’s cat, having eaten as much as he was able of the pigeon, returned to the breadboard where he sat at his ease, making the noises of a sated tiger. … Seated on the breadboard within the wreath of carved wheatears, Mister Minkles not only supplied an object for Jasper’s affection and carefulness, he embodied his enduring defiance of those sisters with their clinical, dainty ideas. They were afraid of Mister Minkles, afraid for themselves as well as for their dogs. No one messes with Mister Minkles.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) When she had patted nourishing creams into face, neck, arms, feet — a different kind for each and all expensive — April put on her crushed cambric nightdress (she hated nylon) and, smelling sweetly and freshly, got into bed. … she leant into her pillows and sat sipping and burping her way through a health drink before picking up Mansfield Park from the top of the po cupboard. Well, really, nylon’s not good for a nightdress.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION court declared it illegal to keep lobsters on ice in restaurants because it causes them undue suffering. “The suffering caused by detaining the animals while they wait to be cooked cannot be justified,” the judges ruled.

• In a fit of law abidance, a resident of Yorkshire, England, called that country’s emergency phone number to report that Queen Elizabeth II was not wearing her seatbelt as she departed the Palace of Westminster on June 21 after delivering her traditional speech at the State Opening of Parliament. Police warned that the Smooth reactions • Did you say french fries or FRESH 999 system is meant to be used only for fries? Eiram Chanel Amir Dixson, 25, emergencies. made a point of ordering fresh french fries at a Coon Rapids, Minnesota, Wen- Bright ideas Smoke bombs aren’t just for celebratdy’s drive-thru in May. When the exchange between the dissatisfied Dixson and a Wen- ing our nation’s birth! Mike Tingley of dy’s worker escalated, the employee threw Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, burned a soda at Dixson, and Dixson fired back by his garage to the ground on July 3 when he spraying Mace through the drive-thru win- used smoke bombs to try to rid the strucdow. Police charged Dixson with one count ture of a bees’ nest. When firefighters from three townships arrived, fireworks stored in of using tear gas to immobilize.

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A driver in Zhenjiang, China, took drive-thru service to the next level on June 10 when he carefully pulled his tiny automobile through the front doors of a convenience store, requested a package of potato chips and a bottle of yogurt, paid for his purchase and reversed through the doors with the cashier’s guidance. Surveillance video shows the cashier waving and saluting as the car pulls away. He posited that the driver might have been avoiding getting out of his car in the rain.

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• A restaurant owner near Florence, Italy, was ordered to pay 2,000 euros in fines in June after judges in Italy’s highest

The entrepreneurial spirit

Ventura County, California, sheriff’s officers charged three produce workers with grand theft fruit after they were caught making unauthorized cash sales of avocados from a ripening facility. Joseph Valenzuela, 38, Carlos Chavez, 28, and Rahim Leblanc, 30, liquidated up to $300,000 worth of off-thebooks avocados. “It’s a big product here in California,” said Sgt. John Franchi. “Everybody loves avocados.”

Fashion emergency

• To beat June’s record heat, male students at Isca Academy in Exeter, England, protested the school’s no-shorts rule by wearing the same uniform skirts the girls wear. One boy said the skirts were “quite refreshing.” Another enjoyed the “nice breeze.”

• And farther south, in Nantes, France, bus drivers adopted the same skirt-wearing strategy to oppose the bus company’s strict no-shorts policy. Temperatures in the region have reached record highs this year, and female drivers are allowed to wear skirts. The company responded by allowing “shorts that correspond to the uniform’s color scheme of black and beige.”

News that sounds like a joke

The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy reported in June that as many as 16.4 million Americans believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. In fact, the center’s most frequently asked question on its website is, “Does chocolate milk come from brown cows?” (The answer is no.) Almost half of respondents to the center’s survey weren’t sure where chocolate milk comes from at all.

Visit weirduniverse.net.

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