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We have all had these experiences: looking for the supermarket checkout lane with the fewest customers ahead of us, finding alternative routes to avoid traffic, tapping our fingers as we wait for a web page to appear, fussing in an airport when TSA seems to take too much time to process passengers.

These experiences, and thousands like them, provoke our impatience, frustration and occasionally outright anger. Why? For the simple reason that we consider our time valuable, so valuable in fact that we do not want to waste it waiting.

Our expectation of efficiency extends across almost everything we do: fast food, 10-minute oil changes, on-demand services, expedited shipment, fast pain relief, wonder diets and even shortcuts to spiritual enlightenment.

Coincidentally, the epitome of all this comes at almost the same time of year as does its exact opposite. Black Friday, which launches the pre-Christmas shopping stampede, occurs shortly before the Christian season of Advent.

In most Christian communities, Advent (from the Latin “to come”) is the four-week period leading to Christmas and represents a period of preparation for the observance of Christmas, the birth of Christ, and for what many believe will be his eventual return. Whatever may be its religious significance, however, Advent is a time of waiting. Now think about that for a moment. A “time of waiting” is antithetical to the priority we assign immediate results. Why would anyone wait for anything?

Regardless of the name given to any of them, all religious traditions emphasize the experience of waiting — more specifically, quiet waiting: a period of time in which all other activities cease and a person simply sits silently and open to whatever voice may speak to her or him. It is a period not unlike that dormancy we experience annually as winter. Nature is closed in on herself, the forces and powers of the previous seasons have ended and new ones are germinating, ready to burst forth in the spring. Over the millennia, traditional societies have marked this time of year with seasonal festivals, including the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the beginning of the gradual lengthening of days. The lesson is obvious: fresh, new life comes about only by passing through this period of quietude, this period of waiting.

The word “pregnant” captures this paradox beautifully. Its etymology is “before birth.” Pregnancy is preeminently a period of waiting but also of development. It might be interesting to think of these weeks before Christmas in a different way.

Stephen Reno is executive director of Leadership New Hampshire. His email is stepreno@gmail.com.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected a Superfund site in Nashua for “immediate and intense attention,” according to a press release from the EPA. The former Mohawk Tannery facility, also known as Granite State Leathers, was one of 21 priority Superfund sites on a recently announced list. The site was proposed to the priorities list in 2002 because of past disposal practices that discharged hazardous chemicals into the Nashua River, such as chromium, zinc and phenol. Some cleanup work has been done, and the old tannery building was demolished but more cleanup is required to make the land ready for reuse by interested developers. Rhode Island was the only other New England state to have a site listed among the national priorities.

Meanwhile, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen praised an EPA announcement of a cross-agency initiative that aims to deal with the family of chemicals of which perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, is a member, according to a press release. The emergent contaminants, referred to broadly as PFAS, have been linked to certain types of cancer and have contaminated numerous groundwater sites in New Hampshire and elsewhere. The agency will identify short-term actions it can take to help impacted communities, enhance coordination with states and other partners, increase research efforts to find new ways of measuring PFAS and provide states with proactive information about potential health effects.

ACA enrollment

So far, there are about 19,500 Granite Staters enrolled in the insurance plans offered under the Affordable Care Act, according to the federal government.

The AP reported the numbers are through Dec. 2 and don’t include people who are automatically reenrolled in their existing plans.

Across the nation, 823,000 people have signed up for Obamacare plans through Healthcare. gov during that period, bringing the total up to 3.6 million.

FirstNet

Gov. Chris Sununu announced he wants to opt out of a national first responder communications network called FirstNet that will be built and managed by AT&T, according to a press release. He made the announcement at New Hampshire State Police Troop F in Twin Mountain along with Attorney General Gordon MacDonald and Safety Commissioner John Barthelmes. New Hampshire’s Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee voted 15-0 to opt out of the AT&T contract. Sununu is instead planning to offer the contract to Rivada Networks to create a wireless high-speed broadband network for the state’s first responders, which must be compatible with networks in other states. The plan needs to be approved by the Executive Council in January but some councilors, including Joe Kenney, have been critical of the proposal.

Kenney called Rivada an inexperienced startup that has never built a wireless network before, New Hampshire Business Review reported.

Voucher bill

Competing studies tout and conversely warn against a bill in the legislature that would allow the state to issue tuition dollars to be used in the school of a parent’s choice, including private schools or home schooling. A study by the pro-public school nonprofit Reaching Higher NH found that the bill would likely result in the loss of state dollars to public school districts as money is redirected elsewhere through the so-called education freedom savings accounts. If a district loses a quarter of one percent of its budget because of this, some of that money is reimbursed in the form of stabilization grants. Reaching Higher NH projected this would cost the state $31 million in new spending over the next five years.

Meanwhile, districts would lose approximately $5.8 million in the first year. Manchester would lose $430,000 and Nashua would lose $407,000 if 1 percent of eligible students opt for a voucher. Another study, by the pro-school choice think tank the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, found that

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impacts on public school districts would be relatively minor. Even if 5 percent of eligible students were to take up the vouchers, the study says, districts would still keep 98 percent of their operating budgets.

Concord shelter

The cold-weather shelter in Concord is set to open on Dec. 18 and remain available to homeless people so they can sleep in warmth through March 31, the Concord Monitor reported. It will be located at Saint Peter’s Church at 135 N. Main St., the same location as the past two years. Meanwhile, the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness is constructing its own permanent winter shelter. The hours of operation at the shelter will be 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. this year.

The shelter is expected to see an average of 35 people, but during the coldest nights the numbers can grow to the 50s. The new shelter, which should be ready to use by next winter, will have a maximum capacity of 40 people.

The school board in Pembroke may contract an independent audit of a $1 million budget shortfall that led to tax hikes and budget cuts in next year’s budget, the Concord Monitor reported.

According to the story, a citizen petition was submitted seeking answers about what caused the shortfall.

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Police in Goffstown locked down their department after a Pepsi bottle was left behind by a man with a note attached to it saying its conBedford tents could be hazardous, WMUR reported. The State Police bomb squad disposed Amherst of the bottle, which was deemed not hazardous, and Milford the unidentified man was later located by police.

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Brian Rhodes was named the next fire department chief in Derry of Nashua, the Telegraph Merrimack Nashua reported. He’s currently serving as assistant Londonderry chief and will succeed Chief Steven Galipeau in April.

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Granite Bridge project

Liberty Utilities unveiled a plan for a new infrastructure project that would deliver additional national gas into the state. According to a press release, the project dubbed Granite Bridge would be a new underground pipeline connecting to existing infrastructure in the Seacoast and moving the gas toward the center of the state along the Route 101 right of way.

Liberty touted the plan as a way to provide a reliable source of gas, create jobs and lower heating bills. Existing natural gas

The City of Manchester settled a lawsuit over its panhandling laws by paying $89,000, NHPR reported.

The plaintiff, Theresa Petrello, was cited by police for disorderly conduct in 2015.

The ordinance used then was ruled unconstitutional by a federal court earlier this year.

pipelines into the state are nearing capacity, which causes spikes in heating cost during the coldest days of winter.

SNHU tuition

Southern New Hampshire University announced it will be freezing its tuition for campus programs for the 2018-2019 academic year. The AP reported the current tuition for the school is $30,800.

Thanks to $360,000 in federal grants, the Manchester VA Medical Center is improving access to complementary practices like yoga, meditation, massage and biofeedback.

According to a press release, the program is called Healing Into Wholeness, and it will begin next spring. While some of these practices will be new for the medical center, some like yoga and acupuncture have already been offered.

With housing and fees included, the cost for students is between $41,700 and $46,800, according to the story. It’s the second year in a row SNHU has frozen campus tuition. More than 90 percent of students at the nonprofit university receive financial aid. Tuition at nonprofit private institutions across the country has risen by 13 percent over the past five years, according to SNHU.

CONCORD PARKERS

The City of Concord has increased its parking rates for certain meters. It’s the first time the city has changed its parking fee system in seven years, according to the Concord Monitor. In addition to increasing the rates from 75 cents to $1 an hour, the city council voted to expand metered areas, increased hours of enforcement and adjusted the neighborhood parking permit system near the law school, making it required to renew the permits each year and changing the price from $5 to $50 by fiscal year 2019.

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NEWS

Mixed bag

How the GOP tax bills will affect N.H. taxpayers

By Ryan Lessard

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Republicans in Congress have passed tax reform bills in the U.S. House and Senate, and a local economist says New Hampshire — a relatively high-income state — will experience a lot of benefits from tax cuts at the upper end of the income distribution, and some benefits for lower-income individuals as well.

But the roughly 80,000 to 100,000 residents who work in Massachusetts as well as college graduates are among those who will lose some of their existing benefits.

Wealthy population

While major population centers like Manchester still struggle with pockets of poverty, the state has one of the lowest poverty rates in the country, according to Greg Bird, an economist with the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies.

“Relative to other states, we’re less poor and higher-income,” Bird said.

In fact, the Granite State has the highest median income in the country ($76,260), according to 2016 U.S. Census data.

As a result, the vast majority of federal income taxes, in dollars, paid to the government comes from the richest Granite Staters. To put it in perspective, Bird said the wealthiest 1 percent of the state population paid 28 percent of total federal income taxes in 2015, according to IRS data. And the bottom 31 percent of all taxpayers sent 1 percent of the $7 billion the government received.

To put it another way, about 70 to 75 percent of all federal income taxes are paid by people making $100,000 per year or more.

The differences between the House and Senate bills make it difficult to definitively say who stands to benefit the most, Bird said. But in New Hampshire, at least, it seems like the top income earners will be happy with the deal for the most part.

“Because most of the federal income taxes New Hampshire residents pay are by wealthy individuals … it will likely help out the folks that pay the bulk of the taxes, which just happens to be the wealthy,” Bird said.

Some of these tax breaks come in the

form of lowered tax rates. The House version takes the existing seven tax brackets (10, 15, 25, 28, 33, 35 and 39.6 percent) and reduces them to four, while the Senate version lowers most of the rates in the existing seven brackets. In the Senate bill, the top rate goes down to 38.5 percent. The House bill keeps the top rate at 39.6 percent but raises the income threshold to $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for married couples.

Other benefits for the wealthy come from changes with the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax. Bird said the House bill would completely eliminate the estate tax, a tax on inheritance of a certain size. The Senate increases the amount exempt. Right now assets under $5 million are exempt, Bird said.

For New Hampshire, this would have very little impact; only 142 federal estate taxes were filed in the state in 2015.

“Not many New Hampshire residents pay the federal estate tax, primarily because the exemption is quite high,” Bird said. “We’re talking about a very, very small portion of the population. …

This sort of tax relief has been marketed to really assist the middle-income folks, so it’s sort of puzzling that this provision is in there, because it really only impacts the very, very well-off.”

The House would eliminate the alternative minimum tax, which is in place to ensure the super-wealthy aren’t able to use the tax code to dramatically reduce their tax liability, in some cases to zero.

The Senate version raises the exempGREG BIRD tion. Either way, it would mean the upper-income folks in the state would likely pay less in taxes.

“They would be able to minimize their tax liability much more than they are able to now under the current regime,” Bird said.

$10,000.

Since most Granite Staters claim somewhere around $6,000 to $8,000 per return, this is also not going to affect many residents. It is going to affect folks who make $500,000 or more, roughly, since they tend to claim around $22,000.

“So that would be a hit on the upper end of the income distribution,” Bird said.

Another hit on the upper end would be a House plan to cap mortgage interest deductions at $500,000. Right now, the cap is at $1 million mortgages. The Senate would keep that the same.

One group of residents who can still be hurt by the elimination of the SALT deductions are folks who live in New Hampshire but work in a state like Massachusetts, which does have local income taxes.

“Which makes working in Massachusetts that much less enviable. Whether it’s enough to make them come back and work in New Hampshire, that’s probably a stretch,” Bird said.

Property and cross-border He said they make up roughly 20 work percent of New Hampshire’s working New Hampshire is spared one of the population. more controversial elements of these bills, which would change the deductions for state and local income taxes (SALT). College grads Some of the benefits enjoyed by peoThe bills eliminate the SALT deductions, but since there is no income tax in the ple with student debt and who are in grad state, that has no effect here. However, school might go away with the proposed the property tax deductions are capped at tax reforms.

Relative to other states, we’re less poor and higherincome.

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Source: New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies.

Bird said that could be bad news for a chunk of the population.

“New Hampshire tends to be the state where young people carry some of the largest student loan debts in the country,” he said.

The House bill would get rid of the paid student loan interest tax credit, something Bird thinks is probably a big help to many students or former students when it comes time to file for taxes. The Senate version would retain the tax credit.

Another proposal in the House bill would classify graduate student tuition waivers, by which they get often free tuition while earning their Ph.D. in exchange for teaching or research work, as taxable income. Since tuition is usually in the tens of thousands of dollars each year, that could dramatically increase their tax liability and potentially have a cooling effect on new students even pursuing grad school.

“I would think that would have a significant impact,” Bird said.

New Hampshire has research institutions like Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire that could see enrollment impacted by this change.

Low-income residents

Under the 2017 tax rates, the bottom bracket paid 10 percent if they earned $0 to $9,325. Under the Senate plan, the bottom rate would stay the same but the threshold will stretch to $9,525.

The next bracket up today jumps to 15 percent for those making $9,325 to $37,950. The Senate would lower the rate to 12 percent for those paying $9,525 to $38,700. And people who make more than that up to $70,000 will pay 22 percent under its plan.

The House would make anyone earning $12,000 or less exempt from paying any federal taxes, and those up to $45,000 will be charged 12 percent. From there, most middle income earners up to $200,000 will pay 25 percent.

Both the House and Senate bills would nearly double the standard deduction for individual and married filers, from about $6,000 to $12,000 for individuals and from $12,000 to $24,000 for married couples.

Bird said that since most people in the state who earn less than $100,000 choose to take advantage of the standard deduction, that could help a lot of Granite Staters.

“If you’re on the lower end [of the income distribution] and you’re not itemizing, then that definitely should provide some assistance to you,” Bird said.

NEWS

Acupuncture for addicts

Rulemaking stalls access to acupuncture for withdrawal

By Ryan Lessard

news@hippopress.com

A bill that passed this summer allowed for addiction treatment and recovery staff to be trained and licensed to perform an acupuncture procedure that, for some, could help alleviate the symptoms of addiction withdrawal or post-disaster trauma. But, five months later, the procedure still can’t be done because the state licensing body has yet to set the rules.

Quirk of the process

Elizabeth Ropp is an acupuncturist who has practiced for 10 years and currently works out of the community clinic in Manchester called Manchester Acupuncture Studio.

Right now, anyone already licensed to perform acupuncture, like Ropp, can provide ear acu-detox. But Ropp wants to make it available to the masses by allowing people like peer recovery coaches, counselors and other licensed health care professionals to perform the procedure so that people suffering from substance use disorder can get easier and less expensive access to it.

Ropp and fellow advocates like Laura Cooley of Orford ushered the bill through the legislature with the help of Manchester state Rep. Bob Backus, a Democrat.

But the acupuncture industry is divided on the issue.

“I knew, going into this, that I would have to fight my own profession,” Ropp said.

In fact, the strongest opposition came from the state Board of Acupuncture Licensing, which she said tried to render the bill ineffective with an amendment proposed by an ally in the legislature. That amendment failed and the bill became law in July.

But, in a quirk of the process, the same board that opposed the law now has to write the rules, and they haven’t yet.

“Here’s the crux that we’re in right now.

Even though the bill was signed in July … the board of acupuncture licensing that never wanted the law to begin with gets to write the rules,” Ropp said.

How it works

It involves putting needles in five points in each ear. The needles stay in for 20 minutes or more, Ropp said. After that, relief from symptoms like pounding headaches, body aches and nausea can be experienced for up to eight hours.

It’s most effective at treating the early stages of withdrawal after an individual stops taking the narcotic substance. Ideally, they’d receive the treatment daily, which Ropp said

Elizabeth Ropp’s husband Eric shows off his ear needles. Courtesy photo.

would decrease the chances of relapse.

She said many people seek help at Safe Station and Serenity Place and the like, but when they start detoxing, the serious discomfort and pain they go through drives many of them back to the streets for a fix.

Ropp said it’s also useful for latter stages of recovery.

Technically, people can get this treatment right now at the clinics like Manchester Acupuncture Studio, but the point of the legislation was to ensure access to this treatment in places where people suffering substance use disorder are and where they go to seek help. They typically don’t enter an acupuncture clinic, Ropp said, and even if they did, the clinic isn’t trained to provide counseling and other services.

To any detractors who think the ear acupuncture won’t work, Ropp said it’s not for everybody but everybody should be given the choice.

“It can’t hurt you. And … when it comes to recovery, everyone needs as many options as possible,” Ropp said.

The procedure is safe and no malpractice claims have ever been filed for the procedure in the country. Plus, she said, it’s a low-cost procedure. The needles alone cost about 50 cents per session. Then, a person just needs cotton balls, hand sanitizer and a sharps container.

The delay

It’s now December, and people who would be best positioned to give relief to individuals struggling through the detox process, like allied health professionals, peer recovery coaches, volunteers and paramedics, are still unable to render this form of care because the Board of Acupuncture Licensing hasn’t completed the rulemaking process.

Bob Lamberti, a lawyer who works with state licensing bodies, said in an email that the board started work on the rules before the bill became law and held an extra meeting in October, but the board usually only meets quarterly and doesn’t always have a quorum so they can vote. Sen. John Reagan, the chair of the joint rules committee, said it’s not uncommon for small licensing boards to 8

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Transgender health

The past, present and future of transgender medical services in the area

By Ryan Lessard

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Kerry Anne Garnick is a 21-year-old transgender woman who lives with her parents in Hudson. She is on the waitlist to have gender reassignment surgery in Boston, an option she first heard about from her endocrinologist in Amherst.

“I was excited. I was looking for a place to … get on the waitlist as fast as possible,” Garnick said.

As part of the process, she’s obtained letters of recommendation from two therapists, another from her endocrinologist, and just last week got a letter from an electrologist for hair removal. Her surgery is covered by her Anthem insurance; it would have been upward of $30,000 if she had to pay out of pocket.

Access and affordability

Just five years ago, Dr. Joshua Safer at Boston Medical Center would have called it the dark ages for transgender health care in the region and the country. But many things have changed in just the past few years.

In September 2016, BMC started performing the first male-to-female gender reassignment surgeries in New England. Safer, an endocrinologist, is the medical director of the hospital’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.

“Up until we got our program going, the patients had to travel out of state. … The nearest places to get your genital surgeries were Philadelphia and Montreal,” Safer said.

“Really, there were only only half a dozen well-known places nationally and maybe a dozen total places. … It was a huge addition to the landscape, basically, that we could even do this at all, here in Boston. So the majority of the population of New England has at least reasonable driving access.”

Other medical services such as hormone therapy, breast reduction or augmentation surgeries, facial feminization surgeries, orchiectomies (the removal of the testes) and hysterectomies (removal of the uterus) had already been available at the hospital for the past several years.

The addition of genital surgery is a big deal for New Hampshire’s transgender community, for whom many can now drive to the 7 be sluggish in writing even relatively simple rules. Unlike state agencies like the health department, they don’t have dedicated rules coordinators to help them.

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Transgender people in New Hampshire, which includes trans men, trans women and nonbinary transgender individuals, are a small minority in the state. According to a June 2016 report by the Williams Institute,

The new gender confirmation surgery in Boston is unique for a few reasons, according to Safer. The procedure is conducted by a two-man team: urologist Dr. Robert Oates and plastic surgeon Dr. Jaromir Slama. They studied the procedure at the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland and had visiting surgeons supervise the initial surgeries. Now, Safer said the Boston team has become some of the most proficient vaginoplasty surgeons in the country.

“Because they come at it as surgical experts in their own right, prior to doing this, they actually have thought of different approaches than were standard among those doing these surgeries elsewhere,” Safer said.

They have done nearly 30 operations so far, averaging about two per month. About 500

people have expressed interest and patients are coming from all over New England. That means Boston Medical Center doesn’t have the capacity alone to meet the demand, Safer said.

“There’s no doubt that, as a region, one surgeon doing surgeries every couple of weeks is insufficient,” he said.

He would like to expand the program there by training more surgeons and would like to see other hospitals, such as in New Hampshire, offer more services, including reassignment surgery, as well.

Additional training for primary care settings would also help reduce barriers for trans people in New Hampshire. Linds Jackows, the campaign director for Freedom New Hampshire, a transgender advocacy group, said they’ve heard recent examples of people being turned away from primary care doctors who wouldn’t take them on, even to care for unrelated issues, because the doctors stated they never had a trans patient before.

“That’s discrimination. That’s completely unacceptable,” Jackows said.

Jackows, who is a nonbinary transgender person, hopes the transgender nondiscrimination bill will pass this year and prevent that sort of thing from happening.

And while carriers have begun to cover procedures that were not covered before, it’s still hit or miss with certain procedures. Usually, this has to do with policies that delineate between procedures that are seen as cosmetic versus medically necessary.

Anthem doesn’t cover breast augmentation, as a general rule, nor does it cover facial feminization surgery. Harvard Pilgrim says it covers some of the essential elements of feminization. But neither cover laser hair removal, which is needed before genital surgery.

“It’s just frustrating because it’s a necessity of the procedure that costs a lot of money most people don’t have,” Garnick said.

Garnick is opting for electrolysis, which she said costs about $60 per session. After all the sessions needed in a year, Safer estimates the costs range from $500 to $1,000.

“But as we expand this to the general population, there are going to be a lot of people who don’t have those kinds of resources,” Safer said.

And having extra savings could preclude people from getting covered under Medicaid, he said.

she’s cautiously optimistic.

Cooley saw an early draft of the rules.

“It looked pretty good to me,” Cooley said.

Still, she said the board hasn’t gotten to the stickier issue of how to deal with non-acupuncturists.

While no one in recovery and treatment

centers is allowed to start offering this service aside from licensed acupuncturists, some in the recovery scene are already getting trained on how to do it.

Ryan Fowler, a recovery worker in Concord, was in an early group to get trained by the National Acupuncture Detoxification

Association, as was Nikki Casey, the director of Revive Recovery Resource Center in Nashua.

Casey said she was part of a group of about 10 people who did the training and she hopes to host regular NADA trainings at the Nashua facility in the future.

hospital or take public transportation.

In the meantime, many of the barriers in insurance coverage have fallen away in the past few years as private carriers such as Harvard Pilgrim and Anthem have started to offer plans for transgender medical care that include reassignment surgeries.

On Jan. 1, 2017, federal rules kicked in that prohibited discrimination by insurers on the basis of someone’s transgender identity, according to the New Hampshire Insurance Department, though they doesn’t specify any particular procedures, and in New Hampshire it’s not required that a carrier provide transgender reassignment-related coverage.

More recently, New Hampshire lifted a ban on Medicaid coverage for gender reassignment surgery, alternatively known as gender affirmation or confirmation surgery. That was a change by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules at the request of the health department, which cited the federal rules as its reason for lifting the ban.

And in the past few years DartmouthHitchcock has expanded its transgender medical offerings through its transgender clinic led by a team of three endocrinologists.

Dr. John “Jack” Turco is the director of the clinic, which has locations in Lebanon, Bedford and Manchester. He said he’s been seeing individual trans patients since the 1980s, but the clinic has become more formalized in the last four or five years and their new adolescent clinic began about two years ago.

“We’re seeing them as endocrinologists mostly to initiate hormone therapy as adolescents and adults,” Turco said.

Their services also involve clinical social workers and psychologists, and the team helps patients who are very young and assists parents with navigating the options available.

In the coming years, Turco hopes Dartmouth will be the first hospital in the state to offer gender affirmation surgery like the kind offered at BMC. “We’re hoping to evolve into doing vaginoplasty,” Turco said.

The trans community

there’s an estimated total of about 4,500 transgender people in the state, of which 650 are age 18 to 24, 3,100 are 25 to 64 and 750 are 65 and older. There’s an estimated 1.4 million in the whole country, which is just over the total population of New Hampshire.

Overall, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock clinic sees about 500 transgender patients, split roughly evenly between women and men.

About a fifth of them are children, who can be as young as 8 years old in some cases, though most are 12 or older.

Dr. Nancy Charest, a pediatric endocrinologist with the Dartmouth clinic, said she sees about five new patients each month.

The clinic’s third endocrinologist, Dr. Benjamin Boh, said the biggest change has been the influx of young patients.

“We are seeing more adolescents. We are seeing patients in general in younger ages who are interested in medical transition,” Boh said.

Adult patients tend to present at different points in their life, but he thinks the growing cultural understanding of transgender identity among parents has made it possible for more young people to pursue transgender care.

Kristine Stoddard, the director of Bi-State Primary Care Association, said the most recent data from federally subsidized community health centers in New Hampshire reported 22 trans men and 13 trans women patients in the last year. Health centers were just required to start tracking transgender data in March 2016, so numbers are expected to increase.

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QOL Score: -1 Comment: The total number of people experiencing homelessness in New Hampshire also went up since last year, according to the report: roughly 11 in every 10,000 people.

Food Bank donation The New Hampshire Food Bank has received another sizeable donation as part of the annual WMUR Spirit of Giving Food Drive, the AP reported. An anonymous donor who has given the Food Bank $275,000 in recent years has agreed to match each dollar donated to the program throughout the end of the year, up to $100,000.

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Toxic chemicals in fire station drinking water Four fire departments in the state have elevated levels of perfluorochemicals, or PFCs, detected either in their drinking water or in nearby monitoring wells. NHPR reported the Kingston and Windham fire departments had the contaminants in their drinking water and the Franklin Fire Department and the former fire station at New Boston Air Base had high levels in nearby monitoring wells. The state has recommended all fire departments with private wells test for PFCs, according to the story. So far, eight other departments have submitted samples; four had PFC levels under the state limit and four had no PFCs. QOL Score: -1 Comment: The wells in Windham and Kingston were at roughly twice the state safety threshold of 70 parts per trillion.

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News Item: NFL officiating is horrendous Yes, it was a cheap shot. Yes, he should have been punished. But how in the name of Ed Hochuli did those bozos in the striped shirts miss the now sainted Tre’Davious White holding Gronkowski all through that entire play and blatantly pushing off to get the interception? It brings up two issues.

(1) The officiating in the NFL is pathetic. I know it’s hard to see all the stuff that goes on in the trenches, but it’s incredible that White basically being dragged along by Gronk on that play 20 yards downfield was not seen by any of the three officials in the area. (2) Gronk is to the NFL what Shaq was to the NBA — too big to be guarded, so the officials level the playing field by not calling three-fourths of the fouls against him. And that’s a prescription for frustration to eventually boil over as it did in Buffalo. If you don’t believe me, go talk to Sean Payton in New Orleans, who had a few things to say on the subject last week.

News Item: How hard can this be?

Glory-oski Batman — people in Ohio are up in arms that Alabama made the Final Four in college football instead of Ohio State. And not because it’s a state so morally bankrupt it was close to electing gun-toting, teenagechasing Roy S. Moore to the U.S. Senate. It’s because thanks to a corrupt system designed to protect the major bowl games its very good football team got left out of the football playoffs. You have to be as dumb as many in Alabama to not see how making it an eightteam tournament would put controversies like this to rest. Give the five major conferences an automatic bid, which would be earned by winning their conference playoff title games.

That would effectively make it a 13-team tourney, conference championship weekend a bigger deal and regular season conference play far more important, while taking it out of the hands of the computer. That leaves

three at large bids to give very good teams like OSU another way in. Start it around New Year’s Day at the Rose, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta Bowls and play in from there. The bowls left out are like the NIT is to the NCAA Basketball Tournament — nobody cares, but people still watch. And making it an eightteam tourney adds just one game, so, uh (cue the canned laughter), classroom work will not be interrupted. Especially since it all happens during the holiday break. So don’t give me that one.

News Item: Harding honored at premiere Just when you think the hole humanity is digging itself for awful behavior and celebrity worship can’t go any lower, it does.

The latest came at the L.A. premier of the new Hollywood motion picture I, Tonya.

The film is about the ambush and attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan to clear the way to a gold medal for Tonya Harding right before the 1994 Winter Olympics, carried out by Harding’s husband Jeff Gillooly and a gang of Jerry Springer show rejects. Harding was on hand beaming on the red carpet with no embarrassment whatsoever for her role in the sordid affair. Which wasn’t even the worst part. There was also the nitwit actor who played Gillooly, Sebastian Stan (whoever he is) gushing, “I don’t know if I should even say hi to her …. I’m totally star struck right now.” The audience then astonishingly gave Harding a standing freaking ovation when she came on the stage prior to the screening!

You dimwits — her camp attacked an innocent woman to cash in on the fame of winning the gold medal, while she hindered the FBI investigation and got banned for life from U.S. Figure Skating. You’re celebrating that? The only thing scarier is what will come next to dig the sordid hole of debauchery a little deeper.

I’ve got to go throw up. See you next week.

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News Item: Gronk turned into a racial thing This story was perfect for Patriots haters. They had something to yak about with the added benefit that by drilling Buffalo DB Tre’Davious White long after the play was over Rob Gronkowski actually did something wrong this time. But that’s not where it stayed. Thanks to Fox doofus Shannon Sharpe and ESPN yakers Marcellus Wiley, Ryan Clark and a nearly incoherent Michael Wilbon on WEEI, it somehow was turned it into a racial referendum with all saying if Gronk were black he’d have gotten more than a one-game suspension. They pointed to the recent dustup that got African-Americans Michael Crabtree (Raiders) and Aqib Talib (Broncos) two games (reduced to one) each.

Of course, all conveniently forgot to mention Talib has a rap sheet longer than North River Road and the fracas was Round II after doing battle for the exact same thing — Talib ripping a chain off Crabtree’s neck — a year earlier. Personally, I’d have given Crabtree a game for just being dumb enough to wear a chain into a football game, but that’s a story for another day.

They also neglected to mention that Ray Rice, Greg Hardy and Adrian Peterson originally got just two games each for punching out a fiancée in an elevator, physically assaulting a girlfriend and throwing her on a bed filled with guns and blistering the behind of a three-year-old son with a switch hard enough to draw blood, respectively. While Tom Brady got four games for the still unproven charge of letting a little air out of some footballs and Ben Roethlisberger got six (reduced to four) for doing something in the neighborhood of what the sinister trio did.

Bottom line: People with agendas believe

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S PEOPLE, PLACES & OTHER STUFF

SNHU wins a big one

Bragging Rights Game of the Week: It went to the SHNU men in an early showdown of undefeated teams in NE-10 play at the start of the week via an 87-80 decision over Bentley. The Penmen got a combined 61 points from stars Chris Walters (34) and Daquaise Andrews (27), who were keys in the second-half comeback they rode to the win. That moved 18th ranked nationally SNHU to 9-0 on the year while the Falcons fell to 4-1 in the conference and 6-2 overall.

Sports 101: Name the three people to play with both Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.

That’s All She Wrote Award: To the UNH football team, which got a chilly reception from South Dakota State as it got run over 56-14 in the semifinal round of the Division I FCS tournament. And with SDS scoring the first 35 points it wasn’t as close as the score indicates. It left the U at 9-5 for the season after losing for the third time in five years in the semifinal round.

Alumni News: One time threesports-player at Trinity HS Carmen Giampetruzzi has been named tri-captain of the 2018 Boston College baseball team, when the (not so) Little G (anymore) is

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17 – game-high points off the bench by sophomore Lyric Grumblatt as Memorial rolled to a 63-40 opening night win over Londonderry when Mollie Simpson added 11 more.

19 – game-high points for Bedford’s Taylor Grande as Colby-Sawyer was a 71-61 winner over Castleton State on Manchester’s Jourdaine Bell’s two free throws with one second left.

expected to be the Eagle closer in his (how could it be this already?) senior season.

Alumni News – Injured List Edition: St. Anselm assistant basketball coach from back in the day Steve Clifford took a leave of absence as head coach of the Charlotte Hornets for undisclosed health issues. No timetable was given for his return.

Sports 101 Answer: Hall of Fame centers Robert Parish and Artis Gilmore both played with Bird and Jordan, with the third to do it being Celtics 1985 first-round pick Sam Vincent.

On This Day – Dec. 14: 1920 – The phrase “win one for the Gipper” is born when legendary Notre Dame running back, famously played by Ronald Reagan in his pre-president days, George Gipp dies at 25. 1958 – Future broadcaster Pat Summerall kicks the NFL’s greatest pre-Vinatieri game-winning FG to beat Cleveland at snowed-in Yankee Stadium, sending the G-Men on to face Baltimore in the soon to be greatest (championship) game ever played. 1980 – The Saints end the 14-game losing streak that had fans in New Orleans wearing bags over their heads as they watched the games.

24 – saves for Ryan Slatky as the Trinity alum picked up his first shutout in NHU’s 5-0 win over St. Michael’s when Kyle Galloway had two goals and Goffstown’s Kyle Valliere another.

45 – margin of victory in Bedford’s 71-26 thumping of Trinity when Alli Morgan and Lizzy Stevenson led the way with 12 and 11 points.

69 – combined points

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from Tim Guers (31), Taylor Fortin (23) and Cody Ball (16) in leading St. Anselm to a 90-75 win over St. Michael’s.

328 – school record career receptions for Central alum Troy Pelletier during an outstanding career at Lehigh University, which ended in a loss to Stony Brook in the FCS playoffs. He capped the career with a 105-catchesfor-1,292 yards and 10-TD senior season.

Jerry Springer Show: The 1990s TV freak show where the ex-mayor of Cincinnati would bring out every nut case and delinquent retread his staff could find to hash over beyondbelief tales of infidelity, incest, debauchery and other sordid topics to humiliate one or all of the people on the panel. The problem, or maybe that was the fun, was that almost all were too dumb to be humiliated.

Alabama: State that’s done the impossible: got normal people nationwide thinking even less of it than during the “segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” good old days of George Wallace and the Klan at its peak. They’ve done it with 50 percent of their electorate expected to vote for accused (by an alleged victim) pedophile Roy S. Moore for senator, because that’s better than voting for a Democrat. Plus, alleged pedophile or not, he’s a Christian! The hayseeds are buying Moore’s “All Nine Of Them Are Lying” defense, as successfully used by President Donald J. Trump during his campaign and more recently with the slight “I don’t recall it that way” alteration that was used by soon to be exMinnesota Senator (it’s me) Al Franken until he abandoned it to resign.

Shannon Sharpe: All-pro tight end for Denver and Baltimore and now sports yaker I call “mumbles” because the diction’s so bad – I can’t understand what he’s saying half the time.

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Until now, aspiring comic artists who attend New Hampshire Institute of Art have majored in programs like illustration, taking classes here and there that are comic art-specific. But the increasing number of students who want their studies to be hyper-focused on comics has prompted NHIA to become one of the pioneering schools offering a comic arts program. It will launch with the fall semester of 2018.

“Until now we had no formal way of educating students who were interested in comic arts,” said NHIA Foundations Chairman Joel Gill, who is helping develop the program. “And since many students who were in our illustration program are now working in comics, we thought, why not give them a program of their own?”

In light of this development for the New Hampshire comics community, comic artists and educators shared their insights about how the medium is evolving and offered an inside look at what goes into creating a comic or graphic novel.

A unique medium For Gill, art has always been about telling stories. He fell in love with comics in high school but decided after grad school to pursue painting instead. It wasn’t until a HIPPO | DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2017 | PAGE 14

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friend told him candidly that his paintings were failing to tell a story that he considered returning to comics and making it his primary medium. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that comics were the best way for him to tell the stories he longed to tell.

“Comics appeal to our basic instinct of how language works,” he said. “The writing along with the visuals forms a bigger picture, and you can make the story seem more real without having to say as much.

When you tap into that universal understanding of how we process images, you can get people to take in more information without even realizing it.”

Comics have a unique way of conveying a story that’s different from other visual media like film or theater. Brian Furtado, a comic writing instructor and final-semester Goddard College graduate student studying creative writing with a focus in graphic novels, said one of the things that drew him to comics is their ability to condense and expand time in a story in a way other media can’t.

“Because it’s a series of static images, it lays out specific moments, and it’s up to the reader to determine what is happening between those moments and how much time to present between moments,” he said. “You can pause on a particular image and look at the characters, look at the background and really take in all that is happening. You as the reader control the pace of the story.”

Comics differ even more from prose in that comic writers have full control over how they want the reader to see their world and the characters that inhabit it. Without a visual element, prose allows readers to conjure their own visualization of what’s happening in the story, which is often different from the visual that the writer wants to convey.

“I always use the example of Harry Potter. A lot of people, when they saw the

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movie, were thinking, ‘That’s not how I saw Dumbledore or Hogwarts in my mind when I was reading the book, this is all wrong,’” Furtado said. “That doesn’t happen with comics.”

Having full control of a story’s visuals is especially important for comic writers looking to create autobiographical content based on their own memories.

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Another quality that is exclusive to the comic medium is its accessibility. Unlike with books or film, anyone can create a comic in some capacity, regardless of artistic ability or training. Marek Bennett, a comic artist and educator who teaches workshops on comics at local schools and libraries, said he sees comics not as a fine art but as a “people’s art,” and that the skills needed to create a comic are built into the human imagination and can be harnessed by anyone.

“I tell people that the best cartoonists are kindergarteners and first-graders. They just say, ‘I’m drawing this,’ and have no editorial filter,” he said. “That’s the kind of creative energy that I try to preserve, and I try to show people that they can get that back and participate in comics as an art form without being an expert.”

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• The Beach by Mike Marland, political commentary webcomic, marlandcartoons.com • Bowery Boys: Our Fathers by Cory Levine, period graphic novel, boweryboyscomic.com • The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby by Marek Bennett, historical nonfiction

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15 ing of who his characters are, the storyline and dialogue “fall into place,” he said, because they’re entirely driven by how the characters would react to different situations.

For artists like Bennett, who creates nonfiction comics based on local history, the process begins with researching the person, place or event inspiring the story by looking at a primary source in which that historical information is found. If the source is a person’s journal, for instance, Bennett reads and studies it to determine what is the main objective or key idea behind the text.

“I use the journal as a framework and try to honor it and [determine] what I need to include [in the comic] to give a more complete sense of the text,” he said. “I try to create [the comic] as if it were a comics journal drawn by the person [who wrote the journal]. Of course, I recognize that sometimes I’m going to make decisions that may affect the meaning of the text, and in that case I try to think of myself as a partner collaborating with the original person.”

Gill, who also does historical nonfiction comics, researches the topic, then immediately starts drawing in pencil and structuring the story through images. He places empty word balloons and jots down notes about what dialogue will take place on each page.

The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby by Marek Bennett (Comics Workshop, 2016).

Image courtesy of Marek Bennett.

“Once the pencil is done, I go through the word balloons and figure out a way

to connect [the words and the images] and make them work together,” he said.

“Doing the drawing before the words just makes good sense to me.”

Comic artists use a variety of drawing media, such as pen and ink, pencil, oil or acrylic paints, watercolor and digital drawing programs. One of the most popular techniques is doing the initial sketch with a physical medium, then going over the lines or coloring it in digitally.

Furtado, who is relatively new to drawing for comics, is currently transitioning from pencil and paper to digital art but is finding that it’s not as easy as it looks.

“The first few times I did it, it looked like a child had drawn it,” he said. “It’s entirely different, feeling lead on the paper versus drawing on a screen. It’s like having to reteach yourself to draw all over again, but I love having the copy and paste and undo options.”

Comic drawing styles range from minimalist stick figure art, to cartoon art with solid blocks of color, to detailed realistic art with shading and texturing for dimension, and may be done in full color, monochromatic color or black and white.

Bennett believes that the story rather than the aesthetic should be the focal point of a comic, and that the drawing media, styles and techniques should be chosen based on their ability to convey the story. He’s concluded that stick figure style images are best suited for his historical nonfiction comics.

Marek Bennett Marek Bennett has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He has old sketchbooks from when he was as young as 5. He got serious Courtesy photo. about drawing comics while in college, where he did a daily comic strip for the college newspaper for three years.

“I was surprised when I brought them that first comic and they said, ‘Bring another one

tomorrow.’” he said. “I ended up working on that strip more than I worked on any of my classes. It didn’t pay anything, but I did it because I loved it.”

Bennett was an elementary school teacher before he left his job to pursue comics full time. His body of work consists primarily of nonfiction comics about science and history, including numerous communityspecific mini-comics; the New Hampshire history webcomic Live Free and Draw!; a graphic novel adaptation of a Civil War memoir, The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby; a graphic novel travel memoir, Slovakia: Fall in the Heart of Europe; and Hour 72!,

a graphic novel compilation of his first three 24 Hour Comics.

He is currently working on a new project based on 80 pages of historical letters.

“It’s piecing together the letters and putting together different stories and filling in details in between,” he said. “It’s like a composite that shows what that time might have been like.”

Additionally, Bennett offers a series of discovery-based comic workshops at local schools and libraries where he teaches sequential narrative cartooning techniques.

“These skills I teach them are valuable skills whether you want to be a cartoonist or not,”

he said. “No matter what you do, you need to be able to take pieces of things apart and communicate and share information with people and have it make sense.”

Bennett’s favorite part of creating a comic is the moment in which all of the pieces come together on a page and the idea behind the comic is fully expressed.

“That’s what I live for in creating comics,” he said. “Of course there are some days when you don’t get that feeling, and you have to redraw it the next day, but most days you find a moment like that in the work that you do.”

For more on Marek Bennett and to see his work, visit marekbennett.com.

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“In historical texts, there is often a huge amount of detail that is left out, so instead of trying to draw a detailed picture, I keep the artwork simple. That way my interpretation stays as close as it can get to the original text.” he said. “If the drawing is done effectively, the readers shouldn’t be noticing the artwork style. They should just be caught up in the story.”

Cory Levine

Teaming up The art of comics provides plenty of opportunities for writers and artists to collaborate. While there are those who prefer to do both the writing and artwork themselves, many comics creators relish the collaborative process and have found that merging their talents produces the highestquality work.

“The collaborative nature of comics has been the most interesting part for me,” said Cory Levine, a comic artist and a professor at NHIA who teaches a comic arts class. Levine only recently started drawing his own comics; for years he did only the writing component and worked alongside artists or teams of artists who would do the drawing. “The medium is well suited for two people to work together and produce something that’s better than the sum of its parts. Sharing that creative outcome with another person and going through that process together has always been rewarding for me.”

The writer is usually credited with writing and developing the plot, characters and dialogue while the artist draws the comic’s graphics.

Even if they’ve never drawn or planned to draw for a comic, the writers can benefit greatly from studying art or taking art classes.

“It’s important for them to have some sense of how the visual work is done,” said comic writer and NHIA media professor Alexander Danner. “When you think about a comic visually, you want to make sure that what you’re asking for as a writer is something that’s achievable and possible to do for the artist.”

Before he started drawing his own comics, Furtado worked with other artists on various projects. He said the biggest challenge is getting the artist to fully grasp the writer’s vision and accurately reflect it in the artwork. Sometimes it’s just a matter of compatibility, and it may take going through a few failed collaborations before the writer is able to find an artist who is the right fit for his story.

“The reader isn’t going to see what you put on the [script],” Furtado said. “They’re going to see what the artist draws and presents to them, so the artist has to be able to visualize the story and conceptualize the world and capture all of the emotion and everything that is communicated in the script.”

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Cory Levine has been reading comics since he was a kid but didn’t consider making a career of it until he started working in publishing after college. He previously worked as an assistant editor at Marvel Comics and is now a graphic designer and owner of First Edition Publishing.

His comic writing was first featured in the kids’ action comic Ben10 Omniverse: Ghost Ship and the Monsuno: Combat Chaos graphic novel series. Most recently, he was the writer and co-creator of the period graphic novel Bowery Boys: Our Fathers, a story of adolescents growing up in New York City in the 19th century when wealth disparity was most evident.

“The inspiration came from my experience living in New York City and from the co-creator’s artwork,” Levine said.

“He has a very specific style, and I wanted to write something that would be well suited for what he wanted to draw.”

Levine is currently collaborating with a local dentist’s office to write and draw an educational comic about the importance of proper oral hygiene.

“The story is about a character who is reluctant to floss his teeth and goes on an epic adventure, and the message about oral hygiene is wrapped up into that,” he said. “So it’s both a story and instructional.”

Levine teaches graphic design at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and recently started teaching a comic arts class there called Analyzing the Art of Comics and Cartoons.

“It’s all about the mechanics of comics and how they work and how they tell a story,” he said. “Students learn about comics through thinking about them, talking about them and writing and drawing them.”

For more on Cory Levine and to read Bowery Boys online, visit boweryboyscomic.com.

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“What ends up on the page isn’t always what was in my head, but I love that process of creating a script and seeing how another voice can add another layer to it,” he said.

“It usually comes out in the little details that you weren’t necessarily imagining that carry through to places where you haven’t inserted them yourself.”

Comic challenges For Solbrig, the most challenging thing about creating comics is the amount of time and work it requires. That’s especially true for comic creators who do both the writing and the artwork.

“It just takes so long. Comics are a very time-intensive format,” she said. “There are a lot of skills involved and a lot of competencies required to make something effectively work. It can be very labor-intensive.”

Because of the time requirement, it’s often challenging for a comic artist to produce

comics while holding a regular job. Bennett admits that his family and friends were concerned when he announced that he was leaving his job as a teacher to pursue comics full time, but that only having weekends and evenings to create just wasn’t cutting it.

“When you tell people you’re leaving your job to do comics, people have a tendency to say, ‘Are you sure? That’s kind of a leap,’ but it’s not a total leap if you’re really committed to it and love what you do and can create something that connects with readers,” he said.

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Joel Gill

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Comic artist Joel Gill says his history with comics is like that of a high school girlfriend.

“I fell in love with comics, spent all my time thinking about comics, then went off to college and broke up with comics,” he said.

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number of years, but it was ultimately unfulfilling, so we divorced and I reconnected with comics, and we’ve been married ever since.”

Gill has published three historical nonfiction graphic novels which tell the lesser-known stories of black history in the U.S.: Strange Fruit Vol I : Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth No.1, and Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 2. Gill recently completed a fourth graphic novel, Strange Fruit Vol II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, which is due out next February.

“There is no one else doing comics about black history in the way that I’m doing them,” he said. “There are some comics about black history, like a biography of Muhammad Ali, but none that are specifically about obscure black history.”

His mission with his comics is to show that African-Americans were integral to U.S. his-

tory, and that “black culture” is a part of “American culture,” not a separate entity.

“I want to change the world as a cartoonist,” he said. “It sounds crazy, but I want people to read these stories and have a better understanding of how we’re all connected as humans.”

Right now, Gill is working on a new graphic novel memoir called Fights, about the fights he had as a kid. He was also recently approached about adapting some of his black history comics for film and television in Los Angeles.

“It’s kind of surreal to think that people in Hollywood would want to talk to me about this,” he said. “I’m excited. I think it will be a great thing.”

Gill is also the Chair of Foundations at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and a member of The Boston Comics Roundtable.

For more on Joel Gill, visit joelchristiangill. wordpress.com.

ic artists to find readers, particularly if they are producing a comic outside of the superhero genre, which “remains the most popular genre by far,” Levine said. Comic artists often have to devote a lot of time to pitching their comics to publishers, appearing at comic conventions and promoting their work online.

“You can’t just kick back and expect your work to speak for itself.” Levine said. “That’s what we really try to hammer at [NHIA].

There’s more to being a professional creative than just making the art. You have to get out there and market yourself and make an audience for yourself one person at a time.”

Pushingtheboundaries The world of comics has progressed far beyond superheroes. Comic artists continue to explore new concepts and broaden the scope of the medium, particularly in the indie sector, which Solbrig said is “the most experimental form of media-making with the largest audience.”

“Comics are accessible in that they allow you to experiment with the form and do many different levels of storytelling,” she said. “For me, the work that is the most interesting is the work that exists on the peripheries, the work that is innovative and having its moment.”

Very few aspiring comic artists surveyed at NHIA report wanting to create comics in the superhero genre, Levine said, and more people are coming around to the idea that comics encompass a wider range of content. “[Students] typically want to do something more personal and more distinctive, and that’s fantastic,” he said. “It’s encouraging that they’re looking for other ways to apply the medium.”

While comics are becoming better understood within the arts community, they still face some misconceptions in the mainstream.

People looking for more sober content often dismiss comics for the “pictures and bright colors” that make them appear light-hearted, Gill said, and fail to realize that comics, like any other medium, can tell both amusing and thought-provoking stories.

“People don’t consider how rich and literary comics can be, how powerful and profound, how dark and beautiful and moving. There’s nothing silly about it,” he said.

“It’s an expressive form that is no different from the work of Picasso or anyone else who creates expressively and tells stories.”

Comics have also attained more credibility in the scholarly and academic realm than they’ve had in years past. Many middle schools, high schools and colleges use certain comics as educational texts in their curriculums.

“That was unheard of when I was in school,” Danner said. “I remember having debates with my English teacher about the legitimacy of comics as a literature. It’s not ubiquitous, but there’s definitely a much

BE A COMIC ARTIST Here are some upcoming local opportunities for kids and adults to learn about creating comics.

• The Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications in Manchester is offering an online Editorial Cartooning class on Wednesday evenings from Jan. 10 through Feb. 14. The class is free. Visit loebschool.org.

• Comics Creators is a nine-week course for kids ages 9 through 12 at the Currier Museum Art Center (150 Ash St., Manchester). Classes will run Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m., from Jan. 17 through March 21. The cost is $190. Visit currier. org/art-center. The Currier Museum Art Center also has regular drawing classes for adults. The next session starts Jan. 16.

• Comic artist and educator Marek Bennett holds regular comics workshops at schools, libraries and community centers for kids and adults. Upcoming workshop dates will be announced soon. Visit marekbennett.com.

• The New Hampshire Institute of Art (148 Concord St., Manchester) will launch a new four-year Comic Arts undergraduate program in the fall of 2018. Visit nhia.edu.

• The Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center (30 Ash St., Hollis) has a Comic Art class for kids in grades 7 and up and adults, held on Thursdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m., from Jan. 11 through Feb. 15. The cost is $132. It also has a Cartoon Characters class for kids in grades 4 through 6, held on Tuesdays from 6 to 7:15, from Jan. 9 through Feb. 13. The cost is $117. Visit wildsalamander.com or call 465-9453.

• There’s a How to Draw Cartoons workshop at Kelley Library (234 Main St., Salem) on Thursday, Dec. 28, from 10 a.m. to noon for kids in grades 1 through 6. Registration is required. Visit kelleylibrary.org or call 898-7064.

• Studio 550 Art Center (550 Elm St., Manchester) offers beginner drawing, painting and figure drawing workshops. Visit 550arts.com or call 232-5597 for upcoming dates.

• The Kimball Jenkins School of Art (266 N. Main St., Concord) offers drawing and sketching classes for adults starting in January.

stronger presence of comics in schools, and they’ve certainly gained much more respect as a literature.”

The popularity of comics as both a teaching tool and as entertainment for the younger generation has secured comics a long lasting place in American culture, Gill said.

“With kids nowadays growing up with comics, they will become even more prevalent and widely available, and be even more read in the future than they are now,” he said. “It may take on different forms as time goes on, but I don’t see comics ever waning because of the way people relate to those words and images.”

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An original New Hampshire holiday play returns to the stage when the Manchester Community Theatre Players present Christmas Stories, opening Friday, Dec. 8, in Manchester and Friday, Dec. 15, in Concord.

The play is made up of three Christmas stories that are woven together: “The Christmas Prayer” follows a stressed out, fighting couple whose children pray to have a happy family again and have their prayer answered. “Just What I Always Wanted” is about a man stuck in credit card debt and trying to make ends meet who discovers the true meaning of Christmas. “The Bell Ringer” is about Christmas shopping mayhem and a Salvation Army Santa with a secret identity.

Written by local author and playwright Tom Anastasi in 2003, with music by Peter Bridges, the play has been produced 11 times by theater companies in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Florida, and won the 2004 New Hampshire Theatre Award for Best Original Play.

“I’ve always wanted to write a ChristChristmas Stories Performances: Friday, Dec. 8, and Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m., at the MCTP Theatre, North End Montessori School, 698 Beech St., Manchester; and Friday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 16, at 12:30 and 7 p.m., at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 180 Loudon Road, Concord Cost: Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and children. There is a $25 maximum rate for families.

More info: Visit manchestercommunitytheatre.com or call 224-4393.

Manchester Community Theatre Players present Christmas Stories. Courtesy photo.

mas play,” said Anastasi, who is also the director. “The Christmas season has always been my favorite season, and I always loved watching Christmas movies, but every time I watched them, they didn’t have certain elements that I wanted, so I wanted to write a play that people could relate to, that had funny parts, serious parts and reflective parts and made people feel good after watching it.”

While three separate stories, the stories take place in the same New Hampshire town during the same year, from Dec. 23 to Christmas night, and intersect at points as the characters in each story know characters from the others and have an impact on each other’s lives.

In past productions the stories were each told from beginning to end consecutively, going back in time to Dec. 23 for the start of each one. This year, Anastasi is trying a

I get a lot of comments afterward from people that they are humming the songs for days...

TOM ANASTASI new concept in which the play goes back and forth between stories as it progresses in a single timeline.

He said a theater group in Florida performed the play a couple weeks ago using the new concept for the first time and told

him that it “worked out great.”

“Going back in time to see how the pieces intermix works well in some ways, but I think doing it chronologically gives it a different flavor that works really well,” Anastasi said.

Christmas Stories features original music accompanied by a live orchestra, and new this year, it will also incorporate some traditional Christmas carols.

“People really seem to like the songs,” Anastasi said. “I get a lot of comments afterward from people that they are humming the songs for days after seeing the play.”

While the play isn’t entirely a comedy, there are some comedic scenes. There’s one where a woman shopping on Christmas Eve enters a “10 items or fewer” lane with 12 items and causes an uproar from the other shoppers as they throw things at her. In one of Anastasi’s favorite scenes, a real food fight takes place onstage.

“The kids really love that one,” he said.

“They get to do something that they could never do at home.”

The cast consists of 16 actors, with a mix of adults and children, all performing in the play for the first time. For many, Anastasi said, it’s the first play they’ve ever done.

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Theater Productions • A CHRISTMAS CAROL Presented by Palace Theatre. Various showtimes Dec. 1 through Dec. 23. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Children (age 6-12) $25, adults $39 to $45. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• A CHRISTMAS CAROL Players’ Ring Theatre presents. Dec. 1 through Dec. 23. Showtimes

The Peterborough Players present Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. Courtesy photo.

• Christmas at the ballet: Gate City Ballet presents The Nutcracker on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 1 and 5 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 17, at 1 p.m. at Stockbridge Theatre (Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry). Tickets cost $22 for adults and $20 for seniors and children. Visit stockbridgetheatre.com. Ballet Misha presents The Nutcracker on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 17, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Dana Center (Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester). Tickets cost $20. Visit dimensionsindance.com.

• A twist on a classic: The Peterborough Players continue Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol now through Dec. 17 at the Peterborough Players theater (55 Hadley Road, Peterborough). The play is a twist on A Christmas Carol and follows Scrooge’s deceased business partner Marley and his behind-the-scenes efforts to save Scrooge’s soul. Showtimes are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $39.

Visit peterboroughplayers.org.

— Angie Sykeny

are Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 and 7 p.m. 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth.

Tickets cost $18 for adults, $14 for students and seniors and $12 for children under age 12. Visit playersring.org.

• A CHRISTMAS CAROL Dec. 1 through Dec. 17. Showtimes are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Hat-

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• Time for pops: The Boston Pops Holiday Concert comes to the SNHU Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester) on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $23 to $110. Visit snhuarena.com. The Capital Jazz Orchestra performs its holiday pops featuring guest vocalists Patty Barkas, CJ Poole and Laura Daigle at the Capitol Center for the Arts (44 S. Main St., Concord) on Sunday, Dec. 17, at 4 p.m. Tickets cost $27.50 to $47.50. Visit ccanh.com. The Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra presents its family pops show at The Music Hall Historic Theatre (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth) on Wednesday, Dec. 20, and Thursday, Dec. 21, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $12 to $25 for adults, $12 for students and $22 for seniors. Visit themusichall.org.

• Orphan adventure: The Peacock Players will perform Annie at the Janice B. Streeter Theater (14 Court St., Nashua) Friday, Dec. 15, through Sunday, Dec. 17.

Based on the comic strip by Harold Gray, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical tells the story of little orphan Annie, who escapes an orphanage to look for her parents in 1930s New York City. Showtimes are Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. Call 8867000 or visit peacockplayers.org.

box Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students and seniors. Visit hatboxnh.com.

• WHITE CHRISTMAS The Ogunquit Playhouse presents Irving Berlin’s classic musical.

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ARTS

Taking shape

Local artist goes retro with digital prints

By Angie Sykeny

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Bedford artist Jenn Ski has had some big opportunities over the years, designing things like holiday bags for Papyrus, children’s toys featured by Chick-fil-A, greeting cards for Hallmark and a coloring book series. She was even asked to create the artwork hung in 900 rooms at Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort in Orlando, Florida.

It all started in 2007 when she started blogging and selling her mid-century modern digital artwork on Etsy. Mid-century modern describes the graphic design, interior design and architectural style popular from the 1930s through the 1960s, characterized by geometric shapes, clean lines and bold colors, Ski said, and she fell in love with the style while studying graphic design in college.

“To me, that time period was the peak of perfect design. Everything before and after was just OK,” she said. “It has this simplicity, yet it’s elegant, and you still know what it is. The art from that time just speaks to me.”

Ski finds inspiration looking at vintage ceramics, fabrics and home decor. Her work includes abstract art with traditional mid-century style shapes and simplistic retro style animals like birds, cats and fish, infused with modern, trendy colors like aqua, teal, rose and peach.

“When I add those colors, suddenly it’s a whole new thing,” Ski said. “It still feels vintage, but it doesn’t look old-looking. It looks fresh.”

She started with painting but quickly made the switch to digital art, which she found to be less time-consuming and less stressful because of the “undo” option.

On her computer, she plays around with shapes like a puzzle, arranging them in different ways until they look interesting.

Lately, she’s been adding more textures to her work, either by scanning fabrics or by creating her own digitally. She usually works on a piece for an hour or two at a time before putting it aside to return to later.

“I have to let things simmer in my brain,” she said. “Then, when I go back, I see things through different eyes.”

Ski still sells her work on Etsy as well as Society6, a company that transfers art prints onto items like throw pillows, curJenn Ski

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Bedford artist Jenn Ski. Courtesy photo.

tains, mugs, cell phone cases, T-shirts, bedding and tote bags.

Creating mid-century art has had its challenges, Ski said, particularly in New Hampshire, where landscapes and more rustic styles of artwork abound.

“It’s definitely niche and not for everyone. It’s a weird aesthetic that a lot of people in New Hampshire can’t appreciate because they’re stuck in this bubble of more traditional stuff,” she said. “Around here, I have to shout very loud to be noticed.”

To “warm it up to New Hampshire’s standards,” Ski said, she’s been using more greens and nature-inspired colors in her art and has been putting her prints in classic gold frames.

In the online art world, Ski encounters a similar problem, but for a different reason; so many artists are doing mid-century digital art nowadays that it’s hard to stand out.

“When I first started doing it in 2007, it was something that no one else was doing,” she said. “Now, it’s too saturated. There are so many pieces that look close to mine, and there are a lot of copycats who basically take your pieces and just change the colors.”

The prevalence of mid-century digital art has led Ski to start exploring a new medium: ceramics. She plans to eventually move away from digital prints and focus primarily on creating mid-century ceramic wall art instead.

“The ceramic pieces are really unique,” she said. “Once you paint something and put it in the kiln, you don’t know how it will turn out. You just put your hope in the process, and sometimes you get lucky. I’m really enjoying that.”

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• Late night at the museum: The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester) will host a Free Lautrec Late Night on Thursday, Dec. 14, celebrating the museum’s latest special exhibition, “The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec.” The exhibition will be open late hours from 5 to 9 p.m., and there will be special activities including a drawing workshop, specialty cocktails and a film screening of Moulin Rouge (2001) at 6:30 p.m. General admission to the museum and activities are free, but there is a $5 fee to see the exhibition.

Visit currier.org or call 669-6144.

• Mother-daughter art show: Epsom Library (1606 Dover Road, Epsom) presents the exhibition “Like Mother, Like Daughter” now through Jan. 16. It features the fiber art and quilting work of Tracy Szanto and mixed media work by her daughter, Sharon Zimmerman. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call 736-9920 or visit epsomlibrary.com.

• Marbled ornaments: Studio 550 Art Center (550 Elm St., Manchester) will host a DIY ornament workshop on Saturday, Dec. 16, from 3 to 4 p.m. Participants will learn to make their own marble paint ornaments by swirling, spinning and dabbling colors to get a marbled effect. Make up to five differ-

• THE WINTER WONDERETTES Group performs iconic ’60s versions of classic holiday tunes. Dec. 7 through Dec. 31.

Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $15 to $38. Visit seacoastrep.org.

• A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS Carpe Diem presents.

Includes a gourmet three-course dinner, live music, holiday carols and the show. Thurs., Dec. 14, at 6:30 p.m. Old Salt Restaurant, 490 Lafayette Road, Hampton. Tickets cost $39.99 for adults and $19.99 for children. Call 926-8322.

• A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS Seacoast Repertory Theatre presents. Dec. 14 through Dec. 23. Showtimes are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 10 a.m., with an additional evening show Sunday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m. Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $15 to $20.

Visit seacoastrep.org.

• ROCKAPELLA HOLIDAY Fri., Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. Tickets cost $15 to $32.

Visit stockbridgetheatre.com.

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ent ornaments. The cost is $15 and includes materials. Drop-ins are welcome, but preregistration is encouraged. The workshop is suggested for adults and kids age 9 and up.

Visit 550arts.com or call 232-5597.

• Photography featured: Cask & Vine (1 E. Broadway, Derry) will display the work of David Dionne through the month of December. Dionne is a photographer who has done photography around the U.S., the Caribbean and Europe, with an emphasis on Germany.

There will be an artist reception on Saturday, Dec. 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. Call 965-3454 or visit caskandvine.com.

• Woven work: The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Meredith Fine Craft Gallery (279 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith) will host a pop-up art show featuring the work of master weaver and fiber artist Doug Masury on Saturday, Dec. 16, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Masury will offer his custom dyed bamboo, silk and cotton scarves and shawls.

Visit meredith.nhcrafts.org or call 279-7920.

— Angie Sykeny

Art Events • FREE LAUTREC LATE NIGHT Celebrating the museum’s exhibition “The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec.” There will be special activities including a drawing workshop, specialty cocktails and a film screening of Moulin Rouge. Thursday, Dec. 14, ” 5 to 9 p.m. The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester). General admission and activities are free, but there is a $5 fee to see the exhibition.

Visit currier.org or call 669-6144.

Fairs • HOLIDAY ART SHOW AND SALE Features small artwork by artists defining what “home” means to them. Open through Dec. 23. Wild Salamander Arts Center, 30 Ash St., Hollis. Visit wildsalamander.com.

• CRAFTWORKERS’ GUILD HOLIDAY CRAFT SHOP A variety of handmade goods by juried artisans. Open through Dec. 22, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

Oliver Kendall House, 5 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford. Visit facebook.com/CraftworkersGuild.

Openings • DAVID DIONNE RECEPTION Dionne is a photographer who has done photography around the U.S., Caribbean, and Europe, with an emphasis on Germany. Cask & Vine, 1 E. Broadway, Derry. Work on view through December. Sat., Dec. 16, 2 to 4 p.m. Call 965-3454 or visit caskandvine.com.

Classical Music Events • HOLIDAY CONCERT The Boston Pops perform. Sat., Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. SNHU Arena, 555 Elm St., Manchester. Tickets $23 to $110. Visit snhuarena.com.

• HOLIDAY BRONZE CONCERT SERIES Granite State Ringers handbell choir. Sun., Dec. 17, 3 p.m. Pleasant View Retirement Center, 227 Pleasant St., Concord. Visit granitestateringers.org.

• HOLIDAY POPS The Capital Jazz Orchestra performs featuring guest vocalists Patty Barkas, CJ Poole and Laura Daigle. Sun., Dec. 17, at 4 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. Tickets cost $27.50 to $47.50. Visit ccanh.com.

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE A history of Christmas

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A quaint historic village preserved by people who love telling its story is the perfect setting for Christmas at Canterbury, an annual event put on by Canterbury Shaker Village that blends holidays and history.

“It makes the season a little more magical to experience how Christmas would have been when the Shakers were here,” said Nicole Laurin, special events and adult programs manager.

Canterbury Shaker Village has 694 acres of land populated by 25 original historic Shaker buildings and four reconstructed ones.

Ten of those buildings will host characters who will teach guests about 200 years of Shaker traditions.

For example, inside the schoolhouse, a teacher will be waiting to show guests what schools were like during the times of the Shakers.

A doctor in the infirmary will explain the period’s medical practices.

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be in character as Jonathan Harrington, a 19th-century magician who relies on tricks of the eye rather than modern technology, Laurin said.

“It’s kind of a mixture of a performance of his character weaved in with traNICOLE LAURIN ditional magic,” she said.

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into its current ownership for his- a unique holiday destination. toric purposes in 1969, the owners “It becomes really magical with agreed to never dress as Shakers, all the lights and the candles in the out of respect. Instead, experts windows,” said Laurin. dress in 19th-century clothes.

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Two members of the Jordan TirWhere: Canterbury Shaker Village, rell-Wysocki Trio will create a 288 Shaker Road, Canterbury. fiddling duo who will play a mix of Cost: $18 for adults, $8 children their own original songs with tradiages 6 to 17, under 5 free. Members tional holiday tunes. half price.

There will be an extensive train Visit: shakers.org collection on display in one of the The village will also be hosting canbuildings, featuring three trains dlelit tours Thursday, Dec. 14, and Friday, Dec. 15, from 6:30 to 7 p.m. chugging through a village made Each guest will get their own candle up of 30 model buildings. to take through the village as they The Christmas tree in front of the learn about the Shakers’ Christmas schoolhouse, lights in the windows celebrations. and hot cider will make the village

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Join Amoskeag Fishways (4 Fletcher St., Manchester) for its Saturday Nature Seekers series. On Saturday, Dec. 16, participants will make fun holiday decorations from natural materials to help spruce up their homes. Donations of $5 per family encouraged. The activity will be held from 11 a.m. to noon. Visit amoskeagfishways.org or call 626-3474.

See live animals at an outdoor nativity scene hosted by Brookside Church at Stark Park on River Road in Manchester. The live animals will be accompanied by reenactors who will read ancient scriptures and sing songs to bring the story to life. Sunday, Dec. 17, 3:30 p.m. Visit brooksidecc.info or call 669-2807.

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The workshop is recommended for kids in grades 4 to 7. Visit wearepl.wordpress.com or call 529-2044.

The Southern New Hampshire Skating Club hosts its Holiday Magic 2017 Exhibition Saturday, Dec. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Thomas F. Sullivan Arena (100 Saint Anselm Drive, Goffstown). Watch skaters of all ages and abilities skate to holiday favorites like “What Christmas Means to Me,” “Carol of the Bells,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Joy to the World” and more.

There will also be a penny sale, bake sale and 50/50 raffle to raise money for SNHSC’s programing. Visit facebook.com/ southernnhsc.

Join the Aviation Museum (27 Navigator Road, Londonderry) for storytime and photos with Santa Claus on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 11 a.m. Santa will read a story to the kids and have a treat for everyone. Stay for cookies and holiday music. Regular museum admission of $5 applies but members and children under 12 receive free admission. Visit nhahs.org or call 669-4820.

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This is the dark time of the year. The sun sets early and is often obscured by clouds dripping rain or snow. For that reason, I string bright lights on trees outdoors, decorate a tree indoors, place candles in my windows, and lots more. I buy cut flowers, too, but I can’t afford to buy armloads of bright flowers every week.

Fortunately the outdoors provides me with many nice things to brighten my living space.

One of my favorite shrubs at this time of year is winterberry. You may have seen the bright red berries of wild winterberry growing alongside the road in wet places, often in standing water. It favors wet places, but can be grown in the average garden. In the wild it is an understory shrub, one that grows in partial shade. It produces the most berries, however, in full sun.

As a landscape plant, the winterberry is best in fall and winter when the red berries are prominent. The spring blossoms are small and white, and hardly noticeable. These shrubs are either male or female, and you need one male for every six to 10 females within about a 50-foot range. So when you buy winterberry, plan on having several. Unlike puppies, you can’t lift a tail and know what sex you are buying but have to depend on the nursery to label them properly.

When you bring cut branches into the house and place them in a vase of water you will notice that they regularly drop berries.

There is a solution: spray with a clear lacquer.

Last year I sprayed branches that I used on my door wreath, and for the first time ever, most berries stayed on until I took down the wreath. Previously some of the berries fell off every time the door was closed.

Evergreen boughs are commonly used for indoor arrangements, sprays, kissing balls and garlands. If you plan to harvest evergreen branches on your own property for this, be sure to use branches that will hold on to their needles. Balsam fir and spruce, commonly used for Christmas trees, hold on to their needles well even when not in a vase of water.

But most of us don’t want to cut off branches if we have balsam or spruce on the property.

What most of us have growing in our woods are white pine and Canadian hemlock. White pines hold their needles; hemlocks do not. The hemlocks have short needles arranged flat along the stems; they have two white stripes on the underneath side of each needle. White pine needles are long and pointy, but soft.

They grow in bundles of five needles.

Of the ferns you might see in the woods now, only the Christmas fern is suitable for use in a vase. These have leathery green

Ground Pine. Courtesy photo.

leaves with leaflets arranged in an alternating pattern. Some think the leaflets resemble a Christmas stocking, with a toe or heel at the end near its attachment point. I do not. I think they are called Christmas fern because they are still nice at Christmas and other ferns have largely disappeared by now.

Christmas ferns grow in shade or partial shade, and prefer somewhat moist locations.

If you pick some, do not completely defoliate an individual plant. Take a few stems from one, and then a few from others. These plants are tough, but slow-growing.

What else is green and will do well indoors? Ground pine grows in deciduous forest in many of the same places as Christmas ferns. It is not a pine at all, but a clubmoss, a group of primitive plants that fed the dinosaurs when clubmosses got to be 30 feet tall.

These poor relatives only grow a few inches to a foot tall, but have handsome foliage in winter. They spread by rhizomes or roots.

Each plant has leaves that come from the central spine of the plant, and lie parallel to the ground, like little Christmas trees. Please be judicious in picking these.

Back to the reds: red-twigged or redosier dogwood, a native of moist areas here in the Northeast, looks good in a vase. The color brightens up considerably in the winter, especially on this year’s growth. If the town road crew brush-hogged the roadside this summer, the new growth on red dogwood will be very bright.

Of course the plant nursery business has been working hard and breeding the reddest, brightest varieties and touting each of them as the very best. But all are good, and are very fast growing, especially in wet areas. I favor pruning out at least half the stems each year to get new stems with bright winter color, and have been known to cut a bush right to the ground.

So don’t feel bad if you can’t afford big vases of roses at this time of year. Get outside and pick some nice things that will brighten the house.

Read Henry’s blog at https://dailyuv.com/ gardeningguy. Henry is a UNH master gardener and the author of four gardening books that make great presents. His website is Gardening-Guy.com.

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In snow, all-wheel drive beats two-wheel drive Dear Car Talk: I have a question for someone old enough to remember when rearwheel drive was the only option. Does frontwheel drive (versus rear-wheel drive) make

By Ray Magliozzi a difference in handling for electric cars that have no engine up front (or in the back)? I’m on the waiting list for the Tesla Model 3 with rear-wheel drive, and I believe the batteries are distributed under the car, not in the front or back. There is an all-wheel-drive option, with no price tag listed. I do not drive up and down mountains in the snow, and most of the streets get plowed within a reasonable time frame; however, I do work in a profession that has no snow days, and attendance is required. — Dolores I wouldn’t worry about getting to work in the snow, Dolores. At the pace Tesla is building these Model 3s, you’ll probably be retired by the time yours comes off the assembly line.

All-wheel drive is always better than twowheel drive in the snow. That’s because you double your chances of finding at least one wheel with traction. But some front-wheeldrive cars, and even a few rear-wheel-drive

cars, are plenty good enough for getting through mild or plowed snow. Will the Tesla Model 3 be one of those? Unfortunately, we won’t really know until some other Snow Belt guinea pigs try out their Model 3s.

Battery-powered cars, so far, have been heavier than gasoline-powered cars, due to the weight of the batteries themselves. And weight usually is an advantage in snow — in that it helps the car sink down through the snow and gain traction. With an estimated weight of about 3,500 pounds, that should be a plus for the Model 3 in snow. But the weight will be distributed along the length of the car, rather than right over the driven wheels, like on front-wheel-drive gasolinepowered cars.

On the plus side, like pretty much all cars these days, the Model 3 will have electronic traction control, which helps eliminate wheel spin in the snow. But preventing wheel spin electronically doesn’t help you if neither of your driven wheels has traction. Of course, with two-wheel or all-wheel drive, you can improve your snow traction with four good snow tires — so plan on that either way.

Hopefully, your place on the wait list won’t come up until a bunch of other Model 3 owners have spent some time driving (or getting stranded) in snow. Once there are

enough of them out there, you can Google “Tesla Model 3 in snow” and read about people’s actual experiences.

But if you have to make a decision without any additional information, I guess I’d lean toward all-wheel drive for you, just because you absolutely have to get to work when it snows. It’s going to cost you a few thousand dollars extra, but you already knew you weren’t actually going to drive off the lot in a Model 3 for $35,000, right?

And here’s what I’ll do. If you end up buying the rear-wheel-drive Model 3 and you’re not satisfied with it, I’ll buy it off you for half of what you paid. I know ... you can stop thanking me now, Dolores.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2008 Saturn Outlook with around 88,000 miles on it. Right after starting it in the driveway, it began making a weird noise, and a warning came on the dashboard that said “Reduced Engine Power.” When pushing the accelerator, the rpm wouldn’t increase. I let the car sit for a little bit, started it again, and it ran fine. This is the second time it’s happened. What’s going on? — Mary Thanks, Mary. You’ve actually answered a question that’s troubled philosophers for years: If your ‘08 Saturn had reduced engine

power, how would you know? Now we know that the answer is “the dashboard light comes on.”

Your car went into something called “Limp Home Mode.” It’s there to protect the catalytic converter — especially when it’s under warranty. If something goes wrong that has the potential to damage the converter, especially at high engine speed (like a condition where too much unburned gasoline is getting into the exhaust stream and could overheat the converter), the computer will engage Limp Home Mode, which limits the car to very low rpm but allows you to what?

Limp home -- if you’re not far from home.

Why did it happen? It can happen for a number of reasons. But the fact that it temporarily fixed itself with a restart suggests to me that one of your sensors is out of whack.

So you can expect this problem to recur. It may start happening more frequently. And, at some point, a restart won’t fix it.

So limp over to your mechanic and have him scan it. He’ll plug his scan tool into the car’s computer port and read the code that the computer will have stored from this last incident. That’ll tell him whether it’s a cam sensor, for instance, a crank sensor or something else. Good luck, Mary.

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IN/OUT

Walk through time

Candlelight stroll takes guests to a distant past

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By Ethan Hogan

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“Welcome, Stranger” is the theme of this year’s Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke, where guests will walk through each era of the village’s eclectic 300-year history.

According to Alena Shellenbean, special events manager, that history includes stories of the earliest settlers all the way up to people living in the 1950s.

“From its very early days, it was the site of immigrants and new people in the area. It was a very inclusive neighborhood throughout a lot of its history,” said Shellenbean.

Guests will walk the candlelit grounds of the Portsmouth village and visit historically preserved houses along the way. Eight of the houses will tell the story of a particular time in the village’s history, using periodaccurate holiday botanical decorations and reenactors who play actual people who once lived there.

“It’s not just our colonial history — we tell the story of change over time through the real people that lived in the south end of Portsmouth,” said Shellenbean. “We are always trying to tell the stories that still resonate with people in this day and age. … They had big families and small families, they had tough jobs and easy jobs — when you get right down to it, they were going through some of the same things.”

Guests will learn the history of each era and how the traditions of the holidays changed over time with the arrival of different types of people. Shellenbean said the tradition of having a Christmas tree, for example, was brought to New England by German immigrants.

“It’s a good time to also look at how our holiday traditions have changed with introductions to things from other places. … Even some of those traditions that are very much a part of who we are were [the traditions of]

strangers at one time,” said Shellenbean.

The houses will have demonstrations of holiday traditions, like 18th-century hearth cooking, punched tin lantern making, basket weaving and woodworking. A hands-on cotton threading station will show guests how to make thread into cloth. The horticulture center will be teaching holiday botanical decoration methods from each era, including wreath making and pressed flower cards.

Walking the grounds of the village are familiar characters like Saint Nick, a choir leader and the 1860s mayor of Portsmouth, Frank Jones, who built factories in town.

Some unfamiliar characters will also walk the grounds, like a fishing wife who is trying to sell the last catch of the day and the air raid warden making sure people are ready for a World War II attack.

Saint Nick will be in his Old European Father Christmas garb handing out peppermint sticks. Even though he’s from a time when he was known as Father Christmas, Shellenbean said he won’t mind being called Santa.

Horse and carriage rides will be available and the ice skating rink will be open.

Indoors, there will be a puppet show and a Victorian magic show.

“Even before folks in this area celebrated Christmas, December was a time to go visiting your neighbors and give thanks for what you had,” said Shellenbean.

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Your rabbit is most likely from the late 1930s to the early 1940s. This is when Freundlich moved to Massachusetts from New York and began making novelty dolls. It’s considered a composition doll. When this rabbit doll was made they had other friends as well, like piggy-headed dolls and other animals.

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• The Craftworkers Guild is hosting a Holiday Craft Shop on Friday, Dec. 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the historic Kendall House (5 Meeting House Road, Bedford). Over 70 guild artisans and craftspeople will have their unique treasures for sale. Sales from the shop benefit high school scholarships. Email craftworkersguild@gmail.com or visit facebook.com/CraftworkersGuild.

• Santa’s Stocking Stuffer craft fair at the North Conway Community Center (2628 White Mountain Highway, North Conway) will be Saturday Dec. 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday Dec. 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The fair will have handmade crafts that will make ideal stocking stuffers, including fine jewelry, wearable art, wooden crafts, quilts and quilted home decor. Visit joycescraftshows.com.

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Workshops • Join the Nashua Public Library (2 Court St., Nashua) for its adult craft class on Thursday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. Participants will learn to make paper holiday decorations. No registration is required and classes are open to the first 16 people who arrive.

Visit nashualibrary.org or call 589-4610.

• A class on stenciling and painting ornament decorations will be held at the League of NH Craftsmen headquarters (49 S. Main St., Concord) on Tuesday, Dec. 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Elena Wikstrom will show participants a unique approach to painting on fabric using stencils and a dry brush. Cost is $56. Advance registration is required.

Visit nhcrafts.org or call 224-3375.

• Join Studio 550 (550 Elm St., Manchester) for a Drip Paint Ornament Making Workshop on Saturday, Dec. 16, from 3 to 4 p.m. The class will get a little messy but participants are encouraged to pick their own colors and let the paint flow. Cost $15.

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Justin Gordon is a Marine sergeant stationed in Londonderry who coordinates the Toys4Tots program for southern New Hampshire.

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My current job is inspector/ instructor, which is a … role of training the reservists for the drill weekends when they come in, as well as the Toys4Tots Coordinator for southern New Hampshire. … That entails getting the word out to the public, approving and having people fill out request forms to become drop site locations, request an event and also coordinate Marines to be at certain events throughout the public, throughout the community … as well as having the toys brought out to the warehouse, helping out with the sorting and the distributing and the counting. … Once the orders are complete with the number of toys for the number of kids that is requested, the

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of it.’ … They told me about the program and that’s when I first got involved doing events, being out there in the public in our uniform. … Once I went on my first event, I just loved being out there and collecting the toys and seeing the smiles on kids’ faces, parents’ faces and those people who are donating for this great cause.

toys are then bagged and then put in a pile and those [partnering] organizations come to the warehouse and [the unwrapped toys] are distributed out through those organizations … to the individual families within the community.

How long have you done this?

This is my first year as the coordinator but my fourth year doing Toys4Tots.

What do you wish you’d known at the beginning of this work?

The amount of hours that Courtesy photo. would be put into it, not being at What kind of education or training did home at all. … Many, many hours. you need for this?

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Typically, they’ll choose an NCO [nonIt depends. If we are doing an event or commissioned officer]. … [Someone who] will be able to run the program and [handle] speaking with the media or going to be in the all the amounts of stress that’s put on one for public eye, it’s going to be my dress blues this program. Because there’s a lot that goes uniform. If I’m just out going to get toys on into it. The training that you get is you go to a a pick-up, it’s going to be casual clothing, course with the foundation that’s run down in blending in with the population and just pickVirginia. They give you the [standard operat- ing up toys. ing procedure] of how everything is run and What was the first job you ever had? they give you classes, they give you on-hands The very first job I ever had was a customon how to do everything and … the process of er service representative for Domino’s Pizza it all. It’s about a week-long course. for Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

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Concord gets its first full-scale mobile food truck

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News from the local food scene

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Reuben egg rolls, arugula apple salad, barbecue pork nachos and quinoa sweet potato tacos are a few of the items you’ll find on the menu of the school-themed Lunch Lady Food Truck, which launched in November as the first and only mobile food truck in New Hampshire’s capital city.

You can find the truck outside Everett Arena in Concord every Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. now through Dec. 29, before business starts up again in early March.

Owner and founder JJ Hall left her IT job of more than 18 years in July to pursue a career in the food truck business. She said shipping and licensing delays set her back a few months, but since going live on Nov. 8 — and recently participating in her first major vendor event, Intown Concord’s Midnight Merriment — the responses have been very positive.

“With the revitalization of downtown especially, I really think it’s perfect … to have something like this for Concord,” Hall said. “This has been kind of our soft opening, if you will, because it isn’t the best time of year [for food trucks], but come spring and summer, I’m ready.”

Hall said the term “Lunch Lady” was coined by her wife when they were trying to think of a catchy name.

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• Long Blue Cat opens: After months of planning and renovations, the Long Blue Cat Brewing Co. (298 Rockingham Road, Londonderry) opened its doors on Wednesday, Dec. 6, it announced in a Facebook post. The craft nano-brewery and restaurant was launched by childhood friends Jason Knight and Shane Sorenson and offers nearly a dozen craft brews on tap using ingredients from local farms and businesses. There’s a chocolate oatmeal stout, a porter, a German-style kolsch, a Mexican-style lager fermented with pure agave nectar, a honey ale made with locally grown honey and much more.

In addition, a small menu of appetizers, flatbread sandwiches and other items is available, as well as a small retail area where you can purchase T-shirts, hats, flight glasses and more. The brewery takes its name and official “mascot” from a drawing by Sorenson’s then 5-year-old daughter. It is open Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday and Saturday until 10 p.m. Gift certificates are also available.

• Community eats: Join Etz Hayim Synagogue (1½ Hood Road, Derry) for a free community breakfast on Sunday, Dec. 17, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The meal will include eggs, quiche, French toast and more and is sponsored by Elijah’s Table, a joint project of the synagogue and the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Derry. Visit freemealsinderry. blogspot.com for more details.

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“At first, I was like, ‘I don’t know about that,’” she said, “but then I got to thinking about it and I was like well, I could do a whole school theme with grades and everything. So that’s what I went with.”

As the slogan on the side of the truck suggests, Hall is indeed “not your average lunch lady.” In fact, the menu offers a wide variety of chicken, pork, beef and vegetarian items, most of which are Hall’s own experimental creations.

“I’ve always loved cooking,” she said. “I didn’t want [the truck] to be pigeonholed.

I just wanted to have free rein to do what I wanted to do.”

Most menu items are identified by a grade number, starting with a simple grilled cheese sandwich as first grade and a “skirted” cheeseburger as second grade.

“We use Angus patty for the cheeseburger and we put a huge mound of cheddar cheese on it so it kind of melts to form this huge cheese skirt around the burger,” Hall said. “If you like cheese, it’s definitely the burger for you.”

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cheese, queso fresco pickled jalapenos, cilantro and barbecue and chipotle sour cream sauce (third grade), chicken Caesar wraps (fourth grade), Buffalo chicken wraps (fifth grade) and pepper-crusted burgers with blue cheese (sixth grade).

The seventh grade and eighth grade items — the quinoa sweet potato tacos and the Reuben egg rolls, respectively — have been among Hall’s hottest sellers.

“The Reuben egg rolls really get a lot of, ‘Wow, these are really good’ kinds of responses,” she said. “I mean, it’s not something you would really think of thrown in an egg roll wrapper. I was looking for something that would be easy that you didn’t need [to use] a fork with … and decided to try that when I was playing around with different recipes.”

Other options are The Principal, a barbecue pork sandwich that can be served with or without coleslaw; The Vice Principal, a fried chicken sandwich served with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise; and Detention, a fried chicken patty topped with three spinach mozzarella sticks and marinara sauce.

“Detention is our newest sandwich and it’s kind of a play on the chicken parm,” Hall said.

All main menu items are purchased a la carte and range from about $4.50 to $10.

There are also sides like coleslaw, potato chips, regular french fries, garlic parmesan fries, spinach mozzarella sticks and macaroni salad.

The dessert portion of the menu is called “Recess” and can include anything from coconut macaroons with chocolate chips to pumpkin pie egg rolls.

Hall said she plans to spend the off time in January and February making changes to the menu based on which items were more popular than others, as well as working in some new lunch options. She’s also hoping to get licensed to do business in Manchester in the near future.

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WineNot Boutique’s first Holiday Grand Wine Tasting, which will feature more than 15 of some of the most hard-to-find highquality wines in the world, is happening on Saturday, Dec. 16, from 1 to 5 p.m. According to WineNot Boutique owner Svetlana Yanushkevich, it’s the largest in-store tasting of the year, with several other wineries joining in to pour some of the drinks, and other limited special products available as well.

“We’re trying to put people in the holiday mood,” Yanushkevich said. “In the summertime, they are drinking cold beer or lemonade, but this is the time of year when more people are looking to buy special bottles of wine for people that they love. … As it gets colder, wine becomes one of the more popular things people like to share with their friends.”

Wines that will be available at the tasting come from far and wide, according to Yanushkevich.

“Some of these wines had only a limited supply that came to the United States,” she said.

“We work hard to find unique wines to share.”

Among them will be the Miss Molly Sparkling Shiraz from Mollydooker Wines in southern Australia, which has flavors of cherry and raspberry followed by smooth hints of mocha and spice. A 325th-anniversary-edition port from Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman in Portugal — made with a blend of dried fruits and red plums — will also be available.

Others are a sauvignon blanc from HillersHoliday Grand Wine Tasting When: Saturday, Dec. 16, 1 to 5 p.m.

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Some wines that purveyors will pour also come from the United States, and will be on sale during the tasting only, according to Yanushkevich, like the cabernet sauvignon from Spring Mountain Vineyard in St. Helena, Calif.

“That wine is usually an $80 bottle, plus shipping cost,” she said, “but it will be only $43.99 at the tasting.”

Besides the wines, there will also be samples of other items available to taste alongside them, made locally and internationally as well, like the Wood Stove Mulling Syrup made in New Hampshire, according to Yanushkevich.

“It’s locally made by Wood Stove Mulled Wine,” she said. “The owner of the company will be giving out samples at the tasting. …

They put small amounts of syrup with cranberries, orange peels, cloves and other spices in the wine and heat it up. It’s a very popular product to just enjoy by the fireplace in the winter season.”

Food samplings will also include organic Mexican-style dark chocolate from Taza Chocolate in Somerville, Mass., BellaVitano cheese from Wisconsin and aged balsamic vinegars from Acetaia Cavedoni in Italy.

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A new eatery with fresh local food, craft brews and cocktails, nitro brewed coffee and live entertainment has filled the space that once housed One Eleven Village Square Restaurant in Hampstead.

Jamison’s, a 130-seat pub and bar, opened on Nov. 12, bringing new life to a space that had sat vacant for three years. Plans are in the works to open a fine dining area and function room by February, according to general manager Kevin Knauer.

The restaurant takes its name from owner Kalley Cutler’s daughter and features a menu with both pub foods and fine dining options, Knauer said.

“Everything is fresh and made from scratch in house,” he said. “Right now, we’re sort of just messing around with the presentations of things … and the menu will change probably three or four times a year.”

Popular appetizer menu items so far have been the egg rolls, with special flavors featured every day, Knauer said, like pulled pork and barbecue sauce, or spicy chicken and vegetables with cilantro. Other starters include seared scallops on Yukon potato pancakes with a maple bourbon cream, sambuca mussels with andouille sausage and pico de gallo on flour tortillas, and various salads, soups, chicken wings or tenders, and meatballs with chuck, sirloin and brisket all sourced from the nearby Prime Butcher in East Hampstead.

There are also several original burgers, sandwiches and brick oven and flatbread pizzas. The 472 sandwich (named after the restaurant’s street address number) is a meatball sub served on a toasted French roll with provolone, Parmesan and charred roma tomato sauce. There is also a farmhouse burger made with a fresh egg, bacon and cheddar jack cheese and a grilled sirloin steak sandwich with queso, horseradish cream sauce, caramelized onions and roasted bell peppers.

You can build your own 7- or 10-inch pizza or try signature pies, like the Jamison’s, made with sausages, pepperoni, peppers, onions and artichoke hearts; the Smokehouse, with sausages, bacon, ham and pepperoni; or the Green Garden, a vegetarian pizza made with arugula pesto, roasted red peppers, onions, black olives, tomatoes, mushrooms, broccoli and artichokes.

The menu’s dinner entrees in particular have undergone changes since menu planning began and even in the few weeks since opening, Knauer said.

Spicy chicken egg rolls with vegetables and cilantro dipping sauce. Courtesy photo.

“[At first], it was your usual stuff, like chicken parm, fajitas, steak tips, things like that,” he said, “but we decided to totally switch it up. So we have the steak and eggs. It’s still steak tips, but the presentation is different … with a sliced egg on top of it. Then we have the house linguini, which you can get however you want it, with meatballs, chicken parm, shrimp, scallops or mushrooms.”

Dessert menu items include bread pudding, apple crisp and multiple flavors of gelato.

“Right now, the gelato flavors are chocolate, vanilla and Jamison’s, which is Oreo cookies and caramel. That is deadly good,” Knauer said.

The drink menu contains more than 40 drafts and 80 wines, and includes everything from stouts and porters to lagers, IPAs, ciders, red and white wines and more, from local breweries like 603 Brewery in Londonderry, Kelsen Brewing Co. in Derry, Red Hook Ale Brewery in Portsmouth, Great North Aleworks in Manchester and others.

“We’re very heavy on the craft beer,” Knauer said. “You know, you’ve got your Bud Light and your Coors Light, but then you go into all of the local beers.”

For other drink options, check out the Stoli 777 menu. Each drink blends a flavor of Stolichnaya vodka with other 40 Jamison’s Where: Route 111, 472 State St., Hampstead Hours: Tuesday through Thursday, 3 to 10 p.m.; Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. (hours may be subject to change) Visit: facebook.com/jamisonsplace or call 489-1565

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Finally, Jamison’s features a small menu of Nobl nitro brew coffee, with flavors that include mocha mint and pumpkin spice lattes.

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The fine dining and function room areas of the restaurant are expected to seat an additional 110 people each. When that happens, Knauer said, the menu may be divided up between the pub area currently available and the new one yet to open.

“This will probably turn more into pub food, but it doesn’t mean you can’t still get a pizza or something over there if you wanted,” he said. “[The whole menu] will still be available both places.”

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Honey Teriyaki Chicken I took one bite of chicken made from this recipe and swore I’d never order Chinese takeout again. This recipe combines the sweetness of sesame chicken with a little bit of the kick from General Tso chicken and the salty goodness I associate with my favorite takeout. Served over rice, this chicken is the perfect no-fuss meal for a night when even ordering takeout seems like a lot of work.

This slow-cooker chicken is simple and pantry-friendly. I was able to substitute for ingredients I didn’t have, which made it possible to make dinner despite my bare pantry. Tossing everything in the slow cooker, my favorite winterweather kitchen helper, made meal prep so simple I almost felt guilty accepting my husband’s compliments on the dish — almost.

The 1-to-1 ratio of soy sauce and honey provides a good base for the sauce: It’s neither too sweet nor too salty but packs enough flavor to layer on top more distinct ingredients like the ground ginger.

I’ve started keeping ginger in my freezer, taking it out and grating it whenever a recipe dictates. It’s saved me a lot of headache — I no longer skip recipes because I don’t have ginger on hand — and money, as I’m not throwing out ginger that has started to go bad.

There wasn’t rice wine vinegar or an onion to be found anywhere in my pantry, Slow cooker honey teriyaki chicken Recipe courtesy of The Recipe Critic 4 boneless chicken breasts, about 2 pounds ½ cup soy sauce ½ cup honey ¼ cup rice wine vinegar ¼ cup onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced ¼ teaspoon pepper ¾ teaspoon ground ginger ¼ cup water 3 tablespoons cornstarch Optional garnish: green onions, sesame seeds Spray your slow cooker with cooking

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but apple cider vinegar and dried minced onion still relayed the flavors. A pinch of pepper rounded out the ingredients added to the chicken in my slow cooker before I set the heat and walked away. After a few hours of cooking, the chicken was ready to be sliced, and the juices poured into a sauce pan. I added the cornstarch and water mixture to the sauce, which thickened up quickly. Once poured back on top of the chicken, the sauce coated every piece of meat and provided that sticky, saucy goodness I associate with my go-to takeout dishes like sesame chicken.

A bit of freshness from some chopped scallions and a sprinkle of sesame seeds prevented the dish from being too sweet while adding some much-needed texture.

Each bite of chicken conveyed the simple blend of ingredients that combined to form a noteworthy dish that was prepared in an otherwise unremarkable way. This dish was simple, pantry-friendly cooking at its finest, and will be making its way back to my dinner table soon.

— Lauren Mifsud spray and place the chicken breasts in the bottom. In a small bowl whisk the soy sauce, honey, rice wine vinegar, onion, garlic, pepper and ginger. Pour over the chicken breasts. Cook on high for 3-4 hours or low for 4-5 hours or until chicken is cooked through (time will vary depending on slow cooker; check frequently to prevent drying out the chicken). Once the chicken is cooked, remove with a slotted spoon and shred or slice on a plate. Pour the sauce into a medium sauce pan. In a small bowl, whisk together the water and cornstarch. Slowly whisk into the sauce on medium high heat. Continue to whisk and let it boil until the honey teriyaki sauce starts to thicken, about 2 minutes.

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that unmistakable piney flavor, balanced with notes of caramel and a crisp, dry finish. This beer also has some nice hop character that fits this brew well. Bring a six-pack to a holiday gathering — other guests will thank you.

Wachusett Brewing Co. Winter Ale

Wachusett essentially combines an IPA with a brown ale that, frankly, could easily not be a successful marriage. But in this case it is.

The beer is rich and malty, but well-balanced by the hoppiness. Nice change of pace holiday brew. Perfect after snow shoveling.

Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig Ale

I used to get overly excited when I’d first see the Sam Adams holiday mix pack in stores. At the risk of dating myself, the pack use to feature two each of the Winter Lager, Cream Stout, Chocolate Bock, Cranberry Lambic, Boston Lager and Old Fezziwig. It also used to be an annual tradition to see just how long the Cranberry Lambic would sit, unopened in the back of the refrigerator. But it was Old Fezziwig that really got me excited.

This beer isn’t for everyone, as it mixes roasty notes of caramel and chocolate, with spicy notes of ginger and cinnamon. For me, it captures the holiday season in a glass.

Jeff Mucciarone is a senior account executive with Montagne Communications, where he provides communications support to the This beer has a little more umph to it. It’s New Hampshire wine and spirits industry. rich and malty and you’ll definitely pick up some fruity sweetness and spice. That sweetWhat’s in My Fridge ness is balanced by a little extra heat from the Newburyport Brewing Co. Tall Buoy 7.8-percent ABV. A wonderful brew to sip by Double IPA: Bold and juicy, this is Newthe fire, indoors or outdoors.

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Formerly called Winter Ale, or “Smutty Winter,” this is a wonderful seasonal brew that packs just enough holiday flavor and spice into your glass, without going overboard. It’s not too heavy and it’s not too sweet. That said, it does have a certain richness that says to me, “Have this on a cold day after you go sledding with the kids.”

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Many years ago, I would frequent the Eagle Brook Saloon in Norfolk, Mass., and during the holiday season, I would drink pints of the establishment’s “Sled Dog Celebration Ale.” This beer, which unfortunately exists in name only today, was the epitome of what a holiday brew should be: very dark amber, robust, toasty malts, a slight spicy sweetness, a little warmth from the elevated ABV, but not particularly heavy. A holiday beer like that is hard to come by.

Holiday beers can be hit or miss to some extent and people can simply be put off by some festive, seasonal brews — the spices added during the brewing process, particularly the nutmeg, seem to be the culprit. Some people just don’t like nutmeg and, while I respect that, I’m OK with it. I’m not going to drink several Harpoon Winter Warmers, but I’ll enjoy one or two — it makes me want to put a Santa hat on and decorate the tree.

Still, holiday brews are somewhat like pumpkin ales: there are plenty of good ones, but there are some festive brews that are just a little too syrupy, a little too nutmeg-y, and a little too sweet.

While the true Sled Dog Celebration Ale was something to behold, there are plenty of delicious holiday brews for you to enjoy this season. Here are some suggestions, some from New Hampshire brewers and some from beyond Granite State borders.

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buryport Brewing Company’s take on the New England-style IPA. The pour is characteristically hazy and golden. It’s certainly generously hopped and features some nice floral and tropical hop notes.

This is a limited-release brew. Very nice IPA — cheers!

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As indie-folkies go, Stevens owned the early Aughts, but he’s slowed down in this decade, tabling two-count-’em albums in these seven years. Supposedly he was going to release some of the songs he’d contributed to Luca Guadagnino’s heavily acclaimed 2017 movie Call Me by Your Name, but instead, it seems, there’s this, a 10-song mixtape of remixes, outtakes and even iPhone demos from his 2015 album Carrie & Lowell, a stripped-bare, unusually maudlin joint that was written in the wake of his mother’s death. There are four new, unheard tracks, all of them nice and pretty and everything (based around a finger-picked guitar figure, “The Hidden River of My Life” is at once free and haunted), but — and I hate to quibble with something like this too much — it just feels like Stevens (and his fans) would want to start moving beyond this station of his career. Again, that’s not to say that even the remixes, such as Doverman’s powdery rendering of “Exploding Whale,” aren’t worthwhile, but we’ve already had a live release of this stuff. For completists, really. B — Eric W. Saeger

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last studio LP, but hey, it’s Chester, enjoy.

Boasting a slightly off guitar-tuning preference, a voice like Kim Carnes just before it went completely to hell and enough droop-folk to make Lera Lynn want to jump in just to stir up the pot, the tuneage of this Ireland-byway-of America-based songstress is, to put it lightly, an acquired taste. She’s terribly artsy, plucking away at her acoustic guitar in these deeply contemplative, po-faced pieces, the same sort of things she’s peddled for the past 20 years, googly-eyed stuff that’s earned her comparisons to Sandy Denny, who cemented the gold standard of UK folk when she duetted with Robert Plant in “Battle of Evermore” on Led Zeppelin IV. McQuaid’s voice sounds wizened and in need of an overhaul, but that’s her trip, of course, and at least the weirdness gets deep, peaking during a rendering of good old Dies Irae, the opening theme from The Shining in case I haven’t reminded you of that enough. Like I said, an acquired taste. B+ — Eric W. Saeger

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The title track is guested by Zoe Nash, who sings a few lines in response to G’s nicely syncopated flow, a name check of every facet of hardscrabble life, none of which would be unusual except that the beat sounds like a chopped-up sample of your basic euro-trance slow-down, like when Armin van Buurin or whoever muffles the laptop in preparation for a burst of symphonic trance. Like I said, not crazily original, but it’s a pretty cool way to toss together a beat.

• Not that I was thrilled with Linkin Park’s collaborations with such insects as Steve Aoki and all those other guys, but it does bum me out a little that I’ll never have the chance to hear Chester Bennington sing cool stuff like “Breaking the Habit” again. Their sixth live album, One More Light Live, obviously won’t focus on their old cool stuff, since it’s centered on their • Yes, I know, we talked about New Order’s NOMC15 live album earlier, but it is coming out in vinyl this week. Recorded live at Brixton Academy during the Manchester International Festival, “Party Next Door” is one of the standouts.

• York is in North Yorkshire, where the English make Yorkshire pudding so that no one stops there to eat. They might stop there to listen to the post-hardcore rock ’n’ roll, though, because their local band, Asking Alexandria, is awesome.

Their self-titled LP is on the way and will include the single “Into the Fire,” a way cool combination of Korn-ish neo-metal and today’s mishmash of blasty-face oi and makeout choruses.

They’re very cool, seriously.

• Canadian duo dvsn bring the Canadian R&B in their new album Morning After, this week. The single, “Mood,” is a complete Motown chill-down, very nice, as Borat would say, like Smoky Robinson on pain medication.

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By Angie Sykeny

After nine years of art classes and workshops, peer review groups and building her portfolio, Seacoast children’s author and illustrator Gina Perry released her first book Small last August. She’ll present the book at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter on Saturday, Dec. 16.

Perry studied computer animation at Syracuse University and started her career as a compositor in animation, then as an art director creating products for the scrapbooking market, but she always had the desire to create stories of her own. It wasn’t until she started taking art classes in her own time and meeting other writers and illustrators that she realized it was something she wanted to devote herself to full time.

“Sometimes you don’t see a career as an option until you meet someone who’s doing it,” she said. “Once I did, I saw that [writing and illustrating] children’s books meshed with the way I think and the way I want to create art, and after that, everything came together.”

She started with illustrating educational books for classrooms. She illustrated her first trade book, It’s Great Being a Dad, with author Dan Bar-el, which was published earlier this year, but she realized along the way that she didn’t only want to illustrate. She wanted to write.

“I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the writing process,” she said. “I enjoy working with other writers as well, but I wanted to build a career of my own with my own stories and my own visions for things, and for that I knew I needed to tackle writing.”

Small tell the story of a spunky little girl spending the day in the city with her mom and baby sibling. At first, the tall buildings and busy streets make the girl feel small, but after sliding down a big slide makes her feel like she can fly, she sets out on a journey to do the things she’s good at, such as drawing, singing and shooting a basketball.

When she accomplishes those goals, she realizes that she is big in her own right, and that her size doesn’t prevent her from chasing her dreams.

For Perry, the story is a personal one.

“I was a small child and the youngest in my family and was also very shy,” Perry said. “My young daughter is very different from how I was. She’s outgoing and bold, and that inspired the second half of the book, which shows the fierceness of this little girl.”

Perry wrote the first draft of the story while waiting in a doctor’s office. Once she had the draft, it took her a while to develop the story visually. She decided to set the story in a city and illustrate it based on her time living in Cambridge, Mass., and Syracuse, N.Y., and visiting New York City.

The illustration of the girl resembles Perry herself.

“People often say she looks like me,” she said. “I played with a lot of different ideas for her, but always came back to this girl with short brown hair like me. It just sort of felt right because of my personal connection to her.”

The book is geared toward children ages 4 to 6, but the message, Perry said, is universal and resonates with people of all ages.

“I’ve had adults come up to me and tell me that they were touched by it and that it connected with them, because many adults remember feeling small as a child,” she said.

Perry has already completed another children’s book called Too Much! Not Enough! which is due out in August 2018. It’s a rainy day story about two monsters with very different personalities, whose friendship keeps them together no matter how messy life gets. Right now, Perry is working on another book that will be released in the summer of 2019.

“I just can’t believe that this is my career now,” she said. “It was such a long journey to get here, full of uncertainty and rejection, so I’m thrilled to finally be doing what I love.”

Gina Perry presents Small Where: Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter When: Saturday, Dec. 16, 10 a.m. to noon More info: ginaperry.com

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No one is completely sure what happened during the 2016 presidential election. All we know is that something happened. Something very definitely happened.

There are currently and will be many more accounts of what happened. Over the next years, we’ll be reading campaign analysis from the left and from the right.

We’ll also be hearing more from the main players in the campaigns.

What Happened is Hillary Clinton’s side of the story.

Clinton was the presumptive winner in the most bizarre election the United States has ever seen. That gives her a seat at the table, and let’s just say that Hillary’s dinner conversation does not disappoint.

If you’ve read any of Clinton’s previous books you know that she uses a careful voice of authority. She presents her case and does not to use her personal voice when expressing opinions.

This is not the case in What Happened.

For the first time, Clinton lowers the shield and she tells us what being a candidate against Trump was really like.

Her honesty is refreshing. This is not an account of “What Happened?” It’s not a question. The title is a declarative statement. This is what happened — to Hillary.

We read what she felt like when she was constantly attacked by the right.

We read about what it felt like to have Trump stalk her from behind during a debate.

We read an entire chapter on Russian interference.

And we realize that there were a lot of forces in play during the last presidential election. Many beyond anyone’s control.

We realize that Clinton is one heck of a strong woman. We get a peek into the woman behind it all, how difficult it was to endure all the attacks and how painful it was to attend Trump’s inauguration.

Not because she should have won, but because she suspected that it wasn’t a fair campaign and because she knew that Trump was unfit for the presidency.

“I hope that by the time you read this, Republicans will have failed to repeal Obamacare, but that’s far from certain.

Trump’s health care plan would have devastating consequences in poor and rural areas, especially for older people and families who rely on Medicaid. And at a time when opiate addiction is ravaging communities across rural America, Trump and Republicans in Congress proposed scrapping the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurers cover mental health services and addiction

treatment. It alarms me to think about what this would mean for the recovering addicts, family members, doctors, counselors, and police officers I met in West Virginia and across the country who were all struggling to deal with the consequences of this epidemic.”

Clinton demonstrates her depth of knowledge on health care, foreign diplomacy, and economic and domestic issues.

It’s in stark contrast to the Trump administration’s sheer lack of knowledge and experience. Reading about Clinton’s grasp of issues reminds us that What Happened could have been titled What Could Have Happened.

Haters are going to say that this book is a book of excuses and that it points the finger at everyone and everything except Clinton as the reason for her losing the election. But when the final results show that Clinton won the popular vote by over 3 million votes those objections tend to fall a little flat.

Although Clinton’s campaign tried to bring up issues, they were drowned out by the newest “reality TV” candidate outrage.

When the Clinton campaign tried to raise concerns about Russia, they were told that they were being paranoid and vindictive. I’m not sure any candidate could have overcome those attacks.

What Happened is a fascinating firsthand account of what went on behind the scenes of the last presidential election.

It’s important to remember that while it is a piece of the puzzle in trying to figure out what happened during the campaign, it is, after all, only one woman’s — one candidate’s — view. Having said that, though, it’s an immensely important piece of our history that needs to be heard. A — Wendy E.N. Thomas

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• Meet the weatherman: WMUR meteorologist Josh Judge will read from his new illustrated children’s book Be Nice to the Weather Guy: A New England Christmas Story at Nesmith Library (8 Fellows Road, Windham) on Monday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m. The book reimagines the classic poem “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” and includes pages of weather facts. Visit nesmithlibrary.org or call 432-7154.

• Poetry slam: Slam Free or Die will host a poetry open mike and slam on Thursday, Dec. 14, at Stark Brewing Co. (500 N. Commercial St., Manchester). It’s the sixth slam in a series of qualifying slams held by Slam Free or Die between September and April to help determine which poets will represent New Hampshire at the National Poetry Slam held next summer. The poems are judged by five randomly selected members of the audience based on writing and performance. There are three rounds, each with a three-minute time limit, and poets are eliminated following each round. In the final round, the two remaining poets will go head to head, and the winning poet will advance to the team semi-finals in the spring. Doors open and sign-ups for the open mike start at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m. There is a $3 cover for this all-ages show. Visit facebook.com/ slamfreeordie.

• A special opportunity: Steven Szmyt will be at Barnes & Noble (Fox Run Crossings, 45 Gosling Road, Newington) on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 1 p.m., to present his new novel The Kingdom. The book follows Anne, a beautiful and intelligent graduate student who is offered the chance of a lifetime by a mysterious and charming professor. Visit barnesandnoble.com or call 422-7733.

— Angie Sykeny Books Author Events • STEVEN SZMYT Author presents The Kingdom. Sat., Dec. 16, 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Fox Run Crossings, 45 Gosling Road, Newington. Visit barnesandnoble. com.

• GINA PERRY Author presents Small. Sat., Dec. 16, 10 a.m. to noon.

Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter. Visit ginaperry.com.

• ELIZABETH BERG Author presents The Story of Arthur Truluv. Thurs., Dec. 14, at 7 p.m. Wilton Public Library, 7 Forest Road, Wilton. Visit elizabeth-berg.net.

• EVAN MALLETT Author presents A Chef’s Journey Through Eight New England Seasons. Sun., Dec. 17, noon. Barnes & Noble, Fox Run Crossings, 45 Gosling Road, Newington. Visit barnesandnoble.com.

• RICH WALLACE Author presents Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story. Sun., Dec. 17, noon. Barnes & Noble, Fox Run Crossings, 45 Gosling Road, Newington. Visit barnesandnoble.com.

• MARK LENO JR. AND THOM HINDLE Authors present Factory on Fire. Mon., Dec. 18, 7 to 8 p.m. Dover Public Library, 73 Locust St., Dover. Call 516-6050.

• JOSH JUDGE Author presents Be Nice to the Weather Guy: A New England Christmas Story. Nesmith Library, 8 Fellows Road, Windham. Mon., Dec. 18, 6 p.m. Visit nesmithlibrary.org; call 432-7154.

Other • HOLIDAY FAMILY STORY HOUR Enjoy cookies, hot cocoa, puppets and an assortment of favorite holiday stories read by Molly Simmons, Andrew Periale, Bonnie Meier Periale, and Tim Horvath. The Word Barn, 66 Newfields Road, Exeter. Thurs., Dec. 14, 6 to 7 p.m. $5 per person or $20 per family. Visit brownpapertickets.com/event/3185908.

Poetry events • SLAM FREE OR DIE POETRY OPEN MIC & SLAM Sixth qualifying slam for the 2018 Slam Free or Die National Poetry Slam. Stark Brewing Co., 500 N. Commercial St., Manchester.

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The Disaster Artist (R)

A man of indeterminate age, national origin and personal wealth makes what has come to be delightfully regarded as the worst movie in modern times in The Disaster Artist, which might be the funniest movie I’ve seen in 2017.

Or maybe in the last few years. I can’t remember the last time I was in a theater where people laughed so much and so hard.

This is the kind of laughter that is almost embarrassing to do in a public place, the laughter equivalent of the ugly cry. It probably says unflattering things about me as a person, what I laughed at and how hard I laughed, but, boy, did it feel good.

In late 1990s San Francisco, Greg (Dave Franco) timidly attempts to learn to act. He can take some comfort in the fact that however bad his lack of emotion is it is not as arrestingly terrible as the E-Mo-Ting! from acting classmate Tommy Wiseau (James Franco). Tommy has very black, long hair and an accent that does not fit with his claim to be from New Orleans (Is there a New Orleans, Albania?). When asked how old he is, he says he’s “your age” to the 19-year-old Greg despite appearing to be maybe twice that. He has apartments in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, which even when this movie begins is not cheap, despite having no apparent occupation.

Greg’s mom (Megan Mullally) is not so impressed when Greg announces he and Tommy are moving to Los Angeles to make it in Hollywood, but at first things look promising for Greg — he gets an agent, we hear he read for a role on Gilmore Girls.

He even gets a girlfriend (Alison Brie). But Tommy, not surprisingly, does not have even that luck. I wish we could make our own movie, Greg says. Tommy instantly latches on to this as The Idea.

Have you seen The Room? I have not. I have vague memories of reading about the movie and its strange billboard. And I recently watched both the Honest Trailer and the CinemaSins videos about The Room. Even without having seen the movie, you can understand both from talking-head interviews at this movie’s beginning and near flawless recreations of the movie’s scenes (as seen at the end of The Disaster Artist, which shows

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The Disaster Artist

real and recreated scenes side by side; definitely worth staying for) what a rare gem of a terrible movie it is. I don’t think this guy has ever even seen a movie before, a crew member says of Tommy at one point in this movie.

This is exactly how the scenes play — as the creation of a man who has not even a passing understanding of storytelling or visuals or believably American culture.

And yet, as The Disaster Artist tells it, The Room is the definition of a passion project.

Misguided passion, perhaps, but a movie with grand aspirations, as this movie tells it. And The Disaster Artist, to its credit, both laughs at the misguidedness and admires the passion.

Tommy is told he looks like a villain, but this movie doesn’t make him a villain. It makes him the kind of person who charges ahead and does crazy things and somehow has the money to pay for it. If he had talent, he’d be called a genius (a weird, difficult genius, probably). He’s not, though, so The Disaster Artist just stands back and admires his moxy.

James Franco gives a fun performance, the kind of performance that he, a guy who has crafted an image that is a bit wackadoodle himself, can really sell. What makes his scenes with the at-times awed/at-times shocked Greg even better is that you sense the Francos are perpetually on the edge of cracking each other up. The affection of their Tommy and Greg duo feels real, I suspect in part because there’s real affection

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rick-voiced Troll Queen Poppy wants to give them a new day to look forward to. Weighing in at just over 20 minutes, this short, featuring most of the voice actors from the Trolls movie, captures the plucky spirit and the song mash-ups (and the vaguely “toy commercial for basically acceptable

between the real-life Franco brothers.

Once we move to the scenes of the movie being made, this sense of giddiness extends to those playing cast and crew (including Seth Rogen, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver, Jason Mantzoukas, Josh Hutcherson and Zac Efron, to name a few of the many people who appear to be just psyched to be here).

Everybody seems to be having an absolute blast and that energy spills out into the audience. A Rated R for language throughout and some sexuality/nudity, according to the MPAA. Directed by James Franco with a screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (based on the book — sweet fancy Amazon, there’s a book!?! — of the same name by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell), The Disaster Artist is an hour and 44 minutes long and distributed by A24.

Just Getting Started (PG-13)

Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones “star” in Just Getting Started, a moldy slice of holiday fruitcake.

Duke (Freeman) is the manager of a Palm Springs resort community. He spends his days sleazily romancing three ladies (played

by Glenne Headly, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Elizabeth Ashley) and receiving attaboys from a trio of idiot dudes (Joe Pantoliano, Graham Beckel and George Wallace).

toys” quality) of the original, though the Trolls fan in my household was disappointed that there wasn’t any Christmas music. BReviewlets * indicates a must-see movie. Find full reviews at hippopress.com.

Then Leo (Jones) arrives. He can golf better, play poker better and sleazily woo the same three ladies better than Duke. And he’s got a nifty cowboy hat.

Because a nitwit contest between these two nitwits can’t fill all 90 minutes, there are two complicating factors. First, the corporate parent of the resort community has sent an auditor, Suzie (Rene Russo), to scrutinize and possibly fire Duke. Both Leo and Duke take an instant shine to Suzie and ickily attempt to pursue her.

Also, as we see in an opening scene, some stereotype of a Jersey mob wife (Jane Seymour) sees Duke in an ad for the resort and calls some unknown person to have Duke killed as revenge for her jailed husband.

So here is the difference between the legendary awfulness of a movie like The Room and the banality-of-evil awfulness of a movie like this: The Room at least, according to The Disaster Artist, is a weird spectacular failure born from one man’s talent-free but passionate attempt at greatness. Just Getting Started feels like a pile of corporate memos and demographic studies arranged in the general shape of a movie, without anyone bothering to invest time in creating a story, individual bits of dialogue or characters that would speak to either the real life or the fantasy of that demographic. Earlier this year, Freeman appeared in Going in Style, a movie I gave a C- to about retirees planning a bank heist to avenge the loss of their pensions. That movie was plenty silly and broad in its comedy but it did have a grounding in real life and an interesting (if not interestingly executed) fantastical premise. This movie feels like the creation of old-school sitcom writers actively uninterested in originality, reality or genuine humor. This movie doesn’t have a truly funny moment from beginning to end but it does have a pervasive sense of contempt from the movie’s creators both for the audience and for the actors. F Rated PG-13 for language, suggestive material and brief violence, according to the MPAA. Written and directed by Ron Shelton, Just Getting Started is an hour and 31 minutes long and distributed by BGP Releasing LLP.

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writer-director Greta Gerwig (nominated for a Golden Globe in the screenplay ― but not director! ― category; the movie received four nominations in all) captures the cultural moment and the moment in this girl’s life perfectly and the actors turn in excellent work all the way around. A

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NITE Calling it a Monday Local music news & events

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• Wardrobe function: Taking the ugly sweater tradition to a new level, Jennifer Mitchell Band hosts an Ugly Christmas Clothes Party, encouraging patrons to show their ties, T-shirts, hats and pajamas. Mitchell is a ubiquitous figure on the local scene, playing solo and hosting open-mike nights.

Go Saturday, Dec. 16, 8:30 p.m., Hungry Buffalo, 58 Route 129, Loudon. Call 798-3737.

• Christmas crooning: A holiday pops show features the Capital Jazz Orchestra backing vocalists CJ Poole and Laura Daigle, along with a reading of The Night Before Christmas from NHPR host Laura Knoy. Continuing the local theme, the Nashua Catholic Regional Junior High School Choir joins for seasonal favorites, capped by an audience singalong. Go Sunday, Dec. 17, 4 p.m., Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St, Concord.

Tickets are $27.50 to $47.50 at ccanh.com.

• Fresh-faced: Dan Boulger won the 2006 Boston Comedy Festival, later appearing on Comedy Central and the BBC. He’s opened for Bill Burr, Zach Galifianakis and others. Boulger is joined by Lucas O’Neil and Rob Pierce, with short sets from up and coming comics. Go Wednesday, Dec. 20, 9 p.m., Shaskeen Pub, 909 Elm St., Manchester. See facebook.com/shaskeencomedy.

• Electric holiday: Progressive rockers Wizards of Winter perform the rock opera Tales Beneath a Northern Star. The group includes former members of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rainbow and Alice Cooper’s band, playing a similar brand of classical-flavored arena rock. Go Friday, Dec. 15, 8 p.m., Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry. Tickets $40 to $55 at tupelohall.com.

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After a decade as a live music fixture in the Manchester nightclub scene and beyond, Sountrack to Monday is saying goodbye. The band — bassist Bobby Whitworth, guitarist Byron Marks, drummer Dan George and lead vocalist Peter Higgins — perform a penultimate show at their favorite hometown venue on Friday, Dec. 15, and eight days later bid a final farewell at The Crow’s Nest in Plaistow.

Named after a mashup of two ’90s songs — “Every Monday” by Marvelous 3 and Soul Coughing’s “Soundtrack to Mary” — the group came up at bygone bars like the Flambeaux and Mad Bob’s and the still thriving Shaskeen Pub. They found their sweet spot at raucous Seacoast booze cruises, Murphy’s Tap Room and at Derryfield Country Club — the site of their last Manchester gig.

In recent years, other projects claimed their time, and band bookings declined.

Higgins has a busy solo schedule, the other three are part of Queensrÿche tribute band Doctor X; Whitworth and Marks perform in their busy cover band, Among the Living.

“Soundtrack is down from five to six gigs a month to one,” Whitworth said in a phone interview. “We didn’t want to become a caricature of ourselves. It’s like what they say about a shark — if you stop moving, you die.”

Prepping for their final nights has enerSoundtrack to Monday When: Friday, Dec. 15, 9 p.m.

Where: Derryfield Country Club, 625 Mammoth Road, Manchester More: soundtracktomonday.com Also Saturday, Dec. 23, 9 p.m. at The Crows Nest, 181 Plaistow Road, Plaistow

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Soundtrack To Monday. Courtesy photo.

gized the band. Whitworth spoke of plans to dust off rarely played songs for the sendoff, including a couple from their sole original CD, 2009’s Lift Her Up. “The mood is nostalgic, for sure,” he said. “We’re bringing back ‘Dynamite’ and the Lady Gaga stuff because we want the floor packed.”

The Derryfield crowds are the main reason the band chose it for one of the two swan song shows.

“It’s the dancing, really,” Whitworth said.

“Some of the people are regulars who’ve been coming there for years — they know us by name. Everybody stays and dances all night. The Derryfield is the best place to play as long as we’ve been playing there.”

Crow’s Nest is another favorite, but for different reasons.

“The sound’s always good. It just makes it easy for the bands; we just show up and entertain,” Whitworth said. “They are really open to stuff that might not work at other places. You can kind of step out and do different songs. So there we’re going to do ‘Possum Kingdom’ by the Toadies and ‘Dead and Bloated’ by Stone Temple Pilots ... they’re more conducive to the heavier stuff, so we’ll do some Linkin Park.”

The group began as a trio, the remnants of Betterman’s Way looking to make its mark

playing covers. Whitworth recalled their time starting out as a learning experience.

“Some of those shows were pretty darn memorable because of the nerves and anxiety,” he said. “We did some crazy stuff — R. Kelly, a Nixons cover of ‘Rocket Man.’ We were like, ‘We’re just starting out, we got nothing to lose, let’s go and have some fun.’

I remember a couple of shows specifically at Shaskeen that were just a blast. We had a lot of fun in that back room, with our friends coming out to support us.”

They made an impact locally and in farflung bars like The Bell in Hand in Boston.

“But some of the funnest shows were in these crazy places,” Whitworth said.

He recalled playing to a near empty room at the memorably named Notorious R&R Five Star Dive Bar. “Only one person came to see us, plus our girlfriends,” he said. “We were in a bullpen, and it was hilarious.”

They did many shows at Manchester’s Black Brimmer before it closed.

“For 10 to 15 years that was the place.

You couldn’t even get in,” Whitworth said.

“We finally played near the ebb of that [and] we have some great memories. “ The Flambeaux, another now-shuttered Elm Street bar, played a big part in their early days.

“Our friend Tommy owned it, and it really gave us our start,” Whitworth said. “We got to learn our craft, and gel with Peter.”

One night, they played as the Van Halenonly cover band Black Eddie band.

“We had a little too much fun, which is rare, because we’re a pretty sober band,” Whitworth said. “There were some true David Lee Roth moments going on.”

Cloudy memories are all the band have of the evening, as cell phone camcorders weren’t really a thing back then.

“Too bad — and thank God,” Whitworth said with a laugh.

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Bridgewater Bridgewater Inn 367 Mayhew Turnpike 744-3518

Ashland Common Man 60 Main St. 968-7030

Bristol Back Room at the Mill 2 Central St. 744-0405 Kathleen’s Cottage 91 Lake Street 744-6336 Purple Pit 28 Central Square 744-7800

Contoocook Covered Bridge Cedar St. 746-5191 Farmer’s Market Town Center 369-1790

Epsom Circle 9 Ranch 39 Windymere Drive 736-9656 Hilltop Pizzeria 1724 Dover Rd. 736-0027

Atkinson Merrill’s Tavern 85 Country Club Drive 382-8700 Auburn Auburn Pitts 167 Rockingham Rd 622-6564 Auburn Tavern 346 Hooksett Rd 587-2057 Barrington Dante’s 567 Route 125 664-4000 Bedford Bedford Village Inn 2 Olde Bedford Way 472-2001 Copper Door 15 Leavy Drive 488-2677 Shorty’s 206 Route 101 488-5706 T-Bones 169 South River Road 623-7699 Belmont Lakes Region Casino 1265 Laconia Road 267-7778 Shooters Tavern Rt. 3, 528-2444 Boscawen Alan’s 133 N. Main St. 753-6631

Deerfield Nine Lions Tavern 4 North Road 463-7374

Derry Coffee Factory 55 Crystal Ave 432-6006 Francestown Drae Toll Booth Tavern 14 E Broadway 216-2713 740 2nd NH Tpke N 588-1800 Dover Claremont Cara Irish Pub Common Man Gilford 11 Fourth St. 343-4390 Patrick’s 21 Water Street Dover Brick House 542-6171 18 Weirs Road 293-0841 Taverne on the Square 2 Orchard St. 749-3838 Schuster’s Tavern Falls Grill & Tavern 2 Pleasant St. 680 Cherry Valley Road 421 Central Ave. 287-4416 293-2600 749-0995 Fury’s Publick House Goffstown Concord 1 Washington St. Area 23 Village Trestle 617-3633 State Street 881-9060 25 Main St. 497-8230 Sonny’s Tavern Barley House 132 N. Main 228-6363 83 Washington St. Greenfield 742-4226 Cheers Riverhouse Cafe 17 Depot St. 228-0180 Top of the Chop 4 Slip Road 547-8710 1 Orchard St. 740-0006 Common Man 1 Gulf Street 228-3463 Hampton Dublin Granite Ashworth By The Sea 96 Pleasant St. 227-9000 DelRossi’s Trattoria 295 Ocean Blvd.

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SIGNS OF LIFE know a lot of what you need to know.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Sportswriters (and sports announcers) love to cover golf, because then they can get to play golf. You just might land that plum assignment.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) I laugh now, too, at all the Red Sox Nation crap, the myth that all New England has always worshipped the Sawx through thick and thin…. Your team will have ups and downs.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Everybody thinks of the South as the most distinctive American region, but since air conditioning, the people in Atlanta and Charlotte are from Cleveland and New Jersey. New England is the other way around. There was never any cult about New England. In the South, the thinkers wrote about the South, and glamorized it; in New England, the thinkers started schools. New England was a place unto itself, and it still is. Have you thought about starting a school?

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Indeed, members of my family are loath to let me do anything around the house. The lightbulb joke for me is: zero. That’s because they wouldn’t let me change one, for fear I would break the lightbulb and God knows what all else, ancillary, in the process. Leave the lightbulbchanging to those who are good at it.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) My favorite euphemism in all of sport is that a drive finds a sand trap. Not that some bum actually hit his Titleist there. But in all of baseball history, there’s never been a batter whose ball found the shortstop’s glove with the bases loaded.

It’s because that little tiny ball goes so very far away. Who knows what it gets up to?

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Probably there’s not as much skill around as there used to be. A modern society doesn’t lend itself to craftsmanship. Rather, people are more businesslike. You have skill but you need to develop it.

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All quotes are from Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter, by Frank Deford, born Dec. 16, 1938.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “Natural” can be very close to “facile.” I’ve seen too many natural athletes who didn’t accomplish nearly as much as those with lesser gifts who managed to work harder, get better, and accomplish more. You can do a lot with what you’ve got.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) Golfers almost never seem to choke, as all other professional athletes do. It’s a hard game, is all.

Unyielding. Unforgiving. Everybody’s trying.

He didn’t mean to get a bad lie. ... Likewise, the fans never boo anybody in the sport, and every course is a home field for every golfer…. You can’t rely on home field advantage.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) Billie Jean, though — man, but she was amazing. Prepare to be amazed.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) ...there’s a sense that we’re all just a step away from being the American Idol. But that sort of daydreaming can’t possibly make any average person believe he could be a star athlete.

We’ll watch someone who can’t really dance well try to dance. We’ll never watch somebody who can’t hit a curveball try to hit a curveball. Emotional expression and technical skill are two different things. Which can sometimes work well together.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) I found out I could write when, I believe it was in the third grade, we had learned our alphabet, and the teacher said it was time for us to take it up a notch and write sentences, possibly even paragraphs. So I did. Take it up a notch.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Grownup interviewing is basically only what you learned going out on high school dates; it’s all just What kinda music do you like? taken to a somewhat higher degree. You already

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Irony

As elder members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, gathered Nov. 16 to discuss the recent church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, one of them asked if anyone had brought a gun to church. One man spoke up and said he carries a gun everywhere, reported WATE-TV, and produced the gun, emptying the chambers before passing the weapon around. When the owner got the gun back, he replaced the magazine and recharged the chamber accidentally squeezing the trigger and shooting himself in the hand and his wife in the abdomen. Both victims were taken by helicopter to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

Traffic slowed to a crawl on I-95 in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Nov. 21 as President Trump’s motorcade arrived for the Thanksgiving holiday. Author and sportswriter Jeff Pearlman was among the delayed drivers, but things turned weird when “these people (kept) getting out of the car dancing,” he posted in a Twitter video. WPTV reported that Pearlman recorded the people two cars in front of him emerging from their car and twerking on the highway, then jumping and dancing around enthusiastically before getting back in the vehicle.

Last wishes On Oct. 10, Richard Lussi, 76, of Plains Compulsion Township, Pennsylvania, succumbed to heart A 35-year-old Indian man employed a disease. But before he died, he made sure his unique method for dealing with his depres- family knew there was one thing he wanted sion: swallowing metal. Maksud Khan was to take with him: a cheesesteak from Pat’s rushed to surgery at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital King of Steaks in Philadelphia. “No onions in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India, after devel- because they’ll come back to haunt me!” Lusoping severe abdominal pains, according si told his family. So the day before Lussi’s to Metro News. An endoscopy showed that funeral, his son, John, grandson, Dominic, Khan had “coins, nails and nut-bolts in his and two friends drove to Philly, where they stomach,” said Dr. Priyank Sharma, who led ate cheesesteaks and bought two extra for the surgical team. In late November, surgeons Lussi’s casket. John told The Philadelphia removed 263 coins, 100 nails and other metal Inquirer that the funeral director advised not items, including razor blades and dog chains, putting the sandwiches in the coffin until after from Khan’s stomach. His family had no idea the viewing, “because people would take he had been ingesting metal, and Khan prom- them.” Pat’s owner Frank Olivieri Jr. said he ised doctors he would never eat metal again. was flattered and proud that his cheesesteaks were held “so dear” by someone.

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• In Iowa, autumn is breeding season for deer, when the animals can get a little wacky and try to cross roadways. It’s also the time of year when the Iowa Department of Transportation begins fielding questions from drivers asking why deer crossing signs aren’t erected at safer spots for deer to cross. “This sign isn’t intended to tell deer where to cross,” the Iowa DOT helpfully posted on its Facebook page on Oct. 24, according to the Des Moines Register. “It’s for drivers to be alert that deer have been in this area in the past.” State Farm Insurance reports that Iowa drivers have the fourth-highest likelihood in the U.S. of hitting a deer. Coincidence?

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Lisa Cramps moved into a new home in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, England, this fall and quickly discovered a mysterious manhole cover in her backyard. Rather than ignore it, Cramps dug up the cover and unearthed a World War II-era bunker underneath. Neighbors informed Cramps that the shelter pre-dates her house and originally had two stories, with the upper level partially above ground. “It’s very exciting to find this in our garden,” Cramps told Metro News. “I love Second World War history, and my mission now is to find out exactly why it’s here.”

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