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I’m not an expert, but you show me a kid who is bored in school and I’ll show you a kid more likely to become involved in bad behavior. It’s rarely the A students who get in trouble in school; it’s largely students who are bored, struggling and disengaged who get involved in dangerous behavior, including drugs and violence. Unfortunately, we have a century-plus-old school model that may work well for some students but, for most students, that is not how they learn best.

As past chairman of the New Hampshire State Board of Education, I was charged by the governor to redesign the system, a charge most would have run away from.

Few, at the time, realized that what we came up with would be the foundation for the future of education in America. While our concept of a student-centered, competencybased system is now spreading across the nation, implementation here in New Hampshire has been too slow. Too many kids are still bored and unengaged in traditional classrooms, and too many of those students are acting in dangerous ways. When school teaches them that they aren’t very bright, should we be surprised by their behavior?

I don’t think so.

So what do we do about it? The reforms put in place by the State Board of Education are rules, not guidelines. Yet many schools are acting like they don’t have to change.

These rules are designed to give students (and parents) ownership of their learning in an anytime, anyplace education environment. They are designed to let students pursue their interests, passions and dreams and get credit toward graduation for it.

The goal of every school should be to ensure that every student is passionate about their learning and to certify students as they become experts in what they want to learn and, in doing so, help to pave the way for their future. If schools do not commit to this honorable goal of creating a passion for learning, and continue boring kids and leaving too many of them unengaged, don’t be shocked when many of them continue to participate in bad stuff, including drugs and violence.

As a society, we must demand change in how we deliver learning.

Fred Bramante is a former chairman and member of the NH State Board of Education. He speaks and consults on education redesign to regional, state and national organizations.

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INSIDE THIS WEEK NEWS & NOTES 4 Helping pregnant women in need; PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 18 THE ARTS: 20 THEATER Leading Ladies.

22 ART Youth Arts Month.

23 CLASSICAL Listings for events around town.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: 25 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend.

26 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors.

27 TREASURE HUNT There’s gold in your attic.

28 CAR TALK Automotive advice.

CAREERS: 30 ON THE JOB What it’s like to be a...

FOOD: 32 ST. PATTY’S DAY EATS Souperfest; In the Kitchen; Weekly Dish; Wine; From the Pantry.

POP CULTURE: 38 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz turns the page on Oscar season and watches the definitely not Oscar hopefuls Red Sparrow and Death Wish.

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NEWS & NOTES Child death preventable

Moira O’Neill, the state’s first ever director of the Office of the Child Advocate, released a statement saying the death of a Derry boy on Feb. 12 was likely preventable. O’Neill is seeking a full review of the case, which has been called a murder-suicide after law enforcement found Preston E., 6, and his father locked in a sealed room with two charcoal grills. In April 2017 the father left a message with the Division of Children, Youth and Families asking for help, saying he was “not doing well” in a message he left with a child protective services worker.

According to O’Neill, he didn’t qualify for any interventions because his abuse and neglect assessment was already ruled unfounded and his requests for help were recorded as parenting strengths. “This is a clear case of a family that could have benefited from voluntary services if they existed,” O’Neill said in her statement. Voluntary services are meant for families at risk of becoming abusive and neglectful, but they were cut from state budgets in recent years.

In response to O’Neill’s statement, Gov. Chris Sununu released a statement saying he has heard concerns expressed by frontline workers of the need for voluntary and prevention services and he said he made restoring them a “key priority” this legislative session.

Senate Democrats agreed with the need for voluntary services but took the governor to task for not including it in his budget last year. “Gov. Sununu did not fund voluntary services in his budget proposed in early 2017. Attempts by Senate Democrats to add voluntary services to the budget were rejected by our Republican colleagues in the majority,” said Sen. Dan Feltes of Concord.

Read more about Child Advocate Moira O’Neill on p. 8.

Medicaid meeting On Monday, March 5, MayKeno votes or Joyce Craig and lawmakers More than 75 New Hamp- representing Manchester in the shire towns are set to vote on House and Senate met with the whether they’ll allow keno Greater Manchester Chamber of gambling, according to a press Commerce to discuss the imporHIPPO | MARCH 8 - 14, 2018 | PAGE 4

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er Concord has finally settled tance of reauthorizing expanded into its new mosque, in an old Medicaid. The proposal on the printing company building on table would reauthorize MedicNorth Main Street. The orgaaid for about 50,000 low-income nization bought the building in November but it’s taken residents for another five years, several legal transactions and migrate plans to a managed some renovating in order for care model (which promises to it be able to move in. reduce rates and provide more Police statewide are warning stability) and use about 5 perCONCORD residents to be on the lookcent of liquor revenues to cover out for used and discarded syringes in public places as some of the costs. Democratsnow melts, WMUR reported. ic Sen. Lou D’Alessandro and A pile of syringes was found on Alderman and Democratic Rep. the side of the road in BarnPat Long said during the meetstead. Police in Franklin also Hooksett ing that policy makers need to found a syringe in their parking lot. Used syringes may contain meet in the middle and comproserious infectious agents such mise in order to avoid letting Recovery-friendly as the Hepatitis C virus.

Goffstown The governor launched a new the health care protections Eversource Energy in Maninitiative on March 1 called the disappear. chester filed for a rehearing with the state Site EvaluaRecovery Friendly Workplace MANCHESTER tion Committee to rehear the Initiative. According to a press Marriage age Northern Pass project, the AP The house passed a bill on release, the program aims to help reported. The company is offerOverdose deaths in Nashua Granite Staters with substance March 6 that would raise the ing $300 million in rateBedford reducare down 50 percent in the use disorder by empower- state’s minimum marriage age tions for low-income and busifirst two months of the year ness customers in the state. compared to the same periing their employers to provide to 16 for both boys and girls, Derry Merrimackod last year, according to a Amherst some addiction recovery sup- the AP reported. The bill now press release from Ameriports. The program launched a goes to the Senate. The House Londonderry can Medical Response.

Milford new website, recoveryfriendly- delayed voting on a bill that Overdose deaths are down workplace.com, which includes would ban marriages between 11 percent in Manchester. information and a way for com- two people if sexual relations NASH NASHUA panies to apply. Applications between them would be a crime if they were unmarried.

Under will be reviewed by an advisory committee. Some of the current law, judges can approve early adopters include AutoFair, marriages for girls as young as said his administration sup- than through an open incision.

Grappone Automotive Group, 13 and boys as young as 14. ports the death penalty and According to a press release, the Hypertherm, Walmart and more. repealing it would send the tools were guided up the catheDeath penalty ter from the groin to the heart Gov. Chris Sununu is prom- wrong message.

Prison with the aid of X-rays and echoising to veto a bill that would apprenticeships cardiography. The procedure According to a press release, repeal the state’s death penalty. Surgery milestone Doctors at Catholic Med- was led by Dr. Fahad Gilani. four inmates from the state pris- The AP reported the bipartisan ons in Concord and Berlin were bill has 13 cosponsors in the ical Center have performed Until recently, heart valve the first to receive U.S. Depart- Senate. It would change the the first percutaneous mitral replacements required open ment of Labor Journeymen penalty for capital murder to valve replacement surgery in heart surgery, which comes with apprenticeships for furniture and life in prison. In a statement the state, which means it was longer and more uncomfortable upholstery. In order to qualify, released by the governor, he done through a catheter rather recoveries. each inmate had to complete a 6,000-hour program. According to the release, the certification DREAMERS SEACOAST COMMUNITIES will give the inmates an advanSouthern New Hampshire University in ManTaxpayers in Portsmouth, North Hampton and tage in the workplace once they chester is partnering with The Shapiro FounNewington may owe the federal government are released from state custodation and TheDream.US to provide $20 milmore than $5 million because a groundwady. The certification program, lion in scholarships to 1,000 low-income ter treatment system was never installed at a which is the first nationally recyoung immigrants known as “Dreamers” who landfill, the Portsmouth Herald reported. The ognized program in the state are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Coakley Landfill, a Superfund site that is susDepartment of Corrections, Arrivals program, the AP reported. The unipected of contaminating the water supply of versity will offer assistance to DACA students some seacoast residents and possibly causing began in 2017.

release from the Lottery Commission. Towns like Derry, Bow, Boscawen, Candia, Hooksett, Hudson, Loudon, Milford, Pembroke, Salem and Weare will vote on the issue during their town meetings this spring, many of which happen in midMarch. After being available in over 50 establishments in the state over just 10 weeks, keno sales have passed the $2 million mark. Revenues will help to fund state funding of full-day kindergarten.

who enroll in the school’s online programs over the next five years. DACA students, because they are undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country illegally when they were children, do not qualify for federal financial aid.

a cluster of rare pediatric cancers, was supposed to get a pump and treatment system installed after the feds issued $5 million for that purpose. The Record of Decision was signed about 28 years ago, but nobody seems to know why the system was never installed, according to the story.

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NEWS

New moms in recovery

OB practices, hospitals take on larger treatment role

the length of stay has decreased on average as they use more non-pharmaceutical soothing techniques. Getting the expectant mothers Over the past year, obstetrical practices and treated and trained early has helped with that. hospitals like Catholic Medical Center have made significant strides to provide opioid Statewide ramp up addiction treatment to prenatal and postparJulia Frew, a doctor at Dartmouth-Hitchtum patients. Now, some additional grants cock in Lebanon and the medical director of promise to expand such programs. its Moms in Recovery program, said creating

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Roots for Recovery

In January 2017, CMC launched the Roots for Recovery program for pregnant women and new moms. It was created with grants from the Digital Federal Credit Union and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and it was modeled somewhat after programs in California, according to Roots coordinator Renée Maloney.

“It’s an incentive-based program. It’s the only one in the area, I believe the only one in New Hampshire,” Maloney said.

As rewards for making appointments at the clinic, patients collect beads for a sort of charm bracelet. When they collect a certain amount, they earn things like car seats, infant carriers and pack-and-plays, Maloney said.

At first, patients come twice a week. Earlier in the week they come for Suboxone treatment and later in the week they come for group counseling with a licensed addiction counselor. Once they are stable on the medication, the Suboxone visits change to every two weeks, but the group counseling meetings are still weekly.

“To start in the program you do have to be pregnant,” Maloney said, but after they deliver, they can stay on for another year if they can’t find any other treatment programs.

The expecting mothers tour the special care nursery and meet the nurses. As part of the program, they learn how to read certain signs of neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS, and provide soothing techniques to comfort the baby experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

“The more education they can get prenatally, the better outcome they will have. And they feel comfortable here because it’s all done on one campus,” Maloney said.

The pregnant women also interact with women who delivered babies through the program and learn from them. Nicole Pendenza, director of women and children services at CMC, said the Roots program was born out of the special nursery for NAS babies. She said the nursery follows a family-centered model of care that encourages mothers to be involved and stay with the baby from the beginning. Ten years ago, when the nursery first opened, Pendenza said, about 2 to 3 percent of the patients had substance use disorder. Now, it’s closer to 5 or 6 percent. But

support services and accessibility for pregnant women is key to getting them treatment.

“Things like transportation [to appointments] can tend to be very difficult,” Frew said.

Frew is also the director of the recently formed Center for Addiction Recovery in Pregnancy and Parenting. The center received a $2.7 million federal grant under the 21st Century Cures Act to support Dartmouth and seven other obstetric practices with implementing and scaling up things like medication-assisted treatment, counseling, transportation, insurance, employment support, on-site child care and case management.

Frew said most of the money will be going to the practices, while CARPP will serve as a “center of excellence” to provide knowledge, training and implementation assistance and act as a facilitator between participating clinics that may compare notes and share best practices.

Frew said one of the biggest shifts she’s observed in the state over the past three years is the broader medical community stepping up to tackle the opioid epidemic.

“I think now there’s much more recognition that there will never be enough psychiatrists and addiction providers to meet the amount of need there is,” Frew said.

A program called Perinatal Addiction Treatment has been in place at Concord Hospital’s maternity ward for the past few months serving about 20 parents with Suboxone, according to Peter Evers at Riverbend Community Mental Health.

Many of the state’s newest maternity treatment programs came out of a $3 million initiative from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation that was announced last October.

An average of $1 million is expected to be granted per year in 2017, 2018 and 2019. An initial $50,000 grant was awarded to Hope on Haven Hill in Rochester, a $194,000 grant helped with the creation of the CARPP program at Dartmouth, and $82,000 was granted to Memorial Hospital in North Conway to support its “A New Life” program.

Several other grants were awarded to hospitals and community health centers to hire social workers, lay the groundwork for informational campaigns or fund research into neonatal abstinence syndrome and fetal alcohol syndrome.

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NEWS & NOTES Q&A

Child advocate

New oversight for child protective services

Moira O’Neill was sworn in as the first ever director of the Office of the Child Advocate for New Hampshire on Feb. 5. The office was created by the legislature in the wake of a series of recent child abuse deaths, and the recommendations made by a commission that reviewed state policies.

Can you tell us about your background?

I did a master’s degree in nursing that had a focus on health policy and community health services at Yale University, and ... I also did a master’s degree in public health. ... I worked [in Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate] for 11 years doing ombudsman work for children and investigating facilities where children were placed and working on child fatality reviews. … I [got a doctoral degree and then] … I taught in nursing schools in Maine. ... I don’t think I would have left what I was doing in Maine for any position other than this one, because it just seems tailor made for me.

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to improve kids’ lives so they develop to be productive adults, but it’s doing that across the board for all children.

To what extent do you think you’ll be able to provide oversight, Courtesy Photo even in real time, of some of the existing systems in place?

Our statute requires us to oversee the Department of Children, Youth and Families.

How that’s going to be actualized is we have a broad authority to access information about what they’re doing, and how they’re doing it and when they’re doing it. So we will monitor that and we will compare it to what the law requires them to do ... what does the standard of science in child welfare, child protection, child health require … and when we find that it’s not working … we’ll be able to take that in real time and bring that to the attention of the DCYF or bring it to the attention of the legislature if it’s … something in policy that needs to be changed.

What are some of the biggest challenges you expect the office will face?

[We] see kids in some of the worst conditions, because the state doesn’t intervene unless it really is a bad situation. And the child advocate staff is going to intervene when even that fails, most often. So I expect that I and my staff will have to deal with some very difficult, heart-wrenching scenarios that we’ll need to prepare for. But the positive is that we Would you say that New Hampshire’s are in a position to help and make sure that those kinds of situations don’t happen again office is sufficiently independent and in the future. So it’s both a challenge and an well-resourced?

I have to say I do. It’s an independent opportunity to do really gratifying work. office. That’s in statute. … Within the DepartDo you see it as the role of the Office of ment of Administrative Services, I create the Child Advocate to not only advocate for my own budget and the commissioner can’t specific children in need, but also for differ- make changes to that, but of course, where ent policies that could protect children better your power is most at risk is in budget allotment, appropriations. So it is possible that a in the future?

Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, it’s great to governor can take my budget out of the overbe able to help one child, any child, but it’s all administrative budget. Right now, we have more important that you take that experience a governor who is very supportive of this proand apply it for all children. So what we will gram, so I don’t anticipate that. … We don’t do is we will be collecting lots of information have a big budget right now, but we have about how we are helping children and we’ll enough to get started. see trends in that, and we’ll be able to take There’s a long list of changes people have that right to the legislature and say, ‘Here’s where this law is weak on helping kids,’ and talked about making to improve child safe‘Here’s what we can do,’ or ‘Here’s where ty. Is there a No. 1 priority you want to focus we can invest to make the system work bet- on right away?

One of the things that’s really bubbling up ter.’ That’s really what this kind of work is all about. It’s making sure that people are treat- is the lack of investment in what’s called voled fairly and that we are doing the best we can untary services. These are services that are provided to families who need a little bit of WHAT ELSE ARE YOU INTO? assistance. They’re not abusing or neglectI’m a ridgerunner. … That’s a person who ing their children, but they’re probably at risk does trail maintenance and … educates of it because of things like poverty or family people about outdoor ethics. … I’m lookdysfunction or mental illness or whatever. … ing forward to getting out and getting Oftentimes, it’s just unemployment. Somesome good New Hampshire hiking done. thing as simple as that. — Ryan Lessard

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX

Nashua ranks among safest cities to retire

Security Choice has named Nashua the 34th safest city in the U.S. to retire out of 495 cities or major metro areas studied. Nashua received a score of 80.53 out of 100, based on six criteria, including FBI city crime data, average retirement age, percentage of city population age 65 and over, cost of living, health care costs and elder abuse protection laws. It is the only New Hampshire city that made the top 100 list.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Venice, Florida, was named No. 1, with a score of 87.21.

Twenty-six states did not have a city that made the list.

Makerspace in the works

A group of local business people is looking to bring a makerspace to Concord, according to the Concord Monitor. The group, Making Matters NH, announced its plans at an information session held at Red River Theatres in Concord last week. They’re currently in the process of looking for space; they’ve already looked at places such as the Department of Transportation garage, industrial spaces on Storrs Street and Village Street and Concord Center warehouse space.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Makerspaces already exist in Manchester and Nashua, so it makes sense to add one to the Capital City.

Women-friendly state

According to a new study by WalletHub, New Hampshire ranks the 10th Best State for Women. The study compared 50 states plus the District of Columbia across 23 key metrics. Of those, New Hampshire ranked first in having the lowest female unemployment rates and first in having the lowest share of women in poverty. Civic engagement was also high as New Hampshire was fourth in the share of women who voted in the 2016 presidential election.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Minnesota earned the top spot overall, and Louisiana was in past place. All New England states except for Rhode Island were in the Top 10.

High lung cancer incidence rates

The rate of new lung cancer cases in New Hampshire is 68.1, according to a new report by the American Lung Association. That places the state above the national rate of 63, and places the state at 34th overall.

While only 19.8 percent of cases diagnosed in New Hampshire were caught in the early stages, the state has a relatively high five-year survival rate of 23.1, which is third place after New York and Connecticut (out of 31 states with available data).

QOL Score: -1 Comment: While some of the statistics are promising, such as the number of screening centers per capita, the state could do far better at preventing new lung cancer cases.

QOL score: 66 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 68 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire?

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My friend Stanley Spirou retired last week as SNHU basketball coach. He said it was “time.” So off he goes into the sunset on the patio at Manchester Country Club with 640 wins against 341 losses and a .652 winning percentage, along with eight league titles, 18 trips to the NCAA tournament, five Elite 8’s, twice to the Final 4. As you can see, the guy was good.

But that’s not what stood out to me. It is the guy. After being an assistant coach with him, being on the search committee that picked him, broadcasting Penmen games on TV and radio for a long time and being his long-ago golf partner, I have a unique take on Coach Spirou. Along with basketball passion, he brings high entertainment value and the interesting world view from someone who couldn’t speak English when he arrived in Manchester from Greece at nine to be reunited with his parents in a new country.

So here are a few thoughts from my perspective on his great run as HC of NHC/ SNHU basketball.

The Personality: He might not have known them in the same way, but when I first met Stanley, he was the only guy I knew who knew as many people as Wilt Chamberlain. It was like if he was talking to Michael Jordan and Gary Hart went by during a primary season, he’d say, “Who’s that guy with Stanley?” He knew everyone.

The Humor: I generally hate when people laugh at their own jokes, but his get funnier when he does. He’s one of my Top 5 joketellers and Top 5 funniest people I’ve ever met. Even when he pulls out one you’ve heard 100 times, like at the press conference where he tells an official “I’ve got your cell phone.” The official says, “How do you know it’s mine?” Stan responds, “Because there’s 5 missed calls on it.”

The Debates: While riding buses to Con-

necticut there’s down time. So here are our Top 5 sports debates. (1) He favored Bobby Knight; me, Dean Smith. (2) Who was the better third baseman – Mike Schmidt (him) or George Brett (me). (3) Shaq vs.

Alonzo Mourning – coming out of college.

(4) He loved Pistol Pete Maravich; I liked Pete more in a “he’s unbelievable” way than in a “he’s great” kind of way. (5) The mother of them all: Wilt Chamberlain (him) vs.

Bill Russell (me).

Best Road Trip: Mount St. Mary’s Holiday Tournament. Stanley flew in on a “crop duster” he claimed almost crashed 12 times.

Can’t remember much about the games, though he kept calling Randolph Macon “Randolph Bacon.” After a wild night in a bar right out of Deer Hunter, we were really tired somewhere around Worcester and got giddy while we (Stan, myself and thenPR director John Clayton) started telling an endless string of Rodney Dangerfield jokes. “My neighborhood is so tough we bowl overhand.” You may not think that’s funny, but in our state we did.

Rarest Player: (1) Jon Baiano, a 5’ 5” point guard who couldn’t shoot but somehow scored and in an incredible game at AIC dominated everyone defensively. (2) Will Flowers, who didn’t have to score even one point and could still be one of the best players on the floor. I loved watching him do that. (3) Bobby Miller, who at 5’10” (maybe) would often be the best rebounder on the floor. I still can’t figure out how, but his quickness on the ground to the ball was unbelievable.

The Formula: He didn’t have one. That made games with St. Anselm’s Keith Dickson interesting, because Keith always has basically the same team, good on balldefending point guards, weak side shooters who kill you with threes, and agile, physical big men. Stanley had a 6’4” block of granite in the Fridge and nimble Cleveland Woods who could score on anyone at center and won both ways. He had fast teams,

slower teams, bigger and height-challenged teams. He just adapted to what worked. Not sure whose way is better. Watching the contrast has been fun.

My Best of the Spirou Era: Best Shot – Carlos Bias’ 45-footer as time ran out to knock New Haven out of the 1987 NCAA Tournament. Best Game – Rob Paternostro vs. St. Rose to get to the Elite 8 in an incredible game with 44 points and 19 assists in his last game at SNHU. Unstoppable. Best Dunk – I think it happened on Tom Sullivan’s watch, but it’s still Darrell Walker for, at the height of Manute-mania, throwing one down over an outstretched Manute Bol one Sunday afternoon.

Best Yikes Moment: For weeks WMUR director Scott Bardier had been wanting to mic Stan during a game, which I totally discouraged. But one day he says, “Stan is miked.” Then I hear, “Go to the bench.”

Yikes! Let’s just say after the FCC clerk monitoring things got off the floor, we didn’t do that anymore. Then Stanley calls me the next morning: “You can’t believe all the calls I’m getting.” It might have been a bad idea, but it’s a pretty good story.

Best Player: Tie between (1) Cleveland Woods – all-time best 2,247 points, second in rebounds with 1,170. Smooth, quick, clutch, fun. (2) Rob Paternostro – competitive, in their head, and from bringing dribble off the floor in a J, few were quick enough to stop it. Hard to defend. A winner.

(3) Wayne Robertson. I almost forgot how good the Fridge was until looking through the record books. Third-best 2,092 points, best-ever 1,487 rebounds and a two-time All-American. How could I not remember how good he was?

Best of all, I got to watch much of his career up close from Day 1. So thanks to Coach Spirou for doing such a great job for such a long time at the head of a great basketball community to be part of. It is the end of an era. Job well done.

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A field guide to meat in pastry

MOMOS, EMPANADAS, PIEROGI AND MORE

By Matt Ingersoll

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While some dishes that combine meats and pastries are easy to find in New Hampshire — think calzones and empanadas — others are hard to come by if you’re looking for an authentic taste. You’d be hard-pressed to find a traditional Cornish pasty on a restaurant menu in the Granite State, for example, or a beef-filled pierogi as opposed to one with potato and cheese fillings. But there are some options, and some tasty substitutes, for all manner of meat-in-pastry dishes. We spoke with several local restaurants and home chefs to get the history on everything from the Tibetan momo to the English pasty (incidentally, it’s pronounced past-e), and we’ve got suggestions for where to get them plus tips on how to make some of these dishes yourself.

Momos

According to Raj Subedi of Kathmandu Spice in Manchester, one order of momos at the restaurant will give you eight dumplings, since they are small in size. These dishes are normally filled with ground

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Momos from Momos R Here in Nashua. Courtesy photo.

meat or vegetables and can either be steamed or fried.

Momos are of Tibetan origin and became widely popular in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.

“You can have it as a dinner, but most people like to eat them as an appetizer,” Subedi said.

At Kathmandu Spice, there are three fillings to choose from, including chicken, goat and vegetarian. Subedi said while

momos are popular in both Nepal and India, what makes them different between the two countries has to do with the mix of ingredients and the level of spice.

“The main thing that you’ll find in the chicken momo is the masala,” he said, “and that is made out of ginger, garlic and colander. … We mix that with the ground chicken and with finely sliced cabbage, and then we use oil and butter. We usually make them very mild.”

Kathmandu Spice also makes its own dough for its momos, using wheat flour mixed with oil and water and kneaded for about 30 minutes, Subedi said.

“We fold [the dough] in edges by pinching and twisting by the fingers of our hands … to give them an attractive design,” he said.

Meat-filled momos don’t have to be just chicken or goat, either. According to Suman Dhungel of Mo:Mo, a new momo home delivery business based in Nashua, other popular ground meats include turkey, bison and pork. Her menu includes 10 momos per order, with options like pork, chicken or vegetable momos.

“We make ours with onions, cilantro, olive oil and a tomato-based sauce that

Where to get momos • Cafe Momo (1065 Hanover St., Manchester, 623-3733, cafemomonh.us) offers several types of meat-filled momos as appetizers, including goat, wild boar, lamb, chicken and more.

• Durbar Square Restaurant (10 Market St., Portsmouth, 294-0107, durbarsquarerestaurant.com/momo) offers meat-filled momos like lamb, chicken and wild boar that can be mixed and matched in each order.

• Kathmandu Spice (379 S. Willow St., Manchester, 782-3911, kathmanduspicenh. com) offers chicken and goat momos that can be ordered as appetizers.

• Katmandu Bazaar (133 Loudon Road, No. 1, Concord, 856-7006, katmandubazaar1.wordpress.com) offers fried momos with your choice of chicken, beef or vegetables and made with hot bell peppers and a sweet chili sauce.

• Mo:Mo (Nashua, 438-0774, facebook. com/momosrhere) is a new momo home delivery service based in Nashua. The menu includes pork, chicken or vegetable momos and orders can be placed by calling. There are 10 momos that come with each order and you can customize them depending on how many of each flavor you want.

Empanada from Made with Love 603 Food Truck in Manchester. Courtesy photo.

comes on the side,” she said. “The sauce is something we keep experimenting with.

It can be made either really hot or really mild.”

Dhungel said she began accepting orders last month and, with the help of her husband and her sister, delivers them to most towns in the greater Nashua area. The menu is available on the Facebook page and orders can be placed by calling.

Empanadas

Empanadas, which get their name from the Spanish verb “empanar,” meaning to fold or wrap in dough, can either be baked or fried and are most commonly filled with meats like beef or chicken, according to Tony Elias of the Made With Love 603 food truck in Manchester. Elias likes to describe them simply as “meat-filled turnovers” that can be served as either appetizers or in larger portions as main dishes.

“We have two kinds of empanadas, which are the beef and cheese or the chicken and cheese, and it’s all about the flavor that goes into it.” Elias said.

The meat of the empanadas is cooked for a few hours before it’s filled in dough along with the cheese, diced peppers and Recipe: Chicken empanada filling Courtesy of Dave Spagnuolo of Gale Motor Co. Eatery 2½ pounds chicken breast 2 pounds thighs, roasted and small diced 2 large potatoes, small diced and boiled 2 small white onions 6 cloves garlic Recipe: Chili verde (to go with chicken empanada filling) Courtesy of Dave Spagnuolo of Gale Motor Co. Eatery 2½ pounds total, Anaheim poblano peppers 4 jalapenos, deseeded 1 small onion, diced 10 garlic cloves

Where to get empanadas • El Camino Foods (33 Manchester Road, Derry, 855-479-5804) is a catering business offering meat-filled empanadas like beef and cheese or shredded chicken and cheese.

• Made With Love 603 (607-438-2986, find them on Facebook) is a Manchester-based food truck offering beef and cheese or chicken and cheese empanadas.

Follow them on social media for when and where they will appear in the Granite State.

onions. Elias said he likes to seal the turnover by sticking a fork in the edge of the dough all around its perimeter.

The difference in cultural origins, he said, comes when you add different kinds of seasonings, spices and other ingredients to the empanada.

“You know, it just all comes down to where you’re from and how you want to make it,” he said. “We’re Puerto Rican and do it our way … [but] empanadas aren’t just from Puerto Rico. It’s a Latino dish. … We’ll do a lot of garlic, vinegar and cilantro, whereas Mexican empanadas, for example, will add more cumin and 14 2 jalapenos, deseeded 1 red pepper, small diced and sauteed Mix all ingredients in a food processor.

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Another ingredient Elias likes to add is adobo, a dry seasoning made from paprika, garlic, oregano and other spices.

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There are plenty of great restaurants and pizza joints that offer all kinds of calzones, but if you want to try your hand at creating one yourself, Tim Gyorda of the Pro Dough Pizza Dough Co. in Manchester said making your own meat-filled calzone at home can be as simple as cooking a pizza in the oven.

Gyorda recommends using different types of doughs depending on the filling.

“For an Italian calzone, the garlic and herb dough that we make is the best one, whereas I’d use a white dough for something like a Buffalo chicken,” Gyorda said.

The Italian calzone recipe using Gyorda’s garlic and herb pizza dough contains a combination of ham, Genoa salami and sweet capicola, with both provolone and mozzarella cheese. While the quantities of meats and cheeses are precise, the recipe also includes diced onions, green peppers and mushrooms that will vary depending on how much you want to add, Gyorda said.

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“and it will usually bring them back.”

But other fillings can include ham, fish or short rib. Dave Spagnuolo of Gale Motor Co. Whiskey & Wine in Concord and the former Gale Motor Co. Eatery in Manchester said he likes to experiment with different flavors that would complement the empanada depending on what type of meat you use. The short rib empanada, for example, was prepared with a chipotle aioli, while the chicken empanadas contained potatoes, jalapenos and a chili verde sauce.

“We made ours pretty small … so that people could share them,” he said.

Calzones

Calzones get their name from the Italian word meaning “trouser leg” and are widely believed to have originated in Naples, the capital city of the region of Campania in southern Italy.

“Basically, the idea of folding the pizza over and putting the toppings on the inside … was that you can be able to just eat as you go, instead of going to a pizza place and sitting down to eat your pizza,” said Lionel Grassi, owner of Tano’s Pizzeria in Manchester. “The main things [for calzones], especially in Italy, were pepperonis and anchovies.”

Grassi, who grew up in Argentina but whose parents come from Italy, said calzones began to gain popularity in the

Preheat oven to 450 degrees after letting the dough refrigerate for a day or two. Spread dough out about 14 inches in diameter. Lay down mozzarella cheeses in half-moon shapes, followed by the ham, salami, capicola, vegetables, provolone cheese and marinara sauce. Take the dough and fold it over in a half moon, pinching the edges together. Make a oneinch incision in the center of the top of the dough. When oven is ready, cook dough on a stone or a dark cookie sheet for about 10 to 15 minutes or until dough is a light brown color.

Pasties

Even though the pasty has become popularized in other countries beyond its origins in England, it was a dish first created out of necessity and for convenience.

James Gibney of Epsom is the corporate executive chef of British Beer Co., overseeing 13 British-style pubs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, including two in Manchester and Portsmouth. He said pasties originally came from the southwestern English county of Cornwall and are known as “Cornish pasties” that were meant to be consumed as lunches or light dinners rather than appetizers.

“The very traditional Cornish pasty would have a flaky pie dough, and then you would have minced beef with onions and seasonings and maybe peas and carrots mixed in. That’s basically three quarters of the pasty, and then at one end you’d have maybe like a dollop of rice pudding at the end, before you fold it up, crimp it and bake it,” said Gibney, who himself comes from the East Anglian borough of Colchester. “That’s what the tin miners down in Cornwall would eat for their lunch.”

Gibney said Cornish pasties had the

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“The idea was to have that big, thick solid nub of pastry [to hold], so that when you go to eat your lunch, you’re eating it with filthy, dirty hands and you eat it until you get to the end and you just toss it,” he said.

The name “Cornish pasty” has had EU protective status in Cornwall since 2011, Gibney said, but pasties inspired by the original dish can include all kinds of variations of fillings.

The New England pasty on the British Beer Co.’s menu, for example, is like a whole Thanksgiving dinner folded and baked into a pie, complete with honey roasted turkey, cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. There’s also a cottage pie pasty, which Gibney described as a take on the minced beef and onions of the traditional Cornish pasty, and a “fisherman’s pasty,” which is filled with seafood chowder and potatoes as the base.

“These are all entrees, and we’ll serve them with extra mashed potatoes and gravy on the side,” he said. “The essence of a pasty is a stuffed hand-held pastry pie, and it can basically be whatever you want it to be, depending on what you put into it.”

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“When they first started in Naples, all of the pieces were as small as individual slices of pizza,” he said, “and over here they are much bigger for the most part.”

As the popularity of calzones continued to spread to other countries beyond Italy, Grassi said the sizes and ingredients of the dish would change depending on where you would get it from. Several signature toppings available on his menu include the traditional Italian with Genoa salami, hot capicola and mortadella; the chicken melanzana with eggplant and pesto sauce; and the Tano’s calzone, which has prosciutto, roasted red peppers, black olives and fresh tomatoes. Other popular flavors traditional in Italy include meatball calzones and chicken Parmesan calzones.

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Pierogi are dumplings native to Poland and can contain meats like ground beef or ground pork, as well as traditional fillings like potato and cheese, mushrooms, cabbage or sauerkraut. The dish has a very strong association with holidays, different seasons and other special traditions, according to Bedford resident Kathy Card, parish committee director of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Manchester, which takes part in an annual Polish festival in the fall each year. Her grandmother came from Poland, making pierogi part of a Christmas Eve dinner as well as other holidays.

“In the past in Poland, it was almost like a peasant food, because back in the day, you would not find traditional pierogi on a menu,” Card said. “Around the ’70s, pierogi became more common to people who weren’t Polish, because it used to be proHow to make pierogi Pierogi dough Courtesy of Kathy Card of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Manchester

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To fill: Put a dough circle in the palm of your hand and place about one tablespoon of filling in the center. Bring edges of circle together over filling to form a half moon. Pinch edges together, leaving no openings.

To cook: Using a large pot of salted water to boil, drop four to six pierogi carefully into the

moted as a carbo-loading food for people who ran races or triathlons … and so people sort of discovered them that way.”

Card said that meat-filled pierogi are especially popular in Poland while in the United States there tend to be more options in the way of potato and cheese or cabbage fillings. The fillings can also vary depending on which part of the country they come from in Poland.

“If you were using meat, the traditional way would be to start with roasted meat and put it through a grinder,” she said, “but instead what I do is … [grind] it and then you’re putting it into a food processor and Where to get pierogi Bartlett Street Superette (316 Bartlett St., Manchester, 627-1580, bartlettsuperette.com) carries frozen beef and pork pierogi imported from Poland and handmade ones as well. pot and gently stir to prevent them from sticking to the bottom. When the pierogi rise to the surface, cook them for three minutes. Remove from the water and drain.

Do not lay them on top of each other when draining, as they will stick together. Serve covered in melted butter or saute in melted butter in fry pan until they are golden brown.

Pierogi meat filling 1 pound ground beef 2 tablespoons butter 1 medium onion, chopped 1 egg ¾ cup beef stock Salt and pepper Brown the ground beef. Drain the meat and add to a food processor. Saute chopped onion in butter until golden and add to the food processor. Pulse about 10 times, until the mixture is completely combined and the onions are minced. Add egg and beef stock. Pulse three more times. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

pulsing it. … You don’t do that to the point of making it a paste, but the idea is to make it a fine filling.”

The practice of making your own pierogi, Card added, can be time-consuming because of the boiling process of the dough.

“It isn’t hard. It’s basic ingredients, but there are a lot of steps,” she said.

Pierogi are also more often eaten more than at a time, due to their normally small size.

“I’ll cut them in like a three-inch circle, and to me that’s a normal size,” Card said.

“However, you might see other people make them even smaller. … One is called a pierog, and nobody ever eats one.”

Dim Sum steamed buns

A handful of Chinese restaurants across the Granite State offer a Dim Sum menu, which includes steamed dumplings with meat fillings like pork, beef, chicken or shrimp. “Dim Sum” is a Cantonese term meaning “to point to the heart’s desire,” and is made up of several bites-sized dishes that became popular with street vendors and highway-side tea houses. Today, they are most commonly eaten as appetizers or snacks.

According to Jay Zheng, co-owner of Sakura Asian Bistro in Nashua, the most common kinds of meat-filled dumplings you will see as part of a Dim Sum menu are known as shumai.

“Shumai … is made with pork or shrimp in the middle, and then some vegetables,” Zheng said. “They’re usually not completely covered in meat on the top.”

While pork is the most common filling for Dim Sum dumplings, some restaurants will use other meat fillings and pair them with various side dishes. The North Garden Chinese Restaurant & Lounge, for example, has more than two dozen options on its Dim Sum menu, including chicken, shrimp or barbecue pork. But Dim Sum options are not strictly meat-filled dumplings; other options include chicken claws or spare ribs with a black bean sauce, or beef, pork or rice soup, and you can pair them with the steamed buns to make your own meal.

Wontons (Chinese dumplings)

Wontons are available in many area Chinese restaurants as appetizers and have a tradition of being popular foods during the Chinese New Year and Moon Festival celebrations.

“Some places will call it a wonton, and some will call it a ravioli or a dumpling,” said Jay Zheng, co-owner of Sakura Asian Bistro in Nashua, which offers pork dumplings as six-piece appetizers that can be either steamed or fried. “We’ll make [the meat] into a small meatball, maybe two inches or so thick.”

Zheng said the dumplings will also contain a variety of vegetables, like cabbage, mushrooms, scallions or chives. The dough used

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to make them will usually contain a mix of flour, eggs, water and sometimes salt.

Jenny Yang, a manager at Thousand Crane in Manchester, said popular dumplings include pork or shrimp fillings.

“You can get them as a six-piece appetizer, but people oftentimes like to place two orders as their entree, so they’ll get 12,” she said.

Most Chinese restaurants in the Granite State will offer your choice of either steamed or fried dumplings. According to Michael Li, owner of No. 1 Chinese Restaurant in Manchester, the meat-fillings are usually the same, while the cooking of the dough is different.

Dumplings are available as eight-piece appetizers at the restaurant, both steamed or fried, which have a ground pork filling, with scallions and soy sauce in a dough made from rice flour.

“We steam them … for about five minutes and the fry them probably for about another two or three minutes,” Li said. “The fried ones are definitely more popular. People like the crispy outside.”

Where to get Dim Sum • North Garden Chinese Restaurant & Lounge (715 Mast Road, Manchester, 668-1668, northgardenrestaurant.com) offers a Dim Sum menu of more than two dozen options, including steamed dumplings with fillings like shrimp, pork and shrimp, minced beef, barbecue pork, chicken and more. The Dim Sum menu is served every Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Sunshine Oriental Restaurant (121 Loudon Road, Concord, 228-0808, sunshineoriental.com) has a Dim Sum menu that is available every day, with options that include steamed shrimp buns, barbecue pork buns or chicken buns.

• Zhong’s Restaurant (559 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 429-4289, zhongsrestaurant.com) offers a Dim Sum menu every Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., with options that include steamed shrimp dumplings, steamed barbecue pork buns, steamed chicken buns and more. Orders come in quantities of either three or four, depending on the filling.

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Baza, a blues duo that bills itself as “good time blues” and won the 2017 Granite State Blues Challenge, will play today at 7:30 p.m. at Simple Gifts Coffee House (the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, 58 Lowell St. in Nashua; simplegiftscoffeehouse.org). Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 on the day of the show and $10 for kids 13 and under. Find more live music this weekend our Music This Week section, which starts on page 46.

Rodney Strong wines will be on the fivecourse menu for the March wine dinner at Tek Nique (170 Route 101 in Bedford, restaurantteknique.com) on Tuesday, March 20, at 6 p.m. The cost is $85 per person; reservations are required. Call 488-5629.

Sunday, March 11

Use today’s Freeze Your Buns Run (which starts at 9 a.m. at the Conway Arena, West Hollis and Riverside streets in Nashua) as an excuse to get outside whatever the weather. The course is flat and paved and features mile markers and prizes at the end for winners, according to the Gate City Striders, which organizes the series. Entry fee is $5 for adults, $3 for kids under 18.

See gatecity.org.

DRINK: Area beers The Manchester Historic Association will hold the Millyard Museum Beer Tasting Thursday, March 15, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Millyard Museum (200 Bedford St. in Manchester; manchesterhistoric.org, 622-7531). Beers available for tasting will include brews from Great North Aleworks, Henniker Brewing, Lithermans Limited and Stark Brewing Co. The evening will also feature hors d’oeuvres and live music. Tickets cost $12.

Wednesday, March 14

The Red Hot Chili Pipers will play their brand of “bagrock” (bagpiping plus rock) tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St. in Manchester, palacetheatre. org, 668-5588). Get a taste of their music at rhcp.scot. Their 2016 album Octane contains covers of “Seven Nation Army” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” Tickets cost $40.50; $55.50 for VIP tickets that include a pre-show meet and greet.

BE MERRY: With movies The 10th annual New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival starts Thursday, March 15, with a screening of Keep Quiet, a documentary about a far-right Hungarian politician who learns he has Jewish roots. The screening is at 7 p.m. at Mara Auditorium in Webster Hall at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester.

Admission costs $10. See nhjewishfilmfestival. org for a complete list of festival films and locations (screenings will take place in Concord, Keene, Manchester, Merrimack and Portsmouth through March 25).

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ARTS Loads of laughs

Leading Ladies comes to Bedford

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

Bedford Off Broadway starts its 2018 season on a high note with the laughout-loud theatrical farce Leading Ladies, opening Friday, March 9, at the Old Bedford Town Hall.

The play, written by Ken Ludwig, premiered in 2004. It follows the story of two young Shakespearean actors, Leo and Jack, who are down on their luck and find themselves playing out a con in rural Pennsylvania in the late 1950s. The con entails convincing an ailing elderly woman, Florence, that they are her long-lost nephews, Leading Ladies Where: Old Bedford Town Hall, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford When: March 9 through March 18, with showtimes on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Tickets: $12 general admission, $10 students, seniors and military. Purchase online or at the door.

More info: bedfordoffbroadway.com

Max and Steve, whom she seeks to include in her multimillion-dollar inheritance.

What Leo and Jack don’t realize, however, is that Max and Steve are actually “Maxine” and “Stephanie,” Florence’s nieces. In the spirit of Shakespearean plays, which traditionally starred men in female roles, the actors decide to move forward with the con, posing as women. Hilarious chaos ensues when Jack falls for Florence’s aide Audrey; Leo falls for Florence’s other niece Meg, whose fiance Duncan grows increasingly suspicious of “Max” and “Steve;” and Leo decides to put on a Shakespeare play at Florence’s estate to impress Meg, who is a big Shakespeare fan.

“It’s a very farcical throwback to that Monty Python-type cartoonish comedy,” director Aaron Foss said. “There are a lot of puns and one-liners, and a lot of physical comedy: grabbing and pulling at each other, kissing and fighting, and a lot of over-exaggerated actions and slapstick interaction.”

While casting the eight-person cast, Foss looked for people who could appreciate the play’s ridiculousness and “weren’t afraid to go over the top.”

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“The nature of the show, with men dressing up as women, is so outlandish and absurd, so it was important to find people who enjoy that kind of comedy and could do well in those roles,” he said.

One of those people is Sarah Richardson, who plays Meg. Richardson hasn’t performed in community theater for two years, but when she read the script for Leading Ladies, she thought it was the perfect play for her comeback.

“I’m a very physical actor, and there’s a lot of physicality in this show. It’s highenergy, top to bottom,” she said. “This is probably one of the funniest roles I’ve ever gotten to play, and the most fun I’ve ever had on stage.”

Richardson was drawn not only to the play’s comedic style, but also to Meg’s character, who maintains some complexity amid the silliness of the play; Meg undergoes a transformation from a woman who settles for a mediocre life to a woman who seizes new opportunities and goes after what she wants.

“She’s very vivacious, energetic, witty and smart, but she was living a sheltered life in a small town, which, to her, was

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Bedford Off Broadway presents Leading Ladies. Courtesy photo.

normal because she didn’t know any differently. That changes when she meets these characters, Maxine and Stephanie, who show her that there’s more to life if she just takes some chances,” Richardson said. “Something about that really connected with me and hit me on a personal level.”

Foss said the show is family-friendly with clean and classic humor that will resonate with everyone.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s kids, families, people who dislike Shakespeare, anyone,” he said. “Everyone can get in on the joke and laugh and have a good experience.”

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Theater Auditions/open calls • SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOODAUDITIONS Community Players of Concord production. Sun., March 11, and Mon., March 12, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Community Players Studio, 435 Josiah Bartlett Road, Concord.

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NH art world news

• Multimedia exhibit: The Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center (30 Ash St., Hollis) presents a new exhibition, “Alene SirottCope: A Retrospective,” March 9 through March 31, in its Whitty Gallery. Sirott-Cope is a professional graphic designer, potter, mixed media artist and art director. The show will feature a variety of her multimedia work, photography, polymer art, acrylic pourings, raku pottery and alcohol ink creations. “My art has evolved many times in a variety of media,” she said in a press release. “Alcohol inks are my latest endeavor. I love the vivid colors and the way colors morph when the ink blends. They take on a Zen-like life of their own and are truly serendipitous.” There will be an opening reception on Friday, March 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. Call 465-9453 or visit wildsalamander.com.

• Young photographers: The John Stark Regional High School Photography Club has an exhibition, “Out of the Ordinary,” on display now through April 14 at the Weare Public Library (10 Paige Memorial Lane, Weare). The exhibition features photo-

Art Events • SANDY WADLINGTON ARTIST DEMO Artist does oil paintings, woodblock prints and charcoal drawings. Sat., March 24, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. McGowan Fine Art, 2 Phenix Ave., Concord.

Visit mcgowanfineart.com.

• “ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY ART IN SCIENCE” TALK Photo exhibit explores outer space.

Sat., March 24, 7 p.m. NHIA Roger Williams Gallery, 77 Amherst St., Manchester. Visit nhia.edu.

graphs that highlight the use of Photoshop and darkroom techniques with an emphasis on professional presentation. Glassworks, prints, drawings and paintings will also be featured. Some works competed in this year’s NH Scholastic Art Awards while others were created specifically for the exhibition. Some photographic art will be for sale. Email tracy. travers@sau24.org.

• Monument art talk: The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester) will host an art talk, “Monuments and Contemporary Context,” on Sunday, March 11, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The talk will explore contemporary sensitivities around the legacy of monuments, and the monuments created by prominent 19th-century American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whose work is on view in the museum’s newest special exhibition, “The Sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.” The event is free with regular museum admission, which is $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $10 for students and $5 for youth ages 13 to 17 (kids under 13 get in free), plus an additional $5 special exhibition fee. Visit currier.org or call 669-6144. — Angie Sykeny

Openings • “A PARTIAL INVENTORY OF TOTALLY USELESS OBJECTS” OPENING RECEPTION Exhibition features a quirky, high-spirited, and intensely colored assortment of minimal and abstract 3-D paper objects. Fri., March 9, 5 to 7 p.m.

Sharon Arts Center Exhibition Gallery, 30 Grove St., Peterborough. Visit nhia.edu.

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Featured in “Out of the Ordinary” photography exhibition. Courtesy photo.

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ARTS

Creative futures

New Hampshire celebrates Youth Art Month

By Angie Sykeny

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Every year in March, thousands of schools and communities participate in Youth Art Month, a national initiative to promote arts education and highlight the creative work that students are doing. For the first time in New Hampshire, arts education organizations such as the New Hampshire Arts Learning Network and the New Hampshire Art Educators’ Association are coming together to coordinate a statewide celebration of Youth Art Month, with Concord at the forefront.

“Different arts educators [in New Hampshire] have done special things in previous years, but never as a whole,” said Julianne Gadoury, arts education coordinator for the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and NH Arts Learning Network. “We wanted each group to feel like they could still celebrate in their own way, but with a more unified presence on a state level and at the state capital.”

Throughout the month, there will be Youth Art Month exhibits, performances and other special events happening all over the state.

At the heart of the celebration in Concord are two exhibitions of visual art created by New Hampshire students, pre-K through grade 12: one with around 200 works on view at the New Hampshire State Library, and one with around 100 works on view in the tunnel walkway between the New Hampshire Statehouse and the New Hampshire Legislative Office Building. Each participating school has three to five works in the exhibition, some of which have been nationally recognized. They represent a variety of subject matter and media,

Youth Art Month exhibit on view in the tunnel walkway between the NH State House and the NH Legislative Office Building. Courtesy photo.

including watercolor, acrylic paint, colored pencil, collage, printmaking and more.

Other displays of youth art in Concord will include more visual art exhibitions, short film screenings, one-act theater performances, a dance performance and the state championship for Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation program for high school students.

Youth Art Month is a way to raise awareness about the merits of art education, Gadoury said, and to initiate changes that will expand arts in education, such as adding more required arts classes and hiring more arts teachers.

“We want to show the amazing stuff that students are doing, but we also want to show how the skills practiced through the arts like collaboration, creativity, perseverance and determination and critical thinking are highly valuable,” she said. “Art isn’t just important for students who may become artists. It’s important for creating well-rounded people who can contribute to a vibrant community and economy.”

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• “Fresh Perspectives” NHAA inaugural high school exhibit is on view now through April 2 at the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery’s Gerry Frazier Gallery (136 State St., Portsmouth), with an opening reception on Saturday, March 10, from 1 to 3 p.m.

• NH Art Educators’ Association Statewide Youth Art Month Exhibit is on view now through March 30, in the State Library (20 Park St., Concord) and in the tunnel walkway between the Statehouse (107 N. Main St., Concord) and the NH Legislative Office Building (33 N. State St., Concord).

• NH High School Short Film Festival submissions will be screened at the State Library (20 Park St., Concord) now through March 30.

• NH Art Educators Association Central Region Youth Art Month exhibit is on view now through March 30 at Red River Theatres (11 S. Main St., Concord) • Concord School District Youth Art Month Exhibit will be on view at the Steeple-

gate Mall (270 Loudon Road, Concord) March 8 through April 18, with an opening reception on Thursday, March 8, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

• 2018 Poetry Out Loud state championship will be held at the NH Statehouse (107 N. Main St., Concord) on Friday, March 9, at 6 p.m.

• NH Educational Theatre Guild’s Regional Festival of high school one-act plays will take place in Concord Saturday, March 10; Kingswood Saturday, March 17; Kearsarge Saturday, March 24; and Laconia Saturday, March 31.

• Exeter Arts Committee Youth Art Month show is on view Saturdays and Sundays March 10 through April 1 at the Exeter Town Hall (9 Front St., Exeter) with an opening reception on Saturday, March 10, from noon to 4 p.m.

• A dance education press conference and dance performance by the Goffstown High School dance class students will be held at the NH Legislative Office Building (33 N. State St., Concord) on Thursday, March 22, at 11:45 a.m.

• A NH State Council on the Arts arts education chat will be held on Twitter on Saturday, March 24, at 8:30 a.m.

ARTS

Notes from the theater scene

• Disney classic: The Peacock Players youth theater performs Disney’s Beauty and the Beast March 9 through March 18 at the Court Street Theater (14 Court St., Nashua).

Based on the animated Disney classic, the musical features songs from the film as well as new songs by Alan Menken and Tim Rice.

Showtimes are on Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 7 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Tickets cost $15 to $19 for adults and $12 to $17 for students and seniors. Visit peacockplayers.org or call 886-7000.

• Military drama: The Milford Area Players present A Few Good Men at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts (56 Mont Vernon St., Milford) March 9 through March 18.

The Broadway hit by Aaron Sorkin follows the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay. Classical Music • “LISTENING, LOOKING, AND THINKING ABOUT MUSIC” Symphony NH lecture series celebrates variety of cultures in Nashua community through

Milford Area Players present A Few Good Men. Courtesy photo.

Showtimes are on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and students.

Visit milfordareaplayers.org.

• Humor and history: The Founders Academy Public Charter School’s high school drama club presents The Entire American Revolution in 40 Minutes at the school (5 Perimeter Road, Manchester) on Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10, at 7 p.m.

The show is a humorous condensed retelling and reenactment of the American Revolution.

Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for students and can be purchased at the door. Visit thefoundersacademy.org or call 952-4705.

— Angie Sykeny

music. Mon., March 12, 8 p.m.; and Mon., April 2, 8 p.m. Temple Beth Abraham, 4 Raymond St., Nashua. Visit symphonynh.org.

• “MOZART & BACH” Symphony New Hampshire presents.

Fri., March 16, in Concord, and Sat., March 17, in Nashua. Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St. , Nashua. $29 to $49. Call 595-9156.

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FEATURES

25 Kiddie pool

INSIDE/OUTSIDE All fun and games

Board game convention comes to Nashua Family activities this week.

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27 Treasure Hunt

There’s gold in your attic.

26 The Gardening Guy

Advice on your outdoors.

28 Car Talk

Click and Clack give you Get Listed From yoga to pilates, cooking to languages to activities for the kids, Hippo’s weekly listing offers a rundown of all area events and classes.

Get your program listed by sending information to listings@hippopress.com at least three weeks before the event.

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When the games get going at Granite Game Summit, they keep going, all day and all night. The three-day, 24-hour board game convention takes place Friday, March 9, through Sunday, March 11, at the Courtyard Marriott in Nashua. It could feature anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 games over the course of the weekend.

Granite Game Summit was started in 2016 by board gamers Kimberly Revia, Kevin Craine and Mike Taylor. Craine and Revia met at a board game convention in Texas, and Revia and Taylor met through Twitter. When Revia introduced Craine to Taylor, the two realized they had met at a Game Jam event that Craine hosted a few years earlier. The three of them kept in contact on Twitter and eventually decided it was time to bring a board game convention to New Hampshire.

“New Hampshire has historically always had a large board gaming scene,” Revia said.

“There are game days and events with board gaming components, but there was a need for an organized event that was focused solely on board games.”

The convention features an open-play format with tables lined up for playing and shelves along the walls to house the “game library.”

A wide variety of games will be represented, including word games like Wordsy, strategy

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games like Century Spice Road, family games like ChromaCubes, heavy games like Pipeline, hobby games like Ticket to Ride and classic, well-known games like Battleship.

“It opens up a whole new world when you realize that there are more board games than the 12 that you see in the Target aisle,” Taylor said.

The games are provided by game developers and attendees willing to lend their games for the event. Gamers may select a game from the game library and bring it to a table, where they can play with their friends or with strangers. Volunteers will be working to connect players with each other and with players who can offer instruction on games to newbies. Gamers can also hold up a “players wanted” or “teachers wanted” flag at their tables, or find players and teachers using a customized Granite Game Summit hashtag on Twitter.

“That’s one of the cool things about this event: you can almost guarantee that someone there has played that random game from Germany you want to play at least once,” Taylor said, “and the board game community is very helpful and patient. They’ll gladly spend 15 to 20 minutes teaching you how to play rather than making you read the [instructions] book for an hour.”

In addition to the open play, there will be a number of organized games like a large group

Granite Game Summit board game expo. Courtesy photo

game of Codenames, a moderated Two Rooms and a Boom game and BYO word game; and tournaments for Diamonds, Nevermore, Game of 49, Dimension, Skull King, In Vino Morte, Neuroshima Hex and Ice Cool. Other special activities will include “Fancy Friday,” when attendees are invited to wear formal attire while gaming; Geeky Trivia; a pop-up escape room set up by Portsmouth Escape Room; a game minis paintand-take; and a live recording of Flip Florey’s Super Saturday Board Game Serial podcast.

Lastly, attendees will have a chance to meet 18 board game designers, local and beyond, and see demonstrations of new games

in the “designers alley” “It’s something special and unique about our event and is a neat experience for people, because it’s not often that you get to learn about a game from the person who made it,” Revia said.

“It’s a way for players and designers to have a personal connection and build community and support each other.”

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It’s the monthly “Free NH Second Saturday” on March 10 at the Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St. in Manchester; currier. org, 669-6144). New Hampshire residents are admitted free from 10 a.m. to noon. In the Creative Studio, check out “Money Making,” which looks at the influence of currently exhibited sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens on money and then gives visitors a chance to create their own currency.

Make it a day of Currier fun by signing up in advance for the “How Does Your Garden Grow?” family workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. at the nearby Currier Art Center. The class is for children 5 and older and a parent and costs $25. Use paint and paper to collage a garden scene. Call 518-4922.

senting a live production of Madagascar, A Musical Adventure Jr. Friday, March 9, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 10, at 1 and 6 p.m. at the Derry Opera House (29 W. Broadway in Derry). Tickets cost $14 for the show, which features the characters from the DreamWorks movies. See kids-coop-theatre.org.

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Costumes are encouraged and hot cocoa will be served at the tea party on Sunday, March 11, from 2 to 4 p.m. The afternoon will also feature crafts, story time and fruit and treats. Admission costs $10 per person. Register in advance at kimballjenkins.com or call 225-3932.

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I find it amusing that fruit tree pruning and income tax preparations should take place at about the same time of year, and that many gardeners put off each until the last moment.

You might want to start pruning now, instead of trying to do it while adding up your gasoline expenditures and medical expenses.

Below are eight steps involved in properly pruning a tree. All are designed to create a healthier, more productive tree. By removing clutter you will allow direct sunshine to get to every leaf and wind to circulate, reducing chances of fungal infections. Keep in mind that you can sculpt your tree, too, creating a thing of beauty. For me, that’s an important part of pruning.

Remove all dead wood. You can tell if a branch is alive, even without leaves, by scratching it with a fingernail. Live twigs will show green when the outer layer of bark is removed. Dead branches will have a dry, unhealthy look.

Remove any diseased or damaged branches. Cracked branches should be removed, though I have had some grow back together by wrapping them tightly for a couple of months.

If two branches are touching, they will rub and damage bark when the wind blows.

Remove one branch.

Branches should grow outward, away from the center of the tree. Remove any branches that aim back toward the middle of the tree.

Branches will grow toward the light, and often two will try to fill the same space.

If two are growing parallel to each other, remove one of them.

Many fruit trees grow lots of vertical sprouts each year, each the diameter of a pencil. This is the tree’s way of producing more leaves to feed the roots, but these shoots, known as “water sprouts,” will clutter up the tree. Remove most (or all) water sprouts. If you don’t do this every year, the water sprouts will become full-sized branches and your tree will a mess!

Correct bad crotch angles. Often a branch will grow tight to the main trunk or another branch, creating a tight crotch angle. As the branch gets larger the two will grow together and bark will be swallowed up between them.

This is a weak spot, and likely to split if the branches are loaded up with wet snow or ice.

Remove the offending branch — and the sooner the better. Removing a big branch is harder on the tree, and more difficult for you to do.

Remove low branches that will interfere with mowing. If you have small children you

Branch collar and line to show where to cut.

will want them to be able to pick fruit, but you can still create room for the mower and accommodate kids.

Not all trees and shrubs should be pruned now. Spring-blooming shrubs like lilac and forsythia can be pruned, but you will lose blossoms. It’s better to prune after they bloom. Evergreens should be pruned in July after they have produced their new growth.

Maples and birch should be done in early summer — right now they will “bleed” sap in large quantities.

How many branches can you take off now? Arborists say that 20 percent to 25 percent is fine. More than that, and you will start to starve the roots — leaves provide the food that roots need. That 25 percent figure is actually of the leaves, not the mass of wood. Dead wood doesn’t count, nor stems that support branches but have no leaves.

Taking too many leaves may stimulate the tree to produce large numbers of water sprouts. That said, I once cut a huge lilac to the ground, and it came back nicely. That’s not recommended, however, and it would kill many other tree species.

Lastly, it’s important to know where to make your cuts. Branches generally have a “collar” that is at its attachment point. This collar is wider than the branch, and bark is often wrinkled. You need to cut just beyond the branch collar so that it can heal quickly and avoid infections. If you make a flush cut against the trunk, you open a wider area to diseases and insects, and remove the portion that produces protective compounds to avoid disease.

Pruning should be on your spring calendar just as garden clean-up is on your autumn calendar. But unlike clean-up, pruning get easier with time. A well-pruned tree is better-behaved than one that has been ignored for five or 10 years. Get some good loppers, bypass pruners and a pruning saw and get to work! And bring inside a few branches to put in a vase. They may reward you with some nice blossoms long before the outdoor trees do.

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Dear Donna, I’m inspired to send this to you after seeing the photo of the Bakelite bracelet in a recent Hippo column. I acquired this necklace in the 1980s from an antique store in the Old Port in Portland, Maine. The blue triangular shapes are mirrored and overall there is a clacking sound that makes me think it may be Bakelite. I did not try testing it with the jewelry paste cleaner. Would you know the timeframe and value of this and where I might sell it?

June from Dover Dear June, Your necklace is a very pretty one — but it is definitely not Bakelite plastic.

They never did any kind of metallic or shiny finish.

The time frame could be the 1970s to present. It’s tough with jewelry in an antique shop. You really have to ask the owner what he or she knows about the piece and age.

Some jewelry from that period of time can be very collectible but you have to know more. If the piece isn’t marked by a maker it can make your search hard.

I am sorry I didn’t have more help for you but I think if it were me I would carry it with me in my purse and if you’re ever near an estate jewelry store, stop in. They might be more help as to an age and value

for you. For me it’s too modern a piece and my appraisal might not do the piece justice.

Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in the antiques and collectibles field and owns From Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com). She is an antiques appraiser and instructor. To find out about your antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the object and information about it to Donna Welch, From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465 Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or email her at footwdw@aol.com. Or drop by the shop (call first, 624-8668).

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IN/OUT CAR TALK

‘Whistling teapot’ sounds could mean a steep mechanic bill Dear Car Talk: I have a 2002 Jeep Wrangler Sport. It’s in great condition, but it’s making a noise I cannot live with. After a few miles on the road, it starts to make a “teapot” whisBy Ray Magliozzi tling noise. When I press on the gas, it goes away, but as I release the gas, it starts again. Any idea what it is? — Becki Unfortunately, yes. Well, if you’re really lucky, it could be something as simple as a vacuum leak. But in that case, Becki, you should be able to duplicate the noise by pulling over and revving the engine with the car in park.

If you hear the noise only when the car is in motion, then I’m afraid it sounds ominously like differential whine.

My brother had an old Chevy Suburban, and for months he kept pulling over on the highway, thinking there was a cop behind him blaring his siren. Turned out it was the differential.

The differential is a simple box of six gears that — through some sort of magic we mortals don’t understand — allows the wheels to turn at different speeds. Why do they need to turn at different speeds? So the car can turn. If you take a Matchbox car, paint the wheels black and then drive it in a very tight circle on your

kitchen table, you’ll see from the tracks that the outside wheels travel farther than the inside wheels. And since all the wheels arrive at the same time, the outside wheels must be turning faster. The differential is what allows the rear wheels, in your case, to get power while turning at different speeds.

By the way, sorry about your kitchen table.

Anyway, Becki, what you’re describing are the classic symptoms of a failing differential: a howling/whining noise that changes depending on whether you’re accelerating or coasting.

Unfortunately, you have two differentials on this car (because it’s four-wheel-drive). The most likely scenario is that the damage has already been done, and one of the differentials has gears that are worn out.

But before you jump to that conclusion, there’s one thing you can try: Have a mechanic check the differential fluid. If by some chance one of the differentials is low, and it hasn’t been low for too long, you can try filling it back up.

If the noise goes away after that, trade in the car immediately, while it’s quiet. Good luck.

Dear Car Talk: On my way to Florida from Rhode Island, my radiator overheated and I was towed to a garage in the Bronx. Two days and $2,700 later (see repair slip), I was on the road again. Need-

less to say, that was a shock. My car is a 1996 Cadillac Eldorado, and I am trying to keep this old car on the road, as my mechanics in both states tell me it’s worth it. I would like your opinion, as I’m 83 years old and my husband died in January. Should I get rid of the Caddy and lease a cheaper car? Thanks. — Ruth I think when your mechanics told you it’s worth keeping this old car on the road, they meant it’s worth it for THEM. First of all, I’m afraid these fine chaps in the Bronx took you for a ride. In my estimation, they charged you somewhere between $800 and $1,200 more than they should have for a radiator, water pump and coolant sensor — assuming you even needed all that stuff.

They saw you as an easy mark, Ruth. And shame on them.

But that’s radiator fluid under the bridge now. The question is, What should you do going forward?

The problem with a 22-year-old car is that it can break down at any time. And if you’re using it to travel between Rhode Island and Florida, it’s very easy for you to end up in a similar situation: at the mercy of a mechanic you don’t know, with no other recourse.

So I have a few ideas for you. One is your own idea, to lease or buy another car. A new car is statistically much less likely to fail on

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A third option would be to keep the Caddy in Rhode Island, and buy a good used car and leave that one in Florida (or vice versa). If you leave the battery connected to a trickle charger (also called a battery tender), the car ought to fire right up for you when you arrive.

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Explain your current job.

I work with airport owners in New Hampshire to register, inspect, plan and carry out assorted improvements to their airports. … That might be reconstructing a runway, installing runway lights, helping them buy equipment or land, taking down trees, whatever kind of improvements might be needed. But it also means that I’m one of three people in our office that responds to aircraft accidents. …

I also manage the Federal Aviation Administration’s airport block grant program for New Hampshire and the nine airports here in New Hampshire that are eligible for that program. I do all those things that the FAA would normally do for those airports, but we do it here out

of the state office. I also oversee New Hampshire DOT’s efforts on all of the unmanned aircraft systems, the drone projects that people are interested in doing. They’ll call our office and I’m the one [who helps] them out. I also oversee the Alton Bay Ice Runway each year. Because it’s an ice runway, we actually construct it ... Mother Nature does most of the work, but we have to get the runway plowed, the edge cones put out....

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Licensed Practical Nurse (L.P.N.) or Emergency Medical Technician (E.M.T.) preferred but will consider a Licensed Nursing Assistant (L.N.A.) with the right experience and education. Must pass all background checks, which include, criminal, motor vehicle, physical, and references. Hourly rate is $15.00-$20.00 per hour, depending on experience.

Camp will begin June 25th and end August 24th (9 weeks). Hours are between 7:00am – 5:30pm as determined by the DPW Director.

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FOOD Going green

Meals, tastings and more for St. Patty’s Day

By Matt Ingersoll

News from the local food scene

mingersoll@hippopress.com

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• Brews at the museum: Join the Millyard Museum (200 Bedford St., Manchester) for a beer tasting event on Thursday, March 15, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., featuring samples from several local breweries like Great North Aleworks, Henniker Brewing Co., Lithermans Limited, Stark Brewing Co. and others.

The 21+ event will also feature hors d’oeuvres and music. The cost is $12. Visit manchesterhistoric.org/events or call 622-7531.

• Chili and beer: Sample several locally made chilis and vote on your favorite during the chili cook-off at Pipe Dream Brewing (49 Harvey Road, Londonderry) on Sunday, March 11, from noon to 5 p.m. The top two favorites will win a cash prize. The cost to sample all the chili you want is $15 and visitors ages 21 and up will also receive a free 16-ounce beer. Visit pipedreambrewingnh. com or call 404-0751 for more details.

• Back to his roots: The next event of The Farmers Dinner “Roots” pop-up dinner series is happening on Sunday, March 11, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at The Foundry (50 Commercial St., Manchester). Each dinner in this series features a different chef who provides a meal based on the types of food and cuisines that helped inspire their career. This dinner will feature chef Keith Sarasin, founder of The Farmers Dinner, who has worked in a variety of restaurants, first as a sous chef and later as an executive chef. On the menu will be pork rillette, scallop and clam chowder, a chicken dish with roasted carrots, peppered gravy and smoked cheddar mustard and a few others, including apple compote and salted caramel popcorn for dessert. The cost is $70 per person. Buy tickets at thefarmersdinner.com.

• Sweet decorations: Learn from the pros how to decorate your own cake at a cakedecorating class at Tuscan Market (63 Main St., Salem) on Tuesday, March 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. Each participant will get their own sixinch cake to decorate, and some of Tuscan Market’s master pastry chefs will be going over several different design options, from floral decorations to birthday-themed cakes.

This class is part of Tuscan Market’s Scuola Culinaria program, and private classes are also available for sign-ups. The cost of the cake-decorating class is $65. Visit tuscanbrands.com or call 912-5467.

• Fresh breakfast: Gilmanton Winery & Vineyard (528 Meadow Pond Road, Gilmanton) will host an open-seating pancake 34

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St. Patty’s Day fever is in the air this year across the Granite State, and whether you’re looking to indulge with a traditional Irish corned beef and cabbage meal, or to celebrate the day with a special event like a cooking class or a beer tasting, there is something for everyone.

Unless otherwise specified, all meals and events take place on Saturday, March 17. Know of any other St. Patrick’s Day foodie events? Let us that will also include brine-cooked cabbage, know at food@hippopress.com. carrot, onion, potato and Irish soda bread made from scratch.

Restaurant specials/meals • Chez Vachon (136 Kelley St., Manchester, • Alan’s of Boscawen (133 N. Main St., Boscawen, 753-6631, alansofboscawen.com) 625-9660, chezvachon.com) will offer corned will have all-you-can-eat corned beef and cab- beef and cabbage dinners for $8.99, as well as a bage, as well as other Irish specials, from Friday, full bar of specialty drinks and a pistachio cake for dessert.

March 16, through Sunday, March 18.

• Copper Door Restaurant (15 Leavy Drive, • Alpine Grove (19 S. Depot Road, Hollis, 882-9051, alpinegrove.com) will be serving a Bedford, 488-2677, copperdoorrestaurant.com; buffet dinner at 7 p.m., featuring corned beef 41 S. Broadway, Salem, 458-2033; copperdoorand cabbage, a chef’s spring salad with Irish restaurant.com) will be serving St. Patrick’s soda bread, lamb stew and New England baked Day specials like potato leek soup, a traditionhaddock. The cost is $35 per person and reser- al Reuben with Sriracha dressing, house-made sauerkraut and baby Swiss cheese, and Guinvations are required.

• Auburn Pitts (167 Rockingham Road, ness-braised corned beef with roasted Brussels Auburn, 622-6564, auburnpitts.com) will serve sprouts and honey whiskey glazed carrots. Live a traditional corned beef dinner as well as its music will also be held at both locations from 3 famous Colossal Reuben sandwich, several to 6 p.m. and from 7 to 10 p.m.

• The Cozy Tea Cart (104 Route 13, Brookdrink specials and live music featuring Crazy Steve & Friends from 7 to 11 p.m. playing Irish line, 249-9111, thecozyteacart.com) will have an Irish afternoon tea tasting event on Sunday, songs.

• Averill House Vineyard (21 Averill Road, March 25, from 1 to 3 p.m. The cost is $34.95 Brookline, 371-2296, averillhousevineyard. per person and registration is required.

• Downtown Cheers Grille & Bar (17 com) will host a “St. Patrick’s Day Slaying” four-course truffles and wine pairing on Satur- Depot St., Concord, 228-0180, cheersnh.com) day, March 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $59. will serve St. Patrick’s Day specials all day, like • Backyard Brewery & Kitchen (1211 S. corned beef and cabbage, Guinness Irish stew, Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-3545, back- corned beef sandwiches, “Pot o Gold” fries, yardbrewerynh.com) will hold its first annual Guinness cupcakes and more, as well as beer Kegs and Cabbage St. Patrick’s Day celebration and cocktail specials.

• Firefly American Bistro & Bar (22 Confrom 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The event will feature a buffet with items like corned beef, cabbage, cord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflynh.com) turnips, potatoes, stout lamb stew and pot leek will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. and soup, as well as several specialty Irish whiskey will offer Irish food specials like a corned beef cocktails. The Jordan Wysocki Duo will also be and cabbage dinner, as well as shamrock marplaying the Celtic fiddle from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tinis and other St. Patrick’s Day-inspired Irish • The Barley House (132 N. Main St., Con- cream drinks.

• Flying Goose Brew Pub & Grille (40 cord, 228-6363, thebarleyhouse.com) will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day during its business Andover Road, New London, 526-6899, flyhours from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., with features inggoose.com) will serve Irish food and drink like corned beef and Guinness beers, live Irish specials all St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

• Frederick’s Pastries (109 Route 101A, music, Irish step-dancing and more.

• Cactus Jack’s Great West Grill (782 S. Amherst, 882-7725; 25 S. River Road, Bedford; Willow St., Manchester, 627-8600; 1182 Union pastry.net) is offering several St. Patrick’s DayAve., Laconia, 528-7800, cjsgreatwestgrill. inspired sweets, like a Bailey’s Irish cream torte, com) and T-Bones Great American Eatery buttercream shamrock cookies, Guinness cakes (25 S. River Road, Bedford, 641-4100; 39 Crys- and cupcakes, mint chocolate chip cupcakes and tal Ave., Derry, 434-3200; 77 Lowell Road, more.

• Hooked Seafood Restaurant and Ignite Hudson, 882-6677; 1182 Union Ave., Laconia, 528-7800; 311 S. Broadway, Salem, 893-3444) Bar & Grille (110 Hanover St., Manchester, will be serving a corned beef special for $14.99 606-1189; 100 Hanover St., Manchester, 644-

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• Killarney’s Irish Pub (Holiday Inn Nashua, 9 Northeastern Boulevard, Nashua, 888-1551, killarneysirishpub.com) will be serving a traditional corned beef and cabbage buffet with Guinness stew all day, beginning at 11 a.m.

Live music will also be featured.

• The Looney Bin (554 Endicott St. North, Laconia, 366-2300, looneybinbar.com) will be offering Irish-inspired food and drink specials throughout the day, including specials on Quiet Man and Paddy Irish whiskeys.

• Mama McDonough’s Irish Pub (5 Depot St., Hillsborough, 680-4148, facebook.com/ mamamcdonoughs) will be serving corned beef and cabbage beginning at 11 a.m., and will also have specials and live music throughout the day.

• Murphy’s Taproom (494 Elm St., Manchester, 644-3535; 393 Route 101, Bedford, 488-5975; murphystaproom.com) will serve a limited menu of Irish specials like corned beef, cabbage and more, and will have live Irish music beginning at 9:30 a.m. and throughout the day.

• Murphy’s Taproom & Carriage House (393 Route 101, Bedford, 488-5975, murphystaproom.com) will open at 9 a.m. and will be serving brunch with Irish specials until noon.

Live Irish music will also be featured throughout the day, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

• North Side Grille (323 Derry Road, Hudson, 886-3663, hudsonnorthsidegrille.com) will be offering a corned beef dinner, as well as other corned beef specials, entrees and sandwiches on Friday, March 16, and Saturday, March 17.

• O’Shea’s Irish Tavern & Cigar Bar (449 Amherst St., Nashua, 943-7089, osheastavern.weebly.com) will be offering Guinness, Bailey’s, Murphy’s and other drink specials throughout the day. Live music will also be featured.

• Patrick’s Pub & Eatery (18 Weirs Road, Gilford, 293-0841, patrickspub.com) will be offering several St. Patrick’s Day specials, including Guinness beef stew, a three-course Irish feast with all-you-can-eat entree options like Irish soda bread, sliced corned beef brisket, cabbage and carrots, dessert specials like Guinness chocolate cake with Baileys Irish cream frosting, and live music throughout the day.

• The Peddler’s Daughter (48 Main St., Nashua, 821-7535, thepeddlersdaughter.com) will serve kegs and eggs starting at 8 a.m. on St. Patrick’s Day and will have a day-long lineup of Irish bands, bagpipers and more.

• Pipe Dream Brewing (49 Harvey Road, Londonderry, 404-0751, pipedreambrewingnh.com) will serve a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast on Saturday, March 17, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. featuring hand-made eggs, toast, bacon and your choice of beer. Each plate is $7.

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For one day, Rundlett Middle School in Concord will be transformed into a combination playhouse — complete with an obstacle course, miniature golf, bounce houses and more — and large tasting event featuring more than 30 specialty soups, breads and desserts prepared by local community members.

The ninth annual SouperFest, a fundraiser event for the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness, is happening Saturday, March 10. The event includes “FunFest,” with activities from 2 to 5 p.m., and “SoupFest,” which will take place from 4 to 7 p.m.

Other sponsoring organizations include the Concord Food Co-Op and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Concord. The event has grown over the years, according to Concord Food Co-Op development director Greg Lessard. This year’s event will feature several local community members and “celebrities” participating with their own soup recipes for the first time, Lessard said, like state Sen. Dan Feltes and Sean McDonald of WMUR. “There’s not a single duplication of soups this year, nor was there last year,” Lessard said. “Most people will have like four or five different kinds of soups, picking and choosing which ones they want to try.”

You’ll encounter soup flavors like Swiss barley, Italian chestnut chickpea, butternut squash and other unique offerings. A chilled blueberry soup, for example, will be served by former executive councilor Colin Van Ostern, as well as a Russian borscht prepared by Diana Erickson, the current title holder of Mrs. New Hampshire America. A number of vegetarian and vegan soups will be served, too.

“We do see some [soup chefs] return as repeats, but each year additional people want 32 • The Shaskeen Pub & Restaurant (909 Elm St., Manchester, 625-0246, theshakeenpub.com) will kick off its annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration on Saturday, March 17, with breakfast at 5:30 a.m. and first pints at 6 a.m., followed by home-cooked meals, drink promotions and live music all afternoon and night.

• Village Trestle (25 Main St., Goffstown, 497-8230, villagetrestle.com) will serve corned beef and cabbage and other specials all day and night. A lineup of Irish music acts is also expected.

• Wild Rover Pub (21 Kosciuszko St., Manchester, 669-7722, wildroverpub.com) will serve its annual Irish breakfast beginning at 6 a.m., with Irish coffees, black and white pudding, corned beef hash, potatoes O’Brien and more. Corned beef and cabbage and live Irish music will also be featured throughout the day.

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In addition to the soup, more than 25 types of artisan breads from local vendors like The Crust & Crumb Baking Co. and The Bread Peddler and desserts courtesy of more than 40 local bakery chefs will be available. For the third consecutive event, there will also be an artisan bowl sale, featuring handcrafted soup bowls and paintings from local groups like the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and Merrimack River Painters. Mike Bilodeau from Strings & Things Music will be there to perform as well.

During “FunFest,” there will be a playing area with games for kids ages 5 and under, hot dogs, popcorn and cotton candy available for purchase, face painting, a live DJ courtesy of Nazzy Entertainment and more.

Ellen Groh, executive director for the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness, said Souperfest benefits each of its programs that include its resource center and its new shelter that will be open in the winter months.

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More food/drink events • The Culinary Playground (16 Manning St., Derry, 339-1664, culinary-playground. com) is offering St. Patrick’s Day-inspired chips and dip classes for kids ages 3 to 6 on Thursday, March 15, at 10 and 11:30 a.m.; Friday, March 16, at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., and Saturday, March 17, at 10 and 11:30 a.m. The cost is $18 per class.

• The annual Eating of the Green returns to Laconia Public Library (65 N. Main St., Laconia) for the eighth year on Friday, March 16, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, is a taste test of green foods and drinks to try and guess what they are.

• Incredibrew (112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua, 891-2477, incredibrew.com) will host a St. Patrick’s Day Split-a-Batch brewing event on Saturday, March 17, at 9 a.m. Participants will learn to brew an Irish dry stout and an 35

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What is your must-have kitchen item? is and I’ve bought her cookbook, which has I have to say that I really love using a great recipes. bamboo cutting board. It’s really stable and it’s what I’ve always grown up around. I’m What is your favorite food item that always chopping, slicing and dicing, so a you offer? good cutting board is key.

I’d probably say the Thai chicken basil stirfry. It’s a good starter dish and I can adjust the What would you choose to have for your spiciness on it. last meal?

A go-to meal for me is a really good New What is the biggest food trend in New York strip steak with … potatoes and roast- Hampshire right now? ed vegetables.

It seems like there are so many different variations of poutine out there. … We’ve What is your favorite local restaurant? been experimenting our own version of it too.

It would probably be Fody’s Tavern on Main Street [in Nashua]. They’ve got great What is your favorite thing to cook hand-cut fries and truffle pops, which are tater at home? tots tossed in white truffle oil.

After a long week, I like to make something easy and quick, so probably a good What celebrity would you like to have a stir-fry. It’s also a great way to get rid of the meal with? leftover vegetables in the fridge.

Chrissy Teigen. I just love how sassy she — Matt Ingersoll Nam Prik sauce (spicy chili dipping sauce) Courtesy of Lydia Mulligan of Lyddie’s Goods in Nashua (best used with roasted chicken, jasmine or stick rice, or stir-fried vegetables).

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Lydia Mulligan of Nashua is the owner of Lyddie’s Goods (facebook.com/lyddiesgoods, lyddiesgoods@gmail.com), a catering business that offers American and Thai comfort food dishes.

Originally from Lowell, Mass., Mulligan started Lyddie’s Goods as a side business providing dishes like egg rolls and crab rangoons before going full-time with it last year. She currently appears at the Milford Farmers Market (Milford Town Hall, 1 Union Square, Milford) twice a month through early April and is looking to do more local farmers markets during the spring and summer months. Her meal options include stir-fry recipes, ramen, Thai red curry, meatloaf, chicken pot pie and more. If you can’t make it to the farmers market, online ordering is also available; Lyddie’s Goods ships to Nashua and most surrounding towns like Hollis, Hudson and Milford.

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• Tastes of Indonesia: Don’t miss the first annual Indonesian Culinary Night fundrais-

ing event at Somersworth Vocational Center (12 Memorial Drive, Somersworth) on Friday, March 9, from 6 to 9 p.m. The event is a threecourse buffet style dinner featuring Indonesian foods and is organized by Indonesian Community Connect, who also hosts the annual Somersworth Indonesian Fair in the fall. Jazz music will also be featured. The cost is $25 per person, with proceeds benefiting future programs at Indonesian Community Connect.

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Zucchini ‘meat’ balls Sure, my Italian grandmother is probably rolling over in her grave right now, but that doesn’t stop these veggie-based “meat” balls from being delicious. Made from zucchini and a traditional blend of seasonings, these meatballs offer a lighter alternative for dinner fare and are pantry-friendly.

I’ve always been highly skeptical of nonmeat-based alternatives to traditional meat dishes. To me, they never quite satisfy the craving for the original dish. This recipe, however, is quickly changing my mind.

By packing the veggie balls full of flavor from onions, garlic, cheese and Italian seasoning, I was able to recreate some of the traditional taste but with an updated twist.

Zucchini is one of my all-time favorite vegetables, primarily because it’s so versatile. From appetizers like fried zucchini to entrees like zoodles, zucchini can be transformed into some truly incredible dishes.

This recipe keeps zucchini at the forefront but includes enough seasoning and some fresh herbs to help the vegetable “pop.”

A simple blend of Italian seasoning, salt, pepper and fresh parsley gets these “meat” balls off to a great start, and ricotta cheese, Italian bread crumbs, onion and Zucchini “meat” balls Recipe courtesy of Tasty Latest and Greatest 4 zucchini 1 tablespoon salt 1 large egg 1 cup ricotta cheese 1 cup bread crumbs 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning 3 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped 1 teaspoon black pepper 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 2 garlic cloves, chopped

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• LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst, 672-9898, labellewineryevents.com) is hosting a St. Patrick’s Day-themed Cooking with Wine class on Saturday, March 17, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., featuring Guinness beef stew, Irish soda bread and shepherd’s pie. The cost is $25 per person and registration is required.

garlic really showcase what a great vehicle zucchini is for myriad flavors. I even opted to make the recipe a bit more pantry-friendly by using some dried herbs instead of fresh, and found I was still satisfied with the end result.

This recipe was very simple to make; the hardest part was simply waiting the 20 to 30 minutes for the excess moisture to drain from the shredded zucchini. And the finished product made me second-guess my long-held beliefs about the inferiority of meatless alternatives. The initial bite provided just enough crunch to vary the textures of the meal if served with pasta.

Plus, the colorful finished product adds a punch of excitement to your plate.

I was only cooking for myself when I made this recipe, so I cut everything in half to make about two servings instead of four.

I found that even with inaccurate measurements, these “meat” balls still turned out to be delicious, and I’ll be working this recipe into my repertoire, particularly in the summer when I’m looking for lighter options for dinner.

— Lauren Mifsud Cut off the bottom of each zucchini and use a cheese or box grater to shred the vegetable into a large mixing bowl. Sprinkle salt on top, toss and let rest in a colander in the sink for about 20 minutes to pull out the extra moisture. After about 20 minutes, preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Using a clean dish towel, squeeze out the excess liquid from the shredded zucchini and move the veggie to a dry mixing bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and stir until evenly mixed. Form the mixture into golf ball-sized balls, and bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until browned, flipping halfway through.

• The St. Paddy’s Run Before You Crawl 5K & Pub Crawl returns to Dover on Saturday, March 10, beginning with the 5K at 9 a.m. and a pub crawl at 11 a.m., which will feature food and drink specials by several downtown restaurants. Registration is $20 for the pub crawl only, $25 for adults and $10 for kids for the 5K only, or $40 for both. Visit runb4ucrawl.com.

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The craft beer movement has brought beer enthusiasts many things, highlighted by both a spectacular array of hops and increasing innovation and experimentation. One thing it hasn’t brought: an increase in winter brews.

If you looked around this winter, you were hard-pressed to find a traditional winter or holiday brew from the many small-scale New Hampshire breweries that characterize the craft beer movement. I’m referring to beers in the Sam Adams Winter Lager or Harpoon Winter Warmer mold: spiced, festive and warming. Those brews might not be for everyone — the nutmeg can be an issue for some — but those beers epitomized wintertime beer-drinking for decades.

That’s not to say New Hampshire brewers didn’t produce any winter brews this year, as they definitely did, but you were far more likely to find a “limited release” brew that happened to be seasonally appropriate, rather than the spiced winter brew you might have been used to. Did you follow me there?

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Craft beer and wild game Hickory seasoned roasted elk paired with Bone Shaker Brown Ale from Moat Mountain Smokehouse and Brewing Co. — your taste buds are salivating. Don’t lie. Chef Scott Ross of Moat Mountain and Chef Scott Rouleau of New England Upland will prepare a Wild Game and Craft Beer Pairing dinner at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 30, at the Bektash Temple in Concord. The event, which will feature five courses paired with Moat Mountain brews, benefits NH Operation Game Thief, an anti-poaching program encouraging the public to report any suspicious activity or knowledge about a poaching violation. Tickets cost $125.

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like stouts and porters, but because these rich brews can be the perfect complement to an array of flavors, including coffee, dark chocolate, dark fruit, vanilla, molasses and oak.

Brewers should be experimenting with these brews — particularly in the wintertime.

Brewers continue to crank out an enticing array of big, malty and robust stouts you should track down before it really does turn to spring. Consider these: Kamarade by Schilling Beer Co. (Littleton) - This Baltic porter is nitro-poured and brewed with chocolate rye.

Stout Stout by Throwback Brewery (North Hampton) - This Russian imperial stout boasts flavors of chocolate, dark fruit, toffee, caramel and coffee.

Chocolate Oatmeal Stout by Long Blue Cat Brewing Co. (Londonderry) - I am intrigued by both the Chocolate Oatmeal Stout and the house-made Smoked Habanero Pistachios at this new brewery.

Chocolate Milk Stout by Flying Goose Brew Pub & Grille (New London) - With a low alcohol content of 3.6-percent ABV, this creamy brew is aged on “organic Madagascar vanilla beans and organic Ecuadorian cocoa nibs.”

Erebos by Earth Eagle Brewings (Portsmouth) - This is a dark gruit built on a milk stout grain bill and “bittered and spiced with star anise, dandelion root, horehound, cardamon seed, cascara bark and some East Kent Goldings hops.” Sounds like a wonderful sipper for a late winter’s day.

Jeff Mucciarone is a senior account executive with Montagne Communications, where he provides communications support to the New Hampshire wine and spirits industry.

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MUSIC, BOOKS, GAMES, COMICS, MOVIES, DVDS, TV AND MORE The Wood Brothers, One Drop of Truth (Thirty Tigers Records)

About 99 percent of CD reviewers nowadays, when faced with bluesyfolksy-hip records like this, approach their critiques in one of two ways.

There’s the verisimilitude type, my usual style, which would rattle off a few RIYL (“recommended if you like”) names to describe this Nashville bar-band, in this case maybe a half-plugged Allmans with a Kings of Leon patina. Then there’s the existential type of critic, who reads (or, God help us all) transposes the lyrics for his or her own edification, an approach that leads to bupkis if the band has the poetic abilities of a neo-Dylan but sounds exactly like Tom Petty or whatnot. With guys like these, though, six albums deep into an unappreciated career, the feel’s the thing, and if more local folkies could pull off broke-down, mud-swamp but ultimately classy tunes like this, I wouldn’t be so much of a Grinch to them. I don’t expect these guys to do a Superbowl Halftime show ever, no, but if you’re of a mood to smoke Marlboros and people-watch outside the 7-Eleven while not feeling like a failure in life, this is, well, great. Not too bitter, not too wonky, not too folky — just right. A — Eric W. Saeger Dixie Dregs, Dregs Of The Earth/Unsung Heroes/Industry Standard (BGO Records)

OK, I’m really reaching here, reviewing a remaster of an imported, rereleased roll-up of three 1980s albums from the Augusta, Georgia, legends, but there’s a point here, specifically that they’ll be at Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry on March 18. I know, you’re all like “How nice, what is it Steve Morse’s grand-nephew and whatever stoned L.A. losers he could get bail out of rehab?” Well, the answer to that is an emphatic no, being that all-count-’emfive of the original band members will be sharing the stage for the first time in 40 years, and yes, that includes guitarist Steve Morse, the news of which, ladies, will have your guitar-nerd husband absolutely flipping out when you tell him.

The band was of course very much like Kansas (Morse did play with that band for a short time), but with no vocals, a pastiche of brilliant prog, commercial metal and a little classical dumped onto a bed of southern rock. You should only hit this show if you enjoy being totally blown away by awesomeness. A+ — Eric W. Saeger

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• Yay, time for your throwback-1980s-mullet friends to murmur “AWEsooome” in a high-pitched falsetto, because Judas Priest has a new album, called Firepower, in the queue for March 9!

Remember when they played the Lowell auditorium like 14 years ago, and they started with “Metal Gods” and “Love Bites” and you were jamming and then you looked out the auditorium window and saw a guy yelling at his old editor on his cell phone and flipping out because he couldn’t get in because the editor had messed up the passes? Yeah, that was me, and that was the day I left that paper. But back to our story, a new PREEEEST album, awesome! The new single is “Lightning Strike,” which has a Metallica part and a Misfits part but mostly a Judas Priest part and an awesome solo from Priest’s guitar guy. Kind of sounds like Accept too. It’s like every song you packed a toilet-paper-roll bong to all in one!

• But ha ha, forget Priest, I know you really want to get your butt kicked hard, and for that there’s a new Ministry album coming your way, called AmeriKKKant! This is so awesome I’m literally barfing, the new single is called “Antifa,” super-heavy doom at the beginning, and then a typical headbanging riff from our boys. Why are you not into Ministry? Seriously, why?

• Jeez, I think the last time I talked about former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne was when he released his book The Bicycle Diaries in 2009. Does anyone here remember when I reviewed that book in this paper? At least I do anyway. So whatever, fine, he has a new LP coming out on March 9 titled American Utopia, part of a multimedia project titled Reasons to Be Cheerful, about how to be happy even though politics blah blah blah. The single is called “Everybody’s Coming to My House,” wherein he drops all his intellectual pretense and goes back to that yodel-singing whacko he was back in 1980, and there’s a breakbeat, bad jazz horns and a pretty dumb video.

• You know Scottish post-rock heathens The Fratellis from that stupid song “Chelsea Dagger” that always played whenever the Chicago Blackhawks scored against the Bruins in that Stanley Cup year where we lost in the finals. I hate the Fratellis because of that stupid Blackhawks song, but they can redeem themselves in my eyes if their new album, In Your Own Sweet Time, is so awesome (and not like a brain-damaged Spoon again) that I make a looping MP3 out of it and lock myself away and turn into a skeleton. That’s literally the only way they can redeem themselves for all that in-your-face horror they caused when the Bruins lost the Stanley Cup. So let’s go see what this thing is about, at spammy old YouTube. Yuck, I hate that I can’t hate the single, “The Next Time We Wed,” since it’s like Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” re-done by the Ed Banger crew, asphalt-disco groove and a stubbornly worthy hook. But I will learn to hate it. I will.

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So it seems from the rapidly growing pile of nonfiction titles that purport to tell us how to live better by adopting the practices of superior cultures.

There’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo; The Little Book of Hygge, Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking, and Live Lagom, Balanced Living, the Swedish Way

by Anna Brones, and of course, the classic French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano. (The latter should be reclassified as fiction, since the obesity rate in France is now 16 percent, up from 12 percent a decade ago.)

Call it the “Let’s Help Those Poor Dumb Americans” genre.

Onto this shelf of disdain comes The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson, a Stockholm resident who admits only to being somewhere between 80 and 100 years old. (The New York Post, however, outed her as 83.)

Having already passed Sweden’s average life expectancy of 82, Magnusson occasionally thinks about dying. “I have no patience for people who pretend they are not going to die. My advice to them is wake up. One day will be their last day.”

Before we tackle the bucket list, however, Magnusson believes we should pull out the cleaning bucket. Death cleaning (in Swedish, döstädning) is a final act of love for your family and friends, saving them from the onerous chore of figuring out what to do with your things, not just your furniture, clothes and jewelry (which won’t bring nearly as much as you think at a yard sale) but knick-knacks and mementos.

Great idea; I’m in. And The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning is a terrific title.

Problem is, the book doesn’t deliver on the promise of the title.

Magnusson is, basically, the great-grandmother who’s been forever saying, “I should write a book.” And then someone had the nerve to encourage her. Which is why a major American publisher has ink on its hands with painful paragraphs like this: “Sometimes your attic has become so full that you are forced to put things in someone else’s attic! Terrible! Who do you think will take care of that later when you are no longer here?”

Also: “When I browse through an interior-decorating magazine, I sometimes get so

tired! Many of these homes look as if all the furniture was supplied by the same store.”

A more proper title would be The Swedish Book of Banalities, with Some Cleaning Tips from Your Grandmother.

Also, it is quite alarming to come across a chapter titled “Pets” when you’re reading a book about ruthlessly getting rid of old things. At least it introduces some tension in the narrative arc. As aggressively as Magnusson was cleaning at this point, I roused from my platitudenol stupor and snapped to attention, wondering what Planet Aid bin she was going to suggest we put our guinea pigs in.

There is a guinea pig in this chapter, and mercifully, she didn’t throw it out, but the story of Hampus will still wreck you.

As will the story of Duffy, the dog, and Klumpeduns, the cat. It turns out that Magnusson didn’t have to death-clean her pets because, blessedly, they died on their own.

Too quickly, however, we are back to the cleaning, now of photographs. “I have taken many photos during the years, and three of the children are very talented photographers. As a result, we have too many photos in our family, and it really is my fault and therefore it is me who has to do the cleaning up. Me and my hungry shredder.”

There are a few useful nuggets in this volume, condensed for you here: When death-cleaning, get a box for stuff that is of value only to you, i.e., love letters and concert programs. Mark it “throw away.” Then your children or partner can toss it guilt-free after you’re gone.

If you don’t have children upon whom to bestow your valuables, find someone else who needs them. “You don’t have to be a blood relative to give them pots and pans, chairs from your attic, an old rug.”

When giving away a desk, share its history — what letters were written on it, what documents were signed. “An ordinary desk becomes extraordinary through time.”

Finally, Magnusson’s interesting litmus test for keeping, tossing or shredding: “Will anyone I know be happier if I save this?”

“If after a moment of reflection I can honestly answer no, then it goes into the hungry shredder, always waiting for paper to chew.

But before it goes into the shredder, I have had a moment to reflect on the event or feeling, good or bad, and to know that it has been a part of my story and my life.”

That’s excellent advice, but we’d all be better off if we used the time it takes to read this lackluster book doing some actual cleaning. D — Jennifer Graham

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• Store history: Author and historian Anthony Sammarco presents his new book, The History of Jordan Marsh: New England’s Largest Store, at the Wadleigh Memorial Library (49 Nashua St., Milford) on Tuesday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m.

The book explores the evolution of Jordan Marsh department store, from a single store opened in 1851 on Milk Street in Boston to becoming a New England icon and the largest department store chain in the nation by the 1970s. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Visit wadleighlibrary.org or call 249-0645.

• Poetry championship: The 2018 New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud state championship takes place at the New Hampshire Statehouse (107 N. Main St., Concord) on Friday, March 9, at 6 p.m. Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation program open to all high school and homeschool students in grades 9 through 12. The state championship winner will receive $200 and a trip to Washington, D.C., to compete in the national championship, and their school will receive $500 to use for the purchase of poetry books. The event is free and open to the public. Visit nh.gov/nharts.

• New mystery: Award-winning author of the Easy Rawlins series Walter Mosley will visit The Music Hall Loft (131 Congress St., Portsmouth) on Tuesday, March 13, at 7 p.m. as part of The Music Hall’s Writers in the Loft series. He will present his latest work, Down the River unto the Sea, the first book in a new mystery series that follows former cop Joe “King” Oliver, who seeks justice in a corrupt system for a young black militant journalist accused of killing two police officers. The event includes an author presentation, moderated Q&A, book signing and meet-and-greet.

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• CHRIS BOHJALIAN Author presents The Flight Attendant.

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Jennifer Lawrence is very retro Cold War chic in Red Sparrow, a movie about which country, Russia versus the U.S., has the most gullible spies.

Twist ending: It’s a tie! Both sets of spies are pretty gullible! Or so cynical they don’t actually care about their missions!

Dominika Egorova (Lawrence) is a talented ballerina at the Bolshoi, which pays for her apartment and the expensive medical care for her mother (Joely Richardson). But then she is horribly injured on stage — like, horribly!

It’s so over-the-top gruesome that in one of those Final Destination movies this kind of scene would almost be played for laughs.

No longer able to dance, Dominika stands to lose everything. Luckily she has a creepy uncle, Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts, styled as a dead ringer for Putin), who works for the shadiest of shady state spy agencies. He says, hey, maybe just hang out with this one gross dude for a bit and then I’ll make sure you can stay in your apartment and your mom can keep her medical care and all will be well.

Because Dominika has been too busy dancing to ever see a movie or read a comic book or watch a peak cable show, she is shocked when the gross dude turns out to be super gross and when her uncle’s henchman shows up to kill the gross dude.

Of course, because she’s seen the Russian government execute someone, Dominika’s choices for her future are now (1) bullet to the head or (2) to become a Sparrow, which is the code name for a kind of secret agent trained in the art of seduction. Hilariously, this sexyagent training happens at a state-run school where everybody dresses in prison matron clothes and extremely sensible shoes.

Dominika’s first mission is to charm Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton), a CIA agent. The Russians believe he knows the name of a mole inside the Russian spy agency. If she can win his

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In theaters Opening Friday, March 9: A Wrinkle in Time (PG) Director Ava DuVernay brings the classic children’s chapter book to life starring Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The Strangers: Prey At Night (R) Christina Hendricks stars in this movie about a family threatened by thrill-killers.

Reviewlets: Oscar-results edition * indicates a must-see movie.

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trust, Dominika can find out who the mole is.

Of course, there are many doubles to be crossed along the way. Nate apparently has seen a movie before, so he’s well aware that Dominika is part of some kind of con. He also thinks she has the potential to be flipped.

Interestingly, this kind of spying isn’t so much a game of deception as a game of honesty. Dominika tells the truth to everybody about everything. The decider in which side she’s truly on will turn out to be who is told the truth last.

And that little bit of story art is really the only interesting thing about Red Sparrow, which is so long (two hours and 19 minutes) and so full of dodgy Russian accents. There’s a lot of unnecessary backstory in this movie, which weighs down what should have been an hour-and-40-minute bit of spy fun.

(Though, as is also true with Death Wish, current events really sap these should-be low-effort movies of their enjoyment.) The spy-versus-spy scenes — kind of updated, less-stylized Atomic Blonde — are when this movie is at its best. Everything to do with Dominika and her mother and her uncle and the constant threat of sexual violence that comes with the idea of Sparrows made me

14 of the 24 awards handed down, about 58 percent accurate, which is a little worse than my normal success rate, but I tried to make it interesting with a few swings for the fences this year. In the end, most of the awards were fairly predictable, if not super exciting, but not particularly enraging either (except Icarus; I may have done some swearing when that movie received best documentary). Here are some of the night’s winners: *The Shape Of Water (R) Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins.

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Elisa, who can’t talk and communicates through sign language, works a night shift at a government lab circa the Cuban missile crisis where she meets and falls in love with “the asset” (Doug Jones), a humanoid-like fish/reptilian creature who is brought into the lab in this monster movie fairy tale from director Guillermo del Toro (who took home an Oscar for best director). Octavia Spencer plays a friend and co-worker in this noir-ish, beautifully shot fairy tale, which also won Oscars for original score and production design. The movie is available for home viewing and currently (as of Mon-

want to reach for the fast-forward button.

Lawrence is fine — cartoony and silly but not really any more cartoony or silly than in, say, mother!. Edgerton’s character is sillier than he plays it and the pair are surrounded by some nice supporting characters including CIA agents played by Bill Camp and Sakina Jaffrey, an American political type played

by Mary-Louise Parker and various Russian spy officials played by Charlotte Rampling, Ciarán Hinds and Jeremy Irons.

Red Sparrow could, with just a few cuts, have been lighter, quicker and ultimately more enjoyable fare. C Rated R for strong violence, torture, sexual content, language and some graphic nudity, according to the MPAA. Directed by Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Justin Haythe, Red Sparrow is two hours and 19 minutes long and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

Death Wish (R)

Bruce Willis sleepwalks through the revenge fantasy Death Wish, a dull Eli Roth-directed remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson movie.

Which I have never seen, full disclosure.

Here, Paul Kersey (Willis) is a doctor who spends his days digging bullets out of people in gun-violence-plagued Chicago. After a home robbery goes wrong, his wife (Elisabeth Shue) is murdered and his daughter (Camila Morrone) is left in a coma. Though police detectives Raines (Dean Norris) and Jackson (Kimberly Elise) actually make a good (cynicism-based but pretty solid) argument for the crime eventually being solved and the perpetrators sent to jail, Kersey starts to despair when he sees no signs of that.

A chance appearance of an untied-tohim gun and a general sense of frustration coalesce in Kersey as a desire to do something with what I assume is his anger (Willis seems incapable of showing anger, or any emotion, but I’ll fill in the blank that is him and say “anger” is what we’re supposed to see). He sees a carjacking and winds up killing the robbers. The event is caught on film (that, luckily, doesn’t identify him) and Kersey is given the name “Grim Reaper” by social media. His vigilantism goes viral, with call-in radio debating his actions even as Kersey becomes more confident in his killing. Another bit of story convenience puts him in the path of the people who killed his wife and he focuses his indeterminate rage on the cause of DIY justice.

Somewhere in the middle of Death Wish, I started to wonder if this movie was building up to some kind of point of view about violence, specifically gun violence. The way the movie showed the destruction done by bullets close up and the way it intercut scenes of commentators arguing about vigilantism versus the rule of law, I felt like there might be some sneaky message tippy-toeing into what is, by outward appearances, a kind of brainless action movie. But then, by the end of the movie, I realized no. Nope, this is just a brainless action movie — and not even a particularly well done or rah-rah action movie.

day, March 5) playing at AMC to really know what to do with Methuen. B+ her and uses a lot of crutches (voice-over narration, hotThree Billboards Outside button issues like race and Ebbing, Missouri (R) domestic violence) that go Frances McDormand, Sam nowhere, storywise. NeverRockwell. theless, the movie also won McDormand (who won an a supporting actor award for expected best actress Oscar) Rockwell. The movie is availplays a mother awash in grief able for home viewing and is over the murder of her daugh- currently playing at the Derry ter and angry that her local Cinema, Red River Theatres police haven’t yet caught the in Concord and Wilton Town killer. She takes out billboards Hall Theatre. C+ prodding the local police chief (played by Woody Harrelson) *Darkest Hour (R) into keeping the investigation Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott going. While McDormand Thomas. gives a strong performance Oldman (who won best actor) and seems to know her charis Winston Churchill in this acter, the movie doesn’t seem movie that looks at the home

front during roughly the same period of time as Dunkirk.

Churchill, newly made prime minister, must weigh whether to continue the war with Germany ― and possibly prepare for invasion of the home island ― or to consider some kind of armistice. The movie gets weighed down by an unnecessary subplot involving Churchill’s secretary but features a very strong performance from Oldman and an interesting look at this moment in history. The movie also won an Oscar for makeup and hairstyling and is available for home viewing and is currently screening at the Hooksett Cinemagic. A-

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Something more straightforwardly about a man seeking his idea of justice when the system appeared to fail him would actually be a more enjoyable watch on, like, an id level.

This movie just feels flat and dumb, a feeling augmented by the flat, emotionless performance of Bruce Willis, who here appears to have lost any ability to act. He’s got “blank” and he’s got “smirk.” Those are his two speeds and anything else is not just beyond him; it stops the movie dead.

In one scene he explains his actions and the motivations behind them to his brother, played by Vincent D’Onofrio, and I

found myself thinking that a movie where D’Onofrio was Kersey might be something. I think D’Onofrio could be darker, nuttier and more empathetic than Willis, who is just a faded John McClane cardboard cut-out.

Death Wish is an unnecessary remake that is so blah even its lead actor seems bored. D Rated R for strong bloody violence, and language throughout, according to the MPAA. Directed by Eli Roth with a screenplay by Joe Carnahan, Death Wish is an hour and 47 minutes long and is distributed

by Annapurna Pictures.

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CINEMAGIC 1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 644-4629; 11 Executive Park Drive, Merrimack, 423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com • Hamlet (National Theatre Live) Thurs., March 8, 7 p.m.

• Semiramide (The MET) Sat., March 10, 12:55 p.m.

• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (PG, 2004) Mon., March 12, 7 p.m.

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG, 1981) Thurs., March 15, 7 p.m.

(Merrimack only) • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (PG-13, 1989) Thurs., March 15, 9:20 p.m. (Merrimack only) REGAL CONCORD 282 Loudon Road, Concord, (844) 462-7342 ext. 464, regmovies.com • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (PG, 2004) Sun., March 11, 12:55 p.m., and Mon., March 12, 7 p.m.

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY Main Branch, 405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550; West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 6246560, manchester.lib.nh.us • Dunkirk (PG-13, 2017) Wed., March 14, 1 p.m.

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NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary.org • Shrek (PG, 2001) Sat., March 10, 2 p.m.

• The Shape of Water (R, 2017) Tues., March 13, 6:30 p.m.

CHUNKY’S CINEMA 707 Huse Road, Manchester, 2063888; 150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499; 151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua, 880-8055, chunkys.com • The Lorax (PG, 2012) Wed., March 14, 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

• Grease (PG-13, 1978) Wed., March 14, noon • The Big Lebowski (R, 1998) Wed., March 14, 7 p.m.

PETERBOROUGH COMMUNITY THEATRE 6 School St., Peterborough, pctmovies.com • The Post (PG-13, 2017) Thurs., March 8, and Fri., March 9, 7 p.m.; Sat., March 10, Sun., March 11, and Wed., March 14, 2:30 and 7 p.m.; and Thurs., March 15, 7 p.m.

RIVER STREET THEATRE 6 River St., Jaffrey, 532-8888, theparktheatre.org • Half Magic (R, 2018) Fri., March 9, 7 p.m.; Sat., March 10, 2 and 7 p.m.; and Sun., March 11, 2 p.m.

• Tosca (Royal Opera House) Sun., March 11, and Wed., March 14, 2 p.m.

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON LIBRARY CLASSIC FILM Frances McDormand’s first Oscar win with William H. Macy & Steve Bucemi

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• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (R, 2017) Thurs., March 8, 2:05 and 5:30 p.m.; Fri., March 9, and Sat., March 10, 3:15 and 8:30 p.m.; Sun., March 11, 3:15 p.m.; and Mon., March 12, through Thurs., March 15, 8 p.m.

• Phantom Thread (R, 2017) Thurs., March 8, 8 p.m., Fri., March 9, and Sat., March 10, 3:10 and 8:40 p.m.; Sun., March 11, 3:10 p.m.; and Mon., March 12, Tues., March 13, and Thurs., March 15, 8:05 p.m.

• Call Me by Your Name (R, 2017) Thurs., March 8, 2 and 5:25 p.m.; Fri., March 9, through Sun., March 11, 12:25 and 5:55 p.m.; Mon., March 12, and Tues., March 13, 2:05 and 5:25 p.m.; Wed., March 14, 2:05 p.m.; and Thurs., March 15, 2:05 and 5:25 p.m.

• Lady Bird (R, 2017) Thurs., March 8, 2:10 p.m.; Fri., March 9, through Sun., March 11, 3:30 and 5:30 p.m.; and Tues., March 13, through Thurs., March 15, 5:35 p.m.

• The Shape of Water (R, 2017) Fri., March 9, through Sun., March 11, 12:30 and 5:45 p.m.; and Mon., March 12, through Thurs., March 15, 2 and 5:30 p.m.

• The Insult (R, 2017) Fri., March 9, and Sat., March 10, 1 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 11, 1 p.m.; Mon., March 12, through Thurs., March 15, 2:10 and 7:30 p.m.

• My Neighbor Totoro (G, 1988) Sat., March 10, 10 a.m.

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (R, 2017) Thurs., March 8, through Thurs., March 15, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 11, 2 and 4:30 p.m.

• Phantom Thread (R, 2017) Fri., March 9, through Thurs., March 15, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 11, 2 p.m.

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NITE Rusticana Local music news & events

By Michael Witthaus

mwitthaus@hippopress.com

• Metal men: A founding member of legendary punk band The Dictators, guitarist Ross the Boss later led Manowar in the 1980s. He’s played in a variety of projects since, including Shakin Street and reunion albums with his old bandmate Handsome Dick Manitoba. He brings his solo band to town for a weekend lead-in show, opened by fellow guitar hero Ethan Brosh. Go Thursday, March 8, 8 p.m., Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester. Tickets $20 at jewelnh.com; 21+.

• Side door session: The second in an ongoing concert series offers Porter/Nickerson, the teaming of guitarist and singer-songwriter Willy Porter with talented vocalist Carmen Nickerson. Local country rocker Dusty Gray opens the show, which is preceded by dinner and drinks in the museum’s lounge. Go Friday, March. 9, 6 p.m., Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Tickets $25 at currier.org.

• Chanteuse: Last year’s New England Music Award winner for Best Album, Ruby Rose Fox is a multi-talented artist, with soaring vocals, stellar musicianship and timely songwriting. Go Friday, March 9, 8 p.m., Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar, 35 Railroad Square, Nashua. Tickets $12 at riverwalknashua.com.

• Celtic kickoff: Get your Irish on as the final countdown to St. Patrick’s Day begins with a family-friendly slate of entertainment including members of the McGonagle School of Irish Dance, followed by John Plunkett playing music all afternoon. The event includes an Irish breakfast at 10 a.m., with a corned beef dinner later, all with less of the attendant chaos often found on the big day. Go Sunday, March 11, 1 p.m., Wild Rover Pub, 21 Kosciuszko St., Manchester. See wildroverpub.com.

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Will Hatch CD exudes rural charm

By Michael Witthaus

mwitthaus@hippopress.com

With the scuffed elegance of old leather boots, the nine songs on For You — the first long-player from Will Hatch — feel lived in and familiar at first listen. There’s also heartache and world weariness that belie the singer-songwriter’s 27 years. More than once during the record, Hatch touches on impending death, from bad habits and misadventure.

The most compelling tracks are often mournful. “Hank” is an ode to the legendary country singer’s demise on New Year’s Day, 1953, while “Sad News” is exactly as its title implies. But both are sweet and tuneful.

Hatch marks the new record with a hometown show at Penuche’s Ale House on March 10. For You took two years to make.

The process began with sessions in his Concord apartment, recording with members of his band, Will Hatch & Co. It was completed at Sound Check Studio in Richmond, Virginia, where Hatch made his first EP in 2011-12.

Producer Immanuel the Liberator assembled a group of talented players, with much of the work being done long distance.

The effort depended on a lot of trust, and the collaboration clearly worked.

“Some of the production ideas were mine, and a lot of things were just a product of the musicians we’d bring into the studio — they would shape it,” Hatch said as he readied to play a dinner set in a Claremont restaurant. “A lot of it is just Will Hatch & Co. w/ The Dobros When: Saturday, March 10, 9 p.m.

Where: Penuche’s Ale House, 6 Pleasant St., Concord More: willhatchmusic.com

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the magic he created.”

Tall and wiry, with a close-trimmed beard, Hatch looks the part of of a welltraveled troubadour. He has high hopes for his new collection.

“I’m trying to push it now that it’s done, get some radio play and reach out to record labels,” he said. “See if I can take my career to the next step. It’s the best thing I could have done, it sounds so professional. I think it’s a really good tool going forward.”

Hatch’s local band includes Eric Seldon Ober (Rippin’ E Brakes) and Opined Few/ Green Sisters fiddler Betsy Green, who also provides scintillating harmonies. Over the past year, Will Hatch & Co. has had a few different configurations. For the Penuche’s release party, everyone involved is invited.

“I felt it was appropriate to play it there; it’s kind of a home base,” Hatch said of the Concord basement bar. Performed live, the album’s songs are “more rootsy, less of that classical studio strings on the record ... and once the night gets a little darker, it turns to rock and roll. We’ll plug in and do a little electric blues — with a fiddle.”

Hatch grew up in Hopkinton, playing drums in grade school. He switched to guitar after joining a band at age 15.

“I really learned it so I could write songs,” he said.

Most of his early music was standard rock and roll, and punk. That changed when he heard neo-folk standard bearers Old Crow Medicine Show.

“That’s why I bought a banjo — I had to get it,” he said.

From there, the 19-year-old dug into Bob Dylan’s songs and moved backward.

“Ttracing the roots — Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and the Anthonlogy of American Folk Music — I kind of got the history.

I said, ‘This is my music.’ That’s when I really got good,” he said.

When asked for his songwriting inspirations, Hatch quickly names Townes Van Zandt, then trails off without adding another. That’s fitting; many of his songs, like the battered romance of “Oh Girl” and the pleading “Oh Lord,” ably channel the hardluck Texan.

He shares an outlook, and an affinity for old-timey country music, with fellow local performer Tristan Omand, and the two will perform a Bluebird Cafe-style song swap together at New England College on March 31.

“We definitely have some similar influences,” Hatch said. “At the show, we’ll both sing songs and tell stories.”

Asked to name his favorite part of making the new album, Hatch thought for a moment.

“Just hearing the outcome,” he said.

“Any time you get to go into a real studio and just record, it’s fun. I like just recording vocals in the studio because a lot of it is really hard, and recording guitar parts is not really fun. But I learned a lot to make it easier next time.”

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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

Exeter Station 19 37 Water St. 778-3923

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.

73 Brush Brook Rd Hermanos 926-6762 11 Hills Ave. 224-5669 563-7195 Bernie’s Beach Bar Makris 73 Ocean Blvd 926-5050 East Hampstead 354 Sheep Davis Rd Boardwalk Inn & Cafe Pasta Loft 225-7665 139 Ocean Blvd.

220 E. Main St. Penuche’s Ale House 929-7400 378-0092 6 Pleasant St. Breakers at Ashworth 228-9833 295 Ocean Blvd. 926-6762 Epping Pit Road Lounge Cloud 9 Holy Grail 388 Loudon Rd 225 Ocean Blvd.

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Concord Common Man: Joel Begin Granite: CJ Poole Duo Hermanos: Richard Gardzina Penuche’s Ale House: Dopamine True Brew: Dusty Gray Open

Bedford Copper Door: Paul Rainone

Dover 603 Bar & Lounge: DJ Pez

Boscawen Alan’s: John Pratte

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Claremont Taverne: SoulFix Duet

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Elm St. 647-6653 366-4341 KC’s Rib Shack Paradise Beach Club 837 Second St. 627-RIBS 322 Lakeside Ave. Murphy’s Taproom 366-2665 494 Elm St. 644-3535 Patio Garden Penuche’s Music Hall Lakeside Ave. 1087 Elm St. 206-5599 Pitman’s Freight Room Salona Bar & Grill 94 New Salem St. 128 Maple St. 624-4020 527-0043 Shaskeen Tower Hill Tavern 909 Elm St. 625-0246 264 Lakeside Ave. Shorty’s 366-9100 1050 Bicentennial Drive Hanover Whiskey Barrel 625-1730 Canoe Club 546 Main St. 884-9536 Stark Brewing Co. 27 S. Main St. 643-9660 500 Commercial St. Jesse’s Tavern Lebanon 625-4444 224 Lebanon St 643-4111 Salt Hill Pub Strange Brew Tavern Salt Hill Pub 2 West Park St. 448-4532 88 Market St. 666-4292 7 Lebanon St. 676-7855 TGI Fridays Skinny Pancake Londonderry 1516 Willow St. 644-8995 3 Lebanon St. 540-0131 Coach Stop Tavern Whiskey’s 20 176 Mammoth Rd 20 Old Granite St. Henniker 437-2022 641-2583 Country Spirit Pipe Dream Brewing Wild Rover 262 Maple St. 428-7007 40 Harvey Road 21 Kosciuszko St. Pat’s Peak Sled Pub 404-0751 669-7722 24 Flander’s Road Stumble Inn 428-3245 20 Rockingham Road Meredith 432-3210 Giuseppe’s Hillsboro 312 Daniel Webster Hwy Tooky Mills Loudon 279-3313 9 Depot St. 464-6700 Hungry Buffalo 58 New Hampshire 129 Merrimack Hillsborough 798-3737 Homestead Mama McDonough’s 641 Daniel Webster Hwy 5 Depot St. 680-4148 Manchester 429-2022 Turismo British Beer Company Jade Dragon 55 Henniker St. 680-4440 1071 S. Willow St. 515 DW Hwy 424-2280 232-0677 Merrimack Biergarten Hooksett Bungalow Bar & Grille 221 DW Hwy 595-1282 Asian Breeze 333 Valley St. 792-1110 Tortilla Flat 1328 Hooksett Rd Cafe la Reine 594 Daniel Webster Hwy 621-9298 915 Elm St 232-0332 262-1693 DC’s Tavern Central Ale House 1100 Hooksett Road 23 Central St. 660-2241 Milford 782-7819 City Sports Grille J’s Tavern 216 Maple St. 625-9656 63 Union Sq. 554-1433 Hudson Club ManchVegas Pasta Loft AJ’s Sports Bar 50 Old Granite St. 241 Union Sq. 11 Tracy Lane 718-1102 222-1677 672-2270

Gilford Patrick’s: Eric Grant Acoustic

Laconia Whiskey Barrel: Djdirectdrive

Hampton CR’s: Steve Sibulkin

Lebanon Salt hill: Celtic Open Session

Hampton Londonderry Wally’s: Mechanical Shark & DJ Coach Stop: Kim Riley Stumble Inn: Tequila Bonfire Hanover Salt hill Pub: Irish Trad’ Session Manchester Randy Miller/Roger Kahle Central Ale: Jonny Friday Blues City Sports Grille: DJ Dave Hillsborough Foundry: DJ Marco Valentin Turismo: Line Dancing Fratello’s: Jazz Night

Jewel: Ross The Boss, Old James, Maiden New England Manchvegas: College Night Penuche’s: College Night, DJ Stef Shaskeen: Troll 2, Time & Place and Malcolm Salls Strange Brew: Town & Country Whiskey’s 20: DJs Shawn White/ Ryan Nichols/Mike Mazz

Shaka’s Bar & Grill 11 Wilton Road 554-1224 Tiebreakers at Hampshire Hills 50 Emerson Road 673-7123 Union Coffee Co. 42 South St. 554-8879 Moultonborough Buckey’s 240 Governor Wentworth Hwy 476-5485 Castle in the Clouds 455 Old Mountain Road 478-5900 Nashua 110 Grill 27 Trafalgar Sq 943-7443 5 Dragons 28 Railroad Sq 578-0702 Agave Azul 94-96 Main St. 943-7240 Boston Billiard Club 55 Northeastern Blvd.

943-5630 Burton’s Grill 310 Daniel Webster Hwy 688-4880 Country Tavern 452 Amherst St. 889-5871 Dolly Shakers 38 E. Hollis St. 577-1718 Fody’s Tavern 9 Clinton St. 577-9015 Fratello’s Italian Grille 194 Main St. 889-2022 Haluwa Lounge Nashua Mall 883-6662 Killarney’s Irish Pub 9 Northeastern Blvd.

888-1551 O’Shea’s 449 Amherst St. 943-7089 Peddler’s Daughter 48 Main St. 821-7535 Pig Tale 449 Amherst St. 864-8740 Portland Pie Company 14 Railroad Sq 882-7437 Shorty’s 48 Gusabel Ave 882-4070 Stella Blu 70 E. Pearl St. 578-5557 Thirsty Turtle 8 Temple St. 402-4136 New Boston Molly’s Tavern 35 Mont Vernon Rd 487-2011

Milford J’s Tavern: Justin Cohn Union Coffee: Justin Cohn, Jaclyn Hodgkins

Meredith Giuseppe’s: Jim Tyrrell

Nashua Agave Azul: DJ K-Wil L Country Tavern: Ryan Williamson Fody’s: DJ Rich Padula Fratello’s: Chris Lester O’Shea’s: Quincy Lord Riverwalk Cafe: Flux Capacitor

Merrimack Homestead: Stephen Decuire

Newmarket Stone Church: Irish Music

Newbury Goosefeathers Pub Mt. Sunapee Resort 763-3500 Salt Hill Pub 1407 Rt 103 763-2667 Newmarket Riverworks 164 Main St. 659-6119 Stone Church 5 Granite St. 659-7700 Newport Salt Hill Pub 58 Main St. 863-7774 North Hampton Barley House Seacoast 43 Lafayette Rd 379-9161 Northwood Tough Tymes 221 Rochester Rd 942-5555 Peterborough Harlow’s Pub 3 School St. 924-6365 La Mia Casa (Wreck Room) 1 Jaffrey Road 924-6262 Pittsfield Main Street Grill & Bar 32 Main St. 436-0005 Plaistow Crow’s Nest 181 Plaistow Rd 974-1686

Racks Bar & Grill 20 Plaistow Road 974-2406

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Raymond Cork n’ Keg 4 Essex Drive 244-1573

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Peterborough Harlow’s: Bluegrass, John Meehan La Mia Casa: Soul Repair

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Rochester China Palace 101 S. Main St. 332-3665 Gary’s 38 Milton Rd. 335-4279 Governor’s Inn 78 Wakefield St. 332-0107 Lilac City Grille 103 N. Main St 332-3984 Mel Flanagan’s Irish Pub & Café 50 N. Main St. 332-6357 Radloff’s 38 North Main St. 948-1073 Revolution Tap Room 61 N Main St. 244-3022 Smokey’s Tavern 11 Farmington Rd 330-3100

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“It’s All Downhill” — make a run for it Across 1 Bread that may or may not have seeds 4 Unit of heat energy 9 Copier problems 13 Mall entrance features 15 Cartoon dad who’s had over 100 jobs

16 Musk of SpaceX 17 Poet who excels at short comedy scenes?

19 Queen abandoned by Aeneas, in myth 20 “Wabbit” hunter Fudd 21 Red or Yalu, e.g.

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motto) 25 Furor 27 Crisis responder, for short 28 Radar reading 29 1950s nostalgia group with a TV show in the 1970s 33 “That’s right!”

34 Just briefly reads the rules to a classic arcade game?

38 Early photo color 40 Reed or Rawls 41 Slovenia neighbor 42 Someone who’s an expert at sliding out?

45 $, for short (well, not really, being three characters) 46 Disregards 47 “There Will Be Blood” actor Paul 48 Many corp. logos

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51 A, in Berlin 52 Hockey players, slangily 54 Trail follower 56 Not significant 58 Julia of “Addams Family Values” 59 Request to a supervisor to avoid something?

64 Prefix for present or potent 65 “___ Burr, Sir” (song from “Hamilton”) 66 Days of long ago 67 Ten-speed, e.g.

68 Air freshener brand 69 Predicament Down 1 Apt. ad count 2 Hairy Himalayan beast 3 Prefix for dermis 4 Jim Carrey movie with the catchphrase “Smokin’!”

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6 Ruler in Abu Dhabi 7 “Can’t Fight This Feeling” band ___ Speedwagon 8 “The A-Team” regular 9 “Star Wars: The Last ___” 10 Still in the game 11 Wi-fi device 12 Derisive sound 14 High-priced 18 35mm camera option 21 Repair, as a loose board

22 Bottomless depth 23 Streamlined 24 Longstocking of kiddie lit 25 Provide coverage for 26 Grammy category division 30 Hotelier Conrad, or his greatgranddaughter Paris 31 Love, in Le Havre 32 Take the stage 34 Reproductive rights pioneer Margaret 35 Palindromic formality 36 On one’s own 37 Stocking stuff 39 Ugandan dictator Amin 43 Indie rocker DiFranco 44 Foolhardy 47 Word after roller or Kentucky 48 Pulsate 49 Home of the Heat 50 Mammal with a defensive spray 53 Hotel room extra 55 Peace Nobelist Wiesel 56 Actress Sorvino in 2016’s “Exposed” 57 Device with the Nano discontinued in 2017 59 Hang down 60 Actor Penn 61 “That’s gotta hurt” 62 ___ Lanka 63 Masters and Johnson research subject ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com

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SIGNS OF LIFE ularity of our band. I think I need to talk to Brandon, Chloe, and Zoey about this since it involves them. But I’m pretty sure they’ll probably just tell me to follow my heart. Listen to your heart — and common sense.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Instead of answering, I just took a big bite of my cinnamon bun and chewed, trying not to look as annoyed as I felt. I’d already blabbed WAAAY too much about my PATHETIC life in those emails I’d sent Andre. You can’t undo emails, but you can eat a cinnamon bun.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Between the exchange student, Daisy’s training, Brandon’s Fuzzy Friends project, the summer tour, AND my BFFs’ YouTube videos, my schedule for the end of school is going to be … BRUTAL!!

Schedule some breaks or you won’t get any.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Unfortunately, I won’t have much time to write in my diary today because my mom is making me take Brianna to see Princess Sugar Plum Saves Baby Unicorn Island: Part 9! After that I plan to watch a marathon session of My Very Rich and Trashy Life! Reruns, eat dinner, do my homework, and then go to bed. Homework first.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) It was quite obvious that MacKenzie was just trying to weasel her way out of the mess she and Tiffany had made. Certain messes can’t be weaseled out of.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) When life gives MacKenzie LEMONS, she MALICIOUSLY squirts the juice in other people’s EYES! Stand by with eye protection and sugar.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) That’s when Chloe totally lost it. ‘Listen, Mr. Cutie Pants! You can talk to Nicole all you want.

But stay away from our BFF, Nikki! I’m warning you! I know karate, kung fu, judo, tae kwon do, and at least five other dangerous words!’ she growled. Buzzwords won’t help, but skills will.

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All quotes are from Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe, by Rachel Renée Russell, born March 13, 1959.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Since Brandon had agreed to help me with Daisy, I volunteered to help him with his Fuzzy Friends website project. … I think Brandon and me spending more time together is a great idea!

Hopefully, we’ll become even better friends than we already are. Coworkers unite!

Aries (March 21 – April 19) Anyway, after hashing everything out with Andre, I decided to do the mature and responsible thing. I sent Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon a text asking them to meet me after school in the library to discuss some really important news. Look at you, all mature and responsible.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) But the most important thing I need to remember is that the excitement of most crushes simply fizzles out over time when you start to mature and/ or finally realize your KNIGHT in shining ARMOR is really a LOSER in ALUMINUM FOIL! Some things fizzle, other things shine.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) I had no idea Brandon was feeling overwhelmed. He’s been spending so much time working on the Fuzzy Friends project that he’s fallen behind on his homework and started to struggle at school.

You can help an overwhelmed friend.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) The best thing about high school is that I WON’T have a locker next to MacKenzie Hollister anymore.

Thank goodness! Did I mention that MacKenzie transferred from North Hampton Hills BACK to Westchester Country Day on Tuesday?! Old acquaintances reunite.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) The fourteen-day trip to Paris is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to study art at the world-famous Louvre. However, the Bad Boyz tour will be an awesome experience for my friends and me! And I’m sure it would increase the pop-

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People different from us

Metro News reported on Feb. 20 that travelers “remained silent” for 20 minutes while a fellow passenger on a Ural Airlines flight from Antalya, Turkey, to Moscow used the air vent above her seat to dry a pair of underwear. Witnesses reported that the woman showed no shame and that “everybody was looking with interest and confusion.” Debate raged later, however, after video of the woman was posted online, with one commenter speculating that “maybe the takeoff was sort of extreme, so now she has to dry those.”

Least competent criminals

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• Shanghai, China, police posted a video on social media of two men trying to break into a business on Feb. 14 by using bricks to shatter the glass storefront. But as United Press International reported, when Suspect A’s brick bounced off the glass, he bent to retrieve it and ended up squarely in the path of Suspect B’s brick, which struck him in the head and apparently knocked him out. In the video, Suspect B can be seen dragging Suspect A away from the store. Police remarked: “If all burglars were like this, we wouldn’t need to work overtime.”

• A drug smuggler from Brazil apparently didn’t know he was under investigation by the National Anti-Narcotics Trafficking Unit in Portugal when he arrived on a flight Feb. 12 wearing a set of false butt cheeks, filled with 2.2 pounds of cocaine, reported United Press International. The 32-year-old unidentified man was detained at the Tax and Customs Authority and searched, where his unusual derriere aroused suspicion.

An accomplice, waiting for him at a Lisbon train station, was also arrested and charged with drug trafficking.

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Police in Mainz, Germany, responded to an apartment building after cries were Fromfrom Manchester’s heard within one unitOriginal early on Feb. Auto GlassPress Company 17, The Associated reported. When they arrived, officers found two men, the 58-year-old tenant and a 61-year-old visitor, “hopelessly locked up” with a mannequin dressed as a knight and a large remote-controlled car. The men were too drunk to explain how they had become entangled, and one officer remarked that “the whole thing would have remained a funny episode” if the younger man had not become “more than impolite.” He now faces a charge of insulting officers.

Crestline, California, resident Claudia Ackley, 46, has teamed with “Discover-

ing Bigfoot” filmmaker Todd Standing to sue the state of California, requesting on Jan. 18 that state agencies acknowledge the existence of a Sasquatch species.

Ackley and her daughters, 11 and 14, say they were hiking a trail at Lake Arrowhead in March 2017 when they spotted a large figure braced in a pine tree. “I ran into a Sasquatch — a Bigfoot. We were face to face,” Ackley told the San Bernardino Sun. Forest rangers insisted at the time that Ackley and her daughters had seen a bear, and Ackley fears that by not acknowledging the presence of the legendary creatures, the state is putting the public at risk. “People have to be warned about these things,” she said.

“They are big.”

Inexplicable

Firefighter Constantinos “Danny” Filippidis, 49, from Toronto, was the subject of a weeklong search by more than 250 people using drones, dogs and helicopters starting Feb. 7, when he disappeared from Whiteface Mountain ski resort in New York’s Adirondacks. When he finally turned up in California at the Sacramento International Airport on Feb. 13, he was still dressed in his ski pants and ski boots, and he still had his helmet, along with a new iPhone and a recent haircut. But, according to the Syracuse Post-Standard, Filippidis couldn’t tell officers anything about how he had traveled across the country, other than he rode in a “big-rig-style truck” and “slept a lot.” The truck dropped him off in downtown Sacramento, but he was

unable to explain how he got to the airport. He was taken to an area hospital.

Compelling explanation

A woman claiming to be on a mission from God led a Kentucky State Police trooper on a chase at speeds up to 120 mph on Feb. 10, stopping only when another trooper pulled in front of her car.

According to the Elizabethtown (Kentucky) News-Enterprise, Connie Lynn Allen, 52, of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, told officers that she was Mother Mary, en route to pick up Baby Jesus, and that God had given her permission to speed. She also said that she had died six years ago. She was charged with several offenses and is being held in Hardin County.

Awesome!

Staffers at a Bangor, Maine, day care called Watch Me Shine were happy to receive Valentine’s cookies made by a parent — until those who ate them started to feel high. “Within 15 minutes, teachers were reporting they had concerns about those cookies,” Tiffany Nowicki, director of the center, told the Bangor Daily News. About 12 staff members felt the effects of the treats, which were confiscated by the police and are being tested.

“If they find something that shouldn’t be in those cookies,” Nowicki said, “that’s a big problem and we’ll make sure it’s addressed.” The day care has instituted a new policy that no outside food can be brought in for the children or staff.

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