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The mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last month has prompted many to reexamine the gun debate. At Hippo we have been doing this with a series of columns over the past three weeks. The first was from Steve Reno, then Fred Bramante, then Allyson Ryder and now me.

Our relationship with guns is complicated.

And as a country we have tried to balance safety with the individual right to own guns. Finding that balance has been hard and seems to be getting harder.

After gangland killings in the 1920s, Congress passed the National Firearms Act in 1934 limiting access to certain firearms such as fully automatic machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and semi-automatic guns with two grips and other firearms deemed too dangerous to be unregulated.

In 1968 that law was updated to include silencers (and to fix some constitutional issues) and in 1994 Congress banned the manufacture of assault-style rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines.

Those provisions expired 10 years later and Congress never reauthorized them.

So far the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld restriction on the ownership and manufacturing of types of guns that Congress decides are too dangerous to be widely available.

And that’s the crux now. Are assault-style weapons too dangerous to be widely available?

I’d say yes.

It’s no accident that almost all of the mass shooters have used semi-automatic assault-style weapons with large-capacity ammunition magazines. They were used in Florida most recently, a Las Vegas music concert before that, a Texas church before that, a nightclub before that, a workplace before that, a college before that, an elementary school before that and a movie theater before that and on and on and on. If fully automated machine guns were widely available, that would have been the choice of these mass murders.

It’s true that these weapons can be (and are) used in sport shooting, just as fully automatic weapons are. So why not treat them the same way and not ban them but restrict them to use at firing ranges and restrict their sale and transfer?

Congress banned fully automatic machines guns after gangland-style mass killings in the 1920s. This seems to be similar. The idea there was that the actual and potential harm outweighed the benefits of having these weapons widely available. The same goes with assault weapons (which with a second grip are already restricted).

Nor do I think this raises any constitutional issues. For starters people can still own them — it’s just these would be a lot more restrictions around them, making it harder to get, sell and move. Secondly, if it’s constitutional to restrict sawed-off shotguns and semi-automatic guns with two grips then extending that to assault rifles with one grip seems in line.

As a country we made a decision 75 years ago that some guns were just too dangerous to be in general circulation. Isn’t it time we made that decision again?

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ALSO ON THE COVER, find out where to take the kiddos for some Easter egg hunting fun, p. 26. And while you’re thinking about Easter, plan your big meal now; lots of restaurants are offering specials, and there are several takehome options, too, p. 36. Looking for live music? Check out Music This Week, starting on p. 54.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 Education initiatives, city crime stats, business registration process, PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 20

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NEWS & NOTES Child services

The Senate passed three bills related to child protective services: SB 582, 590 and 592. In a press release, Gov. Chris Sununu praised the passage of the bills, saying the vote “reinforces my administration’s commitment to ensuring that those in our state who cannot care for themselves have access to strong support services.” One of the key provisions of these bills is the restoration of voluntary services at the Division of Children, Youth and Families. The absence of funding for these services was identified as a key factor in the recent death of a Derry boy at the hands of his father in a murder-suicide, according to the new director of the Office of the Child Advocate.

The bills also include communitybased prevention programs through DCYF, state loan repayment to health care providers, funding for more child protection service workers and social workers as well as a rate increase for foster care parents.

The bills collectively send about $5.5 million in additional resources, according to a press release from Republican senators.

Right to know

The Senate passed a bill that would streamline the Right to Know request process. According to a press release from Right to Know NH, an advocacy group, the bill would add $48,000 to pay for a new ombudsman position, but they argue the bill would result in a savings to taxpayers by avoiding unnecessary litigation and subsequent court costs and attorney fees. The bill would also establish a citizens’ Right to Know appeals commission. The Senate voted 13-11. The bill now goes to the House.

Rail vote

The House passed a $4 million financial and engineering analysis looking into establishing a commuter rail line between Boston and Manchester, using federal funds, according to a press release. The study was included in the state’s 10-year transportation plan. In the proposed commuter rail line, there would be stops at the Manchester airport and in downtown Manchester. According to NH Business for Rail Expansion, more than 100 businesses in the state support the rail Student walkouts Hundreds of students from across expansion, and 74 percent of resiNew Hampshire’s middle and dents polled support the proposal. high schools walked out of class on March 14 to call for action to Market stabilization prevent gun violence in schools, Gov. Chris Sununu and Insurfollowing the recent mass shooting ance Commissioner Roger in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 Sevigny sent a letter to the state’s people, WMUR reported. Students congressional delegation, urging from Manchester West High School them to support certain provisions stood in silence for 17 minutes and in an upcoming federal spendlisted the names of those shot and ing bill that they say would make killed. Students in Londonderry, it easier to stabilize the state’s Concord, Lebanon and other dis- insurance market. In the letter, tricts also participated.

Sununu and Sevigny said they

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want to ensure insurance carriers are reimbursed for cost-sharing plans in 2019, make sure states are provided sufficient funding and flexibility to create reinsurance programs or high-risk pools as needed, and make the waiver process more “clear, timely, and flexible.”

Death penalty

The Senate passed a bill that would repeal the state’s death penalty by making all capital crimes punishable by up to life in prison. According to a press release, Sen. Kevin Avard, a Republican from Nashua, praised the passage of the bill, saying that, for him, the argument in favor of repealing the death penalty boils down to the issue of wrongful conviction.

“The taking of innocent life is by far one of the most egregious acts we can ever commit as a society,” Avard said in a statement. Gov. Chris Sununu, also a Republican, promised to veto the repeal bill if it reaches his desk.

The new owners of Smuttynose Brewery in Hampton have been announced after a recent auction left the property in the hands of the mortgage holder. According to a press release, North Hampton venture group Runnymede Investments is the new owner of the brewery.

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Education initiatives

Governor’s new education scholarships, competitions kick off

In about a week, the Governor’s Scholarship program will become available through about 23 higher ed institutions in the state. Meanwhile, a new robotics competition created by the governor is readying for its first season to launch in the fall.

Governor’s Scholarship

The idea of a $5 million scholarship fund awarded directly to up to 1,000 students attending local colleges and universities came very early on in Gov. Chris Sununu’s first term.

“Actually, it was spurred by a conversation with the University System,” Sununu said in a recent phone interview.

During the conversation, representatives of the University System of New Hampshire proposed using $5 million in state dollars to give full-ride scholarships to 46 valedictorians every year who graduate from New Hampshire high schools.

“I thought about that for about 30 sec-

onds and I said, that’s just not a good idea.

Forty-six valedictorians is just not going to affect our workforce here. We need to affect the workforce en masse,” Sununu said.

He said the idea of sending money to an institution to decide how to dole it out to students was antiquated and, seeing the mission of higher education to be one of creating a skilled workforce, he wanted to think bigger.

So, Sununu said he took the same $5 million figure, carved out $1 million for dual enrollment for current high school students and divided the rest by 1,000 students per year instead.

While a $2,000 per semester award may not seem like a lot of money, he said, it could create opportunities for some students that didn’t exist before. And it can make a dent in the state’s community college tuition, which he said was between $5,000 and $6,000 on average.

He announced the idea for the scholarship program during the 2017 budget address.

The institutions just signed off on the program, Sununu said. And in the coming week or so, the schools will be allocated a certain

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amount of scholarships, which will then be awarded to Pell-Grant-eligible students who apply for it on a first-come, first-serve basis.

“That’s the beauty of this. We’re not creating a big government agency to manage it,” Sununu said.

Once the doors are open for students entering the fall 2018 classes in September to apply, he expects it to be a month or so before the first scholarships are awarded.

To Sununu, this program is part of a larger movement to modernize the educational track for young people by150 focusing on the individual over the institution and by start120 ing the conversation about potential careers as early as age 13 or 14.

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VIOLENT CRIMES

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Part 1 crimes are the most serious crimes tracked by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They are broken into two categories; violent crimes such as aggravated assaults or property crimes such as burglaries.

Robberies are counted as violent crimes because they involve an attack or a threat upon another person.

In Manchester, there was a small reduction in both violent and property crimes in 2017 compared to 2016. But some types of crime such as burglaries went up slightly. According to Manchester police, however, this was due to a crime spree committed by four individuals in the fall. Had it not been for them, the burglary numbers would have gone down.

Most aggravated assaults in Manchester are domestic violence cases. Police have been trying to pay extra attention to the problem with a dedicated response teams.

Concord’s violent crimes have been on a steady but incremental decline since 2015.

Property crimes went down in 2016 and increased again in 2017 to almost the same level as two years before.

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30 in the goverA new initiative, announced nor’s State of the State address in February, 0 will create a robotics competition for high school students called the Governor’s Cup. Sununu said creating a new statewide FIRST Robotics tournament was a natural next step after investing in 800 FIRST Robot700 the New ics and similar programs through 600 Hampshire Robotics Education Fund. Last

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year, the state put $1 million into that fund.

As a result, Sununu said the number of FIRST teams in the state tripled.

“By doing that, the idea of partnership came about and we started talking to Dean [Kamen] and the University System and the Community Colleges; ‘What if we did something here in state specifically for students?’ and it sort of just took on a life of its own,” Sununu said.

The season will launch next fall with the first Governor’s Cup tournament taking place next year, Sununu said. Depending on how many teams participate, there may be regional sub-tournaments leading up to the main affair at UNH. He said investing in robotics programs as a state helps to spur private investment from local businesses, which get returns on that investment by educating the workforce of tomorrow with important skills such as working as part of a team and leadership, as well as hands on experience in science and technology disciplines.

“It should be a lot of fun for the students and it’s something with a little 603 pride attached behind it,” Sununu said.

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NEWS

Business regulations

Lawmakers seek to tweak business rules

Work in progress

By Ryan Lessard

news@hippopress.com

Lawmakers are working to lighten the regulatory load as part of an effort by the governor to create a more business friendly environment in the state based on a report by the governor’s Regulatory Reform Steering Committee that was released in January.

Steering committee

“The … Committee has put forth some excellent recommendations that will go a long way toward streamlining government and changing the regulatory culture in New Hampshire,” Gov. Chris Sununu said in a statement at the time.

The product of the report was HB 1104, an omnibus bill that would make some regulatory tweaks recommended by the committee.

These include allowing companies to register with the Secretary of State online, reducing the application timeline for certain wetland development projects and reducing time limits for regulatory agency actions on those applications.

Some other recommendations by the steering committee included giving the State Fire Marshal sole authority to decide on foster homes’ compliance with fire safety laws and ordinances, ensure the statute for the state building code doesn’t conflict with the state fire code and prevent municipalities from adopting regulations that conflict with the state fire code.

Another bill based on a committee recommendation, HB 1685, would create a statutory committee that reviews all new occupational licensing laws and administrative rules. After the bill passed the House, Sununu said the bill would help to prevent unnecessary barriers to employment, calling it “a long-term solution to ensure that our citizens are safe and that we expand economic opportunity to every Granite Stater.”

Last April a Portland, Maine, company called Systems Engineering opened an office in Manchester. But when it filed the paperwork to register the company with the Secretary of State’s office, the registration was denied because the word “engineering” was in the company’s name. The company had its problem resolved with the help of state officials.

Dave Scanlan at the Secretary of State’s office said the problem may have been due to the company not knowing they needed to get a key approval from the engineering licensing board.

“There are some professions … where the term of the profession cannot be used in the title of a company unless there’s … a licensed professional in that profession affiliated with the company,” Scanlan said.

Joe Shoemaker, the director of the division of technical professions at the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification, said the purpose of the law was to protect the public from fraud.

As for whether the occupational licensing bill would address this, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Bill Ohm, a Republican from Nashua, thinks it’s unlikely. Ohm said the commission would be authorized to review both existing and new statutes, but he says it would not likely focus on the “truth in advertising” issue.

Shoemaker said the licensing boards would be open to any changes to the law provided they have a seat at the table.

“I can tell you that boards are certainly open to looking at their statutes and want to be involved,” Shoemaker said.

HB 1104 was approved by the House Committee on Executive Departments and Administration on March 14. It’s floor date on the House was set for March 21. HB 1685 passed the House and is currently being reviewed by a Senate committee. It’s first hearing was also set for March 21.

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NEWS & NOTES Q&A

Citizen of the Year

Champion for homeless earns top honor

Maureen Beauregard of Strafford is the president of Families in Transition - New Horizons, a nonprofit in Manchester, Concord and Dover that provides housing and social services to homeless people as well as treatment for substance use disorder. On April 19, she will be presented with the 2018 Citizen of the Year award by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce.

How did you react when you Community Loan heard you were getting this award?

Fund, and then, a few years later …

I was absolutely shocked and in we decided that we disbelief. It just isn’t anything that should spin this off.

I ever would have thought of, ever, honestly. … So by 1995, we … Cathy Schmidt from [law firm] McLane were an independent [Middleton, in Manchester] asked that I meet 501(c)3 organizawith her and some of the others from McLane to talk about some of the ways that McLane Maureen Beauregard. Cur- tion with a board of tesy photo. directors and I was could work with Families in Transition, and I the director. Honestwalked in and ... I’m like, ‘Why are all these people here?’ And they said, ‘Surprise!’ and ly, I feel so blessed to have had fantastic people [there was a] cake that said Chamber Citizen on the board, fantastic staff along the way and of the Year and I was absolutely stunned. the folks we work with are just tremendous.

Can you tell me about your childhood and upbringing and how some of those experiences helped shape who you are today?

I grew up in foster care [in New Hampshire] and it’s not a great system. What I learned from that absolutely informs me every day on the work that I do. And there’s some people that I met along the way that were very kind and loving to me. … And what I learned from that is that others can be kind, can be helpful, even when home isn’t the best. Being a part of Families in Transition, I definitely see how important this is to families and individuals, but in particular, the children. I think that, having grown up in the system, it really helps me to see what exactly we need to do for kids. Every kid deserves a clean, decent place to live. Every child deserves to be cared for and loved.

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There have been a few big changes recently, such as the receivership of Serenity Place and the expansion of Family Willows. Can you tell me about how you’ve been able to navigate those challenges?

The biggest thing is that we actually merged with New Horizons for New Hampshire … [which] is the biggest shelter and food pantry in the state. … We’re taking our time and seeing what each organization does and over the first year we’re going to integrate staff and programs as much as we can, and at the end of the year, we’ll have a strategic plan going forward. … The receivership of Serenity ... ended up being a whole lot more than what anybody had anticipated. Now, Serenity is in the process of being dismantled. We have found a home for all programs that were under the Serenity umbrella, and we’re now working with the courts on basically turning that organization off, because it will no longer be. We ended up with two programs, Lyn’s and Tirrell House, and those are transitional living programs for folks with substance use disorders. One’s for men and one’s for women. That fits right in with what we do here at FIT - New Horizons, because we concentrate on housing and we provide that service. … And then the Family Willows expansion is really exciting. We are in the process of completing a renovation of two floors of what will be the Manchester Recovery and Treatment Center.

How did you first get into working for homeless services and ultimately creating Families in Transition?

I was actually a kindergarten teacher at one point. And then I was a substance misuse counselor. I worked for DCYF. And that was important for me, having to do that, because, having grown up in the system and then working for that same entity all those years later, it really helped me understand that there are a lot of really nice people trying to do the right thing.

But it’s just a really tough system. You really need to invest in kids. And it was a difficult job, working for DCYF. After that is when I really What advice do you have for young people stumbled into working with homeless families. who might be looking at getting into the same I started off with homeless women and chil- career track? dren and I was a part of the New Hampshire Aim high and be aspirational. I look at the not-for-profit business sector as an opportuniWhat are you really into right now? ty to innovate, to think big, to dream big. And if you’re coming into this industry, bring all of I love being on the water, in general. … you and aim high.

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Youth art on display

During March, New Hampshire is celebrating Youth Art Month, a national initiative to promote arts education and highlight the creative work that students are doing. At the heart of the statewide celebration are around 300 works of art created by New Hampshire youth on display in the New Hampshire State Library (20 Park St., Concord) and in the tunnel walkway between the New Hampshire Statehouse (107 N. Main St., Concord) and the New Hampshire Legislative Office Building (33 N. State St., Concord).

QOL Score: +1 Comment: This is the first year that New Hampshire arts organizations have come together to organize an official Youth Arts Month celebration, with exhibits, performances and other special events happening statewide.

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Charter schools facing high facility costs

According to a recent report by the National Charter School Resource Center found that New Hampshire’s charter schools spent 12 percent of its per pupil state funding on facilities, the Concord Monitor reported. That’s about $790 per student. The majority (15 out of 24 schools) spend an average of $987 per pupil on rent for facilities from for-profit entities. Meanwhile, those school renting through local school districts pay about 40 percent of that.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Half of the school do not have a dedicated lunch room or art room.

Ski areas get a boost

Recent March snowstorms have provided an additional layer of snow to area ski resorts, prolonging their seasons, the AP reported. The storms have helped ski areas in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. Vermont resorts got an additional five feet of snow in March, according to the story. At New Hampshire’s Whaleback Mountain in Enfield, all of its 30 trails have been open late in the season due to the significant snowfall and they plan to stay open several weeks later than originally planned.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The added snow doesn’t come without added risks, however. A group of six U.S. Army soldiers were struck by an avalanche in Vermont during mountain warfare training, according to the story. The group was located and five of the six soldiers received treatments for their injuries.

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Program helps pregnant substance abusers

Health care providers from northern and central New Hampshire who treat pregnant substance abusers will now have access to behavioral health experts through a telehealth system, NHPR reported. The new program, launched in partnership with the University of New Hampshire, will help health care providers identify clinical strategies, screening tools and available resources.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Nearly 470 New Hampshire babies born in 2016 were exposed to drugs, according to the Division for Children, Youth and Families. In 2014 the number was 367.

QOL score: 70 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 72 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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Busy week in sports yields many thoughts With NFL free agency under way, the regular season in baseball just, yikes, a week away, the Celtics suffering more injuries in a five-day span than both teams on Thursday night football, the Bruins grinding along with their own injuries, the NCAA Basketball Tournaments Sweet 16 in Boston this weekend, it is a busy time in sports. Here are a few thoughts on all of it.

You have to be of a certain age to have seen this guy, but the player Kyrie Irving most reminds me of is Earl Monroe. The Pearl would get into the lane, guys all around him, spin left, fake, spin back right, then throw up a fall-away the shot blockers narrowly missed that just slid over the front of the rim for a hoop, to which you’d ask, how did he get that off? Irving does the same thing.

NBA 101: Three sets of identical twins, the Collins, Lopez and Morris brothers, have played in the NBA this decade. Only one other set played in the NBA prior to that. Name them. Hint: One played for the Suns in the Celtics’ famed 1976 Finals triple-overtime game.

I wondered last March if giving outsider Stephon Gilmore gigantic money, after so many Patriots had to go elsewhere to get paid, would have repercussions in the locker room. Well, with Gronk grousing about being underpaid, and nobody taking the hometown discount this year, I think it has. And what do you think Jimmy G’s immediately vaulting past TB-12 on the salary scale did to the reported simmering tension between him, the coach and the owner?

As for the losses, we all knew for whatever reason Malcolm Butler was gone long before the Super Bowl benching anyway, so thanks for the memories and the historic SBsaving pick. As good as Deon Lewis is, since Coach B found productive backs like Ben-

Jarvus Green-Ellis, Danny Woodhead and LeGarrette Blount on the scrap heap before he pulled Deon off it, I suspect he can do that again. As much as I hate to see Danny Clutch go, if Amendola’s a three-down player in Miami his durability issues will be tested.

Plus, the returning Julian Edelman mitigates the loss of DA, though the depth will suffer.

So that leaves Nate Solder. He’s been good and durable, but given the holes on defense, I don’t think they could afford paying him $15 million per after what I thought was an up and down year. So it’s up to GM-B and Dante Scarnecchia to not get Tom Brady killed.

As for Butler not blasting Coach B, maybe he just appreciates that if he hadn’t been pulled off the scrap heap by him after going undrafted he wouldn’t have just cashed in for $30 million. They call that class.

Should it scare Patriot Nation that the first two trades Coach B made were for players (Danny Shelton and Jason McCourty) from 0-16 Cleveland?

Exhibit A for That’s Why They Play the Game is Maryland–Baltimore County’s 74-54 destruction of Virginia. It wasn’t only the first time a 16-seed beat a 1-seed, but UV was the No. 1 in the country who got beaten by a team from UNH’s conference. Making it better, UMBC only got in on a last-second three from Jairus Lyles in the America East final vs. UVM. Was that karma or dumb luck for the NCAA that 13-seed Buffalo shocked by knocking out 4-seed Arizona and its undersuspicion coach Sean Miller in an 89-68 upset/rout in Round I? Why was that ESPN’s 30 for 30 on Phi Slama Jama so focused on sixth man/loose cannon Benny Anders? Here’s my Benny Anders story. I’m at the 1984 Final Four in Seattle, it’s in OT in the Houston vs. Virginia Semi-Final game, there’s a time out and as coach Guy V. Lewis sets up Houston’s final shot I’m looking for Benny. Now Trinity AD and then fellow NHC assistant coach Chip Polak sit-

ting next to me points to the fourth row behind the bench and there’s Benny working on one of the cheerleaders. I’m thinking he got kicked out by Guy V. But the buzzer sounds and he runs onto the court after not hearing a word of what was supposed to happen.

I didn’t see the surging Bruins having the NHL’s fourth-best record coming. Guess that’s why they went all in for Rick Nash. But while I’m no hockey expert, giving up a first-round pick, young Ryan Spooner, Matt Beleskey and another pick seems like an awful lot for a two-month rental. Nash has big game experience, a big scoring past, and the final verdict will come from what he does in the playoffs.

But with 18 goals, 28 points in 60 games with New York, his production didn’t match Spooner’s 25 points in 39 games in Boston. And with Spooner off to a 13-points-in- 10-games start to Nash’s six (three goals) in 11 games I wonder if the Bs would’ve gone the same 8-3 since getting Nash with Spooner instead.

By the way, Western Conference-leading Las Vegas has the NHL’s fifth-best record.

How does an expansion team pull off a first season like that?

Given his full given name, who wants to bet Patriots guard Shaquille Olajuwon Mason was a 1990s basketball fan?

NBA 101 Answer: The Van Arsdale twins, Tom and Dick (if their parents had a sense of humor they would have named the next Van Arsdale son to come along Harry). See the glossary for their nearly identical careers.

Finally, I’ve always thought whining about where you’re seeded in the NCAA Tournament was a big deal made over nothing.

Regardless of where you’re seeded, sooner or later you’re going to have to beat everyone you face, so who cares when that game is?

And with the only two 1-seeds (Kansas, Villanova) left, we could have none make the Final Four to make my case.

Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.

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NCAA cuts close to home The Big Story: After a solid game in Kentucky’s 95-75 win over Buffalo, local lad Wenyen Gabriel is in the Sweet 16 on Thursday facing Kansas State in Atlanta. In his best game at UK he had 12 boards and 16 points in 33 minutes vs. Buffalo in Round II. That came on the heels of a one-point, five-rebound effort in their less comfortable 78-73 opening-round win over Davidson. It’s local in another way, with the East Regional being played in Boston at TD Garden this weekend starting with Villanova-West Virginia and Purdue-Texas Tech on Friday.

Sports 101: Twelve people have played in Major League Baseball and the NBA; a 13th was in uniform but got thrown out of the game before playing in it. Four were Celtics; name them.

Babe Ruth Award: To Candia’s Sarah LaVallee for going 3-8 with two runs scored, a homer and six RBI and being the winning pitcher in Game 2 of SNHU’s 7-2, 7-1 doubleheader sweep of Molloy College.

Coming and Going: Rick Souza was named the 13th head coach of the UNH hockey program last week, taking over for the retiring Dick Umile. He steps up from his role as an assistant the last two years after starring for the Wildcats as a player between 1996 and 2000, when he had 66 goals and 90 assists.

The Numbers 10 – shots under par for comebacking Tiger Woods to finish fifth behind Rory McIlroy at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

10.8 – final scoring average for Derry’s Geo Baker during his freshman year

In Case You Missed It: Portsmouth won its second consecutive Division I Basketball crown (and third overall after its 2015 D-II title) over upstart Dover in a lowscoring 46-38 affair. They got there after knocking out the last local team standing, Manchester Central, 50-45 in the semifinal.

Sports 101 Answer: The four Celtics who also played in Major League Baseball are Gene Conley, the only man to win a World Series and an NBA title; Danny Ainge (Blue Jays); Bill Sharman (thrown out of a game with the Dodgers), and Chuck Connor (Dodgers, Cubs), who also was drafted by the Chicago Bears and a future actor most noted for the ’50s-’60s TV series The Rifleman.

On This Date – March 22, 1969: It was the height of the UCLA basketball dynasty when the Bruins took out Purdue 92-72 for a fifth title in six years. Lew Alcindor scored 37 and grabbed 20 rebounds in showing why he was the greatest college player of all time. UCLA got there with wins over New Mexico State and Santa Clara and Drake in the semifinal. Thirtythree-points-a-game scorer Rick Mount had 28 for Purdue but shot just 12 of 36.

John Vallely added 22, as coach John Wooden beat his alma mater where he was a three-time All-American.

at Rutgers when he had 2.2 assists and 2.2 rebounds per and shot 36.1 percent from downtown.

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596 – impressive career wins recorded over 28 years against 373 losses and 114 ties as UNH hockey coach for the retiring Dick Umile.

Sports Glossary

Dick Van Arsdale: U of Indiana senior drafted 10th overall in the 1965 NBA draft by the New York Knickerbockers. He retired in 1977 after making the All-Rookie team and three All-Star game appearances, scoring 15,079 points, becoming an original Sun after landing in Phoenix in the 1968 expansion draft, and playing in one (1976) NBA Final.

Tom Van Arsdale: Played at Indiana before being drafted 11th overall in 1965 by Detroit.

He retired in 1977 after making the All-Rookie team, making three All-Star game appearances, and scoring 14,232 points playing on six NBA teams before spending his final season in Phoenix with brother Dick. After a near identical career to his identical twin’s, the one clear difference is circumstances matter. TVA is most noted for (in a Bucknerish way) for playing in the most NBA games (926) without ever going to the playoffs.

Earl Monroe: Owner of a most fitting sports nickname “The Pearl.” Though in home town Philadelphia’s renowned Baker League they called him “Black Jesus.” Behind an array of spins, whirls, jukes, double pumps and other hard to believe moves he burst on the NBA out of D-II Winston Salem to average 24.3 a game for the Baltimore Bullets in 1966-67.

After that it was 25.3, 23.4, 21.4 before admirably changing his game to playmaker to fit in after being traded to the Knicks during a salary squabble in Baltimore. A title and several glorious year later, it mystifyingly took 10 years after retiring for him to get elected to the Hall.

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It’s maple season, and New Hampshire is celebrating with its annual Maple Weekend on March 24 and 25. Find out where to go for tours, tastes and all kinds of maple fun.

If you want to take your love of maple to the next level,

try tapping your own tree — we talked to maple producers to find out how you can make your own maple syrup.

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All about maple

Tastings, demonstrations and more for NH Maple Weekend

By Matt Ingersoll

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Despite a snowy, cold March, dozens of maple sugaring houses across the Granite State are gearing up to welcome guests for tours, demonstrations, samples and more for the state’s 23rd annual New Hampshire Maple Weekend on Saturday, March 24, and Sunday, March 25.

The New Hampshire Maple Producers Association oversees the events of the weekend, which is typically near the end of March each year and part of Maple Sugaring Month. NHMPA Vice President Nick Kosko said the weekend is all about educating the public on HIPPO | MARCH 22- 28, 2018 | PAGE 12

local maple production and building a sense of community, with sugarhouses usually offering a variety of activities and demonstrations.

“It’s a great time of year to come visit the sugarhouses, because skiing season is just about finished, but baseball season hasn’t quite started yet … so it’s a chance for us to really try and capitalize on it,” said Kosko, who has also owned and produced maple syrup at Meadow View Sugarhouse in Union for about 10 years.

“We have probably around 100 participating sugarhouses.”

What you encounter during NH Maple Weekend will depend on which sugar-

houses you visit, but Kosko described the weekend as lending itself to a “festivallike atmosphere,” with some featuring live entertainment and samples of their maple syrup and other maple products, and others getting down and dirty by showing visitors the actual process for how maple syrup is produced.

At Meadow View Sugarhouse, for example, Kosko said the public is invited from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday for tours into the woods behind the property (weather permitting) to see the maple tubing design and buckets, and the maple evaporator that they use to make syrup. After 11 a.m. on both

days, he said, they plan to roll out their famous “maple dogs” — hot dogs boiled in maple sap — as well as maple coffee and doughnuts. The onsite shop will also be open for people to shop for things like maple syrup, and maple mustard, maple cotton candy, taffy and other candies.

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23rd annual NH Maple Weekend When: Saturday, March 24, and Sunday, March 25 Where: Several participating sugarhouses statewide Visit: nhmapleproducers.com or facebook.com/nhmapleproducers

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If you’re a maple enthusiast and you want to get the fullest experience that NH Maple Weekend has to offer, Kosko recommends visiting more than one sugarhouse, because the technology and practices can vary depending on how long they’ve been in business producing syrup.

“Visiting multiple sugarhouses is … a great way to see the different things in the industry,” Kosko said. “For example, some [sugarhouses] will use wood to burn their syrup, and some will use oil.”

One of the longtime participants of NH Maple Weekend is Windswept Maples Farm in Loudon. The eighth-generation farm has been producing maple syrup commercially since the early 1980s, but has a history of producing it in one fashion or another at the same location since 1780, according to co-owner Jeff Moore.

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Participating local farms and sugarhouses • Hunt’s Sugar House (28 Gleason Falls Road, Hillsborough, 478-5568, facebook. com/huntssugarhouse) • Hutchinson Family Sugarhouse (270 Hackleboro Road, Canterbury, 783-4691, facebook.com/hutchinsonsugarhouse) • Intervale Farm Pancake House (931 Flanders Road, Henniker, 428-7196, face• 5 Saplings Sugarhouse (244 Kearsarge book.com/intervalefarmpancakehouse) Valley Road, Wilmot, 748-9798, find them • Journey’s End Maple Farm (295 on Facebook) Loudon Road, Pittsfield, 435-5127, jour• Beaver Brook Maple (1 Beaver Brook neysendmaplefarm.com) Drive, Bow, 491-0500, facebook.com/ • Kearsarge Gore Farm (173 Gore Road, bbmaple) Warner, 456-2319, teamkgf.com) • Ben’s Sugar Shack (83 Webster High• Lamb’s Maple Syrup (228 Shaker Road, way, Temple, 924-3111, bensmaplesyrup.

Canterbury, 783-9912) com) • Ledge Top Sugar House (25 Oak St., • Beyond the Horizon Farm (19 Gillis Hill Boscawen, 753-4973) Road, Bennington, 588-6210, beyondthe• Maple Ridge Sugar House (276 Loudhorizonfarm.com) on Ridge Road, Loudon, 435-7474, • Brookview Sugarhouse (154 Gage Road, mapleridgesugarhouse.com) Wilton, 654-7961) • Meadow View Sugarhouse (141 • Connolly’s Sugarhouse (140 Webster Wakefield Road, Union, 842-0416, mvsugHighway, Temple, 924-5002, find them on arhouse.com) Facebook) • Mt. Crumpit Farm (207 Lull Road, New • Crow Valley Farm (1038 Hopkinton Boston, 325-5900, dsmt.crumpit@gmail.com) Road, Hopkinton, 224-7520, crowvalley• Mud Season Maples (263 Route 129, farm.com) Loudon, 783-1154, jlandry540@gmail.com) • Dill Family Farm (Griffin Road, Deer• Pearl & Sons Farm (409 Loudon Ridge field, facebook.com/dillfamilyfarm) Road, Loudon, 435-6587, find them on • Folsom’s Sugar House (130 Candia Facebook) Road, Chester, 370-0908, folsomsugar• Red Roof Maples (7064 Pleasant St. Ext., house.com) Loudon, 724-5768, russhd1997@gmail.

• Four Saps Sugar Shack (10 Fredette com) Drive, Lyndeborough, 714-4503, nhgreena- • Rogers Maple Syrup (133 Couchtown cres@aol.com) Road, Warner, 456-3139, nhliquidgold.com) • Grant Family Pond View Maple Sugar • Sammy’s Sugar Shack (131 N. RivHouse (224 Mount Dearborn Road, Weare, er Road, Milford, 345-1247, samtrombly@ 396-2800, nh-maple.com) me.com) • Hillcroft Farm (266 S. Hill Road, New • Sunnyside Maples (1089 Route 106, 783Boston, 487-5047, hillcroftfarmnh.com) 9961, sunnysidemaples.com) • Huckins Maple Farm (333 Sanborn • Windswept Maples Farm (845 Loudon Road, Tilton, 393-7036, facebook.com/ Ridge Road, Loudon, 267-8492, windhuckinsmaplefarmnh) sweptmaples.com)

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For Moore, who said Windswept 13 Maples has actively participated in every NH Maple Weekend since the event’s inception, it has become a great opportunity to educate the public on how the weather conditions have an effect on the progression of the maple sugaring season. He said the concern usually has to do with extended periods of unseasonably cold or warm weather.

“If we get a lot of warm weather early in the season, you know, like extreme warm temperatures in January, February and early March, that tends to speed the process up and the sap quality can diminish rapidly,” Moore said. “Last year was a bit like that, but this year there hasn’t been a lot of extreme weather. … Even if we were to get a week of warm weather, we’ve had enough cold and enough snow that the trees aren’t that far along yet.”

Moore added that other topics of discussion usually have to do with how the way you make maple syrup influences its flavor, and the different ways the technology of making syrup has changed over the years.

“We always try to adapt to new technology … so that we can become a little more sustainable and cost-efficient,” he said.

“The newest technology right now is what’s called remote vacuum monitoring. All of our sap is collected under a tubing system … and we apply a vacuum to it to keep a consistent production.”

But because Windswept Maples has been around for so many generations, NH Maple Weekend has also become a platform for the farm to showcase why other daily non-maple sugar related operations are so important.

“We’ve always approached [NH] Maple Weekend as a way to show what a diversified natural farm looks like,” Moore said.

“We educate our visitors not only on how we make maple syrup but why we make it … and then it also gives us a chance to talk about the grass-fed beef and the vegetables we produce.”

Maple-inspired creations

NH Maple Weekend doesn’t have to be celebrated just at sugarhouses, either.

Some local restaurants and organizations will partner with them to present their own maple-themed menus, classes and more.

The Colby Hill Inn in Henniker, for example, is collaborating with the Grant Family Pond View Maple Sugarhouse in Weare for the third consecutive year to offer a special maple-inspired menu that will be available on both days of NH Maple Weekend.

Jeff Brechbuhl, chief innovation officer of the Colby Hill Inn, said the three-course menu is $65 per person and will have seatings from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday and from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.

The menu incorporates maple produced at Grant Family Pond View Maple Sugar House, with options like maple carrot ginger soup, buttermilk fried chicken and pumpkin waffles with a maple-cider reduction and maple-brined pork tenderloin with maple cheddar grits and creamed spinach. Even the desserts are maple-inspired; there is maple creme brulee, maple cinnamon beignets with hot syrup, and carrot cake with a maple cream cheese frosting.

“Every dish that we’re doing [on the menu]… has elements of maple,” Brechbuhl said. “The farm also supplies our eggs, bacon, ham, chicken and pork, so we’ve had a good partnership with them.”

Other events to be held in the state in honor of New Hampshire Maple Weekend include a maple-themed cooking class at the Concord Food Co-Op on Thursday, March 22, in which participants will learn how to make maple butter and candied bacon, and the ongoing “Maple Express” events at Charmingfare Farm in Candia, which include horse-drawn rides and pancake and maple syrup sampling.

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If you own land in New Hampshire, chances are you have a few maple trees.

While producing maple syrup commercially in large quantities can be an intense process requiring high-tech equipment, making a small batch of syrup at home is relatively simple and inexpensive.

The first step is to identify the maple trees on your property. The easiest way to do that is to look for trees with maple leaves in the fall and mark them so that, come winter, you know which ones to tap.

It is considerably more challenging, but still possible, to identify maple trees after the leaves have fallen.

“There are ways of distinguishing them this time of year,” said Brian Folsom, owner of Folsom’s Sugar House in Chester.

“You can look at pictures online, and even with snow on the ground, you can find leaves underneath that aren’t completely decomposed. If you don’t see any maple leaves, it’s not a maple tree.”

For southern New Hampshire, Folsom said, the best time to tap maple trees is mid-February through late March. Cold nights and warm days provide the ideal conditions for sap to flow.

Sap from a typical sugar maple tree has a two-percent sugar content, which means it would take 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.

“If there’s a good sap-run and you tap and collect the sap during the week from two or three trees, you could get maybe 10 gallons, then make it a weekend project and come out with a quart of syrup,” Folsom said.

Once you’ve identified your maple trees, drill a hole into the tree a couple inches deep and hammer a spile, a spout used for collecting sap, into the hole.

To collect that sap that runs out of the spile, you’ll need a food-grade container,

which you can hook to the spile so the sap runs directly into it, or you can put it on the ground or hang it from the tree and use a tube running from the spile to the container.

“The biggest mistake we see people make is that they don’t use a food-grade container,” Folsom said. “You can’t just wash an old pail or plastic bucket and use that, because they’re porous, and whatever was stored in them before will still be in it.”

A standard container is usually filled every two to three days, but could be filled faster, so it’s wise to check on it every day.

“Some days sap runs better than others depending on the temperatures,” John Pyteraf, owner of Charmingfare Farm in Candia, said. “Sometimes a tree can fill a bucket to the brim in one day if the conditions are perfect.”

Empty the sap from the containers into another food-grade container and store at a cool temperature until you’re ready for the next step: boiling the sap. Boiling will cause the excess water in the sap to evaporate and the sugar content to be more concentrated, resulting in maple syrup.

You should boil within a few days of collecting the sap, Pyteraf said, because the sap can go bad if it sits too long.

The best way to boil sap is outside over an open flame. Boiling will create a huge amount of steam, which can soak the walls of your house if you boil indoors. Use a food-grade stainless pot meant for cooking; a wide, shallow pot will produce a more efficient boil than a tall, deep one.

“The more surface area in the pot, the quicker the water evaporates, but that also means you have to pay attention to it more,” Folsom said, referring to the foam that builds up during the boiling. “There are defoamers sold for making syrup, or a speck of butter — not a chunk, but about the size of the end of a pencil — will reduce the foam.”

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“Dip the spoon in the syrup, and if the syrup drips off the spoon, it’s not done, but if it pulls a thread, it’s the correct density,” Folsom said.

When the syrup is done, you can store it in mason jars or any other glass container, Folsom said, or you could use a plastic container specially made for syrup. If you have a lot of syrup that you plan to store for an extended period of time, unrefrigerated, you’ll need to pour it into the container while it is at least 180 degrees, a process known as “hot packing.” While hot packing, it’s also good

to filter the syrup to remove any unwanted debris, which you can do by pouring it through a coffee filter or a filter designed for syrup-making. Any syrup that you don’t hotpack or that you open after hot packing must be refrigerated to maintain safety and quality.

The most important thing for making your own maple syrup is to do your research, Pyteraf said. There are a growing number of resources for “backyard sugarers.”

“There’s a lot online and a lot of books out there that can help you,” he said, “and there are a lot of hobby shops and maple producers who sell syrup-making kits who can also give you information.”

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On a recent March afternoon, Tim and Dan King were sitting in front of the wood stove of their maple syrup evaporator in the sugar shack on their family farm, Clarkridge Farm in Goffstown. The two brothers were monitoring the consistency of the boiling sap and keeping the stove fed. On that day, they had about 195 gallons of sap so far and more was coming in.

Clarkridge is a small operation, retailing syrup out of their farm and Benedikt Dairy in Goffstown. Sometimes, they’ll make maple cream as an alternative, which is a thick spread with the consistency of peanut butter. That’s fairly common. But occasionally, Tim says, they experiment with making maple simple syrups for cocktails such as a Maple Old Fashioned. He may bottle some with vodka or whiskey to increase the shelf life of the half-boiled syrup and give them out to friends and family.

“I’ve had people request it,” Tim said.

Or they’ll have guests over during a boil and he can simply scoop a ladle into an intermediate section of boiling syrup and poor it into a small cup of bourbon.

That’s just one of the many alternative ways maple syrup can be used or converted into a product other than the traditional syrup that coats our pancakes.

Maple cream and condiments

Maple syrup is made the same way at various operations throughout the state.

The sap is boiled at a certain temperature, the density is measured with a hydrometer, it’s transferred to a finishing pan, then to a filter press from there until finally it’s fed through a bottler. On average, Tim said, it takes about 40 gallons of sap to

Maple donuts. Curtesy photo.

make one gallon of syrup.

To make alternative products, some parts of this process are altered.

Ben Fisk, the owner of Ben’s Sugar Shack in Temple, has been making maple syrup since he was in grade school. So he knows the various processes like the back of his hand.

“You can do a lot of different things with maple syrup after it’s made,” Fisk said.

To make maple cream, he says the syrup is cooked to 236 degrees Fahrenheit, cooled back down to room temperature and then a machine whips it to achieve the creamy consistency. But maple cream also requires a special kind of sap, with the right ratio of “invert sugar,” Fisk said.

Usually, sap runs from earlier in the season have the right amount of invert sugar to make cream.

The cream can be spread on toast, bagels and other foods.

Debra Locke, the titular sugar-momma of Sugarmomma’s Maple Farm in Northwood, said she makes a maple-based hot sauce.

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Other hot sauces have white sugar in it, and Locke says maple is a healthier alternative to that. She said her hot sauce works well on virtually any slow-cooker dish, or kielbasa. It’s especially good in a stir-fry.

“My husband seems to pour it on everything,” Locke said.

She also makes a maple chipotle barbecue sauce, which comes out sweet when you brush it on the grill, but when you do pulled pork or use it for dipping, you get a “nice chipotle zip.”

All her products are available at her farm. She also sometimes sells them at some area farmers markets like the Seacoast Eat Local Winter Farmers Market and the Seacoast Growers Summer Farmers Market.

Maple candy and treats

Locke and Fisk also make maple candy, cotton candy and soft-serve ice cream.

Maple candy is a staple at many maple syrup operations around the state. Fisk said the process of making the candies involves cooking the syrup to 244 degrees, putting them in molds, letting them cool down for about three hours, dipping them in maple syrup again for

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Maple syrups from Windswept Maples Farm in Loudon.

another three hours to create a crystalline coat (which adds a roughly six-month shelf life), then pulling them out and letting them sit for 24 hours.

Locke said the trick to making cotton candy is to distill the syrup into dry maple sugar and mix it with some white sugar before converting it to cotton candy using a regular cotton candy machine. If you don’t blend it with white sugar, the maple flavor can be overwhelming, Locke said.

She also makes maple popcorn on the farm, which is similar to caramel corn.

Fisk makes maple donuts and he’s working on some new novelties he plans to unveil later this summer.

“I have a couple [ideas] but I’m not going to discuss it until we launch them,” Fisk said.

He said maple syrup can be used for a lot of things people don’t often think of, such as glazed ham or squash. He said it can also be an ingredient to make some “really good” snickerdoodle cookies.

“We use it in baked beans a lot which is really good,” Fisk said.

Maple soap

Some of the things you can get made from New Hampshire maple syrup can’t be eaten. Such is the case with the soaps made by Christen Bissonnette, co-owner

of Black Maple Glen in Manchester.

Bissonnette said her vegan soaps come in many varieties, with different scents and ingredients, but they all use maple syrup for the sugar base.

The company, which has been up and running for about two years now, also sells solid lotion bars, lip balm and a few home decor items as well. The soaps are the only products that use maple syrup.

Bissonnette said she sources her syrup from Ben’s Sugar Shack.

“I wanted to source ingredients locally if I could, but making a plant-based soap, you have very limited options in terms of your base ingredients,” Bissonnette said.

“Maple syrup is actually, in terms of skin care, it’s a good alternative to honey.”

She said she can’t make any health claims about her soaps, but maple syrup comes with lots of antioxidants, which are known to reduce skin damage from free radicals, and vitamins A and B, which help promote healthy skin regeneration.

Bissonnette said she adds the maple to the soap batter after the lye is added to the oils. She said the sugar content from the maple helps to create a good bubbly lather.

She sells her products primarily online at blackmapleglen.com but also at various fairs and festivals.

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Enjoy exhibitors, demonstrations, scavenger hunts and more at the New Hampshire Old House & Barn Expo, happening on Saturday, March 24, and Sunday, March 25, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Manchester Downtown Hotel (700 Elm St.). Whether you have an old house or barn and are looking for preservation strategies and architectural advice, or you are just looking for general pointers on style, ideas and decoration for your home, the event offers something for you. The cost is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and students, and free for kids 12 and under. Visit nhpreservation.org or call 224-2281.

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Head on down to the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester) for A Night at the Opera with Barbara Kilduff at 7 p.m. Kilduff is a world-renowned and awardwinning coloratura soprano singer. Tickets range from $20 to $75. Visit palacetheatre.org or call the box office at 668-5588.

EAT: at the Taste of the Region Enjoy some of the Derry area’s best food and drink vendors at the annual Taste of the Region event on Wednesday, March 28, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Tupelo Music Hall (10 A St., Derry). The event is organized by the Greater Derry Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and invites guests to sample foods, craft beers and wines and vote for their top choices in three categories, “savory,” “sips” and “sweets.” Tickets are $45. Visit gdlchamber.org or call 432-8205.

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Multi-day admission is $8 per person. Visit amoskeagqg.org.

DRINK: beer with appetizers The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road, Londonderry) is celebrating March Madness college basketball season with a beer tasting on Thursday, March 22, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30. Visit nhahs.org or call 669-4820.

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NHTI, Concord’s Community College (31 College Drive), will hold its 23rd annual Wellness Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center. There will be more than 35 community participants, including some student exhibitors from NHTI’s health programs, as well as demonstrations, screenings, wellness education seminars and more.

Admission is free and open to the public. Visit nhti.edu or call 271-6484.

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Hollis artist exhibits multimedia retrospective

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Hollis artist Alene Sirott-Cope has done a little of everything with her art — think mixed media pet portraits, alcohol ink tiles and acrylic paint pours.

A retrospective containing around 60 of her works of art from the last decade is on display now through the end of March at the Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center in Hollis. It’s divided into several different categories of media, including alcohol ink, photography, pet portraiture, pottery, jewelry and acrylic pouring.

Sirott-Cope has worked as a graphic designer, an art director and an art educator at her alma mater Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, and at UMassLowell. It wasn’t until she resigned from teaching due to health issues that she got serious about creating art of her own, starting with polymer clay and raku pottery.

“It really takes my mind off of my poor health and dwelling on what’s wrong with me,” she said. “If you’re in a bad mood or not feeling well or are handicapped as I am, using some form of art can bring you a lot of joy.”

A few years ago, Sirott-Cope discovered what would become her favorite artistic medium: alcohol ink. Alcohol ink is similar to watercolor but more highly pigmented

Alene Sirott-Cope art. Courtesy photo.

and can be poured on nonporous materials such as plastic, glass and metal to create a unique marbled effect.

“I fell in love with the colors, because they’re so vivid and bright,” she said. “It’s soothing and fun when you’re concentrating on the color and the placement of colors. It has a very zen-like quality to it.”

Sirott-Cope even teaches workshops such as alcohol ink basics, alcohol ink tiles and collage tiles, and alcohol ink vase painting, at the Wild Salamander, Art Hap-

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pot shaped like a sheepdog, covered in “hair” that she formed using a garlic press, with the handle as a leash and the mouth of the pot as the dog’s snout. She’s also done many pet portraits created with mixed media, such as digital illustration and alcohol ink, and pet photography. Her retrospective features a photography series of dogs on the beach.

“It’s all photos of dogs, either with their owners or alone, enjoying themselves on a beach,” she said. “I like to capture the emotion of the dogs and show what a great joy it is for them to run free on the beach.”

Sirott-Cope’s most recent endeavor is acrylic paint pouring, which entails layering paints in a cup, then tipping them onto a canvas and moving the canvas to control the shaping and blending of the colors.

“It’s more serendipitous. Some of it depends on how you mix the colors and work the canvas, but it mostly paints itself,” pens in Milford and the NH League of she said. “I guess I like the surprise. If it Craftsmen Nashua Gallery. doesn’t come out good or you don’t like it, “It’s as much fun to teach it as it is to you put it aside and start again. But when work with these inks,” she said. “People it comes out good, it’s a great feeling.” who aren’t artists and don’t think they are creative are amazed that they can create Alene Sirott-Cope: A Retrospective something so beautiful with alcohol inks Where: Wild Salamander Creative Arts and feel great and have fun with it.”

Center, 30 Ash St., Hollis As for subject matter, much of SirottWhen: On view now through March 31 Cope’s work is focused on pets, both her More info: wildsalamander.com, aleneown and other people’s. One of her most sirottcope.com prized pieces, she said, is a raku clay tea-

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Art Events • “ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY ART IN SCIENCE” ARTIST TALK Photographic exhibit explores outer space. Sat., March 24, 7 p.m. NHIA Roger Williams Gallery, 77 Amherst St., Manchester. Visit nhia.edu.

• 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.

• GALLERY STROLL Stroll the Center for The Arts New London MicroGalleries, The New London Inn, Lake Sunapee Bank, Whipple Hall and New London Hospital Galleries. Meet the artists, listen to local music and and enjoy some

refreshments. Fri., May 4, 5:30 to 7 p.m. New London , NH New London ., Visit centerfortheartsnh.org.

• 2018 SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM Annual community event designed to elevate appreciation and involvement in public art in Nashua. Sculptors are invited from around the world to spend three weeks in Nashua creating public art. May 10 through June 3. MakeIt Labs, 25 Crown St., Nashua. Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org.

Fairs • AMOSKEAG QUILTERS GUILD QUILT SHOW This show features more than 150 quilts, vendors, raffles, technique demonstrations, handmade boutique items, refreshments, and a raffle quilt to benefit St. Joseph Community

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Services’ Meals on Wheels program. Sat., March 24, and Sun., March 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Manchester Memorial High School, 1 Crusader Way, Manchester. $8 multi-day admission.

Visit amoskeagqg.org.

In the Galleries • YOUTH IMPRESSIONS ART SHOW Juried art show features pieces from Hampton students in grades 3-8. On view through March 31. Provident Bank, 321 Lafayette Road, Hampton.

• “SHIFT REGISTER” Group art exhibition centered around ideas of layers, shifts, and changing positions. On view March 2 through March 24.

Foundation Art Space, 111R Water St., Exeter. Visit TEAMExeter.com.

• “FAST FORWARD” Exhi-

bition features works by five female artists: Jessica Brilli, Carol McMahon, Lisa Noonis, Alison Palizzolo and Cindy Rizza. On view Feb. 22 through March 25. The Kelley Stelling Contemporary art gallery, 221 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit kelleystellingcontemporary.com or call 345-1779.

• “SYNDICATES” Andrew Witkin’s work involves aggregating, arranging, collecting, and/ or fabricating everyday ideas, images and objects to investigate systems and frameworks of information and their intellectual and psychological effects in the world. On view through March 31. Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, 30 Academic Way, Durham. Visit library.unh. edu/museum.

• “PAINT AND PAPER” Featured artists Joan Barrows and

Jane E. Simpson exhibit. On view Feb. 17 through March 28.

Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St., Hancock. Call 525-4411.

• “GESTURAL SURFACES: LUMITECTURAL WORKS

BY HARRY UMEN” Harry Umen draws upon his research and fascination with “designed light”, a genre of contemporary art and lighting design for architecture referred to as “lumitecture.” March 1 through March 31. McIninch Art Gallery, SNHU, 2500 River Road, Manchester. Visit snhu.edu.

• “LONG EYE” Featuring contemporary works of art created in response to the colors, shapes sounds, and climate of both the Arctic and Antarctica. On view through March 31. Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, 30 Academic Way, Durham. Visit library.unh.edu.

• SUGITHA SRINIVASAN Featured artist of the month. On view through March. ArtHub Gallery, 30 Temple St., Nashua.

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• CATHERINE GREEN Featured artist of the month. On view through March. Exeter Fine Crafts, 61 Water St. , Exeter. Call 778-8282.

• ALENE SIROTT-COPE: A RETROSPECTIVE SirottCope 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. On view March 9 through March 31. Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center, 30 Ash St., Hollis. Call 4659453 or visit wildsalamander. com.

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• Woodblock printing in action: Bradford landscape artist Sandy Wadlington will give a woodblock printing demonstration at McGowan Fine Art (2 Phenix Ave., Concord) on Saturday, March 24, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The demonstration will be focused on the printing process, but Wadlington will also bring her carving tools and blocks to show. Her color woodblock prints as well as oil paintings and charcoal drawings are featured in a solo exhibition, “East & West,” on view at McGowan now through April 13. Pieces in the exhibition depict western landscapes in Texas and California and eastern landscapes from around New England. Visit mcgowanfineart.com or call 225-2515. To read the full story about “East & West,” visit hippopress.com and click on “past issues,” then click on the Feb. 22 issue pdf and look for the story on p. 20.

• Art for new parents: Kelley Stelling Contemporary art gallery (221 Hanover St., Manchester) has announced a new program for new parents. The New Parents Gallery Hour, held every Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m., gives parents an opportunity to get out of the house with their babies and enjoy art. Gallery co-owner Bill Stelling leads a brief tour of the current exhibition followed by a Q&A session. Bring your own lunch or order from Restoration Cafe next door. Visit kelleystellingcontemporary.com or call 345-1779. RSVP to kelleystellingcontemporary@gmail.com.

• Talking space art: Astrophotographer Ed Ting will give an artist talk at New Hampshire Institute of Art (77 Amherst

• “EAST & WEST” Featuring oil paintings, woodblock prints and charcoal drawings by Sandy Wadlington. On view Feb. 20 through April 13. McGowan Fine Art , 2 Phenix Ave. , Concord. Visit mcgowanfineart.com.

• PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION The New Hampshire Institute of Art Alumni Association and Photography class of 2018 present their first photography alumni exhibition, featuring work of all photographic media by NHIA Certificate, BFA and MFA Photography alumni.

On view Feb. 22 through April.

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“REPRESENTING • FEMINISM(S)” Exhibition showcases more than 30 con-

Sandy Wadlington woodblock print. Courtesy photo.

St., Manchester) on Saturday, March 24, at 7 p.m., in relation to his solo exhibition, “Astrophotography: Art in Science,” on display at NHIA now through April 21. Around 30 pieces of Ting’s astrophotography work from the last few years are featured in the exhibition, including planetary astrophotography (images of the moon, planets and other celestial bodies within our solar system) and deep space astrophotography (images of distant galaxies and nebulae beyond our solar system). Formerly the president of the New Hampshire Astronomical Society, Ting is a well-known amateur astronomer in New Hampshire and beyond. He speaks frequently on astronomy and astrophotography around the country and has had his writings published in a number of astronomy magazines. He currently teaches astrophotography, English composition and creative writing at NHIA. Visit nhia. edu/exhibitions or call 241-4918. To read the full story about “Astrophotography: Art in Science,” visit hippopress.com and click on “past issues,” then click on the March 14 issue pdf and look for the story on p. 18. — Angie Sykeny

temporary artists whose work explores feminism’s impact and potential and represents more diverse and inclusive feminisms.

On view through April 21.

Lamont Gallery, 11 Tan Lane, Exeter. Visit exeter.edu/lamontgallery or call 772-4311.

• FACULTY ART EXHIBITION Features painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography and graphic design by Fine Arts faculty. On view Feb. 1 through May 12. Colby-Sawyer College, 541 Main St., New London. Visit colby-sawyer.edu.

• “BODY OF WORK” NH Art Association members show a grouping of their works. Feb. 28 through April 2. Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Visit nhartassociation.org.

• “OUT OF THE ORDINARY” The John Stark Regional High School Photography Club exhibition features photographs 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. On view through April 14. Weare Public Library, 10 Paige Memorial Lane, Weare.

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• “TREES” Exhibition features the photographs of New Hampshire Art Association artist Carol Van Loon. On view through April. The Greater Concord

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A FANCY BALLET The Southern New Hampshire Youth Ballet performs Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester) on Sunday, March 25, with shows at 1 and 4 p.m.

Based on the children’s book by Jane O’Connor, the ballet follows Fancy Nancy and her best friend Bree as they audition for the fanciest ballet of all, Deep Sea Dances. The company will also perform a ballet based on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story, “The Ugly Duckling.” Tickets cost $25 for adults and $20 for children ages 12 and under. For an additional $20, join Fancy Nancy and her friends for tea backstage 45 minutes before each show (limited to 50 guests). Visit palacetheatre.org or call 668-5588.

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• “ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY ART IN SCIENCE” Photographic exhibit explores outer space. On view March 16 through April 21. NHIA Roger Williams Gallery, 77 Amherst St., Manchester. Visit nhia.edu.

• 71ST ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION NHIA members present work. On view March 9 through April 22. Sharon Arts Center Exhibition Gallery, 30 Grove St., Peterborough. Visit nhia.edu.

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Openings • “NEW WORKS ‘18” RECEPTION A show and sale of art created by the artists whose work is represented in the MainStreet Gallery. Fri., March 23, 5:30 to 7 p.m. MainStreet BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., Warner. Visit mainstreetbookends. com.

• “MINUTE PARTICULARS” RECEPTION Features works of realism and surrealism focusing on both everyday items executed in exquisite detail and the phantasmagoric. Thurs., March 29, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Kelley Stelling Contemporary, 221 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit kelleystellingcontemporary.com or call 345-1779.

• 2018 SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM OPENING RECEPTION Annual community event designed to elevate appreciation and involvement in public art in Nashua. Sculptors are invited from around the world to spend three weeks in Nashua creating public art. Thurs., May 10.

Nashua Airport, 93 Perimeter Road, Nashua. Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org.

Workshops/classes/ demonstrations • RUG HOOKING Learn the art of creating rugs. Participants will learn basic hooking techniques, including rug types, backings, color planning and finishing options. Kits

will include the pattern of your choice, a wool and a rug hook. If you have a piece you’ve always wanted to finish, you are welcome to use this class to learn to do so. Sat., March 31, noon to 3:30 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $40 tuition, plus a $40 materials fee. Visit nashua.nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

• ALCOHOL INK COLLAGE TILES Paint, cut, roll, place, paste, and glaze to create colorful ceramic tiles with Yupo, an acid free, polystyrene treefriendly paper. Sat., April 14, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $32 tuition, plus a $10 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

Theater Productions • EMMA! A POP MUSICAL Keynotes and the GHHMS Drama Club present. Fri., March 23, 7 p.m.; Sat., March 24, 1 p.m.; and Sat., March 24, 7 p.m.

Gilbert H. Hood Middle School, 5 Hood Road, Derry. $10. Email hoodkeynotes@gmail.com.

• ANYTHING GOES! The Pinkerton Players present. Fri., March 23, through Sun., March 25. Stockbridge Theatre, Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry. Tickets cost $10 for students and $12 for adults. Call 437-5210 or visit stockbridgetheatre.com.

• IN THE HEIGHTS The Seacoast Repertory Theatre presents. March 23 through April 22.

125 Bow St. , Portsmouth. Tickets cost $16 to $38. Visit seacoastrep.org or call 433-4472.

• PIPPIN The Saint Anselm Abbey Players present. Fri., March 23 and April 6, and Sat., March 24 and April 7, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 25, 2 p.m.

Dana Center , 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. $15. Visit anselm.edu.

• AESOP’S FABLES The Junior Service League of Concord

presents. Fri., March 23, 7 p.m., and Sat., March 24, 1 p.m. St. Paul’s School, 325 Pleasant St., Concord. Suggested donation $7 or $5 with a non-perishable food item. Visit jslconcord.org.

• THE MERCY SEAT Players’ Ring Theatre presents. March 23 through April 8. Players’ Ring Theatre, 105 Marcy St. , Portsmouth. $18 for adults, $14 for students and seniors. Visit playersring.org.

• FANCY NANCY AND THE MERMAID BALLET Southern NH Youth Ballet presents. Sun., March 25, 1 and 4 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. , Manchester. $25 for adults, $20 for children age 12 and under. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• THE KID CULT COSMOLOGY Community Players of Concord presents. March 30 through April 15. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets are $17 dollars for adults, $14 for members, seniors and students. Visit hatboxnh. com or call 715-2315.

• DIAL M FOR MURDER The Majestic Theatre presents. Fri., April 6, through Sun., April 8.

Executive Court Banquet Facility, 1199 South Mammoth Road, Manchester. $42 on Friday and Saturday, $38 on Sunday. Call 669-7469 or visit majestictheatre. net.

• MAMMA MIA! The Palace Theatre presents. April 6 through May 6. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. , Manchester. $25 for children ages 6 through 12, $39 to $46 for adults. Visit palacetheatre. org.

• A SEARCH FOR JUSTICE One-man show featuring actor Stephen Collins. Mon., April 9, 7 p.m. Dover Public Library, 73 Locust St., Dover. Call 516-6050.

• THE LITTLE MERMAID The Amherst Parent-Teacher Association presents. Thurs., April 12, through Sun., April 15. Souhegan High School, 412 Boston Post Road, Amherst. Visit AmherstNHPTA.org.

• SMALL ENGINE REPAIR Players’ Ring Theatre presents.

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April 13 through April 29. Players’ Ring Theatre, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. $18 for adults, $14 for students and seniors. Visit playersring.org.

• GRANITE STATE THEATRE SPORTS Competitive improve theatre show. Sat., Dec. 30, Feb. 24, April 21, and Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets are $17 dollars for adults, $14 for members, seniors and students, Visit hatboxnh.com.

• THE PRODUCERS The Seacoast Repertory Theatre presents.

May 11 through June 10. 125 Bow St. , Portsmouth. Tickets cost $16 to $38. Visit seacoastrep.org or call 433-4472.

Classical Music Events • “FLIGHTY FEMALES AND OTHER FEMMES FATALES FROM THE GOLDEN ERA OF BROADWAY” Manches-

a traveling theater troupe led by the mysterious Leading Player. Showtimes are on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $15. Visit anselm. edu or call 641-7700.

• Girl power: Keynotes and the GHHMS Drama Club present Emma! A Pop Musical at Gilbert H. Hood Middle School (5 Hood Road, Derry) on Friday, March 23, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, March 24, at 1 and 7 p.m. The musical is based on Jane Austen’s classic novel and features hit songs by iconic female singers and musical groups, from The Supremes to Katy Perry. Tickets cost $10 and can be purchased at the door. Search “Gilbert H. Hood Keynotes” on Facebook.

• Getting political: CATCH Neighborhood Housing presents its 24th annual CATCH Comedy Night featuring The Capitol Steps on Thursday, March 29, at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Center for the Arts (44 S. Main St., Concord). The musical political satire comedy troupe will perform a new show that promises to get laughs from people on all sides of the political spectrum.

Tickets cost $15 to $40. Call 225-1111 or visit ccanh.com.

— Angie Sykeny

ter Community Music School presents. Wed., March 21, 12:10 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, 106 Lowell St., Manchester.

Free. Visit mcmusicschool.org.

• GUITAR TRIPTYCH III: ADAM LEVIN Classical and Spanish acoustic guitar. Thurs., March 22, 7:30 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets are $17 dollars for adults, $14 for members, seniors and students, Visit hatboxnh.com.

• “RUSSIAN STRING QUARTETS” Symphony NH presents.

Violinists Ryo Usami and Kun Shao, violist Elaine Leisinger and cellist Young Sook Lee will perform Russian string quartets

by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and others. Fri., March 23, 8 p.m.

Riverwalk Cafe and Music Bar, 35 Railroad Square, Nashua.

Tickets cost $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Visit symphonynh.org or call 595-9156.

• REVELS NORTH SPRING SING A multi-generational community chorus, Revels Singers, culminates their season with a performance focused on the turn of the season from winter to spring. Sat., March 24. Whipple Hall, 25 Seamans Road, New London.

Visit centerfortheartsnh.org.

• “LISTENING, LOOKING, AND THINKING ABOUT MUSIC” Symphony NH lecture series celebrating the variety of cultures in the Nashua community through music. Lecture dates are Mon., April 2, 8 p.m.

Temple Beth Abraham, 4 Raymond St., Nashua. Visit symphonynh.org.

• WORDS ON MUSIC Symphony NH talk featuring bassist Robert Hoffman in anticipation of Beethoven 9 concert. Thurs., April 5, 5:30 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua.

Free. Visit nashualibrary.org.

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• Setting sail: The Pinkerton Players present Anything Goes! at the Stockbridge Theatre (Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry) on Friday, March 23, and Saturday, March 24, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m. The Broadway musical comedy written by Cole Porter follows a group of colorful characters aboard the S. S. American sailing between New York and England, including a nightclub singer and former evangelist, a lovelorn Wall Street broker and a second-rate con man.

Tickets cost $10 for students and $12 for adults. Call 437-5210 or visit stockbridgetheatre.com.

• On the strings: Symphony NH presents a concert, “Russian String Quartets,” at Riverwalk Cafe and Music Bar (35 Railroad Square, Nashua) on Friday, March 23, at 8 p.m. Violinists Ryo Usami and Kun Shao, violist Elaine Leisinger and cellist Young Sook Lee will perform Russian string quartets by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and others. Tickets cost $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Visit symphonynh.org or call 595-9156.

• Life as a prince: The Anselmian Abbey Players at Saint Anselm College present Pippin at the Dana Center (Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester) March 23 through April 7. The musical, based on the book by Roger O. Hirson, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, is the story of a young prince searching for meaning in his life, as told by

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LISTINGS 27 Children & Teens Games, clubs, fun...

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27 Treasure Hunt There’s gold in your attic.

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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.

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Kids can enjoy egg hunts, photos with the Easter Bunny and other fun activities at these family-friendly Easter events.

• Beaver Brook Association (117 Ridge Road, Hollis) has its Easter Egg Trail Hunt on Saturday, March 24, from 10 a.m. to noon. It’s free and open to all ages. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Visit beaverbrook.org.

• Bow has a town egg hunt at Bow Elementary School (22 Bow Center Road) on Saturday, March 24, at 10 a.m., for kids in fourth grade and under. A breakfast buffet featuring fun crafts and photos with the Easter Bunny and other special guests will be held from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. The cost for the buffet is $3 for kids age 12 and under and $7 for adults. Visit bownh.gov.

• Charmingfare Farm (774 High St., Candia) presents its Egg-Citing Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 24, Sunday, March 25, and Saturday, March 31, with check-in times from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., open to kids ages 2 to 10. There will be visits with the Easter Bunny and live animals, horse-drawn wagon and tractor train rides and more. BYO empty dozen egg carton. Tickets cost $19 per person and are free for children under age 2. Visit visitthefarm.com.

• The Friends of Stark Park have their egg hunt at Stark Park (River Road, Manchester) on Saturday, March 31, from 11 a.m. to noon, for kids ages 7 and under.

There will be face painting, special guests and other festivities.

Visit starkpark.com.

• Hampstead Congregational Church (61 Main St., Hampstead) has an egg hunt on Saturday, March 31, at 10 a.m. There will be face painting, egg dyeing and coloring. It’s free to the public. Visit hampsteaducc.org.

• Hooksett Public Library (31 Mount St. Mary’s Way) has an egg hunt on Saturday, March 24,

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at 9:30 a.m. for babies and toddlers, 10 a.m. for kids ages 3 to 5 and 10:30 a.m. for kids ages 6 and up. There will be crafts, games and photos with the Easter Bunny (printed onsite for $1) from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Visit hooksettlibrary.org.

• Hopkinton has a town egg hunt at Hopkinton Middle High School (297 Park Ave., Contoocook) on Saturday, March 24, at 10 a.m., for kids in third grade and under. The Easter Bunny will be available for photos from 9:30 to 10 a.m. BYO basket. Visit hopkintonrec.com.

• Kimball Jenkins Estate (266 N. Main St., Concord) throws its Eggstravaganza on Saturday, March 31, from 9:30 to 11 a.m., with an egg hunt at 10:15 a.m.

There will be pictures with the Easter Bunny, bouncy houses and more. It’s free to the public. Visit kimballjenkins.com.

• Manchester City Library (405 Pine St.) has its Spring Celebration on Saturday, March 24, from 10 to 11:15 a.m. There will be an egg hunt, spring stories and a simple craft for kids ages 2 to 7. Registration is recommended.

Visit manchester.lib.nh.us.

• Merrimack has a town egg hunt at Wasserman Park (116 Naticook Road) on Saturday, March 24, at 10:10 a.m. for special needs kids, 10:30 a.m. for kids ages 1 to 3, 10:50 a.m. for kids ages 4 to 5, 11:10 a.m. for kids ages 6 to 7, and 11:30 a.m. for kids ages 8 to 10. The Easter Bunny will be available for photos from 10 to 11:30 a.m. BYO basket. Visit merrimackparksandrec.org.

• Milford has a town egg hunt at Keyes Memorial Field (45 Elm St.) on Saturday, March 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., open to Milford kids in grades 4 and under. There will be games, prizes, raffles and photos with the Easter Bunny ($3 per photo, includes a raffle ticket). BYO basket. Visit milford. nh.gov.

• Movement Christian Church has an egg hunt at Merrimack High School (38 McElwain St., Merrimack) on Saturday, March 24, at 3 p.m. for kids ages 2 through grade 5, and at 2:30

Egg-citing Egg Hunt at Charmingfare Farm. Courtesy photo.

p.m. for special needs kids. There will be games, face painting and a photo booth. It’s free to the public. Visit move603.com.

• Next Level Church hosts its Helicopter Egg Drop for the greater Concord area on Sunday, April 1, open to children ages 12 and under whose families attend an experience at the church (79 Sheep Davis Road, Pembroke) that weekend. Experiences are held on Saturday, March 31, at 5 p.m., and Sunday, April 1, at 9 a.m., 10:45 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.

The drop will happen approximately 30 minutes after the last experience. The exact location will be revealed at the church experiences. Visit nlc.tv.

• New Boston has its town Easter Bonnet Parade and Egg Hunt at the town common (7 Meetinghouse Hill Road) on Saturday, March 24, at 11 a.m. The Easter Bunny will lead kids in an Easter bonnet parade, followed by an egg hunt. BYO basket. Visit newbostonnh.gov.

• Northwood has two town egg

hunts at Northwood Elementary School (511 First NH Turnpike), open to Northwood residents. The first is a flashlight egg hunt for kids ages 11 and up on Friday, March 23, at 8 p.m. The second egg hunt is on Saturday, March 24, at 10 a.m., for kids ages 10 and under. BYO basket and flashlight. Visit northwoodrec.weebly. com.

• Our Promise to Nicholas Foundation has its Easter Egg Hunt Festival at the NH Sportsplex (68 Technology Drive, Bedford) on Saturday, March 31, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. It features ongoing egg hunts, live entertainment, visits with the Easter Bunny and other special guests, games, raffles, a silent auction and more.

Tickets cost $8 per person or $28 per family in advance, $10/$32 at the door. Visit ourpromisetonicholas.com.

• Pelham has a town egg hunt on the Village Green in front of the Town Hall and library on Saturday, March 24, at noon, open to kids ages 8 and under. There will

Egg-citing Egg Hunt at Charmingfare Farm. Courtesy photo.

be food, raffles, photos with the Easter Bunny and other festivities from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. BYO basket. The rain date is March 31. Visit pelhamweb.com.

• Rockingham Christian Church has an egg hunt at Soule Elementary School (173 S. Policy St., Salem) on Saturday, March 31, for kids ages 5 and under at 11:30 a.m., and kids ages 6 to 10 at 1 p.m. There will be inflatables, face painting, balloon animals, popcorn and live music. It’s free to the public. Visit rccsalem.com.

• St. Paul’s United Methodist Church (335 Smyth Road, Manchester) has an egg hunt on Sunday, April 1, at 9 a.m.

Children & Teens Children events • CABIN FEVER EXTRAVAGANZA PARTY The library will offer live music, indoor big wheels, a glow stick dance party and more. Sat., March 24, 2 to 5 p.m. Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., Peterborough. For admission, bring one donated canned fruit item for the Peterborough Food Pantry. Visit peterboroughtownlibrary.org or call 924-8040.

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• The Well Church hosts an egg hunt at Lyons Field (50 Allds St., Nashua) on Saturday, March 24, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., for kids ages 2 and up. There will be a bounce house, face painting and popcorn. BYO basket. The event is free.

Register online. Visit thewellnh.org.

• Windham has a town egg hunt at a location TBA on Saturday, March 24, at 9:40 a.m. for kids ages 3 to 5, 10 a.m. for kids ages 0 to 2, and 10:25 a.m. for kids ages 6 to 9. The Easter Bunny will be available for photos from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. BYO basket. Visit windhamnh.gov.

Music • SAMMIE HAYNES, MUSIC EXTRAORDINAIRE! Sammie Haynes is an award-winning children’s performer and songwriter whose work has enchanted audiences from coast to coast and who is a longtime favorite performer at schools, festivals and libraries. Sat., March 31, 11 a.m. Lawrence Barn Community Center, 28 Depot Road, Hollis.

Free; registration is required.

Visit hollislibrary.org or call 465-7721.

Nature • VULTURE CULTURE Learn about how to recognize the turkey vulture and participate in some fun activities to discover their unique adaptations and to appreciate their way of life. Sat., March 24, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Amoskeag Fishways Learning & Visitors Center, 4 Fletcher St., Manchester. $8 per family; registration is required. Visit amoskeagfishways.org or call 626-3474.

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IN/OUT

Family fun for the weekend

All about vultures

Join the Amoskeag Fishways Learning & Visitors Center (4 Fletcher St., Manchester) on Saturday, March 24, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for Vulture Culture, a special program dedicated to turkey vultures and other vulture species native to New Hampshire. Train your eyes to recognize the birds, and participate in some fun activities to discover their unique adaptations.

The cost is $8 per family and registration is required. Visit amoskeagfishways.org or call 626-3474.

Friendly faceoff

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Merri-Loo Preschool and features a day of fun science experiments and demonstrations for kids, as well as concessions and a silent auction of items that will be available. Prizes to be auctioned off will include restaurant gift cards, museum and family outing passes and more. The cost is $5 for kids or $20 per family. Visit merriloo.org.

Bear-ing witness

The Pheasant Lane Mall (310 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua) is hosting a teddy bear clinic in its lower level area on Saturday, March 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Kids are encouraged to bring their favorite doll or stuffed animal for a “check-up,” where they will learn how to keep themselves and their furry friends healthy, and also get to participate in some fun activities. Admission is free but registration is encouraged. Visit simon.com/mall/pheasant-lane-mall for more details.

Watch New Hampshire firefighters and police officers duke it out in a friendly hockey match for charity, the annual CHaD Battle of the Badges Hockey championship on Sunday, March 25, at 3 p.m. at the SNHU Arena (555 Elm St., Manchester).

Team Police and Team Fire are made up of officers and firefighters from departments across the Granite State, and the game is played each year to raise money for the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD). Tickets are $10 and free for Spring into fun kids ages 5 and under. Visit chadhockey.

Celebrate the long-awaited arrival of org. spring at the Manchester City Library (405 Main St.) on Saturday, March 24, from 10 Scientific fun to 11:15 a.m. During the library’s annual Don’t miss the second annual Super spring celebration, there will be springScience Spectacular on Saturday, March themed storytimes, craft-making, and a 24, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Maple Ave- small egg hunt on the lawn. Admission is nue Elementary School (16 Maple Ave., free but registration is encouraged. Visit Goffstown). The event is sponsored by the manchester.lib.nh.us or call 624-6550.

• SATURDAY NATURE SEEKERS: MUD, MUCK & SOIL Stop by the Learning & Visitors Center for a miniprogram with fun and playful muddy river nature-based activities. Sat., March 31, 11 a.m. to noon. Amoskeag Fishways Learning & Visitors Center, 4 Fletcher St., Manchester. Donation of $5 per family is encouraged (no registration required).

Visit amoskeagfishways.org or call 626-3474.

• SATURDAY NATURE SEEKERS: PEREGRINE FALCON FOCUS Mini-programs with fun and playful peregrine falcon nature-based activities. Saturdays, April 7, April 14 and April 28, 11 a.m. to noon.

Amoskeag Fishways Learning & Visitors Center, 4 Fletcher St., Manchester. Donation of $5

family; no registration required.

Visit amoskeagfishways.org or call 626-3474.

Nashua Garden Club members and $5 for non-members. Visit nashuagardenclub.com.

Clubs Garden • HOOKSETT GARDEN CLUB MARCH MEETING The program for March is about tulips -- “Tulip Mania” -- and is being presented by Roz Lockwood. Wed., March 28, 6:30 p.m. Hooksett Public Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way, Hooksett. Free and open to the public.

Visit hooksettgardenclubnh.org.

• NASHUA GARDEN CLUB APRIL PROGRAM: BEEKEEPING Presented by Alden Marshall of B-line Apiaries in Hudson. Light refreshments will be served. Wed., April 4, 7 p.m.

First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester St., Nashua. Free for

Continuing Education Computer & tech classes • SIXTH ANNUAL MICHAEL LOVERME MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FREE COMPUTER CLINIC Volunteer technicians will be available to sit down with guests one-onone to answer any technology questions, troubleshoot a problematic computer or private training and instruction on how to use computers, smart phones, tablets and other technology.

Sat., March 24, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Merrimack Public Library, 470 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack. Free. Visit mlmf. org.

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IN/OUT THE GARDENING GUY

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Is it time to start seedlings yet? Yes, for a few things: artichokes, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, onions and leeks, kale and peppers. Tomatoes I start in early- to midApril, along with eggplants, lettuce, melons and squashes of all sorts. Root crops are generally started outdoors later on.

If you want a lot of annual flowers, starting by seed can be a big saving. But, as with vegetables, you have to do it just right in order to get plants that resemble the ones you would buy at the garden center.

If I just want a six-pack of nasturtiums, it is cheaper to buy them as plants than as seeds.

A packet of seeds often costs $5 or so, though the FEDCO cooperative sells little packets for just $1.30. Those packets generally contain a gram of seeds, and the online catalog tells you how many seeds are in it — usually plenty (or more than enough) for a one-year supply.

Most seeds are good for three years. But onions, sweet corn, parsnips and spinach are only good for one year. Peas, beets and Swiss chard are good for one or two years. Flowers vary. If you have older seed, plant more — not all will germinate, but some probably will.

To get good-looking plants, you need lights. Yes, there are people who start plants on windowsills, but those plants quickly get tall and leggy as they reach for light. If you want to start some lettuce seedlings in late April on a windowsill, sure, you can keep them there for a month before putting them outside. But tomatoes? Forget about it.

Buy 4-foot fluorescent lights and hang them 6 inches above your seed flats. As the plants grow, move the lights up to keep them at the right distance. Now there are LED lights made for the same 4-foot fixtures you may already have, and they are supposed to be more effective and less expensive to run.

LED lights should last for 20-plus years. I use something called jack chain, which I get at the hardware store, to hang my lights as it is easy to adjust the length of the chain.

I use a biodynamic calendar called Stella Natura (stellanatura.com) to guide me when to plant seeds. It uses the sun, moon and stars to determine when optimal dates are for planting. It also gives “black-out” days to avoid.

I’ve tested the black-out days and never plant on them. Sunday, April 8, will be good for starting tomatoes this year, but the 11th to 13th will be black-out days.

Seeds have a built-in heat-sensitive trigger that controls germination. It would be a bad idea for a seed to germinate in January, for example, even if there were no snow.

Cold would kill the seedlings. Warm soil tells a seed the sun is strong, has been for some

Moisten potting mix before planting seeds. Courtesy Photo

weeks, and probably will continue to be.

You can add bottom heat to your seed flats by buying electric heat mats. They are about the size of a flat, and add a low, gentle heat to warm the starting mix your seeds are planted in. They will speed up germination considerably.

Don’t even think of starting seeds in garden soil. Although I sometimes make soil blocks from compost and peat moss with some added garden soil, usually I just buy Moo-Doo brand planting mix that I put in little plastic six-packs. I always buy the six-packs that have the biggest cells available. Some come with 72 compartments to the flat, some 48 and others 36 or 32. I like the 32’s — they have more room for roots.

Seeds are very sensitive to drying out, especially just after they have germinated.

To minimize the chances of that, I use plastic covers that fit on the flats. These are clear, allowing light to pass through, but not moisture. Safely stored, these are good for many years. You can save and wash the six-packs but they are cheaply made and often crack or break, so I don’t bother most times.

Read the seed packets when planting seeds.

Lettuce seeds need light to germinate, so just a very fine layer of planting mix or fine vermiculite will do. A big seed like a squash needs half an inch or more of cover. Generally the bigger the seed, the deeper the hole.

I use a pencil to make a divot for each seed.

Because the Queen of the Garden is the tomato, I plant two seeds in each cell. Usually both germinate. The hard part is then snipping off one of the two. It feels awful to kill a tomato, but growing both in a small cell will result in stunted growth and competition for nutrients. And if the seedlings get too big, I transplant some into small pots.

As plants grow, they quickly use up the minerals that came in the potting mix. I make a dilute solution of fish and seaweed fertilizer and use it to water my seedlings. That’s what nurseries do, although most use chemical fertilizers. And since I am not going to use chemical fertilizers, I don’t want plants that expect them.

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IN/OUT TREASURE HUNT

Dear Donna, I have a small collection of tiny dice. I think the green ones are plastic and the off-white ones could be ivory? Not sure but hoping you can help.

Jenny from New Boston

Open houses • USDA SERVICE CENTER OPEN HOUSE Learn about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s programs and services, talk to experts from the Farm Service Agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Rural Development, and the Merrimack County Conservation District about USDA technical and financial assistance and loan programs. Wed., April 4, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. USDA Service Center, 10 Ferry St., Suite 211, Concord. Free. Call 223-6023.

Crafts Fairs • AMOSKEAG QUILTERS GUILD QUILT SHOW This show features more than 150 quilts, vendors, raffles, technique demonstrations, handmade boutique items, refreshments, and a raffle quilt to benefit St. Joseph Community Services Meals on Wheels program.

Sat., March 24, and Sun., March 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Manchester Memorial High School, 1 Crusader Way, Manchester. $8 multi-day admission. Visit amoskeagqg.org.

Workshops • METAL CLAY - CHARM BRACELET Participants will create their own silver charm bracelet, choosing from a large assortment of options. No prior experience is necessary. Sat., March 24, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30

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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, 6248668).

p.m. League of NH Craftsmen Nashua Fine Arts Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $40 tuition, plus a $35 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

Other craft events • FIBER ARTS FASHION SHOW Elegant Ewe owner Marci Richardson will emcee this show. Creators will strut their stuff on the catwalk and show off their creations, including shawls, sweaters, hats, dresses and more. Wed., March 28, 6:30 p.m. Bedford Public Library, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford. Visit bedfordnhlibrary. org or call 472-2300.

• RUG HOOKING CLASS Participants will learn the art of creating rugs, including basic hooking techniques, backings, color planning and finishing options. Sat., March 31, noon to 3:30 p.m. League of NH Craftsmen Fine Craft Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $40 registration plus a $40 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

Dance Other dance events • SPRING EQUINOX SACRED CIRCLE DANCE Fri., March 23, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Portsmouth Center for Yoga & the Arts, 95 Albany St., No. 14, Portsmouth. $5 per person; no experience or partner needed.

Visit portsmouthyoga.com/ vlt6082.htm or call 664-2796.

Festivals & Fairs Events • 7TH ANNUAL MAGICKAL MARKETPLACE & PSYCHIC FAIRE The event features nearly 100 vendors and psychic readers, 10 mainstage performances and dozens of classes and workshops on a wide range of topics. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter. Sat., March 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sun., March 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Courtyard Marriott Event Center, 2200 Southwood Drive, Nashua. $10 for daytime activities ($15 for both days), and the $15 After Dark ticket includes both Friday and Saturday nights.

Visit themagickalmarketplace. com.

• 18TH ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL DAY Members of the NHTI family have displays of their countries’ cultures through objects, clothing, art, photos and food. The event also includes dance, music and a fashion show with traditional clothing from around the world.

Tues., April 3, noon to 2 p.m.

NHTI, Concord’s Community College , 31 College Drive, Concord. Free and open to the public. Visit ccsnh.edu or call 230-4055.

• SOUHEGAN SUSTAINABILITY FAIR This event features exhibits, presentations, workshops and demonstrations.

Learn about bees, birds, bats, loons and how you can plant a garden for wildlife. Take a

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Dear Jenny, I have to tell you, the history of dice goes so far back. I learned the earlier ones were made from sheep knucklebones, but they used all kinds of materials up into present time to make dice.

Most likely the whitest ones you have are not ivory but bone. The other sets, I agree, should be plastic. Your dice look like they are 5mm (3/16”) and they too were used to play board games and such. I would suggest that you research your dice and find out the history of them; I thought it was very interesting. Bone, ivory, horn, glass, plastic — they all have a story to tell.

As for value on the ones you have, I would say they are in the range of $30 for the lot of them. So you are collecting a tiny treasure.

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IN/OUT CAR TALK

Help for a gummed-up seat belt latch Dear Car Talk: Our kids admitted that they spilled soda on the passenger-side belt buckle of the car they use. Now it doesn’t latch in cold weather — not a good thing in MinnesoBy Ray Magliozzi ta. My son’s solution is to pour water on it and park it in the garage until it dries out. Not only would that make a mess, but one guess whose car would sit outside in the meantime? I’m also concerned that that would screw up whatever electrical sensors tell the car that the belt is buckled.

My husband says to spray it with WD-40. I know from working with locks that that will eventually gum up the works. I’d wager that the graphite I would use on a lock would mix with the pop and gum things up, too. Given that it’s essential safety equipment and I don’t want the kids to die, I think it should go to the dealer to be fixed. Any support for any of our solutions? — Lisa What you need is a solvent — something to dissolve the sugar that’s gumming up the latch mechanism. And you have little to lose by trying to fix this yourself. If it doesn’t work, the worst that’ll happen is that you’ll then have to take the car to the dealer and

have the seat belt latch replaced.

So my suggestion would be to try a product called Contact Cleaner, made by CRC. That’s a fast-evaporating spray-on solvent that’s designed to be used on sensitive electronics. So it’s very unlikely to damage anything. Since you don’t want the kids to die, I’d have your husband apply this stuff, since it might dissolve brain cells, too. And since he’s obviously already lost most of his already, let him take the risk. The kids might still need theirs. I would get a few rags and cover up the surrounding area, because gunk might drip out. Then spray Contact Cleaner liberally inside the latching mechanism.

Then work it — latch and unlatch the seat belt a number of times. If it seems to be helping at all, keep doing it. I’d do it in the garage and leave the car’s windows open.

If it doesn’t work, you can try a stronger solvent — something like Brakleen, which dissolves even more stuff, including more brain cells. And if nothing works, then you’ll need to put yourself at the mercy of the dealer.

Dear Car Talk: I’m a Southern belle, and I need some help. After 55-plus years of marriage, I have learned a thing or two about cars. But I

don’t know the answer to this question: Can a check engine light and a flashing cruise control light mean imminent doom? I love driving my ‘07 Subaru Outback, and find that it handles well and is easy to get into and out of (if you hold the door open with the toe of your shoe). I read something on the internet suggesting that this is a common thing for the Subaru, and that it will heal itself in a few hundred miles. Should we go happily down the “it’ll fix itself” trail, or should we think about trading it for a newer model? — Belinda The answer to your question depends on your definition of “imminent doom,” Belinda. Is a few hundred bucks imminent doom for you? No? OK, how about $1,500?

These two lights could be caused by a single problem. For instance, if your vehicle speed sensor or your throttle position sensor is bad, the check engine light will come on, and the cruise control probably won’t work.

Either of those likely would cost you a few hundred bucks to replace. And if that’s all you need, that hardly seems like imminent doom. On the other hand, your Subaru is about at the age where we often see catalytic converters failing. If the converter is failing, then you’re looking at $1,500, plus whatever is wrong with the cruise control (because

the catalytic converter won’t affect the cruise control).

Incidentally, when a catalytic converter is failing, sometimes the check engine light will come on and go off intermittently, until the efficiency reading is consistently low enough to keep the light on all the time. That may be the “fix itself” miracle you’ve read about. But eventually, the light will come on and stay on.

So here’s what you need to do, Belinda.

Take your Outback to your favorite mechanic, and ask him to scan it. When a check engine light comes on, the car’s computer stores a code to tell the mechanic what component tripped the light. Isn’t that handy?

If it’s a sensor or a broken wire, click your heels together and say, “There’s no place like home” (isn’t Belinda the good witch from The Wizard of Oz?).

If it’s the catalytic converter, ask the mechanic whether he thinks the rest of the car is in good shape. If it is, and the mileage on the car isn’t in the stratosphere, then it’s probably worth putting in a new converter and driving it for a few more years.

On the other hand, if he says the failing converter is the best thing on the car, then it’s time to look at the 2018s.

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Expos • NEW HAMPSHIRE OLD HOUSE & BARN EXPO Featuring exhibitors, demonstrations and lectures on old houses and barns, as well as a scavenger hunt for kids and adults, and “Old House and Barn Doctor” sessions.

Sat., March 24, and Sun., March 25, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Radisson Hotel Manchester, 700 Elm St., Manchester. $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and students, and free for kids 12 and under. Visit nhpreservation.org or call 224-2281.

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Health & Wellness Events • NHTI’S 23RD ANNUAL WELLNESS FAIR More than 35 community participants along with student exhibitors from NHTI’s own health programs will be on hand with demonstrations, health screenings, wellness education, exhibits and more.

There will also be free healthy refreshments, door prizes and background music. Tues., March 27, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center, 19-23 Institute Drive, Concord. Free.

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Support groups • FAMILY RESILIENCE PROJECT This is a free event aimed at the families and loved ones of people struggling with addiction and will include refreshments, speakers, community discussions and the opportunity for a Q&A. Tues., March 27, 5 to 8 p.m. Veteran and First Responder Healthcare, 1750 Elm St., Manchester.

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Weekly/monthly screenings • PUBLIC HEALTH CLINICS AT THE NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY Immunizations for pneumonia, hepatitis A and B, shingles, Td, Tdap, influenza and blood pressure screenings will all be available. Mondays, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., April 2 to June 4. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. $10 per person; free for blood pressure screenings. Visit nashualibrary. org or call 589-4500.

Wellness workshops & seminars • TRANSFORM YOUR SELF AND WORLD WITH LOVING-KINDNESS MEDITATION This workshop is an intensive introduction to the Metta Bhavana meditation practice. Basic methods of setting up meditation and the traditional Buddhist meditation form will be taught. Sat., March 24, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aryaloka

Buddhist Retreat Center, 14 Heartwood Circle, Newmarket. $70/$55/$30 sliding scale. Visit aryaloka.org or call 659-5456.

• BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH MINDFULNESS: PRACTICES THAT GROW THE BRAIN This three-part series will include “Mindfulness” (part 1), “Gratitude and Taking in the Good” (part 2) and “Loving-Kindness” (part 3). All sessions will be led by Liz Korabek-Emerson, certified mindfulness instructor, transformational workshop leader and creative coach.

Mondays, April 2, April 16 and April 30, 2 to 3 p.m. Amherst Town Library, 14 Main St., Amherst. Free; registration is required. Visit amherstlibrary. org or call 673-2288.

Miscellaneous Workshops • WHAT’S YOUR STORY? “What’s Your Story?” is a series of six workshops and guided conversations aimed at building community. Each week, a different presenter from Nashua will share a life story and then human relations teacher Lisa Yates will lead a discussion that will allow participants to connect in a meaningful way. Thurs., March 22, 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Free and open to the public; no registration required. Visit nashualibrary.org or call 589-4610.

• TELEVISION: THE ART AND ETHICS OF MANIPULATION Presenter John Gfroerer explores the power of television as a communication medium and the ethical implications of manipulating the viewer by means of the choices made behind the camera through the final editing process.

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Work-related advice [would be], anything dealing with horses, I usually tell people it’s kind of a nice car payment that never goes away and it’s the responsibiliTracie Lemieux of Londonderry is a horse trainer and riding instructor at Lucky ty of having numerous children. It’s a lot of work. Vacations kind of go out the window.

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If you’re sick [the horses don’t care], they still need to get taken care of.

Can you explain what your How long have you worked there?

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I’m the barn manager at Probably how time-consuming it really How did you get interested in this field?

Lucky 7 Stables. I pretty much run all the horses, feeding, grading, payI grew up in Kentucky, so I’ve always is. … You got a sick horse, there’s no break ing, turn-in, turn-out, do riding lessons, been around horses, love them, and in between. If that horse is having an issue, barn management, stable care, some knew I wanted to … kind of stay in that you’ve got to walk it around for 15 hours without a break. That’s just the way that it medical. … [For riding instruction], if general area. is. … If you’re not right on top of it, you somebody was a beginner, I’d take them What kind of education or training did could lose the horse. … Even though we back and introduce them to the horse, pretdo boarding here, we also offer trail rides. ty much explain a horse’s behavior, how you need for this?

As far as the medical, I worked with one Safety is always the first priority. Safety for we saddle them up, how we clean them before they’re saddled, get them mount- of the vets that does large animals. As far people, safety for the horses. ed and explain how movement works and as instructions, I’ve taken lessons from othbasically the cues that you can use to get er instructors, saw how they do. I’ve gone What is your typical at-work uniform? through clinics just to further my education. the movement.

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FOOD Easter feasts

Brunches, dinners and more for Easter Sunday

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News from the local food scene

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Easter Sunday may seem early this year, falling on Sunday, April 1, but many local eateries are ready to feed you, with some accepting reservations for brunches and dinners and others offering take-home meals and special menu items. Do you know of a business offering Easter eats that isn’t on this list?

Let us know at food@hippopress.com.

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• Pink boots brews: Fifteen women in the New Hampshire craft brew industry have collaborated to create a new limited brew in honor of the Pink Boots Society Collaboration Brew Day, which was March 8, according to a recent press release. The new Damsel No Distress beer will be on sale in the tap room of the 603 Brewery in Londonderry beginning on March 22. The beer is a Belgian-style ale super session IPA with subtle spice and fruit notes, and was created and released by the New Hampshire division of the Pink Boots Society’s Boston chapter. It’s one of more than 200 special releases around the world to coincide with Women’s History Month.

Proceeds from the sales of the beer will benefit the Pink Boots Society scholarship fund. Visit pinkbootssociety. org/pink-boots-brew for more details.

• Brews and books at Bert’s: Join Bert’s Better Beers (1100 Hooksett Road, Suite 105, Hooksett) for a beer tasting and book signing with Butch Heilshorn, co-founder of Earth Eagle Brewings in Portsmouth, on Saturday, March 24, from noon to 3 p.m. Heilshorn will be presenting his recently released book Against All Hops, which explores the practice of brewing botanical beers without hops and features more than a dozen recipes designed to achieve a distinct flavor. Admission to the event is free and copies of the book will be available for sale during the signing. Visit eagleearthbrewings.com or call 502-2244 for more information on the book.

• Pig out: Join Madear’s (175 Hanover St., Manchester) for a pig dinner on Monday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m., featuring all different parts of the pig and accompanied by signature drinks. The food menu will include candied bacon, pulled pork Benedicts and more, along with bacon bloody marys, bourbon cream coffee and other drinks. The cost is $65. Visit madears603. com or call 206-5827 to buy tickets.

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• 110 Grill (27 Trafalgar Square, Nashua, 943-7443, 110grill.com) will serve an Easter brunch menu from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with specials like chicken and waffles, steak and egg Benedict, huevos rancheros, brunch cocktails and more. The regular menu will also be available.

• Airport Diner (2280 Brown Ave., Manchester, 623-5040, thecman.com) will be serving its regular menu, with Easter specials, from 5 a.m. to midnight.

• Alan’s of Boscawen (133 N. Main St., Boscawen, 753-6631, alansofboscawen.com) will serve an “Easter Extravaganza” brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. that is going to feature fresh fruit, cheese and assorted crackers, Danishes, eggs, bacon, sausage, beans and an omelet station, as well as lunch items like mushroom tortellini alfredo, crabmeatstuffed haddock, baked stuffed chicken breast and more. Reservations are required. A special menu featuring traditional baked ham, prime rib and lamb will also be available from noon to 9 p.m. and, beginning at 3 p.m., the regular menu will be available.

• Alnoba (24 Cottage Road, Kensington, 855-428-1985, alnoba.org) will offer an Easter brunch buffet with seatings at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Buffet selections will include homemade pastries, a shrimp cocktail and local oyster bar, assorted salads and fruits, and a carving station with honey-glazed ham, herbrubbed prime rib and lamb with goat cheese spinach. Tickets are $42 for teens and adults, $27 for kids ages 4 to 12 and free for kids ages 3 and under. The Easter Bunny will also be available for photo opportunities.

• Alpine Grove (19 S. Depot Road, Hollis, 882-9051, alpinegrove.com) will be serving an Easter brunch buffet, with seatings at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The buffet will include sliced fruit, assorted muffins, Danishes and croissants, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, assorted quiches, and lunch items like New England baked haddock, baked Virginia ham with rum raisin sauce, and baked macaroni and cheese. The cost is $26 for adults, $10 for kids ages 4 to 12, and free for kids under 4.

Reservations are required.

• Atkinson Resort & Country Club (85 Country Club Drive, Atkinson, 362-8700, atkinsonresort.com) will serve an Easter brunch buffet in its legacy ballroom from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will include omelets and waffles made to order, a fruit display, handcarved ham and prime rib, baked haddock, vegetarian spaghetti and more. The cost is $47 for adults, $20 for kids ages 3 to 10 and free for kids ages 3 and under. Reservations are required.

• Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, 472-2001, bedfordvillageinn.com) will serve an Easter brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring soups, salads, seafood dishes, a Belgian waffle station, an omelet station, a meat-carving station and more, and a special Easter dinner menu from 2 to 7 p.m. that will include appetizers like scallops, roasted vegetable quiche and parsnip bisque, entrees like grilled filet mignon, herb-roasted Scottish salmon and spring pea risotto, and desserts like vanilla bean crème brulee, mango sorbet and chocolate cake with espresso buttercream. The cost for the brunch is $49 for adults and $22.95 for kids ages 10 and under. The cost for the dinner is $65 for adults and $29.95 for kids ages 10 and under.

• Belmont Hall & Restaurant (718 Grove St., Manchester, 625-8540, belmontrestaurant.com) will serve a Easter brunch buffet with seatings at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The cost is $12.99 per person.

• Birch Wood Vineyards (199 Rockingham Road, Derry, 965-4359, birchwoodvineyards.com) will serve an Easter brunch with seatings at 11 a.m., noon and 1

p.m. The buffet will include breakfast items like a made-to-order egg station, ham and cheddar and vegetable frittatas, French toast streusel and assorted breakfast pastries; lunch entrees like baked haddock, garlic and herb roasted chicken, chicken broccoli and ziti pasta, a carving station with ham, New York sirloin steak and lamb. The cost is $42 for adults, $18 for kids ages 3 to 12, and free for kids under 3.

• Brookstone Park (14 Route 111, Derry, 328-9255, brookstone-park.com) will serve an Easter brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The menu includes assorted pastries, salads, fruits, lunch options like chicken Marsala, smoked salmon with egg mimosa, haddock Newburg, a carving station with prime rib and smoked ham, and desserts like cheesecake, pie and brownie bites and crème brulee.

The cost is $39 for adults, $19 for kids ages 3 to 12 and free for kids under 3.

• Buckley’s Great Steaks (438 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 424-0995, buckleysgreatsteaks.com) will be serving Easter-inspired specials from noon to 4 p.m.

• Cabonnay (55 Bridge St., Manchester, 844-946-3473, cabonnay.com) will be serving its regular Sunday brunch all day, featuring assorted pastries, teas, mimosas, bloody marys and more.

• Canoe Restaurant and Tavern (216 S. River Road, Bedford, 935-8070, magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com/canoe-restaurant-and-tavern) will be serving dinner with specials from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

• Castleton Banquet and Conference Center (58 Enterprise Drive, Windham,

p.m. There will be a made-to-order omelet station, a meat carving station with turkey breast, roasted ham and roasted pork loin, breakfast items like corned beef hash, scrambled eggs and cinnamon French toast, and a selection of lunch items like baked haddock, short ribs, macaroni and cheese and chicken Parmesan. The cost is $26.95 for adults and $15.95 for kids under 12.

• CR’s The Restaurant (287 Exeter Road, Hampton, 929-7972, crstherestaurant.com) will serve an Easter dinner from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The menu will include options like brown sugar glazed ham, rosemary and mustard crusted prime rib, Long Island duck breast, roasted lamb loin and Atlantic halibut.

Reservations are recommended.

• The Crown Tavern (99 Hanover St., Manchester, 218-3132, thecrownonhanover.com) will be serving a brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with options like assorted fruits and pastries, eggs Benedict, home fries, oysters on the half shell, pizza and more. The cost is $30 for adults and $15 for kids ages 10 and under. Reservations are required.

• Crowne Plaza Nashua (2 Somerset Parkway, Nashua, 886-1200, cpnashua.com) will serve an Easter brunch with seatings from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu includes assorted pastries and muffins, a made-toorder omelet station, scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage, fruit-stuffed pancakes, a carving station with meats like steak and ham, assorted salads, specialty entrees like chicken Florentine, New England haddock and sun-dried tomato mascarpone ravioli, and an assorted dessert display with options like strawberry cheesecake and chocolate fudge mousse torte. The cost is $34.95 for adults, $28.95 for seniors, $15.95 for kids ages 5 to 10 and free for kids ages 4 and under. Reservations are required.

• The Derryfield Restaurant (625 Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-2880, thederryfield.com) will serve an Easter buffet with seatings beginning at 10 a.m. There will be an omelet station, a carving station with slow-roasted prime rib and oven-baked ham, a bread station with rolls, croissants, muffins and more, and other items like bacon, sausage, corned beef hash, French toast, scrambled eggs and home fries. The cost is $26.95 for adults, $24.95 for seniors ages 65 and over, and $16.95 for kids under 12. Reservations are required.

• Epoch Restaurant & Bar (The Exeter Inn, 90 Front St., Exeter, 778-3762, epochrestaurant.com) will be serving an Easter brunch, with reservations accepted between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. The menu includes a carving station, cold foods like a fruit display and various salads, hot foods like New England clam chowder and applewood-smoked bacon and pork sausage, and a dessert station with assorted pies, tartlets, cookies and more.

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• The Coach Stop Restaurant & Tavern (176 Mammoth Road, Londonderry, 437-2022, coachstopnh.com) will be offering an Easter specials menu with seatings at 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The menu includes several specialty appetizers, like grilled colossal shrimp cocktails, spinach and artichoke dip, bacon-wrapped scallops and French onion soup, and entrees like chicken Marsala, roast prime rib of beef, seafood linguine alfredo, a baked lamb or ham dinner and more. Reservations are required.

• Colby Hill Inn (33 The Oaks, Henniker, 428-3281, colbyhillinn.com) will serve a three-course prix fixe Easter Sunday supper that will include your choice of an appetizer (lemon chicken noodle soup, Slovak beet and buttermilk soup, spring greens, asparagus, pierogi or red beet deviled eggs), an entree (roast leg of lamb, maple and cider mustard glazed ham, prime rib, rabbit pot pie and more) and a dessert (maple walnut carrot cake, strawberry rhubarb pie, creme brulee and more). The cost is $49.95 for adults and $19.95 for kids.

• The Common Man (25 Water St., Concord, 228-3463; 304 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 429-3463; 88 Range Road, Windham, 898-0088; 10 Pollard Road, Lincoln, 745-3463; 60 Main St., Ashland, 968-7030; 21 Water St., Claremont, 542-6171; thecman.com) will be serving an Easter buffet at its Concord, Windham and Claremont locations from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The cost is $26.95 for adults and $12.95 for kids ages 12 and under. At its Merrimack, Lincoln and Ashland locations, a dinner menu with Easter specials will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Reservations are recommended.

• Copper Door Restaurant (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford, 488-2677; 41 S. Broadway, Salem, 458-2033; copperdoorrestaurant. com) will be offering its regular menu, with Easter specials available for dinner, like a glazed pit ham with maple mashed sweet potato and Parmesan broccolini, an herbroasted lamb with lemony fingerling potato, zucchini and summer squash, and a panseared Atlantic cod with garlic shrimp, citrus-scented brown rice, haricot verts and tomato-saffron broth.

• Cotton (75 Arms St., Manchester, 6225488, cottonfood.com) will be serving its regular dinner menu, with specials, from noon to 5 p.m.

• Country Tavern (452 Amherst St., Nashua, 889-5871, countrytavern.org) will serve an Easter brunch from 9:30 a.m. to 3

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• Executive Court Banquet Facil37 ity (1199 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 626-4788, executivecourtbanquet.com) will serve an Easter brunch with seatings between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Reservations of parties of 8 or more are required. The cost is $23.95 for adults and $18.95 for children.

• Firefly American Bistro & Bar (22 Concord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflynh.com) will serve its full brunch and dinner menus (from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for brunch and 4 to 10 p.m. for dinner), with seasonal specials available throughout the day. All items will be priced a la carte. Reservations are recommended.

• The Flying Goose Brew Pub & Grille (40 Andover Road, New London, 526-6899, flyinggoose.com) will be serving brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with its regular menu plus several specials. All items will be a la carte.

• Fratello’s Italian Grille (155 Dow St., Manchester, 624-2022, fratellos.com) will serve brunch at its Manchester location only, with seatings at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The menu includes an omelet and waffle station, assorted fruit and pastries, carving stations with prime rib of beef, Virginiabaked ham and maple-glazed roast pork loin. The Easter Bunny will also be making an appearance. The cost is $31.95 for adults, $19.95 for kids ages 4 to 11 and free for kids ages 3 and under. Reservations are required.

• Gauchos Churrascaria Brazilian Steakhouse (62 Lowell St., Manchester, 669-9460; 6 Elm St., Nashua, 881-3663; gauchosbraziliansteakhouse.com) will be open for dinner from 4 to 8 p.m. at its Manchester location and from 1 to 8 p.m. at its Nashua location. Brunch will also be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Manchester location only.

• Granite Restaurant & Bar (The Centennial Hotel, 96 Pleasant St., Concord, 227-9000, thecentennialhotel.com) will serve an Easter brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The menu will include breakfast selections like fresh fruit, homemade coffee cakes and Danishes, bacon, sausage and scrambled eggs; dinner selections like butter cracker crumbed baked haddock, vegetarian paella, and cheese tortellini primavera with marinara sauce; a carving station with rosemary and garlic roasted lamb and smokehouse ham; a dessert and coffee station, and more.

The cost is $45 for adults, $38 for seniors ages 65 and over, $20 for kids ages 6 to 12 and free for kids ages 5 and under. Reservations are required.

• Grappone Conference Center (70 Constitution Ave., Concord, 225-0303, grapponeconferencecenter.com) will serve an Easter brunch buffet with seatings at 10 a.m. and noon. The menu will include assorted baked pastries, a cheese display, a fruit display, carved baked ham, prime rib, assorted coffees and teas, salads and more.

The cost is $29.95 for adults, $27.95 for seniors, $20.95 for for kids ages 4 to 15, and free for kids under 4.

• Hanover Street Chophouse (149 Hanover St., Manchester, 644-2467, hanoverstreetchophouse.com) will offer a three-course menu from noon to 4 p.m. with options like sugarhouse ham, pork chops, salmon, filet mignon, a surf and turf dinner and more. The cost is per entree and ranges from $43 to $75.

• The Homestead Restaurant & Tavern (641 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 429-2022, homesteadnh.com) will serve a special Easter menu in which your choice of an entree will be available with two sides that include salad, baked potato, mashed potatoes, rice pilaf or a vegetable. Entree options include beef tenderloin, chicken Marsala, seafood fettuccine alfredo, baked stuffed haddock, vegetarian ravioli and more.

• Italian Farmhouse (337 Daniel Webster Highway, Plymouth, 536-4536, thecman.com) will serve selections from its dinner menu, with Italian-themed Easter specials, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• Killarney’s Irish Pub (Holiday Inn Nashua, 9 Northeastern Boulevard, Nashua, 888-1551, find them on Facebook) will serve an Easter brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Options include a carving station with turkey and ham, an omelet station, assorted pastries, fruits and more. The cost is $29.95

for adults and $14.95 for kids under 12.

Reservations are recommended.

• LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst, 672-9898, labellewinerynh.com) will host an Easter brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu will feature a fresh fruit and breakfast pastry display, bananas Foster crepes, cinnamon roll casserole, an omelet station, a carving station with ham and prime rib, and lunch options like seared chicken with crispy prosciutto bacon mushrooms, baked haddock, ravioli and a salad station. A dessert station will feature carrot cake, cannolis, chocolatecovered strawberries and French pastries.

The Easter Bunny will make a special guest appearance. A la carte dining will not be available. The cost for the buffet is $49 for adults, $19 for kids ages 4 to 12 and free for kids ages 3 and under. Reservations are required.

• Lakehouse Grille (281 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith, 279-5221, thecman.com) will serve an Easter buffet from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The cost is $29.95 for adults and $14.95 for kids ages 12 and under. Selections from the dinner menu, with Easter specials, will also be available in the dining room from 4 to 9 p.m.

• Mile Away Restaurant (52 Federal Hill Road, Milford, 673-3904, mileawayrestaurant.com) will serve a special Easter menu with several 39

BRING HOME YOUR EASTER EATS • A Market Natural Foods (125 Loring St., Manchester, 668-2650, myamarket.com) has specials on a variety of products, available now through March 30, that include hot soups, fruits, vegetables, cheeses and more.

• Angela’s Pasta & Cheese Shop (815 Chestnut St., Manchester, 625-9544, angelaspastaandcheese.com) is offering an Easter pick-up menu with various options like breads, savory pies, quiches, pies, cakes and more. Order by March 27. Pickups are Saturday, March 31, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• The Bakeshop on Kelley Street (171 Kelley St., Manchester, 624-3500, thebakeshoponkelleystreet.com) is taking orders for 9-inch pies that start at $16 (flavors include coconut cream, lemon meringue, banana cream, chocolate cream and key lime), as well as an Easter egg bread with two sizes available ($12 for a small and $18 for a large). Order by March 30.

• The Black Forest Cafe & Bakery (212 Route 101, Amherst, 672-0500, theblackforestcafe.com) is taking orders for Easter-themed sweets like egg-, chick- or bunny-shaped cookies ($14.95/ dozen), specialty cakes like a hummingbird baby cake and a raspberry white chocolate mousse baby cake ($7), 9-inch pies with flavors like apple, strawberry rhubarb and chocolate cream ($19), and other sweets. The deadline to order is March 28. They’re closed on Easter Sunday but will be open for pick-ups on March 30 and March 31.

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• Bread & Chocolate (29 S. Main St., Concord, 228-3330) is taking orders for a variety of special cakes that include a vanilla lemon cake with white chocolate mousse, raspberries, coconut and jelly beans, a chocolate raspberry mousse cake, and white or dark chocolate cakes. Sizes that are available include $20.50 for a 6-inch, $24.50 for an 8-inch or $29.50 for a 10-inch. Also available is a shortbread crust fruit start with whipped cream and an apricot glaze, which can be ordered in an 8-inch for $20.50, a 9-inch for $24.50 or an 11-inch for $29.50. Pickups are on Saturday, March 31, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Buckley’s Bakery & Cafe (436 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 262-5929, buckleysbakerycafe.com) is taking orders for Easter for sweets like pies like blueberry crumble, chocolate cream and lemon meringue, cakes like coconut cream, key lime cheesecake and chocolate mousse, and other assorted pastries like scones, croissants, muffins, cinnamon rolls and more. Order by March 28. Pickups are available throughout Easter weekend.

• Crosby Bakery (51 E. Pearl St., Nashua, 8821851, crosbybakerynh.com) is taking orders for Easter angel cakes ($6.80 for a small, $8.25 for a medium or $11.50 for a large), Easter sugar cookies $4.50 per a dozen, available in either bunnies or chicks), bunny-shaped cupcakes for $2.50 apiece, chocolate or butter Easter cupcakes for $10.50 per dozen and more. Pickups are Saturday, March 31, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• The Crust & Crumb Baking Co. (126 N. Main St., Concord, 219-0763, thecrustandcrumb. com) is taking orders for Easter for specialty cakes like a robin’s egg cookies and cream cake for $35 (chocolate and vanilla cake with a cookies and cream filling, pale blue cookie flecked buttercream and ganache) and a coconut cottontail cake for $25 (coconut cake with coconut custard, coconut buttercream, and petite cream puffs and on top). Other options include vanilla-glazed cinnamon buns and pecan sticky buns (four for $12), hot cross buns ($10 for a dozen), and pies like apple streusel, key lime, forest berry crumb and more (starts at $16 and varies depending on the flavor). Orders are requested to have been placed by the weekend before Easter. Pickups are March 31.

• Frederick’s Pastries (109 Route 101A, Amherst, 882-7725; 25 S. River Road, Bedford, 647-2253; pastry.net) is offering several Easterinspired desserts and pastries, like a white pound Easter egg cake, Easter Bunny cakes, truffles, cookies, fudge bars and more.

• Granite State Candy Shoppe (832 Elm St., Manchester, 218-3885; 13 Warren St., Concord, 225-2591; granitestatecandyshoppe.com) offers several Easter-inspired treats, like maple candy rabbits, caramel robin eggs, gummy rabbits, bunny corn and more.

• Michelle’s Gourmet Pastries & Deli (819 Union St., Manchester, 647-7150, michellespastries.com) is taking orders for hot cross buns that

can be purchased either individually or by the half dozen, as well as Easter cookies shaped like chicks, bunnies and eggs, Easter basket cupcakes and more. The cost ranges from $2.50 to $15.

Order by March 28. Pickups are on Saturday, March 31, from 8 a.m. to noon.

• Mr. Mac’s Macaroni & Cheese (497 Hooksett Road, Manchester, 606-1760, mr-macs.com) is taking orders for party trays (feeds about 8 to 12 people) or banquet trays (feeds about 30 to 35 people) of macaroni and cheese. Prices vary depending on the flavors you get, but a 10 percent off promotion is available for Easter now through March 31.

• Queen City Cupcakes (790 Elm St., Manchester, 624-4999, qccupcakes.com) is taking orders for Easter and spring themed cupcakes like Cadbury cream, marshmallow Peep, hostess, chocolate salted caramel and more. Order by March 28. Pickups are on Saturday, March 31, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Triolo’s Bakery (21 Kilton Road, Bedford, 232-3256, triolosbakery.com) is taking orders for “sleepy bunny” Easter cakes and Easter egg decorated chocolate dipped whoopie pies, as well as buttercream brownies, cannolis, assorted cupcakes and more. Pickups are on Saturday, March 31, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Van Otis Chocolates (341 Elm St., Manchester, 627-1611, vanotischocolates.com) offers several Easter-inspired candies like chocolate bunnies, chocolate Easter egg foils and more.

38 options to choose from. All dinners are $28.95 and include your choice of an appetizer (fresh fruit cup with sorbet, seasonal country pate, Swedish meatballs or New England clam chowder), a salad (Caesar or tossed), an entree (roasted leg of lamb, roast tenderloin of beef, honeyglazed ham, seafood cioppino, chicken Marsala, pork Normandy, nut-crusted chicken, baked stuffed jumbo shrimp, wienerschnitzel, maple-glazed salmon, broiled haddock or eggplant Parmesan) and a dessert (lemon mascarpone cake, flourless chocolate cake, strawberry cheesecake, blueberry peach cobbler, ice cream puffs, chocolate mousse cake or peach melba).

• MT’s Local Kitchen & Wine Bar (212 Main St., Nashua, mtslocal.com, mtslocal.com) will serve a brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The menu will include Mediterranean pasta salad, vegetable quiche, homemade corned beef hash, chicken Marsala, stir-fried noodles with vegetables, made-to-order omelets and more, as well as dessert selections like French pastries and cookies. The cost is $28 for adults and $19 for kids under 10.

• Nibblesworth Wood Fire Grill (409 The Hill, Portsmouth, 427-8022, nibblesworth.com) will serve its regular Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring breakfast poutine and bottomless bloody marys and mimosas, among other options.

Visit nibblesworth.com/reservations to make a reservation.

• O Steaks and Seafood (11 S. Main St., Concord, 856-7925; 62 Doris Ray Court, Laconia, 524-9373; magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com/osteaks) will serve a brunch buffet from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at both locations.

• The Puritan Backroom Restaurant (245 Hooksett Road, Manchester, 669-6890, puritanbackroom.com) will be serving its regular menu, with specials like roasted lamb and baked ham, and additional seating available for Easter.

• The Red Blazer Restaurant & Pub (72 Manchester, St., Concord, 224-4101, theredblazer.com) will serve an Easter brunch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be a prime rib carving station, rosemary and garlic roast leg of lamb, baked stuffed sole with crab stuffing and sherry cream sauce, eggs Benedict, sausage-stuffed biscuits, home fries, pancakes, assorted fresh fruit and more. The cost is $28.99 for adults, $12.99 for kids ages 6 to 12 and $6.99 for kids ages 3 to 5. Reservations are recommended.

• Restaurant Tek-Nique (170 Route 101, Bedford, 488-5629, restaurantteknique.com) will serve an Easter brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. that will include an omelet station, a carving station, a dessert bar and drink specials. The cost is $30 for adults, $14 for kids ages 3 to 12 and free for kids under 3.

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• Route 104 Diner (752 Route 104, New Hampton, 744-0120, thecman.com) will serve its regular menu, with Easter specials, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

• Stonebridge Country Club (161 Gorham Pond Road, Goffstown, 497-8633, golfstonebridgecc.com) will serve an Easter brunch with seatings at either 11 a.m. or 1 p.m. The menu includes assorted pastries and fruits, buttermilk and chocolate chip pancakes, sliced honey glazed ham, honey mustard roasted chicken, a grilled seasonal herb vegetable platter with a balsamic glaze, a dessert table and more. The cost is $26.99 for adults, $22.99 for seniors and $12.99 for children. Reservations are required.

• Tilt’n Diner (61 Laconia Road, Tilton, 286-2204, thecman.com) will be serving its regular menu with Easter specials on its breakfast buffet until 11 a.m., and Easter dinner specials from 6 to 9 p.m.

• Village Trestle (25 Main St., Goffstown, 497-8230, villagetrestle.com) will be serving a ham dinner from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Easter Sunday. The cost is $10.95 per person and includes spiral ham, potatoes, vegetables, salads and rolls.

• Wolfe’s Tavern (Wolfeboro Inn, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-3016, wolfeboroinn.com) will serve an Easter brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring prime rib, leg of lamb, artisan ham, eggs benedict and more. The cost is $32.95 for adults and $16.95 for children.

• Zorvino Vineyards (226 Main St., Sandown, 887-8463, zorvino.com) will serve an Easter brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu will include assorted fruits and pastries, blueberry crepes, an omelet station, roast beef hash, a salad station and more. Lunch options will also be available, like baked haddock, chicken Marsala, asparagus ravioli with lemon, tomato, basil and olive oil, vegetable medley, roasted sweet potatoes, and a carving station with prime rib of beef and herb-crusted leg of lamb. The cost is $40 for teens and adults and $20 for kids ages 5 to 12.

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The former Rig A’ Tony’s Italian TakeOut in Auburn has undergone an overhaul, with a new name and more than a dozen new menu items, in addition to several of the Italian comfort classics that were staples on the previous menu.

Cindy’s Comfort Kitchen has replaced Rig A’ Tony’s, which opened in the space last November, according to owner Glenn Ceurvels. When Rig A’ Tony’s owner Lisa Desisto left to focus more on her restaurant’s other location in Derry, Ceurvels took it over. He changed the name and overall menu a couple weeks ago to make it more inclusive while keeping some of the popular Rig A’ Tony’s dishes.

“I wanted to put my own stamp on it … [and] to have a little broader of a range,” Ceurvels said. “We have pizza, we have subs and we have pasta dishes … that Rig A’ Tony’s had that were best-sellers, but it’s also more American comfort-focused, so we’ve added things like mac and cheese, chicken pot pies, burgers and burger plates, steak tips … [and] our chef created a nice chicken tempura tender that’s really good.”

Ceurvels said the restaurant takes its name from his wife Cindy and offers mostly take-out and delivery, in addition to a small dining-in area. Deliveries will be made to the entire town of Auburn as well as a five- to eight-mile radius around neighboring communities like Derry, Londonderry, Chester, and Manchester. Online ordering will be available in the near future.

Among the other new items you’ll find on the menu is poutine, with the option to add bacon, as well as sweet potato french fries, hot subs like the steak bomb, the roast beef melt and the steak tip, and chicken wings with 10-piece, 20-piece or 30-piece

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options and dipping sauces like honey Sriracha aioli, garlic butter and sweet and spicy peanut sauce.

Full dinners with the opportunity to make your own meal are new as well. Entrees include steak tips, four-piece fried chicken, a hamburger plate and six-piece chicken tenders. Each comes with a salad and your choice of a side like french fries, onion rings, mashed potatoes, rice pilaf, asparagus or broccoli.

If you ordered from either Rig A’ Tony’s location in the past, you’ll still be able to get 18-inch thin crust pizzas with toppings like four cheese and garlic, steak and cheese, Margarita and chicken bacon ranch, and pasta entrees like veal or chicken piccata and chicken Parmesan.

Ceurvels added that Cindy’s Comfort Kitchen has been starting to push a catering menu that includes half-sized and full-sized trays of appetizers, salads, entrees, platters, pizzas and even cannolis.

“There definitely are a lot of businesses around this area … and we want to reach out to them and let them know that we offer catering now, as well as for residents, like when someone’s having a party or something,” he said.

Cindy’s Comfort Kitchen is open for lunch and dinner now, but Ceurvels said he wanted to explore the possibility of opening during the morning hours in the coming months to serve breakfast items like cinnamon rolls, house-made breakfast sandwiches, coffees, bagels and more.

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Join the Lions Club of Pinardville for its annual Easter Bunny breakfast on Saturday, March 24, from 8 a.m. to noon at Bartlett Elementary School (689 Mast Road, Pinardville). The breakfast will include pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, beverages and more, and will feature free children’s activities like an Easter egg hunt. The cost to attend the breakfast is $6 for kids and adults ages 4 and up and free for kids 3 and under.

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Creamy Parmesan Polenta I’ve been looking for an alternative to my family’s usual rice-pasta-potatoes starch routine for a while, but I have been a little hesitant to introduce something new to my overly picky kids. When I found this recipe for creamy Parmesan polenta, however, I could not pass it up. Truth be told, I’d never made polenta, and couldn’t recall a time when I’d had it outside of a wedding reception, so if anything, this recipe was more of an experiment. But, as it turns out, it was surprisingly simple to make and even easier to eat.

I never realized that polenta was cornmeal and that it was so simple to cook. Prepared in chicken stock and flavored with garlic, Parmesan cheese, and salt and pepper, this polenta recipe is a great way to try the pantry ingredient for the first time. Plus, in a pinch, polenta can be made quickly and served with just about anything. I opted to serve this dish with chicken, but I reheated the leftovers the next day with some fresh veggies and was just as satisfied with my meal.

If you don’t like the texture of thick mashed potatoes, polenta may not be for you. The finished product was a bit heavy, but once I got past the initial feeling of eating a grainier mashed potato, I found that I may prefer polenta to potatoes as a side. But what they do have in common is their ability to take on the flavors they’re cooked with.

For example, this recipe really did showcase the Parmesan, and I added a pinch of garlic salt to boost the flavor from the garlic Creamy Parmesan Polenta

Recipe courtesy of Ina Garten

4 cups chicken stock 2 teaspoons minced garlic 1 cup yellow cornmeal, preferably stone-ground 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese ¼ cup crème fraiche 2 tablespoons butter

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it was cooked with. Additionally, the underlying chicken flavor complemented the overall dish, but now I’m curious to try making polenta with vegetable broth instead.

Butter and crème fraiche contributed to the overall lusciousness of the finished product, but with the simple flavors, the polenta was a hit around my dinner table. Admittedly my kids were a bit thrown off by the texture at first, but quickly dug in. My husband went back for seconds, and this recipe made enough to ensure everyone could help themselves to heaping servings.

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In a large saucepan, bring the chicken stock and garlic to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and slowly whisk in the cornmeal, whisking constantly to ensure there are no lumps. Switch to a wooden spoon and add the salt and pepper, and simmer, stirring almost constantly, for about 10 minutes, or until the mixture is thick. Be sure to scrape the bottom of the pan while stirring. Remove from heat and add the Parmesan, crème fraiche and butter. Taste to season and top with extra Parmesan cheese or parsley if desired.

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Lighten up with fruit-flavored beers

By Jeff Mucciarone food@hippopress.com

Personal opinion: fruit-flavored beers are hit or miss. But a really good fruit-infused beer can be a revelation.

I’m a big fan of Framingham, Mass.-based Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers, which boasts a terrific array of innovative, delicious and enticing brews, notably a range of baltic porters, but when I was there a year or so ago, I was told a blood orange- and hibiscus-infused brew was their best-seller. The lager did have a subtle citrusy sweetness with pleasing floral notes, but this wasn’t the beer version of orange juice. It was light, crisp, clean and refreshing — a perfect warm-weather brew.

The key word there is subtle. A successful fruit-flavored beer carries subtle fruit flavors. The fruit shouldn’t completely overpower the brew. It can be difficult to hit the right balance: Go too heavy on the fruit, and the brew becomes too sweet, almost syrupy; go too light, and what’s the point of including the fruit? Not that using fruit is a new concept — hardly — but fruit does provide brewers with plenty of opportunities to explore flavor combinations.

It’s the perfect time of year to start thinking of something lighter. Even if the weather isn’t exactly cooperating, you’ve been cooped up all winter drinking big, rich stouts and porters, and your palate and your waistline are ready for something lighter, something that assures you spring is really coming. Seriously.

Here are five fruit-infused beers on tap now at New Hampshire breweries to convince you spring has, in fact, sprung: Johannes by Schilling Beer Co. (Littleton): Schilling describes this Bavarian-style hefeweizen as “featuring notes of toast, caramel, clove and, as it warms, banana.” Caramel and clove may seem a bit too wintry for this theme but I could not ignore the banana.

Cucumber Gose by Portsmouth Brewery: Say what? This is an “Ancient German Wheat Ale” originally made in Leipzig, Germany, which apparently is known for its salt mines, giving the water, and beer, a natural saltiness. Since the Portsmouth Brewery isn’t located in Leipzig, brewers went ahead and added salt — and coriander and grains of paradise — to recreate their version of this brew.

And brewers added cucumbers during the fermentation process. I know cucumbers aren’t fruit so you don’t need to point that out, but the mellow and refreshing flavor of cucumber screams warm days ahead to me.

Local Blue by Kettlehead Brewing Co. (Tilton): There is just something about a blueberry beer. Whereas other berries, like

The Cucumber Gose at The Portsmouth Brewery. Photo

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raspberries, can be a bit too tangy and syrupy on the palate, blueberries tend to be lighter, crisper and cleaner in a brew. After you’ve had a few big IPAs, switch to a blueberry beer — your tastebuds will thank you. (You could also just stop drinking.) This blueberry wheat beer is brewed with local blueberries.

Blueprint DDH El Dorado by Garrison City Beerworks (Dover): This cloudy pale ale, which looks like a New England-style IPA, boasts big tropical flavors of papaya and melon. As important as the proportion of the fruit are the fruit flavors brewers choose to highlight. Tropical flavors like papaya, pineapple and mango, which come from the hops, sparkle in a nicely hopped brew.

Busty! Farmhouse Blonde by Burnt Timber Brewing (Wolfeboro): I love farmhouse ales — they’re almost like a blank canvas for the brewer to play around with, mixing and matching interesting, bright flavors. This farmhouse ale is fermented on peaches and apricots, which says winter is over to me. And at 7.0 ABV, this brew has some giddyup.

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

What’s in My Fridge Great Rhythm Brewing Co. (Portsmouth) Resonation Pale Ale: First, let me say this beer is terrific: bright and crisp with a delicious, inviting hop character. But I also must say this brew epitomizes how far we’ve come in the current hop movement. Less than 10 years ago, we wouldn’t have dared call this a mere pale ale; this would have been an IPA and a very hoppy one at that.

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• Superchunk, What a Time to Be Alive A • Chris Bay, Chasing the Sun B BOOKS

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Superchunk, What a Time to Be Alive (Merge Records)

Good lord a-mercy, this Chapel Hill post-ish-punk band has been around for almost 30 years, believe it or not. You might have seen me pumping these guys up if I hadn’t heard a few mediocre tunes from them during the early Aughts, but they seem to be out for blood with this one, their 11th, and first since 2013’s I Hate Music. It’s still singer-guitarist Mac McCaughan in front, with that holding-his-nose-to-make-fun-of-hislittle-brother tenor of his, which isn’t as aggressive as your Black Flag or anything like that, but it does work as far as keeping the band relegated to the back of the bus, which more bands should be striving for anyway. The title track kicks things off in Pixies style, which is what they’ve always appeared to think is their strength, but after that we have “Lost My Brain” doling out a Gang Green-ish pounding, not raw but pretty awesome-sounding regardless.

“Cloud of Hate” is the mosh-pit track, a live-Ramones-speed slab of mayhem that literally no punk could hate. I’d tell you they’ll be in Cambridge, Mass., at The Sinclair on April 6, but it’s sold out. A — Eric W. Saeger

Chris Bay, Chasing the Sun (Steamhammer Records)

Launched in 1998, Germany’s Freedom Call was a band that came late to the Helloween/Savatage power-metal party but they’ve done okay, being in the good graces of labels like SPV and all, and at least they had the shameless, half-joking theatrics down, with singles like “Metal is for Everyone,” a harbinger of orchestralmetal things to come from the likes of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Nothing the band has done so far is as TransSiberian as this, though, the debut solo album from their frontman, who’s all posture and hair but with the epicness to back it up, or at least to keep you from laughing until it hurts. “Flying Hearts” has an almost Backstreet Boys feel to it, its cheesebag keyboards relaying an ah-ha realization that maybe Styx was the first boyband. Apart from ripping off Debbie Gibson, “Radio Starlight” conjures a single-worthy nick of the Killers; “Misty Rain” is “Sweet Child o’ Mine” in a ski-mask. Definitely listenable, let’s just leave it at that. B — Eric W. Saeger

• On March 23, Jimmy Page wannabe and undiagnosed hamburger addict Jack White will release his third solo album, which I assume will be more throwback-rawk, and it will be called Boarding House Reach. One of the tracks, “Over and Over and Over,” has been around since 2004, and was almost recorded by his old two-person band White Stripes, and Jay-Z was supposed to contribute to it, but that never happened. I’d love to talk more about that song, but it is not publicly available, and I’m not about to go on the dark web and ask Slenderman for a download of his copy, so instead we’ll look at one of the other tracks, “Respect Commander.” White promised that this LP would be weird, and that tune is definitely that, but in a good way, a cybernetic hybrid of Prodigy, Primus, and early Linkin Park. It’s definitely a Zappa-esque groove song, definitely experimental but not too Zappa, a gutsy move for the Hamburglar.

• The Sword is a throwback-metal band from Austin, Texas.

I’ve made fun of them before, but it’s like a brotherly ribbing, really, not like when I slurp hate-sicles and rain snark-bombs on those twee and gloom-indie bands and you totally agree with everything I say. Why don’t I rag on The Sword? I don’t know, really, maybe it’s because they’re never going to be a really huge, arena-filling band, because they were born 30 years too late to be Riot or Montrose or all those thingamajigs. Whatever, their new LP, Used Future, is on the way to its ignominious splashing into the culture, which will reply by listening to more Kendrick Lamar and eating boxes of Nerds candy and washing it down with Mountain Dew Now With Extra Sugar And Matrix Goop. The single, “Deadly Nightshade,” sounds more like Black Sabbath than Montrose, but it’s mostly Montrose. Maybe if I did a few head drugs and laid down on a beanbag chair I’d dig it more, so don’t listen to me, just do whatever feels right in your heart.

• Sunflower Bean, hmph, never heard of ‘em. They’re an “alternative rock” band from Glen Head, N.Y. They’re handsome devils, these guys. I’ll bet the guys in the band wear stupid stretchy blackand-white Vans and have girlfriends named Marliss and Gwynne who can hardly wait for them to quit music and become respectable home-improvement telemarketers. Twentytwo In Blue is their new album, and the single that was easiest for me to get my hands on and move things along is called “I was a Fool.” The girl singer sounds a little like Aimee Mann, but with more voice lessons, and the song is k.d. laing-ish. The song has no hook, it’s just a decent k.d. laing verse part for the whole thing, will postmodernism ever end?

• I remember Guided by Voices because they’re from Dayton, Ohio, and for a brief time I was writing for Dayton City Paper and the band spammed me harder than Geico. Space Gun is the new LP, the title track a mixture of Flaming Lips and Manchester Orchestra, which, yes, means it’s pretty awesome. — Eric W. Saeger

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It’s about half and half. Half of them are based on personal experiences, my travels, the romances and non-romances explored in my relationships with people. In the other half, the speaker is not me, but I put myself in the shoes of these other personas and characters from history and literature. … I imagine their world and their aesthetic and the power they hold, and what it would be like to speak from their point of view. I loved that these characWhat is the idea behind Echo in Four ters, even silent characters like Echo, have a Beats? chance to speak through me and, in a weird In this retelling, not only does Echo not way, tell their stories. lose her voice, but she is very powerful … so it’s about women finding their own voice and What would you like readers to take away speaking against silence, and about how wom- from Echo in Four Beats? en in powerless situations find ways to express I’m really interested in reader reaction and themselves. … It dreams of a common lan- response. … I would like readers to kind of guage. What happens when people from interrogate their own power and find where different backgrounds and places of power, and how they can express their own voice. It with different ideas of masculinity and femi- doesn’t have to be in proper English to express ninity, come together … and figure out how to ourselves and our complicated identities in connect, despite language barriers, and despite an honored form. I hope people will read [the defined roles? How do they find ways to sup- poems] and be able to relate, but I hope it port that female agency and the female gaze? also invites response, and that they will try to express themselves in that form.

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Rita Banerjee presents Echo in There are four sections. The first deals with Four Beats what it means to have an American identity

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I did maybe 15 to 20 poems while I was getting my MFA. … It took me around 10 years to get the book in its final form.

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The challenge for me, then, was, how do I take a character like Echo, who plays this certain female role, and break her mold? It took me a long time to think and reimagine the power that Echo could hold herself, and how that feminism can occupy important spaces and progressive spaces in contemporary culture.

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The New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester welcomes a special guest writer, Rita Banerjee, on Tuesday, March 27, for a reading, signing and discussion of her debut collection of poetry, Echo in Four Beats, released earlier this month.

Banerjee earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington and her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard Uni- Courtesy photo. versity. She is the executive creative director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop and an associate scholar of Comparative Literature at Harvard, and is currently teaching on modernism, art-house film and South Asian literary theory at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.

Echo in Four Beats is inspired by Echo and Narcissus, a myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses that tells of a talkative woodland nymph, Echo, who is cursed to only speak when spoken to. The 47 poems are a modern feminist retelling of the myth that explores what Echo would have said, had she not lost her voice.

Banerjee shared some of her thoughts about the collection.

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Gillian Flynn didn’t invent the plot twist, but after the success of Gone Girl, America’s appetite for mind-bending, didn’t-seethat-coming novels seems to have turned into a craving. The latest arrival in the genre is The Wife Between Us, a dizzying tale about a divorced woman intent on preventing the upcoming wedding of her former husband and her younger, prettier replacement.

A caveat: That’s possibly what it’s about.

As the book jacket warns, what’s really happening might not be what you think.

Like another psychological thriller recently released, The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, The Wife Between Us debuted as a blockbuster in the making, having already been optioned for film. The authors are two women with a history of working together — one as an editor at Simon & Schuster, the other as a novelist — and their prose is accordingly polished, if at times disappointingly robotic.

The book starts with the promise of an unreliable, unsympathetic and possibly alcoholic narrator, Vanessa, who is working as a saleswoman at Saks and living with her aunt in the aftermath of a devastating divorce. The marriage lasted less than a decade, and Vanessa and her husband had no children, which seems to be part of the problem.

The couple had tried for years to conceive, with no success even with aggressive fertility treatments, and Vanessa, who recently learned from a friend that her ex is engaged, is wrecked by the thought that Richard’s girlfriend and soon-to-be wife might be pregnant. She’s determined to break up the relationship, which she warns us with ominous lines such as “She has no idea what will happen if she continues like this. None at all.”

As Vanessa skirts the line between spurned wife and stalker, the narrative alternatives between her point of view and that of Nellie, Richard’s fiancée.

Nellie and Richard met on a plane, and she fell in love with him knowing nothing about any of his previous relationships.

When Richard buys her an expansive Westchester County house and an enormous diamond ring, Nellie quits the two jobs she worked to pay the rent in a shared apartment and also leaves behind her best friend, with whom she suddenly has nothing in common. We’re told

Nellie had left Florida for New York for shadowy reasons before she met Richard, but otherwise she seems a sweet, trusting innocent who, like Cinderella, was overwhelmed and grateful for her sudden change in fortune.

That’s Part 1. Fasten your seatbelts for Parts 2 and 3.

Give the authors credit for crafting a polished story that, as promised, is full of surprises. When novels are marketed as plot-twisted, as this one is, the surprises are necessarily diminished because we know they’re coming. The Wife Between Us has several twists, one of which is so game-changing that it bordered on irritating. Not only did the authors pull the rug out from under me mid-book, but I felt like I’d bumped my head when I fell. I spent a day grumbling about it to anyone who would listen before proceeding with the rest of the book.

The later twists were not as unnerving, even though I saw none of them coming.

As such, The Wife Between Us is a skillfully crafted psychological thriller that may be better on the big screen than in a book. That’s because while it punches all the buttons, the writing at times feels phoned in. This is particularly noticeable in Vanessa’s first-person account (Nellie’s side is told in third person), where the sentences too often plod like a tired draft horse pulling a cart full of Amish.

It’s possible this is deliberate. Vanessa is, after all, not in a good mental place.

But I was halfway through the book before I encountered a paragraph that struck me as especially fine writing, and there are too many words that contribute nothing to the story but bulk. To wit: Vanessa, upon making a meal for her husband while she was married: “I tried to follow the recipe exactly, but I’d neglected to buy the fenugreek because I had no idea what it was. And when it came time to add the fennel, I couldn’t find it, even though I swore I’d put it in the cart.”

(Fenugreek: “an annual plant in the family Fabaceae, with leaves consisting of three small obovate to oblong leaflets,” says Wikipedia, unhelpfully.)

The narrative of The Wife Between Us is a bit like a robot walking: The book is really cool and it gets where it’s going, but we still wish for a bit more fluidity and grace. That said, this book is no tin man. It has heart and a noble theme that belies its dime-store-novel outline, revealed in an ending that is ultimately satisfying. B — Jennifer Graham

Books Author Events • TY GAGNE Author presents Where You’ll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova. Sat., March 24, 2 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

• RITA BANERJEE Author presents Echo in Four Beats.

Tues., March 27, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. New Hampshire Institute of Art, 148 Concord St. , Manchester. Visit nhia.edu.

• K. D. MASON Author presents Cancelled Out. Wed., March 28, 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

• BOB TEWKSBURY Author presents Ninety Percent Mental. Thurs., April 5, 7 p.m.

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• MARTA MCDOWELL Author presents All the Presidents’ Gardens. Sat., April 7, 2 p.m. Hollis Brookline High School, 24 Cavalier Ct., Hollis. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. See “All the Presidents’ Gardens” on Eventbrite.com.

• ROBERT V.S. REDICK AND THEODORA GOSS Redick presents Master Assassins. Goss presents The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. Sat., April 7, 4 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

• ABBY ROSMARIN Author presents In the Event the Flower Girl Explodes. Tues., April 10, 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

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• POETRY: A COMMUNION WITH NATURE A poetry evening with David Anderson. Fri., April 6, 5 p.m. Whipple Hall , 25 Seamans Road, New London.

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Virginia Macgregor presents the American release of her novel, Before I was Yours, an emotional family drama that asks the question: how far would you go for a child who isn’t yours? Sam and Rosie Keep, a British couple, embark on the emotional journey of adopting Jonah, a seven year old boy from Kenya, who was abandonded at Heathrow Airport on Christmas day.

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As the spring hiking season ramps up, we’ve got a double author event for all of our hikers and mountaineers. Teaching us the ins and outs of avoiding a tragedy on a hiking excursion are Julie Boardman Boardman, with Death in the White Mountains: Hiker Fatalities and How to Avoid Being One, and Dan Allen, with the classic hiking manual Don’t Die on the Mountain.

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• Hiking safety: Ty Gagne will be at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Saturday, March 24, at 2 p.m., to discuss his latest book, Where You’ll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova. The book explores the true story of Kate Matrosova, a 32-year-old mountaineer who, despite her preparedness and safety precautions, was stranded and found dead in the Northern Presidential Range in the White Mountains in 2015. New Hampshire Fish and Game Conservation Officer Glen Lucas, who was on the team of first responders that searched for Matrosova, will join Gagne at the event. The two will discuss search and rescue operations and provide tips and strategies for how hikers can stay safe.

Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

• Life on earth: Peterborough author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas will visit MainStreet BookEnds (16 E. Main St., Warner) on Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m. to present her latest book, The Hidden Life of Life. The book offers a big-picture look at life on Earth and the universal likeness, experiences and environments between all creatures, from amoebas to humans. Call 456-2700 or visit mainstreetbookends.com.

• Tell your story: Long Story Short, a Portsmouth live storytelling series, hosts “PreStory,” a storytelling workshop, on Monday, March 26, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Cooperative Venture Workspace (36 Maplewood Ave., Portsmouth). The workshop will cover where story ideas come from, what makes a compelling story, how to structure a story, and different techniques for engaging the audience, to equip participants with the tools needed to create a draft story for a live storytelling event. Come with a few story ideas to share and work with. The workshop is free; RSVP to gardnerstate@gmail.com. Visit facebook. com/LSSat3S. — Angie Sykeny

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• VIRGINIA MACGREGOR Author presents Before I was Yours. Sun., April 15, 3 p.m.

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• FRANCELIA CLARK Author presents Circle Around Monadnock: Time Travel with Horses. Tues., April 17, 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 2240562.

• ELISABETH HYDE Author presents Go Ask Fannie. Fri., April 20, 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore. com or call 224-0562.

• JULIE BOARDMAN Author presents Death in the White Mountains: Hiker Fatalities and How to Avoid Being One. Sun., April 22, 2 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

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• DAN ALLEN Author presents Don’t Die on the Mountain.

Sun., April 22, 2 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore. com or call 224-0562.

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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

Tomb Raider (PG-13)

Boxing bike-messenger Lara Croft sets out to learn the fate of her long disappeared father in Tomb Raider, an action movie which reaches an acceptable level of fun for the price of the ticket.

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a bunch of lost fishermen forced to do hard labor, he’s been digging around the island to attempt to find the tomb. When Lara and all her father’s research show up, he’s delighted to learn that his work might be nearing an end, no matter how bad Trinity and their plans for the queen’s powers might be.

I’m not sure if this is just how the character of Vogel is written or how Goggins is playing him or both but Vogel does not give one shriveled damn about the tomb or the queen or any of the associated magical stuff. He wants to find the thing because it is his only way off the island. What the tomb is and what it does and why Trinity wants it is of no interest to him — or ultimately to the movie either.

Additionally, Goggins doesn’t seem to give a damn about Vogel. He doesn’t put any kind of a spin on the character or give it any intensity not provided by the grizzled beard. This kind of “whatever, let’s get through this” approach actually works, I think, and helps knock a bunch of the silliness out of this endeavor.

West is left to play the believer, which he does, with an entertaining amount of wideeyed goofiness. With mission and grim real-world motivation taken care of, it’s left to Vikander to just kick butt and be awesome, which she does with just the right amount of realism and action movie exaggeration. She isn’t some invincible superhero who never gets hit. She is thrown around and falls down.

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But she also lands punches and seems to learn as she goes how to navigate the various dangers and fight off the various baddies.

In the best way, Tomb Raider feels like a discount Raiders of the Lost Ark, the movie equivalent of the Kate Spade look-alike bag for sale at Target. It isn’t an object of art but it works well enough to get the job done.

Though, like an unearthed CGI mummy, it turns to dust almost the instant it ends, Tomb Raider is reasonably entertaining for the length of its runtime. BRated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action and for some language, according to the MPAA. Directed by Roar Uthaug with a screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, Tomb Raider is an hour and 58 minutes long and distributed by MetroGoldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Warner Bros.

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Lara (Alicia Vikander) is the embodiment of “scrappy” — she works as a takeout-food bike courier, she takes boxing lessons and to earn a few extra bucks she agrees to be the “fox” in a bicyclists’ “fox hunt” through London. The daughter of a posh lord, she can also recite Shakespeare and has some solid archery skills. But that lord, Richard Croft (Dominic West), disappeared when she was a teenager and she has never quite gotten over it — not his abandonment nor the fact that he’s probably dead.

Her guardian Ana (Kristin Scott Thomas) reminds her that her father’s fortune and her family estate could be hers if she just signed the papers acknowledging her father’s death.

Perhaps because she owes money to the boxing gym, she decides to sign the papers — but before she can, she sees a clue to one of the puzzles her father loved so much. The clue ends up taking her to a secret room at the family estate where she finds information on a quest her father went on. A chaser of mystical whosiwhatsits, Richard had found evidence of the real-world existence of a tomb of a Japanese “queen of the dead.” Seeking whatever secrets or powers she possessed, he went in search of the tomb on a deserted island in a stormy sea off Japan. In a video he’s left her, Richard tells Lara to burn his research into the Japanese queen, but she thinks it may lead her to evidence of what happened to her father so she heads to Japan seeking Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), a man whose father traveled with Richard on his trip to the island.

After a storm and a shipwreck, Lara and Lu Ren end up on the island of the queen’s tomb and find, to her surprise, that others believe the queen and her tomb have some mystical power. Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins) has been forced to work for seven years on the island by a shadowy group named Trinity. Using a small army of mercenaries and

Duhamel) and younger sister Nora (Talitha Eliana Bateman). He seems to like school to the extent that one can in high school. But his general state of contentment is also holding him back from rocking the boat by telling friends and family that he is gay.

When a boy calling himself Blue posts on a social media site used by the school’s students about his own struggles to come out, Simon is intrigued. He creates an anonymous email address and, calling himself Jacques, he emails Blue to describe his own reluctance to come out. The two strike up a friendship, which, even though Simon doesn’t know who Blue is, turns to something of an epistolary romance.

As the school year goes on, Simon focuses on details from Blue’s emails and bits of information he learns about the kids around him to try to figure out who Blue is. Is he Bram (Keiynan Lonsdale), a popular boy who is a part of Simon’s extended social circle? Is it Lyle (Joey Pollari), the guy Simon sees at the Waffle House? Is is Cal (Miles Heizer), a fellow performer on the school’s delightfully talentfree production of Cabaret?

We can be tolerably certain it isn’t Martin (Logan Miller), a spazzy jerk who accidentally gets a peek at Simon’s emails. He takes screen shots of them, threatening to out Simon to the whole school if Simon doesn’t help Martin attempt to date Abby. Abby clearly has the hots for Nick, who returns those feelings, so trying to push her toward Martin requires a bit of not-entirely-friendly fiddling in Simon’s friends’ lives.

And now that I describe it — the letters, the romantic misadventures, the love match based on a meeting of the minds — Love, Simon actually feels a lot like a Jane Austen novel. The movie kinda makes me want to go reread Emma.

Love, Simon also reminded me of Easy A, another movie about teen romance that features caring not-altogether-absent adults, friendship difficulties and drama related to school rumors. With its side plots about Simon’s friends and their romances it also reminded me — much as Lady Bird did — of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer speech (which really ought to be printed on a banner to hang

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the complexities of the characters and their lives is probably the movie’s most significant flaw but it is by no means fatal. This movie — with its swoony soundtrack, its laugh-outloud moments of comedy and its genuinely romantic romance — is a solid entry in the canon of teen love stories. B+ Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual references, language and teen partying.

Directed by Greg Berlanti with a screenplay

by Elizabeth Berger & Isaac Aptaker (from the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli), Love, Simon is an hour and 50 minutes long and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox.

CHUNKY’S CINEMA 707 Huse Road, Manchester, 206-3888; 150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499; 151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua, 880-8055, chunkys.com • Labyrinth (PG, 1986) Fri., March 23, 9:30 p.m.

NEW HAMPSHIRE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE 31 College Drive, Sweeney Auditorium, Concord, 2716484, ext. 4115, nhti.edu • Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) Fri., March 23, 7 p.m.

CAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS 44 S. Main St., Concord, 2251111, ccanh.com • The Flames of Paris (The Bolshoi Ballet in HD) Tues., March 27, 6 p.m.

CINEMAGIC 1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 644-4629; 11 Executive Park Drive, Merrimack, 423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com • Julius Caesar (National Theatre Live) Thurs., March 22, 7:30 p.m.

• Ponyo (G, 2008) Sun., March 25, 12:55 p.m.

NH Premiere – Kristin Scott Thomas Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson “THE PARTY” Every Evening 7:30 pm • Sun Mat. 2 pm & 4:30 pm Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner “MOLLY’S GAME” a true story Every Evening 7:30 pm • Sun Mat. 2 pm

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CONCORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 45 Green St., Concord, onconcord.com/library, 225-9670 • Turner & Hooch (PG, 1989) Thurs., March 29, 5:30 p.m.

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY Main Branch, 405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550; West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 6246560, manchester.lib.nh.us • Easter Parade (1948) Wed., March 28, 1 p.m.

NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary.org • School of Rock (PG-13, 2003) Sat., March 24, 2 p.m.

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• Phantom Thread (R, 2017) Thurs., March 22, 7:30 p.m.

• The Party (R, 2018) Fri., March 23, through Thurs., March 29, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 25, 2 and 4:30 p.m.

• Molly’s Game (R, 2017) Fri., March 23, through Thurs., March 29, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 25, 2 p.m.

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over the door of every high school) about how every single person in high school is ignoring you and your pain (and by extension your flaws and your drama) because they are too busy with their own. Simon is so constantly on edge about his big secret that he misses or discounts some of the things his friends are dealing with, which inadvertently causes them pain. In the gentlest, most comfy-suburban-house way possible, the movie shows characters working up to the “getting yourself ready for what’s next” stage of maturity.

Overall, Love, Simon is sweet and gentle — that its gentleness smooths away some of

RED RIVER THEATRES 11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, redrivertheatres.org • Call Me by Your Name (R, 2017) Thurs., March 22, 2:05 p.m.

• Lady Bird (R, 2017) Thurs., March 22, 7 p.m.

• The Party (R, 2018) Thurs., March 22, 2:10 and 5:35 p.m.

• 7 Days in Entebbe (PG-13, 2018) Thurs., March 22, 2, 5:30 and 7:50 p.m.; Fri., March 23, and Sat., March 24, 1, 3:20, 5:40 and 8 p.m.; Sun., March 25, 1, 3:20 and 5:40 p.m.; and Mon., March 26, through Thurs., March 29, 2:05, 5:30 and 7:50 p.m.

• In the Fade (R, 2017) Fri., March 23, 1:15, 3:25, 5:35 and 7:45 p.m.; Sat., March 24, 1:15, 3:25 and 5:35 p.m.; and Mon., March 26, through Thurs., March 29, 2:10, 5:35 and 7:40 p.m.

• Molly’s Game (R, 2017) Fri., March 23, 2, 5 and 8 p.m.; Sat., March 24, 2 and 5 p.m.; Mon., March 26, 2 p.m.; Tues., March 27, 2, 5:25 and 8:05 p.m.; and Wed., March 28, and Thurs., March 29, 2 p.m.

• NH Jewish Film Festival: Between Worlds Thurs., March 22, 7 p.m.

• NH Jewish Film Festival: Bye Bye Germany Sat., March 24, 8 p.m.

• NH Jewish Film Festival: Curious George: Show Me the Monkey! Sun., March 25, 3:30 p.m.

• NH Jewish Film Festival: Shelter Sun., March 25, 1 p.m.

• NH Jewish Film Festival: An Act of Defiance Sun., March 25, 3 p.m.

• NH Jewish Film Festival: Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators Sun., March 25, 5:30 p.m.

• Howl’s Moving Castle (PG, 2005) Thurs., March 29, 7 p.m.

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NITE Local music news & events

By Michael Witthaus

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• Creedence cover: With so many bands mining the John Fogerty catalog, Green River is one of the best. Led by singer and guitarist Rick Horvath, they draw from the Creedence Clearwater Revival catalog and go deep on Fogerty’s own material. It will hold fans over until the real thing arrives for a co-headliner show with ZZ Top at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion this summer. Go Thursday, March 22, 7:30 p.m., Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets are $25 at palacetheatre.org.

• Softer side: Over a career he began in the mid-’80s as a member of Alice Cooper’s band, Kip Winger has made more than a few shifts.

His most recent project is the classical Conversations with Nijinsky, recently done with the Nashville ballet. Winger releases a solo retrospective box set this month, and his stop in Derry should be a reflection of his varied catalog. Go Friday, March 23, 8 p.m., Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry. Tickets are $35-$40 at tupelohall.com.

• Weekend laughs : It’s an all-New England comedy event with Rhode Island favorite Brian Beaudoin topping the bill for two shows that include Mainer Mark Turcotte and New Hampshire rising star Josh Day the first night, followed by Ralphy Joyal, best known for warming up Bob Marley’s crowds, and Granite Stater Dan Gilbert the next. Go Friday, March 23, and Saturday, March 24, at 8 p.m. at Headliners at The Manchester Downtown Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester. Tickets $20 at headlinerscomedyclub.com.

• Double neck: A viral YouTube video launched Ian Ethan Case as fans like Leland Sklar and Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman marveled at his mastery of the double-neck acoustic guitar; he’s one of only five musicians in the world devoted to the instrument. Case brings his trio to perform selections from the recent Earth Suite album. Go Sunday, March 25, 7 p.m., Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar, 35 Railroad Square, Nashua. Tickets $10 at riverwalknashua.com.

• Elle electronic: A multi-instrumentalist and composer, electronic artist Laurel Halo released the hypnotic Dust last year, after a twoyear development project that included guest musicians and state-of-the-art recording methods. The result was “a collection of breezy, broken songs, based on woody instrumentation, sub bass and restless, intricate electronics.”

Go Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m., 3s Artspace, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth. Tickets are $12 at 3sarts.org.

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In the mix

Mark Erelli covers album

By Michael Witthaus

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Anyone who recalls watching music videos on MTV, or waiting in line to buy concert tickets instead of going online, will recognize the font on the cover of Mark Erelli’s new album, Mixtape. The singer-songwriter’s last name is spelled out in lowercase like a Maxell cassette logo. Before Spotify playlists and shuffling iPods, curating a tape’s worth of music was a window to the soul, often serving as a declaration of intentions.

For the project, Erelli recorded 10 of his favorites, artists ranging from Roy Orbison to the Grateful Dead. The effort grew out of a covers show he does yearly at Cambridge’s Club Passim.

“It kind of connected me with that feeling of excitement and anticipation when you were making those mix tapes and giving them to people,” Erelli said of the shows in a recent phone interview. “They were like a list of songs that say, ‘This music matters to me’ — but it was so much more than that, it was … ‘You matter to me.’”

Some of the selections on Mixtape are done faithfully, like The Band’s “Ophelia” and Neko Case’s “Deep Red Bells.”

On a couple, Erelli reworks and reveals them. Spurred by producer Zack Hickman, he stripped down “Against All Odds,” the Phil Collins mega-hit from 1984, and played with the time signature.

“He said, ‘There’s a really great song in here, but there’s a lot of production that’s anchored in a certain era. ... I wonder if you can free it from that and bring it up to date a little bit, highlight what’s beautiful about it,’” Erelli said. After tinkering with it, “the tumblers fell into place [and] it felt more like an Otis Redding soul classic than it did an ’80s pop anthem.”

The tempo of “Boys of Summer” is dialed down to match the song’s mournful tone; it’s one of the album’s best tracks.

“I just tried to get in and play around, and not try to treat anything like a sacred cow,” Erelli said. “If we can have different interpretations of the Bible, we can [do that with] a Don Henley song. The Beatles are the ones we shouldn’t reinterpret too much — even more than the Bible. They’re sacred.”

The inclusion of “Brokedown Palace” from the Grateful Dead may seem out of Erelli’s wheelhouse, but the folk singer was a big fan back in the day.

Mark Erelli. Courtesy photo.

“I had plenty of tie-dye, and a drawer full of bootleg tapes that were hand lettered and lovingly curated; they were huge for me,” he said. “I think it was the first place I heard traditional music. ... I basically found folk through the Grateful Dead, as well as early rock, bluegrass, country; they set me up for liking improvisational jazz.”

A brief release tour stops at Exeter’s Word Barn on March 23, featuring most of the musicians who made Mixtape.

Also on stage will be a string quartet that grew out of a house concert done with his bluegrass band Barnstar.

“As a folk singer, you usually don’t have those extra colors in your palette that you can work with,” he said. “It really brought in this completely new flavor, different from anything I’d had on a recording before.”

The string players are equally pleased to be part of the project.

“They’re used to recitals,” Erelli said. “They’re tickled pink to be playing in clubs, with carpeted stages and low lighting. I’m excited — it’s the first time I’ve ever really had this many shows with the same musicians that I recorded the records with, so we can actually do it the way we did it.”

Mixtape was done in January, but its release had to fit between Erelli’s work as a side man. He’s musical director for Grammy winner Lori McKenna, and a longtime member of Josh Ritter’s band.

He and Ritter share a producer, another challenge.

“I tend to record with Zack and other guys in Josh’s band, so I can’t really make a record unless they’re not working,” he said, noting that he loves playing with Ritter, whom he thinks of as one of the best songwriters in the world. “It’s part of what I do; it’s equally as enjoyable in a completely different way as my solo stuff and it means all the world to me that I get to stand on all these amazing stages next to people that I’ve known literally since open mike days.”

Speaking of great songwriters, no Bob Dylan songs are included on Mixtape. Asked which one he may have used, Erelli was stumped for a moment.

“That’s a tough question. ... I think I would have chosen something that highlights the fact that he can write a really beautiful melody,” he said. “‘Shooting Star’ would probably be the one, off of Oh Mercy. I’ve covered that one a lot over the years at shows. That would have worked really well with the strings too. Damn it, I should have thought of that!”

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To: MELVIN HENDERSON Case Number: 659-2018-TR-00004 316-2018-SU-00008; 316-2018-AD00015; 659-2018-AS-00009 Petition for Termination of Parental Rights Hearing A petition to terminate parental rights over your minor child(ren) has been filed in this Court. You are herby cited to appear at a Court to show cause why the same should not be granted.

Date: April 24, 2018 Courtroom 303-9th Circuit-Family Division-Manchester 35 Amherst St, Manchester, NH 03101 Time: 9:30 am - Time Alloted: 30 Minutes A written appearance must be filed with this Court on or before the date of the hearing, or the respondent may personally appear on the date of hearing or be defaulted.

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Quotes are from Binge, by Tyler Oakley, my parents: While I’ve been writing this book, born March 22, 1989. nobody in my life has expressed more anxiety about the stories I’ll tell than the four of Aries (March 21 – April 19) Having birth- you. It’s as if you thought your son would nevday parties has always been an inexhaustible er have the opportunity to write a book and source of stress for me. … My mom often expose you, so you just lived and did whatevrecounted the story of her own worst birthday er you pleased. Well, hi! I wrote a book! Please — a surprise party her best friend attempted enjoy this chapter! Hi! to throw for her, which nobody attended except Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) It was a simthe two of them. The horror of that story stuck ple misunderstanding, yet somehow I forgot with me, and each March 22, I take a firm that the waiter just made an honest mistake. stance against expectations. Surprise!

He didn’t mean to deprive me of my beets. As Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Don’t … pinch someone who has been on the other side of the me on St. Patrick’s Day because I’m not wear- service counter, how could I be so blind to the ing green. That is assault, and green is not situation and treat him like that? No one means slimming, and I need you to respect that. Wear to deprive you of your beets. what you like, when you like. You’ll look great.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) I’m twenGemini (May 21 – June 20) I didn’t get the ty-six and still don’t have a clue how the title role, but my extensive acting experience as groundhog situation works. If on a day in Febthe Big Ear of Corn had prepared me perfectly ruary, a groundhog comes out of his hole and for my next role as an inanimate object: one of sees his shadow, he somehow predicts the the forty statues in the Giant’s castle. You will weather for the next month or two, which not shine in whatever role you take on. even Doppler radar can do. New idea: Doppler Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Hey, if I weren’t groundhog. Get on that. self-centered, I wouldn’t have a YouTube chanCapricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) My typical nel. Know thyself. go-to move while attending any social function Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Getting rejected is what I’ve heard referred to as the Irish exit by the dream job at Google gave me the free- — where you slip out of the party unnoticed, dom to pursue something I never thought was without saying good-bye to anyone. Good-byes even possible. I’d wanted to work at Google are messy and an unnecessary disruption to the in the first place not because I had a passion flow of an event, and honestly, what if you don’t for sales or because I furiously hated Bing or want to hug certain people? Only hug the ones AskJeeves; rather, I was told that that’s what you want to. my aspiration should be. Only when I failed to Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) Also, Cinget the dream job was I able to figure out my derella never even said she wanted a husband. dream job. There are jobs, and then there are All she asked for was a night out of the house dream jobs. to go dancing. It’s good to clarify what everyVirgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) One of the body wants. strangest questions I get about celebrities that Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) For my tenth I’ve met is “What do they smell like?” When birthday, I decided to take matters into my own did this become a thing? Insider knowledge hands. Coincidentally, this was the year that I could gain you an advantage. decided that it was finally time to become cool.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) A quick note to You’re already cool.

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Things went from bad to worse for 30-year-old Isaac Bonsu on March 6 when he was charged in Alexandria, Virginia, with felony hit-and-run involving an unlikely victim. Fairfax County Police pulled Bonsu over for an equipment violation, but he apparently forgot to put it in “park” before exiting the vehicle. Bonsu can be seen on police dashcam video running in front of the car and then being struck by it. Unhurt, Bonsu jumped up and kept running, but police were able to catch him. The Associated Press reported that Bonsu was charged with driving while intoxicated (his third) and possessing marijuana along with the hit-and-run.

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• Environmentalists decry all the debris washing up on beaches around the world, but a discovery in January near Perth, Australia, has historians thrilled. The Washington Post reported that Tonya Illman and a friend were walking along the beach when she spotted “a lovely old bottle.” Inside was a damp note, tied with string. “We took it home and dried it out ... and it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it,” she said. Experts at the Western Australia Museum have determined the note was 132 years old — 24 years older than the previous record for a message in a bottle. The note was dated June 12, 1886, from a ship named Paula. Further study revealed that a German Naval Observatory program was analyzing global ocean currents in the area between 1864 and 1933, and an entry in the Paula’s captain’s journal made note of the bottle being tossed overboard. Thousands of other bottles were released into the sea as part of the program, and only 662 have been returned. The last one discovered was in January 1934.

• It may not be the oldest ever found, but the message in a bottle found by 12-year-old Joseph Vallis of Sandys Parish, Bermuda, certainly traveled an impressive distance — more than 1,000 miles. The Royal Gazette reported that Vallis and his Warwick Academy class were picking up trash around Bailey’s Bay on March 10 when he came across a green bottle with a plastic bag inside. He and his father, Boyd, uncorked the bottle and found a note dated April 2014 that had been set adrift from a French sailing yacht crossing the Atlantic. The note included an email address and invitation to contact the authors, but as of press time, the Vallises were still awaiting a response.

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Kayaker Sue Spector, 77, was out for a leisurely paddle on the Braden River in Florida with her husband and friends on March 4

when someone remarked, “Oh look, there’s an otter.” No sooner had the words been spoken than the mammal with a playful reputation jumped onto Spector in her kayak and began clawing and scratching her arms, nose and ear. “He wouldn’t let go and I kept screaming. I kept beating him with a paddle,” Spector told FOX13 News. She later required stitches, antibiotics and rabies treatment. It was the second otter attack in two days, and Florida Fish and Wildlife has now posted signs about the “aggressive otter” near the area.

Oops!

The Carelse family of Lakewood, Colorado, picked up some groceries at the Walmart in Littleton on March 5, including a box of Quaker 100 Percent Natural Granola with oats, honey and raisins. When they sat down for breakfast the next morning, they told KMGH TV, Anthea Carelse noticed that the “best by” date on the box was Feb. 22, 1997 — more than 21 years ago. Her husband, Josiah, ate his full bowl and didn’t suffer any unpleasant consequences, but Anthea stopped after two bites. Josiah planned to return the box to Walmart.

Toot your own horn

March 3 was a big day in Key West, Florida, as competitors sounded off in the 56th Annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest. For 70-year-old Mary Lou Smith of Panama City Beach, winning the women’s division was topped only by a marriage proposal (which she accepted with a hearty honk from her shell) from fellow competitor Rick Race,

73, also of Panama City Beach. The Guardian reports that the large shells were used in the 19th century by seafarers as signaling devices, and dozens of entrants show off their skills each year at Key West’s Oldest House Museum.

Least competent criminal

On March 12 in Northumberland, England, a car thief making a getaway in a Mini Cooper S discovered the small car was not small enough to navigate a narrow stone staircase in Carlisle Park. Northumbria police were called to the park around 11:30 p.m. where they found the car and its unnamed 31-yearold driver both wedged tightly between the staircase walls. Area residents speculated to Metro News that the driver might have been trying to re-enact a scene from “The Italian Job,” a 1969 movie. “I’m sure the older Minis would have got down no problem,” said Chris Stoker.

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An unnamed Russian woman stunned tourists and onlookers March 10 when she walked into the Red Sea and, with the help of a doctor and her partner, gave birth.

From the balcony of her uncle’s apartment in Dahab, Egypt, Hadia Hosny El Said photographed the events, as the doctor carried the newborn and its father walked alongside with the still-attached placenta in a plastic bowl. After a few minutes, the mother emerged from the sea to join her family, including a toddler, on the beach. El Said told The Daily Mail the doctor is Russian and specializes in water births.

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