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As the fourth blizzard rolled over New England, there were probably many who wondered, “Will spring ever come?” And now, as the days begin to lengthen and the sun shines more than it did a few weeks ago, we begin to have hope.

“Hope,” what a friend of mine once called “that most noble virtue.”

It is no coincidence that two major religious festivals, Passover for Jews and Easter for Christians, coincide with this seasonal change.

While the exact dates shift around a bit from year to year, both observances bespeak a hopeful yearning while also commemorating a historical event. Both look forward with hope just as do we to warmer days, new shoots of life, and plenty.

In the judgment of many, there does not seem to be a great deal of hope around these days. It is hard, for example, to be hopeful in the face of such tragedies as seem to populate the daily news, whether they be mass shootings, horrific bombings, genocides, the addiction crisis, or yet another story of corruption across the professions, government or business. Yes, there are what appear to be exceptional incidents of generosity, altruism, and heroism that are usually placed at the end of the evening news or tucked someplace in our online news aggregator. These are almost antidotes to what went before. Often, ‘though, they do lift our spirits if only for a time.

I was filled with hope as I listened to a recent interview with former President Jimmy Carter. While not sidestepping recognition of the extreme polarization of politics and communities today, he expressed hope that this winter of discontent will pass if we try to live up to the principles on which this country is founded, starting with respect for one another despite our differences. Here was the nonagenarian president hopeful about our future as a nation when so many seem sunk in doubt. Yet his “formula” was disarmingly simple.

In these days when winter confines us more to our houses, when we dart urgently from place to place conducting our business, and when technology tethers us to our phones, tablets and earbuds, we lose out on that human contact that can remind us we’re in this together.

This Passover and this Easter, Jews and Christians gathered for their religious observances. Whether they are regular worshippers or once-yearly ones, the desired outcome of their liturgies is that the sense of community they experience will carry forth into the larger venues in which they live and work, hopefully making a difference. That’s a noble thought and, if lived, a noble virtue.

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

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NEWS & NOTES 4 NH’s reponse to Trump’s drug speech; bail reform; PLUS News in Brief.

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

20 ART Windows to the Woods.

21 CLASSICAL Listings for events around town.

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24 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors.

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NEWS & NOTES Northern Pass

The New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee issued a written ruling on Northern Pass, a proposed $1.6 billion energy project that would deliver Canadian hydropower through New Hampshire, reiterating concerns that the economic benefits don’t outweigh the negative impacts of the project on local communities the transmission lines would traverse.

According to a press release from Eversource Energy, the company is planning on filing a motion for rehearing. Another hearing is expected in May. Eversource maintains that the SEC did not follow New Hampshire law during its decision-making process.

Meanwhile, Massachusetts dropped its deal with Northern Pass to provide clean energy to the state, the AP reported. Instead, it is partnering with Central Maine Power Co. to get energy from the proposed New England Clean Energy Connect project.

Eversource also announced a rate adjustment over a four-month period between April and July.

According to a press release, the energy charge currently at 11.25 cents per kilowatt hour will go down to 7.903 cents for residential and small commercial customers.

This adjustment is meant to offset an increase in the Stranded Cost Recovery Charge that all customers pay.

Electric cars

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services announced its role as a state campaign partner in an initiative between automakers and Northeast states to increase electric car use

throughout New England. According to a press release, the “Drive Change. Drive Electric” campaign will increase awareness of available electric car models, provide tax and purchase incentives and expand charging stations.

Election security

According to a press release from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire is slated to get $3.1 million to assist with election security improvements. The funding is made available through the recently passed omnibus spending bill.

The funds will be used to purchase more secure voting systems, implement a post-election audit and address cyber vulnerabilities.

Shaheen praised the announcement by the Election Assistance Commission. “Additional security improvements will help ensure that Granite Staters continue to have faith in our electoral system,” Shaheen said in a written statement.

Insurance website

The New Hampshire Insurance Department announced the staterun website NHHealthCost.org is now offering side-by-side cost comparisons, according to a press release. New updates to the website also include a streamlined interface and updated rate information. Users can now see cost comparisons by provider for different medical procedures such as MRIs, CT scans and surgeries.

Liquor lawsuit

Middle and high school girls are invited to apply to be governor for a day at the Statehouse in Concord.

According to a press release, applicants must answer the prompt “If I were governor for a day, I would…” in an essay fewer than 250 words or a one-minute video. AppliCONCORD cations are due by April 30.

A judge has heard a challenge by residents in Loudon who want to block the New Hampshire Motor Speedway from hosting a country music concert.

WMUR reported the residents argued the speedway was prohibited from hosting non-race-related concert events in a 1989 agreement. The speedway lawyer argued that agreement does not apply to land next to the track.

Catholic Medical Center Hooksett in Manchester recently opened a new outpatient non-invasive cardiology suite Goffstown in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

According to a press release, the hospital also opened a new connecting corridor MANCHESTER between the McGregor Street skybridge and the level B lobby.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit by XTLNH against the New Hampshire Liquor Commission. According to a press release, the Pennsylvania-based company sued the liquor commission for $53 million in damages over a distribution contract it failed to win. XTL-NH claimed the Amherst commission failed in its obligation to provide a competitive bidding Milford process that complied with state law. The supreme court sided with Facebook letter the commission. The 20-year wareNew Hampshire Attorney Gen- housing contract was awarded to eral Gordon MacDonald joined DHL Supply Chain, formerly Exel 37 other state attorneys gener- Inc. al in sending a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers about the company’s privacy protections, according to NEW MOMS IN DRUG COURT a press release. The letter comes The Friends of New Hampshire Drug Courts after recent reports revealed the received a $30,000 grant to help pregnant womdata of at least 50 million Faceen and new mothers in the drug court system book profiles may have been meet their financial needs to help with their misused by third-party software. recovery and improve child safety. According to a press release the Fund for Pregnant and NewThe letter asks a number of quesly-Parenting Women is the first of its kind in the tions to determine whether the state’s drug court system and might be the first Facebook terms of service were implemented nationwide. An estimated 20 womclear and understandable, whethen currently enrolled in drug courts statewide er the company had safeguards in could benefit from the program. Two grants were place to prevent personal data misalready issued to qualifying mothers in March. use and more.

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Hundreds turned out to walk in Nashua in support Derry opioid of ending the state’s Merrimack abuse epidemic on March 31, the AP reported. The Londonderry Awareness is Healing: Walk to Stop Heroin and Opioid Abuse began several years ago to build awareness of NASH NASHUA addiction issues.

CHILD ABUSE VICTIMS

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have tracked a slight increase in child abuse fatalities and physical abuse in the country between 2015 and 2016. According to the report by the Crimes against Children Research Center at UNH, child abuse fatalities increased 8 percent and physical abuse went up 5 percent.

Neglect cases declined and sexual abuse cases remained the same. The longer-term trends have been more positive. Sexual abuse declined 65 percent and physical abuse declined 53 percent between 1992 and 2016.

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NEWS

Responses to Trump’s Drug Plan

Opioid epidemic experts weigh in on president’s drug policy speech

By Ryan Lessard news@hippopress.com On March 19, President Donald Trump visited Manchester and gave a speech outlining his policies aimed at tackling the drug epidemic. He emphasized stronger penalties for drug dealers, including an expanded use of the death penalty and minimum mandatory sentences. But he also talked about expanding access to prevention, treatment and recovery services as well as creating a national prescription monitoring database. Here, local experts in the opioid epidemic weigh in on some of these policy proposals.

David Mara is the Governor’s Advisor on Addiction and Behavioral Health and former chief of police in Manchester.

that will make people think twice about what they’re selling. … It will make them think twice that if you sell drugs you’re going to face the consequences. I’m not talking about the people that are selling the small quantities of drugs. I’m talking about the people that are bringing drugs over our border and distributing large quantities and wreaking havoc in New Hampshire.

Tym Rourke, as director of New Hampshire Tomorrow, manages substance abuse grantmaking at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and he’s a member and former Tym Rourke chair of the Governor’s Commission on Substance Abuse.

Do you think the increased use of the death penalty against drug dealers would make a positive change in battling the opioid epidemic?

No, I think the focus really needs to be more on the health care and prevention and treatment interventions that the president mentioned, [as opposed to] the death penalty and … a return to minimum sentencing policies, which in the past demonstrated an increase in the incarceration rate without a lot of alleviation on the substance abuse epidemic. It feels like the conversation over the past few years on the opioid epidemic has been ‘how do you address the demand side through effective prevention, treatment and recovery?’ That’s really Was there anything from the president’s where the attention needs to be focused. recent proposals in the speech that he gave If something like this was implemented here that you think will help you with those and federal prosecutors had the marching goals?

Yeah, talking about getting help here, talk- orders to use the death penalty more, and ing about getting funds and resources that are they do here in New Hampshire, do you think it would have a deterrent effect? needed, he talked about prevention.

I don’t think so. I also think … good drug Anything you want to add about the role of control policy is a balance between reducing the supply side and reducing the demand side. law enforcement?

I think that enforcement is a very important And we’ve come to learn that efforts that realpart of what we need to do. It’s prevention and ly over-emphasize supply-side interventions, education, treatment, recovery, but enforce- which largely include increased incarceration ment is still part of this. ... The ones that are rates or steeper penalties, don’t yield a direct selling the large quantities of drugs, the ones impact in long-term outcomes for people. … that are selling the fentanyl and carfentanil and And also, recognizing that very often … those that are causing all these deaths, we have to kind of harsher penalties disproportionately impact minority communities. incarcerate [those] people.

Let’s start with the death penalty. Do Dave Mara you think using that option more in drug dealer cases would have the desired effect of combating the opioid epidemic, broadly speaking?

Instead of talking about the death penalty, [I will focus instead on] what I need to do in my job. My job is to get services to the people who need it. We have a lot of people who are suffering from addiction that we need to get services to. We need to get them off drugs. And then we have many more people that we don’t want to start taking drugs.

Do you think we as a state are striking the Do you think we’re doing what we should be doing when prosecuting those cases? right balance between the demand and supIncluding charging dealers with “death ply side of this issue right now?

I do think that New Hampshire has a balresulting” when a client dies of an overdose? anced approach … [but] there are questions still Yeah, I think we need to do that. I think to be answered. The utilization of “death resultHIPPO | APRIL 5 - 11, 2018 | PAGE 6

ing” cases is a relatively new phenomenon and I’m not sure of the extent to which there’s been real data work done around what kind of effect the utilization of that tool has had. Obviously, with efforts like Granite Hammer and Granite Shield, there’s been an appropriate increase in law enforcement capacity to address substance use in the community, but I know that there’s been a real attempt by law enforcement to differentiate between when they might come into contact with a dealer who is dealing to make a profit versus someone who might be dealing to feed their own substance use disorder. … There are some concerns that the increased law enforcement is still catching in its web those who might be dealing drugs to feed their addiction and are putting them into the court system rather than into treatment. But, again, it’s very early to tell. … Also … set aside for a moment the question of death penalty, even the minimum sentencing piece, … if you look at the rest of the president’s plan, it’s a pretty balanced plan. There are good recommendations for prevention and reducing misuse of prescribed opioids, there is new resourcing for treatment and recovery supports, there is language that articulates the support for what Congress has done with their latest appropriation, which is to prioritize states to receive additional funding based on need, not based on population size.

Benjamin Agati is a Senior Assistant Attorney General at the New Hampshire Department of Justice and the head of the drug prosecuting unit.

Do you think that an added emphasis on or the increased employment of the death penalty, at least on the federal side, would have a positive impact on the opioid epidemic?

In terms of what the federal government might be able to do, that’s one area where I will be kind of a little bit limited in whether I think that will or will not. The impact in a change in federal law will only have a real impact if there’s a change in federal prosecution, if there’s an increase or difference in how those go forward. I can tell you, though, from the state side … the penalty for providing a drug or dispensing a drug that causes an overdose can be all the way to life with the possibility of parole, and there’s no minimum mandatory either, so it really gives state judges a great deal of leeway in setting what they think is the appropriate sentence for that particular individual. And we’ve seen sentences range from down in the single digits all the way up to the Ben Agati

15- and 20-year range. … Whether the death penalty on the federal side will provide further motivation for an individual to not sell or not dispense, it depends on whether or not that will be an uptick in federal prosecution.

Do you think that it would be an effective deterrence for someone selling drugs to think twice about those kinds of consequences, potentially?

It really depends on your individual dealer.

That deterrence may have an effect on somebody who is not an addict themselves, who is selling purely for profit, selling large amounts or causing multiple deaths. That’s a possibility. Whether that deterrence is going to be the same for somebody who has an addiction or is selling merely to support their habit, it all is very dependent on the individual. So, if the federal government were to bring a charge that may have a deterrent effect on some individuals, it really may not on others.

Do you think that we are striking a good balance between the demand side and supply side of the drug issue here in New Hampshire?

I almost don’t view it as a balance. I view it as everybody needs to be putting more into it. … If we’re just saying that too much law enforcement means too much incarceration, I agree it cannot be about incarceration alone. That does not solve the problem. Incarceration is a component. … Drug courts are great. They have a lot of fantastic things that they bring to the table. It’s another component that the courts can use in the right situation. … If there’s one thing that we have learned in the last three to four years that we have been battling this [it] is that you cannot take a onesided approach. It has to be interdisciplinary.

You have to involve everyone in those groups: prevention, treatment, recovery is a huge part of this as well.

Katja Fox is the director of the Division for Behavioral Health at DHHS.

Do you think that the increased use of the death penalty would have a Katja Fox positive impact on the opioid epidemic in New Hampshire?

I’ve heard a lot of the debate and I think that there’s still a question out there. It’s not something that the department is focused on due to our angle on the issue, which is really focused on treatment, recovery and prevention. … But we’re certainly aware of the debate.

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The president also touches on some 6 of those issues you focus on like treatment and recovery. Do you think some of those proposals, such as tamping down over-prescription of opioid painkillers, would be helpful here in New Hampshire?

Gov. Sununu has convened a group that meets on a regular basis to address these issues. And prescription drug monitoring is one of those areas. And a lot work has been done, not only by government but with our community providers, to really see what makes sense, because there are concerns by some individuals that we may be going too far, and there are others that want us to go further. I think we have found a sweet spot with working with the Medical Society and other stakeholders, but that’s always something that needs to be reviewed and look at the data and the impact that we are having with the more recent policies that have been put in place.

What is it that you need most from the federal government to accomplish your goals in terms of providing that treatment?

This is something we’re pretty passionate about. We need more flexibility in the federal funding streams that come forth. So, for example, recently, under the state targeted response grants that we received, the $3.1 million for two years [each year], it restricted it in such a way that we were to use those funds and we had to track our data to indicate that it’s only for opioid use disorder. … We know that opioids right now are extremely prevalent and potent and having a significant impact on our communities, but we know that addiction is underlying all of these issues. So we want to be able to build systems that not only support the opioid response, but allow us to address

addiction, whatever that addiction may lead to. So flexibility in the funding streams to permit things that treatment providers are asking for and they need funding support for, which includes housing. … There is a need for capital so treatment providers and others can build buildings … and add … beds or outpatient services. And we really want to address those individuals who are in correctional institutions and transitioning out and being able to provide services to to them. I think, also, we want to focus on additional populations.

Seddon Savage is a physician, professor of anesthesiology at Dartmouth College and advisor to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Substance Use and Mental Health Initiative. She also coSeddon Savage chairs the Opioid Task Force on the Governor’s Commission on Substance Abuse, though she does not speak on behalf of the commission.

Do you think an increased use of harsher penalties and the death penalty for drug dealers would have a positive impact at all on the opioid epidemic in New Hampshire?

I don’t think the death penalty — that there is any evidence that the death penalty reduces crime rates. … It’s an uncivilized, cruel and unusual punishment, and not becoming a society such as ours. And, in the case of crimes related to drug and alcohol issues, often the people selling drugs, who would be framed as criminals, are people who have the disease of addiction and are influenced in their actions

by that. So, no, I don’t think the death penalty would be appropriate for any of those things. … We need to individualize our responses to people who commit crimes related to drugs and alcohol. So I think mandatory sentencing is not appropriate. I don’t think it deters crimes. And I’m not a criminal justice person, I’m a physician, so I don’t know the literature as well. … But because so many people who are involved in drug-related crimes are using the drug, some of whom have addiction, I think having available drug courts and expanding our drug court system so that we can begin to treat people who need treatment and divert them from the criminal justice system when it’s appropriate would be very, very helpful. I think we’re doing that well in New Hampshire. I think our drug court system is evolving fairly rapidly.

Were there any proposals made by the president that you think would be helpful?

I think the most important thing that the federal government can do is support a robust health care system by making sure that all people have access to quality, affordable health care. And some of the policies of the current administration that seek to … [limit] access to health care and discourage states from accessing Medicaid services … only hurts the drug and alcohol problem and is counterproductive to what we’re trying to do to address the opioid epidemic. That would be No. 1. And I think having a … prescription drug monitoring program that allows clinicians to query across borders is very helpful at identifying people who may be doctor-shopping. … That’s one policy that I would support. Certainly, money spent on prevention and increasing access to treatment is … good.

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Courts begin analyzing fairness and efficiency of pretrial system

The New Hampshire judicial branch announced it is undergoing the process of studying and discussing ways to improve performance outcomes for people in the justice system by reforming the state’s bail options.

According to New Hampshire Superior Court Chief Justice Tina Nadeau, the courts are partnering with the 3DaysCount campaign, an initiative of the Pretrial Justice Institute. Over the next several weeks, the Institute will be providing technical support and guidance as the state undergoes data collection and surveys that will be used to help come up with a focused plan for New Hampshire.

The problem it aims to solve is inherent disparities in how people with different financial means are affected by the criminal justice system. Too often, people with money pay

their way out of jail during the pretrial period, while people without money languish in jail, often for minor offenses.

“We want to make sure that those income inequality issues are addressed,” Nadeau said.

3DaysCount is named after the notion that three days in jail can be enough to seriously disrupt someone’s life.

“Even those three days that they spend in jail can result in loss of a job, loss of a home … and increases the likelihood that that person will reoffend later,” Nadeau said.

A first step toward avoiding economic discrimination was taken with Senate Bill 556, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Dan Feltes of Concord. Nadeau said that bill would ensure people aren’t kept in jail based on their financial means.

Often, she said, judges will set bail very low, like $100, assuming the defendant will be able to easily pay their way out. But some defendants aren’t able to, and they remain in jail. There isn’t

enough data yet to suggest this for certain, but Nadeau said it’s possible the current policies disproportionately affect minority communities.

“It’s definitely a possibility,” she said.

Nadeau said she also wants to take a look at how risk is assessed when determining bail amounts.

“Another part of the idea is to look at bail risk assessment tools that have been studied and validated and see if we can come up with a statewide tool to use for our bail practices,” Nadeau said.

The state’s Interbranch Criminal and Juvenile Justice Council is taking point on the analysis and data collection. They will hear from representatives of the Pretrial Justice Institute during their next meeting on May 21, 1:30 p.m. at the Legislative Office Building in Concord.

She hopes to fund some of the research with grants but also looks forward to a good working relationship with the county jails, which can volunteer a lot of their data.

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NEWS & NOTES Q&A

Last DRED commish Agency head steps down after five years

In 2013, Jeff Rose was appointed commissioner of the Department of Resources and Economic Development. In the most recent state budget legislation, DRED was divided and then merged with the Department of Cultural Resources. Rose became commissioner of the new Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and will step down from that role on June 1.

What were some of the changes you saw during your tenure?

Within economic development, I was excited first and foremost just to be able to hire the first economic development director for the division in eight years.

We were also able to develop our first economic development strategy and strategic plan for the first time in decades. And we really worked hard to find new innovative workforce initiatives, such as sector partnerships, expanding manufacturing … trying to find innovative ways of getting the word out about the great opportunities that exist within manufacturing. And I was really proud of some of the new technology tools that we were able to bring within the division. Specifically, we worked to create a website designed for site selectors called choosenh.com. We also brought economic modeling capabilities into the division, and we expanded our strategic partnerships that we had within the division. …

Within travel and tourism, I was thrilled to be able to bring some high-level talent into the division, as well as really shift our advertising strategy to focus on variety within proximity and refreshing our live-free brand. We had great success; we expanded our reach, grew market share in key demographics like New York and Toronto, and our VisitNH website was listed within the top 25 destination websites in the world. So we had success and that was evidenced by the record revenues that came from our rooms and meals tax. The other thing I was excited about was our ability to leverage our tourism brand and establishing partnerships across state government. We did initiatives with the Department of Revenue and helping them with their tax amnesty program. We did some strategic partnering with the Department of Agriculture … as well as developing other strategic initiatives with Ski NH, the Manchester Boston Regional Airport, the College and University Council. ... And I can’t forget about the great welcome centers that we [built] in Hooksett. …

When I think about the parks and recreation, we had record numbers of campers and visitors, and we’ve been able to increase our revenues and expand our seasons and services. And we’re really in a stable financial position, which wasn’t the case, say, five or What are you really into right now?

I’m a huge baseball fan so I’m very excited about opening day. … I’m also excited [about] fly fishing season.

Jeff Rose

10 years ago. …

I’m [also] very proud of … getting the Mount Sunapee expansion approved through Executive Council. That had been something the state had been trying to do for 65 years.

What are you most proud of?

The thing I’m most proud of is the team that we were able to assemble, and the culture that we were able to create within the agency.

Can you talk about the transition from DRED to the newly formed DNCR and what that’s been like for you?

I’ve enjoyed the transition … and assembling a new team with a new mission and a new focus. And from a leadership and a management perspective, I’ve enjoyed that challenge and I feel really good about where we are as a new agency. We are an assetbased agency and we really protect, preserve, promote and steward the most essential assets of our state that yield out the high quality of life that people love about New Hampshire.

Why did you decide not to seek reappointment?

I’ve been here for five years and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. It’s everything I had hoped and more, but I feel now is a good time for me to explore new opportunities and new challenges.

What are some remaining challenges for your successor?

I’m pleased with the team that we have in place, but sure, there are challenges that lie ahead. One is that we’re somewhat a victim of our own success, in that we have a very vibrant economy ... we have a record number of people visiting and recreating on our public lands, at our parks and our forests and our trails. The challenge that’s associated with that success, in terms of the demands and pressures on the natural resources, is going to ... continue to escalate and to grow.

What’s next for you?

I don’t have anything locked in at the moment. I’m currently considering opportunities back in the private sector and considering additional public service or even some nonprofit positions. — Ryan Lessard

NEWS & NOTES

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX New cemetery learning center The New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery has announced plans to open a new multimedia learning center in November, NH1 reported. The 1,200-square-foot center will include interactive touchscreens, kiosks, exhibit walls, and a theater capturing the stories of New Hampshire veterans and military history from the 17th century to the present day. Forty percent of the $700,000 fundraising goal for the center has already been raised.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The cemetery currently draws around 350 students annually. It hopes to triple school visits with the opening of the new learning center.

Program to help Nashua go solar Last week, Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess announced a new program that will bring more solar power to the city, NHPR reported. “Solarize + Campaign” will allow residents and local businesses to pool resources to get better deals on solar energy construction and efficiency improvements. The city will select an installer to partner with next month. Residents and businesses will then have until the fall to take part in the program. Mayor Donchess said the goal of the program is to add at least 100 new solar installations to the city.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The number of new solar projects in Nashua peaked in 2015 but decreased in 2016 and 2017, according to the article.

Taxpayer return on investment According to a new study by WalletHub, New Hampshire is ranked No. 1 in federal taxes paid versus spending received by state. It was ranked third in taxes paid and second in overall government services, the two main categories of the analysis, which used 25 metrics to compare quality and efficiency in state government services. New Hampshire had the third best school systems and the third lowest violent crime rates.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The state’s health, safety and economy sub-category rankings were all in the top five.

Flooding on coastal roads A new study by researchers at the University of New Hampshire found that high-tide floods that happen along roadways near the shoreline during seasonal high tides or minor wind events are happening “far more frequently than ever before” all along the East Coast, according to a press release. The continued rise of sea levels is expected to make this problem grow over time. The study, which was published in the journal Transportation Research Record, found so-called “nuisance flooding” threatens over 7,500 miles of roadways along the Eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: The projected rise of sea levels of one to eight feet in Atlantic and Gulf coasts is expected to cause rising infrastructure damage and repair costs.

QOL score: 76 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 78 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire?

Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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Reasons to be optimistic this spring I’ve been doing a little snarky blasting away lately at things I see as having veered off the righteous path. Or at least from the intent they all had while getting started on Day 1.

So let’s add a little balance to this space by talking about what is good about the sports we follow and what makes me optimistic as spring dawns to revive my enthusiasm.

The Masters: To some baseball’s opening day is the sign that spring has arrived.

For me it’s the Masters. Because while people are mostly freezing in the stands in baseball’s first month, I get jeeped watching the action in August where you can almost feel the warmth of a nice spring day amid the sunshine, bright green of the greens and vibrancy of the azaleas. Then there’s the final two days, which almost always deliver the kind of drama that makes this tournament great. My personal favorite aside from Jack Nicklaus in ’86 was Charles Schwartzel making clutch birdie putt after clutch birdie putt coming down the back nine to win in 2011. It arrives this week with the usual Tiger hype. But that might be justified for the first time since seemingly Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. That’s a slight overstatement, but he does appear healthy and playing well for the first time since being prematurely robbed of his greatness by knee, back and Donald Trump-like family karma issues.

So I’m anxious to see how he does. And, after all this time, it would be cooler than Calvin on a White House ledge to see him in the final pairing and in contention on the final day listening to the Tiger roar.

The NHL Playoff Season: I may not watch much hockey during the regular season. That’s mainly because it’s a completely different game than the on-theedge-of-your-seat suspense of most Stanley

Cup playoff games. That owes to the razor thin margin of these games and how fast things can change on just one four-second rush up ice. And this year we get the bonus of the very surprising Bruins having a legit shot after five disappointing seasons from a talented core with no sense of urgency or mojo. Under Bruce Cassidy and some young’ns they’re rejuvenated. The best example is how they’ve kept winning despite a rash of injuries that have put too many on the pine. Most are getting healthy at the right time, adding more enthusiasm to expectations.

The Celtics: They’ve been hit with an even bigger run of injuries than the Bruins.

Which, unless you’ve been on that returning China space station, you know started five minutes into the season. Many gave up the, er, space ship then. But after a sixgame winning streak against mostly top teams with as many as six of their top nine out they’ve now matched last year’s 53-win total and are surging with six to play. Now the playoffs start without Gordon Hayward, Marcus Smart, Daniel Theis and Kyrie Irving, and Steve A. Blowhard loudly says they have no chance in Round I without Kyrie. I disagree. Trained eyes that watch all games and not just highlights are seeing the incredible step Terry Rozier has taken while leading the Celtics in scoring, rebounding and assists during the 13 games he’s started at point guard in place of Kyrie, while Jayson Tatum and Jalen Brown look ready to carry a lot more of the load than I ever thought they’d be. Plus they have the Belichickian good Brad Stevens on their side. So, Kyrie or no Kyrie, they’ll win in Round I, though facing Indiana or less likely Philly will be challenging. After that Irving and Smart will be back and we’ll see. But by then Stephen A. will likely look dumber than partner Max the Moron has bashing Tom Brady the last two seasons.

No, that’s impossible, but it’ll be close.

The Rivalry is Back: Forget what hap-

pened in Tampa Bay; my take-away from the first weekend was I’m already looking to see how the Yankees did for the first time in about five years. I don’t have a favorite baseball team, but I do love the rivalry when it’s in prime time, and with expectations for the Yankees sky high after getting Giancarlo Stanton and the Red Sox better than most in baseball realize, I think it’s heading back to the days of the Core 4 vs.

Manny and Big Papi. And if they have an early fight, it’s back to Defcon 5.

Cinderella Stories: To steal a quote from Carl in Caddyshack, who wouldn’t like seeing a one-time greenskeeper win the Masters? It may not happen this weekend, but after seeing Loyola of Chicago’s unexpected run to the Final Four and the UConn women shocked in their semifinal by a lastsecond Notre Dame shot it’s been a fun time of unexpected underdogs and upsets.

Rudy Ruettiger Comes to the NHL: Speaking of Cinderella stories. How could anyone not love the story of Scott Foster?

He’s the 36-year-old Chicago accountant/ beer league goalie who had never come within nine area codes of playing in the NHL before Thursday. But thanks to an obscure NHL rule that allows teams to bring guys off the street to be their emergency goalie if something happens to their active net-minders, he wound up in net last week. Like Rudy at Notre Dame he delivered for the Blackhawks by stopping all seven shots that came his way in his 14 minute and one second of fame in a 6-2 win to give Sports Illustrated its Sportsman of the Year already.

Golf on the Radio: My Saturday morning radio program on WFEA AM (1370) and FM (99.1), which takes us to courses all over the state, follows the big local events and lets us talk to top players and club pros all summer, is back this week at 9 a.m. Can’t wait.

Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.

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F-Cats season begins today The Story: The Fisher Cats are back for their season opener Thursday, April 5, in Hartford. It’s the first of seven on the road before opening at home next Friday again vs. Hartford. They come north with two sons of former big-time MLB players in Bo Bichette (dad Dante) and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who’ll man the left side of the infield at short and third respectively.

Sports 101: Only four people have been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as both player and coach. Name them.

That’s Incredible Award: If they ever bring back the campy ’70s TV show That’s Incredible, it’s a good bet Dustin Johnson’s tee-ball on Friday at the WGC–Dell Match play would make the cut. It traveled a beyond-belief 489 yards, leaving Wayne Gretzky’s son-in-law less than 100 yards on his second shot to the 573-yard 12th hole at the Austin (Texas) Country Club in Austin. For the mathematically challenged: 489 yards is over a quarter of mile!

Sports Quote of the Week: It comes from Mookie Betts, who said to the guffaws of Karl Ravech and his ESPN crew during a live interview while playing right field vs. the Cubs, “I ain’t getting this one, boys” as he chased

Kris Bryant’s shot to the corner.

Sports 101 Answer: The dual hoop Hall of Famers are John Wooden, threetime All American player at Purdue and 10-time champion coach at UCLA; Lenny Wilkens, nine-time NBA All-Star mostly with the St. Louis Hawks and a coach with six teams including Seattle (twice), where he won his only NBA title; Bill Sharman, four-time champ with the Celtics as a player who won titles as a coach in the NBA, ABA and ABL, and Tommy Heinsohn, referee-loving ninetime title-winning player with the Celtics and two-time winner as Celtics coach.

On This Date – April 5, 1993 and 2010: Worlds-apart college NCAA Final games, in ’93 featuring North Carolina vs. the Chris Webber- and Jalen Roseled brash Fab 5 from Michigan which turned on the famous technical foul given to Webber for calling time out with none left. It gave Dean Smith his final national title in a 77-71 win. On the other end was Brad Stevens’ and unheralded Butler’s Cinderella story run thrilling the nation right up to Gordon Hayward mid-court three for the win went in and out to let Duke survive the 2010 Final 61-59.

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4 – hits in six at-bats for Tom Blandini as he knocked in three runs and scored three more in leading the SNHU baseball team to an 8-2 win over Bentley.

5 – career high goals scored by Zach Turner while leading St. Anselm to an 18-8 dusting of the SNHU laxsters.

10 – wins against one loss for Candia’s Sarah Lavallee after going the distance while giving up just three hits and two runs as the SNHU softball team downed Post 6-2 on Thursday.

75 – score carded by reigning NH Amateur Junior Champion Tommy Either at the California Coaches Invitational at Maryland’s Crofton Coun-

try Club as the Bishop Guertin alum led Bentley University to third place in the opening round of the two-day event.

78,000 – dollars raised at the sixth annual Safe Sports Network fundraiser at Derryfield CC which will be used to promote safety in youth sports and provide free physicals to youth sports participants in New Hampshire.

Sports Glossary Steve A. Blowhard: Real name Stephen A. Smith. ESPN yakker with the well-earned nickname in being the 21st century’s answer to the obnoxious Howard Cosell. Living testimony to the phrase “just because they say it with self-important bravado doesn’t mean they’re right.”

The Fab 5: Arguably the greatest and definitely the most over-hyped recruiting class in college basketball history. It featured Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson. In being the nation’s first all-freshman starting line-

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up and going to two straight Finals in losing efforts vs. Duke and North Carolina they mostly delivered. Though predictably it ended badly with Michigan going on probation after it came to light a booster paid Webber over 300K to wear the maze and blue.

Carl the Greenskeeper: Varmint-hating greenkeeper/demolition expert in the 1980s golf course comedy romp Caddyshack starring Bill Murray as Carl Spackler along with Chevy Chase, Ted Knight and Rodney Dangerfield.

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BOWL JOIN A LEAGUE, HAVE A PARTY & OTHER WAYS TO GET IN THE LANE

Bowling basics

The difference between candlepin and ten-pin

By Matt Ingersoll

mingersoll@hippopress.com

There are two ways to bowl in New Hampshire: candlepin and ten-pin. Find out which option might give you your optimal bowling experience.

Candlepin bowling

Candlepin bowling is the most common type in the Granite State and is unique to New England, according to Janet Boyden, president of the New Hampshire USBC Association and head bowling coach at Pinkerton Academy in Derry. It was first played around the year 1880 at a bowling center in Worcester, Mass.

“You go outside of New England and talk to people about candlepin bowling, and they will look at you like you have two heads,” Boyden said. “That’s HIPPO | APRIL 5 - 11, 2018 | PAGE 12

because there are no professional candlepin bowling tours across the country like there are with ten-pin.”

Candlepin bowlers use a much smaller bowling ball than in ten-pin, without any finger holes, and the pins are much taller and skinnier, made to look more like candles — hence the name.

“The ball is just like a bocce ball. It’s a small ball you can hold in both hands,” Boyden said.

Scoring is also different between the two games.

“In candlepin, you actually bowl three balls per frame instead of two,” Boyden said.

Unlike in ten-pin bowling, any pins during a candlepin game that get knocked down but stay on the deck will stay there before bowlers have finished their turns.

“That’s called deadwood, and you can use it to pick up a spare,” she said,

“whereas in ten-pin, whatever falls down But a perfect game in ten-pin bowling is gets cleared away before you throw the much easier to achieve than in candlepin, second ball.” due to the larger sizes of the balls and pins.

In fact, the record for the highest score in a single game of candlepin bowling is 245, Ten-pin bowling Ten-pin bowling involves larger pins and achieved first in 1984 and again in 2011, bowling balls, and also has more populari- according to the International Candlepin ty outside of New England than candlepin, Bowling Association’s records.

Boyden said.

“There are a lot of ten-pin tournaments Other types of bowling on the state level, and they end up being Less common games of bowling include qualifiers for regional and national tourna- duck-pin — a variation of ten-pin — and ments all across the country,” she said. five-pin, which is popular in Canada. BoyWhile both ten-pin and candlepin bowl- den said the closest duck-pin center to the ing games have 10 rounds total per game Granite State currently is North Chelmsford — known as “frames” in ten-pin, or Duckpin Bowling Lanes in Massachusetts. “strings” in candlepin — the highest pos“The pins look almost the same as in sible score is 300. This is achieved by ten-pin but are bit smaller and heavier,” bowling 12 consecutive strikes in a single she said. game — one in the first nine rounds and Duck-pin bowling was invented in Balthree in the final round, since three balls are timore and has a majority of its centers in rolled no matter the pin count. the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., areas.

Pick your place

Southern New Hampshire has several candlepin bowling alleys as well as a few ten-pin alleys, and there’s even one place where you can do both.

Candlepin bowling

Boutwell’s Bowling Center (152 N. State St., Concord, 224-0941, boutwellsbowl.com) has 24 candlepin bowling lanes. Public bowling hours are Monday, from 1 to 10 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, from 1 to 11 p.m. and Sunday, from 1 to 9 p.m., though lane availability is limited from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The cost is $4.50 per game per person and $3 for shoe rentals. Glow bowling is also available Saturdays from 6 to 11 p.m.

King Bowling Lanes (751 Mast Road, Manchester, 623-9215, kinglanes.com) has 10 candlepin bowling lanes. Public bowling hours are Monday, from 3 to 10 p.m., Tuesday, from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, from noon to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, from noon to 11 p.m., and Sunday, from noon to 7 p.m. The cost is $4 per game per person and $2.50 for shoe rentals.

Glow bowling is also available Saturdays from 5 to 11 p.m.

Lakeside Lanes (2171 Candia Road, Manchester, 627-7722, lakesidelanes.com) has 24 candlepin bowling lanes. Public bowling hours are Monday, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The cost is $4.75 per game per person and $3.50 for shoe rentals.

Leda Lanes (340 Amherst St., Nashua, 889-4884, ledalanes.com) has 36 candlepin bowling lanes. It’s open from 9 a.m. to midnight seven days a week. The cost is $4 per game per person and $3 for shoe rentals. The center also offers glow bowling at Leda’s Lighthouse (directly across the parking lot),

with public bowling hours Monday through Thursday, from 4 to 10 p.m., Friday, from 4 to midnight, Saturday, from 9 a.m. to midnight and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. The cost is $4 per game per person and $2.50 for shoe rentals.

Lefty’s Lanes (244 Elm St., Milford, 554-8300, leftyslanes.com) has 12 candlepin bowling lanes. Public bowling is available Tuesday through Sunday; hours vary depending on bowling league play.

The cost per game per person is $3 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and $3.50 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The cost for shoe rentals is $2 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and $2.50 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Park Place Lanes (16 Rockingham Road, Windham, 898-4422, parkplacelanes.com) has 36 candlepin bowling lanes. Lane hours are Monday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday, from 10 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, from 11 a.m. to midnight, and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The costs are $3.50 per game per person until noon, $4.50 until 5 p.m., $5 between 5 and 9 p.m. and $4 after 9 p.m. Shoe rentals are $4 for adults and $3 for all youth sizes.

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Ten-pin bowling

Merrimack Ten Pin Center (698 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 429-0989, merrimacktenpin.com) has 28 ten-pin bowling lanes. Open bowling hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week. The cost is $3.75 per game per person Monday through Friday, and $5 on Saturday and Sunday. Shoe rentals are $4.

Spare Time Manchester (216 Maple St., Manchester, 625-9656, sparetimemanchester.com) has 34 ten-pin bowling lanes.

Public bowling hours are Monday through Thursday, from 9 a.m. to midnight, Friday and Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m., and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. The cost is $5 per game per person and $4 for shoe rentals.

Strikers East Bowling Center (4 Essex Road, Raymond, 895-9501, strikerseast.net) has 32 ten-pin bowling lanes. The hours are Monday, from 4 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, from 4 to 10 p.m., Wednesday, from 9 a.m to 10 p.m., Thursday, from 4 to 10 p.m., Friday, from 2 to 11 p.m., Saturday, from noon to 11 p.m. and Sunday, from noon to 8 p.m.

The cost is $3.50 per game per person on Monday through Thursday and $4.50 from Friday through Sunday. Shoe rentals are $3.

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Do both!

Funspot (579 Endicott St. N., Laconia, 366-4377, funspotnh.com) has 20 bowling lanes; 10 are candlepin and 10 are ten-pin.

Open bowling is available every day, but hours vary depending on league play. The cost is $4 per game per person and $2.50 for shoe rentals.

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Keep the ball rolling Try glow bowling or a bowling party

Party on

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

Some bowling alleys offer special features and additional ways to play the game. Spice up your bowling experience with glow-inthe-dark bowling, or hit the lanes for your next party or family gathering.

Go glow

If you’re looking for bowling with nightlife appeal and a party-like atmosphere, glow bowling is the way to go. Many bowling alleys have glow bowling on weekend nights as a more exciting alternative to traditional bowling.

For glow bowling, the regular lights are turned off and replaced with black lights that illuminate the lanes, pins, bowling balls and, of course, anyone who is wearing white. Moving colored lights are often set to upbeat music played louder than normal.

“It’s got all the effects from the good old disco days,” Tim Lipke, general manager at Lakeside Lanes in Manchester, said.

“Everything glows in the dark with bright colors and lights that go off with the music, and you can see the pins change colors from greens to reds to blues. It’s something fun for people of any age.”

Some bowling alleys, like Boutwell’s Bowling Center in Concord, do special challenges and giveaways during their glow bowling nights.

“We’ll do something like pick a lane number out of a hat and say to the person at that lane, ‘If you can knock down eight or more pins, you win a free pizza,’ or ‘free bowling,’ or ‘a free T shirt,’’’ Boutwell’s owner Dan Murphy said. “Regular bowling can get boring, so adding the

giveaways with the glow and the music makes it a lot more exciting and fun for everyone.”

Where to glow

Boutwell’s Bowling Center - Saturdays, 6 to 11 p.m.

King Bowling Lanes - Most Saturdays, 5 to 11 p.m.

Lakeside Lanes - Saturdays, noon to 11 p.m.

Leda Lanes - Monday through Thursday, from 4 to 10 p.m., Friday, from 4 to midnight, Saturday, from 9 a.m. to midnight and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Lefty’s Lanes - Fridays, 6 to 10 p.m., and Saturdays, noon to 10 p.m.

Park Place Lanes - offered anytime lanes are open Merrimack Ten Pin Center - Fridays, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., and Saturdays, 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

Spare Time Manchester - Fridays and Saturdays, 10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Strikers East Bowling Center - Fridays and Saturdays from 8 to 11 p.m.

Where to party

Many bowling alleys rent out their lanes for special events, such as birthday parties for kids or adults, celebrations, corporate events and fundraisers. Lipke said he’s even booked a wedding reception at Lakeside Lanes.

At most bowling alleys that do special events, you can opt for either traditional bowling or glow bowling. Rubber bumpers that prevent the ball from going into the gutter can also be added to make bowling more fun for children. You can reserve however many lanes you need to accommodate your group for a set amount of time; one lane per four people for an hour or two is standard, Murphy said.

Different bowling alleys offer different levels of service for special events. Some rent out just the lanes while others have event rooms where groups can gather and eat in a more private setting.

At bowling alleys that don’t serve food, such as Lakeside, you’ll need to bring your own, but there are bowling alleys, such as Boutwell’s, that have a kitchen and can cater the event as well.

“We do everything — the setup, the pizza, the drinks, the cleanup — and we have a person on staff whose only job at that time is to cater to the party,” Murphy said. “It’s a great deal, especially for parents who don’t want to have to worry about making a mess.”

Murphy said parties are “a huge part” of Boutwell’s business, and that bowling is an ideal activity for group settings.

“There’s a big social aspect. You have this camaraderie with the people you’re playing with,” he said. “It’s a great way to get together with your family and friends and have a few hours of fun.”

Prices vary depending on the party package and number of guests. Call the bowling center for rates.

Boutwell’s Bowling Center: Includes one hour of bowling and one hour in the party room with full party setup. Catering with pizza and soda is also available.

King Bowling Lanes: Includes one hour of bowling and one hour in the party room with full party setup and cake and ice cream.

Lakeside Lanes: Includes one hour of bowling and use of the tables behind the lanes or 45 minutes in the party room with full party setup. Some packages also include a surprise for the birthday child and $10 in quarters for the arcade games.

Leda Lanes: Basic package includes one hour of bowling and one hour in the party room. Ultimate package also includes pizza, drinks and cake.

Lefty’s Lanes: Includes an hour of bowling and an hour in the party room with full party setup, plus pizza, drinks and ice cream cake.

Park Place Lanes: Basic package is one hour of bowling and 30 minutes in the party room. Expanded package includes one hour of bowling, 45 minutes in the party room with a full party setup, pizza and drinks.

Merrimack Ten Pin Center: Basic package includes one hour of bowling and one hour in the party room with full party setup, pizza and drinks. Add-ons include a buildyour-own ice cream sundae bar, ice cream cake, a fresh fruit or veggie tray and tokens for the arcade games.

Spare Time Manchester: Includes a twohour party with bowling, pizza and drinks.

Strikers East Bowling Center: Includes one or two hours of bowling, pizza and drinks and party bags. Expanded packages include party platters, cake and ice cream and balloons.

lenge League, which he said is a scratch team league that plays every Thursday night. As a scratch team league, they don’t use any handicaps. The individual scores are averaged together to rank the team against the competition.

“For me, it’s about the competition. I’m a very competitive person and I just love competing. In bowling, you’re competing against your opponent but you’re also competing against yourself,” he said.

Griffin said his is one of the few scratch team leagues in the state right now. But Mindy Hardy, a manager at Strikers, said there are a number of league options available.

Fall leagues run about 32 to 36 weeks long, lasting through the winter and into the start of spring, usually from the end of August to the beginning of May. Summer leagues last about 12 to 16 weeks, from May through July.

Hardy said the majority of leagues are handicap leagues, which makes it competitive for all skill levels. There’s a league for doubles, a league for trios and leagues for “mixed” teams that have four or five members. Each league plays on a different night of the week. How the league is crafted is decided largely by its members.

“It’s all based on what your leagues want,” Hardy said.

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League play

Bowl competitively and win some cash

By Ryan Lessard

news@hippopress.com

While there are countless options for bowling casually, there are also several leagues people can join to play regularly and competitively with some real money at stake.

Getting organized

Charlie Griffin of Derry has been bowling since he was a teenager some 40-odd years ago. Over the years, he’s seen a lot of changes to the bowling lane industry. As a young person, he would observe kids under the age of HIPPO | APRIL 5 - 11, 2018 | PAGE 14

12 playing in the mornings, and then teenagers would come in the afternoon.

League play used to be more popular. But now, he said, it seems to be on the decline.

“I think what you’re seeing more of now is kind of the social bowling. The places that are new, that are opening up, are the kind that are designed for corporate outings and birthday parties and that kind of thing where you’ll have a place that has bowling lanes but they’re not all next to each other,” Griffin said.

He says he’s lucky to be bowling at one of the places that encourages and supports league play at Strikers East Bowling Center in Raymond. He’s part of the Pepsi Chal-

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The swing of things

Griffin would like to see more people, especially young people, get into league play. There’s a social aspect to it, where you are forced to meet new people from other teams all the time, and there’s the rewarding feeling you get by winning or improving your personal score. There’s even a physical exercise component, especially when you compare it to Wii bowling.

But for those who are discouraged by the heavy 10-pin balls or find it uncomfortable when they place their fingers in the holes, Griffin recommends some customization.

“The hardest part to getting started is you really have to get your own equipment,” Griffin said.

The first step is to go to a pro shop, like the one in Strikers, and buy a ball that fits your hand and isn’t too heavy for you.

Eventually, it wouldn’t hurt to buy your own pair of bowling shoes as well.

“Once you have a ball, you’re going

to see significant improvement,” Griffin said.

He’s observed players improve their scores every week and begin to enjoy the sport more and more.

Griffin said he’s in the top 10 or 20 players on his league, which has about 80 players. His average score is around 215 or 220, depending on the season.

“I’ve had eight perfect games in my life, so that’s been a big thrill,” he said.

Find a league Each bowling lane offers its own list of leagues, which play on different days of the week. Some are for seniors, some are for kids, some are for men or women only, and many are mixed. Most competitive leagues are for ten-pin bowling, but there are also several candlepin leagues. Check out bowling lanes close to you to see what leagues are available; staff can help guide you to the league that would be best suited to you.

Here are a few basic options to consider: Ten-pin vs. candlepin: Pick a style of bowling you enjoy most.

Summer vs. fall: When do you want to play? Summer seasons are short but there are always openings. Fall seasons run through the winter and the start of spring, and they are more popular for competitive bowlers.

Kids vs. adults vs. seniors: Pick an age group that best suits you. Some candlepin leagues are for kids age 4-12 and seniors who use walkers.

Men vs. women vs. mixed: Would you prefer to hang out with your fellow ladies and men? Or would you rather mix it up?

One of the benefits of league play is meeting new people.

Handicapped vs. challenge: How competitive are you? Start out with a handicapped league and move onto a challenge league (also known as a scratch league) if you want to achieve bowling glory.

Create your own: Don’t see any leagues that fit you? Get some friends together and start a new one. You’ll need enough people for a few teams, but league founders can decide the rules. It can be a league just for teachers or plumbers, or it can be open to all.

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Founders make bylaws and set membership dues, part of which pay for the cost of bowling. The rest goes into a prize fund.

“There’s some money involved. Not a whole lot, but you can make money,” Hardy said.

Griffin said he once won $800 by winning a singles tournament at Strikers. It was $30 to join. With many tournaments and leagues, the more people playing, the greater the amount that can be won since there are more people buying into the fund.

Hardy said leagues are broken down into sanctioned and non-sanctioned leagues. Players have to pay dues for either, but the non-sanctioned leagues don’t have strict membership, while sanctioned leagues are able to compete in some national tournaments.

Griffin said he pays $25 per week for his membership dues over the course of 34 weeks. So if he happens to win $800, he will have earned most of that money back.

“The more money you pay the more money you get back,” Hardy said.

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Fans of live music have some classical options this week.

Shows on the schedule include the Windham Community Bands (concert, swing and flute ensemble) concert gala with the theme “A Night at the Movies” tonight from 5:15 to 11 p.m. at the Castleton Banquet and Conference Center, 58 Enterprise Drive, Windham. Tickets cost $50. Call 965-3842. Symphony NH also presents “Beethoven 9” tonight at 8 p.m. at Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St. in Nashua. Tickets cost $18 to $49 for adults (discounts for students; free for youth). See symphonynh.org. Concord Community Music School (23 Wall St. in Concord, ccmusicschool.org) features “Two Pianos, Four Hands: Music of Bach, Mozart, Grief & Piazzola” Friday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15.

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The Merrimack River Painter will hold an opening reception for their fine art exhibit “My Land, Your Land, Our Land” at the McLane Center (84 Silk Farm Road in Concord, 224-9909; nhaudubon. org) tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The artists will share sketchbooks, answer questions and discuss their work, according to the website. The event is free but a portion of sales at the show will support the Audubon.

Eat: With Alex Guarnaschelli!

Friday, April 6

Catch Rose Kula during her monthly acoustic jam at the Village Trestle (25 Main St. in Goffstown; villagetrestle.com) tonight from 8 p.m. to midnight. Find more live music for the weekend and beyond in our Music This Week listing of performances at area bars and restaurants, which starts on page 46.

Chef, Chopped judge and cookbook author Alex Guarnaschelli will host the 3rd Annual Steel Chef Challenge Monday, April 16, at the Manchester Downtown Hotel (700 Elm St. in Manchester). The evening starts with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m. (or with a meet-and-greet at 5 p.m., for VIP ticket holders) and the competition between local chefs starts at 6:30 p.m., with dinner service to start at 7:15 p.m. Tickets cost $125, or $200 for VIP admission. See nhfoodbank.org/steelchef or call 669-9725, ext. 1129.

It’s a musical weekend! The Palace Theatre’s production of the ABBA-filled musical Mamma Mia! opens today with a show at 7:30 p.m. Other shows this weekend are Saturday, April 7, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 8, at 2 p.m. The show runs at the Palace (80 Hanover St. in Manchester; palacetheatre.org, 668-5588) through May 6. Tickets for adults start at $39. At Saint Anselm College, the Abbey Players’ production of Pippin ends this weekend with shows Friday, April 6, and Saturday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Dana Center (100 Saint Anselm Drive in Manchester; anselm.edu). Tickets cost $15.

Drink: Pints at the Currier

Try brews from Algean Ales and learn more about the Manchvegas Brew Bus tour at the Currier After Hours event Thursday, April 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St. in Manchester; 669-6144, currier.org). The evening will also offer a chance to see the new exhibition “Intimate Keepsakes: American Portrait Miniatures — A Gift from Charles A. Gilday.” Admission to the museum costs $15 for adults (discounts for seniors, students and youth; children under 13 get in free).

Saturday, April 7

Marta McDowell will discuss her 2016 book All the President’s Gardens, which explores the history of the White House grounds, at 2 p.m. at Hollis Brookline High School (24 Cavalier Court in Hollis). Books by McDowell, who is also the author of 2017’s The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books and 2013’s Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places that Inspired the Classic Children’s Tales, will be for sale at the event. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $15 at the door. See “All the Presidents’ Gardens” on Eventbrite.com.

Be merry: With bargain shopping

The Bedford Women’s Club will hold its “Whale of a Sale” indoor yard sale Saturday, April 7, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bedford’s Old Town Hall (70 Bedford Center Road) featuring new and used items like toys, books, housewares, garden items and more. Proceeds support charities selected by the club. See bedfordwomensclub.org. The St. Patrick’s Parish Women’s Guild is holding its Penny Sale Saturday, April 7, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, April 8, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the parish (12 Main St. in Pelham; 635-3525).

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ARTS Catching fire

Theater workshop debuts in Peterborough

By Angie Sykeny

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Firelight Theatre Workshop co-founders Nora Fiffer and Jason Lambert believe that theater should be an intimate and unique experience for the audience, and that’s exactly what they’ve set out to create with their first production, Skylight, running now through April 22 in downtown Peterborough.

The three-person play by British playwright David Hare stars Fiffer and Lambert as former lovers, Kyra Hollis and Tom Sergeant, who spend a winter night in Kyra’s apartment, contemplating their past, present and future relationship.

“It’s a big and amazingly universal story about love and forgiveness, class and politics, wealth and guilt,” Fiffer said. “There’s heartbreak, but there’s also hope, and that’s part of the reason we chose it. We always want to leave our audience with a feeling of hope and warmth.”

The play is performed in a “living set,” an open space in a commercial building that’s been converted into a somewhat functional apartment. The audience is invited to sit among the furniture integrated into the set, giving them a sense that

Nora Fiffer and Jason Lambert star in Skylight.

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they are active participants in the story.

“They’ll be right next to us, up close and personal,” Fiffer said. “We want them to be fully present and immersed and to go on this journey with us and feel what the characters are feeling.”

There will be 20 performances of Skylight, each open to an audience of no more than 20 people. The goal is not to “fill the house,” Fiffer said, but to make each performance a one-of-a-kind experience for the audience.

“It’s not like going to see a movie, where you know the movie is going to be the same for every crowd,” she said. “We

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want to embrace the fact that there are live human beings there with us, and that each audience makes it a different experience. We want people to know that the performance they’re seeing is only going to happen once.”

Firelight Theatre Workshop’s inaugural season will feature two additional productions: The Realistic Joneses, a play by Will Eno, and We Were Friends, an original work written by Fiffer and Lambert consisting of 12 short performance pieces that reimagine the lives and friendship of 19thcentury writers Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson in today’s world. Fiffer said Fuller and Emerson’s friendship has been the leading source of inspiration and “an anchor” for Lambert’s and her artistic collaboration and formation of Firelight.

By calling Firelight a “theater workshop” as opposed to a “theater company” Fiffer and Lambert hope to convey that it is a continuously evolving creative endeavor, open to new ideas.

“We’re not about rolling out the next big thing from New York or Chicago or London,” Lambert said. “We’re here to explore. We may not have everything figured out, but we’re going to start with what we’ve got and show up every day

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to do the work that will ultimately lead to exceptional and interesting work.”

At this point, Fiffer and Lambert are actors in all of their productions.

“We love to perform, and we’d like that to remain a priority,” Lambert said. “We enjoy being in control of that process and holding onto a degree of aesthetic autonomy.”

They are, however, looking for collaborators to fill additional acting roles and help with sound, set design, music, props and other production elements.

“We’ve already had fellow artists and theater lovers come out of the woodwork to offer their resources,” Fiffer said. “We wear so many hats, so it’s nice to have the support of the community, and we hope more people will become interested in contributing to our process and that our network will continue to grow.”

Skylight Where: Guernsey Building, second floor, 70 Main St., Peterborough When: Now through April 22, showtimes Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets: $20 for adults, $15 for students More info: firelighttheatreworkshop. com, 646-263-9301

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OGY 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.

• THE MERCY SEAT Players’ Ring Theatre presents. March

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

• NOISES OFF! Manchester Community Theatre Players present. April 6 through April 15. MCTP Theatre, North End Montessori School, 698 Beech

St., Manchester. $20 for adults, $18 for seniors 65+, $10 for students age 18 and under. Visit mctp.info.

• THE TEMPEST The Riverbend Youth Company presents.

April 6 to April 8. The Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. $15 for adults, $12 for students

and seniors. Visit svbgc.org/ amato-center.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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• Murder mystery: The Majestic Theatre presents a musical dinner theater show, Dial ‘M’ For Murder, at the Executive Court Banquet Facility (1199 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester) on Friday, April 6, and Saturday, April 7, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 8, at 1:30 p.m. The mystery written by Frederick Knott follows Tony Wendice, who plans to have his wife Margot murdered. Things don’t go according to plan, however, when Margot kills the man hired to kill her and is accused of murder herself. Tickets cost $42 for the Friday and Saturday shows and $38 for the Sunday show. Call 669-7469 or visit majestictheatre.net.

• Shakespeare classic: The Riverbend Youth Company presents The Tempest at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts (56 Mont Vernon St., Milford) on Friday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 7, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 8, at 2:30 p.m.

The Shakespeare play follows Prospero, former Duke of Milan who was overthrown by his brother, and his daughter Miranda as they live on a desert island. When Prospero’s brother’s ship passes by the island, Prospero and the sprite Ariel use magic to cause a shipwreck, drawing the ship’s company to the island for Prospero to get his revenge. Tickets cost $12 for adults and $8 for students and seniors. Visit svbgc.org/amato-center.

• A look backstage: The Manchester Community Theatre Players present Noises Executive Court Banquet Facility, 1199 South Mammoth Road, Manchester. $42 on Friday and Saturday, $38 on Sunday. Call 669-7469 or visit majestictheatre.net.

• BREWSTER’S RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH Pontine Theatre presents. April 6 through April 15. Strawbery

Manchester Community Theatre Players present Noises Off! Courtesy photo.

Off! at their theater (North End Montessori School, 698 Beech St., Manchester) April 6 through April 15. The comedy written by Michael Frayn is set behind the stage during the final dress rehearsal for a farce called Nothing On. Love triangles are unmasked, actors can’t remember their lines, and other chaos ensues. Showtimes are on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets cost $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and $10 for students. Visit mctp.info or call 800-838-3006.

• 9/11 play: The Players’ Ring Theatre (105 Marcy St., Portsmouth) presents Mercy Seat on Friday, April 6, and Saturday, April 7, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 8, at 3 p.m. The play, written by Neil Labute, is set on Sept.

12, 2001, and follows a man who worked at the World Trade Center but was away from the office with his boss and mistress during the 9/11 attacks. Expecting his family to believe that he died, he considers using the tragedy as an opportunity to run away and start a new life with his lover. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for students and seniors.

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• POSTERITY theatre KAPOW presents ARTiculate Playreading Series. Sun., April 8, 2 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Visit tkapow.com.

• A SEARCH FOR JUSTICE One-man show featuring actor Stephen Collins. Mon., April

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

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The Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center (30 Ash St., Hollis) presents a new exhibition, “Windows to the Woods,” April 6 through May 5, in its Whitty Gallery. The exhibition features work by local artists Nancy French and Tamara Gonda, inspired by the natural world, the forest and the lyrical landscape. French uses found and salvaged materials such as wood, branches and bark to make wooden sculptures. Gonda creates vibrant contemporary landscapes in large format using watercolor, encaustics and acrylics. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be an opening reception on Friday, April 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. Call 465-9453 or visit wildsalamander.com.

Pictured: Tamara Gonda art. Courtesy photo.

Art Events • “THE PHILOSOPHY OF COLOR” First Friday presentation. Fri., April 6, 6:30 p.m.

Creative Ventures Gallery, 411 Nashua St. , Milford. Visit creativeventuresfineart.com.

• ARTIST TALK: BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH KAREN MAYEU a brief exploration of the history of design where art, consumerism and technology intertwine and how we got all the way to the user experience. Sun., April 22, 3 p.m.

LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst. $5. Visit labellewineryevents.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.

• SEEDS OF HOPE FASHION SHOW Show highlights outfits and designs from unique Southern New Hampshire clothiers.

Fri., May 4, 7 p.m. Manchester Downtown Hotel, 700 Elm St. , Manchester. $50. Visit seedsofhopefashion.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.

In the Galleries • “EAST & WEST” Featuring oil paintings, woodblock prints and charcoal drawings by Sandy Wadlington. On view Feb. 20 through April 13. McGowan 120213

Fine Art , 2 Phenix Ave. , Concord. Visit mcgowanfineart.com.

• 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.

• 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.

Cabbonay restaurant, 55 Bridge St., Manchester. Visit nhia.edu or call 623-0313.

• “REPRESENTING FEMINISM(S)” Exhibition showcases more than 30 contemporary artists whose work explores feminism’s impact and potential and represents more diverse and inclusive feminisms.

On view Feb. 23 through April 21. Lamont Gallery, 11 Tan Lane, Exeter. Visit exeter.edu/ lamontgallery or call 772-4311.

• “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.

• “TREES” Exhibition features the photographs of New Hampshire Art Association artist Carol Van Loon. On view through April. The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, 49 S. Main St., Concord. Visit nhartassociation.org.

• “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.

• “A PARTIAL INVENTORY OF TOTALLY USELESS OBJECTS” Exhibition fea-

tures a quirky, high-spirited, and intensely colored assortment of minimal and abstract 3D paper objects, or “gestures,” organized in a loose grid suggestive of an alphabet of shapes or a hypothetical collection of imaginary artifacts. On view March 9 through June 17. Sharon Arts Center Exhibition Gallery, 30 Grove St., Peterborough. Visit nhia.edu.

• “NEW WORKS ‘18” A show and sale of art created by the artists whose work is represented in the MainStreet Gallery. March 23 through June 15. MainStreet BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., Warner. Visit mainstreetbookends. com.

Openings • SPRING ART SHOW RECEPTION The Exeter Arts Committee presents work by dozens of local artists in a variety of mediums. Fri., April 6, 5 to 7 p.m. Exeter Town Hall Gallery, 10 Front St. , Exeter. Visit exeterarts.org.

• “EMOTIONS, CAPTURED IN FABRIC” OPENING RECEPTION Quilt art exhibition. Fri., April 6, 5 to 8 p.m.

Nancy Morgan Art Gallery , 238 State St., Portsmouth. Call 4278611.

• MADELEINE LAROSE RECEPTION Featured artist of the month. Sat., April 14, noon to 2 p.m. ArtHub Gallery, 30 Temple St., Nashua. Visit marilenesawaf.com.

Classical Music • 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.

• “EVENING OF MUSIC” The Windham Community Bands – Concert Band, Swing Band, and Flute Ensemble - present a concert gala. The theme is “A Night at the Movies.” Sat., April 7, 5:15 to 11 p.m. Castleton

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• Aged furniture: The New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association has a new exhibition, “Looking Back: Vintage Works,” on view April 6 through June 11 at its gallery (49 S. Main St., Concord). It features fine furniture that is at least 25 years old. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 6, from 5 to 7 p.m., at which the Furniture Masters will discuss their approach and how time can affect the color, pattern and overall feel of a piece of furniture. The furniture in the exhibit is not for sale but represents what can be made or commissioned from a Furniture Master. Visit furnituremasters.org.

• Whimsical fine crafts: The League of NH Craftsmen presents a new exhibition, “Fairy Tales & Fantasies,” at its Exhibition Gallery (36 N. Main St., Concord) April 6 through June 15. It features work by juried members who were asked to submit work with a whimsical theme. “Each piece in this exhibition tells a distinct story drawn from the imagination of the craftsperson,” League Standards Manager Catherine Green said in a press release. “‘Fairy Tales & Fantasies’ is an opportunity for gallery visitors to enjoy the unexpected, and our juried members to explore their own interpretation of the theme.” Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. An opening reception will be held on Banquet and Conference Center, 58 Enterprise Drive , Windham. $50. Call 965-3842.

• BEETHOVEN 9 Symphony NH presents. Sat., April 7, 8 p.m.

Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. $18 to $49 for adults, $10 for students, free for youth. Visit symphonynh.org.

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Females - Women in Art” These will take place at WHEN: MONDAY, April 9, 2018 the Goffstown Parks and Recreation building WHERE: Chunky’s Theatre & Pub - Rte 38, Pelham, NH TIME: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PMApril – Movie at 8:30 – FULL PUB MENU AVAILABLE (155 S. Mast St., Goffstown) on Friday, For More Information Visit Our Facebook Page For Full Vendor List & Movie 6, at 10 a.m. Culturally Curious will preswww.facebook.com/NHChemoCarePackages/ ent a brief history of women in art, including contemporary images of and by women and a group discussion touching on the strength, courage and complexity of women’s lives.

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• Paint like O’Keeffe: Artist Greg Monday, April 9, 2018 • 5PM-8PM, Movie at 8:30 Maichack will teach an adult workshop, Chunky’s Theatre & Pub - Rte. 38, Pelham “Scarlet Poppies: Pastel Paint like GeorFull pub menu available. Visit our facebook page for full vendor list & movie: gia O’Keeffe,” at the Amherst Town Library (14 Main St., Amherst) on Wednesday, April facebook.com/NHChemoCarePackages 120239 11, at 6:30 p.m. Participants will learn the basics of pastel painting as well as advanced techniques while drawing inspiration from O’Keeffe’s famous poppy paintings. The workshop is free but registration is required.

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Sun., April 8, 3 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua.

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• “THE RAVEN: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF WHITE” The Keiser Concert Series presents.

Fri., April 13, 7:30 p.m. St. Paul’s School, 325 Pleasant St., Concord. Free. Visit sps.edu/keiser.

• NATALIYA TRULL Pianist performs. Sat., April 14,

7:30 p.m. Concord Community Music School , 23 Wall St. , Concord. $10 to $20. Visit nepianomasterclass.com.

• BEETHOVEN’S MASS IN C MAJOR Nashua Choral Society and Symphony NH present. Sat., April 28, 7:30 p.m. Immaculate Conception Church, 216 East Dunstable Road, Nashua. Call 998-0443.

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FEATURES 23 Kiddie pool Family activities this week.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE Have it made

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By Angie Sykeny

24 The Gardening Guy Advice on your outdoors.

25 Treasure Hunt There’s gold in your attic.

26 Car Talk Click and Clack give you car advice.

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From cards and pictures made with recycled aluminum cans to gourmet dog treats made with spent beer grain, New Hampshire makers offer all kinds of unique products. You’ll find many of them at the Made in NH Expo, happening Friday, April 6, through Sunday, April 8, in Manchester.

Now in its 23rd year, the expo will have 165 exhibitors selling a wide variety of New Hampshiremade food products, home decor, jewelry, artwork, clothing, personal care products, glassware, bags, candles, pet products and more.

“We were all about buying local before it was cool,” said Heidi Copeland, owner of EventsNH, which hosts the event. “It’s a way to support local New Hampshire companies and encourage New Hampshire citizens to buy locally and support their neighbors.”

Upon entry, attendees will receive a Made in NH Expo guide and map to help them pinpoint exhibitors of interest.

For the second year, the expo will feature a libations station where attendees over age 21 can sample local beer, wine and meat from eight producers.

There will be plenty of other food and drink samples throughout the expo, too, including sauces and salsas, jams and jellies, baked goods and desserts, honey products, maple products, coffees and cocoas, pretzels, gourmet popcorn, chocolates,

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fudge, candies and more.

“What unique about this [expo] is that it’s a try-it-and-buy-it,” Copeland said. “We always tell people to bring their appetites, because you get to sample everything and there’s a lot to sample.”

As they browse and sample, attendees can enjoy a variety of live entertainment on stage

by New Hampshire performers, including a salsa dance group, a magician, a jazz singer, a juggler, a steel drum group and others.

For the the first time this year, the expo will also feature a “Furry Fiesta” petting zoo with chickens, goats, miniature horses and other animals from local farms.

For exhibitors like Elizabeth Kerr of The Bent Nail in Deerfield, the expo is an opportunity to

build their customer base and sell a large amount of their products.

“I did it for the first time last year, and I did very well. I realized quickly that I needed a bigger booth,” she said, “so this year, I’m coming with more stuff and a booth that’s double the size.”

Kerr creates jewelry, ornaments, bookmarks and miniature sculptures out of horseshoe nails. Her biggest sellers at the expo last year, she said, were her birthstone earrings. She’ll be bringing those again this year, as well as custom multibirthstone ornaments for parents or grandparents who want birthstones representing their children or grandchildren, which she will be making for customers onsite.

“The people who go and shop [at the expo] are people who

appreciate handmade items.

They’re grateful that you’re there,” Kerr said. “They ask a lot of questions and are so amazed and interested in your talent, and that’s what I love about it.”

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The Concord Community Music School (23 Wall St. in Concord; 228-1196, ccmusicschool.org) will hold its annual Performathon & Community Open House Saturday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students, faculty and alumni will perform in the recital hall while the community room will host a variety of other performances and events, all of which is free and open to the public. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the school will also hold an “Instrument Petting Zoo,” which offers adults and kids a chance to hold and try a variety of instruments.

Keep the excitement about music going with a family concert by the Nashua Chamber Orchestra at the Nashua Public Library (2 Court St. in Nashua; nashualibrary.org) on Sunday, April 8, at 3 p.m. The show, which is free, will include selections from Camille Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals.” See nco-music.org for more about the show.

in Manchester; amoskeagfishways.org, 626-3474) will focus on falcons with its peregrine falcon-themed activities Saturday, April 7, from 11 a.m. to noon. A donation of $5 per family is suggested; no registration is required.

Kids headed outdoors in the summer might want to head to the “Staying Found Workshop” on Saturday, April 7, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Beaver Brook Nature Center (52 Brown Lane in Hollis). This free workshop is presented by the New England K-9 Search & Rescue for kids ages 4 to 10 and their families to learn how to avoid getting lost and what to do if you do get lost, according to a press release. Advance registration is required; go to beaverbrook.org.

Family eats

Benefit Boy Scout Troop 401 with their 12th annual silent auction and dessert buffet on Saturday, April 7, at 1 p.m. at St. James United Methodist Church (646 DW Highway in Merrimack). Admission is $3 at the door.

Then get dinner at the 4th Annual Soup & Chili Cook-Off with a gift raffle, pinatas and more at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (3 Peabody Row in Londonderry; stpeterslondonderry.org or call 791-801-8161. Tickets for the general tasting cost $10, $5 for ages 10 and under. The proceeds benefit AA-MDS (an organization dedicated to patients with Get Outdoors The Amoskeag Fishways (4 Fletcher St. bone marrow failure disease).

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I recently got a new tool that I’ve been using to pick stems of forsythia and pussy willows.

Stems of spring-blooming shrubs put in a vase with water will bloom earlier inside than they would outside — and I’m ready for blossoms.

Often the best buds are high up where I can’t reach them without a ladder, so I was delighted to find a pole pruner that both cuts branches and holds onto them so that I don’t have to search for them after they’re cut. It holds on, allowing me to place the branches neatly in a pile that I will bring indoors.

I got the tool from The Wildflower Seed & Tool Company at the Philadelphia Flower Show. They come in three sizes: a 2-footer that is designed for picking roses, one that extends from 4 to 6.5 feet, and a long one that will extend from 6 to 10 feet in length. The extending pole pruners have pivoting heads.

They range in price from $59 to $114 plus shipping. I have the mid-sized tool, and it did a great job helping me pick forsythia stems.

Since we are having an extended winter this year, forcing blossoms is important to my sanity. It only takes about a week now from the time I cut forsythia branches to the time they blossom indoors on a sunny windowsill and last for about a week. Other shrubs that can be forced include apple and crabapple, magnolia, honeysuckle, quince, serviceberry (shad bush) and flowering dogwood.

My gardening grandfather grew lots of forsythia. He had a double row of them probably 50 feet long and 10 feet tall. As children, my sister Ruth Anne and I loved the forsythia because we used this huge cluster of greenery as a respite from the heat of summer — and the prying eyes of adults. Good varieties of forsythia in cold country include New Hampshire Gold, Meadowlark, Northern Gold and Vermont Sun. All those are hardy to Zone 4.

There may be new varieties as well.

Forsythia branches tend to flop when they get to be a certain length, and where they touch the ground they will root in, starting a new bush. Let one root for a year, sever the connection from the mother plant, and you can dig it up and plant it elsewhere. This means, of course, if you don’t prune those longer branches, your single plant will become a clump, and before long you will have a mess.

Most bush honeysuckle species are on the invasive species list. These include Lonicera bella, L. morriwii and L. tatarica. So if you have wild bush honeysuckle I encourage you to cut plenty of stems and bring them inside for forcing. The fewer flowers left on the bushes, the fewer seeds, and thus fewer new bushes spreading out over the landscape. I’ve

Forsythia forced to bloom indoors.

never forced them before, but will try to find some this year.

This is the time to prune your apples and crabapples, and the stems you remove can provide you with nice flowers and foliage.

But not all apple stems have flower buds.

What you want are branches with fruit spurs on them. These are 2- to 4-inch-long spurs (short branches) coming off mature branches. And a fruit spur must be two years old or more to have blossoms.

The buds you see on an apple spur will contain anywhere from one to six flower buds, along with leaf buds. Water sprouts those vertical shoots the diameter of a pencil, do not generally have any flower buds. Fruit spurs are most common on branches that are at a 45- to 60-degree angle from the vertical.

Flower buds are always bigger than leaf buds. When choosing stems to cut, look for buds that are fat or round. When pruning blueberries, for example, I am careful not to cut off many fruit buds. The difference is obvious. Leaf buds are small and pointy, flower buds are round and plump.

Shrubs like forsythia or honeysuckle are very forgiving. You can cut stems almost anywhere, and they will recover. When cutting stems from trees like magnolia or apple, slow down and take more time. Don’t leave stubs (or short remnants of branches). Cut each branch back to the place where it joins a bigger branch, or the trunk. If you leave a stub it will not grow, and will have to rot back to the bigger branch to heal. That might allow insects or disease to enter the tree.

When deciding where to make your cuts, see if you can recognize the branch collar.

That is a swollen area at the beginning of a branch, and is often wrinkled. Leave the branch collar. Never remove the branch right back to the trunk with a “flush cut.”

Right now, when warm spring weather is normally present, our shrubs like forsythia will bloom within a week indoors. And those pussy willows we all love? They are fuzzy and cute already. If you put them in a dry vase, pussy willows will look cute for months.

Email Henry at henry.homeyer@comcast.net.

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It measures 20” x 26.” I have never been able to find anything similar and was hoping you might have some information about the period and current value.

Eliza from Gilford Dear Eliza, Your piece of advertising for Maxfield Parrish, Edison Mazda and General Electric is very nice — but hopefully you did not pay too much for it. G.E. Edison Mazda had several calendars during the 1920s with Maxfield Parrish images.

Some of them can bring thousands of dollars in today’s market. Yours is really nice, but the original ones look nothing like this and were not in a mirror in this style.

So what I’m thinking is you might have is a page from an original calendar that was cut to fit inside the mirrored frame (or that to might be a copy). You also could be right that it was hung in a store with good taste in wall art.

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IN/OUT CAR TALK

Improperly towing an all-wheel-drive vehicle Dear Car Talk: I had my 2000 Cadillac Escalade towed to the mechanic, and he determined that my battery needed to be replaced.

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By Ray Magliozzi was installed, I was informed that the “4-wheel” light on the dash was constantly on, and that the mechanic could not determine the cause.

He referred me to a dealership that specializes in Cadillacs. When I mentioned to the mechanic there that my vehicle had been hitched from the rear and towed approximately 15 miles riding on the front wheels, he suggested that that could be the cause of the light not turning off, because the vehicle should have been transported riding on top of the tow truck bed rather than being towed with the front wheels on the ground.

Could this actually be the cause of the light constantly being on, or could it be a module that needs replacing? — Henry The dealer is right that all-wheel-drive cars are never supposed to be towed from one end on a hook — they always should be flat-bedded. Any non-knuckleheaded

tow truck driver would know that.

So it’s possible that the towing did do some serious damage. But before you conclude that, there are a lot of other — and much cheaper — things to check.

The first thing I’d check is the switch. There’s a push-button switch on your dashboard that selects between 2WD and 4WD modes. You can try replacing that yourself for about $50.

If the light goes off, go out and buy a lottery ticket, because it’s your lucky day, Henry.

If it’s not the switch, you really need to have the car’s computer scanned for stored faults. For instance, a scan could reveal that it’s a faulty solenoid, a failed transfer case actuator motor or a bad computer.

Or, as I said earlier, you could have lunched the center differential when you got towed. That’s thousands of dollars. In that case, you probably could just apply the “black tape solution” to the light and drive the car until it drops.

A car that’s old enough to vote is hardly worth putting a new all-wheel-drive transmission in.

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Dear Car Talk: I have a 2017 Jeep Cherokee V-6 with the automatic stop-start feature. Which is best in the long run: Disable the feature so that the engine continues to run at stoplights, just like all the previous cars I’ve had, or let it shut itself down and then restart when I take my foot off the brake? Is the amount of gas saved at a two- or, very occasionally, three-minute stoplight better than the added use of the starter? Does this cause enough added wear and tear on the engine to be concerned about? — Joseph These stop-start systems are just a few years old now, so I’ll reserve the right to change my mind if evidence to the contrary piles up. But from what

I’ve seen so far, the starting systems have been beefed up enough to handle the extra starts without any sort of longterm issues.

So if there’s really no penalty for stopping and restarting the car when you’re not moving, then why not save the extra fuel — as well as the wear and tear on the engine?

More importantly, when the engine is off, you’re not creating any pollution.

And in cities, if we collectively reduce car-generated air pollution by 3 to 5 percent, that’d be great.

The only reason we’ve had to turn off stop-start systems in cars we testdrive is that they can be annoying. Some are better than others. Many are subtle enough that you very quickly get used to it; others start with a 1.1-Richter shudder that makes you want to run under a doorway to protect yourself. I imagine that all of these systems will continue to improve over time to where they’re not only tolerable, but we basically forget all about them.

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That’s assuming you didn’t tow it yourself, Henry, or give the driver permission to tow it on the front wheels because there was no flat bed available and you really wanted to get home in time to watch “60 Minutes.” I’ll cross my fingers for a bad switch for you.

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

EMS is an interesting business. It’s less [about having] a biology degree or something like that. It’s helpful and terrific, but you still need to have independent licensure. So for the level of certifications that I have, it’s sort of a body of work over years acquiring first my basic EMT [to] Stacy Meier of Thornton is the director of clinical excellence for Transformative Health- paramedic.

and everyone in the business would agree to that. … It’s not about being the hero at all.

Stacy Meier

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care New Hampshire and the executive director of Stewart’s Ambulance Service, which serves several towns in the Lakes Region. Transformative Healthcare is the parent company of Stewart’s and two other ambulance services.

Can you explain what your current job is?

I oversee all general operations as far as Stewart’s is concerned, so overseeing all 9-1-1 calls as well as the inter-facility business that we do … [such as] hiring, bringing people in, coordinating education ... scheduling and right through to delivery of services.

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How did you find your job?

I did it as a part-time thing. I was [working at] an ambulance company out of Lincoln.

I ran Linwood there for 19 years. That’s an interesting kind of tourist community, so there are high call volumes on predictable weeks but then there are really slow times.

So I reached out to Stewart’s, I guess about 12 years ago, to have a higher level of system call volume, so when I went to work I could maintain skills in a better way and challenge myself a little bit more.

[I] grew up with. He was an avid climber, and actually in the late ’70s, ’80s and I think into the early ’90s was very active in the Franconia Notch region with respect to rock climbing, which ended up turning into helping out with rescues, with hikers and people in trouble up on the mountain.

When I very first started, I went to an amazing program at Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities. They call it SOLO. … SOLO is a school out of Conway. … I went there How long have you worked there?

What’s the best piece of work-related I’ve been at Stewart’s about almost 12 years. for a 30-day wilderness EMT class that pre- advice anyone’s ever given you? pares you for EMT licensing and preparing I think to be humble. I think the type of for the exam, but also focused on wilder- work that we do can be emotionally draining.

How did you get interested in this field?

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New Hampshire Craft Beer Week is returning for its fourth year, and with more than 150 events statewide that include beer tastings, beer dinners with food pairings, brewery tours, workshops and lectures, this year will see the largest number of events in the week’s short history.

Craft Beer Week runs from Friday, April 6, through Sunday, April 15, and its events are facilitated by Brew NH in partnership with the Granite State Brewers Association. Some breweries feature limited specialty releases or hold anniversary parties during the week.

“It’s a week dedicated to highlighting New Hampshire beer culture,” said Renee Vannata of Brew NH. “April is a great time of year for it because the brewers are able to attend more events, but it’s also kind of in between skiing and summer seasons.”

Vannata said beer enthusiasts can refer to the Facebook event page of New Hampshire Craft Beer Week as the official list, with each event organized chronologically. She said events are held all throughout the state so that no matter where you live, you don’t have to travel far to celebrate the week.

One of this year’s featured local events, Vannata said, is happening on Saturday, April 7, at the Flight Center Beer Cafe in Nashua. Six local breweries — including Ancient Fire Mead & Cider in Manchester, Backyard Brewery & Kitchen in Manchester and Earth Eagle Brewings in Portsmouth — will provide two samples, give a presentation of how the samples are made and take questions.

At the University of New Hampshire’s Durham campus, a lecture will be held on Friday, April 6, featuring Theresa McCulla, a brewing historian for the Smithsonian’s American Beer History Initiative.

“New Hampshire is very important in the overall history of beer in the United States, and that’s what she’ll be talking about,” Vannata said.

Another new event is the State 64 Crank for Craft Ride on Saturday, April 14.

“It’s a 42-mile bike ride that will go to three different breweries,” Vannata said.

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• Chili and soup for a cause: Join St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (3 Peabody Row, Londonderry) for its fourth annual chili and soup cook-off on Saturday, April 7, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Sample locally made soups and chilis for a $10 entry fee and vote on your favorite. Cash prizes and other awards will be granted by a series of local celebrity judges. Visit stpeterslondonderry.org.

• Season of wines: Sample more than 80 different wines at WineNot Boutique’s annual Spring Wine Grand Tasting, happening on Thursday, April 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Nashua (2 Somerset Parkway). Also featured will be hors d’oeuvres, artisan foods like appetizers, cheeses and chocolates, live music, charity raffles and more. The cost is $40 per person. Visit winenotboutique.com or call 204-5569.

• New tequilas to the state: New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets became the first retailer in the country to carry 23 tequila expressions from eight Mexican distilleries, the state’s Liquor Commission announced in a recent press release. The tequilas came from distillers from the Mexican province of Jalisco under a partnership between the New Hampshire Liquor Commission and the Mexican federal government. According to the release, the demand for tequila has increased by more than 5 percent in the last year alone. Tequilas from distilleries like Patron, Herradura and Casa Noble are now available exclusively at several New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet locations.

• Flight Coffee Co. recognized: Bedford-based Flight Coffee Co. recently accepted the silver medal in the Nitro category of the America’s Best Cold Brew Competition at Coffee Fest in Baltimore during the weekend of March 16, according to a press release. Flight Coffee Co. was selected as one of 16 competitors, including several cold brew coffee houses. It was also recently named a finalist in the 2018 Good Food Awards, according to the release.

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This year’s Craft Beer Week will also see the return of a simultaneous week-long event introduced for the first time last year: the Derry Regional Ales & Films Together Festival, or just DRAFT Festival for short.

Each night from Saturday, April 7, through Friday, April 13, one brewery in the Derry and Londonderry area (or the Derry Opera House, as is the case on the last night) will screen six indie films of a variety of genres and pair them with samples of their offerings as you watch.

DRAFT Festival co-founder Jay Doherty said the week was originally meant to be held as a lead-up event in the spring to the larger SNOB Film Festival in the fall, which he serves as executive director of, but it turned out to be a “happy accident” to be held at the same time as Craft Beer Week.

“Craft Beer Week just kind of happened to be around six months ahead of the SNOB Film Festival, you know, during the time when we were thinking of introducing a new thing, so it ended up making a lot of sense to merge them,” he said.

Doherty sat down with Derry brewery owners Andy Day of Cask & Vine and Ali Leleszi of Rockingham Brewing Co., who also both happen to be film enthusiasts, he said.

“We started to talk about what we can do in Derry that would bring people [to the breweries] and decided to show films,” he said.

“So it’s kind of two-fold. We’re trying to get people who like craft beer interested in independent film and also people who like film interested in trying craft beer. You have the two different worlds colliding.”

DRAFT Fest kicks off with a free Opening Night event at Backyard Brewery & Kitchen in Manchester on Saturday, April 7. Doherty said the next five nights will feature six short films at different breweries, each film paired with a craft beer provided by that brewery.

“We’re going to give you a flight of beer and the idea is that the beer is supposed to pair together with the film when you are watching it,” he said. “So for instance, a light-hearted comedy might go with a hoppy light beer, while something like a drama might be paired with a dark, barrel-aged beer.”

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Visit the Facebook event page for the most up-to-date list as information for additional events will become available.

• Area 23 (254 N. State St., Concord, 5520137, thearea23.com) will have a night of live music and brews on tap to kick off New Hampshire Craft Beer Week on Friday, April 6, from 8 to 11 p.m.

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• Backyard Brewery & Kitchen (1211 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-3545, backyardbrewerynh.com) is teaming up with Henniker Brewing Co. for the release of a dry hopped grisette Friday, April 13, at 5 p.m.

Food and drink specials will also be featured.

• Barley & Hops (614 Nashua St., Milford, 249-5584, barleyhops.beer) will hold a beer tasting on Thursday, April 12, from 6 to 8 p.m., featuring offerings from the 603 Brewery in Londonderry.

• Blasty Bough Brewing Co. (3 Griffin Road, Epsom, 724-3636, find them on Facebook) will host vocalist Matthew Byrne on Friday, April 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $20 at the door. The brewery will also host a craft beer and ironmongery event on Saturday, April 14, from 1 to 6 p.m., featuring Thomas Boucher from Greasy Luck Forge, who makes craft iron bottle openers.

• From the Barrel Brewery (15 Londonderry Road, No. 9, Londonderry, 3281896, drinkfromthebarrel.com) will hold a bottle release event on Friday, April 13, from 4 to 7 p.m., of its maple barrel aged remedy and coffee remedy porters.

• Great North Aleworks (1050 Holt Ave., Unit 14, Manchester, 858-5789, greatnorthaleworks.com) will host its Raise a Glass and Cash fundraiser Thursday, April 12, 3 to 7 p.m, in which $1 of every flight, pint, growler fill, 4 and 6-pack sold will be donated to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

• Greg & Jane’s Beer & Wine (63 Main St., Epping, 679-5007, gregandjanes.com) will sample brews from Great North Aleworks in Manchester during its tasting room hours on Friday, April 6, from 5 to 7:30 p.m, and North Country Hard Cider Co. on Friday, April 13, from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

• The Hop Talks will be Saturday, April 7, from 1 to 5 p.m. at The Flight Center Beer Cafe (97 Main St., Nashua, 417-6184, flightcenterbc.com). The event will feature stories behind the beer with more than six local craft breweries, plus beer samples, appetizers, raffles and more. Tickets are $65.

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• Out.Haus Ales (442 1st N.H. Turnpike, can never have too much of a No. 2, Northwood, 548-2151, outhausales. com) will release its whiskey barrel brown and double IPA during its tasting room hours on Friday, April 6, from 4 to 7 p.m., and will celebrate the third anniversary of its tasting room with the release of its latest barley wine on Thursday, April 12, 4 to 7 p.m.

• Pipe Dream Brewing (49 Harvey Road, Londonderry, 404-0751, pipedreambrewingnh.com) is hosting its first Rib Fest on Sunday, April 8, from 1 to 8 p.m. and will 75 Arms Street. In Manchester’s Historic Millyard District feature five local barbecue masters selling ribs, live music, brews and more. The cost is $15; tickets include a 16-ounce Pipe Dream beer for ages 21 and up. Pipe Dream Brewing will also hold a Bend & Brew yoga class on Sunday, April 15, from 11 a.m. to noon. The cost is $25 and includes a free flight.

• Rockingham Brewing Co. (1 Corporate Serving Dinner (3pm-10pm) Park Drive, Unit 1, Derry, 216-2324, rockinghambrewing.com) will host Beer & Brats Visit our Build-Your-Own Friday, April 6, 4 to 7 p.m., featuring original Bloody Mary Bar brews and house beer-braised brats.

• The State 64 Crank for Craft Ride $5 Mimosas kicks off at Concord Craft Brewing Co. (117 Storrs St., Concord) on Saturday, April 14, at Inspired classic 1 p.m. Participants will bike ride 42.5 miles, American fare in sampling beers from three local brewera warm, inviting ies along the way, including Concord Craft atmosphere.

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• White Birch Brewing (460 Amherst St., Nashua, whitebirchbrewing.com) will hold an open house of its new location Saturday, April 14, noon to 6 p.m. The brewery recently moved from Hooksett to a larger space and will hold a grand opening in early May.

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Second annual Derry Regional Ales & Films Together Festival When: Saturday, April 7, through Friday, April 13 Where: Various locations in Derry, Londonderry and Manchester Cost: Tickets are $15 each during every night except the opening night event, which is free to attend. Purchase tickets online.

Visit: draftfestnh.com Schedule of events • Saturday, April 7, from 7 to 10 p.m., Backyard Brewery & Kitchen (1211 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-3545, backyardbrewerynh.com) will host the opening event kick-off party with live music by Tyrrell, meet-and-greets with local filmmakers and brewers and more.

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• Sunday, April 8, from 7 to 10 p.m., Kelsen Brewing Co. (80 N. High St., Derry, 965-3708, kelsenbrewing.com) will feature six short indie films, each paired with craft beer samples.

• Monday, April 9, from 7 to 10 p.m., Long Blue Cat Brewing Co. (298 Rockingham Road, Londonderry, 818-8068, longbluecat.com) will feature six short indie films, each paired with craft beer samples.

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A fork helped me shape the gnocchi after I cut them, and I was pleased with both the taste and appearance of the finished dish.

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I must have been an Italian grandmother in a past life, because my first attempt at making potato gnocchi was nothing short of delicious. Admittedly, this potato-pasta hybrid is not difficult to make. But getting the consistency of the dough and the cooking time correct were hurdles I was mentally prepared to face. I figured my gnocchi would turn out gummy or turn into giant balls of mush, but surprisingly, the dough held its shape and its simple flavor from the cooktop to the table.

When I invited my best friend and her husband for dinner and told them gnocchi was on the menu, their first question was “potato or ricotta?” Now, I’m a big fan of the dense potato gnocchi and opted to find a recipe that could satisfy my love of the dish (and hunger); plus, I already had all the ingredients.

Potato gnocchi is deceptive in its simplicity. Potatoes, egg and flour are all it takes to whip up the gnocchi, and the cook time is only a few minutes. All the recipes I found followed the same basic process, although some called for a quick ice bath for the pasta after cooking. I opted to forgo the ice, and instead served hot out of the pot and topped with my favorite homemade sauce.

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It happened again this year and I’m determined to heed my own advice. Yes, I know, in this age of buying local, suggesting, nay, urging people to choose an imported product seems almost traitorous. But not all things from far away are bad. I’m certainly not suggesting you ignore your local craft brewer — who may very well offer his or her own take on the dry Irish stout. By all means, have at it.

There’s something almost mesmerizing about the cascading head of a properly poured Guinness: smooth, creamy and surprisingly drinkable and, dare I say, light — or at least a whole lot lighter than you expect.

Of course, when I say Guinness, I’m really referring to the range of dry Irish stouts available, including Murphy’s Irish Stout, O’Hara’s Irish Stout, and, my personal favorite, Beamish Irish Stout.

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glass, slowly and carefully pour the Guinness over the back of the spoon, so the Guinness disperses across the glass, essentially “floating” on top of the Harp. Give the Guinness a minute to settle, and enjoy. You’ll get the creamy goodness of the Guinness right off the bat, followed by some crisp sweetness and bitterness from the Harp.

Don’t be limited to Guinness and Harp.

You can play with combinations. How about a Black and Blue, mixing a Guinness with a blueberry ale? Pairing Guinness with a Smithwick’s Irish Ale renders a richer version of the Half and Half.

A word on the Black and Tan: while Black and Tan has become a popular St. Patrick’s Day drink, and Guinness and Bass Pale Ale is a wonderful combination, the phrase “Black and Tan” has an unfortunate connotation in Ireland, as it refers to a special reserve force known for its harsh treatment and persecution of Irish citizens during the Irish War of Independence. So make the order a Half and Half next St. Patrick’s Day (and any time you are in an Irish pub).

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• It’s fun for everyone, you included, when we can have a theme common to all the new releases I blab about in this space, but there looks to be very little chance for that this week. I mean, first we have the new Eels album, The Deconstruction, streeting April 6. The adjectives that always go with Eels records, of course, are “creepy,” “quirky” and “see the guy who’s been standing in the corner of your club wearing a lobsterclaw hat and staring at your girlfriend?” What this means is the whole “common theme” deal is already out the window, so let’s go see what whatshisface from the Eels is prattling on about this year, before he goes back to living in that drain-ditch with Tooms from the X-Files. All the world-peace-loving hipsters in skinny jeans have probably already heard the title track, so I watched the video for “Today Is the Day,” the other single! It features the Mitchy Two Spoons guy walking and dancing around some suburb with a bouquet of flowers while this happy little song goes on. The song has 1960s rubber-band-guitar, like The Archies or Van Morrison, but there’s a flute, and Whosis still sings badly but it’s OK. Ready for a spoiler? The flowers were for his Grandma. Life isn’t totally horrible, see?

• That, naturally, brings us to a new Kylie Minogue album, called Golden! As everyone knows, Kylie is an Australian disco songbird lady, totally bringin’ the sexy house music vibration every time she — wait, listen to this new single, “Dancing,” she sounds like Dolly Parton for the whole beginning of it, like she’s fixin’ to rope some cattle, and then it turns into Dolly Parton but with Tiesto euro-trash house music. Why didn’t Kellie Pickler think of this, it’s awesome!

• As everyone on the entire planet knows except for you, Wye Oak had a sort-of-hit single called ”Civilian” that was a featured oh-great-oneof-the-main-characters-is-about-to-die jingle on Walking Dead. It was a song that sounded like Modest Mouse trying to be Calexico, kind of Southern-rock-ish and simultaneously Bon Iver-ish but definitely mediocre-ish throughout. The title track from The Louder I Call The Faster It Runs, their new LP, is fine by me, because they added some cool Wilco-ish glitch to the swirly Animal Collective fractal that otherwise would have kept the tune rather pedestrian. I know, no one knows what I mean, so I’ll say it more clearly: It’s a cool song that you should listen to, but don’t fall and break a leg running to the record store to buy it, because there will be used copies selling for one cent on Amazon very soon.

• New Zealand duo Unknown Mortal Orchestra had me with their 2015 single “Multi-Love,” because it was like Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. but with some buzzy noise that kept it from being wimpy. Their new LP, Sex & Food, is out imminently, and they’ve gone totally Jack White with the “American Guilt” single. This is all crazy and psych-metal-ish, like Queens of the Stone Age but more nimble. Everyone has to dig this, they have to. — Eric W.Saeger

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“For those just starting out, it will forge a path through a forest of possibilities,” Wong said, “but even published authors need to keep abreast of what’s going on in the publishing industry.”

Between the panels, authors will have a chance to network with other authors, meet readers and sell and sign their books, some of which are new releases.

Moulton said the Author Fest is a good alternative or supplement to the NH Writers’ Project’s 603: Writers’ Conference, formerly known as Writers’ Day, held every April.

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The event will feature a day of free writing panels and book signings with local authors.

The theme this year is something that affects every writer at some point in their career: “The Trials and Triumphs of Publishing.”

“We realized that many people are interested in the nuts and bolts of publishing,” said Erin Moulton, a featured author and the organizer of the event. “It’s important for them to be able to talk to successful authors and learn from them about writing and publishing.”

The day kicks off with a poetry reading by Derry’s first poet laureate, Robert Crawford.

Later in the day, Crawford will give a presentation on publishing poetry.

In the “Rejection, Reviews, Resilience: Publication and Beyond” panel, published authors Virginia MacGregor, Lisa Bunker, Marty Kelley and Cori McCarthy will share their experiences with the publishing process, from their first submissions to their first bad reviews.

Independently and traditionally published authors Paul Durham, Dan Szczesny and Erin Bowman will look at all facets of the writing profession and how authors can continue building their career after they’ve been published in the panel “Platform Building/ Marketing Mojo.”

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Authors Dale Phillips and Ursula Wong will give a presentation on “Publishing Options: Choosing Your Path,” discussing the pros and cons of different types of publishing, including traditional publishing, small press, partnering with collectives, vanity press and do-it-yourself options; and how authors can choose the best publishing option for them.

“It’s important to understand who you are as a writer and how to match your goals with a publishing solution, because there isn’t one solution that fits everyone,” Wong said. “With that choice comes power, but it can also come with confusion, so Dale and I want to help people who are on the verge of making decisions about their books to be armed with good information and know what they’re getting into.”

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During the summer of 1969, the four Gold children feel like “something is happening to everyone but them.” Other people are walking on the moon, camping out at Woodstock, and rioting at the nearby Stonewall Inn, but they are confined to their stuffy apartment in their Manhattan neighborhood. So when Daniel, age 11, hears a rumor of a psychic who can tell your fortune down to the exact day you’ll die, the siblings gather their courage and their pocket money and track down the psychic’s apartment. Varya, age 13, doesn’t quite believe that this woman will be able to predict the date of her death, but she is nonetheless reassured when the psychic claims she will die at the ripe old age of 88.

When she joins her siblings, Daniel shares his prophesized middle-aged death, but Katya, age 9, and Simon, age 7, are tearful and tight-lipped. They do not anticipate how profoundly their lives will be affected by that fortune-telling.

After the opening scene, Chloe Benjamin divides The Immortalists into four sections to follow each of the Gold siblings as they grow up and their paths splinter across the country. The novel becomes an intriguing puzzle of fate versus free will for the reader to unjumble. The question remains throughout the story whether the old woman could truly divine the Golds’ death dates or the alleged foreknowledge influences their decisions. Though the Gold children choose radically different life paths, they each grapple with some variation of faith to help guide them.

The Golds’ parents provide a straightforward example of faith: They are devout Jewish immigrants from Hungary who rely on their faith to get them through the hardships of assimilating to a new country, opening their own tailoring business, and raising four children. Simon, a closeted teenager in the late ’70s, isn’t sure he can afford to put his head down and work a menial job like his parents when he might be fated to live a short life, so he decides to place his faith in living life to the fullest instead. Katya, as the only one in the family who knows Simon’s secret, encourages Simon to run away with her to the one place he could really be himself: San Francisco.

The first two sections of the book, which focus on Simon and Katya, are entrancing. They both pursue fantastical careers — Simon becomes a dancer and Katya becomes a magician — and their relentless dedication to doing something greater than themselves makes you want to believe

there is some magic in this world. Simon shines with the freedom of being allowed to be an openly gay man. Katya is determined to be the center of her own magic act rather than a prop in a man’s act.

However, the reader has the outside knowledge that San Francisco in the early ’80s is on the brink of the AIDS epidemic, so you know Simon and Katya’s dreams will probably take a turn for the worse. Benjamin encapsulates the swelling hope of young adults sucking the marrow out of life and the crushing realities of life’s adversity with equally artful flourishes.

Then when you move past Simon and Katya’s perspectives, the practical paths of Daniel and Varya’s lives make you question why the younger siblings entrusted so much belief in the fortuneteller’s words.

Daniel is an army doctor who puts his faith in logic. Yet he begins to question the ethics of his profession in a post-9/11 world, since he is the one who administers the health exams to clear prospective soldiers for active duty. Varya is a scientist who works on a study to improve the length and quality of human life, which is interesting considering she is given the longest time frame to live out of any of her siblings. It is revealed that Varya has OCD, and despite her scientific mind she still believes a certain compulsive sequence might be able to save her siblings from the psychic’s prophecy. Varya’s section is the last one in the book, and her part reveals the crux of the novel. “She knows her faith — that rituals have power, that thoughts can change outcomes or ward off misfortune — is a magic trick: fiction, perhaps, but necessary for survival. And yet, and yet, is it a story if you believe it?” Daniel and Varya view Simon and Katya’s premature deaths as selfish, foolish, and entirely their own faults, yet they can’t quite shake the feeling that maybe there was some truth to the psychic’s predictions after all.

Chloe Benjamin’s prose possesses a timelessness of an author who somehow managed to discover time travel with the express purpose of scooping up imagery to write a historically accurate novel. Benjamin transports the reader to San Francisco in the ’80s just as easily as upstate New York in the mid’00s. Though it is clear each background has been painstakingly researched and thoughtfully selected, these decade-specific and city-specific descriptions feel wholly seamless. She encourages belief in magic and logic in alternating breaths, and it is up to you, the reader, to decide the characters’ fates. A— Katherine Ouellette

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• Wedding chaos: Abby Rosmarin will be at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Tuesday, April 10, at 5:30 p.m. to present her new novel In the Event the Flower Girl Explodes.

The book centers on Nicole, whose big brother is getting married. With an aloof brideto-be, a psychotic mother of the bride and ridiculous bridesmaids, wedding tensions rise, and Nicole must figure out what love, loyalty and honesty mean before it’s too late. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

• An afternoon of stories: The New Hampshire Institute of Art (148 Concord St., Manchester) has its second annual Storytelling Festival on Saturday, April 7, from 2 to 4 p.m.

This year’s theme is “Intensity.” Writers, storytellers, illustrators, graphic novelists, professional and amateur, will represent a variety of storytelling forms. NHPR’s Peter Biello will emcee this Moth Radio Hour-style event. Visit nhia. edu or call 623-0313.

• White House garden history: The garden clubs of Hollis, Merrimack, Milford and Nashua welcome garden historian Marta McDowell, who will present her book All the Presidents’ Gardens at the Hollis Brookline High School (24 Cavalier Court, Hollis) on Saturday, April 7, at 2 p.m.

The book explores the untold history of the White House grounds, from George Washington’s seed-collecting to Michelle Obama’s vegetable gardens, and features new and historical photographs and art. All the Presidents’ Gardens made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015 and won an American Horticultural Society book award. Tickets cost $10 in advance online or $15 at the door. See “All the Presidents’ Gardens” on eventbrite.com. — Angie Sykeny Books Author Events • BOB TEWKSBURY Author presents Ninety Percent Mental.

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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.

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• KATY TUR Author presents Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History. Sun., April 8, 4 p.m. The Music Hall , 28 Chestnut St. , Portsmouth. Tickets cost $13.75. Visit themusichall.org.

• 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. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

• DAVID ELLIOTT Author presents In the Past. Fri., April 13, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

• VIRGINIA MACGREGOR Author presents Before I was Yours. Sun., April 15, 3 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore. com or call 224-0562.

• FRANCELIA CLARK Author presents Circle Around Monadnock: Time Travel with Horses.

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• 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.

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A teen tries to win the keys to a virtual reality kingdom in Ready Player One, a celebration of 1980s pop culture that feels like it is probably delightful to some people.

I watched Back to the Future more or less in its moment. If I saw a DeLorean, I’d think it was cool. I just don’t know that I needed a whole movie that felt, essentially, like a selfie with a DeLorean.

It’s the mid-2040s and Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan, who comes across as kind of a younger, less intense, less interesting Miles Teller) is an orphan who lives with his little-seen aunt (Susan Lynch) in the Stacks, a shanty-town-ish city created out of piles of trailers in Columbus, Ohio. The world is a massive bummer due to reasons that are tossed off in early narration (was there something about “bandwidth riots”?) but basically we get that most people live in a hopeless dystopia and turn, for adventure and happiness, to the OASIS, a video game/ social network where you can be any kind of avatar you’d like — Wade’s is a vaguely pop-star-looking kid called Parzival. You can exist in a variety of kinds of fantasy environments and feel physical sensations both good and bad thanks to virtual reality goggles and gloves and body armor.

The creator of OASIS, an undersocialized nerd named Halliday (Mark Rylance), died recently and left an Easter egg for OASIS patrons to find. The finder of the egg will win an enormous amount of money and control of the company that runs the OASIS. Oodles of players — individually and in groups called clans — are hunting the egg, but the most

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(There are other things: Something about the way this movie treats its female characters that doesn’t quite sit right; the dynamics sometimes felt as 1980s as the nostalgia.

And, in the end, we’re rooting for, like, one massive, all-controlling company to stay independent from another one massive, allcontrolling company? Even if OASIS and IOI remain separate, they still both seem to be eating away at humanity and the movie doesn’t really think critically about this fact.)

This is probably one of the least “-13” PG13-rated movies I’ve seen in a while — not that it’s a little kid movie (there’s enough loud violence that I’d probably say middle school at least), but with a few edits and a little leaning in to its PG-ness I think this could have been a solid kid adventure and overall a better movie. As it is, the movie felt much like a kid after too much Easter candy — overstimulated, too sugared up to tell a coherent story or focus on details and in need of some quiet. C+ Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity and language, according to the MPAA. Directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline (from the novel by Cline), Ready Player One is a totally unnecessary two hours and 20 minutes long and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

this fact for centuries), considers that it’s time for his kingdom to reevaluate its isolation and deals with a threat from a political rival in this movie that (thanks, Captain America: Civil War) skips most of the origin story business and gets right to awesome fights. If this doesn’t get at least three Oscar nominations next year... A

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aggressive hunters are the ones working for IOI, a competing tech company. IOI and its head Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn, doing a pretty good impression of every John Hughes movie villain) want to make the OASIS their own and find ways to monetize every inch of it — 80 percent of the visual field can be filled with ads before seizures are induced, he explains gleefully to his board.

So far, though, the army of IOI seekers haven’t done any better than anyone else, even though they are backed up by a think tank of nerds doing deep dives in 1970s, 1980s and 1990s pop culture — Halliday is apparently an X-er and the 1980s in particular are the source of his inspiration and clues to the scavenger hunt for his fortune. (At one point, Sorrento tries to befriend Parzival using Hughes movies and Tab as a shibboleth to prove he’s down with the gamer kids.)

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Also on the hunt are people like Samantha (Olivia Cooke), who calls herself Art3mis.

She wants to prevent IOI from owning the OASIS because one way IOI makes its money is something called “loyalty centers,” which are basically debtors prison for people who buy too much IOI tech and game add-ons (like powers and weapons and other cool stuff for your avatar). If it owns the OASIS, IOI will be able to enslave everybody it isn’t bringing to the brink of seizures with its advertisements and has no one considered #deleteOASIS? Joining Parzival and Art3mis on his quest are his online buddies who he eventually meets in real life: Aech (Lena Waite), Sho (Philip Zhao) and Daito (Win Morisaki).

I’m as “hey, the Batmobile” and “ooo, Iron Giant” as the next person but this movie annoyed me more than it delighted me until the moment into its final third or so when Wade starts to meet more of his friends from OASIS in real life. They are, or read as, kids. Watching these characters who are mostly teens run around video game environments trying to defeat a bad guy put the movie in some perspective for me. I don’t know what I was expecting (the source book, which I haven’t read, is I guess YA, though it isn’t always labeled as such) but this movie is essentially an older-skewing double-feature companion to A Wrinkle in Time — just louder than that movie without the positive messaging or pervasive sense of kindness.

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• The Death of Stalin (R, 2018) Thurs., April 5, 2, 5:35 and 7:55 p.m.; Fri., April 6, and Sat., April 7, 1, 3:25, 5:50 and 8:15 p.m.; Sun., April 8, 1, 3:25 and 5:50 p.m.; Mon., April 9, Tues., April 10, and Thurs., April 12, 2:05, 5:35 and 7:55 p.m.; and Wed., April 11, 2:05 p.m.

• The Leisure Seeker (R, 2017) Fri., April 6, and Sat., April 7, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45 and 8:15 p.m.; Sun., April 8, 12:45, 3:15 and 5:45 p.m.; and Mon., April 9, through Thurs., April 12, 2, 5:30 and 8 p.m.

• Oh Lucy! (2018) Fri., April 6, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April 7, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 8, 1:30, 3:30 and 5:30 p.m.; Mon., April 9, 2:10 and 7:30 p.m.; and Tues., April 10, through Thurs., April 12, 2:10, 5:40 and 7:30 p.m.

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• Wine song: Live music returns as Bill Seguin kicks off a new season at LaBelle Winery. The outdoor (weather permitting) event happens weekly though the end of the year. Seguin is a singer, guitarist and keyboard player with a history in the New England folk scene dating back to the ’70s. He plays pop covers from Fleetwood Mac, Cat Stevens and others. Go Thursday, April 5, 6 p.m., LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst. More at labellewineryevents.com.

• Chapeau show: With a new name and lineup, The Hats – formerly Pat & the Hats – still have the infectious pop rock sound that’s won accolades and a growing fan base. Joey Pierog now shares guitar duties with front man Patrik Gochez, and the band has a new long-player set for fall release, funded by a PledgeMusic campaign. Now in Boston, they return to their roots for a hometown show. Go Friday, April 6, 9 p.m., Penuche’s Ale House, 16 Bicentennial Square, Concord. See thehatsmusic.com.

• Dead set: A pair of acoustic bands team up for The Grateful Ball, an evening of roots music capped with a collaborative set of Dead tunes. Ronnie and Rob McCoury, sons of bluegrass legend Del McCoury, play with their quartet, followed by mandolinist Jeff Austin and his band. It’s the second time in New Hampshire for event, which grew from a 2016 St. Louis show. Go Friday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Flying Monkey Movie House, 39 Main St., Plymouth. Tickets $32.50 and up at flyingmonkeynh.com.

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Chris Daughtry is feeling a lot like the classic Foreigner song these days — urgent.

Five years after his band’s last release, a new album is due in early summer. The longexpected disc is now being mastered, and the former American Idol star is more than ready.

“It’s certainly taken longer than we anticipated, and it’s definitely at the point where it’s, ‘Let’s get this damn thing done already and put it out,’” he said from a tour stop in New Jersey. “But we also realize that things take time.”

Fans have gotten tastes of the yet-untitled record during the current tour, which stops April 8 at Concord’s Capitol Center for the Arts. “Backbone,” a pulsing paean to rising up when the chips are down, debuted at shows last year, and was released as the first single on March 30. The power ballad “Deep End” and the Bon Jovi-esque “Just Found Heaven” are two more that also might be on the disc — for now, details are under wraps.

“I think something’s going to be announced really soon,” Daughtry demurred. “That’s all I can say.”

The forthcoming collection marks the band’s first time working with producer Jacquire King.

“He brought something out of us that had yet to be tapped,” Daughtry said. “I think the way we worked together, and the way the record came out ... had a lot to do with the way Jacquire runs the show, so to speak.”

Fans can expect more guitars than on 2013’s rootsy Baptized, as well as a collection of songs that reflects a cohesive band.

Daughtry, guitarists Brian Craddock and Josh Steely, and bass player Josh Paul have played together over a decade. Keyboard player Elvio Fernandes joined in 2012, drummer Brandon Maclin in 2014.

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“It’s probably the most mature record we’ve ever made,” Daughtry said.”It’s hard to describe as a whole, other than it feels right where we should be right now.”

Chris Daughtry rose to fame during Idol’s fifth season. He shocked more than a few viewers when he was eliminated early after being a strong favorite to win the talent competition. His fourth-place finish was enough of a controversy that Ellen DeGeneres joked to former presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton during a joint interview on her talk show that they should do something about it.

Has Daughtry ever considered what life might have been like if shows like American Idol didn’t exist at all?

“I don’t really think about it now,” he said.

“I mean, I experienced what it was like without it — playing in clubs and not really getting the word out, before the internet was such a big tool for musicians.”

He has pondered his good fortune at arriving during a time that many consider the peak Idol years.

“I think it was just the right time for me with that show,” he said. “I’m not necessarily sure it would have worked out the same before or after that season, and I try not to think about what could have been.”

One thing he’s never doubted is his choice to follow a musical path.

Before Idol, Daughtry was in a couple of bands and even auditioned for another reality show at one point. He remembers the moment his destiny became clear.

“I was obsessed with Live’s Throwing Copper, and when their third album came out I got to see them live,” he said.”At that time I was taking up guitar, messing around with it, nothing too serious. ... When I saw that show, it was pretty immediate. ‘That’s it, that’s what I want to do.’”

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with Live, doing their song “Mystery,” and he and lead singer Ed Kowalczyk have collaborated many times since then. Daughtry’s band regularly plays covers by their influences, from Phil Collins to the Toadies. On the current tour, they’re breaking out “Purple Rain” a lot, along with U2’s “With or Without You.” Of course, this is a guy who romped his way though “Long Live Rock & Roll” on his last album, name-checking everyone from Kurt Cobain to Van Halen-cum-Hagar.

Daughtry’s a fan.

“It’s a little self-indulgent, frankly,” he said. “They’re songs that I wish I wrote, you know? It’s fun to sing something that inspired you.”

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27 Know with certainty 30 Bass or buff ending 31 Bother, to the Bard 34 Smoking-based practical joke that’s hardly seen anymore 37 Have an ___ the hole 38 Opus ___ (“The Da Vinci Code” sect) 39 Drew, the detective 41 It’s tough to hear without an amp 44 8 1/2” x 11” size, briefly 45 Geek blogger Wheaton 46 James of “Gunsmoke” 47 Family member, informally 48 “___ bien!”

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SIGNS OF LIFE All quotes are from Book of the High Moun- saurs, the savage lords of the Age of Reptiles. tains, by Lowell Thomas, born April 6, 1892. These had all lived and roamed our planet at one time, monarchs of all they surveyed. And Aries (March 21 – April 19) I myself once what they surveyed was not the earth as we fell head over heels down the face of a preci- know it. It’s a good time for surveying. pice and was lucky enough to bounce over a Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Although for slanting crevasse from which I probably could years Switzerland has been known as the not have been rescued. That was on Mount “playground of Europe,” life in the Swiss Alps Washington, in New Hampshire, in 1942, the is not all beer and skittles, fun and frolic…. day I tried to ski the Tuckerman headwall. Ski The Swiss farmer has to perform his chores season is over. under conditions more inhospitable than most Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Once a It’s not all beer and skittles but you can still glacier begins to move … it becomes a jugger- find time to play. naut, its pace slow but inexorable as it carries Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) How does everything before it — boulders, trees, huts, one measure a mountain? Obviously, it is everything. Something’s moving. more difficult and requires a more complex Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Even today apparatus than measuring, say, the height of some lofty peaks and smoldering volcanoes a wall. Air pressure is a clue, for it decreasare believed to be the haunts of demons and es as altitude increases. If only you had a big evil spirits which must be placated. Others enough tape measure. have been looked upon as residences of gods.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) How many Don’t let things smolder. mountains are there? Our geological definiCancer (June 21 – July 22) We saw mon- tion of what a mountain is defies an answer to keys there, and goats and yaks, but nothing this question. There are enough. more dangerous than an affronted weasel that Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) Once on scurried out from under our feet. An affronted horses, mules and yaks we rode for days on weasel can be very dangerous. end across the narrow, 1,500-mile-long TibetLeo (July 23 – Aug. 22) The Alpine region an Plateau of Central Asia, which rises to an offers infinite variety — adventure for those average elevation of over 15,000 feet, highwho seek it, and solitude for those who prefer er than the summits of the loftiest Rockies. To contemplation. … Most visitors do not attempt us such heights were mountains indeed. But to become familiar with the entire Alpine to the Tibetans in our party we were in mere range but settle for a few choice spots, or per- lowlands, compared to the high passes of the haps just one if time presses. Look around Himalayas we had recently crossed. And to until you find something that suits you. the yaks it’s all in a day’s work.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Don’t disPisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Mountains, parage the yodel. You will find yourself plateaus, plains and other landforms we see practicing it when you trudge up an Alpine on the surface of the earth result partialtrail. The hills are alive. ly from forces at work thousands of miles Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Elephant skel- beneath. To understand completely what we etons were found in England, hippo skeletons see on the surface, then, we must also underin France. And then there were the bones of stand the nature of the earth’s interior. Forces giant beasts that man had never seen — dino- are at work.

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Police in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, appealed to the public for help in late March tracking down a most unusual perpetrator. “Over the past year and a half,” the department posted on its Facebook page, “someone has been clogging the women’s toilet (at the Deland Community Center) with a 20-ounce soda bottle. This is very strange ... and gross.” The Sheboygan Press reported that the string of more than 25 incidents began in 2016. Joe Kerlin, the city’s parks and forestry superintendent, says the suspect is likely an adult male, based on security camera footage from outside the restroom. The city’s resulting plumbing bills have totaled between $2,000 and $3,000.

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A man playing with a baseball on the roof of a parking structure in Honolulu on March 23 had to be rescued by firefighters after he fell into the space between two buildings and got stuck, KHON2 TV reported. Security guard Ray Rodrigues was dispatched to the roof to run the 55-year-old off, but found the man had fallen into a 7- to 9-inch-wide space between the cement walls. When pulling him out with a rope failed, firefighters resorted to using drills and saws to cut through the concrete to free him. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

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• Shoppers at the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, got more than they bargained for on April 8, 2017, as model Chelsea Guerra, 22, of Indiana Borough and photographer Michael Warnock, 64, of Point Breeze conducted a nude photo shoot around 11 a.m. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, as Warnock took photos and families looked on, Guerra walked around and posed wearing only thigh-high black stockings and high-heeled shoes. In early March of this year, Guerra and Warnock pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after other charges were dropped, and paid a $300 fine.

“My nude modeling is honest work,” Guerra said, “and I use it mostly to fund my college career.”

• A dairy truck driver lost his job in early March after being caught on a surveillance camera urinating near dairy cows in a barn at Tremblay Farm in Highgate, Vermont. While no charges were filed, Monica Massey of the Dairy Farmers of America said the driver’s behavior was unacceptable. “We saw the videos. What we saw was deplorable,” Massey said told WCAX TV. Darleen Tremblay said she was “shattered” by what she saw on the video. “I couldn’t move. I froze and I shook,” she added.

the part of groom to several brides on March 24 as Karen Cooper and others tried to save it from being cut down. The News-Press reported that while its roots are on the park property, some of the limbs in the tree’s 8,000-squarefoot canopy extend to an adjacent property that is for sale, and potential buyer Jeff Romer was concerned about his liability for the tree’s upkeep. In December, Fort Myers’ public works officials approved the removal of the tree, prompting protests from Cooper and others. She got the idea of marrying the tree from women in Mexico who have been protesting deforestation. “I thought, ‘Oh, we should marry the ficus tree’ -- kind of giggle, giggle.” A city spokeswoman said the city is moving ahead to save the newlywed tree, but Cooper is worried that the decision is not final. “If they cut down this tree, I’m going to be a widow.”

• Ruan Rocha da Silva, 18, was caught in late March trying to steal five cans of deodorant from a supermarket in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

His prominent tattoo might have given him away: A year ago, after Silva tried to steal a bike from Maycon Wesley Carvalho, 27, and Ronildo Moreira de Araujo, 29, the two men forcibly tattooed Silva’s forehead with the words “I am a thief and an idiot.” The Daily Mail reported that Carvalho and Araujo were caught after filming themselves inking Silva’s forehead and sending the video to friends; both were sentenced to jail time. Silva is out on bail, awaiting trial for shoplifting.

Inexplicable

Eastern Michigan University student Andrew (who didn’t give a last name), 22, wasn’t making any kind of statement or protesting any government action (or lack thereof) on March 12 when he filled a pothole in Trenton with a whole box of Lucky Charms and a gallon of milk. Andrew then lay on the road with a spoon and ate the cereal out of the pothole. “I don’t know where the inspiration came from, but when it hit me, I knew it was a good idea,” Andrew told MLive.com. “It tasted great. If I was blindfolded, I wouldn’t know if it was a pothole or a bowl.”

Weird power

In Didcot, England, known as the country’s “most normal town,” one resident creatively tried to change people’s perceptions with additions to road signs along local highway A4130. The prankster added destinations such as Narnia, Gotham City, Middle Earth, Emerald City and Neverland to roundabout signs, telling the BBC (on condition of anonymity): “To me there’s nowhere that is normal, there’s no such thing.” He said he’s been making “creative interventions” all over the country for about 20 years. The Oxfordshire County Council responded that while the additions were Bright ideas • The Snell Family Park ficus tree, a sprawl- “amusing,” they’ll be removed as soon as the ing giant that has shaded the park in Fort county’s potholes are fixed.

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