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Fairs & festivals

• Don’t miss the 22nd annual Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Classic, happening from Thursday, June 16, through Saturday, June 18. The event features multiple award ceremonies, with prizes given out for the best sand sculptures, along with a fireworks display at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. The sculptures will then be lighted for nightly viewing through June 26. Visit hamptonbeach.org.

• The 40th annual Somersworth International Children’s Festival will be held on Main Street and Noble Pines Park in Somersworth on Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy live music, food, local vendors, rides, wildlife encounters and a variety of other children’s activities, including — new this year — a Touch-ATruck area. A pre-festival celebration is taking place the night before, on Friday, June 17, from 6 to 10 p.m. at Somersworth High School (11 Memorial Drive) and will include a fireworks display. Visit nhfestivals.org.

• TEAM Exeter’s Arts & Music Festival dates continue on the third Saturday of each month, now through September.

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be live local music, artisan vendors, dance performances, cultural exhibits, children’s activities and more. There is a suggested donation of $10 per person and $20 per family. Visit teamexeter.com.

• In lieu of this year’s Stratham Fair, which was canceled last month, a new one-day community event known as the Stratham 4-H Summerfest, is being planned for Saturday, July 16. The smaller event will feature a single-day family experience, showcasing several 4-H programs and livestock, along with a limited menu of food offerings. Email strathamfairinfo@gmail.com for more details.

• Catch the 15th annual Hampton Beach Children’s Festival, happening during the week of Monday, Aug. 15, through Friday, Aug. 19, during which there will be magic shows, a costume parade, children’s music, dancing, storytellers, balloons, ice cream and more. All activities are free and open to the public.

Visit hamptonbeach.org.

• The Exeter UFO Festival will return to downtown Exeter on Saturday, Sept.

3, and Sunday, Sept. 4 — the event commemorates the anniversary of the Exeter Incident (an alleged UFO sighting on Sept. 3, 1965) by featuring a wide vari-

ety of educational lectures on the subject, plus intergalactic children’s games and food, all to benefit the Exeter Area Kiwanis Club. Visit exeterufofestival.org.

Film

• The Prescott Park Arts Festival’s Monday Night Movie Series at Prescott Park (105 Marcy St., Portsmouth) will feature a number of family-friendly flicks, including Encanto (PG, 2021) on Monday, July 11, at 8:30 p.m.; Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (PG, 1980) on Monday, July 18, at 8:30 p.m.; Clue (PG, 1985) on Monday, Aug. 1, at 8:30 p.m.; Hook (PG, 1991) on Monday, Aug. 22, at 8:30 p.m.; and The Wizard of Oz (1939) on Monday, Aug. 29, at 8:30 p.m. A $5 per person donation is suggested to make a reservation (with other options for a table or blanket).

• Movie Night Mondays on Hampton Beach, held next to the playground, kicks off with Paw Patrol (G, 2021) on July 11, followed by Rock Dog 2 (2021) on July 18, Clifford the Big Red Dog (PG, 2021) on July 25, Encanto (PG, 2021) on Aug. 1, Soul (PG, 2021) on Aug. 8, Luca (PG, 2021) on Aug. 15, Sing 2 (PG, 2021) on Aug. 22, and Space Jam: A New Legacy

(PG, 2021). All films start at dusk. If it’s raining, the movie will be shown on Tuesday. Admission is free; bring a chair or blanket. Visit hamptonbeach.org/events/ movieshamptonbeach.org

Food

• Farm-a-Q: A Juneteenth Celebration returns to Tuckaway Farm (36 Captain Smith Emerson Road, Lee) on Sunday, June 19, from noon to 5 p.m. The event features foraging walks, craft brews, barbecue options and more. The cost is $35 per person, $25 for students and seniors and free for kids under 5. Find Tuckaway Farm on Facebook @tuckawayfarmnh.

• The Spicy Shark presents the inaugural New England Hot Sauce Fest, a new event coming to Smuttynose Brewing Co. (105 Towle Farm Road, Hampton) on Saturday, July 30, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will feature more than 20 local hot sauce companies selling and offering samples of all of their spicy products, along with hot pepper eating contests, a hot wing contest, food trucks, bounce houses, music and more. General admission tickets are $10. Visit newenglandhotsaucefest.com.

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Libraries

Dover Public Library

73 Locust St., Dover, 516-6050, dover. nh.gov • Weekly family storytimes: Mondays, June 20 to July 25 (except July 4), at 10 a.m.

• Alex the Jester: Tuesday, June 21, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (all ages) • Summer Lego club: Wednesdays, June 22 to July 27, 11 a.m. to noon • Shake Your Rattle and Roll, Baby!: Fridays, June 24 to Aug. 5, at 10 a.m. (babies and toddlers to age 2) • Crafternoon: Make a Salt Dough Starfish: Friday, June 24, 3 to 4 p.m.

• Blue Ocean Society program: Ladder the Whale: Monday, June 27, 2 p.m. at Dover City Hall auditorium, 288 Central Ave., Dover • Pirate and Mermaid party: Wednesday, June 29, 2 p.m.

• Rocky Shores Sea Trek with UNH: Wednesday, July 6, 2 p.m. (recommended for kindergarten through grade 3) • STEM event: rubber band paddle boats: Tuesday, July 19, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

• Super Smash Bros. tournament: Thursday, July 21, 6 to 8 p.m.

• Nailed It! Ocean Edition: Monday, July 25, 6 to 7 p.m.

• Beach party: Thursday, July 28, 6 to 8 p.m.

• Explore the Ocean World: Wednesday, June 29, at 4 p.m.

• Pajama Story Time: Monday, July 6, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

• Whales and Seals: wednesday, July 13, at 4 p.m.

• Lego Club: Tuesday, July 19, at 4 p.m.

• Seacoast Science center: Wednesday, July 20, at 4 p.m.

• Art Club: June 22, 28, and July 6, 12, 26, 27, at 4 p.m.

Lane Memorial Library

2 Academy Avenue, Hampton, 9263368, lanememoriallibrary.org • Friends of Lane Memorial Library Spring Book sale: June 15 to June 18, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., members only for June 15. From June 16 to June 18 the book sale is open to everyone. Membership available at the sale.

• Summer Reading Kickoff Party: Friday, June 24, 5 to 7 p.m.; Academy Avenue near the library will be closed down for an afternoon of live music, shaved ice, and performances. No registration required.

• Summer Storytimes: Every Tuesday and Wednesday, starting July 5, at 10:30 a.m. located at the library pavilion.

• Make a Fishy Aquarium Game: Thursday, July 7, 2 to 3 p.m., registration required on the Lane library website.

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into shapes and animals to create a fishing game.

• Button Making: Thursday, July 14, 2 to 3 p.m., no registration required. This event is for grade 5 and under. Attendees will make custom buttons using the library’s button press.

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North Hampton Public Library

239 Atlantic Ave., North Hampton, 964-6326, nhplib.org • Saturday Playdate: June 18, July 9, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. for children aged infant to preschool. Children must be accompanied by caregivers. Join an informal monthly playdate for children and parents alike to meet new faces. Registration required online • Magic Show: Monday, June 20, 10 to 11 a.m., performed by Markus and Angelique Steelgrave.

• Maker Monday: June 20, June 27, July 11 and July 18 from 3 to 4 p.m.; register online. Participants will be making interesting crafts and machines each week.

• Whales and Seals: Tuesday, June 21, 1 to 2 p.m.; UNH Marine Docents answer questions about marine life. For children kindergarten to third grade. Register online.

• Story Time: Tuesdays, June 21 to July 19, 10 to 11 a.m.; Register online, for children 15 months to 5 years old. Listen to stories and songs read at the library.

• Sensory Fun for Everyone: Thursdays, June 23 to July 21, 10 to 11 a.m.;

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join sensory activities with an ocean theme. Register online.

• Friday Flix: Surf’s Up: Friday, June 24, 2 to 4 p.m.

• Messy Science: Monday June 27, 10 to 11 a.m.; Register online. For ages 6 and up.

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Portsmouth Public Library

175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, 4271540, cityofportsmouth.com/library • Summer Reading Kick-off party: Friday, June 17, 5 to 7 p.m.

• Reading Dogs Chloe and Tillie: Saturdays, June 18 to Aug. 20, 10 to 11 a.m.

• Sensory Play Tuesdays: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. (next one is June 21); recommended for ages 5 and under • Lap Time: Wednesdays, June 22 to July 27, at 9:30 a.m. (recommended for ages 18 months and under) • Family storytimes: Wednesdays, June 22 to July 27, at 10:30 a.m.

• Halcyon Festival children’s concert: Wednesday, June 22, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

• Move and Groove storytimes: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. (next one is June 23) • Online pajama storytimes: Thursdays, June 23 to July 28, at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom • Lego free build: Saturdays, June 25 to July 30, all day • Oceans of Possibilities, with the Seacoast Science Center: Monday, June 27, at 2 p.m.

• Lindsay & Her Puppet Pals: Thursday, June 30, at 10:30 a.m.

• Explore the Ocean World: Wednesday, July 6, at 3 p.m. (ages 5 and up); registration is required • Imagine That! Pop-up storytime: Fridays, July 15 and Aug. 12, at 12:30 p.m.

• Center for Wildlife presentation: Monday, July 18, and Tuesday, July 19, at 10:30 a.m.

• Touch-A-Truck event: Friday, July 29, 10:30 a.m. to noon • Middle School Survival Kit: Wednesday, Aug. 3, 5 to 6:30 p.m. (ages 10 to 15)

12 and July 26; snacks provided, children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

• Minecraft Night: June 30 and July 28, 5 to 6 p.m.; bring your Nintendo Switch or computer. Snacks provided.

• Summer Reading Kickoff With Magic Fred: Wednesday, June 29, 6 to 7 p.m.; The event will be located outside but may be moved indoors due to weather.

• Coloring club: Every Monday, June through August, at 11 a.m.; located in the NH room. The library will provide art supplies, although participants are welcome to bring their own.

• Story Time with Marcia: Thursdays, June 16 and June 30, 10:30 to 11 a.m.; Hosted outdoors, weather permitting.

• Graphic Novel Book Club: Thursdays, June 16 and July 18, 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.; Held in the community meeting room, only for grades 4 to 6.

• Messy Art: June 16, June 20 and July 18, 1 to 1:45 p.m.; Registration required at ryepubliclibrary.org. Art supplies provided.

Seabrook Library

25 Liberty Lane, Seabrook, 474-2044, sealib.org • Storytime: Fridays, June 17 to Aug. 5, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.; To register email jhartshorn@salib.com. Participants will hear two or three stories and do a craft.

Live entertainment

• Camp ENCORE presents Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr. at the Prescott Park Arts Festival (105 Marcy St., Portsmouth) on Saturday, July 9, and Sunday, July 10, at 10 a.m. Reserved seating tickets cost $40. Visit prescottpark.org.

•​ The Sound of Music will run at the Rochester Opera House (31 Wakefield St., Rochester) from July 29 through Aug. 21.

Visit rochesteroperahouse.com.

•​The Hampton Beach Talent Competition will run Aug. 26 to Aug. 28. Juniors (under 18) will perform Aug. 26, while seniors (over 18) will perform Aug. 27.

The finals for both age groups will be held on Aug. 28. Winners will be decided by a panel of judges. Showtimes will be in the evening. Visit hamptonbeach.org.

• Seussical will be performed Friday, June 17, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Heritage Park (27 Water St., Amesbury, Mass.). Tickets are a $5 suggested donation, and doors open at 5:45 p.m.. Visit portsmouthnh.com.

• ​Alice In Wonderland, presented by Rye Public Library Garrison Players Arts Center (449 Rob581 Washington Road, Rye, 964-8401, erts Road., Rollinsford) runs Saturday, ryepubliclibrary.org June 18, Sunday, June 19, Saturday, June • Chalk, Art and Popsicles: Tuesdays, 25, and Sunday June 26, at 2 p.m., and 2 to 2:45 p.m. outside the library (weathFriday, June 24, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $15 er permitting). per person. Visit garrisonplayers.org.

• Lego Night: June 14, June 28, July

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Museums

• The American Independence Museum (1 Governors Lane, Exeter, 772-2622, independencemuseum.org) is a place for people of all ages to learn about America’s revolutionary history. It provides access to historic buildings and interactive, historically accurate depictions of what life was like during the American revolution. Museum tours are offered Wednesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission costs $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, students, educators and first responders, and $4 for children ages 6 to 18. Tickets are free for children under age 6 and for active or retired military veterans. Save the date for the museum’s 32nd annual American Independence Festival on Saturday, July 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., which will feature several historical reenactments, colonial artisan demonstrations and children’s activities.

• Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St., Dover, 742-2002, childrens-museum.org) is a family museum featuring unique interactive exhibits with a focus on art, science and culture. Summer hours are Tuesday through Sunday, from 9 a.m. to noon, with an additional session from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Masks are required on Tuesday and Sunday, but optional Wednesday through Saturday. Tickets are available for either the morning (9 a.m. to noon) or afternoon (1 to 4 p.m.) sessions and cost $11 for adults and children over age 1 and $9 for seniors over age 65. Participants must

register online. This summer the museum is providing concert seats from its patio, directly across from the main stage where Dover’s Cochecho Arts Festival performances will be taking place on Fridays, July 22, Aug. 5 and Aug. 12, at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets cost $15 per person.

• Learn about New Hampshire marine life and science with live animals, handson exhibits and educational programs at the Seacoast Science Center (Odiorne Point State Park, 570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 436-8043, seacoastsciencecenter.org).

Summer hours are Wednesday through Monday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. General admission costs $10 for ages 12 and up, $5 for ages 3 to 11, and $8 for seniors age 65 and up. Children under age 3 are free. The Center recommends that attendees book ahead, since availability may be limited. The museum’s current special exhibit “The Edge of the Sea” allows kids to view various animals and organisms under a high-power microscope. The experience includes 500-gallon hands-on touch-tanks with simulated tide pools for visitors to view, touch and learn more about the ocean.

• Strawbery Banke Museum (14 Hancock St., Portsmouth, 433-1100, strawberybanke.org) is an outdoor museum preserving more than 300 years of history of New Hampshire’s oldest neighborhood to be settled by Europeans.

Visitors can tour historic buildings preserved on their original foundations, meet historical costumed roleplayers, see traditional craft demonstrations and more.

Summer hours at the museum are daily, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission costs $19.50 for adults, $17.50 for seniors ages 65 and up and $9 for children ages 5 to 17. Children under age 5 are free. Family and group rates are also available. The museum will host its popular summer concert series Tuesdays on the Terrace every Tuesday from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

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• A puppet show at the Lane Memorial Library (2 Academy Ave., Hampton) hosted by the UNH theater group Little Red Wagon will be held on Thursday, July 7, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Register for the event online at hampton.lib.nh.us.

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beginning June 21. Hear local talent and mingle with the community by an openair stage. Visitors should bring their own lawn chairs or blankets.

Indoor fun

• Dover Bowl Family Fun Center (887 Central Ave., Suite B, Dover, 7429632, doverbowl.com) offers bowling, indoor bumper cars, laser tag, bingo and an arcade. Hours are noon to 10 p.m.

Sunday through Thursday. Friday and Saturday hours are noon to midnight.

Pay per activity.

• Exeter Bowling Lanes (6 Columbus Ave., Exeter, 772-3856, shooterssportspub.com) Can provide family-friendly lanes at affordable prices. Working in tandem with Shooters Sports Pub, they offer food, drink and fun with bowling. They’re open Monday and Thursday 3 to 10 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m, and Sunday 2 to 8 p.m. Prices are $15 for a half hour, and $25 for an hour. Games are an additional $4 per game per person. Bowling Shoe rentals are $2.

• Funarama (169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 926-2381, hamptonbeach.org) has a wide variety of classic arcade experiences, like skeeball, claw machines and air hockey. They’re open 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday.

Prices are individual per game.

• Hilltop Fun Center (165 Route 108, Somersworth, 742-8068, hilltopfuncenter.com) has more than 50 arcade games, plus mini-golf, go-karts, batting cages, laser tag and a rock climbing wall and is open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pay per activity. Group rates and special packages available.

• Playland Arcade (211 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, hamptonbeach.org) has hours 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Fri-

day. Saturday and Sunday they’re open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. They offer a large number of arcade games right on the boardwalk. Prices are individual per game.

• The barcade Tokens Taproom (284 Central Ave., Dover, tokenstaproom. com) has family hours on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. They offer a variety of retro-style arcade games that reach back decades. Prices are per game.

Mini golf

• Buc’s Lagoon (59 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 601-2033, bucslagoon.com) has ice cream, food and mini golf for families. Putt your way through a nautical pirate theme and enjoy a cold snack after. They’re open every day, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. It’s $10 for a round of golf.

• Captain’s Cove Adventure Golf (812 Lafayette Road, Hampton, 9265011, smallgolf.com) is more than mini golf; it’s an adventure. The Seacoast course transports putters to a nautical world filled with storybook coves, shipwrecks and marine treasures.

They’re open Monday through Thursday noon to 7 p.m., Friday noon to 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m, and Sunday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. They offer 18 holes of mini golf for $8.75 per person, with group discounts and special packages available.

• Casino Mini Golf (169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 929-4653, hamptonbeachcasino.com) is a maze-like indoor mini golf course at the Hampton Beach Casino. In addition to mini golf, they provide foosball and billiards.

• Sagamore Golf (22 North Road, North Hampton, 964-8393, sagamoregolf.com) provides mini golf on a well-groomed open air course with active water features and courses that take families on adventures over small rivers and through gardens. They’re open all week, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Children age 5 and up are $7, adults cost $8, and toddlers under age 5 play free.

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International sand sculptors compete at Hampton Beach

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Photo by Betty Gagne.

The 22nd annual Hampton Beach Sand Sculpting Classic is going on now. This event unofficially kicks off summer and transforms the beach into a museum of inventive sand sculptures, created by talented artists who travel all over the world to compete. There are 10 competitors this year, some coming from as far away as California and Hawaii, vying for $16,000 in prize money.

A week ago, 200 tons of moist, finegrain sand was trucked onto the beach from a local quarry for the event. The first activity these 10 sculptors do is create a group carve featuring all the sponsors of the event. This year’s theme is “The Greatest Show in Sand,” and master sculptor Greg Grady said the group project is a team effort.

“We communicate all year to decide the theme,” he said.

Grady fashioned a New Hampshire

quarter out of sand in 2000, and that’s how the whole sand sculpting competition was born. Grady himself has made a living making sand sculptures for 25 years, is very active in the sand sculpture world and is the organizer of the event.

His son, Greg Grady Jr., is also a master sculptor and will be competing in Hampton this year.

“It was always a family tradition to visit the Cape and build sand sculptures,” Grady said. “My son naturally got into it after I started taking him to competitions with me.”

The pair did a team competition in Siesta Key, Florida, just last year.

Every sculptor gets a 20- by 20-foot plot with a mountain of 12 tons of sand to fashion into a sculpture of their choice.

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be announced at 7 p.m. The sculptors have a total of 24 hours, eight hours per day, to complete their pieces. Once finished, the sculptures are sprayed with a mixture of 90 percent Elmer’s glue and 10 percent water. The finishing coat acts as a shell to preserve the sand.

“Each participant has a shot at winning seven grand if they take first place and get selected as the People’s Choice,” Grady said.

The People’s Choice winner will take $1,000 home, and voting will be on Saturday, June 18, from 1 to 3 p.m. This year, $6,000 goes to the first-place winner, with $4,000 going to second place, $3,000 for third, and $2,000 for fourth.

Last year’s first-place winner was Abe Waterman from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Waterman created a figure which he named “Empty,” a 10-foottall woman’s head with tears streaming

down her face. On the ground in front and in back of the sculpture were frustrated people curled up in fetal positions.

Waterman explained that his breakup with his wife inspired him to design the imaginative piece.

“Not all of my sculptures are based on personal themes, but the better ones are,” he said.

He also took first place in 2018 in Hampton with his “Temptation” sculpture, an enticing woman morphed as part of a bottle of liquor. A small scaled devil was perched on the backside of the sculpture. Waterman began his craft by competing in snow sculpting contests in Prince Edward Island before moving on to sand sculpting, and he’s been participating in the Hampton Beach Classic now for a few years. The best part for him, he said, is being in the company of other great sculptors.

“We enjoy what we do,” he said.

“We’re all good friends. We’re like a family.”

Waterman suggested that people take time to watch the sculptors at work instead of just showing up to view the finished figures.

“Check out the headway of how we build these sculptures,” he said. “It may look like we’re moving slowly, but trust me, we’re making good progress.”

Waterman said he feels that the judges have a very difficult task, as each sculpture is different in theme and design.

“It’s not just a matter of which one is better,” he said. “The judges may disagree completely based on their own personal tastes. Being a sculptor is much easier than being a judge,” he said.

This year’s judges include Gov. Chris Sununu, local artist Denise Brown and Greg Grady Sr. Also on Friday and Saturday, professional sculptor Darlene Duggan will be giving free sand sculpting lessons from 1 to 3 p.m. Interested people must sign up starting at noon the day of the lesson, and young participants ages 8 through 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Duggan has been teaching the basics of sand sculpting for over 20 years and shares her experience with the public as

part of the event.

The Sand Sculpting Classic’s main sponsor is the Hampton Beach Village District, an organization that puts on many events at the beach, including free concerts on the Seashell Stage, fireworks, movies on the beach, and Children’s Week in August. According to Chairman Chuck Rage, the sand sculpting competition attracted over 100,000 spectators last year.

“It’s family-friendly, it’s free, and people get to see museum-quality sculptures right here at the beach,” he said. “It attracts international sculptors and it’s a great event.”

Grady invited everyone to come and see the amazing artists and their sand creations. Volunteers will be walking around during the event to answer questions and distribute brochures. The sculptures will also be lighted for evening viewing through Sunday, June 26.

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Pickup truck tailgates don’t have to be a drag

By Ray Magliozzi

Dear Car Talk: Will I get better gas mileage with my pickup truck tailgate up or down?

When I try to find the answer, I get mixed messages.

— Randy

Surprisingly, you’ll get better mileage with the tailgate up, Randy.

Like most of the people whose halfinformed posts you’ve been reading online, my late brother and I once tried to answer this question on our radio show.

We puzzled it out for about six seconds and concluded that, of course, you’d get better mileage with the tailgate down! The tailgate is obviously a big wind blocker and a source of drag that lowers your mileage. Obvious, right?

A few days later, we got a letter from a listener of ours — none other than the president of General Motors, Bob

Stempel.

I believe the letter started out: “Au contraire, Piston Puss!” Bob — who was an engineer and, crucially, had wind tunnels at his disposal — explained to us that rather than blocking the wind as you drive along, the tailgate actually traps air in the pickup bed.

And while that pocket of air stays still, the rest of the wind moves smoothly right over the top of the bed as you drive.

When the tailgate is open, he said, the wind actually creates more turbulence in the bed and reduces your mileage.

And as if we didn’t feel dumb enough by that point, he also reminded us that the closed tailgate is also an important part of the structure of the pickup.

When the tailgate’s open, or removed, the truck is less safe in a crash. It’s like removing one side of a cardboard box.

It folds more easily, which is exactly what you don’t want in an accident.

So, the pickup truck drivers you see with their tailgates removed or open are losing on two fronts, Randy.

Three fronts if you count all the stuff that rolls out while they’re driving.

Dear Car Talk: In a recent article, you wrote about when the batteries in the tire pressure sensors in tires fail and cause the low tire pressure light to come on. You advised replacing the sensors, which you said typically last about seven to 10 years.

I have another question. Is it OK to just ignore the light if I check the tire pressure myself, by hand? Both my cars are older Buicks — 2002 and 2005 — each with just over 100,000 miles.

I found the article very informative but still have this question.

— Sharon The answer is yes, Sharon. You can go back to the pre-tire-pressure-sensor days and check the tire pressure yourself with a pressure gauge.

But I don’t recommend it. For one thing, you really have to do it regularly. And in reality, most people don’t. I’m a mechanic, and even I didn’t check my tire pressure regularly in the old days.

I rarely even looked at the passenger side of my car. The tires could have been missing for all I knew.

And even if you are diligent and check the pressure once a week, or once a day, you’ll miss one of the real safety features of the tire

pressure monitoring system: getting warned if your tire is losing pressure while you’re driving.

Let’s say you run over a screw, and your tire starts slowly leaking air. Then you’re on the highway. The tire pressure warning light will come on once your pressure drops about 10% below recommended pressure.

That usually gives you time to get off the highway and avoid a blowout. Or avoid changing a tire while Tombstone Pizza trucks whiz by you at 70 mph.

The final problem is that on most cars, there’s one warning light on the dashboard for all four tires.

So, if one sensor dies and you ignore the light, you’ll never know when another tire is low — even if the other three sensors are still good.

So while the answer to your question is technically yes, Sharon, I still recommend you replace the sensors in the tires when they fail. They really do provide an important service. And while they cost about $80 each to replace, it should be a once-in-a-car’s-lifetime event, if that.

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at Changing Tides Cafe & Donut Shop For best friends Dawn Pantano and Sharon Pozzi-Thomas, Changing Tides Cafe & Donut Shop (92 Pleasant St., Newburyport, Mass., 978-572-1284, changingtidescafe.com) was the culmination of a longtime dream. Both women are licensed CPAs, each with a few decades of experience to her credit.

But when they’re at the cafe, it doesn’t feel like a job — the name, Pozzi-Thomas said, is even reflective of the pair’s life and career changes. “We’ve always been passionate about coffee and doughnuts, [and] I’ve been eating a doughnut every day of my life for probably 18 or 19 years now,” Pozzi-Thomas said.

The shop offers its own hand-cut cake and yeast doughnuts baked every day in a variety of flavors, along with a selection of muffins, scones, bagels, avocado toasts and acai bowls. A full coffee and espresso bar is also available featuring George Howell specialty coffees, and there are loose leaf teas courtesy of Rishi Tea. When the pandemic hit, Pantano and Pozzi-Thomas decided to launch a coffee and doughnut truck, which continues to appear at public and private events. The Scene recently caught up with the two friends to talk about their doughnut-making specialties and some of their picks for must-try items the next time you visit their shop or see their truck out on the road.

Photos courtesy of Changing Tides Cafe & Donut Shop.

How long has Changing Tides Cafe yeast, or raised, doughnuts. … We don’t & Donut Shop been around? really do crazy flavors, and that is also Pantano: [Since] March of 2019, so very calculated. just a little over three years.

Pantano: We also try to make it be a place that somebody wants to come to, What makes Changing Tides Cafe & so almost like their third place [after] Donut Shop unique? their home and their office. Just a place Pozzi-Thomas: We have a great bak- where you’re feeling comfortable and ing team, and everything is hand cut, happy. made in house and fried in the front window the same day. Nothing is kept What is your personal favorite thing overnight; everything is handmade every on your menu? single day. We’re also in an older buildPozzi-Thomas: The espresso tonic ing, and so we wanted to go old-school. is my favorite drink, and then I’m torn We have very traditional doughnuts that between the acai bowl and the triple people may remember from their child- chocolate doughnut. Those are my three hood, so old-fashioned cake chocolate, go-to items. cake blueberry, cake apple, and then Pantano: I would go with a macfluffier doughnuts that you’d refer to as adamia nut latte, and I love our egg

What is an essential skill to running a sandwiches. We’ve got a lot of positive feedback from those. They are cooked to cafe and doughnut shop?

Pozzi-Thomas: Treat others the way order, and they are absolutely delicious. you want to be treated — staff, guests and What is something that everyone everyone in between. That is how we run our business. I really do think we’ve nevshould try?

Pozzi-Thomas: The cinnamon roll, er lost sight of that. which is made out of a fluffy doughnut, What is your favorite thing about and also our scones. The raspberry white being on the Seacoast? chocolate chip scone is so good.

Pantano: I just love being able to be Pantano: The multi-berry scone with at the ocean or see the water when you’re an orange glaze. walking around. There’s just something What celebrity would you like to see so spiritual about it.

Pozzi-Thomas: The people of Newordering from the shop?

Pantano: George Clooney, a hundred buryport. There’s a vibe there that can’t be beat. It’s hard to explain, really, until percent.

Pozzi-Thomas: Julia Roberts for me. you’ve experienced it.

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This is a luxurious dish, but it is quite simple to make. In 30 minutes you will have transformed all the ingredients into a lavish dish. I noted that this recipe serves four, which works when offering it as an appetizer. However, it also would work well as an entrée for two.

This recipe’s ingredients do require a bit of a breakdown. I used lobster tails to make this dish, as it is a faster way to get to the meat. If you want to use a whole lobster, you probably need one that is about two pounds. Next is the wine. While I use the general term “white wine,” I’d suggest using one that is not aromatic, such as an unoaked chardonnay or a pinot grigio. Finally, the recipe calls for two tablespoons of heavy cream. You may think that you can use whatever milk you have on

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This is not an everyday sort of dish.

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Timeless superheroes Comic book show comes to Hampton Popular media is awash in characters dredged from the nostalgia of the ’70s and ’80s. Pop culture icons like Iron Man, Superman and Spiderman all began between the pages of comic books. After the early success of franchises like these at the box office, streaming services have started to plumb the backlog of comic book heroes that have otherwise been ignored for the past several decades.

“No one knew who the Moon Knight was,” said Tim Galvin, who runs Krypton Comics in Exeter with his brother. After the Moon Knight mini series was released on Disney+, he said, suddenly people wanted to buy collectibles for it.

“Kids will watch that stuff and then they’ll want the figures for it,” Galvin said.

That’s why the upcoming Hampton Comic and Toy Show at Winnacunnet High School on Saturday, June 18, is set to be a packed event. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., there will be up to 70 vendor tables, filled with comic books, art, action figures and collectibles set up at the high school. Krypton Comics plans to have one of those tables.

Vintage items from comic book franchises like Transformers, Thundercats, and G.I. Joe will be for sale. Comics from the Star Wars franchise printed between 1977 and 1983 will likely be on sale next to new Star Wars character stories. Comics and toys from the new Marvel Legends series will be available next to original copies of Captain America and Iron Man. Vendors from around New England will attend, including small private businesses that sell exclusively online or at shows. There will be writers and general comic book vendors, as well as artists doing sketches of superheroes.

Chris Morse, who runs Chris’s Comics in Salem and Seabrook, is helping to put on the event, which he said is one of only four comic book shows held in New Hampshire.

He runs two of them and has been in the business for 42 years, starting in 1980 at the back of his mother’s bookstore in Salem.

Over that time, he’s noticed big changes in the industry.

“What you’re seeing now with new series on streaming platforms — She Hulk, Mandalorian, Star Wars,” he said, “these are all shows in the public eye that weren’t there five, six years ago.”

When Krypton Comics first opened, they sold mostly vintage toys and comics from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Now, that business model has shifted to include new products featuring superheroes from recent movies and shows. They collect a lot of their items from people who are cleaning out their basement, attic or closet, Galvin said. A customer will come in, see the vin-

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tage items for sale and recognize the value of what they have at home. From there, they usually strike a deal with Galvin to trade in those items. Sometimes it’s a cash exchange, and sometimes it’s a donation.

Now comics have garnered the attention of a diverse group. Older viewers get to see the characters they grew up with come alive on the screen, while younger audiences get to discover superheroes that captured the interest of a prior generation. Kids and adults alike have fallen in love with characters that span decades. Naturally, the comic book and action figure business has seen a boom in recent years as fans, new and old, scramble to purchase collectibles for these newly adapted franchises.

This newfound popularity is what fuels events like the Hampton Comic Show, Galvin said. What were once old toys have a new life as their resale value climbs.

At Krypton Comics, Galvin said, he has noticed that even though they stock brand new toys, kids in the store were happy to pick up and play with older versions.

People of all ages are in the market for collectibles these days, Galvin said. Students are encouraged to attend and get free admission to the event. For everyone else, it’s a $5 entrance fee. All of the proceeds will be going directly to the Winnacunnet class of 2023.

“Kids back then are adults now with jobs and money,” Galvin said, “so they want all their toys back.”

— Lucas Henry

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Book Review

BOOK NOTES

Two Nights in Lisbon, by Chris Pavone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 436 pages)

Even without a print magazine and daily talk show, Oprah Winfrey still wields power in the world of publishing. She still has a book club through her website, Oprahdaily.com, where she recently guaranteed the publishing success of Leila Mottley, the 19-year-old author of the new novel Nightcrawling (Knopf, 288 pages).

Mottley began writing the book when she was 16. It’s set in Oakland, California, where she lives, and it’s about a high-school dropout named Kiara who has to work to support her family and a neighbor child, but gets embroiled in a scandal involving the Oakland Police Department.

The last book Winfrey recommended before this was the memoir of actress Viola Davis, called Finding Me (HarperOne, 304 pages). Released in April, it has 3,800 ratings on Amazon, most of them five stars.

Can Bill Gates crown an author like Oprah can?

He keeps trying. His summer recommendations for fiction are weirdly dated: last year’s The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Viking, 592 pages) and Naomi Alderman’s The Power, published in 2016 (Penguin paperback, 352 pages).

More current is actress Reese Witherspoon, whose Reese’s Book Club features only books with female protagonists. Her pick this month is Counterfeit (William Morrow, 288 pages) by Kirstin Chen. It’s about a Chinese American lawyer and mom who gets inadvertently sucked into a counterfeit purse scheme run by an old friend. And actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop book club is recommending Circa by Devi S. Laskar (Mariner, 192 pages), a coming-of-age story of an Indian American girl.

“Celebrity” book clubs may be pushing the bounds of celebrity when they include Jenna Bush Hager, who some people may not recall is the daughter of former President George W. Bush. But I like her recent pick, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco, 368 pages), a novel about a lonely janitor who makes friends with an octopus at the aquarium where she works.

— Jennifer Graham

As perhaps the only semi-literate person on the planet who hasn’t read or seen Gone Girl, I still know enough about Gillian Flynn’s blockbuster novel to know that her fans would like Two Nights in Lisbon. In fact, but for the pesky laws of copyright, Chris Pavone could have called his fifth novel “Gone Guy.” The thriller is set in Portugal, where a bookstore owner named Ariel Pryce is on a business trip with her husband, John.

On their third night there, she wakes up alone and when he doesn’t immediately respond to her texts she starts to panic.

Everyone she consults, from the housekeeping and wait staff at their luxury hotel to the local police, assures her that it’s premature to worry, that John probably went on a long run or is meeting with one of his clients. That’s why they are here, after all — for business.

Even as the hours tick by (in Jack Bauer-ish 24 fashion), unconcerned detectives and embassy staff are more inclined to think that John is off with another woman, or maybe even left his older wife permanently; it’s far too early to worry that anything criminal has occurred, they say. (“Senhora, I hope you understand that it is not possible for the police to search for every man whose wife cannot find him in the morning. We would never do anything else.”)

Ariel, however, is insistent from the start that John, her husband for only a year, isn’t like that, especially since he insisted she accompany him on the trip. (What married man wants his wife to come along if his planned activities include a tryst?) Her fears grow as she starts to think someone is following her, and seem to be confirmed when a hotel maid finds a note under her bed that indicates John intended to be away for only a few minutes and planned to meet her for breakfast.

From the start, though, there are suggestions that Ariel may be an especially unreliable narrator, or at the least, a woman prone to unusually high levels of anxiety that could distort her view of what is happening.

The local police she repeatedly contacts are suspicious not only about John (they ask if he uses drugs, among other things) but also about Ariel herself, to the point that they have a detective follow her when she leaves the station. Meanwhile, we get hints of former identities for both Ariel and John, who seem to not know very much about each other. There are flashbacks to earlier times in Ariel’s life, when she went by another name and

apparently lived a life much higher on the socioeconomic ladder.

Then there’s the question of her teenage son, George, an increasingly moody kid with whom she lives on a ramshackle farm a couple of hours from New York.

It’s unclear who the boy’s father is, and why Ariel walked away from her former life for one that seemingly has a lot more troubles and goats.

Pavone boasts a roster of heavyweight endorsements from John Grisham — who says “I defy anyone to read the first twenty pages of this breakneck novel, then try to put it down for five minutes. It can’t be done.” — to Stephen King, who seems to be trolling Grisham when he says, “There’s no such thing as a book you can’t put down, but this one was close.”

This may be because, in addition to his own writing career, Pavone has worked for 33 years in publishing. In other words, he’s hardly a supernova who burst out of nowhere; he’s as establishment in the business of words as you can get. As such, he is a craftsman when it comes to the construction of a made-forHollywood thriller. The foreshadowing is a bit too heavy-handed in places — particularly with regard to news going on in the U.S. that is constantly on TV screens in Portugal.

But the twist that turns the story on its head at the end is deftly done. In fact, Two Nights in Lisbon may require two readings: the second to see how the story changes once you finally learn what was really going on.

To be sure, Pavone injects a generous amount of moralizing, which was interesting at first but grew a bit tiresome as the story developed. Here he is on college degrees: “oversold, overpriced, undervalued educational achievements

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that turn out to be almost meaningless on the job market,” and on the internet: “The magic of the internet. It’s easy to forget this, looking at the toxic effects of social media, at the economic devastation wrought by online retail and the tech-driven gig economy and the decline of Main Street, at the mis- and disinformation that threatens the integrity of democracy, in fact the integrity of everything.”

Cultural asides are useful when lobbying for prizes or stretching a thin story to novel length, but the frequent digressions seem so much overreach, similar to its bloated, self-important final paragraph that tries to give the novel more authority than it earned.

Two Nights in Lisbon is actually a misnomer, as the book spans six days (six days and three months, if you count the epilogue). It could have been satisfyingly shorter, and will be in a screenwriter’s hands.

Some Amazon reviewers have noted the resemblance of a pivotal character to a certain former president who has been unusually divisive. Meh. That’s surely the author’s intent, but the parallel is not heavy-handed enough to make this book political. More radical is the age-old question the novel offers about whether an end justifies a means. As cultural commentary Two Nights in Lisbon comes up short, but it’s an excellent beach read. B+ — Jennifer Graham

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Jurassic World Dominion (PG-13)

Original Jurassic cast and new Jurassic cast collide in the underwhelming Jurassic World Dominion, the final movie in the Jurassic World trilogy and the conclusion of the six total Jurassic movies.

Wikipedia and other sources report that filmmakers say this is the final film of these two trilogies, but I have a hard time believing this is “The End” of this franchise. Something this long-running, and with CGI dinosaurs and not specific actors as the principal attraction, feels like it will always have reboot potential. You know — life finds a way.

Previous movie Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ended on a dark but interesting note (spoiler alert for that 2018 film): What if dinosaurs were suddenly reintroduced to the planet, not just in some controlled theme park but out in the wild with other animals and soft, squishable humans. Dominion takes that idea and, well, basically does nothing with it. Dinosaurs are out there running around on land and swimming in the world’s oceans. And there is also an illegal market in dinosaurs — but somehow none of that really seems to matter. Like, at the end of this movie, we see a kid just feeding a small dinosaur in the park, like it’s a friendly duck, and it’s no big whoop.

The big whoop of Dominion is actually an infestation of particularly large, aggressive locusts that are destroying huge chunks of farmland. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern!) figures out that these locusts have cretaceous DNA and gets her old friend Alan Grant (Sam Neill) to go with her to Biosyn, the company that has the government contract to deal with all the loose dinos in the world and that, totally coincidentally, is the source of the seeds used in the only fields that the locusts won’t eat. Their colleague Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) works for Biosyn and has invited them to come visit him at the Biosyn facility in Italy where they have their dino preserve and also a building with multiple underground levels where you can

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do all sorts of shady DNA stuff.

Meanwhile, out in The Wilderness, Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Owen (Chris Pratt), one-time coworkers at the revived but now-re-defunct Jurassic World theme park, are now an official couple and co-parents to Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon), a clone or something who they rescued in the last movie. In addition to being some kind of scientific marvel who is being hunted by poachers, Maisie is a sulky teen who wants to ride her bike wherever I want, Mom, because you can’t hide me in this off-thegrid cabin forever. Naturally, after one such tantrum, she is kidnapped, along with Beta, the small baby raptor of Blue, Owen’s raptor buddy who lives in the nearby wilderness.

I’ll bring back your baby, Owen tells Blue — and to this movie’s credit, they do let Ian make fun of this later.

Eventually, all of these characters — along with bad-ass pilot Kayla (DeWanda Wise); scientist Henry Wu (BD Wong), who is always messing with DNA in these movies and, like, never learns, and Biosyn flunky Ramsay (Mamoudou Athie) — wind up at the Biosyn facility in Italy run by cartoonishly evil Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott, who never seems to completely land on which tech CEO he’s parodying).

There are, of course, plenty of scenes of

dinosaurs chasing our characters — trained attack dinosaurs chasing a motorcycleriding Owen through the streets of Malta, those dino-locusts swarming on a farm, a T-Rex on the hunt for meat. But there are also enough scenes of not-dinosaurs in this nearly two-and-a- half-hour movie that I found myself thinking “it’s been a while since we’ve seen any dinosaurs in this dinosaur movie.” There’s a lot of very goopy talk about genetics and humanity, a scene of people listening to Ian Malcolm just sorta riff in a lecture hall, a whole undercurrent about Ellie and Alan’s relationship that I think we’re supposed to find nostalgic and cute, the parenting dynamics of Owen and Claire, the genetically engineered Maisie dealing with the nature of herself (which the movie confuses more than it explains). When dinosaurs show up, it is at least nice to break away from these plots and people that I could never really bring myself to care about. But the dinosaur action also felt sort of muted; there was kind of an amusement park ride quality to some of the dinosaur scenes, as though we were riding through little tableaus about dinosaurs in the world without really engaging with them.

I’m sure that, side by side, these 2022 dinosaurs would look realer than the 1990s

dinosaurs of the original movies, but this movie isn’t presenting them in any way that is significantly more exciting or visually arresting than back then. We don’t get any “clever girl” or raptors testing the fences moments here. And I felt nothing but eyeroll-y about the movie wanting me to root for the underdog T-Rex in a fight against the bigger badder Giganotosaurus. Yep, cool, I feel a really strong emotional connection to this one section of the green screen over this other section of the green screen.

Jurassic World Dominion was probably never going to be great but it had a setup that could have found its way to fun if it had built itself on the “dinosaurs in the human world” idea instead of getting all Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker about smooshing together separate trilogies and then basically putting the big climax back in a Jurassic Park-like setting. CRated PG-13 for intense sequences of action, some violence and language, according to the MPA on filmratings. com. Directed by Colin Trevorrow with a screenplay by Emily Carmichael & Colin Trevorrow, Jurassic World Dominion is an unnecessary two hours and 26 minutes long and is distributed by Universal Studios.

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Mass. native creates nationwide comedy brand

Felicia Folkes performing. Courtesy photo.

Roughly five years ago, Brookline native Kyle Kazanjian-Amory created the independent comedy brand Don’t Tell Comedy, known for its hundreds of pop-up shows nationwide that help give platforms to up-and-coming stand-up talent. Kazanjian-Amory was intrigued by comedy at a young age by watching shows such as Seinfeld and The Simpsons, but it wasn’t until he was 23 that he created DTC in hopes of producing an alternative, unique and affordable comedy community open to the public.

Kazanjian-Amory was heavily involved in the stand-up scene throughout California doing various shows himself, as well as getting into the producing aspect of shows. However, many comedy clubs proved to be inconvenient in a variety of factors for him and much of the surrounding public. He had high hopes in helping the stand-up scene through DTC and creating a welcoming platform for all audiences and performers alike. DTC Don’t Tell Comedy donttellcomedy.com, @donttellcomedy Attendees are to purchase a ticket on the DTC website and will receive information with the secret pop-up location via email.

• Newmarket: downtown - 5th Anniversary Show, Friday, June 17, 8 p.m.

• Portsmouth: downtown - 5th Anniversary Show, Saturday, June 18, 6 p.m.

• Portsmouth: downtown - 5th Anniversary Show, Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m.

• Newmarket: downtown, Saturday, July 16, 8 p.m.

• Newmarket: downtown, Saturday, Aug. 13, 8 p.m.

• Manchester: downtown, Friday, Aug. 26, 8 p.m.

has been producing shows in Portsmouth for nearly three years, and they look forward to expanding their brand statewide. The Scene talked with Kazanjian-Amory about the series.

Kyle Kazanjian-Amory. Courtesy photo.

What is Don’t Tell Comedy all about?

[It’s] an independent comedy brand responsible for various stand-up shows from city to city, showcasing up and coming comics throughout all communities.

Why did you start this brand?

I was in L.A. going to a lot of shows, and I realized how expensive it was to see a show at a comedy club. It was $20 for a ticket, and there’s a two-drink minimum. Drinks are really expensive, and if you bring a date, you end up spending $100 to go out and see a show. For me, I was 23 years old, and it was just not something that I could afford to do every week. DTC was a way to create an affordable alternative to the comedy club scene that would take place in unique environments that would not traditionally host comedy shows. I wanted to make stand-up more accessible [and] more affordable, and create a welcoming environment for both audience members and performers.

What kind of comedians do you look for in each show?

The beauty of our shows is that we’ll have anywhere from five to seven different comedians performing each night for about 10 to 15 minutes, so it’s a maximum of a 90-minute show. Because we’re able to feature a bunch of comedians, we can have a really diverse group of comics with different styles and backgrounds, which I think creates

Danny Jolles performing. Courtesy photo.

a more interesting show and experience for people going. Another fun thing, too, [is that] I have a person in each city in charge of organizing the shows in that local area, and most of the time they’re comedians. We are really a comedianrun organization around the country, and the comedian running our shows in each city is one of the better comics in that scene. The comic community is very small, so we get to know who’s good in each city pretty quickly. We hold ourselves to a very high standard, so usually people performing at our shows have been doing stand-up for at least a few years. Since we don’t announce who is performing, every show needs to be good so people trust the brand and experience. We make sure we have great lineups that people will enjoy.

Why did you choose to bring DTC to New Hampshire?

New Hampshire is so close to Boston that I’ve been a bunch of times when I was growing up, and I discovered some really cool towns like Portsmouth. We do a lot of shows in Portsmouth, and we started back in early 2019. We’ve been well-received by each New Hampshire community whether it be Manchester or Portsmouth, and we’re excited because, in New Hampshire, we think there’s a real opportunity to bring more comedy shows to those communities that don’t have a lot of options already. What’s also really nice about New Hampshire is that, for one, there’s some really great comics, but it’s so close to Boston and Maine that we’re able to pull the best talent from all of New England.

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Bogie’s: live music, 7 p.m.

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Hampton Bernie’s: Collie Buddz, 8 p.m.

Charlie’s Tap House: live music, 4:30 p.m.

CR’s: Just The Two of Us, 4 p.m.

L Street: live music, 6:30 p.m.; Karaoke with DJ Jeff, 9 p.m.

McGuirk’s: Mike O’Neil, 1 p.m.; Charley Carozza, 8 p.m.

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Portsmouth Gas Light: Austin McCarthy, 2 p.m.; Rock Spring, 6 p.m.

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Hampton Bernie’s: MB Padfield, 7 p.m.

L Street: karaoke with DJ Jeff, 9 p.m.

McGuirk’s: Jahriffe Duo, 8 p.m.

Wally’s: Eric Marcs, 4 p.m.

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The Goat: Isaiah Bennett, 9 p.m.

Tuesday, June 21

Hampton Bernie’s: Chris Fritz Grice, Kyle Smith, 7 p.m.

The Goat: David Campbell, 7 p.m.

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Events

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Wednesday, June 22

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Bogie’s: open mic, 7 p.m.

The Goat: Justin Jordan, 7 p.m.

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Portsmouth Gas Light: Troy Luneau Duo, 7 p.m.

The Goat: Isaiah Bennett, 9 p.m.

Hampton Bernie’s: Chris Toler, 7 p.m.

CR’s: Ross McGinnes, 6 p.m.

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McGuirk’s: Birch Swart, 1 p.m.; Mike Nash, 7:30 p.m.

Shane’s: Tequila Jim, 6

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Inexplicable

Down at the Amarillo (Texas) Zoo, it isn’t the animal exhibits inside that are sparking excitement among the city’s residents.

“In the dark and early morning hours” of May 21, the city reported in a June 8 news release, security cameras captured a mysterious creature outside the fence — part “person with a strange hat,” part “large coyote on its hind legs,” part “Chupacabra,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. “We just want to let the Amarillo community have some fun with this,” director of Parks and Recreation Michael Kashuba said, asking locals to weigh in with their ideas about what the Unidentified Amarillo Object — UAO — might be. “It is important to note that this entity was outside the Amarillo Zoo,” he added. “There were no signs of criminal activity or vandalism.”

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was inside the home. He also told her all the locks had been changed. “We honestly thought he was joking because we knew the house was vacant,” Cruz said. “So we show up with the cops, and there’s a young woman in there with all of her belongings.” The woman said she had signed a month-tomonth lease with a “landlord,” and because she produced a lease, the police couldn’t ask her to vacate. Real estate attorney Mo Dadkhah said the case would probably be referred to the Cook County eviction courts — but they’re very backed up. “The process could take six, 12, 18 months,” he said.

Cruz’s other option is “cash for key” — offering the renter money to leave. But so far, Cruz can’t get her to respond.

Out of commission

A taxi in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, is out of service for the time being, NL Times reported on June 8, but not because it’s in need of repairs. In the Netherlands, seagulls are a protected species, and a pair of gulls has built a nest and laid an egg on the windshield of a parked taxi, right between the wipers. Before the egg was laid, employees tried to move the nest multiple times, but the pair kept returning and rebuilding it.

Now, the taxi must stay put until the baby gull hatches and fledges. Hope that meter’s not running.

During court proceedings on June 7 at the Albany City Court in New York, a defendant who started filming an arraignment was asked to stop, NBC New York reported. During the altercation that followed, a 34-year-old woman in the audience allegedly released hundreds of cockroaches from plastic containers into the courtroom, resulting in the courthouse being closed for the rest of the day for fumigation. “What transpired is not advocacy or activism, it is criminal behavior with the intent to disrupt a proceed- News that sounds like a joke ing and cause damage,” noted a statement In what seems like an extraordinarily from the Office of Court Administration. bad idea in the age of Covid, a restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona, encourages patrons to enhance their food or drink by licking a dinGassed Reynold Gladu took over his gas station ing room wall made of Himalayan rock salt, in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1973. But at WLBT-TV reported on June 3. The head least for now, he no longer sells fuel, the chef at The Mission restaurant brought in the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported on June rocks to improve the overall ambience and 7. When his pumps ran dry this month, he add a unique touch for customers enjoying didn’t refill them because he can’t abide tequila shots. For those who are squeamish the prices. “I don’t want to be a part of it about the germs, the rock salt reportedly has anymore,” he said. “This is the biggest rip- natural sanitary properties, but the restaurant off that ever has happened to people in my staff also regularly wipe down the walls. I’ll lifetime.” His station will continue to do have a beer, thanks. oil changes and other service, but, he said, “Enough is enough.” A spokesperson for The great escape ExxonMobil said prices are out of her comBefore Stephen Patterson of Allegheny pany’s control, being “influenced by the County, Pennsylvania, boarded a flight from price of crude and wholesale price of prod- Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on June ucts which fluctuate according to demand 3, he stopped for a drink in the airport bar and supply factors.” But Gladu isn’t buying and paid with a $100 bill, which was conit — “It seems like the oil industry is in this veniently stamped with “for motion picture together” — or selling it. use only,” WPXI-TV reported. The cashier at the bar notified police officers, and they were waiting for Patterson on June 5 when Adventures in real estate Danielle Cruz and her husband pur- he flew back into the airport in Latrobe, chased and renovated a home in Chicago, Pennsylvania. “He said that the pants he was but after listing it for sale, they found out wearing were not his, and he found the $100 someone was already living there. ABC7- bill in the pocket, so he decided to just use TV reported that a contractor showed up it,” Park Police Chief Henry Fontana said. to make a repair to the presumably vacant Patterson was arrested on felony charges. house and reported to Cruz that someone Visit newsoftheweird.com.

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BEACH BUM FUN horoscopes All quotes are from Stillness is the Key, by the mentality that gets an athlete to the top so Ryan Holiday, born June 16, 1987. often prevents them from enjoying the thing they worked so hard for.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Each of us Think about what you really want. has access to more information than we could ever reasonably use. We tell ourselves … that Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Stillness is best we have to be ‘on top of things,’ and so we give not sought alone. And, like success, it is best up precious time to news, reports, meetings, and when shared. other forms of feedback. … We must stop this.

Take your stillness however you like it.

You do not have to be on top of everything.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) The energy Cancer (June 21 – July 22) It is perfect- you’re spending aiming the arrow — particuly possible to do and make good work from a larly early on — is energy not spent developing good place. You can be healthy and still and your form. successful.

When you’re working on your form, work Actually it’ll be better work. on your form.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) What we need in life, in the arts, in sports, is to loosen up, to become flexible, to get to a place where there is nothing in our way — including our own obsession with certain outcomes.

Loosen up.

long and valiant journey back to winning the Masters in 2019…. Fore!

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) Finding the universal in the personal, and the personal in the universal, is not only the secret to art and leadership and even entrepreneurship, it is the secret to centering oneself.

Not a secret.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) On a good walk, the mind is not completely blank. … The point is not … to push every thought or observation from your mind. On the contrary, the whole point is to see what’s around you.

Don’t trip over that rock.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) When we know what to say no to, we can say yes to the things that matter.

Say no and yes.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Nobody realizes Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) We don’t just how much they love someone while they’re Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Billie Jean King, the Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Relationships need to judge Tiger Woods. We need to booking back-to-back-to-back meetings. tennis great, has spoken about this, about how are not a productivity hack… True. learn from him, from both his fall and his Nobody.

BEACH BUM FUN Rock ‘N Roll Crossword by Todd santos

WE CAN BE PUZZLES JUST FOR ONE DAY Across 1. Like U2 6. David Bowie ‘Life __ Circus’ (2,1) 9. Hotel person cleaning up the postshow mess 13. Thrash band Municipal __ 14. College admissions test dropout rockers won’t see 15. Beat 16. Wet Wet Wet ‘Shed __’ (1,4) 17. 80s Christian singer Grant 18. Hammersmith __ 19. Car systems, e.g.

21. Donnie & Marie 23. ‘Face The Music’ Boston spinoff 24. Foreigner ‘4’ producer Robert __ Lange 25. Booker T’s band 28. ‘Blue Monday’ coverers 30. Part of Jenny Lewis band, w/ Service 35. 60s ‘Puppy Love’ Paul 37. Poison “Look what I’ve done __ shooting star” (1,2,1) 39. ‘Carolyn’ Haggard 40. The Who ‘__ Together’

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41. Oasis ‘Born On A Different __’ 43. ‘07 Paramore album for many people fighting 44. Forebodings or these for tour mishaps 46. Hanson are so ‘__ About It’ 47. Part of ‘Born To Be My Baby’ band, w/Bon 48. Go over again, as with confusing lyrics 50. Record, as with reels 52. Pink Floyd ‘__ Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’ 53. ‘97 Smash Mouth ‘Walkin’ On The Sun’ album ‘__ Yu Mang’ 55. Neil Young ‘Hangin’ __ Limb’ (2,1) 57. 3 Dog Night ‘Never Been __’ (2,5) 61. Hank Williams ‘I Can’t Help It (If I’m __ __ Love With You)’ (5,2) 65. Story Of The Year ‘Anthem __ Dying Day’ (2,3) 66. Jim Croce song that will grow old 68. STP song that will coast?

69. Part of fakesters, w/Vanilli 70. Pantera bassist Brown 71. Van Halen ‘__ A Mission’ (3,2) 72. Happy Mondays told the bus driver to ‘__ On’ it 73. Texan Joe 74. ‘Persistence’ band from Ozzfest

2. 1984’s ‘Out Of The Cellar’ band 3. Jason Mraz ‘The World As __ It’ (1,3) 4. New Kids On The Block producer Maurice 5. Musical From __ Eternity (4,2) 6. Elvis Presley ‘Yoga __ Yoga Does’ (2,2) 7. Singer Cooke 8. A steamed Joe Jackson wrote ‘Mad __’ (2,3) 9. “Love, love __ __, you know I love you” (2,2) 10. Jewel song for grace 11. Apple product for hiking 12. Henley and Was 15. Talking Heads side projecct __ Club (3,3) 20. __ Tentacles 22. Grunge-influenced Sublime song?

24. You Took The Words Right Out Of __ (2,5) 25. Bowie “Ground control to __ Tom” 26. Munchkin Bowie sang of when he met ‘The Laughing’ one 27. Sonny Bono was one on the slopes 29. Guys’ plus-ones can be these 31. System Of A Down’s Tankian 32. The Police & Nirvana, e.g.

33. Janet Jackson ‘You’ll Never Find (__ Like Mine)’ (1,4) 34. Pat Benatar says if it hurts ‘Don’t Down __ Show’ (3,2) 1. ‘02 Elvis Costello album ‘When __ 36. ‘You Needed Me’ Murray Cruel’ (1,3) 38. Rock star’s heavenly glow

42. ‘98 Jerry Cantrell debut ‘Boggy __’ 45. Beach Boys ‘Surfin __’ 49. Don’t want this driving home from hard rocking night 51. ‘Sadeness (Part I)’ electronic band 54. Pivotal drum piece 56. Frontman for Glasvegas James 57. Warrant ‘Uncle __ Cabin’ 58. “Ch-ch-changes, don’t tell them to grow up and out __” (2,2) 59. English Beat has a single, ‘__ Salvation’ 60. ‘Different Class’ English band 61. LMFAO ‘__ And I Know It’ 62. You give someone this to click on for your song 63. Hero, to biggest fan 64. 25 million selling German pop star 67. Collective Soul hit to style hair to? © 2022 Todd Santos

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BEACH BUM FUN Jonesin’ crosswords by matt jones

“This and That”--if one exists, the other does too Across 1. “Be kind to animals” org.

5. Anna’s Disney sister 9. Figure out a Rubik’s Cube 14. Prepare carefully 15. “Let’s Make a Deal” option 16. Egg-shaped 17. Cardinal direction that doesn’t begin a state name

18. Braggy answer to a food allergens quiz if you know your wheat proteins?

20. Not all alone 22. Part of the teen punk band name with the 2022 song “Racist, Sexist Boy” 23. Fifth-century pope called “the Great”

24. 2022 horror sequel (or the 1996 movie that started it all) 26. Award for “The Crown” 28. Agcy. spawned by the Manhattan Project 29. “Sign me up!”

33. Crew equipment 35. Brings in 37. Barrel rib 38. Costar of Sid on “Your Show of Shows” 40. “Don’t worry about it” 42. Shade named for a flower 43. British racing town that lent its name to a kind of salt 45. Card game with Skips 46. Say it loud 47. “___ got a golden ticket ...”

48. “Field of Dreams” locale 50. Get ready for hockey

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53. Soothing stuff 56. “Lawrence of Arabia” Oscar nominee 59. Accelerate 61. All-sock reenactment of the Swiss apple-shooting story?

63. Day saver?

64. Falco and Brickell, e.g.

65. ___ sci (college course) 66. Anti-D.U.I. group 67. Makeup of Maslow’s hierarchy 68. Put the brakes on 69. Pennsylvania port city

8. It’s designed to be on display 9. Justice Sotomayor 10. It’ll help you handle some hot stuff 11. Trucker’s haul 12. Discover competition 13. “Slow Churned” ice cream brand 19. A public util.

21. Domestic class, briefly 25. Score silence symbols 27. PBS chef Martin 30. Ripping coupons with your bare hands, as opposed to fancy scissors?

Down 31. View from the Royal 1. Ejects, as lava Shakespeare Theatre 2. Interwoven hair 32. “People Got a Lotta 3. Giant medieval structure Nerve” singer Case being transported on wheels?

33. Shampoo bottle spec 4. “La Marseillaise,” for 34. Friend, in France France 36. “Canterbury Tales” pilgrim 5. U2 guitarist The ___ 37. Pastry often served with 6. Hangs loose mint chutney 7. Warhol motif 39. Competed in the Kentucky

Derby, say 41. ___ polloi (the masses) 44. French automaker with a lion logo 47. Rapper who starred in “New Jack City” 49. Message on a dirty car 51. Find ___-than-perfect solution 52. Taqueria option 54. He wrote three operas based on Shakespeare 55. Break down 56. Uncap 57. Sass, if you’re stuck in the ‘80s 58. “The Andy Griffith Show” kid 60. Resell quickly 62. Does a “harmless” prank (but it’s really annoying to clean up) © 2022 Matt Jones

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