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Chicken and sweet potato nachos from Las Olas Taqueria in Hampton. Photo by Matt Ingersoll.

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The key to good nachos is all in the quality of the chip, according to Sean Oswald of the Nacho Average Wingz food truck, which has made several trips to the Seacoast for special events this past year.

“The chip you’re using … has to stand up to the toppings,” he said. “You can’t have something that’s going to get all soggy and flop over when it’s all cooked.”

That’s why Oswald will hand-cut and fry his own chips to order every time.

Using corn tortillas, he’ll cut them up into fourths, fry them on the truck and load them up with any toppings of your choosing, including meats like bacon, Mojo chicken and braised pork, and vegetables like onions, tomatoes, mushrooms and jalapenos. The available

cheeses include cheddar, American, pepper jack and colby jack.

“I like to keep everything as fresh as possible, and especially in a food truck, regular tortilla chips tend to get crushed up, they get thrown around and you get crumbs everywhere,” he said. “People have actually told me the next day, when they toss my nachos in the microwave, that the chip is still crunchy.”

The chips are also hand-cut and fried fresh daily at Las Olas Taqueria, which also has locations in Exeter and in Wells, Maine, in addition to its Hampton restaurant. Keefe said the nachos are made with Monterey Jack cheese and dozens of topping options, from meats like ancho beef, chicken, chorizo, pork and steak, to vegan refried beans and vegetables like sweet potatoes and portabella mushrooms.

“Chicken and sweet potatoes is actually … a big combination here that people love,” Keefe said. “It sounds so strange but they are so good together. The seasoning just works so well.”

The Farm Bar & Grille of Dover, which also has locations in Manchester and in Essex, Mass., not only hand-cuts its tortilla chips but hand-shreds its own Vermont cheddar cheese, according to co-owner Brad Atkinson. Those nachos are loaded with slow-smoked pulled pork, house pico de gallo and a drizzle of homemade barbecue sauce.

“We actually take whole pork butts, smoke and dry rub them, and then pull out all the fat,” Atkinson said. “For the cheese, we actually take giant blocks of Vermont cheddar that we shred down.”

At Rick’s Food & Spirits in Kingston, two specialty nacho dishes are available, one served hot and one served cold. The hot nachos, chef and owner Rick Korn said, feature hand-grated cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, jalapenos, sour cream,

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Whether you’re ordering them out at a restaurant or assembling them yourself at home, nachos offer all kinds of opportunities for creativity in the kitchen. The popular Tex-Mex comfort dish, featuring heated tortilla chips with melted cheese and other toppings, is a staple of many restaurants across the Seacoast.

“People love being able to pick and choose exactly what they want on their nachos and kind of build as they go,” said Kally Keefe, general manager of Las Olas Taqueria in Hampton. “We also have a lot of customers that come in and order catering-sized bags of chips and bigger containers of pico de gallo and guacamole, so they can go home and put them together themselves.”

From the types of cheeses you may want to use, to any meats and vegetables you’ll load them up with, we spoke with some local chefs and restaurant managers for their takes on ways to best line up your nachos with your individual palate.

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Eventually the prevalence of the dish evolved from just chips, jalapenos and one type of melted cheese to the customizable options widely available today. Keefe, for example, said she ended up switching to Monterey Jack cheese even when she makes nachos at home.

“I used to always use just shredded mozzarella, because that’s what I always had in my house, and it melts great if you’re just making something quick,” she said. “But ever since coming here [to Las Olas Taqueria], I realized that Monterey Jack just melts better and more evenly.”

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Mojo chicken nachos from the Nacho Average Wingz food truck. Photo by Matt Ingersoll.

salsa and homemade guacamole. You can add either Cajun chicken or a jalapenochili flavored ground beef to each order.

“The cumin and chili powder really round out the flavor of the beef well,” Korn said.

Rick’s Food & Spirits also offers what Korn calls the ahi tuna “nachos,” which are actually fried wontons in place of corn chips, topped with diced Atlantic tuna and drizzled with wasabi-chive sour cream, hoisin sauce and habanero-roasted red pepper coulis. They are then finished off with sesame wakame, diced tomatoes, diced jalapenos and fried pickled ginger.

“It’s a much healthier dish, of course, and it has lots of colors on it. It’s almost like sushi,” Korn said. “The presentation is beautiful with all the different sauces.”

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How you heat up your nachos at home is all going to come down to your own personal preference, but there are several steps you can take to maximize the quality of whatever flavors you’re working with.

According to Oswald, a combination of both a shredded cheese and cheese sauce also works well for home baked nachos.

If you’re ambitious, you can even buy a block of cheese and shred it yourself.

“It’s like a pizza. It keeps everything nice and even,” Oswald said. “The cheese [tends to] solidify fast … but the cheese sauce keeps everything kind of melted.”

Korn said he likes to use cheddar cheese because it has a lower melting point compared to some other cheeses.

He also pointed out the relative simplicity of throwing toppings together yourself, like guacamole, to maximize freshness and flavor.

“It only takes five or 10 minutes to make good, fresh guacamole. All you need is a nice avocado and some red onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and maybe cumin and lime juice,” he said. “It’s night and day as opposed to buying already made guacamole at the store.”

Multiple sources trace the popularity of melting cheese on tortilla chips and serving them as a snack back to World War II-era Mexico. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, “nacho” is actually a nickname for the man himself who is credited with inventing them, Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya.

In The Oxford Companion to American Food & Drink, a food encyclopedia published by Oxford University Press, editor Andrew P. Smith writes that Anaya worked for the old Victory Club restaurant in the city of Piedras Negras, Mexico, located just over the international border from Eagle Pass, Texas. In 1943, Anaya, a maître d’hôtel, assembled the first plate of nachos for a large group of guests by frying tostadas with grated cheese and placing jalapeno slices on top. They became known as “Nacho’s especiales” (Nacho’s specials) before being shortened to just “nachos.” Smith writes that the Waffle fry nachos from the Nacho Average Wingz prevalence of nachos began to spread food truck. Courtesy photo.

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This list includes restaurants and breweries on the Seacoast that offer their own takes on nachos, some of which feature a wide variety of add-on options, from meats like beef, chicken and steak, to house sauces, fresh vegetables and more.

• 110 Grill (19 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham, 777-5110; 136 Marketplace Blvd., Rochester, 948-1270; 110grill. com) offers barbecue chicken nachos with pulled chicken, black beans, corn, nacho cheese sauce, barbecue sauce, ranch dressing and banana peppers; and chorizo “totchos” (fried tater tots topped with chorizo sausage, nacho cheese sauce, fresh pico de gallo, avocado, sour cream and scallions).

• 401 Tavern (401 Lafayette Road, Hampton, 926-8800, 401tavern.com) offers nachos with bell pepper-onion confetti, colby jack cheese, sour cream and salsa, with the option to add either grilled chicken, black Angus ground beef or jalapenos.

• Agave Mexican Bistro (111 State St., Portsmouth, 427-5300, agavemexicanbistro.com) offers nachos featuring fresh hand-cut fried tortilla chips, topped with homemade refried beans, melted Chihuahua cheese, jalapenos, pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole. You can add either pulled chicken, tinga chicken, beef or pulled pork.

• Bernie’s Beach Bar (73 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach, 926-5050, berniesnh.com) offers nachos with your choice to add guacamole, grilled chicken, pulled pork or steak.

• Brgr Bar (34 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, 294-0902, brgr-bar.com) offers the “Portwalk Nachos,” which feature jalapenos, tomato and red onion relish, avocado, lettuce, house-made cheese sauce, poblano salsa and sour cream. You can add either braised short rib, ground beef or spicy grilled chicken.

• Casa Tequila (620 Lafayette Road, Seabrook, 760-2157, casatequilaseabrook.com) offers a

variety of nachos on its appetizer menu, including chorizo nachos, garlic and chicken nachos, grilled steak nachos, grilled shrimp nachos and more.

• Chop Shop Pub (920 Lafayette Road, Seabrook, 760-7706, chopshoppub.com) offers nachos with cheese, vegetables and your choice of beef, chicken or chili.

• Cinco de Mayo Bar & Grill (446 Central Ave., Dover, 343-4729, cincodemayonh.com) offers cheese, bean, chicken or beef nachos.

• Dos Amigos Burritos (286 Central Ave., Dover, 834-6494; 15 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, 373-6001; dosamigosburritos.com) has nachos that feature house-made tortilla chips with Monterey Jack cheese, black or refried pinto beans, tomatoes, green peppers, red onions, sour cream and salsa picante. You can get them with grilled chicken or ground beef or vegetarian with corn salsa.

• Dover Brickhouse (2 Orchard St., Dover, 749-3838, doverbrickhouse. com) offers loaded nachos, which feature your choice of seasoned ground beef, pulled pork or shredded chicken, topped with house pico de gallo, cheddar and pepper jack cheeses, salsa and sour cream.

• The Farm Bar & Grille (25 Portland Ave., Dover, 516-3276, farmbargrille.com) offers nachos that feature hand-cut tortilla chips, handshredded Vermont cheddar cheese, slow-smoked pulled pork, and house pico de gallo and barbecue sauce. You can add guacamole, sour cream or jalapenos, and order them in two sizes (personal or family-sized).

• The Galley Hatch (325 Lafayette Road, Hampton, 926-6152, galleyhatch. com) offers nachos with melted cheese, tomatoes, onions, peppers and sour cream and salsa on the side. You can add chicken or beef.

• The Goat Bar & Grill (20 L St., Hampton, 601-6928; 142 Congress St., Portsmouth, 590-4628; goatnh.com)

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offers nachos with colby jack cheese, onions, fresh jalapenos, corn, scallions, black olives, tomatoes, salsa and sour cream. You can add guacamole, chicken, pulled pork, steak or brisket.

• La Carreta Mexican Restaurant (172 Hanover St., Portsmouth, 4278319, lacarettamex.com) offers various nacho dishes, including with chicken, beef, beans or grilled steak.

• La Corona Mexican Restaurant (83 Farmington Road, Rochester, 9481050, lacoronamr.com) offers nachos with strips of flame-broiled steak, melted cheese, onions, tomatoes, guacamole and sour cream.

• Las Olas Taqueria (356 Lafayette Road, Hampton, 967-4880; 30 Portsmouth Ave., Exeter, 418-8901; 1517 Post Road, Wells, Maine, 207216-9711; lasolastaqueria.com) offers nachos that feature homemade corn tortilla chips, cheese, beans, pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole. You can get them with any combination of beans, chicken, ancho beef, chorizo, pork, steak, or vegetarian (your choice of sweet potatoes, portabella mushrooms or fajita peppers and onions). Cheese nachos are also available as a side order.

• Loaded Question Brewing Co. (909 Islington St., No. 12, Portsmouth, loadedquestionbrewing.com) offers cheese nachos, or carnitas nachos with spicy pork, queso and guacamole.

• Lupe’s 55 Cantina (275 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 601-7772, find them on Facebook) offers nachos that feature melted queso, onions, tomatoes and sour cream over house-made corn tortilla chips. Add-on options include carne asada, carnitas, chicken and vegetables. Other signature creations include the “dessert nachos,” which feature cinnamon sugar chips with fresh cut strawberries, chocolate drizzle and whipped cream. Lupe’s 55 Cantina has closed for the season but will reopen in

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• Margaritas Mexican Restaurant (23 Members Way, Dover, 743-6363; 93 Portsmouth Ave., Exeter, 772-2274; 775 Route 1, Portsmouth, 431-5828; margs. com) offers several specialty nacho dishes, including the Nachos El Deluxo, which feature refried beans and mild red and green chiles; the Loaded Skillet nachos, which are double layered with chicken, beef or pork carnitas, a cheese blend, pickled jalapenos, guacamole, salsa fresca and sour cream; and tomato garlic nachos with the option to add bacon or chicken.

• McGuirk’s Ocean View Hotel & Restaurant (95 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 926-7000, mcguirksoceanview.com) offers nachos with cheese, tomatoes, onions, jalapenos and a side of salsa.

• Mojo’s Sports Bar & Barbecue Grill (95 Brewery Lane, Portsmouth, 436-6656, mojosportsmouth.com) offers nachos with hand-cut tortilla chips, layered cheddar jack and mozzarella, red onions, pickled jalapenos, tomatoes, pico de gallo and sour cream. You can add chicken, beans, chili, pork, steak or beef brisket.

• Nacho Average Wingz (5662915, find them on Facebook) is a Merrimack-based food truck that made its debut earlier this year, offering an ever-changing menu of comfort items and creative takes on nachos and chicken wings. They’ve made several trips to the Seacoast since their launch, including most recently to the grand opening of the New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet in Somersworth on Sept.

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No. 9, Hampton, 926-8322, oldsaltnh. com) offers nachos with melted cheese, tomatoes, onions, jalapenos and black olives. You can add chili or chicken. The restaurant also offers lobster cheese.

• Poco’s Bow Street Cantina (37 Bow St., Portsmouth, 431-5967, pocosbowstreetcantina.com) offers the Bow Street nachos with pico de gallo and cheddar cheese; plus Buffalo chicken nachos with blue cheese dressing; barbecue pork nachos with jalapenos, corn and pico de gallo. You can add guacamole or extra cheese to any nacho order.

• Portsmouth Brewery (56 Market St., Portsmouth, 431-1115, portsmouthbrewery.com) offers nachos with cheese, tomatoes, jalapenos, black olives, onions, scallions and sides of sour cream and salsa. You can add chili, pulled pork or chicken.

• Rick’s Food & Spirits (143 Main St., Kingston, 347-5287, rickskingston. com) offers nachos with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, jalapenos, sour cream, salsa and homemade guacamole. You can add jalapeno-chili flavored ground beef or Cajun chicken. Rick’s Food & Spirits also has ahi tuna “nachos” served cold, featuring diced Atlantic tuna sprinkled over fried wontons, drizzled with wasabi-chive sour cream, hoisin sauce and habanero roasted red pepper coulis, and garnished with sesame wakame, diced tomatoes, diced jalapenos and fried pickled ginger.

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Kingston, 369-6962, saddleupsaloonnh. com) offers the Saddle Up Nachos on its appetizer menu, which feature housefried tortilla chips, cheese, black beans and pickled jalapenos. You can add barbecue chicken, chili or pulled pork.

• The Statey Bar & Grill (238 Deer St., Portsmouth, 431-4357, thestateybar. com) offers nachos with veggies and the option to add chicken or beef, as well as “tachos,” which feature tater tots loaded with bacon, scallions, cheese and ranch dressing.

• Surf Restaurant (99 Bow St., Portsmouth, 334-9855, surfseafood. com) offers lobster nachos, topped with cheddar cheese, mango salsa, sliced jalapenos, micro cilantro and lobster in warm brie.

• The Thirsty Moose Taphouse (72 Portsmouth Ave., Exeter, 418-7632; 83 Washington St., Dover, 842-5229; 21 Congress St., Portsmouth, 427-8645; thirstymoosetaphouse.com) offers nachos with tomatoes, red onions, black olives, jalapenos and melted cheese.

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• Wally’s Pub (144 Ashworth Ave., Hampton, 926-6954, wallysnh.com) offers loaded nachos with tomatoes, onions, jalapenos and black olives. You can add chili, chicken or beef.

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Tell us about Beacon Digital Video. What do you do?

There are two lines of business. One is to convert old media to new media. Mostly that means digitizing, or transferring, old analog media such as photos, slides, film and tapes to a digital format like DVDs or digital files.

The other line of business is website services, such as website development, hosting and maintenance. I cater to small and mediumsized businesses. For some website clients, I’m their PC support guy, too.

What has been your greatest joy in running the business?

Aside from being my own boss and making my own schedule — we operate by appointment — by far the greatest joy is seeing the reaction of our clients when I show them a bit of what we’ve done. For example, many times our client has not seen the videos they brought me in 20 to 40 years. They’ll point out people in the video and say things like “that little baby is now an astronaut,” or the president of a big corporation or, in one case, a Patriots cheerleader. They could be so happy to see their parents who have long since passed away, or how young and thin they looked back then. It seems everyone was smoking back then, too.

What has been the most challenging?

Acquiring all the old equipment. We have lots of different kinds of old equipment to help make all the various transfers happen. If you have a reel-to-reel audiotape, an old 16mm film reel, a Polavision cassette, or probably 15 other types of media, we can transfer them because we have the old equipment to play them.

How do people find you or learn more about your services?

Well, I’m a little embarrassed about the Beacon Digital Video website. I built it in 2004 and have not had a chance to update it — you know, cobbler’s shoes. I’ve not had the need to update it either. We have not had to advertise at all since about 2006. We ask every new customer how they found us. It was the website early on that customers used to find us, and then later it’s been word of mouth [and] referrals, repeat customers and the website.

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client will come in saying something like, “I don’t know what this thing is, but I found it and I think it has video on it.” It was a VHS tape. We’ve had some very old film brought in to be transferred — 16mm film from 1928, which was very interesting with the old cars and clothing. It’s also great to see old photos and video from Hampton Beach. I’ve also edited video for a client that sells eye surgery equipment. The client sits with me and we’re getting just the shots he wants to show in a particular eye surgery. He thought it would gross me out, but it was interesting.

What is next for you?

Well, after 15 years I’m retiring from the old media part of the business and Beacon Digital Video is up for sale. I have a broker that’s working to help sell the business. So, if anyone out there is interested, I’d love to turn all this over to someone local. There’s still so much old media out there. I’ll continue with the business until it’s sold — and I am keeping the website business, but it will be under a new company name.

When not working, what do you do for fun?

Golf. I’m not that great at it, but I still really enjoy it. I also enjoy going to the beach. My wife and I are looking forward to traveling more after the sale of the business.

Are you from the area originally?

No, I grew up and lived in and around Chelmsford, Mass. My family and then my wife and I would often vacation up here, so when my wife and I were looking for a second home by the ocean, we came to Hampton in 2000. We liked it so much we moved up Any interesting or fun stories you can permanently in 2003 and started the business in 2004. share about a client?

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The search is over for families looking for a new way to get in the Halloween spirit. This year’s second annual Halloween Fest will be held on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Tuck Field in Hampton.

After a wildly successful first year, the two organizations that host the event — the Hampton PTA and Hampton’s Parks and Recreation Department — decided Round 2 was a must.

“It kind of blew our minds, not knowing what to expect, it being our first year. We were beyond impressed with the turnout and the support and the outcome that we had,” said Hampton PTA coordinator Jessica Svirsky.

Using last year’s fest as reference, the PTA has got the fun and games portion of the event down to a science. Svirsky said they’ve whittled down the number of activities to around 20, taking into account what was popular last year. The lineup includes face painting, pumpkin painting, spooky — and silly — storytelling, a photo booth, a haunted house and prizes. Guests who complete all 20 games and activities will take home a bag of trinkets filled with donated goodies from various sponsors and local businesses. “[Local businesses] do an amazing job in sponsoring this event,” Svirsky said. “We do this event with 100 percent sponsorships.

We [Hampton PTA and Hampton Parks and Recreation] just do the work of actually putting it on.”

Attendees can also enter the costume contest, which will be judged by this year’s Miss Seabrook and Little Miss Seabrook, or partake in an instructional lesson on how to do the “Thriller” dance, taught by local eighth-graders.

If last year’s numbers are any indication,

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partygoers can expect a full turnout. In 2018, the bash pulled a crowd of nearly 2,000, Svirsky said. She credits its popularity to the fact that the event is both free and family-friendly, and a great way to get the community together in a way that she says might not be so common anymore.

“Back in the day we used to have these types of events where your community came together and you were outside and the kids were running around and it’s just a simple fun,” she said. “[Now] it’s amazing to see how much they come and support us. … I like the excitement. Everybody’s having a great time. Like last year, I don’t think we got one complaint. That’s awesome.”

The party is open to all ages. Admission is free.

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Get into gear

Steampunk group hosts its first steampunk festival Don your corsets and top hats and head to the first annual Machen Bachen Steampunk Festival, hosted by New Hampshire-based steampunk group Citizens of Antiford, on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the YMCA’s Camp Lincoln in Kingston.

There will be all kinds of steampunk fun, including games, vendors, a costume showcase, food, presentations and more.

Justin Thibault, one of the group’s leaders, defines steampunk as “anachronistic, retro, futuristic science fiction that utilizes the time period of the industrial revolution.”

Citizens of Antiford has held an annual steampunk cookout for its members for the past six years and decided to “ramp things up” this year, Thibault said, by holding a full-blown steampunk festival and promoting it to the public.

“It’s something we’ve always wanted to do and to bring to the community,” he said. “There are currently a couple of events in Massachusetts, one in Maine and one in Vermont, and there used to be one in New Hampshire a number of years ago, so we thought it would be a good idea to bring something back to New Hampshire, since there has been a desire from the New Hampshire steampunk community to have something more local.”

One of the highlights of the festival will be the costume showcase, where people can “show off their costumes and strut their stuff,” Thibault said.

“They run from a simple vest and top hat to the full gowns with corsets and gears, mechanical lenses and hot air balloon backpacks,” he said. “What’s nice is, whether you go in a simple outfit or do something crazy and creative, everyone is welcome and appreciated.”

Another event that is sure to be popular, Thibault said, is the teapot race. In the sport of teapot racing, participants mount a teapot or teapot-related accessories onto a small, remote-controlled car and race them. There will be two main contests: the drag race, which is a standard race, and an obstacle course race, where the participant who completes the obstacle course in the fastest time wins. Anyone can participate and no signup is required; just come to the festival with your teapot race car built and ready to go.

Teapot racing is a perfect example of what steampunk is all about, Thibault said, because it combines a vintage object with modern technology and mechanics.

“It’s fun putting those two things together and getting creative with it,” he

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said. “People come up with some really elaborate and crazy stuff.”

The festival will feature a variety of performers who will dance, sing, do magic, act, tell stories and more.

Attendees can participate in lawn games such as cornhole, ladderball and a game known as “koob.”

“It’s an interesting game,” Thibault said. “Basically, it’s like viking chess.

Instead of moving the pieces like you would in chess, you throw sticks at them.”

A small craft fair with around four or five vendors will be set up with handmade upcycled jewelry, feltwork, art illustrations, sculptures and more for sale. You can also grab lunch from the Prime Time Grilled Cheese food truck.

Additionally, there will be two presentations: an informational panel about Citizens of Antiford and a demonstration by one of the performance groups, Karnevil.

Citizens of Antiford was started in 2010 by a small group of friends and steampunk enthusiasts in New Hampshire. Now, it’s a community of more than 100 steampunk fans from around New England who write collaborative fiction about the imaginary steampunk universe that they created called Antiford.

“For anyone who is interested [in Citizens of Antiford], [the festival] will be a great way to learn about us — who we are, what we do, how to join and participate — and see if [joining] is something they might like to do,” Thibault said.

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CAR TALK

I don’t want to take my parents’ Crown Vic to college

By Ray Magliozzi

Dear Car Talk: I’m just starting college, and my parents have agreed to buy me a used car.

They were going to give me their car, but I don’t want it. It’s a Crown Victoria. Get

serious.

I want something big enough to carry four people, capable of hauling my mountain bike and fun to drive.

What do you recommend? —Alden

A Crown Vic, Alden. You’ve heard the expression “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”? Well, my advice would be don’t look a gift Crown Vic in the engine compartment.

You may not realize this, but the Crown Vic is so uncool that it’s cool.

I’ll lay out the advantages.

First of all, it’s going to be reliable.

Your parents were the original owners and not only drove it gently, but probably took good care of it, too. That’s going to save you a ton of money. Money that could be better spent on textbooks and Donkey Kong.

Plus, there will probably be a guilt factor involved if anything does go wrong. If the engine compression plummets — before your GPA does — they may say, “Oh, gee, Alden, we gave you a car with bad compression. We’ll take care of that for you, son.”

Second, a Crown Vic is large, and all things being equal, larger is safer. Since you’re presumably going to be driving long distances to school and back, I’d certainly rather see you in something with some bulk around it than something smaller and “fun.”

Third, it’s versatile. I bet your mountain bike will slide right into the back seat.

It’ll carry you and four classmates to the library on Saturday night (right!), and the trunk will swallow an entire dorm’s worth of empty kegs.

Finally, your friends are going to admire it. It’s not the average Corolla or Subaru that most students bring to college. It’s a cruiser. It’s comfortable.

Your friends are going to want to go out in your Crown Vic instead of stuffing themselves into their Honda Civic.

And if all that doesn’t make it cool, you can mount an auxiliary spotlight to the driver’s door and watch the traffic

move out of the way for you when you But your oil leak was caused by those cruise home ... if you don’t get arrested 104,000 miles you put on the car. And it for impersonating an officer. could be a big job to fix.

If you need to do both cylinder heads, Dear Car Talk: you could be looking at well over I recently learned that my mechanic $1,000. Even if it’s just the manifold has been filling my 2008 Chevy Impala gasket, it could cost several hundred with 5 quarts of oil, instead of the bucks, which is still not cheap. recommended 4.

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AT LUIGI’S WEST END PIZZERIA Authentic New York-style pizzas and Italian sandwiches are now available at a new eatery that just opened over the summer on Portsmouth’s West Side. At Luigi’s West End Pizzeria (801 Islington St., Portsmouth, 431-7500, luigisportsmouth.com), you can choose from 10 specialty pies, from sausage, anchovies and cherry peppers, to prosciutto, arugula, garlic, mozzarella and ricotta, or you can create your own. The appetizer menu features some unique offerings like Buffalo cucumbers with hot sauce and blue cheese, while salads like Caesar and arugula panzanella are also available. Other options include sandwiches on sesame rolls, like chicken, meatball or eggplant Parm with marinara, grana padano and mozzarella; chicken caprese with tomato, mozzarella, basil and herb aioli; and charred antipasto with broccoli rabe, artichokes, roasted peppers, olives and pesto. According to Luigi’s general manager George Swanson, the eatery was born out of the co-owners’ passion for cooking New York-style pizza while also making all their doughs and sauces in house. The Scene recently spoke with Swanson about some of his recommendations for must-try pizzas when you visit.

How long has Luigi’s West End Pizzeria been around?

We officially opened the second week of July. When [owners] Jay McSharry and Matt Louis bought Street’za, they knew they wanted to keep it as a pizzeria but with an all new menu and new ingredients. They actually went down to New York City, Providence, [Rhode Island], and New Haven, Connecticut, visiting other pizzerias and doing almost like quality control.

They learned from some of the best pizza chefs in those areas.

What makes Luigi’s West End Pizzeria unique?

We really wanted to be a familyfriendly Italian restaurant and to offer the kind of pizza that would remind people of what they may have grown up with. We definitely saw a need, specifically in the West End, for some really good New York-style pizza.

What is your personal favorite dish?

My favorite pizza is probably the salami. It has a regular cheese sauce base, with green bell peppers, a hot honey sauce and the end slabs of salami on it. It’s a cheese pizza with minimal

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toppings that work so well together.

For a non-pizza item, I do think our meatball and chicken Parm subs can get overlooked. It’s a meal that you can enjoy for lunch and be satisfied, [but] it’s not as heavy as what you might expect a chicken Parm to be.

What is an essential skill to running a restaurant?

I think the biggest thing I have learned from being in the restaurant industry … is keeping an open line of communication. You should always be open to listen and to hear new suggestions from people.

What is a dish that everyone What is your favorite part about should try?

Anything with our meatballs, whether being on the Seacoast?

It’s a cross between the community it’s spaghetti and meatballs or meatballs in a sub. They are pork meatballs that that is here and also the food scene, we make in house, and we stuff them both of which are great.

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TRY THIS AT HOME Apple Cheddar Pinwheels Hello, October! Before we get into all things pumpkin (because how can it be October if we don’t do some cooking with pumpkins?), it’s time for another apple recipe.

Apples may make you think of sweet stuff: pies, crisps, etc. But apples also work wonderfully in many a savory dish. I’ve used them for bruschetta, in broccoli slaw, as stuffing for winter squash and more. This week they’ve become part of a tasty little appetizer.

Personally, I’m a huge fan of appetizers, but I suppose that seems like a silly statement. Most people like them, right? However, I enjoy them so much that I often prefer an appetizer over an entrée at a restaurant. Many a night out, I debate which appetizer will become my main course.

Of course, appetizers also top my list as the preferred way to eat on a Sunday at home. I love a Sunday that’s light on plans, spent in my kitchen making homemade snacks. I get time to be creative with food, and I also get an assortment of snacks. To me that’s a pretty decent use of time on a Sunday afternoon.

This recipe was part of an appetizer menu at home a few weeks ago. They were devoured fairly quickly by my husband and me. Yes, they were delicious, but they’re also incredibly simple to make, which isn’t a bad thing.

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work hours in advance and then bake the pinwheels shortly before you’re ready to serve them.

These pinwheels are enjoyable in their own right, but if you want to add even more flavor, consider one of the optional toppings below.

What’s not to like about a snack that’s simple, delicious, and tastes like fall?

Apple Cheddar Pinwheels Makes 24 1 tablespoon butter 2 cups diced apples, unpeeled 1 teaspoon dried sage Salt & pepper, optional 1 cup grated sharp cheddar 1 sheet puff pastry, defrosted In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat.

Add diced apple, and sauté for 4 minutes.

Remove from heat, and stir in the sage; season with salt and/or pepper, if desired.

Unroll the puff pastry, and place on a floured surface.

Roll the dough into a 10x12 rectangle.

Sprinkle cooked apples on dough,

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leaving 1” margins on the long sides.

Top with grated cheddar.

With long side of the dough facing you, roll the dough around the apple mixture, forming a pinwheel.

Place in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 400 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Cut the roll into 1/2 inch slices, and arrange pieces on the lined baking sheet, at least 1 inch apart.

Bake for 25 minutes or until golden.

Optional toppings: 1. Combine equal parts yellow mustard & apple butter, and serve as a dip.

2. Drizzle a small amount of honey on each slice.

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In searching for alternatives to serve with that special grilled chicken dinner or that steak grilled to perfection, I stop to take in the offerings at the Price Busters racks at the New Hampshire Wine & Liquor Outlet.

Study the bottles. Take a leap of faith on something new and different. After all, there are plenty of chardonnays and even plenty of sauvignon blancs on the shelves, but amongst them is a gem — a white blend that is Bordeaux in its style and offering a distinctive taste. There are plenty of cabernet sauvignons, but few wholly organic cabernet sauvignons from Spain.

DeLille Cellars Chaleur Blanc, 2015, (regularly priced at $34.99, and reduced to $17.99) is a white blend of 73 percent sauvignon blanc and 27 percent semillon.

DeLille Cellars, founded in 1992 by brothers Charles and Greg Lill, Jay Soloff, and celebrated winemaker Chris Upchurch, is a boutique artisan winery located in Woodinville, Washington, about 30 minutes northeast of Seattle. DeLille sources its grapes from several vineyards, located in the Yakima and Columbia River valleys, 120 to 180 miles southeast of Seattle. These locations produce some of the finest grapes for the production of wines. Some of the vineyards planted here pre-date many in Napa by decades.

In 1995 the team at DeLille chose to make a barrel-fermented blend of sauvignon blanc and semillon for their first white wine: DeLille’s Chaleur Estate Blanc. This wine has more complexity, diverse aromas and classic structure than many white varietal wines. The grapes are hand harvested and sorted, whole cluster pressed, with the juice fermented mostly in French oak for seven months on lees (spent yeast) prior to bottling. The color is strawwhite; its nose opens with air and begins to yield a scent of preserved lemons and lemon drops. The taste is buttery and citric, of lemon rind, along with a bit of ginger on the back of the tongue. The finish is long.

This wine pairs well with grilled poultry, fish dressed with brown butter, or shellfish with drawn butter, and rich, medium aged cow’s and sheep’s milk cheeses. This is a distinctive wine and a welcome change from the otherwise “typical whites.”

Los Frailes G-11 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2014, (regularly priced at $29.99, and reduced to $14.99) hails from Valencia Province, Spain. Casa Los Frailes takes its name from “Cals Frares” in the Valencian language, referring to the Jesuits who originally owned the estate. The Velázquez family acquired the estate in the 18th century, and it has been under their stewardship for 13 generations. The land

has been cultivated since Roman times.

Amphora have been unearthed and are still being used, along with equally early-dated concrete tanks in the production of the wines, in lieu of wooden barrels to obtain a bouquet that is as pure as possible.

Spanish wines are underrated, and this wine is no exception. It comes from a family-owned estate of over 400 acres of vineyards with 40+-year-old vines, almond and olive trees, and some forest. It sits between two mountain ranges at about 2,000 feet above sea level, just 20 miles from the Mediterranean seacoast. The climate is very dry and the soils are very chalky, forcing the vineyard roots to go deep in search of water and nutrients. The estate fosters biodiversity. In addition to the fruit-bearing trees, the estate keeps sheep, chickens and bees. Casa Los Frailes was certified organic in 2000, being one of the first ones in Spain.

The wine is explosive! The color is a deep, thick purple, with huge aromas of preserves or compote. A massive palate follows of black cherries, cassis and dark chocolate. The finish is long, with fine tannins, or a bit of leather from the 12 to 18 months of aging in French barrels. This wine will stand up to any Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon.

Fred Matuszewski is a local architect and a foodie and wine geek, interested in the cultivation of the multiple strains and varieties of grapes and the industry of wine production and sales. Chief among his travels is an annual trip to the wine producing areas of California.

FOOD

Autumn day in Dover

Apple Harvest Day returns for its 35th year

By Lydia Williams Photography.

Spend a day in Dover at the 35th Annual Apple Harvest Day, happening Saturday, Oct. 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This day-long event has crafts, music, games and, of course, delicious food.

“It was started as a small festival 35 years ago, designed to bring folks downtown to celebrate fall and celebrate one of New Hampshire’s most well-known crops, the apple,” said Margaret Joyce, president of the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce.

Today the festival welcomes more than 60,000 visitors and takes over almost the entire downtown.

This year’s Apple Harvest Day will kick off with the 11th Annual 5K Road Race. The new course goes through downtown Dover and is suitable for beginner and advanced runners.

“If you’re into running, we invite you to run or watch the race,” Joyce said.

The festival has partnered with North Country Cider in Rollinsford this year to provide runners with hard cider or non-alcoholic cider after the race to celebrate.

“They’re a local company with great products, and they’re super excited. It’s a new thing and an opportunity for camaraderie,” said Joyce.

Visit dovernh.org/5k for more information and to register for the race.

After the race, the main part of the festival begins as 300 local vendors and crafters open up shop.

Local bands will be performing throughout the day at various locations around the festival, and there will be theater, dance and artistic performances as well.

Two food courts will also be available for guests offering carnival foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, Italian sausages, french fries and ice cream. Certain specialty vendors will also be on site offering festival favorites such as candy apples, apple crisp and fried dough.

A family entertainment area at Henry Law Park is a big draw, Joyce said.

“There’s a train, pony rides, games, bounce houses. … It’s a real family-friendly thing for kids to enjoy,” she said.

Tickets must be purchased for rides and are priced per ride or you can get all-day passes

(prices range from $7 to $12).

For free kid fun, Wildlife Encounters returns this year with wild animals, pets and farm animals. Dover’s mounted patrol will be walking around too and giving people a chance to pose for pictures with the horses. And outside the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire there will be free crafts and activities for kids.

With so much packed into one day and one space, the Chamber works hard to make sure the day goes well. There are four full-time staff members at the Chamber and approximately 100 volunteers helping to plan the festival and orchestrate it.

“We can’t put an event on this big by ourselves. We have to work with parking to accommodate the vendors and visitors, and we work with police because we’re closing down a main street and want attendees and businesses to be safe. We also coordinate with the city to make sure vendors have licenses and permits,” said Joyce.

Another partnership involves the businesses downtown.

“We’re closing down access to their businesses for the day, so we give them spaces at the festival on the sidewalk if they are affected so it becomes a positive [day] for them,” said Joyce.

Joyce said that while it’s a lot of work, having this many people here for the festival makes a huge economic impact.

“There are very few events like this that happen in such a concentrated area. We’re bringing people downtown to experience businesses, [who will] want to come back to visit restaurants and shops. We also have a lot of out-of-state people come to the event, and the local vendors benefit and develop relationships.

Services like local chiropractors and banks, besides food or crafts, are raising awareness and bringing on new business,” she said. “The economic benefit is wide and long-term.”

There are two satellite locations for parking, one at Liberty Mutual on 100 Liberty Way and the other at CVS on 118 Central Ave. Shuttle buses are complimentary and run all day.

“It’s rain or shine, so even if it’s raining, we have tents and shuttle buses,” said Joyce.

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From now until the end of October, Applecrest Farm in Hampton is celebrating all things fall with festivals each weekend that feature apple and pumpkin picking, hayrides, barnyard animals, a beer garden and more.

The festival, now in its 45th year, is meant to be more than just a few fun weekends to draw crowds to the orchards. For the farm’s owners, the Wagners, it’s a chance to let families reconnect with the land, the community and each other.

“It’s where people’s memories are made,” said farmer Todd Wagner, whose grandfather, William Wagner, purchased the farm in 1954.

“These days, there aren’t too many farms left as places become more crowded and built up and industrialized, commercialized. It’s hard to find something that’s sort of a blast from the past, something that brings you back and lets you connect with the place that your food is grown.”

Other events at each weekend festival include live music, pie-eating contests, food trucks, face painting, a farm-style barbecue, cornhole, a traditional New England corn roast and more.

Wagner said apple picking is one of the festival’s most popular activities. He said parents and grandparents often have fond memories of going to the orchard as children and are always excited to share the tradition with their own kids.

“Apple picking is a very unique New England tradition,” he said. “It’s a tradition that families live and die by. I can’t tell you the number of times [I hear], ‘I brought my kids here and now I bring my grandkids here.’

We have to have a multigenerational thing. As long as we’ve been throwing these festivals, the local community has been coming out and joining us. It’s a pretty unique, undeniably kind of awesome New England tradition.”

In addition to typical festival activities, Applecrest has several other fall-themed events planned. On Saturday, Oct. 5, and Sunday,

Oct. 13, farm-goers can watch as a master carver transforms an 800-pound pumpkin into a surprise Halloween-themed shape.

For those looking for something more interactive, Storybook Hayrides will take place the weekends of Oct. 19 and Oct. 20 and Oct. 26 and Oct. 27, with classic storybook characters coming to life in the orchards as they perform lively vignettes from eight beloved children’s stories. Kids will have the opportunity to partake in the fun as they warn Little Red of an approaching wolf and help Dorothy along the yellow brick road. The performances are popular with the younger crowds, Wagner says, and also raise funds for Sanborn Regional High School’s drama club.

“It’s a really special thing we do,” Wagner said. “It’s a really neat thing that all the youngsters seem to really connect with.”

Finally, on Sunday, Oct. 27, Applecrest will close out the festivities by hosting NorEast Cycling for their 11th Annual Orchard Cross bike race. It will be accompanied by a mini version for the kids, as well as an all-ages costume rally.

“It’s a really neat way to get out there and really see what the farm is all about. It’s just … fun with a very family-friendly atmosphere,” Wagner said.

For him, it’s all about making sure families have a good time and create some memories together. “[People will] come up to me and be like, ‘Hey, thanks. That was a really great day to pick. The staff was super friendly. what a great day on the farm,’ and that right there, you know, that’s pretty rewarding,” he said.

For a full list of events and activities, or for up-to-date event details, weather and picking conditions, call 926-3721 or visit applecrest. com. Applecrest’s weekend festivals continue every Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. until the end of October. Parking and admission are free.

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They are geographically diverse, but Utah and New Hampshire have a few things in common: great skiing and high melanoma rates.

Both are also noticeably white, about 90 percent, even though the minority population is slowly increasing. The city of Manchester, for example, reports that more than 70 languages are spoken in the homes of schoolchildren.

This is reason enough to pick up a copy of A Particular Kind of Black Man, a remarkable debut novel by NigeranAmerican Tope Folarin. Drawn from his experiences growing up as an immigrant in mostly white, mostly Mormon Utah, the book is an education for people who dwell in the oblivious safety of majority, camaraderie for those who don’t have that privilege.

The novel opens with a memory of the narrator, Tunde (pronounced Tune-Day), who, at 5 years old, was befriended by an elderly woman who told him kindly, “If you are a good boy here on earth, you can serve me in heaven.”

To the child, that sounded wonderful. “I imagined myself carrying buckets of water for her on streets of gold, rubbing her feet as angels sang praises in the background.

I imagine that I’d have my own heavenly shack. I’d have time to do my own personal heavenly things as well.”

It wasn’t until Tunde told his father about his post-earth plans that he realized there was something horribly wrong with the idea.

This was the first in a long line of indignities hurled at the child and his immigrant family by well-meaning people who had little exposure to people who weren’t like them. Another is a child on the playground trying to rub the brown off Tunde’s skin, and then bursting into tears when he realized he couldn’t.

However, these atrocities, many of which were derived from experiences the author had in childhood, are not the point of the novel; identity is. Which is why A Particular Kind of Black Man is a novel for anyone, regardless of skin color.

The white people around Tunde see him only as black, or more specifically, African-American. But his parents are from Nigeria, and they see him as Nigerian.

Tunde, himself, however, doesn’t identify as anything, growing up as he does without the benefit of a stable family or community.

His troubled mother soon returns to Nigeria, and his father remarries and moves the family frequently in order to scratch out a hardscrabble living. The father is determined to achieve the American dream and believes that to do so, he and his sons must exorcise any trace of foreignness and learn to speak in a perfect American dialect.

But despite the father’s enthusiasm for this adopted country, he is frequently mocked or ignored.

As Tunde later reflects, his father survived by “staring ahead always, kicking the pain and heartache away.”

“This was how he was able to survive the torment of living in a place that never fully comprehended his presence, that sometimes treated him as if he were someone who would never really matter.”

Midway through the book, the narration changes from first to third person, as Tunde tries to come to grips with his identity by deciding to write about his life as a detached observer. He eventually falls in love, and changes yet again, as does the writing, in surprising, beautiful ways.

Though the hardships endured by the family are difficult to read, and Tunde experiences significant loss, the novel is ultimately uplifting, and its language is gorgeous, the story, taut, elegant and compelling. The reader cares about Tunde from the first haunting page, and the book is as hard to put down as a thriller.

Ultimately, Tunde’s struggle is not about the cretins who surround him, but about what to do when he realizes that “the person I see in the mirror is the person I’m supposed to be, and not the person I actually am.”

It’s also to figure out where the elusive place called “home” is. For Tunde, as for most people, “home” has meant many things over the course of his life, but like a river, it’s constantly changing. “Home, in my mind, was a jumble of the places I’d lived. … The place I missed did not even exist,” Tunde thinks.

A Particular Kind of Black Man is one of the best books of 2019. It punches both the heart and the brain through the eyes of people who may be nothing like you but actually are exactly like you. As such, it’s exactly the book that America needs at this particular moment in time.

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Renée Zellweger goes for that lead actress Oscar with Judy, a Judy Garland biopic that might very well get her there.

Is it the best lead actress performance of the year? I wouldn’t give an immediate “yes” (Julianne Moore in Gloria Bell springs to mind) but I wouldn’t say “no” either. And it definitely seems like one of the Oscar-iest lead actress performances I’ve seen so far in 2019.

Zellweger’s Judy is the entertainer at the end of her career; we catch up with her in the late 1960s when she’s performing concerts, sometimes bringing her young children (Bella Ramsey as Lorna Luft and Lewin Lloyd as Joey Luft) on stage. Off-stage, she seems exhausted — a description which also applies to her financial state. When the hotel where she was staying informs her that her items have been sent to storage and her account is in arrears, she extremely reluctantly takes her children to their father Sidney Luft’s (Rufus Sewall) house. Without a lot of great options — she can’t get hired for films, we’re told, because of her erratic behavior — she agrees to travel to London to do a run of shows that may at least earn her the funds to buy a small house and regain more regular custody of her children.

London is happy to have her, as evidenced by the sold-out shows. But even keeping it together for this engagement is difficult for Garland. She has trouble sleeping and has a life-long history of drug use (uppers to keep her going, sleeping pills that seem not to work so well anymore) and alcohol abuse as well as a kind of crushing loneliness, which perhaps explains why she is so quick to fall for Mickey Deans (Finn Wittrock). A man she first meets at daughter Liza’s (Gemma-Leah Devereux) house, Mickey is younger than Garland and is some kind of bar-owner club prompter type whose vague big dreams would seem like a big red flag for somebody with more confidence. Garland, however, just seems delighted with the attention and is charmed when he shows up to London.

How an obvious massive talent got so tangled up in her own insecurity is explained in flashbacks where Wizard of Oz/MGM-era Judy (Darci Shaw) is manipulated by the studio sys-

tem, personified by Louis B. Mayer (Richard Cordery). Mayer and the studio tell young Judy that she’s fat and not all that pretty. A minder keeps her fake dates with Mickey Rooney not only chaste but food-free — Judy’s big act of youthful rebellion is taking a bite of hamburger (and later, at a fake birthday party, she takes an equally rebellious dip in the fake pool; wet hair means a delay in the studio’s shooting schedule). When she gets tired or hungry, young Judy is given a pill. When she wants to halt the grind, Mayer creepily reminds her that she’s replaceable.

These scenes for me are interesting but don’t entirely gel; they underline things that we can infer from adult Judy’s stories and behavior. I almost felt like the scenes were a sign of the movie’s own lack of faith in the strength of Zellweger’s performance or the late-Judy scenes to tell the story of who she is. It was during these flashbacks and the transitions between flashbacks and late-era Judy that I felt the movie was at its messiest.

The scenes of Zellweger’s Judy are truly the movie’s best. While elements of her performance do have that “for your Oscar consideration” feel to them (some of the portrayals of Garland’s performance mannerisms worked as organic behaviors of the character and some felt like Zellweger doing a Garland impression), the adult Judy scenes really do give you a strong sense of who this woman is. (At least, who this movie’s Judy character is; I don’t know enough about the real person to say that this is a historically accurate rendering of people and events.)

Judy’s motivations and ambitions are fascinatingly portrayed. She clearly, genuinely wants to be with her children and to find a way to provide for them — not just financially but to obtain the kind of stability that she knows they need. She desperately wants to be with them but isn’t so selfish that she can’t see and understand their needs. It’s a nice bit of nuance, as is Judy’s desires for and ambivalence about her own career. We see her come alive in front of an audience; she can pull herself together in front of a crowd better than at any other moment.

But what exactly she wants her career to look like (other than “profitable”) isn’t something that even she seems all that sure about. These

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Judy is an hour and 58 minutes long.

Abominable (PG)

A girl and her buddies help a wayward Yeti get home to Everest in Abominable, a sweet and inoffensive animated movie for, er, 8- to 11-year-olds?

It’s not quite silly enough to appeal to younger kids and there are elements of scariness (plus you have that animated movie classic, the dead parent). It’s not quite transcendent enough, either in animation or story, to appeal to a more general audience of movie-goers. It has basically good lessons and it doesn’t smack you in the face with jokiness; I feel like when your kid, in six or so months, tells you that they saw this during after-school care, you can feel A-OK about it and also won’t feel like you missed an opportunity to share some magical film experience.

Perhaps the neatest element of the film (not “oh, wow, see it now!” but, you know, “hey, neat!”) is the geography. The story takes place in China (starting in the city of Shanghai, according to Wikipedia) and the characters travel across China to get to the Himalayas. We see artistic renderings of a wide swath of Chi-

na and its various landscapes without a lot of over-explanation; the movie takes a very “this is happening in the world and you’ll figure it out” approach to its locales, which is nice. It also allows for some very pretty renderings of different locations, which help keep you engaged if, like, Yeti burps aren’t your jam.

Yi (voice of Chloe Bennet) is a teenage girl who lives with her mother (voice of Michelle Wong) and grandmother (voice of Tsai Chin) and is mourning the recent-ish loss of her father. I get the sense that she’s a little younger than also-teenage Jin (voice Tenzing Norgay Trainor), a multiple-girlfriend-having, fashionconscious med-school-bound cool guy who is too busy to hang out with his goofy younger cousin Peng (Albert Tsai), who reads as middleschool-ish to me.

Yi spends her days doing a series of odd jobs to earn money to take the cross-country trip that had been the dream of her late father. She is also probably avoiding her mother and grandmother because she’s still not sure how to deal with the hole in her family. Thus, even when she is home, she spends her time in a sheets-and-pillows fortress of solitude she’s made for herself on the building’s roof.

It’s here that she meets the creature eventually called Everest. Early in the movie, we watch furry white Everest escape from a lab/holding pen/personal zoo of Mr. Burnish (voice of Eddie Izzard), a rich, cranky explorer type. The Yeti was being looked after by Dr. Zara (voice of Sarah Paulson), a zoologist or something. Burnish, Zara and his personal security army are eager to recapture Everest but Yi quickly understands that this sweet-natured Yeti just wants to go home. She decides to help him escape Burnish’s clutches and helps him stow away on a boat headed Everest-ward. Because you need wacky sidekicks in this sort of endeavor, Jin and Peng also wind up coming along.

The basic bones of this story — Yi and pals helping Everest get home — aren’t bad.

Overall, Abominable is pleasant if not revolutionary and, more adventure tale than cartoony wackiness, is a solid watch for older elementary schoolers and not painful for their parents. B Rated PG for some action and mild rude humor, Abominable is an hour and 37 minutes.

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The Seacoast’s alternative music scene burst wide open in the 1990s, and few places captured the moment like The Elvis Room.

Founded as a coffee shop, it became a magnet for the youth of Portsmouth. It was the only allages venue offering top national talent, from Elliott Smith to The Donnas and Mary Lou Lord, along with an ever-growing crop of local acts, including Fly Spinach Fly, The Queers, Heavens to Murgatroid and Say Zuzu.

It closed in mid-1999, forever a shrine in the hearts of those who experienced The Elvis Room’s brief existence. As the 20th anniversary approached, one of those past patrons reached out to co-owner Dawn-Marie Pierre with an idea of remembering the good times. That man, Curt Schulz, said that the Congress Street spot was the place that made him a music fan.

Sp Pierre reached out to Barbara Steinbach, who’d opened The Elvis Room with her in 1993, and the three began to plan a month-long retrospective that would include reunion shows and an exhibit of memorabilia.

“Then the unthinkable happened,” Steinbach said.

Dawn-Marie Pierre died in April, following a stroke; she was 59. The celebration of The Elvis Room is now also a memorial to its co-creator.

On Friday, Oct. 4, Bob Halperin — the first musician to play there — will kick off a show starring Thanks to Gravity, with Dan Blakeslee.

The following night, The Queers perform — according to an ad, it’s “their first proper gig since the Elvis Room closed” — along with fellow punk rockers (and Elvis Room veterans) The Cretins and Laramie Dean.

Events continue all month long, at multiple Seacoast venues, with a stellar lineup throughout. Persuading acts who hadn’t performed in over two decades to reunite seemed an almost impossible task, but not to Pierre.

“Dawn-Marie,” Steinbach said, “had a way of getting people to agree to stuff that no one else could.”

The excitement is palpable; an Oct. 24 double bill with Fly Spinach Fly and Heavens to Murgatroid sold out instantly, as did an added second show.

“I don’t know what I thought it was going to be, but it’s been amazing so far and obviously will continue to be that way,” Steinbach said of the response. “There are people flying across the country to see bands.”

There’s also a Beat Night spoken word event planned on Sunday, Oct. 6, at Portsmouth Book & Bar. It’s a nod to the Elvis Room’s beginnings, when patrons would write in what became a growing stack of journals, and soon readings began happening.

“It was a big deal when a new journal got put out,” Steinbach said. “I would make the covers

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for them and it … [was] like a coronation or something. We ended up with 30 of them, most of which were preserved and will be on display.”

As a performance venue, it grew from there; music in a corner that, Steinbach said, “couldn’t hold more than a guy and a guitar,” to acquiring adjacent space, doubling in size and building a legend.

“What started with someone reading poetry or telling jokes turned into someone singing and then that turned into a band and then there you go,” he said. “We wanted to pay homage to the journals and to how that whole thing started.”

A corner nook of the coffee shop will be recreated in 3S Artspace, complete with notebooks and part of an exhibit that includes work by photographer Tim Donovan thought lost until Pierre found negatives tucked away in her Florida home in 2017. A collection of posters will also be on display.

Steinbach remembered Donovan’s photos fondly.

“There used to be this rim right up by the ceiling around the entire main space,” she said.

“It got to be a thing where we would make sure he came in for every new performer, famous or not, and they got added to the Wall of Fame.”

All funds raised from the effort will go to a fund for Pierre’s teenage daughter.

Her friend’s death “still doesn’t really feel real,” Steinbach said. “Dawn-Marie always to me seemed sort of above the whole life/death thing, like she wasn’t even in that realm. …

She just seemed timeless.”

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LO-FI vs. HI-FI Across 1. Concert air might look like this 5. 70s rocker hairdo 9. The 88 ‘Not Only...But __’ 13. What guitarist does w/axe before playing 15. Show attendee 16. Black Kids ‘I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance __ You’

17. The “U” in UHF 18. Country rock’s Parsons 19. ‘Crazy For This Girl’ __ & Jaron 20. George Harrison will turn this on when he needs tunes in hell (6,5) 23. Classic 70s band that used woodwinds (abbr) 24. ‘Small Craft On A Milk Sea’ Brian Eno w/Jon Hopkins & __ Abrahams

25. ‘Revolving’ singer that will light you up?

27. ‘The Way You Love Me’ singer White 30. Williams of Toto 32. ‘Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night’ Kenny 33. ‘Sevas Tra’ metal band 35. Derek And The Dominos hit w/piano outro 38. Mumford & Sons ‘Hold __ __ What You Believe’ (2,2) 39. What comeback career had done, from dead 41. The 1 1/2 words to convince buddies to go to a show 42. CA ‘Freaking Out’ nu-metal band 44. Danish rockers that perform on buggy terrain?

45. Player for old 45s (hyph) 46. Managers act like these guys in charge 48. Cornershop ‘__ __ Was Born For The

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7Th Time’ (4,1) 50. Canadian award for Original Score 51. A down-low Metric wll do things ‘On The __’ 52. Eric Carmen ‘__ By Myself’ 53. Sly & Family Stone song for a kin reunion, perhaps (6,5) 60. Bozzio of Missing Persons 62. Post-rehab drink 63. Alt Godfathers Yo La __ 64. “I don’t want to play, I just want to bang on the __ all day” 65. Rapper Flo Rida rounds up his ‘Wild __’ for a night out 66. Pop-punkers Name __ 67. Tour 18-wheeler 68. ‘The First Days Of Spring’ __ & The Whale’ 69. Size up an album for the paper Down 1. Johnny Cash rode a ‘Tennessee __’ 2. Allman Bros spinoff Gov’t __ 3. LFO “I fell for the girl that’s __ __” (2,2) 4. Jazz pianist Allen 5. The Enemy song about aggression?

6. Boy Meets Girl ‘Waiting __ __ Star To Fall’ (3,1) 7. “I __ the news today, oh boy” 8. New Found Glory wrote about having a ‘Hit __ __ ‘ (2,4) 9. Blow away 10. ‘74 Paul Simon live album (4,6) 11. What an overly obsessed fan will do 12. Marina & The Diamonds song about a bad feeling? (2,2)

14. Woody Guthrie ‘__ Don’t You Grieve’ 21. How stars get addressed in Spain 22. Five octave old school crooner Jackie 26. The Shadows did an instrumental named after this Native American tribe 27. Grand Funk Railroad ‘Some __ Of Wonderful’ 28. ‘Need You Now’ Lady __ 29. ‘03 Strokes album ‘__ __ Fire’ (4,2) 30. ‘Doubt’ 90s band __ Jones 31. Eve 6 ‘__ Road Song’ 32. Possibly named genre with ‘Hardcore 81’ 34. It turns w/breakthrough hit 36. Like 8-track cassette quality (hyph) 37. ‘Puddle Dive’ DiFranco 40. Rosanne Cash ‘Fire Of The __ Alive’ 43. Clueless film-inspired Sky Ferreira EP? (2,2) 47. Bring Me The Horizon ‘Suicide __’ 49. Hotel that might get rocked, postshow 50. Tour bus driving sight problem 51. LA punk label that loves GnR guitarist?

52. Moving Units ‘Going For __’ 54. Electronic Brits that are not in stereo?

55. Dave Matthews ‘The __ Of You’ 56. Musical paraphernalia 57. Canadian teen idol Paul 58. Eric Clapton “__ __ off on ‘57 Chevys” (1,3) 59. Sixpence __ The Richer 61. ‘Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols’ song about big record label © 2019 Todd Santos

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Can’t possibly be true

A Trumbull County (Ohio) sheriff’s deputy pulled over an Amish buggy on Donley Road early on the morning of Sept. 15 after the officer noticed a few oddities about the vehicle. For one, there were two Amish men inside who were drinking, and on the buggy’s roof rode a 12-pack of beer. And, according to Fox 8, the old-fashioned conveyance sported an unlikely modern convenience: a stereo system with large speakers. As soon as the buggy came to a stop, the two men jumped out and escaped into heavy woods near the road. Meanwhile, the horse, trailing the buggy, took off. The officer was able to catch up with the horse and have the buggy towed; the drivers were still at large. The buggy “is a vehicle, it’s on the roadway and the ... laws do apply,” said Chief Deputy Joe Dragovich. “You’re not allowed to drink and drive or operate a buggy.”

Seemed like a good idea at the time

• The Tennessee Titans were all fired up for their NFL home opener on Sept.

15 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.

Accordingly, so was some of their pyrotechnic equipment — which caught fire during player introductions, spreading flames and thick, black smoke near one end zone. According to Bleacher Report, no one was hurt, and flames were extinguished quickly. But the NFL, taking its usual proactive stance, placed a ban on “all flame effects and pyrotechnics used on its playing fields” until an investigation can be completed.

• Police arrived at the home of Vernelle Jackson, 83, in Norway, Maine, on Sept.

17, inquiring about the whereabouts of another unnamed woman in her 80s who had reportedly lived with Jackson.

As police excavated the back yard and the story unfolded, Jackson admitted to authorities and WMTW News 8 that she was the one who buried the woman, about 18 months ago. “She begged me when she passed away that she didn’t have enough insurance to bury her, and I don’t have it.

And she said, ‘Will you promise me to bury me in your yard so I’ll be close?’ ... I finally agreed to do it to satisfy her,” Jackson explained. “I put her in a tarp. I didn’t carry her. I have COPD. I couldn’t breathe that good.” She was surprised to learn that she would have needed a permit to legally bury her friend in her yard, and she’s still unclear whether she’s in trouble with the law. The State Medical Examiner’s office is working to ID the body and determine the cause of death.

Least competent criminals

Two football-crazed fans of Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes couldn’t quite pull off a heist in Lawrence, Kansas, on Sept. 16. Pulling up to a McDonald’s, the two ran inside, grabbed a life-size cardboard cutout of Mahomes and ran out, stuffing the promotional piece into their car. Lawrence Police spokesman Patrick Compton told the Lawrence Journal-World that as they received the call about the theft, they were working a car crash nearby — in which one of the vehicles just happened to have a Mahomes cutout in the back seat. Officers questioned the suspects and ordered them to appear for alleged theft.

Flat Pat was returned to the McDonald’s.

Bright idea

Paul Nixon, 51, is sought in Harris County, Texas, on charges of felony aggravated perjury after taking a novel approach to divorce. Nixon filed for divorce in February but forged his wife’s signature and the name of a notary on the legal papers, the New York Post reported. A judge declared the divorce final in April — but the wife didn’t find out until May, when she noticed strange spending habits of his. “She started finding things showing that he was spending money on jewelry, so she confronted him and he told her that they were actually divorced,” Constable Mark Herman said. “They are still married. The fraudulent divorce papers have been retracted.”

However, Nixon, who could face 10 years in prison, had so far eluded police.

psychiatric care, and in 2013, with Natalia living independently in an apartment, the Barnetts and their son moved to Canada. Soon after, they lost touch with the girl. But inexplicably, a second set of bone density tests, performed in 2010, surfaced, arguing that Natalia was at that time just 8 years old, and she told police herself in 2014 that she had been “left alone” when her parents moved to Canada. Michael and Kristine Barnett surrendered to the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Department on Sept. 18 and 19, charged with abandonment of Natalia.

Wait, what?

Paramedics responded to a home in Detroit on the evening of Sept. 21 where a man was suffering from a heart attack.

But as they worked on the victim, another man took a woman into a bedroom in the home and stabbed her. Then he ran out of the house and, according to Fox2, is still on the loose. The woman died at the scene, and the heart attack victim did not survive. Police are still trying to figure out the relationships between the three people.

Creme de la weird

It started out innocently enough. A road-tripping couple stopped in Grosse Tete, Louisiana, on Sept. 18 to let their deaf pup relieve himself. As they stretched their legs, they wandered over to the Tiger Truck Stop petting zoo and an enclosure that’s home to Caspar the Camel, and the man started throwing treats inside. But when their dog breached the fence to get at the treats, the woman, ignoring “No Trespassing” signs, followed. As she chased the dog, her husband shoved the camel and swatted him with his hat. That’s when Caspar lost his cool, settling his 600-pound camel booty right on top of the woman; she told officers from the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office that she did the only thing she could do: “I bit his balls to get him off of me.” Deputy Louis Hamilton Jr. cited the couple for leash law violations and criminal trespassing, siding with Caspar: “The camel did nothing wrong,” Hamilton told The Advocate. “The camel has never been aggressive.” A veterinarian treated the camel with antibiotics after the incident.

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Compelling explanation

Kristine, 45, and Michael, 43, Barnett of Lafayette, Indiana, adopted a 6-year-old Ukrainian-born girl, Natalia Grace, with dwarfism in 2010. Nine years later, much to their confusion, they are charged with abandoning her. Within their first few weeks as a family, the Barnetts noticed that Natalia seemed to be older than they had been told, with a sophisticated vocabulary, pubic hair and menstrual periods. A doctor ordered bone density tests to check her age, and results suggested she was at least 14. So they began to treat her like a teenager.

Then, the Barnetts claim, Natalia began making death threats against them. At a psychiatric hospital where she was treated, she told doctors she was much older and wanted to kill her family. “She was standing over people in the middle of the night. We had to hide all the sharp objects,” Kristine Barnett told The Daily Mail. In 2012, they legally changed her age (from 8 to 22) and helped her get benefits so she could continue to receive

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