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This is the week where restaurants with outdoor seating can open up, and I can say that during the last two weeks I have seen many decks being built and tents going up, and Larry Marsolais many of the places are doing whatever they can to open up and serve their customers. It is up to all of us to do what we can to support their hard work and dedication of opening safely.

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Though the use of public beaches remains prohibited in New Hampshire and restricted in Massachusetts, the Seacoast still has a lot to offer, especially for ice cream lovers.

By implementing new methods of taking customer orders, completing transactions and packaging and delivering their products, most beach-area ice cream shops have been able to stay open or reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.

Shop owners and managers talked about what has changed, what has stayed the same and what customers can expect when they go to get their frozen treats.

PACK IT IN

Most shops are forgoing the cones right now and only serving ice cream and specialty ice cream treats in covered to-go cups and boxes.

“Our ice cream, sundaes and banana boats are all packaged with lids, with spoons and napkins provided,” said Derek Dore, owner of Hodgies Too in Salisbury and Newburyport.

“We’re not handing out cones, but if someone wants a cone, they can get one on the side.”

Stillwells Ice Cream, with locations on Hampton Beach and in Hampton and Exeter, has gotten creative with new ice cream to-go packs like the “Quarantine and Chill,” which includes a quart of any one flavor of ice cream, two cups of any candy topping, one cup of chocolate or rainbow sprinkles and six sugar or plain cones; and the “Ice Cream and Dream About When This is All Over,” which includes a quart of any one flavor of ice cream, one small cup of any one sundae topping SEACOAST SCENE | MAY 21 - 27, 2020 | PAGE 4

(strawberries, hot fudge, marshmallows, peanut butter, butterscotch or pineapple), one cup of chocolate or rainbow sprinkles, a can of whipped cream and cherries.

“These are packages that we put together to enhance people’s to-go order experience,” Stillwells owner Arielle Wolfe said.

Harbor Creamery in Newburyport is also offering some new to-go options to “inspire fun at home,” owner Merri-Lee Steeves said.

The Party Pack comes with everything you need to have your own ice cream sundae party, including two pints of up to two flavors of ice cream, two sauces (hot fudge, caramel, peanut butter or marshmallow), chocolate and rainbow sprinkles, two candy toppings (M&M, Oreo, gummy bear, Heath bar or Reese’s), four cones and cherries. The shop has also created six-packs of its homemade cookie ice cream sandwiches.

If you want a traditional scooped ice cream cone, there are still a few shops that are serving them, with extra caution.

“All of our cones are pre-wrapped with paper… picked up with a napkin to fill and served in a napkin for the customer to hold,” said Wendy Smith-Kennedy, owner of Simply Sweet in Newburyport. “The cone is never touched.”

“We are currently serving ice cream on cones for customers who feel comfortable,” said Rebecca Ahern, manager at Dunlap’s Ice Cream in Seabrook.

one shop that’s testing out an online ordering system.

“The online ordering is new for this year.

Traditionally, beach-goers just come up and get some ice cream,” owner Pat Sullivan said.

“Now, people can order on our website and pay in advance, so when they come up to the window to pick up, there’s no contact.”

Dore said allowing Hodgies Too customers to place their orders and pay in advance online is one of the main ways the shop is striving to conduct business “as safely as possible.” The online ordering system gives customers an approximate time that their ice cream will be ready to pick up.

“It can get busy depending on the time of day, and we don’t want the customer to run down [to the shop] and then have to wait,” Dore said.

Shops that don’t have an online ordering system are encouraging customers to place their orders and pay in advance over the phone to eliminate hand-to-hand contact in the payment process and to reduce the number of people waiting in line to order or pick up.

“Call-ahead ordering is a zero-touch process,” Steeves said, adding that Harbor Creamery keeps its Facebook and Instagram pages up to date with the latest ice cream flavors and menu items for customers to refer to when placing their orders over the phone.

Most shops are still accepting walk-up orders, but with new precautions.

“We have windows open that remain six ORDER UP feet apart … [and] are set up with plexiglass,” Pat’s World Famous in Hampton Beach is Ahern said. “There are orange traffic cones to

designate a place to stand in line when waiting to order to ensure social distancing.”

The walk-up ordering process is more complicated for Simply Sweet; it doesn’t have a window, so customers have to go inside the shop to order.

“As of now, we are so tight that we [let] two people in at a time, one ordering and one picking up,” Smith-Kennedy said. “The rest wait patiently outside at a distance from each other.”

Lago’s Ice Cream in Rye is only taking walk-up orders at its windows, just as it always has, but with every other window closed, and lines marking six feet of distance between customers in line. Steve Grenier, who owns Lago’s with his wife, Andrea, said ordering at the shop’s windows allows customers to hold on to a sense of normalcy.

“Our crew works very hard to continue to make people feel a sense of tradition in a challenging environment,” he said.

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Curbside pickup has been trending among ice cream shops as a safe and easy way to deliver their products to customers who place their order online or by calling in advance.

“We have [a staff member], wearing a face covering and gloves, stationed outside specifically for curbside pickup,” Sullivan said. “You just pull right up and show them the confirmation number from your online order, and they hand you a bag with your food.”

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“We happen to love curbside pickup,” she said. “We did it for Easter and have continued with it. It works great. [Customers] pull up to the back where the municipal parking lot is, and we walk [their ice cream] out to them.”

Hodgies Too is only taking orders in advance online or by phone at this time and delivers the ice cream to customers at its pickup window in a manner that ensures there is no direct contact between the customer and staff.

“We call out their name and they respond from a distance. Then we open the window, place the bag with their food on the counter and say, ‘Have a nice day,’ and they wait for us to shut the window before they approach to pick up the bag,” Dore said. “We make sure that everyone stays completely isolated, inside and outside. … It’s a safer way to operate, and the system seems to be working.”

BEHIND THE COUNTER

During the Covid-19 pandemic, ice cream shops have been going above and beyond to ensure that all food products are prepared and handled safely. Some are now requiring their employees to become certified by ServSafe, a food service safety training program, or to watch ServSafe’s new Covid-19-specific training videos about how to conduct takeout and delivery food service safely during the pandemic. According to the ServSafe website, the videos provide information about the coronavirus, its symptoms and how it’s transmitted; how to practice good respiratory hygiene; cleaning and sanitizing the workplace; glove use guidelines; the fivestep hand washing process; food packaging strategies to prevent the risk of contamination; and how to conduct hand-to-hand transactions with customers as safely as possible.

“Each member of our staff has had additional training this year about food safety and public health safety,” Dore said.

Wearing face coverings or masks and gloves has become standard practice for food service employees.

“We are serving ice cream with gloves on for every customer,” Ahern said. “Since we are a cash-only business, when handling money we wear separate gloves and take them

off before touching any food product.”

Stillwells has also taken measures to maximize safety during cash transactions. “[We have] dedicated register staff to limit cash handling to one person when possible,” Wolfe said.

Covid-19 has also led shops to be more meticulous about cleaning and sanitizing the areas where they work and interact with customers.

“My employees are washing and sanitizing all of the surfaces that are being touched by any customer throughout the day,” Smith -Kennedy said. “We are diligent about the door handles and counters as well as the cash registers and credit card machines.”

Sullivan and Ahern noted that all of their employees will be subject to body temperature checks at the start of every shift.

“We’d rather be over-prepared so that people feel safe,” Sullivan said. “If people don’t feel safe, they won’t come.”

WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM

Many ice cream shop owners and managers said that being able to continue serving ice cream to both regular and new customers is more important now than ever.

For Dore, it’s a way to give people something familiar during a time that has been defined by change.

“People can’t go to the movies or sit on the beach or do a lot of the things that they used to do,” Dore said, “but they can come get some ice cream, and that’s something that many people around here have always done in the springtime.”

For Wolfe and Ahern, serving ice cream is about spreading positivity and hope that New Hampshire will get through this pandemic.

“Things are hard for everyone. People are cooped up in the house, kids are out of school [and] so many things have been canceled,” Wolfe said. “New England loves its ice cream, and it’s a nice treat to remind people that things can and will go back to normal.”

“During these times, people need something to look forward to,” Ahern added. “Ice cream is something that brings family together and makes our guests smile. That’s what we are all about: scooping smiles.”

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The Beach Plum (16 Ocean Blvd., North Hampton, 603-964-7451, thebeachplum. net) is open daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and offers 78 flavors of ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbet, as well as sundaes, banana splits, frappes and freezes. It also has locations in Epping and Portsmouth.

Dunlap’s Ice Cream (418 Route 286, Seabrook, 603-474-7272, facebook.com/ scoopinsmiles) offers more than 30 flavors of hard serve ice cream, soft serve ice cream, traditional and specialty sundaes, frappes, flurries and Italian ice slush. It operates out of a window and accepts walk-up orders and phone orders with curbside delivery. The shop opens for the season May 22, and hours will be weekends from noon to 9 p.m., through May, and daily, from noon to 8 p.m., starting in June.

Harbor Creamery (39 Pleasant St., Newburyport, 978-255-2440, harborcreamery. com) offers ice cream in a variety of traditional and unique flavors, frappes, homemade cookie ice cream sandwiches and more. It accepts walk-up and phone ordering with curbside delivery and is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., but will possibly be expanding its hours.

Hodgies Too (hodgiestooicecream.com) has locations in Salisbury (136 Rabbit Road, 978-463-0214) and Newburyport (251 Low St., 978-255-2163) and offers ice cream, frozen yogurt, dairy-free, sherbert, frappes, sundaes, half gallons, ice cream cakes and more. It operates out of a window and accepts online and phone orders for pickup. Both shops are open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The Ice House (112 Wentworth Road, Rye, 603-431-3086, theicehouserestaurant.com) is open Thursday through Sunday, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., but those hours are subject to change. It operates out of a window and accepts walk-up and phone orders. The shop offers more than 30 flavors of ice cream, sundaes, frappes and homemade pies.

Lago’s Ice Cream (71 Lafayette Road, Rye, 603-964-9880, lagosicecream.com) is open daily from noon to 7 p.m., and is operating by takeout online. It offers more than 50 rotating flavors of ice cream, including

dishes, sundaes, pints, quarts and half gallons.

Pat’s World Famous (3 D St., Hampton Beach, 603-812-1421, patsworldfamous. com) offers ice cream in a variety of flavors as well as specialty ice cream dishes, frappes, milkshakes and floats. It operates out of a window and accepts walk-up orders and online orders with curbside delivery. The shop will open for the season on Memorial Day weekend, and hours will be weekends in May and daily starting in June, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Simply Sweet (12 Inn St., Newburyport, 978-462-3226, simplysweetnewburyport. com) offers more than 35 flavors of hard ice cream, chocolate and vanilla soft serve ice cream, a variety of sundaes and frappes. It operates out of its indoor shop, accepts walkup ordering and phone ordering with curbside delivery and is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., but may soon expand its hours to 8 p.m.

Stats Ice Cream (197 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 603-601-8178, facebook.com/k. statshb) offers 17 flavors of hard ice cream, chocolate and vanilla soft serve ice cream, sundaes and slush, and will start to offer frappes and flurries in the coming weeks.

It operates through a window and is open weekends, weather permitting, from noon to 5 or 6 p.m.

Stillwells Ice Cream offers hard and soft serve ice cream, sundaes, frappes, razzles and custom-built ice cream sandwiches. It has a shop on the Hampton Beach strip that is open daily, weather-permitting, from noon to 6 p.m., operates through a window, and accepts walk-up orders and phone orders; and another Hampton shop (356 Lafayette Road, 603-9266990, facebook.com/StillwellsHampton) that is open daily from noon to 9 p.m., that accepts walk-ins until 5 p.m., and phone orders only after 5 p.m. It has a third location in Exeter.

Swell Willey’s (4 Broadway, Salisbury, 978-465-5541, swellwilleys.com) offers homemade ice cream in a variety of flavors, frappes, sundaes, floats, specialty drinks and soft serve ice cream. It operates out of a window, accepts online and phone orders with curbside delivery and is open Thursday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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It’s a wildly unique time. I’m embracing the new emotions and all these opportunities to have new thoughts and create new patterns and new routines. Honestly, there’s so many ways we can react and so much weight we can put on our minds. I choose to look at this like I look at other challenges in life. This is an opportunity to better myself and my situation to become more prepared for these kinds of things in the future.

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What are you doing in the quarantine?

Everything I’ve done for the last 15 years has revolved around large gatherings, so this is a drastic change for me. … I had the most successful year of my life on the schedule ahead of me, and now I’m here. … I’ve started a new talk show called Offering Something that is airing three days a week [noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and 1 p.m. Saturdays]. It’s a way for me to say nice things and make sure that I’m doing something good for the world. I’m back on the air creating these shows, and I’m also

performing a livestream on Monday nights on my Facebook page.

You were on the fence about streaming, but it sounds like you’ve embraced it?

I’ll be doing more unique things as opposed to just acoustic performances; I want to make sure that things remain exciting. It’s a seriously saturated market out there. For a lot of us that have lived in the performance world, we want to make sure we’re keeping our brand exciting and giving the right product to our fans and friends and viewers. So I’m really spending a lot of time thinking about that.

“Feel the Sunshine” has a good message — if you fall down get back up again — that’s a recurring theme in your music.

Yeah it totally is, because that’s real. I mean you could fall down and do nothing or get back up. It’s a very simple concept but you can do anything that you want to do in this life or you cannot. I’m not being delusional, it’s easy.

You have a vision, a mission, a goal in sight and as every day passes you have to answer to yourself.

When you put on your motivational speaker hat, what is your message?

This is a beautiful time right now to look within yourself and develop a love for yourself …. Take the time now to step back from everything and clearly take a look at where you are and where you want to go. Make that Enjoy Your Life happened before all this plan, and when the time is right take your corona stuff. action.

I launched it last event season. That’s an opportunity for people that want to support What’s the summer going to be like for what I’ve done and understand the serious you? impact here, to have an angle to do something I would say that for myself the majority tangible. Get themselves a hat, shirt, tank top of events are completely shut down because or whatever. On another layer this is a thing for we’re talking about thousands of people me — I’ve been saying ‘enjoy your life’ since I next to each other — for me personally. For was a wee boy. … It’s been wonderful to have all the acts I’m booking for performances at the opportunity and especially to coincide with restaurants and bars, I think those are changed the name of my new album. for a long time. I don’t know that immediately that people are going to be ready to offer their Good segue — there’s a special guest on money for musicians. They are going to want every single track of the new album. Did to see how things are coming. I’m looking organizing it take a long time? forward to continuing to make sure that I’m Three years of work. People that came to having the best day and doing productive the studio to record were people that at some things. Because I’m not sitting here banking point in my life we had a special connection. on what I used to know as normal happening … I wanted them to sit with me and write again. the song together in the sessions. So we’d get — Michael Witthaus together for five-, six-, seven-hour sessions and write the songs. I would come up with Michael Bernier the music in advance. I wrote most of it on the When: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & keyboard and the guys from Freevolt laid the Saturday bass and guitars, and I play the drums on it.

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How to calculate the cost savings of a hybrid Dear Car Talk: At one time, hybrid cars clearly made sense. But with seriously improved gas mileage for all cars, is that still true? What formula can we use to decide if the

By Ray Magliozzi extra cost of a hybrid is worth the improved gas mileage? — George It’s a good question, George.

Now that there are so many hybrids available, it’s worth doing the math. And here’s how you’d do it: First, you figure out the difference between the hybrid and nonhybrid version of the same car, equipped the same way.

Let’s use the Toyota RAV4 as an example.

A 2020 LE AWD starts at $25,950. A hybrid version of the same exact car starts at $28,350. That’s a difference of $2,400. Now the question is, how long will it take you to save $2,400 in gasoline?

To do that, you’ll need to know the annual fuel cost for each car. Start by going to fueleconomy.gov and looking up the average miles per gallon of each vehicle. For the RAV4, it’s 30 mpg. For the RAV4 Hybrid, it’s 40 mpg.

Then you take the number of miles you

drive in an average year (let’s say it’s 20,000 miles), and divide it by each of those mpg numbers. That tells you how many gallons of fuel you’d need to buy in a year.

For the RAV4 (20,000 miles/30 mpg) it’s 666.67 gallons a year. For the RAV4 Hybrid (20,000/40), it’s 500 gallons a year. Then you multiply the number of gallons you’d buy in a year by the price of a gallon. That varies, obviously, but let’s say it’s $3 a gallon.

So, to run your regular RAV4 for a year, it’d cost you $2,000 in gasoline (666.67 gallons x $3 per gallon). Where the RAV4 Hybrid (500 x 3) would cost you $1,500 a year in gasoline.

Now you can put it all together. You know that you would save $500 a year in gasoline costs with the RAV4 Hybrid. So divide the extra cost of buying the hybrid ($2,400) by the amount it would save you per year ($500), and you learn that it would take about five years for you to “pay off” that premium you spent on the hybrid, before you started banking money.

So if you keep your cars for six, seven or 10 years, it’s clearly worth it. If you keep your car for three or four years, it’s probably not.

Now, there are other variables. For instance, hybrids use regenerative braking, so you’ll spend less on brake pads and rotors with a hybrid. You’ll also be using the gasoline

engine less, so your cost of maintenance (oils, fluids, belts, filters) will be spread out over a longer period of time.

The price of gasoline is also a big variable.

If the price of gasoline drops to $2 a gallon, it’ll take you seven years to earn back that hybrid premium. If gasoline goes up to $4 a gallon, it only takes three and a half years to pay it off.

And some people believe there’s value in decreasing pollution, increasing American energy independence or simply not having to go to a gas station as often. We don’t have the formulas for that stuff, George.

But you can at least get a rough idea of the basic economics with the above calculations.

Dear Car Talk: I drive a stick shift, and I can tell when I am “lugging the engine.” But I don’t know what that actually means. What exactly is going on in the engine that causes that “lugging” feeling? And is it doing any damage to the engine? Thanks! — Judy Lugging is pretty much what is sounds like, Judy. If you’re lugging an 80-pound prize-winning rutabaga up your stairs, that implies you’re dragging it, and struggling to get it done.

Similarly, lugging the engine refers to

trying to accelerate when you’re in too high a gear. So put most simply, you’re straining the engine. You’re making it struggle.

Imagine if you were on your 10-speed bike, and you got to a steep hill and tried to climb it in 10th gear. You’d be struggling and straining, too, and you might even “stall.”

That’s because, like your car’s engine, you’re not using the mechanic advantage that the lower gears are designed to afford you.

And when the engine is struggling — when it’s trying to move the car, but can’t get up to an engine speed where it can turn easily — it will begin to overheat.

It’s not the kind of catastrophic overheating, like when you see steam coming out from under the hood. But when you lug the engine, you’re making the cylinders and pistons run hotter than they normally would. And over time, that damages the engine.

Will it damage the engine if you lug the engine once in a while for a few seconds, and then shift to a lower gear and correct it?

No. But if you get in the habit of shifting too soon, and lugging the engine after each shift, the excess heat will shorten your engine’s life.

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AT SAWBELLY BREWING & SCRATCH KITCHEN A seasonally inspired New American menu with ingredients sourced from local farms is what you’ll find at Sawbelly Brewing & Scratch Kitchen (156 Epping Road, Exeter, 583-5080, sawbellybrewing.com), along with a rotating lineup of original beers. The brewpub, which opened in the former space of the Neighborhood Beer Co. earlier this year, gets its name from the alewife fish found on the Exeter town seal, according to co-founder Dave Dalton. Sawbelly features a well-rounded assortment of entrees, small plates, salads and desserts prepared by executive chef Chris Wall, who works with head brewer Brian Davis to create unique pairings with the brewpub’s beers. Popular options include the fried chicken and pancakes, the Korean-style sticky ribs, the beef and veggie burgers, and small plates like deviled eggs and spicy chicken wings. The brewery side of the business features 10 beers on draft at any given time; styles will always vary, but you’ll usually see between two and three IPAs or pale ales, according to Davis, as well as a Kolsch, a lager and a porter. Sawbelly did temporarily close in March due to Covid-19, but recently reopened for takeout, slowly featuring some limited menu items before expanding, adding curbside pickup and an online ordering system. The brewpub planned to open on May 20 for outdoor seating. The Scene recently spoke with Dalton, Wall, Davis and Jim Stilian, who also co-founded Sawbelly with his wife Diane, about some of their favorite dishes and what you can expect when you visit.

Sawbelly Brewing & Scratch Kitchen in Exeter. Courtesy photos.

How long has Sawbelly Brewing & We … try to have everything approachable, Scratch Kitchen been around? hearty and satisfying, while also making it Dalton: Sawbelly opened Jan. 14 of this really fun and creative. year.

What is your personal favorite dish?

What makes Sawbelly Brewing & Dalton: I love the burger. I would say Scratch Kitchen unique? that, or the fried chicken, which you get as a Dalton: We’re more unique than most sandwich or [as an entree] with the pancakes. breweries or restaurants, because we’re Wall: I’m a big fan of the veggie burger, a combination of both. There are a lot of because it’s got such good structure and breweries that have your usual pub grub … great flavor. What we’ve basically done is or some that have food trucks coming out, we’ve created a patty using beets, lentils and but we’re trying to build an atmosphere with sticky rice and a little bit of garam masala both really great food and great beer. … and we add some whey protein to hold Wall: We support local farms and try to it together and give it more of a meat-like get products in season as much as we can. texture. That comes with tomato chutney

and spicy yogurt sauce, so it’s something a Davis: I’m usually not big on bacon, but little bit different. the Devils on Horseback [is a great] shared Davis: I can’t stop eating any of our house plate. It’s blue cheese-stuffed dates wrapped pickles. The deviled eggs are amazing too. in maple-smoked bacon.

Stilian: Either the goat [meat dishes] or Stilian: Either the sticky ribs or the burger. the spinach salad.

What is an essential skill to running a What is a dish everyone should try? brewpub?

Dalton: I’m going to go with the Dalton: Lots of patience and teamwork. deviled eggs. We’ve been doing them with Hackleback caviar and dill.

What is your favorite thing about being Wall: Either the pickles or the desserts. on the Seacoast?

We make a really nice strawberry rhubarb Wall: The town of Exeter has been great dessert with vanilla custard, and we’ve also to us and [has] been very supportive in been doing a chocolate peanut butter mousse getting us going. with a graham cracker crumble.

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TRY THIS AT HOME Carrot cake scones You know how you’re not supposed to have dessert for breakfast? This recipe lets you do that.

These carrot cake scones have all the flavors of a piece of cake, but they’re packaged as a breakfast-approved baked good. No one will say to you, “Put down that piece of cake.” Rather, they’ll ask if you might have an extra to share.

For these scones I took a new approach to adding cold butter to the scones. Rather than my usual method of blending chilled butter with forks or a pastry blender, I grated frozen butter. It made it easier to incorporate the butter into the dry ingredients. Just be sure the butter is fully frozen when you grate it, and then add it immediately to the dry goods so it can’t soften too much.

Also, for those of you who are raisinaverse, you can remove them from the recipe without any issues. However, I’d ask you to reconsider. The raisins add a nice, sweet, tender element to the scones, which I would miss.

Get your ingredients assembled, and make some dessert. Oops, I meant breakfast items.

Something for Every Season

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Michele Pesula Kuegler has been thinking about food her entire life. Since 2007, the New Hampshire resident has been sharing these food thoughts and recipes at her blog, Think Tasty. Please visit thinktasty.com to find more of her recipes.

Carrot Cake Scones Makes 8 2 cups flour 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 5 tablespoons butter, frozen 1 cup grated carrot 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1/3 cup raisins 3/4 cup buttermilk 1 egg yolk 4 ounces cream cheese, softened 3/4 cup powdered sugar 1 tablespoon milk Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large bowl, mix flour, 1/3 cup brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.

Grate butter using the side of a box grater that you use to shred cheese.

Add butter to flour mixture; stir to combine.

Add carrot, pecans and raisins to flour mixture, and toss gently.

Whisk buttermilk, egg yolk, and vanilla in a 2-cup liquid measuring cup or small bowl.

Pour about 3/4 of the liquid to the bowl, and stir well.

Gradually add more liquid to the dough until it forms a ball.

Place dough on a lightly floured surface and press into an 8-inch round.

Cut into 8 wedges.

Transfer wedges to cookie sheet, preferably lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 18-20 minutes or until the scones are crusty on top and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean.

While scones cool, combine cream cheese and powdered sugar in a small mixing bowl.

Stir to combine, adding milk slowly.

To frost entire scone, use a knife to coat thoroughly.

To make a scone with less frosting, transfer frosting to a plastic quart bag.

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I think I’m as guilty as anyone of allowing myself to occasionally get bogged down in one style of beer.

Usually it’s IPAs, and when that happens I find myself needing to branch out and explore the edges of my comfort zone. Sometimes I’ll jump right out of my comfort zone, as in just completely disregard boundaries of any kind.

That happened recently when I dove right into, first, a barleywine, then a sour, and then grounded myself with double IPA — all from Lithermans Limited in Concord. Let’s just say that I was rewarded for my adventurousness.

I began with the Big Truck barleywine, which is an impressive and somewhat imposing brew. First, I think I’m guilty of, well, not really knowing what a barleywine is. First, it’s not a wine.

I mean, I knew that but I didn’t know much else. A barleywine stands out for its intensity and its big alcohol kick. The style is also notable for fruity flavors, which can be sweet. I think the potential for too much sweetness has scared me away from this style in the past.

But this was very different than what I expected. I expected — and received — huge alcohol flavor, but I also got surprising bitterness and very dry, bittersweet notes of rich, dark fruit.

It had me thinking about raisins and currants but it didn’t have big sweetness cloying up the palate.

I absolutely loved the complexity of this brew. This brew is a lot to handle, but it wasn’t overpowering.

I enjoyed slowly sipping this over an hour or so on an annoyingly cold May evening about a week ago.

A few nights later on an appropriately warm May evening, I dove right into Lithermans’ I Will Survive Iced Tea & Lemonade Sour Ale, which was equally scary for me as I am extremely hit-ormiss when it comes to sours. But again I was rewarded for ignoring my comfort zone. This is literally the perfect summertime beer: light, refreshing and tart, with wonderful vibes coming from the iced tea and lemonade combo, which is classic summer.

Also, added bonus, a portion of the proceeds from sales of I Will Survive benefits the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.

This is the perfect sour to share with that individual who says they don’t like sours. That individual used to be me.

Not any more.

But OK, sometimes when you’re out exploring the edges of your palate, you

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need to bring things back to neutral, and that’s what I did when I tackled LL Cool Haze Double IPA by Lithermans Limited. This is your prototypical New England-style IPA with big haze and big juice and extreme drinkability. But I don’t mean to suggest it’s just another IPA. This was absolutely excellent.

You’ll pick up lots of big tropical fruity flavors, like grapefruit, pineapple and I don’t know, maybe mango, too.

This beer tasted about as fresh as I can imagine a beer tasting out of a can. This is dangerously easy to drink. While it does come in at 8 percent ABV, it definitely doesn’t drink like that, so watch out.

I think the main message here is, go try beers from Lithermans, and while you’re at it maybe grab something you wouldn’t usually gravitate toward.

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

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Valley Girl (PG-13)

A teenage girl from the heart of the San Fernando Valley expands her horizons in Valley Girl, a, like, totally fun high school-set romcom musical, fer sure.

I suppose I should stipulate that I haven’t seen the 1983 Nicholas Cagefronted Valley Girl. This musical adaptation of that is so spot-on I don’t think I want to.

This tale of a sunbaked suburbia, the afternoons at the Galleria and the scary unknown that is “the other side of the hills” (downtown Hollywood) is actually told in flashback by a present-day mom (Alicia Silverstone in a brilliant bit of casting) telling her teenage daughter (Camila Morrone) about her big high school romance. Back in the day, Encino native Julie (Jessica Rothe, star of the Happy Death Day movies and once again giving out just the right energy) is dating the “perfect” guy, tennis star Mickey (Logan Paul), and spends her free time hanging out with her buddies at the mall.

But she wants to find new adventure, maybe even go into Hollywood, that haven of vice that the Valley children have clearly been made to fear.

It takes a beach outing to bring the MTV-loving crowd of the Valley into the path of the punk crowd from Hollywood.

Julie has a brief meeting with Randy (Josh Whitehouse), who, along with his rocker friends, later shows up at a Valley party. They hit it off and he brings her to Hollywood to hang out at a club where his band plays.

Julie quickly dumps Mickey and revels in this new relationship, one without the pressures of high school popularity and that even reawakens her interest in fashion design and following a different path than the one her parents (an excellent Judy Greer and Rob Huebel) set out for her. But Randy isn’t as interested in bending to experience her world as she is to experience his, so, like, friction.

Look, if I say “pastel plaids on characters singing the Go-Gos’ ‘We Got the Beat’ while dancing around a fountain at a thriving 1980s mall” and you say “blech, no thank you” then you already know where you stand on this movie. I, watching this by myself, clapped and said, out loud, “delightful!” at that early scene and my opinion did not change. There is a fight scene (featuring a character who feels like he’s doing “Johnny from The Karate Kid” cosplay for the whole movie) scored to Duran Duran’s “Rio” after a tensionfilled scene scored to “Safety Dance.”

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her longing for Something More. I said “yay!” at more than one song cue and could not keep from occasionally singing along (which is a thing you don’t have to suppress watching movies on the couch).

And having Alicia Silverstone, queen of a 1990s glossy California teenager movie, as the mom is just a chef’s kiss touch of perfection. This movie, this mix tape of 1980s music and visuals and vibe, knows what it is and delivers its tone and blend of high-school-drama romance, selfconscious nostalgia and genuine coming of age story beats (Judy Greer saying “au revoir” actually made me tear up) perfectly. ARated PG-13 for teen partying, language, some suggestive material, and brief nudity, according to the MPA. Directed by Rachel Lee Goldberg with a screenplay by Amy Talkington, Valley Girl is an hour and 42 minutes long and distributed by MGM. Available for rent.

Scoob! (PG)

Scooby, Shaggy and the gang return to fight another villain who “would have gotten away with it, too” in Scoob!, an animated movie that is, I guess, for kids?

Fred (voice of Zac Efron), Daphne (voice of Amanda Seyfried) and Velma (voice of Gina Rodriguez) are still foiling bad guys together from Fred’s beloved Mystery Machine blue van. But the crew wants to grow their sleuthing business and turn for their venture capital to Simon Cowell (voicing himself), who deems Shaggy and Scooby dead weight, businesswise. Dejected, the pair go to a bowling alley, where they are attacked by robots controlled by villain Dick Dastardly (voice of Jason Isaacs) before being rescued by the superhero Blue Falcon, or, as his sidekicks Dynomutt (voice of Ken Jeong) and Dee Dee (voice of Kiersey Clemons) explain, the Blue Falcon’s adult son Brian (voice of Mark Wahlberg), who has taken over now that the Blue Falcon has retired to Palm Beach.

Dick Dastardly has classic “steal the ancient something to open the gates of whatever” goals but the story first separates Shaggy and Scooby from Fred, Daphne and Velma and then Shaggy and Scooby from each other. This is not the choice I would have made. The movie opens with young Shaggy meeting pup Scooby for the first time and then the pair

Between some general scariness (a cute robot gets its head casually ripped off and melted) and its “who is this for?” references (Simon Cowell! Tinder! This American Life! — what kids don’t know and love these things!), I’m not sure when I’ll be showing my early-elementary and younger kids this movie. And while older kids probably won’t find that stuff as scary/boring, the movie trades on some knowing commentary about the classic cartoon that probably won’t electrify them either.

Dog Scooby Doo (voice of Frank Welker), his human best friend Shaggy (voice of Will Forte) and fellow humans Scoob! Courtesy photo.

encountering equally small Fred, Daphne and Velma. I had some hope for the movie during this initial sequence; there’s a nice bit of goofiness and kid-adventure with the Scooby Babies approach that I think could have appealed both to young audiences, who may not have a lot of Scooby experience, and to their parents who may have been fans of the live-action movies in the aughts or the cartoons, which have been floating around since forever (Hanna-Barbera launched the original series in 1969, Wikipedia says).

The movie as constructed, though, feels like it can’t figure out if it’s a kid-focused cartoon or a meta goof on previous Scooby iterations.

There are elements I liked: The characters all seem a notch weirder than I remember them being previously, especially Fred. The movie could have had more fun with these oddball character notes if the gang was together for more of the action. Also, the animation has a hint of the original series’ angular lines, which is a nice visual touch. And I am always up for that Hanna-Barbera “running noise” sound, which we get a couple of times here.

Scoob! has the potential to be one of those movies whose sequels could be stronger than the original; I feel like this thing will probably be sucked into the black hole of “pandemic pop culture.”

A next chapter could arrive with little baggage from this entry. And, in the interest of the never-ending quest for decent family entertainment, I’ll be happy to check it out. I just don’t think I’ll be rewatching this for any family movie night anytime soon. C Rated PG for some action, language and rude/suggestive humor, according to the MPA. Directed by Tony Cervone with a screenplay Matt Liebermann & Adam Sztykiel & Jack Donaldson & Derek Elliott, Scoob! is an hour and 34 minutes long and distributed by Warner Bros.

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POP CULTURE BOOKS

The Red Lotus, by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday, 383 pages) In his latest novel, The Red Lotus, New York Times Bestselling author Chris Bohjalian writes about a deadly virus that is being shopped for use as a biological weapon.

Alexis, an emergency room physician, goes on a biking vacation in Vietnam with her boyfriend of six months, Austin, who is an administrator in the hospital she works at. They met when he came into the ER after being shot in the shoulder at a local bar by a junkie.

In hindsight, that probably should have raised some flags.

But instead, Alexis and Austin began a relationship. However, unbeknownst to her, the relationship she has with Austin was built on a series of lies. The man she thought she loved was not the man she thought she knew.

While Austin convinces Alexis that he is in Vietnam in order to pay respects to his father and uncle who served there, it turns out he is really there to sell a sample of a deadly virus developed in his hospital’s lab to another country to be used as a bioweapon.

Apparently selling bioweapons can be very lucrative.

Things don’t go well and Austin is murdered, leaving Alexis to figure out how she could have been taken in by so many lies. When she returns to the United States, Alexis hires a private detective to help her figure out what was true and what was not about Austin. Alexis and the P.I. end up discovering the international plot to purchase these biological weapons of war that originated from the hospital she works at.

Layers upon layers of deception.

While Alexis is trying to figure out how she could have been so betrayed by someone she loved, she also battles with her own insecurities and demons. Alexis digs deep into her inner strength in order to persevere to sift through

the truths around Austin and her relationship with him.

Of course, reading a book about a pandemic during a pandemic is a little strange. In the story we read about topics that we are currently hearing about in the news. Like the fact that antibiotics don’t affect viruses but antivirals do. We also learn about how viruses move from animals to humans.

In another section we read about “knock-out” and “knock-in” genetic research in rodents.

And the descriptions of how and where rats live in cities is enough to chill and make you swear that you’ll never walk in a dark alley again.

All of these researched bits are fully satisfying for those of us who want our fictional stories to be as real as possible. Like he did for all of his other 21 books, Bohjalian spent a lot of time doing his research. In Vietnam he actually biked the roads and mountain passes he describes in the book. He shows Vietnam tremendous respect as he recounts his characters’ stories from the war. Through his descriptions and his characters’ actions, Bohjalian allows us to imagine that we are actually there in Vietnam along with Alexis and Austin.

I also have to give this book credit for using the game of darts in such a creative way. There is one passage that will make you jump in your seat. I challenge you to ever look at a dart in the same way again after reading that one.

Like he does in many of his other books, in The Red Lotus Bohjalian gives us another memorable strong yet flawed woman character who rises above personal defects in character in order to find and claim her own personal strength.

The Red Lotus grabs you from the first page and continues to hold you until the very satisfying and yet haunting ending. A — Wendy E.N. Thomas

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BOOK NOTES If you follow the New York Times bestseller list, you may have noticed a trend. Call it the immortal life of Tara Westover. (Apologies to Rebecca Skloot and Henrietta Lacks.)

Westover’s memoir Educated has been on the list for 116 weeks. It was No. 1 on week 100. In contrast, its closest competitor, Michelle Obama’s Becoming, has made the list for 75 weeks. Nothing else in the genre comes close.

The popularity of Becoming is understandable, given the popularity of Obama and her husband, the former president.

Educated is more of a mystery, even to the author, who told Entertainment Weekly in February, “It’s been surprising, bordering on shocking.”

A brutal account of growing up in a family of Mormon survivalists with a penchant for trauma and abuse, Educated has been compared to J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.

Both authors found education to be the

lifeline that offered escape from a concreteblock upbringing. (Susan Fowler has a similar storyline in this year’s Whistleblower.) It’s a theme so common that the initial New York Times review of Educated ended like this: “She is but yet another young person who left home for an education, now views the family she left across an uncomprehending ideological canyon, and isn’t going back.”

In retrospect, that seems like saying Mobydick was yet another whale with a grudge.

Manchester’s Bookery is featuring Educated in its online book club, May 21 and May 25, for the Zoom-literate.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a new pandemic read, here’s an idea: Read the book that was the New York Times bestseller the year you were born. The website Wordery has a search function to find it: wordery.com/ best-selling-books-by-year. I’m off to buy Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter. — Jennifer Graham

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Granite State Online Music Festival keeps live music alive Curtis Arnett is a horn player in David Shore’s Trunk O’ Funk, Bosey Joe, Zooo Crew and several other bands that appear regularly at Concord venues like Area 23, Penuche’s, True Brew Barista and Hatbox Theatre. When the pandemic closed live music, he launched Granite State Online Music Festival on Facebook Live.

The first show happened in late April, and they will continue every other Saturday until things return to normal — and maybe after.

Arnett talked about the event in a recent telephone interview.

What do you hope to accomplish with Granite State Online Music Festival?

A couple of things. There’s a lot of performing musicians who are out of work right now, so to give them an opportunity to work is one of the goals. So far we’ve been pretty successful. There’s also a demand with concert venues not being open right now.

People who want to listen to live music are usually going out to concerts on a regular basis, and there isn’t really a place at all to do that. This is certainly not the same thing, but I like to think it’s a sort of valid substitute, and we’ve had several people mention that this is the closest thing to a live show they’ve experienced since the quarantine started.

Also, it provides musicians with a venue to perform some live music for the local community. It’s been fun, and it’s turned into something I enjoy doing and people enjoy being a part of.

How did you kind of go about organizing and recruiting artists?

It’s a combination of reaching out to people, and now I have people who I don’t know reach out to me or the festival. I’m looking to keep a certain level of quality, a reasonable level of professionalism. The first one was a little bit more of a trial run, so I played a little bit safer and mostly recruited people that I already knew ahead of time.

You know what it is going to sound like and what working with them is going to be like. The second one was maybe a half and half combination of people that I’ve met previously or worked with previously, but there’s also a fair amount of people who I have met just from organizing this festival.

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Do you have a musical philosophy about who plays? Obviously, it’s going to be one or two people at the most.

Yeah, for a couple of reasons it makes sense to limit the number of people, one of the reasons being that most people are streaming from their phones. It’s a lot easier to capture one or two people playing than it is to capture a loud band. Also, at least for

Granite State Online Music Festival. Courtesy photo.

the moment we’re trying to set a positive example of physical distancing. I don’t have a hard rule necessarily but those are a couple of reasons why we end up usually doing smaller acts. As far as musical style, I’m pretty open. In fact, that’s one of the things that I like about the lineup — there’s a lot of variety. We’ve had country artists perform, hip-hop, electronic. I think one of one of our assets is there’s a lot of different stuff going on.

organizing this — how’s it going to work tech-wise? I settled on Facebook because people know how to use it and a lot of people are already on the platform. Your audience is already there. Organizing the festival definitely requires some communication, but beyond that I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how cooperative all the artists have been. So far there are few obstacles with the tech, so I’ve been able to walk everyone through how to set their stream up right. It requires a little bit of education on my end, but honestly not How important are festival sponsors like much. There’s a little bit of learning curve, Area 23 and Dos Amigos? and people are adapting to it.

It does a couple of things. It reminds people that most businesses are still there when it’s This forum gives performers more a difficult time for them to be open, just like freedom to play their original music — is it’s a difficult time for us to be working. that one of the positive elements?

That’s a big part of why we chose those two The streaming platform changes businesses. Area 23 is well known for local performance a little bit and that is definitely music. Dos Amigos also occasionally has positive. I don’t tell the artists what they can live music but is just a big part of the Concord or can’t play [and] they’re not competing community, so I was very happy to have both with people who are in a venue just to have of them get involved. I’m looking forward to drinks and are talking over them. seeing who else we can collaborate with.

When everything is back to normal what How do the performers benefit? are you looking forward to doing the most?

They are allowed and encouraged to set up That’s a good question. Ironically I think virtual tip jars, which are usually done through it’s going back to shows, playing out and Venmo or PayPal. I’m continuously kind of also seeing my friends play. That will be a pleasantly surprised at how successfully good feeling. Unfortunately, I think we’ll it works. The generosity from the people have to wait a while before you start seeing who are watching is awesome. Part of the a large group gathering. I’m contemplating reason we have sponsors involved is because having these online festivals continue even I would love for this to become something if we are going back to physical concerts. where I can pay people to play. It’s difficult I think there will still be some demand for right now with 20-plus acts each show, but I streaming online content. But I will be very would love for this to become something that happy when I see the first show at Penuche’s works financially for everyone. or wherever when it’s back up.

— Michael Witthaus How do you manage the technology? It’s Facebook Live, but everybody’s performing Granite State Online Music Festival from different places.

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Cancer (June 21 – July 22) The dumplings will double in size as they cook, so make sure you’ve got enough distance between the stew and the lid of your pan. It’s important to think beyond the moment.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Very finely slicing the veg means you can pretty much use any kind or variety — baby carrots, fennel, eggplants, beets — to really celebrate the seasons in a flamboyant way. Fine and flamboyant!

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) There’s a lot of fun to be had here with seasonal veg and mushrooms — react to what’s available and make the most of them. You can react to the carrots, or you can let them react to you.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) If you find the tahini has separated in the jar, add a splash of hot water and mix until spoonable. Sometimes things come together once they’re let out of the jar.

Or once they get some water. See what works.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) I like to pull out the chilies, chop them into a paste and serve them as an angry (fiery) condiment for stirring back through the soup, to taste. Don’t argue with the condiments.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) The combo of fruit and salty cheese is a thing of joy, so have fun with it — peach with mozzarella, or grilled pear and blue cheese — let your imagination go

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BITE MY LIP AND CLOSE MY EYES Across 1. Black Crowes “__ as hard as it was the first time I said goodbye” 6. Green Day “Everybody is a __” 10. LA Egyptian goddessinspired sludge band 14. Avulsed ‘Malodorous Lethal __’ 15. Led Zep ‘Gallows __’ 16. ‘Stranger In Town’ rockers 17. ‘__ __ Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)’ The Four Tops (1,4 18. ‘I Can’t Turn You Loose’ soul singer Redding

19. ‘Sara Smile’ __ & Oates 20. ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ band (6,3,6) 23. After Kix did ‘Blow My __’ they had to call an electrician 24. Umphrey’s McGee song for the dinner table?

25. Venues big bands play 29. Show hosts (abbr) 30. AFI will go into the bathroom and fill it with their ‘Crop’ 33. What teacher will do with new technique 36. John Lennon’s love Yoko 37. Placed on Ebay for rare concert T (1,3)

38. Maryland ‘All Sides’ band 39. Like Ray and Dave Davies 40. Spice Girl B 41. AC/DC ‘Powerage’ jam ‘Up To __’ (2,4,2,3) 45. ‘Stand!’ __ & The Family Stone 46. Reggae man __-A-Mouse 47. Record company mergers 48. Important time in music is called this 49. UB40 will have a glass of this that is doubly ‘Red’ 51. Soundtrack ‘South Park: ___ Uncut’ (6,6,3) 59. Dionne Warwick classic ‘__ __ A Little Prayer’ (1,3) 60. Smashing Pumpkins ‘Gish’ single 61. English female electronic music pioneer Derbyshire 62. RTZ’s Brad that also fronted Boston 63. Heavy metal band that foreshadows?

64. McCartney: Ivory, Wonder:

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__ 65. Green Day “Peel me off this Velcro __ and keep me moving” 66. Cut Off Your Hands were lovesick and ‘Still __’ of their ex 67. Fans might take their girls to shows on these first ones Down 1. Le Tigre song for the close of the work week?

2. Alt country band The __ Brothers 3. Melody Gardot ‘Your Heart __ __ Black As Night’ (2,2) 4. Rapper 50 __ 5. ‘Here We Are’ 80s CubanAmerican singer Gloria 6. Might play guest ones 7. ‘96 Cranberries album ‘ __ __ Faithful Departed’ (2,3) 8. Cure ‘This Is __ __’ (1,3) 9. Bruce Willis ‘___ Yourself’ 10. Power Station smash ‘Some Like __ __’ (2,3) 11. Jack Wagner starred in a daytime one 12. John Hiatt ‘__ Come To You’ 13. Asia ‘__ Survivor’ 21. Pollard from Sebadoh 22. Dexterity, in someone’s playing 25. ‘Reckless’ Bryan 26. Green Day ‘She’s A ___’ 27. Pink Floyd ‘See ___ Play’ 28. Armored Saint will give a respectful ‘__ To The Old School’ 29. Soft Cell’s Almond 30. Deep Purple “My woman

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31. Duran Duran ‘__ Of The Snake’ 32. Like extra album track 34. “Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky __ blues” 35. ‘Call Me Maybe’ Carly __ Jepsen 39. Sing/songer DiFranco 41. Like unknown, unsigned band?

42. Godhead ‘2000 __ __ Human Error’ (5,2) 43. Carl Douglas ‘__ Fu Fighting 44. Randy VanWarmer ‘Just When __ __ You Most’ (1,6) 48. Charting soundtrack ‘The Prince Of __’ 49. Experimental LA rock band really into fabric?

50. Lita Ford ‘Falling __ __ Out Of Love’ (2,3) 51. Estate auction actions 52. Green Day “__ __ you, down in the front line” (1,3) 53. One gets thrown to honor lifetime achievement 54. Star car with a bar 55. Phish classic from ‘Lawn Boy’ 56. Bring Me The Horizon ‘__ __ Like Vegas’ (1,3) 57. When Dolly Parton clocked in 58. Moody Blues ‘__ Of Futures Past’ © 2020 Todd Santos

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

From outer space

People in Washington’s Puget Sound were startled on the evening of May 6 by a brilliant streak of light across the sky followed three minutes later by a loud explosion. “Huge boom that shook the house. It was the loudest boom I’ve ever heard,” one witness in Brier reported, according to KOMO. The American Meteor Society investigated the many reports it fielded and determined the noise came from an exploding meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere. The meteor may have been part of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which occurs when Earth moves through the remnants of Halley’s comet.

Bright idea

Restaurants have adapted to local lockdowns with curbside and drive-thru services, so it’s no surprise that other businesses are following suit. Minx Gentlemen’s Club in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is offering drive-thru pole dances and other entertainment in a makeshift outdoor space, according to The Sun. Dancers were showered with bills or grabbed their tips using a trash picker to reach into vehicles as patrons enjoyed the performances from the safety of their cars. Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, Little Darlings is offering completely nude drive-up strip teases. “Guests can drive up to the front door, and we’re going to have dancers separated by the 6-foot separation

rule, and (customers) can enjoy a totally nude “testing the government” and was upset that show right from the seat of their car,” a Little they had not responded more promptly. He Darlings spokesperson told KSNV. told agents he had no weapons and would not make any more threatening tweets, but as the day wore on, Kowalczyk taunted the FBI Alarming headline In Clocolan, Free State Province, South in further posts, disparaging the agency and Africa, where the now-seven-week-long police for their slow response. On May 12, he lockdown includes a ban on buying or selling was arrested and charged with transmitting a alcoholic beverages, thieves broke into the threat to injure, which is punishable by up to Rest in Peace funeral parlor and made off with five years in prison. four gallons of exhumation liquid, the Daily Mail reported on May 12. The fluid, used to Paying the price preserve body parts that have been exhumed, Restaurants in West Plains, Missouri, is 97% alcohol, police spokesperson Brigadier endured a social media storm in early May Motansi Makhele said, and the burglars had to after a customer posted a photo of a receipt break through roller blinds and into a locked that included a “Covid 19 Surcharge.” But steel cabinet to get to the liquid. A forensic the restaurants pushed back, according to officer predicted: “If the thieves drink that KY3. “It’s not a tax. It’s basically just a small liquid without watering it right down, then percentage to cover all of our extra expenses,” they will drop dead themselves.” said Bootleggers BBQ owner Brian Staack.

Kiko Japanese Steakhouse manager Sarah Sherwood said prices on most items have Questionable judgment Joseph Todd Kowalczyk, 20, tweeted at doubled, and Ozark Cafe co-owner Heather the FBI on May 10, threatening that he had Hughes confirmed: “Every day there’s “10 bombs ready to go off ... in my basement something else [food suppliers] can’t get or ... come get me you guys have till 8 before I the prices have gone up exorbitantly.” The make this city in my own little hell #forwaco.” restaurateurs say it’s easier to add the 5 percent The FBI determined the tweet came from surcharge than constantly change the menus, a mobile home park in Clinton Township, and they’ve been upfront with customers, Michigan, according to The Detroit News, using signs and notes in their menus. While and officers showed up at Kowalczyk’s home the initial response was surprise, Sherwood the next day, where he explained that he was says the community has “really come together

to support the local businesses.”

Florida

A Mother’s Day bouquet became a weapon during an altercation in Pinellas County, Florida, early on May 11. Sandra Kay Webb, 32, allegedly became angry with her husband because he bought flowers for her children to give her for Mother’s Day. The Smoking Gun reported that Webb threw the bouquet at her husband and hit him with it, then spit on him.

Webb was charged with domestic battery; she admitted throwing the flowers, but denied the spitting.

Sign of the times

In South America, some families of people who have died of Covid-19 have had to wait days for a coffin, either because of the short supply or they were unable to afford one, the Associated Press reported on May 8. In response, ABC Displays, a Colombian advertising company, has developed a cardboard hospital bed with metal railings that can be converted into a coffin. The beds can hold a weight of 330 pounds and will cost about $85 each, company manager Rodolfo Gomez said. He plans to donate 10 beds and hopes to receive orders for more from emergency clinics that might run short on beds.

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