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With Father’s Day right around the corner (Sunday, June 21), I thought I would do some Googling to find out how the day became a thing. The internet told me that shortly after the establishment of Mother’s Larry Marsolais Day in the United States, Father’s Day was also conceived as a day to honor the hard work of fathers and men in general. In 1910 (one year after the establishment of Mother’s Day) Father’s Day was founded in Spokane Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd and celebrated on June 19, 1910. It did not have much success initially; in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson tried to make it official. President Calvin Coolidge recommended it in 1924 but it was defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith accused Congress of ignoring

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fathers for 40 years. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. But it took six more years for the day to become a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.

Wow! Speaking as a dad, I am glad things worked out! This is a great opportunity to make your dad feel special. Celebrate how you want, and remember that Father’s Day is a time to recognize fathers and father figures who have influenced a person’s life.

As always, I would love to hear from our readers. Feel free to call me any time at 603935-5096 to discuss local issues or to place an ad.

Larry Marsolais is the general manager of the Seacoast Scene and the former president of the Hampton Rotary Club.

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BY MATT INGERSOLL

A view from The River House in Portsmouth. Courtesy photo.

With Seacoast beaches now open for recreational activities and sunbathing and lounging — following safe social distancing practices — restaurants on and near the beaches are looking forward to opening or expanding their services in the coming weeks. Along with the currently allowed limited outdoor dining, restaurants will also be able to reopen indoors at 50 percent capacity starting June 15. Ocean Boulevard along Hampton Beach, meanwhile, remains closed to traffic through Labor Day. All of these guidelines have been approved by Sununu’s Economic Reopening Taskforce, and John Nyhan, president of the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce, is one of its members.

“The reopening of the beaches … is going to help these businesses tremendously, and I think what you’re seeing is a much more calming and relaxing environment with the street being shut down,” Nyhan said. “Indoor dining is also going to be a significant SEACOAST SCENE | JUNE 11 - 17, 2020 | PAGE 4

addition for those that just don’t have that ability to [offer] it outside.”

Since the start of the pandemic, Nyhan said, the Chamber has been working with local businesses to support their reopening, extending its services beyond its members.

The Chamber created a website, hacocchelpingeachother.com, which details information for visitors on who is open, including which restaurants are open for outdoor dining, delivery, takeout and curbside pickup. As of press time, Nyhan said the website is being updated to include indoor dining as well.

Several restaurateurs in Hampton, Rye and Seabrook and Salisbury, Mass., talk about their decisions to reopen or stay closed, plus the unique measures taken amid the current climate.

Cantina. Co-owner Nicole Garza said that the popular Mexican restaurant was having success with curbside pickup in May. But once the street closed, Lupe’s transitioned to outdoor dining for the first time, with nearly a dozen firstcome, first-served seats.

“It’s definitely been a roller coaster.

Everything seems to change all the time, but we’ve been rolling with it and hoping for the best,” Garza said.

Several modifications have been made to the menu, including the addition of family-sized “party packs” to-go for tacos, burritos and nachos, as well as empanadas as regular items, with fillings like steak and cheese, chicken and cheese and vegetable.

“We were only doing the empanadas once a week last year,” Garza said.

Other restaurants on the Boulevard have been taking full advantage of DECKED OUT outdoor dining these last few weeks.

The closing of Ocean Boulevard on Less than a week after beginning June 1 directly impacted some eateries takeout, Sea Ketch opened all three of on the street itself, like Lupe’s 55 its outside decks on May 21, serving its

complete lunch and dinner menus. Just down the road, McGuirk’s Ocean View Restaurant & Lounge opened outdoors on June 4.

Bernie’s Beach Bar, which also opened on May 21, added more than a dozen tables on its deck, in an area normally reserved for music, cornhole and outdoor activities.

“I think when people come to Bernie’s, they come more to be outside anyway,” said Mike Thomas, one of the managers. “We were fortunate enough that we had a pretty huge outdoor space.”

Behind the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, The Purple Urchin Restaurant reopened on May 22 for outdoor dining, owner Casey Anderson said.

The Beach Plum, with restaurants in North Hampton, Portsmouth and Epping, has outside dining, curbside pickup and delivery within a fiveto 10-mile radius of each location, according to marketing director

Atlantic Grill Patio in Rye. Courtesy photo.

Lorraine Petrini. All three Las Olas Taqueria restaurants — in Hampton, Exeter, and Wells, Maine — are also open for online ordering and curbside pickup, through the Toast Takeout app.

On Lafayette Road in Hampton, WHYM Craft Pub & Brewery has had success with its own unique system since reopening for outdoor dining on May 18.

“We developed a completely contactless experience, in which people order and cash out all from their mobile devices,” WHYM co-owner Alex Aviles said. “There are no printed menus, and all of our flatware and plates … are disposable, so it’s kind of all in a one-direction system.”

Aviles added that a different “word of the day” is posted to WHYM’s website, whym.beer, as a way to ensure customers acknowledge the safety protocols.

“It’s kind of like a password,” he said. “We don’t require that everybody who comes to dine with us knows it, just at least one person in each party.”

Nearly two dozen tables under tents have been set up in WHYM’s parking lot. Because having disposable plates and cutlery eliminates more than half of all the dishwashing, Aviles said it’s given his kitchen staff the opportunity to make new additions to its culturally inspired New American Fusion menu.

Last month WHYM acquired its brewery license, its next step toward an ongoing project to operate its own seven-barrel brewing system.

“We’ve added shrimp lo mein, which has been a popular dish,” Aviles said.

“We also added a smoked brisket steak

and cheese on a Piantedosi sub roll, and we’ve done a hot chicken sandwich with a Caribbean-style Buffalo sauce. All of those have been pretty hot items.”

Over in Rye, Kooks Cafe & Beach Shop began operating seven days a week on June 5, after being open for limited hours the previous two weekends, owner Giorgia Nagle said.

Its second season underway of offering creative takes on street tacos and smoothie bowls, Kooks is in the former spot of The Beach Hut and The Shack Surf Shop, steps away from Pirates Cove beach.

“We’re pretty much built for outdoor seating and counter service, and so far it’s been a great experience,” Nagle said. “We have the tables spread out six feet apart, so now they wrap around the building a little bit … and onto a little grass area on the side.”

New additions to Kooks this year include beer, wine and light liquor, as well as the addition of local food trucks. Nagle said she recently received approval from the Town of Rye to host a different truck at least a few times each week. The adjoining surf shop, meanwhile, remains closed until further notice, she added.

Peter Labrie, who co-owns both the Atlantic Grill in Rye and The River House in Portsmouth with his brother Mike, said both eateries are open for outdoor dining as of May 21. Customers must make reservations online or over the phone and must wear masks at all times other than when seated at their tables. Masks are given out at no charge for anyone who needs them.

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have the capacity that we do … because The River House and the Atlantic Grill have both always been focused on outdoor seating as a business plan,” Labrie said. “We’re finding efficiencies in areas we’ve never looked at before too.”

In Seabrook, Castaways Seafood & Grille is another spot that has made the most of its large outdoor dining space.

The eatery opened for the season on May 22.

“We probably have some of the largest decks on the beach, so we were able to … still have quite a bit of seating for people upstairs or downstairs,” Castaways owner Ted Mountzuris said.

“You can still sit on the deck, look over Seabrook Harbor and feel like you’re on vacation. … We also took away all the seats around the bars and put four seats around each of our eight firepits.”

For the first time this year, Castaways has also been offering a limited selection of options out of a takeout window, including pre-packaged meals ready to heat and serve.

Ceal’s Clam Stand and Brown’s Lobster Pound, two other popular Seabrook eateries, are also open now. Ceal’s, which opened on June 5, is encouraging customers to call in their order while its staff works on implementing an online ordering system.

Smokin’ Barrels in Rye is one of the few seasonal restaurants that will not be opening this year. However, co-owner Michael Ayotte said the longterm plan is for the southern barbecue spot to return in the fall as a year-round restaurant, either in Rye or another nearby Seacoast town.

announced Phase 2 of the state’s fourphase economic reopening plan, which is further divided into two steps.

Under Step 1, restaurants were allowed to resume outdoor dining as of June 8. At a later date to be determined, indoor dining will be allowed under Step 2, likely in a limited capacity to start out with. Beaches in Massachusetts reopened on May 25.

Portside Waterfront Kitchen & Bar is one Salisbury restaurant that has already reopened for outdoor service this week. General Manager Margaret Bucknill said Portside has room for several tables on its deck, as well as around 50 seats under its covered patio.

“We’re on the Merrimack River, so the view … is definitely one of our big selling points,” Bucknill said. “We’re just rolling out a summer cocktail menu right now too.”

Kathy Aiello of the Atlantic Hospitality Group, which owns Seaglass Restaurant and Lounge and Capri Seaside Italian Grille & Bar, said that as of June 8, a limited outdoor dining menu has been available at SurfSide, an 8,000-square foot oceanfront deck adjacent to Seaglass that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. It will be open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Labor Day. Reservations are encouraged and can be made through OpenTable. Even with tables spaced six feet apart, Aiello said, the deck can still seat about 150 diners.

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Escape rooms have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, but some have come up with creative ways to keep players engaged while their doors are closed.

Five New Hampshire escape rooms — NH Granite State Escape in Manchester, Break Free 603 in Amherst, Monkey Mind Escape Rooms in Portsmouth, Mystery NH in North Conway and Time Quest NH in Littleton — are among 25 escape rooms from around New England that have come together to develop a free, at-home virtual escape room experience for players.

“We have to remind people that we’re still here and, ideally, will still be here at the end of [the pandemic],” Beth Scrimger of Mystery NH Escape Rooms said.

“Hopefully, it will give people a glimpse into an escape room they weren’t familiar with before so they [think], ‘I can’t wait until it opens again.’”

The escape room concept originated as a subgenre of point-and-click video games in which the player is locked in a room and must find his way out using only the objects within the room. Reallife escape rooms have various types of objectives, based on a theme or backstory, that involve finding clues and solving puzzles around the room.

The theme for the virtual escape room experience is “Everyday Superheroes: Always Saving Our Butts.” As the story goes, an evil villain named Dr. T.P. Rolls has snuck into town in the middle of the night and stolen every last roll of toilet paper.

“He’s cleared out every bathroom, linen closet, and store shelf and brought the stash to his hidden toilet paper warehouse,” reads the story description on the New England Room Escapes website. “Your help is desperately needed! Assemble a

team of everyday superheroes — from doctors to police officers to teachers — to find the secret lair and Save Our Butts!”

“There are so many people out there keeping our world turning right now,” Scrimger said. “Teachers, farmers, [mail delivery] drivers, grocery store [workers] — they are our everyday superheroes, so we decided to come up with a story that honors them.”

To play, visit the NERE website, where you’ll find links to each virtual escape room on the participating escape rooms’ respective websites. Each virtual escape room is unique and features different objectives and puzzles.

“The escape rooms have all developed their own concepts with their own flair,” Scrimger said. “Some are really challenging; some are super simple. Some require you to write things down on a piece of paper to solve the puzzle, or you have to complete a certain task to make something else happen.”

Upon completing an escape room, you’ll be given the name of an occupation of an everyday hero. That occupation is your “key.” Return to the NERE website and input the key for that escape room to receive credit. Players who complete all 25 escape rooms by June 30 will receive discount codes to use at those escape rooms once they reopen for business and will be entered for a chance to win the grand prize: two tickets for one free game at each of those escape rooms.

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CAR TALK

Should I get a Hyundai Kona?

Dear Car Talk: I’m a huge fan of your radio show, and I still listen to it today!

While I was in college, I received my first car; a blue, 2011 Ford Fiesta.

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By Ray Magliozzi loving relationship, it has turned into a “meh, it gets me from point A to B relationship.”

The transmission in this car is horrible to the point Ford had to extend the warranty for up to 150,000 miles (I’m at 70k).

If I were to move on from the Fiesta to a crossover of some sort, what would you suggest? I personally really love the looks of the Hyundai Kona, but haven’t test-driven one yet.

— Your Fan, Alex We like the Kona, too, Alex.

We’ve also learned over many years of answering car questions that when people ask us whether they should buy a certain car, what they really want from us is positive reinforcement.

So when an orthodontist having a mid-life crisis writes to ask us whether the Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio is a reliable car for him and his young dental assistant, we swallow hard and tell him he’ll love it and he’ll never need his AAA

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In your case, positive reinforcement is easy, Alex, because we actually do like the Kona. It’s reasonably priced, fun to drive for a crossover, well laid out ergonomically, practical and versatile. (And Hyundai promised to send us our check this month.)

We consider it a little bit noisy inside, but not out of line compared with other small, inexpensive cars. And compared with a 10-yearold Ford Fiesta, it’s going to feel like a sensory deprivation tank, Alex.

It comes standard with at least a couple of the safety features we consider absolutely mandatory these days — forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking. To get the equally important blind spot warning system, you’ll have to step up from the lowest trim level.

And safety is as good a reason as any to upgrade your ride, Alex. The Fiesta is tiny. And overall structural safety has improved in the years since your Fiesta was designed. And that’s not even taking into account the new, electronic safety features like the ones we list above.

So if you can manage it financially, sell your Fiesta to another needy college student who will mostly use it to get around campus at low speeds. And get yourself the Kona. Send us a picture of you in it.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2015 Nissan Frontier. It only has 57,000 miles and does not leak or burn oil, to my knowledge. I take it to a reputable national oil-change place every 3,000 miles for oil and filter. I have never checked the dipstick right after the oil change, as I assume that is being done professionally.

They now tell me I have “blow-by” on my air filter. I looked in my truck’s owner’s manual, and it said my vehicle takes 5.3 quarts. The past two repair slips say they put in 6.1 quarts and 5.8 quarts, respectively.

When I told them this, they drained out a bit of oil for me and gave me a new air filter. But could this “blow-by” be a result of them overfilling the oil, or is it something else? — Bob For those who aren’t familiar with the term, “blow-by” doesn’t mean what happens when you’re waiting for the bus on a winter morning, and the driver doesn’t see you and blows right by the stop.

Blow-by is when exhaust gasses from inside the cylinders sneak past the piston rings, and get into your crankcase.

A little bit of blow-by takes place in every engine — even a new one. And normally, it’s not a problem. There’s a system called the PCV — positive crankcase ventilation — that regularly removes exhaust gasses from your crankcase by sending them back into cylinders to be burned.

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And from your experience over a lifetime of eating beans, Bob, I’m sure you know what eventually happens when gasses build up in your combustion chamber.

That’s right, they find their way out! And in the case of blow-by, they push back through the air intake, and contaminate your air filter (which, I guess, is kind of like your car’s BVD system).

So if you’re seeing extensive oil on your air filter, the most likely cause is a stuck PCV valve — especially on a reasonably young engine like yours.

Overfilling the crankcase by half a quart or so is nowhere near enough to cause this problem.

On older engines, excessive blow-by can be caused by piston rings that are all worn out and let too much stuff get by them. And that’s a much more serious, and expensive, problem.

But I think that’s unlikely in your case.

A new PCV valve for your truck costs about $10 online. And it’s really easy to change —t I think it just sticks into one of the valve covers.

If you’re so inclined, you can buy one, take it out of the box, and then spend a Saturday afternoon trying to find a part that looks just like it on the top of your engine, and swap it out.

Or just let your mechanic replace it for you.

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AT THE PURPLE URCHIN A seasonal eatery on the second floor of the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom that overlooks the Seashell Stage, The Purple Urchin (169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 601-2921, purpleurchin603.com) has been serving up a well-rounded menu of fresh seafood, steaks, burgers and house cocktails for more than two decades. Exeter native Casey Anderson purchased the restaurant from longtime owners Maura and Jake Fleming back in March and, with the help of his brother Ryan, has been getting it ready for the season. Chef Steven Diaz, who comes from the Dominican Republic, incorporates a few Latin American-inspired dishes into the menu, like homemade paella and grilled skirt steak with a house marinade and chimichurri sauce. Due to Covid-19, The Purple Urchin is currently open for takeout and outdoor dining on its patio only, with specific points of access designated for entering and exiting. The Scene recently caught up with Anderson to talk about what his first season of owning The Purple Urchin has been like so far and some of his personal favorite dishes on the menu.

How long has The Purple Urchin been around?

The Purple Urchin has been here for 25 years. I bought it on March 12. I think it was the day before or two days before the [World Health Organization] considered [Covid-19 to be] a pandemic. We opened [for the season] on May 22 … and we’ve been very fortunate and humbled by the overwhelming support we’ve received so far.

What makes The Purple Urchin unique?

I think it’s definitely the atmosphere that makes us different. We have a roof outdoors so that you’re not sitting out in the sun baking on hot days. We’re also connected to the boardwalk, which is very convenient, and we have the best views of the fireworks and the entire beach. Being attached to the Ballroom, we can cater to the crowds coming in to see shows there.

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The Purple Urchin in Hampton. Courtesy photos.

What is your personal favorite dish?

There are so many. The tuna tartare is probably up there. The crabmeat stuffed haddock and the lobster rolls are also delicious.

of your employees and surrounding yourself with talent. Any manager or business owner will tell you that you’re only as good as your employees, and we have great employees and great talent here.

What is a dish everyone should try?

The lobster rangoons, or either the coconut What is your favorite thing about being shrimp or the Bang Bang shrimp. on the Seacoast?

The beaches. Maybe it’s just out of What is an essential skill to running a nostalgia, but my favorite memories as a kid restaurant? are of going to the New Hampshire beaches.

This is across the board for any type of There is no other place I’d rather be in the business, but it’s being able to get the most out summertime than here. — Matt Ingersoll

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TRY THIS AT HOME Tropical fruit stack The weather finally is turning to the warmth of summer. Although we, as New Hampshirites, are excited for the increased temperature, we also will be complaining about how hot and humid it is in the very near future. With that in mind, I have created a dish that welcomes the arrival of summer while keeping one cool.

Allow me to introduce to you the tropical fruit stack. While its name may make you think that it’s a sweet dish, it actually has a nice balance between sweet, savory, salty and even a little bit of spice. Yes, it’s all of the taste categories in one dish. Additionally, it has a nice balance between tender and crunchy, so what’s not to like?

This is a simple dish to Tropical fruit stack. Photo by Michele Pesula Kuegler. make, but because of its simplicity you also need to be mindful can work, if you cut off the bottom. You when purchasing your ingredients. All also could cut the bottom off a large of the produce needs to be fully ripened, disposable plastic cup and use it with the as it won’t spend any time cooking or widest part as the bottom of your mold.

With fresh ingredients and your tool macerating to highlight its flavors. If you can only find under-ripe produce, that’s acquired, you’re ready to make a dish fine. The mango and avocado can be that’s sure to wow. It’s pretty easy to ripened by placing them in a paper bag make, elegant to view and refreshing to on the counter for a day or two. The same eat. Summer dining doesn’t get much is supposed to work with pineapples, better than that.

Michele Pesula Kuegler has been although I’ve never tried that.

You may hesitate to try this recipe thinking about food her entire life. Since because you need a ring mold. However, 2007, the New Hampshire resident has there are many substitutes for a ring been sharing these food thoughts and mold. You can make one out of aluminum recipes at her blog, Think Tasty. Please foil. If you buy your pineapple whole but visit thinktasty.com to find more of her with the skin removed, that container recipes.

Tropical Fruit Stack Serves 2 1 1/3 cup diced pineapple 1/2 teaspoon chili powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 avocado 1 teaspoon lime juice 1 cup diced mango 2 tablespoons finely chopped salted macadamia nuts In a small bowl combine pineapple, chili powder, and salt.

Stir until pineapple is fully coated.

Remove skin and pit from avocado.

Place avocado and lime juice in a small bowl.

Using a fork, mash until avocado is creamy.

Place a 4-inch ring mold on a small plate.

Spoon half of the pineapple mixture evenly as the bottom layer.

Spread half of the mashed avocado on top of the pineapple.

Spoon half of the diced mango over the avocado.

Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of macadamia nuts over the mango.

Carefully remove mold, and repeat for second serving.

Serve immediately.

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Wine offers comfort when linked to good food. While we must limit our traveling, we can still take walks, and yes, the grocery stores are open, takeout is available, and the New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets remain open. We can fight isolation by purchasing takeout or preparing a great meal at home that, when coupled with good wine, turns into a banquet for one or two (but definitely fewer than 10).

One of my favorite white wines is Delille Cellars Chaleur Estate Blanc, 2015, regularly priced at $34.99, and reduced to $17.99. It is a blend of 73 percent sauvignon blanc and 27 percent semillon. This wine has complexity, diverse aromas and classic structure.

The color is straw-white; its nose opens with air and begins to yield a scent of preserved lemons. 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 or shellfish, and rich, medium aged cow’s and sheep’s milk cheeses. This wine is an excellent pairing to chicken tenders.

Do you consider pizza one of the four food groups? The Cline Meadowbrook Ranch Vineyard Zinfandel 2014, regularly priced at $59.99, and reduced to $27.99, is the perfect wine to pair with a hearty white or red pizza, with meat or vegetable toppings. This wine comes from grapes grown on the red volcanic soil of Tehama County, northeast of Mendocino National Forest, California.

Jim Gordon of Wine Enthusiast magazine gave this wine 89 points: “Brawny and tasty at the same time, this combines oak, vanilla and cherry aromas with very full body, ripe and broad boysenberry flavors and firm tannins. The texture is firm and tannic, making it a good counterpoint to

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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.

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FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

Spelling the Dream (TV-G)

Competitors and their families hoping to reach the Scripps National Spelling Bee discuss competitive spelling and why Indian-American kids have had such success in the Bee in recent years in the Netflix documentary Spelling the Dream.

Somewhere in the first minute or so of this upbeat, inspirational movie about kids and their families (often with parents who immigrated from India) realizing dreams, I got a little verklempt over the scene of eight spellers being named co-champions of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The kids’ joy, their parents’ joy — it’s an infectious shot of happiness at the beginning of the documentary, which actually follows kids preparing for the 2017 Scripps Bee. We meet Akash (who, at 7, has many Bee years ahead of him), Shourav (who at 14 is at the end of his Bee career), Ashrita (who is 10) and Tejas (also 14). In interviews with them and their families we learn how they got interested in spelling,

AT THE

SOFAPLEX Musical-ish edition

The new movie Military Wives isn’t a musical but it has a fair amount of music and singing in it.

Here is a quick look at this film as well as a few others with music at their core.

Military Wives (PG-13) Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan.

The wives on a military base in the U.K. form a choir mostly as a form of getting their minds off of their spouses’ deployments in this feelgood film that itself references Sister Act. I’ve seen stories that make a Full Monty comparison and I also had thoughts of Calendar Girls (the 2003 film where members of a village’s women’s club pose nude, cheekily, for a fundraising calendar). Horgan plays the wife of a master sergeant who is responsible for leading the wives’ social events; Thomas plays a colonel’s wife who sort of horns in on those duties to keep her from dwelling on the loss of a soldier son as well as the absence

Spelling the Dream. Courtesy photo.

how they study and a bit about their family backgrounds. The documentary explains that Indian-American kids have won the Bee 12 years in a row.

Families and commentators speculate about why: that younger siblings get interested from hearing older siblings prepare, that spelling bees are prominent in Southeast Asian-American parenting culture, that growing up in a household

of her husband. Though Thomas isn’t impressed with Horgan’s song choices and Horgan doesn’t really want to do the choir at all, they slowly come together and are able to lead the women to some success (measured both in “having fun” and in recognition for actual music-making skill).

The movie has a light touch — maybe too light. While we get a fair amount about the camaraderie between the various women — highlighting the stories of the two leads as well as Amy JamesKelly, who plays a young wife, and Gaby French, a shy woman with a standout voice — the movie doesn’t get too deep into anybody’s story except maybe Thomas’. Nor does it do the other thing I thought it was doing for maybe the first third, which is highlighting the generational difference between Thomas’ version of a military wife’s duty and the younger women. The movie sort of puts out a pleasant spread of all of these things but lets you choose what you’re interested in and otherwise skates by on the skill and affability of Thomas and Horgan. Like a supermarket dessert tray full of cookies and mini-brownies, Military Wives is low pressure comfort food. B-

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where kids are fluent in many different languages might prime kids to more actively think about words and language derivation. (You can see the kids doing the mental math when they ask spelling bee officials for the language of origin of a word: if it’s from this language, this sound is likely spelled with this mix of letters. It’s a fun element of the movie and one that helps to underline the

literary, geographic and even artistic, sides of spelling, which I think often gets treated more like rote mechanics.)

The movie also demonstrates the importance of representation and talks to Balu Natarajan, a doctor who in 1985 was the first kid from a Southeast Asian background to win the Bee. Adults like CNN’s Sanjay Gupta and Fareed Zakaria, ESPN’s Kevin Negandhi (doing excellent sports commentary as the documentary focuses on the final competition) and comedian Hari Kondabolu discuss the wider cultural impact of Indian-American kids’ competition and victories in the Bee. This movie is very G-rated, perfectly acceptable for a reading-and-writinglevel elementary schooler, if you can get them interested (which, any academic-ish port in a learning-free quarantine-era storm). “Hey, come watch this movie about kids having fun, being on ESPN and winning trophies! mumble mumble spelling” is how I plan to sell it to my kids. B+ Rated TV-G by Netflix, where it is streaming, Spelling the Dream is an hour and 22 minutes long and directed

by Sam Rega.

Released in May via video on that requires her to be home by 7 demand, it’s available for rent or p.m. and a difficult relationship with her mother, played by Julie purchase and on Hulu.

Walters, who was raising her children when Rose-Lynn was *Wild Rose (R, 2019) in prison. She starts work as a Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters.

A woman continues to chase her housecleaner for a woman played dreams of country stardom despite by Sophie Okonedo who helps the hurdles of living in Scotland, push her to get noticed, though isn’t completely being recently released from Rose-Lynn prison and trying to reconnect honest about all aspects of her with (and financially support) her life. Buckley makes Rose-Lynn two kids in this 2019 movie which imperfect and frequently selfhad a song — “Glasgow” — on defeating but also charming the Oscar shortlist (which you can and surprisingly optimistic and find at oscars.org/oscars/92nd- there is a believable approach oscars-shortlists, and features to the character and her growth. the sort of semi-finalist round of (Buckley was nominated for a Oscar hopefuls in nine categories; BAFTA for the role.) The movie it’s worth checking out if you’re makes good use of the music looking for 2019 movies you and conveying why country, may have missed). Buckley plays specifically, matters so much to Rose-Lynn, who leaves prison Rose-Lynn. A Available for rent with fellow inmates cheering her or purchase and on Hulu. on about being the next Dolly *Sing Street (PG-13, 2016) Parton. The twentysomething Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Jack Rose-Lynn has a standout voice and has been singing with her Reynor.

Fans of writer/director John band at Glasgow’s only country bar since she was 14. But she Carney and his films Once (2007) doesn’t have a clear sense of how and Begin Again (2013) need to to follow her musical dreams check out this 2016 tale of teenage (other than a vague idea that she boy Conor (Walsh-Peelo), in 1985 needs to go to Nashville). What Dublin, Ireland, who forms a band she does have is an apartment, because he has told a girl he likes, bills to pay, an ankle monitor Lucy Boynton as Raphina, that he

has a band. As with those other movies, Sing Street (which Carney directs and co-writes) has a real love of music and its creation.

Not only is Conor smitten with Raphina, he quickly becomes smitten with the act of song creation, which he does with the help of his somewhat directionless older brother (Reynor) and his new school buddies (including Eamon, played Mark McKenna, who loves music and his pet rabbits unselfconsciously).

There is a real joy in how the extremely minor (especially in the beginning) talents of the group of young teens come together to form a band with music that skillfully riffs on variations of mid-1980s music. The movie is also delightfully funny and filled with strong supporting performances, including Aiden Gillen and Maria Doyle Kennedy as Conor’s parents. A Available for rent or purchase. Fun fact: a musical based on the movie was set to open on Broadway a few months ago. Wikipedia says it is now slated to open in the fall, at the earliest. Both a film soundtrack and an original cast recording are available for sale now.

POP CULTURE BOOKS

The pandemic has forced publishers to delay the release of dozens of books that didn’t seem appropriate to bring to market as a potentially deadly respiratory disease was spreading.

No such problem for Breath, journalist James Nestor’s examination of how generations of us became mouth-breathers, and how the practice is ruining our looks and our health. You with the sleep apnea. Me with the perpetually clogged sinuses. Nestor bids us to breathe only through our nose, “the gatekeeper of our bodies, pharmacist to our minds and weather vanes to our emotions,” and to adopt a pace of inhaling and exhaling that comprises what he calls “the perfect breath.”

There’s a formula that seems to show God likes math: Inhale 5.5 seconds, exhale 5.5 seconds equals 5.5 breaths a minute, for a total consumption of about 5.5 liters of air.

Some years ago, Nestor became interested in a subset of extreme athletes called freedivers, people who can hold their breath for more than five minutes and dive deep in the ocean without breathing equipment. His exploration of that culture led to 2014’s Deep, Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves. He also took a class in mindful breathing that, while boring at the time, resulted in more focus and calm the next day.

So he began studying super-breathers, people who believe that how we breathe is intimately connected to how healthy we are, and noticing the differences between them and ordinary people who can hold their breath for maybe 20 seconds without thinking they’re going to explode.

And he concluded that most of us don’t really know how to breathe, even though we do it 50,000 times a day. We breathe sloppily, through whatever orifice happens to be open at the time. We take short, shallow breaths, many more times a minute than necessary. We can breathe like this, but we’re not meant to, Nestor argues. And the combination of a soft, modern diet that doesn’t require energetic chewing, and poor breathing habits, is rearranging our skulls, not for the better, he says.

This is not a new idea. In 1862, an artist named George Catlin traveled through reservations of native Americans and documented their remarkable good health and straight teeth, which in his book The Breath of Life he attributed to breathing only through the nose. The native Americans, like other civilizations 1,000 years before Christ, were convinced that mouth breathing led to ill health. Mothers would watch their sleeping babies and gently pinch their mouths closed if they opened, so children would grow into adults who only breathed through their noses.

If this seems weird, you should know that there live among us modern humans who put a piece of tape on their mouths before going

to bed at night, to achieve the same goal. For a while, Nestor was among them.

As part of his research, he became half of a two-subject study to monitor the effects of spending 10 days breathing only through his mouth, and then 10 days breathing only through his nose.

Nestor emerged from his experiment convinced that the ancients were right, that we sacrifice much of our health and vitality by ignoring the quiet, constant intake of air, which we take for granted until our capacity becomes diminished. Research has shown that we absorb 18 percent more oxygen when we breathe through our nose than through our mouth. Air taken in through the nostrils is substantively different from air processed through the mouth.

Believers include a Silicon Valley dentist

who tells his patients that chronic mouth breathing causes periodontal disease, cavities and bad breath and suggests that they use “sleep tape” on their mouth at night to break the habit, and a woman convinced that breathing therapy can heal scoliosis, among other conditions.

The modern tendency to breathe with both the nose and the mouth has effects beyond our perpetually clogged noses. Our nasal cavity atrophies when it’s not robustly used, and even our lungs suffer when we’re not using them to their potential; they further deteriorate with age. But, according to Nestor, and the Tibetians, “The internal organs are malleable, and we can change them at nearly any time.”

Exercise helps, and so does proper breathing, which can also decrease anxiety and improve sleep, among myriad other improvements, Nestor promises. It did for him, although he warns that there is no breathing exercise that can dissolve an embolism or heal cancer. In short, better breathing can improve your life, but not save it.

“The glories of nasal breathing” is not the sexiest topic, but Nestor is persuasive and his narrative sings, at least for the first hundred or so pages. Later, he drills down into techniques he calls Breathing+, which he admits is a sort of “respiratory gauntlet” and not nearly as appealing as shutting your mouth and counting to 5½.

But in a culture where some of us are so perpetually stressed and distracted that we forget to breathe for a half-minute — a phenomenon known as “email apnea” — we could use a breathing coach. Breath suggests that we should all shut our mouth, but for eating and brushing our teeth.

B+ — Jennifer Graham

BOOK NOTES For a couple of pleasant hours during the last week of May, it looked like the nation was going to turn its eyes to … birdwatching.

Before rage over the death of George Floyd exploded nationwide, rage over Amy Cooper’s tirade against birdwatcher Christian Cooper in Central Park had spun off a delightful Twitter diversion, #Blackbirdersweek.

The virtual celebration was begun by a Georgia grad student, Corina Newsome, who studies seaside sparrows. It was quickly eclipsed by other, more momentous events, but in times of trauma there seems something healing in putting down the phone and picking up the binoculars. And there are a couple of new books out to assist.

Celebrated nature writer Jennifer Ackerman’s The Bird Way is an examination of how birds “talk, work, play, parent and think” (Penguin, 368 pages). And Massachusetts naturalist David Allen Sibley has a new guide called What It’s Like to Be Bird (Knopf, 240 pages). And Todd Telander has written a new

Falcon Pocket Guide called Birds of New England (Falcon Guides, 192 pages).

Useful as they are, none of these are selling as well as the new Hunger Games prequel, Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

Meanwhile, it’s not as useful as a $1,200 stimulus check, but Publishers Weekly, the venerable trade magazine about books and publishing, recently made its digital edition available for free to anyone who signs up on its website. It’s not clear how long this will last; the website says “free during the Covid-19 crisis.” But there’s an extraordinary amount of content that is usually behind a paywall, including current and past bestseller lists and a database of reviews going back to 1895. Not bad in exchange for an email address.

Another pandemic freebie is available from Audible, which has made a collection of children’s stories free “as long as school is on pause.” Go to stories.audible.com.

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While most entertainment venues are still empty, the Seacoast Repertory Theatre is bringing live shows to home screens, including the current run of The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On, through a partnership with Crowdcast.

Dream On is the third installment of a trilogy that follows the trials and tribulations of four high school girls in the 1950s. The stage is set in 1969 as Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy have returned to Springfield High School to celebrate a beloved teacher’s retirement.

“Storywise it’s fluffy and loose, but the music is all super hot. It’s all popular top 40 tunes from the late ’60’s and ’70s that everyone will know and love,” said director Brandon James.

James draws a simile between the girl group and a high school glee club, whose story is carried through the iconic sounds of smash hits in the 20th century. Jukebox classics such as “Build Me Up Buttercup,” “Gimme Some Lovin” and “I Will Survive” are all tunes you can expect to hear in this production.

James says the fluffy lighthearted nature of The Wonderettes paired with popular music is what attracts most people. “That’s the fun of a jukebox musical,” James said.

“It’s like a bag of potato chips as opposed to a dinner… it’s lighthearted and not too heavy, and the star vehicle of the piece is the music.”

Alyssa Dumas, the associate artistic director, plays Betty Jean in this installment of the Wonderettes and encourages everyone to tune in.

“It’s a nice little escape for a couple hours,” Dumas said. “You are still getting to experience a live performance from the comfort of your own home, and one that we hope is uplifting and gives people a little something to look forward to.”

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has generated myriad challenges for the team at The Rep. In response to the stay-athome order declared on March 27 in New Hampshire, James and director Ben Hart revamped their delivery system.

Without a live audience to watch the show, Hart and James had to improvise.

“If this were a cooking show, this would be the ‘make an omelette without eggs’ challenge,” James said, laughing.

The team regrouped and paved numerous pathways for entertainment including a 24-hour radio station that broadcasts Broadway tunes, podcasts and a streaming series of their shows. The new media-based model deemed The Seacoast Repertory Theatre an essential business, allowing the show to go on.

“It’s the responsibility of artists to bring people an escape from the realities of the world,” James said. “To close up shop when people need us the most is not an option for us.”

As a performer, Dumas wanted to make sure this escape was a perfect product.

“You want to do your damnedest for those who can’t,” Dumas said. “You also want to raise the bar for yourself. Instead of seeing this pandemic as a halt in production or creativity, it is quite the opposite. Now is the time to push yourself and create and invent things you never thought possible.”

The theater has since been revamped and retrofitted with camera equipment and production gear, transforming rows of empty seats into an all-encompassing media hub. The essential workers on staff have been following strict guidelines, including social distancing and mandated temperature checks upon entering the theater.

Though the team has faced many challenges in their transformation, they were met with a staggering response from the community. Gift baskets, food,

cleaning supplies, camera equipment, and checks have all appeared on the theater’s doorstep.

“We’ve been lucky enough to keep our nose above water, which in this climate is a massive win … and that’s been because of the community and their support,” James said.

The Rep is offering free streaming to essential frontline workers, senior living facilities, and anyone who has lost their job due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Ticket sales are based on an honor system, determined by the number of people in your household. Tickets start at $20 for one person, $40 for two, and $60 for three or more people. Additionally, there is a slider bar for donations to the team.

Though live audiences will make a return to the theater someday, James said the theater plans to continue livestreaming their performances in the future.

“It has expanded our reach and allowed us to deliver our art, education and service around the globe,” James said. “This will be a new puzzle piece to our business model moving forward.”

Next in the lineup of livestreamed theater is The Andrews Brothers, premiering online on June 27 at 8 p.m. For more information, visit seacoastrep.org.

— Shane Jozitis The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On When: Saturday, June 13, 8 p.m; Sunday, June 14, 2 p.m and 7:30 p.m; Saturday, June 20, 8 p.m, and Sunday, June 21, 7:30 p.m Where: Online at Crowdcast.io Tickets: $20 for one person, $40 for two people, and $60 for three people or more.

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Gemini (May 21 – June 20) More important, think carefully about what’s happening in these fun science fiction movies.

The aliens are moving through this fictional space-time, but, remember, motion implies time. This is why it’s possible to go nowhere fast.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) But why focus on just our galaxy? There are an estimated one to two trillion other galaxies in our observable universe. Look around.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Or, even weirder, we could have lived in a universe where things are not made of tiny particles at all. In such a universe, rocks would just be made of smooth rock stuff that can be cut into smaller and smaller pieces forever, and the knife you use to cut them would be infinitely sharp. But we don’t and it’s your turn to clean the toaster crumbs.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Nobody expects a surfer to understand string theory and compute the motion of 1030 particles in a wave in order to stand up on her surfboard.

Similarly, when you are baking a cake, you wouldn’t want to get the recipe in terms of quarks and electrons. Try not to get bogged down in details.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) If someone told you that your house was somewhere between 2,000 and 1000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000 square feet in size, you would correctly assume that they were mostly guessing.

Actually what they are doing is refusing to guess. If you don’t know, say you don’t know.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) It’s like we’ve been studying an elephant for thousands of years and suddenly we discovered we’ve

been looking only at its tail! Which is still interesting, but it’s nice to know what’s what.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Unfortunately, this means we are 15 orders of magnitude away from examining reality at the Planck length. That means we are probably still missing a lot of detail. How much detail? Imagine if the smallest ruler you ahd or the smallest thing your eye could see was 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1015) meters long. That’s one hundred times bigger than the width of the solar system. If the smallest ruler you had was that long, there would be all sorts of amazing things happening that you would have no clue about. No clue.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) The … total mass of the llama is not just the mass of the stuff inside of it. It also includes the energy that holds that stuff together. You’d be surprised how much energy it takes a llama to hold it together.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) There are objects whose distance from us is growing so fast that light from them will never reach us.

Don’t try to run up the down escalator.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) What could possibly cause the space-time of a small universe to suddenly and absurdly expand twenty-five orders of magnitude? We don’t know. A little imagination may be called for.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) You have to imagine that space has properties and behaviors, and that it reacts to the matter in the universe. You can pinch space, squeeze it, and, yes, even fill it with cilantro. What you do with your space is up to you.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) You know what gravity is. … But do you really understand gravity? You can’t understand everything but you can understand some things if you work at it.

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GREAT PUZZLES OF FIRE Across 1. ‘More Than Words Can Say’ band that had an assumed name?

6. ‘Voices Carry’ __ Tuesday 9. ‘81 Human League album someone double dogged them to make?

13. ‘Signs’ band named after pioneer Nikola 14. ‘Not So Soft’ DiFranco 15. What drum kit nuts & bolts should be so they don’t squeak 16. ‘06 Jerry Lee Lewis album about final guy left on his feet?

(4,3,8) 19. Daniel of Bauhaus

20. Repeated affirmative vote word in Santana ‘Shaman’ jam 21. Ten away from #100 goes w/ Blessthefall’s ‘Five’ 22. Genesis and GTR guitarist (5,7) 26. Guitar store friends that hook you up 27. Kinks invited us to ‘Have A Cuppa __’ 28. Springsteen covered the classic ‘Viva __ Vegas’ 31. Disc categories: __/ __/BluRay (2,3) 34. Bob Dylan ‘Desire’ song about Egyptian goddess, perhaps

35. State school Neil Young sang about 36. ‘Suicide Season’ Bring Me The __ 38. Live ‘Operation Spirit (The __ Of Tradition)’ 40. Barenaked Ladies song named after city in Oklahoma?

41. Tim of Into Eternity has the same name as Pulp Fiction actor 43. Prominent finger used by guitarists 44. Label A&R guy (abbr) 45. New Found Glory sang ‘When I __’ when planning their funeral 46. A cold John Hiatt said his girl has an ‘__ Blue Heart’ 47. Pre-Bob Seger System band 53. UB40 ‘83 album ‘__ Of Love’ 56. 70s ‘Toby’ soul band __- Lites 57. The Cure never believed it and sang ‘This Is A __’ 58. Union Underground song heard on a coast to coast drive? (6,3,6) 62. Buckcherry song about rage?

63. Jerry Lee Lewis ‘__ Hot Memories (Ice Cold Beer)’

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Canadian female solo singer to hit #1 in US 30. ‘Mr Roboto’ rockers 31. Singing star of The Witches Of Eastwick film 32. Neil Young “I’m sorry for the things I’ve __” 33. Failure heard a kerplop and wrote ‘Let It __’ Down 34. AC/DC will ‘Cover You’ (2,3) 1. Book w/legends for the road 35. ‘808s & Heartbreak’ rapper 2. Jerry Lee Lewis “At __ I didn’t West have to hear the closing of the 37. Pre-tour, you may get doctor’s door” these 3. Donovan couldn’t find her so 39. A poor Aerosmith wanted to asked ‘Where __ __’ (2,3) ‘Eat The __’ 4. ‘An Awesome Wave’ __-J 42. Repeated word in 38 Special 5. Chuck Berry’s least favorite ‘84 hit from Nick Nolte movie taxing US uncle?

46. Cat Stevens wanted to let it out 6. ‘Just Another Love’ Tucker and wrote ‘Can’t Keep __ __’ (2,2) 7. ‘01 Papa Roach hit ‘Between 47. __ & The Maytals Angels And __’ 48. Tool & Deep Purple songs w/ 8. Beyond tipsy ‘Zip-Lock’ same title that tell us to shut up and rockers? listen 9. Jerry Lee Lewis “I don’t want 49. Peels off, as in former image her, she __ love me anyway” 50. Pennywise song about UFO 10. ‘12 Slash hit ‘You’re __ __’ visitor, perhaps (1,3) 51. They happen with the mobs 11. Rehearsal space landlord’s due when Axl Rose doesn’t show up to 12. Like bad boy image a gig 15. When late for a gig the 52. Like crowd at big show speeding bus driver said, “We 53. Amphitheater open area might have to step __ __!” (2,2) be in the back, made of grass and 17. Go with “oohs” called this on your ticket 18. Whitesnake took us down 54. Plot unit that a reggae label ‘Slow __ __’ (2,4) grows hemp on, perhaps 23. ‘88 Living Colour ‘Cult Of 55. Drummer Wilk of Audioslave/ Personality’ debut album Rage Against The Machine 24. ‘Someone To Love You’ Ruff 59. Abby Ahmad said to come on __ and ‘__-Me’ 25. Richards of Rolling Stones 60. Like type of great guitar pupil 28. To advance recording money 61. First part of foot that might tap is to do this at sound of good band 29. This Murray is the 1st © 2020 Todd Santos

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Cheeky

Alex Masmej of Paris, France, is a 23-yearold with a strong sense of self-worth. So strong, in fact, that he sold shares of himself via an initial coin offering, or ICO, in April. Masmej sold tokens, called $ALEX, to 30 investors, raising more than $20,000, which he plans to use to move to San Francisco. Investors in $ALEX reportedly receive a share of any money he makes over the next three years, up to $100,000; a vote on some of his life decisions; and promotion from Masmej on his social media channels, Decrypt reported. (He has a whopping 3,200 followers on Twitter and 517 on Instagram.)

“Since there are no legal contracts,” Masmej said, “I can technically run away with the money.” But he won’t because “it will hurt my reputation amongst those very people I need help from. It’s more likely that I just don’t make money and pay back very little.”

Priorities

As rioters looted and vandalized stores and other businesses in Seattle on May 30, one woman, wearing a cloth mask and a backpack, was caught on news cameras calmly walking out of the Cheesecake Factory with a whole cheesecake, adorned with undisturbed strawberries on top. A KIRO news crew captured the footage as others threw bottles of liquor and broke windows. “With everything going on,

sometimes you just have to take a moment to techs didn’t know the right way to position it on the lift. Car owner Jake Anthony posted a treat yourself,” one Twitter user commented. photo of the wrecked hot rod on his Instagram account, where he noted that “I’ve spoken with Oops • Dang those tricky Zoom calls. As at least [GM] executives, I’m not interested in a new 12 government officials met online on May 29 base model.” in Mexico, Sen. Martha Lucia Micher thought her camera was off and changed her top as her Not dead yet The BBC reported that on June 2, railroad colleagues looked on. Micher, 66, issued an apology, saying: “In one part of the session, workers became alarmed after spotting a pair of without realizing and while the camera of my human feet and “no signs of life” near the Chafcomputer was on, I got changed showing my ford Hundred station in Essex, England. The naked torso. ... Thanks to a call from [other] British Transport Police reported that officers senators ... I realized my error.” She went on: who rushed to the scene “found a man in his late “I am a woman who has fought for the left for 30s enjoying some nude sunbathing.” A spokesalmost 40 years and who has occupied various woman for Network Rail punned: “Let me lay public roles in my fervent commitment for the it bare, the railway is not a place to sunbathe. defense of human rights, I am a woman who is Please keep away from the tracks.” Anothnot ashamed of her body.” According to the Dai- er spokesperson said the episode was “not as ly Mail, she blamed the mistake on her lack of uncommon as you might think.” The sunbather received “words of advice” but no citation. technological savvy.

• Car buffs who were able to snag a 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 were lucky: Coronavi- The foreign press rus shut down production before too many of Police in Madrid, Spain, caught up with them could be built. So imagine how angry the a wanted criminal in late May, AFP reportowner of one of the prized autos was when he ed. Nacho Vidal, a porn star, was charged with took his car to a Chevy dealership in Jackson- manslaughter relating to the death of fashville, Florida, for service on June 1 — and the ion photographer Jose Luis Abad last year at car was dropped off the lift. According to Car- Vidal’s country residence. According to authorBuzz, the new ‘Vette has a different weight ities, Abad died after inhaling “venom of the distribution than its predecessors, and service bufo alvarius toad” during the “celebration of

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“Take Two” — one of each to connect.

Across 1 “Interstate Love Song” band, briefly 4 “Fiddler on the Roof” dance 8 Frenzied 14 Some old Chryslers 16 Former Georgian president

Shevardnadze 17 *Pioneering video game company founded in 1972 18 Egyptian goddess of love 19 Like almost all restaurant orders these days

20 Plate 22 Lennon’s second wife 23 *Japanese variation on a frozen dessert 28 Like old wristwatches 30 “I know! Pick me!”

31 Turn bad 32 “Where ___” (song by Beck) 35 “Wow, cool!”

39 *Redundant-sounding title for an “X-Files” agent 42 “I’m Gonna Git You ___” (Keenen Ivory Wayans film) 43 “Clueless” actress Donovan 44 Powerful sphere 45 “___ a Kick Out of You” (Cole Porter song) 47 First name in the 2020 campaign

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a mystic ritual.” The toad, which is native to Mexico and the southwestern U.S., secretes venom containing a powerful psychedelic substance. Police said Vidal and his cohorts have lured people who are “easily influenced, vulnerable or who were seeking help for illnesses or addictions” to the rituals on a regular basis. One of Vidal’s relatives and an employee were also arrested.

Unclear on the concept

Julie Wheeler of Beaver, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in February to health care fraud and faced up to 10 years in prison. So she and her husband, Rodney Wheeler, apparently cooked up a plan to keep her out of jail: On May 31, Rodney and the couple’s 17-year-old son reported that Julie had fallen from the Grandview overlook at the New River Gorge National River. Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and rescue crews began a search for her, including use of a helicopter and rappelling into a jagged canyon, to no avail. After three days of searching, however, Julie turned up — hiding in a closet in her home, WVNS reported.

Now, in addition to the fraud conviction, Julie and Rodney will face multiple charges of conspiracy and giving false information to West Virginia State Police. “It is hard to hide at home,” remarked U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart.

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