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A WORD FROM LARRY
New president for Hampton Rotary I ended my year as president of Hampton Rotary on June 30. It was not the best of years to be president of a Rotary club, but we managed and had a great year anyway! I wanted to share with you our end-of-year Larry Marsolais change-over event recognitions. On June 13, about 50 Hampton Rotary members and their families met our incoming president, Geoff Merrill, at his house in East Kingston and enjoyed a great menu catered by The Old Salt restaurant. This will be the second time around for Geoff, as he was president in 1998. All of us are looking forward to his leadership. I also presented to Danielle Nonamaker
a Paul Harris Fellow (this is a very special award in Rotary) for everything that she has done for Hampton Rotary and stepping up to be our club’s secretary for the new year. Our greatest award that I gave out is “Rotarian of the Year” and that went to Deb Marsolais. She earned it and deserved it! I can’t thank her enough for all of her dedication and hard work during my year as president. She is my wife and club secretary and just an amazing person. We work hard throughout the year doing fundraising so we can give back to our community. This year during everything that was going on in the world, we still gave back over $20,000 to groups that needed help. Congratulations to Geoff and thank you Hampton Rotarians for everything!
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By Caleb Jagoda Mini golf is a classic American pastime, whether the players are teenagers on an awkward first date or parents taking their kids out for some playful competition. Check out these putt-putt places across the Seacoast as they get ready for another hole-in-one-filled summer. SEACOAST SCENE | JULY 8 - 14, 2021 | PAGE 4
Captains Corner
73 Main St., Salisbury 978-465-5700, captainscornerminigolf. com At Captains Corner in Salisbury, family is everything. Run by three generations of the Fortin family since 2003, the family fun center offers batting cages, an arcade, go-karts (which are currently closed because of Covid)
and, of course, an 18-hole pirate-themed miniature golf course. The Fortin family also owns and operates Lena’s Seafood right next door and offers prizes like free meals at the restaurant for a hole-in-one. As Michelle Fleming, manager of Captains Corner, explained, the opportunity to win prizes across the nautically themed 18 holes is one of the defining features of the course, upping the com-
petitive nature for mini golf players hoping to walk away with more than just a boosted ego. “There are different prize holes every day and it changes every day,” Fleming, the daughter of the owners, said. “So you can win a free round for another time, or a T-shirt, or some tokens to the arcade, and again those are different every day. With a hole-in-one on the first
Captain’s Cove Adventure Golf
814 Lafayette Road, Hampton 603-926-5011, smallgolf.com “There aren’t too many businesses where you’re just selling fun, right?” asked Brian Piehler, the owner of Captain’s Cove Adventure Golf in Hampton. “It’s not like it’s high pressure, it’s not stressful — it’s a place where people go to have fun.” Buying Captain’s Cove in 2004 after working at the mini golf course throughout high school and college, Piehler loves running a business solely focused on providing people with an enjoyable, whimsical time. As Captain’s Cove website states, their 18 holes contain “lovely plantings, lush green lawns, rushing streams, storybook coves and winding and rolling paths” and provide “an adventure as you discover shipwrecks and other nautical treasures.” As Piehler said, their 18-hole course contains some pretty unique nautically themed features, including structures such as lighthouses, pilot houses and boats. “It’s a different experience,” Piehler said. “The course offers a lot of different elevation changes. All of the landscaping is real — I know a lot of the other places use fake rocks and things like that. We have really deep ponds, waterways, so lots of water, waterfalls, so
it’s a pretty interesting experience both visually and aurally.” The course was originally built in 1990, and having worked at Captain’s Cove since his teenage years, Piehler said that not a whole lot has changed since then. With a handful of small renovations here and there, Piehler has hoped to spice things up while keeping the heart of Captain’s Cove intact. As the maxim goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. “At its core, it really hasn’t changed,” he said. “We have, over the years, replaced a lot of parts of it. We’ve had some of our shipwrecks become too shipwreck-y, so we’ve had to remove those, which gives the course a completely different look, but all the holes have stayed the same, no major changes, just landscaping changes.” Luckily for Piehler and Captain’s Cove, the pandemic didn’t affect the business too much and business is pretty much completely back to normal this summer, with Captain’s Cove still selling nearly 30 different flavors of Blake’s Ice Cream along with Dippin’ Dots and smoothies. And all the while, Piehler is still championing the all-ages fun that mini golf provides. “Anyone can do it, right? You can be 3 years old or 80 years old and you can do it,” he said. “And it doesn’t really get old because you’re always in a different spot when you’re playing, and you can do it with anyone. You can go with your parents and play, or [with] your friends — it’s a good venue for friendly competition.” Captain’s Cove Adventure Golf is located at 814 Lafayette Road in Hampton and is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Their fall hours don’t take effect until after Labor Day.
Sagamore Golf Center
22 North Road, North Hampton 603-964-8393, sagamoregolf.com Sagamore Golf Center in North Hampton has one distinctive feature that’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. Sculpted into the fake stonework adjacent to the main waterfall rests an imitation Old Man of the Mountain in honor of the signature New Hampshire landmark that collapsed in 2003. It’s tough to distinguish straight on, but when viewed from its side profile, the Old Man is indeed there, stoic face and chiseled nose peeking out behind the waterfall. As president and co-owner of the Sagamore Golf Center Richard Luff explained, the sized-down monument was erected due to coincidental timing with the Sagamore Golf Center’s genesis. After Luff and company purchased
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the North Hampton property in 1999 and began renovations in 2002 and 2003, the famous Franconia symbol collapsed. When asked by the workers constructing the mini golf course (who were from Wisconsin) what the Old Man of the Mountain represented, Luff decided he should take it upon himself to preserve its integrity for all to see — in miniature fashion, of course. “So I’m telling the workers this story and we all were like, ‘Hey! While we’re creating this thing, let’s put in the profile of Old Man of the Mountain in honor of what it stood for for so long,’” Luff said. “So that’s a pretty unique feature that not many people know about. It’s not super easy to see; you’ve got to line yourself up just right to see it.” The Sagamore Golf Center is all about subtlety. Along with the hidden gem Old Man of the Mountain, the course contains a series of deceivingly difficult holes with greens that rise and bend when least expected. “It is a lot trickier than it looks,” Luff said. “There’s a lot of subtle breaks on the turf, on the greens, that it looks like you’ve got an easy one-foot putt and then all of a sudden it’s not as easy as it looks. The subtleties and the layout make it tricky.” The ornate layout also contains a series of fun treats with three holes where the ball disappears and reappears again on another level. “The kids can’t get enough of that,” Luff said. “They love that, they just can’t get enough of going back and forth and dropping the ball in and seeing it come out somewhere else, so that’s a big deal.”
While kids particularly enjoy the disappearing-ball feature of the course, Luff stressed that mini golf at Sagamore is a phenomenal way for anybody to spend a couple hours. Whether it’s 90-year-olds having a nice afternoon together or teenagers on a date, Luff’s seen people of all sorts having fun with a colorful putter in their hands. “I think because anybody can do it, that’s huge,” Luff said. “It’s not like going to a real golf course where if you have no familiarity with the game it can be frustrating. It’s suitable for all ages, it’s really easy and it’s inexpensive. A good form of entertainment.” Sagamore Golf Center is located at 22 North Road in North Hampton. Their mini golf course and driving range are both open from 8 a.m. until dark seven days a week. Their fall hours don’t take effect until after Labor Day.
Other places to play Buc’s Lagoon 59 Ocean Blvd., Hampton 603-926-0888, find them on Facebook
Buc’s Lagoon is an outdoor mini golf course adjacent to Hampton Beach. They also serve ice cream. They close on Sept. 8 for the season. Jurassic Mini Golf 67 Elm St., Salisbury 978-462-8534, find them on Facebook
Jurassic Mini Golf is an outdoor mini golf course in Salisbury. They stay open through the fall and their decision when to close each season is weather-dependent.
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James House offers concerts, paranormal fun This summer, the James House Museum in Hampton is planning a full season of events, highlighted by its Annual James House Concert Series, which will begin on July 10 at 1:30 p.m. with the Brickyard Blues Band. Other concerts begin at 2 p.m. and include Ben Eramo (July 24), EXP (Aug. 21), and Mischief Mile (Sept. 18). “This is the first year that we are having multiple concerts,” said Willie Hassell, concert director and board member. The concerts will feature music ranging from blues to rock to country and will take place outside in the backyard of the James House at 186 Towle Farm Road in Hampton. “It is a nice location in a nice wooded area,” Hassell said. Brian James of the Brickyard Blues is looking forward to being part of the series. “This is a great, family-friendly, musicfilled afternoon that helps support New Hampshire’s rich history,” he said. In addition to planning the concert series, Hassell is also director of Paranormal Studies and Spirit Chasers Paranormal. Built in 1723, the James House is rumored to be haunted. “We have [personally] had things happen during the day,” Hassell said. “One mid afternoon, my brother and I were setting up a seance for later that night, and we distinctly heard a woman’s voice. There was no one else in the building except for me and my brother.” He said fellow museum board member and Spirit Chaser Lynne Nickerson has also experienced paranormal activity. “We visited the James House five years ago at one of the open houses, and we were curious about the history of the house,” he said, so they took a self-guided tour. “Lynne is psychic and said there were spirits in the house while we were there.” Their schedule for public paranormal tours, ghost hunts and seances will be announced at a future date. According to Skip Webb, president of the board, the museum’s possible paranormal activity only tells part of the story behind the James House, a “First Period, bent frame, wood, post and beam English style farm house.” The house has a 1705 building attached as an ell, surrounded by 3½ acres of farmland. “A New Hampshire State Historical Department study finds only nine examples of this type of architecture in New Hampshire,” he said. “The James House is the only one with the original frame still intact.” Seven generations of the James Family and two generations of the Campbell family lived in the house, which Webb noted is being restored as an architectural study house.
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“It has many fine examples of three periods of architecture,” Webb said. He starts house tours by asking those present to remember the number 3. The front fenestration shows three periods of windows. There is evidence of three periods of chimneys, three periods of heating systems, and three periods of staircases. “There is a room displaying late First Period architecture, a room showing early Federal architecture with some Georgian influence, a room showing early Victorian architecture ,and a room showing late Victorian architecture,” he said. Webb cited ongoing preservation work, which includes a new roof, as instrumental in ensuring the James House will be in “good condition for at least another 25 years.” “Nearly complete is a LCHIP Grant restoration project to apply new siding to the entire building, restore all window and door frames, and stain the house red,” he said. “LCHIP is paying $28,000, which is being matched through the James House Restoration Fund.” The effort to raise money for the James House Restoration fund is ongoing. Proceeds from the Annual James House Concert Series, membership, donations, charitable gambling, yard sales, art and craft bazaars, and ghost hunts are applied to the fund. The James House Concert Series will include a 50/50 raffle and silent auction at each show, and Hassell said they are hoping for a good turnout. “It is for a good cause, and it’s a nice afternoon of music in a country setting,” he said. Events in the James House Concert Series are $10. To learn more about the concerts, or the James House Museum, visit jameshousemuseum.org. Free house and property tours for three people or fewer can be arranged by contacting Skip Webb at 603-926-3861 or skipwebbnh@yahoo.com. — Rob Levey
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Jeep has a mysterious appeal to the risk-averse Dear Car Talk: Have I lost my mind? I’m in love with the Jeep Wrangler. It makes no sense — poor mileage, lousy ratings in the consumer magazines — and yet it’s the car I keep lookBy Ray Magliozzi ing at. I’ve always been so practical getting the most reliable cars. And now I find myself in love with a Jeep. Please help me. — Kathleen I think you’ve just testified to why Jeep is still in business, Kathleen. You’re right. By all objective measures the Jeep Wrangler ranks near the bottom. It’s practically barbaric. And yet, they can’t seem to make Jeeps fast enough. Jeep owners love that the styling and off-road capability of their cars scream “adventure.” And I think your subconscious is telling you that you need more adventure in your life, Kathleen. As you say, you’ve always played it safe. You’ve always bought the most practical and sensible cars. Something inside of you is rebelling. Something inside of you wants to have an unplanned encounter on a dark, lonely road with a mysterious tow truck driver. And your chances of that increase exponentially in a Jeep. I think you need to buy the Jeep, Kathleen.
Maybe it’ll be a revelation to you, and you’ll wonder why you didn’t embrace your riskier side sooner? Maybe you’ll be inspired by your Jeep to do more adventurous things, meet new people and explore new places? Or maybe you’ll drive it for a couple of years, get tired of cracking your teeth every time you go over a pothole and go back to a Prius? But there’s only one way to find out. And to be honest, in the big picture of life, this is a relatively low-risk experiment. In the worst-case scenario, if you drive it for a year or two and decide you’ve had enough, you can always sell it. Like I said, there are lots of people who want these things. You’ll lose a little bit of money, but that’s all you’ll lose. And that’s not so bad. And if you buy a Jeep, you’ll find out if people who drive Jeeps really are having more fun or if the grass is just less reliable on the other side of the fence. Dear Car Talk: I recently purchased a new 2020 GMC Sierra 1500 pickup truck. I have had GM products for over 50 years and am finally having problems. My street has a slight incline. When I leave home in the morning and go uphill, my transmission slips quite a bit from first to second gear. This mostly happens when I first leave for the day. I don’t notice it later on. I took it to the
dealer three times. The first time, they said my truck computer needs to learn my driving habits and adjust accordingly (what?). The next time, they changed some module or something and said that should take care of it. It didn’t. Then, they said I have to drive another couple thousand miles for the computer to learn my driving habits again (what?). The last time I took it in and told them I was not happy, they said they contacted the manufacturer or someone, and they were told that they know about the problem, and there is nothing they can do. First of all, have you heard any such thing, a transmission learning a person’s driving habits? I have always loved my GM cars and trucks, but what do I do about this? This truck cost me over $55,000, and I shouldn’t have this kind of trouble. Thanks. -- Mark I’m going to steal that line “go drive it for a few thousand miles and then come back.” They were hoping you’d be abducted by aliens during that time, and they’d never see you again. Actually, modern transmissions do adjust to individual driving habits. The transmission computer uses a kind of crude artificial intelligence to learn whether you’re a lead foot or a gentleman, and the shifts get adjusted, subtly, to accommodate your driving style. But the transmission doesn’t have to “learn” not to slip. Here’s what we know about this transmis-
sion issue: When owners started complaining about “slipping” or slow shifts between first and second gear, GM discovered that there was a problem with a part called the “stator.” That’s not to be confused with the tall guy who pulls you over for doing 80 in a 65-mph zone. The stator directs the flow of transmission fluid inside the torque converter. And if things aren’t directed properly, you can have shifting problems. So GM made a change to the stator so fluid wouldn’t drain out of it overnight. But then, owners started complaining about “harsh shifts” between first and second gear when the transmission was cold. In the past, GM recommended a switch to a fully synthetic Mobil 1 transmission fluid, which they claim helps. But, after that, they gave up and switched to the answer you got; the mechanic’s shrug. Essentially, “they all do that.” So I’d ask them if they’d be willing to try changing your transmission fluid, being sure to use the recommended fluid (Mobil 1 Synthetic LV ATF HP). But if that doesn’t help, then you have a choice. You can either have a slipping problem or a harsh shifting problem. If it were me, I’d take the slipping and leave it as is, because harsh shifts drive me nuts. I don’t think either problem will affect the life of the transmission in a meaningful way. Visit Cartalk.com.
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AT ONE LOVE CUISINE Now open in the food court of the Fox Run Mall in Newington, One Love Cuisine (50 Fox Run Road, Newington, 319-8161, onelovecuisinellc.com) features a wide selection of Jamaican meals often combining local flavors and ingredients. Owner and chef Rohan Tomlinson is originally from Negril, a small coastal town in western Jamaica. He moved to the United States about a decade ago, first to Florida before later coming to Maine, where he worked directly under Portland-area chef David Turin. In 2019, Tomlinson opened his first One Love Cuisine location in Sanford, Maine, where he currently lives, before moving all of his operations to Newington a few months ago. One Love Cuisine’s buffet is often refilled several times a day, with traditional meals that include jerk chicken or pork, curry chicken or goat, oxtail and beans, and escovitch kingfish, which is fried and marinated in a vinegar-based sauce with vegetables and spices. A separate menu of items cooked to order is available too, like jerk wings, burgers or chicken breasts, fish and chips, lobster macaroni and cheese, escovitch snapper, and jerk or mango mayonnaise lobster rolls. Also inside the Fox Run Mall is a new convenience store that Tomlinson runs, where you can purchase a variety of Jamaican and American products, from jerk seasonings and sauces to coffees, teas, cheeses, snacks and canned meats and fish. The Scene recently spoke with Tomlinson about some of his favorite items and what you can expect when you visit One Love Cuisine. How long has One Love Cuisine been around? We started here in the food court on May 8, after [being open for] two years in Sanford, Maine. In New Hampshire, as I understand, there were no Jamaican restaurants around. Most of our customers were also coming from New Hampshire, so we moved to be closer to them.
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What makes One Love Cuisine unique? The flavor. … We try to combine and infuse a lot of New England dishes with Jamaican flavors, like with our jerk lobster roll and our mango lobster roll.
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time you’re asked to bring a dessert, give these bar cookies a try. Michele Pesula Kuegler has been thinking about food her entire life. Since 2007, the New Hampshire native has been sharing these food thoughts and recipes at her blog, Think Tasty. Visit thinktasty.com to find more of her recipes. brown sugar and granulated sugar on speed 2 for 4 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating to incorporate each. Add vanilla, and mix. Add baking powder, baking soda, salt and flour, and mix until incorporated. Add oatmeal, stirring until combined. Add white chocolate chips, dried cranberries and pecans, stirring until incorporated. Grease the sides and bottoms of a 13×9 pan with butter. Transfer batter to pan, using the back of a spoon or spatula to spread it evenly in the pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool in the baking pan on a wire baking rack before serving.
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45 grams (3 thick slices) cucumber 1/2 ounce cucumber syrup (see below) 2 ounces gin (I’m using Wiggly Bridge this week, given to me by a friend who distributes it in New Hampshire.) 3/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed (see below)
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Cucumber gimlet (with accompaniments). Photo by John Fladd.
5. Drink this while giving someone your undivided attention. Gin and lime are a classic combination. The cucumber makes this drink more summery and refreshing. It provides a framework to hang the crispness of the gin and the fruitiness of the lime. Is there a way to make this even more cucumbery? Yes — I would shred half of an unpeeled cucumber with a box grater, and use it to infuse an equal amount of gin for a week or so. (I say I “would”; in point of fact, I am infusing a batch of it right now, but it’s hot out and I’m feeling nostalgic. I’d like a gimlet right now, please.)
Cucumber simple syrup
I tried and compared several different methods for making this syrup. I’ll spare you the details of my testing protocols, but here is the least fiddly method that gave me the sharpest cucumber flavor: 1. Wash an English cucumber, then roughly dice it, with the skin still on. Freeze it for an hour or two; ice crystals will help break down the cell walls and persuade the cucumber to give up its juice more generously. 2. Combine the frozen cucumber and an equal amount (by weight) of sugar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring regularly. 3. Remove from heat, then mash the cucumber pieces with a potato masher. Don’t be gentle. 4. Cover the pot and let the cucumber steep for half an hour. 5. Strain with a fine-meshed strainer, and use a funnel to bottle it.
1. Muddle the cucumber and cucumber syrup aggressively in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Be careful not to splash yourself. 2. Add the ice, gin and lime juice. If you have a choice, go with the lime that has been sitting around your kitchen for a week or so and is looking a little tired. If you think you can see his ribs showing, he’s the one you want. His juice will taste extra-limey. 3. Shake until the condensation on the side of John Fladd is a veteran Hippo writer and the shaker starts to freeze. cocktail enthusiast living in New Hampshire. 4. Strain into a coupé glass.
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Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner (Alfred A. Knopf, 239 pages) The first time that I, a southerner raised on white bread, meat loaf and McDonald’s, went to an H Mart, the traffic shocked me as much as the food offerings. In Burlington, Massachusetts, the closest H Mart to Manchester, you can hardly find a parking place any time of day. For the uninitiated, H Mart is a supermarket that specializes in Korean food and products. Its name derives from a Korean phrase, han ah reum, which means an armload of groceries. And the store is stocked with things you don’t often come across at the Hannaford, such as frozen sliced octopus. But I didn’t understand until reading Michelle Zauner’s powerful memoir why H Mart is always packed and rapidly expanding across the U.S., and it has little to do with the groceries and Korea’s famed beauty products. H Mart sells food, of course, but it taps into something deeper for Americans of Korean descent. As much as meat, produce and authentic ramen, H Mart sells a sense of home. Zauner reflects on this in her opening, as she describes people-watching at the H Mart food court, which typically offers sushi and Chinese and Korean food, fast-food style. “It’s a beautiful, holy place. A cafeteria full of people from all over the world who have been displaced in a foreign country, each with a different history,” she writes. “Where did they come from and how far did they travel? Why are they all here?” They’re there to buy products that Trader Joe’s doesn’t carry, but ultimately for more. “I’m not just on the hunt for cuttlefish and three bunches of scallions for a buck; I’m searching for memories,” she says. Zauner doesn’t travel far to the H Mart where she shops, near Philadelphia, and she grew up in Eugene, Oregon. But she cries at the H Mart because it reminds her of her mother, a Korean woman who married an American man, but took her daughter to visit relatives in Seoul every other year. Food, Zauner writes, was how her mother conveyed love; “I could always feel her affection radiating from the lunches she packed and the meals she prepared for me just the way I liked them.” She was often harsh, yelling at her daughter if she got injured while playing, and once reacted to Zauner’s getting fired at a waitressing job by saying, “Well, Michelle, anyone can carry a tray.” By her teens Zauner had developed the adolescent revulsion to her mother’s touch, and the relationship further soured as her mother’s behavior bordered on full-blown abuse. But when her mother developed Stage IV pancreatic cancer when Zauner was 25, she was devastated. The memoir is her account of a painful reckoning that they both endured during the mother’s treatment and final
months of life, a cold and gritty look at the realities of hospital (“The house was quiet aside from her breathing, a horrible sucking like the last sputtering of a coffee pot”) and also the small moments of grace. The memoir continues after the mother’s passing, as Zauner comes to fully understand her mother in ways she couldn’t while she was alive. It is taut and elegant, with no descent into melodrama: just a matter-of-fact but beautifully written elegy that explores the challenges of loving difficult people. But it is a deeply hopeful book, despite being centered around death. And don’t let the title fool you — while H Mart may appeal most to Koreans and other Americans of Asian descent, Zauner’s story is universal, as is the connection that she forges with her mother, both in life and in death, through food. To cope with her mother’s death, she starts seeing a therapist, but it wasn’t helping, so she starts cooking her mother’s Korean recipes, ultimately making so much that she had to start giving it to friends. “The smell of vegetables fermenting in a fragrant bouquet of fish sauce, garlic, ginger and gochugaru radiated through my small Greenpoint kitchen, and I would think of how my mother always used to tell me never to fall in love with someone who doesn’t like kimchi. They’ll always smell it on you, seeping through your pores.” Zauner did fall in love with someone who liked kimchi, a Korean side dish, and who married her during her mother’s treatment, so it wasn’t just cooking that helped her heal. There are other memoirs that make that claim; Zauner’s isn’t that simplistic. But hers is a surprisingly engrossing account of a mother and daughter’s struggle to love each other, and a crash course in a culture with which you might not be familiar. Familiarity with H Mart is not a prerequisite, but you’ll likely want to visit after reading this book. B+ — Jennifer Graham
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Dan Forester (Pratt) is having difficulty getting ahead in his career (science something or other) but has all sorts of admiration from his wife, Emmy (Betty Gilpin), and young daughter, Muri (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). He’s in the middle of a consoling snuggle with the two of them while watching World Cup soccer when a wormhole opens up on midfield and soldiers come pouring through. They announce that they are from about 30 years in the future and are losing a war with an alien force. Come and fight with us to save humanity, they say, and, as news clips explain, the countries of the world eventually agree to a draft. The people drafted are both random and specific: They are men and women, fit and doughy, but most tend to be older — perhaps because, as Dan and fellow draftee Charlie (Sam Richardson) surmise, they will all be dead by 2052 and therefore won’t accidentally meet their older selves and cause a paradox. When Dan is called up, it’s after nearly a year of the present sending soldiers to the future, with few returning and no sign that humanity’s prospects for winning the war are improving. He learns that draftees get very little training and not much in the way of uniforms; it’s just “here’s a gun, try not to get eaten.” The aliens, white insect/ crustacean-y creatures, don’t have weapons (except for the sharp spikes that shoot out of their tentacles, hence their name “white spikes”) or even an organizing structure. They eat, people and whatever other animals cross their path, and once a week they go back to their nest-holes and rest (or, as we later learn, breed, which is why there are now so many of them). White spikes move fast and only lucky neck or abdomen shots take them out, so when Dan shows up in the future for his
seven-day stint in the war, it’s clear that the outlook for humanity is bleak. Dan, who once served in the military and did a tour of duty in Iraq (where he had a leadership role), is also a science teacher who has shared his love of science with his daughter. Charlie is also a former science professor who now works in tech research and development and makes up for his lack of military prowess with quips. Dan has a difficult relationship with his father, James (J.K. Simmons), who also has a military background and now has a shifty job fixing planes and skirting the law. I could list a few other Chekhov guns in the packed metaphorical armory of the first segment of this movie that go off in the final action set piece. There are a lot. And that’s OK. Like an Independence Day with a smaller budget and a lower wattage of stars, The Tomorrow War hits a lot of the familiar apocalypse action movie beats with a nice mix of shooting and explosions and humor and basically appealing characters played by actors who have more in them than this movie asks of them. It’s microwave popcorn fare, in the sense that it isn’t quite the fresh popcorn with real butter of summer blockbusters past and in the sense that you’ll be enjoying this one at home, which perhaps lowers the bar a little. If you need it, you can look for some deeper commentary about climate change and the ability of humans to come together (or not) when they really need to. But you also don’t need to dig that deep for a reason to basically enjoy this (long but forgivably so) lightweight summer movie. BRated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, language and some suggestive references, according to the MPA on filmratings.com. Directed by Chris McKay with a screenplay by Zach Dean, The Tomorrow War is two hours and 20 minutes long and is distributed by Paramount Pictures but somehow available on Amazon Prime Video.
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The pandemic had its fair share of silver linings for Jim McCue. Sure, a year’s worth of cruise ship and club gigs vanished, along with four star-studded St. Patrick’s Day shows he’d booked in March 2020. But at the same time, his half-hour Dry Bar comedy special, Nothing Personal, garnered nearly three million views on YouTube and Facebook. “This is going to sound awful, but I think because of Covid, everybody was stuck at home watching comedy,” McCue said selfdeprecatingly in a recent phone interview. Looking back, he’s surprised the viral video happened at all. He was booked based on a short audition clip; however, the network didn’t seem to know about his reputation as a crowd comedian. McCue’s act blends setups and punchlines with lots of audience back and forth. “The ability to work the crowd has saved me in so many instances, where they’re really tight, or heckling or whatever,” he said. Dry Bar is called the Mormon Comedy Network because it insists comics work clean; McCue’s off the cuff skills made its producer nervous. Between taping the first and second shows, he approached the comic. “He says, ‘Do you always talk to people in the audience?’ and I go, ‘Yeah, I’m kind of known for that,’” McCue said, chuckling at the memory of a five-camera team running around trying to film the crowd. “He said, ‘Are you [going to] work like that for the second show?’ I go, ‘The first show went good, right?’ He says, ‘Yeah,’ and I said, ‘Then oh yeah, I’m gonna.’” McCue runs the Boston Comedy Festival; it happened virtually in 2020. It provided laughs from his pal Lewis Black, Adam Ferrara and others, as well as garnering business for up and coming comics. “Talk about the law of unintended consequences,” McCue said of the latter. “We had 10 times the industry [agents, talent buyers] at home watching all this new talent, because they had nothing better to do but they had access from their own living rooms. So yeah, people did get work.” The comedian’s most luminous Covid bright spot, though, was opening McCue’s Comedy Club in early June in the back of Portsmouth’s Roundabout Diner. It features established standups like Kenny Rogerson and Frank Santorelli, along with up and comers like Jaylene Tran and Tom Spohn. Shows happen most Fridays and Saturdays. It began in the spring, after McCue more or less stumbled onto the idea when he went there to eat. Remembering a benefit show
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he’d done at the Roundabout years ago, he approached the owners, who offered him a function room that could hold a socially distanced audience of 42 people. “All my friends from Boston started showing up to do little sets, because comedians got to keep working on their act at all times,” he said. As Jim McCue & Friends became a regular draw, he decided to make it a permanent venture. “They love the food, and they love the shows, so we said, why not? I’ve always felt that once we get this Covid thing behind us, it’s going to be the Roaring Twenties again.” Comics like that once the show’s over, the next stop is close by. “The running gag with the comedians is, ‘Usually we’d be asking where’s a good diner we can all go to, but we’re already here.’” McCue said. “The food’s great, too. It’s deadly for me because I got a minimum of 15 pounds I gotta take off from being there every weekend.” The location is also conducive to camaraderie, McCue said. “We love doing the comedy, but we also love sitting in diners having coffee and pie and telling strange stories,” he said. “Everybody loves going up there and hanging out. … It’s really just a good little scene.” — Michael Witthaus Carolyn Plummer, Joey Carroll, Jack Lynch When: Friday, July 9, 8 p.m. Where: McCue’s Comedy Club @ The Roundabout Diner, 580 Portsmouth Traffic Circle, Portsmouth Tickets: $20 at mccuescomedyclub. com
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Wally’s: Musical Bingo Nation, 7:30 p.m., LuFFKid, 9 p.m. Portsmouth Gas Light: Chris O;Neill, 11 a.m., Chris Lester, 7:30 p.m. The Goat: Isaiah Bennett, 9 p.m. Stratham Tailgate Tavern: Musical Bingo Nation, 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 14 Epping Popovers: team trivia night, 6:30 p.m. Exeter Sawbelly: David Corson & Parker Richards, 5 p.m. Hampton Bernie’s: Adam Lufkin Trio & Zach Lovering 7 p.m. Community Oven: Game Time Trivia, 6 p.m. The Goat: MB Padfield, 9 p.m. Sea Ketch: Lewis Goodwin, 1 p.m. Sea Shell Stage: The Continentals, 7 & 8:30 p.m. The Smuttynose: trivia, 6 p.m., Max Sullivan, 6 p.m. Wally’s: live band karaoke, 8:30 p.m. Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Musical Bingo Nation, 7 p.m. Portsmouth Gas Light: Matt Luneau, 7:30 p.m. The Goat: Rob Pagnano, 9 p.m. Thirsty Moose: Game Time Trivia, 7 p.m. Rochester Mitchell BBQ: live music, 6 p.m. Porter’s: karaoke, 6:30 p.m. Revolution: Freddy Dame Jr., 5:30 p.m. Somersworth Speakeasy: open mic night, 7 p.m.
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BEACH BUM FUN HOROSCOPES All quotes are from Hitmaker, by Tommy is the artist. But the business side has many Mottola, born July 14, 1949. creative people with their own ideas. … I watched these conflicts unfold from as far Cancer (June 21 – July 22) I didn’t move back as when I was managing Hall & Oates, into a room that had been vacated by the last and initially Celine Dion did not want to sing person in the job. I was going to tear down the ‘My Heart Will Go On.’ That song only generold structure and create an entirely new one. ated a billion dollars in business. Your heart, Good time for a fresh start. your wallet, whatever. Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) I’d sit in on a Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) The ironic thing about these music competition shows is that meeting to promote an album and would hear the roles have flipped. Now, the judges have a lot of cliches but not a single compelling become the stars and the talent has become strategy. It was … as if everybody was riding fungible, almost disposable, entertainment. … on the artist’s talent and the loyalty of the fan Everyone has talent. base. The fan base has a lot of options. Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Daryl and John Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Nobody I could write R & B pop hits in their sleep. They knew could imagine that the people receivcould’ve snored hits. Which, to Daryl, was ing those songs over the Internet would … feel exactly the point. He didn’t want to repeat entitled to get [music] for free as if they were himself. He wanted new dreams. New dreams listening to it on the radio. Imagine harder. are in the air. Aries (March 21 – April 19) Even though Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) We knew that in Betamax was in many ways a cut above VHS, order to continue as the greatest music com- it lost out, because it didn’t have its own conpany in the world, we needed to compete in tent that would force the public to accept Sony places where we hadn’t been before. It’s all hardware. Watch what you want to watch. about confidence and branching out. Taurus (April 20 – May 20) The CD was Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Just like … was smaller than vinyl, it was portable, it when I was a kid running home from didn’t scratch like vinyl. It was an absolute school to watch Dick Clark and American gold mine. Higher prices could be charged Bandstand, everyone ran home in 1981 to because of the superior sound quality…. It did watch MTV. Only not for thirty minutes too scratch. — but for seven hours straight. Do your Gemini (May 21 – June 20) In advertising parlance, the music industry went from a homework first. Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Unfor- push environment to a pull environment. Kids tunately, you can’t turn around a corporate were empowered, and their attitude was, You culture with a single album. But it’s a good can’t tell me what to listen to. Here’s what I’m going to choose. Be prepared for a little push starting point. Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) The artist and pull.
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“Pretty Cool” — from the outside Across 1 “25” singer 6 “No thanks” 11 “Awesome!” (and the letters seen on the outside of each theme answer) 14 Cartoon cat with a “bag of tricks” 15 “Same here”
16 Fight of the Century participant 17 They’re coming to save the day 19 Downside 20 Announcer Hall 21 Hardly sympathetic 23 Noble partner? 26 “A ... crawly thing!”
27 Fivesome on a clock face 28 Gathered 30 “Semper Paratus” org. 32 Cereal box activity, maybe 33 Easy two-pointers 36 Tire filler 39 “Carmen” composer 41 “La ___” (Debussy opus) 42 “Gandhi” character 44 “Angry Anymore” singer DiFranco 45 “The Wizard of Oz” setting 48 Illuminating gas 49 Financial subj. 51 ___ souchong tea 53 Get hold of 55 Come up short 58 “Sir, this is a ___” (fast food-based meme response)
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7 Raise, as curiosity 8 Carry ___ 9 Compare 10 Vending machine drink 11 Leaving competitors in the dust 12 Privately 13 Fender flaws 18 Automotive disaster of the 1950s 22 Sinbad’s giant egg-layer 23 “La ___” (Ritchie Valens hit) 24 At full speed, on the sea 25 What “Dolittle” won in the category of Worst Prequel, Down 1 2nd-largest continent, for Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, in 2021 short 2 River in Scotland that 29 2017 Kendrick Lamar sounds like a letter album 31 Taxpayer’s no. 3 See 57-Down 34 Positive feedback 4 Franchise operator 35 Mountain range separating 5 Gives off Europe and Asia 6 Proofs of age
37 O. Henry’s specialty 38 Ladder parts 40 Ring decision 43 Gets tangled up 46 Deviation 47 Handled, as a matter 50 “Hockey Night in Canada” broadcaster 52 TV “Playhouse” name 53 Lawn figurine 54 Put on TV again 56 Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera” collaborator 57 With 3-Down, golf legend from South Africa 60 City NNW of Provo 64 Wanna-___ (copycats) 65 On vacation 66 Sports drink suffix 67 “Dawson’s Creek” actor James Van ___ Beek © 2021 Matt Jones
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In 1961, when she was 10 years old, Gwen Goldman sent a letter to New York Yankees general manager Roy Hamey, offering her services as a bat girl. Hamey responded, “In a game dominated by men a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout.” Goldman kept the letter from Hamey on her bulletin board for the next 60 years, and her daughter recently forwarded it to current general manager Brian Cashman. On June 28, United Press International reported, Goldman was invited to Yankee Stadium to fulfill her dream. Her visit included a tour of the clubhouse, meet-and-greet with players and coaches, and photos with umpires — plus she got to throw out the first pitch wearing a full pinstripe Yankees uniform. “Sixty years thinking about this and here it is,” Goldman said.
The passing parade
Deer are not native to Australia, which might explain why two nude sunbathers in Royal National Park, south of Sydney, ran into the bush when a deer startled them on a nudist beach on June 27. The two men, 30 and 49 years old, became lost and called for help, summoning a police rescue helicopter to pluck them from the forest, Reuters reported. Unfortunately for them, they were found to be breaching a Covid-19 lockdown instated
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in response to the delta variant, and both were charged with fines.
Least competent criminals
• An unnamed man in Waterboro, Maine, was arrested on June 27 on an outstanding warrant for a theft from a Walmart, the Associated Press reported. When the bail commissioner arrived, the man tried to use two counterfeit $100 bills to post his bail. He was returned to jail and charged with forgery. Reportedly he was able to meet bail with legitimate bills later that day and is scheduled to be in court on Aug. 4. • In Gillette, Wyoming, a 62-year-old man called the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office on June 24 to ask why he hadn’t been arrested the day before, when officers raided his home. Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds asked him why he ought to be arrested, and the man admitted that he had used methamphetamine — which might shed light on the fact that his house was never raided and there had been no plans to arrest him. He also told officers that 10 men were following him, the Associated Press reported. Deputies caught up with him as he was driving and arrested him for driving under the influence of a controlled substance. • Vincent Vinny Marks, 27, of Plaquemine, Louisiana, picked the wrong guy to pull over as he allegedly impersonated a police officer on June 10. Law & Crime reported that
an off-duty sheriff’s deputy was driving that day when the vehicle behind him began “flashing his headlights continuously.” The deputy pulled into a convenience store parking lot, followed by Marks, who allegedly approached his car, presented a badge and “represented himself as being a police officer.” Unfortunately, the off-duty officer recognized Marks from a domestic incident that he had responded to earlier in the year. The Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation, and Marks was arrested on June 28 for false impersonation of a police officer.
Extreme reaction
A couple in Sheffield, United King-
dom, have taken drastic measures over their neighbor’s tree, which sits right on the property line and overhangs their driveway. Bharat Mistry, 56, the tree’s owner, told the BBC that his neighbor had been complaining for some time about the tree, home to nesting pigeons that relieved themselves on the driveway and cars. First, the angry neighbor asked Mistry to remove the tree altogether. Mistry suggested trimming and installing netting to keep the birds out, but the neighbor called in his own tree surgeon, who completely removed the side of the canopy that was hanging over the drive. “It looks awful,” said Brian Parkes, who lives nearby. “It’s done, you can’t undo it.” Visit newsoftheweird.com.
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