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Hampton Beach offers nightly entertainment during the summer. Shows that would normally be on the Larry Marsolais Main Stage are being held on the south side of the Sea Shell Stage. The Hampton Beach Village District features music nightly from the 1950s to the 2000s and beyond.

Shows have been shortened to the hours of 7-8:30 p.m. Please note that bathrooms close at 8 p.m. and plan accordingly.

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By Shane Jozitis Blinks Fry Doe. Photo courtesy of Lisa Martineau.

Fried dough is a quintessential part of the boardwalk experience, with multiple vendors selling the sweet, deliciously messy treat — along with other eats in the fried dough family, like doughnuts, fried cookie dough and fried dough nuggets. We talked to a few places along the beach about why these fried goodies make for popular beach fare.

Dan’s Fried Dough

Anyone who has been to events like the Deerfield Fair or The Big E in Connecticut may have smelled an aroma of fried foods coming from Dan’s Fried

Dough. That very same aroma is now wafting through the Hampton Beach boardwalk.

“It’s been a bit of a challenging year.

We signed the lease in November, not knowing what was going to happen in March,” said Michelle Anderson from Dan’s Fried Dough.

After a few months of uncertainty due to Covid-19, the shop is up and running and frying dough for beachgoers.

“People are always walking around and looking for something sweet to eat, especially after a concert or after dinner,” Anderson said. “It’s definitely a staple at every beach.”

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Dan’s Fried Dough uses homemade dough that’s made to order to ensure freshness, a quality that customers enjoy.

“People love that it’s made to order and fresh,” Anderson said. “We make the dough and we never make it ahead of time and just leave it on the counter.”

Dan’s Fried Dough offers a wide array of toppings to dress up your dough if the classic cinnamon and powdered sugar doesn’t fit the bill.

“We have a lot of different toppings like maple bacon, fruity pebbles, Oreos and many more,” Anderson said. “The most common order we see is a piece of

fried dough with powdered sugar, cinnamon and butter.”

Dan’s also offers bite-sized nuggets for those who like fried dough but don’t like the hassle that can come with eating it.

“It’s the same recipe as our normal fried dough but instead we cut them up into little pieces so people can share, and they’re a little easier to eat,” Anderson said.

Though fried dough is the biggest hit at Dan’s, Anderson says they wanted to stand out from the rest of the pack.

Their method of achieving this started with frying cookie dough.

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“We dip cookie dough in funnel cake batter, fry it, and hit it with some powdered sugar and a drizzle of chocolate,” Anderson said. “We just wanted to offer something a little different. That’s why we introduced the fried cookie dough too. We wanted to offer something that nobody else was. But everyone still wants fried dough, of course.”

As Dan’s finds new ways to spice up the world of fried foods, Anderson says she likes hearing her customers’ thoughts the most.

“We like meeting people and talking, getting different opinions on our dough,” Anderson said. “Smelling all of the sweet stuff every day is nice too.”

“We try to locally source our ingredients as much as we can — pretty much everything we use in the shop comes from New England,” Oliveira said.

Donut Love makes a wide variety of flavors, including classics as well as more modern concepts.

“We range everything from an oldfashioned, which is a plain doughnut with nothing on it, to super deluxe doughnuts like maple bacon, and samoas with coconut, chocolate and homemade caramel,” Oliveira said.

The shop also produces a line of seasonal doughnuts like apple cider and pumpkin, which will be available this fall.

“We make a glazed pumpkin doughnut, made with real pumpkins,” Oliveira said. “Usually around Thanksgiving we make gingerbread doughnuts topped with buttercream frosting.”

Donut Love

Fried dough can come in many forms. At Donut Love in North Hampton, dough is fried in the shape of a ring.

Mike Oliveira, the owner of Donut Love and a former police officer, said his family had talked about owning a bakery. A temporary leave from work gave Oliveira time to make doughnuts in his kitchen, which sparked the idea to open his own doughnut shop.

“We’ve done really well in terms of starting out with no idea what to do,” he said. “I had never made a doughnut in my life.”

Oliveira’s concoction uses a unique ingredient that makes the doughnuts stand out from the pack.

“Our doughnuts are very different,” Oliveira said. “We make our doughnuts with potatoes mashed into them.

You would never know it, but it makes them super unique to the area.”

The combination of homemade dough and mashed potatoes with other locally sourced ingredients makes for a sweet and savory treat.

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Oliveira stressed the importance of using homemade ingredients, as it gives the team at Donut Love more room for creative freedom.

“The cool thing about craft making doughnuts is that we just make whatever comes to mind,” Oliveira said.

“Everything is handmade, so we don’t have to depend on something that’s coming from a can.”

Oliveira says business has been great this summer. Having grown up in North Hampton, he was happy to see the community come out and show their support.

“It’s got some sentimental value to me for sure,” Oliveira said. “I grew up in the community where our main shop is, and the community has been a blessing. The ‘support local’ movement was a big deal for us, and people came out and helped us survive this summer.”

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Blinks Fry Doe

If Blinks’ bright orange storefront at Hampton Beach isn’t enough to draw you in, their coveted and distinctly shaped fried dough will.

“There’s a lot of people that love Blinks and follow it on social media, and it’s such a staple at Hampton Beach,” said Lisa Martineau, the social media advisor for Blinks. “‘Never leave Hampton Beach without stopping at Blinks’ — I hear that from a lot of people.”

The fried dough at Blinks stands out with its unique recipe and its more rectangular shape. Though it looks a little different, Blinks’ 4-ounce pieces of dough still measures up to the size of the typical fried dough you can find.

“People think that they look smaller than other fried dough they’ve seen, but ours is just stretched longer,” Martineau said. “If you see fried dough and

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it’s shaped like that, you know it came from Blinks, so that’s pretty cool.”

Martineau says that allergy awareness is an important value at Blinks, so people with sensitivity to dairy and nut products can enjoy the beachside treat without any worries.

“Our dough doesn’t contain any dairy or egg products, so it’s easily digestible,” Martineau said. “We also go out of our way to make sure our nutbased toppings don’t come into contact with anything.”

Patrons of Blinks have a wide array of toppings at their disposal like peanut butter and jelly, maple syrup, hot fudge and jimmies, and many more. Powdered sugar and butter is also available for those who enjoy the classics.

“Our main product is really fried dough. That’s what we pride ourselves on,” Martineau said. The simplistic nature of Blinks has proven to be successful, with many customers remaining loyal.

“There’s so many that love Blinks that come back every year. People ask if we want to franchise the business, and I think that goes to show how much people really love it. They want to take it home with them and have it in their town.”

The iconic orange colorway of the store is what draws people in, but Martineau says the flavor is what keeps them hooked.

“It’s just fried dough — but it’s unique and it has its own cult following,” Martineau said. “There’s a certain flavor to the dough that’s different than everywhere else. I think that’s what brings people back.”

Stats Ice Cream

Just a few short steps from The Candy Corner at Hampton Beach and on the opposite side of the sweet spectrum is Stats Ice Cream, with big pieces of fried dough and toppings to boot.

“A lot of people stop by for fried dough and our ice cream,” said Kristen Statires, the owner of Stats.

Stats offers the classic concoction with powdered sugar, along with a few unique toppings that may raise some eyebrows.

“We offer toppings like pizza sauce and cheese, hot fudge and maple syrup,” Statires said. “The basics are the most popular, though, like butter, cinnamon and powdered sugar.”

Stats always goes the extra mile when it comes to the size of their dough.

“Ours is pretty big, usually bigger than the plate we serve it on,” Statires said.

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The fast lane isn’t for cruising Dear Car Talk: I’m from the U.S. but live in Argentina. I have a friend and co-worker with whom I frequently travel, and who always drives under the speed limit in the fast lane. People honk

By Ray Magliozzi and make creative gestures, but he refuses to change his ways. I have told him that the fast lane is only for passing, but I think he believes that’s an American idea that doesn’t apply here. How can I convince him that fast lane etiquette is global? — Ben I don’t know how you can convince him, Ben. If the old ladies with the blue hair screaming rare Argentinian curses at him aren’t having any effect, he might be too far gone.

You’re absolutely right. The left lane is traditionally for passing, not cruising. If you want to bop along at 53 miles per hour, you should be using the right lane, or the center lane at a minimum.

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It’s the rule in America, too. Unfortunately, over the past few decades, the traffic has gotten so bad that etiquette has fallen by the wayside, and drivers simply use whatever lane looks less crowded at that moment. In order for there to be a “passing lane,” there has to be enough capacity in the other lanes for people who are not passing. And that’s not always the case. Still, it’s unfortunate to get stuck behind someone poking along in the passing lane who is either oblivious, inconsiderate, or both.

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I get my “Oklahoma Credit Card” (hose) to siphon fuel from my pickup. But try as I might, I can’t get the hose all the way into the tank. Have the engineers at Dodge done something to prevent people from getting a hose all the way in the gas tank? Are they trying to thwart young sons’ ability to “borrow” fuel from their old mans’ pickup for a Friday night on the town? Is there another way to get fuel out of the tank for such emergencies? Sitting in the dark, crying in my warm anti-Coronavirus. — Ben My heart goes out to you, Ben. You have been thwarted. But it has nothing to do with kids stealing their fathers’ gasoline. It has everything to do with modern fuel system design. If you remember the first big “gasoline crisis” in the 1970s, you know that syphoning practically became a national sport. That was when T. Boone Pickens tried to corner the market on locking gas caps.

It’s very hard to siphon gas out of modern cars. Most cars have a valve in the filler neck to prevent gasoline from spilling out -- like if you rolled over in an accident. In your Dodge, I think it’s a plastic ball that is easily pushed down and out of the way by the flowing gasoline when you’re refueling, but blocks any fuel coming the other way. So siphoning from your truck won’t work.

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I launched Joyfull Eats on Jan. 1 of this year. The idea first came up at the end of last summer. I got seriously thinking about it by the end of September, and then in November I did a pre-launch with family, friends and local business owners.

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Okra caprese skewers There’s a decent chance that when you think about okra you think about it as an ingredient in gumbo. Or you think of it as that slimy vegetable. Or maybe you don’t think about it at all — but you should.

Okra, when cooked properly, makes a great side dish or appetizer. Today I have a simple appetizer recipe to try and get more okra into your life.

What better way to use okra than to roast it and eliminate its slimy nature? Even more importantly, pair it with other pieces of freshly picked produce to deliver a dish that’s full of flavor.

This appetizer is a great option for the end of summer not only because the produce is readily available but also because it’s easy to make and best served chilled or at room temperature. Sunday afternoon snacks? A before dinner treat? These skewers work well in both those roles.

The most difficult part of this recipe may be in getting the correct type of skewer.

A regular toothpick is a bit too short to fit all of the ingredients. A skewer that you’d use on the grill is way too long. The ideal choice is a four-inch cocktail skewer, if you can find them. If not, I’d suggest using a regular toothpick and cutting your mozzarella into smaller pieces if needed.

Okra Caprese Skewers Makes 24 skewers 12 okra pods 1 tablespoon olive oil 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 24 grape tomatoes Fresh mozzarella (ciliegine size preferred)* Basil leaves Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Remove stem end of okra, and slice in half lengthwise.

Brush both sides of the okra with olive oil.

Place okra, cut side down, on baking sheet.

Roast for 8 minutes.

Remove from oven, and flip so the okra is cut side up.

Roast for an additional 6 minutes.

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Okra Caprese Skewers. Photo by Michele Pesula Kuegler.

With skewers at the ready, all you need to do is roast and season the okra, before you begin assembling. Then you have a different (and quite unique) snack to share or enjoy on your own!

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

Remove from oven, and coat okra with balsamic vinegar.

Roast for 2 more minutes.

Thread a grape tomato onto a cocktail toothpick.

Add an okra half, being sure to thread it near the end of the okra.

Thread a mozzarella onto the toothpick, followed by a piece of basil leaf.

Fold the okra so that you can thread the other end onto the toothpick.

Repeat with remaining ingredients.

Serve with extra balsamic vinegar, if desired. *If you can’t find ciliegine, you can use fresh mozzarella cut into bite-sized cubes.

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Rosés to beat the heat Make every day a rosé day With this incessant heat, what can be more satisfying than a cool glass of rosé wine, either as an aperitif or with a salad or light meal?

Rosés should be served at about 50 to 55 degrees, and an opened bottle should be kept on ice after opening to keep the last glass as cool as the first. Rosé wine comes in countless styles — fruity and fun, or savory, dry and serious. Rosé is produced worldwide, and while southern France, Italy and Spain are well-known for producing rosés, California and New Zealand and other parts of France are entering into this growing market of wine styles. Rosé is made from red grapes, but with just a brief period of skin contact with the grapes in the making of the wine — usually just a few hours to a couple of days — and fermentation in cool stainless-steel containers, the wines are intended to be consumed while they remain quite young.

Our first wine is a bottle of Luna Rosé 2018 (originally priced at $17.99 at the New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets and reduced to $8.99) and hails from Napa, California. Luna Vineyards dates from 1995, when the current owners of the property brought along with them not only their generations of vineyard management but also some of Italy’s varietals. They were the first to plant pinot grigio in the valley, and this rosé is made from sangiovese grapes — yes, the same grapes that go into Classico Chianti! The color is a beautiful shade of pink. Both the nose and the taste are light and full of fruit. This wine is perfect for sipping or paired with chicken or pork. As a young, inexpensive wine, this is a great place to start an introduction to wine. It is neither too dry nor too sweet.

As a young wine, it does not have a strong presence.

Our second and third bottles of wine come from “Down Under.” Kim Crawford 2019 Rose (originally priced at $15.99 at the New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets and reduced to $11.45) hails from Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. This region and especially Kim Crawford are known for world-class chardonnays and sauvignon blancs. Primarily made from merlot grapes and cool fermented, this wine has a beautiful pink color and a nose of strawberries and melons. The taste is crisp and dry and would pair well with summer salads. The merlot grape has a rich, robust flavor, and when turned into a red wine is paired with steak or other hearty fare. As a rosé, this wine is light and is a big departure from that full-mouth flavor of a merlot red wine.

The other New Zealand rosé is an Oyster Bay 2018 Rose (originally priced at $14.99

at the New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets and reduced to $10.99) and also hails from Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. This rosé is made from pinot noir grapes. It has a light pink color and has notes of cherry and strawberry to the nose. The berry and herb notes of pinot noir come through to the tongue, allowing it to be paired with appetizers as varied as lamb lollipops and grilled chicken. As with the Luna, this is a good wine for the newly initiated as the flavors are not challenging and there is a medium acidity to the tongue.

Our fourth rose might be considered a French traditional rosé. The J Mourat Collection 2019 Rose Val de Loire (originally priced at $15.99 at the New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets and reduced to $12.99) does not come from Provencal, France, known for its diverse rosé winemaking styles, but as its name implies it comes from the Loire River valley. This vineyard is along the western reaches of the Loire, so the climate is treated to warm days and cool ocean breezes at night. The blend of pinot noir, cabernet franc, negrette and gamay grapes imparts a color that is a rich rose, along with aromas and flavors of raspberries and strawberries. With some citric acidity and minerality, and a dry finish, it is perfect for hot weather dining of chicken or salads.

So, beat the heat with any one or all four of these vastly different takes on what is becoming a popular style of wine, the rosé.

You will be surprised with the diversity in this style of wine.

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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Project Power

Project Power (R)

Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback fight a chaos-bringing drug in Project Power, a promising but under-baked action movie from Netflix.

It is a chocolate chip pancake with a rawbatter center — potentially satisfying but frustrating for its not-quite-there-ness.

Art (Foxx) is on the hunt for the source of Power, a new street drug that comes in a glowy pill and, when ingested, gives the user five minutes of some kind of superhuman power. Most of the time. Sometimes it kills the user — is I think the implication of a scene where a person takes it and immediately explodes. And it doesn’t appear that you know or have any choice in what power it gives you.

And that power could kill or maim you, in the moment or over time. Feels like a lot of medication side effects but I guess the chance that you can be briefly bullet-proof, as New Orleans police detective Frank (Gordon-Levitt) is when he takes Power, or chameleon-like, as with an “invisible” bank robber we see him chase, is enough for some users.

Robin (Fishback, this movie’s real star) is an enterprising high school student who sells Power to help raise money for her mom, who is sick and needs medical treatment. Robin sells to Frank sometimes, who buys because it helps him and other cops level the playing field with the Powered-up criminals they chase. Frank likes and roots for Robin and is genuinely concerned when she texts him for help.

Trying to work his way through the Power supply chain in New Orleans, Art kidnaps Robin to get information about the person distributing Power to dealers. Though initially he gets her assistance through threats, Robin seems to come around to Art’s mission. A former military officer and an early test subject for the Power drug, Art later had a daughter with naturally occurring superhuman abilities.

She was kidnapped by Power’s manufacturers and now Art is desperate to get her back.

The movie brings Art, Robin and Frank together at what feels like a late point — actually, everything feels like it happens later

than it should in this movie. At an hour and 53 minutes, this movie feels about 20 minutes too long but also off in its pacing. Within individual scenes, there is good momentum and good chemistry between Fishback, Foxx and Gordon-Levitt, who are fun individually and fun together. But the movie itself doesn’t quite keep the energy level where it needs to be.

All three of the leads — but Fishback, in particular — are solid at the action and the comedy (which isn’t big and quippy but more smart and to the point) this movie requires.

But Project Power often feels like it turns down the volume on them or crowds them out with a lot of visual “here’s what the drug is doing” business.

The movie also makes mention of Henrietta Lacks (the woman whose cells are fundamental to the last 60-plus years of medical research) and the fact that Power’s makers are testing the drug on the people of New Orleans. This feels like heavy stuff to just sort of sprinkle into a movie without doing anything with those elements. As with the movie’s overall pacing and runtime, I feel like this aspect of the story could have been more significant and given the movie more weight had somebody (some studio exec, in ye olden days when this movie would have been theater-bound?) asked for another draft of the screenplay and another round of edits on the finished film.

While the movie can be filed under “meh,” Fishback — and to a lesser degree Foxx and Gordon-Levitt — pushes the movie a notch above. Her Robin is an engaging character, the movie is always at least 30 percent more interesting when she’s on screen. A natural C, Project Power gets a boost from Fishback into B- territory.

Rated R for violence, bloody images, drug content and some language, according to the MPA on filmratings.com. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (and if you’re thinking “hey, that sounds familiar but from where,” they are the directors of some midseries Paranormal Activity entries and of the documentary Catfish) with a screenplay by Mattson Tomlin, Project Power is an hour and 53 minutes long and is available on Netflix.

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POP CULTURE BOOKS

Let Them Eat Tweets, by Jacob S. to stoking “cleavages,” or sectionHacker and Paul Pierson (Liveright/ al loyalties, which “generate intensity W.W. Norton, 217 pages) sufficient to motivate potential voters and convince them to put their economJacob Hacker and Paul Pierson are ic concerns to the side.” In other words, not amused, no matter what their book create divisions between people in title says. terms of race, religion or ethnicity. As In fact, the political scientists, who a policy, that’s plenty flammable, but live on opposite coasts, are convinced it becomes downright explosive when that America is becoming a plutocra- combined with the sort of income and cy, governed not by its people but by wealth inequality that America is seeits rich people. And they believe that ing now, Hacker and Pierson say.

Republicans are to blame.

To make their case, Hacker, at Yale, Hacker and Pierson are established and Pierson, at the University of CalGOP-bashers; in three previous books, ifornia, Berkeley, scroll through a the pair skewered “the war on govern- history of bad actors who, over the ment,” the Republican revolution and past 50 or so years, helped to create “winner-take-all” politics (played, of the political climate we live in now. course, by Republicans. They don’t They range from Richard Nixon to Lee come to the podium neutral. But hear Atwater, from New Gingrich (who they them out. They’re not specifically out call “something of a founding father of to tear down the Tweeter-in-Chief, but our current political dysfunction,” to the system that enabled him, a system George W. Bush and his father. They, of they say goes back more than 40 years. course, save plenty of pages for Trump.

The system results from what they But they argue that the plutocracy ball call “the conservative’s dilemma,” was already rolling back when he was which is this: Wealthy people have on his first wife, and that most people power that derives from their wealth, clinging to it were Republican.

“The very rich invest most heavily in and they want policies that preserve it.

But in a democracy, the poor and mid- the Republican Party; its politicians, its dle-class have votes that can take away party organizations, its allied groups, that power. The wealthy conservative, and its causes,” Hacker and Pierthen, is forced to court a constituency son write. Forbes says that of the 100 whose interests and needs are vastly richest Americans, nearly two-thirds different from her own to stay in pow- contribute mainly or exclusively to er, and sometimes decides democracy Republican or conservative causes, and isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. they outspend Democrats in the top 100 Their fear was wonderfully expressed by a ratio of three to one. in the mid-19th century by a British conservative, Lord Robert Cecil, who How, then, can they stay in power, thought that under democracy “the since they require the votes of workwhole country shall be governed by ing-class Americans?

According to an ignorant multitude, the creature of the authors, conservative base-building a vast and powerful organization, of relies on two “Rs” — resentment and which a few half-taught and cunning racialization, which studies have shown agitators are the head … in short, that isn’t difficult even among reasonable the rich shall pay all the taxes, and the people. They cite a 2012 Harvard study poor shall make all the laws.” in which researchers sent two “goodSome factions in America today, looking, cheery, and well-dressed” particularly in the streets of Portland, Hispanic-looking people to ride the would say, “You got a problem with commuter rail from a suburb of Bosthat?” with no sense of irony. ton into the city, chatting in Spanish But British conservatives did, over the whole time. The researchers intertime, succeed; Hacker and Pierson viewed commuters before and after the note that Winston Churchill and Mar- experiment and found that after being garet Thatcher governed for nearly six exposed to the Spanish-speaking men, decades, combined. And American con- the commuters were more likely to say servatives have assumed and retained immigration should be reduced. power in part by using a time-honIn other words, just two friendly peoored strategy: “addressing the material ple speaking Spanish created a backlash needs of the newly enfranchised.” (Did against immigration within a few days. someone say stimulus checks?)

“When outsiders breach the boundarThat alone, however, will not win ies of established social groups, those elections, especially when the oppo- within them often react with resentnents offer bigger checks. ment, even revulsion,” Hacker and Which is why Hacker and Pier- Pierson write.

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armed with that knowledge and determined to win at all costs, and it’s not hard to see why “dog whistles” are so much of the political conversation these days.

Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum, Let Them Eat Tweets is an interesting synopsis of one side’s version of how we got to 2016, and where we may be headed in four months. The arguments weaken when Hacker and Pierson propose solutions, most of which involve not re-electing Trump; in fact, they believe the country, and our democracy, needs a “stinging” repudiation of Trump in November.

From there, they offer benign and predictable hopes: that the country reform the economy so it’s not so accommodating for the wealthy; a development of a “more robust and inclusive democracy”; strengthening the middle class; and so forth.

To their credit, they insist they’re not out to stamp out conservatives or Republicans. “The hope is not that the GOP gets relegated to permanent minority status. Our institutions create very strong incentives to have just two major parties, and it is neither realistic nor desirable to expect only one of them to rule.” They also give examples of Republican governors that they seem to like, or at least not actively dislike: among them, Chris Sununu, Charlie

Baker of Massachusetts and Phil Scott of Vermont.

Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum, Let Them Eat Tweets is an interesting synopsis of one side’s version of how we got to 2016, and where we may be headed in four months. And the answer to your most burning question: Hacker tweets, Pierson doesn’t.

B — Jennifer Graham

BOOK NOTES Not being a follower of what used to be known as beauty pageants, now “scholarship pageants,” I just now learned that this year’s Miss America performed a science experiment as her talent.

The potential for chemical explosions onstage may not easily replace the swimsuit competition, insofar as ratings go, but that is certainly interesting.

Is the evolution of the beauty pageant interesting enough for not just one book on the subject, but two? Publishers think so. There are two books out this month on pageant culture, strange for a year in which there won’t even be a Miss America pageant.

The first, and likely the best, is Hilary Levey Friedman’s Here She Is, The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America (Beacon Press, 275 pages). Props to Friedman for bravely using the term ‘beauty pageant,’ which is no longer allowed in conversation. She is a sociologist with a Ph.D. who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and is uniquely qualified to lead the discussion, being a state president of the National Organization for Women, daughter of Miss America 1970 and an

occasional pageant judge. I am psyched to read this when it comes out this week.

Also out this month is Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-YearOld Quest to Define Womanhood by Margot Mifflin (Counterpoint, 320 pages). The title gets to the heart of why there’s suddenly so much talk about pageants; the Miss America contest turns 100 years old next year, and I guess publishers want to get a jump on the predictable jokes about how well she has aged.

(I still don’t understand why we had two asteroid movies at the same time in the summer of 1998, but that’s a topic for Amy Diaz.)

Mifflin is a New York professor who has previously written about the history of women and tattoos (2013’s Bodies of Subversion, powerHouse Books, 160 pages). Her take on pageants looks more like a scholarly book; Friedman’s looks more fun.

Neither is to be confused with The American Pageant, the history book that has been a staple of high-school history classes since 1956. (I still have mine; do you?)

— Jennifer Graham

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The Goat 142 Congress St., 590-4628

Sea Ketch 127 Ocean Blvd., 926-0324

Exeter Sawbelly Brewing: Alan Roux, 2 p.m.; Chad Verbeck, 5 p.m.

Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Karaoke with DJ Jason Whitney, 7 p.m.

WHYM Craft Pub & Brewery 853 Lafayette Road ,601-2801

Hampton Ashworth by the Sea 295 Ocean Blvd., 926-6762 Bernie’s Beach Bar 73 Ocean Blvd., 926-5050

Thursday, Aug. 20 Epping Telly’s: Matt Luneau, 7 p.m.

Hampton Bernie’s: Zach Deputy, 7 p.m. (main stage); Sheldon Benton, 2 p.m. (patio); Joe Sambo, 7 p.m. (patio) CR’s: Ross McGuinnes, 6 p.m.

The Goat: Isaiah Bennett, 8:30 p.m.

Sea Ketch: Paul Lussier, 1 p.m.

Sea Shell: Houston Bernard, 7 p.m.

Smuttynose: open mic with Max Sullivan, 6 p.m.

Wally’s: Chris Toler, 7 p.m.

The Goat 20 L St., 601-6928

Smuttynose Brewing 105 Towle Farm Road

Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Ryan Palma, 5 p.m.

Newmarket Stone Church: Open mic with Dave Ogden, 5 p.m.

Portsmouth Gas Light: Clint Lapointe, 6 p.m.

The Goat: Rob Pagnano, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 24 Hampton Bernie’s: MB Padfield, 7 p.m. (main stage); Reggae Nights with Green Lion Crew, 7 p.m. (patio) The Goat: Shawn Theriault, 8:30 p.m.

Sea Shell: All Summer Long, 7 p.m. (music of the Beach Boys) Wally’s: Adam Lufkin, 7 p.m.

Portsmouth Gas Light: Rebecca Turmel, 8 p.m.

The Goat: Musical Bingo Nation, 7 p.m.; Alex Anthony Band, 9 p.m.

Newmarket Stone Church: Tyler Allgood, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 25 Hampton Bernie’s: Mike Forgette, 7 p.m. (main stage); Ivory Tickling Tuesdays with Paul Wolstencroft of Slightly Stoopid, 7 p.m. (patio) The Goat: Rob Pagnano, 8:30 p.m.

McGuirk’s: Brad Bosse, 7 p.m.

Sea Shell: Neurotic Gumbo, 7 p.m.

Wally’s: Chris Toler, 7 p.m.

Portsmouth Gas Light: Andrew Geano, 8 p.m.

The Goat: Alex Anthony, 9 p.m.

Newmarket Stone Church: Artists on the Move showcase, 6 p.m.

Portsmouth Gas Light: Pete Peterson, 8 p.m.

The Goat: Pat Dowling, 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 26 Exeter Sawbelly Brewing: David Drouin, 5 p.m.

Hampton Ashworth: Max Sullivan, 4 p.m.

(Sandbar); Joel Cage Solo, 8 p.m.

(Breakers) Bernie’s: Adam Lufkin, 7 p.m. (main stage); King Kyote, 7 p.m. (patio) The Goat: Emily Rae, 8:30 p.m.

Sea Shell: Brandy, 7 p.m.

Wally’s: Chris Toler, 7 p.m.

Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Waterman Wednesday with Adam Fithian, 7 p.m. (live acoustic performance of classic rock, modern hits, 90s throwbacks)

Thursday, Aug. 27 Epping Telly’s: Scott Plante, 7 p.m.

Exeter Sawbelly Brewing: Dean Harlem, 5 p.m.

Hampton Ashworth: Tim Parent, 4 p.m.

(Sandbar) Bernie’s: Pete Killpatrick Band, 7 p.m. (main stage); Joe Sambo, 7 p.m. (patio) The Goat: Alex Anthony, 8:30 p.m.

Sea Ketch: Matt Luneau, 1 p.m.

Sea Shell: Country Mile, 7 p.m. (country) Smuttynose: Open Mic with Max Sullivan, 6 p.m.

Wally’s: Chris Toler, 7 p.m.

Kingston Saddle Up Saloon: Karaoke with DJ Jason Whitney, 7 p.m.

Newmarket Stone Church: Andrew Polakow, 6 p.m.

Portsmouth Gas Light: Matt Langley, 8 p.m.

The Goat: Ellis Falls, 9 p.m.

Rochester Governor’s Inn: Amanda Dane Band, 6 p.m. (groovin’ rock)

COMEDY THIS WEEK AND BEYOND Some are ticketed shows; schedule subject to change. See venues for safety procedures, ticket information and information about rescheduled shows.

Venues

Shows

The Community Oven • Mike’d Up ComShowcase, 24 Calef Hwy, Epping edy 734-4543, thecommu- Community Oven in Epping, Wednesday, nityoven.com Aug. 26, 7 p.m.

• Roy Wood Jr., The The Loft 131 Congress St., Loft in Portsmouth, SatPortsmouth, 436-2400, urday, Aug. 29, 7 & 9 p.m. themusichall.org

• Juston McKinney, The Loft in Portsmouth, Thursday, Sept. 3, 6 & 8 p.m.

• Lewis Black, The Music Hall, Friday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m.

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All quotes are from The Mamba career, and we weren’t competing for Mentality: How I Play, by Kobe Bryant, championships, so I was happy to share born Aug. 23, 1978. what I knew. Teach them, you must.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) [Good Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) It’s all about coaches] point out what specifically is putting me in the place I need to be in and isn’t working. Based on that and your for that game. Some games required more own feel for the game, you utilize some intensity, so I would need to get my char- of that information immediately and you acter and mind in an animated zone. save some of it in your back pocket for Other games, I needed calm. … Know crucial moments during the game. Check what you need. your back pocket.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) It’s just me Aries (March 21 – April 19) Basand the basket, the court and my imagi- ketball took me everywhere. … Without nation, dreams. There’s something about hoops, I would not understand how to being in a big arena when no one else is create or write, I would not understand there. Dance like no one’s watching. human nature, nor would I know how to Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Refs have a lead. The game, in essence, taught me difficult job. They’re not just responsible the art of storytelling. Without it, I would for observing and moderating the action not have an Emmy, I would not have an in front of them at a fast pace. They’re also Oscar, I would not have creative dreams responsible for bearing the brunt of the and visions still to unfold. Don’t give emotions of a game that tend to boil over. basketball too much credit.

Think like a ref and you’ll get stuff done.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) The basScorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) I made a ket stays stationary. Your job could be point of reading the referee’s handbook. worse.

This is excellent advice.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) A lot of Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) If you players solely focused on improving off want to be a great basketball player, you the dribble, but I also always placed addhave to be in great shape. Drop and give ed emphasis on playing off the catch. Do me 20. both.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) I took Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Let’s talk the design of my Nikes very seriously. AS about the pass, too. If you’re going to go ONE SHOULD! through all of that effort to set the play Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) Later up, if you’re going to get hacked and in my career, players asked me to share pounded on your way to the hoop, you the how-tos of some of my footwork with better make sure you don’t mess up the them. … I was on the last stretch of my last step. Practice all the steps.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Statuesque

Srinivas Gupta, a businessman in Koppal, India, and his wife, Madhavi, were building their dream home when she died in a car crash in 2017. But in many ways, she is still with Gupta — especially now that he has installed a life-size wax statue of her in the home. Madhavi’s likeness is in a seated position, clothed in a pink sari and gold jewelry.

“The planning for the house was all done by her and we couldn’t imagine entering this new house without her,” Anusha Gupta, one of the couple’s daughters, told CNN. At a housewarming party on Aug. 7, friends and relatives posed with Madhavi on a couch and posted photos to social media. The family says they will keep the statue in their courtyard: “She used to enjoy the outdoors,” Anusha said.

More money than sense

A Chinese businessman living in the United States has commissioned the priciest face mask in the world from Israeli jeweler Yvel, the Associated Press reported on Aug. 9. Yvel owner Isaac Levy said the 18-karat gold mask will cost $1.5 million and sparkle with 3,600 white and black diamonds. “Money may-

be doesn’t buy everything,” Levy admitted, “but if it can buy a very expensive COVID-19 mask and the guy wants to wear it and walk around and get the attention, he should be happy with that. I am happy that this mask gave us enough work for our employees to be able to provide their jobs in very challenging times like these,” he added. Levy said he would not wear it himself, though.

Awesome!

It isn’t often that you can thank your overweight belly for saving your life, but a 28-year-old man in Henan Province, China, is doing just that. The man, identified as Liu, fell through a wooden cover on a well in his hometown of Fuliudian Village on Aug. 7, Fox News reported. But rather than plunging to the bottom, he got stuck in the opening with his built-in life preserver. At least five firefighters were needed to hoist the man out O! Canada Social media has lit up recently in Can- of the well using a rope tied around his waist, ada with photos of unexpected additions to but Liu escaped unharmed. beaver lodges, including satellite dishes and a flagpole. Glynnis Hood, a professor of Oops environmental science at the University of At Shooters World in Orlando, Florida, a Alberta, confirmed that beavers could install teenage girl walked into a display gun safe a satellite dish, “but it would probably be cov- on Aug. 11 — and the door closed behind ered in mud.” So what gives? Hood and others her, locking her inside. Orlando firefighters think it’s the quintessential Canadian prank: “I responded to the scene, where they “tried the think that Canadians have this profound con- manufacturers’ suggestions and unfortunatenection to beavers,” she told the CBC. “It’s ly the fail-safe system failed on it,” explained our national symbol. [It] just seems to go well Chief J.J. White. Instead, ClickOrlando.com with the Canadian identity.” Sure enough, reported, responders used a hydraulic extricaGrant Carlson of Thunder Bay, Ontario, con- tion tool to free the girl, who was not injured firmed that he was one of the pranksters: “We in the incident. decided to help the beavers. You know selfisolation isn’t so bad with Netflix.”

Government in action

Jade Dodd renewed her driver’s license in Hickman County, Tennessee, on time, but when she received the new card in the mail, it was missing a key ingredient: her photo.

Where Dodd’s face should have been was an empty chair, WKRN reported. “The lady at the DMV did not really believe me when I was like, hey, I need my license fixed,” Dodd said. But when she saw the ID on her computer, she said, “Oh, I need my manager for this.”

Wes Moster of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security explained that the chair photo was an old one on file for Dodd that was reused for the renewal by mistake, and she was issued a new license right away.

Aspirations

Pal Onnen of Hastings, Minnesota, just wanted to put her nwot on the pam, United Press International reported. And indeed, on Aug. 12, she did just taht. Onnen set the Guinness World Record for spelling words backward: 56 words in one etunim. Sgnitsah is so proud of you!

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