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Summer winds down It’s hard to believe that Labor Day is right around the corner! Seems it took so long for summer to get here, and now it is on its way out — even though fall technically doesn’t Larry Marsolais start until Sept. 23. It has been good beach weather for most of the summer, so we can’t really complain, and maybe, just maybe, we will have a really nice fall with mild weather so all of us can get out and enjoy everything that New England has to offer. Fall is a beautiful time of the year, and from the Seacoast to the mountains, there are many amazing things to do.

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On Sunday, Sept. 1, Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads are performing at Surfside at Salisbury Beach. Doors open at 5 p.m. with Reggae DJ Green Lion Crew. Live music begins at 7 p.m. with High Hopes Band, and headliner Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads are scheduled to take the stage at 8 p.m. Standing room only; tickets $16 in advance or $20 day of show. Surfside is also hosting a Beach Heat Dance Party on Saturday, Aug. 31, at 9 p.m. Find more events and details on Surfside’s Facebook page.

Everything Greek

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of Dover is presenting its annual Greek Festival, at the Hellenic Center in Dover on Friday, Aug. 30, from 4 to 10 p.m., and on Saturday, Aug. 31, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The festival will feature a variety of authentic Greek foods to try over the course of both days, such as roasted lamb, pork souvlaki, pastichio (Greek lasagna), spanakopita (spinach pie), lamb shanks and loukaniko (Greek sausages), plus homemade pastries, like baklava, loukoumades (fried dough balls), kourambiethes (powdered Greek shortbread cookies) and finikia (honey-dipped walnut cookies). Live music and a full bar featuring traditional Greek spirits like ouzo and Metaxa will also be available. Admission and parking are free, while foods and drinks are priced per item. Visit dovergreekfestival.com.

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There are two more chances to see fireworks at Hampton Beach: Sunday, Sept. 1, at 9:30 p.m., to celebrate Labor Day, and Saturday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m., for the Seafood Festival. The fireworks are set off on the beach at the top of B and C streets.

The Seacoast Composite Squadron is hosting an Open House on Thursday, Sept. 5, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Next Era Off-Site Facility on the Pease International Tradeport. Civil Air Patrol is an all volunteer auxiliary of the United States Air Force.

It meets on Thursday evenings on the Pease ANG Base. Members range in age from 12 to 18 for Cadets and 18 and older for Senior members. All members may participate in the three primary missions of CAP: Search and Rescue, Aerospace Education, and Cadet Programs. There are also opportunities to participate in flights, as well as in Squadron Color Guard, drill team, ground team search and rescue, building and testing a wind tunnel, aerospace education, leadership pods and more. Learn more at the open house or visit seacoastsquadron.com.

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Hampton Beach Seafood Festival More than 50 Seacoast restaurants will be serving up a variety of seafood, including chowder, lobster, lobster rolls, fried clams, shrimp and muscles, at the 30th anniversary of the Seafood Festival at Hampton Beach, happening Friday, Sept. 6, through Sunday, Sept. 8.

“There’s nothing like 30 years to have you go down memory lane and say, ‘Hey, do you remember when mom and dad used to bring us to the Seafood Festival? Let’s go back,’” said Colleen Westcott, the director of events and marketing at the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Seafood Festival committee.

For its 30th year, festival organizers have added more time for seafood. Saturday’s hours are the same as past years (10 a.m. to 9 p.m.), but on Friday and Sunday the gates will open earlier than they used to. Friday’s hours are now 1 to 9 p.m., and on Sunday the festival will start at 9 a.m. and end at 6 p.m. Parking is free, and shuttles will be available.

The festival will also feature fried food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and desserts, and there will be more than 60 arts and craft dealers, two stages of entertainment, a 200-foot beer tent, sidewalk bargain sales, eating contests, cornhole tournaments and more.

“Our goal is to give folks a lot of reason to return,” Wescott said. “We’re expecting a great turnout as people come to revisit the event, or that they come every year and they

wouldn’t dare miss the 30th because it’s such a big event.”

There’s a new pre-festival 5K road race starting at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday. The race will occur along Ocean Boulevard and end at the Beach Cabana Bar. “This is a great run — it’s going to run along the beautiful Seacoast, it’s going to go up Route 1A and back into the festival,” Westcott said. “The last 200 yards ... are going to be on the beach. They’ll come down onto the beach and end the race on the Beach Cabana Bar, where we’ll have music.

We’ve added a band early in the morning for the Seafood Fest 5K runners coming in so it’ll be an early morning party starting Sunday morning.”

Westcott said that there has been a Seafood Festival 5K in past years, but it faded into obscurity some time ago. She added that while the race was created to celebrate 30 years, the committee hopes to continue the 5K in the future and have it become a long-lasting tradition for festivals to come.

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stage, having your beer or your wine just enjoying the day playing cornhole,” Westcott said. “We want everyone to have fun, but for those who are serious about competitions and tournaments, this is a professional tournament.”

Westcott said that the tournament will be professionally scored and double-elimination. Teams that pre-registered paid a $50 buy-in to play for the cash prize given to the top three teams in each tournament. The purse depends on how many teams are officially participating, as Westcott said they’re hoping to expand the tournament if the Beach Cabana Bar allows for it with a handful of additional cornhole boards.

Along with these special events, the Seafood Festival is looking to maintain the very thing that’s established it as a New England staple: the fresh seafood.

With over 50 Seacoast restaurants bringing their food to its two food tents, there won’t be any shortage of aquatic bites. As Westcott said, the variety of seafood can almost be overwhelming, including every type of lobster, chowder, shrimp, mussel and haddock dish one can imagine.

As always, the food vendors at the Seafood Festival will be competing in the annual food judging contest. Blue and red ribbons for first and second place are to be awarded in six categories: Best Chowder, Best Lobster Roll, Best Bisque, Best NonSeafood, Best Dessert and Best Fried Food.

“We know chowder, lobster roll and bisque are essential for a seafood festival,” Westcott said, “and then the others were added because we have such a wide variety of food vendors that want to be in the challenge.”

The food judging begins at 2 p.m. on Friday, with five judges doing a blind taste test of each vendor’s offering in the various categories. The judges are three regional food-inclined specialists and two

professionals. The judges mark their scores in preparation for the 5 p.m. announcement on Friday on the Main Stage.

“We do this on Friday night because the festival is opened and we have huge blue ribbons that we present the winners and they put them on their booths, so as you walk through our culinary tents you’ll be able to spot those large blue ribbons and say, ‘This vendor just won for Best Bisque, I want to give it a try,’” Westcott said. “You can look for the blue ribbons and say, ‘Let me see if I agree with what the judges decided and if it’s the best I’ve ever tasted.’”

The Old Salt Restaurant at Lamie’s Inn and the Rye Harbor Lobster Pound are two food vendors with historic roots at the festival. The Old Salt is one of the few vendors who attended the first Seafood Festival 30 years ago and still holds its vendor spot to this day. Meanwhile, the Rye Harbor Lobster Pound has been in attendance ever since Sylvia Cheever, one of the restaurant’s owners, brought her hot lobster roll to the festival 14 years ago and took home the blue ribbon for Best Lobster Roll.

“I’m famous for my hot lobster roll and also people come to us for our lobster bisque and our fluffy chowder,” Cheever said. “Our lobster bisque is a perennial winner at the Hampton Seafood Festival.”

Westcott praised Cheever’s fluffy chowder, calling it one of her favorite dishes at the festival. She also paid homage to the Old Salt for its consistent presence year in and year out.

“The Old Salt is coming back for this year, and they have been at the festival for all 30 years, so we’re really glad that they’ve been a partner of the event for the whole time and we’re very excited about that,” she said.

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The contest will feature eight competitive eaters who applied to participate in the event and were selected by the committee. All of the contest’s competitors have experience completing food challenges.

“If you and I had our own food competition, sure, it’d be interesting to watch but we probably would not be able to put away 13 lobster rolls, so it’s fun to watch as these professional eaters,” Westcott said. “They know what they’re doing, and it’s amazing what they can eat. It’s a lot of fun to watch.”

First place in the Lobster Roll Eating Contest will go home with $600, with second place winning $250 and third place $150.

“There’s lots of ways to make money at Seafood Fest,” Westcott said.

Other special events at the Seafood Festival include fireworks on Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. on Hampton Beach, the New England Sky Jumping Exhibition on Sunday at 5 p.m. and culinary demonstrations from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the culinary tent. With such an abundance of activities to partake in, Westcott said the festival takes a year to a year and a half to plan for, with the entire community coming together to make the magic happen.

“Because it is [so] collaborative, we’re able to offer this event that has something for everybody, that is big, that is just a true community festival,” she said. “I don’t want to say our work is done for us here at the Chamber because we do in fact do a lot of work — many, many hours of putting this together — but when you have the most 12

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Between meals, explore the Seafood Festi- 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Culinary demonstrations val’s other activities. will take place in the culinary tent.

Noon to 4 p.m. Cornhole competition takes Friday, Sept. 6: place at the beach cabana bar.

1 p.m. Gates open – all craft, food and beer 2 p.m. Annual lobster roll eating contest on the main stage. tents will be open.

4 to 9 p.m. Entertainment starts on both 8:30 p.m. Fireworks taking place on the beach. stages.

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6 p.m. Official ribbon cutting opening of the Sunday, Sept. 8: 30th annual Seafood Festival.

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Although the Seafood Festival is only three days long, there are plenty of seafood options to try out any time of the year at the many Seacoast restaurants that bring the annual festival its acclaim and delicious eats.

Lobster rolls

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In New England the lobster roll is more than just a food — it’s a way of life. It seems that nearly every restaurant offers a lobster roll come summertime, but according to the owners of The Old Salt Restaurant at Lamie’s Inn and the Rye Harbor Lobster Pound, it takes a truly special concoction to craft a lobster roll correctly.

“For the lobster roll, it’s getting the meat as fresh as you can and picking fresh meat versus frozen meat or having nice chunks of lobster meat in it where lots of people will just use claws and knuckles,” said Higgins of the Old Salt. “During the summer we do fantastic business with our lobster roll.”

Higgins said that the Old Salt serves both a warm and a cold lobster roll but prefers the warm rendition served on buttered bread, saying that it’s a light, airy alternative that fits the summer season well.

“We’re known as the house of the warm lobster roll … we’re just taking the meat and we’re sauteeing it in butter and putting it on a brioche hot dog roll.”

Cheever of Rye Harbor Lobster Pound claims historic local stakes to the warm lobster roll, saying that she and her family were the first to bring it to the Seacoast. Her

recipe first received recognition when she brought it to the Seafood Festival 14 years ago and won the blue ribbon for Best Lobster Roll.

“I introduced my hot lobster roll that’s in a butter cherry sauce and it won best lobster roll and then the big boys decided that it would be a good idea to put it on the menu — but they don’t know how to make it like me,” said Cheever. “I’m famous for my hot lobster roll.”

Cheever agreed with Higgins that eating a fresh, non-frozen lobster is a vital factor.

“I think because we’re small we have a real high quality standard and there’s not many places where you get a fresh lobster roll, so it makes a huge difference,” she said.

“Locals come to us. That’s how we know we’re good.”

Chowder

Clam chowder, another signature regional dish, can be made in a dizzying variation of ways, from light and fluffy to dense and creamy to its many other versions.

“If you look at chowder across the nation, chowder varies from place to place,” said Westcott. “A Rhode Island chowder is different from a New Hampshire chowder, a Manhattan chowder, there’s just really no other place where you can get that rich, creamy milk-based chowder with an abundance of seafood in it that’s fresh off the boat. There’s just no other place where you can get it.”

Higgins said that the Old Salt is also “famous” for their clam chowder, which they can and sell at the Seafood Festival in addition to serving it at their restaurant.

“Our chowder is thick and creamy; if your spoon doesn’t stand up in it, it’s not thick enough,” he said. “That’s New England style.”

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32 years, and that his secret is using a pasteurized cream versus the ultra-pasteurized cream that many seafood places opt for.

On the other hand, Cheever’s clam chowder is described as “fluffy” and is praised by Westcott as being one of her favorite dishes at the Seafood Festival. Cheever designed the dish and calls it another one of her famous local creations.

Lobster

While lobster rolls may be the biggest New England seafood dish, lobsters can be utilized a number of ways, such as being stewed into a bisque or thrown right on the grill. Cheever said their lobster bisque is a perennial winner at the Seafood Festival, although they also have a popular lobster gazpacho and, of course, serve them steamed the old-fashioned way.

“Our lobster gazpacho is a cold summer

soup, and it’s got all kinds of fresh vegetables in it: cucumbers, red and green peppers, red onion, tomato, garlic, and it’s topped with citrus and lobster meat,” she said.

“We’ve got all kinds of interesting things.”

Meanwhile, Higgins said their lobster options vary from charbroiled to stewed to their seasonally popular steak and grilled lobster combo.

“A big hit this summer has been our grilled filet mignon and grilled lobster tail, so we’re taking lobster tail and cooking it right on a charbroiler, so that one’s been incredible for us to keep up with,” he said.

Haddock

Ted Mountzuris, the owner of Castaways Seafood and Grille in Seabrook, said their baked haddock is one of the most popular dishes on the menu, with the fresh fish being a huge hit in the summertime.

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Live Music at the Seafood Festival Friday 1 to 3 p.m. The Spaceheaters at the Main Stage.

4 to 5:30 p.m. Lexi James at the Main Stage.

4 to 6:30 p.m. Jason Spooner at the Beach Bar Stage.

7 to 10 p.m. Party on Band at the Beach Bar Stage 7 to 8:30 p.m. The Gravel Project at the Main Stage.

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Saturday 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Rockin Daddios at the Main Stage.

11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Stefanie Jasmine Band at the Beach Bar Stage.

1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The Aaron Norcross Trio at the Beach Bar Stage.

4 to 6:30 p.m. Drive South at the Beach Bar Stage.

4 to 5:30 p.m. Mychael David Music at the Main Stage.

6:30 to 8:15 p.m. Living on a Bad Name at the Main Stage.

7 to 10 p.m. Bailout at the Beach Bar Stage.

Sunday 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Catfish Howl at the Beach Bar Stage.

11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Slack Tide at the Beach Bar Stage.

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3 to 6 p.m. The Crab Shack Band at the Beach Bar Stage.

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“Another famous one is our baked 14 haddock and I would say it’s not only that people like it, it’s the size, we give you a good size,” Mountzuris said. “And the topping that we put on there and the seasoning with the Ritz crackers is really good, it gives really good flavor to the fish.”

Higgins agreed that the Old Salt sells an abundance of haddock, and that they use the fish in a wide variety of dishes.

“The haddock alone is probably one of my No. 1 sellers with the quantity I go through,” Higgins said. “We use it in a lot of different dishes as well, baked stuffed haddock, broiled haddock, some kind of big combo, fried haddock, fish and chips, but those are definitely my No. 1 sellers.”

Mussels

While bigger chunks of fish, like haddock or lobster, have always been a big hit, mussels also pick up steam on the Seacoast in the summertime as appetizers and as a complement to pasta and other dishes. Mountzuris said they utilize mussels in one of his favorite dishes that his restaurant serves.

“I’ll tell you, the other thing is our mussels; our mussels are served the same way as we do our seafood alfredo in a nice red sauce that we make and we give you nice, goodsized crostinis over pasta and the sauce is just unbelievable,” he said. “It’s served in the pan we prepare it in and it’s a little spicy; it’s pretty cool.”

Meanwhile, Cheever said the Rye Harbor Lobster Pound serves a Montauk seafood salad that combines mussels with shrimp, scallops and a lemon-thyme vinaigrette that’s Cheever’s current go-to on her menu.

“The Montauk is nice because it’s clean and refreshing,” she said. “We squeeze the lemons [for the lemon-thyme vinaigrette] here and everything; it’s nice and clean and refreshing, especially on a hot day. It’s versatile, too; some people take it home and they saute it with a little bit of garlic and olive oil and serve it over pasta.”

Fisherman’s Platter

This wouldn’t be America if we didn’t find an excuse to take nearly every seafood option, deep-fry all of them and then serve them together on one plate. This is the magic of the fisherman’s platter, a fried seafood paradise that Mountzuris said is his favorite dish. He said that while he can’t eat it all by himself anymore because of his diet, it’s a bountiful combination of the kaleidoscope of seafood options the Seacoast has to offer.

“The fisherman’s platter, we just give you a plentiful amount of food,” he said. “I mean, the onion rings are great, the shrimp is great, the fried clams and fried scallops and then you get fried haddock over that with french fries and onion rings … it’s just a lot. And a lot of people get that because it’s so big and they can split it ... and people just love it to death. It’s just a good, good dish.”

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Aerialists and acrobats Circus comes to the Sea Shell Stage Referred to by some as Cirque du Hampton Beach, on Saturday, Aug. 31, audiences can expect to be dazzled by the Boston Circus Guild’s top-notch cast of entertainers during the first-ever Circus Night at Hampton Beach.

From jaw-dropping stunts to whimsical costumes, parents and children alike are guaranteed to be impressed by the amount of talent on stage.

“This is high-end stuff. This is a very high-end, professional group,” Hampton Village Commissioner Robert Ladd said.

Ladd is especially excited to present families with something a little different from what they might be used to seeing on the Sea Shell Stage.

“This is a family beach and this is a family event. For kids, this might be the first time they’ve been exposed to this sort of entertainment,” he said.

Among the acts: group acrobats who swing toss, and catch one another in astounding demonstrations of teamwork and endurance; aerialists who combine

the grace of dance with the athleticism of gymnastics for an exhilarating air-bound performance, and contortionists who push the limits of the human body as they bend, stretch and squeeze through impossibly tight spaces that include suitcases, folding chairs and even tennis rackets.

Ladd was introduced to the Boston Circus Guild several years ago when he saw them perform during a trip with his wife to the Hudson River Valley. He was so impressed by the group’s high-quality performance and staunch commitment to professionalism that he asked to be added to their event email list with the vision of one day being able to bring them to audiences at Hampton Beach. Although the company has since performed several successful fire shows in the area, the time has never been quite right for a full-scale circus production — until now.

“We invited them up to give a presentation of the fire show and it’s kind of grown from there because of the quality of their performances,” Ladd said. “Since they were so professional, and because it was so well-received, we invited them to express other shows they could offer to put on. This show was the result of that conversation.”

Circus Night at Hampton Beach kicks off with an 18-piece band that will march from F Street to the Sea Shell Stage in preparation for the big event. Starting at 7 p.m. audiences can plan to be mesmerized by a cast of performers that include living statues, jugglers, LED light-studded stilt dancers and much, much more. There will be a brief intermission at 7:45 p.m., during which interested attendees can prepare for a family-friendly dance party from 8 to 8:45 p.m.

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District to expand the already extensive list of entertainment opportunities Hampton Beach residents enjoy throughout the summer.

According to their website, a large part of the Boston Circus Guild’s mission is to encourage local community members to engage in performing arts, as well as to inspire, educate and entertain audiences through the creation and running of original theatrical circus productions — something that Ladd strongly believes will be an asset to the Sea Shell Stage’s summer queue.

“This is done in a private setting that people would otherwise have to pay an expensive ticket price to see. [Audiences] are getting something very high-quality for free,” he said.

Because the show gives spectators something slightly different from the immensely popular firework demonstrations, concerts, movie nights and festivals already offered at Hampton Beach, bringing the BCG to the Sea Shell Stage “is an attempt to offer something high-end, do something a little bit different, that still has a mass appeal,” Ladd said.

“It’s introducing younger people to a level of entertainment they might not otherwise have, either because of the cost of doing this in a private setting, or because of other issues parents might have with bringing their children to [a professionallevel] show,” he said.

The Boston Circus Guild has already received rave reviews from one young Hampton Beach resident. Similar to her grandfather, Ladd’s granddaughter became a fan of the group after attending one of their fire shows.

“My granddaughter had never seen anything quite like that. Afterward she said, ‘This is the best thing I’ve seen [besides] the Blue Man Group in Boston,’” Ladd said.

Despite the hard work involved in pulling off such a high-end production, Ladd thinks it will all be worth it to watch families witness the magic together.

“I’m looking forward to enjoying the show and, equally importantly, hoping that we have a large, positive crowd,” Ladd said. “How can you not enjoy helping to make something that other people enjoy?”

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In 2009, UFO theorists met for the first time in Exeter to exchange ideas about the sighting, known as the “Exeter Incident” or the “Incident at Exeter,” and other ufology topics. The symposium has since grown into an annual downtown celebration of all-things-UFO, featuring family-friendly activities and entertainment in addition to the ufology discussions and lectures. This year’s Exeter UFO Festival is held, as it is every year, on Labor Day weekend, Saturday, Aug. 31, and Sunday, Sept. 1.

“We have two distinct audiences,” said Pamela Gjettum, one of the event coordinators and past president of the Exeter Area Kiwanis Club, which hosts the festival. “There are the true believers, who are there … to listen to the talks.

… Some of them come from all over the country and book hotel rooms to come to this. … Then there are the people who walk around with tin hats or dressed up like Star Trek people, and they’re just coming for fun.”

More than a dozen ufology experts and theorists will present at the Town Hall during the speaker series on Saturday and Sunday. A variety of topics will be covered, including UFOs in the military, UFO encounters in the Northeast, UFO abductions involving children, the Allagash Abduction and more.

One of the guest speakers is Mike Stevens, co-host of the monthly program on Exeter TV Exeter-Terrestrial. He has spoken at the festival for the past four years. This year, he will give a talk on “Experiencers of Perception” on Sunday. “[The talk] will focus around the Incident at Exeter and will get into what happened and what happens when you start taking pieces out of [the story],” he said. “Where does the truth lie, and how do we view it and all the aspects of it from different viewpoints?”

Stevens said people attend the talks for a variety of reasons.

“Some people come because they are very involved in the field and are curious to learn more,” he said. “Some people come because they have had [UFO or extraterrestrial] experiences. Then there are the people who just don’t know [about UFOs] but … want to check it out.”

On Saturday, there will be free, family-friendly activities and attractions in the park near the Town Hall, including a UFO crash debris site, alien arts and crafts, face painting and more. Kids ages 12 and under and pet owners can participate in the kids alien costume and pet alien costume contests, which will be

“A lot of people line up to take that tour.”

On both days, there will be a souvenir shop situated outside the Town Hall, where you’ll find UFO T-shirts, hats and commemorative posters for sale. Additionally, the Historical Society will be selling replicas of the original Exeter newsletter from 1965 in which the article about the Incident was printed. Hamburgers, hot dogs and other concessions will also be available on both days by the bandstand.

The festival is one of the Exeter Area Kiwanis Club’s largest fundraisers.

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“Some kids get very elaborate, but you could also do something simple, like paint your face green,” Gjettum said.

“For the pet contest, same thing; you could go elaborate, or you could just put some of those pom pom alien antennas on your dog. One year, we had a gecko that was just wrapped in tin foil, and that was the winner.”

Also on Saturday, a trolley will take attendees to the site where the Incident took place.

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CAR TALK

Don’t spin out this summer Dear Car Talk: Is it good to keep the traction control switch off in summer driving? — Sean

Why would you do that, Sean?

By Ray Magliozzi Traction control is kind of the flip side of anti-lock brakes.

The anti-lock braking system (ABS) measures the speed of each wheel. If you’re stopping the car, and one of the wheels suddenly goes slower than the others, the ABS concludes that it’s locked up — which can cause you to lose control of the car. So, it pulses the brake many times a second to give you maximum stopping power just short of locking up the wheel.

Traction control uses that same system to detect if one wheel is spinning faster than the others. If it is, the system concludes that the wheel has lost traction and is spinning, which can also lead to loss of control of the vehicle. So, it uses the ABS to slow down that wheel until it regains traction.

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While snow or ice would be the most obvious reasons for a wheel to spin, they’re not the only ones. A summer rain, some leaked oil, or a patch of loose dirt or sand can cause a wheel to lose traction. And when that happens, you want your traction control to work.

Plus, there’s absolutely no downside to leaving it on. You’re not “wasting” anything or wearing anything out. It’s inactive until it gets a signal that a wheel is spinning. Turning it off in the summer would be like turning off your home’s fire alarm when it’s raining.

Sure, you could. But why would you?

Dear Car Talk: I bought a Saturn Ion new in 2003, and it has been really good to me.

During one period of time, I neglected to check the oil or change it when I should have. I then noticed it running a little rough, so I started changing the oil regularly again.

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Nicorette gum?

I’m not optimistic that you’re going to find a $10-in-a-can solution for this, Jesse. It sounds like you’re burning oil.

And the “miracle” products at the auto parts store are really designed more for leaks than oil burning.

When they work (which is only occasionally), they work by softening up stiff, dried out rubber seals and — hopefully — getting them to seal again for a while.

I think it’s likely that a dozen years ago, when you ran the car out of oil, you did some damage to the piston rings. And there’s nothing you can add to the crankcase that’s going to fix those now.

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Check your oil regularly, and top it up when it’s down half a quart. Also, change the oil every 3,000 miles or so, because newer, cleaner oil will burn less quickly than old, dirty oil.

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AT LUPE’S 55 CANTINA A menu of authentic Mexican options from family recipes is what you’ll find at Lupe’s 55 Cantina (275 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach, 601-7772, find them on Facebook), its most recent location just steps away from the water. From the burritos and Spanish rice plates to the vampire tacos, which get their name from the shape made by the grilled tortilla shell and melted cheese — resembling the wings of a vampire bat — there are a variety of options to choose from. Lupe’s 55 Cantina has an extensive menu of appetizers, tacos a la carte and various sides, plus a full bar of dozens of tequilas and house cocktails. The Scene recently spoke with Nicole Janvrin, who coowns the restaurant with her brother Vance and her husband, David Garza, about some of her favorite dishes. Lupe’s is named after the Janvrins’ mother, who brought her children to Hampton Beach all the time when they were growing up, she said.

How long has Lupe’s 55 Cantina been around?

This is our fifth season overall and our third season at this location. We had another one down the street in an older building, but it didn’t have a bar. We are open seasonally but we would like to eventually open a year-round spot somewhere between here and Manchester.

What makes Lupe’s 55 Cantina unique?

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really try to do everything as fresh as possible. We also have a lot of glutenfree and vegetarian-friendly options.

some. We marinate our haddock and do a homemade jalapeno tartar and lime crema, then top it off with a seasoned slaw.

The community is just so awesome.

Everyone is super friendly here.

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What is your personal favorite dish?

I really, really love the carne asada fries. We have a seasoned fry and we put queso blanco on top with some meat, onions, sour cream and a little cilantro.

It’s one of my favorites.

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I noticed corn at my regular markets about the last week of July or first week of August. Wayne Hall Jr. of Rockey Ole Farm in Concord (rockeyolefarm.com) said it has so far been a phenomenal corn season.

“I haven’t had a bad piece of corn yet,” Hall said when I spoke to him on Aug. 7 and he includes both his farm’s corn and corn from other farmers in that assessment.

“Absolutely delicious this year,” is how he described the corn, which seems to be benefiting from what he said has been an unusual growing season: cold to start, then very hot. He said corn likes hot humid weather with rain and warm nights.

The corn harvest could continue through mid-October, depending on the weather,

he said. Corn will grow more slowly if it’s cold, particularly if it’s cold at night, and a frost is pretty much the end of the corn harvest.

— Amy Diaz Corn steamed in the husk Wayne Hall Jr. of Rockey Ole Farm in Concord offered this recipe for fresh corn.

Submerge corn, still in the husks, in water, holding it under for about 30 seconds.

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Once the husks are charred, take the corn off the grill, take the husks off the corn and the ears will be, as Hall explains, perfectly steamed in a way that brings out the flavor and sweetness of the corn. Hall says some people will then char the corn ear itself but he prefers it steamed.

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Drink these beers now

Four completely random beers you should be drinking The summer is wrapping up and you’re probably angry and maybe even a little misty-eyed about how fast it went by. You might be bitter too, that you didn’t spend more time at the beach or by the pool. I get it. I feel for you and me. Summer is fleeting in New England.

Let’s have a beer and not worry so much about it.

Here are four entirely random beers I think might just help you forget about how Memorial Day weekend feels like it was five minutes ago.

Flavah of the Day IPA by Moat Mountain Smoke House & Brewery (North Conway) I like the idea of rotating tap lines as it just keeps you in suspense on what’s next.

It keeps things fresh, literally and figuratively. Moat Mountain’s Flavah of the Day IPA has been a winner for me — at least the two iterations I’ve tried. Most recently, I enjoyed the version canned on June 6, featuring Idaho 7, Azacca and Citra hops.

Even though it is meant to be low IBU, the lack of bitterness is surprising and a pleasing change of pace with the first sip.

The fresh hop flavor is pronounced, thanks to double dry-hopping and three pounds of hops per barrel. As the brewery notes, you will pick up melon flavors on the palate, but it’s not overly sweet. This doesn’t really drink like a 7-percent ABV beer.

Drink Wachusett Blueberry Ale now. Courtesy photo.

In general, it’s tough for me to find fruitflavored beers I truly enjoy, but this one has stood the test of time. Blueberries have a subtly sweet, complex flavor that I think melds perfectly with beer. There are a couple breweries that go a little overboard with the syrupy-ness of the brew, but Wachusett isn’t one of them.

This is a perfect choice any time but on a hot day, it’s just really hard to put this down. Also, if you have some frozen or fresh blueberries sitting around, toss a few in the glass — it only adds to the flavor experience. At 4.5-percent ABV, you have my permission to have more than one.

don’t have to worry about hop strains or bitterness or how long it was barrel-aged.

This is that beer. This cream ale goes down super easy but it’s still got plenty of flavor, with light hop flavor and a little sweetness. This is a go-to for me after a day of yard work in the hot sun.

Love & Wrestling by Mayflower Brewing (Plymouth, Mass.)

First, find me a better name. You can’t do it. This is a double dry-hopped double IPA that delivers huge hop flavor, and a complex lineup of tropical, fruity flavors like orange and maybe some lime. The Blueberry Ale by Wachusett ability of brewers to consistently push the Brewing Company (Westminster, NH American Ale by 603 envelope when it comes to IPAs is pretMass.)

Brewery (Londonderry) ty darn impressive. At 8-percent ABV, When you haven’t had one of these in a This is just a beer and isn’t that awe- this does come at you a little bit, so be while, it’s very nearly a breathtaking expe- some? Sometimes you just need to grab prepared. rience. Light, crisp and just a little sweet. a beer that tastes like a beer, where you Jeff Mucciarone is an account manager with Montagne Communications, where he provides communications support to the New Hampshire wine and spirits industry.

Must Try Great Rhythm Brewing Co. in Portsmouth brews a beer called Fluffsicle, which is a New England double IPA brewed with “Marshmallow Fluff, tangerine and a dose of milk sugar.” Full stop.

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Inaugural exhibit

Photographer showcases nature photos for the first time Anita Kroian has loved photography since she was 10 years old. At her childhood home she would take her camera, dash out to the house’s porch and snap sunset photographs for hours on end.

“Even back then, it was the nature, the snow, the ice,” Kroian said. “[I was drawn to] all that kind of stuff, even when I was a kid.”

As Kroian grew older, she never stopped participating in her passion, keeping it as a side hobby. She became a hairstylist early on in adulthood while always hoping to get the opportunity to delve further into photography.

Now, at 56 years old, Kroian — who has continued to style hair for over 30 years — has her first photography exhibit on display.

She was named the August Artist of the Month by the Hampton Arts Network and has an exhibit of 10 photographs on display at the Hampton Town Hall, which will be there for viewing until Friday, Sept. 6.

“She’s a nature photographer and I’m a nature nut,” said Julie Martinelli, the secretary of the board of directors for the Hampton Arts Network. “She captures nature’s essence and simplicity.”

Kroian takes many bird and beach photographs, and said that this Hamp-

ton exhibit will encompass that.

“I thought that it would be a good place to put my bird photos,” Kroian said. “I love to take bird photos and I didn’t really have anywhere to sell them … and I thought, the people, they’re just town people doing their business, and they might like them. A lot of people like birds and I thought that it might catch their eye.”

Kroian sold her photography for the first time around a year ago to a beachside shop in Charlestown, Rhode Island, where she lives for the majority of the year. These were mostly beach photographs, and the owner of the shop thought they would sell well in his beach-themed store.

“He really, really loved my photos and that got me very excited because it wasn’t my family telling me anymore, it was actually someone who owned a store,” Kroian said. “So that was very, very exciting for me.”

Kroian said her family and friends have been encouraging her to sell her photographs all her life but up until a year ago she had never made it happen.

With these newfound accomplishments Kroian hopes she’ll eventually be able Photographer Anita Kroian. Courtesy photo. to solely focus on photography.

“That’s kind of my wish, that I could do photography full-time and not cut hair anymore, but right now that’s what pays my bills,” she said. “Maybe someday when I am not cutting hair, I can really get out there and take a lot more photos. For right now it’s just a hobby and I just enjoy doing it so I’ll keep doing what I’m doing.”

Although Kroian lives in Rhode Island, she spends part of her summers at a cottage she has in Hampton. This seasonal home has given her the opportunity to join the Hampton Arts Network and sell her photography at their summer gallery on Ocean Boulevard.

Through this connection, she was able to secure her spot as the Hampton Arts Network’s August Artist of the Month. She said that Linda Gebhart reached out to her about two months ago with openings for Artist of the Month.

Seizing the opportunity, Kroian informed Gebhart she was interested, soon cementing her place as August’s artist.

Within Kroian’s passion for photography is a love of nature and ambition to do her best to capture it. While Kroian said she doesn’t have any overt influences from other photographers,

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she uses photography to satiate a desire for the natural beauty of our planet and to then share this experience with others through her photographs.

“I like my photos to … [make people] feel like they’re there,” Kroian said. “I like them to take people places. That’s what I try to look at when I’m taking photos. I try to make it so people can imagine themselves there.”

Kroian said photography is her go-to means of creative expression because of its interpretive nature for both the photographer and the viewer.

“I think it’s how creative you can be with it and it’s all in the eye of the beholder, which is … kind of nice,” she said. “Because 10 people can take pictures of the same thing but they’ll all look a little bit different. Everyone will focus in on something different. I just like how unique you can be with it.”

Kroian’s work is on display now through Friday, Sept. 6, at the Hampton Town Hall.

The public is welcome to view her photography during normal business hours. Visit the Hampton Arts Network’s Facebook page for more information.

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In the future, there will be a drug, a wonder drug that will cure pretty much everything: viral infections, bacterial infections and illness caused by parasites. It will, according to New Hampshire novelist Charles Wheelan, be named Dormigen.

This imaginary drug is at the center of Wheelan’s first novel, The Rationing, which envisions America a few decades from now when a mysterious illness is killing healthy young people. Dormigen could cure them; after all, Dormigen is, according to our narrator, “the most important breakthrough in medicine since penicillin.” But the government doesn’t have enough of the drug, in part because of a warehouse fire that had destroyed the ingredients for 25 million doses, while also killing 13 chimpanzees and making a superstar of the one that survived.

Plus, people aren’t seeking treatment because the president and his closest advisors are keeping a lid on the story while trying to figure out the cause of the illness and how to get more Dormigen in stock.

The bones of this story are compelling enough for a movie, but Wheelan, who teaches public policy and economics at Dartmouth College, assembles them into something smarter and funnier than your average Hollywood drama. The Rationing is a satirical thriller, in the vein of Christopher Buckley’s Thank You for Smoking, with a little bit of the 1997 film Wag the Dog thrown in.

A lot of it is also set in New Hampshire, a bonus for readers in the Granite State.

Wheelan, who lives in Hanover, shuns formula from the outset, dedicating the book to “the Americans who died during the Outbreak” and beginning with a “note on sources” that is so solemn and grave that the reader may think for a moment that he misunderstood, that this is a non-fiction account, not a novel.

In fact, it’s written from the perspective of a low-level government scientist, Max, who is summoned into the president’s inner circle because he’s the only person who is an authority on “lurking viruses,” viruses that live contentedly inside a host until they suddenly turn lethal. He is alternately thrilled and bewildered to be thrust from obscurity to the Oval Office in this post-Trump world in which Home Depot Media and the Washington Post-USA Today are the major media players.

The book, Max says, is the truest account of everything that happened during “the Outbreak” that threatened to kill anywhere from zero to tens of millions of Americans (depending on the spin of the day), begin-

ning with the first confirmed death in Natick, Massachusetts.

The deaths, of course, are not funny, and are only incidental to the story, which is built on the comic bunglings of political characters who are unnervingly similar to some in real life. There is the acidic Communications Director, the portly Speaker of the House, the nonplussed Secretary of State.

Mercifully, instead of expecting us to learn all of these names, Wheelan refers to most of his character by their titles, instead of proper names, through the book, which takes some getting used to but works and helps to create the sense that this is not a novel but a historical account.

The joy of the book, however, is in the hilarity that ensues as the mainstream media, aided and abetted by purveyors of fake news, construct stories of the outbreak that is completely untrue; for example, that the Capellaviridae virus is being spread by Middle Eastern terrorists, or domestic terrorists trying to blackmail the government into creating an independent Spanish-speaking nation out of parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.

Meanwhile, to divert attention from the government’s biggest PR problem — the twin questions of why the nation was running out of Dormigen, and why Americans hadn’t learned about this sooner — the administration spins a false story of a purported extramarital affair, to try to send the media down that trail.

It’s a fun romp of a story that doesn’t really come into its own until after the first 100 pages, when the main characters assemble around a conference table to figure out what countries they can get to send their supplies of Dormigen to America. (“Half these countries have been freeloading off of our military for the last century. South Korea? Please tell me that South Korean has shipped us Dormigen,” the Speaker of the House says.)

Another meeting, in which they try to determine who wouldn’t get the drug if it came to rationing, is also a pleasure. Dorothy Parker and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table crew would have fit nicely into these conversations.

Alas, the novel is not without a serious flaw, which is that it’s about 100 pages too long.

Despite an engaging plot, it feels unnecessarily long. The writer’s adage that every sentence should add something meaningful to the story is painfully ignored by this author, surprisingly since his non-fiction books on statistics and economics have been well-reviewed.

The story is too good, the characters too funny, to have been hobbled by the book’s unnecessary heft. Some trimming here and there would have made this otherwise solid book great.

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Angel Has Fallen (R)

Gerard Butler is once again the only man who can save the president in Angel Has Fallen, the third of the “Has Fallen” saga.

I would love to help brainstorm the things that could “Has Fallen” next.

“Multi-Nation Summit Has Fallen.”

“Campaign Stop at Lions Club Pancake Breakfast Has Fallen.” “Sullen Family Vacation to National Parks Has Fallen” — this one could involve a sassy teen outsmarting a bad guy with, like, social media. The potential for things “Has Fallen”-ing are endless.

President Aaron Eckhart has apparently left office, there was a 2016 election where Russia interfered (no word on who the candidates were) and Morgan Freeman is the commander in chief in the first six months of his term (I looked back and apparently he was speaker of the House in the first movie and vice president in the second movie). So when is this? Who knows! If you like details that help build the texture of a sense-making world, I don’t think any of the Has Fallens are for you.

President Allan Trumbull (which is what Freeman is called by people in the movie, who can’t just call him “President Morgan Freeman”) is tackling, among other things, American military deployment to world trouble spots. He wants to dial it back and to keep the use of Blackwater-style private contractors to a minimum.

For this reason, Wade Jennings (Danny Huston, who feels like a walking spoiler alert), an old army buddy of Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), has Banning come out to his giant training compound to play an extremely aggressive game of paintball and lobby him to

use Jennings’ company as presidential security. Yeah, sure, whatever; hey, come by the house sometime to meet my wife, who has been turned from Radha Mitchell into Piper Perabo, and my kid, who is tiny and defenseless, says Mike. From Wade’s dinner and a visit by Mike to the doctor, we learn that Mike, after saving the president from all the things that have fallen, has a fair amount of physical pain and is dealing with the effects of a concussion. At the dinner, Wade also waxes on and on about how cool it was back in the day when they were soldiers and got to shoot stuff or whatever — “underlining how blood-thirsty Wade is” is the point of this scene.

I don’t know, spoiler alert? Every twist in this movie is telegraphed so far in advance that it’s hard to say what’s actually a spoiler and what we should know from the beginning. Consider this a blanket ALERT. The physical stresses Mike is facing would seem to make a potential promotion to head of the Secret Service, which is billed as a desk job even though we always see current director (Lance Reddick) in the field, a perfect fit. Except he is still interested in getting out there and mixing it up.

Mulling the president’s official offer of the job and wincing from so much pain, Banning is protecting the president while he’s on a fishing trip when suddenly what look like bats or birds appear over the horizon.

They’re drones and when the explosions that don’t seem to entirely fit the size of the drones are done, only Banning and a comatose President Morgan Freeman are left alive. Who has attacked the president? How was Banning left alive? Will FBI agent Jada Pinkett Smith be able to unravel the truth? Will actress Jada Pinkett

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Smith be well-used?

For a little while, yes, but then the movie sorta runs out of stuff for her to do.

Is it too “these times we live in” to complain that recent vintage government-coup movies are kind of a bummer? There’s just something about the combination of the cynicism and the plot dumbness that has that too-much-ketchupon-a-hot-dog feel.

Like, this should be tasty junk food but instead it just induces heartburn.

Angel Has Fallen should be goofy fun — Gerard Butler plus explosions plus quips.

(Plus Nick Nolte, who shows up as Mike’s dad and seems to be having fun while also taking the movie sorta seriously.) It should be a bubbly, silly action spritzer. Instead, it’s ponderous and so so long. Two hours long in actual time but a forever-feeling length that makes a movie like this so excruciating. Like that scene in The Simpsons when Homer is on the sports hotline (where it seems to take five minutes to say “Cincinnati”), Angel Has Fallen takes So Very Long to get to the plot points we can see coming — and these twists and occasional explosions are really all the movie has going on. There is no reason a movie like this is two hours; this should be a tight 82 minutes, mid-credits scenes included.

Top-tier Marvel/Mission Impossible/ Bond movies are great but I also appreciate the B-level action movie. I like movies where punching and explosions are the point and some amount of the plot is yadayada-ed to get us to the fun stuff. Angel Has Fallen felt like all yada and not nearly enough fun. C Rated R violence and language throughout, according to the MPAA. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh with a screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen and Matt Cook & Ric Roman Waugh, Angel Has Fallen is two hours and one minute long and distributed by Lionsgate.

Ready Or Not (R)

A bride gets a violent introduction to her in-laws in Ready Or Not, a delightfully off-kilter horror-suspense movie.

Grace (Samara Weaving) is marrying Alex (Mark O’Brien), son of the extremely wealthy Le Domas family. The Le Domases

have built a multigenerational empire based on games, from great-grand-Le Domas’ playing cards concern through the current day when the family owns professional sports teams. Alex has been estranged from his family, as his mother (Andie McDowell) explains, for a while but Grace, who grew up in foster homes, is looking forward to gaining a permanent family.

Perhaps this is why Grace doesn’t ask questions, such as “why are all of the house staff dressed like cocktail waitresses and wearing too much eye makeup?,” “why does the name of the randomly selected game the whole family has to play before dawn appear on a heretofore blank card stuck in a 19th-century knick knack?” or “what’s with all the goats?” In fairness, it’s only later in the evening after her wedding that she finds out that the family keeps a barn full of goats, later when she’s running for her life during a game of “hide and seek” that the family must play or else they will all die horribly. So they believe.

Though Fitch (Kristian Bruun), husband of Alex’s sister Emilie (Melanie Scrofano), does search “deals with the devil, real or bull,” so maybe the buy-in isn’t 100 percent.

Certainly Alex isn’t totally sold on what’s happening — though he believes enough to have brought Grace to the family home. Alex’s older brother Daniel (Adam Brody) feels an obligation to participate but seems like he’s still scarred from a version of the game he saw played as a child. When Grace, shortly after learning what she’s truly gotten herself into, runs into him, Daniel tells her that he has no choice but to tell the family about her presence but he will give her a 10-second head start.

Ready Or Not starts slightly askew but gets goofier the deeper you get in. Weaving, throwing off a kind of Margot Robbie energy, is well-suited to what the movie requires of her character — a recognizably human person with human “what is happening” reactions as things get crazier around her paired with a sense that she’s got enough backbone to rise to the occasion.

The way you feel about Ready Or Not will likely depend on what flavor of horror you like. If you like dour dim-lit horror or intense Saw-like goriness, this isn’t that (though there is plenty of redcorn-syrup-style gore). If you like your horror laugh-out-loud and ridiculous, with a healthy dollop of camp, Ready or Not might be to your taste. BRated R for violence, bloody images, language throughout, and some drug use, according to the MPAA. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett with a screenplay by Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy, Ready Or Not is an hour and 35 minutes long and distributed by Fox Searchlight.

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Even if Kevin Morby hadn’t called his new album Oh My God, the holiness at its heart would be clear. Morby’s songs are incantations, broken by ethereal choruses, breathing like a fevered soul. The record, released last spring, is not a religious exercise, however, and the 31-year-old Midwesterner isn’t shaking off a fundamentalist past.

Though raised in a place surrounded by faith — roadside billboards reading “Stop, Drop And Roll Won’t Get You Through Hell” and friends who spent summers at bible camps — his own family didn’t practice religion or attend church. If they had, Morby insists, the new record would be different.

“I think if you’re someone who grew up in the church you wouldn’t be making a record called Oh My God,” Morby said in a recent phone interview. “I think you’d be sick of it.”

The impulse, Morby said, comes from a different place.

“I was always fascinated with the Wild West and with religion, because those were sort of two things that you get hit over the head with out here, at least when I was growing up. But they both sort of seemed adjacent to me, never like the same thing.

There was death and violence [and] sort of this holiness. … I’ve always had a fascination with that, and appreciated what art has come out of them.”

Thus, it’s a spiritual record, but in a way that’s more closely aligned to Patti Smith, Nick Cave or Sade, all artists namechecked in a Christopher Good/Andreina Byrne film commissioned for Oh My God. “I think you can become spiritual about anything that evokes emotion … like a chef could be spiritual about food,” Morby said, adding that any source of hope, reason or a spark for sharing will do. “God is a concept, and that word is so heavy and loaded. … Everyone is always just sort of searching for their own version.”

A sense of mortality infuses the new record, though one of its best songs views death through the prism of survival.

“We’ve come a long, long way, man/I never thought you’d make it out alive,” he sings in “Savannah” about reuniting with an old friend. “I used to practice what I’d have to say at your funeral, and I have dreams in which you die, and maybe you did, but either way you’re an angel now.”

The topic of death is “always sort of on my mind, probably as much or more than the average person,” Morby said, citing the death of a close friend at age 20 as a catalyst. “When you’re young like that, you think you’re invincible. … So you lose

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someone and you have to deal with how abstract that is to have someone in your life, and suddenly they’re gone. Since then, I’ve lost other friends and family members, but the best thing to get out of that is [just] face the fact that we’re all going to die and choose to live your life in a way where when you do die you won’t look back on it and feel like you wasted your time. It’s sort of inspiring to me in that way.”

Morby dropped out of high school at age 17 to pursue his dream of being a musician, moving first to New York City and later to Los Angeles. He recently returned to Kansas City, Missouri, his old hometown, frequently toggling between the coasts. He released five albums prior to Oh My God, the most recent 2017’s City Music.

Early on, he was influenced by performers like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and Townes Van Zandt, for their artistry and the inspiration they provided.

“They made me feel like I could do this; these guys have limitations,” he said. “It was about evoking a feeling. … They’re using music as a platform to tell a story, get a sentiment across, and I really related to that, because I was always interested in spinning stories. I liked that it’s all about getting that point across.”

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• Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s entirely possible that you will meet a new friend today. Working against that, however, is your sentence in solitary confinement.

• Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Secret flirtations and love affairs are possible today. In your case, though, let’s just say it’s not a good day to bet the farm.

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• Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict you will be dissatisfied by an unhelpful horoscope that will fail to predict anything about you other than the dissatisfaction that you are about to experience. Hey, am I good or what?

• Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t be so concerned about what you’ll do for the rest of your life. You haven’t got that much time left, anyway.

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Fowl!

An upscale neighborhood near the Ibis Golf and Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, is all a-flutter over some unwelcome guests: dozens of black vultures. The Palm Beach Post reports that a New York family can no longer visit the $700,000 vacation home they bought earlier this year because the birds have defecated and vomited all around it, leaving a smell “like a thousand rotting corpses,” claimed homeowner Siobhan Casimano. Homeowner Cheryl Katz put out fake owls with moving heads and blinking red lights for eyes to scare off the birds, but she said the vultures “ripped the heads off.” Katz had to summon police when the vultures became trapped in her pool enclosure and attacked each other: “Blood was everywhere,” she told the Post. Katz and other homeowners blame the invasion on a neighbor who feeds wildlife, supplying bags of dog food, roasted chicken and trays of sandwiches for their enjoyment. Neighborhood association president Gordon Holness told the Post the neighbor has been issued a warning, but the migratory birds are protected by federal law.

Spoiled

A young man identified only as Akash, in Yamunanagar, Haryana state in northern India, received a brand-new BMW from his parents for his birthday, reported Fox News on Aug. 12. But Akash, who had nagged his parents for a Jaguar instead, told police the BMW was “a little small for him and his friends inside.” So he pushed the new vehicle into a river, where it sank into deep water and had to be pulled out with a crane.

“The youth was arrogant and kept insisting that he be given a Jaguar,” police said. “We could only afford to give him a BMW,” said his father. “We never imagined he would do anything like this.”

Second thoughts

Maybe his conscience got the better of him. On Aug. 13, according to WTAE, a man in a wheelchair approached a teller at a First National Bank on Pittsburgh’s South Side. The man, thought to be in his 60s, handed the teller a note demanding cash, but then “suddenly abandoned his robbery attempt and exited the bank,” a police statement read. Police and FBI agents were on the lookout for the reluctant robber, but there were no photographs or video of him to aid them.

Strange obsession

Washington State Highway Patrol Sgt. Kyle Smith stopped along Highway 518 near Seattle on Aug. 13 to see if a car parked on the shoulder needed assistance.

Instead, according to the Associated Press,

he observed the driver inside with eight mobile phones, neatly arranged in a blue foam square, all playing Pokemon Go. Smith did not issue a ticket to the driver, but he did warn him to put the phones away and move along, as the shoulder is meant only for emergency stops.

The devil made him do it

Jeremiah Ehindero, 41, pastor of Jesus Miracle Church in Sango-Ota, Nigeria, blamed the devil for his trouble with the law after stealing an SUV from a local Toyota dealership. Ehindero negotiated a price for the Highlander, which he said would be used for “evangelism,” then asked for a test drive — and never came back, the Daily Post reported on Aug. 19. He later sold the vehicle to a spare parts dealer for about $1,650. According to police, Ehindero confessed he stole the car to repay a loan from a microfinance bank in Lagos after tithes and offerings from his congregation were insufficient. “When the pressure from the microfinance bank became unbearable for me, the devil told me to steal a vehicle from the car dealer to sell and use the proceeds to repay the loan. I regret my action.” Ehindero and his accomplices were arrested in Ondo State.

Schmida rushed up to a nearby window and used a fire extinguisher to put the flames out.

“I would say mission accomplished,” he said, even though there is now a small hole in the house.

Crime report

An attempted burglary in Oronoco Township, Minnesota, unfolded in an unusual manner on Aug. 15. Police responded to a burglary in progress call to find that alledged thief Kirsten Hart, 29, had scuffled with a 64-year-old woman before making off with pill bottles, debit and credit cards, $150 cash and a fake $1 million bill. Hart had run out of the house with part of her shirt ripped off, which led a passing motorist to ask if she was hurt and needed a ride.

Hart accepted, climbing into the trunk of the car, according to KIMT. The driver later told police he realized something wasn’t right but panicked and drove off. Police also said they found iPads stolen from a local STEM school in Hart’s car. She and an accomplice face multiple charges.

Snowflakes falling everywhere

Ex-cons, juvenile delinquents and drug addicts are getting new monikers in San Francisco, thanks to the Board of Supervisors’ new “person-first” language guidelines. For example, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, someone just released from prison will be a “justiceinvolved person”; a repeat offender will be a “returning resident.” People on probation will be “persons under supervision.” The under-18 criminal crowd will be known as “young people impacted by the juvenile justice system.” Those suffering from addiction will be “people with a history of substance use.” Words such as “convict” and “inmate” “only serve to obstruct and separate people from society and make the institutionalization of racism and supremacy appear normal,” the board’s resolution reads. “Referring to them as felons is like a scarlet letter,” Matt Haney, board supervisor, said.

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Creme de la weird

In Stockholm, Sweden, an unnamed man attending a traditional crayfish party on Aug. 20 at the Skansen Aquarium was delivering a speech while standing on a rock in a restricted area. As he spoke, he rested his arm on a glass barrier — until the crocodile who lives in the tank “jumped up and grabbed his lower arm,” Jonas Wahlstrom, owner of the aquarium, told CNN. But that isn’t the weird part of the story.

The dastardly crocodile in this story was formerly owned by ... Fidel Castro. The croc was one of two given to a Russian cosmonaut in 1970, who took the animals to Moscow. Wahlstrom eventually brought them to Stockholm. The croc “lost its grip after 10 seconds,” Wahlstrom said, leaving the victim with injuries to his lower arm and hand.

Bright idea

Dave Schmida, 21, of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, set out on Aug. 12, determined to get rid of a hornet’s nest three stories high under a corner of his family’s roof. He first tried spraying the nest with Raid, but when that didn’t work, he got creative. As his brother Matthew recorded video of the extermination, Dave lit up a Roman candle and pointed the fiery balls at the nest, reported the Worcester Telegram. The first two or three missed their mark, but when his ammunition connected with the nest, it burst into flames, killing the wasps but setting the eaves on fire as well.

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