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Your guide to craft beer on the coast BareWolf Brewing. Courtesy photo.

By Maya Capasso and Betty Gagne From hoppy IPAs to malty brown ales, Seacoast breweries have something for every kind of craft beer lover. Here’s a look at what makes these breweries unique and what you can expect when you visit.

BareWolf Brewing

duction space is on view from the taproom, BareWolf brewers develop new brews each month because they value “ever-changing newness and the opportunity to live in the transitory,” the website said. One current brew is the I Drink Your Milkshake, a fruity, sweet, creamy beer, perfect for the summer months, which you can get to-go or to enjoy in the brewery.

BareWolf hosts many community events, like comedy nights, live music and dance parties. Shop for local produce and crafts on Wednesdays at the Amesbury Farmer’s Market at the brewery. If you’re looking for a community-driven space to have a beer, BareWolf Brewery is the place. — Maya Capasso

12 Oakland St., Amesbury, Mass., 978-527-6520, barewolfbrewing.com Products: Foggy Galaxy, Midnight Snack, Frontwards, Among the Wildflowers, Splat, Kilgore Stout, Polyamorous Cabal, Stranger in the Alps, Quart Order.

Taproom hours: Closed Monday Earth Eagle Brewings through Tuesday; Wednesday through Thurs350 Route 108, Ste. 208, Somersworth, day, 4 to 8 p.m.; Friday, 4 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 841-5421; 175 High St., Portsmouth, noon to 9 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.

502-2244, eartheaglebrewings.com Activities: Food trucks, Amesbury FarmProducts: Plumberjack, Piscataqua, ers Market, comedy nights, dance parties, New England Gangsta, Armadillo Danger, game nights, live music, private events.

Good Helmet, Angie, Mountain Tea, Brethren Code BareWolf Brewing is all about community, Taproom hours: Portsmouth: Tuesfrom top to bottom. There are no hierarchies day through Thursday noon to 9 p.m.; Friday at BareWolf. According to the brewery’s weband Saturday noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday noon site, the brewers work together to create new to 6 p.m.; Monday closed. Somersworth: flavors, invent new recipes and manage the Wednesday and Thursday 4 to 8 p.m.; Friday brewery. No one gets to make all of the lead2 to 9 p.m.; Saturday noon to 9 p.m.; Sunday ership decisions, and no one is exempt from noon to 5 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday closed. washing the kegs. Even their patrons get to be Activities: Beer garden, homebrew supa part of the brewing process; the main proplies, pub-style food seacoast scene | May 19 - 25, 2022 | Page 4

According to owner and head brewer Alex McDonald, Earth Eagle always has a great variety of beer on tap and available to go in cans.

“New England Gangsta is our flagship beer.

Gangsta is a West Coast-style IPA that truly stands out in the IPA world,” McDonald said.

The brewery is also offering seasonal blends right now, including their Spring Dandelion, Burdock, Lemon and Ginger Belgian Saison on draft.

“Even if you don’t care for beer, we’ve got you covered. We have cider, seltzers and wine at both of our locations, and cocktails in Portsmouth.”

The brewpub in Portsmouth offers a full menu that includes expanded flavors of burgers and hot dogs. Although there is no on-site parking, the private beer garden is just a short walk from Market Square. Well-behaved, leashed dogs are always welcome in the beer garden.

Earth Eagle North in Somersworth welcomes you to a newly expanded 50-seat taproom that McDonald is excited about.

“Our menu offers killer hotdogs and sausages to go along with our beer and wine license,” he said.

There’s plenty of parking at this location also.

Earth Eagle’s 8th Annual Sausagefest will take place on Saturday, Sept. 17, from noon to 10 p.m. at their Portsmouth location. After a two-year break, McDonald anticipates this year’s event will be “tremendous.”

— Betty Gagne

Newburyport Brewing Co. 4 New Pasture Road, Newburyport, Mass., 978-463-8700, nbptbrewing.com Products: Sandbar Double IPA, Overboard NEIPA, Green Head IPA, Melt Away IPA, Newburyport Pale Ale, Plum Island Belgian White, Maritime Lager, Newberry Blue, Dreadnought Dipa, Joppa Grande Stout, Lighthaus Lemon-Lime Gose, North Woods Maple Brown, Tall Buoy NEIPA. Taproom hours: Closed Monday through Tuesday; Wednesday through Friday, 2 to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 8 p.m.

Activities: Live music, local art, games, beer to go, dog-friendly.

Newburyport Brewing Co. is a hidden gem tucked in the historic streets of Newburyport, Massachusetts. According to the brewery’s website, Newburyport Brewing Co.’s goal is to be an oasis for everyone in town to come relax, drink a beer, and listen to some great music. Plus, you can bring your dog.

This community-friendly brewery often releases new brews. The Sandbar Double IPA, this brewery’s first double IPA, is coming out later in May. It’s fruity and perfect for a party. This coastal brewery has been around for almost 10 years and will celebrate with the Newburyport community on Saturday, June 11; bring the whole

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family, plus your pooch, to the brewery for face painting, live music, food trucks, games, beer and more. The Birthday Bash runs all day from noon to 10 p.m. The next time you’re near Newburyport for a relaxing beach day, consider stopping in to Newburyport Brewing Co. for a cold one. — Maya Capasso

Riverwalk Brewing Co. 40 Parker St., Newburyport, Mass., 978-499-2337, riverwalkbrewing.com Products: Black Ox, Storm Door Porter, Riverwalk IPA, Hit of Haze NEIPA, Little Tipper, Soil & Sky, Flannel Trousers, Uncanny Kolsch.

Taproom hours: Monday through Thursday, 3 to 8 p.m.; Friday, noon to 9 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Activities: Brewery tours, virtual beer tastings, fire pit experience, private events, catering.

Riverwalk Brewing Co. is a family- and employee-owned business that prioritizes sustainability and quality in its ingredients. According to its website, the brewery is dedicated to maintaining its small, local business. They don’t send their production overseas. Instead, all of their brewers, chefs and waiters work under the same roof. Their hops are sourced from organic growers, and they use wind turbines and solar panels to power the brewery.

Riverwalk’s signature IPA is the Riverwalk IPA. Grab a growler of this balanced, hoppy IPA for a fun night with friends at one of Riverwalk’s fire pits. Your family or friends can reserve your own fire pit to enjoy the outdoors even in the chilly New England winters. When you book a fire pit, it comes with your choice of a pizza, a pretzel, or an order of nachos.

Riverwalk also offers unique online tastings for remote workplaces or Covidconcious patrons. You can book a virtual tasting on their website. — Maya Capasso

Where the stage comes to life

Silvaticus Brewery and Taproom

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9 Water St., Amesbury, Mass., 978504-2337, silvaticusbeers.com Products: Quintessential Pilsener, the Vig Hoppy Lager, Affinity Abbey Ale, Sovereign Pilsner, Y Knot American Lager, Oblivion Black Lager, Brevity American Sour Ale, Silence Tripel, Etymology, Radler Pilsner and Lemonade.

Taproom hours: Closed Monday through Tuesday; Wednesday through Friday, 3 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 9 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 7 p.m.

Activities: Dog-friendly beer garden, small-bites menu, kid-friendly, food trucks.

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Silvaticus Brewery and Taproom crafts beers that harken back to traditional European brews like Belgian farmhouse ales and German-style lagers while adding some unique Silvaticus innovation, according to their website. This brewer-owned and -operated taproom is dedicated to upgrading their menu and introducing new brews to their loyal customers. One fanfavorite is the Quintessential Pilsener, a fantastic everyday beer, according to the website. It’s fresh, snappy, and “crafted from premium German malt,” the website said. Silvaticus Brewery loves connecting with the Amesbury community. This bustling brewery is always brimming with patrons enjoying cold beer and food-truck days. Keep an eye out for upcoming events on their website, like the exciting opportunity to take a yoga class in the taproom! On Saturday, May 28, at 10 a.m. join Emma Brunet to rejuvenate through yoga at the brewery. You can sign up and learn more on their Facebook page.

— Maya Capasso

Smuttynose Brewery 105 Towle Farm Road, Hampton, 436-4026, smuttynose.com Products: Smuttynose Hazy Kind IPA, Smuttynose Finestkind IPA, Smuttynose Double Kind DIPA, Smuttynose Old Brown Dog Ale, Smuttynose Lager, Smuttynose Chocolate Banana Split Imperial Stout, Smuttynose

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Stripe Nine Brewing Co. Courtesy photo.

Woodchop Chocolate Stout, Smuttlabs’ Snaccident Peanut Butter Chocolate Stout, Smuttynose Passionfruit Sour, Smuttynose Black Cherry Sour, Smuttynose Key Lime Pie Sour, Smuttynose Pineapple Cherry Upside Down Cake.

Taproom hours: Closed Mondays; Tuesday through Thursday, noon to 6 p.m.; Friday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.

Activities: dog-friendly beer garden, tasting bar, free disc-golf, animalfriendly events, 5Ks, beach parties, Wednesday trivia nights.

Smuttynose Brewery has grown substantially since it was established in 1994 but has still held onto a lot of its old-school charm.

“We have a beautiful campus that includes a beer garden, tasting bar, retail store, restaurant and patio,” Smuttynose social media manager and content creator Madeleine Brandon said. “With live music, various on-campus and offcampus events, delicious food and great beer, Smuttynose has something for everyone.”

Smuttynose has a few locations throughout New Hampshire. The Hampton location has a tasting room and a restaurant across the street, which serves classic American fare, like burgers, wings, salads and its famous Truffelo Mac ‘n’ Cheese, made with truffle-infused buffalo sauce.

Alongside creating delicious cold beers, Smuttynose Brewery’s Tasting Bar in Hampton is dedicated to educating customers about their history and brewing process. According to their website, they offer free tours of the brewery to curious visitors.

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mal lovers. Not only do they have a dog-friendly beer garden, but they also frequently host events that benefit animals in need, such as the Be KIND to Animals event happening on Saturday, May 21, from noon to 4 p.m., where you can meet adoptable dogs and walk through the booths of trainers, groomers and other pet service providers.

“This event is the first of our Be KIND Initiative, aimed at giving back to the community by supporting local nonprofit organizations throughout the year,” Brandon said. “Join us at our Hampton campus for an outdoor event featuring our four-legged friends in support of the NHSPCA, Pope Memorial Humane Society, and Darbster Foundation. Meet adoptable dogs, visit with local vendors offering services from training to treats, and enjoy a brew or two with us.” — Maya Capasso

Stripe Nine Brewing Co. 8 Somersworth Plaza, Somersworth, 841-7175, stripeninebrewing.com Products: Backdraught Red Ale, Cool Beans Coffee Stout, Indigo Hill Chocolate Stout, Snow Filled Sky Stout, Langdon Pale Ale, Debut IPA, Fair Ball IPA, Wheelhouse Neipa, Old Glory IPA, Rock & Roll Neipa, Blurry Neipa, Cos-Mic Jive Neipa, Rayz Double IPA, Stripe Nine Black & Tan, Haunted Overload (seasonal) Taproom hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 3 to 9 p.m.; Friday, 3 to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 8 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday, closed Activities: Outdoor seating, customized event packages, live music, tours, tastings Stripe Nine Brewing Co. is a family business owned by Sean Kelly along with his two brothers. “We strive to keep 10 house

beers on tap every day,” Kelly said.

The varieties depend on the brew schedule, what’s available for ingredients, and the turn of seasons. He’s always adding new beers to the list, too.

“We work with local farms to enhance our products,” Kelly said.

One of the seasonal brews Kelly is proud of is their Haunted Overload Pumpkin Ale, which was developed in collaboration with DeMerritt Hill Farm in Lee. Every fall the farm offers their Haunted Overload, a Halloween tour that takes people on hayrides through scary exhibits.

“We actually use their pumpkins, which are roasted in our own wood-fired brick oven, to brew this beer,” Kelly said.

This blend is spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar before steeping on vanilla beans. The beer is served in a glass rimmed with toasted, crushed pumpkin seeds.

“Most beer drinkers are looking for a pumpkin beer when fall gets here,” he said.

The brewery is hosting its 2nd Annual Stripe Nine Brewfest in the Orchard on Saturday, Sept. 24 at DeMerritt Hill.

“Last fall we welcomed 34 breweries to the event,” Kelly said. “There’s really nothing like holding a brewfest in an apple orchard.”

— Betty Gagne

Throwback Brewing Co. 7 Hobbs Road, North Hampton, 3792317, throwbackbrewery.com Products: Prickly Pear Party Pants, Hog Happy Hefeweizen, Donkey-Hote, She Sells Seashells, Yippee Ki Yay Melon Farmer, Love Me For a Long Time, Spicy Paloma Party Pants, Cheek Squeezer, Spicy Bohemian, Extra Spe-

cial Boots, Playlist 10:01, Rule the Roost, Maple-Kissed Wheat Porter and El Chupbrewcabra.

Taproom hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 4 to 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, noon to 7:30 p.m.; Sunday brunch, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday, closed.

Activities: Farm stand, outdoor beer garden where your well-behaved dog is welcome, farm-to-table restaurant, working farm, community-supported agriculture programs.

“We are still the only 100-percent women-owned brewery in New Hampshire,” Throwback Brewing Co. co-owner and founder Nicole Carrier said. “We try to make something for everyone. Some beer drinkers like sour flavors, some lean toward sweeter blends, others prefer hoppy tastes. Our Spicy Bohemian brew is a clean, crisp Pilsner with a uniquely bold peppery aroma. It’s made with jalapeno peppers grown in our own garden.”

Throwback brews their beers in a renovated 1860s post-and-beam barn, and focuses on sustainability by using a 48-kilowatt solar bed for power.

Throwback Brewery also offers a flower CSA opportunity.

“We’re excited about our 2022 Flower CSA program, which is on sale now,” Carrier said. “Our lead farmer is a gifted flower gardener, and the CSA allows you to bring our beautiful organically grown flowers into your home.”

The handcrafted arrangements feature over 100 varieties of blooms that are grown right on the farm. You can do a summer or fall share, or you can join the CSA for the whole season and get a bouquet for free.

— Betty Gagne

4 Shore things

Events to check out May 19, 2022, and beyond Park party

The Exeter Arts & Music Fest returns to Swasey Park (316 Water St., Exeter) on Saturday, May 21, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with live music, artist vendors, dance performances, local food, kids activities, yoga and more. There will be a singer-songwriter tent, hosting an array of local talent, and the main stage has morning yoga with Qwill, Red Tail Hawk, The Bulkheads featuring Adrienne Mack-Davis, a SG603 Groove Lounge, and Cold Engines closing. Admission is a $10 suggested donation per person, or $20 suggested donation per family. Visit teamexeter.com/exeter-arts--music-fest.html or call 512-8396.

Dinner at the vineyard

Local theater

Bitter Pill presents Children of the Grim at the Players’ Ring Theatre (105 Marcy St., Portsmouth) now through June 5, with showtimes on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The show is inspired by writer, composer and director Billy Butler’s favorite macabre childhood stories and includes a combination of verbatim traditional tales, original tales written by Butler and nursery rhymes set to original music, performed on acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo and cello. “There are so many wonderfully dark, strange and bizarre tales from all over the world,” Butler told the Scene last month. “These old and new tales are an important reminder to embrace the dark, because, without it, how do we find the light?” Tickets cost $28 for adults and $25 for seniors age 65 and up and students. Masks and proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test are required. Visit playersring.org or call 436-8123.

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Flag Hill Distillery & Winery (297 N. River Road, Lee) has a Chef’s Table dinner on Saturday, May 21, from 7 to 9 p.m. The dinner is part of an ongoing series of four-course meals with wine, spirit and cocktail pairings under a tent by the vineyard. The menu will include seared polenta crostini and a local greens salad, along with your choice of an entree (elk osso bucco Milanese, stuffed quail gumbo or grilled cauliflower steak), and torta caprese for dessert. Tickets cost $75 per person. Visit flaghill.com or call 659-2949.

Farmers markets

Pick up some local produce at the farmers market this week. The Exeter Farmers Market is held every Thursday, from 2:30 to 6 p.m., at Swasey Parkway in Exeter, and the Portsmouth Farmers Market is held every Saturday, from 8 a.m. to noon, in the parking lot of the Portsmouth City Hall (1 Junkins Ave., Portsmouth). Visit seacoasteatlocal.com.

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Car talk

What you see is what you have when it comes to trim models coffin, Roger.

Finally, if you want to be absolutely sure, grab your Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). You’ll find it in your original paperwork, on your vehicle registration, on the driver’s door pillar, or, if you can’t find it in any of those places, it’s always engraved on a metal tag where the windshield meets the dashboard right in front of the driver.

The VIN is not only a unique identifier for your car, but it also contains code that includes the make, model and year. And if your dealer looks up your VIN in his database, he can pull up every detail of your car’s configuration — body style, engine, wheel size, trim level and by how much you overpaid in 2015 (just kidding about that Well, based on the fact that all of your last one, Roger). paperwork says “Touring,” I’m going to guess that’s what you have, Roger. If you Dear Car Talk: have the “Touring SE,” your paperwork While driving on the freeway at about would probably say, what? “Touring SE.” 70-75 mph with the air conditioner runBut there are several ways to check. The ning in my 2006 Acura TL, all of a sudden, I Touring SE was a limited “Sport Edition.” heard this horrendous noise.

It came with HID headlights, a perforated It sounded like my car was suddenly in leather wrapped steering wheel and some too low a gear. The air conditioner stopped interior trim doodads. Most importantly, it blowing cool air, although it was still runcame with badges that said “Touring SE.” If ning. This went on for about 30 minutes you don’t see any badges that brag that it’s while I was just praying it wouldn’t break a Touring SE, that’s another nail in the SE down on the way home.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2015 Toyota Avalon I’m fixin’ to sell. Checking online for its value, I see there is an Avalon XLE Touring and an Avalon XLE Touring SE.

By Ray Magliozzi There is nothing in all the paperwork or on the car itself to indicate whether it is an SE. Everything just says XLE Touring. But the online sites say the value of the SE is about $2,000 more than the plain Touring, so I want to be sure.

Do you know of a way I can find out for certain which trim model I have? — Roger

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All of a sudden, the car lurched forward. If I had been right behind somebody, I would have hit them. Once it did that, the noise stopped and the air conditioner started working again.

I took it to Acura, and they couldn’t find anything wrong and said to bring it back when it happens again. My regular mechanic didn’t find anything either.

Now it’s been almost a year, but I’ve been reluctant to take it out of town or in excess of 70 mph. I should note that nothing on my dashboard lit up as to any errors or engine issues.

It seems we’re all stumped, so I’m hoping you can help me out. I’m considering getting a new car just because I’m fearful of driving this car out of town. Any suggestions or advice? — Debbie I think your air conditioning compressor seized up, Debbie, or partially seized up.

The clues all add up.

If your AC compressor suddenly seized up, or just became very hard to turn, it would no longer be able to compress your refrigerant. That means no cold air.

And if the belt was trying to turn the compressor pulley but couldn’t, the belt would slip, and that could account for the

noise you heard.

Why hasn’t it happened regularly? I don’t know, but it’s possible that the problem occurs only when the compressor gets really hot — like when you’re cranking the AC and driving at 75 mph for a long stretch.

I think selling the car — especially if you like it and it’s otherwise in good shape — is premature. Instead, ask your regular mechanic if he’d be willing to drive it for a few days. If he takes it out on the highway and can get the symptoms to recur, he’ll be able to confirm right away what it is.

And if he can’t make it happen, well, maybe he’ll make you a good offer on the car.

Or you can just go ahead and replace the AC compressor. That’s easily going to run you $1,000. But given the age of the car and your description of the symptoms, I think there’s a high likelihood that’ll solve the problem. And if you’re otherwise scared to drive the car, it may be worth the investment.

Do it now, before AC repair shops institute their midsummer “I’m desperate” surcharges.

Good luck, Debbie.

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Food

at Lickee’s & Chewy’s Candies & Creamery Here ye! Here ye! Lords, knights, squires and all other manner of people are welcome to the gates of Lickee’s & Chewy’s Candies & Creamery (53 Washington St., Suite 100, Dover, 343-1799, lickeesnchewys.com). Proceed with a sweet tooth and an empty stomach, for mouthwatering indulgences await. Your host through this unique confectionary realm is owner and founder Chris Guerrette — he’ll quickly make you feel like a kid in a candy store with the help of his eponymous character partners, Lickee the knight and Chewy the dragon, who both hail from the “Kingdom of Caramelot.” Housed in the historic Cocheco Mills complex in downtown Dover, this 5,000-square-foot medieval-themed shop even resembles an age-old castle from the outside. You’ll find thousands of classic and novelty candies from around the world here, along with a full line of handmade chocolates and ice cream offerings, including its famous “King Shakes.” These over-the-top indulgences are quite literally fit for a king, featuring 24-ounce ice cream cups loaded over the brim with all kinds of ingredients reflecting various themes. The Scene recently caught up with Guerrette, an Air Force veteran who realized his dream to open the shop while overseas, about some of his favorite items at Lickee’s & Chewy’s and what to expect the next time you pass through the gates of his candy kingdom.

How long has Lickee’s & Chewy’s Candies & Creamery been around?

We opened in September of 2018. … I was in the Air Force for almost 25 years, active duty, and I was stationed overseas in Afghanistan in 2008. It was Christmastime and we had a lot of gift packages that had arrived from the United States. … I was sitting there one day and a friend of mine turned around and said ‘Man, that’s a lot of lickies and chewies,’ and I said, ‘That’s a lot of what?’ Come to find out that it’s an old military term that was used by the Army and other services way back in the day to literally mean junk food, candy and stuff like that. … So I told my friend right then and there that I was going to open a candy store with that name someday. … In 2014, a tiny little candy store in Durham, where I live, went up for sale. I ran that store for a few years and then started building Lickee’s and Chewy’s in 2018.

What makes Lickee’s & Chewy’s Candies & Creamery unique?

It’s a gigantic ice cream, candy and chocolate shop, and we kind of go overboard on all three of those things. I think the thing that brings

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most people in is the ice cream, but then we also have all of our handmade chocolates and a ridiculous candy selection. … We just want people to come and enjoy themselves, and so I think the unique medieval theme and all the decorations make us different from a lot of other places. When you walk in the front door, there’s nothing for sale for the first 50 feet, just decorations. We call it the throne room … and you can sit down and take your picture with all the dragons. … We’ve built this place as a destination, and a place that people can come and spend maybe 45 minutes to an hour and just kind of explore and enjoy themselves.

What is your personal favorite thing that you offer?

The caramel apples, because I created a caramel that’s specific to them. I don’t use it for anything else. … We only do them in the fall, because we go pick the apples ourselves from local orchards, and we primarily use Honeycrisp apples for them. … Along with just some of our homemade chocolates in general, those are my favorite things that we make. We have one that uses my mom’s

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What is an essential skill to running cinnamon pecan recipe that she developed when I was growing up, and it’s kind of like this type of business?

There are two things. One is creativity — you an apple pie-flavored apple. Usually, we can’t have to always come up with something new. keep it in stock.

You can’t just make one style of something and What is one thing everyone should try? then sit back on it for years and not change it.

I think everybody should try a King Shake … You also have to be flexible, so like right at least once. I’ve never personally finished now, there are a lot of challenges that businessone, but it’s more about the experience of es are facing with increased prices and shipping enjoying something that has probably about difficulties, and you’ve just got to be able to seven or eight different ingredients or things find a way to keep the store stocked and to keep going on. … We use ice cream from Blake’s it interesting so that no matter what, when peoCreamery [and] at any given time we’ll usu- ple come visit, they will enjoy themselves. ally have between nine and 10 King Shake What is your favorite thing about flavors. We are constantly making new ones to feature too, so right now we’re launching a being on the Seacoast?

I’m a big ocean person. I grew up in Concouple of new ones for the summer. necticut … and I spent a lot of time traveling What celebrity would you like to see along the Seacoast vacationing here, so I could never be more than a few miles away visiting your shop?

That’s easy. We’ve always wanted Adam from it. … I also really like the fact that we’re Sandler to come visit, especially because I’m really close to the intersection of [highway a huge fan. But then also seeing as he’s from routes] 95 and 16, so it’s really easy for peoNew Hampshire to begin with, we always ple to come in and see us, whether they’re thought it would be really fun if he ever had headed north or south.

— Matt Ingersoll an opportunity to come see us.

food

Try this at home Spiced date biscotti

Spiced date biscotti Makes 30 ⅓ cup unsalted butter, softened ¾ cup granulated sugar ½ cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground cloves 1 cup chopped dates Glaze 1 cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1½ teaspoons cinnamon 1½ Tablespoons milk Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine butter and both sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer; mix on speed 2 for 3 minutes.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating until combined.

Add vanilla, mixing until blended.

Add flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and cloves, stirring until combined.

Add dates, stirring until evenly distributed.

Divide dough in half.

Shape each half into an 8″ x 4″ rectangle, using floured hands.

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Michele Pesula Kuegler has been thinking about food her entire life. Since 2007 the New Hampshire native has been sharing these food thoughts and recipes at her blog, Think Tasty.

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This week I have the third and final biscotti recipe in this current series. This recipe is different from the previous two with a delightful amount of spices being a key part of the recipe.

This might lead you to ask: What spices are used in this recipe, and do I need to buy all of them? There are only two spices: cinnamon and ground cloves. While the recipe calls for only half a teaspoon of ground cloves, this spice is a key part of the recipe. Cloves provide an almost peppery bite that makes this biscotti unique.

As your regular cooking may not include this spice, try to find a bulk store where you can buy the tiniest amount. If you have pumpkin pie spice on hand, it makes an acceptable replacement, but you’ll have to be the judge as to the amount you use.

You also won’t need to add cinnamon in addition to the pumpkin pie spice.

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Set each loaf 2″ apart on a parchment paperlined baking sheet.

Bake for 30 minutes or until the dough is set.

Leaving the oven on, remove the biscotti loaves and cool for 15 minutes on the baking sheet.

Using a butcher’s knife, cut the loaves into diagonal slices, 3/4″ thick.

Return slices to the cookie sheet with the cut sides down; bake for 10 minutes.

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Combine powdered sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and milk, stirring until smooth.

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When I opened up the lid, something flew out or scurried out. I’m still not totally sure. Was it a bird or maybe a chipmunk or something else? The movement was fast, apparently too fast for me to realize what I was seeing.

Regardless of what it was, I think we can be fairly sure it was a pretty good indication I’d left my grill unattended for too long.

Usually I grill pretty much all year long, but for whatever reason, not this past year, and the grill remained dormant for the entire winter and the bulk of the spring. I deserved my rude greeting when I peered inside the lid.

This is all to say that, yes, cookout season is here and you should definitely get your grill ready to go if you haven’t already. You should also start thinking about the beers you want to enjoy during the many, many cookouts you’re likely to attend or host, formally or informally.

Is it a cookout without beer? Only you can answer that question.

Of course, we have Memorial Day weekend bearing down on us and the Fourth of July will be here before we know it, even if it doesn’t seem that way right this minute.

Year-round, I think weather plays a major role in your beer choices. I don’t want to speak for you but on a hot day you’re going to want something light and refreshing. On a cold day, you’re more apt to pick something a bit heavier, a bit more robust.

That goes for cookouts, too. Especially this time of year, the weather is still a crapshoot. Last Friday we were in the 80s but just days before that it was cold and raw as we all tried to properly celebrate our moms.

Your beer choice also depends on time of day, food choices and, you know, what’s in the cooler. A midday cookout generally screams, “grab something light,” to me, whereas an evening cookout calls out more subtly, “go for the double IPA.” It’s more complex than that, though. How long are you planning on staying? Are you going to eat something while you’re there?

(You should.) Are you going to be participating in activities, such as Wiffle ball or volleyball, or maybe something less active, like cornhole?

I tend to think that as your activity level increases at a cookout, the ABV of the beer should decrease. (Do you want to just play iffle ball or would you like to win?)

And, what’s on the menu at this cookout? Are you digging into burgers and dogs, marinated steak tips or chicken breast, or maybe you or the host is grilling up spicy

Cookout season is here. Pair with beer. Photo by Marek Mucha.

Italian sausage. Give it a second to consider what might be best paired with the food you are eating.

Don’t overthink it, though. You’re at a cookout, after all. Relax and grab a beer.

Here are three New Hampshire beers to enjoy during cookouts this year: Tie Dyed Dry-Hopped Pale Ale by Great North Aleworks (Manchester) Light, crisp and hoppy — this goes with everything.

Prater Vienna Lager by Henniker Brewing Co. (Henniker) As the brewery says, this is “bready and crisp,” and perfect for sipping in between Wiffle ball at-bats.

Mountain Priest by Portsmouth Brewery (Portsmouth) Dark and earthy but surprisingly light and dry — nice for a relaxing evening cookout or some smoky, sweet barbecue.

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ting to her, leading to a little explosion in the school bathroom.

As Vicky and Andy had always feared, this incident puts Charlie on the radar of the government agency that had a hand in the college experiment that gave Vicky and Andy their powers (or heightened preexisting powers or something). Vicky had simply stopped using her telekinesis but Andy had used his ability to psychically “push” people to give people hypnotismlike smoking cessation treatments (but for cash only, one of his many “stay off the grid” procedures). The parents worry that Charlie’s abilities, with her since birth,

will make her a test subject (and maybe worse) for the government that will hold her hostage for the rest of her life.

They intend to take off, running and disappearing as they always have, but they are not quick enough to escape Rainbird (Michael Greyeyes), another person with superhuman abilities sent by the shady Captain Hollister (Gloria Reuben) to bring in Charlie and her parents.

Most of the powers of the people here are activated via staring — there’s a lot of close-ups on eyes, a lot of times we see Charlie squint or glare before something explodes. If a staring-heavy movie

is playing it straight (which this movie is), there isn’t going to be a lot of room for deep character insights and subtle performances. Everybody here is basically fine, giving it their mostly-all. Reuben is an entertaining villain-in-a-suit; Efron brings the slightest whiff of humanity to “dad of main character.”

“Low-fi” is the description that settled into my brain about this movie, from the score that had occasional Casio-like notes to the opening credits that gave very Halloween-movies-remake vibes to the wardrobe choices to the pacing to the, well, everything. Perhaps for that reason, the movie never felt like it was asking all that much of me nor did I find myself expecting all that much from it.

Slightly above average pizza, $12 per bottle red wine and this movie all feel like they are operating on the same level — sort of comfortable and enjoyable without being in any way stand-out — and feel like they create the natural combination for how this movie is best viewed. You need to watch something/ eat something/drink something effortfree after a long week and this movie needs you to be not super picky about plot or acting expectations. C+ Rated R for violent content, according to the MPA on filmratings.com. Directed by Keith Thomas with a screenplay by Scott Teems, Firestarter is an hour and 34 minutes long and distributed by Universal Studios in theaters and via Peacock.

they’ll get married and move into her dream house and live happily ever after.

Except at the pre-prom pep rally, Stephanie’s rival Tiffany (Ana Yi Puig) causes a stunt to go wrong and Stephanie lands with such a thud that she’s sent into a coma for 20 years. When she wakes up she’s horrified to learn that the strange 37-year-old woman looking at her is actually Stephanie’s (Wilson) own reflection in the mirror and that the world around her has moved on. Uncertain of what to do with her life, she capitalizes on the fact that her childhood friend Martha (Holland) is now the

high school’s principal and she goes back to school to finish the one month left of her senior year. While Martha and Seth (Richardson), another friend from the old days, are still around (Seth is now the school’s library), so is Tiffany (Chao), now married to Stephanie’s old boyfriend Blaine (Hartley) and the mom of Bri (Jade Bender), the school’s new queen bee.

This comedy offers a blend of Big/13 Going On 30-type kid brain in adult body comedy, Strangers With Candy and its inappropriate adult in a high school setting, and the 21 Jump Street movie with its com-

edy about Gen X/elder millennial-types encountering modern high school culture. It is not quite as smart, funny or sharp as any of those properties, but it has its moments.

What Wilson lacks in emotional range she makes up for, to some degree, in willingness to be as ridiculous as the scene requires.

Senior Year isn’t a good movie but it feels like the kind of movie that could hit you at the right moment and be a thoroughly satisfying movie, with its occasionally successful bits of silliness, multiple dance numbers, turn-of-themillennium jokes and the affability of its cast.

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Things get toasty when a young girl gets angry in Firestarter, a new adaptation of the Stephen King novel.

Based on some light Wikipedia-ing, this does seem to be an entirely new riff on the book and not some universe-continuation something with the 1984 Drew Barrymore version. There is an early 1980s vibe attached to this movie, even though the first date we see on the screen is from footage of college students Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) and Andy (Zac Efron) being interviewed on some scratchy video from way back in technologically primitive, er, 2008? Also, when we meet little girl Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), she may be pouty about not having wi-fi and smart phones but her clothes seem straight out of the E.T. wardrobe department, which adds to the movie’s overall out-of-time feel.

Vicky and Andy are technology-eschewing parents living in a small Maine town who disagree about whether their middle-school-ish daughter Charlie needs to “push it down and bury it” (Andy’s point of view) or “learn to control it” (Vicky’s preference). The “it” is the catchall for Charlie’s abilities, the most worrisome of which is her ability to start fires with her mind. Or rather, her not-quite-controllable tendency to start fires when she gets really mad. I guess she had been “pushing it down” but lately she finds that peer bullying about her weirdness is get-

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Firestarter.

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Out of the Corner, by Jennifer Grey (Ballantine, 335 pages) She had the time of her life. I’m sorry, but it had to be said.

There’s no other way to sum up the gilded, glossy existence of actress Jennifer Grey (best-known for Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), her much publicized problems with her nose notwithstanding.

I came to Grey’s new memoir, Out of the Corner, with exceedingly low expectations, having read too many celebrity memoirs that exist only because the authors are famous.

Shockingly, it turns out that Grey can actually write and has entertaining things to say.

Granted, some chapters are more riveting than others — she charges out of the starting gate with an essay on her plastic surgery that’s as good as anything I’ve read in months.

Things necessarily slow down when she fills us in on, say, middle school — there’s really no one famous enough to make me care about what their life was like when they had braces and acne. But even then her life was interesting enough (naked people in a hot tub at Larry Hagman’s house, anybody?) to drag us through the wonder years to return to the interesting stuff.

Grey is the daughter of Academy Award performer Joel Grey and Jo Wilder, and the granddaughter of Mickey Katz. She admits that this star lineage earned her “a certain degree of warmth right out of the gate” whenever she met someone in New York or L.A. In New York, she recalls her parents giving starstudded dinner parties and going to a grand Christmas party each year where famous musicians, actors and directors would stand around a grand piano robustly singing show tunes — accompanied by Stephen Sondheim.

“So even though we were Jews and didn’t have our own Christmas tree, we did okay,” she writes in an understated style.

Her parents led glamorous lives and were often gone for weeks, but were fiercely devoted to their family (which included Grey’s younger brother who was adopted).

But for all of Grey’s fond memories, there are glimmers of dysfunction — her mother, for example, would at times walk around the house naked in front of her daughter, once told her that she’d tried to commit suicide by putting her head in an oven, and once told Grey that her brother was beautiful but she was “interesting looking.”

It seems like stuff you tell to a therapist, not put out in the world, but it makes for interesting reading, even though it’s unclear what Grey’s motives are, given that her parents, now divorced, are still alive and she doesn’t seem to hate them.

Side note: Grey’s father, who recently turned

90, came out as gay in 2015 at the age of 82. But in her memoir, Jennifer Grey explains how she and her mother found out years before: when the mother of Matthew Broderick, whom Grey was dating at the time, told her.

“It was like a sniper attack,” Grey writes, saying the knowledge “rattled me to my core” — not because of his sexuality, but because of the deception. It was heartache, she wrote, to know that he had to hide an important piece of his life from the people who loved him.

Out of the Corner is filled with deeply personal revelations like that — often wrapped in a tale about a Hollywood superstar. And she provides a backstage pass to all her movies, telling, for example, how she was cast before Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing and had not wanted him to get the part.

But that isn’t why the book is good. It’s good simply on the strength of its writing, which sent me digging through the acknowledgements to see if there was a hidden ghostwriter. Apparently there was not; although Grey credits an editor, Barbara Jones, who worked closely with her, she says that the novelist Dani Sharpiro told her she needed to write the book herself. (Is there anyone she doesn’t know?)

There are also surprisingly mature themes running through the memoir, such as Grey’s mother’s increasing unhappiness as she sets her own talent and ambition aside to support her husband’s career. “I come from a long line of women who became mothers and wives at the expense of the career they wanted.” That said, Grey herself got married and became a mother at the age of 41, an experience, she writes, “that far exceeded my wildest dreams.”

About that nose — Grey writes that her mother’s attitude was “In case of emergency, break nose” and that when she was young, “I had always felt like my nose needed protection, like a kid sister who regularly got bullied on the schoolyard. I was my nose’s keeper.”

But Grey liked how she looked, and she only succumbed to pressure to have it altered after a surgeon told her that a deviated septum had her breathing at only 20 percent of normal capacity. Two procedures later, it did not go well; on a plane, Michael Douglas (there she goes again) didn’t recognize her. A woman working an airline counter looked at her ID and said, “I’ve seen Dirty Dancing a dozen times. I know Jennifer Grey. And you are not her.”

Grey now seems to be deeply at peace with her nose and her life, and for someone who has seen Larry Hagman naked in a hot tub, seems to be shockingly well adjusted, and even, dare I say, wise. Her book is an unexpected summer pleasure, though it helps if you’ve seen the movies. A — Jennifer Graham

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Book NOTES The Pulitzer Prizes were announced last week, and it’s a good time to note the vast ocean that lies between critically acclaimed books and their reception by the unwashed masses. Let’s just say the tastes of media elites and the general public are not always identical.

The fiction winner has a title that sounds like a Borat movie: The Netanyahus: An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family (New York Review Books, 248 pages).

Joshua Cohen’s novel is described as historical fiction, which assigns way too much gravitas to a novel that looks more to be a merry romp through history enlivened by imagination. I plan to read it not because of the Pulitzer, but because of its title.

Yet someone left a one-star review on Amazon and wrote: “Clueless author.”

That didn’t age well.

The Pulitzer for biography went to the late Winfred Rembert — and his “as told to” coauthor Erin I. Kelly — for Chasing Me to My Grave, an Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South (Bloomsbury, 304 pages). The book intersperses photographs of Rembert’s art with his stories of growing up in Georgia in abject poverty amid undisguised racism, his time in prison and his evolution into an acclaimed artist.

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Country music, hard ing with my life,” Shook said, drinking and harder mornbut it’s different now. ings-after have been yoked “The person making the together since Hank Wilobservations is removed from liams and George Jones the situation; they’re just sort rode in buses across Interof checking things out,” Shook state 40. With their 2015 continued. “The emotions I indie debut Sidelong, Sarwas experiencing were cenah Shook & The Disarmers tered around awareness and latched onto the archetype clarity, and getting accustomed with a vengeance. Songs to going through the day withlike “Nothin’ Feels Right out feeling so awful from being Shook. Photo by Joshua Black But Doin’ Wrong” and Sarah hungover.”

Wilkins “Misery Without CompaThe lyrics for one of Nightny” dove into the bottle and rarely came up for roamer’s best songs, “It Doesn’t Change air. When Chicago-based Bloodshot Records Anything,” came at the end of a restorative picked up the album for distribution a cou- hike. “The devil on your shoulder is your only ple years later, Vice magazine noticed them friend/there he sits just to remind you all good and declared they were “drinking mainstream things come to an end,” Shook sings of impercountry under the table.” FEW Spirits made vious temptation in a waltzy cadence, adding, a special-edition blue corn whiskey with their “The bottle and the needle reign where memoname on it — naturally, high proof. The mes- ries are deafening.” sage in their music came through loud and clear.

Another highlight is the scorching rockEventually, Shook had had enough and got er “Talkin’ To Myself,” where Shook laments sober, in 2019. She marked the moment by a “bad brain don’t ever turn off.” That notion downing a shot of her signature hootch at a folk was underscored in a video made for the song festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with fellow per- that features an actor manically ripping apart the former Sunny War, who is coincidentally now walls of a room, while desperately searching for on tour with them; both will appear at Ports- some kind of high. mouth’s 3S Artspace on Friday, May 20.

Nightroamer is a tour de force that bounces “I was happy with the choices I made on across genres, ever grounded in Shook’s newmy last day of drinking,” Shook said by phone found resolve. It was made with a new label, recently. as Bloodshot folded in acrimony between its Moving ahead was another thing, however. founders before it was finished. In spite of it, “My biggest fear and worry was … what if I Shook has only good memories of their first never write a song again? Which is kind of silly major-label experience, and two of its former in retrospect,” she said. “I started writing songs staffers are current management team members. when I was 9, and I wasn’t exactly pounding Ever the indie, Shook was wary of joining a whiskey at that point in my life.” big company early on.

Such concerns were put on hold to focus on “A lot of smaller labels claim [they’re] like recovery. a family. … I remember thinking, ‘Yeah, I bet “I definitely went through a pretty long spell you say that to everybody,’” Shook said. “In where I didn’t write anything, but I really leaned fact, they very much were, and it very much was into everything that came with sobriety,” Shook like a family. It was a healthy, functioning relasaid. “I knew that, in order to have success with tionship; I love those people.” it, I was going to have to [embrace] the notion of Another small label, Kill Rock Stars, will replacing bad habits with good habits.” release Shook’s first solo album this fall. It’s a Among these changes were daily walks — a collection of songs written during the pandemchallenging task, but one that would pay artis- ic, another form of therapy to go with the online tic dividends. counseling offered by openpathcollective.org.

“I also had a lot of social anxiety, so going “I knew that if I didn’t choose an activioutside and walking around my neighborhood ty to spend the bulk of my day focused on, it was a feat of Hercules,” Shook said, “but I was going to make recovery really a struggle,” made myself do it every day. That was part of Shook said, “so I pulled out my old 2013 Macmy recovery — actively choosing to take care Book, a Scarlett 2i2 and my guitar, and I started of my body.” making a record.” — Michael Witthaus Shook’s muse would return; the proof is in Sarah Shook & The Disarmers w/ Nightroamer. Released in February, the new LP Sunny War finds Shook comfortable in a more objective, storytelling place.

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Smuttynose: Jonny Friday, 5:30 p.m.

Wally’s: Banana Gun, 9 p.m.

Whym: Austin McCarthy, 6:30 p.m.

Portsmouth Gas Light: Sum X 4, 7 p.m.; Jeff Mrozek, 9:30 p.m.

The Goat: Chris Toler, 9 p.m.

The Press Room: Ted Leo, 8 p.m.

Thirsty Moose: Sugarbabies, 9 p.m.

Seabrook Red’s: live music, 7 p.m.

The Gas Light 64 Market St., 430-9122

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Saturday, May 21

Hampton Bernie’s: Alex Anthony Band, 8 p.m.

Bogie’s: Chin Music & Darla Dee, 7 p.m.

The Goat: Brooks Hubbard, 9 p.m.

L Street: live music, 6:30 p.m.; karaoke with DJ Jeff, 9 p.m.

Sea Ketch: Clint Lapoint, 1p.m.

Shane’s: Chris Lester, 6 p.m.

Smuttynose: Ryan Williamson, 1 p.m.; Jim Devlin Band, 6 p.m.

Whym: Jamie Martin, 6:30 p.m.

Portsmouth Gas Light: Paul Warnick, 2 p.m.; Mica’s Groove Train, 7 p.m.

The Goat: Mike Forgette, 9 p.m.

Thirsty Moose: Broken Heels, 9 p.m.

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Seabrook Chop Shop: live music, 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 22

Hampton Charlie’s Tap House: Henry Laliberte, 4:30 p.m.

CR’s: Steve Sibulkin, 4 p.m.

The Goat: Alex Anthony, 7 p.m.

L Street: live music, 6:30 p.m.; karaoke with DJ Jeff, 9 p.m.

Wally’s: Stone Temple Posers, 5:30 p.m.

Portsmouth The Goat: Rob Pagnano, 9 p.m.

The Press Room: Sharon Jones, 6 p.m.

Summer in the Streets Pleasant Street to Porter Street to Market Square Thirsty Moose Taphouse 21 Congress St. 427-8645 Tuscan Kitchen 10 Ledgewood Drive 570-3600

Monday, May 23

Hampton L Street: karaoke with DJ Jeff, 9 p.m.

Portsmouth The Goat: musical bingo, 7 p.m.; Alex Anthony, 9 p.m.

Press Room: open mic, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24

Hampton L Street: karaoke with DJ Jeff, 9 p.m.

Shane’s: music bingo, 7 p.m.

Wally’s: musical bingo, 7 p.m.

Portsmouth The Goat: Isaiah Bennett, 9 p.m.

Rye Atlantic Grill 5 Pioneer Road 433-3000 Seabrook Chop Shop Pub 920 Lafayette Road 760-7706 Red’s Kitchen + Tavern 530 Lafayette Road 760-0030

Seabrook Backyard Burgers & Wings: music bingo with Jennifer Mitchell, 7 p.m.

Red’s: country night, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25

Hampton Bogie’s: open mic, 7 p.m.

L Street: karaoke with DJ Jeff, 9 p.m.

Portsmouth The Goat: Alex Anthony, 9 p.m.

The Press Room: Windjammers, 8 p.m.

Thursday, May 26

Hampton Bogie’s: Matt Luneau & Michael Troy, 7 p.m.

CR’s: Ross McGinnes, 6 p.m.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Grab a map or a phone book and see how Gemini (May 21 – June 20) The many places named for presidents you only president ever to earn his eagle can visit in your state. Keep a checkscout badge? Gerald Ford. Have you list, like a bird-watcher! Josiah Bartlett got that badge yet? doesn’t count.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Chester Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) HerArthur was a clotheshorse who owned bert Hoover helped found and run more than eighty pairs of pants. … John the Boys Club of America, and at age Quincy Adams hated clothes shopping, eighty-three wrote a popular biography and wore the same hat for ten years. of Woodrow Wilson. Don’t let people Find your own middle ground. make you feel less than for relaxing.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) In 1897, the Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) The state of Georgia sent William McKin- shop failed, but Truman refused to ley a prizewinning seventy-eight-pound declare bankruptcy, and spent decades melon, wrapped in the state flag. But slowly paying off every one of his debts. what prize did it win?

Slowly but surely can get you where Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) FDR you’re going. swam, Nixon bowled, and Bush 43 Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) ‘Hail to jogged with his iPod. Herbert Hoover the Chief ’ is actually a show tune — it invented a weird, tennis-like game comes from a London stage adaptation called Hooverball that used a six- of Walter Scott’s epic poem “The Lady pound ball! Oof. Play ball. of the Lake.” Try a little razzle-dazzle.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) John Aries (March 21 – April 19) James Quincy Adams was elected to the House Garfield … ran away from home to of Representatives after leaving the work on a canal boat, but fell overboard White House and served for seventeen fourteen times in his first six weeks. And years, becoming a much more popular he couldn’t swim. Swimming lessons congressman than he had ever been a are available. president! What’s your next project?

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Across 1. “People Puzzler” airer 4. Adult Swim’s “Joe ___ Talks With You” 8. English university city 13. Tab, for example

14. “I’m rippin’ up ___ doll ...”

(Aerosmith lyric) 15. “Ad ___ per aspera” 16. ___ of the hat 17. Really close group of friends?

19. Equilateral unit of steam?

21. Palindromic dental deg.

22. How cuneiform characters were often preserved 23. Dollar bill depiction, familiarly 25. Yell after finishing a ride, maybe 26. Reddit Q&A forum 29. To be, to Nero 30. They’re on all four Monopoly board edges, for short 31. Territorial land grabber 35. Response to “Are my shoes really that waterlogged?”

39. Fashionable quality 40. NFL Pro Bowl safety Chancellor 42. Albanian’s neighbor 45. OutKast’s city, for short 46. “Fine, what’s the answer?”

48. “Be right there”

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1. Showed one’s ire 44. Tend to your Crockpot stew a few 2. Antique book protector hours later 3. Seaport southeast of Roma 47. Squat muscles 4. “Crazy” singer Cline 49. Suffix similar to -ish 5. La Salle who returned to “Coming 50. “Crazy Rich Asians” director 2 America” 51. “Hey! Over here!”

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57. High-pitched cries of joy during summer?

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Police were called to a home in Trenton, South Carolina, on May 7, where two bodies were found in the backyard, WJBF-TV reported. The first was Joseph Anthony McKinnon, 60, who apparently died of a “cardiac event,” according to the coroner. The second body was Patricia Ruth Dent, 65, who was McKinnon’s live-in girlfriend, and who clearly did not die of natural causes. An autopsy revealed that Dent had been strangled; police believe a struggle took place inside the home, and McKinnon wrapped her in trash bags and placed her in a pit he had dug in the yard. They concluded that McKinnon had suffered a heart attack during that process.

with Bordeaux, which is having a stinky season of its own, now at the bottom of the Ligue 1 table and seven points from safety.

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anonymous woman in the town’s Protestant cemetery in a coffin marked with symbols of all the world’s major religions, but before doing so, they collected DNA so that they might later learn her identity. The Associated Press reported that they had hoped to bury her earlier, but the pandemic had slowed plans to put her to rest. Future biology studies will be undertaken using a plastic skeleton.

pensation equal to about $650,000 if Shrey and his wife do not produce a child within a year. Sanjeev said they spent all their savings on their son, sending him to the United States for pilot training, and that he returned to India but lost his job and required their support for two more years. They arranged a lavish wedding and reception for him, but after six years, the couple “are still not planning a baby,” Sanjeev said. “At least if we have a grandchild to spend time with, our pain DUI “DUI” has a new meaning for driv- will become bearable.” ers and hikers in the Normandy region of France, The Connexion reported on Great art May 11: deer under the influence. The When Laura Young picked up a marble 30 Million Friends Organization, an ani- bust from the floor of a Goodwill store mal rescue group, said at this time of in Austin, Texas, in 2018, she couldn’t year, deer gorge on spring flowers that have imagined the saga that was about are loaded with sugar, which ferments in to unfold. As it turns out, the Associated their stomachs and makes them “drunk.” Press reported on May 6, her $35 bust is For example, they may become disorient- believed to be a centuries-old sculpture of ed and sometimes panicked, wandering Pompey the Great, missing from the colinto dangerous situations. Experts remind lection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria since anyone who comes across a bombed Bam- World War II. Experts suspect an Ameribi to stay calm and not upset the animal. can soldier brought the bust to the United States after the war. The piece will visit the San Antonio Museum of Art until Family values The BBC reported on an unusual law- next year, when it will be returned to Gersuit filed in the north Indian state of many. “I’m glad I got to be a small part Uttarakhand by Sanjeev and Sadha- of its long and complicated history, and na Prasad, parents of Shrey Sagar, 35, he looked great in the house while I had against their son “because of mental him,” Young said.

Eighty-two-year-old actor James Cromwell, known most recently for his role on “Succession,” glued his palm to a midtown Manhattan Starbucks store counter on May 10 to protest the extra charge the coffee company assesses for plant-based milk in their drinks. He later used a knife to scrape his hand off the counter. The Associated Press reported that Cromwell, who starred in “Babe: Pig in the City,” is a longtime animal rights protester. For its part, Starbucks seemed nonplussed by the protest, which was organized by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, He can’t help himself Brazilian defender Marcelo, 34, was characterizing the nondairy milk customdismissed from the Lyon squad of the izations as similar to any other, “such as Ligue 1 Uber Eats French Football League an additional espresso shot or syrup.” last August after reportedly laughing during captain Leo Dubois’ speech following It’s a mystery the team’s losing match against Angers.

In Schleiden, Germany, on May 11, But on May 10, ESPN reported there high school students laid to rest a classwas more to the explosive story. Marce- mate who had been with them for lo, who was considered one of the leaders generations: Anh Bian, the human female of the team, apparently had an ongoing skeleton that had dwelt in the school’s issue with passing gas and laughing inap- biology classroom since the 1950s, and propriately in the locker room among his whom they had given the Vietnamese teammates. He had signed a contract with name for “mysterious peace.” Students, Lyon before the start of the season, but it teachers and town officials buried the cruelty.” The elders are demanding comwas terminated in January and he signed

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