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Love your Valentine’s Day Let’s talk Valentine’s Day, which is Wednesday, Feb. 14. Whether you’re married, have a significant other or want to show a great friend or valued member of your family that Larry Marsolais you care about them, do something for them on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be big; go out for dinner, see a movie, go to a show or just give a card to that special person in your life. If you’re looking for something fun to do to celebrate the day, this issue of the Scene has a bunch of great ideas for date nights, family events and other special activities.

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I guess we are only supposed to have six weeks left of winter, but the way our weather has been going, don’t count on it. According to the calendar, spring starts on March 20. Let’s wait and see.

In the meantime, no matter the season or the weather, there is fun to be had on the Seacoast, and the Scene can help you find stuff to do even in the darker, colder days of winter.

As always feel free to call me anytime at 603-935-5096 to discuss local issues or to place an ad.

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

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EVENTS TO CHECK OUT FEBRUARY 8 - 21, 2018, AND BEYOND 108 sun salutes

The 10th Annual Seacoast Yoga Mala will be held at The Rivermill Landing (2 Washington St., Dover) on Sunday, Feb. 11, from 9 a.m. to noon. The 10th annual community fundraiser is a three-hour class of 108 sun salutes, chanting and meditation, followed by a special 10-year celebration at the Rivermill Landing, from noon to 2 p.m. Visit seacoastsatya.com for details.

Art at the inn

On Friday, Feb. 9, from 6 to 9 p.m., Christine Russell and Chuck Amore will be displaying their art at the Victoria Inn Bed & Breakfast (430 High St., Hampton). All pieces can be purchased night of show and will be available at the Inn for a month for you to come and revisit. Complimentary appetizers provided by Victoria’s Kitchen and a cash bar will be available during the reception. Jane Kelly will be there as well, with live birds of prey from her rehab and education facility in Epping. No tickets or attendance fees required.

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The Button Factory Stage will bring its weekly radio show, “Writers in the Round,” to a live audience at WSCA Radio (909 Islington St., Suite 1, Portsmouth) on Monday, Feb. 12, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Hosts Jim Rioux and Guy Capecelatro III will be joined by four special guests for a night of poems, songs, stories and collaboration: songwriter Seth Gooby, poet Lesley Kimball, songwriter Emma Vachon, and writer and current Portsmouth poet laureate Mike Nelson. Call 430-9722 or visit wscafm.org.

On Wednesday, Feb. 21, award-winning and bestselling writer Charles C. Mann visits The Music Hall as part of its Innovation + Leadership series to speak about his latest book, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World. In the book, Mann profiles two littleknown scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose opposing views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the 21st century will choose to live in tomorrow’s world — specifically, when Earth’s population reaches 10 billion. The 7 p.m. event will be held at The Music Hall Loft at 131 Congress St., Portsmouth. Tickets are $43 and include an autographed copy of the book, bar beverage, author presentation, Q&A and book signing meet-and-greet. Tickets can be purchased at themusichalll.org or by calling 603-436-2400.

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Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St., Dover, 742-2002, childrens-museum.org) offers camp for kids ages 6 to 9. It runs Tuesday, Feb. 27, through Thursday, March 1, from 9 a.m. to noon each day. Tuesday is art day, Wednesday is science day, and Thursday is engineering day. The cost is $40 per day or $95 for all three days.

Strawbery Banke Museum (14 Hancock St., Portsmouth, 422-7541, strawberybanke.org) offers a camp for kids in grades 1 through 5. It runs Monday, Feb. 26, to Friday, March 2, with sessions from 9 a.m. to noon, noon to 1:30 p.m., and 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Each session features different activities, which include crafts, historic cooking, simulations and group problem-solving, outdoor skating, historical games, dress-up and roleplaying and more. The cost per day is $35 for the morning session or morning and midday sessions and $60 for a full day.

Seacoast Science Center (570 Ocean Boulevard, Rye, 436-8043, seacoastsciencecenter.org) offers two camps: Treks 4 Tots for kids ages 4 and 5, and Seaside Safari for kids in grades K through 5. They run Monday, Feb. 19, through Friday, Feb. 23, and Monday, Feb. 26, through Friday, March 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.

(A 9 a.m. to noon option is also available for Treks 4 Tots.) Campers will explore Odiorne Point State Park and the center’s hands-on exhibits and participate in lessons, activities, art projects, games, stories and more. The cost is $65 per full day, $45 per half day, $200 for a full half-day week and $300 for a full full-day week.

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Seacoast United (311 Winnacunnet Road, Hampton) hosts a Youth Soccer Mini-Camp for ages 7 to 12 from Feb. 27 to Feb. 29 from 9 a.m. to noon. The sessions focusing on individual work with a ball in mastering a variety of moves to unbalance

a defender. The cost is $100. Contact Caleb Paterson at cpaterson@seacoastunited.com or by phone at 603-758-1750.

Tri-Star Gymnastics & Dance (66 Third St., Dover, 749-5678, tristargymnh. com) offers camp for kids from kindergarten through age 13. It runs Monday, Feb. 26, through Friday, March 2, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Campers will participate in gymnastics, crafts, games and open gym playtime. The cost is $35 per day or $135 for the week.

YMCA of the Seacoast (Camp Gundalow, 176 Tuttle Lane, Greenland, 431-2334, ext.

2556, graniteymca.org) offers camp for kids ages 5 to 14. It runs Monday, Feb. 26, to Friday, March 2, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., each day. Activities include swimming, gym games, fitness fun, arts and crafts, outdoor play and more. The cost for Y members is $45 per day or $200 for the week; for nonmembers, it’s $70 per day or $315 for the week. Register by Feb. 21.

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New Hampshire Theatre Project (959 Islington St., Portsmouth, 431-6644, nhtheatreproject.org) offers camp for kids age 7 to 11. It runs Monday, Feb. 26, through Friday, March 2, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Campers will explore developing characters, comedy improv and more. The cost is $100 to $400, depending on the number of days. Register by Feb. 9.

Seacoast Repertory Theatre (125 Bow St., Portsmouth, seacoastrep.org) offers camp for kids ages 7 to 15. It runs Monday, Feb. 26, through Friday, March 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Campers will learn theater terminology and history, improve their singing and acting skills and present a showcase for their families on the final day of camp. The cost is $350 for the week.

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Sweet treats, dinner dates and more Valentine’s Day fun for all ages

By Rob Levey

On Monday, Feb. 12, from 6 to 8 p.m., LaBelle Winery (104 Congress St., Portsmouth) hosts a fresh-cut flower arranging workshop and wine tasting in a space Michelle Thornton describes as “inspiring.” “[The class] is held in a 234-square-foot function area with beautiful rustic furniture and paintings by local New Hampshire artists,” said Thornton, who is the winery’s director of marketing and business development. “We decided to host this type of event as part of our commitment to offer new, exciting, educational and inspiring lifestyle events.”

LaBelle Winery’s partner is Alice’s Table, which will provide all of the materials, aprons, tools, fresh-cut flowers and a

vessel that each attendee can use to create a flower arrangement. The instructor, Carolyn MacLeod of Alice’s Table, will lead the attendees through a step-by-step process to create the arrangement while a LaBelle Winery wine associate will offer tastes of LaBelle wines.

Thornton expressed enthusiasm for the partnership with Alice’s Table, which brings women together to learn new skills and live a social and creative lifestyle.

“Modern women don’t have time to be Martha — they need lifestyle delivered,” she said in describing the mission of Alice’s Table.

Flower arrangements will be chosen based on what’s in season and feature a variety of flowers including, but not limited to, greens such as ruscus or eucalyptus, roses, hydrangeas, daisies, stocks, sunflowers, calla lilies and more.

Guests are encouraged to attend with friends or a date. The cost to attend this workshop is $75 per person. Visit labellewineryevents.com.

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Singing Valentines Let your valentine hear how much you love them with a singing valentine from Sounds of the Seacoast.

If you want to show how much you care and have a little fun at the same time, you might want to consider purchasing a singing valentine from Sounds of the Seacoast, an all-women barbershop chorus that will send a quartet to an office, home, restaurant or any location of your choosing on Valentine’s Day. According to longtime member Peggy Scott, it is one of the highlights of her year.

“It’s a wonderful, fun time for everybody,” she said. “It’s fun for the person who buys it, the one who receives it and the four of us singing it to them. It’s heartwarming.”

Noting they have performed everywhere from a fitness center to an auto shop, fellow member Camille Duffy said their singing valentines have been purchased by a wide group of people.

“It ranges from spouses to spouses, children to their parents, friends to friends, workers to their boss or vice versa, and from patients to thank nurses, doctors or emergency room staff,” she said.

Other examples of singing valentines include from a boyfriend to propose to his girlfriend and families to a loved one in the hospital or nursing home. There have also been some funny singing valentines.

“A woman had a dog, a Dachshund, and as we started singing he came over, laid right on my foot and started howling along as we sang our song — and he was in key,” laughed Duffy, who also shared a heartfelt memory.

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have to say it was singing for the troops at Pease before they left the United States on their mission,” she added. “I was so proud to be there and sing for them.”

For both women, half the fun is the surprise they see on people’s faces as well as the heartfelt emotion expressed by some.

“It’s great watching some cry with joy knowing someone did this just for them or watching the faces of others in a restaurant as we deliver a singing valentine to that ‘lucky’ woman or man,” Duffy said.

“It makes it all worthwhile to spend the day driving all over to who-knows-where, running in and out of the cold, and braving the elements if need be.”

A singing valentine costs $45 and includes a song sung in four-part a cappella barbershop harmony, a rose and chocolates. Visit soundsoftheseacoast.org.

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On Saturday, Feb. 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Chez Boucher Cooking School and Catering (32 Depot Square, Hampton) will teach guests how to make their own Valentine’s Day treats to take home to their special someone. Treats include assorted truffles, chocolate-covered strawberry cupcakes, red velvet cheesecake brownies and vegan Mexican chocolate cookies. The cost is $99 per person. Visit chezboucher. com.

The Atlantic Grill (5 Pioneer Road, Rye) hosts a dinner theater from Feb. 10 through Feb. 14, with cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m. followed by the show at 7 p.m.

“This is the second time we have done dinner theater here at Atlantic Grill with Patrick Dorow Productions, but it is our first Valentine’s Day dinner theater,” said The Atlantic Grill’s Caitlyn Hassett.

At the show, Patrick Dorow and other musicians will perform an array of Valentine’s-themed music, including everything from jazz standards to pop hits, original songs and Broadway hits. Performances will take places between the courses.

In addition to the music, food will also take center stage with four dinner choices: baked haddock with lemon and herb cracker crumb; pecan-crusted chicken topped with cranberry honey glaze; flat iron steak grilled, sliced and topped with bordelaise; and vegan stir-fry with crispy garlic tofu, flash seared Asian vegetables, classic vegan stir-fry sauce and sticky rice.

“It’s going to be a great event and give couples something extra special and unique to do for Valentine’s Day,” said Hassett.

The cost is $75 to $85 per person and includes a show, dinner and gratuity; alcohol is sold separately. Visit theatlanticgrill. com.

Head to the Tuscan Kitchen (581 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth) on Friday, Feb. 9, from 7 to 10 p.m. for Rat Pack Night.

Inspired by Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra, Valentine’s Day Rat Pack Night will feature live music with Mike Dutra & the Strictly Sinatra Rat Pack Band.

“This will not be an event to miss,” said Jeromy Morse of Tuscan Kitchen. “Live music from Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin will take you back in time for an unforgettable Valentine’s Dinner.”

At the event, guests will enjoy a fourcourse meal along with the entertainment.

Tickets are $85 and include dinner, entertainment, dancing and more. Visit tuscanbrands.com/Kitchen/Portsmouth.

On Friday, Feb. 9, from 4 to 7 p.m., Baron Forrester (446 Lafayette Road, Hampton) will host a night of wines to love.

France is often thought of as a country of romance — and its wines may be no exception, which serves as the impetus behind Baron Forrester’s upcoming evening of decadent French cheese, bread and wine.

“We will meander around classic French regions, including Bordeaux, Burgundy and the Loire Valley, tasting chardonnay from Chablis, a red Right Bank Bordeaux and an elegant sparkling rosé from Saumur,” said owner Julie Baker.

According to Baker, their wines will also be paired with some “very special cheeses,” including Oh My Heart, which she

Wentworth by the Sea in New Castle is in the midst of its Winter Wine Festival, with several events surrounding Valentine’s Day. The festival takes place 12 Other Fun Date Ideas While the following events do not have a Valentine’s Day theme, they could make for a fun date.

Seacoast Repertory Theater presents The Hunchback of Notre Dame Date: Feb. 8 through Feb. 11, varying times Location: Seacoast Repertory Theater, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth Website: seacoastrep.org A brand-new musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel comes to Seacoast Repertory Theatre to kick off the Rep’s 30th anniversary season. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a musical retelling of the love story of gypsy Esmeralda, the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo, and the gallant Captain Phoebus in 15th-century Paris.

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New Hampshire Theatre Project presents Where there’s Smoke, there’s Dinner Date: Saturday, Feb. 10, 8 to 11 p.m.

Location: New Hampshire Theatre Project, 959 Islington St. No. 3, Portsmouth Website: nhtheatreproject.org Stories of a Seared Childhood — Storyteller Regi Carpenter’s hilarious and heartbreaking tales of four generations of carpenters.

Strawbery Banke Museum: Hearth Cooking Workshops Date: Saturday, Feb. 10, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Location: Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock St, Portsmouth Website: strawberybanke.org This event is a special hearth cooking experience in Wheelwright House, an 18th-century building on the museum campus. Featured in Yankee magazine, the two-hour workshop allows participants to learn open-hearth cooking skills as they make and enjoy a traditional menu.

The Players’ Ring presents Rosemary Date: Sunday, Feb. 11, 3 to 5 p.m.

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• Chez Boucher Cooking School and Catering in Hampton will offer a special dinner on Valentine’s Day with seatings at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a four-course dinner for two, including a bottle of wine, for $125 per couple. “Valentine’s Day is still important to people, which is why they will go out for a four-course dinner on a Wednesday night,” noted Chez Boucher’s Paula Munch. “It’s an important day to recognize the people that you love.” Visit chezboucher.com.

• Epoch Restaurant & Bar (The Exeter Inn, 90 Front St., Exeter, 778-3762, epochrestaurant.com) is serving a Valentine’s Day menu on Feb. 14, featuring menu items like house-made ricotta gnocchi, prosciutto-wrapped cod, bronzed sea scallops, and desserts like Black Forest cherry cake. The cost is $65 per person, or $90 with wine pairings included.

• The Farm at Eastman’s Corner (267 South Road, Kensington, 347-1909, eastmanscorner.com) will serve a Valentine’s Day-inspired farm-to-table dinner on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 6:30 p.m., with a grand shellfish bar and cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m.

The menu includes winter citrus and farm greens salad, New Hampshire mushroom risotto, Maine salmon en croute, Angus beef and a buffet of sweets like truffles, petit fours and Champagne gelee with chocolate-covered strawberries. Tickets are $65.

• Flag Hill Distillery & Winery (297 N. River Road, Lee, 659-2949, flaghill.com) is hosting a Valentine’s Day dinner on Saturday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. On the menu are salmon mousse tartlets, shaved cauliflower salad, and a wild Cornish hen paired with Flag Hill’s classic cocktail with rye, ginger ale and cranberry liqueur. The cost is $70 and reservations are required. This is a 21+ only event.

• Forty-Five Market Street Bakery & Cafe (45 Market St., Somersworth, 692-4511, 45marketstreetbakeryandcafe. placeweb.site) is taking reservations for a four-course Valentine’s Day-inspired dinner on Wednesday, Feb. 14, with seatings at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. The cost is $37.50 per person.

• Cava Tapas & Wine Bar in Portsmouth will serve an Aphrodisiac Tasting menu that will run in place of their regular tasting menu, Friday, Feb. 9, through Saturday, Feb. 17. Enjoy eight courses with each featuring an aphrodisiac item for $65 per person (excludes tax and gratuity).

Reservations may be made by calling 603319-1575. Visit cavatapasandwinebar.com.

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• Bubbles & Jazz Brunch Sunday, Feb. 11, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event will feature Mionetto Prosecco from Italy. The cost is $44.95 per person plus tax and gratuity except on Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14, which is a larger Holiday Brunch priced at $49.95 per person plus tax and gratuity.

• Wine Education Friday features Banfi Wines with Michael Sullivan on Friday, Feb. 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. For the past 10 years, Michael Sullivan has worked for Banfi Vintners, selling Italy’s premier estate vineyard wines from Tuscany. Castello Banfi is the first winery in the world to be awarded international recognition for exceptional environmental, ethical and social responsibility.

The signature wines of Castello Banfi and Vigne Regali include a Proprietor’s Reserve Sangiovese called BelnerO, three Brunello’s, and Super Tuscan favorites SummuS and Cum Laude. Other wines include San Angelo pinot grigio, the single-vineyard Principessa Gavia and the cru Rosa Regale, a unique and renowned sparkling red. The cost is $49.95 per person plus tax and gratuity.

• Flight Nights, A Guided Tour Monday through Friday throughout the festival from 5 to 7 p.m. Flight Nights take place in Salt’s lounge and provide guests with the opportunity to enjoy a particular evening’s featured flight of three wines along with discounted antipasto and small plate offerings from the chef’s bar. Winery representatives will be on hand to answer any and all questions. Flights range in cost from $10 to $16 depending on that evening’s feature.

Valentine’s Day is not just for adults, as the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover will celebrate its love of dinosaurs with a tea party where guests are encouraged to dress in fancy, whimsical or prehistoric attire. At the event, which takes place on Saturday, Feb. 10, guests can decorate Valentine’s Day cookies, make festive crafts, enjoy tea or apple juice and listen to some of the museum’s favorite dinosaur story books.

According to museum Early Childhood & Literacy Coordinator Meredith Lamothe, this year’s party follows three successful years of its Alice in Wonderland Valentine Tea Party.

“We felt like it was time for a change in theme this year and wanted to give our T-Rex character a chance to shine,” she said. “Dinosaurs are really popular with our families. We also have the Dino Detective exhibit, which gives another level to

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their exploration, so we thought it would be a good fit.”

Colie Haahr, the museum’s STEAM and School-Aged Programs Coordinator, also expressed fondness for the dinosaur theme.

“By focusing on dinosaurs, we add in some science and throw in some story times and art — all in a smaller setting so kids and parents can enjoy bonding time,” she said. “At the end of the tea party, we pull out our heart-shaped photo booth where kids can have their photo taken with our friendly T-Rex [costumed character].”

During the tea party, Haahr said, kids can make a foam dinosaur valentine magnet and decorate their own Valentine’s sugar cookies while listening to special dinosaur story times.

“T-Rex will also hand out a little special treat to all the guests to take home with them,” she said. “It’s her favorite part of the tea party.”

Pre-registration is required for this event, which has several sessions from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $20 per adult-child pair for members and $25 per adult-child pair for non-members. Additional children are $8 for members and $10 for non-members. Cost does not include admission to the museum for visitors who are not members. Visit childrens-museum.org.

Bring the whole gang to the Valentine’s Day Family Dance Party on Wednesday, Feb. 14, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Rochester Performance & Arts Center, 132 N. Main St., Rochester.

This event features a family-friendly theme and will include a freeze dance competition, arts and crafts, games, prizes, treats and more. In addition, there will be live music, entertainment, concessions provided by Sweet Peaches Candy & Confections and a cash bar for mom and dad.

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When you are not working or helping animals, what do you do for fun?

I love to golf. ... I love to play the piano and I love to walk my two huge dogs. I don’t think I can ever go on a walk without someone saying, ‘Are those horses?’ If you see a woman walking with two enormous dogs, that’s probably me.

JILL SULLIVAN GRUETER FOUNDER OF PROJECT PAWSITIVE Portsmouth resident Jill Sullivan Grueter is the founder of Project Pawsitive and editor in chief of Positive Moms magazine and Woof magazine.

When and why did you start Positive Moms magazine?

I started the magazine back in 2014 and the goal behind it is that it’s a mom’s health and wellness magazine. I’m a copywriter by trade and in my past lives I was a news reporter and I ran a newsletter for a large hospital. Throughout the years I started this nonprofit called Project Pawsitive where I renovate animal shelters. …

I wanted to put together something that I knew how to do and that I knew how to do well and that would help me to generate revenue to help with my nonprofit to renovate animal shelters. So the first magazine I started was Positive Moms and then most recently I created Woof magazine. Those two magazines come out every month [and] are free publications that go out throughout the Seacoast, southern New Hampshire, down to Massachusetts and up to Maine. With those magazines I started my own publishing company and it’s become the arm behind funding my nonprofit to be able to help shelters in need of renovation and rebuilds.

How does being a mother inform the decisions you make as a publisher for Positive Moms?

We adopted twins. We adopted them when they were newborns. They were actually born at 27 weeks so they were very premature. ... I always think it’s important to write about what you know about. So with that, I feel that I have gone through a lot of things when it comes to raising twins.

I try to have my content cater to that, what I think the working mom and the stayat-home mom, what we go through. So I develop the content based on experience.

What’s the No. 1 thing moms want advice about?

I think that we’re always worrying about someone else, we always have our kids in mind, our households in mind, our husbands in mind, our animals in mind. So what Positive Moms trys to do is we really work on also pushing moms to think about themselves. I think that deep down we know that we have to really take care of ourselves in order to take care of everyone else.

Tell me more about the work you do with animal shelters.

My nonprofit is called Project Pawsitive. … What happened was my dad and my rescue dog Molly had both passed away and so I was going through this time in my life where I was reevaluating everything. I decided I could stay on this road and be really upset and really sad or I can take a different route at that fork in the road and do something that, in my mind, really mattered. So what I started to do was donate my writing services to animal shelters around the area. But when I went to these shelters and rescues in the area, I saw how desperately they needed renovations and rebuilds and help with their facilities. ... I woke up in the middle of the night and said, ‘You know what? I’ve got to do this.’

My first renovation was at a horse shelter in Epping and I raised about $30,000 to be able to provide a new roof and fix their water lines that were broken and give them electricity so their water troughs weren’t frozen in the middle of the winter. After that I was just totally hooked.

How much did the idea grow from there?

A year ago we inspired a show on Animal Planet called Pet Nation Renovation.

They had seen our videos and seen our work and we were able to travel around and renovate some shelters in Virginia and Michigan.

Have you always known you’ve wanted to help animals in life?

Growing up I was an only child and so animals were siblings, animals were my family. I had this golden retriever named Muffin and she was with me from third grade on and she really was my best friend.

I can remember going home after school and telling Muffin all of my problems. I think that from that time in my life I saw what a gift animals are in our lives.

What is Woof magazine and what is its mission?

Woof magazine is another ... publication that comes out every month. … The goal is to get it throughout New England and to really be New England’s pet magazine.

The content that is in there is a lot of factual information from vets that are trusted in the New England area. We have expert vets, we have experts talking about training and what I also always put in there is

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a feel-good story about the amazing work that rescues and animal shelters are doing throughout New England, which I think is super-important.

What would you recommend someone do if they were interested in helping animals locally?

They can always go to our website, woofnewengland.com, and they can see what Project Pawsitive is all about. If they have skills like a general contractor, electrician, we are always looking for those type of skills. Go to their local shelters and go to their local rescues because they always need help with walking the dogs, changing the litter boxes and cleaning. Even a day of giving that you can do like simple painting and cleaning up. Just go to Google, go to Bing and check out who your local shelters are and give them a call and see how you can help. I’m telling you, every rescue shelter around here, wherever you live, they do need our help.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

I have a new project that I’m working on with Project Pawsitive called the Gift and Run. When we were on Animal Planet it brought so much awareness,which we were so happy about but the other side of that is that we were completely inundated with applications for rebuilds and renovations throughout the world. Like from the Arctic Circle, I just got an application from them. Since we are a nonprofit we obviously don’t have the funds to be going out and providing all of these renovations. So the goal is, in five years, I want both of the magazines to be able to be doing exceptionally well so that every single month we can travel to a different shelter and provide them with either grants or a project that’s critically needed. And I would like to see myself driving around in a 1974 VW Beetle with the license plate WOOF. — Ethan Hogan

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Where I went: Kart racing at NH1 Motorplex, 270 Lafayette Road, Suite 14, Seabrook, nh1motorplex.com What it is: An indoor electric kart track that offers 14 lap races, arcade games and birthday areas.

My experience: The torque on an electric go kart is instant. That means you can get up to speed very fast and accelerate fast too. Going from a stopped position to racing happens so fast it feels like you’re inside an arcade game. If you’re wondering how the speed compares to a traditional motor, I haven’t driven one since I was younger but I can say I don’t remember them being like this.

My friend Lindsey and I were the only two racers so we had the whole track to ourselves. Before strapping in we put on head socks and racing helmets. The karts were comfortable and low to the ground and I could tell they were designed for speed.

Since everything was electric, the karts waited for us at charging stations beside the track. Once we hopped into our rides, the trackmaster could control when we could take off.

The trackmaster relinquished control once I got on the track and I “forgot” to wait for Lindsey and took off. The track was full of turns; tight, gradual, odd shaped, right, left and hairpin. Instantly I knew that half the fun would be seeing how tight a turn I could take without smashing into the plas-

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It was a several laps around before I realized I should wait for Lindsey to catch up to make it a fair race. Since I’d had a head start it wasn’t a true competition. As I slowed down and turned my head, she was passing me on a straightaway.

I followed close behind, weaving inside and outside of the relentless turns. My wheels screeched behind her as I would brake and skid. I was right on her tail.

I knew I was going to have to make a bold move if I wanted to pass her so I waited for a gradual turn to try and squeeze into the inside of the turn. Passing the trackmaster who sat on the sidelines with his various colored flags, I plunged into the big turn at full speed. I pulled the wheel hard and made my way tightly around the bend, almost touching Lindsey’s car, then spun out on the track. Lindsey took off into the next hairpin turn without flinching.

I was surprised the cars were able to go so fast that they could spin out like that. I found it was easier than I thought, doing it several more times while trying to pass Lindsey.

The trackmaster waved the white flag, which meant it was the last lap. I had drifted away from Lindsey so I could try and do a speedrun without having to worry about passing her. I felt I’d learned the course by then and had found a way to maneuver the kart around each corner as fast as possible.

We pulled our karts back into the charging area and climbed out.

“I couldn’t get past you,” I said.

“Were you behind me? I didn’t even notice,” said Lindsey.

We both agreed the karts were intense.

You could feel in your body how the karts pulled you around each corner. We got to do one more race but this time we decided to fake like we knew what we were doing.

We thought we’d let each other pass back

and forth around each corner to simulate the flow of an actual race.

After resting in the lounge area we hopped back in the karts and took off. Lindsey would let me pass and then I would let her pass. We were bobbing and weaving around the track, having fun passing each other and taking off on the straightaways.

I spun out many more times but the rush was worth it.

Since the carts don’t have traditional motors they aren’t so loud or smelly. But they do make noise. It’s a sort of whining noise that might come from a futuristic Star Wars spaceship (even though there’s no sound in space but you get the idea).

While the cars go from zero to racing very fast, that’s not the only time you feel the instant torque. Any time you speed up, you are going to be able to feel it. In other words, you could feel the difference between going fast and then going really fast. So I liked to take the turns as tight as I could and then throw down the pedal to take off.

Who should try this: If you are competitive and like to go fast, these electric karts are plenty of fun for a few hours. And since the facilities are indoors, you don’t have to worry about the weather or what time of day you go.

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Friend who claims oil changes are unnecessary is flat-out wrong Dear Car Talk: A friend of mine has claimed that there’s no reason to change oil.

He basically changes the oil filter, and adds a bit of oil if needed.

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By Ray Magliozzi doesn’t break down, and just needs to have a new oil filter periodically. Your thoughts? — Mel Well, the Mechanic’s Children’s College Fund wholeheartedly endorses your friend’s advice, Mel. Because an engine rebuild a month can put a kid through Harvard.

Oil does break down over time. Is motor oil better now than it’s ever been? Yes. Is synthetic oil even better? It is. You might be able to go 10,000-15,000 miles (that’s a year, for most people) between changes now with synthetic oil, whereas 30 years ago, we recommended changing your oil every 3,000 miles.

But eventually, the molecular structure of the oil does change. Oil is made up of long-chain hydrocarbons that, miraculously, cushion the metal parts of your engine that rub against each other thousands of times a minute. And when those chains break apart, the oil doesn’t do nearly as good a job of providing that cushion.

Plus, heat and oxygen combine with the oil to increase acidity and, if left long enough, it forms varnishes and sludge in the engine. And adding an occasional quart of new oil doesn’t do anything to improve the old, broken-down, acidic oil that’s still swimming around in there. Your buddy may have a quart of oil in his car that’s been circulating since the Nixon administration.

And while the filter will trap any large particles (or rocks or small children) that the oil picks up in its circulation, the filter won’t do anything to prevent the oil’s molecular breakdown. So if you have a car that you want to keep for a long time, you absolutely should change the oil at the recommended interval.

The other reason your friend’s approach is silly, in my opinion, is that it’s a messy pain in the neck to remove and change the oil filter. Once you’re set up to do that with your ramps, your drain bucket and your wrench, and you’ve already got oil running down your sleeve, why not take the extra three minutes and drain the oil, too?

Dear Car Talk: I drive a 2005 Subaru Outback and live in a very lovely and hilly town. My Outback has an automatic transmission. When I’m stopped at a red light facing uphill, I some-

times hold the car by lightly touching the accelerator. Sometimes I use the brake pedal.

When I do use the brake pedal, the car will roll back slightly before the transmission can grab on and move the car forward. Which method of holding the car on a hill is less detrimental to the transmission? To hold or brake ... that is the question. Thanks. — Fritz That’s the question, Fritz. And the answer is: It hardly matters.

Automatic transmissions are designed to “slip” when you come to a stop. If they didn’t slip, the engine would stall, just like it would if you were driving a car with a manual transmission and came to a stop while still in gear.

So, slippage — with automatic transmission fluid absorbing the power of the engine and turning it into heat — is just part of life when you’re an automatic transmission. And from the transmission’s point of view, there’s not a great deal of difference between slipping a little bit while holding the car on a hill and slipping a little bit more, for a shorter time, when you roll backward and need to change direction.

If those were my only two choices, I’d probably choose to let it roll back. But fortunately, those are not your only choices, because they both have downsides. If you use the gas pedal to hold the car on a hill, you probably have

to rev the engine up to 1,500 rpm or more to stay in place. If you do that frequently, you’re wasting a lot of gas. And if you use the “roll back and then go forward” approach, if the hill is steep enough, you could roll back right into the grille of your local mob boss’s brandnew Lincoln Continental.

So your best bet, since this is an everyday occurrence for you, is Option 3: Learn to use your handbrake while waiting for the light to change. When you arrive at a light, pull up the handbrake, and let the handbrake hold the car in place. If there’s traffic behind you and you want to be “ready to go,” you can even hang on to it, with the release button engaged while you wait. And when the light turns green, just release the handbrake as you step on the gas, and you won’t roll backward.

For those who don’t have a pull-up hand brake like Fritz’s Outback does, you can accomplish the same thing by “two-footing it”: Use your left foot to hold the brake pedal while you wait, and then ease off it as you step on the gas. Problem solved! And now that we’ve eliminated this existential source of worry for you, Fritz, we hope you’ll have more time to contemplate some truly important things like global warming and who Jon Snow’s mother is on Game of Thrones.

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AT TOWIE FARM MARKET & DELI Towle Farm Market & Deli (18 Towle Farm Road, Hampton, 603-926-1538) has been serving up fresh deli selections and friendly service on the Seacoast for 25 years. The small space is lined with local sports memorabilia and an abundance of grocery items, and delicious and hearty sandwiches served up behind the deli. With classics like the Reuben and fresh takes like the cucumber sandwich, there is something for everyone. The Scene sat down with manager Katie Essigmann to learn more about the homey country store.

How long has Towle Farm Market been around?

I personally have been here for about 18 years. About 25 years ago, a couple of entrepreneurs got it started. When this side of town started expanding, condos being built, I guess they decided it would be a good part of town to have something like this. There wasn’t a lot going on around here at that time so it made sense to be here.

What makes Towle Farm Market unique?

Well, we have a huge menu, so many different choices — you could probably get something different every time you come in. We make a lot of stuff ourselves.

Everything is fresh. We keep it simple, make our own chicken salad, egg salad, everything is homemade, and we have a nice following of local customers. And there aren’t a lot of delis around anymore.

We’re not a chain and there’s only four

of us that work here. It’s a family-operated business — not too many of those left.

What is your personal favorite dish?

Anything with chicken salad is fantastic. We have a great chicken salad, white chicken and mayonnaise. Turkey is also great. You can always get a cucumber sandwich; that’s something I really like.

In the summertime that would be something I would get. It’s really refreshing and you can’t get that anywhere else.

The Italian sub is also really good. That’s another one of my favorites.

What is a dish everyone should get?

The one we tend to recommend to people that always seems to be a favorite is the Mailman special. It’s chicken salad, bacon and Swiss cheese, on a bulky roll that is a cool combination that everyone seems to love — everyone loves bacon and chicken salad. We always rec-

ommend the Reuben. That’s very very popular, we make so many of those a day. We use Boar’s Head meat for that one. Turkey dinner sandwich — that is also very popular. It’s Boar’s Head turkey with cranberry sauce and stuffing on a bulky roll and we slice the turkey thick so it’s good stuff. People love that one.

The Italian sub is always great and our meatball sub is another favorite.

What is an essential skill to running a restaurant?

Don’t serve anything you wouldn’t want to eat yourself. That’s one rule we always follow. We try to have everything homemade and fresh. Everything we have here, we love ourselves. You’ll see us eating back there!

What is your favorite part of being on the Seacoast?

The fantastic people, great location.

Great loyal customers who’ve been coming in for years and years. We have the beach right down the street, the mountains that way. Just very nice people. We have a great community in this part of town. Everybody is friendly. It’s the kind of place where we pretty much know everybody’s name and if you don’t then you get to know them. We have a conversation with almost everybody that comes in here.

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For years I’ve been on a quest to find the perfect chicken pot pie recipe. I’ve shared some of those recipes here, while others weren’t worth mentioning. But I finally found the recipe I will use for chicken pot pie from now through eternity. The onepot dish is complete with a silky, smooth sauce, hearty chunks of chicken and savory vegetables. Plus, after numerous failed attempts, I finally found a fool-proof and pantry-friendly crust that finishes off the pot pie beautifully.

I’ve made chicken pot pie in some form or another in slow cookers, casserole dishes and now cast-iron skillets. No matter the vehicle for the meal, the perfect crust has always eluded me. I’ve tried homemade, I’ve tried puff pastry and phyllo dough, and I’ve even opted for no crust and served the chicken and veggies with noodles instead. I had figured I’d tried just about every way to make a sauce, and my veggie combination was always changing.

But as it turns out, the simplest recipes sometimes are the best. All the recipes have been edible, certainly, but none really screamed hearty and comforting chicken pot pie. The crust wouldn’t be fully cooked, or the sauce was too soupy. So initially, I had doubts about this recipe with a storebought pie crust and a simple roux-based sauce. But not only did it prove pantryfriendly, the finished product exceeded my expectations.

I liked this recipe because there weren’t any crazy ingredients; it doesn’t call for any exotic spices or expensive salt blocks —

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just simple staples most of us have at home on a given day. From potatoes to frozen peas and carrots, and from salt and pepper to olive oil, the ingredients are pantry- or freezer-friendly.

But the ingredients aren’t too simple to lack flavor. Each bite of chicken is coated with a luscious sauce that is seasoned with only salt and pepper, but they prove to be all you need. The prepared pie dough, when used for the crust, doesn’t provide much flavor, but breaking through the crunchy exterior is part of the overall experience of eating this dish.

I followed the recipe pretty precisely, only substituting a mixture of frozen corn, peas and carrots I had in my freezer for the latter two vegetables the recipe called for. I also used two potatoes instead of one, as the spuds I had were on the smaller side. And overall, the preparation was easy, making this a great option for a home-cooked meal if you’re short on prep time.

Regardless of my minor alterations, this recipe was exceptional. Each bite packed a punch of flavor that’s not soon to be forgotten by dinner guests.

— Lauren Mifsud adding the chicken and seasoning with salt and pepper. Cook until the chicken is golden brown and no longer pink in the center.

Remove the chicken and set aside. In the same skillet, add the onions and garlic and sauté until translucent. Add the potatoes and sauté for an additional 5 minutes before adding the peas and carrots. Add the butter and allow it to melt, and then sprinkle the flour on top of the vegetables, quickly stirring to avoid any lumps. Pour in the chicken broth and bring to a boil to thicken the sauce. Season with salt and pepper to taste before removing from the heat. Place the pie dough over the mixture, carefully sealing the dough to the edges of the skillet. Coat the pastry with a light egg wash and cut at least 3 slits in the top to release the steam. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.

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Soup with ginger I recently gave birth to my third daughter (hooray!) and things have been a bit hectic. During times like these, I’m always blessed with amazing friends who bring my family food. It gives me the chance to relax at dinnertime as well as try new recipes. One of my friends brought over my new favorite soup and I can’t wait to share it with you! The ingredient that takes this soup to the next level is fresh ginger.

Fresh ginger is easy to find at your local supermarket. What we eat is the lower part of the stem called the rhizome.

It grows beneath the surface; therefore food of ours is often called ginger root rather than just ginger. Ginger has long been considered to have medicinal properties. Pregnant women drink ginger tea to ward off nausea, people with digestive issues eat it for support and it is even thought to help ward off the common cold. It’s a perfect fresh ingredient for this time of year.

Ginger is a perfect add-on item (or

add-in item, I suppose). It contains little to no calories (maybe 2 per serving?) but packs a good flavor. I have to admit, it’s grown on me a lot over the years. I used to stare at it with my sushi thinking, “who actually adds this to their rolls?” Particularly for this time of year, it can add extra warmth and a bit of zing to a dish. Consider it in your smoothie and don’t skip it in your soup! Check out my recipe for my new favorite soup of all time.

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Sweet Potato, Apple, Carrot & Lentil Soup 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed (use butternut squash for a lower-calorie but sweeter option — I normally do a mix of the two) 2 large carrots, peeled and cut into chunks 1 onion, chopped

1 apple, peeled and chopped 1 tablespoon coconut oil 4 cups vegetable broth ½ teaspoon chili powder ½ teaspoon ground cumin ½ teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger ¾ cup lentils

Heat oil in a large pot over high heat.

Throw in potatoes, apple, onions and carrots. Sauté for about 10 minutes or until onions are translucent. Add in broth, spices and ginger and bring pot to boil.

Lower heat and simmer for 30 minutes, until vegetables are soft. Using an immersion blender, puree to desired thickness (can also be done by transferring into a tabletop blender).

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When I think about Smuttynose Brewing Co., I think about Old Brown Dog, Smuttynose’s regionally iconic brown ale. I think about the label image of the actual brown dog adorning every bottle.

I can even picture the dog’s soft, droopy ears. I remember years ago sitting on the beach with my family watching the sunset on a perfect summer’s night. I know I had an Old Brown Dog in hand.

Perhaps I’m getting a bit overly nostalgic, but I do think that’s indicative of how a good brew can be more than just a beer.

Old Brown Dog and Smuttynose Brewing have been family favorites of mine for nearly two decades. Old Brown Dog is a wonderful, robust, malty brown ale featuring just a bit of nutty sweetness in every sip. It’s not the best brown ale I’ve ever tried, but I enjoyed it every time I had one.

When I heard Smuttynose was going up for auction, I immediately thought about Old Brown Dog and how it had been a while since I’d had one. For me, Smuttynose was an old fallback. Beers were consistently good, if not exceptional: Smuttynose beers were never the biggest, the hoppiest, the most flavorful or the most intense. From the outside, it never seemed like the brewery was interested in that. But Smuttynose beers have always been solid, approachable and enjoyable. There was something comforting about knowing you just couldn’t go wrong with Smutty. “[Smuttynose has] had a huge impact in shaping and developing the craft beer market here in New Hampshire,” said Scott Schaier, executive director of the Beer Distributors Association of New Hampshire, and a board member of Brew NH (nhbeer.org), a nonprofit organization promoting craft beer in New Hampshire.

“One of a few early pioneers, they helped introduce consumers to craft beer and along the way introduce beer consumers to New Hampshire in general and to New Hampshire beer specifically. Transformational impact to sum it up.”

As the craft beer movement took over the country and region in recent years, perhaps Smuttynose didn’t evolve well enough. Perhaps it was too big in a movement characterized by breweries so small in scale they could operate in a space the size of a single-car garage. Smuttynose does tout itself as New Hampshire’s largest producer of craft beer. Perhaps it wasn’t bold enough. Or, most likely, it was just as simple as owner Peter Egelston articulated in a press release earlier this month: “The company’s financial models were

Smuttynose Brewing Company goes up for auction March 9.

based on 20 years of consistent growth but the explosion of microbreweries has led to changing dynamics in the marketplace. This dramatic shift occurred just as Smuttynose committed to a major infrastructure investment with the construction of the new production facility.

As the turmoil in the marketplace stabilizes, Smuttynose, a trusted brand with strong consumer loyalty, can regain its footing with a major infusion of capital.”

It wasn’t about the beer, though. From the Shoals Pale Ale, to the Robust Porter, to the Single Digit Dubbel (formerly Smuttynose Winter) to its Old Brown Dog and its many other seasonal and limited release offerings, Smuttynose beers were consistently good.

The auction is scheduled for March 9.

“I hope that new ownership will be a good steward for the brand and the company and offer a good fit and commitment to New Hampshire,” Schaier said.

Many are likely very happy to hear the Portsmouth Brewery is not part of the sale.

The Smuttynose influence will live on.

Jeff Mucciarone is a senior account executive with Montagne Communications, where he provides communications support to the New Hampshire wine and spirits industry.

What’s in My Fridge The Shed Brewery Mountain Ale: The Mountain Ale is a terrific brown ale with a complex flavor, rich malt, roasted notes of caramel and toffee and a little umph from the 7.4 ABV. When you have a really good brown ale like this, it makes me, first, remember how much I enjoy brown ales and, second, question why more breweries aren’t offering brown ales. Cheers!

BOOK REVIEW

Peace, Love, & Shopping!

Uncommon Type: Some Stories, by Tom Hanks (Knopf, 403 pages) Actors understand plot, pacing and character interaction, but they don’t necessarily understand writing. The discount bins are filled with books written by performers who think that they are also excellent writers. It doesn’t really work that way.

Not to get Zen on you, but you can only be a writer if you are a writer.

Still, given how long Tom Hanks has been storytelling, you’d almost expect him to write a good story or, in this case, series of stories. And lucky us — that’s exactly what he’s done in this collection of thoughtful character-driven, nonblockbuster short stories.

Uncommon Type: Some Stories is nothing short of a pleasant surprise.

If you’re looking for a thriller, you won’t find it in this book. It’s not a siton-the-edge-of-your-seat kind of thing.

It contains no arcing hero’s journey or even a multi-page car crash. What you will find is a collection of reflective short stories that define people’s actions.

You’ll meet a family on Christmas Eve, an actress trying to make her way in New York City, and a now older soldier who fought in Europe. You read about credible slices of life.

The skill to present clear characters and surroundings clearly comes from Hank’s skill as an elite actor who transforms himself into a new character for each of his movies. (Case in point, Hanks’ recent portrayal of Post editor Ben Bradlee in The Post is magnificent.) Hanks clearly researches how people behave and he understands the motivation behind each action for the parts he takes.

In short, to be an excellent actor you need to be an expert on human behavior.

And to be a good writer, you must do the same thing.

Uncommon Type is a book that’s meant to be savored like a box of chocolates.

Read one of the stories, think about it, think about it some more, and then go ahead and read another story. Although the stories are separate and independent of each other, Hanks connects them by placing a typewriter in each one. It’s a subtle tool, but it’s also brilliant, the typewriter being an absolute symbol of storytelling throughout the ages.

It also turns out that Hanks has a way with words. He’s skilled, his writing is powerful and his voice strong. Take this passage, for example: Kirk Allen was still asleep, in bed, under a quilt and an old Army blanket. As it had been since 2003, when he was five years old, his bedroom was also the back room of the family home, one he shared

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with the Maytag washer and dryer, on old, chipped, out-of-tune spinet piano, the idle sewing machine his mother had not used since the second Bush administration, and an Olivetti-Underwood electric typewriter that had been rendered inoperable when Kirk spilled a root beer float into its innards.

You can almost hear Hanks reading the story (Yowza!) and if you listen to the audiobook you will indeed hear his voice as he is the narrator. Hanks has a clear, organized writing style that is recognizable and consistent.

I want to add a mild language warning to this review. I’m not a prude by any stretch of the imagination, but I was jolted to see that some of Hank’s stories contain harsh language. I wasn’t surprised that the language was used in the story, it was organic, and it is language that would have been used by the characters.

The language does not detract; I was just surprised because Hanks seems like such a nice guy — what’s he doing using those kinds of words? I had expected happy, Hallmark-like stories and Hanks decided to go deeper. He decided to flex some writing and acting muscles to become his characters, even down to their speech.

What we end up getting in Uncommon Type is a collection of stark, realistic and well-written vignettes from an emerging writer who knows his stuff.

I look forward to more from Hanks.

His skill and intelligent handling of the human condition is a literary delight. A — Wendy E. N. Thomas

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Time travelers

Tribute act recreates Eagles circa 1977 The idea for an Eagles tribute band first occurred to Extreme bassist Pat Badger in the early 1990s. He’d seen Don Henley perform at a Walden Woods benefit concert in Worcester that included a mini-reunion of the band.

Afterwards, Badger sang along to Eagles songs in the car — much to the surprise of his manager, who’d brought him to the show.

“He said, ‘Oh my god, I didn’t know you had a voice to sing like that,” Badger said in a recent phone interview.

Years later the two were having a business meeting when Badger half-joked about strapping on an acoustic guitar and playing “Peaceful Easy Feeling” in his retirement years. His manager wondered, why he was waiting?

“I’m like, you know what? I should think about doing it now,” he replied at the time.

“There’s still a lot of gaps in my schedule when I’m twiddling my thumbs and thinking, what am I gonna do today? So I gave it some serious thought.”

Then came, only a week after the conversation, the tragic news of Glenn Frey’s passing.

“It was unbelievable,” Badger said. “When Glenn died, it was no longer ‘I want to do it.’

Now it’s almost that I have to do it.”

The first musician recruited for the project was Manchester guitarist Chris Lester, to play Joe Walsh. Then Eric Clemenzi, who played guitar on Badger’s solo album, declared himself “all in” as Don Felder. Berklee Music College professor Tom Appleman joined on bass after being recommended by the school’s director, a friend of Badger’s.

Extreme bandmate Kevin Figueirido was the final piece of the puzzle.

“I thought, Kevin is a drummer and one of my favorite people — why haven’t I asked him?” Badger said. “And he was on board. I found all the right players, before even thinking of doing the whole Eagles look.”

Initially, faithfully recreating the band’s sound was enough for Badger, but a chat with a friend in a Fleetwood Mac tribute band changed his mind.

“People love the suspension of disbelief; they love to be taken back in time,” he said.

“Not just sonically, but the visual as well.”

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the Southern California group helped define the decade’s music.

Along with note-perfect versions of their classic rock songs, everyone inhabits their role. Badger dons Frey’s drooping mustache and occasionally wears a Desperado-inspired pistol. The costume affects his performance as well.

“It makes it more fun, because you can be in character,” he said. “I turn into somebody else; I can say things and it’s not me talking.”

Lester wears a bandana while channeling Walsh’s wacky demeanor, Appleman is a dead ringer for Randy Meisner, and Figueirido plays Henley to stoic perfection. Felder and Frey’s historic acrimony isn’t acted out between Clemenzi and Badger, though.

“We do take some pages out of the Eagles documentary, and we play up on that,” he said. Mainly, it’s done for laughs. “The fighting, dysfunction and stuff. There’s humor to the show as well.”

Fan response to date has been ecstatic. Just a handful of tickets remain for the upcoming show at Blue Ocean Music Hall; they’ll return for a two-night stand Aug. 2 and Aug. 3. An April 6 appearance at Tupelo Music Hall sold out in a heartbeat, and another was quickly added the following night. They’ve played dates as far west as Illinois.

“We’re blown away, and psyched that things are taking off so quick,” Badger said.

“Obviously … the interest has a lot to do with our heroes getting older, bands breaking up or, sadly in some cases, passing on. With the Eagles catalog of hits, I had a good feeling, but since we’ve got the ball rolling it’s been fun [and] we’ve gotten a lot of good feedback.”

As for his favorite Eagles tune, there’s a clue in his band’s name. In his teenage years, he had Eagles Greatest Hits, and Badger remembers going into a record store to buy The Long Run. “It’s such a timeless catalog of music,” he said. “But you can’t deny ‘Hotel California’ ... one of the greatest songs of all time.”

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION In Turkmenistan’s capital, Ashgabat, drivers of black cars are facing high costs to repaint their cars white or silver after President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov banned black vehicles because he thinks the color white brings good luck. Police began seizing dark-colored vehicles in late December, and owners have to apply for permission to repaint and re-register them. The average wage in Ashgabat is about $300 a month (or 1,200 manats); one Turkman told Radio Free Europe that he was quoted 7,000 manats for a paint job, but was told that the price would rise within a week to 11,000 manats.

“Even if I don’t spend any money anywhere, I will be forced to hand over pretty much my entire annual salary just to repaint,” the unnamed man said, adding that his black car had already been impounded.

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After being set straight about the bank not serving Mexican fast food, Francisco drove around to the front of the building and parked, where deputies found him and administered a field sobriety test, which he failed. “He made several statements that were differing from reality,” a Hernando County Sheriff’s deputy reported.

• A Facebook event calling for a candlelight vigil to remember a destroyed Taco Bell restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama, started as a joke. But according to United Press International, about 100 people showed up on Jan. 21 to pay their respects to the popular fast-food restaurant, which burned on Jan. 17 after electrical equipment sparked a fire.

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Distracted driving caused long backups and at least one minor traffic accident on Jan. 20 as a man wandered along I-95 in Philadelphia — in the buff. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported the stripped-down man walked along the shoulder and in and out of the right lane around noon, throwing items at cars before being taken into custody by police. His name was not released.

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Bradley Hardison, 27, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, achieved minor celebrity status in 2014 when he won a doughnuteating contest sponsored by the Elizabeth City Police Department. (He ate eight glazed doughnuts in two minutes.) At the time, police had been looking for Hardison as a suspect in break-ins going back to 2013, so they arrested him, and he received a suspended sentence that ended in October 2017. But a doughnut habit is hard to break: The Virginian-Pilot reported that Hardison was charged on Jan. 18 with robbing a Dunkin’ Donuts store on Nov. 21.

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Tennessee’s legislature has a newly renovated home in the Cordell Hull building in Nashville, so Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and House Speaker Beth Harwell have been busy outlining some new rules. “Hand-carried signs and signs on hand sticks” will be strictly prohibited because they pose a “serious safety hazard.” Animals, too, will be turned away at the door, reported The Tennessean on Dec. 21. But in a dizzying twist of irony, McNally and Harwell will continue a policy they enacted last year, which allows holders of valid gun permits to bring their weapons into the building.

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In Dresden, Germany, police reported that two men were injured on Jan. 15 after hitting each other with their cars in consecutive accidents. The first man, 49, pulled into a handicapped parking spot, then saw his mistake and backed out, accidentally hitting a 72-year-old man walking behind the car.

The two men exchanged information for a report, then the older man got into his car and reversed out of his parking spot, hitting the younger man. Both men suffered only slight injuries, according to the Associated Press.

just let his dogs out to run before a January hunting outing in Russia’s remote Saratov region when one of the dogs bounded back to him and clawed the trigger of Terekhov’s double-barreled shotgun, shooting the man in the abdomen. The Telegraph reported that his brother rushed Terekhov to the hospital, but he died less than an hour after the shooting.

• Tampa, Florida, resident Douglas Jon Francisco, 28, was arrested for DUI after he mistook a Spring Hill bank drive-thru lane for a Taco Bell. On Jan. 17, around 5 p.m., the bank branch manager noticed a driver passed out in a blue Hyundai sedan in the drive-thru lane. When the manager went out to the car and banged on the win-

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