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Time for some yard-saling Do you like yard sales? This Saturday, May 5, there are two great ones!

The first one is at the First Congregational Church, 127 Winnacunnet Road in Hampton, Larry Marsolais from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The second one is at the United Methodist Church, 525 Lafayette Road in Hampton, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please take the time to stop in and support each of them, as both organizations really help out the community.

Now if you really like yard sales, here’s another one you do not want to miss. Boy Scout Troop 177 will host its 17th annual yard sale at the St. James

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This 25-member troop utilizes the funds earned by the event to pay for all of its activities for the year. If you wish to donate, items most commonly donated to the event include: furniture, books, household goods, kids stuff, outdoor stuff and much, much more. Please contact Larry at 603-926-5570 or Bud at 603-926-5717, to arrange pick up.

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 MAY 3 - 9, 2018, AND BEYOND See sea glass

The annual Sea Glass Expo returns Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Seabrook Recreation Department (311 Lafayette Road, Seabrook). More than 50 artists will be selling the items they’ve created using items found on local beaches and beaches all over the world.

There will be three lectures on Saturday (at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m), plus contests and raffles. Admission is $5. Visit thenortheastseaglassexpo.com.

Race time

The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St. in Dover; childrens-museum. org, 742-2002) will hold its annual 5K Road Race and Kid-Venture Course on Saturday, May 5, from 9 to 11 a.m. The race also includes a Kid-venture Course, which is shorter (and sillier, according to a press release). Registration for the 5K costs $22 in advance, $25 on the day; registration for the Kid-venture Course is $8 in advance, $10 on the day. See the website for details.

Comics and toys Exploring the Underground Railroad The Black Heritage Trail of NH holds its annual spring symposium on Saturday, May 5, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at St. John’s Church’s Thaxter Hall (101 Chapel St., Portsmouth). The program will begin with a guided walking tour of sites that may have been part of the Underground Railroad in Portsmouth, followed by a panel presentation on the theme, “Bridging the Past to the Present: Stories of the Underground Railroad in Our Region.” After a catered lunch, there will be a living history performance based on the life of Ellen Garrison Jackson, an early social justice activist born in Concord, Mass. The event concludes with an interactive workshop, “Mapping the Underground Railroad in Your Town.” Tickets cost $35 for the tour and symposium, $25 for the symposium only and $20 for the tour only. Visit blackheritagetrailnh.org.

On Saturday, May 12, Chris’ Cards and Comics is sponsoring the first-ever Hampton Beach Comic Book and Toy Show. The event, which will take place at the Winnacunnet High School, is a fundraiser for the WHS Class of 2019.

Admission is $5; students and kids get in free.

The event will feature over 70 vendors, artists and writers, including many local creators.

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There’s a tailor-made event for anyone with an affinity for all things automotive and a love for coffee: Seacoast Cars and Coffee, a monthly gathering that brings together all kinds of vehicles and a jolt of caffeine.

This month’s event is happening at Cinemagic Stadium 10 in Portsmouth on Sunday, May 6.

From 8 to 11 a.m., vehicles of all shapes and sizes will be cruising into the theater parking lot as drivers mingle to talk about each other’s rides and enjoy bottomless cups of coffee.

Since August 2014, Seacoast Cars and Coffee has been attracting auto enthusiasts from all over the area. During its peak last summer, there was an estimate of 900 cars in attendance.

“If it rolls, and you love it, bring it!” is the slogan that founder Damien Callahan has given his event, which takes place once every month from May through October.

“I have been a car enthusiast my entire life.

At Seacoast Cars and Coffee we celebrate all aspects of the hobby and recognize that people who truly love cars love all types of cars,” Callahan said. “One can expect to see classics, exotics, customs, imports, trucks, motorcycles, project cars and everything in between.”

Callahan used to drive to the Seacoast frequently with his wife and children to enjoy the views of the ocean and downtown Portsmouth, and this tradition is what eventually inspired him to organize the family-friendly event.

“We try to make it as simple as possible so that anybody can attend,” said Callahan.

“Admission is free, and it is not necessary to register your car. In fact there is absolutely nothing to do but show up, find a parking spot, sip on some coffee and hang out.”

Up until this year Seacoast Cars and Coffee has been sponsored by One More Cup,

but starting this month the coffee will be provided by Port City Coffee Roasters in Portsmouth, which currently offer a selection of over 30 coffees, including flavored coffees, organic coffees, fair-trade coffees and decaffeinated coffees.

“We small-batch roast our coffees daily so that they can be enjoyed at the peak of their flavor,” said owner Derek Laborie. “It makes such a difference to enjoy coffee that has been roasted only days before being brewed.

It’s like having a slice of bread while it’s still warm from coming out of the oven.”

Port City Coffee Roasters is planning on creating a special blend for Seacoast Cars and Coffee. It will be available for purchase via the cafe’s website, but when served at the event it will always be fresh, hot and complimentary.

Most things about Seacoast Cars and Coffee are free, but some attendees will come with For Sale signs in their windshields.

“It’s a great way to put your car in front of a crowd who truly appreciates it and understands its value,” Callahan said. “Also, it gives people the opportunity to find something unique that they can buy right on the spot without shopping around online or waiting for the right car to cross their path.”

The local dealerships who sponsor the event will also bring vehicles for sale.

To learn more about Seacoast Cars and Coffee, visit seacoastcarsandcoffee.com.

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By Abigael Sleeper Coffee is a must-have for many, but there’s a big difference between frantically grabbing your morning fix at a drive-through and heading to a local cafe to relax and savor a cup. The product is different, and so is the atmosphere.

A couple of local coffee purveyors who are relatively new to the scene talk about why you might want to slow down and savor the cafe experience.

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quality food, local coffee and a family-friendly atmosphere. Last June, they opened Native Coffee + Kitchen in Rye. The name is a combination of his children’s names, Natalie and Clive.

“We had an idea for a cafe where the community could come, and also families,” Josh Newman said. “It was important to us to have a place where the kids felt comfortable, which is why we have a kids’ section, but also the parents could come and get a nice meal and good coffee.”

Newman said that oftentimes parents are more likely to end up getting pizza at a Chuck E. Cheese’s than a good cup of locally roasted coffee.

“When you have kids, you really start to appreciate caffeine,” Newman said.

“We really wanted to create a place with an elevated breakfast and lunch menu, and then balance that with what we call a ‘third-wave’ coffee service.”

Flight Coffee Co. in Dover is also a family affair. The cafe portion of the Bedford-based roasting company was recently bought by Kelly Bower and his wife.

“I was roasting coffee in my garage,” Bower said, explaining how his interest in crafting coffee began, “and I was making pour-overs at home and I was really digging it.”

Already a coffee enthusiast, Bower

took an interest in the Flight cafe when his son mentioned that the owner was looking to sell.

“My son was a barista here, and he gave the vibe that the owner might be looking to sell, and we were like, ‘This is the coolest business in Dover,’” Bower said.

Now, he and his wife take turns behind the coffee counter alongside their son and the rest of the “Flight Crew.”

“It all starts with the staff,” Bower said. “When we came in I told them, ‘I work for you. You guys are the reason the cafe is here, you’re the heart and soul of this place, so we work for you.’”

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8 of owning and operating a cafe is the opportunity to combine two of his passions: coffee and local music. As a musician himself, Bower says he’s working on increasing the cafe’s music program, bringing in local artists for after-hours shows and hosting a monthly open-mic night.

“The first open-mic night we hosted was pretty sparsely attended,” Bower said, “but now there are no seats, there’s no standing room. And when everyone leaves, we have a sign-up sheet, and the next open mic is already filled up, sometimes even the one after that.”

Bower said he wanted to make sure that Flight was welcoming to younger guests, especially in terms of the music program.

“They’re all-ages events, because I wants kids to be able to come play, I want kids to be able to come see music,” Bower said. “All of them are early, too, from 7 to 9 p.m.”

When Bower was regularly playing shows, it could be tough to find venues that would allow his children to come see him play, so having a family-friendly venue is important to him. Although Bower hasn’t played in the cafe himself, he’s passed the musical torch down to his son, whose band has played at some of their music events.

Single-origin coffees are popping up in all areas of the coffee industry, from small-batch roasters to mass-produced single-use coffee pods. At a cafe like Native or Flight, however, customers can truly trace their coffee from the plant to their cup.

Newman said many coffee roasters, especially those focused on artisanal roasts and single-origin coffees, source their own beans from farms all over the world and develop relationships with

farmers to ensure fair practices and sustainable farming.

At Native, Newman says that they primarily brew coffee from New Harvest, a roaster based in Rhode Island, although they’re also starting to feature beans from more local roasters.

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The Work N’ Class: “It’s a dish made with scrapple, which is traditionally a peasant dish made with all kinds of meats like rabbit. Here, we kind of elevate it … we make scrapple with shredded pork shoulder formed into a loaf, and then pan fry it, and serve it with garlicky greens, crispy potatoes and a local sunny egg.”

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Broccoli and Cheese Soup: “When I was in college at UNH, there was this little soup place and their broccoli and cheese soup was my favorite thing. The recipe we use here is my own recipe, which I based on that soup.”

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Flight serves exclusively coffee made with beans from its roasting lab in Bedford. Focusing on sustainably and ethically sourced single-origin beans, Flight provides coffee for its cafe and tasting room, as well as wholesale to consumers and local businesses.

“We talk a lot about transparency with our coffee,” Bower said, “from growing to washing and processing, then to the roasting lab and here, where it will be served to you within a week of roasting.”

Newman said the focus at Native is on the quality of the beans and the roaster, as well as the skill of the staff.

“The coffee scene has really been developing recently,” Newman said. “I’d say it’s become a balance of art and science. You have this old art of roasting coffee beans, and then this new science where roasters are using software to have greater control over the roasting process.”

Newman explained that, with the use of software in combination with a coffee roaster, it’s much easier to perfect a roast and repeat it many times, creating a more consistent flavor profile.

“This also gives [roasters] an opportunity to really focus on developing flavors, so there’s a lot more being done with single-origin light roasts,” said Newman.

He said that light-roasting a batch of single-origin beans (beans that were all grown in the same location) allows for the unique flavor notes within the beans to come out in the final cup.

“The more you roast coffee, the more those unique flavors get muted,” Newman said, “and eventually you’re just burning the coffee bean.”

Bower also emphasized the importance of single-origin, light-roast coffees.

“I really like Ethiopian coffees,” Bower said. “I like the acidity, I like the fruit, and I like the really sharp finish at the end.”

As for the coffees offered at Flight, Bower thinks that their single-origin pour-overs are some of the best cups of coffee you can get on the Seacoast, due to all of the unique flavors that shine through.

“We spend a lot of time educating people on why not a dark roast,” Bower said.

“All of our roasts are light or medium.”

Carefully pouring hot water into a pour-over coffee device called “The Syphon,” Bower said, allows the unique flavor notes should come out in the finished cup.

The Tanzania, for example, should produce “little hints of graham cracker, and lime. It’s almost like a key-lime pie.”

Although coffee culture and the art and science of both roasting and brewing coffee can be complex, Newman and Bower believe that coffee doesn’t need to be complicated. The two cafe owners said that they make an effort to make highquality coffee that everyone can enjoy, no matter what level of understanding or interest they have in the process.

“Some people just want coffee,” Bower said.

Bower explained that before he and his wife took over the cafe the experience at Flight was more exclusive. The cafe, menu and staff were primarily focused on the details of the single-origin coffees, subtle flavor notes and meticulous brewing practices. While all of those things combine for a quality product, Bower thinks they may have turned off potential customers who just wanted a simple cup of coffee.

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10 who are used to dark roasts, who are used to Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, and we don’t have any of that,” Bower said, “but instead of making them feel bad for what they’re used to, we want to talk to them and try to educate them on what we do.”

Bower says that this is probably the most significant change that he and his wife have made to the cafe since they bought it six months ago, and he thinks it’s a change customers will feel rather than see.

“I saw an opportunity to make [Flight coffee] accessible to everybody and include everybody in the experience,” Bower said, “and so that’s been our major shift for the cafe. I want everybody to come in, not just people who understand and are looking for superior coffee.”

Accessibility is also something that’s important at Native.

“We pride ourselves in being very accessible,” Newman said. “Unpretentious is another word I like to use.”

Newman said that many coffee drinkers, especially those who are used to the darker roast, mixed-origin coffees from large-scale commercial roasters and coffee shops, might find a single-origin coffee to be jarring, or more acidic than they are used to. With that in mind, Native’s owners made the decision to offer a daily dark blend as well as their rotating single-origin light-roasts.

“Someone who likes Dunkin’ Donuts will obviously find more flavor in our dark blend because it’s a higher-quality product,” said Newman, “but it won’t turn them off.”

While the coffee is the star of a cafe, many also focus on offering high-quality food as well. At a cafe like Native or Flight, you can count on as much care

going into your food as your drink.

“On the food side, we do exactly what we do on the coffee side, which is to get the best ingredients possible from the best providers, and treat them they way they should be treated,” Newman said.

Newman emphasized the importance of fresh, local ingredients. Starting with quality ingredients simplifies the process of putting out a good finished product, from the kitchen and the coffee machine.

“We don’t have to go crazy trying to make great flavors, because most of the stuff we get is seasonal,” Newman said.

“It’s fresh and local, and it already tastes amazing, and that’s exactly what we look for in our coffee roasters as well.”

Newman acknowledged that buying high-quality local ingredients can be more expensive, but says it’s worth it to put out a great product and know where everything you serve is coming from.

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said. “It’s our own recipe. They get hand rolled in the back the night before, they proof in a refrigerator, and then in the morning we come in and boil them in the malt and then bake them” Bower said that the cafe will sell out of bagels as early as 11 a.m., even after doubling their batches. Although Flight has a dedicated baker who makes pastries and other baked goods, everyone at Flight chips in to keep up with the bagel demand.

“I’ll roll bagels, my wife will roll bagels,” Bower said. “And then we’ve got three or four people who come in in the morning to start getting them ready.”

Just as Newman emphasized the importance of staying true to a philosophy of fresh, local ingredients, Bower is adamant about keeping Flight’s menu items handmade, especially the bagels.

At a cafe like Native or Flight, customers can count on high-quality products and service, because that’s what’s important to the owners.

“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right,” said Bower. “I think a lot of businesses drive their products on margin, and just ‘how much can we make on this,’ and they’re focused solely on the business side of things. I’d rather produce a goodquality, unique, innovative product, 14

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Coffee Dictionary Drip: What most people think of when they imagine a cup of coffee, brewed by a machine that drips hot water over coffee grounds and through a paper filter.

Pour-Over: A more precise way of brewing drip-style coffee, usually one cup at a time. There are several devices with which to make a pour-over coffee.

Cold Brew: Iced coffee made by steeping grounds in cold water over a longer period of time, making a less acidic flavor than traditional iced coffee.

Espresso: Coffee brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans, thicker and more concentrated than drip coffee.

Cafe Americano: Espresso diluted with hot water. Meaning “American coffee,” the cafe Americano was made to mimic the strength of drip coffee, some believe to appeal to American soldiers in Italy during World War II.

Macchiato: Meaning “spotted” or “stained,” macchiato refers to espresso that has been “spotted” with a small dollop of milk foam.

Cortado: Approximately half espresso and half foam-infused steamed milk, stronger than a latte but more mild than straight espresso.

Cafe Latte: A drink made with espresso and steamed milk, with a small amount of milk foam on top.

Cafe Mocha: A latte made with chocolate.

Cappuccino: Similar to a latte, a cappuccino is made with espresso and steamed milk, but with more foam. Generally, a cappuccino is ⅓ espresso, ⅓ steamed milk and ⅓ milk foam. Those who prefer more foam can order their cappuccino “dry.”

Cafe Au Lait: A drink made with ½ drip coffee and ½ steamed milk.

Red Eye/Shot in the Dark/Eye-Opener: Various names for a drink made by adding one or more shots of espresso to hot or iced drip coffee.

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even if I make less money on it.”

Focusing on creating an atmosphere and making coffee and food with the best possible ingredients, both Native and Flight share a mission to offer clean food and quality coffee.

“I want people to see what they’re getting,” Bower said. “We feel good about serving people whole products.”

Newman shared this viewpoint.

“Local, sustainable and delicious is kind of our tagline,” he said, “and it’s fitting only because it’s so true. We try not to just play off these buzzwords, but it’s really what our mission is.”

Newman said that, although they don’t feel the need to overwhelm customers with too much information about just how local the ingredients are, it’s just how they prefer to run their business.

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support other local businesses, like the maple farm just down the road in Rye where Native purchases its syrup.

“We get a little fanatical about where we buy the ingredients,” he said, “but it’s really the best part of the job.”

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JUDITH CLARK SECRETARY FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF SEACOAST FAMILY PROMISE Judith Clark is the secretary for the Board of Directors of Seacoast Family Promise. SFP works with homeless families who need assistance looking for work and a place to live. Clark and her husband live in Rye and volunteer for the night program at SFP. For those who don’t know, could you explain what Seacoast Family Promise is?

It is an affiliate of a national organization called Family Promise. Our affiliate, the SFP, has been in existence since 2001. The purpose of the organization is to empower families with children who are experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response. That is the mission statement of Family Promise. It is an alternative to some of the larger shelters for homeless individuals and families in that it only takes five families or up to 14 individuals at a time … so that families get lots of individual attention, they get lots of support, they get lots of case management. And we feel that that’s the reason that the program is so successful.

Since its inception, 86 percent of the families that have gone through the program have found stable housing and employment and gone on to be stable members of a community. In the last three years, 100 percent of our families in the program have been stable.

How do you decide which families to help?

The families come through a coordinated access program. ... They’re directed ... to SFP and then they’re interviewed and then we determine if they fit the criteria. They have to be clean and sober and willing to enter this program and be supervised in a way that they perhaps are not at some other facilities. Again, that oneon-one contact means that there’s lots of interaction, there’s lots of accountability. Sometimes there’s a waiting list but it seems to ebb and flow. It’s not a program that everybody wants to be a part of because of the accountability. But those that are willing to do that, they get the support that they need.

Do you think your guidelines are part of what keeps you successful?

Yes. Very much so. ... And when the

families are there where I voluntogether they develteer, they stay two op very close weeks at a time relationships that are because there’s a supportive of each separate house on other. It very much the church camhas a family feel. pus for them to They stay together in be at. host sites. We have a building, a day cenWhat’s the ter that’s open during average time a the day for families family is part to report to, to meet of the program with a case manbefore finding ager and receive housing? those support serIn 2016 the vices. They work on average length of resumes, they work stay was 57 days.

Judith Clark. Courtesy photo. on finding employment, they work on finding housing. …

What inspired you to do this kind of They also get help on budgets. They’re work? accountable for how they spend their Well, I moved here a little over six years money while they’re in the program so ago. I moved to the Seacoast from upstate that we can help them financially get back New York and there I was working at a on their feet. rescue mission with women and children.

So when we moved here I happened to Where are the families during the pro- meet the person who was then the director cess of looking for housing? of the board of directors for SFP. ... I told They travel as groups from host site to her that I used to work with homeless famhost site to be housed overnight. That is a ilies; she said, ‘Would you be interested in different model than most of the shelters. volunteering for SFP?’ So I started volunWe are not a shelter. Usually they are faith teering through my church doing dinners communities. For us, we sort of followed and hosting and staying overnight. My that initial model of using faith congre- husband and I do that together. Through gations in the various communities. The that volunteer involvement I was asked to families leave the day center by 5 o’clock be on the board. at night ... and they go to whatever host site is on that schedule for that week. They How many families does SFP help travel each week to a different host site. annually and have you seen that number The host sites provide the evening meal, change over the years? people to meet with them, fellowship with In 2016 there were 18 families served them, have dinner with them and develop overall. That was 70 people, 29 adults. a relationship with them. And then people It can be a single parent, sometimes it’s stay overnight to supervise. a couple with children, sometimes it’s a single mom, sometimes it’s a single dad.

What are the host sites?

Right now we have a dad in there with Typically it’s a church or a temple con- three kids. The face of it changes, it changgregation and that congregation finds es all the time. The numbers stay fairly volunteers. … People provide meals, they consistent. We’ll go a short time where we come and they spend time with them over aren’t totally full and then within a week a meal and then somebody comes in at 8 or so that changes and we are full. o’clock overnight until the next morning when the group leaves again to go back to What would you say to a family that the day center to work or do whatever they might be too proud to reach out for help? need to do. The children go to school or I think I would express that I see how daycare. They stay at each host site for a it would be hard. It’s hard to accept. But week. One of the host sites, the one that is there are lots of caring people within this attached to the church that I attended and organization and people who want to

help and people who have various ways to help them, whether it’s just [making a] connection to other jobs, whether it’s providing meals, whether it’s sitting with them to hear their stories. There are caring people who want to see them succeed and who aren’t going to judge them for whatever happened to get them in this situation. As we understand poverty more, we understand that when you have limited resources, you only have to have one crisis happen. Your car breaks down, you lose your job or you have a health thing.

Only one thing may happen and you’ll find yourself being homeless.

What unique problems do families in poverty face on the Seacoast?

I run a group at Portsmouth Housing for people who are in poverty and have limited resources. It’s called Getting Ahead in a Just Getting By World. It’s a program for those people who have limited resources or are below the poverty line. … Through my experience working with them, I’m starting to understand a little bit about homelessness here on the Seacoast. Of course one of the biggest issues is the cost of housing here [and] the fact that there’s very little public transportation. So housing is high, you must have transportation, you must have a car to get around, get to a job. And then there are limited low-wage jobs, there’s minimum-wage jobs but there’s not an abundance of lower-skilled jobs where someone doesn’t have to have an advanced education but can make a living wage and support a family.

When you are not working, what other activities do you find fulfilling?

I love to walk the beach. I’m so glad to be back living back near the ocean again.

I like to travel and I belong to Voices from the Heart, a women’s chorus in Portsmouth. And I love to cook.

— Ethan Hogan Know someone awesome?

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ADVENTURE

By Ethan Hogan Where I went: Paint For Fun, 157 Portland Avenue, Dover, 617-3595, paintforfundover. weebly.com What it is: A creative pottery and painting studio that hosts group paint nights every Friday.

Participants get coached through making a painting of their choice.

My Experience: There’s a framed painting on the wall in my mom’s office that I did in third-grade art class. It’s a chalk painting of a flower, its details outlined with black glue. Every other student in my class created a flower they’d seen outside or at home. I made a fictional flower that looked like it came from another planet. Every painting I’ve made after this has had to live up to the flower’s uniqueness.

The second painting I ever made was last week at Paint For Fun in Dover. I got to choose between painting a scene of a flower with cranberry vines and painting a magical night-time Eiffel Tower.

Since I consider myself a globe-trotter through and through, I chose the wrought iron beacon that defines the Paris skyline.

Having never left the country, I was going to need some help with the particulars.

In fact, everyone at the Ladies/Gents painting night needed help. That was sort of the point. We all painted one of two paintings and were given guidance from the gracious owner Patty and her granddaughter. Patty taught art at a local academy for many years and now passes down her wisdom to the people who attend the BYOB painting nights.

My partner in painting, Amy, was late so I sat with a group of women celebrating one of their birthdays. At 40-some-odd years young the women were prepared for their night with wine, cookies and a mostly ignored vegetable platter. Having almost been stood up, I was given sympathy access to the cookie platter. But I was going to need more than sugar and spice to make that tower appear on the blank canvas Patty placed in front of me.

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that hung from the walls.

The painting process goes step by step as Patty walks around the room and helps the groups out. My night scene started with a base of dark blue and indigo that the Eiffel Tower would stand out on.

When the paint brush hit the canvas and the blue burst onto the white scene I was brought back to the peak of my career in third grade. I might have had to conform to painting a recreation but I was going to do it my way.

Finally Amy showed up and was given her supplies. The birthday crew next to me were happy that my date wasn’t a fiction I’d made up and offered her the cookies. I was glad they welcomed her into the crew but I didn’t support their decision to reward tardiness with cookies. Maybe the vegetable platter would have suited that gesture.

But I was too focused on my work to entertain a welcoming party for Amy. My blue base had dried already and I was adding my moon using a piece of chalk and a Chobani yogurt container. Amy chose the Flowers and got started on her base. Having a real painting resume under her belt, she wasn’t going to get any undeserved praise from me. She was going to have to earn the respect of the birthday table.

The Eiffel Tower was going to be made using many white, yellow, teal and

magenta lights to give the effect of shimmering lights. But in order to know where to put the lights, we had to sketch an Eiffel Tower outline. The groups passed around a stencil for the Eiffel Tower but I wasn’t going to let my creative vision be guided by a piece of cardboard! So I sketched the outline myself.

Amy’s painting had a gradient of shades as its background. Her flowers looked better than the example painting and the cranberry color used for the vine was earthy, vibrant and beautiful.

I was outclassed. But even Picasso said

Photos courtesy of Ethan Hogan.

he worked his whole life to learn how to paint like a child.

I took some creative liberties in the mystical swirl that, to me, embodied the magic in the air one must feel roaming the gardens of that iconic French tower. The example painting had a swirl that looped around the moon twice before finding its way to the tower but I felt that was too chaotic. My swirl would only loop halfway around the moon and then float over to the iron structure.

The swirl was also made of many randomly placed dots on the canvas. But the street lamps, the romantic golden street lamps that stood along the walkway, endlessly glowing in the seemingly endless night air — they needed special attention.

I didn’t want them to be photorealistic, but I needed them to look viscerally real.

Many of the techniques I learned that night were lifted wholesale from the group of women who sat directly in my line of sight. Having ordered themselves pizza an hour earlier, they’d left their trade secrets on display for my prying eyes. Good artists copy; great artists steal. Again, Picasso.

When I noticed my scratchy-looking light posts were ruining my painting I peered over to the techniques of the other group. I noticed a subtle white smudge down the back of the metal light posts.

I found some white ink to do the same.

It brought out that blurry-eyed, romanticized night shimmer that you might see after a rainy night in Paris.

Amy pointed out that the moon would be the primary source of light and that my shimmer was oriented incorrectly. I could tell she’d never seen the Eiffel Tower lit up at night.

Who Should Try this: Painting is fun for all skill levels. If you are bad at painting it can be fun to learn and to laugh at yourself, and if you are good it can be a fun way to practice. With a group, the possibilities are endless. At the end of the night you can take home your work of art for $14.

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CAR TALK

How best to treat a car kept at a vacation home Dear Car Talk: I’m planning on keeping a vehicle at my vacation home in Oregon. I will travel there by public transportation, and then have a vehicle waiting for me

By Ray Magliozzi in the garage. It may be sitting there for a month or two, not being driven. What vehicle would be reliable under those circumstances? Is a hybrid a good choice, or gas or electric? — Cindy I think I’d probably stay with something simple, Cindy, rather than a hybrid. But really, anything will do. Your situation is not a difficult one for a car to handle. The battery is the only issue. If you’re gone for a month or two, the battery likely would drain down while you’re away. But there are several easy ways to deal with that. One is the way you suggest: You get a battery charger, and put it on the car as soon as you arrive.

Another option would be to buy what’s called a “trickle charger” or “battery tender.”

You can get one for well under $100. You hook that up before you leave, and it monitors the battery and adds juice whenever the battery needs it, so it’s fully charged when you get back.

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The simplest of all the options is to disconnect the battery while you’re away. You just loosen up the cable to the negative terminal of the battery and remove it, then reconnect it when you get back. Your mechanic can show you how to do it so you feel confident.

Keep in mind that disconnecting the battery would cause you to lose your radio presets. But mechanically, the car won’t suffer at all for sitting for a month or two.

And any car that’s reliable on an everyday basis will be reliable on a bimonthly basis, once you deal with the battery. Unless the bears decide to hibernate in it, Cindy. So keep the garage door locked.

Dear Car Talk: Is my local Subaru dealer trying to help me, or get his freebies back and then some?

We bought a new Outback, and the dealer said to bring it back every 5,000 miles for free service for two years. The first four times, we brought it back without reading the fine print, and we got free oil and filter changes ($69 with synthetic oil), tire rotation ($20), multipoint inspection and state inspection ($16/year where we live). So here’s the problem: We brought it back again before the two-year period was up, and the dealer took the car in, and never said a word. When we

came back to pick it up, the bill was $545!

The service manager said it was because the odometer had passed 30,000 miles and we had already gotten our “four free services.” The bill was for a 30,000-mile service, a brake flush, front and rear differential fluid change, an air filter and a cabin air filter.

Did we get taken, or is Subaru trying to get the car to go the distance without problems for us? — Lee I think that was sneaky, Lee. You have some responsibility here, but the dealership has more. For your part, you should have been aware of the limits on the “free service” you were getting. And you could have confirmed it when you dropped off the car. You could have said, “This is all free, right?”

But at the same time, the dealership absolutely should have given you an estimate as part of the check-in process. If they had told you right then that the service was going to cost between $500 and $600, you could have had a heart attack and dropped dead at the service counter, eliminating the need for that expensive 30,000-mile service.

And not only did they fail to give you an estimate, they also gave you the “gold-plated” service and then charged you up the exhaust bearings for it. The consequence for you is that you’re out $545.

The truth is, you could have gone to an independent mechanic for your regular service, and probably paid half as much. As long as you save the repair receipts that prove that your oil and filter were changed and key maintenance was done at the appropriate mileage intervals, your warranty will remain in full force. The consequence for the dealer is that he’s lost a regular customer. By taking advantage of you and doing everything short of flossing the tire tread, he’s lost your trust, and your scheduled service business.

You still can go to the dealer for warranty work, and for complicated problems that your independent mechanic can’t figure out.

But, as you now know, you’ll need to get an estimate upfront with these guys, and request that they call you to authorize any further repairs before proceeding.

If you’re interested in repairing this relationship, you can try writing a letter to the dealership’s owner, explaining why he’s losing a previously loyal customer. If he’s a decent guy, he’ll refund half of the money, apologize on behalf of his service adviser and ask you to please try them again. If he doesn’t, you’ll know that he considers all things to be fair in love and Subaru service, and you can take your business elsewhere.

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FOOD

AT SHANE’S TEXAS PIT Shane’s Texas Pit (61 High St., Hampton, New Hampshire, 603-601-7091) is a brand new Texas-style barbecue restaurant boasting “big Texas flavor in a small town.” With mouthwatering menu options (brisket, spare ribs, and pulled pork mac and cheese, to name a few!), a full bar and weekly live music, Shane’s Texas Pit is primed to be the top choice of coastal carnivores. The Scene sat down with veteran restaurateur Shane Pine (who also owns Community Oven and Four Pines Brewing Co.) to learn more about types of meat, what “Texas-style” really means, and what makes his smokehouse different from your run-of-the-mill barbecue joint.

How long has Shane’s Texas Pit been around? We literally opened a month ago.

[We had our] soft opening on the 5th, so just under a month ago. I had the idea for a long time; I tried opening up in North Hampton about three years back but just couldn’t find the right location.

What makes Shane’s Texas Pit unique?

We really homed in on central Texas style of barbecue – mainly around the Austin, Texas, area, where they do it a little bit different. They really pay attention to the quality of meat and the quantity of smoke, and [cook] low and slow. They don’t brine their [meat], they don’t vinegar theirs, they don’t have a heavy dry rub. The only dry rub they really have is salt and pepper and maybe another seasoning or two. We really homed in on that style of cooking. We have four sauces available on the side, but as for the meat, we really try to get the smoke and the meat to speak for themselves.

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What is your personal favorite dish?

The Wagyu brisket.

What is a dish everyone should try?

The Wagyu brisket! Wagyu is a real highquality meat. As far as the scale of meats go, you have your Choice, you have your Select, then you’ve got what we know as Prime, and then you have what we know as Kobe. Wagyu is above Kobe, and they really have a high-quality meat, and a high standard of humane ethics.

What is an essential skill to running a restaurant? I break it down to two things: produce a great product and produce really good service.

What is your favorite part of being on the Seacoast? Being born and raised here, being familiar with my surroundings, and being able to give back to the community.

— Alison Downs

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We are moving in a couple of weeks, which means two things: My pantry supplies are dwindling, and I’m spending less time in the kitchen. As a result, my meals are becoming more creative and I’m trying to work with what’s left in my pantry without stocking up on a bunch of groceries I don’t want to pack up and move across state lines.

Needless to say, I was pretty excited to try this recipe for polenta pancakes. I have a box of 5-minute polenta in my pantry that has been collecting dust for a month or so since I first made a polenta dish, and none of my dinners have required a starchy side lately. So I figured it couldn’t hurt to try these polenta pancakes. They turned out to be a fun and quick pantry-friendly recipe that would be perfect for breakfast or even a nonconventional dinner.

The recipe is incredibly simple, calling for a premade tube of plain polenta.

I opted to use the box of polenta mix in my pantry, and after it was made, spread it into a shallow baking pan and refrigerated it overnight to harden. The next morning, I cut the polenta into stars, as requested by the 4-year-old mini-chef, and set to frying.

The polenta fried up quickly, and the crispy edges were a nice change in texture.

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When topped with some real maple syrup and a pat of butter, these nontraditional pancakes were a huge hit.

The dense polenta pancakes were more filling than their fluffy counterparts, but the savory and sweet combination was a welcome change from my normal, boring cereal-based breakfasts.

While I typically relegate hot breakfasts to the weekend, these pancakes took only minutes to make and would be perfect for a quick breakfast that feels more substantial than a piece of toast or a glass of juice.

The flavor of the corn cake with the sweet maple syrup was a fun play on the sweet-and-salty combo that I love; it was a little bit savory, a little bit sweet, but a lot of deliciousness in one quick meal.

— Lauren Mifsud

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You can smell it in the smoky perfume from your neighbor’s brush fire. You can hear the buzz and whir of small engines from up and down the street. And you can feel the blisters forming in your hands.

Spring is finally here, and that means weekends spent doing yard work.

It’s time to grab a rake or a saw or a wheelbarrow and pretty the heck out of your home and yard. You might be trying to avoid it but I have good news: Very few things go better with yard work than beer.

What’s better than dethatching your lawn?

Dethatching your lawn with a beer close by, reminding you there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

But there are some general rules you must follow when yard working and drinking. For starters, if you’d like your wife or your husband to continue to want you around, you can’t overdo it. Seriously, you need to be able to complete the task. Drunk yard work is not OK. The beer is only there to add a bit of pleasure to your pain and sweat.

So, you don’t want to drink too much and, given your ambitious yard work goals, you’ll want to choose something with both a lower ABV and a little less heft. You don’t need to choose a light beer — not that that would be wrong — but I’d stay away from heavy porters and stouts, as well as double IPAs. You want something clean and crisp, that refreshes your palate, without weighing you down. You need to be able to wield that rake after all.

Here are four beers I reach for when I’m taking back the yard:

Beer can be a positive addition to your upcoming yard work efforts. Pictured here, Nite Lite by Night Shift Brewing.

find Dead Guy Ale and a myriad of other Rogue offerings at just about every establishment in college town Morgantown, W.V. Go figure. At 6.8 percent, you might wait until after the yard work is complete before grabbing a Dead Guy Ale. But this is a welcoming, flavorful German Maibock, boasting big flavor without the heft of a “big beer.” A perfect reward for your efforts.

• Kolsch by Portsmouth Brewery: Tasks like raking and weeding are simply just hard work. When the sun is shining, even on a relatively cool spring day, your taste buds are going to be calling for something light, crisp and pleasant. This is perfect choice for when • All Day IPA by Founders Brewing you just want a beer.

Co.: This beer is made for yard work. You Jeff Mucciarone is a senior account get the crisp, hoppy brightness of an IPA without the high alcohol content. Refresh- executive with Montagne Communicaing, inviting and flavorful: this is a beer tions, where he provides communications you can drink while you’re doing. support to the New Hampshire wine and • Auburn American Red Ale by Able spirits industry.

Ebenezer Brewing Co. (Merrimack): In co-founders Michael Frizzelle and Carl What’s in My Fridge Soderberg’s initial market research, they identified a quality red ale as missing from Corona Extra: I can feel the glare of disNew Hampshire’s craft beer landscape. approval from beer enthusiasts around Of course, their delicious IPAs ended up the world, or, well, at least from withbecoming their flagship brews, but that in the Hippo’s coverage area. The glare should not take away from this terrific red is red hot. It even stings a little bit. Well, ale. Smooth, satisfying and roasty, perfect a couple weeks ago, when I was in Floras you watch the last embers of your backida, the sun was red hot and I was thirsty and I wanted something light, refreshing yard spring-cleaning brush fire. and without characteristics that required • Dead Guy Ale by Rogue Ales: I any thought. Corona Extra, with a lime developed a strong appreciation for this jammed into the bottle, was like poetry in brew more than 10 years ago when I lived motion. Sometimes it’s just about having in West Virginia — at the time Rogue was a beer, so leave me alone and stop glarnot available nationwide or at least not to ing. Cheers! my knowledge. But I seemed to be able to

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From superheroes like Spider-Man and the Avengers to TV cartoons like Bob’s Burgers and Spongebob Squarepants, this year’s Free Comic Book Day will have a comic for everyone.

The annual, worldwide event, set for Saturday, May 5, brings comic book enthusiasts and the comic book-curious to participating comic book shops where they can choose from an exclusive selection of free comic books and enjoy comic-related fun like costume contests, door prizes, special guests and more.

“The ultimate goal is to create a better awareness and understanding of comic books,” said Ralph DiBernardo, owner of participating comic book shop Jetpack Comics in Rochester. “They aren’t just for kids, they aren’t just for teenagers, and they aren’t just for adults. They’re for everyone, and everyone can find [a free comic book] they like.”

There are 50 Free Comic Book Day titles this year, including 12 “gold” titles, which are available at all participating shops, and 38 “silver” titles, of which certain ones are available at select shops. Some are independent, standalone stories while others are stories that are part of an existing anthology series or samples of existing or upcoming comic books.

Every shop does things a little differently; they may allow a limited number of titles per person, or they may let people take as many titles as they want. Shops may also put out leftover free comic books from previous years, if they have them. The only rule is that the comic books have to be free.

DiBernardo said many comic book readers look forward to the event all year as a way to explore new series and genres without spending the standard $3 to $5 per comic book.

“Our regular customers have paid their dues. They’re always in here buying com-

ic books,” he said. “Free Comic Book Day is their chance to be on the receiving end.”

The free comic books are just one part of Free Comic Book Day. Many stores also host comic con-esque events and activities.

The largest celebration in the state is the Rochester Free Comic Book Day Festival, a partnership between the city of Rochester and Jetpack Comics. Festivities will take place at Jetpack as well as numerous downtown businesses and venues. You can see what’s happening where and plan your route with the scavenger hunt map, available now on Jetpack’s website.

One of the biggest attractions is the cosplay competition, where participants dress up as a character from a TV show or movie, anime, comic book or video game.

There will also be special guest cosplayers, cosplay workshops and cosplay vendors.

Some stores will have special guest comic book creators and artists. Headliners at Jetpack will include Jeff Kline, co-developer and executive producer of Transformers: Rescue Bots and G.I. Joe: Renegades; Ed McGuinness, who has done work on Superman, Superman and Batman, Deadpool, and Hulk comics; Jim Lawson and Steve Lavigne, best known for their work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series; and Tom Sniegoski, writer of Vampirella Strikes.

While much of Free Comic Book Day is geared towards comic book fans, DiBernardo said, it’s also the perfect opportunity for comic book non-readers to see what the world of comics is all about.

“It’s not like any other form of entertainment,” he said. “It’s not for everyone, but if you find a comic that you really enjoy, you’ll see that it can be a great escape.”

— Angie Sykeny Free Comic Book Day When: Saturday, May 5 More info: freecomicbookday.com Participating Seacoast-area comic book stores • Chris’s Cards & Comics, 919 Lafayette Road #8, Seabrook, 474-2283, chriscardscomics.com • Jetpack Comics, 37 N. Main St., Rochester, 330-9636, jetpackcomics.com • Krypton Comics And Pop Culture Emporium, 103 Water St., Exeter, 6582667, kryptonantiques.com • Pop Culture Cards, Comics, Collectibles, and Gaming, 66 Route 27, Unit B, Raymond, 244-1850, facebook.com/ popculturenh • Stairway to Heaven Comics, 105 Gosling Road, Newington, 319-6134, stairwaytoheavencomics.com

Madness is Better than Defeat, by Ned Beauman (Knopf, 399 pages)

In last year’s The Lost City of the Monkey God, journalist Douglas Preston took a trip to a Mayan ruin deep in the jungle of Honduras. Now British writer Ned Beauman ventures there in fiction with a madcap tale that would be brilliant but for its exasperating and unnecessary complexity.

Here’s the premise of Madness is Better than Defeat: A quirky, inexperienced filmmaker bankrolled by a paranoid mogul is dispatched to an ancient temple in the Honduran jungle to make a film.

Arriving there, he finds another group of Americans is already encamped on site, directing a small army of natives who are dismantling the temple. They are led by the son of a morally dubious businessman, who has been directed to bring every last stone of the temple back to New York, where it will be reassembled.

Neither group will leave.

So far, so good. Beauman displays comic genius in setting up this quandary, and his description of the two leaders meeting for the first time — which he likens to two snarling dogs on a city street — is a fine example of his gorgeous, fresh writing: “ ... no negotiations, just straight to war, running on the spot, claws practically sparking on the sidewalk, as if they didn’t know they were on leashes and all they had ever wanted in the world was to drag themselves a quarter of an inch closer to the other dog’s jugular vein — sometimes just a preposterous little meringue of a dog, a poodle or a Pekingese or a Pomeranian like Scofield, up against a Doberman, and yet neither bothered to acknowledge the imbalance — this hatred so total that you’d think one dog must have murdered the other dog’s father or raped his wife or forced

his department store into bankruptcy, when in fact they’d probably never seen each other before in their lives, and the only explanation was that each had scented in the other a terrible incommensurability at the deepest levels of dog music, dog mathematics.”

Unfortunately, it’s also a fine example of why a book that is bejeweled with fresh, gorgeous writing is also exasperatingly painful to read.

That’s just part of the sentence, mind you.

It’s not so much that Beauman, who studied philosophy at Cambridge, is so eye-glazingly smart, and makes the common man fumble for a dictionary on almost every page.

The bigger problem is that Beauman writes like a man who has to include where every Dunkin’ Donuts is on the route when he’s giving directions. Yes, it may be interesting to know, but it’s not really necessary; just get me from here to there. Alas, Beauman will not, and he not only identifies where the doughnut store is, but he stops inside and recites everything that’s on the menu, introduces you to who’s pouring the coffee at the drivethrough window and tells you what she’s wearing and her shoe size before getting you back on the road.

Sometimes this is knee-slappingly funny, as when he describing the scholar who’d visited the Hondurans and returned to announce that they were “the happiest, wisest, sincerest people in the world.”

“They had no gods, no kings, no wars, no private property, and, above all, no rules of sexual conduct. They spent most of their waking hours having strenuous intercourse with one another, often in trios or quartets, pausing only to pluck fruit from the trees or scoop fish from the stream. … he had come back to England only because he believed it was his

by Orson Welles that was an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

The movie the film company wants to make in the Honduran jungle, if only the squatters would leave, is called Hearts in Darkness. Things were complicated before we even got to page 1.

The best books make you think; the worst ones make you take notes.

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duty to alert his countryman to what they were missing.”

But Beauman’s determination to include every detail makes for an overly detailed world that has a whiff of George R.R. Martin and every other commercially successful writer that cowering editors fear to offend. Worse, the wonderful heart of this novel — the long-term encampment of two warring tribes at the ruin — is but a part of this story, which is unreliably narrated by a CIA agent, Zonulet, who is writing a book about the temple’s secrets 30 years — and a lifealtering fungus infection — later.

Beauman’s writing has been called Pynchonesque, but that’s not necessarily a good thing, as Thomas Pynchon is an acquired taste that many of us are still waiting to acquire. I slogged through this book wishing he were more like Christopher Buckley, whose equally smart humor doesn’t make the reader feel quite so exhausted at the end of each chapter.

One note on the title: Madness is Better than Defeat is a line from a screenplay

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around.”

2018 marks Entrain’s 25th year as a band, and though an official celebration show is still being organized, they’ve begun to mark the milestone. The Cinco de Mayo event is a reunion of sorts; that happens frequently. Major is the only original member, but friendly comings and goings happen, and members stay close.

“It’s funny, at different points ... guys have come in and out like a revolving door,” Major said. “You never know who is going to be there, but there have been a lot of guys that have been playing with Entrain over the years. We’re going to try and visit as many of those personnel changes as we can and have some fun this summer.”

The steady infusion of new blood is a big reason Major has kept the band going.

“I think if it was all the same guys for 25 years, we might not have survived.,” he said. “There is some newness when you make a change, and fresh energy. It sort of revives things in a certain way to shake it up a little bit.”

The current lineup is a six-piece with

said. “It’s not really me or any one person or a group of people. It’s almost like this little character that wants to live.”

He’s thought about walking away, but something always brings him back.

“I tried to kill Entrain a few times and it wouldn’t let me,” he said. “It really wants to survive, and it’s really driven by the fans.

Every time I even got a slight inkling like, ‘Well, maybe it’s time to move on,’ I swear somebody comes out of the crowd and shakes me and says, ‘Oh my God, I love you guys so much; please promise me you will never stop’ and I’m like ‘OK, universe, I hear you — we’ll keep going.’”

Major laughs out loud at the thought of giving up.

“Quite frankly, I am having more fun now than I have ever had,” he said. “I feel like a kid in a candy shop every time I get up on stage with the band.”

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Entrain raised the roof on St. Patrick’s Day in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, despite the fact it’s not remotely Irish. Then again, the six-piece group is pretty hard to pin down — it offers rhythm by the bucketload, with a beat born from founder Tom Major’s days playing with Bo Diddley.

This makes them a perfect choice to headline a Cinco de Mayo party on May 5 at Blue Ocean Music Hall. Management at the Salisbury Beach venue wants the event to become a tradition.

“The day is about celebrating life,” Major said. “Winter is done and spring is here; let’s get out and get ready to have a great time, have a couple of adult beverages and celebrate.”

Entrain is a Blue Ocean mainstay and loves playing there.

“It’s a killer room,” Major said. “A couple of years ago we did the New Year’s Eve celebration, and then we kind of morphed into their anniversary parties. … We just love that venue; it’s wonderful all the way

Major on drums, Brian Alex on guitar and vocal, bassist M’Talewa, Hillary Noble doubling on percussion and sax, with Klem Klimek also on sax. Regular trombone player Lenny Peterson isn’t available so original member Sam Holmstock will join.

“That will be fun, having Sammy back with us for this one,” Major said.

Performing their song “Dancing in the Light” in a 1990s television commercial for Jordan’s Furniture gave the band a big boost. Major talked Jordan’s co-owner Barry Tatelman into using them.

“Barry has a house on the Vineyard [where Major also lives], so we started talking about it,” Major said. “He told me, ‘We’re going to have some generic funk band,’ and I said, ‘You need Entrain!’”

They shot it at the old Mama Kin club and Major agreed to work for free, if they could hang an Entrain banner behind them on stage.

“That was like gold,” he said. A few years later the song was used in a Sylvania ad, making the group one of the earliest to use what’s become a pretty ubiquitous form of exposure.

Through the vagaries of the music business, like bands making more money from ads than record sales and other cultural shifts not to mention personnel shifts over 25 years, Major has remained steadfast.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Irony

At Pennsylvania State University, the Outing Club, founded in 1920, provided students with outdoor recreation opportunities such as hiking and camping. But no more. Penn State has announced that after this semester, the university will no longer allow the club to organize studentled trips because it is too dangerous out in the wilderness, according to the offices of Student Affairs and Risk Management.

Two other outdoorsy clubs, the Nittany Grotto Caving Club and the Nittany Divers Scuba Club, have also been restricted from club activities outdoors. Michael Lacey, president of the Caving Club, told the Centre Daily Times: “Penn State’s just been clamping down really hard on the nature of activities” since the Jerry Sandusky scandal. University spokesperson Lisa Powers said Penn State will offer school-sponsored outdoors trips, but students noted the cost will be much higher.

Unclear on the concept

In a perhaps unintentional bid for the worst criminal disguise of 2018, Kerry Hammond Jr., 22, broke into a GameStop store in St. Marys, Georgia, at 1:19 a.m. on April 13, where he was captured on camera wearing a clear plastic wrapper (of the sort that holds bundles of bottled water) over his head. Even with the plastic “mask,” WJXT reported, Hammond’s face is clearly visible in surveillance video, and St. Marys police quickly identified him and captured him on April 17.

Hammond already had two active felony warrants for his arrest for burglary and second-degree criminal damage to property.

Techno-weird

In Tokyo, women who have qualms about living alone may soon have a new security option. “Man on the Curtain” is a prototype smartphone app that connects to a projector and throws a moving shadow of a man onto a closed window curtain. The shadow man can be doing any of several different activities, such as boxing, karate, vacuuming, playing guitar or getting dressed. Keiichi Nakamura, advertising manager of Leopalace21 Corp., an apartment management company where the idea originated, told Reuters that eventually his company would like to “commercialize it once we add variety, such as releasing a new video every day.”

Bright ideas

• Resorting to a low-tech, but possibly offensive strategy, Largo, Florida, detectives visited a dead man at Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home in Clearwater and attempted to use his finger to unlock his SEACOAST SCENE | MAY 3 - 9, 2018 | PAGE 38

smartphone. Linus F. Phillip, 30, was shot and killed by Largo police March 23 after he tried to drive away from an officer wanting to search him. As part of their investigation, police said they needed to access and preserve data on Phillip’s phone. Legal experts generally agreed the detectives had not broken any laws, but Phillip’s girlfriend, Victoria Armstrong, 28, was less forgiving: “Nobody even calling us ... to let us know detectives were coming there at all is very disturbing,” she told the Tampa Bay Times. “I’m very skeptical of all funeral homes now.”

• United Press International reports that in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the mayor has employed a clever way to keep his finger on the pulse of the city. When he goes out, he wears a fake beard so he’ll blend in and not be recognized as the capital city’s leader. Mayor Albek Ibraimov told Fergana, a Russian news agency: “I dress in old clothes ... take off my tie and I go and look, and see how things actually are.”

hiding his identity, was only blocking police from determining his speed, so when they tracked him down, he was charged not with speeding, but with perverting the course of justice. “If you want to attract our attention, repeatedly gesturing at police camera vans with your middle finger while you’re driving a distinctive car fitted with a laser jammer is an excellent way to do it,” Traffic Constable Andrew Forth told Metro News.

Hill pleaded guilty on April 23, and was sentenced to eight months in jail and prohibited from driving for a year.

Least competent criminal

Kiana Wallace, 24, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Belmont County, Ohio, on April 23 following her guilty plea for tampering with evidence. On probation after a drug possession sentence in 2017, Wallace failed a drug urine test when the “borrowed” sample she used tested positive for drugs. “Let me get this straight,” Judge Frank Fregiato said in court, according to WTOV-TV. “To avoid the positive test with your own urine, you Entrepreneurial spirit Over the last two years, Cameron used someone else’s urine, which turned County employee Gilberto Escamilla, 53, out to be positive also. That’s bizarre.” of Brownsville, Texas, has been accepting shipments of fajitas worth a total of $1.2 million at the Darrell B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center in Brownsville. The only trouble is, the inmates there aren’t served fajitas. Escamilla had been ordering the meat from Labatt Food Service in Harlingen and intercepting it to resell. “It started small and got bigger and out of control,” Escamilla told the court, according to The Brownsville Herald. On April 20, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft by a public servant.

Inexplicable

• On April 23, police officers in Warren, Michigan, responded to a home for a welfare check on 68-year-old George Curtis, whose relatives had become concerned because they hadn’t heard from him. Curtis was, indeed, dead — in fact, WJBK-TV reported, he had been deceased for months, maybe even a year.

Also in the home: his girlfriend, who had continued living there with his decaying body, which was laid out in a bed. Police transported the unnamed woman to a hospital for a mental evaluation and are awaiting a report on cause of death from the medical examiner.

• Meanwhile, on the South Side of Chicago, police responded to reports of an elderly woman pushing a dead body around the Chatham neighborhood in a shopping cart on April 21, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Officers took the woman to a hospital for a mental evaluation and launched an investigation into the female body, whose age and identity had not been determined at press time.

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Oops

The Washington State Department of Transportation had to issue a mea culpa on the afternoon of April 17 after an electronic highway sign displayed the message “U SUCK” above Interstate 5 near Jovita. WSDOT called the sign “an inappropriate message” that appeared due to a training error and was “clearly a mistake,” according to KCPQ TV.

Bad attitude

Timothy Hill, 67, of Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, having installed a laser jammer in his Range Rover, thought he was outsmarting law enforcement speed cameras. In fact, he was so sure of his scheme that he repeatedly raised his middle finger to the cameras — sometimes casually, sometimes aggressively — as he passed. What he didn’t realize was that the laser jammer, rather than

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