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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with creative classes for you and your favorite person
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EVENTS TO CHECK OUT FEBRUARY 7 - 20, 2019, AND BEYOND Garden talk
The Hampton Garden Club’s next meeting will be Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 6:30 at the First Congregational Church. The guest speaker will be Pattie Elwell, and her topic will be harvesting and drying flowers and herbs from your garden to use throughout the year. There will be a short business meeting and refreshments, and the meeting is open to the public.
Hear and read poetry
The Ferguson Reading Series, a monthly poetry feature and open mic, continues at Water Street Bookstore (125 Water St., Exeter) on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 6:30 p.m., with featured reader Elisabeth Farrell. Farrell will present her latest book Earlier Heaven. After her reading, the floor will be open to anyone who wants to read. Bring one or two poems to share. Call 778-9731 or visit waterstreetbooks.com.
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On Saturday, Feb. 9, families are invited to a special Tea Party with their loved ones at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover. Guests will enjoy all the typical Valentine’s Day things like decorating sugar cookies and indulging in sweet treats, with the added bonus of an appearance by a friendly costumed T-Rex dinosaur. Guests are invited to wear fancy, whimsical or prehistoric attire to the tea party. Pre-registration is required, and there are three times available: 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. Cost is $25 per adult/child pair. Additional children are $10. Cost does not include admission to the museum. Visit childrens-museum.org to register.
The Seacoast Repertory Theatre (125 Bow St., Portsmouth) presents Billy Elliot Feb. 8 through March, with showtimes on Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Based on the 2000 film by Stephen Daldry and adapted for the stage by Elton John and Lee Hall, the musical follows a young boy from a traditional coal mining family who discovers a passion for ballet. Tickets cost $16 to $44. Visit seacoastrep.org or call 433-4472.
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Valentine’s Day is almost here and there are all kinds of creative opportunities to discover the art of love, working side by side with your partner, your friends or even your kids. Check out these upcoming classes; some of them are all about Valentine’s Day while some are simply artistic — and sometimes literally sweet — ways to get out and do something fun and creative with your loved ones.
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At Exeter Fine Crafts in Exeter, several classes and workshops may be of particular interest to couples. Basic Jewelry II: Exeter Fine Crafts’
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28. The cost is $275 with sterling silver and gemstones available for purchase. Needle-Felted Lovebirds Workshop: In this workshop, Early said, anyone can create a needle-felted lovebird with “a little patience.” “You can make other types of items once you have the technique down,” she said. “A lot of people use it to make ornaments at Christmas time, but some people have actually made careers out of sculpting with wool in this method.” This workshop takes place on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 10:30 a.m to 3:30 p.m. Total cost is $60. Mosaic Workshop: In this workshop,
you can choose to do tile trivets, small decorative pieces, or planter pots and learn to apply your own designs to them. “You will get a good sense of how colors and textures work together to make a pleasing project,” Early said. “Each student will definitely go home with at least one finished project, which is a very satisfying experience.” She said this workshop is perfect for couples. “You don’t need any prior experience,” she said. “Once you have learned the technique, you can apply it to all kinds of projects.” This class takes place on Saturday, Feb. 7
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At The Art Center, which opened in Dover in December, couples can find several things of interest around Valentine’s Day. February Exhibit - A La Carte: According to Rebecca Proctor, founder of The Art Center, this exhibit will reflect artists’ respective interpretations of various kinds of food. “The Art Center serves light hors d’oeuvres and wine throughout the eveAbout The Art Center Proctor said The Art Center provides an environment in which artists are able to create, display and sell their work. “Since opening, we have attracted a remarkable group of photographers, sculptors, writers, publishers, musicians and custom framers,” she said. “As well as our resident artists, we have attracted a number of members who have special access to the studio space.” In addition to individual studios, The Art Center has approximately 3,000 square feet available for exhibitions, educational workshops and art classes. The center
also features a 300-square-foot stage to further promote cultural events, such as small ensemble performances, poetry readings and small theatrical performances. “Since opening, we have hosted numerous musical artists, poetry readings and a production of Marsha Norman’s play ‘Night Mother,’ [and] monthly art exhibits,” said Proctor. We have also played a major role, in cooperation with other businesses in Dover, in promoting, organizing and sustaining Dover’s Art Walks.” To learn more, visit theartcenterdover.com.
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the cost is $50. Fold Forming Metalworkshop: In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of shaping sheet metal into three-dimensional forms. While Early said it would be great for someone who has already taken their Jewelry I class, this class may also be taken by beginners. “It is a bit more of a specialty technique when working with metal,” she said. “Once you have the basics down, you can create any number of shapes and patterns that can be used in making jewelry.” This class takes place on Saturday, Feb. 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $100. To learn more, or register for any of these classes, visit exeterfinecrafts.com.
ning,” she said. “It’s also a wonderful time for art-lovers to check out amazing artwork created by the resident artists of The Art Center.” The opening reception is Friday, Feb. 8, from 6 to 9 p.m. Archiving Your Life - Archiving Your Family Photographs: In this class, people will learn how to properly archive photos. “So many of us have shoe boxes filled with countless photographs that we don’t know what to do with, yet we don’t want to simply discard them,” said Proctor. “They are precious memories, but paper is a fragile medium. Photos fade, get scratched, discolored or lost.” In the first session on Feb. 9, Photosmith’s Steve Frank will cover both printed and digital material. He will discuss sharing versus preserving, the risks of not doing anything, the four-step archiving process, the difference between archiving and digitizing, and backup methods. In the second session on Feb. 16, participants are asked to bring bags and boxes of photos at which time they will engage in a hands-on session in which they will receive assistance and sort and organize them. Participants will use the 4-STEP process, which was introduced in the first session. In addition to other materi- 8
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A mobile fired arts studio that serves the entire Seacoast, To Your Art’s Content offers several unique opportunities for couples. Mixed Media: LOVE Board Art: In this class, which takes place at the Exeter Recreation Department in Exeter, participants will create a love board. “Participants will stain the board, attach a stencil to the board, and paint over the stencil, which will leave the word ‘love’ in place,” said instructor Nancy Camp. Once everything dries, the stencil will be removed, which leads to “the fun of making simple flowers out of cloth,” Camp said. These flowers will then be attached to the board to create a heart. “All our projects are designed so that anybody, regardless of artistic ability, can leave with a beautiful work of art,” said Camp, who owns To Your Art’s Content with daughter Alesia Dopson. “Each step is clearly explained by our instructor and participants are helped, if necessary…This particular project looks really nice even though it is very simple to construct.” No two love boards will be the same. “There will be a choice of stains and letter colors so each love board can be unique,” she said. For those unsure about creating art as a shared experience, Camp said all their
projects lend themselves “to being perfect for couples.” “Whether they choose to work on one together or each do their own, our classes are a fun, relaxing way to spend time together,” she said. “There is no pressure to perform, yet there is plenty of time to interact and enjoy being together.” She said when a couple sits and creates together that “magic can happen.” “If they are new to each other, they can learn a lot about the other in the way they tackle the project or the choices they make for the project,” she said. “For the married forever crowd, creating together on a project that isn’t work and the end result is not overly important allows this couple to bond in a way they may never have before.” This class takes place on Tuesday, Feb. 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. The cost to participate ranges from $5 to $35. Mobile Art Experience: To Your Art’s Content can also come to you. “Get a group of friends together, choose your medium or specific project, and we will show up with the fun,” said Camp. “We book anytime, except Sundays, so there is no set schedule where you have to be available.” The only requirements are tables and chairs for the artists. “A table to set up supplies is helpful but not absolutely necessary because there is always the floor,” she said. Art To Go: For those who would like to experience art in their own way for Valentine’s Day, To Your Art’s Content To-Go Kits might be the perfect answer. “If someone or some couple would like to create in the privacy of their own home at their own pace and time, our To-Go Kits are perfect,” said Camp. “We will get a kit together with all the necessary items to do pottery painting, glass fusing, clay 10
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Of course, what is any Valentine’s Day without a little chocolate, which partly explains the reason behind a unique experience at La Cascade du Chocolat in Exeter. Chocolate Tasting 101: According to Samantha Brown, co-owner of La Cascade du Chocolat, Chocolate Tasting 101 will introduce individuals to fine chocolate. “We’ve all grown up thinking we know
what chocolate tastes like, but there’s a lot more to it than what we remember,” she said, “Chocolate is a lot like wine, beer and coffee. Each chocolate really depends on where it’s from, who’s making it and more.” In Chocolate 101, Brown said, they will explore “the ins and outs of many different chocolates from all over the word.” “The fact is experience helps,” she said. “The more chocolate you taste, the more things you’ll be able to taste in each bite, which is a good excuse to eat more chocolate.” In the class, she said participants will taste approximately 15 different chocolates from across the globe in different percentages. Each chocolate will be different. “A Bolivian chocolate is different from a Dominican chocolate, and both are wildly different from a chocolate from Madagascar or Vietnam,” she said. The class will start with a brief discussion about where chocolate is sourced as well as opportunities to taste some of the more commercial chocolates. The 11
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In operation for nearly 13 years, the idea behind To Your Art’s Content began with Nancy Camp’s daughter Alesia, who at the time was 17 years old. “She was trying to figure out where to go to college and what to study,” she said. “As her father and I discussed the possibilities with her, she made it clear to us that what she really wanted was to own her own paint-your-own-pottery studio similar to the one she had been working in since she was 14.” This sincerity, Camp said, caused them to encourage her to take a year before entering college to research what was necessary and possible in this realm. “That year took her to Great Bay Community College in a program, which unfortunately I don’t believe is offered anymore, geared specifically for people who wanted to start their own business,” she said. “Classes in marketing, brand-setting, legalities, and financing a business were
explored.” The end result,” she said, was their then 18-year-old daughter had in her possession a thorough business plan and the knowledge that a college degree was not necessary to start her own business. Recognizing that Alesia’s age would be a detriment to securing rental space and any type of financing, Camp decided to join her in the endeavor. Originally setting up a studio in Exeter, Camp said years later they elected to focus more on family, as by then Alesia was married and had just delivered her third child. “We set up our homes to hold the necessary equipment, bought a small cargo van and went mobile,” she said. “Now we can set the hours, take a month off for a family wedding, Alesia can homeschool her kids, and I can enjoy some free time after sending my last of four off to college.” To learn more, visit toyourartscontent.com.
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Overlooking the ocean in Salisbury, Mass., Seaglass will host two events that Make a Valentine Ann Radwan of the Hampton Arts Network will offer a Valentine card-making class on Tuesday Feb. 12, from 10 a.m. to noon at Atlantic High, 450 High St., Hampton. Fee is $15 and includes supplies and instructions to make three Valentines. No experience required. Come enjoy some creative fun. RSVP to Ann at 926-8359.
Express your love with music Imagine four women similarly dressed walking into a place of business, one carrying a rose, another carrying chocolate. People stop and wonder, “Who are they? Is this a flower delivery?” As the foursome is guided through the building, people start staring, coming out of their office or cubicles. The foursome stops, offer the rose and chocolate to an individual and break out in song. There is harmony and love in the air and some eyes are filled with tears. An unforgettable moment for the recipient. You ask yourself, “How can I send a singing Valentine?” Here’s how to show your loved one, a friend or a coworker you care. Sounds of the Seacoast Women’s Chorus will send a quartet to a home, a workplace or even a crowded restaurant, delivering a rose, chocolates and song for $45. Call 603-664-2666 or email valentines@soundsoftheseacoast.org.
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CO-FOUNDER OF LA CASCADE DU CHOCOLAT IN EXETER How long have you been open? We’ve been in business for almost three years, but we’ve only had our store in Exeter for the past year and a half.
taurants taste the same no matter where you go. One of our big differences is that we use fine chocolate, not industrial chocolate. Fine chocolate makers, even the larger ones, go out of their way to celebrate the unique flavors present in each bean. They pay close attention to where the cacao beans come from, the farmers and plantations, and how the beans and people are treated along the way.
What is your business all about? We make all sorts of fine chocolate deliciousness: bonbons, truffles, chocolate bars, brownies, cookies, cakes, Samantha Brown. Courtesy photo. hot chocolate. We also make nanobatches of bean-to-bar chocolate and offer classes. The key to what we do, though, is that it’s all fine chocolate. What is the most fun part of your business? We have a lot of fun coming up with new What does that mean? flavors of bonbons and bars. Part of that fun It means that the chocolate we use is made is having to taste a whole lot of chocolate to with care and a special attention to flavor. No make sure everything combines together pertwo origins of chocolate are the same, and we fectly. I also love collaborating with other want to celebrate that. The fruitiness of choco- chocolatiers and chocolate-makers. Last sumlate from Madagascar needs to be paired with mer I spent some time on Cape Cod helping other ingredients that complement its own pro- another chocolatier come up with her prodfile. The same goes for the nuttiness in some uct line and getting her business ready to open of the Venezuelan chocolates. ... No matter in the fall. We’ve also had local professional what we do or make, we make sure chocolate chefs in to learn about chocolate and what we always has the starring role. do. I’d love to be the Julia Child of chocolate. What got you interested in chocolate in the first place? I’ve loved chocolate since I was a little girl. I mean, I really loved chocolate. We’re talking chocolate-scented pencils, school reports about chocolate, and trips to Hershey in the summers. Tom, the other chocolatier and one of the co-founders, can say the same. When I started learning about fine chocolate and the science and art behind it, I knew that one day I wanted to open a chocolate shop. I earned a professional chocolatier certificate and then studied in France to earn a master chocolatier certificate as well. All along, we talked about opening our own place. ... When my husband and I had a house fire in 2016, it was the kick in the pants we needed to stop waiting. So now that you have been open for a bit, what has been your biggest challenge? Educating people about what makes our chocolate different is an ongoing process. Most of us grew up with a certain idea about chocolate, and it’s ingrained in our expectations about everything from how much it costs to how it tastes. That’s what’s often referred to as “industrial chocolate,” and those manufacturers are usually trying to create a uniform taste, which is similar to the way chain res-
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Some cars are too quiet Dear Car Talk: I drive a two-year-old 2017 Chevy Volt. It has a beeping noise coming from the front end. Any ideas what that may indicate? No message pops up on the dashboard or on By Ray Magliozzi the navigation system. None of the warning lights or other dashboard icons come on. Can you explain? — Louise The Chevy Volt, as I’m sure you know, Louise, is a plug-in hybrid that runs primarily on battery power. When hybrids and electric cars first came out, public safety officials discovered a serious problem. They were so quiet that pedestrians didn’t hear them coming, which is dangerous. If I’m passing through an intersection in my 1997 Honda Odyssey with the belts squealing and the exhaust rattling, no one’s going to fail to hear me coming. But if I’m driving a Volt, a Prius or a Nissan Leaf, the only noise that’s heard is the rubber tires rolling on the road. And that’s pretty quiet at low speeds. Apparently, it’s not enough noise to cause pedestrians to look up from their Tinder apps in time to avoid getting run over. So the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is now requiring vehicles that run on electric power to
have an audible pedestrian warning. That’s a warning sound specifically FOR pedestrians, as opposed to a sound that warns YOU when there’s a pedestrian in the way (that sound is the phrase “Oh, the humanity!” followed by two thumps in quick succession). Anyway, carmakers can choose the sound, but it has to be loud enough for pedestrians, bicyclists or blind folks to be able to hear it when the vehicle is going slower than about 20 mph. I’m glad my brother’s not still around. Because I know he would have programmed his car to broadcast the sound of flatulence. Anyway, that faint beeping sound you hear is that pedestrian warning broadcasting from the front of your Volt. It’s there to prevent pedestrian injuries, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with your car, Louise. Dear Car Talk: While driving, my husband does something that makes me crazy (I know, right?). When backing out of our driveway or a parking spot, he shifts into drive while the car is still rolling backward! Is this hurting his automatic transmission? He recently bought a used 2012 Chevy Traverse in University-of-Wisconsin Badger red — a dream car that he wants to keep for a very long time.
I remember being taught not to shift gears while the car was still moving in the opposite direction. I know car technologies have come a long way since I began driving 45 years ago. Is the old rule of bringing the vehicle to a full stop before shifting between reverse and drive still applicable? I’m not trying to garner an “I told you so” advantage by writing (OK, OK, maybe I am); I’m just trying to help my husband protect his beloved Chevy Traverse. He won’t listen to me, but he’ll listen to you -- we both read and enjoy your column regularly. If I’m wrong, I’ll shut up (at least about the shifting). Thanks for all the great information and humor you relay in your column! — Michele In a perfect world, Michele, no one would shift into drive while still rolling backward. Of course, in a perfect world, no one would have to worry about making their 2012 Chevy Traverse last forever, either. So we live in an imperfect world, Michele. And in the real world, a lot of people do what your husband does. I would say that as long as you’re going less than a mile or two per hour, you’re doing minimal damage to your transmission by shifting from reverse to drive. There’s a certain amount of “slop” built into automatic transmissions. The propulsion is conducted through a viscous fluid (automat-
ic transmission fluid). So it’s not as if there’s a hard, mechanical connection that, from one second to the next, goes BLAM, and slams all the parts together. Fluid absorbs some of that transition. Think about stopping at a traffic light while facing up a steep hill. When you take your foot off the brake, your car will start to roll backward a little bit before the power is transmitted through the fluid and the car begins to move forward. The same thing is happening when you shift before you’re fully stopped. Is it good for the transmission? No. But at that low of a speed it’s unlikely to be doing much harm, either. If, on the other hand, your husband is backing out of the driveway at 4 or 5 mph, and, instead of the using the brakes at all, he shifts into drive to stop the car and move it forward, I think he’s probably shortening the life of his automatic transmission, and you are within your rights to administer a dope slap, Michele. And if his goal is to baby this University-ofWisconsin-Badger-red Traverse, then I think he should make every effort to come to a full stop before shifting. Why not? It can only help. Plus, it’s a two-for-one. With one simple action, he can potentially extend the life of his car, and stop ticking off his wife. Visit Cartalk.com.
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What makes Otis unique? Our menu changes every week, which is pretty uncommon for most restaurants in general. We consider ourselves modern American and we definitely try to bring in a certain bit of elegance in a laid back atmosphere. Every week there are always going to be five or six new things on the menu, and it’s all driven by what’s coming in from farms and wholesalers around us. We also have a beer, wine and cocktail list that always changes as well. What is your personal favorite drink or dish? It’s tough to pick just one thing with a different menu all the time, but right now my favorite dish is probably anything on the menu with goose. We recently started working with Élevage de Volailles in Loudon, which has been raising geese for us. For a little while now we’ll be serving some kind of dish with goose breast or goose legs. We did goose legs served with a puree of red cabbage, local potatoes, some local turnip and an orange gastrique.
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What is a dish everyone should try? Right now we’ve got a pollock with local Brussels sprouts and red onions, and on the bottom is a puree of fresh lentils with a little bit of squid ink in it. But I would say anything we make with fish is a must-try. We work with New England Fishmongers, which catches and delivers a beautiful product. What is an essential skill to running a restaurant? I would say that it’s the ability to adapt to anything that’s thrown at you and to just roll with the punches. From my experience being on the Seacoast, a lot of us restaurant owners are chef owners, so you’re trying to do as much as possible not only in back but at the front of the
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What is your favorite part of being on the Seacoast? Two things: one is the product that is available to us. I’ve been very fortunate to have formed the relationships I have with some of my purveyors and it’s important to me that we support them and the product they put out. The second thing for me is having the close-knit community and support among chefs of other restaurants on the Seacoast. We have a great sense of community collectively trying to push the culinary scene of the Seacoast forward, and I think that’s pretty special. — Matt Ingersoll
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Baking is both a blessing and a curse. Hooray, the house smells amazing and you have all these delicious treats! And also, “Oh dear, these sweets are staring at me and I should really just eat them all the time!” Most bakers, if you talk to them, bake for others rather than for themselves. Whether it’s grandmothers baking for and with their grandchildren or kind neighbor who gives away their treats, baking is at its best when it is shared. While I’m blessed with three daughters and a husband who love sweets, nobody really needs a steady stream of baked goods in their lives. So, we share! I baked muffins for a play date recently and they were a real hit. When it comes to baking sweets, the website Sally’s Baking Addiction is my go-to. Her recipes are incredibly popular on Pinterest because her photographs are magical! Lucky for Sally (and for me), they taste as good as they look. Before starting this new column, I would bake only a couple times a year — for my kids’ birthdays. You better believe I used Sally’s recipes! Her lemon blueberry cake is incredible and her vanilla cupcakes are a true classic. I used Sally’s recipe for Jumbo Blueberry Muffins and changed things slightly. For one, I baked regular-sized muffins and,
for another, I added a little Meyer lemon. When it’s cold and wintry out, a little citrus goes a long way to warm my mood! While I was nervous about liquid to this recipe, everything seemed to come out OK. The batter her initial recipe creates is rather thick and adding lemon juice and some zest was, thankfully, no big deal. In fact, I probably could have added more. I do find bake time to be a tricky aspect of making muffins: if they brown on top at all, they’re overdone! While the timing given was a little over what was needed in my oven, everyone’s oven is truly different and it’s best to watch your bake closely, inserting a toothpick to check when done (it’ll come out clean if it’s baked through). These muffins only lasted a couple of days in my house with a steady stream of play dates coming through. If you find yourself swimming in baked goods and it’s overwhelming (or if you find you can’t stop eating them), just knock on your neighbors’ doors and share. You’ll quickly become the most popular house in town! — Allison Willson Dudas
Lemon Blueberry Muffin Adapted from Sally’s Baking Addiction’s Jumbo Blueberry Muffin recipe Makes 16-18 muffins 3 cups all-purpose flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 large eggs, at room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature 1/2 cup oil (I used a combo of melted coconut oil and canola because it was what I had! Usually, I would just use vegetable oil) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon zest of a Meyer Lemon Juice of 1 Meyer Lemon, about ¼ cup 1 and 1/2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries, toss in a very small amount of flower so your muffins don’t turn blue like mine did Before you begin, take out your milk and eggs to bring them to room temperature. While this can take about an hour, you can shortcut it by bathing both in warm water for about 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 425 degrees (it won’t stay
at that temp the entire time you bake — telling you now so you don’t make the same mistake I did for my first batch!). Line muffin tin with either nonstick spray or muffin cups. In medium bowl, toss together flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. She uses words like “toss” and “fold” in her recipe because it really is quite important not to over mix muffins or they will end up chewy rather than fluffy. In a large bowl, whisk eggs and sugar together. Once combined, add oil, lemon juice, zest, milk and vanilla and mix gently. Stir wet mixture into dry mixture, folding it all quite gently until just combined. Again, with the folding, add the floured blueberries. Pour batter into muffin tin, filling about 2/3 of the way. Bake at 425 degrees for 4 minutes and then lower the temperature to 375 degrees, baking an additional 13 to 14 minutes. Mine needed a little less than she said so just be sure to check on them.
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Winemaker shares story and wines during Wine Week It was recently New Hampshire Wine Week, a time when winemakers and professionals from around the country and the globe come to the state for tastings and dinners throughout the week. We also get a chance to try their wines and interact with them at the Easterseals Winter Wine Spectacular, the week’s culminating event. During Wine Week, I got a chance to sit down with Marilisa Allegrini, CEO of Allegrini Estates in Italy. Though this was not her first trip to New Hampshire, it was the first time she had traveled here for Wine Week. I always enjoy these opportunities to sit with winemakers and not only taste their wines but also hear their stories. And Marilisa has quite the story to tell. Marilisa’s father, Giovanni, started the Allegrini family’s wine company, but in 1983 he died unexpectedly at the age of 63. His three children, then in their late twenties and early thirties, were part of the winery in various roles but were suddenly left to determine the company’s future. Marilisa said her and her brothers, Walter and Franco, went through an overwhelming and scary time. “It was difficult at the beginning, but we have been able to build what [the company] is today,” she said. Marilisa’s father had taken a single-vineyard, pioneer approach as she describes it, using a pergola setup to grow the grapes. He had made one trip to California and decided it was the quality, not the quantity, that was important. The main grape produced in the area, valpolicella, wasn’t always appreciated the way it is today. The Allegrinis set out to change that, knowing they had to address things like fungus, the way the grapes were dried, and ultimately the finished product. At the time of Giovanni’s death, the company was producing less than 200,000 bottles per year. Today they have not only expanded the business exponentially but increased production to about 1.8 million bottles (and are still considered a mediumsized winery in relative terms, which I found impressive). The passion Marilisa has for the industry is apparent, and as she is part of a sixth-generation winemaking family, it is easy to see why. “I represent and am very proud of my heritage,” she said. “We have been making wine for many years.” Unfortunately, the family endured another loss in 2003 when Walter died suddenly. Today, Marilisa is the company’s brand ambassador and travels the world; Franco is the head winemaker and happy to stay home out of the spotlight. Marilisa’s daughters are also involved in the company, and she hopes they will take over someday. During my time with Marilisa, I tasted
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There is a lot going on here and quite frankly I’m not sure what to make of it all. The Feral Detective is a surreal noir experience taking the reader for a strange, twisty, violent and often uncomfortable ride. In its simplest form, The Feral Detective is a story about finding a missing person, but the story is layered with complexity. The protagonist Phoebe Siegler is looking for her friend’s daughter Arabella. But — apologies for the cliche — Siegler seems a bit more interested in finding herself in her “new world.” The novel takes place in January 2017 in Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert, just as President Trump is being inaugurated. Phoebe, a Manhattan resident and journalist for NPR with a degree from Harvard, is struggling with this new reality. In fact, President Trump hangs all over this novel. To put it mildly, Phoebe is having a tough time with the situation. “I blamed my city for producing and being unable to defeat the monster in the tower,” Phoebe says. Nevertheless, she promised to help find Arabella. She enlists the help of private investigator Charles Heist, the feral detective himself, to help find her. He says very little and gives very little away about his intentions or thoughts. He’s an enigma in every sense of the word. Upon her first meeting, Phoebe notes that Charles is taking care of a sick possum and he’s caring for a young girl under questionable circumstances. Soon after, Charles and Phoebe work their way through a homeless encampment to ask about Arabella. It’s clear Charles spends considerable time helping those in need, as he knows most of the individuals by name. They do receive some intel as to Arabella’s whereabouts and activities, including that she is apparently going by Phoebe’s name. The clues take Charles and Phoebe up a nearby mountain, where they find a boy and a girl in a hole, murdered. Curiously, the boy is dressed in a bear costume and the girl is dressed as a rabbit. Charles is all too familiar with what the costumes represent — essentially two survivalist cults that aren’t exactly friends. From there, the novel takes Phoebe and Charles on a seemingly endless jeep ride through the desert in search of these two groups, and to find Arabella. This novel is strange. Charles is strange, though intriguing. He seems to know everyone, good and bad. He’s covered in facial hair and always wearing his leather jacket. Honestly, I can’t tell if he’s
the coolest dude on Earth, or the weirdest, or both. But I want to follow him. Phoebe, who narrates the novel, is also strange, and I wouldn’t necessarily call her unlikable, but I don’t love her character. She’s upset about the election. She’s upset about the direction of the country. She comes across as spoiled, and maybe that’s the point. It certainly appears Lethem is trying to tap into the liberal angst and rage stemming from President Trump’s election. He does that, but maybe he goes too far with Phoebe’s character. It seemed Lethem was determined to create an authentic female character, but in doing so he focused too much on her sexuality. On that point, I found it strange Charles and Phoebe very quickly become intimate in Charles’s questionable trailer — it just didn’t quite seem to fit right off the bat. But I didn’t want to stop reading. It’s not a page-turner necessarily, but the story just keeps unfolding. The desert sequences are among the best sections of the story — it’s almost like Lethem creates a brand new, post-apocalyptic world unburdened by the norms of society. The “Rabbits,” who are all females, have formed defenses against the “Bears,” and their “strength conquers all” structure and mindset. Charles, Phoebe and Arabella find themselves essentially right in the middle, with Charles set to take part in a battle to the death with the Bears’ leader, Solitary Love — love the name for this terrifying character. While the story presumes to be in search of Arabella, the most interesting part is uncovering Charles’ connection to the Bears and Rabbits. This novel is bizarre. But I wanted to keep pulling back the layers of the onion on this one. B- — Jeff Mucciarone
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Seacoast high school junior Syd Sullivan is considering a career in writing after she graduates, and with one published book already to her name, she’s off to a good start. Her young adult novel, titled Unsolved Case, was released by Archway Publishing in November 2018. It’s a coming-of-age story, set in Boston, about 15-year-old Ariel Smith, who discovers that she was adopted by her godparents as a baby, and that her birth parents were murdered but the murderer never found. As Ariel starts investigating her parents’ murder, she has a feeling that she is being watched. Despite a number of setbacks, she keeps searching for the truth, learning more about herself in the process. “After this big, dramatic experience and everything that life throws at her, she ends up taking the time to focus on her own life. She becomes a stronger woman and is proud of who she becomes,” Sullivan said. “Even in this tragedy she’s going through, everything happens for a reason.” Sullivan said she set out to write a story with a “strong female lead,” and that Ariel, who is “strong and independent and fends for herself,” is a reflection of herself and a few of her female friends. “I felt that, in this day and age, a lot of young girls need strong characters to look up to, and that’s what I tried to make Ariel,” she said. Though Unsolved Case is geared toward teens, it has “a lot of adult appeal” as well, Sullivan said. “There are dramatic parts, humorous parts, murder-mystery, a little of everything, and I think that’s what makes it good for both young readers and older readers,” she said. Sullivan started writing Unsolved Case when she was 14. For three years, during the summer and school vacations, she continued writing it on her laptop, making revisions as her “grammar and vocabulary got better with age,” she said. It wasn’t until she hit 150 pages that she realized this story she was writing for fun could be a complete, published work. “I thought about what it could become if I kept plugging along and moving forward, so I kept building on my original ideas and trying to make it more intense,” she said. “It’s something I took
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It’s said that a sense of humor will win a lover’s heart, and that’s one reason why comic Mike McDonald gives romantics a reason to laugh around Valentine’s Day. Another, he explained in a recent phone interview, is that it’s a win-win for the giver. “You’ve got to buy your woman something,” he said, “so why not buy her a gift you can use too?” The 18th Annual Comedy Xxtravaganza happens earlier than usual this year, on Feb. 8 (it returns to Feb. 14 in 2020). On the upcoming bill are Tom Cotter, runner-up in Season 7 of America’s Got Talent (the best finish for a comic in the show’s history), late night veteran Nick Griffin, 2017 Funniest Comic in New England Corey Rodrigues and Karen Morgan, a Georgia native now living in Maine. Cotter’s AGT feat happened during Howard Stern’s first year as a judge, which gave his career an extra boost. “I stepped in leprechaun poop by getting on that season,” Cotter said in 2016, noting that financial relief was the best benefit. “The kids can go to college. ... My retirement plan literally was a joke: scratch tickets and a buried treasure map. Now, suddenly, I will not be homeless when I’m 65.” McDonald acts as ringmaster for the night. “I’m the producer and lead dog comedian,” he said. “I host because I can control the show that way and move it in the right direction at all times. … I poke the tiger with a stick when I have to.” The event, launched in 2002, benefits Cross Roads House, a family-centered homeless shelter, and Gather, a charity that has evolved since its beginnings as a food pantry. “They realized they do more than give just food away,” McDonald said. “They ‘gather’ resources and help source stuff out.” McDonald brings nearly four decades of experience to the table. A graduate of the same Emerson College class as Steven Wright, Dennis Leary and Lauren Dombrowski, he’s part of a Boston comedy scene captured in the 2006 documentary, When Standup Stood Out. “I’m from the Lenny Clarke, Paula Poundstone, Steve Sweeney, Kevin Meaney time,” he said. “I ran the Ding Ho for a while, which was really the seminal comedy club that all of us came out of.” He brought both Wright and Poundstone to their first auditions, and once offered a young Bill Burr some key mentoring. “I was running Stitches at the time, a comedy club in Boston, and there was a Comedy Riot. Bill Burr won, and I gave him some advice. He goes on talk shows and still talks about me.”
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A versatile comic, McDonald is able to do things like poke fun at candidates from both parties at a political event, a tough balancing act. “When you go into politics. the pucker factor on people’s behinds gets to be scrunched up unnecessarily,” he said. “But whoever is in office makes mistakes, and we make fun of them. That’s our job.” McDonald has both onstage humor and a sharp sense of tempo when organizing a show. “My skill set beyond being funny is knowing really good talent and where they should hit,” he said. “If you’re picking a baseball team, you can’t put somebody in the four hole all the time that’s a singles hitter. They can get on base and hit .350, but if they’re not able to bat with power, they’re not hitting cleanup.” Reviewing the lineup for the upcoming show, he noted that Griffin made a half-hour Comedy Central special, appeared on Conan O’Brien, and was a guest on David Letterman’s Late Show 11 times. “That’s a pro comedian,” he said. Morgan, a one-time finalist on Nickelodeon’s Search for the Funniest Mom in America, honed her talents in a unique way. “She opens her mouth and smart things come out,” McDonald said. “The first time I saw her was her second time on stage and I thought, ‘How the hell can this be possible?’ She said, ‘Well, I was a trial lawyer in Atlanta.’ She cut her teeth not on stage but helping perps not go to jail.” — Michael Witthaus 18th Annual Comedy Xxtravaganza When: Friday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m. Where: The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth Tickets: $38-$44 at themusichall.org
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Wait, what?
Vaev, a Los Angeles-based internet startup, is offering consumers the “luxury to choose” when to become sick with a cold, gushes 34-year-old Oliver Niessen, the company’s founder. For $79.99, Vaev will send you a box containing a petri dish, which houses a facial tissue used by a sick person. Niessen explained to Time magazine that the recipient wipes their nose with the provided tissue and contracts a cold virus to get it out of the way before, say, leaving on a vacation. But Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, debunked Niessen’s theory: “There are more than 200 types of rhinoviruses ... getting inoculated from one doesn’t protect you against all the others.” He adds that Vaev’s customers will never know what exactly is on the provided tissues, which Niessen says are produced by a “stable” of 10 go-to sneezers, some recruited on the internet. Still, Neissen claims to have sold about 1,000 used tissues, although the company’s website currently shows the product as sold out. “We’ve had some supply-chain issues,” Niessen said, without offering details.
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A shopper at a Primark store in Essex, England, was startled to discover a human bone in a sock on Dec. 10. Essex police reassured the public that the bone “did not appear to be a result of recent trauma,” and it did not have any skin attached to it, according to Sky News. A Primark spokesman said the company is checking with its supplier, and “No evidence of any kind exists to suggest that any incident has occurred in the factory, so it is highly probable that this object was placed in the sock by an individual for unknown reasons.”
Police report
A motorist in New Canaan, Connecticut, called police on Jan. 23 after spotting a woman stopped at an intersection in the driver’s seat of her car with her eyes closed. When officers arrived, they found Stefanie Warner-Grise, 50, “unable to answer basic questions,” according to the arrest report. They “detected an odor of vanilla coming from her breath (and) her speech was slurred. ... In addition, several bottles of pure vanilla extract were located inside the vehicle.” The Hour reported Warner-Grise failed field sobriety tests and she was charged with driving under the influence of vanilla extract. The Food and Drug Administration requires that pure vanilla extract must be at least 35 percent alcohol, which makes it 70 proof.
Good to have goals
Pavol Durdik added another Guinness world record to his collection Aug. 3 in Puchov, Slovakia by extinguishing 62 lighted matches with his tongue within one minute, according to United Press International. In a video posted by Guinness World Records on Jan. 25, Durdik had the matches laid out in front of him and lighted each one before putting it out on his tongue. He also holds the record for most socks put on one foot within 30 seconds.
Gutsy
So much for advanced Russian security. As art lovers browsed an exhibition at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery on Jan. 27, Euro News reported, a thief nonchalantly strolled in, plucked a 1908 landscape by Arkhip Kuindzhi off the wall, and walked out of the building. Police quickly viewed surveillance video and arrested a 31-year-old man, who admitted he hid the painting, worth an estimated $185,000, in an unfinished building nearby. The gallery was able to recover the painting and announced that “security measures have been reinforced ... at all venues of the Tretyakov Gallery.”
creative approach to treating Ritchie: He made a 3D virtual model of Ritchie’s pelvis, then designed an implant to exactly replace the area of bone that would have to be surgically removed. Made of titanium, the implant was produced using a 3D printer. Two weeks later after surgery, Ritchie was walking with crutches and is expected to walk on his own in a few weeks more, although he was warned he might have a limp. “If I do have a limp, it’s better than nothing,” Ritchie said.
Blame it on the meth
Debra Lynn Johnson, 69, of Searles, Minnesota, suffered from heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and mental illnesses, according to the Mankato Free Press, and was a patient at a transitional care center before her husband took her home to have a “death party,” he later told authorities. Brown County sheriff’s officers responding to a 911 call from Duane Arden Johnson, 58, on Jan. 24 found the words “Death Parde God Hell” spray-painted on the front door. Duane came out of the house naked, yelled that his wife was dead and ran back inside, where officers found him in the bathtub
picking “things” from his skin. Debra’s body, still warm, was wrapped in a sheet. Duane told police his wife had begged him to take her home to die, so they had staged the party, “rocking out” to Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health” and taking methamphetamines. After her death, Duane said he washed and wrapped her “like the Bible told me to do.” Police found stolen guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the home, and Duane was charged with felony counts of theft and receiving stolen property.
Uh, no
On Jan. 29, the Chenoa (Illinois) Police Department put a call out for volunteers to help with a training session taking place that evening. “Officers are undergoing their annual Taser training tonight ... and are looking for members of the public who are willing to volunteer for the experience,” announced WEEKTV. Volunteers were required to sign an “exposure waiver” in order to participate, but it was unclear whether the Tasers would be live. Visit newsoftheweird.com.
Least competent criminal
Police in Austin, Texas, caught up with 19-year-old suspect Luca P. Mangiarano on Jan. 24, a month after a bank robbery in large part because of his choice in getaway vehicles. According to police, Mangiarano stepped into the BBVA Compass bank on Dec. 18 and handed a note to a teller, reading: “This is a robbery, please give me all your 100’s and 50’s in a envelope and everything will be ok.” The employee did as directed and the robber left the building, then hopped on a Jump electric scooter and took off down the sidewalk. He perhaps failed to consider that the scooters are linked to GPS tracking systems and online accounts with phone numbers, email addresses and credit card information, which, after police obtained them from Jump, led them to Mangiarano. Austin Detective Jason Chiappardi told The Washington Post: “We had never had a scooter involved in a robbery.”
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Outdoorsman Scott Ritchie of Loveland, Colorado, has a new lease on life thanks to 3D printing. Ritchie, 52, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in early 2018 after noticing pain in his hip after fly-fishing. CBS4 in Denver reported Dr. Ronald Hugate of the Panorama Orthopedics and Spine Center in Highlands Ranch took an aggressive and
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